Friendly reminder before we begin: Next week will see the hour-long EqG special “Forgotten Friendship” airing that Saturday at noon EST, with a card/review blog to match.

But before we deal with what may be the most depressing swimsuit episode of any intellectual property, let’s look at just why the Mane Six are some the scariest ponies in Equestria.

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I wrote Team Cohesion... about a year and a half ago now. Wow. Anyway, it was for a ship-sinking contest, in that case deconstructing Soarin'/Spitfire by way of the Wonderbolts' tabloid awareness meeting. Well, River Road's gone and showed me up with the quasi-official sequel, Breaking (Down the) News. It's an entry in not one, but two contests, featuring the continuing adventures of

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If you haven't been paying attention to the Magic: the Gathering community, you may be unaware that there's a bit of a reality show going on at Wizards of the Coast right now, namely the Great Designer Search 3. The grand prize is a six-month internship at WotC... for a given definition of "internship," since it actually pays better than my current job.

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This week, we have one of those awkward one-shot main issues wedged between an even number of one-shots and a multi-issue storyline. Thus, we’re going half-and-half on this one and throwing in a Friends Forever as well. Let’s begin.

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If for some reason you aren't reading Kris Overstreet's brilliant odd-couple science adventure/condensed history of spaceflight/footnote fiesta/narrative Let's Play story Changeling Space Program or the daily serial crossover sequel The Maretian, you may at least be interested to know that I did what I do best: I made a card out of the latter.

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So. The plan for this weekend was writing a comedy piece for Aragon's contest inspired by this image. Then, not even thirty percent of the way through, it decided that comedy elements were fine, but it really wanted to be an exploration of the characters and how physical, emotional, and social maturation don't operate at the same rate in relation to one another. Also, I figured out a climax for it that—

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We’re not quite through with the Better Together backlog yet. This week, we’ll be looking at the shorts’ school play storyline from start to finish. Places, people!

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We interrupt my Zeno-Achillean efforts to catch up to IDW’s tortoise to take a look at some of the Equestria Girls shorts that have gone up recently. I held back on these because I like being able to provide links to the source material for those who haven’t seen them, and Hasbro has been slow-rolling the YouTube releases to get more people on the Discovery GO app. Thank goodness for Dailymotion.

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Firstly, Getting the Band Back Together updated last night, if you're in the mood for a siren reunion story set in the Oversaturated World. Secondly, those of you who enjoyed Land of the Banished Sun will be pleased to know that I've been giving some thought to expanding it. Can't give a timeframe at the moment, but I can pull a page from Georg's playbook and show you a preview of something you won't

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If you haven't heard, YouTube's setting new minimum requirements for channel monetization, and one of the channels feeling the sting is that of our own Barcast, who channel all revenue produced by their interviews and other fun times into charities that benefit actual, real life horses. I think we can all agree that helping actually existent equinoids is a laudable goal, so please consider following the link and helping push

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