It's genuinely so surreal coming back here half a decade later. Like, girl, I've kept up better with my Runescape fanfiction than my MLP fanfiction. What's going on over here? How's the community looking?

(I'm definitely not just posting this because I'm the kind of person who can't bear to look at her old posts without leaving a "hey jsyak time progressed and I got older and maybe a little less dumb" update.)

Well, sorta. Being the attention-grasping goblin I am, I'm not going to submit it properly until it gets accepted by EQD.* It's a little trick to get extra views that just might this time land me on the Featured list!**

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RitB resumes very soon. I've been pretty crazy busy, but I'm setting a new goal. You're all witnesses. I will complete Rats in the Belfry and start posting another work besides (or finish editing Fresh Timber, whatevs) before Everfree Northwest! That is my solemn oath!

As Celestia is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!

What? No, it doesn't relate. I'm hungry, is all. Why does everything have to be about fanfiction with you people?

where MAKING THIS HAPEN

That's right--I'm gonna start editing Fresh Timber for the first time in a good time. It's time to clean this up. I've been working hard on Peace or Harmony, but Fresh Timber's right there, starin' right at me, all like "dude, what about me" and I can't let that dude down.

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Merriwether Williams is a show writer--writer of the controversial "Mysterious Mare-Do-Well" episode. Since then, she hasn't been able to catch a break. Some of her episodes, like "Dragon Quest" and "Wonderbolt Academy", get nitpicked until a proper flaw can be found. Others, like "Hearth's Warming Eve", just get ignored, because they're honestly good episodes and people don't want to acknowledge that Williams is a decent writer. A lot of people hate this writer.

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City of Brass has been turned down by EQD permanently. On its first strike.

That's definitely a new low for me.

The reason cited (for the permanence, that is, not the rejection itself, which had many other reasons) was "plagiarism". I didn't know what I was doing was plagiarism, and certainly didn't know it was bad enough to earn the story a ban.

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Okay, so my new fic's about this evil bartender pony who all the villager ponies in this far-off pony town the Mane Six don't live in think is a hero because he defeated an evil dragon, but he actually didn't kill the dragon the right way, he used a cave-in, and when a cowardly wizard pony and a grudge-holding guard pony (who incidentally sees the bartender as a hero pony because he saved her life and is basically her surrogate father figure pony) find out the truth, he tries to have

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And I feel pretty okay about it.

Alright, "Rats in the Belfry" ain't canceled or nothin', but it got turned down for the third time. It's not going on EQD. Period.

It's okay by me. I'm just glad to've finally gotten some closure. I feel very good about this--better than I've felt in a while, actually. I knew I wasn't gonna get accepted, and the vain hope was just making me miserable.

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Crackle. Uncle Strudel. Horse Power. Those dragon teens. Uncle Curio (known as Meddling Mingli in City of Brass).

There are a lot of characters who are deemed by the site creators unworthy of tags. There are also some characters who get lumped into 'group' tags, like Flitter and Cloudchaser (even though Cloudchaser has been seen without Flitter).

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So a while back, I said I was submitting Rats in the Belfry and City of Brass to EQD. I said I wouldn't post any updates to the former until it had been either accepted or declined. I Pinkie Promise'd that I would immediately begin updating Rats in the Belfry as soon as I got my response.

It's been over three weeks.

I've kept my promise.

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