...I'd take a moment to thank my prereaders: Cody Fett, BlueBastard, Doc Delray, coandco, Questiondeca, Flinkie the Mighty, and anyone else who I may have missed (because your name is showing up as Anonymous in GDocs, sorry.) Without them, the story wouldn't be as great as it is and I'm glad to have them lending a hand. Give a round (square, rectangle, whatever) of applause for them, folks.

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It was mid-afternoon, well after their scheduled arrival time, when the Serene Velocity approached the docking tower at Fort Appaloosa. Standing on the decks and watching as the sky and anchor detail tied the ship alongside the pier, the fleetponies gave a hearty cheer for their savior, without which they’d be dead.

Derpy blushed. “All I did was to get us back on track. You did the hard stuff, getting out there and putting the steam engine together.”

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The revised first chapter is now up. Later tonight, I'll have an update on the newest chapter coming out (an original, not a rewrite.)

Thanks for sticking around and enjoying, folks. The best is yet to come.

Blue took the day off from charting duties, so this new one comes courtesy of Cody Fett:

ghc my chart pictures

UPDATE: Cody has announced his intention to disavow said chart, so we will now blame Doc Delray instead.

Because yesterday's update was sooooooooo clear....

...what the hell is going on? 1, 2, 3, 4....

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Here, have an updated relationship chart.

This luverly coover was brought to you by the letters "Awesome" and "Kingofsouls" It shall go up today when the new BH story comes up.

Thanks to BlueBastard for this one. Of course, there's still the grand one to go, which I'm sure he's working on

Sexuality. Seriously. Writing Ditzy's restrained libido is a little hard for me. I hint with it in both DJ/Mike's and Lyra/Paul's relationship, and Moira/Silver was a bit more raunchy because that's her nature. But I've never really written a character as...ahem, unrestrained as Ditzy is. I think one of my prereaders set it best when he mentioned that the dichotomy between say, DJ and Ditzy are extreme: the former is a pony that waited until marriage before doing anything, and the

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