For those who may (or may not) have followed me all the way back during the halcion days of The BunnyCast will know that I've always been a staunch proponent of fanfiction, whether it be obscure gender-fluid anime martial artists (which was my obsession at the time), divergent timelines from a popular-yet-somehow-still-obscure-webcomic, to Star Trek to Xena to...well, you get

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This will be, in part, a review of Backwards Through the Mirror by RustyTheBrave. Those who have started paying some attention to my posts here because I tend to toss in a bit of fun and lighthearted humor will likely be somewhat surprised at the content of the rest of this post, you have been warned.

Let's talk for a moment about PTSD.

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In a prior review, I'd mentioned that the story in question the writing seemed to flag, but only to give the reader an opportunity to take a breather, relax, stretch their muscles.

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Years ago (before most of you were old enough to remember what a newspaper was) I first read Dave Barry humor column work. You can nowadays find his stuff online and in books (yes, even the ebooks thing) and his website. As a humor columnist, he was rather well known for having opinions on everything and poking fun at himself for his blatant (and lampshaded) ignorance on the subject. He was the everyman, who enjoyed beer and sitcoms and cars and computers and

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So every so often, a story is clever and engaging, but ultimately results in being just popcorn entertainment.

You know, popcorn entertainment. It's entertainment that's like popcorn. All empty calories, seems filling, practically no nutritional value, great with butter.

OK, maybe not necessarily that butter part.

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So, when one sleeps through their alarm for an hour straight, thereby missing the start time for their be-on-time-or-don't-show-up job, what does one do with their sudden new free time?

Chores (if their smart and don't want to sleep on the couch), that's what!

And what does one do while doing those chores?

Reading Pony, of course!

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So I'm happily launching tab after tab of FiMFiction.net on my iPad...

...OK, so I may have a bit of a pony-fiction addiction problem, but that's not my point.

So I'm opening these pages on my iPad, happily reading a very interesting fic (review pending) when all of a sudden the App store opens up. Yes, without me tapping on anything. At all. Sure enough, it opens straight to some "I wish I were a REAL RTS!" free-to-play crapware game. What happened?

Banner ads!

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I’ll admit, when I first heard of OctiScratch, I didn’t think much of it.

After all, it’s two mares who, combined, have less than 30 seconds of screen time in the whole SERIES.

For goodness sakes, we don’t even have the virtue of a single blip of sound to assign to them that might indicate personality. All we’ve really got are the stereotypes of the kinds of people who are DJs or strings players in a chamber quartet.

And from there, legends were born.

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So as to not pester you with non-pony stuff on a pony website, I'll keep this short:

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...I found it in the Chrome Web Store. It's an extension, and it takes things you find, you know, like articles and essays and stuff (large blocks of text) and sends them to my Kindle. Not a Kindle Fire, just a bog-standard, ad supported Kindle.

I found this button two weeks ago.

I actually had a life two weeks ago.

I haven't been able to sleep! I sometimes find out I missed meals by hours! All because of this little button!

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