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Chicago Ted


"Friendship" is a magical-class noun.

Mar
12th
2024

Every Page a Painting - Walls of Words · 3:13pm March 12th

Yup, hello, it's me, back on my typesetting binge again, with another "Every Page a Painting" to show you. And boy oh boy, do I have a real treat for you this time around: one of my favorite novels on this site, one that hasn't been typeset before. . . well, until now, of course.

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Mar
1st
2024

Every Page a Painting - By Any Other Name · 4:01pm March 1st

First of March, it's clear to me
There's something that's uncomforting. . .

Here I am again, about a fortnight after the first "Every Page a Painting", locked and loaded with a second one, whether you wanted it or not. Enjoy.

(Disclaimer: everything you see here is work in progress and subject to change.)

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Feb
14th
2024

Every Page a Painting - Click, Clack, Neigh · 4:00pm February 14th

I know, I know, it's quite bold of me to publish this on Valentine's Day of all days, but here it is all the same.

If you don't like the timing, just come back tomorrow. I'll wait.

If you're still here and you don't care about when you'd get this, all I can say is buckle up.

(Disclaimer: everything you see here is work in progress and subject to change.)

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Jan
29th
2024

The Art of Typesetting · 6:39pm January 29th

"Hey Ted, remember when you said you'd work on another blogpost right after your last one?"

I did, thanks for nagging me. But as I'm sure you're well familiar with, Reality™ has a peculiar way of giving you something to do when you've already done that yourself---not to mention, for once, I'd woefully underestimated my wordcount. But after cooking for a month, I've finally done it.

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Jan
4th
2024

· 10:06pm January 4th

Ah yes, my hundredth blogpost on Fimfiction.

I know I should try to find one single topic to spend it on, but I've got several going through my head and only one milestone to do it in, so. . . what the hell, I'll just talk about all of them.

Buckle up; this is a certified Anthology Blogpost.™

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Aug
13th
2023

Symbiosis - Story Notes · 3:11pm Aug 13th, 2023

annotate | ˈænəˌtʰeɪ̯t̚ | verb
To add a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.

I guess I never really got rid of that author’s-notes bug after writing The Children of Planet Earth. Curse you, Admiral Biscuit!

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Aug
6th
2023

I'm Telling You Now · 3:06pm Aug 6th, 2023

I have plans that I cannot share with you right now, because the haters will sabotage me.

I have plans that I cannot share with you right now, because the haters will sabotage me.

I have plans that I will not share right now, because the haters will sabotage me.

But I've got some stuff in the works.

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Mar
31st
2023

It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday · 3:36pm Mar 31st, 2023

Hello again.

This is a followup to my previous blogpost where I detailed my immediate reäction to a sudden and (yet somehow not) total loss of my data to a hard drive crash.

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Oct
18th
2022

Life Comes at You Fast · 11:20pm Oct 18th, 2022

So.

Some of you, mainly over on Discord, might've been wondering why I kept a near-total comms blackout over the last two weeks.

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Dec
15th
2021

The Children of Planet Earth - Equestrian Dialogue Translations · 4:05pm Dec 15th, 2021

I've written a lot of Equestrian dialogue in this story, but never bothered to translate it in the story itself. I wanted to leave it a mystery for the reader---and besides, from my experimentation I found in-story translations to be rather tacky. But now that it's complete (including the paper explaining the phonology, grammar, and so forth), I think it's high time to pull the curtains back and show the reader what the hell the ponies have been saying all along.

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