Found this little gem on my constant search throughout the internet for methods of bringing as much happiness to as many people as possible through friendship and ponies. As you can likely guess, this is based on a story in the Friendship is Optimal 'verse. It is a log of SweetieBot "waking up" and discovering what has been happening to the world around her while she was powered down.

I'd suggest being careful of the sound, the "twitter notifications" sound gets a little annoying.

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Holy poop! A thousand of you are following my crazy, all-over-the-place writing? Thank you, everyone, for supporting me.

You all rock! (Except Chap!)

—Damaged

Sorry about the hiccup. I accidentally unpublished the latest chapter (I was trying to edit it on my phone for a typo I'd found and misclicked). The chapter had to be copied to a new one and republished, with the first being deleted.

—Damaged

Latest chapter of Queen Rarity is at 12k words and still has some to go. I know a few of you have been asking about some of the things that were planned in this one, and I wanted to make sure I did it right. So please, bear with me while I spend an extra week making sure all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed.

—Damaged

P.S.

Here's a beatnik bug.

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Sorry to inform, but the latest chapter of Queen Rarity needs to keep baking for another week.

This is a big one, folks: 12k+ words. I generally write 4k words for this story a week, which means this one ate up the lead I had built (that gives my wonderful editor, Lab, the chance to make my stuff look sane). Please bear with me, I promise an exciting one.

—Damaged

Oof. Hardcore topic alert! Well, maybe not.

I have noticed a complete and utter lack of licensing on the site, so figured I'd just go ahead and give everyone a heads-up.

All my work is released as is, under a Creative Commons Attribution + NonCommercial + ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

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Apparently my silly Australian brain messed up and I used "college" in place of "university" in the latest chapter of SBPS. Three instances of the the words were changed, the story itself is not impacted.

I look around the site and I see people downvoting stories just for the temerity of being part of X shared universe, or Y headcanon. I am trying to make a counter-wave against such (at least for new writers).

Every day (several times a day, in fact) I go through the new stories list and open ALL of them. For any user who has 10 or less stories published I hit upvote. The worst that comes from this? A new writer wants to write more.

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Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

—Yeats

Just thought I would share. This is how I always feel publishing a story, and you all tread very softly indeed. Thank you.

I know a bunch of you are just as nerdy as I am about AI and tech, so I think you will appreciate this.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453v1.pdf

It's a research paper showing the mistakes that have arisen from poor AI goal programming. The fun stuff starts around page 6.