It’s my ✨200th blog!✨ Party time (or something)!

Man, how about that COVID era?! I’ve had a lot going on since then. I think between personal medical stuff, and my disappointment with how certain people-groups minimized COVID’s impact, as well as all the crazy stuff America got into with casually almost overthrowing its own government (and mostly failing to bring justice or accountability for that)… I’ve been doing more thinking than speaking! It’s been awesome (it has not been awesome.)

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The other day I got a message from ZanarNaryon telling me they had created a TVTropes page for To Serve In Hell. Now, TVTropes can be a dangerous place to start reading, unless you have a few hours to spend getting lost in it. But if you want to check it out, please do! It’s a delight seeing the whole thing laid out like an actual story on there!

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Hey friends.

I didn’t used to believe in writer’s block as such. I always thought the phenomenon was a manifestation of something else in a person’s life. I also thought the cure for it was just to sit down and write any garbage you can. Editing should never mix with drafting, and if you can get yourself to stop editing, you’ll achieve more and better drafting—which can then be edited.

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Almost exactly 2.5 years ago, my family and I bought tickets to Whinny City Pony Con 2020. Of course there was no such con, at least not in a physical capacity. But good egg that he is, Charlie Worthley (con organizer extraordinaire) has made it effortless to transfer our tickets from that long-ago time to right now, despite all that’s transpired between.

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I live.

Time's gotten away from me.

2020 got weird. My 2021 started with an honest effort to get back to normal. But after I started getting treated for depression, I began to see more and more ways to improve things in my daily and family life that hadn't fit together very well in years. Including some of the core issues that had pointed me in the direction of MLP in the first place.

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It's been too long. Things are great. Really, really great. Not so much for writing, but for different modes of expression and life.

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As it happens, this fellow over here threw out a request for story prompts, and my own suggestion has garnered quite a few upvotes. Not only did this strike me as a fun thing to see in the venerable Pony fandom in the Year of Our Lord 2021, but it reminded me of my own such post from two years ago. That was pre-MLP finale, pre-COVID,

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Glad tidings to you as we shimmy up to the exit of the holiday season, and of 2020 as a whole. Today I've nothing more or less than a spotlight to shine on two Hearth's Warming stories about which I'm biased, and a brief note about a character in my recent story. I can't call these "reviews" because of my personal stake in them; but in both cases I'd call these "criminally underrated" and in need of a signal boost.

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With 2020 drawing to a close, it seems like an opportune time to close the book on a couple other things as well. To wit: my odds-and-ends collection Stuck In The Middle With You, which has heretofore been stuck in perpetual Incomplete status. I've been sitting on eight entries for it forever that will start to trickle out in the next week or so. Four are "Starlight Fixes" chapters that I contributed to Shakespearicles' project a couple years ago; I'm going to include them here

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I bring you two bets today. One is safe. The other may not be.

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