I must confess, my good ladies and gentlemen: I'm quite confused at present. Allow me to explain: I have found me a badfic.

A badfic.

To anyone familiar with my general activities on this site, that should hardly come as a great shock. Further, this one has Spike in it, and Spike badfics have long been a bugbear of mine. Let us observe it together, my good ladies and gentlemen.

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WARNING: There will be spoilers ahead for Steven Universe series one through four. Read at your own risk. Spoiler bars will be employed, but reviewing Steven Universe meaningfully without any spoilers is sadly not possible. You have been warned.

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A quick query, my good ladies and gentlemen: who here would like a (very) brief lecture on bi-liquid phase interactions?

Absolutely nobody? Ah. Well, never mind. Let's get to it anyway.

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Greetings on this horrible, rainy late autumn day, my good ladies and gentlemen. On this happy day, we see the release of generation seven of Pokemon (stateside at least; we Brits have to wait 'til Wednesday) in the form of Sun version and Moon version.

In celebration of this event, I will be creating six fan Pokemon here on this very blog, based on six little ponies. Guess which ones...

(Very, very mild spoilers for Sun and Moon (two new abilities))

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Greetings, my good ladies and gentlemen. I don't often post things like this, but I found a rather nice original pony song on YouTube. I'm not sure how many people have heard it, so I have the video below the page break.

Quick warning: it's a bit of a tear jerker.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen.

For anyone is interested, the new movie is available on YouTube, as reported by ED here.

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Who amongst you, my good ladies and gentlemen, wishes to pursue a career in science? You there at the back? Excellent. As it happens, my hypothetical sir or madam, I know a little about the topic. If you wish to be a good scientist, and I assume that you do, then there is a demon which must be confronted and slain. An enemy, whose presense you must always be wary of.

Confirmation Bias.

This will lead back to pony, trust me on this.

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Greetings and salutations, my good ladies and gentlemen. It is my fond hope that you are in spiffing good form.

Before we proceed, two things. Firstly, our scoring:

The Good: Fics of clear high quality, showcasing the work of an excellent or promising author.
The Bad: Fics of clear low quality, showcasing the work of a poor or inexperienced author.

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Greetings, my good ladies and gentlemen. I hope the weekend finds you well rested and in good spirits.

I am curious: how many among you are fans of old adventure stories? Not older modern adventure stories, I mean really old ones. Think nineteenth century. The likes of Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Jungle Book, The Lost world and Tarzan? I understand that this may seem an odd way to start an essay about ponies, but bear with me.

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Greetings my good ladies and gentlemen. Consider this a public service announcement, concerning today's episode.

Essentially, there has been a major spoiler leaked concerning today's episode, and it's such a big spoiler that even Equestria Daily are being relatively careful about it. My advice therefore is this: don't go on ED, particularly the comments sections (and be careful of this site as well), until you have seen the episode.

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