I recently crossed the threshold of one thousand followers. Who’da thunk? That’s a grand amount of people who think I’m something special. I guess I’m supposed to have a milestone celebration, right? So here it is: critique me!

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So. The Tantabus series. The stories that really put me on the map. Several people have said that Moondog is their favorite OC in the fandom. As of this writing, two of the four stories are in the top ten rated stories of all time on the entire site, another is in the top twenty, and the last is in the top thirty. The first is inching towards three thousand likes. How the Tantabus Parses Sleep is the longest single thing I’ve written and still ongoing.

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(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multiple Authors Getting Inspired by the Same Mythology and Folklore)

I don't keep track of the IDW comics much, but I do occasionally read their plot summaries on the wiki. I perked up a little when I saw that the first four "Season 10" issues would be about the zebra homelands. Why did this draw my attention? Because I wrote about it over four years earlier:

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Did you know that H.P. Lovecraft once wrote a comedy?

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Yesterday, I saw this video, and if Equestria ever gets cars, this is pretty much exactly what pony road rage would look like.

And then I thought: what would current Equestrian road rage look like if it was actually rage-y?

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In some ways, I love fantasy because of the easy outs it provides. In other ways, I loathe fantasy because of the easy outs it provides.

Although, technically, there's really just one: "it's magic". How does the fridge work in a pre-industrial society? Cold spell. Why is the guards' armor so strong? Strengthening spell. How can the court stenographer record things so fast without fingers? Dictation spell. But do you ever stop to think about how automatic a spell can be?

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Hello, friends! If you're still planning on writing feghoots for the the First Fimfiction Feghoot Contest, get cracking! The submission deadline is this Friday, July 19th at 11:59:59 pm, Pacific Time. If you beseech Super Trampoline for a short extension via PM, he might give you one, but don't push it. Get those stories in; we're almost at fifty already!

We’re halfway through the final season already. With the finale so close and almost a decade of pony, I figured I’d take a look at the premiere again. How does it hold up? What looks weird eight seasons later? What sorts of early-series quirks got ironed out later on?

I stink at introductions, so here we go.

Really digging the storybook visual style of the opening. I wish we’d seen more of it.

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Do you like long, drawn-out puns? Do you like subjecting people to those puns? Do you like subjecting me to those puns? Do you like me scrutinizing those puns with a critical eye? Do you like lots of FimFic-famous authors scrutinizing those puns with a critical eye? Do you like possibly winning $100 for doing so and having your pun subjected to hundreds of other people in the process? How remarkably specific. And yet, it's your lucky day: Super Trampoline is hosting

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Well, isn't the timing on this just dandy. A while ago, I gave permission to our very own Avonder for Best Hell Ever to be included in an anthology of pony fics, and funding for it just started today on Indiegogo. If you want to help support it, here's the link to its page, with the full list of fics. I'd advise you to take a look anyway; the collection of stories is pretty

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