Did season 4 really kick off almost 11 months ago?

I mean, I knew I was behind[1], but over a year behind hadn't really registered.

I'm going to put some serious effort into starting a livestream on Wednesday. (It wouldn't stay exclusive to Wednesday.)

When in 2015 is season 5 due to start, again?[2]

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I believe I now have proof that the Read Later list attenuates. That's all I know about it, but here is what I have.

A couple days ago (pretty sure it was Thursday) I trimmed my Read Later down to 1140.[1] Then I added HV's Leviathan[2], bringing me (obviously) to 1141. Today, I read Leviathan, and took it off. Afterwards I noticed I was now at 1139. But I'd only took off the one fic.

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It's September first as I write this, and that means NatPoWriMo has begun. For those who haven't heard of NatPoWriMo, it's the pony-fanfic version of NatNoWriMo.

For those who haven't heard of NatNo, the goal is to take a month--they use November--and write 50,000 words of a novel. Hectic.

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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62871/a-bit-of-reason

In my opinion, the first one is the weakest of the lot. The others are all good.

I awoke this morning to find my brain had concocted a rumor of FiMfiction. The rumor took the form of a "special edition google doodle", or however you'd call it. Presumably, it was only shown to some users. It had re-implemented the search on FiMfiction--yes, on google--and the descriptive text below it explained that it was to commemorate the passing of FiMfiction.net after some sort of massive comment war.

Luckily, that's not the case.

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Yes, this is a silly technical issue I shouldn't be worrying about with the amount I've been getting written.

Still: ficpushing to GitHub, or to Penflip?

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So
There's this writer
He's like, kind of a big deal in the writing world
But that's only important because he's been asked to speak at a writing conference
So he's at this conference
Where he's going to talk about being a writer
But before his bit
He goes and gets drunk
Not just a little drunk
Like really, totally, smashing drunk
Then he goes to his talk
He goes up on stage--
And it's obvious he's drunk
--He goes up on stage
And walks up to the microphone
And he goes

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Twilight looked over the edge of the ziggurat and out across the jungle. "The ancients really liked their pyramid-type structures, didn't they?"

"Yes, they did," said Celestia, several paces ahead and clearly with no intention of stopping. "We never did figure that one out. My own followers had a thing for decorative columns."

"Oh," said Twilight. "Wait, what?"

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Y'know something:

G1 would make an absolutely corking D&D setting if it weren't for all those stupid ponies cluttering the place up. I mean really: bushwoollies and an army's worth of dragons and those goblin thingies and a crazy old wizard guy who lives in a giant toadstool off in the woods.

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The other day, I was reading a review of Ponyfinder. (Because reasons.) In one of the comments, someone indirectly described the Elements of Harmony as a Deus Ex Machina. Which--to be fair--is absolutely true. But there's also more to it than that.

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