Well, Brexit may have happened* but not a lot else has around here. I'm still not ready to publish my next story, which has been sitting there three-quarters done for several weeks now. Things will insist on turning up and getting in the way. I mean, you're not actually missing very much, as it's only a silly little thing. But I definitely do not want to return to one of those "write virtually no ponyfic for 18 months" ruts. Maybe I should have a go at some flashfic prompts or something and

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Something I've seen a startling amount of recently has been people making blog posts here as if they were tweets. By that I mean ignoring capital letters, punctuation and all those other fun things. Not just making the odd typo -- we all do that -- but, in some cases, writing entire posts without a single cap or full stop. Now, how you form your social media posts or Discord messages is entirely your concern. But if you're going to ask for help on improving your writing, on a site

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Well, okay, that's true every day of our lives, to a greater or lesser extent. But this year is the first in Fimfiction's existence with no new Friendship is Magic. Curiously enough -- or perhaps not -- I feel more motivated to create Pony stuff now than I have done in a long time. And since my art looks like the meanderings of a half-dead, half-drunk centipede and my singing is only permitted to be revealed in public at convention karaoke sessions, that means

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Remember the phrase "If you would consider a Santa hat"? This was started by The Descendant , beginning way back in 2012. Why? To quote the man himself, "I just want something of the fun that was present in this fandom to show up again." (Yes, people were saying that seven years ago!) Although TD hasn't been active in the fandom since 2016 or so, for those

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And here's the answer. I am delighted with how this has turned out. Huge thanks to Scribbler, Illya Leonov and Quirky Craft!

This is not a My Little Pony post. Suffice it to say that I was generally very pleased with the first episode of His Dark Materials, which went out on BBC1 a few hours ago and will appear in other places on HBO tomorrow (Monday). A few niggles here and there, and the inevitable problem of not being able to translate everything in a novel like Northern Lights to the screen. Overall, though? Very good. Ruth Wilson's Mrs Coulter is up there with Nicole Kidman's, and Kidman was

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I'll post these first on my Louder Yay blog so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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I'll post these first on my Louder Yay blog, so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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I'll be posting these first on my Louder Yay blog, so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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I've just returned ("just" as in "I still have my outdoor coat on") from UK PonyCon 2019. Both the last ever con during Friendship is Magic's run and the first ever con after FiM's run. It was, as it always is, a great experience. UKPC 2020 has been confirmed, so we'll see what next year brings now that we're a Dead Fandom™!