This list is ordered by starting date, with approximate time in months or years after the Fall Formal.

1. Rose Brass (–14 years)
2. Foreign Nationals of Unusual Importance (+7 months)
3. Amphorae (+8 months)
4. Lectern’s New and Used Books: Summer Break (+8 months)
5. “Oops.” (+9 to +10 months)
6. Lectern’s New and Used Books: Fall Semester (+11 months)
7. Diplomatic Overtures (+12 months)

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The answer, as one might guess from English’s general contrariness, is “it’s not that simple.” The rule of thumb is, a short or partial work takes quotation marks; a long or aggregate work takes italics.

• In music, a song or movement takes quotes; an album or a suite takes italics: “Money” is the first track on the second side of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd; “I. Mars, the Bringer of War” is the first movement of The Planets by Gustav Holst.

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Presented without explanation.

• Foreign Nationals of Unusual Importance: in the last chapter Cook sees Sci-Twi and Timber wander by hand-in-hand
• Diplomatic Overtures: Cadance and Shining Armor exchange sweet glances
• Mister Cook Goes to Canterlot: Cook and Raven are mistaken for a couple once
• Talking Heads: Timber and Twilight are mentioned, and the abstract possibility of a future relationship for Sunset is mentioned

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Just because I felt ornery, I posted “Trixe” on a Discord channel that was quiet at the time. Immediately other members started posting “Trixe” in reply, from which the thread mutated in various ways. Eventually people started posting individual alphabetic emoji that ended up spelling out not 🇹 🇷 🇮 🇽 🇪 but 🇹 🇷 🇮 🇽 🆔.

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Because nobody asked for it.

Ratings
Everyone: moderate chartreuse green #78AC40 (R120 G172 B064)
Teen: luminous vivid amber #FFB401 (R255 G180 B001)
Mature: moderate scarlet #C03D2F (R192 G061 B047)

Properties (all): moderate mulberry #A159BD (R161 G089 B189)

Warnings (all): pink #D6605A (R214 G096 B090)

Categories

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So here are the rules . . .

• Red 🛑: all the nopes (I absolutely will not write/read a story with this tag; for reading, a single tag of this ranking is enough to drop a story from consideration)
• Amber 🟨: not opposed to it (I am willing to write/read a story with this tag)
• Green 🟢: yes please (I prefer to write/read a story with this tag)

Properties

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• So I could see Sci-Twi, Sunset, and Rarity stuffing the whole gang into costumes for a convention outing . . . but what about them trying to stuff Cook and-or Rose into costume? What would they choose? How would the elder pair react? 🤔

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Because it is awesome.

Black lives matter. LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. This I believe.

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As part of an old Twitter thread starting with a query about Timber Spruce’s age (just out of high school, apparently, which would make him eighteen and about a year older than Sci-Twi), Mr. Rudell had this to say about Sunset Shimmer:

Sunset would be older . . . age-wise she’s like a senior who was held back a couple years!

Discuss.

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