Also, unrelated to anything, really, but I do like how one of the most common elements in any of these fresh new pictures of Izzy is the tennis ball - 'shield', sorry - on her horn. It just tickles me.

Mean, it's sensible. She opened a tin of beans with that thing! She'll have your eye out!

New film actually very enjoyable. Bizarrely, the CGI horses look a billion times better moving than they do not moving, not sure how that works. Big fan of Hitch's animal sidekicks getting to be part of the mob and flipping over a vehicle. In fact, big fan of just about all the teensy split-second jokes. Quality work.

Also, I want an Izzy. She is best.

I saw an ad on the side of a bus for the new film coming out (something about which I was only dimly aware) and I had that familiar, unusual surge I always get whenever I spot cartoon ponies in the wild.

How dare my guilty pleasure be displayed to the unwashed public! They don't appreciate it the way I and a variety of online strangers do! Get that ad off the bus! Take these magazines and toys from the shelves! It's not for you!

Which is a bit silly, really.

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I do still think of ponies, sometimes, I just don't have the time or mental energy to do anything useful with these thoughts, sadly.

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I thought people were being unusually quiet and reserved.

Turns out I'd disabled comments.

Oops.

That feature that let's you see, uh, referrals to your stories or whatever is insidious and baffling. A lot of it is alphabet soup but sometimes I see things that electrify me with curiosity, but there's no payoff!

"Jobbing" got one from Wikipedia - how?

And the one with the batpony got some from TVTropes! Where?! Show me! Don't leave me hanging like that!

Also yeah I'm not dead just exhausted.

Periodically there'll pop up a comment on Last One Out and it is always rather gratifying to see that it apparently still carries heft.

Some of my finer work, I think.

More luck than judgement!

Sometimes, in my idle moments, I consider whether if I was less idiosyncratic and more liberal (some might be so bold as to say accurate) with the story tags whether it would have any effect.

Would it do anything, and if so, what?

Then the moment passes and, I don't know, I think about Celestia some more or something.

Mmm....

Yaaaaaayyyy audioooooo.

Also it's not that raunchy I don't get you people.

Unclear whether this is the sort of thing one shares with dubious internet strangers (as all of us here plainly are) but I am now a father.

Output may, well - it'll either go up or down.