Hello, dear readers. I just flew in from Canada, and boy are my arms tired. So are my feet. So is my everything. This past weekend has been one of my family's forced Pain Endurance Jaunts, otherwise known as 'going hiking'. I am not an 'outdoor' person. I am not an 'exercise' person. I am not a 'vacation' person, mostly because this means that I will inevitably end up in a bed with one of my immediate family members, all of whom snore and take up far too much valuable body-spreading space. Of

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For those of you have have been following the EU's controversial Article 13 battle, let me tell you that we all may heave a sigh of relief. It's over. The copyright restrictions are being rehauled and reconsidered, and thank whatever higher powers or ethereal concepts you believe in that it did. (Also thanks to Julia Reda, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Wales, and others who protested this bill.)

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Everyone Needs Oz Now and Again
Oh, no-one thinks you lax
If you sit around all day reading Facts.
But you should see what kind of friction
Comes from reading fiction!
They sputter and they snort,
“I thought you a reasonable sort!”
They snort and they sputter,
“That rot’s stuff I won’t even utter!”
You patiently turn the pages of our brand new sci-fi novel,
But does that stop them? Of course not. They continue that old squabble.
“You’re a grown person now, you can’t deny,

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As none of you knew before this point in time, I write poetry as well as stories about horses. I was going back through some of my old stuff and thought I might post this one.

The Birds, the Bees, and I

We are rude and polite and homicidal and self-sacrificing
The angel stops to embrace the demon
The rising ape touches the falling deity
And they nod to one another in comprehension
Of things that they cannot understand
Without the other

But

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I haven't been posting a lot of stuff recently. I'm sorry about that. Partially, I'm sorry to you, my readers, but I'm also sorry that I haven't been able to live up to my own expectations. Basically, life got in the way, and I've been quite run off my feet for the last couple of weeks. But, good news, the next chapter of It's a Kind of Magic is up, and Act II is at a close! Of course, it's not exactly a happy chapter, as Rarity and Carrot Top bring their schemes to

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This blog post contains spoilers for the Doctor Who 2017 Christmas Special, Twice Upon a Time. If you haven't seen it yet, and you don't want spoilers, don't read this post.

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It's just science, guys. But yeah, I found a site where you can copy-paste some of your work in, a computer analyses it, and it tells you what famous author your writing most resembles. I used the first chapter of It's a Kind of Magic, for instance. I have no idea if this had made the rounds on this site already-- it's a fanfic site, so that seems pretty likely, but hey, maybe not. Here's the link, anyway.

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Question: If changelings can choose their forms at will, why in the world would they choose to look like technicolor moose-bugs?

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I mentioned awhile back that I was thinking of drawing covers for all of my stories. At least, I think I did. I say a lot of things, and I don't always listen when I'm talking, because I am really quite boring to listen to after awhile and I can't ever escape from myself.

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During the publishing of "Growing Pains", one particular comment has come up time and again; my decision to refer to Discord as "they". I would like to address my reasons for this here and now, so as to avoid repeating myself further.

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