Well. An enterprising individual by the name of Goombasa did a dramatic reading of Glory. Dramatic reads are something I've only heard about before, so it was very odd and very cool to see one be done for a work I wrote.

I found his narrator voice to be super good - there were chills going down my spine at a few of the places. I didn't think it was possible for an author to be hit by his own work like that.

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Sometimes I talk to my muse. Physically. Another self, who looks over my shoulder and alternatively criticizes and lauds my work. Call him my “shadow” for you psych majors – slash – Persona fans out there. Or my muse. Or a crack illusion. Whichever.

He sometimes raises good points, but mostly he’s kind of a dick.

We were metaphorically fishing one day and I sighed.

“Sad that your fifteen minutes of internet fame are over?” he said, sending me one of those contemptuous glances.

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I like to think I take an even keel when it comes to the "social" antagonists of MLP. We get a tiny snapshot of their life, and it strikes me as presumptuous to judge them based on that. Sure, they're not nice guys. But I sort of roll my eyes when I see people draw revenge fantasies, or use them as punching bags in their writings. To quotery the popery, "Who am I to judge?"

Gilda? How dare someone be mean. No one in the mane cast is ever mean. Except when they are.

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So, finally got the whole "Watch Equestria Girls" thing out of the way. Obviously it wasn't the end of the fandom as we know it, though I didn't like it too much. The way the humans looked really threw me off, and the villain was pretty unimpressive when lined up to previous antagonists (her ultimate final form was atrocious). A thing I did like was that it fit in just fine with the series: One could easily imagine this as just an hour-long episode.

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...Because a mostly unknown artist friend of mine made a P4/MLP crossover fanart for my birthday.

And dig this: He's not a brony. At all. It's an eccentricity of mine that he accepts. For this artwork, he actually had to research the show to make the right references.

Talk about friendship and tolerance.

So if you're interested, enjoy the art and give him some love. Danke.

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I'm a huge goddamn history nerd, with an extra emphasis on WWII. I've got a fic partway done with the basic premise of "Equestria exists on Earth and enters WWII," though boy howdy does it need editing. Trying to marry the optimistic, utopian MLP with a bitter reality is challenging, and I admit I have not been a large fan of human fics myself. But I like what I have so far - I feel historical flavor is maintained, but the ponies don't have their idealism crushed. Rather, they bring it with

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