My college Brony friend is temporarily bunking with me, and we both got hit with a cold over the weekend. What made it more tolerable for me is switching over from Robitussin to Mucinex. The reason for the improved performance, all the extra chemicals shoved into one pill, is also why you need an ID to buy it over the counter.

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Thank you Viva "Immatoonlink" Reverie. You did it. You saw it through, because your work ethic, and dedication to the people you admire.

I'll get be posting something more typical for my profile later on, but for now, what do you recognize?

Watching this is giving me inspiration for a subject on why we have fonder memories of the earlier seasons. Beyond "nostalgia goggles" or "it use to be better." But I need to go to bed now. Just. Take this in.

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Something interesting happened today. I put on pants.

If you hang out with me during the right time of year, or see me jogging early in the morning or late at night (probably the latter), you’ll notice that I dress differently from most people. Even when I put on a windbreaker, a fleece, or maybe even a true winter coat, I’ll still be walking around in shorts.

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(The vast, vast majority of this journal is lifted from a discussion I had with saturdaymorningproj, separated by an entire year, over on their DA journal for Father Knows Beast. Reading and exchanging thoughts has been an inspiration for me, so I need to credit them.
---Season 8--Episode 24---

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---Season 9--Episode 9---
This episode felt like it was trying to do for dragons and Garble what “Lost Treasure of Griffinstone” did for griffins and Gilda. There are a few issues with that concept on paper. (This is credited to Kim Beyer-Johnson, the person behind Non-Compete Clause. While episodes aren't really written by only one or two people, I still felt like we'd dodged a bullet. This just being an OK episode overall is fine).

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I actually have plenty in the pipeline for the newer episodes, and my backlog. But I wanted to post this immediately after The Summer Sun Setback, with relevance to Cozy Glow.

Do people not enjoy Cozy Glow? Obviously she won't have as many fanfictions about her as Sombra got. For the same reason the Phyllis won't get as much fanart as Peewee or Tom. Which is a HUGE shame.

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---Season 9--Episode 17---
After years of reading people's hot takes, "Idiot Ball" seems to have become a more succint, and somehow nicer, way of saying that the writing for a character is badly and contrived. It should mean that their actions are so contrived, it takes the viewer out of the story. But that issue is so recurrent and expected that critics have just turned it into a story beat of Friendship is Magic.

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---Season 9--Episode 16---
I really felt for Twilight in that seat.

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---Season 9--Episode 15---
Firstly, gotta love how they conveyed passive aggressive sarcasm with just one word in their episode title.

But I’ve also seen enough of today’s setup to know what some Bronies, on this website at least, are going to be questioning. Regardless of the episode’s moral, characterization or execution:

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