Here it is!

What I liked about the review is that it pointed out the ways in which the story could be better and/or did not work for the reviewer. And that's a good thing. It takes work for a reviewer to do that, and it's very valuable input I can use later (not that I don't love uncritical praise. Please feel free to keep going with that!)

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My feed has been LOUSY with spoilers for the second half of Season Five, mostly from the SDCC panel.

If you're doing that, cut it out.

Here's how NOT to use a spoiler:

SPIKE'S A DINOSAUR OMG OMG! (SPOILER)

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So there's a WHOLE EPISODE and it's episode whatever and there's a musical number and Spike's grandmother comes back and she tells him he's really from DINOSAUR VALLEY omg and he can go back with her only he doesn't YOU GUYZ

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This was my idea, and it would not leave my brain, so here it is.

Contest description here. What we're trying to do is to find the MLP fanfic that is the MOST like My Immortal. Not the worst fanfic ever, but the one most like My Immortal, widely considered one of the worst fanfics ever written. You'll find details at the link.

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I'm super busy and I can't even think straight, because the air con guys came over to replace all the registers, and they are making a heck of a lot of noise. But I finally did have a chance to look at it, and --

This covers chapters eight of the book, which equates to eight and nine of Fifty Shades, and I've also provided a bit about Grey, which is Fifty Shades written from Christian Grey's point of view. If you haven't read it and will never read it for any one of a number of excellent reasons, you can hear it from me that it is one of the laziest things I've ever seen. It can't have been for anything other than the money, unless perhaps it's a sort of backhanded attempt at a

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Some stuff from the synopsis and some other stuff:

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Well, maybe there will be. We'll have to see. I filed my grades on Tuesday and I've barely had time to chill out and get ready for the summer before I am heading out again for Parts Unknown, or at least, they are unknown to me. I'm always a little jittery before I travel, but I go anyway because I am Professor Panache, and Adventure Is Out There.

Stuff I've promised to do:

A project I've chatted over with Sketch-AHolic

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I know it's popular among some people to blame everything on Hasbro. If it's a good idea, it was the writers. If it's a bad idea, it's Meghan McCarthy. And right down at the bottom, BLAME HASBRO. Hasbro and their evil toyetic ways crush Bronies' dreams, forcing MLP to be --shudder--a little girls' cartoon.

Think again.

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Jane Austen Receives Feedback From Tim, A Guy In Her MFA Writing Workshop.

Oh, so many reasons to love this, which is why I am taking a few minutes off from grading exams. Go ahead and read it first. Discussion under the break.

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"Ooo! A 'Happy Birthday, Pinkie Pie' message from Scoots2! That must mean a new story!"

Um, no.

"An update? Because that thing has been sitting around for months, y'know."

I know, I know. But no.

"Nothing? Not even a review installment? Man, you suck."

I didn't say there was nothing! This is to announce that the Professor will be at Bronycon!

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