Recently I was reflecting on how shelter in place has given me a lot of free time while frequently robbing me of the motivation required to do anything that takes meaningful mental effort to get started. It's a shame.

But we're not here to talk about the stories I'm failing to write.

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I did a democracy! It takes me weeks to suitably research everyone and everything on the ballot, but now I'm officially done and my votes are in the mail.

It is such a chore being a responsible, informed voter.

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This morning, I complained that every year I say "I should do something for Ace Week," and then I don't.

Well, here's something. Using my lackluster image editing skills to stick a flag in my avatar isn't much, but it is something. (It reminds me though that I should bring out the silly Hanukkah avatar I made a while back come the end of the year. That one amuses me, but I never remember to switch it in.)

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So, yeah, this is the comic that was not bent, but rather kept in the state in which it was sent. My mailbox note felt immature, but it seems to have gotten results for sure.

Here's hoping that will return to being the norm, an end to the bad delivery swarm.

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Happy 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM! That makes today a good day to talk only half about ponies, right?

(Oh, and in case you were wondering, this comic was also folded into my mailbox, but the passive-aggressive post-it I put in my mailbox for the next comic was successful in achieving a more sensible delivery.)

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I was somewhat conflicted about how to title this. It is, after all, both a comic and an episode of season 10, and one of the primary rules of the titling of blogs on episodes and comics is that the schemes are distinct. Obviously the solution is still to pervert both patterns by combining them, but I had to take some time to convince myself not to feel that was fundamentally wrong.

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I can't honestly claim to be very well-versed in Transformers. I've picked up a surface knowledge of the most important characters and features of the setting, but I think I missed the heyday of the Transformers by being born late in 1992, and certainly there are limits to the lore one can learn from seeing one Michael Bay movie.

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The end of the world has had me all out-of-sorts vis-a-vis my normal habits, but I'm still here and I still have a comic to talk about. It's the appropriate time now to talk about it, because it's definitely still March.

Also, I can't put it in the comic box until I do this. Those are the rules.

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So it's been some time since I've written one of these, since I've been busy planning fanfic, writing fanfic, and most importantly telling myself to do those things but doing other things instead.

But I've got two comics that have been patiently waiting for what is probably best classified as a review, and it's time that I get to one of them.

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A long time ago I made a promise to provide a sequel to My Life as an Eldritch Abomination.

Yes, I promised a sequel "this summer" over six years ago. I guess I missed that deadline.

But now at last the sequel has begun.

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