Neither I nor Millennium Wake (part II) are dead.

Yet.

As some of you may have noticed, bad things happen when I set down a timeline.
Therefore, I am specifically not saying that I expect to have chapter 2 (26) finished by the end of next week.

We are alive, and while we are there is always hope for the future.

The other day I received an interesting prompt from Regreme,

how do you think it'd be possible for the Elements of Harmony to be swapped in different ways due to changes to their lives as fillies?

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I'm assuming everyone here has read Millennium Wake (now 'part I'). If not, that's a link, go do yourself a favor and read it.

I'm also going to assume that you know I've agreed to continue the story, six weeks ago. I make a lot of assumptions, it's a thing.

Thank you for your patience. The first chapter of the continuation is being finished, and I intend to submit it to FiMFICTION on Wednesday.

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I was listening to a podcast from RADIOLAB when I noticed that the primatologist being interviewed reminded me a little bit of Flutterhy. So I listened, and the more I heard, the more I was struck by the similarities in her voice, her attitudes about animals and people, and her diet (it only makes sense if you listen to the podcast). The episode in question was called 'The Shy

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That would be writer Steven Karl Zoltán Brust, author of Jhereg and the other books of the Vlad Taltosh series, along with quite a few others, but it's the world of Dragaera I'm concerned with right now.

If you haven't I suggest them, but that's not why I'm writing this blog.
I'm writing because of this post on his personal blog - which is entertaining in it's own right.

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I have said it before, and I will probably say it again: this fandom rocks.

Guess what I found surfing TV Tropes last night?
Whoever you awesome people are, thank you. Really.

Which brings me to the fact that it is February.

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So...
three weeks I put the latest chapter of A minor variation on rework status.
...and it was two weeks before that to my previous update.

An apology would be an insult to those of you still waiting, excuses don't change anything (we all have obligations and people/things that devour our time), and I've already (inadvertently) lied to someone about a schedule for the next update - as Jim Morrison said " may take a week, or it may take longer".

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...you really should take a look at this story:

Liberate the Sun by Seether00

This is a well written and compelling adventure story.
Conspiracy, betrayal, deceit, hope, friendship, family, the secret history of Equestria, chaos, changelings, pony physionomics - there's a little bit of everything in this story.

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Tonight an arbitrary numbering system tells us that a year has passed and a new one is beginning.
(assuming you live in a place that uses the 'Common Era' calendar, if you don't you've probably heard the rest of us going on about it)

This is my first New Year since discovering ponies, so I'm taking a moment to consider how finding them, and through them the fandom, has affected my life.

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I haven't provided any particularly good descriptions of the 'Variant Six', so I present to you my poor attempt at rendering them:

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