So, to answer another question nobody asked: What do I look for in stories, and what turns me off them, pony fanfic in particular?

Dos and Don'ts:

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Well, it finally happened. I have acquired my 100th watcher/follower.

I'm still not sure how exactly that happened. I'm not even sure how many of those 100 are still active on this site. But it sure looks nice.

Time to dig out the old overused mantra: Thank you all. From Wolf Counsler (first follower, on the 9th of April 2012) to ShieldThorogood (number 100, 28th of October 2012), I hope I've managed to give you all a little bit to enjoy.

Hello. This blog post serves to alert those who have favourited "Love Will Set You Free" and/or "L'amore è femmina", but haven't put me on their watch list, that I've begun publishing side stories to the Big Two. The first chapter of these is now submitted and should be up shortly. Enjoy.

Hello there, loyal readers. As you've probably noticed, "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" is now over and done with.

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Sweet mother of Celestia, I wasn't expecting that.

For those of you who didn't notice, "L'amore è femmina" briefly hit the feature box after its last update (and when I say 'briefly', I really mean 'for about an hour or so, at three in the morning CET'; it was very swiftly gone again), which led to almost sixty new notifications for me, including a few new watchers and around thirty new faves for my stories.

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I actually noticed this a few days ago, but have only now gotten around to writing about this, and thanking you.

100 thumbs-up on "Love Will Set You Free" (actually, at time of writing, 104). Without a single thumbs-down (which I consider the bigger achievement). And 54 followers, most of those (I would guess) drawn in by that story.

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I stumbled across this on a fanfiction.net user page, and I thought I'd give it a try.

Here's how it works (copy/pasted from Yahoo Answers):
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

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Being the avid (and fast) reader that I am, I just tried two searches sorted by rating to find new stuff to read, one for completed Romance stories tagged with Spike and Rarity (topped by "The Heart of a Dragon," "When I'm No Longer Here" and "How to Woo Your Lady in Nine Easy Steps," all of which I can heartily recommend, the last in particular), and a second for the same kind of stories tagged Spike and Apple Bloom.

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So, I was looking over my comment on the latest "L'amore è femmina" chapter, and I realized I haven't actually mentioned yet how the other songs that named my fanfic fared at the contest, other than some passing remarks on whether they made it out of the semis or not. As a self-proclaimed Eurovision anorak (that's "Eurovision geek" in our terms), this will not stand.

Love Will Set You Free: 25th in the final, 12 points (shame on you, Europe!)

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Okay, right off the bat: I hate, hate, hate chain letters and anything that reminds me of them, such as - um - this game of tag. But I'll play along a little anyway, mainly because it's a nice way to reveal a few things about myself. So, the parts I'll do: Rule 2 (five things about myself) and rule 3 (answer the 11 questions).

So, five things about myself then, eh?

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