Here's something I should have thought of before. There's a trope that everyone knows, if not by name then at least by reputation. All there in the manual. The idea is that in some works there are things not mentioned in the actual text, but in supplemental materials like other books/movies/comics/audio recordings and so on. As I have been led to understand this is common in Japan, with anime series relying on a

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The Veil of Ignorance is a philosophical concept formulated by John Rawls in his book A Theory of Justice, though the general idea has been around much longer and forms a large part of the general idea of the social contract. The idea of the veil works like this: when trying to organize a society or determine something to be done, morally speaking, parties must imagine they do not know the position they will occupy in society,

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The Iron Law of Institutions can be rendered in the most simple form thusly: A person would rather that an institution fail and they keep power in it than it succeed and they lose power in it. That is, if the company or organization crashed and burned but they got to keep on being Grand Supreme Illustrious Chief Executive Super-Poobah they would swill champagne-flavored caviar and dance in a pile of money as the misery of a

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If you ever receive formal training in certain subjects, such as literature, rhetoric or law, it becomes quite apparent that words, typically single words carefully considered and placed in particular areas, can be immensely powerful, perhaps more so than more 'significant' words used elsewhere. This does relate, in some way, to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or linguistic relativity, which says that words either nuance our world or

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In general, the Socratic method is a means of intellectual discussion between two people that involves questions passing between them, the answers to which will either illuminate new points or give rise to new questions. Usually it involves the defense or probing of a point of view, seeking contradictions and thus refining the point. Socratic questioning is a similar thing, more generally patterned to simply expand ideas and get to truths, in a systematic manner.

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I have more watchers now, I figure it can't hurt to post about my pony cards for trade. Especially since I have way more now.

Standees
2- Rainbow Dash

4- Twilight Sparkle

6- Fluttershy

7- Sweetie Belle

Foil/Specials
F5- Elemens of Harmony Puzzle Piece, Rainbow Dash

F25- Foil spike

G3- Gold Series Princess Cadence

Regular Cards
#1- Twilight Sparkle

#7- Spike

#10- Applebloom

#12- Sweetie Belle

#14- Shining Armor

#17- Big Macintosh

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This is strictly fanon. It's about my own universe, which I'm actually starting to consider calling "The Spoiled Barrel" universe. One Bad Apple spoils a barrel, but that's 'spoil' as in indulge and give good things. You could trope it as 'Spoiled Sweet.' Granted, I made certain i took great heaping gobs of personality from the originals, but by the nature of being ongoing and interacting, changes and revelations are inevitable.

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To erase my maudlin insecurity, here is something a sight happier. I have pony cards for trade. Not as many as before, I traded a good portion for some gaps in my collection and a promise of some more packs later. I still have some decent things for trade. Here is the current list.

Standee number 7, Sweetie Belle
Elements puzzle 5, Rainbow Dash
Number 12, Sweetie Belle
Number 14, Shining Armor
Number 17, Big Macintosh
Number 19, Snips and Snails
Number 44, Peewee

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It's true. I just found out. I lost the AppleDash contest. BADLY. So badly I didn't even get the bullshit juice box honorable mention prize. I'm not even worth honoring.

FML. Hard. I have to go buy some booze now, maybe invest in some punching bags.

Oh, and for the curious, yes this is genuinely upsetting. What else do I have but my writing? Let me have my self-loathing and rage. I have earned it with all the work I put into that piece of crap. It must be crap. I wasn't even mentioned.

I've been pretty reticent to post links to my FA page. But, I realize there's no real reason to hesitate.

First off, the most recent. Some art of side-characters. These two are Platinum Shine and Basalt. Seen in "My Fair Fair" and "It's Okay to stray". Basalt Shine and Platinum Shine

The cover art for "The Bad Apple Chronicles" was done by the artist Mitti, formerly known as Touch My Badger.

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