Maps are great. As a kid I used to spend hours pouring over my parents' atlas, even though it was a little out of date and still had the Soviet Union on it. It was, however, the 1990s, and the collapse of the USSR had only been a few years ago, so I suppose they could be forgiven for that.

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Well, not quite. As it happened, I've missed the exact date by a few days, as Blueblood: Hero of Equestria was published on the 8th of October 2012, but we'll quietly ignore that from now on.

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After a nice Christmas and a New Year, I am back with with sequel to Royal Blood.

TThe Blueblood Papers: Bound By Blood

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Drama

Blueblood's captors said, "For you, the war is over." How wrong they were.

• Gore
• Violence
• Death
• Celestia
• Prince Blueblood
• Changelings
• Royal Guard

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And yes, I know I said I'd call it 'Captive Blood' earlier, but 'Bound By Blood' has extra alliterative appeal. I do hope you enjoy it. The usual monthly updates will proceed as normal from here on (hopefully).

I thought about putting this all in an author's note at first, but perhaps this would be better served as a blog post. Besides, I might as well make actual use out of this blogging feature, even if I never really got the hang of it. The following rambling nonsense will contain some spoilers, so if you're worried about that make sure you catch up before reading this.

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It's probably about time I updated this blog thing, if only to push that last one off my profile page. So yes, in the last one, written way back in March, I had come down with a mild case of covid. Though it was mild case that didn't require hospitalisation, thank Celestia, it was deeply unpleasant experience that I can best describe as the worst hangover I have ever felt stretched over the course of a little over two weeks. Mercifully, I don't appear to have passed it on to anyone, as this

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So I've definitely come down with something. Whether or not it's actually the coronavirus I can't say for certain, as in the UK we're only testing those who are sick enough to be hospitalised, and I'm fortunate enough not to require that. The symptoms seem to fit, mainly the fever, a headache, sore throat, and coughing, though my coughing isn't too bad and is mainly limited to if I exert myself too much. Speaking of exertion, I've found doing things that should be easy tires me out,

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Hello all!

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As promised, I have just submitted the sequel to Blueblood: Hero of Equestria, so just in case anyone who read that and wants to keep up with Blueblood's continuing misadventures, the sequel can be found here:

TThe Blueblood Papers: Royal Blood

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Drama

As Equestrian forces march into the Changeling heartlands, Blueblood must rely on his instincts of self-preservation, deception, and sheer blind luck to survive.

• Sex
• Gore
• Violence
• Death
• Celestia
• Prince Blueblood
• OC
• Royal Guard

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Enjoy! Or not, it's up to you really.

The last chapter of Honour and Blood has been uploaded, and I have marked this story as 'complete'. That, however, does not mean that this is the end. There are still plenty more Blueblood stories for me to write, but I have decided that instead of piling them all into one submission, each will be its own separate one. In hindsight, this is what I should have done from the outset, but it's a tad late for that now.

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The next chapter is currently in the editing process and will be posted in the next few days. In the mean time I've finally gotten around to drawing a replacement for that placeholder icon (which I think had been there for at least four years? I can't remember). I'm not usually one for OC 'ponysonas', if they're still a thing, but Pencil Pusher almost counts, so here he is when he isn't annoying Blueblood by being an obstructive jobsworth (probably being an obstructive jobsworth in a

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