Okay, this is a bit silly, but I feel like there's been a dramatic downturn in my number of comments lately. Obviously, to the people still leaving comments, I'm very grateful for them, they always make my day, and to people who used to comment but aren't anymore, that's fine too, I'm just wondering why they dried up and if I did something wrong. I really do like all my commenters, and I hope I didn't scare them off. Reading a thoughtful comment always makes my day.

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So, from time to time, I read a Human in Equestria story that gets me to thinking about trying my own HiE story. The latest inspiration was The Best of All Possible Worlds, and I started churning the idea over in my head when I hit a snag you might've been able to guess by the blog title: Equestria Girls.

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So, despite my endless desire for self-promotion, I apparently forgot to write a blog post to let readers know Your Own Worst Enemy was out. User Peachy Keen was kind enough to let me know, and since there might be other readers out there like them, living unaware that Sweetie's story is getting the continuation it begs for, I figured I'd just write this to let

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So, nothing big to report. I'm just putting out feelers for someone who has an idea about how to use internal meter and rhyme to help me craft snippets of Sweetie's songs. I know I put out a call for a song-writer a year ago, and kind of just decided to have Sweetie being a cover singer, but now it's become vitally important for her character arc that she start penning original compositions. If you want to help me write songs, feel free to leave a comment or private message me.

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So, if, for some unfathomable reason, you make a habit of reading my blog posts, you'll remember that exactly a month ago, I wrote a blog post about how much I loved the Krampus film. Now, here we are, a month later, and my belated Christmas story is out. It features Krampus. I suppose there's something very telling about my creative process there.

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Hey, everyone, so I was thinking about doing a blog post about all the song titles used in The Unbearable Lightness and why I chose them, but then, I started thinking about those last two song titles used, the ones lifted kind of directly from Little Shop of Horrors, and my mind went to one of my favorite topics: how Hollywood messed up one of my favorite musicals. Now, I'm sure a lot of people know about the 1986 film's infamous "focus group ending," which happened when test

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So, I just checked my calendar today and noticed something completely crazy. We're only 19 days from Christmas, and I don't have a special holiday story planned, and realized I need to fix this immediately. My first thought was to write a Sweetie story, but realized that considering it's early to mid spring in YOWE, a Christmas episode would put us towards the end of YOWE and spoil a lot, and doing it before YOWE would just be kind of dark. I don't think we want a whole story about Sweetie and

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So, I generally try not to write blog posts about non-pony related things, because this is a site for my pony stories, and I figure most of my readers don’t want to read my general musings. If I wanted to just ramble about things on my mind, I could set up my own blog, and not inflict my opinions on people who just want to read the latest update in the soap opera that is Sweetie’s life. However, I’m going to break that rule, because I really want to talk about Krampus. Like… there are very few

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So, as part of my long-standing... friendship? bromance? thing? with Tchernobog, I decided to enter his AppleDash contest, and because it touched on a lot of the key themes that I think are core to the Orchestra-verse, I thought it had a place in there. It's my take on AppleDash, and hopefully, you all like it. You can find the story here.

So, the season finale of My Little Pony recently aired. Beyond my love for the show, I also really love time travel and alternate universe stuff, so I had a lot of high expectations going in. So, what did I think? The episode rates a solid “Ehh…” followed by an apathetic shrug.

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