I have to admit I totally didn't realize this until someone on Equestria Daily pointed it out, but now it's blowing my mind.

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So it's that time of year again.

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Go on and dream a little dream of me....

No, wait, sorry, wrong fiction thing.

Ahem!

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So I was reading RedSquirrel's blog entry, "Stop Writing 'X Is A Changeling'", and in the comments Horizon linked to a fantastic post by GhostOfHeraclitus on "Rules For Writing". Horizon also, for some bizarre reason, said I was concise and eloquent, and I have no idea where the hell he came up with that notion, but I digress. Heraclitus's

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....because the internet tells me it's a great show. I had tried watching the show before, and was a bit tepid about it, but I chalked that up to the possibility that I hadn't watching it from the beginning. I mean, the internet came through for me with Friendship Is Magic, so I resolved to buckle down and watch the show the internet is going gaga for, from episode one!

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"The thing about Jane, right, the thing you've got to understand...."

"Oh, God!"

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Hmm. Slavic fashions, memories of bygone empire, crumbling and squalid infrastructure, obsession with money....might as well have called this one "Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie go to Yeltsinland".

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Y'know, when "It's About Time" first aired, I thought, "This does seem an awful lot like Metal Gear Solid, but there's a chance it's just a coincidence."

Now they're just flaunting it.

Forget friendship. "The Orange" is the real magic.

Also, that sniper scope seems awfullllllllly familiar.

And then there's the Michael Moorcock chaos symbol on Discord's sceptre, while wearing Harry's suit from Dumb and Dumber! What is this, cameo junction?

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When Joss Whedon was creating Angel, his Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff about the vampire with a soul (not the vampire with soul -- important distinction*), he set out to make a neo-noir that revolved entirely around the case of the week. Angel Investigations would be enablers, helping the helpless by assisting a guest star of the week who would wander on set, step into the spotlight, and have the main cast revolve around them for forty-five minutes. The message was that

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If you know a thing or two about classic video games, then play it

VVVV

http://mkopas.net/files/deesbignight.html

pronto.

Do not Google it. Trust me. You want to go into this blind. There's no jump-scares or anything, just an amazing twist. I burst out laughing for, like, a minute straight when I reached it.