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I'm rewatching Chapter 4 of Make Your Mark in anticipation of Chapter 5 coming out in only a week and a half.

Did I just watch a My Little Pony episode about collectivizing a former defense contractor's factory?

I think I did!

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My close friend, whom I met through the MLP fandom back in 2011, is currently sharing ideas and outlines and drafts with me for a fanfic that's been brewing in her head for almost as long as I've known her.

The show has been over for 3-1/2 years. But the spirit is alive as it ever was. This enthusiasm for creation is deeply beautiful.

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I am really really really really really really really really really really really close to completing the next chapter.

It's been a rough couple of months for both personal and work reasons, so progress on the story has been slower than I would like, but after much obsessive editing, and much help from my editor/proofreader, Seraphem, (who has a saintly amount of patience with me), this upcoming chapter is shaping up to be awesome.

-Sprocket

Starlight Glimmer loves kites.

There's something magical about that. It's so simple. It has nothing to do with her arc as a reformed villain. It has nothing to do with any virtue, or character trait meant to encapsulate her entire personality. It has nothing to do with anything at all.

She just... likes kites.

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I recently rewatched "Marks and Recreation," and have gained a new perspective on it now that the series is over.

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Honest Apple is an interesting episode. In it, Rarity uses her sway in the fashion industry to give up and coming designers a spotlight. The story centers around preparation for a fashion show hosted out of the Carousel Boutique, with Rarity, Hoity Toity, Photo Finish, and Applejack as judges.

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"P.P.O.V.  Pony Point of View)" tells the story of the same nautical expedition from the perspectives of Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.  According to Rarity, Applejack capsized the boat.  According to Pinkie, Rarity was responsible.  According to AJ, both of the other two were to blame.

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"P.P.O.V.  Pony Point of View)" tells the story of the same nautical expedition from the perspectives of Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.  According to Rarity, Applejack capsized the boat.  According to Pinkie, Rarity was responsible.  According to AJ, both of the other two were to blame.

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Cozy Glow is a genius - at least by pony standards. She weaponizes her own cuteness to win the trust of Twilight, (and manipulates her into suspecting Tirek, going to Tartarus, and getting locked inside via use of an artifact that Cozy had personally packed in Twilight's saddlebag).

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