I’ve heard reports that some people consider the pre-Beatles 60’s to have some of the worst pop music in Billboard history. This year I was starting to see it.

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As promised last weekend, I posted a story this week:

I Can Explain!
by Titanium Dragon

Teen, Sex, Comedy
1,033 words

Rarity explains to Sweetie Belle what the Cutie Mark Crusaders saw when they walked in on her and Applejack.

It was totally innocent. Really!

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I'm still stuck in that point where I get like no enjoyment out of anything, I've really worked on nothing other than commissions and adopts lately, because I've had basically no drive to work on almost anything. Well, there's been a few things, but not much I can post right now. Hopefully soon, the lack of writing is actually getting on my nerves.

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So here is the thing about Dr. Who. It's bigger on the inside. You look at it right from the outset and go, 'Huh, there's only ten series so far. Let's try this thing out.'

(This is an especially easy mistake to make if you, like me, are American and can't easily access Classic Doctor Who.)

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'Tis the season for holiday stress — and for the RCL to be pushing through almost 700,000 words of longfics in our reading queue. That dual crunch has slowed us down, and we're currently working with our pending featured authors on their interviews.  But don't worry — we've got you covered!

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Okay, I've been thinking about what was said yesterday. I don't know if this will actually lead somewhere, if anything, but I've not got anything left to lose at this point, so I'll get into it. Firstly, before I get fully into this, I want to give my thanks to Gyro Pony for the idea. Honestly, asking for this kind of thing from others makes me uncomfortable and a little guilty, so I want that noted on the record.

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I’m just about done reading the stories for the last Writeoff competition, but in the meanwhile, I thought I’d throw another batch of new stories at you folks, especially in the light of commenting to someone else about how this helps improve feature box quality. You know how much power we reviewers wield!

Not very much.

Still, some of these were indeed worth reading.

The stories I read today:

Misunderstanding by Sapidus3
Wassail, Wassail! by Skywriter

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my mom was asking me for possible examples of what i mean when i said i wanted short hair
so i showed her this example of troye sivan

and then she started yelling at me "SEE THIS IS WHY YOUR FATHER AND I DONT WANT YOU TO GET SHORT HAIR LIKE THAT! BECAUSE IT'S GUY HAIR! THERE IS NO WAY I'D EVER LET YOU GET A HAIRCUT THAT LOOKS LIKE A GUY!"

and aaaaaaa that is very unpleasant

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... we have a canon pony with definitely murderous tendencies:

Y'know, if it wasn't for Twilight, little Buzzsaw McColt would definitely shovel poor Tree H. Hooffield's brains out. Quite an escalation since pumpkins and tomatoes. Not to mention that some McColts seem pretty laid back about the whole conflict thing:

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