It's been a while. In the past year and a half, despite occasionally crawling back here to whine about the show's direction, I've largely stayed away from Pony and spent a lot of time in other fandoms. My writing and my understanding of writing has been improved in important ways, and I've come to realize certain bad habits I used to have, (primarily in jumping in before properly fleshing out my ideas.) Furthermore, this time away from Pony has extended to my own multi-chapter stories, which

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Given that I'm in the unique position of having almost an entire season ahead of me that I haven't watched, I thought it would be funny to look at the titles of the episodes, and try to extrapolate an entire premise from just that. Let's see how painful the result turns out, shall we? It'll be funny to see how off the mark I am once I see the actual episodes.

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I've fallen out of the practice of doing 'live commentary' on episodes, but given the nature of this recent one, I felt it was appropriate to record my reactions.

"Starlight, your work in Ponyville isn't going anywhere."
In fact, you're completely useless. You slacking layabout.

Spike attempts to circumvent his own fame, with the most narcissistic tone of voice ever.

Intro Music
COUGHSCREWYOUTREECASTLECOUGH
Ahem, something stuck in my throat.

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Chapter Three will come far more quickly than Chapter 2 did, and soon more substantial developments in-story will occur.

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Let's kick off the Amazing August Avalanche!
On the schedule for y'all folks, in order of release:

1st: Fluttering, Shimmering
2nd: The Shore Of Infinity
3rd: Temptation Waits (Update)
Break on the 4th
5th: Harbringers
6th: Lunch Break
7th: The Atlantis Scenario (Update)
Break on the 8th
9th: Contrast
10th: Sirens In The Distance
11th: Of Responsibility (Update)

The end of the MLP Mid-Season Hiatus is arriving, and with it the end of July. I'm getting antsy, and both of my usual editors are really busy with important IRL stuff that naturally takes precedence over pony fanfic. Looking over the six new stories and three chapter updates I plan to release for JJJ, even if I would like a second opinion, I do think most of them are in a readable state. (And the one that is a bit sketchy on that front was done more for fun than quality anyway,

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So today I'm going to be running through three episodes that I have yet to comment on, despite having now seen about a month or two ago.

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Well, not quite.

Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1)

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Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)
Lunch Break (Oneshot)

Needs Finishing
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~70%

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Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon)

Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%

Yep.
It only took three freaking years, but I have finally finished Of Responsibility's next chapter!

Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)

Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~90%

Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)
Contrast (Prologue)

Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~65%

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So I finally revised Day One Morning, though it ended up taking less change than I expected. I also thought to revise some of the dialogue between Luna and Chrysalis at the end, but now I think it may not need it as badly as I thought. Their exchanges will be more subtle in the future, though.

Oh, but there's more! For all two of you following progress on my planned JJJ event, I have good news!

Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)

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Pretty Much Good To Go
The Atlantis Scenario (Chapter 2)
Sirens In The Distance (Oneshot)

Needs Editing
Fluttering, Shimmering (Chapter 1)
Harbringers (Chapter 1)
Temptation Waits (Chapter 2)

Needs Finishing
Lunch Break (Oneshot) ~40%
The Shore Of Infinity (Chapter 1) ~50%
Contrast (Prologue) ~85%
Of Responsibility (Day One; Afternoon) ~20%+5%

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So is anyone else looking forward to the 2017 movie?
At this point, it still feels like it could go either way - a horrid failure on the level of the Smurfs reboot:
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While I am more than happy with the new cover, (Provided by Conicer!) I did want to point out the old cover for Of Responsibility:

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As I pointed out in another blog post a while back, part of the problem with continuing OR has been that I've had to build off of a base that was... well, a lot shakier in hindsight than I thought at the time. So while I'm keeping the older chapters for the sake of historical record and posterity, I'm going to post updated versions to start things off from a better place. Take a look at the old prologue and then at the new one - both start similarly, but I think you'll find the key difference

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It's happening.

Of Responsibility

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But first, a song.

I know nothing about the movie this song comes from, just found this via chance. The song itself? The essence of feels.

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