So, I'm still unwell, but on the plus side I'm not getting worse, which was the doctor's key decider as to whether I'd potentially be spending Christmas in hospital. Which is... yay?

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So, I've been ill. Signed off work until the New Year. Yay.

(I had a negative COVID-19 test last month, but was then diagnosed with a nasty chest infection. I'll be back. Too many stories left to tell.)

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No reason at all.

The best way to grow as a writer, I'm told, is to challenge yourself. Deliberately try to do something different. Unfamiliar genres, Oblique Strategies, artificial conditions, whatever.

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It feels wrong to celebrate ten years when I was only here for less than half of them. I regret being a latecomer, not because I was ever made to feel unwelcome but because I missed the Golden Age - by the time I discovered the fandom it was already supposedly on an inevitable downward spiral, smaller and less enthusiastic and more factional. I don't know if any of these things were or are true, but whatever the case, I wasn't here when it started and - when it comes to the ten year

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For some reason, on August 23 and again on September 10, someone went through my entire story collection and hit downvote on (almost) everything without reading the stories.

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Every time someone begins a reply on a blog or tweet with the words "You DO realise that...", or ends with "I'll wait", they instantly get a splitting headache

Celestia, make it happen

My fifteenth story!

ESeven of Cups, or, How Derpy Got her Groove Back

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Derpy drowns her sorrows after getting some bad career news... but when one door closes, another opens.

• Derpy

The Cloptimist · 4.2k words  ·  50  1 · 772 views

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First off, Away had a really lovely review from The Red Parade over at My Little Reviews & Feedback!

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I was happier being blissfully unaware this site, and fandom, had Nazis in it. But it's better to know, I guess. Allow me (or Valerio) to say a few words:

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