The chapter is covered in vomit. I am covered in vomit. The bathroom is covered in vomit.

This...month... I swear to Celestia.

So, my dad had a series of mini-strokes at the beginning of the month. He's recovering, but his left side is a little weak. Then my partners and I went to Eugene, Oregon, for a week which was both lovely and horrid. We ended up with a sixteen hour unscheduled lay-over in Salt Lake City after missing our connecting flight.

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The ending commeth! My god, I really had hoped to have this story finished before the end of My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic.

Speaking of that, Hasbro really needs to get the ball rolling on Generation 5. That shit better be great. We need to get the people who made She-Ra and Carmen Sandiego together to make the new MLP. MOAR PONIES!

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Well, Hard Boiled and co are in it now, aren't they?

We're headed for the final chapters and the battle of Detrot! It's going to be uglier and more bizarre than anything that's come before!

That being said...my car died, today. Not dead, dead, but has begun randomly overheating on me. It being a Subaru, if the headgasket craps the bed, the car is in the shop to the tune of $2000, which...I don't have.

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It's been a pretty wild couple months, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows the story is continuing apace! I'll have that new chapter right in your hooves ASAP.

I have lately become a *little* obsessed with the Youtube show 'Satellite City' . Feel free to look it up. I'll link to one of the character animation tests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmTivE3ocwc&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEbBYOBnTzc

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HOLY DOG FUCKER CHEESE WHEEL WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THIS WEATHER?!

I am currently sitting very calmly inside a house which is the only thing keeping me from instant, frigid death. It was -30 last night with a -60 degree windchill.

It's made writing a tad slow, so please excuse me, but I did want to get the chapter right...and entertaining. It should be reasonably entertaining. We're working to the final chapters, here! I had to give the characters a bit of a break.

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Phew. What a month! WHAT A MONTH!

I've been sick twice this month. No joke. Simple cold, both times, but mercy that's annoying. My partners both caught it, too. Real obnoxious.

This is atop a month that included trips out of state to see parents, a couple friends having suicide attempts, partners parents having heart attacks, a blood-soaked bed, and the holidays.

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Alrighty, sending the chapter off. It'll be in your hands as quick as I can get it to you and the editors may need to iron out some kinks before it gets there, but we'll make it work!

I'm sorry it took so long. I've had several deaths in my life this month. My partner's uncle died in a motorcycle accident. Coworker and close friend who I spend about 24 hours a week with lost his grandmother. Other partner's room mate lost their grandmother, so he's been a wreck.

Crazy.

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I haven't written a word in four days.

It's not even writer's block. I wish I had writer's block. That would be helpful.

In the last week-

1.My partner's uncle died in a motorcycle accident. To be clear, my partner's mom and uncle are the only members of his family he talked to with any regularity. The queer black-sheep of the family doesn't exactly get a lot of Christmas presents.

He's a mess. Deservedly so.

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Okay, so, things going on.

My partner was pretty injured a few weeks ago (shattered teeth, top and bottom in a running accident. Yes, they're okay, but it's going to be a lot of expensive, painful dentistry.), so we've been dealing with that recently. I hate that it makes the story slow, but whatever, we're still fucking putting it out there because we will not be stopped!

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Alright, so...explanation of why this chapter is taking for friggin' ever.

On the one side, there's some GOOD NEWS! My dad's cancer appears to be re-missing, or at least, his PSA's look like they've sunk back to the normal range. I don't know what that means, but if anyone is an oncologist, maybe you can tell me.

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With a hint of Jhonen Vasquez and some awesome teeth, this was posted for your amusement!

We're working heavily on the next chapter and I want it in your hooves ASAP. Shouldn't take too very long. I'm 5k into it and we're still going strong. Looking forward to writing something real horror show.

-Chessie

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Sorry if the chapter was slow. I spent about three days just recovering from some...uh...activities. Every time I rub my back on the chair, my cuts open up, and the stupid bed sheets still haven't got the blood stains out of them.

That being said, it's THAT TIME! We're headed for the Office and things are about to get as real as they possibly can get!

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We're working hard, playing hard, and...well, okay, here's a question.

Would anyone perchance be interested in a Starlight Discord channel? It'd be a place to hang out, post NSFW pictures of Swift, and probably discuss story.

-Chessie

I got nothing. This is a perfect picture from our friend FireMuffin.

I'm pretty sure I drew EXACTLY THIS in the margins of my school textbooks when I was ten. The Night Trotter being a shark is a nice touch.

-Chessie

26 days since the last chapter and I'm going to just go ahead and close my skull in a car door. Probably my car door, in fact, since that is where much of the last few weeks has been spent.

I've been taking a few extra shifts in an attempt to recoup various financial losses, which is to say...my car repairs.

All told; the vehicle needed the following -

O-ring on Power Steering Inlet
New Radiator
4 New Tires
Total Seal Replacement on Power Steering
Transmission Fluid replacement

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Alright, the new chapter will be in your waiting hooves in a day or two! You'll have to pardon if this took me awhile to get together. The holidays are just a right bastard for writers who're expected to be all 'functional' and 'adult'. Particularly silly little girls who work in call centers and get paid not to go insane.

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The car is fixed! Power steering rack was a mess, but the fine people at my local mechanic got it sussed within eight hours.

Thanks to everyone who helped out, whether with donations, commissions, or just kind words. It's going to be a tight few weeks while our finances sort themselves out, but I could stand to lose a few pounds, anyway. I can get around the frozen wasteland again, and that's fantastic!

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I've now got enough money to fix the car, so we're going to work on getting the story out as quickly as possible alongside the chapter.

That's a weight off all of our minds here. To my editors - You guys have been amazing in recent years. You keep me buoyed when things are looking rough and you make the story worth reading. You are the beating heart behind Starlight Over Detrot and everything else I've put out since this saga began.

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Welp.

That's it, then.

Power steering rack on my car has gone to heaven and my partner's work refused to pay for his vacation time that he'd already taken. We're out between $400 and $1200 this month. For a deli worker and a call center employee, that's some shit.

It's going to be a very sparse Thanksgiving.

I'll do my best to have Starlight out on time. Sorry if it's late.

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Dear friend and artist, Dorei, comes to us with some art of an oddly sexy Stella! I love this pic. This gives me full body giggles.

-Chessie