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Not much of a blogger, but I like to use this for those very specific works of writing that just don't fit anywhere else and news updates that would not fit in a status update. 

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Life

Job Applying

I'm applying for jobs right now to fill the gap in the wait for my furlough to end, so please wish me luck. To my displeasure, unemployment has not helped me out in any way whatsoever and I had to get in touch with a manager from Macy's last night about why I hadn't received my call for my return-to-work date within two weeks. I was told that they "hadn't received word yet on return dates for furloughed colleagues". I'm very tired of this, very unhappy right now. 
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Reviews

Reviewed MYM Chapter 4 in More Detail After Watching It Again

I may have reviewed MYM Chapter 4 already in its discussion thread, but that was just for a warmup. This is the real review I always wanted to do for it.  https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/Make-Your-Mark-Chapter-4-Review-971157815 I also wanted to do this after watching all the episodes more than once because I didn't just want the writing in the review to be just right, I wanted all my thoughts to be just right as well. This chapter deserves that extra polish for a revi
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Life

Got Furloughed at My Job

Some very unfortunate news that I've already made a status update on and will elucidate more on here as promised. I was called in for a meeting at the start of my night shift and informed that my department would be hit with a mass furloughing, impacting at least seventy-one people. This confounded a lot of people, myself included, seeing how these past few days have been very busy. However, according to upper management, the workload is actually lacking, so they've decided to furlough full-time
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Essays

My Essay for Izzy Moonbow

Twilight Sparkle (moderator) told me that it's better to link to forum threads for these essay posts with blogs instead of posting my whole essay in a blog, so here's my new thread showcasing this essay I did for an amazing character like Izzy Moonbow for my birthday. 
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Games

Got a Steam Deck!

I recently finally got myself a Steam Deck!    Yeah, that's Devil May Cry 4 on there. It's funny how the console told me the game was unsupported on Steam Deck when it actually plays fine for me. That's the only thing I really don't like about the console, that confusion for some of these games that will actually play fine with some minor tinkering, if you even need to do that at all. Other than that, it's awesome. 
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Reviews

MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 2 Review

Even though I've kind of already reviewed this chapter, I felt that it deserved a much more detailed review in the style of my MYM Chapter 1 re-assessment, so here we go.  https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/MYM-Chapter-2-Review-Pre-MYM-C4-Release-970987346 Prelude Make Your Mark Chapter 2 is currently my favorite piece of G5 content. At this moment in time, it’s the second most positively received part of G5’s media, with the most positively received part being the m
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Life

Received My Raise at Work After Being Officially Recognized as a Top Performer

I mentioned in my last blog that I was potentially getting a raise, and now, I officially am getting one.  Although it's not that much extra money, it's certainly going to add up, and I am grateful to have any raise in pay. I was also extremely happy to see that I am now officially recognized as a top performer. My supervisor told me that I'm one of the top performers out of seven. Honestly, the boon this has been to my feeling of self-worth is more valuable to me than the money. 
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Life

Another Work Award, Potential Raise

Since I have not made a blog about work in quite some time, I guess it's finally time to update you guys on how I'm paying the bills. Work was mostly slow for a while in the winter with the least active peak season I've ever seen, but lately, it's been a lot more busy with a lot more stuff to do. Coinciding with that, they're getting stricter at my job with people needing to meet productivity. It's not given me any trouble though, I received yet another award from my job last night. 
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Essays

Twilight Sparkle's Greatest Accomplishment: Creating the Unity Crystals

This can also be found on my DeviantArt gallery.  https://www.deviantart.com/cloudmistdragon/art/The-Importance-of-the-Unity-Crystals-in-MLP-956978736 Opening Twilight Sparkle did a great service to Equestria in making the Unity Crystals. This, I know for sure, is a controversial statement. However, I’ll even go a step further and say that what Twilight was revealed to have done to help Equestria in the second issue of the G5 comics is her greatest accomplishment in the series we
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Dreams

Another Strange Dream Featuring Rikifive

Yeah, I had another weird pony dream, another dream where I was a younger version of myself, and another dream where Rikifive's name came up. This time, he wasn't "Rikifiveguy". I was watching this episode of MLP: FiM with my sister that was titled "Rikifive" for some reason. The only things I remember while watching it were this weird opening sequence where Discord turns Shaggy from Scooby-Doo into a plant and this scene where a 3D-animated Twilight was talking to this robot shark with a full s
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Vent (Sort of)

Nontroversies

This is my first ever blog on this site that is going to be somewhat of a vent. Who here is tired of nontroversies? Who here is tired of everything needing to be "controversial"? I know, this is absolutely nothing new. But it's something that continues to grow ever more baffling. The world sucks right now, worse than it ever has in modern history, yet as it continues to get worse, people continue to get better at creating non-issues. Look at all the real ones we have. It's growing ever more diff
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Life

Sinus Infection

Last week, I felt I was finally getting over a prolonged sickness I was tired of having, something akin to a cold. However, early Monday morning, I came down with some severe congestion in my nose and ears. Part of me worried it was COVID initially, considering how stupidly long I had been sick, but a negative test combined with no other symptoms besides sinus symptoms confirmed it was not. I have a sinus infection, I've been having to blow my nose very often, and I've been blowing out both yell
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Life

My Personal 2022 Retrospect

From my last yearly retrospect on 2021... "Fairly adequate year for me I believe, despite the miring of my work and moderate miring of my family relationships, discounting the improvement with my sister. Absolutely awful for the world, again, however. I truly do hope 2022 does something to finally break the mold of this dark age." As much as I'd like to start with something optimistic, I don't want to jinx 2023 for you guys. Moving straight to recounting what this year was li
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Dreams

Strange MLP Site Dream

Yeah, I had a strange dream about an MLP site last night rather than MLP characters. In it, I was looking at my notifications on Derpibooru and saw that Rikifive (calling himself Rikifiveguy) had given this image of Princess Luna art with her wearing a shower cap and squeezing a rubber duck in a bathtub three dislikes. I was about to hit Rikifive up asking how and why he gave the image so many dislikes before I found I could give images as many likes or dislikes as I wanted. Mass downvoting imag
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Dreams

Strange Halloween Dream Featuring MLP G5 Characters

For the first time in my life last night, I had a dream about Halloween just in time for the holiday. I dreamed that I was in this apartment playing this Yu-Gi-Oh! game where I was rebuilding this AI partner's deck that had 80 cards for some reason. Jazz was there decorating the place for a Halloween party when I noticed that there was something behind this room. It led me to where my older brother and Sora were fighting this demon. We made it disappear somehow and Sora cried something out, lead
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Dreams

Terrifying Nightmares: Suffocation

Guess I'm making a blog series out of these horrific nightmares since they just keep coming. I was fully expecting one for the Halloween season though. This time, I dreamed last night that I met the ghost of a girl in an elevator. I had to solve some kind of puzzle that led to me bending nails with my teeth. I went to another floor and came back in the elevator, where the ghost told me I was going to die. She used a telekinetic power to try and stab the nails I had in my mouth through my throat
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Reviews

Top 10 Bunk Criticisms of MLP G5

I made a top 10 list of the fallacious G5 criticisms I'm most tired of reading.  https://www.deviantart.com/cloudmistdragon/art/Top-10-Bunk-Criticisms-of-MLP-G5-931961860 I am no stranger to the fact that G5 gets a good amount of criticism. If you’ve read my re-assessment of Make Your Mark’s pilot, you’ve probably already inferred this. I know this generation receives some valid points of criticism that I do understand. However, it also receives a lot of invalid points of criticism. In
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Dreams

Eerily Timed Hunter X Hunter Dream

I had a dream last night about Hunter X Hunter coming back. It was about me reading this volume where Kurapika was having to deal with this crazy, evil cannibal family (shockingly, it was the kind of thing I could imagine actually happening in the series considering) and then going on to read this author's note at the end by Yoshihiro Togashi explaining about why the series had been on its longest hiatus yet. Boy, was I PO'd when I woke up and realized the dream wasn't real. Then later, I found
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Reviews

Tell Your Tale: Bottom 5 & Top 10 Episodes/Every Episode Ranked

So after re-watching the entire series of Tell Your Tale in celebration of Make Your Mark’s second chapter premiering soon, I decided to make a Bottom 5/Top 10 list of every episode so far, as well as a ranking of every episode. The reason I’m only doing five for the bottom is because no episode of the show is actually bad, just weak in comparison to the good-quality episodes we normally get. To ensure the fairest judgment I could, I made sure to re-assess every episode, and lo and behold, my op
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MLP G5 Make Your Mark: A Re-Assessment of the Pilot

This was already posted in the Make Your Mark pilot thread, but it's been a long time since I last posted a review in a blog post, so here you go.  https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/Make-Your-Mark-Chapter-1-Review-970891594 The pilot special to the MLP G5 series, Make Your Mark, deserves more credit than what it’s generally given. I don’t believe that to be a particularly controversial statement, given the evidence that shows this special is actually generally regarded b
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Dreams

Another Horrific Nightmare: Warzone

Had a nightmare last night that I think might have been worse than the one with my mother and the guns. I dreamt that I was a kid again and my dad was still with my mom. A war had erupted in my country and my parents had to pack everyone in the car to drive us to a "safe place". We drove through this warzone filled with snow, fire, and explosions to this "safe place" that turned out to be a prison. I started screaming at the top of my lungs at my parents as the prison guards restrained me and th
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Dreams

Strange MLP G5 Dream

I had another strange pony-related dream last night. This time, it took place in the realm of G5 with everything animated Tell Your Tale style. Hitch had Sunny come up to him and tell him she needed him to call out for work for something she wanted all of her friends to do. For some reason, Hitch had a boss he needed to call to explain a situation to, and because he's a workaholic who had never called out of work before in this dream apparently, he stood by the phone the entire day hesitating ne
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