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Fallout: Equestria is a big, expansive and inclusive universe that has spawned a whole plethora of side-stories,the newest and freshly updated editions of which are listed below.
This post only features New or Updated stories from Monday, August 12th, 2013 through Thursday, September 12th, 2013 for a total of 101 stories (29 of which are new) and 244 new chapters - but fear not,should you be searching for old favourites, you can find them:- The Official Fallout: Equestria Resource Site
- Fallout: Equestria Group on Fimfiction
- In the Official Fallout: Equestria Side Stories Compilation Document
- In the old Equestria Daily Compilation post
- Story and media updates of Twitter
Check them all out after the break.
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Let the ornaments come in swarms! We have another load to go along with that Rarity one that appeared earlier. While not glass blown, they do have some pretty interesting designs, especially Pinkie Pie. All of them were found at Toys R' Us by Greg. Hopefully we see them expand pretty rapidly as the holidays draw closer.
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With the holiday season right around the corner, more and more of these things seem to be popping up. A full on glass-blown Rarity has appeared at a store called Carlton Cards in Ontario (Also known as American Greetings here in the USA). If she is following the same trend as usual, it will be a bit before we see this one in the states. For whatever reason, Canada always wins on special release ornaments. Expect her to click in at ~$18 dollars.
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Celestia's Micro comic released yesterday, and with new comic releases comes a load of variants. I have the list for all you collectors, or you can pick your favorite and go track it down. The only one I wasn't sure on was Comics World, as their pony section doesn't appear to be updated to reflect that.
And just a heads up, the timer on the side bar is going to be used for episodes and comics in the coming months. We are still tweaking a few things with it at the moment (time zones are screwing with it), but it should be fully functional soon.
Now go read some comics!
Digital
Comixology
iTunes
Variants (Images in order from right to left, top to bottom)
Cover A
Cover B
Comics World (They don't appear to have it online)
Larrys
Jetpack
Extra
Paperback Volume 2
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A lineup of French pony merch has been revealed over on Toymag. We have the usual brushables, along with toy sets and DVDs. Yes, that sweater is decked out in pony eyes. And I thought the Kinect was bad. At least the other shirts are less scary!
I wonder if the Christmas tree will be going on sale though? That would be an interesting addition. Head on over here to check it all out. Thanks to Valentino for the heads up.
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Gosh Blogger has bloody awful security. Look at me, just waltzing on in here, messing with the furniture and stuff… Anyway… so you’ve probably noticed that EQD is looking just a wee bit different now than it used to. I’ve wanted to do this job for 2 years now, and after pestering Seth enough and showing him mock ups, I’ve spent the last week wrestling with blogger’s templating system in order to churn out what you see right now. It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be when I first got into it, and I feel like a total Blogger pro now. Something to put on my CV with a great big stamp ya know? Hmm.
The main point of this revamp was to improve the look of the site, but after I got going I found a bunch of things I could improve which I’ll run you folks through. It’s certainly been an exercise in hacking blogger to pieces with javascript...
Navigation Bar
This is the biggest improvement to site usability. You’ll notice the navigation bar at the top now has drop downs on most of them which show the sub tags for whatever you’re hovering over. This is a massive improvement compared to the huge categories list that used to sit in the side bar.
The bar also now sticks to the top of the screen as you scroll, letting you navigate easily when you’re further down the page. Handy! If you want to turn this feature off, click the settings button on the right of the nav bar and uncheck “Fixed Navigation Bar”.
Finally, on a purely visual level, these navigation buttons now highlight when you’re on a relevent search page.
Posts
Posts are not enormously changed. I’ve spruced up the images a bit and selected some better colours but nothing out of the ordinary. One useful note is share buttons next to the comment button that let you easily share content to both Facebook and Twitter.
Spoilers
Now I KNOW some of you guys are gonna love this. If you click the settings button to the right of the nav bar you can choose to hide any posts about Season 4. They’ll appear as clickable spoilers if you choose to view them. This system can be extended to absolutely any tag on the site, so expect to see good use out of this feature in the future.
Headlines
Those massive headlines at the top of every page that ate up a good 200 pixels have now been moved to the top of the sidebar. This pushes the content up a lot which is fab, as well as giving the headlines a more distinctive style!
Sidebar
The sidebar has been bumped up to 325px wide which lets us fit in more things and put the 2 ads on the right side by side. The countdown and counter widgets have been given a nice makeover too, including css3 placed commas, which makes those crazy big numbers easier to mentally parse.
Banner
You’ll probably have noticed that the banner is looking pretty swanky if you’re using a decent PC with Firefox. I added a nice parallax effect to the background that moves up and down as you scroll which gives a bit of life to the site. If this feature is too much for your browser to handle, you can turn it off in the settings menu (button on the right of the navigation bar). We hope to use this for lots of funky banner designs instead of just simple old school ones.
Other than that, the rest of the work is purely visual. I have some ideas for some other fun features that I want to make, but right now I’m quite pleased with where we are.
So feel free to leave your feedback below, and I’ve left pitchforks over in that barrel on the right for easy access. I’ll just go back to my other million unfinished projects.
Update
If you're a chrome user, you should get this extension for smooth scrolling because it's great:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smoothscroll/cccpiddacjljmfbbgeimpelpndgpoknn/reviews -
[Slice of Life]
Author: Drakkith
Description: After a long day spent doing flight practice, Rainbow Dash must teach Scootaloo a little about preening.
How to Preen Your Chicken
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Mixing the generations a bit, it looks like Halloween will be bombarded by this new costume. The pony on the box is old gen, while the costume itself appears to use Pinkie Pie's current face.
This particular item was found by AutumnBlow at Walmart in North Carolina. What did they think of it in person? Just "Terrifying". I suppose it fits the halloween theme, though they probably should have gone all the way with a mask.
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I guess that explains at least most of those tattooed style ponies that have been invading Ebay lately. On top of the blindbags posted yesterday, this group has appeared once again on Taobao. Considering it's fully packaged ready to ship, I wouldn't doubt seeing this one soon around the world.
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Another random toy has popped up over in the world of Taobao. Twilight Sparkle is about to be completey bombarded in glitter and shiny things as part of this new "Through the Mirror" set piece. At least the box is pretty cool!
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Pfft. What are you talking about, Dashie? Administrative duties are the most fun things in the universe! Just look at me, I'm having a blast! Of course, it helps to have such wonderful constituents helping refill my enthusiastimeter every night. And that goes a little something to the tune of 230 rulers, aristocrats, plotters, and... uh... well, plotters, pushing our grand event total to 9410 images. Only a few more days to go! Let's push hard, let's make this an event that will blow away all of our onlookers! I believe!
Day 28. Sounds so small when you write it out like that. But wow, what a landmark we've hit. There's just another couple prompts left to go, and then we're all free to pursue whatever ends we wish. Of course, you're free now, but when we're this close, all I can do is ask that you try to find it in your hearts to reach out just a liiiiiittle bit farther. We can see the finish line! Go for it with gusto!
To the sound of blaring trumpets (and the rhythm of a heartbeat pounding away...), I stand before you all this night as Blog Princess of Equestria Daily! With a raise of my dainty and exceptionally royal hoof, I bid you gaze upon the spectacle of the Royal Gallery! Which is not to be confused with the Gallery Royale, which is the extra copy we have over yonder with an egg and some cheese on it. Not bad, but not really what we're looking for tonight. No, tonight, we remindst thou, is all about dat... graphing and calculation!
And now, we... hey, come back with that crown! I... awww. Oh well! It's time for our nightly theme. Things get hardest right as we reach the end of a marathon, where we dig into our reserves and realize there's not a lot left to give. But you've got the hearts of champions, so you sweat it out and surge forward! If you trip, get back up! If you can't cross that plane running, reach out with your hand. If that's not far enough, grab a stick! Do what you have to, but tonight, Draw a pony struggling/Draw a pony stretching. Submit all entries here by 11:59 PM, Pacific time on Thursday, September 12. Just a little more! Finish out strong!
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