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KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
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#47201: May 31st 2018 at 2:52:35 PM

From Dusk To Night's 71st chapter is now live. I've been writing this for four years now. o.O

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Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
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#47202: Jun 1st 2018 at 6:54:26 AM

Tell me about it. I've been working on "Even in Other Worlds" and "Starbound" since late 2013/early 2014 respectively, and they're only just now getting close to being done, due to a combination of a much slower writing schedule than I had before, a lot more free time being sucked away for a time, and general "I'm getting tired!" syndrome.

That alone has killed any desire for a "Starbound" sequel, and could very well prove to be the death of Nova Shine's saga at the end of "Worlds" as well.

edited 1st Jun '18 6:55:12 AM by Rytex

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#47203: Jun 1st 2018 at 9:37:11 AM

Now there an ad for a n MLP porn site on the front page of fimfic.net. Way to go, guys.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
Your Friend on the Other Side
#47204: Jun 1st 2018 at 9:38:31 AM

This is why I use adblock when browsing on desktop.

I guess this means other MLP sites are shutting down. I remember a brony dating site had an ad for a while. I can still see some ads on my phone, so I guess I'll have to get used to seeing it now.

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#47205: Jun 1st 2018 at 3:22:17 PM

Mulling over a sad fic, an omniscient narrator strolling through sad alternate universes.

One is a The Conversion Bureau alt with a twist, where Celly didn’t want to do all that and now lives in exile on a dead Earth.

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#47206: Jun 2nd 2018 at 11:55:16 PM

I linked to I Am Awkward (Yellow) before. It's akin to A Delicate Balance or Single Point of Failure, in that it's a romance that's still good reading if you aren't that interested in shipping, because it focuses so much on how the relationship affects everyone around the two in the relationship. And it makes a believable conflict within the mane six without really demonizing anyone.

Well, the sequel started a few weeks ago: It Turns Out They're Windmills. Four chapters in, and it looks like it'll be as good as the first part.

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#47207: Jun 3rd 2018 at 10:31:00 PM

Lessons in Chaos, Chapter XI is drafted.

Now that we've finished up in Bridle Rock, it's time to check in with how Applejack and Spike are holding up over in the mane reality.

edited 3rd Jun '18 10:31:14 PM by TobiasDrake

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#47209: Jun 5th 2018 at 10:42:20 AM

Afternoon In Canterlot Prologue (Complete Draft, Updated Part 1)

I used a lot of parts lifted from the previous rendition of this story.

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#47210: Jun 5th 2018 at 6:58:25 PM

Chapter XII, apparently, is now live. I thought it was chapter XI. This thing is too long!

I've also retitled most of my chapters. I like the "Dis-words" theme I've had going, but I felt like they weren't indicative enough of the chapter's contents. So I've renamed them to hopefully be more descriptive while still using those dis-words.

There is one I'm on the fence about. I spent a lot of time going over what I wound up settling on "A Single Act of Disloyalty" for. I kinda liked that for the way it's kinda vague about whether the act specifically is referring to Alternate Fluttershy's "treason", Alternate Twilight's reaction to it, or Alternate Spike's reaction to her reaction. But it feels incomplete because it doesn't qualify blame.

I wanted to loop in something about "A Single Act of Disloyalty Brings Down a Kingdom", something specifically marking this moment as the beginning point for the other world's Equestrian Civil War. But that felt too long. And just "Disloyalty Ruins a Kingdom" or "Disloyalty: The Bane of Equestria" or something didn't feel like it had the same punch as the specific mention of a single act.

So I'm munching on that one and might change it in the future.

I am, however, quite pleased with the phrase "Veridical Dissonance".

edited 5th Jun '18 7:00:05 PM by TobiasDrake

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#47211: Jun 5th 2018 at 10:49:19 PM

You noted that you thought your fanfics were bad, but I disagree. So far, I've loved nearly all of them. Only this one has hit my personal "Nope" button, not out of any bad writing but my own anxieties.

I noticed you read my story, so thanks for keeping up on that! I went through your suggestions. Also, made an edition and addition that I marked out with a comment that maybe clears something up that another prereader pointed out to me.

Any other comments?

YamiVizziniX Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#47212: Jun 6th 2018 at 6:09:39 AM

I saw you used the "Belle is Rarity's family name" headcanon, which is cool and all, but it did make me wonder if she's related to that "Private Belle" at the beginning batpony/thestral/sarosian or not.

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only... Hooty.
God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#47213: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:26:28 AM

I've been calling them thestrals, although if discussed, and I don't like IC meta-discussion, they will point out they have several names, reflecting the different names everyone calls them.

Private Church Belle is distantly related to Rarity

VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#47214: Jun 6th 2018 at 8:40:53 AM

I've got a question. How many misantropic ponyfic writers are in the fandom? Considering that Fimfiction has a group "Humans Aren't Bastards" to make a distinction from others, how bad was misantropy problem before then? I've been hearing quite a few negatives about Chatoyance for example. They say she was misantrope, misandrist and antireligion to an insane degree. Does she was that bad?

Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
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#47215: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:00:27 AM

IIRC, pretty fuckin' big. The early days of the fandom had things like The Conversion Bureau running wild, plus 4channers were a lot more prevalent, bringing with them their usual attitudes towards others.

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#47216: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:03:52 AM

Yeah, but the Conversion Bureau author is fucking bonkers anyway.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
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#47217: Jun 6th 2018 at 10:16:27 AM

You noted that you thought your fanfics were bad, but I disagree. So far, I've loved nearly all of them. Only this one has hit my personal "Nope" button, not out of any bad writing but my own anxieties.

._. I try to be humble 'cause I don't want to be the guy that's like, "I am the only genius in this entire industry! That isn't even technically an industry!"

I am pretty proud of what I've written, but I'm also a critic and consequentially painfully aware that everything I've written is flawed. And I don't want to get my hopes up and be like, "Hey, read my story, it's pretty cool," and then someone's like, "No, this sucks," and I'm like, "I know, you're right, it does suck. ._."

So I wind up just kinda being neurotic. "Read my story! It's terrible!"

I noticed you read my story, so thanks for keeping up on that! I went through your suggestions. Also, made an edition and addition that I marked out with a comment that maybe clears something up that another prereader pointed out to me.

Any other comments?

I had the same question Yami had about Private Belle, but I just sorta wound up assuming that was supposed to be Rarity and that, like, at some point Rarity wound up working for the Guard. For some reason.

I assume we're supposed to get that the infant is some kind of, like, spirit from the realm of Fear or something that Luna bonded with and subverted to become Nightmare Moon?

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VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#47218: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:12:42 AM

Conversion Bureau author is fucking bonkers anyway.

How he is bonkers?

edited 6th Jun '18 11:13:38 AM by VeryVileVillian

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#47219: Jun 6th 2018 at 2:26:06 PM

IIRC, pretty fuckin' big. The early days of the fandom had things like The Conversion Bureau running wild, plus 4channers were a lot more prevalent, bringing with them their usual attitudes towards others.
The fandom is huge and has lots of division. There are a distressing number of misanthropic fics. But there are also a distressing number of fics that react to the misanthropy so hard that they swing to the other extreme—you get the sense that the authors actively hate ponies and wonder why they're even writing for this fandom in the first place.

SantosLHalper Since: Aug, 2009
#47220: Jun 6th 2018 at 2:54:20 PM

My personal project, In Different Skies, is predicated on the fact that the "X are superior" rhetoric of both sides of the Conversion Bureau really just masks the fact that both sides are (in the words of Kegisak when we met in December) "shitty dictatorships fighting each other".

edited 6th Jun '18 3:03:28 PM by SantosLHalper

VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#47221: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:27:39 PM

[up][up]I read quite a few fanfics and comments from Fimfiction that tell or suggest that human species needed to die so that "The Evil in the world would die". Many of them proclaim themself to pe proud misantropes. And they believe that Equestria is utopia where everyone is happy and no one is bad. That no one is even a jerk.

KuroiTsubasaTenshi Streamer from Twitch Since: May, 2011
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#47222: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:47:38 PM

That view of Equestria is so 2011. They need to get with the times. tongue

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#47223: Jun 6th 2018 at 11:55:12 PM

Yeah, anyone who thinks Equestria is a utopia is willfully ignorant or watching a different show than the rest of us.

VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#47224: Jun 7th 2018 at 12:00:10 AM

[up]Chatoyance is one particilar example of one of them. I hear she would proclaim her fanfics to be better than canon because she supposedly use "Lauren Faust original ideas" of Equestria as Utopia and everyone inside it as angels. I happen to read her posts. They quite weird.

edited 7th Jun '18 7:24:43 AM by VeryVileVillian

Rytex Your Friend on the Other Side from Here, There, Everywhere (Ancient one) Relationship Status: Married to the music
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#47225: Jun 7th 2018 at 7:03:12 AM

Fimfiction authors are like Targaryens. You get the good ones, and then you get the loonies, it's all just a flip of a coin. But everyone thinks they're good, and no one thinks they're loony.

I do kind of enjoy watching author meltdowns though, if it's over stupid reasons (a la Phil Fish). Like when clop author Darf lost it, ranted to everyone on his blog, deleted all of his stories, and then ragequit the site.

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