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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

     Original OP text 
I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#55626: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:16:22 PM

Well. It's done. I contributed to it, yay. Even if I did, like, nothing.

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#55627: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:21:57 PM

"When Octavia stepped on the train that morning, she had no idea where the day would take her"?
One suggestion I liked was "Two mares entered the train. Only one would walk away. We just don't know what went wrong."

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#55628: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:23:48 PM

Good point. And also holy crap you guys weren't kidding about Spyro's section. It's like Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.

I told you.

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#55629: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:24:11 PM

@Irish: It probably was, initially. Then... this story happened.

[up][up]"We just don't know what went wrong" is a pretty good description.

I'd try to come up with something else, but I'm basically half asleep now and am going to bed.

edited 7th Mar '14 9:24:38 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#55630: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:26:05 PM

Gonna download it to read later [lol] That roundrobin sure sounds like it'll be some kind of masterpiece [lol]

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55631: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:28:55 PM

By the way, you have no idea how tempted I was to make a short epilogue just to make jokes about an uptick in the frequency of solar flares, or how Octavia is teaching Celestia on "making music". I decided it would be a bit too risqué.

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#55632: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:30:12 PM

Good point. And also holy crap you guys weren't kidding about Spyro's section. It's like Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.
Or Sweet Oct and Cella Jeff.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#55633: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:32:45 PM

Oh god, I just finished the part where big dog turned the story into the Avengers. XD

I'm actually kind of amazed, we got a lot farther than I thought we would before it completely derailed.

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#55636: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:47:10 PM

What the hell did I just read.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55637: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:49:45 PM

[up]Something transcendent, that's what. What it's transcending, we don't quite know.

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#55638: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:49:52 PM

The most glorious fanfic of our generation.

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#55639: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:53:08 PM

You could always go the way of having a deceptively well-written summary. It would bring in readers, and help them clue in that it's parody instead of legitimately bad.

Oh yeah, that'd be great. Give it a description that makes it sound like a totally serious shipfic.

Now reading the fanfic: I am impressed with Big Dig. I was not expecting anyone to derail it more than Spyro.

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#55640: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:06:42 PM

Derailed sounds like it could be a plausible title for a serious fan fiction, as long as we make it clear in the description that a train is involved.

And then the title ends up making more sense when the fic starts making less sense.

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#55642: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:21:36 PM

I don't have enough time to read the whole thing tonight, but I read the sections before and after mine(Because I'm an egotist like that).

I wasn't expecting the shift in tone to be so... stark, between all three. If the rest of the transitions are like that, I may need to protect my neck at the end of all this...

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#55643: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:23:20 PM

I'm also surprised that my chapter is so different than the rest. Am I the only one who likes internal monologues?

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#55644: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:25:31 PM

I second the we just don't know what went wrong bit of the summary.

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#55645: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:31:09 PM

It's a tossup between that and giving it a fake serious summary.

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#55646: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:31:52 PM

@Story: I do enjoy them myself, I just tend to write my internal monologues less direct.

Third Person imperfect, I believe? The reader is aware of the character's general thoughts, but rarely the specific words and such?

Well, it's a moot point; my approach to internal monologue is fairly well represented in my chapter.

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#55647: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:33:59 PM

@Story Well, I'm trying first person narraration in my next project, but that's after I wrote that chapter, so no monologues there.

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#55648: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:34:37 PM

The reader is aware of the character's general thoughts, but rarely the specific words and such?

That's what I was going for. I guess we just have different ideas of direct.

Or maybe it's just that I have too many problems with telling. Though since it was sort of using that to show Celestia's attitude toward Octavia, hopefully that's still ok.

Also, is this really the first Octlestia fic ever? I tried searching on Fimfic but I couldn't find any.

edited 7th Mar '14 10:37:26 PM by storyyeller

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55649: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:48:03 PM

Also, is this really the first Octlestia fic ever? I tried searching on Fimfic but I couldn't find any.

In that case, we can be trendsetters. cool

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#55650: Mar 7th 2014 at 10:54:26 PM

I think the idea has to be good first to become a trend.

Also, goodnight.

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