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Alright, this is a new image I'm doing since I have some time and mostly taking a small break from writing. An OC called Mist Chaser. I'll be doing a vector outline then a coloring of her soon, so here's the progress pics of the image.
And here's the final image. Below is the progress pics, along with the vector outline and the coloring. I'll probably change up my style a little next time I draw from what I learned here.
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To be honest, I only read the prologue. Why? First impressions are very important and if people are truly disliking your work, that is where the problem mostly lies.
I think the biggest problem is the whole 'she's a good pony, but then one day does a 180 immediately turning evil out of the blue' thing. I don't know how the chapter of her back story is, but as a reader this is what we're seeing from the get-go. And it just looks really bad. You should lengthen your prologue, have some scenes of her going through life with a positive look on it. Pace it well. During her life, give her reasons to turn evil. Maybe she has a family that doesn't get much in life. Like they're poor, and she never gets anything she wants?
She can have this view of 'Why is it that my family, myself included, get left out of things unlike other families?' because she's so poor. Even in the princess's tutelage, she can still have that view, wanting more but only given the bare minimum (the princess wants to teach her well, not wanting to overpower her student, but Shimmer doesn't see it like that). In her mind, Shimmer will want to do right but will be needlessly greedy if given the chance. And when given that chance, she decides to take it.
See? Now that feels better to read. Also, when confronting Celestia, she pretty much beat her down. Really? A newly turned pony princess manages to beat her teacher who knows more spells than her without any effort? If anything, make it like Shimmer planned this all along since it was the best moment to get an enormous amount of spells at the time. She got Celestia in a spell (if you make it a runic type, like only activated when Celestia is on it and then Shimmer activates it when she wants, that would look nice) that saps at her magic reserves, while also making her powerless to anything. And then you can continue with the whole Shimmer losing thing.
Just some ideas to help improve your story.
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Maybe you can make it unique here? Shimmer may want all the spells, but you can have her magic base secretly being runic magic? Just another idea. It might be difficult to do though for your story.
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To be famous? You shouldn't be worrying about that. If you write a genuinely good story, you'll have people looking at it. I always try my best to take my time writing my stuff. So far, my main story has a main view of 2,948 with an overall view of 14,627. I'm happy that people enjoy my work, and I continue writing since it's fun for me and helps improve my own literary skills.
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First off. You have a prologue... that takes three parts to write. Just, why? The purpose of a prologue is to introduce things to the reader that they should know beforehand, or just as a way to introduce the story. Why cut that up into such small parts when one is sufficient? They're also all very small reads. They should've been put together into one part.
Some of your grammar can use correcting. Now, I can't say I'm the greatest since I'm still learning how to properly write myself, but here's what I saw just at the beginning.
Your writing in red, mine in purple.
"Welcome young Sunset Shimmer. Welcome to Canterlot, the Princess will be here in one moment." said a black stallion wearing the traditional guard clothing.
- First, you have a backwards quotation mark at the beginning (it appears in the FimFic site).
- Second, your welcoming her twice, which is redundant. Shorten it up so it reads better.
- Third, you need to comma when you go to a persons name. Example: Good morning, Jordan.
- Fourth, when you go away from a talking part, you either need to comma it off if it's continuing the scene or period it if the parts over.
- Fifth, don't over-describe your work. You might run into the problem of writing things that people don't care about, possibly even turning into the dreaded purple prosing of your work.
- Sixth, do things that make sense. He's a professor, so I hope there's a reason for him to be wearing guard clothing. Also, guards don't wear clothes, they wear armor. Or armour, depending on where you live.
- Lastly, you identify him as Principle Oak later on. Why didn't you just use his name here? Here's a revision.
"Welcome to Canterlot, young Sunset Shimmer," Professor Oak says, tossing his cloak to the side with flourish. "The princess will be here in one moment.
Me adding in his cloak tossing is just for fun, but it does two things here. One, it tells us what he's wearing so we have some visualization of the character. Two, it moves the scene with some interest added in how he acts.
Other things with the first part. You don't need to italicize your talk with the Princess and Sunset Shimmer, so remove that. I only italicize when someone's thinking to themselves or if it's needed such as the title of a book or if someones putting emphasize on a word.
Another thing, give your story telling pieces some real meaning and don't expect the reader to just believe much of what they read. A yin yang symbol as her cutie mark? You do know that the meaning behind that is balance, correct? As it's the moon and the sun, my first thoughts when I see the princess talking to her is 'Oh, she's probably going to be the princess of Twilight.
Twilight: The period of the evening during which this takes place, between daylight and darkness.
Or something similar like a princess of balance. Like the in-between of Celestia and Discord.
You also need to remember to keep your readers attention. Show, don't tell. That's quite possibly the absolute most important part in writing. Remember that while writing, and I can guarantee more people will enjoy your work. It's just more difficult to write that way.
As for the other two parts of your prologue. You have a second voice in her, telling her to do bad things. That immediately turns some readers off, since it's a cheap cop-out on having a character turn bad. Have something else turn her, with more reason than that. It'll turn out better.
Third part. The part that looks bad is you having your antagonist immediately turning evil suddenly, beating the crap out of Celestia (are you serious?) and then only losing in the end due to greed. You moved this too fast. Pace is an important key to writing, and without it, stories tend to look like a clumped up mess of ideas.
If you want to write a good story, you should go back to your prologue and then combine it into one. Give her a proper reason to be evil. A day turnaround from good to evil doesn't look right at all.
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I love to listen to music. But music to relax to? I have plenty of artists and bands for that. I'd recommend The Rippingtons album, Modern Art for some good relaxation music.
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Okay. So, I'm doing a new image from another sketch. It's Leo the Zodiac pony along with Anonymous. I saw this and really wanted to do a colored version, so yeah.
As usual, I do the sketch (Done by AtlasPony), then lineart, then color, then final product.
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I agree with all of that, expect the disrgarding part. I know what I posted was stupid, but I'm the type to just post what I think, then try to forget about it in the morning. Anyway, I don't like cupcakes that much, but of the writing and being somewhat stupid. I liked it because it turned an innocent show into that, but now that I've grown up a bit I realize I like psychological stories. If there were more info on the story, it could be one.
Anyway, please don't hate me for this. It was something I wrote at three in the morning, and I was hoping someone could just get some ideas, or something. It was kinda like a challenge thing I set for myself, I guess.
Anyway, thank you for your comment and I will try to be more mature in the future. Also, I did mean canon, but I typed too fast. I also have a spelling problem, so please don't make fun if I mess up too much.
P.S. the Applebloom thing was **** stupid! Why would she turn evil? Pinkie seemed to have some kind of mental thing, but her? I've been trying to figure that out for a long time now.
I am sorry. I'm kinda new to the fourm thing, and I didn't know where to put it. I'll probably just end up deleting this soon. I'll be more careful in the future.
The story never once tried to explain itself. It was nothing more than a story with Pinkie killing ponies. That's it.
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...Now, I know a certain story that's got a nice, lengthy read with a lot of entertaining stuff. It's a tad mundane in the beginning, but he wrote it about one year back when he first started and it was to introduce the characters and reasoning's to why they did that stuff.
Pacing, if you will.
Sadly, with what's IN the story, I cannot put it here without some admin probably deleting my post and giving me a warning. Unless I'm allowed to post that stuff? I know people discuss Cupcakes here (which is gore) and the story has that, but it also has other 'adult material'. Can someone answer this? I'm interested to know.
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You know, it would be nice if you could provide a synopsis to your work so when people click on your topic, we can see what exactly it is you wrote. It doesn't have to be thorough, but something would be nice. Of course, going over the top shows your effort in providing content (to me at least) so that's always nice. Here, I'll give you an example from my own story.
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Title: An Alien Walks Amongst Us
Tags: [Comedy] [Adventure] [Human]
Synopsis:
Lyra, a simple pony with simple dreams. Dreams involving aliens, that is. Her fascination with them even got her a job dealing with them, though no one takes it seriously. Lyra hopes to one day be able to meet one, she just needs to believe.
In comes a human, whom mysteriously gets transported to Equestria. It's up to Lyra to show the alien the ways of her people! The power of friendship, magic, and hugs await her on this strange adventure.X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X
Something like this would be really nice so we can see what we're getting into. Yes, we could just click the link. But people may skip a story because it's not provided here with what they'd be reading. You don't peak their interest to read what you have by just providing a link.
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I've written plenty of other comedy fics if you're interested. Just visit the link in my Sig to my userpage and go to the stories section. My best comedy works (IMO) are P.A.T.A. Ponies Against Twilight the Alicorn and Brass Pony: Cloppers. (Not a clop-fic, in case that's what you're expecting)
My Little Devil is probably the worst thing I've written, but if you really want to know, it's about Rainbow Dash being pregnant with the Devil's baby... Seriously... Judge me by my other works, please.
I read P.A.T.A. and Brass Pony: Cloppers. Good stories that have a comedic effect which I enjoyed.
I felt the first story was slightly lacking in content though. They were very short chapters, and for a story like what you wrote, this could've been really fleshed out with some fun, wacky moments. The songs were a nice touch, but no dancing going on during the scenes? You talk about them writing fan fics, but none of them recited any weird poems or haikus about Twilight? And why didn't the rest of her gang try and talk to her? That could have lent to some good stuff as well.
You did leave the story off at a good place, and I even feel you could expand on this and write more. Your grammar is also top-notch. It's better than most of the people that are on that site, which is fantastic to see. It would've been nice if you indented your work, but at least you spaced your paragraphs properly. You have my thumbs up and a fav to this story. It's good, just wish there was more in it.
As for the BP:C story, what more could I say? It's a silly story about people clopping and the effects on our civilization but in a funny, ridiculous kind of way. Perfect use of a one-shot idea.
If i ever get the time i have several stories in mind but its hard for me to sit and write things. I love writing short stories. About 5 pages or about 5000 words roughly. Im ok with grammer as long as i have a good checker. I use word 07 which is good enough for me but id like to get another set of eyes on the one fic i have. Cant seem to get any feedback on it so i dont know if its good, bad, or just plain trash
Try posting something here in a thread. You might get some people that can help out with it on feedback. It may happen, it may not happen. But nothing is gained if you think and never act.
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I've been a fanfiction reader pretty much since I became a part of the fandom over a year ago, and I started writing my own stuff a little while after that. I enjoy practically ever genre, except for clop-fics. My favourite stories tend to be long epics that pull me in with their intensive plot. If I was to name my favourite fanfics that I've read, they would have to be these four:
Unmarked by Croswynd
The Parliament of Dreams by Wheller
The Games We Play by AbsoluteAnonymous
It Takes a Village by determamfidd
As for my own stories, my first ever fanfic was an utter shambles of a comedy fic called 'My Little Devil'. I got good feedback after I posted the first chapter, which then caused me to rush out the rest and post it as quickly as possible. That... was a mistake that I'll never make again.
I tend to write rather differing kinds of stories. I have a few off-the-wall comedy pieces, some romance fics and a sad-fic which I have only recently published. Here are the 3 ongoing fics that I would say are my main focus as fo right now.
(Romance)
Fluttershy yearns for a family of her own but is too shy around stallions for her own good. When Pinkie Pie discovers that her friend has a crush on Big Macintosh, she makes it her personal mission to bring the two together, whether they like it or not!
- My attempt at shipping! This was actually the first fanfic idea I ever had, but I didn't end up writing it for a long time. It's currently my most popular fic by far.
(Romance) (Sad) (Slice of Life)
“It is said that our lives are mere drops in the ocean. How appropriate then, that we should strive to make the biggest splash.”
Rosa Bloom is stuck in a rut. Torn between feelings for a close friend and a life that’s going nowhere, she feels that her purpose in the world is lost. However, an unexpected series of events will change everything. All she can do now is hope for the best.
Meanwhile, Twilight receives a visitor at Golden Oaks library, one sent by Celestia herself. While appropriately polite and well-spoken, his motives run far deeper than he is willing to let on. And why does Twilight find him strangely familiar?
“We all have untapped power. It is simply a question of whether we are brave enough or stupid enough to use it.”
- This one is my self-proclaimed 'magnum opus', the one I've put the most effort into. I have four planned volumes alongside the gradual telling of another story-arc that makes up my universe's mythos. It's very OC-heavy, but I can assure you that I've put the utmost care and effort into each individual character.
(Sad)
Twilight's ascension to becoming an alicorn princess has caused her great happiness, but as the notion of immortality dawns on her she is plagued by doubts. At the end of her emotional tether, she finds solace with the Element of Honesty.
To have no regrets would mean the world.
- My most recently published piece of work. As of yet, only the prologue is up, but I already have plans for its future.
Well... crud. All though I prefer reading HiE stories since I find them fun, I can read the other stuff without hating it. But I've always preferred comedy stuff intertwined with romance or some other genre (my own is comedy/adventure/human). I'm almost interested in that "My Little Devil". What's that about?
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Hello, I am Symphonia from the fanfic group TBB. We write fanfics on a shared account on fimfiction.net.
I myself usually write comedy/adventure.
But my friends tend to write more violent fanfics. Check us out by looking up ThreeBestBroniez.
If you can give us what exactly you write, that would be very helpful for readers. Also, a link to said group and stories they are at would be something to add in as well.
But my friends tend to write more violent fanfics
I do hope that there's reasoning to it and it's not written up just because they want to be violent.
HA!, that's some good advice brother, too bad i already know that. My REAL problem is literally writing, i just suck. From creating environments to discriving emotions, i just suck. Also it doesn't help that english is not my native lenguage, so i suck at grammar too. Im all ears if you have advise for that.
As for "No matter what, make sure your characters are well developed, even background characters." i already though of that, hell, i have to write a whole world just for that, if you are interested you could check it out here: http://mlpforums.com/topic/43854-need-a-friendly-proof-reader-want-some-writing-tips-or-want-to-share-yours/page-10
My post tells the backstory and stuff, and that's not all, im thinking of ideas to add or remove from time to time, too bad i suck at writing.In a way both worlds are protagonist too, if equestria is all about community, fitting in and looking for and accepting destiny then the [NAME IN CONSTRUCTION] world is all about indivialism the constant pursue of the better self and overall freedom and also the sacrifices that are needed for both ways.
And AGAIN thats not all, there is a lot to cover, from the "Accidental" discovery of the new planet, the interactions with the main cast, the OTHER "accident" involving the crashing of their ship and that's just for part 1 D:
If only i knew how to write, i think this could be, and im saying this without any pride, the fallout equestria or eternal of comedy. I know it sounds pretentious as fuck but...damn...
If only...
Luckily for me, I have the greatest proofer in the world. I'd show you his work and the bin he gives out to people that need help in writing... but it's very violent and adult so I can not give it out. And I've spoken to people that aren't native English speakers. They just need someone to help them proof as well and practice. A major thing that will help is if you write in Microsoft Word. Doing that will have the program show you what words are misspelled and other grammar errors easily.
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Thanks for the ideas man. I love how you actually spent the time to tell me to improve and gave me an example instead of pointing and saying I don't like that. I really appreciate it man and the whole depression thing and the cloaks you weren't really supposed to know why yet. Also repetition kills me in writing.
I do this whenever I get the chance. Most of the people on this site either never respond or practically vanish once I show them something so I never know what happens with their stuff. Just keep trying with your stuff and make sure to always keep in mind that no one improves without trying in the first place for something to be improved on. I'll be around the place from time to time, mostly art'ing away or writing my own fanfics of the strange and the comedic. Throw a 'hey ya' ' whenever you feel like or if you need some look over in you stuff. Depending on what I'm doing, I'll try to help if I have the time.
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You like comedy fics? And you think cupcakes and S.A.M. Belong to the Recycle Bin? AND YOU THINK MY LITTLE DASHIE IS PAINFULLY AVERAGE?
BROTHER, WHERE WERE YOU ALL THESE YEARS?
Im also writing a comedy fic involving aliens , in fact it will be a 3 part series trying to pic some fun on the wierd stuff of the show (In part one) the fanbase (in part 2 wich will be pretty much fanfic world) and world reacting to the fanbase all in the course of the odd story surrounding 3 OCs.I haven't worked on a sinopsis but here goes something i write in the moment:
In a planet far far away from equestria, a world with no magic and were science rules the land: a pony, a robot and a cat named whiskers will "accidentally" find a new planet to explore just to find that is already inhabited by "Magical creatures" , their new mission: get out of there before they lose their minds out of the sheer nonsense.
So basically these caracteres belong to a futuristic world with human society problems... exept they are ponies with no magic at all (no pegasy or unicors or any magical creature at all to be fund). The pony and the robot worked at an observatory for the goverment, they "Accidentally" find a new planet that could support life and due to some inconvenients they have to make the investigation themselves, they buy a cheap "Cursed ship" and head on to this mysterious planet. Due to some OTHER problems they crashed into the planet busting their engines and now they are stuck. The planet is equestria and from there the caracteres start questioning everything leading to a lot a jokes filled with references (Real references, no "20% the worst possible best friend forever") like Cthulhu being Discord's grandfather.
As for the story, is a long long story and very complicated but as for is intended is something like this: In part 1 the characters point out the show's world from a human perspective (like the elements of harmony basically being a brainwash machine/death beam of love ) in part 2 is fanfic universe, working with fanfic stereotipes (Like pinkie being a psico-killer and celestia being a tyrant, but you know, in a funny way) and in part 3 is the fanbase problems with the real world with real world references like the names of 3 main "freedom trives" : "The 4 Leaf Society" (4 chan) the "Order Of The 9 Jesters" (9gag) and the "Red Trees" (wich will be reddit, although the name is debatable)
Is a real fun ride but i didn't start writing yet T - T mostly becouse i suck at it.
Well, you won't get any good at writing if you don't start. I started writing my stuff back in September... and oh my god was that a pile of S***. And no, that stuff is not on my FimFic account, it's on my pastebin account where I will not be showing that to anyone (Unless you find out where I post these!) Overtime, I started to learn more about grammar and proper punctuation. Then I started learning about how to properly write a good story. And then I got into comedy, which is where the real fun begins.
You have to know the right ways to tickle someone in their funny bones. Telling someone what should be funny will never work, and most people tend to do this until they learn how to do it properly. Your story will also be more difficult since it will involve nearly nothing but OC characters at all. Just make sure you do four things right:
- Make sure you have some pretty good grammar/punctuation so there isn't much for those 'grammar nazi's' to complain to you about. It also keeps your story stronger to read with it.
- A story that is properly weaved even if written with nothing but comedic chaos as the premise should be well done to keep readers glued to the screen. Fresh, original content is the key to success. If you use stuff for references to shows or stories, just don't ride off someone else's stuff for too long.
- Always write with the intent to make it so the reader will want more and come back for more.
- No matter what, make sure your characters are well developed, even background characters. They all need attention, and giving them that will give the readers a world that feels extremely alive and moving about, keeping them around for longer.
There's obviously other things that should be mentioned, like not to make characters OP or OOC (Unless it's for a temporary comedic affect) and make sure the comedy is somewhat fresh. And don't forget to get a proofreader for your work to look it over. I currently have the greatest proofreader ever (No, seriously. If he was a horse, his pedigree would be marked 'Genius')
To give you an idea, in my main story, it's about a human that comes to Equestria and Lyra finds him, treating him like an alien. It does NOT follow the obsessed human Lyra, it's more obsessed alien Lyra (That no one writes about), so none of that weird stuff you'd expect from other fics. I currently have a talking tree that praises the sun, gay big mac, references from shows like Doctor Who and Pokemon, silly interactions from a fairly big cast of characters, and an interesting hook to the story (The princesses don't know he's an alien. They think he's more or less a big doll but they have to treat it like normal)
I do hope that whatever you write is a fun and interesting experience. I'm interested enough from what you said in your story.
I'm more into adventure kind of stories, my favorite MLP story being It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door (very epic story, BTW), but I do read comedy stories too. Especially if they're well written like the recent story I read, Thrown Abroad, and it's sequel (which is still incomplete).
Most of my story reading isn't usually contained inside the FimFic site. Those two are bookmarked, so I'll definitely be checking this stuff out to read when I get the chance.
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my current plan is to have a highly advanced super humans. like they fought the Griffons before and won.. but just watched over the ponies. But Celestia and Luna know the Human leader, who is the only immortal human, thanks to Celestia and Luna's mother, in exchange for helping the ponies whenever they need it.. remember, its still on the drawing boards. but my story is NOT HiM, but Humanity has its own nation, seperate from Equestria
Interesting. So, humans have always been there but none of the creatures really know. Will they be one of those myths griffons hear about but never took serious until they see them in real life? I like the idea that they're a myth from long ago, it can add some interesting stuff to a story if used right. I'm just really hoping you don't make your immortal human OP. Also, what's HiM? I don't think I've ever heard of that before.
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One question: how is whether someone is online or not relevant to your response to a thread? This is a forum, not a chatroom, and forums are characterized by the fact that they are excellent at hosting non-realtime conversation.
If you are replying to someone directly, they will receive a notification of your quote the moment they come online, so it's not like replying to them while they're online increases the chance they'll see your post.
Well... sometimes I do in fact have problems with that notification thing every once in a while. It's not all the time, but sometimes when someone replies to a post I put up I don't get a notification and when I come across the thread and do see a reply to my post, I wonder why it didn't get through. But once again, that's not all the time.
And when I post a reply, I just like to know if someones online that I'm talking to. I know this is a forum and not a chatroom, but it's nice to know if what I'm replying to will go through to the other person. If I ever did want to talk to the person more and write up something I'm hoping he/she/it will reply to, it'd be nice to know if I'll be waiting for a while since they're offline or waiting possibly for a few minutes or so for a response since they're online. Not needed, just nice to have. But that's just my opinion I suppose, you can disregard it.
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Recently I've been thinking,
When addressing everyone as everypony you leave the other races in the pony universe. There are still dragons, griffins, bulls, buffaloes, changelings, and more, what about them? Do they not matter? Its just been bothering me lately what do you think?
Oh my god! I REEEEEEALLY don't want to whore myself out at all, I really don't since I do find it rude, but I JUST wrote a one shot using that exact thing!
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/86944/day-intolerance-in-equestria
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I respect your thoughts about this story. I agree it's not the best I've read, but close to it. I just like it, because it is the first one I read when becoming a brony.
And I agree that I cannot relate to someone who wants to go through the computer to Equestria. I love my life, and never would do that.
Sorry, but I have no recommendations. Later I'm going to read to one you recomended me.
Thanks and bro hoof /)
Okay, now that's more understandable if it's your first read. Those tend to stick with people, even if it's mediocre, bad, or even the greatest thing to come about. My first read was a Ranma 1/2 fic that... the author never finished. I'm still peeved about that. And yeah, that one I showed is a really funny read. I also write stuff myself using comedy but I don't want to whore myself out since that would seem rude to do.
I've never written a Pony fic before.. but im working on 2 fanfics in general
the Pony Fic is pretty much summerized as "For nearly a Millenia, Humanity has watched over the Ponies of Equestria. With King Sombra back, humanity is forced to reveal itself. Why is Princess Luna or Celestia worried?"
Something like that..
but im also working on a Mass Effect Fic, Post Destroy Ending with some alterations like EDI survives.
still working on kinks on both though..
I do hope you make something good out of these. I write HiE stories as well, though it's in a perspective some people do not like. I just think it's another way to read a story, nothing more, so I'm not sure why so many people get so upset if it's used.
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My little Dashie is not over hyped. It is one heck of a story with a theme almost everyone can relate to, and that is true friends never leave. Why I chose those three, is because almost every know about them. If I say a random fanfic that no one has every heard off, no one would get what I was trying to say.
Thanks and Bro Hoof! /)
I would like to counter with this part that is in the beginning of the story:
Every time I see the show, or one of the ponies on a fan site, I recoil a bit at the bright colors, the joyful faces of the ponies, and the peaceful scenery of their world. It's so hard to look at that beautiful world, having it so close to my grasp; I reach out to touch it's warm colors and bright, smiling faces of the ponies.
Only to be stopped by my computer screen.
You want to relate... to that? I get his life sucks, but dear god that's a bit strange don't you think? It's not like this is a terrible fic. It's alright. It's pretty well written. But it's not the greatest thing I've ever read. It really IS over hyped. Wherever I go, people always praise it as the greatest thing they've ever laid eyes on when it comes to fics. Really? And when I ask what else is there... they don't have an answer. So they don't even compare this to other stories or even read much else... just this and other over hyped stories like Cupcakes.
Once again, I am not saying this story is bad. It's fairly alright. But it IS over hyped all over the place as the greatest thing to ever come for fanfics and people try to put their stuff to that stories standards.
It may also be the fact that I hate bronie insert fics. I REALLY dislike them. But just once more to remind you, I don't think this story is bad. It's alright. Just not the greatest thing I've ever read. Can you recommend anything else I may not have read?
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I created it a few months ago. It's linked to at the top of every forum on the board, and is actually not easy to miss xP I also made a big Canterlot Castle topic back when it was created. I suggest you follow that forum for all future updates, as is suggested in red text in Canterlot Castle's description :3
So there is a possibility that I may have missed that since I didn't join until back in the summer of last year around June. Also, I... am an inattentive idiot. I didn't think to look at that since I have both Fic and Art on my Bookmark which is where I usually frequent most of the time, so I missed that (We have a Skype group? Oh boy...) I suppose I'll be checking up on that soon.
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I can add it to the Resource Map as a tip or something. The Resource Map is linked to in everyone's Welcoming Message, so they have a chance to find out, then.
...Resource Map? Is that something new? I don't recall ever seeing one when I joined up last year. Of course, I could just be an idiot and may not have seen it or I did and just don't remember.
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This has been brought up before, and it was more or less rejected. Also, I was the first to take oppose to the idea, not Feld0 x3 We don't need to insert more things into the avatar area, when you can hover someone's name and see if their online in a second, if that. We don't need to add things just because we can. If it isn't broke, you don't need to fix it; likewise if there's already a quick solution, you don't need to duplicate it
That is true. Can't argue if it's already decided (Even if Jokuc's picture up above shows a way it could be done) But could there at least be some sort of thing when people sign up or a reminder that it can be done? I didn't know about this when I joined up and only found out by accident.
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What I like to do is just hover over their username. I can easily see all their statistics, along with whether they're online or not. I know you said you know this, but if it already exists, then I don't feel like Feld0 or Scoot need to add something unnecessary when they already have tons of other projects for this site. Unless of course, they say different about it.
Anyway, I think I discovered the hovering trick by accident. I feel like, if it isn't there already, it should be a FAQ or something.
It should be in a FAQ for when people first join. That would be very handy.
But a reason? Because it's extremely convenient to see without it ever being in the way. And it looks really nice. Did you see the pic up above from Jokuc? That's just perfect! It's exactly what could be done without really needing to do much. It's just a circle that would be activated from neutral grey to green depending on the status of who's online/offline.
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Yeah I know this has been discussed before and I believe Feld0 said something about not wanting to put more stuff under the avatar because that would take up more space and not look as clean.
Even though you can see if someone is online that other way I also want this feature.
Something like this would be nice if it was possible.
DEAR GOD YES! YES! THAT'S PERFECT! WHY ISN'T THAT IN ALREADY?!?!?!
Okay, now that I am done spazzing out...
That would be PERFECT to see the online status of people. I'm not gonna lie, I thought I was being an inattentive idiot when I saw your post and that was there all along. That's how well it looked, I thought it was originally a part of the website when I saw those pics.
Seriously, Feld0 should do that. It doesn't take up any space and it looks really well.
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I like fanfiction. The ones like My little Dashie are my favorites.
The ones like Sweet Apple Massacre, and Cupcakes are just not acceptable. It scares me that middle age men have the mind to twist such a lovely and great show into their own twisted idea of fun.
And I don't make any fanfics. Love to one day, but busy with school.
I know people are entitled to their opinions, and I will respect that. But out of all the countless fanfics, why those three? They're the ones that everyone knows just because they're over-hyped so much. Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre are not very good stories in my opinion. The characters are OOC and it doesn't set it's story up very strongly. I just wrote a good post about Cupcakes in a reply right here - http://mlpforums.com/topic/49673-a-fanfic-suggestion/
As for My Little Dashie, that story is also over-hyped. It's a fairly average story to read. Not bad, but not great. Just average in my opinion. I like stories that really flesh out things or make the reader want even more. That's what I do when I write my own stories and I keep by that. Here's a story I would strongly recommend, especially if you like comedy -
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/30661/letters-from-a-disgruntled-friendship-student
Synopsis:
Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's most prized and faithful student, is being sent to Ponyville to learn about the magic of friendship.
And she's not happy about it.
Mist Chaser
in Visual Fan Art
Although I do that with my other drawings, I decided to go a little further with how I usually draw my stuff. Next I'll be doing a vector lining, then color filler, then finally editing in areas for the final so there's three more to go on this thing.
No problem. I really needed to do something other than write to get my brain juices some time off and this seemed like the perfect thing to do.
I'm really nothing special compared to other artists out there, but I'm glad that you enjoy it nonetheless.
I just got done with the final image so if you'd like, the link to my DA is up so you can do what you want with it and what not, okay then?