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Author Topic: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)  (Read 442033 times)

Flying Dice

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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3630 on: October 14, 2011, 05:31:13 pm »
Quote from: Sowelu on October 14, 2011, 02:57:32 pm
Quote from: Flying Dice on October 14, 2011, 01:43:41 pm
The one well-written exception to that I can recall is the one (can't recall the title) which has Equestria in the Americas, and revolves around filly Twilight and Napoleon's son becoming good friends and presumable changing European history.
I really, really want to read that.

It might have been called "Son of the Emperor", but don't quote me on that. I'll go search for it. Oh, and the author is a massive history geek, so most of the detail is spot-on.


Edit: Yep, here ya go. Only two chapters, but they're fairly long.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3631 on: October 14, 2011, 06:49:47 pm »
Well, I've finished more of my story. I'm a terrible judge of my own quality, so please go over it and tell me what could be fixed or improved (or removed, if necessary).
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3632 on: October 14, 2011, 06:58:10 pm »
Well it just seems a bit rushed and OOC.

Fluttershy should have straight up went into a coma from that one scene. Also just 'They kinda are really fucking up their planet' is a flimsy excuse. At least have 'em kidnap one or two people and interrogate them.

Also guns cannot be used by hooves without prior (And massively extensive) modification. Magic does not exist here so they should have a bit harder time of using it.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3633 on: October 14, 2011, 07:03:34 pm »
...I really suck at storytelling.
Not to say I'm giving up, but I doubt I'm going to make it much better without rewriting it with a completely different mentality.

It's so funny, everything I think I'm good at, I actually do pretty badly.

Glad I'm not a pony, my failure would be immortalized forever in the form of a blank flank.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3634 on: October 14, 2011, 07:26:12 pm »
Well, since we're on the topic of fanfics, a thing I never seem to see is a sort of 'Earth human comes to equestria' taken to a certain conclusion.

The conclusion being that reality itself should not be doing that, forcing the human to shift into sort of a horrific human pony hybrid and endangering the wall separating the two dimensions(This would cause the planet Earth to crash into the Equestrian Plane[Equestria is flat{Discounting natural terrain} and extends in all directions infinitely]). The human desperately tries to hide his affliction along with the mind shattering pain caused by reality periodically trying to 'fix' itself and causing human to undergo painful pony/human randomizations. All the while, Celestia has the main (Yes 'main', the goddamn replacements of words irritates me to no end) 6 watch over him because she feels something strange about him, causing massive morality dissonance arguments between them on issues such as omnivorism, magic, and, say, religion ("Your gods actually exist, ours don't."). Until the end he should retain his disguise as a regular pony (Full body cloak thing?)

Maybe at the same time, a Pony crosses to Earth and goes through the same thing.

At the end he goes batshit insane due to the stress or something (Idea, he gets infected with both NMM's Corruption and Discords Reversal but they take a while to fully effect him due to mismatching mental software[Say organically adapting a Windows Virus to a Mac] and manifest as voices in his dreams), reality tries one last time to stabilize and he becomes an alicorn centaur who then tries to Break down the wall. Then there's an ending.

Wow this turned into a brainstorm thing.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3635 on: October 14, 2011, 07:42:25 pm »
Interesting idea. Too bad I'm in a pitiful slump from my ultimate realization that I suck at writing fiction.

At least I know I can write a wicked good essay, so that makes me happy.

Maybe I could make a fanfic technical manual on some aspect of the world of Equestria. It would be boring as hell, but I'm sure at least someone out there gets off on technical description.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3636 on: October 14, 2011, 07:46:10 pm »
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3637 on: October 14, 2011, 07:51:13 pm »
I remember watching that. I think I made a sort-of connection between that and MLP, but it didn't really become firm in my mind until I just watched it again.

The only proper thing to do now is to replace the unicorns with the mane 6.

And yes, unicorns are awesome. Damn girls stealing all the awesome stuff.
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« Reply #3638 on: October 14, 2011, 08:13:43 pm »
Oh hey, someone I know (and goes to my school) is a brony!

THAAAAAAAANK YOU, FACEBOOK! YOU WERE USEFUL FOR ONCE!
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3639 on: October 14, 2011, 10:05:29 pm »
RE: The Soul Eater EqD front page. I love those people even more now.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3640 on: October 14, 2011, 11:27:31 pm »
Would this look better as a dark blue (standard) or black shirt?
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3641 on: October 14, 2011, 11:37:04 pm »
I'd get it in dark blue, myself.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3642 on: October 15, 2011, 01:13:46 am »
Quote from: Sowelu on October 14, 2011, 11:37:04 pm
I'd get it in dark blue, myself.

Agreed. Once I break my own resolve and raid my checking account for shirt money, that is one of the three I'm getting.


So in related news, an updated list of my anti-drug/anti-tobacco/anti-booze things: Books, anime, manga (yes I actually do buy when I have the money), games, cinnamon altoids, and now pony stuff. At this point I'll need three seperate jobs, one each for tuition, savings, and entertainment. Since that isn't happening, guess which one comes first (actually tuition because that is also including relatively cheap room and board, and I can get most of my entertainment for free from *hem* completely legal sources).
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #3643 on: October 15, 2011, 01:51:37 am »
I dipped into my soda/candy fund for mine :P

*looks at the very last of his supply: an almost empty 2 liter of cherry pepsi*

D:

*looks at shirts*

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« Reply #3644 on: October 15, 2011, 04:18:54 am »
I might have to dip into my savings for that shirt as well...
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