Whelp. · 11:22pm Apr 17th, 2017
It looks like there's gonna be 54 chapters of FA. In order to avoid posting a 20k chapter, chapter 43 will be split into two - one of which is about 17k and the other should be about 5k. The first should be out soon-ish.
Help.
That aside, there's a new update for my 'verse. After a talk with a faget, I've decided to take off the AU tag from all my Iceverse stories.
Why?
Stories that take place in a world significantly diverged from canon. Changing the outcome of major events, large setting changes, or anything else that represents a large break from canon, particularly if the change is something that does not happen during the story itself. Stories that start at a point in canon and diverge through character development or other in-story events generally do not qualify as AU.
AU is not, however, appropriate for cases where MLP:FiM has no significant impact on the story. When all characters are stripped of their defining features and replaced with fundamentally different traits and characterization, any and all relevance to MLP:FiM is discarded.
Most all my stories just have that. Yes, they ignore staff tweets, anything past S6, the comics, and anything like the Journal of the Two Sisters. Yet it still doesn't go so far to make changes as drastic as reversing the roles of characters like in the Lunaverse or doing a whole villain-wins sort of deal. So all stories in the 'verse - even future ones - will not have the AU tag until further notice.
If this causes too much of a problem, they'll likely go back on... but until then...
Seriously though, I think this is a good pick. It says in the description it only recommends it when the changes are "significantly diverged from canon",and I don't think alternative headcanons, personality traits, or backstories effectively represent a "significant divergence."
4500069 Thanks for the correction, faget!