Self-indulgent Author's Note Small Dignified Get-Together: Chapter 13 edition · 8:19am Jan 23rd, 2013
So this week’s notes are a bit shorter than usual! There’s honestly not all that much I have to say about this chapter, except that I’m much happier with it than last week’s installment. But there are a few things I will mention for you lovers of fanfiction trivia (is that a thing? I kind of hope that isn't a thing.)
Most importantly, we learned all about Best Filly’s fear of dolls.
No, Silver, YOU are the dolls. And then Silver was fun for girls ages 5-11.
• Normally, this would be the part where I talk about how I originally planned for X to happen but then instead I found a way to have Y happen instead, and then tease you with talk of subplots that were planned but never used. Well, I’m sorry to inform you that everything in this chapter went perfectly according to how I planned. Silver falling back into her bad habits and befriending the worst enabler in history: Check. Twist finally putting Rapey the Pegasus in his place: Check. Diamond Tiara was faking it this whole time: Check. Derpy gets lost during a mail delivery and ends up on a small tropical island where she is worshipped as a sex goddess and gets all the penis her heart desires, because she’s Best Pony? STAY TUNED.
• Ah, okay, here’s a thing: The Pinkie letter was written before the Applejack chapter, and was supposed to be read before Rarity got out of prison. Originally, in fact, Trixie would have shown up in Rarity’s cell, not the visitor’s room, right after she had finished reading the letter. Then Rarity would have struggled to grab the letter, only to drop it at the last moment. The problem with that is that it kind of makes it too symbolically easy for Rarity: instead of choosing one life over another, she is forced into the life of the Circle. Screw that. I wanted her to make a choice. Rarity’s a lot of things, but she is not a victim of circumstance.
• In case anyone was wondering, yes, Pinkie was pregnant when she wrote that letter. This is taking place about a month or so after the end of Many Loves of Pinkie, so normally she wouldn’t be starting to show already, but thanks to Zecora’s potion…
• Happy Tune scares me a little more every time I write dialog for her. She’s obviously meant as a tragic character, but she’s also tailor-made to set up clop sequences. The things she says come from deep within the worst parts of my imagination, and believe it or not, I actually had to censor her this time. I wrote like three other conversations for her and Silver Spoon, then deleted them, thinking “No. That’s going too far.” Think about that for a second.
What the hell is your problem, Happy Tune? I created a sex-addicted mentally ill underage pony, and then you had to go and make it all WEIRD.
• Perhaps even more disturbingly, Happy is the OC I see most clearly in my mind when I write her. She’s more or less the color of a sunflower, a terribly cute and almost stereotypical-looking My Little Pony character, except for the whole thing where her mane is horribly disheveled, she has a dead, empty look in her eyes, she smiles a bit too wide (and never stops) and she always looks like she just finished getting gangbanged by half the Circle (probably because she has.) Perhaps Happy is trying to become my tulpa. If this ever happens, I will kill myself.
Just kidding, tulpas are bullshit. Equestria is real, though. To open the portal, upvote my story and send me money.
I gots no cash..how about a thumb?
Silver Spoon sure seems to like getting in that box...
You know, the more you write these blogs and this story, the more bitter and sarcastic you get. Maybe it's eating away at your soul as you type, sinking you deeper and deeper into your own dark and twisted fantasies until all that is left is to move to Malaysia and end up on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Or maybe it's just me.
So upvotes will help your portal. Okay.
You could write an alternate story for Happy Tune if you wanted. Like a dream sequence of a life she could have lived, only to wake up in the Gallery and what not.
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The blog is where all the humor goes, since Ass Flip is not generally a humorous story.
Hm, does it come off as bitter? Interesting. That's certainly not my intent. I'm actually just messing around and having a good time.
This is not to say that writing it won't drive me insane one day. But it'll be the happy kind of insane.
The management is not responsible if Tarnished Silver causes readers to black out and wake up six months later flat broke in the worst part of southeast Asia, having spent their life savings on Activities. Please sign this waiver.
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Hey! Who told you about my vacation last year?
Now I'm really curious as to what Happy Tune's original dialogue was.
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I'm awful I know.
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But in all seriousness, good chapter, looking forward to more.
Same old, same old really.
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I ended up deciding to keep some of it around for use in a later chapter. So you'll see it soon enough!
I was actually just thinking: My least favorite word in the world is REGRESS, at least definition-wise.
I cringe just thinking about it.