March Apologies, Twice as Bright · 12:08am Mar 22nd, 2013
I am just leaving a quick note here to say that I'm sorry for not responding to PM's, comments or mails for the moment. I've tried to keep on top of things, but it's just not working out. If you're just tuning in, or if you've recently left a comment or sent me a PM, I am very happy to make your acquaintance, please don't doubt that -- I can only apologize for the delayed response.
I'm having a bad time of it, and I need to readjust. There's no drama, and everything that's failing is related to my lacking ability to deal with things that are beyond my control.
Fic updates will go along as planned because quite frankly, I don't know how to stop. Twice as Bright will likely continue at one chapter per week unless something changes.
Failing to fail. You warm my heart.
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The very fact that you're apologizing for those particular things makes you - in my book - a very special person here, not even counting the excellent storytelling you are so capable of. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way... Just take care of yourself and do what you can, when you can; I doubt anyone will fault you for that.
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Ya, they need to add more emotes.
Take care of yourself Cloudy and poni on.
I know that feeling exactly. :( Hang in there,
SISTERbro.hnnnnnng you're wonderful
I was afraid that life was yanking you around. I wish you the best in dealing with any and all of it, and until you have breathing space, I'm happy to keep raiding your library shelf!
Speaking of which, I finished Within & Without a few days ago, and found it to be captivating, especially near the end. Heartwarming, with a hint of wistfulness.
It's very interesting, to see how you wrote things a year ago, compared to what we've seen since then. I prefer your vision, I can honestly say.
Also, I'm going to blame you for something, but in a good way: You've gotten me to write something with canon characters in it, and you were right- it's been interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for asking the right question!
I life settles for you soon, my friend.
Hey Cloudy, I hope that all the things that are out of your control get better. And if they don't, that they don't drag you down too much. Back when I started reading poniponiponi fanfics, yours was the first shipfic that I actually truly enjoyed. So, thanks for that, and good luck.
Keep in mind that if you can think of some way to make things better for yourself, even if it involves taking a break from this, go ahead. We'll all understand.
<3 X3
Hope you don't have too hard a time of it. I'll be honest, you had me worried, it's not like you to go quiet. All the best for things getting easier for you as fast as they can.
937316 I can't do anything right, you know? I can't even fail right!
937332 With the way that smiley is perpetually raising and lowering his (or her!) eyebrows, I can't help but feel like I should lock my door tonight. Help.
937344 I appreciate the sentiment, at the very least, and you are very kind to say so.
937345 Or just replace all emotes with the best emote:
It's called ajbemused. Bemused. It's the best word.
Thanks, though!
937420 I suck so hard for failing to do my part to keep that whole thing alive. The concept was hilarious as heck. :(
Hey, question. Your "Twilight Sparkle Loses Her Wings". If I'm pretty sore about the subject, will reading it make me more annoyed, or is it genuinely just pokey-funny-no-worries-y?
937464 Silly, I'm an earth pony. We're earthy. You're thinking of unicorns!
937581 It's not real life, and I expect this won't pass just yet, so it may mean more hiatuses (hiatusi?) in the future, but we'll see how it goes. I'm glad to hear you finished up W&W/O though! When you say "how I wrote a year ago", my first thought is "yeah, I wrote fast", but I'm very curious as to what you mean when you say you "prefer my vision"? I have a billion paranoid interpretations rearing to go here, but I'm not sure I dare speak them.
By now, I've commented on your story and such, but it bears saying again; I'm extremely flattered that you'd blame me, and I'm very glad to see your story up! Still looking forward to more chapters!
937959 In short, I need to take a break, but I can't and I don't. My fear is that if I take a break, I'll never come back, and while you may say that in that case, I should leave because it means I'm not having fun, the truth isn't at all that simple.
I appreciate the thought, the comment, and the well-wishes though, I really do, and your words do me great honor!
938042 Hi! Two weeks' response time on FiMF; that's actually slightly faster than my skype average ain't it?
938160 I only really go "quiet" on FiMF because it's the root of the problems, but yeah. Thanks!
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If I'm pretty sore about the subject, will reading it make me more annoyed, or is it genuinely just pokey-funny-no-worries-y?
What subject? The subject of Twilight losing her wings? Will it help if you know that I wrote it the week before the episode aired?
(It is a comedy and just one of my many stupid monthly shorttrolfics.)
981675 In short, the finale is the only episode I have not seen more than once. Since this is the comments section of an informal blog post on my personal blog, I'm gonna take the liberty of being so frank as to say "I hate it." The wings. The princess thing. I like to consider myself a mellow person aspiring to at least moderate rationality and reason, but I hate it with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
I'm being a big wuss and asking if the story is wing-positive, and I feel pretty stupid for being so blatant about it, but I'm going to allow myself to have rigid and unreasonable tastes, just today.
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If it's about anything, it's about Twilight not really needing wings in the first place. It is completely nonserious and definitely not "wing-positive", as you say.
981693 I regret saying the words "wing-positive." I sound almost as irrational wrt. the finale as I really am. Thank you though! Gonna give that a read in the morning for sure.
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...For some reason, I am now entertaining concepts based around Twilight identifying as transwinged, and coming to clash with her cis-winged friend Rainbow Dash.
981712 Can't decide if terrible or terrific. Possibly both.
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Believe it or not, I found an idea lying around that I could use it in. Not sure if it would actually work, of course; we'll have to see.
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I had to think back and try to remember what I had just re-read when I made my cryptic comments.
I see part of the problem; I went off of the Fimfiction upload dates, and of course you wrote it long before that. Mostly, what I meant to say is, there has been a LONG time that passed between when you wrote this and when we saw events occur (THE EPISODE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED) that raised questions... which I found you had already answered. Namely, longevity.
I found your idea of the Elements giving all the Bearers the option of longevity to be comforting in light of what happened in TETSNBN.
I think I am quite a sap- I have a great love for happy endings, whereas the edgy, hip thing is to sort of revel in destruction or loss... but then again, happy endings is what brought me to Pony anyway. Oh, alright. "happy endings is what brought me to pony anyway."
Your blog, your rules!
Regardless, I need to continue with TaB and catch up on it now!
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Maybe! But it's not the comment reply time I worry about here X3 *pokepokes* You should definitely write faster! I was just stuck in an elevator with Sylinn and a friend of ours. As my life flashed before my eyes, my one regret was that I hadn't got to read this fic, when it was completed.
Also, no pressure. Work at your own pace! *snickers*
982182 To be very frank, now when I use the princesses, I tend to omit mention of the immortality issue unless it's a central point, simply because there's no way to win. I'm of course glad if it worked for you in W&W/O, and of course I wrote it because I felt it was the right thing to do at the time, but if you have a negative mindset, there is no coming out of it without tragedy.
At least, some would say. I would reply that the same is true of any fic that features a sunrise for acknowledging the passage of time, which will inevitably lead to old age and death.
>>I think I am quite a sap- I have a great love for happy endings, whereas the edgy, hip thing is to sort of revel in destruction or loss... but then again, happy endings is what brought me to Pony anyway.
I could not agree more. You just summed up my existence, here.
Conflict needs to exist in some form to make a story worth telling. Challenges need to be met to give victory meaning. That's not the same as having a story with %pony crying over %pony's grave.
Or, with fewer words: I like fairytales and I like happily ever after.
982317 Oh dear. I thought people only got stuck in elevators in cheap porn movies or something. Or is it the other way around? Either way, you know, I can just link you the last parts of TaB and share it with you on GDocs if you want -- it's unlikely to be edited much from its current incarnation!
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Good point, and that's definitely the least painful way of dealing with it. I have to assume that, if Faust or the others considered that factor, they decided that it wouldn't occur to or be important to the target audience, so they decided not to raise it at all. The other possiblity, of course, is that with creative control, they could simply make it a characteristic of all other ponies to be selfless enough to not care, but I lean towards the former, because of how Celestia is portrayed... blast, I'm doing it again.
Shutting up now.
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Well... There were some parts that may've been video's via a phone. And there MAY have been some nipple tweaking, so that's like a cheap porno right there, right?
And although reading on gdocs would make me feel a little nostalgic, I can wait XD I'll just keep poking you here. And there. And... X3
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All I can think of is some of those sketches on DA...
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wait... sketches on DA? Of Cloudy getting poked?
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Dear me, not that I've seen, only some silly and mildly embarrassing one that are full of 'd' awww' and Cloudy looking rather... Cloudy.
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Oh, I know I've seen a number of pictures with Cloudy looking cloudy... and being Cloudy... And the implied Cloudy/Pegasus-mojo-connection thing that he's got going on, but... XD Not all that many, really <.< Just sounds like there are -more-, suddenly o.o
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Oh, perhaps, perhaps not, though I suspect it's me being true to form: Late to the party, as always.
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I dunno, usually Cloudy's the one showing me these things himself. So I think that counts as being late, or later. So don't worry XD (And I really haven't seen many)
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Oh, really now? See, he's struck me as a sort of reserved fellow. That makes me smile that he's been sharing them himself.
Why? I don't know. Well, probably because I know it's sort of cathartic to show friends things that are slightly embarrassing; if they're good friends they'll share your sense of slight embarrassment and help you laugh it off.
994325 996109 I have no idea what is going on here. I have no idea, and I'm content to keep it this way. There are no shady pictures of me in compromising positions, there are zero pictures of me being a pretty princess wearing tiaras, and all rumors about Kits having a dungeon are false.
So now you know.
Ahem.
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Quick, Still Waters, to the DA-mobile, before he gets out the Delete-O-Zap gun and all the evidence disappears forever!!
(and seriously, my apologies if this has been inappropriate. No non-existent inappropriateness was meant to be implied; I was just having a
belly-lic...friendly, wholesome good time!!)996109
Mmm, you just have to look past that initial 'oh he's just reserved' bit. I'm pretty sure he didn't share those out of 'embarrassment'... probably just wanting to share the love... so to speak Just ask any pegasus! (that knows him)
997419 I like how you didn't even deny the use of spreader bars.
997441
*scribbles* Mm-hm, mm-hm, fascinating... go on, please.
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Oh, I'm also pretty sure you needn't worry about insulting Cloudy by making up any 'inappropriateness'. Although you may have to worry about him being miffed if you give any of his friends ideas. Well, ideas that they haven't already come up with. And subjected him to. And them taping the evidence. And sticking it up on DA. And thereby sharing it with the general public. And....
Hrm, maybe I should stop there.
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Hm, I suppose I have some research to do. I mean, I'll have to know what's been suggested/done/disseminated so I can, uh, avoid suggesting anything new...
997511 997527 In my defense,
muchmostsome of the spreader bar stuff was Kits' fault. I think.In fact, Kits and Snowtrail are at the root of everything Still Waters isn't, and I blame absolutely everything on them. And I am not responsible for pegasi treating me like peganip!
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Maybe we should compare notes sometime. Could be very important.
997678
I think you're responsible for being yourself. Ergo, tooooootally responsible for being peganip.
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*looks over his shoulder* PEGANIP?? Um... should I be worried?
or excited?Or even MORE worried??997692 You would say anything to excuse your terrible habits. You have a problem. First step is admitting it. :|
998787 Let's just say that theories have been made about my cutie mark and its effects on pegasi considering the fact that most everyone I know are pegasi, and a disturbing wealth of those, well.
It's not healthy, whatever is going on.
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Theories are theories, but is there any merit to them?
"Well?" I'll have you know, I'm a happily married Pegasus. Given the implications, I think it's only fair to have full disclosure.
Like, do you have a similar effect on females? Do I need to tie down the wife?
(I briefly considered suggesting tying you up, but then I realized that would probably magnify the effect and you'd be swarmed...)
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Hey, I'm not the one who brought up the theory of peganip in the first place. You are o.o It just makes sense, though, considering >.> And I'm not the only one who thinks so either. I believe Ayms did a thing, to which I don't think I can link to on here, yes? XD
(Oh, and it's totally not a problem <.< )
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I'm pretty sure there is some sweet, sweet merit to those theories.
But I don't think it works on females, dunno. I could always throw a friend of mine at him to check. o.o For SCIENCE!
Oh, and you could always try tying him up. For science. Maybe it'll restrain the effect on pegasi. Who knows <.< *hums innocently*
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Does 'here' cover private messages as well? I mean, just for purposes of research, of course.
I think you just want someone to do the hard work for you!
I shall have to reserve judgement for now. Science, of course, demands empirical proof.
*bites at a rebellious wing* Just give me a minute here. Down, damn you!
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I was thinking public comments, by 'here'. So I'll toss you a thing. For science.
Also, trust me. I'm sure Cloudy'll back me up on this when I say I'm always up for a little hard work. X3
999441
Oh, those aren't so b-- oh. Oh my.
Are you sure your aim was accurate?
Have you had that thing bore-sighted recently?
*L* Why do I feel like I've stumbled over a tripwire here?
... wait a minute, that's no tripwire...
I should probably flee now, before I get myself in trouble, shouldn't I?
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I don't feature in those, it's Kits with the... uhm. Unicorn-angler getup.
Also, that's no tripwire. And you haven't exactly stumbled over it either. More like... happily and without reservation jumped up and down on it?
And I dunno... fleeing at this point could just lead to more
funScience!999505
No, but but I saw your taste-test, and I that's why I was asking if your aim was perhaps off, from the look on her face.
Well, it is sort of hard to miss.
Hey now, I don't have a suggestively happy cloud on my butt! Also, fleeing could be seen as an invitation, or at least expose some tender portions of me to attention...
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My aim WAS off. You can see that I licked the cloud. I'm sure she'd have a different expression if I licked elsewhere. But you've gotta remember to check the cloudy mark to see if it's pure.
And I figured you didn't have a cloudy mark. That's okay though, Still plenty of <3, even if we can't be justified in classifying you as a dangerous and controlled substance.
And yes! This is why fleeing can, in fact, invoke that age old adage: No means yes, and yes means harder.
1000458 1001178 I don't even a little bit. What exactly did you share, Still? Do--no, I'm just going to, uh. That thing with the writing. And order a
dressmanly article of clothing that covers my flanks, I think.