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Defoloce


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  • 461 weeks
    [Story Excerpt] The Drop-Off

    As before, a passage from Galvanized. The tentpole moments in the story were everyman protagonist Kevin seeing how the HLF's struggle to turn away the ponies actually went down, and it was these moments I had actually drafted up to act as waypoints for the plot. Like Mad Max in the excellent recent movie Fury Road, he is less of a "main character" and more of the vessel

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  • 462 weeks
    [Story Excerpt] Deal of a Lifetime

    This is a scene from my cancelled TCB story Galvanized in which the protagonist, Kevin, meets with Oklahoma's HLF head honcho in a kind of interview/acclimatization process. I never edited, beta'd, or even second-passed the chapter this scene was in, so it stands as-is, but as a concept for a set-piece I'm proud of it (it's also where the title-drop occurs) and wanted to share

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  • 490 weeks
    On Badasses and What Makes Them Badass

    This might be an ill-advised blog entry because I'm writing through a fever and it's late, but this pony fanfiction site is the only place I visit where I can even remotely pretend that me "writing about writing" is relevant to anything people are hanging around to see. I don't even know if a treatise like this exists elsewhere on FIMfiction but whatever, I can't get to sleep and whenever I close

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  • 493 weeks
    Happy Veteran's Day

    Whether you call it that, Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, if you know someone who served, please thank them if you haven't already. Even during the best of times, duty permeates every aspect of your life. It's demanding living, hard on families and relationships, a perfect storm of boredom, obligation, trepidation, and, all too often, horror.

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  • 517 weeks
    Always Say No Featured on Royal Canterlot Library!

    A few weeks ago, I was approached asking if I would allow Always Say No to be put up on Royal Canterlot Library. I said yes, of course (I don't always say no, haw haw), and I very much enjoyed reading what RCL's staff had to say about it, which includes their own personal rationales for choosing

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Aug
14th
2013

Always Say No has a TVTropes page! · 4:20am Aug 14th, 2013

One of the readers of FiO: Always Say No dropped me a PM a little while ago telling me that the story now has a page over on TVTropes! I'm heavily biased to like this development, of course, but I still have to point out it's a cool feeling to know that someone took time to write up a page for something I created.

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Congrats bro!

Congratulations, man. It's definitely worthy of it.

Whoa. Now that is awesome.

I just want to say thanks to Abstract Indigo for the work he/she puts into maintaining the various Friendship is Optimal pages on TVTropes. Along with writing the page for Always Say No, he/she also added an index to the main Friendship is Optimal article referring to your fic, Eakin's and Chatoyance's.)

1286379

I'm of the male persuasion, but you're welcome, and thanks to all the appropriate authors for the writing the stories in the first place.

Not that I'm especially happy with the state of the pages at the moment. Eakin's fic is in a pretty good state and could do with a few minor tweaks, but whoever put Chat's up barely wrote anything, Always Say No needs a lot more expansion and polish (as you'd expect seeing as I only just put it up), and the main FiO page has struck me for a long time as being functional, but needing quite a bit of rewriting and work to bring it up to scratch (which seeing as I wrote a considerable amount of entries, I have to take quite a bit of responsibility for).

Hopefully I'll be able to improve all this in the not too distant future.

1286379 I've made some additions to the pages for all the Optimalverse stories with pages on TV Tropes, including yours and Defoloce's here.

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