What's to come, for the foreseeable future

So, if you're reading this, you've probably stopped at my personal page to try to get a better feel for the crude inner workings of my mind. If that's the case, thanks for stopping by! I advise you read my previous blog entry to get the overview of my mind. Now, on to business:

I've hammered out a roadmap for myself, because bouncing from one theme/setting to another randomly ensures that nothing ever feels quite right. Instead, I've decided upon an initial set of stories to write. Using the Spike characterization in my latest story, "More Personal Than Parchment", I'm going to continue writing stories from his perspective (well, third-person subjective, anyways) regarding miscellaneous adventures in tickling the humanized characters of Ponyville. I made this choice for a few reasons, expanded upon below (ooohh, more lists!):

1.) Spike's character, or at least my take on it, is a relative surrogate to my own personality and experiences. I, like him, am predisposed to checking out girls' feet (convenient as I always seemed to have way too many friends-who-are-girls, I guess I'm just a socially compatible person), finding some satisfying qualities in them, and finding any excuse possible to tickle them. Yeah, weird, I know -- welcome to my world, you wouldn't be reading this if you didn't have some passing interest in my stories which are about exactly that. Anyways, it's something I've been predisposed to doing at least since my middle school years some... 10 years ago? That seems about right.
* As an aside, I actually bore the infamous reputation of being chatted about as "the guy who's pretty cool, but always seems to want to tickle me, have you noticed that? You too? Weird." A few girls were sufficiently weirded-out by my apparent obsession, and I do not hold that against them in the slightest; I'm a firm believer in that if I make you uncomfortable somehow, let me know, and I'll stop. Anyways, Spike's going to be like me in that regard, finding reasons to turn a quick and playful brush of a girl's feet, just some friendship-strengthening, platonic physical bonding, into a drawn-out contest of wills. It's pretty easy for me, really, usually just turning it into a challenge for the victim will be enough to make them endure far more attention than propriety dictates.

2.) I am not really in the mood to be writing clopfics at the moment, to put it as simply as I can. Doing so has always been somewhat uncomfortable to me, as I have an issue with trying to put into words my non-standard fixations and philias, much less doing so in a way that will be arousing to a random reader. This is not to say I've given up on it entirely, inspiration may strike, but right now my focus is going to be on the platonic relationships Spike runs around nurturing, one tickle torture at a time (I hope that doesn't read to you as awkwardly as it felt to type it). I hope that in writing such a story (or series of stories), I can appeal to more than just the hardcore fetishist audience; everyone likes a story that features happy people, else we wouldn't all watch MLP, right?

3.) I want to avoid as many contrived situations as I can. I don't want to have a character suddenly drop everything and beg to be tied up or something. That's just not how it works in real life; and right now, I'm trying to write stories that are true to life, that are plausible enough to happen in the (humanized) MLP universe without some sort of random plot device forcing it. In this regard, my SFW fictions will be easier, as writing a NSFW story about romance would require several chapters and thousands of words before you reached a point where the relationship is built up enough (again, if we consider the question of "can I see this happening IRL?" for every story). So, for now, I've got a few characters' "excuses" marked down and will move forward with them, seeing where this road takes me.

Well, thanks for reading my wall of text.