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arcum42


Admin for various groups, occasional vectorer of screenshots, and writes stories like Cubic Zirconia, among other things.

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  • 207 weeks
    An Old MFAB Second Chapter Draft

    You know, I never continued Magical Filly Apple B, and I suspect I never will, but I do have a fair amount of an old draft lying around for the second chapter.

    I remember I really felt like I needed to go through and revise Twist's familiar's accent, as it was getting rather out of control. I was having trouble with Twist's lisp, a bit, too.

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  • 333 weeks
    Familiarity Signal Boost / JWI excerpt

    Just thought I'd provide a signal boost to Fervidor's new story, Familiarity.

    TFamiliarity
    Scootaloo's life changes forever when she meets Fang, a strange magician who is not what she seems. As the two grow closer, secrets are revealed. What does it mean to be a familiar?
    Fervidor · 69k words  ·  153  8 · 2.6k views

    I'm tagging this with Just Winging It, since there are some elements in common, and I think people that like it might also like Familiarity, from what I've read so far.

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  • 334 weeks
    Convention Safety

    While I should probably do a post on having updated Cubic Zirconia, in this case, I'm doing a signal boost on horizon's latest blog, as it is a subject people really should be aware of:
    The elephant in the equine room

    --arcum42

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  • 347 weeks
    I'm All Right

    Just a quick note, as it occurred to me that some people may remember that I live in Las Vegas.

    I'm totally fine. The only time I went out yesterday was to the grocery store, and thankfully I was not where the shooting occurred. First I knew about it was this morning, when I went into Facebook, and it asked me to confirm that I'm alright.

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  • 354 weeks
    Yeah, I suck... (re: writing, or the lack therein)

    I was just looking, and Cubic Zirconia hasn't been updated in almost a year. I promise I haven't forgotten about it.

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Dec
26th
2013

Somewhat of a Christmas present... · 12:56am Dec 26th, 2013

Alright, I marked this to only go to people who have 'Making Friends' favorited, so if you haven't actually read it for some reason, you may want to read it first.

It may seem like there's a lot to be explored in the Making Friends universe that wasn't, particularly with Scootaloo. I thought so, and I actually started writing a sequel at one point. Various factors eventually caused me to put it on hold, and I never did figure out a good name for it, but i had a few chapters written by then, with a lot of cute Ditzy Doo/Scootaloo fluff.

I do plan to come back to it at some point, revise all the chapters, and start writing new ones, but that probably won't happen until one of my current stories ends.

However, since it is Christmas, I decided to give you guys a look at it. Exclusive to this blog, if you want to see the first four chapters I'd already written, feel free to take a look.

I'm very much open to suggestions both on improving it, and on the name, since that one is really just a placeholder. For that matter, I need cute Scootaloo/Ditzy Doo cover art, and no one ever pairs the two...

--arcum42

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Comments ( 3 )

Never mind me. I'll just stay here in the bog.

Thanks for the great gift to read.

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No problem. I've honestly been wanting to give people a chance to read this for some time.

Keep in mind it'll probably be quite a while before you see more of this. I'm pretty much figuring that whenever I finish either Cubic Zirconia or Just Winging It, I'll go through, revise the first chapter, remove the others, publish it, and add them back one by one as I revise. Neither's really that close to being done, though.

The revisions are going to be more to make sure the writing is up to par. I'm very fond of a number of the sequences here, but I'm a better writer at this point, and think at the very least the first chapter needs some tightening up.

Not to mention I need a better name...

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