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An aspiring Author honing his skills by writing about these silly little ponies. A Fox of few words outside the realm of fiction, unless he gets on a roll with something.

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  • 232 weeks
    Ash vs. The End of the End

    I feel the need to speak about how differently the key events of Season 9 would play out in the Order-naries 'verse, but at the same time I don't feel up to making a proper story out of it. I'm going to split the difference with this blog, outlining what would happen without giving too much detail.

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  • 232 weeks
    And the magic goes on...

    What a way to end the series. From a story-crafting standpoint, I have some complaints about how the final two-parter got rolling, and the resolution isn't how I'd have handled it.
    The overall execution, however, and especially the final final episode, were wonderful.

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  • 258 weeks
    Still can't help myself.

    I promised I'd focus on Pumahara after I finished Storm-chased, and I honestly have tried to get the next chapter done, but my silly, silly brain just can't leave the Order-naries 'verse slot on my WIP list empty for very long.

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  • 260 weeks
    Storm-chased complete and changed

    I put up the last chapter of Order-naries: Storm-chased a couple days ago. After looking at it, though, I found myself dissatisfied with the last couple paragraphs, so I've gone back and replaced them with a new, better-paced scene. One that I think works better for Ash and Rarity meeting the dust has mostly settled.

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  • 261 weeks
    Cyan's launched another kickstarter

    The geniuses who brought us Myst, and thus indirectly made Aitran possible, have announced their newest game project: Firmament.

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Jan
24th
2014

A Distant Epilogue to Everything - the show, Order-naries, EqG, EVERYTHING. · 6:17am Jan 24th, 2014

So, that not-so-original idea of mine stuck around and started influencing another vague idea of mine. Then I got the lead-in idea that follows. I post it here because it's not quite weird enough for My Strange Ponies and because I might do something with it after Season 4 and once I've seen Equestria Girls (and maybe the rumored sequel if it comes out before I get to this). Then again, I might change a few things from my current plan because as it currently stands it sets a very solid end-point for the Order-naries timeline that I might not want to commit to.
Anyway, enjoy my slightly depressing, very speculative prologue to a story that may or may not ever happen.


Twilight’s hooves felt heavy as she walked into the cave that housed the Tree of Harmony, weighed down by a burden far heavier than it would appear to an outside viewer. This is the fifth time I’ve had to do this, she thought, and it still hasn’t become any easier. She approached the Tree, and the small box growing out of its root opened. A tear traced down Twilight’s cheek as she removed the trinket from the string that hung around her neck. She started to levitate it into the box, but then hesitated and pressed it against her forehead, eyes shut in a vain attempt to hold back the tears. “Goodbye, Applejack,” she whispered. She felt a faint touch of power from the trinket, and then she dutifully placed it into the box, which closed up again.
Twilight turned away from the Tree and began to walk away, only to stop when she heard a voice that felt familiar even though she was sure she’d never heard it before. “Spark…” it said softly. Twilight turned her head and saw that the six Elements of Harmony were glowing. “Twilight Sparkle,” the voice said, echoing faintly off the cave walls but seemingly coming from the Tree itself.
“Y-yes?” Twilight asked.
“All except your portion of the power has been returned to me,” the Tree said, gently. “I assume this means that mortality has caught up to all of your friends. I feel saddened by their loss as well.”
“Oh, uh, thank you,” Twilight said, too overwhelmed with sadness and surprise to question why a tree was suddenly talking to her. She shuffled a hood awkwardly, and then said, “We… we all felt it would be more appropriate to return the Rainbow Power instead of trying to pass it on to other ponies. In fact, I should probably return my portion now, huh?”
“That would be wise,” the Tree responded. “However, that doesn’t mean our relationship needs to come to an end.”
“Relationship?” Twilight asked, taken aback. “What… what do you mean by that?”
“With the Rainbow Power returned to the box and the Elements resting in my branches, Harmony will become a passive force in the world once again. Even should something else arise to threaten the world, I am unable to act against it. I am just a Tree, after all.”
“What could possibly be out there that’s so dangerous?” Twilight asked. “The dark forces that corrupted Sombra and Princess Luna were both destroyed, the Changelings are only a minor nuisance thanks to their new Queen, Discord’s remained pacified even though Fluttershy’s gone, and every other major demon or monster is locked away in Tartarus.”
“I don’t know,” the Tree admitted, “but I’ve become accustomed to the feeling that my power is out in the world, ready to be put to active use. As for you, what do you plan to do with yourself now?”
“I haven’t really had the time or frame of mind to think about it yet,” Twilight said, crossly.
“I have a suggestion then,” the Tree said. “With the old generation gone, except for you, the time has come to seek out a new group of ponies to bear the Elements of Harmony and eventually earn the right to the Rainbow Power. As an alicorn Princess, it falls to you to find and guide this new group. Whether you are numbered among the new Six or stand apart as a mentor like Celestia did for you matters little to me, so long as the bonds of Friendship and Harmony grow strong between them.”
Twilight thought over the Tree’s words for a while. “Why me though?” she asked. “Celestia is older and wiser, and she guided me well enough.”
“You have wisdom and experience enough, Twilight Sparkle,” the Tree said, “and your link to my power has been stronger than Celestia and Luna’s ever was. Besides, they relinquished the Elements to you and your friends, and so you have the better claim to overseeing them anyway.”
“Alright, you make a good point,” Twilight said. “It’ll take some time though; I have to find ponies, or probably any sapient Equestrian, who will respect both the Elements and the memory of their former bearers.”
“I waited several millennia for the Elements to be returned after Celestia and Luna borrowed them,” the tree said with a trace of sardonic humor. “And I’m a tree. We know how to be patient.”
“Ok, ok, I get it,” Twilight said, rolling her eyes and smirking. “No rush.” She turned away from the Tree again and started to trot out of the cave. As she neared the entrance, a thought occurred to her. “Now,” she mused aloud, “how am I going to go about getting these hypothetical successors to demonstrate the attributes necessary to link them to the Elements of Harmony?” She exited the cave, and after her eyes readjusted to the light she stopped short of colliding with an equine figure in a dark coat.
“Sorry,” it said in a familiar voice Twilight hadn’t heard in years and though she never would again, “but I couldn’t help overhearing your plans. I think I can help.”
“Oh?” Twilight asked, suspiciously.
“Yes,” the pony said, lowering her hood and letting her red and yellow mane flow free. “It seems to me,” she said, smirking at Twilight’s surprised expression, “that nothing brings a group of friends together like an antagonist. Especially if that antagonist is the shadow to their mentor’s light.”

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“Yes,” the pony said, lowering her hood and letting her red and yellow mane flow free.

WHAT!

Please write this so I can nerdgasm all over floor and the other places where it hasn't happened yet!

FYI:

Nerd*ga*sm - basically like an orgasm, just with thick-rimmed glasses and plaid polo shirts.

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