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Richardson


I am a thousand tiny ponies operating a mobile human suit for giggles.

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  • 385 weeks
    I'm done

    I was starting work on plans to rebuild Scootamom. I had plans to do more writing. I had so many plans. All gone, now. Like tears in the rain. We're all already dead, and... I'm just so very tired, and done. Got nothing left. I'm sorry. I need to focus on surviving now in a very terrible world. I-

    21 comments · 1,652 views
  • 444 weeks
    Something worth sharing

    Somewhere out there on the distant horizon of the pony fandom, a little dot has appeared, heading this way. And, coming from that dot is the unmistakable sound of death-metal cello-dubstep.

    6 comments · 550 views
  • 445 weeks
    New Schedule (ish?)

    Okay, with a new schedule and update pattern, we can roughly look for a 6000-8000 word chapter every two weeks at present, between the current course-load, Mad Max (the game), and the arrangement of my schedule. Maybe. I hope.

    0 comments · 438 views
  • 458 weeks
    An Idea based on Today's Episode

    Okay, here's a proper idea based off of this episode:

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    10 comments · 474 views
  • 459 weeks
    Not sure what else I can say:

    So, yeah, this just happened. This just totally happened, and I am completely okay with that.




    What you shall see now is a Cellostomp of awesome proportions.

    4 comments · 419 views
May
10th
2014

Scootamom Cancelled · 4:10pm May 10th, 2014

I know, it isn't what you guys want to hear, but.... yeah. I have been trying for quite some time to put its headcanon back together and put it into a semblance of coherence for the past two years after getting hit time and time again with the changing canon of the show. Developments have invalidated large parts of the story, and to deal with them would completely have changed the nature and character of the story, and not dealing with them would have rendered plot holes large enough to drive Celestia's plot through all throughout the story.

So, with great sadness I have to let this one pass gently into the night. I could try to resurrect it as is, but it would be a shallow wreck of my former plans and it would be a disservice to the readers and to the characters involved.


All of that being said, completely by accident my writing exercise is apparently evolving in a direction that will most likely result in it becoming the reboot of different character that I was just talking about, Here.


Once more, I am sorry, but too much has changed to make the story viable.

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Comments ( 46 )

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:raritydespair::raritydespair::raritydespair::raritycry::raritycry::raritycry::raritycry:

Well, why don't you write it and say that it was written based on the available information as of (date) or episode x season y? That's what i'm going to do.

2095915 Because it is a systematic destruction of most, if not all of the points I had planned. Everything in the plans for the story has been touched and wrecked. I do not lightly cancel a story.

slap on an AU tag never look back its just that simple.

screw canon, canon is like a rule. BREAK THAT RULE! I dunno, make her real parents return from the dead or whatever and have Celestia return her in the end. I DO'NT KNOW

2095927

Have you not read a single thing I've wrote so far on this matter? I mean, seriously, READ. Stop being stupid.

2095933
I'm Guessing the sidestories are also canceled then? Darn. While it does sadden me that you have decided to end it sometimes that's just what has to happen. Could you at least release a summery of what you plans were? Or are you holding on to that tightly just in case you do decide to eventually revive it?

That sucks, but I can understand why you`ve cancelled it. The canon changes have been FAR TOO MUCH.

Spacecowboy
Moderator

Canon is overrated.

I don't suppose there's a way you could wrangle a "Complete" tag onto this instead of a "Cancelled?" Cancelled stories have an unfortunate tendency to fade off into the ether and this one really doesn't deserve that, it's got so much great stuff in it.

I recall a similar situation with Darkest Before the Dawn, the author "cancelled" it because the introduction of Shining Armor wrecked his future plans but he was able to find a good stopping spot to end it cleanly at.

Either way, sad to see this one end. Hopefully you're brimming with fresh ideas for new fanfics to start anew? :)

2095967

No, because what few elements I can salvage are almost certainly going to end up in the linked story.

2096031

No, it's pretty much that wrecked.

Much as I want to see you take up the combined suggestions of Dancewithknives and Domzori, since it is your univers that we have come to love and revel in, the call is yours. However I greatly second Squee-chi because I really want to know what was going to happen with Trixie:trixieshiftright:. Oh perhaps you could even continue that one as the direct affiliation between "Scootamom" and "For I Have no Friends, and Must Scream" had not really occured yet instory,:pinkiegasp: lest that to might link/transfer over to "How Hard Could it Be?"

reaction (in order)

:rainbowhuh:...(w..what?):rainbowlaugh:(he's joking...right?)
:derpyderp1:(w..wait..):fluttershysad:(h-he's not..)
:pinkiesad2:(b-but...)
:fluttershbad:(n-no...)
:fluttercry:(rip)

2096073
Understood. Here's to the random hope that "Sunbeam" adopts an Orphan-Loo. That would make me happy.

Comment posted by Dimiein deleted May 10th, 2014

2095959
^ this :pinkiesad2:

Fare thee well, Yarnthulu. I hardly knew ye. :raritycry:

2096073
What if someone else took over the story to complete it?

I doubt he'd be willing. Even if he was they would need to know all of Bab5 to make it work.

I disagree with your decision to give up in the face of conflicts instead of AUing it, but I understand.

Unfortunately, this means the story was always doomed to cancellation. Aside from the impossibility of predicting revelations yet to come in a still-running series, the show contradicts itself at times.

2096229

No, the normal stuff was fine.

It was stuff like Discord's reformation, Alisparkle, Dat Finale (which is the definate nail in the coffin), and a lot of the other cosmic-level stuff that killed it off. The lower level stuff was just fine.

Aww... :fluttercry: Well, what can one do. DHX just took away my library... er Twilight's library, and now this. Sad day.

At least tell me For I Have no Friends, and Must Scream is salvageable! :raritydespair:

2096266 I would have been totally ok with an "Alternative Universe" Tag :fluttercry::raritycry:

I just do not understand your viewpoint

Everything in the plans for the story has been touched and wrecked.

Well - In my opinion that would have happened anyways - even if you had it finished before season 3. If you have a totally in-canon-story finished today it could be "AU" after the first episode of season 5.

I realize that this is your decision, and I respect that.
However I just don't understand how anything in the show could invalidate some thing written about an alternate universe. Which is by definition totally different from the original. Perhaps I have misunderstood the meaning of the tag. I thought it was used when the author knew that his story did not match up with the show. The three that I am working on will have that tag just for that reason. Oh well sorry to see it go will remove it from my list good luck with your others.

I'm sorely sorry to hear this... though I would like to note that how much a story conforms to canon is entirely up to the author. Especially canon that comes to light after the story has begun.

If you don't feel up to formulating an alternative continuity, could you at least share what you had planned?

It's a real shame.

If you ever wanted to re-write it to take into account what happened in the newer seasons, you'd have to:

- Possibly drop the whole Luna and Trixie thing altogether
- Add the Tree of Harmony origin story for the Elements, but this doesn't mean Luna still can't have her forge
- Replace the whole Babylon 5-thing with Tirek's original reign of terror, and given that he's been biding his time in the series since Lesson Zero, write some of these unseen events
- Drop the half-brother sea pony of Pinkie

I still think you could salvage the story, but since it seems like you're replacing it with How Hard Could It Be?, this seems unlikely. RIP.

Well... that sucks :fluttershysad:

Hope you have luck in whatever you decided to do in the future :scootangel:

No offense, but there's no reason to drop a story just because it doesn't follow show canon. Fallout Equestria anyone? Sorry that it's too much work for you. :pinkiesad2:

2097681

Was completed in 6 months before even reaching the halfway point of S2. It's rendered AU AFTER the fact.

My reaction when I saw that Scootamom got cancelled.
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It was such a good fic, it's so sad that it had to be cancelled:fluttercry::raritycry::fluttercry:

Maaaaaan! This was, like, SO awesome! Absolutely one of my top favorites! Please tell me you'll at least keep it up and available for posterity?!

2098738
Whether it was rendered so before or after the fact is not really important. The point I am trying to make is that there is no reason that fanfic must follow canon. I'm sorry if you're unhappy because you wanted it to and it can't now. :pinkiesad2:

Yeah, its always hard having to "kill your darlings." Had to do that to several of my stories over time, and it sucks. But you can't let it keep you down. Move on and up.

2102549

Yeah, when it's 'kills every major plot point you originally had planned', it's time to put it down.

May I make a suggestion?
Delete the entire damn thing.

If anyone complains?
Block them.

In fact, I suggest you delete anything that isn't canon.
Or better yet, rewrite your stories to conform to canon suit.

I'll be one of those guys saying "Why bother with sticking to canon when you have a bucking story to tell?" over here. Sure, it's annoying when the season renders a bunch of your ideas obsolete, but it was your 'head' canon to begin with. There was ALWAYS going to be that risk, so why stop now when it's happened? It's like saying you shouldn't ever write fan fiction until after the entire show is over and done and cancelled and thus can never evolve again.

kinda sad returning to one of my favorite universes to find I'll never again get to read anymore of my favorite Scootaloo, daughter of Sunbutt, niece of Moonbutt, and number one pain in the flank to royal guards everywhere.

I guess it was good while it lasted. It had to end sometime anyways, no? I was just hoping it'd end up with a complete tag with a "And they lived _____ ever after" or something.

I guess things got awkward after the Luna Trixie shard thing. Luna, or a part of her, having been Trixie's Mom before being taken back into herself once Nightmare Moon was released. Good stuff. Then again I haven't read this in ages so I may be remembering things wrong.

Maybe some comedic short stories with Scootaloo and her Princess Mother and such can be made down the road? Something new and yet still plausible. I mean, we know Scoots lives in Ponyville now, but she has a house practically all to herself. Clearly she wanted to move there to be closer to her friends? Who knows.

Anyhow, you had some good stuff going with that universe, hope you don't let it all to go waste. Hell, one of my other favorite story happens to be a comedy where Diamond Tiara finds a loophole in the system and adopts Scootaloo. How to Be a Mother. And it's sequel How To Be A Parent.

You made a most fun Celestia, likes of which I've almost never read else where. She's a great mother figure indeed. And Luna was getting so much development too.

I'll try and give your other story a chance, see if it's something I can pay attention to. Best of luck in your writing.

2096018 Thank you! I try to say that all the time and people just get that shitty look in there eye that just screams you're a dumb ass. Then when something like this happens when a great story gets cancelled they change their mind. I feel sorry for the story getting cancelled and I am sad about that too but I can't but feel happy that this brings out them nay sayers that tell me stfu about my views of canon of the show.Its people like them that put pressure on auther like Richardson to make it as canon as possible. If you don't believe me I will post the things I have said about it and show you all the thumbs down that people put on those comments. I am not saying canon doesn't have its place but don't make it law. It needs to be able to bend.

I fail to see the problem with your head canon being made invalid by the show...
I mean yeah its nice to follow the show, and use it as a guide line to write your stories.
However if you let the whole "it has to be canon!" Thing run your work then it is just going to cripple your writing.
Look at Past Sins and how far that has deviated from canon, but you don't see that author jumping on here to get rid of it.
There are literally thousands of stories on here that people love to read, and the only "canon" they have in common is names and places.
This is fiction to begin with, so the story having to be ultra canon is just ridiculous.
I don't see why you cant just slap an alternate universe tag on there and continue writing.
I am not attacking you or anything it just feels like an excuse, and you do not need one.
If you want to stop writing a story because you simply do not feel like doing it anymore then by all means stop.
This is something to do for fun and if it is not fun anymore then that's that.

Just a small thought: Have you thought about ignoring the development in canon and just proceeding from the point where you started, treating all subsequent canon as a divergent universe? It seems the simplest thing to do (and something I've done in most of my Pokémon fics, not being willing to bother to add another 100+ species every couple of years).

I have to say, I'm not even sure what you mean by 'viable'. You already have an AU tag on the story so you really don't have to work in anything that you don't want. I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and assume that you wanted this story to be at least reasonably canon-compliant. Well, if that is the case, then it's certainly your prerogative as writer. However, the fact that you had already explicitly signposted a fusion with the Babylon 5 universe, I have to say that it was always going to be a futile hope.

It seems to me that the problem isn't a fanon/canon discontinuity at all. Would I be right in saying that the story itself has degenerated? That you haven't been able to keep the story internally coherent and consistent? If so, then a full reboot is really more appropriate. Call it 'Scootamom v.2' or something. As always with fanfic, simply pick what bits of canon you want and discard the rest that gets in the way of telling your story.

2102848
I think, basically, you were looking for an excuse to cancel, weren't you? You'd stopped having fun with the story and the fact that canon now had its own very different explanation for major stuff than those you had thought up was the reason you've chosen to justify it. Well, as I said before, your prerogative and I'd certainly not want any author to continue with a story they don't want to tell anymore - that way leads to sucky writing.

I just started reading this story... And not that I'm half way thought I find that it was not completed but instead cancled...

And now I am a sad pony.....

:fluttercry::fluttershbad::fluttershyouch::fluttershysad::raritycry::raritydespair::pinkiesad2::unsuresweetie::applecry::applejackunsure::ajsleepy:

I'm gonn a let you know this ENTIRE time i have been waiting on an update and just now found that it was canceled. I feel sad.

But yeah do like some of the others stated just ignore the stuff that happens in the show that you don't want. I don't care and i can tell you I LOVE this story enough that you could turn Celestia into a evil Dictator for a day and i would be fine with it.

Based on the date it was Twilight's Kingdom, what got revealed?

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