3,000 views for Transistance · 3:20pm Jun 11th, 2014
Usually, I don't do view milestones for stories, but I felt I should do one for Transistance. The story and I have a complicated relationship, and I believe the story has the same for many readers. Initially created to be a commentary on religion, the story turned into a commentary on many things and basically an exercise into how much story I could fit into five chapters. It also seemed to be one of my more divisive stories, with people taking a love-it-or-hate-it relationship to it. And I have to say, both the compliments and criticisms, in my vaunted, holy, and perfect opinion (sarcasm, guys) have merits of their own. I think the story has been the most interesting to see the impact on the readers as so many people have taken away so many different things that I have gotten to see Death of the Author (no, I'm not linking to TV Tropes, I won't be responsible for that), the trope in which the author's opinion on their own story is overshadowed by popular opinions and analyses. As someone who is looking forward to becoming an English teacher, it's been exciting.
Interestingly, one of the biggest criticisms of the story seemed to be that it wasn't pony enough, that even Aegis Shield said he loved the writing but that it wasn't really related to MLP. And honestly...yeah, that's pretty accurate. Now, the story was always about MLP for conception through completion, but it was definitely inspired by my latent desire to write a sci-fi noir story, and drew heavily from themes of that genre rather than MLP. While I won't take the story down because of it or even admit it's completely unrelated to MLP, it does give me confidence about a new book I'm writing that will take a lot of ideas from Transistance and use all original characters. I also find it amusing that despite it having, apparently, little to do with MLP, it still became popular and appeared on Equestria Daily.
I think I can say that, overall, Transistance was a ton of fun. I loved writing every bit of it as a homage to some of my favorite sci-fi stories, particularly Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. It was a great time and I especially liked that I was able to use the cover art that inspired the story in the first when I saw it on deviantart. I hope many of you enjoyed reading it, whether from the beginning or after I got a shmuck to put it up on Equestria Daily. Here's to Transistance.
Cheers.
When you do publish it... Link to Amazon? Or B&N page? Or however you sell it, if it's online, link.
Anyway, best of luck! I'll buy it.
I REALLY enjoyed Resistance, and its cover art is one of my favorite pony drawings. In fact, its cover art now sits somewhere down on my userpage with a link back here. Someday I'll read "Out of Time" and "Reach". Carry on!
2198525
I should be able to put it on Amazon still, so I'll link it once it's finished.
I'm actually writing the book with the intent to publish it on my own for the low low price of free so everyone can read it.
2199596 ...So Google Doc link then?
Nah, but... I repeat my previous statement, with an added addition as an addendum.
I'd buy it for sure.
2199613
It'll probably be up on Wattpad, Fictionpress, and as a free Kindle download on Amazon, so no need to buy.
2199619 I still would buy it. *stares into your soooouuuul*
It was a great story. Here's to the milestone!
images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120327221453/mlp/images/f/f1/Pinkie_offering_cider_S2E15.png