HMSS Epilogue: It's Finally done! ....Now what? · 1:19am Jul 11th, 2014
The Epilogue of Her Majesty's Secret Service is now up for consumption, and with that, I finally officially declare this fic "complete" after two years. God I'm slow sometimes. I hope everyone who's still around enjoys it.
So now that that's done...what's next?
Well, I have a few projects ahead of me I'm looking to write. In no particular order:
1: Get back to work on "Growth Spurts." This one's pretty obvious and is probably first in line.
2: Sequel to "Purely Scientific Interest." Will probably be longer than the original but shorter than HMSS.
3: Other unrelated Sparity-shipping ideas. I seriously have like three of them floating around in my head wanting to get out.
4: A fic specifically dedicated to exploring the workings and mechanics of a culture/society with a well-defined mating season, and everything that entails. Well, it entails sex, obviously, but the idea would be to explore more than just that: how does it change their day to day lives, how do different ponies approach it, how involved is the governing body, how thorough is the school system in educating young ponies about it, etc etc etc. I actually started this fic already as a collaboration with Ariamaki months and months ago, but it fell to the back burner as we both ended up focusing more heavily on individual projects. I'm hoping to resurrect it though, with a little reworking for updated canon.
5: This one's a big maybe, but there was a fair bit of interest in seeing a bonus chapter to HMSS featuring Luna after her return from the moon, in which she too is in need of some attention in the same vein as her sister, and calls upon.....somepony, to help her. Dunno who exactly, there are a variety of candidates, but there's a fair chance this one might happen someday.
Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks for reading, everyone!
--CG
Wootness! Wootness everywhere!
Number 4 certainly sounds interesting.
I vote 1.
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Any and all of that sounds awesome, particularly the first two.
Yes please.
And even more yes for this one.
My god. Has it really been that long since this story began?!
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1. Huzzah for more gender bending AB!
2. This will be a fun one to read.
3. I've only heard two, how dare you keep your story ideas from me.
4. Okay, with my love & knowledge on sociological worldbuilding, how is this the first time I'm hearing about this? I will be quite hurt if I don't get to help out with this idea.
5. This could be neat, but I'd make it it's own 1-shot story and set it as a sequel to HMSS because while the idea is intriguing, I don't know how well it would fit in the flow of the original story even as just a bonus chapter.
It’s pretty clear that particular task would fall to Shining Armor. You think him being in charge of organizing the Equestria Games was just because he was a prince? Three alicorns. He spends the entire three months until the season starts training at ten times normal thrusting just so his body can take it. He trains so much that the sub-captain has its own spell levels.
I'm definitely looking forward to 4. World-building that extrapolates societal traits from biological foundations is always fascinating.
Unlike the odd golden glow from a certain sun princess, Luna has a decidedly different effect on those she is close with. Where did you think bat ponies came from?
4, 5, 2, 3. In that order exactly. Four is going to be the hardest IMO. You need to explain and examine things properly, rather that just give some BS handwave that allows ponies to buck like bunnies with anypony and everypony and still be OK. I've read several where it was attempted. And most sadly fail. Hard. I have high expectations for you. I also have a torture kit. Good luck.