Freeport Venture 2 is off to the Pre-Readers

More Sunset Shimmer adventures to look forward to. Yay.

After that will be a new installment in "Tales from the Phoenix Empire." Expect to see Applejack and the Ministry of Heart.

Comments

[Ver0Nightmare]

Yay! More Sunset!

[BronyWriter]

But... I thought I was a pre-reader...

[Chengar Qordath]

2448554
You are, I just stopped to make a snack between the blog post and actually sending out the e-mails.

[JaketheGinger]

2448554

No, you're fanfic sins guy.

And we love you for it.

[Chaosreverent]

oh applejack, hopefully she is working at and not a target of the ministry

[BronyWriter]

2448571 BTW, I'm taking a history of classical Greece and Rome class now. After our lectures on Sparta... man, I'm getting so much more little details of TLR.

[Chengar Qordath]

2448638
Yeah, Pegasopolis picked up a fair number of Spartan influences, and terms, though I didn't just copy-and-paste it all.

[Capacitor]

Ministry of Heart

miniheart doubleplusgood
prole reteach go planwise
ESS dayorder: crimestop dep pluswork

EDIT:
Translation for oldspeakers and other crimethinkers:
The Ministry of Heart is very, very good.
The re-education of the populace is going as planned.
The daily order issued by Empress Sunbeam Sparkle is for the Department of Crime Prevention to work extra hard.

[punzil504]

2448711

OMG, SS = total QTπ **//

I no srsly right? I'd def tap dat flank.

[Capacitor]

2448854
I was referencing George Orwell's novel 1984 by writing a few sentences in the fictional, English-derived language newspeak, in the style of the intra-ministerial communication appearing in said novel. I did this to highlight the perceived parallel between 1984's Ministry of Love and the Ministry of Heart from 'Tales from the Phoenix Empire' and, by extension, a possible parallel between the totalitarian Oceania and Equestria under Sunbeam Sparkle.

While its intentional, almost staccato-like brevity may resemble modern-day internet slang, newspeak is in fact several decades older and has nothing to do with that.

Since you seem to have misunderstood my comment, I will edit it to make it more comprehensible for those not acquainted to Orwell's work.

[punzil504]

2448881

I was aware of your reference. IMHO, textspeak is just as bad as duckspeak (what Miniluv hoped language would eventually evolve into).

[Capacitor]

2448887
Ah, I see.
As I share your opinion on textspeak (and I'm totally calling it that from now on), I hope you can forgive me for reacting a bit, uh, wordy to a comment composed of what I now see is a parody of it.
Still, thank you for preventing possible misunderstandings.

[lordofmyth]

...... not sure what to say. the sunset shimmer story is a rather itnersting alternate story.
the phoenix story....... I do not know what to think about it. guess I am not sure what you are going with it. is her society going to fall apart and need help because of her own flaws, or is this supposed to be supposedly better than celestia? it is pretty unclear and I am not certain about it...... and yoru character is borderlining mary su with that whole tartarus thing.

there is being genre savvey, and then there is reading the script. somehow thinking the hell dimension guarded by the powerful hellhoud is a liability is script reading.

[JenkinsRevenge]

sexi

That is all. Equestria is ours.