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Tatsurou


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  • 30 weeks
    Boosting For a Friend

    Despite my writing, I'm not too good with my words when it comes to talking about real problems, except when it flows naturally. As such, since nothing seems to be coming now, I'm just going to post a relative link.

    https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1021097/one-of-my-good-friends-needs-some-help

    Please take a look, and at the links in that post. Thank you.

    1 comments · 344 views
  • 103 weeks
    I probably won't actually write this, but...

    ...I had this funny idea for a Pokemon story that derived entirely from the title

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    24 comments · 1,516 views
  • 117 weeks
    A Look into my Mind, or, where my story ideas come from

    A lot of people - both on this site and on the other sites I post stories to - have asked where I get the ideas for my stories from, especially the crossovers...because the ideas seem so odd yet work so well when I write them. After a weird dream I had this morning, I think I can demonstrate just how odd it would be to try to explain it...so I thought I'd summarize it here to the best of my

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    9 comments · 1,090 views
  • 155 weeks
    Trying to Find a Story

    There's this one story I really liked that I went to look for recently that didn't turn up in the search, and I was hoping someone could either help me find it or tell me what happened.

    The story was called "Render Unto Twilight", and according to its TvTropes page, it was written by user McCoda...who I also can't find.

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    36 comments · 2,664 views
  • 156 weeks
    What happened to the Woods?

    A while back when RPs were outlawed here on fimfiction, a lot of my friends from the RP group I belonged to moved to an MLP focused RP site called Whitetail Woods. Some of my closest friends have been there ever since, but recently the site went down for Maintenance and hasn't been up since. Does anyone know anything about what happened? If you do, please let me know, or if you can see what

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Sep
15th
2014

Bloody Youtube... · 11:25pm Sep 15th, 2014

Those of you enjoying "Sparkle In His Eye" are likely eagerly awaiting the next chapter. Well, I've actually started working on the chapter, but I've hit a snag.

There's one point where I want to insert the actual video from the game of the first Infobot displaying its message - actually, I'm thinking of using Youtube links for each Infobot - but I can't find it anywhere except as part of gameplay videos, and I can't figure out how to create a link to just play part of a video.

This is the best video I've found so far, and I need the segment from 8:19 to 9:24.

Could anyone possibly either make that segment its own video or figure out how to properly crop it for me and provide a link? I'd be really grateful if you could.

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Comments ( 4 )

While it is possible to link to a specified time index in a video, it's not possible to link to just a segment of a video. I downloaded the video and re-uploaded the trimmed version onto my own account as an unlisted video and I'll PM you the link. (Unlisted videos don't appear in recommendations or search results, you can only find them if you have the url.)

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Thank you very much. I can finish the chapter now!

Word of advice: using Youtube videos in a story is considered lazy by most and is frowned upon.

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In this case, I'm using the video to cover a segment where the characters are literally watching a video, and showing the video they are watching. Not only is there literally no change from the games in those segments - and I'll be focusing my writing on where things have changed - but it would be pointless and close to impossible to convey the video in story based writing.

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