Partially written fics and outlines, free to a good home · 4:19am Oct 10th, 2014
Here’s the deal: I write a lot. I just don’t write a lot on any one project. In my 2+ years in the fandom, I’ve accumulated probably over a hundred half-finished projects.
Most of them aren’t much more than a concept and a couple of paragraphs. Some of them are things that I might get back to one day, if I’m in the mood. (This actually does happen. The current fics I’m working on are ideas that I started over a year ago.) But sometimes I wrote something and really have to admit that I’m probably never going to use it. And sometimes it’s outlined or written in such a way that you could probably follow it as it is.
So I’m offering some of those to you lovely people. If you’re looking for a fic idea, here are some that are fully developed, even partially written, and waiting for you to finish them up and post them to your account to reap the internet fame that comes with them. This is not to say that they don't have problems-- several are controversial subjects or takes on a subject, some have pacing or focus issues and might need to be reworked.
I do have some ground rules:
· If you claim a fic, you are invited to use anything I’ve written for it, or to totally disregard everything I’ve written, or anything in between. Feel free to make the fic your own in any way you like.
· If you use one of these and you don’t alter it drastically, I’d like it if you toss me some credit for it. Whether it’s as an “idea by” or co-author depends on your view and how much you used of my actual writing, but since I did do some of the work I feel like it’s fair to ask for a mention.
· I’m happy to answer questions about what I was thinking and read over a draft, but I’ve done all the writing on these I plan to do. Don’t expect me to be adding more scenes or anything.
· Claim them in the comments of this post. Claims will be honored in order they hit the site, so look first to make sure the one you want is still free, and don’t forget to refresh if you’ve been hemming and hawing.
One-shots in various stages of completion (warning: Most of these contain scenes of unattributed dialogue, which is how I usually write drafts. If you aren’t sure who’s talking, feel free to make it up, or ask me.):
Claimed. Help -- TwiJack/Comedy -- Applejack and Twilight are having a nice, quiet lunch date. Or rather, they’d like to be having a nice quiet lunch date, if their friends could take care of their own problems for one afternoon.
Claimed. Operation: Hearts and Hooves -- Flarity & AppleDash/Comedy -- Rarity decides that Applejack’s Hearts and Hooves day present for Rainbow Dash isn’t romantic enough. Fluttershy decides the same thing about Rainbow Dash’s present for Applejack. They each set out to help their friends, but find that romance doesn’t work the same way for everypony.
Claimed. Untitled RariJack -- Romance -- When Rarity is at the end of her rope in need to an emerald to finish an order, Applejack comes through with the only one to be had in the town or surrounding countryside. But Rarity recognizes it, a gift she gave Applejack long ago, when they were fillies and Rarity was unable to decide what her feelings for Applejack were. Knowing that Applejack kept it all these years makes her reconsider.
Untitled RariJack Vacation -- Romance/Comedy -- For Rarity and Applejack’s first vacation together, Applejack has agreed to look after a relative's farm, but she won’t tell Rarity exactly where.
Outlines:
Town and Country -- AppleDash/Comedy -- The mane six are invited to a week at Fancy Pants’ country estate. Applejack and Rainbow Dash are faced with a whole mess of fancy pony rules, and need to do their best to follow them to help Rarity. (subplots include a romance between an OC noble and OC housemaid, and Pinkie running a spy ring with all the children at the estate.)
Opposite Expectations -- Romance -- Applejack and Rainbow Dash make a bet over who would be the best marefriend. So they grab Rarity and Fluttershy respectively, and try to out-do each other, but they find love isn’t that easy when it’s with the wrong pony.
Fillyfooler -- Slice of Life -- Applejack thought her friends knew she was gay, but it turns out she was wrong. When they find out, Applejack has to reel in several different kinds of crazy.
Applejack Harem Thing -- Romance -- Set years in the future, Twilight has been living in Canterlot, but she returns to Ponyville to find out why all of her friends have moved to Sweet Apple Acres to be part of what the Canterlot ponies are calling “Applejack’s Herd.”
Finally, this is nowhere near all of the stuff I have that I'm not going to use, this batch was just the most organized and thought out. Maybe in the future I'll make a post with bits and pieces if people are interested, but in the mean time if you're looking for an idea for a certain genre and characters, and it sounds like something I might write, feel free to ask me. I might have something I can offer.
Operation Hearts and Hooves looks interesting. I'd like to claim it.
Operation Hearts and Hooves and Fillyfooler are both marked as private.
Also, it is interesting to see how your stories are outlined. They are... very different from my own outlines.
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Sorry about that. Both are open now...
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You can take a look at Operation Hearts and Hooves, and let me know if for some reason you change you mind.
Gosh, Help seems awfully close to finished. I laughed at it. And I should have seen how it all came together coming.
2522564 It looks really good, I don't think I'm going to change too much. Can I have it? Would you like to be a pre-reader for when it's finished. I promise to credit you in the description.
Bookplayer, I think you're addicted to lesbian shipping.
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Absolutely. Go for it.
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You have no idea.
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It is close, it's just been sitting that way for over a year and a half. I figure if someone else wants to try it, they're probably going to finish it before I would. And if no one is interested, well, maybe someday I'll write the rest.
Glad you liked what's there, though!
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), so I could totally take a shot at polishing it off next if you'd be willing.
Really, I love that thing. I really want to see it done. So, yeah, if you don't mind, I'd be willing to try and take a shot at it. I've actually got the two stories (Dawn and Dusk) that I posted about the other day in my blog nearly done ahead of schedule (well, they're almost ready to go to editing - turns out my main foe is, indeed, lack of external motivation
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Sure, go for it!
D'aww, that 1st RariJack one.
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Tempted to claim it.
Augh! I really like the AJ harem, but I have too many things going already to even think about picking up yet another one.
None of these sound controversial :-\
I'm puzzled
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Well, here were some of the thoughts I had:
The only one controversial in a traditional sense is Fillyfooler, and even there I could only really see anyone complaining about Dash's behavior-- it's kind of making fun of a certian kind of bi person. But bats and I (both of whom are bi) agreed that we've known enough people who were bi and acted like that, so it hopefully other bi people would get it.
Other things aren't controversial politically, but in terms of fic writing. Rarity's behavior in Fillyfooler would be hard to paint as something AJ would misread as homophobic without getting lots of angry comments from people who didn't finish the darn fic about how she would never be homophobic.
Opposite Expectations is pretty harsh on RariJack and FlutterDash-- two fairly popular ships.
The harem fic, well... Not only is that a subject that some people dislike, but I can also see people taking issue with Applejack's depiction at the center of it. One person who read it accused me of making AJ a saint, though my argument there is that it just revolves around one of Applejack's good qualities (her stability.)
None of that is insurmountable, but people who are sensitive to criticism might want to avoid those.
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I think you'd do it well. It wouldn't lose anything by being humanized, I think. I had intended to end it with Rarity finally asking Applejack out, and deciding on a kind of nostalgic date-- asking her out for ice cream or something.
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Hell. If nobody else takes it, I'll step up to plate, then. Figure I can tweak it a hair and call it kosher.
2522678 DO IT FILLY!
2522704 I... I thought Saint Applejack was common knowledge?
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I don't have time for another something of that scope.
bookplayer would probably get it done before I would, and you'd be no better off.
I'm sorely tempted to claim Opposite Expectations... I had an idea for an AppleDash similar to it the other day (granted, it started with AppleDash already established and them trying to out-do each other as marefriends), but I really do like this one and would like to see it finished.
Hrm... choices... I'll check back later today when I'm more awake and have had a chance to think it over. If it isn't claimed by then, I might snag it.
Is it just me or does the Applejack's Harem thing sound eerily similar to Jim Jones-esque cult sort of thing? I know that's not what it's supposed to be, but that's what the description sounds like. Actually ... I might have to write a story like that. Thanks for the unintentional inspiration. I would take one of these fine story concepts if I wasn't so tied up in my own at the moment.
I hope folks inform you when these finish and you keep us posted too. i'd love to see what folks do with these bits and bobs.
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I had noticed that, though to be fair that's a problem that I have with any fic where the mane six are all romantically involved with each other, no matter the combinations.
That being said, it would be easy to make that go away in the writing, or to play it up. I think it all comes down to how in-character and normal you write the scenes where they're hanging out together.
oh my god bookplayer I'm tearing up
you did it
you wrote the omniship fic
you wrote the omniship fic and it's beautiful
this is revolutionary
thank you so much
Also, I really like Town and Country. I wish I had the time (and skill!) to make good on these outlines... Hopefully someone else does!
Disclaimer: I'm explicitly not claiming anything.
Kid spy rings are best spy rings.
Fillyfooler sounds interesting. I'm going to have to come back, and watch whoever claims it. I have Views on that topic y'see...
Gonna officially call "dibs" on that first Rarijack work, pal. I've decided it'll be a nice sister piece to the one-shot I wrote where AJ's the instigator of the relationship.
and I swear, somebody better get that second RariJack one a good home too. It has the potential to be fun, but good grief I can't spread myself too thin.
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All yours!