Name change & 'Illumination' followup

So I've decided that, regardless of the fact that I have a grand total of two followers, I'mma start doing blog posts after I post a story (admittedly, this one is fairly belated, but it still counts in my book). And, as I fully intend to post more stories, this trend should hopefully continue.

First though, I've changed my name here. I'm now WaferThin. This is because I fully acknowledge that the name "Galapagois" sounds positively ridiculous, and reminiscent of a certain string of islands.

Besides, WaferThin sounds cooler, and is easier to remember as an author's name.

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On to the follow-up part. I fully intend to write one of these after each fic that I publish, to maybe help explain the message behind a story, or why I bothered writing it anyway. Heaven knows that I'd prefer people to work it out for themselves, but being an English Literature student, I know full well that self-interpretation can lead to idiocy. I refuse to believe that any author wants people to read so much into stories which have such clear messages.

But anyway.

'Illumination' was really just a teeth-breaker. I asked my brain to come up with something simple, something I could throw together, and this is what it came back to me with. I didn't do any major revisions, or set myself a word limit, or really put any planning into it. I just set out with a basic idea and let my fingers do the rest, leaving it to end where it may.

Considering that the basic idea I started off with was just "a fic where Pinkie thinks about emotions and stuff, but for once her hair doesn't immediately deflate", I think I did fairly well. Seriously, I get so tired of reading a story that has her hair immediately straighten the second any serious emotions come into play.

I will concede that there was a slight change as I was writing it; originally it was a fairly straight forward "Pinkie has feelings for a specific pony, but her nature as Pinkie Pie means she can't trust those feelings" plot - the idea was just to explain, as I felt it would be, how a character like Pinkie would respond to the sudden appearance of such emotions. As I was writing it, though, I decided that really, this could be ANY pony Pinkie was thinking about, so I opened it up a little. Hopefully, I wrote it in a way that means you can insert your own desired shipping partner into the story, and you won't lose anything.

Well, so long as it's a mare. That part I kept in, because mane 6 shipping > all other ships.

I'm pretty happy with how it ended. I've had a couple ideas knocking around in my head since starting it, ways to continue this little journey, but I'm not sure if I'll ever get them written. I've got several more things I want to try before then...