The League of Extraordinary Gentlecolts + one Gentlefilly · 9:40am Aug 7th, 2012
Hi everyone!
By now, you'll all have realised I was in on that little project where I was paired with the most excellent Obselesence: both of us wrote stories and uploaded each other's to see what would happen.
First of all, the reason I joined in on this was not because I wanted to trick people. The reason? I was curious! I wanted to see if people could spot my writing style; if people would react differently to a story which was SAD rather than SHIPPING and so on. I found the results pretty interesting.
I loved Obselesence's story, didn't you? There was something so hard to define - a melancholy feeling that I've never been able to capture in my own writing. My stories are always WHAM BANG BIG EMOTIONS kinda deals, but Obselesence is the master of something I struggle to achieve myself - subtlety, Also, his Steven Magnet was amazingly well written.
I hope everyone enjoyed both of our stories: Obselesence's Into the Everfree and my own Fluttershy's Infernal Adventure. If you missed one, jump in and read it RIGHT NOW!
Also, the last part of Much Ahoof is about a week away. Sorry to keep you all waiting!
Butters <3
I think I'm the only person who missed the entire thing, stories and all.
There is an odd lack of comments...
I expected more.
274985 Nope.
Thanks for joining in, was great having you on board!
Thanks for joining in, was great having you on board!
i've said this a couple of times now; you guys (the league) are awesome!
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"There is an odd lack of comments... I expected more."
this is what; the 8th blog post on this or something...
I enjoyed this experiment quite a bit. I think it made its point about people liking stories because they are written by a popular author, at least in my mind. For instance, if Obselesence had posted Into The Everfree himself, I don't even think I would have read it. It has a Sad tag, and I very rarely read sad stories; I simply dislike feeling sad because of a story, but I'll give it a chance if I enjoy the author. But, since it was posted by you, I gave it a chance, and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. I figured it was just you trying out something new, but I never could have expected that it was by a completely different author. And of course, I didn't even read Fluttershy's Infernal Adventure until the whole LOEG thing was revealed, because I had never even heard of Obselesence. It's definitely interesting to see which stories became popular, and which didn't.
Oh, and I can't wait for the finale of Much Ahoof
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It's not just you two; I'm not sure if I should feel disappointed that I missed it or not-sad that I'm not the only one.
I knew something was up when I saw the sad tag. Clever experiment indeed...
This was a very well put together experiment, too bad all of the stories involved are in my RILL (read it later list) with about another 130+ stories...
Gah! Damn! Spoiler!
275403 499 for me dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Twilight_Sparkle.png
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Mine might be at least that big, if I hadn't decided to go through and actually read most of mine about a month ago.
276192 It's at 502 now dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_RageFace.png
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You know what you have to do...
Ignore it, that's what it's there for.
276366 Oh, 502. I see what you did there
miss sundae, is this a real group?