Author's Notes for Faded Sun · 8:18am Feb 19th, 2017
Hello and welcome to these extra notes on my latest story, Night Of Faded Sun. As you can imagine, this was an incredibly difficult story to write, and I hope you liked it, or at least didn't hate it. To be honest, I'm scared to have posted it. Follow me, if you'd like, past the jump for more thoughts.
I'm sure someone will get onto me for NOFS being too "self-inserty". They wouldn't be wrong, but I tried my best to keep it in continuity with the two stories it's sandwiched in between.
I hope including that anti-suicide information doesn't make readers think I'm taking things too seriously… even though this is a rather serious story. Whatever, maybe I should have just called this "Random Ramblings CXXXV" instead of Author's Notes, even though that's what it is.
As anyone who's been following my "Random Ramblings" blogs knows, I've had a pretty shitty last several months. I thought I'd be able to handle my girlfriend dumping me after a nearly eight year relationship… and I did, until she hooked up with a guy whom she'd earlier told me to become friends with. That was just under a month ago and it basically sent me over the edge. Aside from Sunset's self-destructive behaviour seen in this story, my only real outlet was to write. The first story I came up with (that hadn't already been planned) was this.
I tried my best to show what a person who feels trapped thinks when they do things that are obviously harmful. I probably failed.
Like it says in the description, this story is part of my "Sunset's Recovery Arc" and is, in fact, why she needs to recover in the first place. So it's kinda important, continuity-wise. Maybe.
Why did I write it in first-person? Because I didn't want to take the omniscient narrator approach. It would have made Sunset's pain seem a lot less "real", I think. I want the reader to really see things from her perspective for once.
Yes, when I lived in a shitty apartment about a decade ago, I really did put my laptop on top of a stack of milk crates if I wanted to use it from my bed. The milk crates still exist -- I use them as a platform for my N64 or my Genesis (depending on which is plugged in at the time).
In case you're wondering, I'm fine. For now. I wasn't earlier today. Like (my) Sunset, I just have to take things one day at a time. Even if most days I spend in bed half-asleep (yay legal drugs).
Oh, and Sunset did in fact learn how to make tea from Celestia. I know Celestia probably has ponies willing to make tea for her, but she seems to me to be the type to have learned a few tricks herself, and would have taught Sunset. Twilight, on the other hand, I think would have ignored the lessons in favour of coffee.
Well, that's all for now. Thank you for reading, and I hope I didn't offend you too much.
Celestia making her own tea for personal/private tea times seems to be a common fanon thing.