Going Wild · 7:04am Aug 17th, 2017
New Chapterette is posted for Joker's Wild. It has been an interesting few weeks and I've got some news, good and bad, but its stuff that has got to happen. Lately, I haven't been feeling as strongly about Fallout Equestria. I've had a falling out with some members of the community and I find I'd make myself unwelcome if I stayed around in those places, but even before that I think I always had something that didn't feel right about Fallout Equestria. It's been a bit suffocating on my personal life. I love sharing my stories, but Fallout Equestria is a niche of a niche, and it limits my social circles. Particularly in Hong Kong, it has been limiting to me. It makes me lose contact with old friends and I clung a little too much to fandom chats rather than seek my strengths. This is a shrinking fandom and it is often a lot of work that sees little in the way of response. I don't think that it is an issue about wanting to write for others and not myself, but Fallout Equestria has always been something I've clashed with. With all of that, I've decided to Joker's Wild.
Alright, that's the tough part. Here's the deal, though... I'm not done with publishing. The end of Ponyville arc is already written up and going through editing. We have two more chapterettes to go, and I think they are really exciting entries. This is really the best time for an ending as it is. The Ponyville arc was always meant to be a sampler of elements throughout the plot, and it will be a fairly satisfying ending without opening up too many new cans of worms. I'd rather end it on a good part than cut the cord in the middle of an adventure. That's not all, either. I plan on writing up a thorough synopsis of where the story was going beginning to end to satisfy your curiosities with the characters. There might be some other publications. I mean, there might be a 32k something about a .5 chapter between Scapegrace and Tumbleweed that got written that needs editing, but I could send in people's direction if they really wanted.
There were many reasons for the story's title, "Joker's Wild", but one of the primary dramatic reasons for it was about defying fate and breaking free an inevitable future to take everything into your hands. In a critical arc, a disheartened Tumbleweed would encounter an amused Discord, who would ensure him that he was never puppet, merely a beast in a cage, and the ultimate gift was freedom from the cage. And that's exactly what is happening to Joker's Wild now. Joker's Wild isn't going to die. No longer bound to the rules and norms of Fallout Equestria, Joker's Wild is going wild, with a new original setting and material.
I had a realization a while ago that many of the most prominent features of Joker's Wild were original enough to stand upon their own legs. My editors and I are working out a brand new original setting for the cast of Joker's Wild that is neither MLP nor Fallout. It will be a home for all Joker's Wild's crazy themes and surreal antics. Tumbleweed is gonna be satyr-esque, Scapegrace is gonna be a crystal phoenix gal, and everything is gonna be a ton of fun.
I know that it is tough when a story ends like this, and I don't expect people to track down the new Joker's Wild when it comes out. I do apologize to the many people who have supported me and this story since the first days of drafts almost 3 years ago. Everybody has been really great, and I really have been glad that so many people gave a chance to a little story about two schmucks in the wasteland calling each other names. I've learned so much during these 3 years of writing and I really want to thank everybody for being there. I'll still be publishing Joker's Wild for a few months. It takes way too long to edit for me, and life is still really busy. The ending is gonna be as exciting as Joker's Wild has ever been.
I'm excited to see any updates really. And if you are making a whole new thing that hasn't been done to death *cough*humansinequestria*cough* I'll read it for sure.
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Its going to be a totally original story. No ponies at all, so it won't even be fit to publish here, unfortunately. When I do get something ready to be published, I will post some links.
Might a standalone ponyless short story come out of it?