Farewell · 4:39am Sep 5th, 2017
It is very apparent that I am not active on this site anymore. The will to watch MLP or write for it has almost fully died. I have tried over the course of months to make myself write, but things aren't looking great. I still have a huge chunk of a chapter to my most recent story written, but it shall never be finished. For anyone interested, I could post it. But other than that, I'm done.
Writing has never been my strong point. Not only is the stuff I write sub par... but I can't stick to most of what I start. But... the stories I told of Spike truly were something special while they lasted. In all honesty, I was trying to milk them as much as possible, because I never did something like that before. It was a huge rush. People loved it, and I was so thankful for that. I'll never forget how great it it was posting those stories. Though now I'd probably cringe a bit if I reread them today... they still hold a special place in my heart.
I'll still be lurking every once in a while, like I am now. I still owe some one some art. I still need to catch up on a.... rather long story. I still want to talk to a couple old pals. But unless I can really get back into the show, I don't think I can get back into making stories for it. I'm sure you all expected this. But I just wanted to make it official.
I just want to add how damn surreal this is. I remember thinking that I'd never tire of MLP. That even if I moved onto other things, it'd still be something I'd come back to it. Now I find myself having to put effort in sticking around. I have no idea how season 7 was, and I not all hyped for any movie like I would've been a short year ago. I miss it. But it can't be helped.
Once more, I'm deeply sorry that I've officially 'died'. But hey, there's like, a 2% chance that I may rise from the dead. So.... that's something.
If you wish to talk to me more frequently, I have a Discord. It's ❅Wrangler❅#9478. Feel free to message me any time. I'm pretty active there ^^
-Wrangle Wolfe
Well, far be it from me to lay judgment on thee for this. I've been well distanced for a while now from the fandom. My only real ties remaining are the likes of Silver Quill and Lily Peet, and random folks about here I like talking to every now and then. Beyond that, I'm just as in the dark about seasons six and seven as you. Maybe I'll fix that sometime via Netflix, but I wouldn't count on it. I just got Hulu, and it has the original Ben 10. My jam hath absorbed me deeply.
And, for what it's worth, your writing was a dang sight better than most I've read. You clearly had a point, a love for your work, and decent grammatical skills. Any story where I don't threaten to bite a red pen clean in half is fine in my book (tee hee!) A bit sad that there's no official conclusion, but I'm far from the sort to make angry letters and demands over this sort of thing. For that, I have headcanon. Hit it, Tom!
"So Dark settled down for a nice nap, woke up to realize it was all a dream, laughed about it with Twilight over pancakes, and life went on. The End."
...I hate the 'it was a dream' excuse. Looking at you, every coma theory ever!
"Man, everyone's a critic."
As always, I'll be floating here or there if I'm ever needed. I'm pretty horrible at reaching out, but I'm easy enough to reach to make up for it. You can count on me when you need a dose of wise internet goofball.
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Keep it fresh, pal-o-mine!
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Thanks so much for all the support you've given me. You've been a large driving force in my writings, and I can't say enough how much I appreciate that. Probably would've never gone as far as I did without you.
Oh, and my stories were still just a tad cringe. Love them and all, but I'm sure I'm a bit better now.I still try to write when I can, and I'm working on a comic to combine both skills.
In the end, I planned that Love's kindness would show Spike that he is cared for, and has support. Spike will stop and, in the end, Discord would erase what happened. Everyone will live on with the memory of being maimed, burning, screaming, running, and Spike destroying their lives. Spike would then decide to isolate himself, keeping contact with the Main 6 and trying to pick up the pieces and patch things up. The land of Equestria would try to rebuild itself. Spike would go down in history as the most horrifying, violent, bloodthirsty villain and be feared by ponykind for years to come. He would accept this as he put this onto himself.
Darkness will die. He will not be needed anymore after the change of events. The true friendship that Love and the other young teens formed with him will have freed that sweet young dragon named Spike that had been forced away by anger, resentment, and pain.
The magic stolen from our goddesses will be returned, though our dear Celestia will be traumatized from the experience of having her horn ripped from her. It will haunt her for many years to come, and she'll become paranoid about her horn, making sure it's there and not just a phantom-limb. Luna and her intelligent manticore partner will take the duty of ruling Equestria, only leaving Celestia with the duty of raising and lowering the sun once she recovered enough to do that task. It pains her, but seeing Spike or any other dragon triggers her anxiety and paranoia, and causes hallucinations/flashbacks. It's a very slow, painful recovery for her.
Twilight is nearly consumed by her sadness and regret, though Spike forgives her, and the rest of their friends. However, other than Luna, her partner, the Main Six, Love, her friends, the CMC, Shining and Cadence... most people fear him and won't bother to try and accept him. Spike accepts this, and lets it go. He has his friends back and they appreciate him more than ever. Though they, like a lot of ponies, aren't free from the trauma they faced. That experience fucked a lot of stuff up for the rest of their life. But they learn to live through it.
It takes decades upon decades for the devastation to blow over. Even then, the gruesome, horrific story of Spike's rage and insanity sends shivers down the backs of ponies, young and old. Discord, has also become a huge hero for partially fixing things in the end. He doesn't want to take the credit, but accepts their praise.
Knowing that he cannot live amongst ponies, Spike decides to live in solitude, in a large cave on the side of a mountain he found, like lots of dragons do. On the foot of the mountain, he has a huge, gorgeous garden he tends to. He sticks to eating the vegetation from it. He will avoid seeing blood as much as possible.
Spike hones his magic skills, using it for communication with his friends and to make sure his secret place remains hidden. The resistance from before is still searching for him, with the intention to kill him so that such a thing can never happen again. The resistance, rather than lessening in numbers with time, actually grows larger, and the hunt for Spike will go on for several years to come. They won't, however, successfully find him.
In the Crystal Empire, word gets around about what happened. While Shining and Cadence wished for the statue of Spike to stay, the Crystal Ponies demanded that it be removed, and thus is was moved to a more secluded area, forgotten with time. Spike would no longer be seen as a hero there. The massacre of thousands of ponies simply ruined it all for them.
Equestria never was quite the same since then. Spike was never completely forgotten. The few ponies still alive after all those years are still not stable. They know he's still out there, alive with the ability to wreak havoc on their land again. Ponies know that their goddesses can be rendered useless from this one dragon. The air of discomfort and paranoia will never fully leave the land.
Love still loves Spike anyway. They remained the closest of friends until her peaceful death.
Well, my summary was kind of close. If you drowned the real version in sugar and whichever Matrix pill made you forget things. But the ripples of such a brutal regime would be rather sour, even with Discord's magic in play. You can't get away scot free with burning the (presumably) largest kingdom/country/ whatever third civilization title applies to the ground. Your mistakes follow you forever, but, if you can pull back in time, they might not completely consume you.
And don't take too much embarrassment out of your first outing into writing. My first few stories were absolutely horrible. I read one of them a few years ago, and then I promptly deleted it, cleansed my hard drive with bleach, and gave my computer the atheist equivalent of an exorcism. I still keep a charm with Edgar Allen Poe quotes on hand incase some paragraphs still linger in the air. Yeah, they were that bad. But, now that I'm past that phase, I have enough confidence in my prose to take a shot at making a publishable novel. I wouldn't mind swapping notes sometime for my book and your comic, you know, a second opinion, but we'd need somewhere that random people can't click into and hijack our ideas wholesale. You know I love me some deep story thinking, so I don't mind lending a hand hammering out ideas if you want it.
Either way, I'm glad I could make your time around here more enjoyable. I can say that it was my years spent reading on this site that inspired me to take a crack at mainstream author stuff as a career, and you played a pretty big part in keeping me coming back. If my plans work out well for me, I know exactly who I have to thank for helping me find the right way. Heh, who knew that what was one of the most imaginatively dead franchises in the early 2000's could bring creative minds together a decade and a half later? Thank goodness for Friendship is Magic, and burn Generation 3 in a ditch.