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Rao the Red Sun


Ph.D. in procrastination and occasional writer of pony stories.

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  • 221 weeks
    Ot No, It's WriteOff Time

    The sun, moon, stars, and hearts of all WriteOffTopia have aligned in a never before seen triple helix shape, finally allowing the Dread Prompt "Ot" to escape its prison beneath the long forgotten dreadwaves. So, if you want a chance to write some silly or serious or

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  • 230 weeks
    Happy New Year!

    And more importantly to me because calendar breakpoints are functionally arbitrary: new story going up soon. Soon-ish, it's in queue, however long that takes. Nothing too fancy or too long, just a mildly expanded version of one of my recent WriteOff entries.

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  • 241 weeks
    Fin

    I self banned myself from FimFic until I could get around to watching the finale. Of course, I had to watch all of season 9 first, so it took me a while. I had nearly 60 notification to go through and, full disclosure, I kind of skimmed them because...

    My heart hurts. I physically ache.

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  • 252 weeks
    BronyCon: The Final Frontier

    I'm not going! Woo!

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  • 307 weeks
    WriteOff Shill: Redux: Artlectic Bugaboo

    So, it's about that time again. Figure I'd plug the WriteOff event before it actually got started this time. Seems helpful. Anyway, this is one of our odd rounds, called "pic2fic." Instead of writing a story based on a prompt, we'll be having art submissions based on the chosen prompt and then writing our stories based on one (or more) pieces of the submitted art.

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Sep
19th
2017

New Story: Crucible of Stars · 6:16pm Sep 19th, 2017

Good morning, fellow orbiting bodies. I wrote a thing and it's neat. Kinda weird and fluffy and a little purple, and honestly it could probably use some work still, but what can't, really? I had fun making it and preliminary opinions tell me at least 40% of readers survived initial exposure.

It was inspired by a late night conversation on the Writeoff Discord chat with Light Striker (something about neutron stars and The Lion King), so big thanks to her for being awake at the same screwed up hours I used to be.

I also did the art myself, so that's a first. (Apologies to Emerald Flight: I know we talked about it, but I was feeling creative and kinda wanted to try my hand at things.) And by "did the art" I mean "found a decent picture and put some Photoshop paint on top of it," because that's my skill level at present. Still more advanced than "screen capture from an episode," so I feel good.

Hope you enjoy it.

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I'll need to be in a better state of mind to reread it properly, probably, but I'm a bit chuffed that this actually got published. Thanks for writing. :twilightsmile:

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