Random Ramblings CCLXXXIV · 3:29am Jun 23rd, 2018
IN WHICH I PONDER LIFE
While I'm doing that, enjoy this live performance by Ladybaby. It's… a bit raw.
Anyway, I want to talk about fictional relationships and food past the jump. Shall we?
Even though Recovery landed on the M-filtered-out Featured Box for about two hours, it still didn't get a lot of readers. Most of the ones who did read it were upset at how I ended it... or rather, how I didn't end it.
Many were upset that I didn't end the series with a romantic hookup. For those who followed this storyline for over two years expecting a romantic resolution, I'm sorry. However, that was NEVER the point of Sunset's Recovery Arc. EVER. I've even mentioned in earlier blogs I see Sunset as almost asexual and she was faking it with Flash. I won't rule out a sexy side-story though.
This puts me in a bind -- How much should I bow to the wishes of my readers versus me writing what I want how I want? I'm not good at romance -- if I was, maybe I'd still have a girlfriend and not be a pathetic loser laying in bed most days while my mother sits in the next room watching the news, yelling at the TV because the current cabal running America's government is essentially a gang of cartoon villains.
I am 100% satisfied with Sunset's Recovery Arc. Ultimately, I guess that's what really matters.
I'm moving on.
I took a walk in the park yesterday to get some exercise after a long period of not doing that, and also to try and suss out Sonata's character in my brain. It's been so long since I've written her or seen Rainbow Rocks. I was going through what lines of hers I could remember to see how I could re-integrate her canon personality (ditz) with what I need her to do (get job). It's currently all floating around my brain right now trying to piece itself into a narrative. I tried writing her monologue but didn't like it so I'm probably gonna have to scrap it and start over again.
One problem is that, in most Burritoverse stories, the POV character compares their life or interests to a burrito. I only have a vague idea of how to do that with Sonata. She's the only character besides Sunset who gets more than one inner-rant, and she's got a lot on her mind besides food -- I might elaborate more on this in the inevitable Author's Notes, but she's basically forced to question the past eleven or more years of her life and what she was taught to believe.
I have no intention of "redeeming" Sonata -- if she really needs redemption at all, she'll do it herself just like Sunset did in canon.
This is why I love the Dazzlings so much. Their characters have so much untapped potential that it would be crazy not to explore them. I'm pretty terrible at writing more than two people in a scene together, so I've decided to explore their personalities apart.
I already know what's going to happen in the long term with Adagio and Sonata. Still haven't figured out Aria yet. Maybe a short story where she wanders into the posh part of the city and they find out she's the one who killed Donald Trump Orangeglow so they become an angry but very rich mob and she ends up fleeing to Equestria? I don't know. It would certainly be interesting to see what Sunset would say upon meeting Aria when she finally goes back to Equestria.
Oh, oops. Did I just spoil something? Not really. Sunset's return is an inevitability. I've refused to watch the special where she canonically returns and meets up with Starlight, because I already had Sunny's return outlined in 2015. I can certainly alter it to add Starlight and any other characters as I deem fit so long as it doesn't disrupt the basic structure of what I've planned. Anyway, that clusterfuck of a story will carry the AU tag anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
The Burritoverse is a "Perpendicular Universe" (thank you Sonic Comics) that intersects with many other of my continuities that would not otherwise mesh. It is the one and the everything. All is about the burrito.
I'm slowly losing my mind from loneliness.
Rarity will kiss Sunset. Rarity has murdered Sunset. Sunset is destined to be alone forever, just like me. Sunset is me. I'm a horrible writer because even though I try my hardest to keep her in-character, Sunset as I write her is nothing more than a pathetic genderswapped self-insert. Readers tell me they love how I write her. I appreciate that SO much, but I only write what I know. And that's not writing; it's just shitting letters onto a computer screen.
With the Burritoverse, I have to write about what I don't know, and it requires research. Really random research. Like looking up photos of the cutting room of a butcher shop, or the various layers of a road or the composition of a brick, or creative ways to curse.
Anyway. That's all for tonight. I need to learn to brain better and barf words good.
Peace out!
Sunset's not alone forever. She has friends. And you can get physical affection from friends too.
Provided they don't live far away from you like most of my best friends. :P
I'm gonna send you a message.