Becoming Fluttershy · 10:09pm Sep 20th, 2018
That's right.
I posted a new chapter. Now, I know what you're thinking! Why now, Hope? Was it because it was 4 years, 1 month, and 8 days exactly since the last chapter? Was it because you were feeling so Fluttershy-ish that you just had to put up a new chapter? Was it because someone blackmailed you?
None of the above, actually.
I don't know how many of you know what happened to PonyEarthVerse. But what you need to know is this. Dear friends, close to my heart and an integral part of my creative process, were no longer comfortable continuing as we had. I understood. We found ways to move forward on our own, and we all grew from the experience. But I never let go of Fluttershy.
My heart is literally pounding in my chest right now, because I've become somewhat emotional about this.
Fluttershy, and my story about becoming her, not only saved my life and helped guide me in forming my new sense of self, but she has helped me to be reborn again and again, despite failure, fear, or collapse. I've come so very very far.
I'm definitely finishing the story. It might be one chapter a month, maybe less or more. Don't know yet. But it will end. I'm tying my canon to Nanashi Jones' story, as it followed a good medium path of keeping story elements we wanted, while not adhering as tightly to the RP format that caused conflict before. It'll be my take on her story, effectively.
Then, depending on how I'm feeling after all that, I might redo the whole stars-damned thing. Maybe. I've been thinking, a lot, and I don't know if this would take the form of a direct rewrite of the story, or if it would be a new story with similar elements and themes. We shall see.
I hope that you come with me on this journey, wherever it takes us.
Also, check out my newer stories, Prim Rose's redemption and Learning to see Luna. Both are more romance and more focused on two characters than one, but I like sharing them.
Cool. While most of the stories I read in the universe were good but not great, yours was in the upper end of that.
Let's see where this goes.
Oh God it's back! I remember, eighth grade, I stayed up until about 4 AM reading your story. Decided I was too tired for school, forced myself to get sick, and stayed home and read more of this story. That was the only time I had ever intentionally, successfully skipped class. On my last homeroom of senior year, I tried with all my might to skip it, and failed. I couldn't skip homeroom! Ah, memories, gotta love 'em. I remember a friend of mine was sick, again in the eighth grade, and I thought to myself "what if he became Rainbow Dash?"
The other day, I thought about this story in passing, and I guess you could say that after all these years, I never lost Hope.
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I'm legit crying with happiness right now. The idea that someone would be so eager and excited to read my stories is something that I've always wondered, writing. Thank you. I really really hope that my continued writing can bring the same happiness to my readers.
I'm really happy that you managed to come back to this story. It's been a good while and details fail me now, but I look forward to seeing what you do!