Sepia Tock, the clockmaker of Ponyville constantly being confused with the fictitious Doctor Whoof, finds himself in an awkward situation when he loses his closest friend.
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Luna, eh?
Oh, this should be good.
Okay, aside from you putting "are" instead of "our" in a certain spot and your lack of the use of a tab key--which by the way, is your friend!--this was well written. I can't wait for more...
... Now that that's out of the way-
WOOOOHOOOO! MORE SEPIA TOCK!
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will go fix the 'our/are' problem, and i have my word document with a hanging tab feature, and am too lazy go tab things.
also fixed it over on fanfiction.net
Oh, oh! How does it taste to get all four hooves stuffed into your muzzle, Sepia?
I loved Trixie turning him down there. You go, girl!
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: really, you said that, sepia? hmm...
: oh, look at the time, i'm afraid this interview's over. have a nice day.
i wish the opening was as well written as the trixie/sepia scene. i fear it's all rather contrived. hopefully i'll do better with the next few chapters.
Aside from the few spelling errors, this is a fantastic story. I look forward to reading more.
YES! It's back!
Sepia's not worried about losing the duel, he doesn't have a store anymore anyway
I don't feel the beggining is contrived at all, actually. We all know Sepia has a severe case of Hoof-in-mouth Disease
It's good to see more Sepia Tock, but I have a few technical concerns:
– Only one line-break between paragraphs makes your writing very hard to read. The FIMFiction story editor has a button that will automatically indent your paragraphs for you – it's right next to "Center Align". With one click, you can make this much less wall-texty.
– Your dialogue punctuation needs work. Somehow I didn't notice that in the original, but it's really hitting me here. Fortunately, I have a handy-dandy guide on just that subject for you to read! Click here!
– On the whole the chapter could use a proofreading pass. Typos abound.
Not even Serpia can match the power of Fluttershy's Stare.
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your comment that you shouldn't put a period in the quotations before a 'said tag' is wrong. if they finished the sentence, there is a period. it's how grammar works. at least, in the US. though your use of the term 'full stop' implies we may be dealing with separate grammar rules.
the advice for actions tag is a stylistic issue.
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Action tags... I'm fairly certain that people did used to punctuate them with commas at some stage. It's old-fashioned, but I'll give it to you.
The period before a said tag thing, though: look in a book. Look in any book and you'll see that I'm right. I know that there are differences between American and Commonwealth spelling and quotation mark placement, but this is one of the things we have in common.
Links: [1] [2]
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checked the first book in sight.
I Shall Wear Midnight by Sir Terry Pratchett.
and it seems you are correct. still, you've annoyed me, so i shall rant.
never, ever link me to a grammar guide you wrote yourself. it screams self-righteousness and passive aggression. i will accept grammar advice, provided you are polite, concise, and not using it to promote your own work. if i want to consult a grammar guide, i will find a trustworthy one on my own.
sorry if i'm being overly harsh, but you've hit a few of my pet peeves: passive aggression, self-righteousness, and complaining about typos/grammar mistakes [and didn't point any out so i can fix them / in a piece of fanfiction i'm doing for giggles]. i want to improve as a writer, i really do, but i refuse to heed to someone who talks down to me. in text only formats, you only really have word choice to determine tone. using 'handy-dandy' makes you seem like a cultist trying to slip a brochure into my hand, and i do not appreciate that.
this is far from a professional piece, so please take breath, and say to yourself 'it's only a fic. i should really just relax'.
so, unless i've made a mistake that is preventing you from understanding the story, i will heed your correction no mind. that's my policy with fanfiction.
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I apologise. I posted out of a desire to be helpful, but you're right, I could have and should have used more tact. As for linking to my own guide, well, that's why I wrote the guide, so that I could link people to stuff instead of retyping the same explanations, but then again, the first result in a google search for "dialogue punctuation" does an apt job of that as well, so that probably would have been a better choice.
I can PM you a list of the typos I noticed if you'd like.
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thank you for apologizing and understanding, and sorry if i jumped down your throat over it. nice to see someone trying to take the high road.
Cute story and I hope it continues.
As well I'm overjoyed to see a polite conversation on a touchy topic in comments. Bravo to both of you for being willing to be civil.
Hurrah an update! Ooh sympathies to Sepia though I confess I did get a huge giggle out of his tics syncing up to time.
Also it's artisan not artesian. An artesian is a type of well
Also I refuse to acknowledge my position!
Good chapter; poor Sepia, poor Colgate/Minuette.
Yay! More!
Although I will complain about that last test. Selling a clock to a random pony has quite a lot of variables that are hard to take account for.
E.G the colt might've gone with Colgate because she's female. He also might've gone with her because he was already introduced to the idea of buying a clock by Sepia. And was put off too much by his twitch.
Oh well, that's capitalism for you.
Poor Sepia.
I love this chapter. The Prattchet jokes came thick and fast, I love the whole Bit with Cuckoo and the Lotus Resteraunt and oh, what else? Oh yeah. I got a cameo yay yay Whoo squee huzzah Yattah and a whole bunch of other hyperactive noises of happiness :pinkiegrin: :pinkiegrin: :pinkiegrin: It feels weird, being filled with glee for myself when I'm also sad about Poor Ol' Sepia is loosing his home.
Not much sympathy with Sepia. He brought it upon himself, there. And hmm, I wonder if he's gone for good or coming back... time will tell.
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oh, good, some one has been noticing the discworld references. those things find themselves all over the place, and i was worried they weren't being appreciated. (i mean, the main source of conflict in the first one was just a slight variation of 'thief of time', after all.)
and yes, you got a nod. i can't do much, but i do try to show appreciation for the people whose [ideas/work] i [borrow/steal].
844802 Good artists borrow, Great Artists steal
-T. S. Elliot-Steve Jobs-Lordlyhour :P I rather like the fact you actually checked my repository of rants for the shoutout (if you didn't you are disturbingly good at picking coincidental topics) Some more stuff I like: The Calloused, Speech Impeding Tounges Line. I looked at it and there was a small spark ofunderstanding there. I saw a joke and, after several seconds, ir came to light. And I was all like; WUT A TWEESTA finely crafted work of literature my friend,
I especially liked the part with me in it.
Keep up the good work!
I kinda feel sorry for Sepia though.
Interesting. One wonders if the clock shop is cursed or something, that ponies who've known Colgate all their lives are getting a bit silly around her. Does that mean, perhaps, that Sepia Tock isn't being called Doctor Whooves?
Sepia could stop people from calling him the Doctor by saying he loves Daleks
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yet his dad never got called doctor whoof
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i'm not sure he's that aware of the mythos.
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So... is this just for the authorial lulz, or is there any sort of reason behind the ponies acting like this?
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the way i see it, the old doctor (sepia) vanished, and a new pony is suddenly running his shop. i doubt the ponies of ponyville really pay that close attention to the actual buisness ends of the clockshop, and assumed the multifaced time lord got a new face.
also, i need a way to get to end of the chapter, and colgate suddenly being thrown into the role seemed appropriate.
also, i thought it'd be funny.
This chapter was hilarious.
Derpy not wanting a muffin!
I smell changeling. 
Braggy but relatively good intentioned Trixie is best Trixie! I loved pretty much every scene with her. Especially...
“You sure it wasn’t an Ursa Minor?” Trixie asked, “They’re easy to confuse.”
“I tried my best, but I kind of chickened out before I got to the library, and spent my time at a newsstand.”
and
“Must you refer to yourself indirectly? It’s quite tacky,”
As for Colgate. Poor, poor Colgate. Bad enough she doesn't know where to get more supplies or her disastrous journey through the Everfree. But nearly every pony in town thinking she's the Doctor. Despite the fact that she's been his assistant for how long now?
Twilight is right. Every pony in the town IS crazy.
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well his friends who don't confuse him with the Doctor could know
1077670 Yeah, you've pretty much covered it.
Yeesh, poor Colgate.
Whee! here's to updates moustaches for all!
Ahem.
Okay, under control now. i'm really liking how this story is shaping up. From the characters and the callbacks to previous chapters (The Mayor's clock) and to the inner workings of the clock shop. Definitely looking forward to more.
Glad to see Trixie being presented well, here. :) Also... I think the clock shop's got a curse on it. Yeah, curse.
I'm glad your continuing, Sepia Tock. I like him better than Doctor Whooves.
Sepia, why?
Excellent chapter.
Colgate... HA-HA!
How does she not know where she can get parts? She worked there for a long time, I can understand if Sepia did all of the orders, but still, how come he never taught his apprentice how to order more supplies? 
Keep up the good work. 
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we're talking about a pony who never noticed colgate's actual name is minuette. he has his habits, and he fails to notice the little things.
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i knew i kept you around for a reason. that's thing's perfect!
Pleasure to see an update, hope things haven;t been too hectic?
You know, I wouldn't put it past the Cutie Mark Crusaders to accidentally destroy the gates to Tartarus somehow.
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yea, i've been recovering from a terrible work experience.
sorry for the tardiness of this chapter.
1366943 Pfft no apologies needed. Glad to hear you've escaped said terrible experience.
I loved the discworld reference there
Well, hope things are doing better for you.
Also, Sepia's got a right to be cheesed off. A person's identity is sometimes all they have in this world. It's not something to muck about with.
Wahay, an update! an Update I missed due to being way behind on my Fic reading, so it was buried beneath all the other updates!
Oh, damn. I didn't know you wrote more of this. Awesome.
A few corrections, though:
> Okay, okay, I follow you’re logic
"[your] logic". Any use of apostrophes should be expanded to the full form to see if it fits before you implement it. "you’re" would become "you are", which is, in this case, decidedly wrong
> He got promoted lost month
"[last] month"