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Masterweaver


Just an average insane brony, doing average insane things. Professional Fanfiction Writer and Purveyor, relevant links are on my profile page.

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Something odd at your doorstep? Weird voices in the night? Call the CMC, they'll make it all right!

Chapters (4)
Comments ( 49 )

"There's something strange, in the neighborhood...":derpytongue2:

Okay, you've got me. I mean, it's really only an introduction. But you've got some clever ideas, and give a sense that cool things are going to happen, and I wonder what's going on with the CMC. I'll be looking forward to the next chapter.

I like your writing style. It reminds me so much of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, but feels very unique and enjoyable. I AM WATCHING YOU...:derpyderp1:

Well. I'm not entirely sure exactly where I was expecting this story to go, but it certainly wasn't this.:pinkiecrazy:

Oh this is perfect! I was smiling the whole way through :twilightsmile:. A ghoul, a robot (Sweetiebot! Yes!), and evil cultists that are chasing Scootaloo for some reason? And Pinkie making candy-loaded weapons! Sweet.

Thanks for the new CMC story! Yay! It keeps getting better and better. MOAR! :flutterrage:

...Now admit it: :raritystarry:You´ve read so much Pratchett that it´s seeping out in your text. Which is why I love reading it

Sweetie Bot, and Apple Gloom
awesome
:unsuresweetie::applecry:
...what? don't give me tha...
okay fine I won't tease you

This.

This is the best thing of all things.

Well, it can't be Scoota-protoalicorn.

I've got to run out of the house for a bit, but I'll read this once I get back. After all, with Sweetie Bot AND Appleblank confirmed in the cast, we're just one Scootaling (Changeling Scootaloo) away from this being the...

BEST

POSSIBLE

THING

EVER!!!

:raritystarry:

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I'm back. Read the whole thing. Just one orphaned changeling away from NONE of the CMC from EVER getting their Cutie Marks. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Cloudchaser_dealwithit.png

Why yes. This is awesome...

That moment when sweetie belle unfolded what to me looked like a pair of miniguns from the sides... :rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh:

Altho I don't see any of the crusaders beeing prevented from getting a cutie mark eventually. Ghoul or robot...
:trixieshiftright:
:trixieshiftleft:
:coolphoto:

It's magic!

This is certainly different. I'll be keeping a close eye on this.

967732 i wish. I believe we have Scoota-orphan, one of the more depressing Scoota's

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As I posted earlier, I'm holding out hope for Orphaned Changeling Scootaloo, or Scootaling, for short. All the depression of Scoota-orphan, combined with the physiological horror of the "Tomato in the Mirror" trope.

991992
...that... That is actually a rather good point. My earlier point about NONE of the CMC getting Cutie Marks has now been rescinded. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Sweetie_Belle_lolface.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Scootaloo_lolface.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Applebloom_lolface.png

More reason to hold out hope that Scootaloo will turn out to be a changeling: Balooga released a new CMC groupshot!

*Is in his happy place* dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Sweetie_Belle_lolface.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Scootaloo_lolface.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Applebloom_lolface.png

...not sure what is up with Sootaling's arm in the third panel, though... :rainbowhuh:

1060802 I'm with you! I really hope it turns out that Scootaloo is a changeling!

I was floored by the writing style and the interesting view into Ditzy. I only wished I thought of something that cool for a Whooves story of mine. I'm in.

"First, there’s the vital checklist. Are your lungs, gills, or phalanges working?"

Adams and Pratchett would be proud.

“Traditionally Taste is skipped entirely, and sight only gets a brief check to make sure it’s there before shutting down again.”

Niggling detail. Either lowercase taste or capitalize Sight.

“His actions would become significant only after town hall exploded, but they also started at this time.”
I love these kinds of comedic foreshadowing.

This story is a keeper. Now I actually need to go through Tale of the Blanks.

967572 Indeed, it is the best possible thing. : nods sagely.

That was the single most random chapter I've ever read anywhere I enjoyed every second of it.

Still waiting for Scootaloo to be reveled to be a Changeling.

Man, it's been so long since this updated, I had to go back and reread the previous chapters to remind myself what was going on.

It did not help. :ajbemused:

Pinkie please stop before all of reality collapses around us... :facehoof:

DF

Few words can describe how I feel about this being continued. Words such as: WOOHOO, FUCK YEAH *runs in a circle* WOO! *happy dance*

*cough*
I'm very happy to see this continued, as I am for everything that you've written so far.

2009896 You, Sir/Ma'am/Gentlething, need to read this, if that is the case. It's the most ramndom thing I've managed to find. The fact that my brain broke while reading it is just one point in it's favor.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CONTINUE WRITING THIS IT'S BUCKING AWESOME!

please please write more

I'm getting a serious Hitchhikers vibe from this story...

"but there is also a method to my madness."

Oh Hamlet. :twilightsmile:

2013281
He just revealed it in another story, she's part fairy.

...Oops.

Did I just spoil it for you?
:trollestia:

I just came over from "Winds of Change" to check for an update. You see, someone, who was not the author, claimed that the Scootaloo in this fic was part Fae. As this was news to me, I rushed over here to see if I had missed an update. I had not. It looks like there is still hope for my "Scootaloo is a Changeling" theory.

3013019
Oh Luna bucking damn it to Tartarus! I had in fact read that author's note, but had not realized at the time that he was the author of both fics. :facehoof: Yeah, I feel *****ed over right about now.

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That is a good thing, one would hope.

3013037
Don't worry about it.

...I was hoping she'd be a changeling too...

3013174
Being Fae doesn't quite remove the possibility of her being a changling. Before MLP, Changling was a term used in folklore to refer to a fae child that replaced a human child to be raised by a human family. I think the story Backwards Through the Mirror covered both types here.

3013174>>3013398
FanOfMostEverything mentioned that the Faeries can be real Jerkasses at times, which reminded me where MLP got the name Changelings from to begin with. So I rushed over here... only to find you had come to the same conclusion on your own.

Meh.

Anyway, still hoping for Scootaling, now with 50% more Unseelie angst! :pinkiecrazy:

3013996
You know...
Faeries are also often seen in culture as in association with childhood/agelessness (thank you mythology, and thank you Peter Pan), so it's possible Masterweaver made her half Fairy and maybe half changeling to please the fanboys, just to have all three crusaders eternally young (a robot wouldn't age, story of the blanks makes it clear that the zombies of Sunnytown don't, and a being whose nature was to be ageless certainly wouldn't) as a sort of irony for their desire to mature (get their cutie marks)

3013037 If you're talking about me, I only made that claim because Masterweaver said this:

But then it turned out Apple Bloom was a zombie, Sweetie Belle was a robot, and Scootaloo was part fairy.
...no wait. That's a different story.

What other story could he be talking about?

3014118
Read the edited post. I had somehow not realized that Masterweaver wrote both fics. In short, I had a brain fart. A smelly one, apparently. Let us all move on and wait for Steel Spirit- er, I mean, Curiosity Maintenance Crew to update. ...and Amalgam, of course.

3014344 Yeah, he's got a bunch of in-progress stories to work on. Not to mention all of the Tumblr projects he's part of. There's Fluttershy reads Moonstuck, Pone, a collaboration one that's based off of the Becoming Ponies universe, and Ask Steel Sweetie. He's stretched twenty different ways from Sunday, I'm surprised he's able to get anything done.

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...I was actually unaware of his Tumblr work, up to and including Ask Steel Sweetie. :facehoof:

Anyway, thanks for the 411 in that regard. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to wait in vain for Wanderer D to update The Three Sisters: Extended Family. I don't know how many irons he has in the fire, but it must be at least as many as Masterweaver here.

Sigh. People with cool ideas never have time to write them.

This was weak.
I'm well aware that this chapter is called Filler Fillies but still.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAK!

This is the funniest chapter I've read in a story yet! :rainbowlaugh: It was cool how you integrated the story with Steel Soul, though in that story, the other crusaders found out about Sweetie Bot under different circumstances. Now I'm going to have to peruse your other stories to see if there's an origin story for Apple Ghoul. ;-) Please continue to write!

Apple Ghoul, Sweetie Bot and Scoots actually seems normal, apart for being chased by cultists and all.

This event, like many such events in Equestria, was caused by a trifecta of ponies. Each pony was of a separate breed, and each one rather unique. Pinkie Pie, as she preferred to be called, was to fate what a cheese grater was to water; all that got poured in spun out in little rivers, manifesting in minor reality-warping powers and the spontaneous generation of a sense devoted to detecting the flows of fate. Miss Derpy Hooves nee Ditzy Doo had a time-related ability, capable of seeing and occasionally interacting with other versions of Equestria; unfortunately, these constant visions made her lose focus in more ways than one, although they guaranteed her accurate delivery of the mail. Lyra Heartstrings, the final component, had as her special talent harmonics, extending to even the universal veil of reality. She did not know this; all she knew was every night she dreamed of another world and its inhabitants, with their unusual appendages.

Headcanon accepted.

4495341 That's the Scootafice you're calling normal, sir.

5721116 - Agreed.

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@Masterweaver - Just going through your 96 stories and reading some.

... Is there a feature that shows you where you rank in some sort of grand ranking of authors? Like total upvotes / stories or something? I wonder where'd you be... Hopefully somewhere high...

Wow. ... Reminds me of the newer story Undead Robot Bug Crusaders.

Nice though! Especially wondering if Scoots is normal... Likely not, given the Spear-wielders...

Well, I shouldn't be surprised at Apple Ghoul and Sweetie Bot happening together... They've been in the fandom awhile, so why not fuse them?

Aww, it's stopped... It was nice, though!

I'm shipping Pinkie X Twi now...

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