This was enjoyable! Far more varied than I imagined it would be; her inhibitions falling as her arousal rises is very realistic. Excellent writing and thanks for picking my suggestion!
8121214 Yeah, I thought that might be the case. I was certainly reminded.
Honestly I was struggling with suggesting something at all. My first thoughts went to far more kinkier stuff, but I had already seen lots of stories with those kinks, and niche kinks weren't likely to gain the needed upvotes.
8121252 There are fetishes that seem common here that I can't imagine seeing outside the FiMF or Furry or Hentai community, either. Evolution of such communities and how they overlap and spread ideas sounds like a fascinating subject. I think this is memetics, similar to genetics?
That said I gave you a practically kink-free prompt and you still managed to hit some of mine. Kudos.
She didn't think they would actually work out well as romantic partners; Twilight's sometimes neurotic hero worship towards her would make the playing field just a little bit too uneven
I really like that you addressed this, even in a short vignette. There is certainly some good Twilestia romance out there, but unless the story addresses this issue explicitly (and has a good way around it) I just can't get invested in it.
8123991 I tend to measure how well a Twilestia works by how well it deals with this, tbh. Though I do sometimes admittedly "cheat" in my own stories and just sort of "noodle incident" their getting together and proceed with the assumption they've been a couple for a while. You can only write the same "finally confess their love" story so many times. I figure I've done it twice (one I still need to finish and publish) and that should suffice.
You can only write the same "finally confess their love" story so many times.
This is very true, and one reason I'm always looking for new approaches to romance stories. To be fair, it's easy to mess up an "already together" story... someone (my brain wants to say WD but I'm not sure if that's right) wrote a long blog post way back about screwing up romance, and one of the big ones for me is authors who don't give the characters reasons to love each other. That's something that's a lot easier to address when you're directly showing the getting-together, not so easy when it's all in the past. One of the first romances I ever read - and still on my all-time top list - is bats' Spellbound Fireflies. There is the whole Scoots romance subplot and Twidash backstory, but by and large the romance aspect of the story is about familial love and maintaining a relationship. But despite that it manages to avoid the typical romance blunders without being the same old confess-their-love story.
Anyway, long tangent there. I think you've done a marvelous job here, and write great romance in general, so keep it up!
This was enjoyable! Far more varied than I imagined it would be; her inhibitions falling as her arousal rises is very realistic. Excellent writing and thanks for picking my suggestion!
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It's totally not based on my own actual experiences at all, nope, not even a little.
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Yeah, I thought that might be the case. I was certainly reminded.
Honestly I was struggling with suggesting something at all. My first thoughts went to far more kinkier stuff, but I had already seen lots of stories with those kinks, and niche kinks weren't likely to gain the needed upvotes.
8121237 Being into niche fetishes can be very frustrating! As a reader you can never find anything for them, and as a writer, nobody likes them.
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There are fetishes that seem common here that I can't imagine seeing outside the FiMF or Furry or Hentai community, either. Evolution of such communities and how they overlap and spread ideas sounds like a fascinating subject. I think this is memetics, similar to genetics?
That said I gave you a practically kink-free prompt and you still managed to hit some of mine. Kudos.
8121281 What can I say, I'm a kinky sort of person!
I wouldn't mind you doing a full Princest clopfic with Dom/sub tones
8121721 I wouldn't mind either! I like writing Celestia.
I really like that you addressed this, even in a short vignette. There is certainly some good Twilestia romance out there, but unless the story addresses this issue explicitly (and has a good way around it) I just can't get invested in it.
8123991 I tend to measure how well a Twilestia works by how well it deals with this, tbh. Though I do sometimes admittedly "cheat" in my own stories and just sort of "noodle incident" their getting together and proceed with the assumption they've been a couple for a while. You can only write the same "finally confess their love" story so many times. I figure I've done it twice (one I still need to finish and publish) and that should suffice.
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This is very true, and one reason I'm always looking for new approaches to romance stories. To be fair, it's easy to mess up an "already together" story... someone (my brain wants to say WD but I'm not sure if that's right) wrote a long blog post way back about screwing up romance, and one of the big ones for me is authors who don't give the characters reasons to love each other. That's something that's a lot easier to address when you're directly showing the getting-together, not so easy when it's all in the past. One of the first romances I ever read - and still on my all-time top list - is bats' Spellbound Fireflies. There is the whole Scoots romance subplot and Twidash backstory, but by and large the romance aspect of the story is about familial love and maintaining a relationship. But despite that it manages to avoid the typical romance blunders without being the same old confess-their-love story.
Anyway, long tangent there. I think you've done a marvelous job here, and write great romance in general, so keep it up!
Wish this was longer, as princest is the best, and submissive Celestia, even though quite common, feels very natural and enjoyable.
By the way, your reversed chapter guide confused me a little (ordered 4321 while the chapters are 1234).