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No Raisin


I wanna return to monkey.

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Good stuff so far, do continue.

Off to a good start! I'll be tracking this from now on.

Isn't it obvious?"Yes. Anyway, if you really want the completely official answer to whatever questions you have (yes, even and especially the ones you keep asking that have already been answered over and over again), then you can have a session with Goodbody when he is ready."

Parentheses really don't belong anywhere within quotes, or any character dialog, unless she is going to say parentheses. Might want to figure out other ways of communicating the information without them such as using commas or using other separators in sentence. From this clip, it looks as if Redheart is either speaking her inner thoughts out loud or they are inner dialogue that you didn't format as such. As an example of restructuring I'm separating, making italic, and also dropping the repeated word "yes".

Isn't it obvious? "Yes. Anyway, if you really want the completely official answer to whatever questions you have," and especially the ones you keep asking that have already been answered over and over again, "then you can have a session with Goodbody when he is ready."

Again with those parentheses.

Redheart was reading her book (the one a bygone ex had given her) to Jim today, which he appreciated.

Blackheart sucked on a (cherry-flavored) lollipop, not giving a single solitary fuck about anything.

Reads clearer when you replace them both with commas or nothing at all in the second quote.

Nitpicking now...
exes, she has more than one ex?
ex's, belongs to an ex

Not sure where the Death tag fits into this story-- although I suppose near-death due to the human's arrival counts in a vague way. But it is only the first chapter so I eagerly await what happens next.

Good story. Looking forward to the next chapters. Here are a few of the mistakes i caught.

"That is all for now. I still work to do with the patient. Bye."

I still have work to do

"This job is making me come undone," said Blackheart dryly.

"I'm sure it does."

i'm sure it is

That's about all i could find.

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Corrections have been made. Also, the "Death" tag will become quite useful as the story progresses. Not literal death (well, except for maybe one or two, but I won't spoil here) but more like death as a theme that will be recurring.

Good job on spotting those mistakes. 👍

As long as this doesn't devolve into just clop, it looks promising! Looking forward to it.

Well written and a pleasure to read so far, I'll be looking forward to more whenever it may come.

i like it but i would love it if i didnt already know where this was going to go like every other clop fic

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There isnt a porn tag yet, so hopefully it wont focus on that to much.

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yea its not that I mind that but i find that it can take away from a story if done poorly or theres to much of it

"I'm Jim," said the man. "But some people call me... Jim."

"Just Jim?"

"No." The man grew more confident in his speech, but he continued to avert his eyes from Redheart. "It's a bit more complicated than that." He then chuckled lightly, but even this action proved painful to him.

So the man called Jim started to tell the story of how he got his name. The tale was calmly and methodically told (on account of Jim trying to not cause himself more pain by accident), and Redheart did not understand a lot of the little details and references, but she found every word utterly engrossing.

Funny, you'd think the report would have mentioned a puncture wound in the flank.

so... no involvement of the crown or mayor mare? i mean, i get a ship crashed. but one would think that higher powers would be mentioned.

also, i approve of redhearts nipple fetish.

This promises to be hilarious. Please, do continue :pinkiehappy:

Nice so far. Some moments kind of laid on the sex theme a bit too much, but it does have sex as a tag, so whatever.

o for a long time there was a deathly silence in the air. The crinkling of wrappers. The rustling of turning pages.

Extra little o here for whatever reason. I love this story so far though, can't wait for the next chapter!

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There was supposed to be an S in front of that. Got it. :twilightsheepish:

Good start, really looking forward to more!
Also, Red has the best handling of reporters :rainbowlaugh:

As the sun set, Redheart continually switched between eating a cream-cheese bagel (whose carbs went straight to her rump—not that she minded packing a little extra heat in her trunk) and reading a dense volume of fiction about some teen colts in a tennis academy and some losers in a rehabilitation facility. She found the book to be too confusing and overly detailed, but she kept at it regardless; it was a gift one of her exes had given her some years ago, and she wasn't going to put all that paper to waste. Those trees died for a cause , gosh darn it.

Out of curiosity, which series are you referring to, if any?

"No puss and little way in the stitches coming undone."

Lol, should be pus.

Off to a good start. Don't make the same mistake as so many others and put too many things between him and his relationship with Redheart. Give him a job, don't make ponies racist assholes, and don't try any assassination plans.

It always fail when people do that.

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Now that you mention it, that does seem to happen alot. Especially the racist ponies part.

good so far. looking forward to more

very interesting. is this your headcanon for Mayor Mare? or is it in a comic? new episode?

i am going to keep an eye on this ... i like how this story going

I had to read this twice to understand what you were trying to do with this chapter, the giant jump ahead in time is kind of jarring and I feel a lot of the information like him being in a plane crash should have been done in more detail earlier. Also a few things I didn't really get even after a second reading. Lines like why the town was in a funk and the whole 'whole county being suicidal' makes no sense at all to me. I really wouldn't throw out these rushed chapters in the future they don't really do the story justice and leave too little for the reader.

So plane flies and crashes in Pineville and he is the lone survivor. He is going to mental problems when he survivors gilt kicks in.:fluttercry:

Are the mane six going to play any part? I like to see his welcome to Ponyville party :pinkiehappy:

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It feels like the author wrote half of the story down and kept the rest locked up in their head. There are gaps of information where it feels like we're just expected to know what's going on, and how the conversation got to where it was without any actual indications.

Reminiscing about the old times... how old are the both of them?
Then again, I tend to reminisce about the past and I'm not really that old myself, so I'll admit it was a hypocritical question :rainbowlaugh:

Still though, no wonder Jim believes that he died in that crash too. After all, what happened to him was statistically impossible, so it's easy to see why he would rationalize it that way, at least from the start.

Dan

So that's the 1993 bombing he means?

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I thought he was referencing the September 11th attack. Seeing as he mentioned he would never see the towers again.

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He didn't understand that the towers would soon be gone for good. He grew up in the years between the 1993 bombing and the 9/11 attacks. At a very young age he was led to believe things couldn't get worse, which they did.

"I'm Jim," said the man. "But some people call me... Jim."

... I see what you did there. :ajsmug:

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Ah thanks for the claification, Love the story to bits :rainbowkiss:

Really enjoying this so far! Keep it up! :)

I get it. You got featured. You are riding that really good high off of getting this thing off the ground.

That being said this chapter was lacking, and definitely could have been extended. They could have talked about living arrangements, some cursory questions or even other things.

I say this because I want to story to succeed and honestly chapters like this don't contribute much.

Take your time. We are here. Do the best job you can.

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I do agree that an "Interlude" chapter doesn't contribute much to the overall story, although I do think interspersing the "Part" chapters that will take up the meat of the fic with these smaller scenes that are more isolated in terms of plot chronology has potential to it. We will have to wait and see, given there is only one of each so far.

Fear not, fam, I'll take my time as things develop. :twilightsheepish:

very big fan of this so far, if it keeps going in it's current direction i'll be a very happy camper. either way, keep up the great work!

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Yeah, right now it is completely normal that this doesn't make much sense. With that being said, you better have a good purpose for this in an upcoming chapter! I do not like to see things go to waste.

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I agree with you 100%.
I was going to outline exactly what you said, but I found your comment before doing so. I hope the writer No Raisin reads your comment because that will certainly make this story developed better in the future. Just looking at the difference between chapter 1 and 2 is incredibly harsh, it jumps to a completely different scene without explanation much too abruptly.

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