Therapeutic Processes goes SKREEEEEOhnk
When I moved to Ponyville, I was lost. Then I met her, and I began to realise that there was more to my cutie mark than I could have possibly imagined.
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Gara The Author, Nova Quill, RoMS
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These two were my favorite side characters when I first joined the fandom, but I agree that they're usually typecast now. I like what you've started here!
Well you've certainly got my attention! Can't wait to see where this goes!
(I hope it's smooches!)
Woo! It's posted, I can't wait to see how you take their story.
Still not sure how you managed to get me hooked on two characters I never had much interest in...
I've heard at more than one point in my life that music is a language all it's own. I guess it can work the other way around too though. I'd never thought about until now.
"cadence of speech; the beautiful"
"cadence of speech, the beautiful"?
"how well Earth Ponies were"
"how well earth ponies were"?
"asking you this but it’ll"
"asking you this, but it’ll"?
"head for these kind of problems"
"head for these kinds of problems"?
"something she's said when"
"something she'd said when"?
"just darling?!” She asked, plating"
"just darling?!” she asked, plating"?
"head, finally taking a gingerly bite of mom’s"
"head, finally gingerly taking a bite of mom’s"?
"at it,” he put his"
"at it.” He put his"?
"For the briefest instance, I"
"For the briefest instant, I"?
Looks good so far. :)
Bon Bon's pointed questions are the stuff of my waking nightmares
I look forward to how their relationship develops especially since I haven't read many stories of how they got to know each other!
...Heartshine, a slow, philosophical, first-person Lyra fic with colored text, written by you?
I haven't been around fimfiction a lot lately and I'm really glad I looked in at the right point to see this in my feed. This has so much promise and I'm loving seeing your take on it already. Thank you for indulging it as an idea!
Your Project Horizons is showing, dear.
I'm interested in seeing how you navigate around these two characters, how you're gonna try and subvert the usual tropes associated with them. I think your approach has a lot of potential. The specific way that you read into Lyra's talent, especially; it took me a little while, longer than I'd care to admit, to understand why you were highlighting so many words and phrases in different colors. I'd suggest that maybe you try and mix up the color palette more, though (why does Lyra's father have the same color as Lyra, herself?). Make the characters more distinct in that way.
And I feel like some of your sentences are a bit overwritten, cramming too much information into a single grammatical structure that strains to hold them all in. Two examples are:
&&&
The first is a little cumbersome, with all the prepositional phrases. The latter's kind of a quick and dirty way to introduce and explain a new element (also seems a little convenient -- Lyra was living in a hostel just before she rented this place. Maybe you could have set that element up in her conversation with her parents? "Lyra, we'll try to help you find a place because living on the street in Ponyville only raises the likelihood that someone will eat your skin."
Critiques aside, I'm gonna try and keep an eye on this. There's been a dearth of ponyfic in my life, and this might be just what I need to get back into it.
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Face eating is generally frowned upon by most parental units.
I’m intrigued, don’t abandon the project!
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Not planning on it! A few revisions to chapter 1 and Chapter 2 is with the editors. I was hoping to have it up before Christmas, but life happened. I'm still working on it! :D
And I learned a new word. One I have idea how to pronounce.
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OMG YOU HAVE MEGHAN AS YOUR AVATAR! coughs Um, it's pronounced 'in-vay-gul'. I first learned this word watching the X-Files back in uh... the late 90s? Because one of the rare not 'The Truth is Out There' taglines was 'Deceive, inveigle, obfuscate'.
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Your enthusiasm reminds me of Pinkie Pie And that is very interesting. I never watched X-Files back then, so I missed it.
"out and let the patch of land"
"out and letting the patch of land"?
"reached out and ruffle her mane"
"reached out and ruffled her mane"?
"forward so I could lay on the"
"forward so I could lie on the"?
"timbre seeping in her tone, adding"
"timbre seeping into her tone, adding"?
"to Bon Bon and I with a"
"to Bon Bon and me with a"?
"the wall outside and rolled down the"
"the wall outside, and rolled down the"?
"I had no a good excuse"
"I had no good excuse"?
"the divider between the counter to join me"
...Hm. The meaning there might be clear enough, but the construction sounds a little awkward to me and I'm not sure it's technically correct. I don't currently have any ideas for improving it, and it might be good enough already, but I thought I'd point it out just in case.
"may be awhile before she"
"may be a while before she"?
"a good hoof and half in height"
"a good hoof and a half in height"?
"She picked off a few twigs off my messy mane."
"She picked a few twigs out of my messy mane."?
"word choice. If not all, the metaphorical carpet"
...I am having no idea what the "If not all" means or was meant to mean there, sorry.
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"Bon Bon and I with"
- isn't Person and I always grammatically correct? Cause I swear I remember getting yelled at in first grade because I used to say "Max and me are gonna go play outside!" and getting told 'It's "Max and I", not "Max and me."'
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As I understand it, in the example you give, "I" would be correct, yes, just as it would be "I am gonna go play outside" if it was just you. However, it would be, for instance, "The teacher said it to Max and me" just as it would be "The teacher said it to me". The pronoun still changes with the role in the sentence.
(Like any "rule" in English, this can of course be broken for effect, and the meaning's pretty clear either way. I thought I'd point it out here, though, as, as I recall, there didn't seem to me to be a great positive difference in effect between the two here, nor was it dialogue.)
I really like the last two paragraphs, this is pretty good so far!
Aww^^ Cute chapter
I like sometimes seeing less common constructions like this. Should I assume this is sort of a representation of how the Canterlotites speak, or just more of a person speech pattern of Minuette?
I really like how Bon Bon and Lyra's conversations feel genuine, and how we get to see that for each of them, specific events are personally influencing them in the present; and it's interesting to me that I've always felt that feelings were easier to share than thoughts because I’ve never been forced to justify my feelings while all my thoughts have to be sequentially logical to have validity... which sure makes me feel that I’m lazy 😜
I continue looking forward to the philosophies and views on cutiemarks as well!
Invokes the art from this song for me
(although I visualise them in their pony forms)
I haven’t read most of Background Pony, but this mystical nature of music is something that definitely draws me in! And Lyra playing in front of a crowd for one pony and the connexion they made is a really powerful scene.
I’m really glad that we get to read this story and how your characters emerge, especially since we are getting to see more background ponies devlope.
Dawww, this was adorable
Lyra's story about her concert had my eyes leaking a bit.
I nearly forgot about this story!
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I've been using Synchronicity as therapy while writing Speak. It's... nice to write something that is cute and has a few lower stakes on the drama than Speak. Plus, even though there's a lot of LyraBon stories out there, I just think they are cute! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Very sweet indeed.
Utterly adorable.
"I get the impression you’re not one of them."
Was that supposed to be "I get the impression you’re one of them."? Or am I misunderstanding?
"just end up keep them all to myself"
"just end up keeping them all to myself"?
"the French word"
It's actually French here? Just checking that that's what you meant.
"I had to if I wanted to keep up"
"I had to be if I wanted to keep up"?
"wanted to make my friends to feel better"
"wanted to make my friends feel better"?
"chuckled as I remember an old memory"
"chuckled as I remembered an old memory"?
"
RoMS also wondered why the heck I kept using so much french."...Well, it hadn't occurred to me before, but now I'm also wondering that.
Another nice chapter, yes. :)
Very nice and cute. Good work!
Lyra Heartstings, good catch dear author. Good catch.
Looking forward to more when it arrives.
Your Lyra is Francois de la Rochefoucauld on four legs. Except he was older and more cynic at it.
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I had to look up who that was. ^^; Thank you for the compliment!
There is a state worse than that. It's when one gets burned out and just chooses first roach coach, having no energy left to care...
Knowing that it is possible, I'm trying to avoid it
I enjoy seeing the font colors used this way, giving us a character's unique insights. It also takes me back to the dialogue trees of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. I suppose that train of thought would make Pinkie an honorary Voerman sister.
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I have been told by friends I need to track down that game before the second one drops this year. XD
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I highly recommend it, but like System Shock 2 or Pathologic, its very much steeped in pc. In short long, a bit difficult to get into, and the sort of game you have to play like five times to get anywhere in finding out what the hell is going on and all the nuances of the playstyle