Spike starts a new dragon hoard with Starlight, Lightning Dust and Moon Dancer's shopping trip for fetish gear leads to a happy ending, Celestia enjoys a public play scene, and many other stories from Equestria's biggest consensual kink club!
D'awwwwwwww... This was really sweet and well done. Some of the set-up felt.. odd and rushed. mostly the approach of the Den Mother and just giving us a small bit of telling about past stuff to set up the conflict. Found it really odd how quick she jumped to knowing this was a talk about her desire to be a sub right off, and even the Den Mother knew that rather then letting it come up a bit more naturally in conversation between them.
But other then a bit rushed to get to the good stuff, the good stuff was really, really good. Some great world-building for differing cultures in S, expectations, and trouble living up to them when you don't really want to. Just, a great dilemma handled really really well, and Pearl was just so adorable throughout. Scared, shy, worried, but never annoyingly so, always understandable and still mostly reasonable once someone helps reassure what she's afraid of isn't as likely as she thinks, while still understanding the fears.
Just, all around, great (if slightly rushed) little story.
9410353 Yeah...I probably could have written the first interactions with Ebony a bit better. I was mostly just really excited and wanted to write something for the anthology and was worried about not getting it in on time (silly, I know). My thinking was that because on that particular day Pearl was having more thoughts about wearing a collar, her mind was already thinking of it and so she was able to pick up so quickly on Ebony’s words. Alas, I have fallen victim to thinking everyone who reads knows what the author was thinking when writing...
D'awwwwwwww... This was really sweet and well done. Some of the set-up felt.. odd and rushed. mostly the approach of the Den Mother and just giving us a small bit of telling about past stuff to set up the conflict. Found it really odd how quick she jumped to knowing this was a talk about her desire to be a sub right off, and even the Den Mother knew that rather then letting it come up a bit more naturally in conversation between them.
But other then a bit rushed to get to the good stuff, the good stuff was really, really good. Some great world-building for differing cultures in S, expectations, and trouble living up to them when you don't really want to. Just, a great dilemma handled really really well, and Pearl was just so adorable throughout. Scared, shy, worried, but never annoyingly so, always understandable and still mostly reasonable once someone helps reassure what she's afraid of isn't as likely as she thinks, while still understanding the fears.
Just, all around, great (if slightly rushed) little story.
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Yeah...I probably could have written the first interactions with Ebony a bit better. I was mostly just really excited and wanted to write something for the anthology and was worried about not getting it in on time (silly, I know). My thinking was that because on that particular day Pearl was having more thoughts about wearing a collar, her mind was already thinking of it and so she was able to pick up so quickly on Ebony’s words.
Alas, I have fallen victim to thinking everyone who reads knows what the author was thinking when writing...