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Holtinater


Trying to make up for lost time. DM me for edits

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Stories from, for, or about Changelings.


This will be updated with little changeling stories every now and then, though don't expect any sort of consistency. Any larger changeling stories (1-2k+ words) will be made into their own stories.

Many of these come from Quills and Sofas Speedwriting contests.

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 3 )

Well, that escalated quickly. Given that ponies seemed pretty unaware of changelings’ existence in the early seasons of the show, I can imagine that any witness of such an encounter would be considered insane.

By the way, why is this whole story formatted as if it was one large piece of monologue? It’s really off-putting, given there’s no action to accompany it or another character speaking (which I expected might happen at the end). Why put the quotation marks there when it’s just a regular first-person POV story?

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I wanted to make it explicitly clear that this was not just informal text told to you, the reader, but that this was actual dialogue being spoken to some unknown third party whose dialogue we do not get to hear. I liked formatting it that way because it allowed for some fun storytelling and left the ending deliciously ambiguous. What is the response? We'll never know!

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Well, to be honest, all that is clear from the text itself with the multiple spots where the character stops and assures the listener.

Also, you turning this into a dialogue of sorts actually creates more issues than it solves, as it makes it really odd that we cannot hear the other listener speak even though there are spots where they presumably did say something during this interview of sorts. I’d say that this problem wouldn’t arise if this was formatted customarily. Stories with this kind of premise are traditionally written as an unbroken monologue without quotation marks where the protagonist just speaks to someone unseen and unheard :twilightsheepish:

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