>:D

Discord's coming back in Season 3. Seriously. He is.

Anyway, favoriting.

>>15067591506759  Thank you so much for the favorite!  It's so rewarding when people like the story and comment on it.  I love Discord, so I'm happy that he's back.  I kinda hope they don't do too much with him, though.  I like that MLP doesn't have a main villain that shows up all the time.  Some Discord=awesome.  A lot of Discord will be tiring.

Adler Approves of this well written fic

And so.... Favorited

>>15068831506883  Your approval is appreciated!  It was my pleasure to write it for you!

Fav, and thanks for a new story to read. Wonder were you'll take it from here.

>>15070281507028  Thank you so much!  I'm not sure.  The diary format worked because he couldn't do anything else.  I don't think he would continue it, but maybe I'll follow up with a new story.  I have a lot to do on Out of Fashion, though.  It's my neglected child!

Out of fashion? Another story of yours I'm assuming. I don't know any of your other stories I meant another story to read in relation to other stories I'm reading in general. But I'll check it out.

>>15071501507150  Yeah, it's a long term project and it's been sorta draining to write.  I've been drawing a lot more and I've put my writing on the back burner, unfortunately.

>>15072071507207

Lol the best I can draw is a stick figure. But if I have a reference I am a demi-god. Just last year I had to draw something for my 3-D animation class and I copied it so perfectly I got an F for tracing , I fixed that problem though. I hope to one day be able to draw ponies on a whim. (Fuck hands, hooves are where it's at!)

>>15072891507289  Come join me at the Reddit MLP drawing school!  I went from not being able to draw at all to being fairly competent now.  I still have a way to go, but I've improved more than I ever thought possible!  The brony support is incredible!

Check it out my gallery you want.  This has most of my progression, though my early, really terrible stuff isn't there.

http://xjuggernaughtx.deviantart.com/

Awesome

>>15073961507396Thank you very much!  It's nice that people like it!

Would love to see a sequel where Pinkie and him join forces!!!!!!!

>>15074881507488  Hmmmm....That may be a fun thing to write!  It would be interest to see if Pinkie becomes more like Discord or Discord becomes more like Pinkie.

>>15073621507362

Holy shit dude your colored boop is the background of mlp drawing school!!!! I am not worthy of your presence!

>>15073621507362

I have joined and you are added. How you have so much karma is beyond me. I have only drawn one thing without a reference and that is my OC pony with no name.

>>15076961507696  Aw, shucks.  It ain't that good of a drawin'.  Ah did put a lotta time into it, though.  

Honestly, I was shocked that it became the background.  It shifts based on some popularity formula.

>>15078551507855  The secret is to always use references.  I started by just straight up copying images.  Now I'm moving on to more original stuff.  But no pony artist that I know works totally reference free.  It's just like people that draw scenery.  They go out into the scenery and draw it.  They don't sit at home and imagine it.  Well, most of them don't anyway.  Ponies are the same.  It's a lot easier to draw if you have a model.

>>15079671507967

Check my first drawing out! And comment to tell me how I did!

http://redd.it/12589g

Yes.

That made my hour. I should give writing Discord a shot.

>>15552121555212  Thanks so much!  It was fun writing for Discord.  He's mentally bent and it's fun to get into that head.

Congrats on getting on EPD! It's 3:00 am here so I'll be reading this in the morning but it is looking like a fantastic fic, always love a bit o' Discord

me gusta.

Thoroughly enjoyed this!  Besides one or two grammatical mistakes, it was great!  I'm looking forward to seeing the next part!  

Oh, this is goood. I totally read that in John de Lancie's voice.

>>16074251607425  Thank you very much!  I hope you enjoy it!

>>16075761607576  It's awesome you enjoyed it!  I love that!

>>16079151607915

Same here

>>16078991607899  Thank you so much for reading it and I'm glad you liked it, even with it's mistakes.  Would you mind telling me what you saw?  It's so hard to get every mistake out of a story.  After a while, everything just looks correct because you are so used to seeing it that way.

>>16079151607915  And I wrote it in his voice!  Funny how clearly you can hear it.  Thanks so much for reading this!

>>16079841607984

Oh, just little things like tense changes,

"She seems enchantingly distressed and the slack-jawed onlookers gasped as she bounced from task to task."

I think there was one other small thing but I can't seem to find it.  Nothing major, though

I loved this so much, best fic I've read in a long while. Thanks for doing this! :D

Favourited

Not bad. I recently read something that had a similar format. Going from day to day and explaining what has been seen. I noticed once that you had him reflect on how order can breed from prolonged chaos and whatnot. I actually would have been more intrigued if there were more moments like this throughout.

That aside, I had a bit of difficulty getting into the sense of Discord's character at first but it got there soon enough.

Small errors here and there, but they don't bug me as much (unless its my own writing). Here is one:

"but I certainly don’t seem to hearing anything about the mighty Celestia crushing Queen Chrysalis under hoof."

I LOVE THIS

It keeps Discord's personality perfect, and not turning him in some clichee pussy that sees the wrongness in his ways and turns good... and makes him keep the title of Master of Chaos.

Well done, good fic and can't wait for chapter two :D

I rarely favorite a fic since i like all, but this goes in my special book :D

I can't say I'm too surprised by the ending.

Geez, Celestia, it's almost like you WANT him to escape.  The garden was at least isolated most of the time.  Except no, you had to ruin that by allowing field trips in.

What I'm saying is this:

Dammit Celestia.  Just PROPOSE already!

Discord is the best pony draconequus and we know it! I appreciate your points about Pinkie Pie and Twilight. The language and style is very fitting for Discord. I hope you will continue in this matter to comment from Discord's point of view the events of Season 3. I know his return will be my favourite episode!

Again, good job and good luck with your other projects. You sure have the writing skills for it.

>>>Where is the passion?  The spice for life, liberty, and the pursuit of revenge? >>>

*Alondro stands before the statue, with a sadistic smile on his face*  That'd be me.  Unfortunately for you, you're the object of it all.  *pulls Vorpal Sword off his back*  Draconequus.  Jabberwocky.  The sword really can't tell the difference.  *begins slicing and dicing Discord*

Discord is a bit of a hypocrite.  If he were truly chaos, he'd never think at all.  Those who know nothing of neurology cannot comprehend the irreducible complexity of the carefully regulated series of synaptic activations via numerous ion channels, voltage-gated and neurotransmitter-activated, and several types of varied-term potentiated, involved in each and every thought.

If I, as a scientist, were to describe the intense order going on in his mind at every moment, he'd likely destroy himself in frustration or become utterly random in action by banishing all conscious thought from his head, meaning he'd have no capacity to think about such things as stopping the Bearers from retrieving the Elements and sealing him again.

But even then, he would still have a physical form.  And such a form must always contain order, lest it'd be unstable and fly apart.

And so, you see that he exists in spite of his supposed nature.  It's the single greatest weakness of any chaos god, that they can never fully exercise the extent of their power or they will cease to be.  

>>16084851608485  Oops!  Good catch.  Yes, that is the kind of mistake I make a lot and it's super-hard for me to see them for some reason.  I sort of naturally speed read, so I tend to skip over the actual words and just absorb the favor of what I'm reading.  It takes me four or five reads of a book to really say I have read it.

>>16086071608607  Thank you for taking the time to read it!  Check out my other stuff if you enjoyed this one.  I'll have a new Pinkie Pie story up pretty soon, as well.  I'm about halfway done writing it.

>>16089181608918  The beginning is definitely the weakest part of that story.  I totally understand not getting his character until later.  It's like I had to warm up to writing him.  I wrote that beginning several times, but for some reason he just wasn't very Discordish until the 5th or 6th entry.

>>16089811608981  Aww, thanks so much!  That means a lot.

When it comes to Discord, or any villain, I hate two-dimensional, evil-for-the-sake-of-evil type characters.  I think most people have motives for their bad behavior, so the key is just to look at it from their perspective.  It doesn't have to be the right choices, but it should be an understandable choice.

>>16090431609043  I'm not sure Celestia is the best decision maker.  A lot of weird crap happens on her watch.

>>16094241609424  I see Discord as having an over-inflated opinion of his own power.  Like a child who is good at video games thinks they are the best player ever, Discord sees himself as the MASTER OF CHAOS, when he's just very proficient.  He doesn't see that he needs order to play chaos into or it wouldn't be fun.  

This is so awesomly chaotic and Discord-y that I think I'll celebrate by burning down an orphanage or maybe running through the street yelling "UPSIDE DOWN LEMONS". Who know what I'll do, thats the fun.

>>16097021609702  Exactly!  And thus, why I SHALL BECOME LIKE UNTO THE MOST HIGH!!!  MUWAH HA HA HA!!

*Alondro is banished to Earth with 1/3 of the angels who were deceived by his cunning evil evilness.  He runs for President.. and wins!*

All I had to do was promise free Gak for everyone!  *Thus proving Discord is trying to hard, when plastic containers of goo are all it really takes.*

(PS: I'm having some mountain whole leaf darjeerling tea.  Would you care for some?)

And this is how we do chaos right.  If yer goals don't change every 30 seconds at least, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!  

>>16100121610012  Well, I'm very happy that you enjoyed the story, but don't burn down that orphanage unless they have had time to read it as well!

>>16090951609095  Thank you so much for your compliments.  I'm considering a follow up story focusing on Discord and Pinkie struggle to win the other to their way of thinking.  It's something I'm tossing around in my head, but I have to get through this Pinkie story I'm writing right now, first.

Interesting, very interesting indeed. i'd like to see where you take this from here.

I'd like to see Discord and Pinky face off in a Chaos battle.

Pinky is best pony!

You know, this reminds me of the joke about the postal clerk who did nothing but stamp mails all day.

When asked if he isn't bored with his job he said: "No, every day I get to stamp the letters with a new date."

Honestly, who hatched the idea to put Discord into the same town as Pinkie Pie and the CMC?

Somepony clearly has a deathwish.

>>16102341610234  Well, it's seeming more and more that you might, since people seem to like this story.  I need to see Season 3, though.  I don't want to write anything that will be made irrelevant immediately by the show.  I don't see them making drastic changes, but if Discord gets banished to Dimension X, it kinda makes him a weird topic.  I suppose I can put him at any point in the timeline, but still...

Thanks for reading!

>>16102361610236  Probably the same ponies that put Derpy on the flying home moving team.  Risk Assessment is not a pony strength.

Oh, happy day!  After straining mightily, I may have caused passer-by’s bag to rip!

The 'may' in that sentence alone had me on the floor.   

You did a very fine job with this, I especially liked the part where Discord contemplates trying again without a plan.

>>16103321610332  Thank you very much for the kind words!  The part about planning was actually the whole notion that started this story.  I was thinking about how illogical it was for Discord to even have this whole scheme going with hiding the Elements of Harmony and whatnot.  Why would have even do that?  I mean, I get why, but having a plan is the polar opposite of chaos.  I wanted to show that while Discord is devoted to chaos, he's not (and cannot be) an agent of chaos all the time.  He believes that he is, but he's more devious than that, and being devious takes order.  You must understand the system to mess it up and there must be a system to undertand for that to happen.  Discord is as devoted to order as he is to chaos, even if he doesn't realize it.

>>16102361610236  Also, is your name an Urusei Yatsura reference?

>>16104001610400

Yes, it is.

Image: http://www.nerdsrevenge.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/shutaro-mendo32.jpg

>>16106301610630. Niiiiiiiiice!  That was the first manga I ever loved.  I still think Beautiful Dreamer is among the top anime movies of all time.

>>16107121610712

Well UY is not the first anime I ever watched, but "Beautiful Dreamer" got me into the fandom, back in 1996.

And I agree, it is still a remarkable piece of animation even today. Mamoru Oshi rocks!

>>16101261610126 Ok I'll wait till those orphans read it. THEN I'll burn down their home. They had it comin anyway.

Very awesome stuff. Beautiful story!

>>16149731614973  Thanks so much for taking the time to read it!  It's very satisfying to know that people appreciate it.

Discord? In-Character? Have a fav!

Also this is my first comment ever on fimfiction.net.

>>16164031616403    Well, I'm honored to have the first!  It's awesome to me that you liked it and that Discord worked for you.  I work very hard to keep the characters feeling real, so that is my favorite thing to hear.

And Discord is back.

>>16207061620706  And if I have anything to say about, there will be hell to pay for some well-known ponyfolk.

My only regret is that this ended. Goodfic is good.

>>16238971623897  Aw, that's nice!  I appreciate your kind words.  

I downloaded this a few days ago, and just got around to actually reading it.  All in all, I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Although Discord isn't a particularly introspective fellow by his own admission, I thought the idea that he was fighting a losing battle against predictability/order/logic came through clearly, and honestly I think that's a really clever angle to take.  Taken to its logical extreme, absolute Chaos (as he seems to understand it) would require him not only to not plan ahead, but to avoid reacting (that is, acting based on previous actions or information) in any way.  The fact that, even has he forswears all plotting in favor of Chaos, he still reflects on things like which ponies might be most willing to turn to his side suggests that he's not as chaotic as he wishes to be...

Anyway, nice work.  Thumbs-up from me.

>>16359681635968  Thanks!  Yes, that is certainly what I was getting at.  It always struck me as illogical that he was the MASTER OF CHAOS, yet he had this whole elaborate scheme for Twilight and her friends to go through.  To me, Discord is the kind of guy that would work with every fiber of his being to create some sort of wormhole to the dimension of pure chaos, bring hell to Equestria, only to realize the moment it was too late that even he didn't want pure randomness all the time.  He wants it when it amuses him and it can only amuse him if the rest of the world is sane to contrast with what he is doing.  I really appreciate you taking the time to read my story!

Oooh Discord returns. Great story! Discord's sarcasm at the daily lives of Ponyville citizens makes me giggle.

Favorite!  

>>16432031643203  Thanks so much!  That world view of his was way more fun to write in than I thought it would be.  I really enjoyed writing this, so I'm very pleased that people seem to enjoy reading it!  

Pinkie explains all

>>16638601663860  If you are a Pinkie fan, I'll have a new Pinkie story up in a week or two.  I just finished the first draft, so a few rounds of edits and it will be good to go!  Thanks for reading my story!

wait, is this complete I WANT MOAR

>>17798941779894  Well, if it's any comfort, I've been tossing around some ideas for a follow up story to this but it may take a while.  I'm outlining a Big Mac story right now.  Maybe some of my other stories would hold you over!  

Fantastic story. I love it. The pacing seems well with a story about a character only being able to observe everything around him. It also has Discord's character perfectly in my opinion. The story was the perfect amount of descriptive and not descriptive. I could easily figure out what was happening from Discord's point of view without having to go on and on about the same details and getting boring. I do hope you write a sequel or something of sorts. Till then I'll just check any other stories you have. Good job on writing have a mustache.

>>20907062090706 Thank you very much.  

I was thinking about doing a sequel, but after Keep Calm and Flutter On, I'm not that interested.  They kinda killed Discord's character for me.  I still might, I have some ideas rattling around, but eh...

As for my other stories, I'd love it if you were interested in reading more.  I'd hold off on my A Door Jam and Out of Fashion, though.  I'm re-writing them, so new, better versions will be up in the near future.

Thanks for reading my stuff!  I work hard on these stories, so it's really rewarding when people read and enjoy them.  

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Yes Keep Calm and Flutter On both a good yet bad episode. It was fantastic to see Discord's humor and chaotic nature and how he can do subtle changes. Subtle changes that make great impacts have always been my favorite way of starting chaos. I liked seeing Fluttershy actually show some strength by being able to go with the changes and having a resolve to do something. Instead of sudden person is in danger must protect. Disliked how manipulative it seemed by making friendship seemed so planned out instead on how it normally just comes about randomly. I also dislike the ending it wasn't to bad just felt to sudden for my tastes. But yeah I can see how it killed Discord's character for you.

Wow I got a bit caught up thinking about that episode. Any who  I'll make sure to wait for the re-written version of that story and I'll make sure to leave a comment of my thoughts about your stories when I read them.

>>20908332090833  Yeah, I felt pretty much exactly the same about Keep Calm and Flutter On.  What I really felt it needed was more time.  It really needed to be a two part episode if they wanted to establish a realistic reason for Discord to switch sides.  I certainly didn't buy it when it happened.

If you want to read Easy As Pie or Checkmates, they are good to go.  Just the first two are getting the re-written.  And, of course, I'd certainly like to hear your opinions of them, good or bad.  Everything helps me become a better writer.

Very entertaining. Good fic.

>>23277112327711  Thanks!  I had a lot of fun writing that.  I've always preferred villains, so spending so much time in Discord's head was a blast!  

finally, discord gets a happy ending! dizzy ftw! hoot! hoot! hoot!