One of the little things that struck me in Thanqol's Yours Truly was the the mention of Twilight's bad memory.

The main thing that struck me was that it was bloody heartbreaking and saying 'one of the little things that struck me' is like referring to a single milligray in Hiroshima, but that's besides the point.

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There are plenty of pairings that I want to do but simply can't because there would be no reason for them; the only reason I haven't done a Gaben/Twilight Sparkle clopfic named Twilight Sparkle and Gabe Newell Develop Software nor finished the Yewlestia romance fic I've started on - besides the fact that I am likely to be incarcerated indefinitely for it - is that I simply cannot justify to myself any way by which they would meet and I dislike starting in medias res.

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The funny thing about parodies is that they don't necessarily need to be funny - for the most triumphant example see the magnificent bastard Fon Shaolin's Forever is Forever, of which even thinking induces a very deep sort of despair. Some people ask me what the point is to Solace. It has an idea and it has poetry, but the plot is very subtle and purely emotional.

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warning, pretentious egostical angsty late-night adolescent whinging ahead along with shittons of tl;dr

It's particularly horrifying for me to read a story written by another person that's any good. A great deal of this, of course, is that particularly terrible feeling of inadequacy and uncreativity in the face of novel, taken ideas, but there's another reason I note:

So many of them have their worlds open, and I have never been able to write anything with the same feeling.

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If you haven't emulated the game between Celestia and Chrysalis, then I'm proud of your possession of a life; if you're planning to, however, it is worthy to note that the Equestrian en passant, as I depict it, is only vaguely similar to the actual rule of en passant. Any pawn can capture any pawn laterally without moving to its spot, taking the pawn in passing. Why, you ask? Why make fake rules? Because it produces more drama, because the word 'en passant' sounds nice, because I

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Just in case you're wondering what sort of bollocks I've had dangling about in my head for a while, here's my to-do list.

It's a sincere bother that so many ideas tend not to work that well when you actually try to write them. I'm still trying to get to third base with Tom, but what is third base?

I swear: one day, I'll get so bloody famous people'll ask me to write their good ideas. God knows I haven't any.

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It is very late at night and this is just me ranting to myself in run-along sentences for no particular reason other than to entertain myself. Don't take a word of this to heart. It's honestly very vulgar.

Best read in a bastardised cockney sort of accent.

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