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User ID: 866
Registered: 28th Aug 2011
Last Seen: 4h, 36m ago
Story views: 112,307

Stories about ponies are stories about people.

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Princess Luna leads the Elements of Harmony against the corrupted Twilight Sparkle
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[Sad] [Slice of Life]
When Twilight's mother passes away unexpectedly, she reflects on a parent she neglected.
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[Comedy] [Slice of Life]
When Twilight is admitted to the Ponyville hospital, Rainbow Dash is there for her.
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A chilling letter from Celestia throws the girls' world upsidedown
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[Romance] [Comedy] [Adventure]
Grand Galloping Gala meets Groundhog Day time-loop
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[Sad]
Daring Do returns home one final time.
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[Dark] [Adventure]
Twilight gives her life to stop a changeling invasion. Repeatedly.
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It's Friday and the teenagers of Ponyville have a day off school. Shenanigans and shippings ensue!
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Luna takes the Elements of Harmony on a journey in more ways than one.
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Once a week, the Brony Bookclub takes a dive into the world of fanfiction. Last week they did an episode centered around everyone's second-best pony, Fluttershy! To help their discussion along, they decided to feature The Contest!

The Contest

(aka, my first good story)

We had fun talking about Fluttershy, this story and quite a few others featuring Fluttershy, as well as some of our favorite current stories. If you get a chance, check it out!

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#464586 · 2w, 3d ago · · ·
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>>463791

You hit that pretty much on the head.

The Carnivore's Prayer is deeply informed by a pair of deployments I went on with a special operations task force. Salvation isn't so much about PTSD as it is about the survivors of a war and the families of the dead – there are thousands of families in real life going through what Rainbow Dash is in that story.

I don't think I'll ever write a straight-up MLP story featuring a war. Wars just don't fit the MLP universe very well. I'd rather write about wars using symbols or metaphors.

TIG is a great story, though.

#463791 · 2w, 3d ago · · ·
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I've noticed your serious fics tend to have elements of war in them.

The Carnivore's Prayer is sort of like how shocking it can be and how little you really understand it.

Salvation is your PTSD story, with characters using sex to cope with emotional trauma.

Even one of your favorite stories is about war, The Immortal Game.

Being deployed overseas 4 times I wouldn't be surprised.

So is there a chance that we're going to get a straight up war story from you?

#449876 · 3w, 3d ago · 1 · ·
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Goodness, I love your bio. I seem to quote it to myself when I'm reading a lot of the time.

#442849 · 4w, 17h ago · · ·
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>>442840

Yeah, and I don't mean to be persnickity, since "surplus" and "surfeit" are kind of like "flammable" and "inflammable" for me. I just automatically assume they're antonyms, and I have to think VERY HARD to keep them straight.

#442840 · 4w, 17h ago · · ·
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>>442828

Huh, yeah. I meant to say 'dearth.' Not sure why that came out instead.

Should stop posting while I'm tired, I guess.

#442828 · 4w, 18h ago · · ·
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sur·feit  

/ˈsərfət/

Noun

An excessive amount of something: "a surfeit of food and drink".

I should read the story because it has too many views?

#412434 · 6w, 2d ago · · ·
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You became 10X cooler for having read House of Leaves.

Gods I love that book. I wish my loaned out copy would come back so I could read it again

#412113 · 6w, 2d ago · · ·
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Hey. :pinkiehappy:

Just finished reading The Wind Thief (which I greatly enjoyed) and was wondering if you still work on the sequel or if it's been discarded.

Thanks for answer. :twilightsheepish:

#372344 · 9w, 4d ago · · ·
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I've reread Salvation three times. (I like to reread.) It's my favorite Romance Tag anything here.

and you know what I was thinkin' 'bout? When Rainbow reads "High Flying" and how my heart broke the first time I read that.

It's one of my favorite poems, was before I read Salvation, and when I read it now I hear someone else's voice reading it. It's not like the show Rainbow's voice. It's older. Subdued, still a hint of that scratchy-voiced kid left, but not much. Every time I read those lines, I see that scene again in my head and hear that voice.

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The Comedies

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Twilight attempts to write a sensual romance novel.
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[Comedy]
Fluttershy returns to defend her title as Quiet Game world champion.
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[Romance] [Comedy]
Twilight Sparkle has a date... with time!
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[Comedy] [Random]
He did it to Transformers. Now Michael Bay turns his genius to My Little Pony.
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[Comedy]
The Cutie Mark Crusaders have finally gone too far.
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The not-Comedies

[Romance] [Dark]
A young artist in love will do whatever it takes to satisfy his heart.
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[Dark]
It is their nature
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[Sad] [Slice of Life]
Fluttershy discovers the limits of compassion.
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Adventures! Others!

[Crossover] [Adventure]
A Tale of the Dragonborn
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[Adventure]
A terrible accident threatens to unmake the world as we know it.
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[Comedy] [Slice of Life]
The ever-humble Rainbow Dash has selflessly agreed to give Scootaloo a wing-up on Flight School
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[Dark] [Comedy] [Random] [Slice of Life]
Short sketches about being human. Except, you know, with ponies.
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[Slice of Life]
North of Canterlot, in the far marches of the Equestrian lands near the border with the Griffon tribes, there is a mountain that flies.
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The Fortress City of the Clouds

North of Canterlot, in the far marches of the Equestrian lands near the border with the Griffon tribes, there is a mountain that flies.

It is not shaped like the mountains adhering to the rocky earth far below. It is not shaped like the easy geometric summits drawn in foal’s storybooks. It does not share their snow-capped peaks or bedrock roots. There are no veins of ore running through it like blood. It cannot be climbed.

But it is a mountain, nevertheless.

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Shorts

A collection of short stories. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. All, hopefully, about what it means to be human.

Except, you know, with ponies.

I'm afraid of Changeling: Drone 42531 is insecure and decides he needs to see a professional, whether or not the professional wants to see him. [Comedy] [Random]

One thousand and one: A family keeps a long vigil, regardless of the cost. [Sad]

Uncoordinated: Twilight Sparkle and the Cutie Mark Crusaders conduct an experiment. Accidentally. [Comedy] [Random]

But the Greatest of These: Every pony has to grow up someday. Every dragon, too. [Slice of Life]

Wonder: Pinkie Pie's farm is grey. The sky is grey. Her sister is grey. The world is grey. Until, one day, it isn't. [Slice of Life]

The Apple of my Eye: Apple Bloom finally gets her cutie mark. It's not what she wanted. [Comedy] [Random]

Bookworm: Twilight Sparkle finds an odd message in her books. [Dark]

At the End of the Day: Just what does Pinkie Pie do in her free time? [Slice of Life]

The House at the End of the World: Some promises shouldn't be kept. [Adventure] [Dark]

Pantone Perfect: Rarity and Twilight Sparkle enjoy a refreshing argument at the spa. [Comedy] [Random]

Medium Rare: In which we learn the secret, scarring horror that was Fluttershy's first experience with a dragon. [Comedy] [Random]

One Thousand Flowers: How long do gifts take to grow? [Slice of Life]

Tempest: A pegasus teaches his son the nature of the rain. [Slice of Life]

No Natural Predators: The days have grown longer as the world winds down. [Adventure] [Dark]

Six More Weeks: The first day of Spring is a wonderful time to be a pony. Just make sure you get the date right. [Comedy]

(Based on prompts from the Thirty Minute Pony Stories tumblr. All written in 30 minutes – give or take.)

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Harpflank and Sweets: A Very Special Episode

Lyra and Bon Bon, aka the masked superheroes Harpflank and Sweets, have been entertaining young foals with their stories of action and courage on television. But once a season, the network produces a special episode to teach valuable life lessons to impressionable young foals.

A very special episode, with a narrator who is determined to make their emotional breakthroughs as touching and personal as possible.

Whether they want it or not.

(Side story to Harpflank and Sweets, by Arcainum. I'm very sorry.)

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The Carnivore's Prayer

The gryphons were not always monsters. That came later.

In the earliest days, they were our friends. They flew alongside pegasi. They shared the land with earth ponies. They studied beside unicorns. There was no fear between us. That came later too.

Time drew our people apart, but it was not time that made them monsters. They made that choice themselves; they chose their fate. And it was the greatest gryphon who sealed it.

He was born, many years ago, on a mountain far to the north...

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For the Love of Science

Twilight has a date! Maybe. Her date doesn’t know it’s a date, which makes it more like half of a date.

But before she can go on her date, she needs to retrieve her journal, which has become unstuck from time. Her journal, full of hopes and dreams and pleasures, none of which can ever be allowed to see the light of day.

It’s a story of love, science and time travel, and the lengths one pony will go to for all three. Paradoxes be damned; Twilight has a date!

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The First Light of Dawn

It is the longest day of the year, and something has gone wrong. Canterlot is in ruins, Celestia is an out-of-control god flying west, and it's up to Twilight Sparkle and her friends to save Equestria. But with the Great and Powerful Trixie playing a reckless wild card, do the girls have what it takes to set things right?

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The Wind Thief

The legends told of their return.

For over a decade Equestria has been beset by the dragons. Every year more villages vanish in flames, and the lonely cities stand as our last redoubt. Winter has gripped the world, and our hope is fading.

But the legends tell of another, a light in the darkness. The Dragonborn, a mythic warrior reborn with the power of the Voice, the only one who can stand against the dragons.

But when she appeared, she was not what we were expecting...

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Naked Singularity

Twilight Sparkle is a gifted student and scholar. When she attempts to harness her creative side by writing a science-themed sensual romance novel, however, things rapidly get out of hoof. Can her friends stage an intervention before she humiliates herself (and them) at a prestigious literature recital?

No. No, they cannot.

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The Glass Blower

She is as beautiful and graceful as the moon, and just as hard to reach. He is a young artist with much to learn about the world. When he accepts her challenge to create an artistic masterpiece, will he win her heart, or learn a terrible lesson in the nature of beauty and love?

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The Contest

"It's called 'Shh'," said Fluttershy. "It's a game about who can be quiet the longest. Sound fun? I'm the world champion."

Fluttershy is not a pony who makes things up. She really is the world champion of "Shh," or The Quiet Game. And now it's time for her to defend her crown, with Twilight Sparkle and Rarity along for the ride.

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The Proper Care and Feeding of Monsters

Fluttershy's kindness to all creatures is legendary in Ponyville. When a freak storm blows in from the Everfree Forest, however, she and her friends discover the limits of compassion, and the dangers of living with your heart wide open to the world.

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Michael Bay Presents: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Revenge of the Unicorn God Slayer

[Comedy] [Parody] On June 28, 2011, Michael Bay released Transformers: Dark of the Moon, his third feature film based on the HASBRO toy line Transformers. The next day, Bay and HASBRO entered into talks over another of the toy company’s properties, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The only concrete evidence of the new film to emerge so far is a tattered screenplay, presented here, which was found in a dumpster outside Bay’s production house, Platinum Dunes.

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The Cutie Mark Conspiracy

[Comedy] The Cutie Mark Crusaders have finally gone too far, and Twilight Sparkle & Friends decide it's time to teach them a lesson. But when their prank starts to take on a life of its own, they may end up being too clever for their own good.

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Maiden Flight

The ever-humble Rainbow Dash has selflessly agreed to give Scootaloo a wing-up on Flight School with a few lessons. Twilight Sparkle, however, has her doubts...

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