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Who the Pony is this?


User ID: 39,599
Registered: 11th Jun 2012
Last Seen: 5h, 13m ago
Story views: 15,213

Was that me?  Or was it Somepony Else?

From the state that brought you the headwaters of the Missouri River and the majority of the good parts of Yellowstone Park, comes Esle, the writer who wrote that one story that you sorta liked, you know, the one about time-traveling pranks.

I write pony stories, as you can probably see. I try not to nail myself down to any single genre; I'd like to give every tag on the site a chance before I absolutely declare myself a comedy/shipping/darkfic writer and nothing else. Although I do have a reflexive urge to bend anything I write a little bit toward comedy. I'm trying to fight that down when it isn't appropriate.

On the reading side of things, I tend to go for shipfics mostly. Other types of story will occasionally draw my attention, but you'll usually find me browsing the Shipping group*s folders (or the Clopfic group*s folders, when the mood strikes me). I especially like rare Mane 6 ships like Apple Pie and Twi Shy. I got nothing against popular ships like Flutter Dash, but there's so much more unexplored potential in the more obscure ships.

One interesting thing to point out is that I am actually hippophobic--I have an irrational and disproportionate fear of horses. I will admit that this is a strange quirk for a MLP fan to have. It is also a bit of a challenge considering my in-laws live on a ranch with horses.

On a side note, I draw all of my cover images myself, including my profile pic.  Feel free to send me a PM if you would like me to draw something for you.  The worst I could do is say *no*

...Okay, the worst I could do is say *yes,* and then never finish it.  But I promise I will try not to do that.

You know you want a slice of Apple Pie.  Everypony likes Apple Pie!

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And Then Applejack Was a Vampire [---[10%]-------------]

Needle [---[15%]-------------]

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With crime rates on the rise in Cloudsdale, a single pegasus takes it upon himself to right the wrongs in his city. But for somepony who'd never stepped outside of an office before, where was he going to begin?
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[Romance] [Sad] [Slice of Life]
Applebloom reflects on the love of her life on a cold autumn evening...
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[Romance] [Slice of Life]
With someone threatening the elements of harmony from behind the scenes, Applejack and Pinkie Pie start becoming closer together.
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A storyteller comes to Ponyville and, quite against his better judgement, tells stories.
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[Romance] [Comedy]
In her quest to understand her new, blossoming emotions, Rainbow Dash seeks help from her friends... only to find out that advice always comes at a price.
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Twilight Gets Shipped with Everypony (Top Five)

[Romance] [Sad]
Distance can drive us apart. It can also bring us closer together.
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[Romance] [Slice of Life]
Twilight struggles with the fact that her feelings for one of her friends may have turned romantic.
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[Romance] [Slice of Life]
Rarity and Fluttershy have been friends for years, and every week they go to the spa. But after every trip, Rarity finds herself growing greener with envy over Fluttershy's beauty and grace, if not something more than just envy—
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Stuff I've Read Lately That is Awesome

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Cloud Kicker has a wild life, and Blossomforth gets dragged along for the ride.
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Speak, or talk. Spalk here.

#483446 · 1w, 3d ago · · ·
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>>483426 It's something I had intended to do a while ago, actually, but somehow I just forgot until now.

#483426 · 1w, 3d ago · · ·
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Well hi there, thanks for the watch, Esle :pinkiehappy:

#479274 · 1w, 5d ago · · ·
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What the hay... why haven't I been following you before?!

stubborn as ponies was great...

duh lol.

#475498 · 1w, 6d ago · · ·
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I'll just leave this here.

http://i.imgur.com/lXL5UkE.jpg

#386582 · 8w, 4d ago · · ·
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Wow. Speaking of days being made, thanks for the fave of Timed Ramblings and the following. You have me grinning like a complete and total idiot over coffee right now for all the right reasons. Seriously, thanks!

#358273 · 11w, 19h ago · · ·
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>>357773 Very much so! I'm trying to get my next story update finished as soon as I can, as that will probably be the push I need to pass that landmark. :rainbowdetermined2:

#357773 · 11w, 1d ago · · ·
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Seven more followers and you'll have two hundred watchers! :pinkiehappy:

Excited yet? :ajsmug:

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#302075 · 16w, 2d ago · · ·
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Wendersnaven added to ApplePie Group? Come on. Now you're just rubbing it in my face ;)

#301437 · 16w, 2d ago · · ·
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>>301367 Hm. Do you have mature content shown on your computer and not your phone? I know the Featured box shows different results when the mature-tagged fics are taken out of it.

*shrug* The viewcount doesn't look like a Featured fic, but thank you for your support, regardless. I love Twishy to bits, and if I come up with another idea for it, I won't hesitate to write it. Although Apple Pie is my real OTP, so that's the one I am most likely to write a second story for!

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What week is it? · 6:48pm

It's finals week!

And I have been spending a worrying portion of my study time doing pony stuff. No matter, I'm always good at taking tests. I'm sure I'll ace this exam on... what was I taking, again? Morpho-something, I think. They'll probably write it up on the board.

Anyway, my semester has been heating up lately, which is what I am using as an excuse this time for not posting much (though some of you may have noticed that I updated A Teatime Visit). But I haven't been idle! Lemme show you what to expect from me this summer, all color-coded because impending pony-fiction is kinda like terrorist threat-levels, if you squint hard enough.

Red: Impending release. It's done, or mostly done, and just needs a few finishing touches before it gets posted.

Brown: Currently my primary project. I can't say I'll work exclusively on it, but I'm trying to place priority on this above the others.

Green: Secondary projects. These are the things that keep distracting me from my main project. I generally have a few thousand words' start on these.

Blue: Ideas. I don't have much written for these yet, just possibilities I'm entertaining once I clear some space ahead of them.

The Thirty-Minute Dash If you read Thirty Minutes of Fabulosity, this is the same thing, but with Rainbow Dash. Daily vignettes written for Thirty Minute Ponies, all centered around that one pony with the wings. I've been writing entries for it every day for a while now, but I haven't had the opportunity to throw together cover art and post it just yet.

And Then Applejack Was a Vampire Applejack wakes up one morning to find she has a craving for blood and a severe reaction to sunlight. I'll admit, this isn't very solidly in the primary slot. Depending on bursts of creative genius, this might lose its priority to one of the greens below. But right now, I've got some ideas for this one, so I'm running with it.

Everypony Loves Pie A polyamory fic centered on Pinkie Pie. Because there can never be enough pink poni love. Among other things, I am going to try in this fic to make use of Alicorn!Twilight without it becoming the main focus of the story, because that is something I'm going to have to learn how to do in this post season 3 world.

The Needle Skips A dark psychological thriller about a game of musical chairs with alternate universes and a love triangle. This has dropped a rung on the priority list since last time, but that isn't because I'm any less enthusiastic about doing it. It's just that my co-author for this, the ever-talented KitsuneRisu, has been quite busy lately and so progress has slowed. But Needle is still moving forward, rest assured.

Twilight and Applejack Steal a Train A comedy based on the pun, "Twijacking." Since the last two things I've published to this site other than Thirty Minute Ponies stuff have been updates to my comedy stories, this one will probably wait for a little while before I start working on it in earnest. I gotta recharge the funny.

More Trouble Than It's Worth This is the (tentative) title for the sequel to Stubborn as Ponies. A complicated heap of RariTwi love.

Afraid of Her Own Shadow Fluttershy x Fluttershy. Yay.

Before I go, I just wanna share with you all this lovely piece of art KitsuneRisu drew of Ersatz.

Pretty.

Esle Ynopemos · 64 views

Funny Ponies

[Comedy]
A friendly visit over tea launches a series of increasingly ridiculous pranks.
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[Comedy]
Rarity is blind. She tries to fake being able to see.
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Kissing Ponies

[Romance]
Pinkie and Applejack are too stubborn to not be in love.
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[Romance] [Sad]
Rainbow Dash was loyal. Applejack was honest. Rainbow Dash was honest. Applejack was loyal.
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[Romance] [Adventure]
Fluttershy recruits Twilight to go into the mountains with her and find a mythical creature. But they might find something more.
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Scary Ponies

[Dark]
Twilight discovers a terrible secret at Sweet Apple Acres.
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Hot, fresh pony


The Thirty Minute Dash

A compilation of short stories and vignettes about Rainbow Dash, each written in thirty minutes flat!

Will update daily until there are thirty chapters.

Similar in concept to Thirty Minutes of Fabulosity, except it's about Rainbow Dash, so it's way cooler!

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A Teatime Visit

When Rarity has Twilight over for tea, she learns her friend has a big confession to make.  But what is really going on here?

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Thirty Minutes of Fabulosity

A collection of short stories and vignettes written for Thirty Minute Ponies.

They aren't all in the same continuity, but they all feature everypony's favorite fashionista.

Rated [Everyone] for now, but future chapters might push it into [Teen].

...Darling.

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21,167 words ( 30 chapters ) · 191 views  ·  33  ·  3  · 

The Wendersnaven

A Wendersnaven is a mythical creature. Some say it looks like a bird with two heads and feathers of every color of the rainbow. Others believe it looks like a cat with zebra stripes and sparkling jewels for eyes. There's at least one pony who thinks it looks like a turtle carrying a tiny castle on its back! See, nopony has ever seen a Wendersnaven before, so nopony knows what it looks like.

But with Twilight's help, Fluttershy is going to go find one. Into the rugged Blackhoof Mountains they'll go, in search of the mythical beast. But perhaps they'll find something more among the high rocky peaks.

Many thanks to Loving Tolerance for pre-reading!

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Of Vows Unbroken and Truths Spoken

Rainbow Dash was loyal. She would never betray the love of her life.

Applejack was honest. She knew that if she sensed something wrong, she would speak up.

This is a story of the promises we keep, and the ones we break. Of the truths we tell, and the ones we keep silent.

Rated Teen for brief language and some adult themes. Big thanks to Loving Tolerance for giving this a look-over and telling me what works and what doesn't. One of these days, I might even listen to him!

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