Well, finally home for the summer and all my finals are done. Expect chapters and Ask Thistleroot posts later today.

Original Post: http://left-write-center.blogspot.com/2013/04/take-chance.html

So, finals are nearly upon us, and I've got tons of programming to do for the next three weeks, so I doubt I'll have more posted until then. I do have a challenge though, for you writers who may happen to see this. Next time you have a few minutes to spare, sit down and write something different. Something you don't usually write, maybe something you don't even read. For me it was a romantic short story written on a bet, and I was surprised at how hard it was to write. I've always known little details were a weak point of mine, and trying to hit at attraction or feelings subtly really brought that fact to attention.

So if you usually write romance, take a shot at horror. If you love horror, take a shot at comedy. If you want, share your work or what you learned in the comments. Even if it comes out as poorly written as mine did, trying and experimenting is how writers get better, right? Well, that's my two cents for the day. Back to sorting algorithms and proofs.

*Cries*

So, I was poking around TV Tropes while procrastinating like any real writer, and imagine my surprise when I came across a page for my own story. I'd been toying with the idea of starting one for Discordant, but thought doing it myself would be a bit egotistical, and I don't know how. Well, seeing it and realizing someone liked the story enough to take their time to set it up made my day, so I figured I'd share it here for anyone else in need of procrastination material.

In a slightly related note, I hope to put the next chapter of Falling Feather and Harmonics up before morning, so laugh and call me names if I don't. *Whines* I need to get Falling Feather back to Swashbuckling. These crystallized freaks are just boring.

Edit: Heh, I should probably post the link. Oops >.>

As anyone who saw my last blog post knows, I've started a new story based outside of Equestria. If anyone wants to keep up with it, I'll be detailing my experiences writing and publishing in my new blog.

Left Write and Center

Hope to see you there.

So I'm starting a new, non-pony project with the hopes of self publishing. I've written a few novel length works before, but none were really good enough to sent out into the world. Writing here on fimfiction has certainly been great practice, so thanks to everyone who's liked or commented on my stories.

This might slow down my posts here, but given my habit of writing in bursts and then taking a break for a bit, I kinda doubt it. I'm halfway through the next chapters of Harmonics and Falling Feather, so they'll be up sometime this week.

I'm tempted to set up some blog for my new project, as the chapter by chapter feedback has been more motivating than I would have thought, but I'm not sure anyone would be interested in non-pony stories, or how a blog like that would affect the story once I got into rewriting and eventually trying to get the story sold. Any opinions on that matter? Has anyone self published before? Traditional publishing is more appealing to me, as I've wanted to be a writer since I was old enough to read, but I honestly don't think that's feasible while I'm in college.

Of course this is all assuming I can write anything worth a damn. Which I should be doing now, and not procrastinating on my blog.

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Please. Somebody. Anybody. Help!

How do I keep it from losing internet connectivity every few minutes?

5 bar connection. Works great for other computers. I keep getting "Limited" and have to reconnect to fix it.

Why is this OS so bad?

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I miss my vista ;_;

Yes, that's right, everyone's favorite wise cracking unicorn is on the ponynet, and not just because it's a slow weekend and I'm bored. Okay, maybe just a bit.

Ask Thistleroot

So, all in all I think the finale was decent. Could have been worse, could have been better. I prefer important episodes to be two parters. By the looks of it, the season 4 premier will be related to yesterdays episode, so my fingers are still crossed for my theories on Discord. What did everyone think? Anyone leaving the fandom in a blinding rage?

Haha, I finally get to post my horrible comic. Look upon it and burn!

Massive Spoilers in this post. Don't read if you don't want the following spoiled:

The plot of the season finale.

Information on the coming 66 minute DVD.

Lines that may or may not have been leaked from John De Lancie, future lines for Discord.

The destiny spoken of in commercials for the show.

Pretty much anything that might happen beyond the finale, because there's a slim chance I might be right with at least one of my guesses.

Here, have a picture from eqd to keep the spoilers out of view.

Right, so if you scrolled this far, you're actually curious about what I think. How odd. So yes, Spoilers from here on, last chance to stop reading. Okay, so Twilight's gonna be an alicorn princess. That's gone from unlikely rumor to confirmed fact. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I trust the writers. Apparently in Equestria, Princesshood is earned, not born into. The first guess is pretty obvious from that fact, I think Discord will be needed in the spell to make her ascend to alicornness.

Going from there, we have to wonder how Cadence became an alicorn if Discord was locked away. If he had nothing to do with it, why is he needed now? The simplest answer is that Celestia needs him freed for something unrelated, or for extenuating circumstances that weren't present in Cadence's case. Because of some theories I'll cover later, I don't think that's the case. One of the ponies, referring to Cadance, says, "The Crystal Princess has returned!" I think it's possible that Cadence was locked away with the Crystal Empire, but managed to get free some 20 years earlier, possibly with no memories of what happened. She ascended to alicornhood with the same whatever that Twilight will.

"But wait, even if that was the case, why would Discord help her become an Alicorn? He was evil 1000 years ago!"

Ah yes, excellent question, faceless reader stand in. (More spoilers) There is a theory that Discord is actually Starswirl the Bearded.

".....That's retarded. I'm out of here."

Now, just bear with me for a moment. You see, there were some lines of dialog a while ago that point to this, though it's unconfirmed whether or not they're legitimate. If they're real, they imply the starswirl/discord connection quit heavily. Also, by the sound of the lines, it seems likely Discord and Twilight are looking at past events, similar to one of the spells he uses in his debut.

"Being a pony again wasn't exactly what I had in mind, I would hardly call this a better alternative than being turned to stone." -Self explanatory, he was once a pony.

"I couldn't decide so I just chose a bit of everything, and wasn't it just beautiful? *sigh* Oh don't give me that look, like you've never gotten carried away with a little magic miss Twilight Sparkle." -Another indication that he was once a pony, and actually created his current form.

"For goodness sake, it's OMNI-omorphic, not AMNI-omorphic! Forgive me if I expected somepony who lives in a library to know the difference between A and O." -Starswirl was the "father of the amniomorphic spell". If it's actually an omniomorphic spell, that would imply a spell that can change anything into anything, pretty much what Discord does.

"On the contrary, I used to be quite stolid, then I got the beard." -Starswirl the Bearded

"Personally I think it's flattering that you like to dress like me." -Twilight's Nightmare Night Costume was Starswirl

So, Starswirl uses the omniomorphic spell to omniomorph Cadence into an alicorn. She then gets vanished with the Crystal Empire and eventually comes back to babysit Twilight. Twilight proves herself worthy of princesshood, so Celestia frees the creator of the omniomorphic spell for another round of ascend-a-pony.

But wait! There's more!

Clover the Clever was the assistant of Starswirl the Bearded, and was around during the discovery of Equestria. They were around when there were no princesses to raise the sun, and unicorns did it. Yes, you see where I'm going with this!

"You can't be serious."

DISCORD TURNED CELESTIA AND LUNA INTO THE FIRST ALICORNS!

"You're a moron, and I'm out of here."