Barcast Interview - The Transcript pt.1 · 3:04pm February 2nd
So Wednesday I posted up a link to my Barcast interview, which y'all should go listen to. I mentioned there that I was working on an extra project and that I'd be done by Friday.
Well, it's done now. Rather than spending my time writing or catching up on my reading, I transcribed the entire two hour interview to a text format so those who can't listen are able to at least read. And as a special bonus feature, I've added both links to most of the people/stories/things discussed and a number of annotations! Cross-reference those with the first comment on this blog and you'll be able to get a bunch of extra info! Some of it is corrections, some of it is expansions to my answers, and a few are additions of things I forgot in the heat of the moment.
Enjoy!
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Did you know there's a max limit on the size of a blog post? I do now! So since we were chatty, I've had to split this into two. You can find the other half here, and follow this link to the first comment that shows this half's annotations.)
Flutterpriest: Hello and welcome. Welcome to the Barcast, where the bar gets lower every single week. Your bartenders for this evening are Anonpencil.
Anonpencil: Hey Priest, fill in the drinking word.
FP: I will. With Enigmatic Otaku.
Enigmatic Otaku: What's it like to pee? I've never done that before.
FP: Uh the person who can answer is Flammenwerfer.
Flammenwerfer: Correct and my thought on the matter is: Megalovania opening notes
AP: Eugh.
FP: And my name is Flutterpriest. This week we're actually back. Welcome welcome to the new year and also Priest not being able to spell the word Sunset. Um. We have a very special guest this week. We're starting off the year strong. We have someone that I've been aware of in the fandom for a good while. They've been putting in the work, they've been so active and featured several times, It's time to give this writer the credit they deserve. We have TCC56.
TCC56: Hey and I will say in- in Priest's defense, I constantly have to correct myself in my stories from writing 'susnet'.
FP: laughter 'Susnet'?!
TC: Constantly. Constantly.
AP: Do you have a name you'd prefer we call you? Do you want to be TC or CC or the big 56?
TC: Honestly any of those will work. I'm still vaguely embarrassed by the name because it was a throwaway when I said "I'm just going to put together bookshelves, that doesn't really matter."1
FP: I mean that's –
FW: Me too, me too.
AP: Ticky-Tacky it is. Your new name is Ticky Tacky.
TC: Ticky Tacky, got it.
AP: Ticky Tacky.
FP: See I- I don't know, I've always been used to calling you TCC or at least like when I was like "Oh my gosh we have too many stories I got to I gotta find TCC." Um, so that that'll probably be what I'm used to. But anyway for those who've never turned in before, hello and welcome in 2024 where we're we've almost done this stupid podcast for a decade. I don't know how to feel about that. Um. But, um, for those who haven't tuned in before hello and welcome we're streaming live on Twitch right now and you can catch up on previous episodes on YouTube such as John de Lance, Andrea Libman, Dustykatt and many many more from the fandom. Um, watching the twitch chat right now is the lovely Anonpencil. Pencil what are questions we don't ask our guest?
AP: Um, our guest is pretty open to questions today, which means you can be obscene and gross and ask the weird shit! However we ask that you don't ask personal questions like where do you live, what's your full name, what's your social security number. Don't be a fucking dickwad, you understand this one. Like this is- this is basic shit, you guys have been here long enough, don't be a dickwad. And if you do I'll ban you. But for all the wonderful people in our chatroom we have a fun thing you can do which is to play a game along with us. Priest, how's the game work?
FP: It's true we have a drinking game. If you hear the word 'sunset' or apparently if you hear a subscription ding, uh take a nice healthy respectful drink. I say healthy and respectable because we want you to drink uh responsibly and we don't want to send someone to the hospital again. So if you hear us say the word 'Sunset' like Sunset Shimmer - starting off strong - uh be sure to take a drink. Um that said, uh, that covers the majority of it 99% sure so let's get into doing some actual interviewing! Oh my gosh it's like riding a bike except I've never learned how to ride a bike. TCC, let's start from the very top let's let's introduce you for those who are jumping onto the video and and may not have known who you are. Who are you and what do you do in the fandom?
TC: Well as I as mentioned TCC56 is the screen name I use, occasionally you'll just see me go by Tempest56, T56, a bunch of different things. I'll answer to pretty much anything that involv– involving the phrase "Hey you." So, um, I've been around since 2019 so I'm a relatively late joiner to the fandom. Don't have the– quite the level that some of the 2012's and 2013's have. Ah, but I'm reasonably productive with things. Uh, I how many am I up to… 79 stories at this point, uh, 565 followers, I do the #Recommendsday blog where I try to spread things around around a little bit… Um I'm– was the second to last Royal Canterlot Library inductee, I help every year with Jinglemas, judged I think three contests this year? Bits and pieces like that I'm all over the place.2
FP: Well that's awesome and and definitely a storied and very legitimate resume and despite being a late joiner especially with today's numbers on– on views and and people that are actually dedicated and sticking to the site 569 is– or is that right 569?
TC: Uh 565. I had to actually go look it up.
FP: So well I– I will– oh I'm already following. Go follow him. Let's get him to 569. Funny number.
EO: Nice. Nice.
FP: But that that is that's not– Definitely a respectful number by today's standards. So definitely nothing to slouch at.
AP: No and I– I 100% let us mobilize the barcast at this moment in time as we used to do in days of yore. Let's get that number to the correct funny number. Let's– let's do it guys. I'll post a link. Let's do the thing. It's time.
FP: So while we're mobilizing the forces, let's– let's get to the next question. How did you get into MLP?
TC: Well I actually did show up back at the very beginning when I, ah, a couple of friends of mine were talking about it. I said oh let's check this out. I came in, watched an episode or two, said this is kind of neat, took a look at the fandom of the time and said "okay these people are goddamn crazy I'm out of here", and I just kind of backpedaled out of the room and didn't look back for a couple of years. Uh I actually looked back just when the announcements of season nine were coming out, things were saying you know it's the final season I'm like oh I wonder what ever happened to that so I came back, looked around, said "oh no this is this is nice." That was right around the same time a lot of my other uh, creative pursuits kind of dried up and I said "oh um got a pretty comprehensive site, let's– let's look around" so I ended up just kind of falling into that just cuz the other things I was doing creatively went away at right about the right time.
EO: That's like you were just sitting around, smoking your pipe and you just thought to yourself "Whatever happened to that Brony hullabaloo?"
TC: Honestly that's not too far off.
FP: laughter Well now you're here let's- let's dissect the fandom a little bit. Um. What would you consider to be your favorite part of the fandom? The online community, the fanfics themselves, convention, music, art. In short, what keeps you here?
TC: Honestly it's– I've– it's one of the questions that will come up later. I've been through a lot of online fandoms. I've floated in and out of a whole slew of them over the years. Um and it's always nice to see– People talk these days about you know 'the fandom is dying, it's so bad, everyone's going away' and having been through a number of very dying fandoms, it's amazing the level of activity and the level of passion, the level of creativity I see around me at this point. I'm seeing– there's so much stuff which has already been done which is amazing. So– I'm still working my way backwards through the site reading story after story that's like– damn this is great stuff. Original ideas, that– going through art that's been around for, you know, a decade plus at this point and that's just great stuff and I'm seeing so much interesting material to work with. Not just for just viewing but for my own creative pursuits going "That's a great idea I got to do that" and just there's so much out there that I love it! Where as opposed to some other fandoms of I've been through where there's I go go in, look around, there's 10 people left. There's just– there's not a lot there.
FP: Mmhm. That's– there's a lot of truth there. At very least in the Brony fandom, we seem to kind of… congealed isn't the right word but we've been able to kind of centralize around a few central hubs. Like Equestria Daily was there for kind of directing people in the right way, but at very least for the writing component everyone went to FIMFiction. Like there is some fanfiction.net but it's usually people that are already established there or… I don't– I- I don't know if there is such a thing as quote unquote having a presence on fanfiction.net but…
TC: Right, no, I get exactly what you mean and a lot of other fandoms are much more splintered.
FP: Mmhm. Absolutely.
FW: Has Fanfiction even made any meaningful updates since I left back in like 2012?
FP: It– it still looks pretty much black and white.
AP: I don't know…
FW: Like can– I can I like embed pictures in the main text?
FP: I think you can.
EO: I doubt it.
AP: That would be a change.
FW: That would be a fuckin' improvement.
FP: No I remember once upon a time, like people in the, um, the uh the author's notes were able to like put in funny memes and stuff I remember that specifically from like, um, oh what's the Ebony Dark'ness Raven Way… Uh…
EO: Are you talking about that Harry Potter fanfic–
FP: Yeah the vampire Harry Potter fic…
AP: My Immortal?
FP: My Immortal, yes!
FW: Oh my god.
AP: It's called My Immortal.
FW: The classics.
FP: Yeah, there were some pictures in the, uh, what's it called, the author's notes.
FW: I want to go back. I miss– I miss when that was a huge thing. I miss those days.
EO: It's My Immortal, not to be confused with Miyamoto. That's a completely different guy.
AP: Be the change you want to see in the world, Flam. Um, but to go back to what our guest was saying. Honestly? Okay so as far as Fanfiction versus FIMFic - yeah like FIMFic is really centralized we– we– we're pretty combined to one place, we know each other by name, if I see you at a con and I see your name tag there's a chance I'll know who you are. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, right?
TC: Right. But at the same time I mean, I– I know a couple people who have had fandom beefs with each other until they meet each other.
AP: Yes.
TC: And that changes everything.
FP: Oh yeah like that's one of the weird things about– Well I shouldn't say that weird because like that's just the Internet. It's like once we actually connect people with a real face and name, everything kind of changes a little bit. Either people, like, kind of get over it or they hate each other even more.
general chuckling
AP: Yeah.
FP: Mostly it's been the former.
EO: What do you mean, every single person I met loved me.
FP: Oh Enigma. Oh Enigma. Uh, next standard kind of interview question is if there's one thing that you could say to your followers or fans or even friends that you've made along the way what would that be?
TC: Oh thank you obviously. I mean I can't get anywhere without them out there you know helping me, reading me, encouraging me to continue doing stuff - I mean I would be creating even if I wasn't but at the same time? It's always great to get that kind of feedback and to see the support from people. Even if it's just dropping a comment or you know saying hi or something like that, it's always good to see people out there and to get that interaction.
FP: No, I think that's totally fair. Um, next question is little more philosophical. My Little Pony itself as a franchise in a very weird place. Um, with the conclusion of Gen 4, Gen 5 never seemed to really kind of launch in the same way or uh really kind of take off to the point that Hasbro even kind of began to lean back on its own laurels and bring back Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and such for toys and marketing materials. Where do you think the series goes from here?
TC: You mean in terms of what they're going to do or what the fandom in general is going to do because that's two very different things.
FP: You know what, take it in both directions. Don't take that too far, I know everyone's thinking–
AP: Good job, Priest. Good job. Good job.
TC: laughter
AP: Good job.
TC: Well, no, I think what Hasbro's going to do is yeah they're probably going to pull back from G5, they're going to try to circle back with G4 and, you know, lean into things but bluntly they're not– they're honestly pretty bad at a lot of this stuff. They constantly– they constantly push to create new things and interesting things and marketable stuff and then they don't do anything with them. And that it's just the-the… I don't even honestly– I don't know what they're going to do. They're probably going to at some point… just bomb on G5 and regroup. Maybe they'll go back to G4, pull something like a– like they did with Pony Life and do something like that but… Honestly I don't even know what they're going to do. The fandom? I just don't think we're just not going to damn well care. I've– again I've seen a lot of fandoms that haven't had new stuff in a decade and they just do not give a damn.
FP: It's true.
EO: What they ought to do… What they ought to do is is take Misty from G5 right and just give her her own show. Money, right there.
TC: Oh yeah no totally. Misty is great3, I– totally my new favorite.
EO: Thank you! Thank you, you said the correct thing. You know how often I hear people say the wrong thing when the answer's not Misty? It's nice to know you're what– you're you're a good guy.
TC: laughter Yeah no, I like the– I like a lot of the other ones but Misty? Just nah. kiss Chef's kiss.
FP: I do want to warn you that liking Enigma on this show is generally considered a bad move.
AP: Yeah like if you like him and talk to him, he thinks he's people.
general laughter
FP: So uh let's– let's do our our last standard interview question before we throw you to the wolves. Um, last but certainly not least: who is the best pony?
TC: Oh, Sunset Shimmer. Best pony, Best human. Yeah. Said that in my RCL interview too, so I can hold to it.
FP: Absolutely.
AP: The drinking begins!
FP: Great choice. Absolutely a great choice. I'm gonna sip my LeCroix and vodka and let's move on to the thread. Alex_ is up for– No, actually, we have the question for from the thread. Pencil, do you want to take that?
AP: Ah sure! We have a very we have a very important question from chat for you. Um. Alex_ would like to know what are the dimensions of the genital.
TC: Enough.4
FP: Enough!
FW: Based. Actually based.
FP: Actually based.
AP: Correct answer. Factually correct answer. There you go.
FP: Alright. Alex_ is up first in the thread who starts with hi hi what the flip is up man?
TC: I don't know, I'm just doing this thing here. Obviously you can see what's up.
FP Just thinking about you that's all.
TC: Just thinkin' about you babe, not much, what's doing with you?
FP: Number two, what'd you get for Christmas?
FC: Uh honestly not a whole lot, my uh– I did get some nice new hand knit socks though. My wife uh– my wife actually knits as a hobby5 and she got me a whole set of nice warm wool socks that she hand did.
FW: Yo.
AP: That's nice.
FP: So I there's- there is something very real about being an adult and getting socks on Christmas and being unironically happy about it.
AP: Yeeeah.
TC: Oh it's weird as hell it's weird as hell but it works.
FP: I remember being a kid. Any sort of clothing is like "why why did you do this."
FW: No now absolutely nowadays it's like holy shit yeah this will this will look great my wardrobe. I'm look fresh as hell in this.
EO: All was a goddamn Roboraptor. How hard was it to get that.
FP: Number three what were your New Year's resolutions?
TC: I have actually never made a New Year's resolution because I know I'm not going to stick the damn things.
FP: That's a great resolution to not make.
AP: Yeah, there you go. That's a resolution right there.
FP: So I I'll tackle this in a different direction: Do you have any projects you want to tackle this year?
TC: I have quite a lot of projects as again one of the questions later on is going to be asking. I have, I mean I post a quarterly blog just showing what the status of my currently active stuff is and I think the last one had like 15 stories6 that I'm currently working on so…
FW: Oh my god.
TC: I– I'm– I've got a lot of things to go through.
FP: Okay well that said what is– What is the project that has been on hiatus for the longest?
TC: Uh none actually! I don't have anything that's on a hiatus anymore. I had one that was sitting for the longest time I finally finished it last year. I don't have any– the only things I've currently got incomplete are the one active long-term one that I'm doing that I'm doing posts on every month and I think the one that's just the archive for me doing the Flash 150 challenges so…
FP: That's not bad at all good job. Uh number four is have you ever been naked before?
TC: A few times, yes.
AP: Just a few. Was it when you were a baby? Like now that you're an adult are you ever naked?
TC: Well I mean I got to take a shower eventually…
FP: Oh come on TMI!
AP: You shower naked? You shower naked, what the fuck!
FP: laughter
TC: I'm a complete pervert, yep!7
FW: Look you know what's funny is that I envisioned that sentence going differently and thought you're going to be like "Yeah I've taken a shit before" and I'm like "True, man, true." why do they call it–
AP: You're getting naked to shit.
FW: Why do they call it– why do they call it the rest room, I'm fighting for my life in here. God damn!
TC: I was tempted say I am right now but I'm like no my- my chair is leather that would be a terrible life choice.
AP: Trying to stand up and feeling and hearing the sound that velcro makes when you unstick it, when your body just tries to contain itself to the leather.
TC: Oh no yeah no.
EO: Or worse you leave like an– like an ass print sweat stain.
FP: Nooooo.
FW: You're bringing back some terrible sleepover memories.
FP: You're reminding me of like the Craigslist that– that is like 'for sale: desk chair, has slight odor.' It's like nope.
TC: No.8
FW: For Sale: office chair, lightly shat.
TC: laughter
FP: Ugh. Number five. All right we're– we're– we're moving on from that to what is your favorite sandwich–
FW: No low balls.
FP: What is your favorite sandwich filling?
TC: Oh I'm– I'm absolutely a peanut butter guy. I actually have a significant problem where if I do not have a jar of peanut butter in the house9 as an emergency thing for sandwiches, I actually get extremely nervous. I have gotten up in the middle of the night and gone out to the store to buy a jar of peanut butter because I was out.
FP: We are best friends now. Uh, is jelly totally optional?
TC: Oh it's absolutely optional. Sometimes you feel like it but sometimes it's just like no just give me peanut butter, bread, I'm solid.
FP: Alright what is your jelly and/or jam of choice.
TC: Uh honestly, red?
FP: Red!
AP: RED! Red is not a flavor of jam or jelly!10
FP: It can be! It can be!
FW: It is a feeling, Pencil.
AP: It– I know but like as a flavor are we talking strawberry, are we talking like mixed berry, are we talking Cherry? There– there's– there's–
FP: laughter
TC: Honestly if I got to pick one I'm going cranberry if I can.
FP: YEEEEES.
AP:Not the direction I thought you would go! That's an interesting choice, good for you.
FW: I am partial to basic bitch strawberry.
FP: This is my favorite guest of the year.
TC: I'm the first guest of the year.
EO: It's like–
AP: Oh my fuck!
TC: I'll take– the bar is low but I will take it.
AP: Oh my fuck, good job.
FP: The bar has never been lower.
EO: If we asked him what his favorite ketchup was and he said the green Heinz Shrek ketchup from early 2000s.
FW: Yo.
FP: Yo it looked weird but it tasted good.
TC: Nah nah if I was going to do that I was going to mention the old purple stuff they did for a while.
FP: Oh that was also a thing I remember that. Oh it grossed my mama out. Anyway, number six what are your favorite types of fanfics?
TC: Decently written.
FP: Oof.
TC: Nah nah, that sounds like sarcasm but honestly. I've got a– I read a lot of stuff, I enjoy a lot of stuff, and I'm good with most all of it but the one thing that I cannot abide by is when I open up a story and the first sentence has three typos in it.11 I cannot deal with that.
EO: How do you feel about bricks of text?
AP: Okay but how do you feel about intentional misspellings and errors?
TC: Okay intentional is perfectly fine and there's some great stylistic choices you can do with that. But there are so many people where just I open it up I'm like "nope I- I- I cannot continue to read this this needs a spell checker."
AP: Got it.
FP: I- I- I find it so difficult for… to accept typos in– in given day and age when Google Docs is free for everyone.
TC: Exactly.
FW: Yeah it spell check is even decently good so it's like…
FP: The worst thing that can happen is that it spellchecks it to the wrong word.
TC: Exactly and that's– and that's fine, you can mistakes happen, we're all human, but there's a certain amount of just not showing you give a damn about your craft with things.
FP: Yes.
FW: My favorite thing about Google doc spellcheck is that it'll occasionally say "hey this word is spelled wrong" and it's a very common word that totally exists and it acts like it doesn't– that word doesn't exist and it's like "would you like to add it to your dictionary" the word uh, 'rot'. Yeah, well yes, I would like to add that to my dictionary, thank you. That's my favorite thing. It's like wow I didn't know that word didn't exist.
FP: Chat's bringing up this- the- the point of like drunken speak or like accents where you purposely mistype like Ah'm for like a southern drawl and I don't know. I– I there's a certain point where that goes too far too.
TC: Yeah, no there– a little bit g–o a little bit you can do- work with but a little bit goes a long way.
FP: Yeah.
FW: Absolutely and that's actually a philosophical thing on its own like if you– some people are of the opinion that if as long as you are aware– people describe what the accent is you just type it normally and it and that usually gets– the reader's imagination will do the uh the rest but... I'm of the opinion you can do a little bit. That if you do too much it just sounds like you're taking the piss and uh, which can be fucking funny. But at some point it's just grating to read.
FP: Ah'm moving to the next question. RK_Striker_JK_5 is up next. Number one what is your favorite non MLP franchise?
TC: So if I had to name one I'm actually a huge Metroid fan.
FW: YOOOOO
FP: YOOOOOO
EO: Uh oh.
AP: Flam has entered the chat.
TC: My wife actually says Samus Aran was my first love12 and I can't deny it's something I still enjoy. I mean I've been playing for a– I've been playing those games for a very long time. I reflexively buy a new one comes out, I'm still mad at Nintendo, where is my goddamn Prime 4.
FW: Hey be– be happy about it they knew it was shit at first so they restarted development, brought in Retro Studios, and now it looks like everything's done they're just finalizing shit.
TC: And I will forgive them the moment they actually like, give me a proper updated trailer.
FW: Dude I'm taking work off the day it's released. Like I'm taking that day off. My girlfriend will not hear a single word out of me that day.
TC: I was going to say if I had to name another one I'm actually an old BattleTech nerd as well, I've been playing since about 1988 or so, so…
FW: Wow.
FP: Oh my gosh. I– I have a friend right now that is, like, they– they're sad because they don't have anyone to talk to about the new squadron that they've built and they're so proud of in BattleTech and they- they have a a group they meet up on like Sundays… Ah.
TC: Well to to put that part in perspective if you actually see my icon, that is actually the logo for the unit in BattleTech that I've been playing for the last 30 years, so.
FP: Oh my gosh, that's cool. I'll have to–
AP: Okay– I oh go on, sorry.
FP: I was just gonna I was just going to say that I need to @Fistingstick so they can see your your- your uh, your what's it called? Your profile picture but please go on Pencil.
TC: Yeah I was gonna say and I'm betting they won't recognize it because it is an obscure as hell unit, so.
FP: That's fair.
AP: An absolute unit. Anyway, um, I was going to ask a very important question. Just say it loud and proud and clear for everyone. How do you say the name of the main character in Metroid?
TC: Samus Aran.
FW: If it's anything other than Samus Aran or Aran, I'll- I'll- I'll accept it.
TC: I've heard- I've heard- I've heard Aran and Aran both ways. I- I can never– I just go with the first one but…
FW: Yeah I accept both of them.
AP: But the first name…
EO: I thought their name was Mr Metroid.
AP: No. What's the first name?
TC: Samus.
FW: Samus.
AP: Samus.13
FW: Not the way- not the way- not the way, uh, Super Smash Bros Melee says it, no siree. I– it's–
TC: Samus.
FW: I–I will kill you.
laughter
FW: It is that simple.
EO: Okay.
FP: Sheamus.
AP: It's not Sheamus. It is not Sheamus.
FW: Fun fact: it is that– I actually looked up the name Samus and it is actually an obscure uh, female version of Sheamus.
AP: I'm not surprised that it's- it's Gaelic based. Frankly.
FW: Yeah I was actually curious where they came up with that and they said nope it is indeed a female form of Sheamus, it's just very obscure.
FP: Speaking– speaking of shame, how forgivable is Metroid: Other M, TCC?
TC: I've never heard of it.
AP: gasps
TC: There's no such game. I've never heard of it.
AP: Okay. Okay.
FW: I looked at you once in my eyes and knew that you were my brother.
laughter
FW: But in all but in all- real in all realism and joking side, no, it- it just serves as a basic bridge between uh Super Metroid and Fusion. That's all, no more no less.
TC: Yeah honestly it just– it I I did buy it, I did play it, it just wasn't very good or particularly interesting.
AP: So it biggest sin was it wasn't the other games is what I'm hearing.
garbled talking over each other
TC: There are a lot of things wrong with it–14
FW: But yeah it– Ergh– Gah– if I remember correctly because I did play a bit because I had a friend who bought it, uh, Wii controls aside I can never get used to that - and fun fact I just beat Metroid Prime 3 for the first time through Prime hack on the computer. But uh, it seemed– it played fine. The mechanics seemed totally fine but, uh, the narrative, the story narrative around it didn't make sense, her characterization was akin to assassination… uh among other things but that's a whole, uh…
EO: Samus, I now grant you the ability to roll into a ball.
FW: Literally though do not fucking talk to me, do not do not refer to me. I have no pronouns at this point.
AP: Do not perceive me. Um by the way, I regret to inform everyone that um, Ticky Tacky you have too many followers for funny number, you have 571 now.
TC: Ah damn.
FW: Damn.
TC: Too far! You moved him too far!15
FP: We– we the assignment was misunderstood in the correct way.
AP: Um anyway, more questions.
FP: I'm just- I'm just shocked that they haven't taken, like, they remastered or retextured all the Metroid Prime one through three on Wii U and haven't re-released it on switch. Genuinely frustrated about that.
TC: I'm- I'm fine with it because I still have my Wii, so.
FW: That's exactly and uh, with uh, Prime remastered coming out on the Switch and playing magnificently, the others are- are not far behind and even if they aren't uh I have Prime hack to get me by and it… look playing Metroid on a mouse and keyboard? Let me just tell you is a uh it is a very surreal experience.
FP: In a good way?
FW: A very good way.
TC: I've never actually– I've never actually bothered to try emulating it.16
FW: Yeah uh it's Prime hack is it's ver– it's its own fourth version of Dolphin Emulator. It's specifically for– for the Metroid Series. Yeah you just set it up, you get the, uh, you acquire quote unquote the ROM. Totally totally legally.
TC: Of course, totally legally.
FW: You just drop it in a folder and have it point to it and it loads right up uh, you can and– you can uh, you can totally uh keybind everything in uh, Prime hack. It's built– it's built to work with a mouse and keyboard. Uh not many changes needed to be made, just you know, make some graphical changes for your computer or some sensitivity stuff and other it– you just go– it's the original graphics too and it plays perfectly. I found no… I couldn't– I cannot recall any bad artifacting or anything like that, it was completely and utterly perfectly and uh, playing it on 4K resolution man like I said. It was a very lovely time.
TC: Damn, I'm gonna have to– that's gonna eat up a lot of time for me then, yeah.
FP: Yeah now I- I know exactly what I'm doing for the rest of my night now.
FW: Let me let me know if you guys– let me know if y'all need help, I'm happy to help with that. It's the it's one of the first things I always put on a new system.
FP: Speaking of help, have you done any fan related content, TCC, for a non MLP franchise?
TC: Oh tons. Um, so, I kind of alluded to before but I've been circulating around internet fandoms before most the people listening here probably were born. I mean I cut my teeth on Usenet back in the day… uh, alt.devilbunnies, rec.games.mecha, rec.arts.anime.moderated, that sort of thing. I've been around for a very long time and orbiting through a bunch of different fandoms. Um, more recently it's things like, uh, I've done– I've done Transformers, I've done the Mega Man fandoms, um, I was actually– probably the biggest footprint I have is that I was actually a major part of uh Returner Games and the release of the Third Edition of the Final Fantasy RPG in 2013. Um, so I've got a- I've got a lot of stuff out there, but the thing is also I sub names fairly frequently and things, and honestly a lot of the stuff I've done has just kind of gone by the wayside and drifted off into the ether of the internet.17
AP: You know not all of us are babies, some of us have been around the block a few times. Just sayin'. As- as the literal oldest person in this group.
FW: Back in my day we used to call porn fic 'lemons'.
AP: Back in my day: ARPAnet. So… yes, okay, you and I are of similar age, you understood that joke! Excellent!
TC: And I know exactly what lemons are! So…
AP: Uh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
FP: Ooooh.
AP: Which is very different the lemon party.18 Children, please know that.
FP: Oh my goodness. Okay.
AP: Don't look up lemon party. Don't look up lemon party!
FP: No. No. No. Don't.
FP: Don't.
FP: I'm not– I'm not looking it up, I've already fallen for it a decade ago.
FW: I do love how that makes a resurgence here and there. I remember my last year on campus like- like a month before uh, we left and it was like it was election year and people like "there's a third option: lemon party.org" and I'm like oh my God. Beautiful. I'm like this is beautiful. I'm going to miss this place.
FP: To quote the Joker from Batman 1989, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
TC: No because I actually can't dance worth a damn. Uh when I do it I'm compared to the gopher from Caddyshack. It's kind of just a little slow wiggle from side to side. I'm terrible at dancing.
FW: Well.
FP: Alright, uh, Posh is now up next and I think I have had a stroke.
TC: laughter Yeah, well, that's Posh.
AP: Um Priest, there's actually a question from the chat.
FP: Oh do you want me to do it or should or would you like?
AP: Please, please do. Please do.
FP: Okay question for the guest: Steiner or Davion?
TC: Oh Davion, straight up. I've been - like I mentioned - that, uh, that emblem's for the First Chisholm's Raiders so no I've been Davion since the 80s.19
FP: Ooo. Nice. Alright I'm gonna get through reading this aloud. Um.
FW: Have fun.
FP: Thank you Posh. I... I miss you. I–... Will you please Talking About Diz Pamps especially. Do– Do I keep going or pause for commentary?
TC: Oh no, I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna let you go.
AP: laughter
FP: Diz Pamps are That Discord Wear the Diz Pamps and. When Discord Use Them. It Make the Diz Pamps .ore Poofing and More poof. and Thicker. And when an Pony. Try To Wearing Discord Diz Pamps the Pony Will get Hypnotized And. If an Pony Wets on Discory Diz Pamps The Diz Pamps Will get More Poofing and Poofy And More Poof and Thicker as well too it Anypony would wear them for Even Discord Will Turn Ponies into Padded Plush Dolls as well Too.
FW: A great writer has been born.
AP: This is a diaper fetish. This is a diaper fetish, right? Am– I am– I reading between the lines correctly that this is about diaper fetish?
FP: Yeah.
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AP: Okay, want to make sure I was still, like, with it, with the with the times, understanding that gen Z lingo and shit.
FP: Oh my gosh
FW: Jesus Christ. Well one, ew. Two, speaking the language of the gods. Three, skibbidy toilet. Uh. Four, your mom.
AP: You forgot fanum tax.
FP: You're so skibbidy.
AP: You're so fanum tax.
FP: Alright. I– I have gotten done banning someone in chat. sigh Oh! Nailah is up next. Nailah? Nai– Nailah?
AP: I have never said it correctly.
TC: I always proun– yeah I always pronounce it the wrong way too and I… and I feel terrible because she has explicitly told me how to say it correctly and I always mess it up.20
FP: Yep.
AP: If you are in chat and I believe it's I'm not sure if it's Nailah or Nailah, if you are in chat please please correct us. Oh my fucking god.
EO: It's Nailah. It's Nailah.
FP: Nailah.
AP: I press X to doubt. But. You know.
FP: Oh my gosh. Okay. Uh, number one how do you do your research for writing when connecting earlier seasons with later ones?
TC: So I would like to say here that I do regular wiki dives and I rewatch episodes and image search to find exactly what I'm looking for and while I do- do those? Honestly I just have a really good memory for obscure trivia. I just remember lots of little random factoids and I got kind of part of– that Jeopardy part of my brain.21
FW: This is the way..
TC: Yeah I just- I– I– half the time I don't research stuff unless I'm looking for a specific thing of verifying this one item. It just sticks in my brain for the stupidest reasons.
EO: What was the name– what was the name of the car the Crusty Crab– crusty crab– Krusty the Clown endorsed?
AP: What the fuck are you– what?
FP: What are you talking about?
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TC: Canyonero.
FW: Yeah, of course, it was the fucking Canyonero.
EO: Yeah he's got trivia. He's got trivia brain.
TC: singing Canyonero!
FW: Yeah. That was the one, yeah. But though to also be fair very rarely do you have to specify what season something is from when you're trying to form some narrative that calls to past things in the, uh, pony lore.
FP: It's true.
AP: True.
FW: Um it's it's only one trying to link multiple of those and you have to be careful, it's like "wait which one of these came after or which one of these were dependent on the other," then then it's just like okay now I actually do need to check the wiki real quick.
TC: Yep. Which I have had several– several, uh, stories I've needed to do that in.
FP: So, and actually there is a great followup to that. Um, when you do this research, how do you kind of store all your thoughts? Like do you have a super secret, like, pony file? Do you have notebooks that you store all of your research in…?
TC: Yeah so I used to keep more traditional ways of documenting. You know keep a scratch pad, write it down, have a text file for it. But I kind of got tired of having those in several different places so about year and a half ago I moved it all to one big Google doc, which is currently about 30 pages of just like two sentence story ideas. Uh, plus the currently 36 in-process story documents that I'm working with.22
FW:It's not a bad– it's not a bad, uh, way to do it. I mean at least– in at least in my respect if I know what I'm planning out, I just green text the whole thing right now and I found that's actually working really well. I for whatever reason lost the ability to just improv everything on the fly but, uh, maybe that's a good thing. But yeah, other than that if it's little- little scratch notes or something, I just insert comments on the Google Doc or just quickly add a green text line item saying 'hey you should talk about this' or 'you should mention this later' and it comes in very handy. In like crossovers like when- hysterically the Metroid one I'm working right now is, uh, I've in– I've intensely had to add in lines that like 'by the way you need to discuss this and how it relates here' it's like ah okay. It's simple but it works for me.
FP: Next question is if you were to put two of your own stories into your Recommendsday blogs, which ones would you choose and why?
TC: It's a– that's a question that you know when I was reading this and kind of noting down what my responses were going to be, but that was a– actually a pretty tough one. Uh, it's trimming– trimming down is hard because I love most of what I've written, but since part of the pitch of the Recommendsday series is that to bring light to underappreciated fics, I'd probably pick, uh, two of my ones that I think are really good but they've gotten a low number of eyeballs. That would be, ah, Cleaved and Song And Silence.
FP: Alright well then we'll have to make sure that we, uh, when we release this we'll try to add that in the descriptions. That way people can know to check those out. Uh, also just selfishly what does an April Fool's Day Recommendsday blog look like?
AP: Oooh.
TC: I believe I did one of those one year and I think it was just Pinkie Pie.23
FP: laughter It was just only Pinkie Pie.
TC: I think it was just– well for me is– thankfully the- the- the blogs– I basically just picked two. So I just need to find two things that fit to a theme. So it's relatively easy that way.
FP: Uh see, I was sitting here thinking like you would be like "Oh I found this very little unappreciated story that I had never heard of before I– I don't think anyone else has called, like, Background Pony and or- or this this Past Sins thing."
TC: chuckles Well I mean I did have an entire series, uh, at the end of year two where I basically just said "okay here's a bunch of things that I think are really cool that I know are not underappreciated and you know everybody's heard them but I wouldn't feel right having a recommendation without having, you know these things in here."
FP: That's fair, that's fair. Cuz sometimes uh, showing in like these are the favorite like big things that people recognize, that can almost be kind of a litmus test of someone who's looking at your recommendations, trying to determine whether their taste align with yours. Um, which is just an interesting way to think about it but… Uh, number three. What animes do you like or what's your top five?
TC: So I'm honestly, pretty old school with that. Which may just be nostalgia but that's what I grew up– but I grew up watching the original Robotech, before it even became Macross after was properly ported over. I used to watch Slayers, Ranma, Gunsmith Cats, that sort of thing.24 My wife actually introduced me to Patlabor which when we started dating - that's also totally my jam. Most of the modern stuff just doesn't really do anything for me.25
FP: Mmhmm–
AP: Alright– don't– no no I have an important– this is an important question because not a lot of people have seen or read Ranma - so who is best waifu in Ranma?
TC: Ukyo.
AP: And why is it Ranma himself?
TC: Oo, no that's a twist I'd never heard actually… but no no no, Okonomiyaki Girl for me. Giant ass battle spatula.
AP: Okonomiyaki?
TC: Oh yeah. Which is again, I can never pronounce it correctly.
AP: But I learned about okonomiyaki specifically from Ranma 1/2 so that's relevant. And–
TC: She's- she's totally my vote so.
AP: That's fair. She will also kill you, so good luck.
TC: They all– they'll all kill you!
FP: That's–
AP: I mean–
FP: Go ahead.
AP: I mean Ranma won't, which is why he is best wife.
FP: So given- given when Ranma was made in- in the different kind of climate now has- has Ranma aged well?
AP: Yes! Shockingly!
FP: That– that's– there was so much enthusiasm in that answer that it clipped.
AP: I just– I said yes, shockingly! Um, because I watched it probably about five years ago, um, with somebody who'd never seen it before and was shocked at how well it held up. The animation is dated of course, but it's still really fun to watch, a lot of the humor is still there, and it's got some really impactful parts to it. And I'll- I'll let our guest disagree or agree with that.
TC: Honestly I can't, largely because it's been a long time since I watched it so I'm not sure I can really say how it's aged.
FP: Mhm.
AP: Aah. Fair enough.
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FP: I remember– I remember reading on Reddit some people like watching Ranma and having this moment going "oh my gosh." You know, that- that- that- that was their inspiration to explore a trans lifestyle so…
AP: Oh good for them. I'm happy for them then.
EO: Purely they cute their animal crackers. (ED: I have no idea what was being said here.)
AP: It was– it was not that for me it was it was more an introduction to like… really weird. I don't even know how to explain it. Um, for the– go guys, go watch Ranma ½. Go read Ranma ½. Read- read it, watch it, enjoy the craziness of the gender swappery and the accidental gay and I love it so please.
TC: And occasionally turning into a pig.
AP: Oh or– or a panda. Or a kitty.
TC: Yeah but Ryoga was much more interesting.
AP: Ryoga I felt bad for most of the time but that's okay.
FP: Speaking of feeling bad the next question is: do you like pineapples? I must know.
TC: And I knowing who has asked the question, I'm sorry I have to answer but no I really don't.
FP: Awww.
EO: Why are you so relatable to all of us? Come on man.
FP: I like pineapples. Alright, Muggonny is up next and I have refreshed and they have now posted all of their surprise questions.
AP: Yep there's a lot of Muggonny questions and we are ready for them.
FP: It is time for fights, I guess. Number one: who would win in a fight?
TC: Not me.26
FP: Number two: who would win in a fight?
TC: Still not me.
FP: Number three is: who would win.
TC: Well I can't disagree, Who probably does have a good chance of winning at this point. I mean, they've been there three times.
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FP:Uh, next question. Oh man, we're okay. Meta question: who out of the six Barcast members would win in a fight?
TC: I'm going to go with Enigmatic, largely because the rest of you are going to be so busy ignoring him - because he's not a person - that– total surprise, comes out of nowhere.
AP: No, you don't understand. Um. If I have the opportunity to murderdeath Enigma, he is my immediate target. Like I would probably lose, just because I'm targeting Enigma.
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AP: Um, so, no, like Enigma's dead first. The question is– and actually there's- there's- there's a right answer to this, and I think everyone else will agree with me, and it's not me.
FP: I– so Flam actually lifts and Milk is huge.
AP: Milk would shoot us and we'd be dead.
FP: That– I mean this true.
FW: This is true. This is actually true.
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AP: Milk would actually just shoot us and we'd be dead.
FP: Bang that's it done.
AP: Knife to a gunfight, done. Milk wins.
FP: Number five: would you fight us?
TC: I mean, I'm presuming in this whole point but there's not a choice in the matter. If I had the choice? Hell no.
FP: Trust me, if- if we met at a convention we would probably be high-fiving and or hugging, not fighting. Number– number six: would you fight me, Muggonny, and what weapon would you use against me?
TC: I'm gonna say no and the weapon I would use would be being really, really far away.
FP: That's fair. Number seven is you got something you want to say punk?
TC: Anarchy in the UK?
FP: I scrolled down… oh no..
EO: Actually I thought it was–
FP: That's a great song actually.
EO: I thought I thought it was Ravers in the UK?
FP: What?
TC: Huh?
EO: Ravers.
AP: He's being stupid don't mind him.
EO: No no there's another song called Ravers in the UK,
FW: Okay bro, okay.
FP: Okay.
FW: It's not Anarchy in the UK though.
FP: Yeah. Number eight is oh really and number nine is the entire Navy Seals copy pasta. lengthy pause Do I have to read this?
EO: garbled
TC: Nah, Posh's one was funnier.
FP: Okay, like Posh's was really good. Um and number 10 is how your day.
TC: Cold as hell.
FP: It is– it is cold everywhere right now. Very for big sad except for southern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere bros don't don't have to deal with the cold right now. Now then up next we have Shakespearicles who has a wonderful question: how about that Jinglemas, eh?
TC: It is awesome and one of my favorite times of the year. I'm always honored to be a part of it and be able to help out with things because it's really one of the things that makes this community great. I mean, again, I've seen a– I've been through a lot of other fandoms and many of them just don't have big events like that. They don't have something that people get together and kind of rally like that, so it's always great to see things. And this year was amazing to see! We had the highest turnout ever and actually almost no failures to deliver which was just mind blowing.
FP: No way!
TC: No–
FP: No failures to deliver?
TC: Not none, but very very few. I think we had like six total out of 140 something people who entered?27
FP:That's so good.
TC: Yeah no, it was– the– it was a stunning. We were– I was– went in expecting we were going to have like 20 stories we were going to have to make up and we barely had to do any.
FP: Wow that's–
TC: Yeah I know
FP: So great. Like, Pencil will probably tell you like from afar, like, before um, you know we– Petrichord and I handed it over to Shakes, like the amount of stress that it would put before we had the breezie system was immense because the only person who was on the hook to write all these were Petrichord and I.
TC: I remember, I was actually involved in the last year you guys ran it so yeah.
FP: Yeah and it was just one of these things where it was, like, to hear it not only like go so well but to be bigger than ever is really cool, and it's a sign that, you know, while the numbers are down the, the glue holding all of us together is tightening and it's like we're getting more surface area of people participating in this community and that's such a great thing. Um.
TC: It was well– well I mean, one of the big things this year was the fact that– I mean so- so for for those not involved in it, generally for for Jinglemas, um, about one author in ten fails to– fails to deliver and give us the story– give us their story, and usually it's the newbies who were the worst. You– I mean their past years where we've had almost half of them fail. We had eight of them this year28 and only two bombed out, which again, that's way way lower than normal.
FP: Mmhm. No, that's so good. That's– that's so awesome and to see just, um, I don't want to say the flood because I know it's probably staggered postings now, um, kind of like before but, uh, just to see the- the flood of Jinglemas stories coming in every year? Just it's such a great feeling to see the- the community come around. I'll be excited for the summer where I'm sure Shakes will put together a Summer Sin Celebration again.
TC: Oh yeah.
FP: And that usually goes pretty well as well.
TC: Yep. Well I may not to get involved in Summer Sin, I always wish him luck and I'm glad to see the responses that he gets.
FP: Yeah it's– it's definitely for a different kind of crowd, um, and that's totally fair, happy for them.
FP: Alright, uh, let's see we are a little early to do the ad read but we got two memes and I kind of love it, so we'll go to hawthornbunny who's up first. Who would win, uh, non-corporal beings edition? Also hawthornbunny, if you made these? First of all this is awesome, I want to see questions like this every week. This is awesome. Um, But uh, let's see who would win in a fight? Or- or just who would win in general? Avatar of the Tree of Harmony Twilight; the Tantabus; or the Avatar of Friendship from Rainbow Rocks?
TC: Well the Tantabus got its ass kicked by a bunch of completely normal ponies so that just… no, not happening. Um. Moondog, different story but we're talking the base Tantabus here. Um and the Avatar of Friendship–
EO: I just want to remind you all that the Avatar of Friendship was their– was their stand. Was their music based stand.
TC: True, exactly. The Avatar of Friendship is reliant on the Seven to summon it up, whereas the Avatar of the Tree Harmony is just their period, so it's got an independent existence on its own. So I think it's winning.
FP: I think that's really fair. I'm trying to also remember what the Avatar of the Tree of Harmony actually did.
TC: Um, attempted to kill the Student Six, I believe.
FP: That sounds right.
EO: And I remember the clop stories that came afterward.
FP: Yeah I'm not– I'm not super surprised. There's- there's a degree of where I think Tantabus has the cool factor but I think you're right, I think Avatar the Tree of Harmony is probably the winner here. And then we have who would win the bonus round between Avatar of the Crystal Heart, the holographic projection of Twilight Sparkle from the Unity Crystals, and the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Past.
TC: Well one of those isn't real, the other one's a fancy answering machine. The Avatar of the Crystal Heart is probably the closest competitor, but at the same time it's much more limited geographically and in power-wise than the Avatar of the Tree, so I still have to go with the Tree of Harmony.29
EO: One of those is an answering machine!
FP: True.
TC: I'm sorry! It's a– it's a– it's a fancy answering machine!
FP: I remember when it was such a big deal that 'oh Twilight's back too' but no.
EO: Look at her face it's– it's so squished too.
TC: Nope.
EO: It's wider.
FP: It's so concerned. Anyway, this marks our halfway point through the podcast, so with that being said, uh, we now are going to get ready to do our ad roll. Uh, Pencil are you around? Would you like to do the ad roll, or I'm picking a different–
1 - This is exactly what happened. I opted away from my standby name as Tempest Shadow was a notable character and I didn't want to seem like a copycat/fanboy. So I mostly just mashed some stuff together and didn't care because at the time? I just got the account so I could set up bookshelves to organize my reading. It wasn't like anybody was gonna see the name, after all.
2 - It's amazing how this was the first question, it's the standard first question, and I still somehow was unprepared for it. My brain just let out a loud fart when it was asked and I sort of just rambled. At least I didn't immediately violate the rules and rattle off my real name, location, and social security number. It would be embarrassing for all involved if anonpencil had to ban the guest.
3 - I was not originally sold on Misty, but she grew on me rapidly. Movie Izzy was my original fave, but, uh. Yeeeeeah. I hate the term 'flanderization' but the show was not kind in writing Izzy.
4 - My wife has instructed me that the proper answer is "Good enough for my wife," but I stand by my answer because berevity is the soul of wit.
5 - Yes, I did just link my wife's Etsy store. This is probably the only selfish plug I'll ever do. To note, I don't want people to buy things for the money, I want you to buy them so they get out of my damn house. We do not need two dozen shawls.
6 - Upon double checking, the correct answer was 17.
7 - Just because I don't wave the freak flag around does not mean I am an innocent.
8 - Never buy second-hand upholstry. That is an excellent way to get all kinds of funky smells, horrible infestations, and unique types of mold.
9 - At time of writing, I have approximately 160 ounces of peanut butter in my house. I consider this to be a safe enough number.
10 - If blue can be a flavor, red can be a flavor too, Pencil.
11 - I have talked about this a little in the past. One of my big guages of quality is Time To Typo. To err is human, but you gotta at least try. This is a purely textual medium, and if you can't put in the effort to not make immediate, obvious errors, I ain't gonna waste time. Exceptions, of course, are made for stylistic 'errors' and for writers who don't primarily speak English. At least spellcheck your descriptions and the first paragraph, for god's sake.
12 - I forgot to mention it, but at the time of recording I was actually wearing a Metroid t-shirt and had the hand-knit Metroid themed sweater my wife made hanging off the back of my chair.
13 - This entire section must be extremely confusing for those of you who are only reading the text version.
14 - You have activated my trap card.
15 - Speaking of obscure references, this is one of them. I doubt there's more than one of you in the crowd who will recognize that I'm quoting Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met where he's talking about Disney's animatronic Hall of Presidents exhibit. (I was really, really not kidding in the interview when I said I went for the deep cuts.)
16 - I have now, and Flam was correct. It is glorious.
17 - I realize I didn't answer this question very well, but giving a proper catalogue of my prior content is pretty much impossible. It's scattered across dozens of sites (many of which no longer exist) and multiple mediums over the course of thirty years. I will say that I have historically been more active in the roleplaying space - both tabletop and freeform - so you won't find much of anything on, like, AO3 or Fanfiction.net.
18 - This is the one thing I have purposely not linked to. Be thankful.
19 - I feel the need to clarify: Hanse Davion, not Victor. Victor is a whiny little Mary Sue prick with plot armor thicker than some planetary crusts. I sided with Katrina during the FCCW and do not regret it.
20 - I always, always feel terrible about this. I have zero excuse to keep butchering the pronunciation. Also, reading people, welcome to another part that will make no sense in text!
21 - I am actually pretty bad at Jeopardy. I remember tons of obscure and dumb factoids but they're never the ones that get questions asked about them.
22 - To be fair, about a third of those are in my Scraps folder for stuff I've started work on and discarded. Usually because I realize it isn't going anywhere, but a few because upon further reflection the idea was just bad.
23 - I was wrong, I have not done this. April 1st will not be on a Wednesday until 2026. It will still probably be Pinkie Pie, though.
24 - I forgot to mention Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita. God that series was a massive favorite of mine when I was younger. And yes, I saw the movie. I loved the movie. I don't care that it bombed, it was everything I hoped for.
25 - I have agreed to watch Delicious in Dungeon with some friends, which does look rather appealing. We're starting our weekly watch party next week.
26 - My dancing and my fighting are about on the same level. Also I fully admit to being horribly out of shape, so that does me no favors.
27 - The proper number was 10 out of 142 entrants. That's still notably below the average.
28 - Nine.
29 - I decided not to mention my one fic where the Tree of Harmony and the Crystal Heart are dating. It felt like that would be self-aggrandizing.
Holy cow this must have taken you forever
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Nonsense, that's the whole point of the interview! I based the Pony Town recreation of her on your description from that fic ^^
And to think, I was all set to listen to the interview on a long transport trip today!
Honestly, I might have still done that as background listening even with this existing, despite normally far preferring to read interviews then watch or listen to them. Except with the annotations, links and corrections, this is in many ways the “definitive” version of the interview.
It’s, ah… thrown a bit of a wedge into the proceedings, you might say.
Decisions, decisions…
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It has been quite literally all of my free time for the last week. (I vastly underestimated how long it would take and by the time I realized, well, sunk cost fallacy.)
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I encourage folks to listen to the interview! This was intended as a supplement for those who couldn't, and I've no desire to take the views away from the official production.
I love me,
and I've listened to my own Barcast interviews like, 50 times each,
but this is next level.
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And now I don't have to, because I can easily word-search for sections I want to review! (There was a little bit of personal greed in doing this.)