This is a meaningful discussion of interpersonal relationships · 11:16am Feb 10th, 2013
It's late at night, you're attempting to stream your latest artistic derpings to the world and the internet decides now is the perfect time to crap out and die whilst taunting you with momentary restorations of connectivity that last just long enough to con you into believing everything is working again.
Do you:
a) Do the sensible thing and go to bed
b) Run around panicking, realise there's no solution and then go to bed
c) Down a cuba libre or three, wait until 3am and decide to write lesbians into a story that barely addressed sexuality up to that point
If you picked (c), congratulations! You're me!
The story in question is of course Guiding Light, which seems by turns popular and yet entirely, frustratingly obscure. I know it's not a perfect story, not by a long shot, yet it's my favourite of all the tales I've got here. Anyway, that aside, the last chapter delved a little into the "future" again - though from the perspective of the story that's actually the present. I think. It made explicit a few things that had only been very subtly hinted up to that point and that seems to have annoyed a couple of folk.
When I wrote the original short that started this whole thing off I had no real plans for more. I did have some basic ideas of how history would have progressed, though a few details are different. One of them, right from the start, was a relationship between Derpy and Twilight. Of course other bits of personal fanon have dropped in to the tale since then (some of which are strangely popular in certain segments of the fandom for some reason) but the basics were there right from the start. If it was a surprise then I'm just too damn obtuse a writer. 
EDIT: Incidentally I'm still writing the latest chapter of No Room For Regret, it's just taking longer than I thought it would. They always do. I'm beginning to believe that I'm a hopeless optimist when it comes to timescales...
I have just downed half a bottle of vodka. My only possible response is DO IT, FILLY.
I gotta admit, that's funny as hell. And honestly, in this fandom, lesbian is typically the way to go. These male ponies are all pretty fucking weak characters.
Woo!
Given the rather wide gender imbalance, I'd expect to see comments about how rare it was to find a pure heterosexual.
Blacking out and waking up with stuff in your word processor is an old, proud author tradition. Having the cause of that blackout be drink is an even prouder (and older!) author tradition. Either way, you just roll with it.
If you choose not to roll with it, we at least now know where your mind goes when pickled. Shameless. Shameless.
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Hear, hear. Join the ranks of such great men as Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and Hunter S. Thompson.
They're in lesbians together archonix, and you can't stop them.
When I have a similar problem, I tend to go with
d)Call up my internet provider, find out they're doing work in my area and interruptions may be common, rage, meditate, go to bed.