Haitus and/or Cancelation · 2:30am Mar 2nd, 2013
Yeah, Me and My Lord of Chaos (or as I affectionately referred to it, "Mamloc,") is going to either not be worked on for a while, or killed completely.
I'm kind of one of those cynical-bummer types who's been all, "This season is a degradation of the old state of MLP:FiM," for a lot of season 3. I'm not the type to leave the fandom, and the show isn't like completely ruined or anything, but season three was both shorter and had a lot of episodes I found weak. In comedy, where it still did passably overall, but especially in plot. Every serious episode or character return or character development in this season was just painful for me, especially the Trixie and Discord episodes. Ironically, I mind alicorn Twilight the least, though her episode (namely due to it's horribly paced, overly-musical-style, illogical, confusing-magic-wise opening) was still pretty bad overall.
The key thing, though, for MaMLoC, is the Discord episode.
I'm not normally one for "zany-comedy," type fanfics. They're fine, and I can enjoy them, and I can write them (clearly), but they aren't particularly for me and this site has plenty of them. So my writing MaMLoC was mostly driven by a love of Discord. E.G., it was a self-indulgent crap project. A fairly funny one with some moments I liked, but mainly, just a project for fun and to release my Discord-love into the web.
"Keep Calm and Flutter On," despite my best efforts to mentally ignore it, just sapped my energy for the character. When we don't have a ton of actual official voiced content for a character, it's hard to just mentally dismiss any of it, even if you (like me) are the type who believes in simply ignoring terrible canon elements if they defy explanation and clearly weren't written with logical continuity concern behind them. That episode killed--killed--my love of Discord. I still like his concept and find some things about him very appealing, but I had problems with him as a villain/plot-relevant-show-character even in his first appearance, and in his second, I could tear the thing to pieces with all the character problems. It sapped all enthusiasm.
I type all this out not to justify the fact that this story may well never get finished, a thing I hate when it happens to things I'm reading, but to explain it. I'm sorry I don't have enough commitment to keep it running, but with zany comedy especially, enthusiasm is absolutely necessary in writing. That's about all the story has. I can't put my philosophical views or headcanon explanations into MaMLoC often enough to let me write it while I have no personal drive to do so besides my few fans. It's a self-indulgent story that no longer self-indulges.
Sorry, guys. I think I've let MaMLoC die. Read other works of mine if you so desire, or...
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...Don't do that...
Whatever. Sorry, again.
Awww, I just started reading it yesterday...
I can understand how you feel though. Season 3 did sort of fall flat, and the intrigue that comes from being a villain disappears when that character is no longer a villain and becomes more of a throwaway. I'm going to miss this story, it was the only one of its kind and made me laugh. I'm gonna watch you on the off chance that you can find some enjoyment in the story again --or if you write another down the road.
I look forward to more from you, Happy Writing.
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Oh... that sucks.
Thanks for the understanding, though. This season was taxing on my enthusiasm in general, and it's kind of dampened my inspiration recently. I'm trying to build it back up and write more (as writing is sort of my one creative outlet, and this happens to be a convenient place to dump my story ideas while fueling them), so hopefully I'll manage to get something entertaining out eventually, but obviously the future is uncertain.
A sincere thanks, whatever may come.