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Alan Smithee


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  • 520 weeks
    On Discord's Motivation

    Feel free to call me a jerk for tagging Last on a blog post not really related to the story.

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  • 521 weeks
    A Scene (Season Finale Spoilers)

    It's entirely possible that I'm an asshole for trying to fit my own story into the excellent Season Finale, but I've spent more time today thinking about it than I have about Real-Time Programming, which is a first for this week.

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  • 521 weeks
    A Complete and Exhaustive Analysis and Critique of the season finale

    I liked it.

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  • 521 weeks
    Last: The Semi-Hiatus

    Spring is here!
    For those of you who have read the latest chapter of Last, you should know my feelings about winter, and the elation I feel knowing it's over.

    Spring is a wonderful time for me: I'm not cooped up indoors, I have more energy, I'm able to focus on school work...
    ...and, experience has taught me, I find myself unable or unwilling to continue writing fanfiction.

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  • 536 weeks
    The Dreaded Post

    Dear fans of Last...

    ...It seems that every author has to make this post at least once, doesn't it?

    My flagship story has been on this site for almost one year now. The night I first published it, it received almost instant acclaim, and I was so excited I remember I couldn't sleep that night.

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Apr
15th
2013

Last: The Canon Got Slightly Fudged · 7:34pm Apr 15th, 2013

I just saw this Equestria Daily Article, and it causes me some minor grief. Show writer Megan McCarthy tweeted that "Twilight will not outlive her friends"
From what I understand, this affects a lot of the stories on this site.
For Last, the assumption that Twilight became immortal and her friends did not was...assumed, but not so essential it couldn't be written around. Besides, all that doesn't come up until really, REALLY far down the line, so there's no immediate danger to continuing the story. Rightly so, since the events of the first season are pretty immutable at this point. What bothers me is that I won't know the true terms and conditions of Twilight's princess status until Season 4 starts up and we go into more detail. With the information given, I can't even begin to guess what the terms are. I've worked too damn hard to integrate my story with the show's canon to adorn it with the "Alternate Universe" tag. I guess my strategy for now is "steady as she goes", and try to get my story finished before Season 4 starts up.

Exams are over. I'm not publishing another chapter of "Last" until May. My goal is to write two or three big, fat chapters before May.

This was a tough term, and it sort of drained my inspiration to write. Hopefully better organization next term will help remedy that a little.

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Comments ( 3 )

Thankfully for the sidestory (to Fallout Equestria) I am writing, Twilight met a terrible end.

Which sucks.

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Question: Does one have to play Fallout to enjoy FoE?
Because I feel like half the content of this site is locked to me because I haven't read FoE.

1029874 No, you do not. Fallout Equestria is entirely its own storyline, and has nothing to do with the games.

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