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Bombastic Bookpony


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  • 663 weeks
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    Check out my account Some short stories, pony and otherwise, will be posted there. They will also be posted here, at the 30 Minute Pony Stories blog, where esteemed authors like Donny's Boy, Norse Pony, Baby Seal Burritos, Kyronea, myself, and more will write pony fics during a 30 minute

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  • 665 weeks
    4th chapter of Still Alive done!

    Now all I need is my editor to return from vacation(which should be soon) and we'll be set!

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  • 665 weeks
    So, I tried submitting Still Alive to EQD...

    And all I can say is that this fic describes it perfectly. Didn't work out, though it seems I was close! So I edit it, wait a bit, edit it again, and try, try again!

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  • 668 weeks
    Still Alive

    Those who are watching may have noticed( and if you haven't, that's the reason I made this blog post) two things. One, the name has changed. The last one sounded stupid, so I removed the 'and finally' even if it makes the story sound like a Portal homage. Two, I've made some revisions to chapter 1, and by revisions I mean LARGE. FREAKING. CHANGES. Prince Gumball, tell them how large these changes

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  • 673 weeks
    Sorry for not updating my stories; blame ME3 Or 'DA FUCK WAZ THAT ENDING'

    You may have noticed that I haven't updated my stories in a while. Well, blame Mass Effect 3. Game totally took over man. It was ruining my social life, i just ignored the world. It was hilarious, it was sad, it was heartwarming, it was the best game ever....... until the ending. Three words.

    WHA.DA.FUUUUUUUUUCK.

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Mar
22nd
2012

JBM: Use of Pinkie's Fourth Wall Breakage · 6:44am Mar 22nd, 2012

So I was reading one of my tracked stories. It was pretty good, nice description of actions and place, though the character development is a bit too fast, and, yes, it was shipping shut up. But then came up one of my biggest pet peeves(probably right behind Rainbow Pie and right above people still using Fanon!Luna's characterization for Canon!Luna). It went along something like this.

"Pinkie haven't you ever heard of personal space?"

"Nope! don't you remember Bridle Gossip?"

*insert blank stares and/or some sentence or thought along the lines of 'Pinkie Pie you are so random!' here*

While not enough to ruin the story for me, it definitely bugged me throughout the rest of my reading. Pinkie's a tough character to use. I've yet to written anything that really happens from her POV, focuses on her, and/or shows her thoughts. So I'm not trying to be judgey here. But Pinkie's 4th wall breakage is subtle, to the point where you wonder if she really does see us or if she really is just "random". Remember, when Iron Will looked at the camera and smiled, Pinkie was just as confused as Rarity. The most she does is teleport off screen, use Looney Tunes logic and powers, and maybe a few sly looks at the camera. She does not say "Don't you remember *episode title*?" or "This fic only has a few pages left guys!". The only times these are acceptable are in a comedy story, preferably one more off-the-rails and/or meta than the show usually is, or if she's in a crossover with a work of fiction that commonly uses such humor. She's not Deadpool people. When I see these jokes(Even worse is when people use these to introduce Pinkie's character in fics as if that's the only or biggest part of her character-Pinkie's way more than that) I want to bang my head against the wall. If the show ever does do such jokes, I'm positive I actually will do that.

/endrant

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