Lexual Favors: New Author Edition · 12:01am May 6th, 2013
"An Unepic Pony War in the Non-Distant Future"
It's no secret that I love me some princesses-being-silly action. Some of my favorite bits in fanfic involve the Royal Alicorns acting a little goofy, whether it take the form of sock-related bets in Bad Horse's "Sisters", overwhelmingly outsized custard-and-jam food fights in Ghost of Heraclitus's "Whom the Princesses Would Destroy" or outright laying traps for one another in TheVulpineHero01's "Behind Castle Walls". I think what I find particularly touching is that this is more than just a couple incredibly bored immortals acting childishly; it's a very real safety valve for the titanic stress of being a goddess incarnate choosing to share quarters with others of your ilk. Dangerous things happen if you don't let off the steam every once in a while. Nightmare-grade dangerous.
That said, it's very heartening to see Equestria's two younger alicorns, Cadance and Twilight, getting a head start on their healthy immortal-grade prank wars in anowack's "An Unepic Pony War in the Non-Distant Future"; the Ladybugs-Awake sweetness can only take those two so far, after all. Anowack's story has an appealing, engaging style and nice polish, and I think it's an excellent first fic from a brand-new author here on FiMFic. Check it out, and I think you'll see what I mean.
This sounds like a lot of fun. Preemptively upvoting (since I saw that this came out very recently, about four stories above my new one), and will read later this week when I get some free time back.
Don't forget Slice of Life by Dawnscroll. Very much food[1] for thought, and has some of the most epic battle scenes ever to occur in the kitchen.
(1) If 'food' can be defined as a limp leaf of lettuce and some mineral water.
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Perpetually on my read-later list! I will get to it, some day!
Princesses being silly? Excellent. //dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/discord.png
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A sheep Head Chef named Ram-Sea. 'Nuff said
Nemesis indeed!
<shakes fist at you>
My first time in the feature box! My first time at the top of the feature box! And to which story, one must ask, do I lose my esteemed position? To the one promoted by Skywriter, immediately after my story entered the feature box!
A nefarious plot, to be sure. Princesses always trump schoolfillies, do they not. It's just a matter of getting ones pieces in the right configuration, so the princesses are there to do their trumping.
(No, you don't really need to respond, but I figure it's incumbent on me at this point to go around making generally villianous speeches and posturing. I suppose this is basically just tl;dr "Curses, foiled again!")
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To be fair, all I did was provide a little exposure. Anowack earned the likes and faves and stuff all by himself.
But, yes, by all means, if being filled with rage works for you, go with that!
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Slice of Life is excellent; it certainly deserves to be on any list of greatest Silly Princess stories.
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If it helps you any, I quite enjoyed your story, and spent a good portion of yesterday evening obsessing over our comparative views/likes.
And I guess this is a good place to publicly express that I can't thank Skywriter enough for giving my story a tremendous boost by promoting it here.
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As have I, as have I.
I started trying to read it last night, but I'm in a bit of crisis mode as it relates to school work over the next 3-4 days, and so it's hard to make myself focus in on something at 10,000 words. I'm really quite annoyed by this, because I really want to read your story.
Anyway, I got that top spot for a good 10 hours or so, I think, and I'm pretty happy with that. And I'm not about to feel bad about losing it to another good story (continuing to take Skywr— <cough> I mean, my nemesis's word for it). Especially when that story has an upvote-to-downvote ratio like you're running. Not a lot of authors pull off better than 50:1, I don't think. I was pretty worried when Skywriter boosted it that it'd already be too late for the boost to matter, feature-box wise, but I was happy to be proven wrong.
And no, I don't regret preemptively upvoting the story that managed to get on the feature list and beat me.
(But don't tell Skywriter)
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I'm right here, you know.