New Story! - Perchance to Dream · 7:34pm Jul 27th, 2013
Check it out - Perchance to Dream.
For those of you wondering: no, I haven't forgotten about my other stories. Actually, I finished this one weeks ago.
Like Pirene and every-bloody-other thing I've been working on, I've been sitting around waiting for editors.
I thought I'd share a little bit of what went into the fic (non-spoilery, don't worry if you haven't read it yet).
Specifically, the parts of the fic that had to do with portraying Manehattan:
Videos of early NYC
Got the inspiration for the little park hoofball game here
I really wanted to have a crazy taxi scene in there, but cut for time. However, that did encourage me to put in pony-drawn carriages.
Luna Park in Coney Island. Totally a real place, how could I not use it?
Obviously, I modified it a little bit. Kind of wanted to show a few scenes there, but I had to cut a lot of the Coneigh Island stuff to balance the fic out.
Brownstone homes
Wikipedia
My inspiration for the Seed family home. Some of them have cute little gardens, like so:
MLP Manehattan Pics:
And why, you might ask, the 1930s, which look pretty distinct in many ways from the Manehattan that Applejack visited? Why, it's been ten or so years! A lot changes in a big city over that period of time.
Really, a huge part of this fic for me was getting into the spirit of a city we've heard about and only seen snatches of.
