Delay Update · 5:10pm Oct 7th, 2013
So, for those many of you who are waiting on the next chapter, I thought I'd update you real fast on what's going on.
I've been having a bit of a block deciding on where to go with Celestia's section. I have some ideas in mind, I'm just not sure on how they'll be taken. My usual beta reader is currently unavailable and I'm not going to bother him while he goes on vacation. I could write maybe, five alternate chapters for Celestia and my mind gets all muddled from there.
Also, I've been having a frustrating time dealing with a computer problem that reared its ugly head yesterday. I'm a big Minecraft addict, but I've been having so much problems launching the game where it lags my whole computer until I quit the entire process via Task Manager. Reboot, looking up problems, trying solutions, rebooting, disabling certain startup processes, malware/virus scanning...it's a lot of time wasted for something that seems like a small problem. I feel like my entire day was wasted dealing with this crap yesterday...and I haven't even tried any other games. If it affects the other games I have on here, there will be a visible meltdown in the state of Florida that could be seen from space. Grrr.
Anyway, I'm not ignoring the story and I haven't dropped it. I've just got a lot of...well, crap, on my plate :/
PS: I am considering the whole "Twilight beats the crap out of Celestia or otherwise gets angry with her over her treatment of Luna" kind of vibe that I've been seeing in the comments. The question is, how to portray it without flipping the whole story around onto its head :P
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... Who the heck suggests this crap? Sure, Celestia has become slightly villainous throughout the story but this is a clop at heart. Ideally, things work out to be pleasurable, not dark and upsetting. At least not to that degree.
Writing Twilight beating up Celestia and justifying it by some notion of Celestia being too cruel is ridiculous, and counters what you've been doing from the start. The story set out immediately to be dark themed clop that was justified by the premise of security and only having to do it once to become stronger. It's the greater good philosophy, and I personally thought it was done perfectly.
Truthfully, I think the readers intentions are just misplaced. I think they want a kind of ending solace, and so far Celestia has been painted as nothing but cruel. By laws of justice, the poor protagonist MUST beat the tar out of her (God, it's so ridiculous to even say that sarcastically). My point is that I don't feel vengeance is the way to give them satisfaction. All that needs to happen is some kind of resolution of all the negative emotion Twilight's been forced to endure.
I think the ideal route would have Twilight letting out her emotions at Celestia, and Celestia in turn having to answer honestly for what she's done. That dialogue would be where the story's theme, which has thus far consistently been something along the lines of 'It's all for the love of the ponies of Equestria that we/I do this', comes back into the front lines and Twilight makes a decision on whether she's ready to accept that or not.
I personally want lots of super caliber sex so I'd personally write Twilight accepting it, and then just doing some makeup sex after the brutal stuff to keep it happy.
Though if you really want to go off the walls, have Celestia be remorseful enough to want to remind herself of what she's been putting the Princess' through, and therefore Twilight has the responsibility to assume the dom position as Celestia assumes the sub. Kind of a reverse of expectations there. Could be fun. I'm honestly trying to get you're brain going so you can write this thing.
In any case, I was happy to give my two cents.
1402678
I can definitely see this happening.
1403160
I'd pay to see the reactions if it does go through. Haha.
1403189 Yeah lol
1402678
I agree with this.
As an additional stuff,you could also get back to the origins of the "tradition",or give a little bit of insight about the Princess who stood against all of them.Unless,you already said what had to be said about it,of course.