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  • 332 weeks
    Some more world building to consider

    [In a reply to a comment about a unicorn reacting with mild nausea to Pegasi seafood by saying they are too isolated to the wider world around them]

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  • 403 weeks
    The Desktop Background Shuffle

    This has nothing to do with fiction but it will help fellow Windows 10 users with their pile of pony pics they use for backgrounds. (I'm just past 1300 myself so it's pretty rare to see the same image twice in a week)

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  • 452 weeks
    22 Storytelling Tips from Pixar

    Nabbed from elsenet because this kind of guidance should really be shared with aspiring authors here.
    The original source: http://blakenorthcott.tumblr.com/post/122543026344/22-storytelling-tips-from-pixar


    Waaay back in the olden days (2012) Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats gave some amazing writing tips. I love these and have read them dozens of times.

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  • 522 weeks
    Story Prompt: Hell

    Speaking of Hell, or Tartarus, there hasn't been much fiction about it that I've seen. Granted, the really bad ponies go to Tartarus for certain. But what about the slightly bad ponies? Do they get the Tartarus-Lite(tm) section with visitation rights for good behavior?

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  • 531 weeks
    More Random Story Ideas

    Has anyone else noticed a lack of non-NSFW fics with tentacle monsters?

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Apr
24th
2014

Story Prompt: Hell · 11:40am Apr 24th, 2014

Speaking of Hell, or Tartarus, there hasn't been much fiction about it that I've seen. Granted, the really bad ponies go to Tartarus for certain. But what about the slightly bad ponies? Do they get the Tartarus-Lite(tm) section with visitation rights for good behavior?


And there's always a clerical error, every bureaucracy has them. It's where a good pony, through no fault of their own, gets shafted (figuratively and literally in this case). Will the hero, or heroine, struggle against overwhelming cosmic odds to break free of their unjust imprisonment? Or will they just shrug and go along with what turns out to be a rather boring after-life in Tartarus. The main reason being that since they did nothing wrong; they aren't scheduled for daily torture sessions, forced to eat hot coals for meals like the others (Tuna Tuesdays at the dining room is rather nice), or any other soul-crushing punishments. This could lead to said pony utilizing their time, which they now have an unfortunate surplus of, to observe Tartarus from a unique view nopony has ever seen before... from within. Maybe even interview some of the denizens and destitute despots? Why, this pony could be first widely acclaimed author from Tartarus! They could show Tartarus isn't as bad as everyone says it is. I mean, it is as bad as ponies say it is for bad ponies going there, but Tartarus itself is just like any other large prison, albeit with must meaner guards and a lot more red tape (red from all the blood).

...The hard part will be getting that manuscript past the front door.

...And some of the guards will want their names changed, not to protect their identity but to keep bad ponies from thinking they're really just average beings at heart when they're not "on the clock" as it were, doling out infinite pain and suffering.

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