• Member Since 11th Oct, 2013
  • offline last seen 2 hours ago

alarajrogers


Okay, I admit it, I'm probably not your mom. But odds are I'm old enough to be. Now with Patreon account (under alarajrogers) and short stories on Amazon (under Alara Rogers).

More Blog Posts376

  • 18 weeks
    Dream log, epic Fluttercord edition

    Had a dream during a nap that is perfectly suited to be a story; I'm not even sure I need to tweak it.

    So in the dream, Fluttershy was dying of old age, and Discord couldn't fix it. (She also had insulin-resistant diabetes, but that's kind of less important.) Discord was very upset by this, and decided to take drastic steps to prevent it.

    Read More

    7 comments · 480 views
  • 27 weeks
    Dammit, just discovered a friend here's been dead for two years...

    Today I learned that Jordan died in April 2021, and I had no idea. I was re-reading some of my older fanfics, saw his comments, thought, "Huh, I wonder how Jordan's doing", and the answer is, he's not. Dammit.

    Read More

    15 comments · 673 views
  • 29 weeks
    FUCKING DONE FINALLY

    "The God of Breaking Rules In The Land of the Dead" is one of my oldest stories on this site. It's not my oldest incomplete -- "The King Who Would Be Man" and "Stumble In My Footsteps" are both older, all part of my initial rush in 2013-14 when I'd first gotten into the fandom and the writing came like a river. But it is old, posted almost 10 years ago (closer to 9 years, 11 months), and

    Read More

    10 comments · 419 views
  • 30 weeks
    I'm back, bitches!

    I don't know for how long, because I never know these things.

    Read More

    17 comments · 545 views
  • 78 weeks
    A thing y'all should maybe know

    I may or may not make the change here on Fimfiction, but on Archive of our Own and Fanfiction.net, I am changing my handle to Kaleidolon. Mainly as a branding differentiator between fanfic and profic. It's not like I can hide that Alara J Rogers writes fanfic, not after posting it to the Internet for literally 29 years, but when I get published in real life I want it to be slightly

    Read More

    8 comments · 1,111 views
Jul
13th
2014

Updated Chapter 1 of "Traitor" · 5:26am Jul 13th, 2014

Added an extensive scene between Celestia and Discord in Chapter 1.

I considered expanding the scene with the Bearers, but that doesn't really go down any differently than it does in the episode -- Discord's thoughts there are, I think, adequately conveyed by the synopsis paragraph. And I considered expanding the torment of the Wonderbolts, but didn't for two reasons. One, I have actually never watched an episode with them. Rainbow Dash is my least favorite pony out of the Mane 6 -- I certainly don't hate her, but I haven't gone out of my way to watch the episodes that are primarily about her, which means I haven't seen any eps with the Wonderbolts yet, and I prefer not to write characters I've never personally watched. Secondly, I kind of admit I'm pulling a punch here. I'm walking a fine line between Discord being an utter jerkwad and a sympathetic character. While the fact that his torment of Derpy made him feel bad and quit because she was genuinely scared and not pulling the kind of storybook-heroic "Do what you want to me, foul villain, but I will defy you to the last!" kind of crap that more traditional or more military heroes are likely to pull, and her fear reminded him of Fluttershy, was important to his character development... actually watching him torment a screaming Derpy might stress reader sympathies, already on edge because he's being a jerkwad, so that they lose all sympathy for him in the story as a whole. I might not be pulling this punch if I felt I could write the Wonderbolts credibly, but since I feel like I can't anyway... I'm kind of cheating here.

So I'm done with my expansion. I'm hoping to finish the story, or at least have the next chapter out if it turns out the last chapter runs longer than I expect, tomorrow.

Report alarajrogers · 220 views · Story: Traitor ·
Comments ( 0 )
Login or register to comment