Story Time! (50 followers "special") · 8:48pm Jul 15th, 2014
On March 1st, 2013, in the mystical land of Pennsylvania, some friends and I decided to work on a random MLP fanfiction series known now as The Poncho Chronicles. We spent the next two months, working on it, laughing along the way, trying to make a funny, but yet awesome, story we could always look back on. It was a random story, where a bunch of OCs we made, not self-inserts because those are lame, met with the Mane 6 at Seaddle and from there, magic happened. Magic like combat! Magic like romance! (ClydexRarity represent!) Magic like friendship...
At the end of April, where I finally laid my fingers away from my keyboard to look at the ending of The Poncho Chronicles I: The Beans, I texted my friends to go read it. I waited in awe at their responses. They all laughed, some cried, some even sent me videos of them standing up and appluading. However, one of them, asked my a question I wasn't prepared for. "What's next?"
I sat there and pondered. What could even be next? They literally just escaped an evil cult! I knew only one option... Some R&R at a wonderful place called South Beach. However, somebody wanted zombies because zombies were the thing last year. Anyways, I added some zombies and even a parody of the Miami Heat, with LeBrony James (That's my xbox gamertag by the way), even if he is no longer a part of that team.
When South Beach ended, I sat there confused even more. At this time, it was me mostly as the head director of the series and main writer for it. I didn't possibility know where to send them this time. I decided to write Clyde's backstory at this time, trying to think of ideas where to send the series next. At last, once I finished "Clyde", my friend and I began talks of the last two stories of the series. Our OCs were heading to Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, in short, is a rather boring story. However, it does add on to the last story very well so it is important.
Anyways, after Amsterdam, Through the Portal begins. It's the longest of the stories by far, but also the last one to the epic tale of Poncho and friends. In the least amount of spoilers ever, ______ decides to take over the world and the group decides to stop him. Soon, ____ decides to have his own motives so he and _____ leave the group and from there... well it's pretty crazy stuff. Also, Clyde's scenes in that story are gold because they mostly all involve Rarity.
ANYWAYS, I finished the series on April 5th, 2014. It was 13 months (weird number, right?) of long and hard work. To this day, I never imagined 280 people would look at the first story, so I thank all of you who did.
So, what about after April 5th, 2014? What did I after that? I decided to take my talents to the Equestria Girls universe and join in on a certain group of stories I love working on: OCxMane6. People seem to hate these types of stories, but I never deterred from the challenge of making a good romance story. Amor Fati was soon published and I would like to give mention to two people.
First off is Azure_Shadow. Not only did he make a enjoyable story in The Pie of my Eye that kept me entertained enough to keep reading it. He also was my first friend I made on this site. We talked a lot since February where I first interacted with you on that story, but I'm glad we kept the friendship. He also helped with starting the whole Bonnibelle and Clyde idea which is a rather short story anyways so I'll let you read it if you want more information on that. Together, we even helped with another story called The Trotsburg Files.
The second person, and the third act of the Trotsburg cast, is CogWing himself. Not only did he make Amor Fati's lovely cover picture, he even helped with some edits and suggestions. I'm glad I was able to meet him, help him, and even become friends with someone from Canada! Yeah!
To the point of where I am sitting now, I have around 1,440 views and 50 followers. I would like to shout out all 1,440 (if it showed who read your story) and 50 of you, but my list would get boring and that's no fun. I hope I kept you entertained enough to read this. I never imagined I would have fans, let alone 50!
Thank you.
2288655 Anytime.
No prob dude, I'm glad we're friends, and I'm glad you were inspired by me to write such an amazing fic!