Future fic ideas! (That might actually happen now OoTD is done) · 10:58am Feb 17th, 2015
Well, I've been watching the like total of One of Those Days slowly creep up on Little Deceptions (Although I am still amused at the fact that, though practically equal in likes, the 18 or so difference in dislikes is the difference between 3rd place on fimfiction and 1365th place...) and I was going to post this when it got overtaken...
But it turns out I am impatient and that was a totally arbitrary method of making that decision anyway. So, commence blatant follower-fishing!
One of Those Days is officially over, and now I have to figure out what I'm doing next! Welcome to the bit where I give you a sneak peek at what might be coming in the not-too-distant future - Those of you who've been with me a while will probably recognise most of this post, but there are a few newcomers to the list.
And with one addition in particular, we may have an upset for the favourites of last time... ;)
At the end of the blog will be a series of comments posted by me with the various fics listed in each - please upvote and downvote accordingly depending on what you want to see.
Other comments, as always, thoroughly encouraged! =D
And without further rambling: Here's what you might see from me in the near future!
Finish The Mare in the Mirror…
Finish Martyr of the Hive…
One of those Days Complete!
Little Deceptions (One-shot) Complete!
The Price of Harmony (Trilogy) Cancelled - fairly irrelevant, goes back to season 2.
The Fall of the Sisters (Short Multi-chapter)
(Adventure)
(Celestia) (Luna) (OC)
“And as we all know, everypony, today is a very special day! Celebrations are in full swing all across Equestria as we remember the horror that descended on Marebourne city, and the brave mares and stallions who put a stop to it!
Everyone please remember to give generously to support those who were affected by this disaster, and raise a toast to the six brave young souls, wherever they are now, who came together and defeated the Demon Sisters of day and night!”
Six rather diverse ponies come together, a year after they first met - when two demon mares descended upon their world, twice the size of regular ponies, with the magic of all three tribes together, manes and tails that seemed composed of magic itself, and capable of altering the very nature of the world around them - and reminisce on the times they have spent together, their battle against this threat, and the consequences for the world and themselves.
(What if: A society that had never heard of Alicorns suddenly had Celestia and Luna drop in and start trying to run the place?)
Irreconcilable (Long story)
(Human) (Adventure)
(Mane Six) (Princess Twilight) (OC)
“Mission report: Preliminary scouting
Dimension: DX-139-6000-00004
Non-Terran Physics: Extreme
Local wildlife: Yes
Local civilisation: Yes
Civilisation description: Non-human. Multiple sapient species; Primarily equine, medieval technology, extreme non-technological capacity
Suitable for trading and diplomacy: No.
Suitable for colonisation and mining: No.
Suitable for study and research: No.
Potential Resources: None.
Potential Danger: Beyond classification
Summary: Although the dimension appears at first to be of excellent quality and potential, this dimension must be marked unsuitable for all further exploration and transport. Nothing we possess is of value to the locals; nothing in DX-139-6000-00004 is of value to us. Exposure to DX-139-6000-00004 may be considered irreversibly damaging to all non-local life forms after unknown period.
Scouting team not able to return to base. Do not send reinforcements or support. Do not attempt further scouting. Highly recommend discontinuation of further attempts to scout 6000 series.
Full report within.”
(Sometimes it’s not just language or cultural barriers that need to be broken down in first contact, but metaphysical ones. When ponies and humans meet for the first time, it is not merely as aliens, but eldritch abominations…)
Xenophilia: Three fillies and a dragon (Long story)
(Romance) (Slice of Life)
(CMC) (Spike)
(Teen) (Sex)
Scootaloo has a problem. It’s a complicated problem - her friends are growing apart from her, moving on with their own lives in their own ways, and soon they might be gone forever.
Scootaloo has a plan to fix that problem. It’s a simple plan, really.
All she has to do is seduce a dragon.
Then her friends and her can stay together happily forever.
Shouldn’t be too difficult, right?
(Sequel to Xenophilia: Setting Examples)
Overheated (Short multi-chapter) Cancelled - general lack of interest.
All or nothing (Ongoing episodic)
(Romance) (Comedy)
(Princess Twilight) (Celestia)
(Mature) (Sex)
Twilight has decided that it’s time to become interested in studying this whole… ‘sex’ thing. And who else could she possibly want to study it with than her mentor and princess of the sun?
Well, maybe there might be a few hitches there. Like the fact that Celestia has lived several orders of magnitude longer than her. And has the experience to match. In short, there’s really not much Twilight can offer that would be interesting or original to somepony who’s seen and done just about everything.
Of course, with a little memory magic, maybe Twilight can get the princess she wants something new and interesting…
But memory magic is a touchy thing, and it’s a little all-or-nothing. So now Twilight is trying to seduce the most powerful pony in the world, who she loves and respects more than anything… and who has absolutely no idea what sex is.
(Basically a series of blind-leading-the-blind romantic comedy that may eventually actually lead to something steamy)
The Queen in Stone (One-shot)
(Princess Twilight) (Celestia)
Twilight never really wondered why the rulers of Equestria called themselves Princesses, instead of Queens.
But when she finds a path hidden by magic more powerful than any she’s before encountered, she finds the truth behind Equestria’s rulership in a room filled of statues, alicorns and gryphons and draconequui and other beasts of legend...
All bowing before an earth pony filly...
Hidden forces (Short multi-chapter)
(Princess Twilight) (Celestia) (Luna)
"The spell was horrifying. Hidden carefully, it was complex beyond beyond anything I’d seen, and it… well, it had scrying, and manipulation, and direct control, and focus for countless other spells… and it was strongest right there, in the throne room.
I couldn’t let something like that just sit there! Who knows what it was doing to ponies? I could’ve studied it for months, but every day it stood there, somepony was seeing everything that went on, and controlling things - right in the middle of Canterlot.
So I broke it.
But whoever cast it… it looks like I tipped them off. Whatever they were planning, they’ve started it. And it looks like the first step was… was...
...Nobody’s seen the princesses since.
What have I done?"
A change for Ponyville (Ongoing)
(Princess Twilight) (Mane six) (CMC) (Spike)
(Dark) (Slice of Life)
Bad: One of your friends has been replaced by a changeling.
Worse: All of your friends have been replaced by changelings.
Wait, what?: Everyone in Ponyville has been replaced by changelings. Including you.
When Twilight wakes up with chitin, holes and fangs, and everypony else in town has a similar predicament, there’s a lot of questions on her mind. But as the queen of this new swarm, she’s going to have bigger problems than figuring out the cause of this transformation soon enough.
After all… everypony’s beginning to get hungry.
Love and Pleasure (Multi-chapter)
(Changelings)(???)(OC)
(Slice of Life)(Romance)
(Mature) (sex)
For most creatures, the act of mating is one of the greatest acts of love and pleasure one can share. For changelings, this is mostly true - but it splits into love or pleasure.
A changeling can be with a pony for love, pretending to be a pony like them; or with a changeling for pleasure, using their transformative ability to do some amazing things ponies could never dream of. For changelings, the two are not even really considered to be the same act at all, and most changelings have their sources for both.
But when a strange series of events and a magical inhibitor lead one young changeling mare to accidentally find herself combining love and pleasure with her special somepony, she’s going to have a lot of trouble going back to the old ways - which is going to put everything she’s built at risk.
(Plot with porn - while sex is sort of the key factor here, the story will be focused far more on the relationships and social/physical differences between changelings and ponies)
An Empire Divided (Ongoing)
(Cadance) (Shining Armour) (Changelings) (OC)
(Adventure) (Slice of Life)
(Teen) (Gore)
The Crystal Empire: A shining, fertile jewel in an endless tundra. Recently returned from a thousand years’ stasis, liberated from the dark curse of Sombra, and now under the rulership of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.
Well, mostly under the rulership of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.
Sombra wasn’t the only dark power sealed away with the crystal city, and was not the only one to return. Now, on top of rehabilitating and reintegrating an empire of time-lost and liberated slaves with modern Equestria, the would-be ruler and her husband must deal with a new (old?) changeling queen, dark magic, windigos, and draconic raiders…
And some who had their own reasons to resent Sombra’s death.
The War of Dreams (Long story)
(Luna) (Nightmare Moon) (Celestia) (OC) (Others)
(Adventure) (Dark)
(Teen)
When Luna returned from her exile, the world had changed beyond her imagination. Some of those changes were welcome - the night life had blossomed in her absence, and modern medicine and conveniences were incredible, once you got used to them…
However, what she didn’t expect was for the dreaming world to have changed just as much.
Luna finds herself lost in what was once her own domain, struggling to make sense of the realm she once walked with impunity - with new and horrific threats emerging to threaten her little ponies as they slumber, dream-walking ponies both friendly and problematic, conspiracies to keep her from interfering, strange spectres, and her own nightmares...
Not to mention the alicorn stallion who claims the dreaming realm as his domain now.
The Boundary Guard (Or, what if Taranth entered the ‘Outside Insight’ contest)
(OC) (Celestia) (Trixie)
(Adventure) (Dark)
There is a place of wonder and magic beyond imagining, where the impossible is possible, where flawless gems grow like potatoes, the food is wondrous beyond description, and the sheer magic in the air can allow anyone to feel like a god just by walking the streets. Few wish to leave once they have partaken of its wonder...
In this magical world, so it is said, the inhabitants control everything from the growth of plants to the movement of the sun - but they are peaceful and happy. They are a whimsical and fey race, led by the immortal princess of the sun. Conflict is a rare and fleeting thing among the fair folk, and few among them would even understand the concept of violence and war.
The Boundary Guard’s job is to keep it that way.
These are some of their stories.
Stolen Heroics
(Power Ponies) (Mane Six)
(Adventure) (Slice of Life)
Once more, the city has gathered to pay tribute to the heroes that have saved them from the nightmarish wiles of its many villains. The Maneiac has been defeated, and the Power Ponies are again victorious!
...If only any of them could remember what happened.
Not a one of them can remember the battle, and witnesses and recordings show actions completely out of character for the group. Somepony hijacked their bodies and decided to play superhero.
They’re not exactly thrilled about this - and it could happen again.
The Masked Matter-Horn has developed a new technology that should allow them to reverse this foul magic, find out who’s manipulating them, and why.
And so the Power Ponies go on a new adventure - one out of this world.
Or more accurately, into it.
Heartstring’s World (Or, what if Taranth entered the More Most Dangerous Game)
(Lyra) (Bonbon) (Mane six)
(Slice of Life)
Humans exist. Lyra knows this. It’s so obvious.
So, she’s never managed to get a single piece of real rock-solid evidence. A couple of times she came close, but then it would turn out to be something else when she checked it the next morning, or be mysteriously stolen, or set on fire.
So, everypony she tells about it refuses to even listen to her talk about it, changing the subject or just walking away whenever the topic is breached.
It’s a good thing Lyra’s not one to believe in conspiracies, or else she might think that there’s something weird going on here.
Or with the way Bon-bon’s voice changes occasionally.
Or the way ponies occasionally just vanish from town, or appear without good explanation.
Or occasionally talk to thin air when they think nopony else is listening.
...Actually, maybe it’s worth believing in conspiracies after all…
Cutie Masqueraders (Ongoing)
(CMC) (Mane Six) (Changelings)
(Slice of Life) (Comedy) (Random)
The revelation of Changelings was a horrible blow to the stability and morale of Equestria. The idea that somepony you knew and saw every day could be just… not that pony was devastating. Trust faltered. Friendships were strained. Society shuddered, but Equestria has recoved and moved on.
But nopony realised just how easy it is to fool a pony into thinking that you’re somepony else… Until Scootaloo accidentally went a step too far with her fanfillying, and found everypony mistaking her for Rainbow Dash.
Now the Cutie Mark Crusaders can imitate anypony, anytime. And so far, nopony else has realised this yet.
It’s a good thing they’re not the sort who would let that power go to their heads, or use it for evil.
One of those Weeks (Multi-chapter)
(Twilight) (Celestia) (Luna) (Cadance) (Shining Armour)
(Comedy) (Slice of Life)
Twilight has been invited to Canterlot for a week by Celestia to get together, share some of the stories, burdens and knowledge of being a powerful ruler over ponies, and perhaps relax and just hang out a little with the princesses. However, on her first day in Canterlot, Celestia announces to the court that she has had a spell cast upon her, which has…
...Transformed her into a stallion?
Funny how that happened just a couple of months after Twilight sent her the details for a spell allowing the caster to switch places with your counterpart in a universe of gender-switched ponies. And ‘Celestia’ is making no mention of who was responsible.
It’s looking like it’s going to be another one of those days… or perhaps many of them in quick succession...
Vote for your favourite or ask questions/make comments below!
Vote here for finishing The Mare in the Mirror
Because even if it's got less than ten likes, incomplete stories are a black mark against my account!
Vote here for finishing Martyr of the Hive
Because I've only had a third of a chapter left to finish writing on this fic for the past two years!
Vote here for The Fall of the Sisters
Because nobody's ever had a bunch of OC's wield the Elements against the Alicorn sisters before!
Vote here for Irreconcilable
Because every author on this site should have a HiE under their belt sooner or later!
Vote here for Xenophilia: Three fillies and a dragon
Because the best way to write a fanfanfic is to practically ignore the characters who the original fanfic was centred around!
Voting for All or Nothing
Because the idea of mostly-innocent Twilight trying to seduce entirely innocent Celestia is heart-wrenchingly adorkable!
Vote here for The Queen in Stone
Because this is pretty-much the only one-shot on the list, so there's a good chance it'll get written anyway!
Vote here for Hidden Forces
Because you haven't had enough Twilight Ruins Everything By Trying To Help on this site yet!
Vote here for A Change for Ponyville
Because changelings! What more do I need to say?
Vote here for Love and Pleasure
Because watching me try to write sex scenes will be almost as funny as watching me try to write comedy!
Vote here for An Empire Divided
Because you want me to have to do a huge mess of world-building and planning for a political epic! You monster.
Vote here for The War of Dreams
Because Luna is best princess!
Vote here for The Boundary Guard
Because the only thing that makes a story more popular than a bunch of OC ponies... is a bunch of OC gryphons!
Vote here for Stolen Heroics
Because it gives me an excuse to make a whole lot of Sentinels of the Multiverse references!
Vote here for Heartstring’s World
Because I'm running out of enthusiastic and self-deprecating commentary!
Vote here for Cutie Masqueraders
Because the idea of the CMC given the power of changelings does not make you instantly shut down your window and flee for the hills!
Vote here for One of those Weeks
Because you've probably come here after complaining about the sudden abrupt end of One of Those Days anyway!
I really wanna see you flex your dark/srs fic-writing muscles. Comedy's fine and all, but hey, we just spent a year on "One of Those Days". I want something heavy!
I vote for the Fall of the Sisters.
2804427
I want it so badly.
I am in full agreement with this statement. The fun thing is to play around in the world that was created, the other parts are just ancillary. In other news:
Why does this have so few upvotes?
I should do one of these some time....
So, ten hours after posting and the results are very different from what I had envisioned!
Last time, Irreconcilable and Three Fillies and a Dragon were the runaway winners, outpacing just about everything else; today, 3F&D is one of the least upvoted and Irrec isn't doing bad, but not as awesome as it was.
One of those Weeks is unsurprisingly in the lead, but the fact that it's followed so closely by The Queen in Stone (which was practically ignored in the previous one) is completely out of left field. I'm guessing that whole idea of just getting the damn thing out and finished is pretty encouraging.
Meanwhile, "Cutie Masqueraders" is leading the pack in downvotes, which is interesting, but I guess it is going to be a bit randomfic.
Finishing my existing fics comes pretty low on the list, but that's to be expected.
Really interesting to see the results here! And I can advise that my priorities have already changed up some - if more votes come in, they may change more!
Thank you everyone for contributing, and if anyone would like to explain/justify their votes, I'm all ears! =D
2804744 Thank you! That one's getting a little more attention than I expected too :)
2805369 I agree - this one was a massive favourite the first round, and now it seems to be barely generating any interest.
2805412 I highly recommend it! It gets ideas out there for your readers to enjoy, and then gives you the enthusiasm and inspiration to make them happen!
It also makes you depressed when you realise just how many ridiculous ideas are bouncing around in your brain. FIFTEEN! Not including the ones I've cancelled or the ones I've already started! Gyahh...
2805525
All it would take is 1 blog post and I'm betting I could flood 3F&D with upvotes, but I'm exercising immense restraint not to bend the voting to my will in such a way... but that's hard.
2805850 *laughs* Mike Teavee did that last time, and I think he ended up getting me more new votes for Irreconcilable than 3F&D.
Admittedly you probably have the teeeeeeeensiest bit more sway, for some strange reason...
To be honest there's a good chance that it'll end up at least started soon regardless, since it's one of the ones I have the most planned out for, but it probably won't be a priority at this rate.
(Besides the fact that what I do have planned for it will be HARD to write...)
2805875
Well, whenever you do start it up, feel free to look me up if you want someone to bounce ideas off of, or any editing assistance. I'll be sure to give you a bump post when it happens to send some traffic to the story.
I may not use my power to sway the vote, but I didn't say I wouldn't incentivise.
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Wow, some good-looking ideas there!