Teatime · 4:44am Jul 14th, 2012
Teatime.
Oh, so, well. There it goes. I posted it. The oneshot I mentioned, which turned from "Spike vs Bees" to "how can I use an idea for a horrible trollfic and turn it into a legitimately funny story that could satirize trollfics and still be legitimate?"
Immediately, the thought of religion came to mind, because religion goes hand-in-hand with trolling, and it has done so for so very long. So I thought - and it should be mentioned that this entire line of thinking happened within the span of five seconds - that if I were to write a proper story that included any kind of religion "trolling", it would have to have Jesus, and it would have to be a story where as little as possible happened in order to spare the people who look everywhere in a story for something even a little bit offensive.
But then, I thought, how would I have a story where nothing happens?
Easy, I replied to myself, Pratchett it. Douglas it. Throw as much funnies in the narrative and as much wit into the words as possible, and your readers will be too distracted by that to realize nothing happened in the spam of the story.
So I wrote it, and then I looked back and realized it had become something more. Not much more, but still more than I intended.
So, I decided, now is the time to troll everyone by not trolling them. It is the troll where everybody wins and nobody gets the short end of the stick.
Also I sent it to EqD but it was instantly denied "because religion", but w/e, you can't expect a site as prestigious and non-offensive as EqD to accept something with religion in it. That was sarcasm, by the way. EqD has posted far worse stuff than a bit of religion, but I'm not at all surprised they denied it.
Anyways, so Fluttershy Has Tea With Jesus is probably my most favorite writing exercise, because it really took a lot of creative muscle to wring out.
WARNING
If you don't care about Homebound and are only here for the Tea story, CEASE 'YER READING... or keep reading, I dunno. Not like I can punish you, right?
Ahem. So the interlude is done, and I totally didn't pull anything out of my ass in order to get the plot rolling with it... and that's about it, really. I'm working on chapter twelve and that's all.
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I thought I detected a Discworld/Hitchhiker's flavor to 'Teatime,' glad to know I'm not insane.
It was a fun story, and left me with one question: what book club does Jesus go to?
230943 The same one the Fates go to, presumably.