Good News, Bad News, Thoughts on Episode 100 · 2:29am Jun 14th, 2015
Bad news first:
For financial reasons, I will be unable to attend BronyCAN this year. Apologies to both the guys I said I'd see there. Next time, perhaps. 
Things are generally rotten right now. I'm stuck in a limbo between jobs, where I'm waiting for my allegedly successful application to go through the system, and it's taking forever. I can't help but suspect I've somehow fallen through a crack, and in the end it will be a huge waste of time. I've been listless for the past week, and my anger problem flared up again for the first time in months.
The morning before last, I woke up from a nightmare in which I was beside myself because someone drowned my pet earthworms. I do not, and have never, kept pet earthworms. What a time for my subconscious to turn on me. My nightmares aren't even decent story fodder anymore.
To crown everything, as of my last phone call with her, I'm pretty sure my own mother thinks I'm gay. I would try and convince her otherwise, but she is one of those charming people who easily believes any falsehood, and is nearly impossible to convince of the truth.
Good news:
I seem to be on the mend, provided my chance doesn't fall through. I can only write a few decent paragraphs a day right now, but I've had longer and worse dry spells. My muse is slowly recovering after it tripped in the dark, bumped its head, and woke up thinking it belonged to Majin Syeekoh. Once I crank out a few more siren-centric potboilers, I'm sure it will return to normal. 
Out of everything, the thing that bothers me the least is that only a couple hundred people saw my last story. I've learned an important lesson: If you write an EqG story without lez romance and/or hardcore sex, your audience will be receptive, but small.
Yeah, I'm scraping the barrel here.
About that episode...
Now I can talk about why I chose to write Million Billion Octavias when I did. I was sure if I waited too long, episode 100 would ruin it. I was, of course, right: There is a certain line in Octavias that would not have been possible after this episode. Read it, and you'll know it when you see it. I consider it the funniest single line I've ever written, so I'm glad I hurried. EDIT: Derp, I should have mentioned it was, "Hot damn! It must be my birthday!"
This makes me think of the greatest flaw in my writing method. After I get an idea, it may sit on my to-do list for months (or years, in the cases of Leviathan, The Visiting Hour, and Johnny Never Knew) so new canon can wreck them before they're even written. (This is also why I never wrote about gryphons. I knew we would get the scoop on them eventually.) I've had two big ideas with Lyra and Bon Bon, and managed to write one of them before this episode aired. I watched it knowing it was entirely possible that my other idea would be rendered unusable. Turns out, the new canon on them will make my idea even more... well, "effective."
In related news, we now have a new best episode for winning over skeptics and people on the fence about the show. Expect an influx of Whovians, and...
Oh hell. We're gonna get a glut of Dr. Hooves stories. It's gonna be like the first couple seasons all over again. I need a vacation.
Until next time, be well, everyone.
HV
Soooo for those of us who don't want to read the story again, despite it being very funny the first time around, anyone mind pointing out the line?
This is true of the fandom period, pony side or humy side. It's just that EqG is a niche to start with, so the backlash of not appealing to readers' raging hormones looks larger.
I cheated by stuffing Luna and Rainbow Dash into the same story.
Feel better, dude.
I know dat financial pain and what it can mentally bring about all too well.
Dude, hang-in there! Being between jobs can be more stressful to a person than almost any other situation in life. That's going to have consequences on your sleep, digestion, health and interactions with others and yourself. This is one time in your life where, truly, patience will be its own reward, by helping you to minimize all those negative consequences. Because things will get better. And if it's any consolation – and it should be – I thought the Day of the Million Billion Octavias was just a brilliant idea!
I think your subconscious is trying to tell you that you need to start keeping pet earthworms.
You live near bronyCAN right? August is a Long ways away. Maybe things will change before then.
Dodge security. Sleep beneath an overhang. Sneak into someone's hotel room to shower.
I believe you can do it!
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Oops.
I should have mentioned it was, "Hot damn! It must be my birthday!"
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Thanks.
And I guess I never noticed that effect much before, since there's always a market for darkfic. Welp, time to
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Thanks. I'll try and keep that in mind.
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So, you're now firmly in the "Vinyl is mute" camp then? Or am I missing the trees in the forest, or... however that expression goes?
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She may or may not be mute, but her and Tavi seem to be straight roommates, especially compared to Lyra n' Bon Bon.
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A lot of people love the 100th episode for the large amounts of fan pandering. A portion of people think this episode sucks because of the fan pandering. There doesn’t seem to be much recognition that this episode actually has a point, unlike Double Rainboom, which threw a huge amount of references with a ‘morale’ tacked on at the end.
If someone were to view this episode in an internet culture-free vacuum, like a young child, or someone a decade after FiM’s finale, there actually is a lesson it’s trying to teach. Everyone is a star in their own series. Even though the issues people face aren’t objectively equal, every person you pass on the street is currently working towards the most pressing thing in their life. Life as we know it is flitting in and out of the timelines of OTHER people. When we come together in a social event, it’s all of us simultaneously existing in each other.
Have you seen Fury Road?
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Nailed it. That is all.
Also, the answer to your question is...