Random TSC thingy 3 · 5:35pm Oct 14th, 2015
I love Rusty's imagery.
If I could have Rusty's and Dromicosuchus' imagery and Capn' Chrysalis' ability to beautify the simplest things (like every alcoholic drink in TSC: Best Night Ever—he would ask me to name one, tell him a bit about it maybe and then he would create these amazing drink presentations), why I would... take like 10,000 words for a single scene to finish, but hey, IMAGINE the mental pictures you would get out of it!
Now I would need to add... say Loyal2Luna's Citadel-influenced politics to my Babylon 5-influenced politics and Chekhov-guns and foreshadowing skills, to the already assumed integration of Capn's Game of Thrones-like politics... and dude, that scene would have more hidden meanings than that moment when the Dalai Lama arches his eyebrow at you specifically. It would have an additional 15,000 words too I'd wager.
And then we mix our combined powers with ShortskirtsandExplosions' ability to duke out stories like a pro wrestler can decimate a waffle.
Why... Batman himself couldn't stop us then.
44-5-121-90
I can't figure out the last two!
Whats with the numbers at the bottom?
With all that you want it would take 20-30k words for anyone to walk through a small room (with a low ceiling).
Man… While I envy SS&E's ability to churn out words, I've never actually managed to finish any of his long works. I took a break from fanfics in the middle of Background Pony, and then heard it had a downer ending when I came back, and never bothered to reread enough to finish it. Then, when End of Ponies was going to be the next chapter of TSC, I read most of it, but left off the last incomplete arc. I can't even begin to imagine reading the two million plus words of alphabet soup titles he has going on now
Dag nabbit, your claim that there's no hidden message here makes me even more convinced that there is one!
What could it mean? Are we about to witness some sort of Evil League of Writing supercollab? Because that could be amazing.
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If you are referring to the Austraeoh series, i will point out that the titles actually have real meanings, as they are derived from other languages, mostly older germanic and norse languages
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They're too obscure for google translate, therefore they're too obscure for me
I've tried several different techniques, but no dice on the numbers at the bottom. I wouldn't put just fucking with us past you though, Wanderer... Hmm...
3469820 The only SSE work I've made it through is background pony.
Something about his longer works just becomes a slog to read through at some undefined point. I wish I knew what turns me off, because I like his writing.
Until I don't.
3469820 Fun fact: SS&E in a 10 day period wrote more than 90 thousand words. That's the length of your average novel.
That is the writing superpower I want
How the hell he does that while still having a day job is beyond me.
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I was trying to describe SS&E's writing to a friend once, and the best way I could put it was that he doesn't just write slice of life—he writes the whole cake. If that's the case, then I guess the Austraeoh series must be the entire bakery. From that point of view, I guess you'd be forgiven for needing a little moderation.
The forty-fourth letter is 'm'.
The fifth letter is 'e'.
The 121st letter is 'l'.
The ninetieth letter is 't'.
M-E-L-T
Yes. I counted. Please tell me that's what the numbers mean.
Could I get a link to some of Rusty's works?
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https://www.fimfiction.net/user/2702/RustyTheBrave