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ChudoJogurt


I'm a quick reader, on a quest to read ALL of fimfiction. Current read word count - 45 million.

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  • 112 weeks
    Well, Plomo o Plata is published

    Another instalment of my version of Sunset's story, a work that has been pretty much my sole creative output of some last five years is out there.

    Its not as great as I wanted it to be. It was better in my head, but still, I am very glad to have posted it. It was a big challenge for me, in almost every aspect. The genre, the style, the language, the story itself, but I think I pulled through.

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  • 141 weeks
    Skipping a beat

    Hi to ally precious few readers of Plomo o Plata,

    Today, unfortunately, I will not be able to put out a chapter.
    There are few last moment revisions that came up, and with the bit of chaos happening in my life I'm running late.

    Sorry.

    Ill get it done by next Wednesday for sure.

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  • 279 weeks
    Why We Fight

    Why do I write?
    Why do I write what I chose to write?

    I've been asked this question a few times, and I think I should put to paper the answer to it.

    So, why do I write?

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  • 312 weeks
    The mastery of any art begins with the art of... imitation

    So, I've recently read Peter Watts's anthology and it was _great_. And after reading it, I wrote an excerpt wherein I tried to imitate his style.
    Unfortunately, it neither fits in my current fic (almost done, I swear!) nor does it make any sense out of context.

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  • 363 weeks
    My Little Xenophilia.

    I am finishing my fic.
    Finally.
    It just clicked one day (and I think I barely wrote a hundred words on said day), that this is it. The final stretch.

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Nov
5th
2015

Pegasi don't have mothers. They reproduce by fission... like all bacteria (c) · 8:02am Nov 5th, 2015

In all seriousness, in any cannon material there is never any mention of parents of any pegasi... well at least none I can remember. Fluttershy and Rainbow seem to be living on their own, none of their parents are ever mentioned, and there is, I believe, a whole subgenre of Scootaloo adoption stories, where she is believed to be an orphan of some sort.
Of course none of Mane Six parents are mentioned in any detail, but we at least get the names and appearance of Twilight and Rarity's partents, so they definitely exist. It is also likely that Applejack's parents are dead, but we see Pinkie Pies whole family in season 5 (even though I still say she is adopted), so the specific lack of any mention of Mane Six (or, in fact, any other) pegasi parents is somewhat unusual.

So, I have a theory to explain it.
Namely, from the Hearthwarming episode we know that it is likely that pegasi had (prior to Unification Era) a highly militaristic culture, not unlike Roman or Spartan. Therefore I believe that perhaps in pegasi culture - there is no concept of nuclear family.
Rather than raise their foals with their birth parents, they are likely either raised in special institutions, or, more likely, are raised communally with every foal being watched over by any available adult, which would explain how Scootaloo gets to run around all by herself, with special institution (like Flight Camp) taking over in teaching them basic skills that would usually be covered by family.

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