You Either Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to Become the Villain in the Eyes of DustyPwny · 9:25pm Dec 18th, 2015
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Well good golly Miss Molly, stick a fork up my butt and call me a lightning rod. I do believe we have ourselves a right and proper feud here! It seems that when our mutual friend Chelis sprung the question upon me of whether you could partake in this here panel, Ah should have thought a might bit longer and a wee bit harder before giving him a yes. I like you Dusty, I really do. But the fact of the matter is, you ain't done too much on the fan fiction scene. Come ta think of it, last time Ah dun really talk a spell with y'all was at the last BABSCon, ya know, the one where mah car engine saw fit to shred itself and 7000 thousand of mah american greenbacks. Y'all appearing outta the woodworks like that, askin' for favors sure does remind me of a certain season 1 episode. Unlike her majesty, however, Ah ain't got no direct line to the princess for more gala tickets. Actually, we be continuing this metaphor, I kinda do, but there ain't no more tickets to sell. Now, maybe none of the people I invite want to show up to our podunk first-year con in the backwater village of San Diego, which I reckon is a quite real possibility. But should that fail to be the case, All Ahm sayin is that you're the lowest fish on the fish ladder, to borrow a phrase from Fluttershy. If it's you versus Penstroke, sugarcube, Ahm afraid Penstroke's gonna win the rodeo.
Now Ah suppose by now you suppose me to be some heartless bastard, and that is an accusation Ah shall make no claim to defend mahself from. Hell, mah last fillyfriend broke up with me 'cause I wouldn't help her sister with some fake pharmacy review racketeering. Mind you, that was the merely the final straw that sipped the cider out, but the point remains, I dun fancy political favors. Shame too, cause she was a mighty ravishing pegasus, if a bit waiflike. But I digress.
This message is getting mighty long in the tooth, so I best be to the point in this next section. This speaking in fancy ain't no good for a simple bat pony like mahself.
I remember my first Babscon (2014), being super excited and submitting a writing panel, only to drop out from it so more people could fit on it. I'll tell you what, six people is too many people on a panel.
I remember EFNW '14, not even getting a panel spot despite a multitude of panels because there were just that many good writers there.
I remember BABSCon 2015, where I built an absolutely killer crew for a panel: Penstroke, Horizon, Regidar, Skywriter, and Myself. Tartarus, I'm a footnote next to those masters. I filled out a detailed application, yet the application was turned down because of simple miscommunication on the part of the con that could have been easily rectified, had those in charge of the fanfiction panels had any desire to do so. Quite a lot of fine writer folks were a might bit upset with the sloppyness ofthat situation, and poor Chelis, supposed writing "guide" sat there as a figurehead within the organization, unable to do diddly squat about it. That one really stung.
For this year's Equestria LA, I again assembled a fine team of writers, this time all SoCal locals: Penstroke, AugieDog, Bradel, Chelis, and myself. Miraculously, we even got the panel. (I made sure to be incredibly specific in the application to avoid a repeat of BABSCon.). I was finally going to have a panel. But good fortune for the con and bad fortune for my panel struck when Lauren Faust was announced in the 11th hour, and apparently, there was nowhere or time to put our panel. cancelled once again.
So you see good sir, I am familiar with your potential grevience. All too familiar. I only wish we could have more than one writing panel, but alas, I am not he who decides that.
But if I am to become the villain, grant me leave to be an honorable one, for like Discord, I am fond of wagers and games. You are correct to declare that the quality of a writer is not to be found in the number of followers or words written. One only needs to visit https://www.fimfiction.net/user/JusSonic page to ascertain that. Let us rather compare writing prowess in a far more objective field. DustyPwny, I challenge you to a writeoff.
Yea, a Writeoff http://writeoff.me, for we are honorable gentlestallions. Were we ruffians of a baser sort, we might condemn ourselves to a pie fight or a pun-off or an arguement in the comments section of a youtube video. But you and I are both civilized ponies, and civilized ponies ought do things in a civilized manner. Enter the writeoff, an annonymous ponywords competition that occurs on the web every few weeks. Your works have no name there until each contest is over, so the great are judged equally to the small: by their writing alone. And lo, what greats indeed partake. Cold in Gardez, Titanium Dragon, Present Perfect, Pascoite, to name but a smattering of the talent that partakes in these events. I myself have been sorely lacking from them for many months on account of forgetting when they are, being busy, or not having a good idea or drive. I am no regular. But just as the stars aligned to aide in Nightmare Moon's escape, so too have they aligned to provide us with a suitable battleground. The FiM minific contest. 400 to 750 pony words to be written between 20 hours from now and 44 hours from now. That's 24 hours to write a tiny story on saturday and sunday morning.
DustyPwny, I propose the following: you and I shall each enter at least one story into the contest, to be judged anonymously by our peers. If any of your entries are voted to be higher ranked than any of mine, I'll shall grant you to be a better writer than I give you credit for, and my seat on the panel. Do we have ourselves a deal?
sorry this isn't super well edited, but you get the gist of what i'm saying.
This is quite noble of you. I'm sure he would be a fool not to accept.
Oh fingle fangle!
You do have to admit that this was a pretty immature response, and the the original message did sound kinda mean with the way it was worded.
3628163 I honestly stopped caring how rude I was the moment his "friend" called me a faggot and no one called him out on it. Apparently homophobic slurs are fine when it's someone you don't like. Like seriously, there were some pretty intense reactions on his blog post.
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Chandler, that's because they love me. All of them are like family to me, especially the one that called you a "faggot", quote on quote. Biker_Dash made an honest point with his reference to loyalty, and Missy did have a point with you trying to turn this issue into a game.
You're not a villain in my eyes, but you also aren't a hero either. I'm definitely not a hero myself, for I've made my mistakes too, but me accepting that is the reason why you got bumrushed almost immediately with your proposal.
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Nobility would be accepting that you've done wrong when it's plainly obvious. I didn't control my friends when they decided that Chandler was in the wrong. Next time, I'll try and stop them before any more egos get bruised in the process.
3628563 My ego isn't bruised, if that's what you're referring to. And I know you don't consider me a friend anymore but I still consider you a friend. I don't seem to be the type who considers breaking up friendship every time there's a disagreement. Which is probably why I'm generally the one observing the drama rather than going into it but in this case I just couldn't resist.
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And "not resisting" caused more trouble than there needed to be. A decent explanation besides "your spot is not garunteed because you aren't popular and/or write something a lot of people like" would've helped immensely. I would've begrudgingly accepted that my spot "wasn't garunteed because there's a posibility that someone else you wanted was still a 'maybe' on coming to the con." What Chelis has told me says otherwise, but I'll be there to support him either way.
That's why I called you out in the first place.
The drama is real
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And hopefully over with now.
3628563 Don't take this shit away from me. I never get to use the word 'noble' without some kind of negative connotation to it when it comes to MLP.
I will cut you.