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Author's Notes for Octavia Tries to Eat a Vanilla Pudding Cup · 5:11am Jan 30th, 2016

Welcome, everyone! These are the author's notes for Octavia Tries to Eat a Vanilla Pudding Cup. They are intended to be read after the story.

More Octascratch! This is my second fic and also my "I wrote this in 23 hours" and my "verbs noun" story. I'm allowed one of those.

If you're wondering why Vinyl is time-traveling to the wrong times, well, it's Vinyl. Are you going to trust her with time-traveling magic?

Anyway, I have to say I'm a big believer in resolving love triangles with three-ways. So is there a better way to preemptively address a love pentagon than with some Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, Octavia, and Vinyl making serious snuggle-bunnies with each other? I certainly can't think of any. Nope, no there isn't. Cut that Gordian Knot. Mmm, yeah. Cut it. Cut it gooood. Bring that long sword you got over here and do it slooow- ...I'm sorry, what was I saying? Oh yeah.


I got the idea for this at midnight and went to type up a brief outline and accidentally ended up staying awake til 4:30 writing 90% of the first draft. Oops. A writer recently told me they had heard it's a good tactic to write the first draft all in one shot, even if it's extremely rough. She disagreed but I think it totally works if you've got the time. It's worked for me twice so far! I'd love to hear your thoughts, dear reader.

I wrote this in OpenOffice. I was listening to my Pandora cello solos channel while writing the first draft, The Glitch Mob's Drink the Sea when completing it and doing the first pass, Rainbow's "Catch the Rainbow" on the second pass, and Andrew W.K.'s "Party Party Party" on the final pass.

The cover art is from jaybugjimmies' Vinyl Scratch is Giddy and an untagged artist from Derpibooru. I tweaked some of jaybugjimmies' Vinyl's colors so they would show up more clearly (and also because of red) and imposed them in GIMP over a background of clocks which I tinted turquoise to indicate time-travel. Because that's the color time-travel is. Turquoise.

So if you smiled or laughed, I've done my job! Enjoy Octascratch and have a good day! :heart::heart:

"Mmm, good morning. And which Vinyl are you?"
"...Which one do I need to be?"

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"...Which one do I need to be?"

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