EIf You Give a Little Love...
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Slice of Life
Coco Pommel, now free from Suri's influence, decides to right what she did wrong by not only saving Babs Seed from a terrible fate, but taking her in as her own adoptive filly. Maternal sweetness spiced with Bridleway melodrama.
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Babs Seed
Coco Pommel
Suri Polomare
Quillamore · 251k words · 285 19 · 6.5k views

Only Nine Likes Away From 150! · 5:01pm Feb 1st, 2016

And right before the end of Act II! I can't wait to see how it'll fare throughout the course of its run. A lot of popular series seem to be ending/have just ended, so maybe we have more of a shot now! (I know I shouldn't be thinking this deviously as an author, but I get competitive like this sometimes.)

Also, just something I've been thinking about--a lot of these newly ending series have sequels planned already, and to be honest...I really don't think IGYALL is going to work that way. Doing a sequel with all the action I already have planned for it would require timeskips or contrived plots (with five planned acts, I fear I might be jumping the shark a tad already), and I really would rather have it be one stand-alone long runner than a completely unrelated set of sequels. (Plus the whole stigma and everything. We can't all be The Godfather or Toy Story, after all.)

Now what I am planning is to continue the series for just over another year, at minimum. I'd also really like to have a one-shot compilation that would expand on character backstories or things that don't relate to the "big picture" plot, which I'd end up calling If You Need a Little Faith or If You Have a Little Hope (leaning towards the latter). My absolute dream (which might be too demanding on my time to actually happen) is actually to write a full prequel series called Snake Oil and Cameos about Babs' parents and their ill-fated romance. SOC may or may not actually happen because I really want to keep to the three-week updates and don't want it to take priority over IYGALL. I do really want to write it, though.

In the next few days, you'll see some minor changes to the series page, as I've realized other stories with arcs name theirs and indicate when it begins. I'm brainstorming actual titles for them right now, and while I have no idea what to call Act I, Act II will be "Loveless World" and the upcoming Act III I've known for a while now will be called "Learning to Love Again." So there's that, and Madmare in the Attic, to look forward to.