So I'd hoped to put up two new stories today... · 3:12am Feb 19th, 2016
...But alas, no mods approving stuff this afternoon, so one of the two will have to wait for tomorrow.
The first one, the one that isn't going live today (sorry!) is Funhouse. It is a story based on a song by one of my favorite musicians, P!nk. Started it over two years ago, and let it linger almost finished, because I was planning on releasing a sequence of P!nk-based stories in an anthology format. However, I decided not to do that, due to the stories varying in feel and type. Better to give each one its own story, with the appropriate tags, so people interested in that type of story can more easily find it. And so I finished writing the first one. And that story is:
Description: The Ponyville Funhouse & Game Emporium holds fond memories for Diamond Tiara. It provided her with comfort and joy when she was at her loneliest, before the death of its owner. And now that it is about to reopen under new ownership, she and Silver Spoon are determined to get a look inside before anypony else.
The second of those is Just One Kiss, another entry for The Diamond Cutter Anthology. The prompt (#11) this time was "Diamond Tiara does something that Diamond Tiara would never do."
Way back in 2012, I'd started a story based around Pinkie Pie wanting to help her friend, Diamond Tiara, become popular with bronies. Each chapter would involve around Pinkie getting Diamond to do some sort of thing that other, more popular ponies, routinely did in fan works. It would have aged terribly, plus probably not even been that good even then. So most likely for the best it sat on my computer, unfinished for the most part. I did complete the prologue and one chapter, however. In that chapter, Diamond had to "date" Rainbow Dash, using the common trope of nursing Dash after she hurts herself, as back then, Dash got shipped with everything and everyone. For almost 3.5 years, it has sat on my computer untouched. But it occurred to me that the idea of dating Dash is exactly the sort of thing Diamond wouldn't do. So I dug up the story, merged it with the prologue, shuddered at a bunch of the writing, gutted the direct references to Bronies, tweaked a few other bits here and there, and there you go. Now live in Diamond Cutter Anthology entries and here.
