AMA Answers #2, Oh Boy! · 1:37pm Nov 7th, 2016
Let's get right into it, then.
Erebus Cantillon
Could any of your wide-hipped cutesy-woosty (no-magic) characters survive "The Walking Dead" universe?
I only saw a little bit of this show! But I get the basic gist of zombies wanna eat all the humans, and the humans are also dicks on top of that. Twilight and Luna's only powers are being so ridiculously adorable everyone wants to pamper them, so they'll be fine assuming they can find a ex-Special Forces big booby babes or ninja strippers to protect them.
Which other fantasy settings worlds/universes you'd like to explore for writing smut in? If any.
I've written in lots of settings, I don't just do pony stuff! On my Hentai Foundry page I have stuff set in Dead or Alive, Evangelion, High School of the Dead, Kill La Kill... tons of settings~ Obviously I can't link that on this website (BECAUSE OF ALL THE POOOOOOOORN), but have my AOOO page and Commission Info pages.
The settings I've enjoyed writing in the most are probably Kill La Kill and My Little Pony, because they both have a lot of their own shorthand, and sort of seem to be very settled in their own terms of reality. Everything in MLP is very colourful, free-spiritied, overflowing with innocence and brightness and cheer... which is totally sexy and erotic in its own way... And KLK is sort of this... ridiculously dramatic and over-the-top world where every encounter is as hyperbolic and overwhelmingly stylized as possible. When I write sex in that setting I feel like it always ends up having some of that craziness imparted into it, in the same way that the smut I write in MLP is always nonsensically bright and cheer and over-the-top to the point of comedy. They're both pure fantasy, but in different ways.
But obviously the setting I'll love writing in the most will always be DoA, because it's so incredibly cornball. It's like pure "selfish male mind" wish fulfillment, and nothing gets me revved up more than that.
Can Prince Luna cook?
I'd hope not! Poor delicate widdle cutie~ I hope at least a dozen top-heavy, plump-bottomed beauties would come over and pluck the kitchen knife out of his fingers the second he picked it up, and then cook him a ten course meal right afterwards.
Have you found new influences of inspiration for your writing, or has it remained the same?
The biggest inspiration for me to improve at the moment might be Fimfiction's very own Mr. Numbers. His writing and settings have a crazy amount of lushness to them, he writes as if he has a very deep personal investment in the settings, and as if they clearly exist in his mind and he's doing his best to pick out every last detail. It creates a very nuanced and well-realized world that is like the opposite of my own style. I'd like to be able to imbue my own writing with a little bit of that "presence."
Lately I've been dabbling in visual novels and trying to teach myself how to write in a "visual novel" style since that's what I want to work on next. So I played some of Umineko No Naku Koro Ni and Danganronpa and tried to take away what I could from the experiences.
Koekelbag
Any plans for a follow-up on Ancient Equine Analysis (not asking when, just if)? Or do you only write anthro-stuff now?
Well, first of all, let me make it clear I didn't stop working on AEA because of the poniform characters. I actually really enjoyed writing a story that was so different to all my other stuff and I really want to thank the commissioner again for approaching me to write it.
The actual reason for why I stopped it is a little complicated, and I'll try to explain while respecting the commissioner's wishes: when I was writing that story, I was still very new to commission writing in general. I was charging about $15-20 per 1,000 words back then buuuuut somewhat unfortunately (or I guess fortunately for me?) I ended up getting a lot of attention from people wanting to commission me to write various other stories. A very large percentage of my pony stories, at least 8 or so, are all commissioned by one person... while Ancient Equine Analysis was the only story being commissioned by another person.
So with that all out of the way, what happened was this other commissioner wanted a LOT of stuff, and it was basically totally overwhelming. I was faced with the choice of treating commission-writing as a full-time job or giving up on it, and I simply wasn't making enough money at the current rate to make it more appealing than a job. Since then, my financial situation has improved somewhat with my Patreon, but I still make vastly less money than I would if I worked. So, uh, feel free to hit up that Patreon if you want me to be able to live at all comfortably and continue writing.
Anyway, long story short, I raised my prices and told the AEA commissioner who was not happy with the situation. At the time I believed (incorrectly) that the price rise would make more people shy away from commissioning me and reduce my workload to a more manageable level, so I told him as much and promised I'd get back to his story at the agreed $20/1,000 rate when I had cleared things out a bit... But since then I've actually had to raise my prices two more times, and demand still hasn't abated. I'm flattered, really, but I kind of would rather get back to working on AEA.
It's honestly a little annoying because writing commissions can be frustrating... - writing under another person's guidance and all - and the AEA commissioner was really sweet and basically let me do whatever I wanted for the story right from the get-go. I've come up with things like the Slop Bucket as a way to refresh myself, but I'd still like to get back to collaborating with him.
Violently Irrelevant
What is your favourite thing to write? And why is it porn?
I actually wrote and punished a PNP rpg! I don't think many people on here know that! I'm also in the middle of writing a visual novel about giant robot pilots who are also sadistic dominatrixes.
No, seriously though, what is a good time writing, something short, long, simple, intricate?
I'm not fully certain I understand this question, but I do usually prefer longer stories. I like recurring worlds that build on themselves, but at the same time I don't really like the whole "seeing a legend get developed" thing. Like I don't want to be slowly introduced to everyone, I want to get right into the middle of things. Sometimes I'll watch an episode of a show in the middle, just 'cause it's more fun than starting at the start.
I'm also personally averse to stories with slow, gradual harem-building... Prince Luna was like my own rebellion against that kind of storytelling, where the harem was just "there" right from the get-go, and that made it more fun for me personally. I'd write things like that more often if it were up to me, the "one-on-one" approach in Kingdom of Twilight Sparkle required a lot more work to make it a story I'd be personally invested in.
What is a fun character to write?
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What is the best setting?
My tier list for settings would be something like...
80's Sci-Fi > Japanese Fantasy With Big-Titty Kunoichis > Sci-Fi > Western > Fantasy > Cyberpunk > Zombie apocalypse > Modern > Post-Apocalypse.
I don't really like grim and unpleasant settings, and I can't even imagine how people would have sexy-times in a setting like... Fallout, without coughing up their lungs or showing off their bed sores to each other or whatever. Talk about gross.
I'm also aware I have "Westerns" a lot higher on my list than most people would. It's like my second-favourite "real" setting, and writing about Applejack as a rootin' tootin' cowgirl was actually RIDICULOUSLY fun, given she's not a particularly favourite pone of mine or anything.
SunStone
Tits or Ass?
I feel like I could probably annoy some people if I expounded on my beliefs about this a little bit... but needless to say, there seem to be an awful lot of people who make snap judgments about a woman's body based entirely on her chest. The sign of a gentleman with matured tastes is that he appreciates the chest, the legs, the hips, the belly, the lips... It's all very important!
Clamanath
Do you base the size of breasts/ass of any girl in your fanfic from any pornstar?
No! Occasionally I might have a dojin or something open to see how things would look from various angles and what aspects would be most prominent, but that's about it.
What are your favorite ideas from the slop bucket?
Obviously the one with Sonata! The one I discussed with Moron involving "Maya trying Brazzers-tier roleplay scenarios to try and get Nick's dick inside her but he's a stupid and a virgin" based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQDLyGpe6xU is also pretty good.
I don't wanna list too many of them or it might sound like I'm playing favourites.
What's your favorite type of cartoon? And of music? And of movie?
My favourite cartoons are Flapjack and Wander Over Yonder, I mostly listen to Vocaloid and video-game music, and my favourite films are probably John Carpenter's The Thing, Rainbow Rocks and Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence.
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Thanks for the questions, cuties!
About your first answer to Koekelbag: is that why you haven't updated The Pink Circle with the promised Fluttershy and Twilight chapters, or did you just lose interest in that one (I seem to remember you commenting that the level of misogyny in the story was difficult to write)?
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It hasn't been updated because it wasn't winning the Patreon polls! I let my backers vote on what gets worked on and uploaded: if a story isn't being updated, 99% of the time that is the reason.
4316632 Wasn't at least Fluttershy 3 supposed to have been posted at some point already? I seem to remember that it was supposed to happen not long after Fluttershy 2, but then a bunch of commissioned stories happened.