Annual Free-For-All Story Idea Voting! Results! · 11:43pm Jan 3rd, 2017
Not long ago, I offered the ability to vote on which stories I'll do next for the first time ever. It's normally something only my Patreon supporters get to do, but I think I'll open it up to everybody once a year.
Voting ended on Jan 1st, and now I've tabulated the results into a beautiful spreadsheet:
(You should really check it out, if you find reader's preferences as fascinating as I do!)
So... what did I learn from these results?
More after the break.
-First, you guys are a bunch of perverts!
No, seriously. You have to go down to 10th place before you find the first non-clop story!
(Don't worry, non-clop readers! I have a special surprise for you below.)
-I was also surprised at how Sex Ed: Changeling Style has fallen in popularity. I thought that one would be in the top three for sure!
-All the scores fall into a surprisingly narrow range, which I didn't expect.
Because I'm feeling extra generous, I decided that I would write at least one clop story and at least one non-clop story. Since the top three are all clop, that means I'll be writing four stories before April!
That means that you non-cloppers get to have at least one winning story to read! ^.^
But let's get on to the part you actually came here for, shall we?
The Winners!
1st: Who's Getting Shafted? *(This idea was submitted by one of my Patreon supporters!)
[NSFW] A sexy times version of "Spot the Imposter!". Cadance has a surprise for Shining: when he enters their bedroom there's a second Cadance! They wanna make a game of him trying to guess which is the real Cadance, the sexy way! Basically Cadance ropes Chrysalis into doing this with her husband. Shining could be testing just how far and deep the transformation goes, comparing the sights, smells, taste and feel of the two Cadances. Then he has to pick which he thinks is the right one by plowing that Cadance with reckless abandon.
2nd: Woona
[NSFW] A sequel to Cewestia. Because alicorns age slowly, Woona still looks like she's a foal, even though she's 94 years old. Unlike her sister, though, she prefers seducing colts who share her apparent age.
3rd: Sex Ed: Pony Style
[NSFW] Rather than doing a new idea, work on getting Sex Ed: Pony Style done faster.
Highest Non-Clop: The 4000 Year Old Virgin
[teen] The other princesses find out that Celestia has never gotten laid.
You can see the full results, in gorgeous detail, here.
139 people voted -- it's really nice to see that much interest.
What else is nice is that almost all of them (120) got one of the stories they rated highly to win! Almost everybody who voted will be getting one of their favorite stories to read soon.
Sadly, 19 people didn't get what they wanted.
In memorial of their hopes and dreams... Here they are, identified by their column on the results sheet:
EA, who wanted Batsy Fluffentuft
CR, who wanted Badass Nightmare
CN, AJ, and DN, who wanted Sex Ed: Changling Style (Lucky you! I just finished the last chapter of it anyway!)
CL, AF, and CM, who wanted Infatuation, by Fleur Fragrances Inc.
V, BL, and DL, who wanted Harvest at the Beach
CX, who wanted Teaching Rumble to Swim
CW, who wanted An Awkward Situation
CK, who wanted Checking the Rumors
BN, who wanted Trixie's Reign
AD, who wanted Mentorship
AB, who wanted A Dream Cum True 2
U, who wanted She's Such a Doll
E, who wanted Ground Ponies Are Weird
If you are one of these people, I guess you'll have to go to my Patreon if you really want to make sure I write these soon.
Thank you to all of you who voted! It's really great that you took the time to do it, and I hope you'll be happy with the stories that won.
So make sure you're following me, and keep an eye on your feed. These stories will be coming soon!
YAY!
Hmmm... I wonder if that's due it just being around so long, the fact it's already 'complete' and all that's left is a single epilogue bit, or if.... that chapter.. simply contributed to it's decline.. because to be honest... yeah that did kind of kill my ability to get interested and enjoy the story as a whole knowing that's part of it.
A to the story ideas... those all sound awesome and hot!!!!! Sorry I missed the voting, was barely able to do much last few eeks... stupid working retail this time of year....
But yeah... Woona and Cewestia are both,... yeah they have no good options, either they get adults to plow foals, or they.. technically adults in mind, screw foals. Which is really the 'wrong' option? Answer.. neither, both are freaking hot! Shining having to pick which mare is Cadance... ohhh that is going to be great, so is more Cadance the Practical Sex Ed teacher.
And the non-clop... even that sounds freaking perfect! Just read a fic a few weeks ago that was Tia and Cadance trying to get Chrissy laid hoping it might lighten her up and help her stop being such an uptight bitch.
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Heh, I wonder which of those three you were...
Anyway, I've just got to finish proofreading, and then it goes to my Patreon supporters. Everybody else gets it a few days later.
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Heh, yeah. I'm looking forward to these as well. ^.^
And that story about trying to get Chryssy laid sounds hilarious!
4368204 Well that wasn't the overall story, that was just a subplot, the main story was about Celestia wanting to be special someponies with Twilight. With Luna and Cadance trying to help her out and get her to go through with it. Chryssi came in because she was in town, and stopped by disguised as Twilight to try and get a bit of teacher student, platonic love as a snack for the road.... and ending up with Celestia's tongue down her throat.
4368204 "Who's Getting Shafted?" seems like certain scenes from How Love Works.
I didn't vote highly for Sex Ed: Changeling Style because I thought it was already essentially finished, or damn near it anyway. Why ask you to put a lot of your effort going forward into something that's practically done? When the last two chapters are both epilogues, I tend not to expect to see much more. I suspect others had a similar reaction and that's why it's not as popular as you anticipated.
As a general observation, some people were incredibly liberal with their zero ratings.
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Heh. Still sounds entertaining. And she got what she wanted... right?
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Nothing new under the sun, I suppose.
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Yeah, I guess that makes sense. ^.^
And being liberal with the zeroes is just good strategic voting.
To give the ones you voted for the best chance possible, it helps to decrease the scores of all the other ones as much as you can.
(Plus, a lot of non-clop readers zeroed all the clop stories and a lot of clop readers zeroed all the non-clop.)
so sex ed pony style lost
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No it didn't...
Well, it got 3rd place, but that's still in the winner's circle, so it'll get written just like the others.
"-I was also surprised at how Sex Ed: Changeling Style has fallen in popularity. I thought that one would be in the top three for sure!"
For me at least, the abrupt tone shift and epilogues of Sex Ed: Changeling Style drove it way WAY down in overall quality and consideration for continuation. I will say (no spoilers) that Epilogue 3 does a lot to redeem it, but it still went to some unnecessarily low-quality places for a while there.
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Heh, fair enough.
You lazy bastard I see what you did there! You thought SE:CS (Wait...S...E...C...FUCK YOUR GOOD!) would be in the top three and so just assumed you would get away with only writing 2 new chapters for this poll! Well we outsmarted you! By voting for something other than a story that's nearly completed anyways, and only voting for clop, we have successfully tricked you into giving us 5 chapters in a single poll!
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We could, um, think of that as 'getting a head start'.
The 4000 Year Old Virgin sounds like it will be a blast.
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To read, maybe ... it's a bear to write. But I'm working on it.