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  • 474 weeks
    Hiatus...again, for a legit reason this time.

    Ok, not that last time wasn't a legit reason (at least I assume having a broken arm counts). But yeah, for the second time ever, Shackles and Friendship is going hiatus.

    As some of you know, I've been preparing myself for a grueling program called HackReactor, which in a nutshell is a boot campt for programmers. A 13 week course of constant hacking/coding, 8am-8pm, Mon-Sat, nonstop.

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  • 477 weeks
    [Please Read] Should I show Rodney?

    Trying to get a feel of where you stand on this. As some of you know I use pictures and sound to make the fic a bit more interesting. Pictures, I use sometimes when I feel my writing skills fail to describe what I imagine.

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  • 483 weeks
    *GASP* What a surprise!

    Did I actually keep my word and uploaded a new chapter as I said I would?

    Oh goodness! Something must have gone right in the world!

    ...

    Or very, VERY, wrong.

    Chapter 45 - Scatterbrained

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  • 483 weeks
    Chapter 45 is being edited.

    I'd say two maybe three days before I upload it. Thanks for being patient.

    ~Zai

    5 comments · 565 views
  • 490 weeks
    Resurrection!


    It's alive!!
    Chapter 44

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Sep
24th
2012

Changes and re-writes v.2 · 10:59pm Sep 24th, 2012

Due to some inconsistencies and plot holes (no more of that joke, I mean it) I've decided to redo some chapters. Not the whole thing just parts of it and it's not anything that affects the story in the long run. In fact you don't have to read them if you don't want to and you will still keep up with the story no problem. I listed those plot holes in a comment in a reply to someone so I'll copy it here.

Rodney's passive drain-on-touch effect applies only to non-living object like machinery that runs on magic or jewels holding magic. Which is why even though he's in contact with ponies he doesn't drain them. However I did that whole scene with Twilight's tree house which technically was still alive, that's it.

Another one is with Rodney's shackles, remember the scene with Pewee? How Twilight attempted to remove the bird from Rodney and failed because his shackles were repelling her magic? Well in previous chapter's Rodney's been able to use his own magic on his hand without an issue but suddenly there's a magic nullification field around his shackles? This one is a bigger problem because almost every chapter involving magic with Rodney can potentially be inconsistent.

Plus it's really something redundant, Rodney already absorbs magic by contact alone so what's the point of that right? Besides I don't want to make him anymore OP than I need to.

Anyways to keep it easier for you guys that do care what I changed, here is a detailed review.

Chapter 13
Although not biggest plot hole (this is not an innuendo, do not make a joke about this or I will pay Pinkie to find you!) I did make a great deal of change in the chapter. The changes can be found in several parts of the chapter:
1) Just after Rodney put out the fire in Twilight's kitchen and started blaming each other.
2) After Twilight came back to the library I added a conversation to explain why Rodney's power affected a living tree.
3) Re-wrote the part that explained how Twilight's shower worked and how it wasn't drained like the fire ward enchantment.
Chapter 14
1) A simple modification in Rodney's journal about his Touch ability under Unique powers.
Chapter 15
I know it's a bit lazy but it's the simplest way to fix the problem. Here I had the idea about Rodney's shackles creating a negation field around it, which as I stated above is redundant since Rodney himself absorbs any magic that comes into contact with him.
1) I got rid of the part where Twilight tried and failed to use her magic to pull Peewee away from Rodney.


Ok I hope this clears things up a bit and if you do plan on ready that chapter again please inform me if the changes create any more inconsistency or plot holes because of it. I tried my best but I might miss a thing or two. Give credit to Noxxels my editor for pointing out the problems in the first place, or hate him because it made me postpone the next chapter further. Take your pick.
I'm sorry if this irritated a few people and I know I keep bringing it up but this is the first time I wrote a fan fic so mistakes like these are bound to happen. And as much as I will try I will make this mistake again, so please don't be too upset when it does.

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Sorry for the second post like this, the damn thing won't let me edit once I post it up.

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