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Doctor Fluffy


struggling new hampshire college student.

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  • 49 weeks
    I LIVED

    So, GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! At least, for the five of you that care about Lair of The Badalisc after I routinely go months without updating it.
    Anyway. I'm at a place where I could (potentially?) end Lair of The Badalisc chapter 5. but I'm not a hundred percent sure yet. At the very least, I'm 66-75% of the way through it, and there's about two more scenes I need to write.

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  • 81 weeks
    Writing progress

    I learned my lesson from last time, so I actually have a small bit of chapter 5 written out. In the meantime, I'm taking a short break and will get to the next chapter by next week or so.

    In the meantime, I'm also gonna try and work on a one-shot featuring Pinkie or Izzy.

    1 comments · 141 views
  • 84 weeks
    well that didn't work

    Okay, so Lair of The Badalisc's latest chapter was not finished three days ago. But.. the draft's nearly finished, I just need a day to myself to hammer it out, watch some MLP FiM to get in the mood, and we're golden.

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  • 87 weeks
    Lair of The badalisc new chapter

    So, good news and bad news - the new chapter is CLOSE to done... but not finished. It'll be done by august 10th at least, probably.

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  • 90 weeks
    New chapter

    I, uh... wow

    Okay, I'm sorry it's taken practically a year to do chapter 3 of LoB, for everyone here. I've just been hung up on.... a lot of other projects. Got a job, wrote a lot of Warframe stuff, done a lot of WF art...

    BUT

    I've got another chapter planned for THIS MONTH! And maybe also a one-shot also releasing this month. I got plans.

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May
13th
2017

I ain't gone yet. · 5:16am May 13th, 2017

Now, with the whole clusterfuck around the main spectrum story and the destruction of the group most of you reading this had had joined, the reasonable assumption is that Light and Snowbound, and maybe even Convergence are dead. They were even added to some story bookshelf that said "Never to be completed" or something.

I'm just writing the blog to tell you: Don't worry. I ain't dead yet. Firstly, Light has 13 more chapter docs in existence, 2 of which are all but finished. I don't know when that updates, but it will be soon. Snowbound... I admittedly haven't done much work on it, but it'll probably update too. We are working on rebooting and continuing Spectrum as we speak. There may be some... okay, a lot of uniquely Red bits that will be deleted, but they probably weren't that good anyway. Honestly, with Red's departure and ban, I would've probably written more Convergence to celebrate.

If I sound the least bit angry, well, that's because I am. I'm angry at myself for sticking by Red even when he abundantly proved himself not worth it. I’m angry at Red. I’m angry at myself for not doing anything. And I’m angry at everyone who acted like that bastard pisses rainbows. I’m also angry at myself because I’m not good at being angry or meaningfully directing it.

Some of you might be wondering: Why am I not sticking by Red? Well, the simple answer is… I tried. And I did. For ten months. And during those ten months, I made no progress. If anything, I’d say I made less than no progress, given that he got harder and harder to deal with. Every time I’d try to help, he’d walk all over me and go back to kicking a friend of mine. I watched him be racist. I watched him insult everyone around me, completely unrelated facebook friends included. I watched him ragequit, throw tantrums, piss all over my friends’ work. The stuff I mentioned in Jed’s blog? Yeah, it was nearly a year of that, and I’m done trying to put together broken pieces when I know they will never stick.

And if I keep talking to him, he’ll do the same. How do I know? I could tell you what I know about Red’s attitude, but Jed and Vox have said their peace on Red’s behavior better than I could. But instead, I know that Red will be the same because I know that Spectrum has changed everyone but him.

TheIdiot has changed a lot, when I first met him I wouldn’t have dreamed he’d be doing this. I am truly proud of him. Kizuna-Tallis’ writing style has improved dramatically, and she’s grown a lot as a person. Jed… actually, he was pretty great from the beginning, but he’s said that Spectrum is why he’s here. ProudToBe has improved a lot. Sledge has changed a lot too, so has Vox. Me? I know I have. I know that my writing style has improved dramatically, from Starvation’s short stream-of-consciousness narration to Light, which I firmly believe is one of the best things I have yet written. Sure, I may cringe in like 10 years when I read it, but it’s good to me now.

Red… has not changed very much as a person or a writer. His writing style has barely changed over several years, and he’s continued to leave massive flaws in the story that we’ve had to scramble to fix. There’s many gaping holes in Spectrum as a story, most of which I can lay at his feet: The enemies are Not Very Good and I was forced to create Shieldwall and Captain Cactus just to make the PER feel threatening and the Solar Empire forces have depth, respectively. Marcus is a worse protagonist than Kraber, on the basis that I’ve wrote Kraber having genuine regret, comeuppance, and respect for authority at points. Or at least, I will write him with comeuppance SOON(™). So, y’know, look out for that.

Anyway, continuing. Our backstory is convoluted, contradicting, and full of holes. I don’t know why the mane 6 are at the forefront of the solar empire on the battlefield early on in spectrum. The HLF are like worse-written Mad Max bandits. The story focused more on Marcus than the ponies, and Lyra - who very well should have had an important role - just sort of stopped being important due to the all-consuming magic that is Marcus’ plot singularity. Prime/Canon/Not-evil Celestia was… Just no. Fuck dat shit. Prime/Canon/not-exactly-not-evil Discord was also “Just no. Fuck dat shit.” Huge amounts of other franchises were thrown into our blender, regardless of how much sense it made.

And yet, I keep working on Spectrum, even with this and Red’s overall terrible attitude. But does Red learn from any of this like we do? Does he actually make an effort to fix this? No. He outright seems to embrace some of this! Why? I don’t know.

He has not changed in ten months. During that time period, it was only the same cycle of insults, (usually at Vox) threats to quit, (While blaming it on Vox) and obstructing out of spite (usually to Vox). Hell, I know that when this started, he doubled if not quadrupled on these behaviors, inviting harassment on Vox. He fucking threatened us when the story was in TheIdiot’s hands, saying that he’d try and turn the fans against us by saying we took it from him under duress. So I know that if I tried to talk things out, I’d get the same result - he walks over me, insults me, we walk away, he throws me or my friends to the wolves, plays me against someone, because that’s the status quo. So no fucking more of that. My heart says I won’t be happy. My head says it won’t work. My sleep cycle says I feel better. And I just can’t argue with counsel like that.

So now I’ve blocked him from communicating with me everywhere, cause the odds are good I know how this ends. And now? Now I get to move forward. Without Red bitching Jed and I out when we do almost anything on Convergence. Yes, it updates so slowly for a reason. Without Red making his self-insert shoot a pregnant woman in the gut in Light. Yes, that was going to be in my story and I am ashamed. But on the soul of my late grandmother, and any other dead relatives I have, I swear it will not.

Keep an eye on us, humpadumps. We’re not dead yet.

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Comments ( 6 )

I've been a long time fan of Spectrum. I've had a lot of things on my mind in regards to these recent events.

I was going to write them here, but the comment ended up being longer than your blog post.

So I made it a blog post.

Feel free to peruse it as you wish. If not, just know that I certainly do not envy the decisions you and your colleagues have in front of you right now. It is my hope the story will continue, but if not, then for all the warts and problems that it may have, I can say without hesitation that it's my favorite ponyfic ever written.

You are all top notch writers and hopefully you can now get the proper recognition you deserve for your work on Spectrum.

Best of luck to you all.

It was even added to some story bookshelf that said "never to be completed" or something.

Ha! I forgot authors get bookshelf notifications. That was me, and I did that in response to, well, the reason your blog post here exists.

Truth be told, the bookshelf exists to track stories where I love them to bits and pieces, but either the story author died, were abandoned by their author (which was relevant enough to the drama for it to qualify, and is the reason I dumped *every* Spectrum story into that bookshelf), The author is suffering life-altering health issues, or other similar means of story loss. If a story updates, it's usually instantly removed from that bookshelf and placed in one of my other bookshelves.

I love Spectrum, and had been reading it ever since Marcus visited Uptime Canterlot for the first time. Please don't end it on that note.

Well to be honest I kinda thought half way thru spectrum it was becoming kinda dull to read, to much detail and drama and not enough action and suspense. None of my business what goes on between you and red, but while I do believe some of what you said is true about there being some holes in the story and not enough background and detail, it honestly to me wasint as terrible as you describe it, problem sure, but I thought the pace of the story overall was about right. But now it just seems the pace of the story is taking forever and now seems to be all about drama and romance instead of action suspense and adventure which was the reason i began reading the story to begin with. Sure adding a little bit of drama and romance would have made the story better, the problem is I think you guys put to much of it in there. So in this regard I think red is right that vox and the others changed the story into something almost completely different and sorry to say, almost boring. I know good writers that write books do stuff like that and that's Great! Those kind of books I'm ok reading, their supposed to be like that to add depth to the story...for the long run. But dude, fan fiction stories aren't books, their not supposed to be so drawn out like that, most people just wanna read a great story that gets them hyped, but doesint take forever to get to thrilling scenes. That's just my opinion, some people might think differently, and some that agree with me, and that's ok. You wanna work to be better writers, a noble goal! Just keep in mind that books and fanfiction while similar are not the same. Again is just my opinion, and my opinion was I kinda liked reds way a bit more, not entirely, but a bit more.
So overall I think all you guys, and red, were right and wrong on this story. I just happen to agree with red a little more on the matter. Nothing against you I just prefer more suspense/action, to romance and drawn out drama.
hope things work out with both you guys.
Seeya!

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Yeah, the pacing was definitely a problem.

Without Red making his self-insert shoot a pregnant woman in the gut in Light.

This feels like someone writing a story in which a mouthpiece for the author rips someone's head off with the same lack of self-awareness

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I mean that did happen a couple times in some of the unpublished material.

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