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Gabriel LaVedier


Just another University-edicated fanfiction writer who prefers the cheers and laughter of ponies to madness and sorrow.

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  • 216 weeks
    Actually nice content

    Have a look at this lovliness.

    Remember a while back when I made some Hearths' Warming content, the pony version of Santa and the Krampus. It was a nice thing, a happy thing. The opposite of caribou and zebras. And I finally got something drawn on that subject. The Hearthkeeper, Kampfite, and their Pooka wives Klåsa and Kråmpa.

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  • 231 weeks
    Why I stopped (and might not restart)

    It's a short answer. They broke me. Given some replies in the past, I can actually say to some readers, you broke me.

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  • 234 weeks
    I finally found it

    Way back when, at the start of the Fall there was one specific image I was mining for context before I had more primary sources. It colored the entire perception of the caribou and gave rise to the ultra-harsh depictions as literal Nazis, and also why I hammer their racism so hard. If you happen to notice, all the women are ponies, and some men as well. Other species don't exist EXCEPT acceptable

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  • 235 weeks
    Placed in the monster pen

    A popular setting for horror anything is the haunted asylum. See, it was filled with crazy people. Crazy people are all sociopathic professional serial killers, and when they die they all turn into ghosts with have an insatiable drive to kill stupid teenagers. Nevermind that the inmates of asyla generally had even fewer rights and protections than even regular prisoners for a ridiculously long

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  • 243 weeks
    Help needed from Fallout: New Vegas fans

    It's no secret I'm a strong Black Isle fanboy. I believe in the purity of Fallout one and two. It had the retrofuturistic feel and look of the old atompunk pulps, the senseless exuberance and clean lines of streamline moderne and Googie mixed with B-Movie sci-fi and all the little idiot lies that made it fun. There was a frivolousness to it. A joyous abandon when designs aped Mad Max, when people

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Jun
26th
2017

Where am I now? · 3:11am Jun 26th, 2017

You might have noticed I've come back to writing, though focused on anti-Fall stuff because, well, it would be unethical in my mind to not do that. Or if not unethical, then at least improper. Responding to that which is unacceptable or possibly so seems proper. In any event it's something that represents a broader category of work that makes me dislike the dark turn creation has taken. It's emotionally draining and washes out enjoyment of the source material. So I'm cheating on Pony, by losing myself in something comforting and relaxing. Zootopia.

Most of my return is thanks to Zootopia. I've produce way more Zootopia work of late than pony. And if you want to see what I've been making, it's over in Zootopia.

The Translation of Dawn Bellwether is my big, continuing story. Updates posted on Wednesday.

Unbounded love is now on hiatus because I ran through all the short ideas I had, and the other ones I considered would need to be chaptered out, either as separate stories or as internal stories. Possibly internal, so I can keep things neat. Updates pending.

Both have been posted on ZNN, and enjoy moderate notice because so far as I know there isn't a ZFiction site. But that's how it is. My writing mojo was rekindled by something kinder than I was experiencing. But nothing will quench the passion in me to bash the fash. See this space for a horror/suspense series in the Fall mold, and updates to my other Etiamsi Omnes stories.

With apologies to Cato, the caribou must be wiped away.

Comments ( 27 )

I admit that I, too, have been cheating on MLP with Zootopia, though with reading, not writing. I've read some great stories over in that fandom... though I admit, it's mostly WIldeHopps shipping. That's what I'm there for, because goddamn if those two aren't perfect for each other and if there is a sequel it better get them together or so help me...

But I've looked at Unbound love. Not the Bellweather one, though. Is it a redemption story? I love redemption story, the idea that no one is beyond saving, and that even the most evil character will see the light eventually. But that's probably my religion talking.

You could always post it on AO3 too, I've found it a lot easier to read through than FF.net, and it's Zootopia section is still going strong and growing. (I also got brought back to a lot of things by Zootopia) I mean if you're looking for somewhere else to put your Zootopia stuff that's a lot more user friendly than FF (and maybe a lot more generally friendly than FF.net too.)

Glad to see you back though, I'm not a fan of all your stuff, but you're a good writer. Keep it up.

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Mostly just arr. Generic greetings et al.

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I actually find FFN super easy to use. I only need to upload the ODT, which I work with anyway. I have way more problems with this site which requires conversion to RTF, then manual reformatting each time I upload, whichcan take a long time if the story contains a lot of paragraphs.

I plan to try for some softer things, sweeter things. But, you know, Fash bashing.

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Oh, absolutely! It's the very essence of a redemption story, with a bit of Twilight Zone. It's super strongly Lionwether, but the impetus is WildeHopps. Though... you'll see how it goes, as it's also an AU, that examines how the story would look if one thing changed. You probably can't tell but I'm huge on WildeHopps, it's one of the two things that drove the tipping point of the stories in Unbounded Love. The Hopps family will be very important in the next story, "Interspecies Relationship Support Network, Tri-Burrows Chapter" as will Gideon and Travis and their partners.

4583493 I like a good redemption story too. But in my experience, people don't change, no matter what. Even if they themselves believe that they have, they haven't. But perhaps that's why it can be the basis of a good story, because it's nigh impossible, but still believable.

Also, Gabe, wtf is anti fall? Is that like a story universe? Cuz a lot of those suck.

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Well, I think that in a sense. People are who they are but contain a lot of contradictory positions and so they choose different ways to be based on experience and conviction. If you read the story, that's actually what happens to Dawn because it's an AU in a way.

Anti-Fall refers to stories opposed to Fall of Equestria. I find that writing them is... oddly cathartic.

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People can change, it jsut usually takes an impetus. There was that big story of a former KKK member realizing the error of his ways, and one of the Phelps children broke free of Westboro Baptist Church. And in a more spiritual sense, I believe anyone, and in fact everyone, can and will be redeemed.

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And I genuinely respect a universalist perspective as opposed to more fundamentalist ideas.

Thus Dawn's change.

4584963 Eh. I respectfully disagree. I mean, I don't personally know the people from your examples, but it sounds to me like they didn't exactly change in the way that is meant when you say 'this person has changed.' Sounds to me like they thought 'I'm doing something stupid, I'm going to quit it' as opposed to 'I AM stupid, I'm going to quit that.' There's an enormous gaping difference between being led to believe something (ie being programmed) and being inherently... bad or evil, or even just a sleezbag.

But of course, nothing is absolutely impossible. I've just yet to see in my own experience someone actually changing like that.

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In that case, I not only question what you mean by change, I sort of question if you actually hold a belief that deeply and almost inhumanly cynical or if it's just shock value gone a bit too far.

4585505 I wont deny that I'm very cynical. But... I've been looking for a reason not to be and haven't yet found one. That doesn't make me inhuman. Suffice it to say, I've known a fair few people who have "changed," and I've known them long and well enough to know that they haven't. And that's not to say I wont give people the benefit of the doubt. I would love to witness something, or rather someone, that proves me wrong.

And hell, I can't say with absolute certainty that nobody has ever changed. I don't personally know every person who ever existed. I've just never seen it myself.

Are you telling me that you have?

Well, the story is quite good so far, but honestly, I'm failing to see how not writing anti-Fall stuff could ever be construed as unethical. I'm well aware that our philosophical leanings are very different, and maybe it's just my autism talking, but that's genuinely beyond me.

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If a thing exists, which I oppose and have said so, it be hypocritical of me to cease opposition so long as I have the inclination and capacity to do so, especially if doing so also articulates points I feel are necessary. So, didactic literature as well as cathartic and oppositional literature.

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I don't know because I'm not even sure how you mean "change". Your statements almost seem to boil down to a distinction without a difference. I could say I've changed, in a few categories. Just the start, I used to be religious. Does that count?

4586349 Ah, semantics, how I loathe thee.

I suppose the best definition I can muster would be the core of someone's personality. Stubborn people will always be stubborn, nice people always nice, mean people always mean, and back to the original topic: villains (more specific: sadists) will always be sadists. Not every villain is a sadist, of course.

And come to think of it, most redemption stories I can think of portray the villain as only misguided anyway. Huh.

To answer your immediate question, though, no, I doubt it. Being religious is like watching a tv show. You might love it at first, or maybe you were brought up on it, but later you come to realize it's not for you. Dammit, why did I use that metaphor in this place...

What was I going to say? Belleweather? Definitely a sadist. Not to crap all over your fic - I'm sure it's great, I might even like it - but, I mean, she basically attempted cold blooded murder in an exceedingly cruel fucked up way, and smiled while doing so. I mean we might even be beyond sadism here, we're in mental illness territory. Redeemable in fiction, yes. Make a good story. In reality, she'd plead insanity and get locked up in a looney bin.

Just sayin' :pinkiecrazy:

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Now I get it. And you might be right. I add it is possible to change a core personality but that takes years of therapy, exercises, monitoring and all kinds of effort. But attached superficial things can change which is people want and what they mean. Like a racist no longer being racist or a bully no longer being a bully. The core component may or may not be identical anymore but the attached socially negative actions may be gone, though perhaps replaced with something else. It's an old line that folks often trade one addiction for another. But the superficial social change is often enough for people and personally, that suffices, for me. Your mileage may vary.

So another Anti-Fall story that uses violence generated by a sole perpetrator to solve the problematic Caribou race? Yawn. Read enough of those. I've never seen a story that uses spy-work or aggressive politik to dismantle King Dain. That'd be, y'know, interesting. Even a story where every other nation stands together and threatens war against the Caribou would be great. It would be a massive stalemate charged with debate and a literal Defcon that would keep the planet at Cold War status.

There, I wrote you a story. Cold War with the Caribou.

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That's the exact standing situation in the Etiamsi Omnes universe. The Caribou blitzkrieg was almost too successful, as you can only overextend so far before you meet our limit. Throw in that other species cannot be brainwashed and you have the situation as they find it. In the Aegeman Sea the caribou military governorship is barely a thing, mostly flouted by the cattle and Dogs there. The Griffin High Kingdom may be in civil war but they can't crack the inner areas, not without losing central regions to the rebels due to shifting troops. The zebra lands finished their civil war as a puppet state of the caribou but the citizens are not obedient, as the legitimate government lives on. All of that is a thing, I just established it over many stories.

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Well, shit, now you've got my attention. Gonna read this starting tomorrow.

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Roughly speaking the action takes place in something akin to a Skyrim situation where the player, or reader, finds a stalemate, which is then explained in flashbacks and advanced by the various plots. Different folks have different understandings and perspectives based on where they were when. Daring Do has no idea anything happened until they try to capture her. Zivante the zebra who was enslaved in Equestria didn't know the Grand Veldt ministers escaped the insurrection. Maureen the Tuatha de Danann member is cocks and smug about her job because she's essentially training the force that will help catch the caribou in a pincer attack, as once enough stability is established the rebels can crush the caribou-supported side of the civil war and the griffins can then unite with them free of danger. I haven't even added the Free Earldom of Glittering Vale and Lord Pure Spring who has a claim to be the true Prince-Emperor of the Crystal Empire, with the backing of the other free states. I also haven't said anything about the Buffalo or the Yakyakisani.

I can't tell if we managed to drive you insane, or just gave you a weirder outlet for what was already there. Either way, you don't seem to have actually managed to do anything useful or productive with it.

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With what? I know you're a troll (culture-jammer variant, or possibly motivated opposition, I'm not sure) but you're usually more... energetic. If you're bored go parasitize someone else. I'm not here to entertain you. That's what video games are for.

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