It's About Time · 1:07am Oct 10th, 2012
(Sorry, no catchy pun here)
Scene: A College dorm room. CRITICALMESS is at the laptop while ROOMMATE is lying on a bed. Suddenly a flash of light appears. ROOMATE is flung off of his bed while CRITICAL covers his eyes. When the light clears, FUTURE CRITICAL is standing stage left, adorned in a body suit and looking worse for wear.
FUTURE CRITICAL: Crit! I've come back from the future with a warning!
CRITICAL: Oh god, it's one of these things.
FUTURE CRITICAL: Yes, now shut up and listen.
CRITICAL: Sure, don't want you disappearing on me.
FUTURE CRITICAL: This Friday you will post a blog stating that you have to delay the final chapter in the first story arc of Want Me, Need Me, Love Me. Your readers are furious.
CRITICAL: I did the same thing with Chapter three.
FUTURE CRITICAL: Yes, but just like that time you upload another story you're working on from your hard drive: In Pale MoonLight.
CRITICAL: Oh god, that story,
FUTURE CRITICAL: Yes, the MoonLight shipfic. It becomes even more popular than The Sordid Truth. It stays in the featured box for weeks and within a month it becomes the most popular story on FIMFiction.
CRITICAL: I fail to see how this is a bad thing.
FUTURE CRITICAL: People still beg you to finish your other stories.You'll be overcome by the stress of working on multiple stories simultaneously as you start receiving death threats from your fans. Eventually, a radical fan of After the Sun will find out where you live and try to kill you for abandoning the story for a year. That's what I'm here to stop because, lets face it, you couldn't beat a fly in an arm-wrestling contest.
CRITICAL: ...Well... that was a... creative and very egotistical future. But there's one problem with that.
FUTURE CRITICAL: What?
CRITICAL: (Points at laptop) I finished the next chapter yesterday. I'm proofreading it now.
FUTURE CRITICAL: ...Oh.
Time and space warp, erasing FUTURE CRITICAL from existence. CRITICAL blinks and resumes working. ROOMMATE pokes his head from behind the bed.
ROOMMATE: What the hell just happened?
CRITICAL: Oh... wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.
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Well that was a long and overly creative way of saying I'm going to be uploading the story-arc-concluding chapter of WMNMLM tomorrow! After which I'll probably take a little break and get back to uploading every Friday! Doesn't that sound great?!
INTERNET: MOAR SORDID TRUTH
Eventually, Internet. However the next update you'll probably be seeing form me will be a special Halloween One-Shot because I feel awfully festive this month. So with that, I bid you adieu and leave you with a little phrase I picked up after leaving so many stories unfinished:
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And in strange aeons even death may die
P.S. - That shipfic is real...
MORE SORDID TRU- ahem... sorry about that
I need to start reading your other stories, just so I can complain about them not updating as well
Typo found. Eliminating.
It's in the second FC liiiiiiiiiiinnnnneeee. Why don't you fix iiiiiiiiiiirtttt.
Can't wait for next chapter
It's all cool with me. As long as I get to actually read them I'm fine. Your stories are WAY to good to pass up.
New WMNMLM? Sweet! Thanks in advance!
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Gah, all RIGHT Rarity, I'll fix it... yeesh...
New chapter! I want it!
GODDAMN, I'm already following WMNMLM, and Sordid Truth. And then you mention a MoonLight ship! You really know how to make my day... or week.
There's a MoonLight fic around?
Screw the rest I want that one!
Not that I won't be reading the rest of course.
Scene: A nondescript white room. Nothing is present. Footsteps are heard, and after a moment PLYXE enters stage left, wearing gangster clothes and an enormous gold dollar sign around his neck. After walking to the center of the room, PLYXE points at the audience and begins shouting and making odd hand gestures.
PLYXE: Yo! Crit! You best be uploadin' dat chapter soon, or else I'm a be comin' ova to yo' house and f[REDACTED]kin' yo' s[REDACTED]t up, ya hear me homie?!
PLYXE pauses and glances around awkwardly, then resumes speaking in a normal voice.
PLYXE: Seriously though, please upload it soon. The anticipation is peeling off my fingernails and inserting them into my ear canals. It really hurts.
After more awkward silence, PLYXE exits stage left.
Theatrically,
~PLYXE
The promise of regular updates. Hold on to your underpants boys and girls! Christmas has come early!
MoonLight... Yesss...
Also, how is Future Critical able to warn you of your death if he's dead?
Dude. I don't care, I just want to see what happens to Scoots. GIMME WMNMLM.
wat
MoonLight? As in, Nightmare Moon x Twilight...?
... It's like you're me. That'd be three for three. You seem to have my precise interests, plus the drive to write about them and the intelligence to learn how to actually write well. If you manage to get all three of these stories written to completion, you're going to become one of my absolute favorite writers on this site.
But you DO seem to have the common bug of too-many-fics-at-once-itus. I haven't even looked into this After the Sun fic you've mentioned multiple times now. I really should...
THANK FAUST! THANK CELESTIA! THANK GAWD!
My ninja is gettin' it done!
Will be eagerly anticipating any up dates you got comin' our way, and also to the festive one shot there mentioned!
MOAR SORDID TRUTH
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It's Rarity, not Rairity
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What? I couldn't possibly have been so stupid as to-
Muphry's Law strikes again...
Shipfic is real... Wait, MoonLight as is Nightmare Moon and Twilight? WANT!
...
Carry on then.
Were those Metallica lyrics at the end? From 'The Thing That Should Not Be"?
woo hoo
Huzzah! MOAR W.M.N.M.L.M. soon!
Ah, Lovecraft. Difficult to go wrong when quoting him.
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Nightmare MOON x TwiLIGHT Sparkle
In Pale MoonLight?
So, is it a fic where Twilight tricks the Griffins into starting a war with the Changelings?
What would the point of trying to kill you for not updating? Your death guaranties a lack of updates