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Pablo Arthur Fawkes


I like writing, I like fanfics, I like MLP. This was inevitable...

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  • 296 weeks
    Pet peeve

    People adding a story to favourites, but not liking it.

    Dunno, just grinds my gears.

    Also not getting negative comments. I know there's always something I can improve, but I need outside help knowing.

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  • 299 weeks
    Complaining about sexual terminology.

    Me? Complain? That's a first.
    I need a place to talk about fanfic in general and this is my only account with a blog attatched.

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    0 comments · 255 views
  • 299 weeks
    Ponies go Greek

    This isn't that other story I said I was writing. I needed a break, so I wrote this. I hope you guys like it.

    I might make a second chapter some time. I probably will.

    Now I wait for the downvotes.

    0 comments · 218 views
  • 305 weeks
    Not to moan, but...

    Like, I get that people might dislike my work, I write in a sometimes boring way with a possibly odd attention to details. But... why is it that I get dislikes, but nobody comments why they disliked it?

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  • 309 weeks
    I'm back

    Or rather, I didn't really lezve.
    I started too many projects and burned myself out.

    So then I started slowly and quietly on a new stiry. Not this one, a different one.
    With multiple chapters. And, get this, it ISN'T an anthology. How wacky.

    So stay tuned. I'll return with a story. Then recede into the depths and work on the next one..

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Sep
14th
2017

[Dark] tag · 1:45pm Sep 14th, 2017

I just had a very interesting argument discussion on a story about when and where to use the [Dark] tag.
As far as I can tell, it actually has two usages, which are kind of... different.
First, circumstances in which the consequences are dire and the main characters are, by many means, screwed. This is more of a tonal thing, though. If it's a dark terrible atmosphere, it's a [dark] story. That's fine.
But then the description adds that itr should also be used for stories with "unsettling concepts". This is very unhelpful indeed because unsettling is not an objective statement. What I find unsettling isn't going to be what you find unsettling. I hate dolls, bugs, freeform jazz and the miracle of childbirth, but I personally know someone who likes all of these things. Except Freeform jazz.
So, if the tag goes on things that include unsettling concepts, where do we stop? I have a story about a pony cursed to endure strange and horrific cravings late at night. Is that unsettling? Should I tag that? What about my first, and most awful, story, about the love between two stallions, and the questions over their family's acceptance, is that dark?

I honestly want to know if I should tag any, or all, of my fics [dark].

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