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Scipio Smith


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  • 54 weeks
    SAPR Rewrite Volume 3 Cover by MRK50

    In another sign of how overly optimistic I once was about how long it would take me to get through this rewrite, back in January 2021 I had a cover for Volume 3 done by MRK50, whose absence from the fandom since then is much lamented. With the new phase of the story due to start on Monday, I can finally share it with you all:

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  • 59 weeks
    Shameless shilling of my non-MLP fics

    Those of you who enjoy SAPR, but who possibly find it a bit too big, a bit too slow, or those of who you don't have any problems with it at all but would like to read more RWBY fics from me may be interested in a couple of new fics that I've started fairly recently without any MLP elements.

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  • 73 weeks
    Team SAPR and Fluffy by Tianshiko

    A little over a year ago I commissioned this artwork of Team SAPR, the stuffed beowolf and mascot of Benni Havens'; the artist, the very talented Tianshiko, had some health issues and wasn't able to work on it for a long time, but now they've finished it and I hope you'll all agree that it was worth the wait.

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  • 102 weeks
    On the future of SAPR

    So... when I first started rewriting SAPR I told everyone that it would not impede the forward movement of the story. I never kept that promise exactly as I intended it at the time that I made it, but I never exactly broke it either.

    Until now.

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  • 106 weeks
    Signal Boost for Clockwork2003 - Urgent Help needed

    So, I was contacted by another author today, Clockwork2003, who find himself in a position that we, unfortunately, may all find ourselves in at some point in our lives: getting the dreaded cancer diagnosis.

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Mar
13th
2018

Starfleet Nemesis: Operation: Edits · 8:19pm Mar 13th, 2018

So, a while ago now Legendbringer announced that he was going back through the early chapters of Fall of Starfleet and sprucing them up a bit, touching them up, adding some new stuff, all that sort of thing.

At the time I commented that I probably ought to do the same thing, but I never actually did anything about it.

I am now. The edits to the first chapter (or the first prologue, rather) are already up for you to take a look at and I really do hope that you do go back because I promise it will be worth your while. The overall plot will not change, but I'm not just planning on making grammar corrections (although there are some chapters that need that quite badly), rather I'm also planning on correcting the characterisation (Lightning Dawn's characterisation changes halfway through chapter 1, when I suddenly decided that instead of an arrogant jackass he was going to be a brooding hero; even then he doesn't really settle down until the reveal that he was in love with Twilight some time later), touching up some of the characters and dynamics (Starla is quite flat in the beginning considering how important she's going to become), giving some space to some underused characters and generally making everything more consistent.

I don't tend to plan my stories out in advance but I have a much clearer idea now of how the rest of the story is going to play out, and the edits will reflect that.

So please go back, and please comment (again). I'll post a blog once each chapter is edited, and then once all the touching up is done we'll get back to all-original content.

I should also add that the delays while all of this goes on will not be nearly as long as they have sometimes gotten during the writing of this story in the past. In said past, I tried to split my attention between multiple fanfics with the result that they all updated sporadically and slowly. Then I became so invested in my Cinderella fanfic (any Disney fans please check it out; it might be the best thing I've ever written) that I just barrelled through it to the finish and that seemed to work pretty well, so that is my new approach...and it's the turn of this story to have my attention. So expect the updates to come fairly fast from now on.

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Sweet to see.

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