The secret origin of Tarnished Silver · 8:21pm Oct 27th, 2012
Recently, some nice person asked, "how did you get the idea to write about this? Where did this all begin?"
It's far from the first time I've been asked. So I thought I should set the record straight and let you guys know exactly how this whole ill-informed endeavor originated.
Once upon a time, in the forgotten world of six months ago, I saw a bit of fanart by my one of my favorite pony artists, The Weaver (AKA GlitterGlue.):
I thought it was funny and posted it to a message board I frequent. The response was that a bunch of people started posting snippits of text about Rarity and her sick perversion. Eventually this led to a fellow named Lavenci posting a story about Rarity looking at illegal porn on the internet and getting caught. It started out as a trollfic, but by the second page was evolving into something with an actual plot to it. Lavenci was the one who established Rarity's sadism and attraction to her sister.
Eventually, I posted to the thread again with a two-sentence bit where Silver Spoon asks Rarity to abuse her. This was inspired by this gorgeous piece of Silver Spoon fanart by Rainbow. Someone responded requesting that the idea be made into a full story. I hastily chose an author name (if I had known this would become more popular I would have given the name more thought! This is seriously the first name that came to mind, probably because I had been reading about prewar comic art earlier that day.) After that, I wrote Tarnished Silver over the course of a week.
The rest just ballooned from there. Silver Spoon's Mark was made up of leftover ideas from Tarnished Silver. Rarity's Garden fell out of me in a one hour burst of creative energy on a sunny June morning. And Many Loves of Pinkie was written because I love Pinkie Pie, and am aroused by some weird shit. 
And then someone said, "Hey, could you write a story about Rarity fooling around with Twist?"
I agreed, figuring I'd bang out some trifling little ten page story and be done with it.
Aha. Ahahaha.
Before we knew it, a few of us had created a setting we took to calling Dark Equestria. Originally we planned to write all the stories in the same canon, but it was eventually decided that this was a bit too cumbersome, so now we just each do our own thing within the general theme of "what if MLP took place in a world of rampant sexual amorality?"
Along with Lavenci, the other DE authors active on FimFiction are Togashi and Van Aschenbach. Give them a look if you like my stuff; there are similar themes at work, and they're both quite good at what they do.
And that's the secret origin of these stories.
Also, I was bitten by a radioactive pedophile horse.
That is now my go-to answer for everything. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Twilight_Sparkle_lolface.png
Tell me more about this 'Dark Equestria'. Sounds like a splendid place to spend the winter. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Twilight_crazy.png
>I was bitten by a radioactive pedophile horse
Tell me more
There's a Dark Equestria story listing, for those of you that are interested.
You should think about making this Dark Equestria into a group.
Or not, since 454553 pointed this out.
Fragments. Little fragments that join into big thing. It's similar, in a roundabout way, to a bit of reassuring advice I gave a friend who was afraid of what they might do if they became too close to someone (they had a cropping fear or somehow allowing themselves to cheat on their significant other.) I told them, all the paths that lead from the start to the bad outcomes are the result of a series of conscious decisions we make. I used the example of shooting someone. It requires thinking of getting a gun, finding a store, paying, doing paperwork, waiting, picking it up, buying bullets, loading it, finding the person, then pulling the trigger. A LONG series of necessarily conscious and willful events, not accidents or mistakes, for most of them. Here too you've laid outthe logical path, outlining steps that are necessarily conscious.
If some folk hadn't said things or even if you hadn't posted that... But forgive my maudlin intrrospection. I feel I still owe a great act of contrition for what I did when I made a comment that unleashed a terrible thing into the pony fandom. I can never forgive myself, however much I may write, trying to exorcise my demons by maki g worlds that are lovely.
Disregard my notice. I am only a broken-down old eutopianist who thinks your work shows off a remarkable talent. And your schedule shows a remarkable energy.
Be well, sir.
553410
What are you referring to? I don't recall anything like that happening, at least not since I've known you. Of course, I could just be blanking.
In any case, hope you are well, too.
Thanks for that! It's not easy to maintain sometimes, but I'm proud that I've only been seriously late once, since I began the Monday schedule about halfway through Twisted. Even though the weekly deadline is completely self-imposed, if it wasn't there I'd be a hell of a lot less productive. And frankly, being on time is not my strongest suit, and I need to learn to meet deadlines if I ever hope to do this writing thing for a living someday. Forcing myself to churn out 8-15 pages of new content a week has really helped with that.
555260
It was a long while ago, very early in the fandom. An attempt to be politic and polite through generic kindness caused the posting of a story and I feel it was a mistake even being polite. It's one of those inadvertant little mistakes we all make in life.
Y U NO TELL ME MORE? (454265)
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I've always loved that picture.
454553
Broken link. There's Lavenci's directory on Pastebin, but some of its links are broken in turn; in particular Saint Mellen's stories, but also "Stories written with text starting with a right-facing arrow" by Aschenbach (their other stories are on Fimfetch and in the Fimfarchive collection), and Lavenci's own "The Last Greentext Ever".