I've been a bit under the weather since Trotcon, but feeling better now.
This weekend I need to work on putting together some poni stuff for my niece (she's up here for her birthday), and my inability to do basic things makes that a bit difficult. So I may be delayed a few days on the Trotcon retro and the other long post I still really really want to share with y'all.
To head off any possible confusion, I've added a clarification to TEEE's story page and a note at the top of the chapter explaining that TEEE was not written using LLM generative AI (the story actually predates this technology by several years).
4964520 Oddly enough, I don't consider my stories bleak.
In my stories, ponies do things solely out of love (even in the Chryssi story), but terrible things happen specifically because of the depth of that love. This raises deep questions about the role of intention and projected outcomes in morality.
I never write Sad for the sake of Sad or Dark for the sake of Dark. My stories are intended to be inspiring, and to force the reader to think and feel things they might not otherwise consider.
I don’t personally read them, but I admire your and others’ ability to write bleak stuff
On a scale of kicked puppy to cancer ridden orphans being tortured by a serial killer how dark are we talking?
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Oddly enough, I don't consider my stories bleak.
In my stories, ponies do things solely out of love (even in the Chryssi story), but terrible things happen specifically because of the depth of that love. This raises deep questions about the role of intention and projected outcomes in morality.
I never write Sad for the sake of Sad or Dark for the sake of Dark. My stories are intended to be inspiring, and to force the reader to think and feel things they might not otherwise consider.