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Rust


Out at sea, rockin' steam dreams and pilot valves... Deuces.

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    All;


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Nov
4th
2012

ASTONISHING · 1:42am Nov 4th, 2012

Read this story, and be amazed, for it is truly glorious to behold. A bit lengthy, yes, but it is shaping up to be a true masterpiece of work. We need to get this featured, now. But I need your help to do that!

You know what to do, my fellow pony lovers. Go forth and spread the word.

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Comments ( 30 )

Yes, my liege!

Hmm...Perhaps I shall look into this tale.

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On the bright side, at least your divine master is the culmination of what appears to be the greatest acid trip of all time. And here I am just worshiping Satan, like an ordinary shmuck!

Dont know if its because of this post, but success.
Funny thing is, I read the description in the features box and thought I should give it a look. But then I noticed a notification in my inbox, lo and behold it was telling me to go read it. Thanks for adding an extra step, jerk! :rainbowlaugh:

I shall do this.

Bit lengthy, but that's no good reason. Will definitely take a look.

I added it to my favorites, and will hopefully read it later.

Looks interesting, will be read soonish.

Reading later. along with 150 other...

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And that, ladies and gentleman, is how I use the power of my influence.

Now, let's get this sucker to the top slot, who's with me?

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to be hoenst i have almost no idea how the feature box works.
the only thing i know is that the left five are for new/trending stories, while the right-most three are for popular updated fics.
i have no idea about the specifics XD

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There was a blog post about it some time back...its basically the most trending new fics out there at the moment, and you get on it based on how many likes, favorites, and views the story gets in a certain amount of time after posting. I think Knighty has a formula for this, believe it or not.

I shall take your word oh magnificent leader~!
*tracks*
:pinkiehappy:

Oh my heavens! You really are too awesome to us! Vest and I could not be more thankful for the shout out and praise! Both of us are totally humbled by how amazing this site has treated us and so early! So from the bottom of our collective hearts we thank you.

I

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I remember what it was like for me when I first started out here. I'd always struggle to get a work noticed, and any recognition from the big shots around this site was absolutely incredible. I don't believe myself to be anywhere near them, of course, and I do know I'm very fortunate for my standing. Now that I've written a lot and learned even more, I consider it my duty to help out the new guys as much as possible. Its an honest pleasure to use the power of having lots of watchers for a positive effect; spreading the word to hundreds of people at the click of a mouse, instead of using that to garner more views for one's own stories.

Hey there Rust, as well as your enthusiastic fans and readers!

Just want to thank you again for the awesome compliments and for sharing our story. And wow, featured listing already, this is certainly a most unexpected surprise! To have gotten this much feedback and such a response in such a short period of time (especially considering that I just made this account not even 24 hours ago) is really mind-blowing! I was actually quite perplexed as to how we could get this story any sort of recognition so we could get at least a small handful of readers able to give us some feedback on our current progress, and knew that the lengthy first chapter would be an immediate deal-breaker for most. We were contemplating cross-linking via FimChan, PonyChan, deviantArt...seeing if we could somehow coax EQD to accidentally feature it through some crazy-influential spell of whimsical Email sorcery that may or may not have been an elaborate ransom threat...I'm actually kind of ashamed to think that, over the last couple nights before submitting Starstruck, I never even thought that JUST the story on its own had the merits to be seen by the right guy.

That right guy being you, of course!

I just...honestly here, I just didn't think it was possible to get as much of a response as we did so early on! And we certainly have you to thank for getting it there!

So of course, thank you so much again! I sincerely appreciate the shout-out!

-Vest

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You're quite welcome, good sir. It's a rare treat, finding high quality works like yours in the ponynet. Most are just comedy one-shots, or sleazy clopfics (not that there's anything wrong with that, I just prefer to read something other than a "spread'em and bed'em"). Then, every once and a while, a gem slinks out of the muck of garbage like a beaten stray. Every rolling stone had to get a starter kick, of course. I'd like to think I nudge these stones in the general direction of the steep hill to fame and glory, if you'll tolerate that pathetic metaphor.

As for EQD... I might be able to assist you in that endeavor. There is a pre-reader from there who drops by my page every once and a blue moon. He's looked over a fic of mine that I was considering for submission; maybe I can convince him to take a glance at yours. I'm positive that you have a strong contending for getting front page over there, as well.

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Y U mus shov one nuddah story down my troat.(IDK i was thinking in mok for dis one)

Ahaha! I went to the link you posted and realized it was a story I had just clicked on in the featured box and tracked. Congratz, it has been featured just as our glorious leader has commanded! :trollestia:

Thank you, good sir, for bringing this to my attention. I probably would have missed it or skipped over it otherwise.

I gotta ask... just how many more of these do you think you're gonna cause?
Actually, maybe it's 'How many do you want to cause?'

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Actually, that was the first instance I've ever really done something like that. It's quite humbling really, having that kind of influence. I don't think I'll be doing this again for a long time. Gotta prevent myself from getting a swelled head. Never get used to privilege, mate, or you'll start seeing it as something mundane.

482711 I don't really hear that, but I see your point.

P.S. 'Hear that' in the sense of 'I know exactly how that is because I am in the same spot in the Hall of Fame, so to speak.'

P.P.S. God, my crippled sense of conversation, or whatever it is just makes things more confusing, doesn't it?

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