My head · 9:41pm Mar 15th, 2019
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So, this story, this story right here.
Oh god this story is kinda stressful. One, I look up so many things. I ask questions on Quora and bother knowledgeable people all the time trying to be as accurate as you can be when you involve a magical world of magical creatures.
It's never enough. It's literally never enough. The comments are unending with people calling foul that their favorite side isn't doing things better, or whenever their unfavored side does do something right, no matter how long they take to do it.
I let some things move briskly, but it's still never fast enough. Why can't humans have complete magic detection and control within a year'sh of arriving on an alien world?!
Guh, stress.
On the bright side, I think the story is deeply fascinating. I really kinda like learning new things and applying them and keeping this together. It would... just be kinda nice if folks agreed at all with what I come up with.
Ugh.
Heck, I just did a full chapter of fascinating politics and the end: Humans should be able to detect changelings better and this entire chapter is stupid because it would fail from the first step.
Did I mention ugh? Watching the vote ratio slide down isn't encouraging either. People...
Honestly I have no idea how you continue at this pace. It's incredibly impressive, I hope you don't get too burned out.
The problem with this story is just how political it is and the state of the world today. No matter what you do nobody will be happy. I give you props for continuing this story instead of ending it.
Really?
People complain about this story?
I like how fast it updates and how quickly the plot advances. All the things you have happen in it are just fascinating.
I don't see what there is to complain about.
It's great. That's my opinion, and screw whoever says it should be a certain way just because they think it should. That's my opinion as well.
Maybe it's a good thing I haven't found the time to start reading this. Something tells me I would have been one of the people raising your stress level.
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You may have thoughts, but they tend to be well reasoned.
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Agreement: Affirmative.
Complaining about a 176-21 vote ratio after mentioning politics. Really.
Anyway, it's a good story so don't be discouraged. People like to argue.
I get stressed reading this story, excited to see how it turns out, keep up the good work, but I thought I remembered a part about crane first encountering a changeling and being curious, but it seems like nothing came of it, iād have thought something would have been implemented as soon as he learned about them, but there is a lot going on so I understand him forgetting
In any case thanks for writing, I look forward to all the updates of this story
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He met the Young Six, including Ocellus. I never said what exactly came of it besides an invitation for him to either visit himself or send another changeling to see them (presumably to be super studied, for SCIENCE!)
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It was over 90% for a good while, then started to slide down down down down.
I had a friend write & publish a short-story involving the NASA Space Shuttle. She had a friend pass the story to one of the technicians who worked on maintaining the ships. He rated the story's shuttle details quite accurate and the things the astronauts did with it very believable and definitely possible. This was before publication.
She almost gave up writing sf because of all the people who said her treatment of the shuttle and details were all impossible and crap.
Keep writing!
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You didnāt, and I suppose the more I think about it, thereās a good chance if he made a big deal about changelings to the public thereād probably be another Red Scare-esque event. Itās worrying how the changelings are kind of playing both sides, very high stakes. Keep up the good work
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Oof ow, yeah, I feel for your friend so hard right there. Please send them some of my love.
This was really to be expected really. In stories like this there is going to be many, many arguments over what would be realistic or not. I would recommend that if the story begins to take a hard toll on you to stop and concentrate on other things. After all your life comes first foremost and always. So try to stay safe and stay happy.
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That is less of an option when being paid. Fortunately, I plan to steam ahead, but venting was nice.
What about a changeling hive that is friendly to non-changelings but hates how chrysalis revealed the changelings as a whole? The changeling hive is called the Shadow Hive Kingdom.
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Seems legit!
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Cool, do you think you might use them in the story?
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They could have come up but adding them now would make a lot of things... awkward?
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Ok, well one shadowling could come and meet with the changeling-president and let him know that he will be watched but all the Shadow Hive Kingdom wants to do is to see what he will do about his relationship between himself and his queen; stay a servant or break free and muck up Chrysalis's plans.
MR David Silver
if my memory is right now granted it has been a few years i thing we talked about righting and the audience / readers.
and you told me to right the way i feel it should be as you will never totally please the readers and i have taken this to hart and i do just that.
now before every one screams that i have no story's posted you are correct i don't,,, but in a way i do as i edit full time for 4 authors and pr-read a bit for 2 more.
thank you MR Silver for being you.
I think you were doing good bro! š
Sure I might not agree on everything but that's what makes it interesting. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! ....and still be surprised. xp
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Dont worry about it bro! Theres WAY more ups then downs and ups are going up quicker! Xd
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It's a good read man. Give it a shot! Hope you like it. Xd
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Oh, she's over it, with about a dozen published books, now. I only mention it to point out that the more 'realistic' you make a story, the more people are willing to say, 'that's wrong.' So, you are by no means alone in that. Take heart, and keep writing.
I like to compare this story to StarScribe's Message in a Bottle.
Lots of world-building.
Humans and pones.
And if you weren't being paid via Patreon, I would have sent you a PM asking if you felt that you should slow down.
First reason - your personal drive and possible burnout.
Second reason - there is nothing worse than a good story ending too quick.
Message in a Bottle went on for ages due to its chapter-a-week update schedule.
I suppose this is between you and your Patreons.
Also, I know I have mentioned it in the comments a while back, but apologies if my comments add to your stress.
I think my comment went something like.... "It's hard not to get emotionally involved with a topic such as War. And people have charged opinions, hence the unusually high downvote counts on individual comments."
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Oh goodness no. I love wonder. I love questions. I love considering different angles. These are all wonderful things and it delights me when my writing encourages any of it.
"This is dumb." as one commenter literally put it, is none of those things.
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Well good on you then!
You and I both love your work.
I know I have commented about some things (like airplane efficiency). It made me happy to see it in the next chapter :)
It can be really hard to write stuff that is grounded in science. Even harder to blend that with a world like MLP.
So far you have done a great job with handling everything.
At least for me, I comment because I like your story and want to help/talk about what you wrote. And even if you don't change anything that I comment on I will still keep reading. It is your story.
You are loading stories at a prodigious pace
, I worry you might burn out. I've seen it happen before to other authors, they post at a fast pace & suddenly, they run out of steam & have difficulty continuing the story.
Although its neat you have upload at that pace, I would suggest you take it easy. Slow down a bit.
I would hate to see another story suddenly abandoned. Slow down bit... and keep up the good works!!
Alas, the moment you touch politics on the internet, it will crawl up your arm and shriek in your face. there's a reason that there are so few stories of this type, people either don't want to deal with the angst, or realize just how massive the implications of this are. that you have not only done a good job of keeping this story grounded, but have made it a daily project, is astounding.
I'll admit, I raised my eyebrows at the progress made by the changelings, but they did have months of intensive preparation ahead of time. That, and the fact that infiltration is like the one thing that changelings are good at, makes it believable.
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I like the story so far though
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I've been slamming horse words at a fast clip for about 4'sh years now.
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That is one of the few places I bent canon, saying the changelings could be better than horrible at the only skill they have. I blame it on them actually facing an enemy with more complexity. Humans will not be impressed with the same techniques that worked on gullible ponies.
Well, ur not the only being stressed in this world, woke up early, splitting headache, Mum wants to go shoping, Then the splitting headache got worser,
Basically i can relate to your problem
Quite frankly, you're amazing to me. Putting out 1-2k+ word chapters, on a daily basis, with no chapters I would consider filler or unmeaningful, all while being very engaging and discussing complex ideas, relationships, and interactions.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to do all of that, and I'm deeply impressed.
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Thank you very much.
Because of this blog post, I shall add this story to my to-read list. I love hard-science fiction. I'd also love to see your research, if you could share links to your questions. Hope you can steam on with less stress; I mean, as long as the person who pays for it is happy, then who cares about any others who talk shit?
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https://www.quora.com/profile/David-Silver-12/questions
My questions, some with great answers, some with less than, but all pointing me forwards.
I for one appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into this story. I don't always agree with the direction the plot takes, that's not my call to make. I'm also not qualified to complain about "realism" when the US literally teleported into a cartoon world.