This is Quillamore, Back Together! · 3:07am Jul 23rd, 2019
Saying you're going to retire is easy. Actual retirement is hard. There's a lot more to this blog post than just that, but that's basically the gist of it. I felt that I couldn't balance my novel and my FiMFiction life, but some things over the course of the last few months made me realize that I could give it one more run.
A lot of that came from a particular idea, and a particular episode. But first, let's talk about what I've been up to lately. I haven't published anything on here since May or so, and for a while, I thought a lot of that was because I couldn't figure out how to end We Could Be Heroes. Saying that something is your "final series" means there's a lot of pressure on it to be amazing, a culmination of everything you've done. And originally, I thought that pressure was what got to me.
Then I realized that I hadn't written anything--my novel, my stories--for a while. I had a lot of stress going on in my life, and I couldn't get myself in the mood for it, even if it was my dream. I won't go into it too much, but I ended up realizing after a ton of years of internalizing things in a way I thought was "normal," I have actual, diagnosable anxiety. Now, I come from a family of worrywarts, so I thought for the longest time that I was just wired like that--but the more I got into these real life issues and struggled to find a library job, the more I wondered if I had an actual condition.
To make a long story short, when I started my anti-anxiety meds, I kinda lost motivation even more, but I feel like I've finally got it back. And I'm working on something big.
When I watched The Last Crusade, I had a burst of inspiration the likes of which I hadn't had in months. I had expected it to be a story like The Mane Attraction, where Scootaloo would learn that her parents were suddenly paying attention to her for their own material gain--specifically, her parents had been scouted for some type of Animal Planet-equivalent reality show about an adventurer's family, and that was why it was so important that she came along with them. Obviously, that didn't happen in the episode proper, but I figured it would still be a good AU to explore. Soon after I came up with the idea, I realized it could be a good IYGALL-verse "three years later" type story, where Babs would meet up with Scootaloo in Manehattan, and the two would bond over having famous parent figures ditch them and the trauma that comes with that. And then I realized I hadn't written a shipfic in a while, and so...there you have it. A new short series, Let Somepony Love You (Before It's Too Late). (The title comes from a lyric rather than a song title, so I'd be impressed if you can tell where it comes from.)
Anyway, I want to make sure I have a couple parts lined up before I release it, so it'll probably be a week or two before it comes out. But this time will be different, because you now have two ways to vote for your favorite FiMFiction writer! (Yes, I realize that reality talent show host impression was terrible and misplaced.)
Since I'm not sure how long FiMFiction will fare after the MLP finale, I set up an AO3 account! (For archival purposes, in true librarian fashion.) Right now, IYGALL is the only story of mine I've uploaded onto there, but once I get through that monstrosity, the rest are coming soon. Please feel free to give IYGALL kudos if you go on both sites and liked it on here! But wait, there's more! Let Somepony Love You (Before It's Too Late) will be an AO3-first release. The first chapter will be available exclusively on AO3 for the first few days before it comes on here, so be on the lookout for it on both platforms! Either way, I'll see you soon~
....Okay, first of all, that's an ace idea and I love it. Second of all, I sure hope you write it because if not, there's like a 60% chance I'm gonna tuck it under my shirt and write it myself. Third of all, I am all about more stories dunking on Scoots' kinda-crappy parents* even though I've kind of already worn down the "let's explore bad parenting" angle to the bone.
* Like, easily the second-worst parent(s) in the show, and not nearly as bad as Spoiled, but the show also kinda just skirts over their questionable behavior while Spoiled was Clearly Wrong, so unlike Spoiled, Scoota-parents left me hanging because it only got half-resolved.
Glad to have you back! Frankly, i Hope this site stays, i Made some Friends here i don't want to lose. And i Plan on Finishing all my Stories, dispite mlp Ending
IYGALL is on AO3 now? Ok, time to head over and bookmark it.
Yep. For all my talk of trying to move on, I keep having ideas I want to write out. And life keeps getting in the way of me working on stories already published. Glad to still have you around though.