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Krickis


I’m like a literary siren, feeding off the negative emotions of fictional characters. Patreon

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  • 2 weeks
    Bout time for an update, eh?

    Not a big enough update to qualify for Rabbit Tracks, but this is just to say: Work is continueing on "Just a Pony", albeit slowly. Two more chapters down, then I got sidetracked by videogames, now I'm sidetracked by homework and sickness, and then hopefully back to "Just a Pony" soon!

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  • 6 weeks
    Irony

    I tried to write a blog about how I haven't been able to write. I accidentally hit ctrl+r and refreshed the page, losing everything I had written. A cruel bit of irony. I am tired and angry with myself and scared for my future as a writer and I do not have the energy to retype it, so pretend there is some sincere and heartfelt explanation here and you're moved by the struggles of some weird

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  • 8 weeks
    Pictures should be fixed across all stories

    At this point if anyone is seeing broken images in my fics on Fimfiction please let me know! For anyone looking for a new image hosting site with Discord having done the Big Suck, I used Postimages and it was rather simple and efficient.

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  • 9 weeks
    Image hosting

    Real quick, I know my images are all borked again; what are folks using for image hosting these days? Needs to be free and the less likely it is to implode the better... I was using Discord until just recently which is why this mess happened lmao

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  • 13 weeks
    Becoming myself

    It's a bit strange that I've spent days trying to figure out how to write this. It's such a big thing and I want to get that across to y'all, but I never will. So I'm just going to rip off the bandaid and get this out there. Because something amazing happened to me.

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Dec
22nd
2019

AMA answers · 3:03am Dec 22nd, 2019

Well the AMA was pretty much a bust, but I got some questions so I might as well answer them!

Two similar questions. First from Ice Star,

does Best Horse make an appearance in WWB?

asking for a friend

Silly Ice, all three candidates for best pony are not only in WWB already, they're all dating each other :ajsmug:

Lol but since you're very wrong, I'm assuming you mean Sombra. I don't have any plans for him at the moment, but he's interesting and could play a role in the distant future of the series. I wouldn't count on him appearing, but I'm not willing to say he definitely won't (the first two thirds of the series are pretty much set in stone, but the final third has some room for me to figure things out. So yeah, if he appears at all, it'll be in a long time.

Similarly, starwantrix asks,

I have just one question regarding your upcoming stories. Will you be writing more Trixie stories? If you do I will be glad to draw fanart for said stories :D

Trixie will absolutely be appearing in my Who We Become series. That's my ongoing series that I mainly work on, which I was taking a break on when I wrote Great and Powerful, Darling. I have three more stories to tell in that universe before Trixie shows up in it.

Aside from my main series, I don't know. I like her, and sometimes I think about doing something with her and Sonata. I wrote another three chapter story shipping Sunaria a while back, and while Trixie didn't appear in that story, it was mentioned that Sonata was touring with her as her assistant. I might write a story about the two of them someday, but I'm really not sure what non-WWB ideas I'll actually pursue. It depends what ideas I get and how much time I have to work on them (I'm also working on an original novel to try and make a career out of writing, so my time I can dedicate to fanfiction is already limited).

Lastly, SevenEyes asked... a lot of questions. To be honest, if you hadn't asked so many questions I would've just replied to the questions in the comments and not bothered with this second blog post. I'll only answer what I think I have something interesting to say about.

Are you apprehensive or exited for MLP gen 5 and why?

I'm gonna start off your questions by not actually answering this one. Because I'm a rude bitch like that. But I wanted to bring it up because while I have no strong feelings on G5 (I'll watch it and see, but I'm mainly interested in continuing my G4 fics), I am excited for what the comics are gonna do (or are doing? I'm behind on them, I'm afraid). Because tbh, the comics have always been more interesting in terms of lore and world building. The show introduces characters and situations and then stops caring about them too often, but the comics take those characters and keep on spotlighting them. I want to see what the comics do untethered to the show.

Favourite comic book / comic book arc of MLP?

I can't talk about my love for the comics and ignore this question. I'm gonna pick two. Nightmare Rarity is a god damn masterpiece and is what sold me to the comics. It gave us a more emotionally charged pony experience than anything in the show had done at that point, as well as a darker one giving us a look into a Rarity with self image problems that were very relatable. It also gave us an interesting take on Nightmare Moon that formed my own headcanons about her.

My second choice is The Root of the Problem, which is not amazing, but gives us some amazing lore opportunities via the Everfree deer. And after writing Heart of the Forest, this has become solidified as my favorite race in all of MLP.

Are there any common fandom ships you dislike?

There's a few, but mainly just Flutterdash. They were the single biggest ship when I joined the fandom, mostly because of Hurricane Fluttershy, anything I can remember the specific moment I started hating them. I read a review of ships by someone who described them as "basically canon" which was a view a lot of people had at that time. I loathed this because there's literally nothing in canon that implies anything of the sort, its just canon that they're closer than other mane six pairs are and people just kept seeing that as shipping and not entertaining the idea that maybe there's another explanation. Add in that I never cared for childhood friends to lovers and actively dislike opposites attract, and we had a ship with no appeal to me that everyone constantly insisted had to be canon. I write them as sisterly as a result.

Other than Pinkie pie what character do you look forward to writing the least?

Not surprising, but Discord. He's actually worse than Pinkie, I just don't often have to write him. I'm funny,I can make people laugh with my stories, I know that, but like... not on command, you know? I just think of something funny when I'm writing a scene and I throw it in there. Writing Discord, you have to actually try to think, okay, what would be funny here. I'm just not with that :applejackunsure:

What chapter were you the most apprehensive about uploading/ writing?

When I first started thinking of this, it was just all of In Quiet Moments. It's fluffier than what I usually write, and as a present to my wife, I had high standards for it. It took me ages to write, and was a painful experience. But then I really started thinking about it and I realized it's my original novel I'm working on, hands down. I was paralyzed when I started trying to write it, and I've gone from writing a couple thousand words a day when writing fanfic to writing a couple hundred on original fiction. I hate it so much tbh :fluttershyouch:

On the other hand, I've never that I remember felt apprehensive about sharing my stories. Maybe the first chapter of Inner Strength? Even then I think I was more excited than anything.

Why are 14 of your stories on this site tagged romance and the other 2 prequels to stories that are themselves tagged romance?

Man, I don't really have anything interesting to say to this, but it was so specific to me that I just had to answer it. I just... really like romance. Which is I'm sure what you expected but yeah that's it, homie, romance is just my favorite thing in stories.

If 'the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny' was created today what pop culture icon would win?

I gotta say Mr Rogers would still be a solid choice, but Bob Ross got big in internet culture and he's just add wholesome so maybe him.

The world is fine but to make trivial real life problems easier you are granted one super power of your choice, what super power do you choose?

Freezing time, which I would probably exclusively use to write more. My fondest wish is for a DBZ style hyperbolic writing chamber where I can just go and spend a day to do a year of shit, and stopping time would be pretty damn close.

Which non-royal MLP character would make the best political leader?

All hail Fluttershy, Princess of Kindness! :yay:

Favourite Pokemon?

I have a fierce love for Zigzagoons. I have a level 87 Zigzagoon named Stardust, whom I got in Emerald version and have traded up as far as Black (the version in currently playing) and will transfer up all the way to Moon. I've raised him from level 3 and kept him from evolving the whole time, and plan on leveling him all the way to 100. I also catch every Zigzagoon I see in Pokémon Go, which is becoming a problem because I'm running out of Pokémon storage.

I think that's everything I have interesting answers for. I thought about rapid firing off a few more in shorter one sentence answers, but I doubt many people are even interested in reading everything I've already got here, so I'll leave it at that. Thank you for all the questions!

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Comments ( 9 )

I see some promise in that answer 👀👌

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Lol will, it's nothing certain, but maybe :twilightsheepish:

Sorry to hear you didn't get more questions. I didn't ask any because I was kinda worried about asking a question that was either too boring or too silly.

I do have a couple in mind if you're willing.

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Lol it is an ask me anything, no need to worry if it's a good question or not. I'm always game for more questions!

Flutters is royalty, so she's disqualified unfortunately :fluttershysad:

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I was wondering if anyone was gonna point that out... :trixieshiftright:

Me reading this blog was a mixture of 'hmm that's insightful' and 'haha that's funny'.
So good job, and I'm looking forward to the ten million word published celebratory AMA session.

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1: What's your favorite OC that you've written in your stories?

2: What has been your favorite scene to write in any of your stories?

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Nice! Glad my answers were entertaining :twilightsmile:

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1: What's your favorite OC that you've written in your stories?

This is an easy one, Amber Glow. She's the only OC of mine that's had as much spotlight as she's had, and for good reason. She's so good that she even appeared in someone else's story :raritywink:

2: What has been your favorite scene to write in any of your stories?

Hmm, this is a bit harder. I guess I couldn't really say, there have been plenty of scenes I've enjoyed writing over the years. I suppose maybe it would be something from the first AU section of Another Way from Looking Glass. I had that AU in mind for ages, and it was a great way to actually incorporate it into the story.

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