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Firesight


I'm an IT Brony who writes stories based on a show for 8-year old girls whose content is meant for anything but 8-year old girls.

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  • Thursday
    Midnight Rising/C&C update: April showers may bring May flowers...

    But of more interest is the emergence of 17-year cicadas in my area. Big, ugly, red-eyed insects that are the size of your thumb but basically harmless, as long as you can get past all the shed skins they leave behind on leaves and the everpresent and disconcertly loud background sound they produce as a mating call. Fortunately, the outbreak in my area seems pretty limited. There's a few around,

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  • 1 week
    Midnight Rising update; Feathered Hearts C&C teaser...

    Hey, folks. Here’s my weekly writing update. I’m tagging this as C&C since that’s what the teaser below is about, but the blog is about both it and Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising.

    Unleash the Magic - Midnight Rising

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  • 3 weeks
    Prereader verdict on new Midnight Rising chapter is in...

    And unfortunately, that verdict is unanimous:

    Complaints were: too meta, hard to follow, does nothing to advance the plot, and potentially makes things worse while trying to fix them.

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  • 3 weeks
    Still waiting on Midnight Rising prereads...

    Which are particularly important this time, because the first preread I got back was negative. As it came from AJ_Aficionado, whose opinions I particularly value mostly because he’s more interested in the story than the sex, I tend to give what he said about it credence but still want to hear from everyone else before I start making changes to the new chapter.

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  • 4 weeks
    Mind changed on removing the griffon arc from Midnight Rising + teaser

    After receiving pleas from multiple readers to keep the Enter the Griffon chapters in place, I have decided to do so and go with my original plan, which was to simply offer new readers the chance

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Jan
22nd
2020

The Best and The Worst Reviewed! · 3:24pm Jan 22nd, 2020

My thanks go to Nano Discussions of the My Little Reviews & Feedback group for reviewing my HBO series-inspired tale of Twilight and Celestia visiting the ruins of Chernobyl, grading it at 25/30 points.

If you haven't already, feel free to give the story a look. At 15.7k words, it's short and... well, 'sweet' probably isn't the right word for it, but you'll find it a compelling and suspenseful read.

EThe Best and The Worst
Twilight Sparkle has seen some of the best of humanity during her visits to Earth. Now it is time she sees some of the worst...
Firesight · 16k words  ·  116  7 · 2.7k views
Comments ( 5 )

5190174
A decision many fics in the past SHOULD have considered *cough cough Project Horizon cough cough*

5190178
People really do like their PH. I think it's the most popular spinoff of all time. That said a million words? Is this guy daft?

5190363
Oh I enjoyed it, but Somber could have cut over a third of it... hell, even half of it and have still had a book.

5190174

I feel like Nano Discussions criticisms were fair but I liked your story so much that I do feel a bit biased. My opinion still stands that my only real complaint was that the story was short. Its so good I wish there was more of it. But if it was much longer, it runs the risk of redundancy. Its a shame a great story has to end at a certain point to keep from ruining itself.

They were fair. I may yet make changes to address them. And yes, it was short, but that was kind of the point here. I was trying to make what was for me a rare short story and didn't want much extraneous in there. I did make one major mistake in its release--I should have reserved some chapters to release on subsequent days instead of publishing everything at once. That might have increased visibility over time have gained some more heat and readers as I went.

5190178

A decision many fics in the past SHOULD have considered *cough cough Project Horizon cough cough*

Can't say I've read that, though I've certainly heard of it.

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