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alarajrogers


Okay, I admit it, I'm probably not your mom. But odds are I'm old enough to be. Now with Patreon account (under alarajrogers) and short stories on Amazon (under Alara Rogers).

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  • 12 weeks
    Dream log, epic Fluttercord edition

    Had a dream during a nap that is perfectly suited to be a story; I'm not even sure I need to tweak it.

    So in the dream, Fluttershy was dying of old age, and Discord couldn't fix it. (She also had insulin-resistant diabetes, but that's kind of less important.) Discord was very upset by this, and decided to take drastic steps to prevent it.

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  • 22 weeks
    Dammit, just discovered a friend here's been dead for two years...

    Today I learned that Jordan died in April 2021, and I had no idea. I was re-reading some of my older fanfics, saw his comments, thought, "Huh, I wonder how Jordan's doing", and the answer is, he's not. Dammit.

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    15 comments · 540 views
  • 24 weeks
    FUCKING DONE FINALLY

    "The God of Breaking Rules In The Land of the Dead" is one of my oldest stories on this site. It's not my oldest incomplete -- "The King Who Would Be Man" and "Stumble In My Footsteps" are both older, all part of my initial rush in 2013-14 when I'd first gotten into the fandom and the writing came like a river. But it is old, posted almost 10 years ago (closer to 9 years, 11 months), and

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  • 24 weeks
    I'm back, bitches!

    I don't know for how long, because I never know these things.

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  • 73 weeks
    A thing y'all should maybe know

    I may or may not make the change here on Fimfiction, but on Archive of our Own and Fanfiction.net, I am changing my handle to Kaleidolon. Mainly as a branding differentiator between fanfic and profic. It's not like I can hide that Alara J Rogers writes fanfic, not after posting it to the Internet for literally 29 years, but when I get published in real life I want it to be slightly

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May
22nd
2020

More 52 Project stories, but sadly no fanfic · 9:52pm May 22nd, 2020

I've been struggling so hard to write anything. Output this month is abysmal. I've had to put all the writing energy into the 52 Project stories, so I haven't gotten any farther on my fanfics than I did when I last posted.

But I've stayed on track with the project! A new story every week since April 3, released every Friday, at 5 pm (last week I was late and it was like 5:30 or so). I have 8 of them now!

Stories so far include:
The Chicken Story: Magical realism, comedy. Very very very loosely based on my real life -- see if you can guess what parts really happened!
Changeling: I call these "altered tales" - stories based on fairy tales, folklore and myth, that don't quite go the way the stories do. This one is a story-in-a-story.
Graduation Day: Originally the prologue to an unfinished novel called "Hands of the Bright", but it functions on its own as a short story. Cyberpunk with superpowers. Originally written in the 90's, and it's very 90's zeitgeist style.
Rand Mart: Political satire. I am not fond of the idea that you can get a religious exemption from doing your job. Can you tell?
Rosetta Stone: Science fiction. I wrote this in the 90's in my last burst of "write all the short stories" but I feel it holds up pretty well.
Birds: Designed to be the kind of story that makes you go "what the fuck did I just read?" Magical realism I guess, or more closely, what they were calling "The New Weird" back in the 00's. The kind of thing China Mieville might write. Rigorous worldbuilding applied to a completely absurd premise that is never explained. Actually it's kind of based on me misunderstanding the backstory of the game "Hatoful Boyfriend".
Lord of the Kethrie: Another one from the 90's. Like every other redblooded teenage girl in the 80's, I had a thing for David Bowie as Jareth from Labyrinth; can you tell?
Crab People: Today's entry. I've planned it for like 10 years but didn't get around to writing it until this year. Science fiction, comedy. Set in Baltimore, which is actually important to the plot.

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Comments ( 3 )

Hey, more Alara stories are always a good thing regardless of their pony content.

Good luck!

I'm loving the 52 stories.

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