I'll be hanging a round a bit with the Pegasus Device update, but dunno for how long.
If you'd like to catch up, send me a message and I'll give you my Discord username. It would be nice to speak to some old friends, if any are still around.
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Your alive?!
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I think so!
Hey, welcome back, for a spell at the least!
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Thanks! It's kinda fun to see this place is still active!
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I was probably one of the original readers of your Pegasus Device story! 2011, Ain't it crazy how time flies?
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sorry, its just, I legit thought you were dead or something.
Hey! It's great to see you around and about! Definitely a nostalgia blast seeing Pegasus Device show up. I can tell you for sure that whether you stay for a bit or even a bit longer, we're always happy to have you around and tons of people still love reading your work all these years later.
Awesome work on the new update and I'm glad you're doing things to make yourself happy!
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It's so weird that it's almost a decade since Rainbow Factory came out in August 2011. This huge portion of my life that I kinda tucked under a rug and pretended didn't exist. It's nice to actually *appreciate* it. Cool to see you're still around, and thanks for reading!!
Think you might have set a record for "longest time between chapters"...
Genuinely shocking to see you pop up in the box. Welcome back, for however long!
Maybe if I keep writing grimdark people will pay me to wait this long between updates... 🤔
Good to hear from you!
Its great to see a legend return! Welcome back!
Rainbow Factory was the first MLP fanfic I ever read, I think.
Anyways, I’m glad you’re back.
YES! YOU HAVE RETURNED! YES!
This was not something I was expecting this morning. Welcome back!
What a nice coincidence, I only recently reread Pegasus Device out of nostalgia. Can't believe it's been over seven years...
Hope you're doing fine! Rainbow Factory was legit the reason why I even discovered this site, so I'm in your debt anyway.
What's your favorite fan written spinoff of The Rainbow Factory?
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Couldn't say! I never read any. Honestly reading fanfiction was never my thing ^_^;; I think Awoken was pretty well liked- not sure if the song came first, or the fic. But I can't give an opinion :S
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I am doing well now, yes. Thank you; that's super touching.
I was just going through some of the comments on my other stories and noticed you were in the comments of most (all?) of them. I don't remember if we ever talked personally but if we didn't, thanks for always checking them out. You know how the story goes of the super hard worked project getting ignored and the silly one-off taking off. Yet you always had something to say about my 'serious' writings.
It's a long time overdue but I appreciate it so much.
Glad to see you. I don’t comment too much but I’ve read your stories a ton of times! I’m on discord a ton so you need anything let me know.
Hello! I didn't know you were still active I recently joined I just wanted to say I love your work Rainbow Factory is what got me into the brony fandom, I am currently working on a cover of Rainbow Factory, and a few other stories to lead into pegasus device. I would to show you written for the project. Thank you again for such a amazing story! 😄
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Hello! Thank you so much for the compliments, it’s touching to hear I have helped inspire others.
I’m not going to get involved with any projects or anything though :S I don’t know how long I’ll stick around and check messages so I’d rather not disappoint everyone when I just up and vanish for 7 years again 😅😅
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I understand. I just wanted to say thank you. Your story inspired me to narrate, and to cover stories
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Oh yeah, the memories are kinda muddy but I remember going from Pegasus Device to your other stories to fill that void after the crushing end, heh. There was no reason to look at any numbers, because I only cared about the author. Gotta be more that came from, right?
It was sad that many of your stories are unfinished, but I'd lie if I hadn't experienced own bit of Magnum Opus Dissonance before either, sucking away motivation to continue. I think you also mentioned before you aren't exactly proud of Rainbow Factory anymore, and weren't back then when I first read Pegasus Device either. I'm not sure if this is uplifting at all, but if you take your gaze off the story itself and look at the impact it had, you can be proud. You got at least one dude here.
Also, thanks for the follow! I don't really post anything anymore, but it feels so nice to know that my entry point to this scene is coming full circle after seven years!
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I’m proud of it now. I wasn’t proud of it then or until about a week ago now.
It’s not a good story though- which is okay. It’s disjointed, makes little sense, cringy and the characters are flat. But the writing itself is good, my grammar alright, and it led me into the happiest period of my life. This week has been about accepting that I can still be proud of things I’ve done, even if they aren’t perfect. Took me a long time to get here but I’m happy I did.
A big part of my motivation for writing back then was for the attention, too. If a first chapter got a lukewarm reception, I’d be frustrated and not invested in following it up. It wasn’t about the story but about the notifications.
Now- not to be all super humble here. I’ve been refreshing this site like every hour waiting for that sweet serotonin hit whenever I get that little red sign above the bell. But Pegasus Device truly was about the story I wanted to tell, and the new chapter is no different. Taking the step back to see the impact, like you said, has let me be proud of it, which in turn has let me do just that little bit more writing.
Gaaaah I’m all emotional
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Here, have another kick, but don't get addicted. ;)
Authors are always their own harshest critics, but eventually coming to terms with seems to be part of the process. Phase one, joy; phase two, this is garbage; phase three, hey maybe it wasn't so bad after all. I like to think it's because by waiting for some time we can properly distance ourselves from the past and look at it more rationally. This also supports doing things like what you did with the new chapter, writing for the heck of it and just enjoying yourself. To this day I envy the people on this site with some ongoing 500k-words stories with like three active readers at best. That's some serious dedication for their craft.
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you wrote one of this fandom's legends/legendary works, it's understandable to not be proud of it when you first published it and during the following months/years but now after all this time and after it became what it became you can and have all the rights to be proud of it
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You're telling me! Those people truly know how to enjoy what they do.
I did not think you'd ever show up to post on here again, honestly. I remember when I first came across Rainbow Factory, pasted in the comments of the YouTube video, and I remember eventually finding your account on here. Pegasus Device was one of the fics that got me into writing here in the first place. I remember staying up at night to read it in bed from my phone. I remember going on a hunt for your other stories back when you'd unpublished them, and I may have done a bit of looking around online for other stuff by you as well (I'm pretty sure you wrote a thing called The Alchemist at some point, but it was all already deleted when I came across it).
So I might as well test my luck and your memory here and ask: What were your plans for those stories you mentioned in blog posts but never wrote, or only showed snippets of in now dead links? They Say The Gods Play Dice always stuck out to me as quite the nice title, I was always curious as to what it would have been about. On that same topic, would you ever consider sharing a summary of where you meant to take your abandoned stories? I did always wonder what both Subject of Revenge and Fall From Grace would have gone.
And it's good to have you around again, even if it's just for a chapter. We could use someone of legacy horsewords fame who's not dead online. It brings me back to a different time.
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Oh you are absolutely taking me back right now. I didn't even think I had written anything of The Alchemist, much less published anything. It was probably on a deactivated tumblr I guess...
I'm glad to oblige you as best as my memory will allow me.
...Okay so I WAS going to say about Subject of Revenge that I couldn't remember what I planned but just now it came back. Crazy how the brain works. Trixie was going to go a power crazy, I think. I distinctly remember planning a scene where the Princesses look outside and see a Lunar Eclipse and this was going to be caused by her after her magic awakening event. So desperate for attention that she becomes a villain. Anyways, the second half would have been a Mane 6 planning an up-and-coming family-friendly guerilla warfare, underground railroad, kinda thing, from hiding, to stop Trixie's power madness. Really dark despair no-hope kind of story with a happy ending (Trying new things I guess haha).
They Say the Gods Play Dice was... not MLP related, I think. It was going to be about a poker/card game (like the dog painting) being played by various mythological creatures and gods. I don't know if it was a pantheon that existed or one I made up. Slice of Life kind of thing.
Fall From Grace was intended to first go to show the start of Afterburn's fall (Partly him not immediately stopping during sex and partly the mare knowing he wouldn't and setting him up for $$$), the actual fall (Him loosing a ton of benefits after the accusation, drinking heavily to the point he couldn't fly, drunk flying at a show that causes him to be finally ejected from the Wonderbolts), and then a rise back, learning some humility, dignity, and compassion, with the help of Cloud Cover who investigative journalists her way into discovering that the mare had set Afterburn up. He goes to Cloud after recounting his story to himself, and Cloud helps him because she saw some good in his heart the first night they danced.
The Alchemist was an attempt at writing regular fantasy that I could never figure out how I wanted it to go. Post-apocalyptic Canada (and... rest of world). Magic is a thing but its basically highly advanced material sciences and that how they work has been lost, but how to do them hasn't been. A journeywoman alchemist hears rumor that lost knowledge of alchemy can be found in the dangerous concrete jungle of what was Calgary, and goes to investigate. She meets a Lamia there and after determining neither of them want to kill each other, they move on together protected from other monsters. Eventually they find a sort of Svalbard Seed Vault in the ruins of collapsed skyscrapers and, with the help of Lamia, make it in. It's got a computer, running, and all the lost knowledge is there. Something something something, turns out Lamia and other monsters are actually former citizens of the world from when the apocalypse happened - some uncontrolled biological warfare that preserved and changed their bodies over millennia and reincarnated them basically. I don't remember how I planned to end it.
All of these went unfinished because they never got a percentage of the attention I had gotten from Rainbow Factory, and that frustrated and discouraged me. I'm disappointed now I never finished them because I think in the end, they would have been great stories in their own right, but I could never get it past the set up before I didn't care about the world in my head. And had I written them, I would be so much better now at writing than I am. However- these are mistakes I can learn from, and intend to. I feel renewed interest to write again, which has not been the case for a very long time due to depression and my own personal issues. Other factors have helped me get here, but logging back in here has been an extraordinary healing event for me.
All these comments mean so much to me. All of them. I have a lot of things I could regret here, but if I had to choose one to really be important, it would be my regret that I never appreciated everyone's kind words to me and my work.
Thank you.
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I did just remember that They Say The Gods Play Dice was partly inspired by this comic http://www.viruscomix.com/page409.html
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Yeah, I know what it's like when a story you put out doesn't get as much attention as your previous work. You were rather unfortunate in that regard, with Rainbow Factory being your first fic and it blowing up as much as it did there was almost no way you'd ever recapture that amount of popularity. It's good to hear you appreciate all these comments. Whether you'll write more on this site or elsewhere, or not write at all and do something else, I hope you'll manage to carry this same positive attitude on to the rest of your life. Have a good day, and see you around if you stick around.
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Hey wow, thank you! I am doing well. That's really touching to hear!
Hi I see you are still alive and I hope well lol
My name is Pumpkin Queen and if it is allright with you, could I narrate your stories 'The Rainbow Factory' and 'Pegasus device'?
I have been a fan of your stories for a long time and hope you allow me to do so.
I can send you a link to my channel if you like.
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Yes you’re more than welcome to! Thanks for your interest in them. 😊