[FANFICTION FRIDAY] Story selection poll just draapped! · 11:46pm Feb 11th, 2022
(click the above image to go to the poll)
So here we go! Time to get down and dirty, this is where the fandom shows their true loyalties!
(Also, where I wax hyperbolic to try and gin up more attention, but pay no attention to the princess behind the curtain!)
For those who need a refresher on the choices:
Voice of Rage and Ruin - Book two in the saga started by My Empire of Dirt
The Sirens were used to two things in their lives; dominating entire cities in Equestria and consuming the negative emotions that they generated with their gift of song, and barely subsisting for a thousand years, scraping by with the little sustenance they could scrounge in the low-magic universe they were banished to. When a portal was opened, first for just 3 days, then permanently, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for them to return to dominating the population, this time on a new world away from pesky princesses and their chosen bands of heroes.
To their absolute shock, they're caught almost immediately, stripped of their power, and incarcerated in a new micro-nation being run by the mirror version of the princess that sent the Pillars of Equestria after them.
Then, to their even greater surprise, the co-regent of Canterlot High offers to help them.
And they can't figure out WHY...Gently Streams the Sunbeams
Sunset Shimmer's life is experiencing an incredible renaissance. She's been adopted by Principal Celestia, reconciled with her birth mother, Princess Celestia, her graduation is approaching rapidly, she and her friends are legitimate superheroes, and she's started the process of reforming the Dazzlings, who've been struggling with their recent humanity but have started thriving with Sunset's leadership.
...so why does she keep waiting for it to all fall apart?The Last Little Unicorn
The mirror portal to the human world only opens for three days once every thirty moons...and thank all that is good and holy for that, for when a rebellious Sunset Shimmer flees through it, she doesn't find a high school full of pony parallels, she's immediately picked up off the street and rushed to a silver-lined shelter for the "clean bloods" that live outside the werewolf-impervious city walls, and the first night of the monthly Wolf Moon has just begun. Trapped in a world under siege from the lycan curse, by the time the portal re-opens she doesn't return to Equestria as a thief in the night, but in a desperate plea for aid. She's become one of the Avatars, the strongest, most powerful defenders of humanity against the very forces of Hell itself...and something even more deadly and powerful, and the Avatars alone may not be able to stop it. While the other Avatars search the other realms, Sunset returns home to enlist the aid of the most powerful being she knows...which will means confronting the past she left behind.
When an accident on the freeway ends my mortal human existence, I emerge from a changeling egg as Chrysalis' only queen daughter.
This Can NOT be An Equestrian Girl's Everyday Life in a World of Monster Girls!
I was just trying to stay under the radar!
My name is Sunset Shimmer, I used to be the premier student to Princess Celestia in the magical land of Equestria, a unicorn of unparalleled power and intelligence, and destined to become an alicorn princess...at least, according to the mirror portal. Not that Celestia would acknowledge my right to ascendancy. When I started pushing to learn the secrets of ascension, I was banished. I escaped through the mirror portal and found myself in a world of strange bipedal creatures called 'humans' that didn't even realize there was such a thing as magic until their world's 'monster' races revealed themselves to the public at large. The mirror turned me into a human, probably a mechanism to make it easier to blend in with the dominant species of this world. I'm just glad it remade me into an adult instead of, say, a teenager; then I'd have to live through puberty all over again!
I found an abandoned apartment complex where the ownership was stuck in a legal black hole and moved myself in. I planned on just keeping to myself, faking whatever documents were needed to live day-to-day, finding a job that paid the bills, so when the portal re-opened in 30 moons I'd be able to sneak back into Equestria and resume my studies to become an alicorn, with or without the princess' blessing.
I didn't even legally EXIST, so imagine my absolute shock when an Agent Luna, Coordinator with the Cultural Exchange Office knocked on my door and informed me that I was selected as a host "family" for a Lamia named Rarity from the monster races! I couldn't tell them I wasn't even there legally, or even human, but sometimes...I think MIss Luna knows already, somehow.
Now I'm the target of the affections of a VERY amorous snake-girl who doesn't seem to understand that I can't return her affections without Miss Luna trying to arrest me, which would blow the lid off ALL my efforts to falsify my origins and blend in.
I just wanted an everyday life, not monster girls!
Can't find what you were hoping for on this poll? Well, that's 'cause I've got a LOT of fic ideas to work through, and this is just the 5 I'm most interested in at this time.
See my next blog post for info on this month's "passion project," which I just posted the first two chapters of to Archive of Our Own.
how can you ask me to choose between five great Sunset fics? D:
I really like the lost little wolf so far. I hoping that if he makes peace with Luna and non ponies Celestia will have to listen to peace.
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Four great Sunset fics. Lost Little Wolf is an isekai centered on changelings.
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Then I think you'll enjoy where I'm taking it!
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I'll enjoy wherever you take it because you're a good writer. (Disclaimer: I'm a different avatarless person than the one you were responding to)
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I think my eyes just inserted Sunset into the description c.c
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I'm glad you think so, but I've put out stinkers before, so thank you for your confidence in me.
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That definitely needs to get more chapters. Hopefully until there's a Complete tag.