It Finally Happened · 12:07am Jul 28th, 2022
About six weeks ago, after months of Cerulean Voice telling me to submit my newest story 'What Is Lost, What Is Found' to Equestria Daily I finally caved in and did it. I made a submission and now weeks later after not so patiently waiting I got a response. What's the verdict? Well...
Yep, you guessed it. They agreed to post my story on the site, this is a moment ten years in the making. That's how long I've been trying, that's how long I've wanted to get a story past the EqD prereaders onto their website. To get their stamp of approval. To know that I did it and I have. I couldn't have done it without my wonderful team of editors, Paracompact, Pascoite and Cerulean Voice. Without them, this probably wouldn't have happened.
Now with all that being said, I probably won't do any more writing on here. I mean, I came back for one last hurrah and unless another bingo contest catches my eye or I have a spark of inspiration this will probably be it. I got to meet a lot of really awesome people on here and without MLPFiM and Fimfiction I would never have met Cerulean Voice, which would be very sad. I got to learn and grow a lot along the way, I got to find out what sort of writer I was. As it turns out, an okay one.
I have so many other hobbies to focus on nowadays, like costume making, colouring, gaming, scrapbooking and sometimes even puzzles. All this and my ongoing job hunt keep me pretty busy. Which is what I need to be in my endless fight against depression and complex trauma.
Ten years ago, I was thirteen years old and my brother said to me that we were gonna watch a show called My Little Pony. I laughed at him, I thought the whole thing was pretty ridiculous. But we sat down in his bedroom on that cool autumn evening and watched the first two episodes together. I loved it, of course, I wasn't expecting to but it just struck a chord with me and I suddenly found myself in this group of people calling themselves bronies.
Afterwards, he showed me Fimfiction.net and how on it I could write, read and share my stories with other people. I had already been taking creative writing classes at school so it was a no-brainer. I signed up, created my first account and started reading and writing stories. It was great.
It's hard to imagine just how many stars had to align, how many things had to happen for Cerulean Voice and me to ever meet. For example, I would never have been inspired to write The Last of Its Kind if my best friend didn't leave high school and break my heart. If Luke never introduced me to the show, if I never got into creative writing, if Knighty never created the site or if Lauren Faust never created the show in the first place. We have so many people whom we must thank for what has transpired.
Five years ago, I got on an aeroplane and flew to see him for the first time. Now we've been together for five years and suddenly it feels like no time has passed at all.
Getting into EqD might not be quite the achievement it used to be but for the inner child in me, the one that aspired for greatness and wanted to write a novel someday, it is. It's one more thing off my bucket list, it really does feel like a nice way to wrap the whole arc up. I almost wanna sit down and write entire blog posts about Fables, just to have somewhere to talk about it but that doesn't feel very relevant, I'm just so darn passionate about the whole thing. Just to give me one more thing to write about before I close the door. Or maybe I don't need to close it entirely, just leave it open a smidge in case I ever want to come back.
Well, anyways I just wanted to commemorate this little moment of joy that I had yesterday morning when I found out. It was a really good feeling. I had finally done something I've always wanted to do, that I wasn't sure I was ever going to do. So thanks to everyone who made it happen, I really appreciate it.
- A
Artwork by BlazeMizu
I am so proud of you
Congratulations
Congrats! I'm glad to see you made it happen