Metro Contest Entry - The Ride · 12:58am Aug 4th, 2016
Hey guys, just a bit of a heads up, but I've just put my entry into 4A Games 4ALives Metro 2033 contest up on my blog!
It's a short story. No one should be surprised.
Hey guys, just a bit of a heads up, but I've just put my entry into 4A Games 4ALives Metro 2033 contest up on my blog!
It's a short story. No one should be surprised.
Shepherd: "So... What are we doing on our date, Rainbow Dash?"
Dash: "Ah... Well, ya know, dates are stupid and romantic and junk. So you just make the decisions there. You want to do mushy stuff and all."
Shepherd: "Okay. How does a trip up to Cloudsdale to the Wonderbolts museum, then dinner at the Skyview Cloud?"
Dash: "Yeah, sure, that sounds pretty okay. I'll need some girly clothes. What do you like?"
Hey everypony! I've been working on "An Unexpected Twilight" and I've decided to try to get pre-readers. Usually I just look in the comments for anyone who edits it there, but I want to make the chapter look good before I post it from now on. It isn't done yet, but I'm mostly through with it. So, anyone who would like to read it before and give me input on the way the chapter goes and help any errors get fixed just send me a message. I'm busy with school going on now, but I want the wait to be
Here he comes, the plume of dust rising over the red, rocky hills like smoke. Is it smoke? He can’t be sure.
It could be smoke, but that’s nothing new either.
It’ll work, this time.
He crouches behind a pillar, ragged and worn by age and weather and explosives; he has made his stand here many times before. He has made it many more times in many other places all across the desert, so at least he isn’t getting predictable, exactly.
As I was rummaging my computer and finding countless drafts and concepts, I came across a story that was actually COMPLETELY finished back in 2015! I just never posted it. I read through it, and figured out that I likely didn't do it because it wasn't particularly compelling or interesting, but I feel it's at least a little bit amusing, so I leave it here for anyone to read if they want. Enjoy!
“Oh, goodness. Where is that accursed thing.”
Shepherd: "Hey Twilight? I got your mail for you. Huh, what's this magazine? Predator Fetish Monthly?"
Twilight: bright red, snatches it away with her telekinesis "Th-That's about scientific inquiries into the religious practices of certain predator groups and tribes and definitely not pornographic in any way whatsoever ahahahaha!"
Shepherd: "... Okay?"
Fluttershy: "Hello Twilight! I just got the latest issue!"
May I remind you all that I have a fine collection of Nightmare Night themed tales to be found here!
TALES FOR NIGHTMARE NIGHT! A collection to read AFTER the lights are out!
In the future, at the Shepherd-Sparkle family table…
Shepherd: "Pass the potatoes please."
Twilight: "Shepherd, did you beat that dragon senseless?"
Shepherd: "He was asking for it. Besides, you took out that alien invader with the sun last week."
Spike: “Honestly Twi, that guy is an asshole.”
Twilight: "Even so! He didn't have to break his tail in ten places!"
The repairs to Canterlot after the Changeling invasion were still taking time, and Shepherd was technically part of the decision makers. So he'd spent the entire day helping with the repairs, directing guard rotations, and filling out reports to hopefully ensure something like this never happened again.
Luna gets a T-shirt with OPPAI on it, and tight shorts-Which do nothing for teenaged Shepherd's hormones. Celestia remains in naked apron mode, though she put on some racy panties. Clearly, both princesses-er, principals-are still massive trolls no matter what universe.
Celestia: "How is your omelet, Shepherd?"
Shepherd: "It's fine..."
Luna: glare "I got the mushrooms especially for you."
Shepherd: "Uh... Thank you?"
Luna: "Hmph."
My story for the Hagwarders is up to Chapter 3 and is available to read on the website.
When Caulicrow and Stanley find the boy from their past yet again hagridden, they try to help him out, to see him yet again freed from his nightmares and terrors.
Applejack carried her bucket of apples through the woods. She continued walking, until she passed by a nearby lake. She got caught up in her reflection that she accidentally dropped her bucket of apples into the lake. “Oh no, no, no, no, no!” She looked into the lake, watching the bucket sink to the bottom. She sighed, sitting down.
Then, the water started glowing. She backed up. “What the..?”
Before she knew it, a mare raised out of the lake. She stared in disbelief. “Who are you?”
Captain Hook Hitch.
Auto-fire seems kind of dangerous.
Sunny laughs at how stupid her jokes are. Oh Sunny, you really are a joke.
Is that... Is that a spork?
"Not what I expected." What did you expect Sunny? Two mares going at each other in a bush?
Hitch shows his talents by... doing nothing.
Ponies can't understand animals. It's because animals have weird accents.
Matt Willis had always loved dull Moscow with its embarrassed, envious estuaries. It was a place where he felt sneezy.
He was a peculiar, energetic, cocoa drinker with ginger legs and wobbly eyebrows. His friends saw him as a gleaming, gentle giant. Once, he had even helped a foolish injured bird cross the road. That's the sort of man he was.
Matt walked over to the window and reflected on his sunny surroundings. The clouds danced like loving rabbits.
Then Goes the Neighboorhood has somehow expanded into three chapters and is competing for time with looking for work and two different game projects to which I'm lending a hand. In the meantime, I've added something to Dueling Keyboards, a bit of a thought exercise regarding Discord and "To Where and Back Again."