Is there a burning question that you would like to ask of any of the characters from my stories? They will answer anything within reason. Go on - ask away!

An initiative by Lyra Heartstrings - HR Department

Soooo OCXCanon is gonna start being a thing with my writing... We knew this already, but I'm just gonna say it anyway.

So, who will be the characters in question? Wellllll I'm gonna do this with the oc, then the character(s) they'll be shipped with. So buckle up, nerds.

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This is not the order I think things should go in. It's the order, to the best of my ability to determine it, that things must go in (regardless of whether or not I like it.) It functions on simple pairwise determinations of the form "Ok, X needs to have happened before Y."

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I don't have a lot of ideas for this yet, and this story might come out clumsy because I'm getting out of my comfort zone for this but I'm trying to get out of my writer's block and this is what I settled on doing.

Circa 1991-1994 Maybe it's the slightly airy fairy into nature thing.

I have no idea what Discord would look like as a human, and I haven't been happy with any drawn representation of it. Not to mention half of them either depict him as hideously ugly or incredibly handsome when I'm pretty sure he's neither.

Remember my episode chronology project?

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It was cute, if you care about my opinion, but two small details stood out to me.

1) Silverstream has literal dreams of being a Wonderbolt.
2) She loves to paint, but kind of sucks at it.

To everyone who read the Teacher and the Hippogriff, I'm not saying I called it...

...but I totally called it.

Recently, though most people probably didn't notice, I got myself in trouble for being more than a bit too free with criticism. The premise I had was not totally unsound, but looking back it was based on some assumptions that so far at least may clash with FIM:MLP canon.

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I mean, it's not just that her apartment is undoubtedly cooler than mine, but it's also that it's very obviously a converted loft apartment of some sort:

Yet in the exterior shot, it's a dinky little two-story house???? What's up with that!?

This is def me tho, #relatable #except the ability to make mirror reflections go the wrong way

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Well, that was an interesting experience, to say the least.

As this is a high school kind of trope, I had to look to this film as such. I am not a big fan of high school kind of movies, as I have felt that they can become cliche, but I can stomach watching them from time to time.

So, then, how did EQG:TFG stand out to me?

Well, to put it simply...

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So with the show wrapping up, various artists and writers and other folks are doing retrospectives on interviews and Twitter and what have you, admitting stuff that they couldn't talk about when they were under contract ...

AND HEY LOOK RARIJACK IS INTENTIONALLY CANON.

(Link courtesy of PresentPerfect)

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Finally bit the bullet and watched this. Here are some notes about the things that happened.

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So, remember how I wrote a fic that started out as a joke about how Vinyl Scratch is overly ubiquitous and physically omnipresent in the series and fan works and that spiraled into a meditation on reincarnation and a cathartic exploration of depression and purpose because that's just what I do?

Today's episode. Characters go to a club. Club needs music. Who provides the music?

VINYL

MOTHER

[BUY SOME APPLES]

SCRATCH

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Beneath the Canon You Settle For will be cancelled. After review of its elements and planning, it has become clear that the planning simply was not up to par and was bound to diminish the story's quality down the road. Although the timing appears inconvenient, it is more important that the readers experience a story that would not insult them for investing their time and empathy. And it would be wrong to let a tribute to Sam Lake's writing style devolve into an incoherent mess.

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Honestly, I figured I'd give it a shot, but honestly I didn't like how it seemed like there was a little bit of ponies not seeming to like the fact of ocxoc rather than ocxcanon and since I didn't want to cause a fight in the comments I decided to take it down. However if YOU are still interested in seeing it, I will put what I have in a docs, however I don't know when I'll be able to write more as I'm focused on getting Bonds Chapter 4 out. Thanks. Love you all.

Hey there, everyone. As the title suggests, I'm looking for a redemption story. It can be about an OC or Canon character going through a well-written redemption arc and I need to know how to write one of my own through example. Do you know a story like that from either here or from other areas? Thanks.

I did say I might cook up something to make School Raze make sense.

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Honestly, I figured I'd give it a shot, but honestly I didn't like how it seemed like there was a little bit of ponies not seeming to like the fact of ocxoc rather than ocxcanon and since I didn't want to cause a fight in the comments I decided to take it down. However if YOU are still interested in seeing it, I will put what I have in a docs, however I don't know when I'll be able to write more as I'm focused on getting Bonds Chapter 4 out. Thanks. Love you all.

If you had to choose a story that you like, which one would do you think has the best character development (either for canon, OC, or both) and why? It can be either at least one of your stories or stories that you've read from other authors and users.