So, it turns out that Sunday was a really good day for new stories. I read five new stories, and I liked them all.
How did this happen?
How is this even possible?
Who knows.
But I’m liking it.
Today’s stories:
Red Apples by Billymorph
Sometimes Maps are Dumb by HoofBitingActionOverload
Would It Matter If I Was by GaPJaxie
The Last Dreams of Pony Island by Horizon
One Heck of a Case by iisaw
What then? How would your life be? How would you feel about having a special talent that is supposed to help ponies, but harms them at the same time? How would you react to this and how would you try to cope with it? Can you imagine how it would be to go through life with such a cruel fate?
There is a pony who can imagine this, because this is exactly the fate that was bestowed on him.
When Crackle Pop awakes the next morning, he finds an unpleasant surprise. An unpleasant surprise that suddenly makes everything different for him and his sister. It leaves them both in sorrow, but is there a glimmer of hope?
I was away today, and only just got to watch the episode. It was another all right episode, featuring a new song, good character dynamic and some fun. The moral of the episode was wonderful, although I'm not sure why Rarity had to learn it as well. It irks me a tad that we don't have the custom credits roll tracks anymore. I hope they'll return soon. I don't have much to say about this one in terms of lore or world-building or anything, but let's go!
So, I'd love to share my day's experiences, but I'm not sure if I have it in me to do it right now. Or, more accurately, I'm not sure if I want to stay up until 5 am writing a blog post - today was VERY active and VERY busy (and fun! I met so many people!).
But just wanted to share one final thing that happened at the end of the day.
All right, this is a bit of an interesting episode. Obviously, this marks another milestone for Rarity, having been able to expand her business twice with success, gradually rising in renown. She's achieving her ambition! Only, one thing, at least her friends fear, might stand in the way of this. So, an opportunity to watch Rarity's friendships, and their bonds with each other, with usual sentimentality. I enjoyed it. Nothing too particular, just a good episode to
I was going to make this last night, but I got trashed at an Xmas party and kind of passed out as soon as I got home. Apparently I didn’t do anything too stupid, though. I called my mom to check and she said I was mostly fine. Just a lot of talking in my sleep on the ride home.
But anyway, back to celebrating my fourth year on the site. And boy howdy was this an eventful year for me.
Yesterday, knighty wrote a site blog post about changes to FIMFiction.net. He implemented new features on the site in the last few weeks and summed them up in a changelog:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/819751/recent-changelog
One of those changes to FIMFiction.net is sticking out and heavily discussed in the community right now. You sure heard of it already, but for the sake of completion, I mention it here anyway:
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Back in black I hit the sack
I been too long I'm glad to be back
Yes I am
Let loose from the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I keep looking at the sky cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse cause I'll never die
I got nine lives cat's eyes
Using every one of them and runnin' wild
Cause I'm back
Yes I'm back well I'm back
Yes I'm back
Well I'm back back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Back in the back of a Cadillac
Number one with a bullet I'm a power pack
I have one other Season 9 (mini) analyzis based on the 11 teaser screenshots featured on Equestria Daily. That's going to be the last one for a while, until we get more to dissect. Let's get this started:
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A while ago (precisely, last year), I have started to think that I'm not talking enough about myself. I've seen so many other authors talk about themselves in blog entries, sometimes even sharing very personal details about their lives, but I never wanted to talk much about myself and give away too many things about me, mainly, because I always thought that doing this makes me vulnerable. But at the same time, I also never liked to hide myself or who I am.
Australia's and Dutch's TV channels are crazy. They force my hooves to write a Pony Service Announcement.
RAINBOW DASH: "I look like I have a mohawk blowing in the wind, don't I? Yeah, I think I just got about 20% cooler."
FLUTTERSHY [off-screen]: "What? But, um... I thought you said it was lazy and uninspired to just quote fan-loved moments for these intros..."
FLUTTERSHY: "I'd like to be a tree."
RAINBOW DASH [sighs]: "Fluttershy, I'll let you off this time because that's such a iconic, fan-loved moment, but we need to have a serious talk about how to do these captioned intros."
RAINBOW DASH: Still think I'm all ego and hype? When Rainbow Dash says she's the most athletic pony in Ponyville, she means it!
Unique - Arestyr!
Arestyr - So, the wielder of the Blue Aura enters the stage, eager to hear a symphony of agony
Unique - The only sound I'll be hearing is going to be your bones snapping beneath my hooves!
DISCORD: “We really need to fire whoever named this two-parter, don’t we?”
SPIKE: “You’re annoyed about that? What about the rest of us? You and Twilight are the only ones in this shot with any substantial non-disposable dialogue this episode!”
Question: "Can you synthesize the plots and lore of all the mainline Final Fantasy games into one large story?"
Answer: "Apparently, you can. The result is something I call Final Fantasy: Aleph Null. And I'm going to need some more help making it."
APPLE BLOOM: "You know, I was being forced to do so much stuff with all them there cutie marks, that I couldn't even see half of them! There's a mallet, a fancy brush, two thin swords hitting each other... Man, am I glad I have just the one cutie mark now!"