Those who have read enough of my fics know that I like Dark fic. I find extrapolating from canon, making it more dramatic and dangerous, to be an interesting challenge.

Yet Dark fic is also one of the most commonly derided sub-genres of fanfic, because so many stories do it so badly. For today’s blog post, I’d like to discuss one of my favorite types of fanfiction: what separates the good from the bad, and how those ideas can be seen in other types of fiction as well.

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In a previous post, I invented a categorization system for fiction based on its intent. I created three broad categories—Propaganda, Entertainment, and Art—and attempted to explain what they were.

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So, it's late at night, like one thirty in the morning probably. I'm searching for fics (the system on this site is somewhat difficult to grasp) and I see one titled "The Twilight Before the Sunset". I didn't think much of it when I first saw it cause I got absorbed in reading another fic. However, I see it again as I'm about to lay down my phone to work on a fic and, offhandedly, I say, "I'd like to be that person who points out that technically sunset comes BEFORE twilight."

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I'm still waiting for the ketamine treatments to improve my mood, but I've only had two so far.

At least it's not ECT again...

I'm non-productive. I want this to change. I want to write again.

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The titel already giving you hopes?
Time to continue the Changeling Empress adventure.
Some clop, tons of proofreading, continuation of the storyline.
Also I see i just made 1 update 2023 for that story.
Really wasted that year working to hard...

Anyway...

I proofreading recently alot of my stories, fixed a lot of typos even after years...

So now it's going to be probably 1-3 updates for Selene and her Zebra herd.

Any request?

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I’ve ranted in the past about how FiM breeds wish fulfillment, and how crossovers fundamentally violate the Law of Conservation of Detail. I mentioned in the latter that Human in Equestria has similar problems. Oddly, despite having similar problems, HiE also has other problems that are all its own (despite crossovers often involving humans anyway).

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I was browsing my past stories, in that narcissistic way I do. Given the title, it's probably no surprise which story I stuck on.

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Reactionary (maybe alarmist?) thinking below. I say that because I'm trying to process some stuff that has been tossed into my sphere of thinking in the last week, and I have yet to find any counter sources that might anchor these views. Stream of consciousness about the economy, and society, and the future. I'm perfectly aware that this is just a starting point, and not the end point, of where I stand on the state of the world today. It's such a big thing to make any final calls on with any

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Today, I’d like to present a new (possibly recurring) blog series. I was reading a college's literary magazine today. While most of the entries were aggressively mediocre, one particular phrase in one particular story stuck out to me. "I could still make out the tear stains on my mom's letter pages." What better catalyst for discussion than a cliché?

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All you can do is surrender to them and let them have their way with you. But that’s very much to the benefit of readers.

I finished the second Feathered Hearts transition chapter last night, which now tops the scales at 11.5k words, and then charged right into the third one this morning, putting down the first 3200 words on it. This third one ends with the start of the Cloven attack. Expect a rollercoaster within it including some serious mood swings.

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Hey. Notice anything? A lack of a statement at the very top that says “Posted via Mobile?”

That’s right, I’m home at last.

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I have done a bit of work for the massive crossover that I'm part of, and I fully intend to get back to doing some more, but...

I'd been planning to alternate, working on Boast Backers, then Multiversal, and repeating over and over. Now that I'm just one chapter away from finishing Boast Backers, however, I find myself drawn into finishing it.

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Just a random bit of cultural worldbuilding looking for a home. Namely, what cultural impact the Founders of Equestria have had on their nation beyond starring in the annual not-Christmas pageant. (For the purposes of this blog, we’re putting aside the chronological ambiguity created by the Pillars. Star Swirl’s almost as bad as Starlight and Discord when it comes to muddying the temporal waters. And yes, I know some of this comes pre-Jossed. C’est la vie.)

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My muse and I have a love/hate relationship.

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To make a long story short, I continue to get slowly better while the new Eros chapter is at 8300 words and being written only incrementally. Its likely size is 12k or more words before all is said and done, with probably another week before it's draft complete. For the record, that's longer than I usually make clop chapters, unless they're climactic ones—in the story sense, not the sexual one. But as it happens, we're approaching the climax here, of both the story arc and the

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So, Chapter One of Pound and Pumpkin Save Sugarcube Corner is gonna go live tomorrow. I've been working on it constantly over the past week, and at time of writing, it's almost done, with only a couple more paragraphs to go. Hopefully, it's good - I've got some neat little shenanigans lined up for the twins to get into.

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The more fiction I consume, the more I notice patterns. Pigeonholing subjective art is never going to be perfectly accurate, but there are generalizations that have some truth. Today, I’d like to talk about a pattern that is present in all fiction, but is more noticeable and more identifiable in fanfiction.

Broadly speaking, fiction can be divided into two types; those that are designed to conclude, and those that are designed to continue for as long as possible.

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“You contacted the most powerful being in Equestria to help a pony in need without any thought to what you would gain from it, Sunset.” Crystal Clear beamed at her. “That’s called generosity. And that’s called kindness. "

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Year: 2011
Event: Santa Barbara County Fair, being held in Santa Maria
Cast: Myself, my cousin, and my uncle

It was late that night; the sun had already long since set, and it was almost closing time.

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