Introduction

Dark elements are part, or at least potentially part, of any love story save the fluffiest (the Cakes have a contest to see which can call one another by the sappiest possible pet name! D'aww ...). What follows is a discussion of dark elements in romance fiction.

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An important point to remember when writing about Equestria is that it is a matriarchy. What does this mean, and how does it affect character and story?

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This was an astonishingly difficult story to write, from an emotional perspective. I really like Fluttershy, and emotionally-torturing her even in retrospect was not a pleasant thing to do. It was essentially a sequel to Bad Horse's Fluttershy's Night Out and depicts Fluttershy's long-term reaction to what happened in that tale, around four your years after the fact. Obviously from my description, Fluttershy

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