On the 19th of May 2020, I was getting burned out on My Little Pony fanfiction. I'd signed up for the Depth in Innocence contest, but didn't have any ideas for what to write. I'd been entertaining the notion of a fic where Gallus is deaf on r/mylittlepony, but I couldn't think of any direction for it. That all changed that night. While in an active conversation in the Discord server, two sentences popped into my head:

Silverstream hadn't always been deaf.

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The jist of Silent Wings is that because Gallus and Silverstream are deaf, the Student Six don’t become friends by the time “The Hearth’s Warming Club” happens. When people asked me in the comments what this would mean for the fate of Equestria, I originally said that I hadn’t put much thought into it besides “Equestria isn’t doomed”.

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Whenever I think about Silent Wings, I'm usually hard on myself for rushing the ending. Last night, however, I had an epithany on the Bulbagarden Discord server that made me appreciate it more.

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It's in this article. Funnily enough, I submitted Birds of a Feather Don’t Ride Together to them for Griffons and Hippogriffs Day.

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Yesterday, I hurried to finish Silent Wings because I thought the deadline for the Depth in Innocence contest would be as soon as the 1st of July began in Mountain Time. Turns out that there are 23 hours left. I want this fanfic to be as good as possible, so if there are any minor improvements you want me to make, please let me know.

Silent Wings got me back into writing fanfiction.

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There’s a Fullmetal Alchemist alternate universe fanfic called All the Things We Cannot Hear, where Alphonse was born deaf. I liked it at first, but without spoiling too much, it eventually turned into a beat-for-beat retelling of Brotherhood with occasional mentions of sign language and Al angsting internally. (I wish fanfic authors would remember that the train hijacking and Youswell happened in the manga.) You can see

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