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Peridork


Sometimes you lose yourself in your own narcissism. That's when you find out you might be the bad guy.

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Luna's life sucks a lot. With her recent return from the moon, adjusting to normal life isn't so easy. While her sister gets the swanky job of being loved and ruling the day, Luna gets her own mirror realm of Equestria: The Dreamlands. Well, actually, Luna got the short end of the stick with her being the last extradimensional dreamer that could carve out the nearest slice of dreamscape with her Moon imprisonment. And Nightmare Moon was an awful ruler of her demesne. So now there's a little something going down in the Dreamlands that might muck up her nightly walks. The Dreamlands are a cold and unwelcome place for most ponies with nightgaunts and the occasional traveler from the Plains of Leng. Welcome to dreamland.

Applejack is just a pony that has a problem of another kind. She fell in love with Luna at first sight and besides the occasional Nightmare Night party- she knows that seeing a Princess of Equestria would make some difficulties with her life. There is just one thing that neither mare could account for: said Earth Pony is a lucid dreamer, which for Equestrians is a very rare trait that only shows up in familial lines of the Founders. Lucid dreamers can shape the reality of the Dreamlands to their will and are known as the Shields of their respective rulers. Now she and Luna have to deal with incursions of non pony creatures to protect Equestria.

Crossover with the Lovecraftian Dream Cycle and sporadically updates.

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 10 )

Sounds like an interesting story!

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Nice song. I know that the song I chose is old. It fits now. Plus that other song you showed fits very well in another chapter that I have planned. There's a chapter that'll have a lot more action, the first few chapters are just the scene setters and so I personally put their music based titles as really old timey songs for the heck of it. When I start pulling doom metal titles and electronica- then its getting towards the plot. AJ still isn't the best lucid dreamer yet and some training will be happening in the next chapters which are planned in my head.

:pinkiehappy::heart:

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Same for me. Cause before writing this I had to find a map of the Dreamlands that I liked and I read everything in my compendium of Lovecraft stories and took notes. Now I have all that done and I am just coasting on what I want for chapter 2

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That's why I'll try to write as much as possible the next few days and see if I can flesh out chapter two. MAybe chapter 3 next week if lucky. Don't count on that though.

I don't like the pacing. Applejack's visit to Twi should have been a chapter to its own as well as the Dream portion. Also, a bit more into detail of AJ's feelings for Luna and how they came about would be wonderful and flesh out the romance.

Agreed on the issues that need to be fleshed out more.

But I just have to say yay Nodens. Everyone remembers frigging Cthulhu and Azathoth and so on. Poor Nodens gets no attention. Maybe because he's one of the few Elder Gods who is kind of benevolent, or at least sometimes actually does good things. (Also the Great Race get no love. Even if they did invent shoggoths they were still pretty cool guys.)

I am enjoying the story and hope you can update a bit more frequently. I understand. Real life and all. :ajsmug:

Fleur does worry me a little.

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Updating on a college timeframe makes my life fun. :derpytongue2: I hope that the next few chapters come sooner than later- but at least I have them planned out. General quality over quantity- and worldbuilding of course and whatnot. :rainbowkiss: Let me just say that the Dreamlands we've seen are the nicest and calmest of the bunch. The real stuff starts to happen later. Chapter 3 bridges the gap between the end of chapter two and Luna Eclipsed. I'm trying to follow a general progression of season 2 and planning that out can take a bit. No worries man.

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Haha sorry it took so long. Thank renewed interest in this from fanfiction net cause it kind of slipped away in my mind/ I misplaced my fifty pages of notes on this story- haven't found that still so that's lost. Meticulous notes on everything Lovecraft related and how that would work. Don't worry though even though its been two years I still have the next chapters all memorized. Blame an actually good memory on that- good memory, horrible focus on projects.

But already chapter four is coming along nicely and I hope to get chapter five out before I go back to school to make up for the hiatus. I hope they'll be around 3k a piece for both chapters.

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