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AUTHOR'S NOTE - I've been made aware that readers are unaware that this is blatant self-insert Mary-Sue at it's worst. Oh, yes, plus LOTS of OCs. No really, it's really obvious and blatant. I'd rather you be aware of that now and simply leave than waste your time and give it a downvote because you don't like self-inserts, Mary-Sues, or OCs.

Humans go to sleep, then wake up as small, sentient equines in all the colors of the rainbow and beyond. Some are capable of flight, some capable of using what can only be called magic. All are recognized as being some variant of pony from the popular TV show, "My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic."

Introduced into this chaos is one who is chosen to be a leader by whatever force has been converting humans into ponies. This former human must now grow into the role, for the very fate of millions of ponies now lies in her hooves.

[Author's Note: This is very blatant self-insert with shades of Mary Sue, and by admitting I have the problem I'm taking the first step to solving it. ;) Also, this has nothing to do with The Conversion Bureau, which I haven't read and understand to be quite enjoyable.]

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A self-insert Mary Sue? And you admit it in the description? You are aware that extremely few fanfics are able to get away with those things right? Well, never the less, you have caught my interest. Lets see that this is

Edit: have read it, am extremely interested. Please proceed. Hell, with the right attention I think this just might reach the feature box

this has nothing to do with The Conversion Bureau, which I haven't read and understand to be quite enjoyable

Cue downvotes.

2270112 I was initially going to ignore this, but your comment piqued my interest. Added to RiL. Oh, and also:

one ponified human is thrust into a roll

Wrong version of the word. I believe you were so eloquently searching for is 'role', although I must commend the unintentional humour this created for me. I had sudden mental images of a woman being shoved into a Twinkie. Oh maiii.

Ok, thoughts after reading...
1) The centred text in the first chapter was rather eye-punishing, although that may just be me.
2) The story, although written well, certainly smacks of self-insert Sueism. Not so much in a bad way here, but I don't think I'll be sticking with the story.
3) There's actually something about your storytelling I quite liked.
4) Might be worth getting an editor or proof reader. There were a few lexical and syntactical mistakes in the first chapter that I picked up on.
5) You appear to rather enjoy writing this, so by all means, keep it up! Obviously the vote count won't be too heart-warming with all that red, but a lot of people downvote stories like this on principle.
6) I think you certainly have talent as a writer, but you might be more successful if you balance out human stories with canonic stories as well, so you don't get beaten down by the constant negativity surrounding the genre.

These are just the thoughts of a very tired man sat at his computer desk at midnight, so feel free to ignore any / all of these points :twilightsmile: Good luck with whatever you choose to write in the future, mate.

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1) The centred text in the first chapter was rather eye-punishing, although that may just be me.

It's still doing that? I thought I fixed that. That was a Google Doc import derp, I'll take another look at it.

2) The story, although written well, certainly smacks of self-insert Sueism. Not so much in a bad way here, but I don't think I'll be sticking with the story.

...I did put an author's note right at the top of the Prologue. It says straight up that it's a self-insert-Mary-Sue. :twilightblush:

3) There's actually something about your storytelling I quite liked.

And that's what keeps me going. :twilightsmile:

4) Might be worth getting an editor or proof reader. There were a few lexical and syntactical mistakes in the first chapter that I picked up on.

My wife actually functions as my proof reader, but she can't spell worth a damn, so she misses the syntactical stuff more than me. :rainbowkiss: As far as the lexical mistakes, that was more or less intentional. The whole thing is meant to be a first-person stream-of-consciousness, goofball word choices and all.

5) You appear to rather enjoy writing this, so by all means, keep it up! Obviously the vote count won't be too heart-warming with all that red, but a lot of people downvote stories like this on principle.

I'm doing it for myself, I've had this brainworm in my head for a year and a half, gotta get it out sometime.

2272509 Perfectly valid points, all of them. As for the second point I made, I certainly did spot that note! :rainbowkiss: But I guess I was trying to say that it was Sue-ish in a better way than most stories, rather than being blatantly, in-your-face self insert-y. And as for the fourth point, I guess I'm just a stickler for perfect spelling and grammar in stories :rainbowlaugh: Anyway, glad to see you're continuing this despite the negativity. Good luck!

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Thanks much.

BTW, I fixed the centering issue on the Prologue.

I'm giving this a favorite to see where this is going not enough info for a thumb either up or down

Huh. This... Is...


AMAZING!!!

Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshtheconceptisgreatandihaveneverheardofastorylikethisbeforecongratsyouhavecaughtmyfullattentionwiththisstorykeepupwiththegreatwork! :pinkiehappy:

Comment posted by Protestifications deleted Mar 22nd, 2013

You definitely have my interest with a start like that. I hope the story continues, because this is pretty neat (bloody imagery put into my brain notwithstanding, that poor, poor filly). Though, you may want to consider some editorial help. There are several groups on FiMFiction that could be of assistance in that regard. :twilightsmile:

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Omygoshomygoshomygosh!!!! Wrabbit likes my story! :twilightsheepish:

It's not bad. I somehow missed the dark tag, but that's fine, since there's a few (very few) dark pony stories that I read. Also, something I forgot to mention, Arabic is not spoken in Pakistan. Their official languages are Urdu and English. :twistnerd:

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Huh, good to know. I had a hard time finding source info for the language. :unsuresweetie:

Cancelled? i say, "why?" this sounds like an awesome story.

Comment posted by fyre-byrd deleted Mar 31st, 2019

So did the mom turn into Luna?

So here's a question: if I were to be "ponified", what would determine my cutie mark and what kind of pony I'd be?

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