Before I read this, what is the Dark tag for ?
and how bad does it get ?

7914640 Speaking as someone who is wholly allergic to the dark tag, it's pretty harmless.

Specifically it's because it does have a gothic feel to it and it's about a vampire who preys on young women. but the two scenes of her drinking blood are not overly explicit or gory. There's also an implication at one point that Twi could kill people.

I honestly can't put together words on how to describe how much I am enjoying this. Please don't let this go bad.

7914831 look just because I can post from my dildo factory doesn't mean I'm the bad guy here.

It is the daytime, under the sun alternatively kind and cruel, that we find it most easy to hide. The daylight hours are the times of posturing and respectability. The light, ironically, lies to us about the secrets of the world. It appears that everything is uncovered—and, perhaps, to some that might be true—but I’ve always felt that we are less real in the press of activity. Less authentic. Detached from ourselves.

I really like this theme that you've played around with before, it's such an interesting idea to flip around and play with the imagery of light/shadow and our perceptions of truth/deception.

7914938 I blame Yeats for night time and SK for the crowd

Hmmm. I'm a little torn on this one. On the one hand, vampires! Carmilla-based, even, and delightfully capturing the voice of the source material, if I do say so myelf!

On the other, this Twilight feels somewhat out of character. We have a Twilight who has been Celestia's student, but who obviously did not make friends in Ponyville in this version of reality, so surely she should be awkward, bad at social interaction, nerdy, whatever. It feels very surreal and jolting, whenever Twilight is on stage, because she's so confident, so arrogant, even. She's very Carmilla. She's not terribly Twilight.

I recognize, and the story text itself seems to hint, that becoming a vampire may have changed her a lot, but still... I would look for moments, hints, bits of the Twilight I know from the show, and I can't find any. The Rarity is a little different but feels enough like Rarity to be an AU of her, but Twilight... I don't know. It just keeps niggling at me.

Still, I'll stick it out till the end and see how it goes. I am liking it as a story!

Marvelous! I should read the source material but I'm quite enjoying myself here in the mean time. This entire chapter was fantastic! Really well done.
It helps that I've currently got a table top character who's similar to Rarity here.

7914666 So... the Dark that is PG !?

7915493 Pretty much, but since it has sexual stuff in it it's gotta be mature.

Needed to re-use the title?

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/155695/the-sickness-unto-death

Fear and Trembling wasn't taken...

7915579 I actually unpublished that. I've been meaning to. I'm considering renaming it

I am not familiar at all with the source/inspiration material here, but this story has pulled me in like few other stories have on this site. I was hooked after a few paragraphs, and by the end of chapter one I was totally enthralled.

The writing style is just beautiful. The environs of Rarity's house really come to life, and the dialogue is simply divine. Twi and Rarity's verbal chess games are a joy to be immersed in, but very emotional too. And really, what can be said for the more mature sections but 'Wow'. Emotional, subtle, palpable, and oh so beautifully crafted.

Seriously, author, bravo!

This is the kind of stuff of dreams and wonder, the kind of thing that made me follow you, Cyn. I'm enraptured, and more than a little bit hot and bothered, by the story and the fanciful nature of it. I'm eager to see more, to ride this until completion, but Twilight's reaction there at the end has me worried that it will end in heartbreak. I don't want that to happen, but should it come to pass, i know that you'll handle it beautifully.

7913234 Lel, you're already here

More of the Twilight we're familiar with, through now. I'm interested to learn more.

This is, without a doubt, the best-written fic that I've ever read. The pacing is perfect, the style is amazing, the vocabulary is massive, and the grammar is nigh-impeccable. Combine that with the fact that it's a RariTwi ship, and you've got something beautiful. I was hooked on this ten words in.

This is a work of art, my friend, and you should be very, very proud of it.

7915766 Quite right, I missed that at first. Still good times!

Oooooo. Okay, this chapter I like. (And why was my previous comment on this chapter when I hadn't read it yet? It was supposed to be on ch. 2. FimFiction, you are strange.)

Also, you have hit on one of my biggest fetishes here, Dom "victim" with sub vampire. ZOMG. And done it really well. It was... hot. Very hot.

This is even better than the previous scene in chapter 2. I'm just in absolute awe at your skill with the written word, and the raw sensuality coupled with the delightful dialogue between Rarity and Twilight is just the most amazing experience I've had in a while.