• Published 20th Feb 2017
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Death By Puns (And Tentacles) - headless_rainbow



Follows the "Power Ponies" episode (lewdly) and puts the Power Ponies up against much more lethal challenges.

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8028907 Well if the commissioner continues this, their intention for it has a similar body count to CRV.

Edit: It makes me sad when people delete their comments

8039192
Usually I have a Rarity that takes a lot of dicks, but I also like to mix it up a bit, and you can rationalize any of them into either slutty or decent personalities.
Though in this case it was a bad joke. Rarity was tighter "since the dicks Rarity tended to take were a lot smaller", implying both that she and Spike are banging and that she's a colt-cuddler .

D48

Eh, that honestly wasn't great. The last chapter and the epilogue got amusing enough to give it a thumbs up overall, but the story is still rather weak. It really needed something else to spice it up and make it stand out one way or another, and I have three thoughts.

The first is simply more puns, both in the dialog and the narrative itself. In addition to better living up to the title, that would help this story stand out because writers very rarely do that with stories, and that's especially true with splatstick/fetish fics which frequently focus more on the acts being committed than the narrative delivery of those acts.

The second is adopting a more comic book inspired style and hamming things up more. The nature of this story is that everything is happening in a comic book, so you could have taken that idea and run with it to really give this a distinctive feeling.

The third is letting them come out of the book alive. While corpse piles are always fun and I liked what you did with Celestia at the end, I think this would have been a great opportunity to have some fun by experimenting with alternative story structures. Letting them come out alive would have given you the outside perspective of the previous victims to play with and have some fun with them commenting on what's happening, something that would be particularly interesting since they would be able to laugh at the others freaking out as they got "killed" and let you have some real fun with Pinkie's fourth wall breaking since she would know what was going on outside while the others still inside were still freaking out, and you could have wrapped it up with a "let's do that again!" for extra fun. Also, I think that ending bit with Celestia really would have worked better if you did more with it one way or another rather than leaving it as a few quick lines tacked onto the end of this story.

8043066
Well, the commissioner didn't want the puns to be actually weaponized and wanted me to concentrate the word count they paid for on fucking rather than dialogue. That's the thing that sucks about having to stay under a word count; I had to leave out a lot of stuff I might have added and condense things I would have otherwise fleshed out.
They also wanted them all dead, so there's that. I can't exactly do whatever I want with the story and still expect to get paid for it! :rainbowwild:
And yeah, Celestia's bit was tacked on and super condensed to get it done. Again because they couldn't afford enough words for me to do it as I would have without the limit. It makes me twitch just reading that last chapter, ugh.
They're good points though other than that, and this is one reason I recently closed commissions. I'd like to do some of my own stories as I want with no limit on details because of a word count.

D48

8043094 Fair enough. You might still have been able to work a few more puns in there without messing with the word count if you really worked at it, but I definitely get where you're coming from with regards to commissions. It's honestly a big part of the reason I only ever give advice and suggestions like this since it leaves you free to use them or not as you see fit rather than constraining you to my thoughts and limits. The best results usually come when ideas are shared and allowed to grow rather than forced into a specific shape, and my input may very well turn into something much better than a better version of this story in your hands or you might start playing with something we both thought sounded promising but turns out to be crap in practice so you need the flexibility to dump it.

8043166 I was actually afraid I'd annoy with too many puns in this case! Puns hurt. If there are a few you thought of, I'd probably edit them in if you told me :rainbowwild:
I like constructive advice either way though, and I will take some of it should I ever write another super-hero type story.

D48

8043202 ...You don't want to annoy people? Really? I know what kinds of stories you write. :rainbowlaugh:

More seriously, I wound up getting my reading broken up some thanks to the joys of real life so I don't really have any specific thoughts on particular puns. It would probably also be a pain to add retroactively because you usually have to arrange things properly for them to fall into place properly so while you could make basically anything a pun-fest, it would require you to write the whole segment with that in mind so you can chain pun after pun after pun to really get it rolling right. Remember, while one pun usually elicits a groan, cramming a hundred puns into a single chapter brings you into refuge in audacity territory and leaves the readers laughing because they can't believe you did that.

8043268 The first story I wrote on this account was to annoy people, then I discovered that some people actually like this shit, and kept writing :rainbowkiss:

8156426 Such a beautiful song; it brought tears of joy to my eyes :raritycry:

If only mane-iac could dance over to Celestia and say « I DID IT BIATCH! »

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