Spike planned to be an archaeologist, not a xenobiologist. An ancient dig changes things, and he's in for the ride of his life...in more ways than one.
9406092 I would highly suggest not using the fan wiki. They deliberately use the fanciest words for colors you could possibly use and those do not translate to story writing very well. There's a whole section on purple prose in the website's writing guide, paraphrasing, the guide mainly mentions that it's easy to get wrong and not necessary unless you're getting paid per word but suggests you use words you would talk with. There's something to be said for reader comprehension too, you never want to confuse the reader, looking up a word or two is fine, but those fan wiki colors are not only distracting to comprehend cause what the fuck kind of color name is gamboge, but they're also flat out wrong in some cases.
Sweetie belle is white, her outline is grey, the animators can't make a White outline on a white coat so every white character has a colored outline people debate all the time that she and shining armor are grey and Celestia is fuchsia grey/pink like the fan wiki's say but that's just splitting hairs, regardless of the outline you don't need some hyper fancy name of color to understand the white coated characters are supposed to be as white as you can get. Saying a character is light grey out of context makes me think of Derpy's coat color , with the context of there being three of them and looking up the definition of gamboge I can make out that these are supposed to be the CMC, but by then I am fully drawn out of your story looking at google and rolling my eyes at whoever decided to name something gamboge to begin with. Also the fan site isn't only wrong about Sweetie cause I don't know where they got olive from Apple Bloom's light yellow coat.
P.S. I'm willing to bet Hasbro tried to describe Celestia to their manufacturers as pinkish white and that's why they have all those terrible dark pink Celestia toys.
It's alive! And still a joy to read 🙃 Interesting to see the inter-species diplomacy develop further knots and tangles Great work as always, looking forward to the next chapter.
9426387 They use 'fancy words' for colors because My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is animated in Flash and each color can be described with a hex code from 000000 (black; 0 parts red, green, and blue light) to FFFFFF (white, 255 parts red, green, and blue light) and nearly each combination is given a name.
9427577 Yeah except when you set everything to binary data points of "is this color x?" yes or no. You get some really stupid solutions. I typed Apple Bloom's hex code into a color finder and it did come back "light greyish olive" yet clicking all the colors near it that are visually indistinguishable come back as light yellow. Colors aren't meant to be binary, they come in gradients, debating anything past one shade of color, I.E. white, light grey, grey, dark grey, black is unnecessary unless you need machine precision for physical recreation like in flash animation, other forms of physical art, or repainting something.
Those mechanical definitions of color either hold no symbolism for drawing images to mind or hold the wrong symbolism, at that point you might as well textually describe them by their hex code because at least then the reader would be less likely to misunderstand that they're unintentionally being misled. You say light greyish Oliver my minds eye is drawing a picture of Daring Doo, where if you give me the hex code my mind doesn't draw anything it instead looks for understanding elsewhere.
Dun! Dun! Dun!
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I would highly suggest not using the fan wiki. They deliberately use the fanciest words for colors you could possibly use and those do not translate to story writing very well. There's a whole section on purple prose in the website's writing guide, paraphrasing, the guide mainly mentions that it's easy to get wrong and not necessary unless you're getting paid per word but suggests you use words you would talk with. There's something to be said for reader comprehension too, you never want to confuse the reader, looking up a word or two is fine, but those fan wiki colors are not only distracting to comprehend cause what the fuck kind of color name is gamboge, but they're also flat out wrong in some cases.
Sweetie belle is white, her outline is grey, the animators can't make a White outline on a white coat so every white character has a colored outline people debate all the time that she and shining armor are grey and Celestia is fuchsia grey/pink like the fan wiki's say but that's just splitting hairs, regardless of the outline you don't need some hyper fancy name of color to understand the white coated characters are supposed to be as white as you can get. Saying a character is light grey out of context makes me think of Derpy's coat color , with the context of there being three of them and looking up the definition of gamboge I can make out that these are supposed to be the CMC, but by then I am fully drawn out of your story looking at google and rolling my eyes at whoever decided to name something gamboge to begin with. Also the fan site isn't only wrong about Sweetie cause I don't know where they got olive from Apple Bloom's light yellow coat.
http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Apple_Bloom
http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/G4_Sweetie_Belle
http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/G4_Scootaloo
P.S. I'm willing to bet Hasbro tried to describe Celestia to their manufacturers as pinkish white and that's why they have all those terrible dark pink Celestia toys.
And my 2nd favorite MILF has entered the field.
.....Is it possible that someone built a dimensional gateway cause if so i know where i would be going
Yeah, ever since Game Boy came out, many of us don't have to go to arcade to play games.
It's alive!
And still a joy to read 🙃
Interesting to see the inter-species diplomacy develop further knots and tangles
Great work as always, looking forward to the next chapter.
Ok Spike needs a shit ton of energy drinks
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Or potions from Zecora
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I think Zecora want some sort of payment from Spike if he does go to her
Yay it's back!
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They use 'fancy words' for colors because My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is animated in Flash and each color can be described with a hex code from 000000 (black; 0 parts red, green, and blue light) to FFFFFF (white, 255 parts red, green, and blue light) and nearly each combination is given a name.
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Yeah except when you set everything to binary data points of "is this color x?" yes or no. You get some really stupid solutions. I typed Apple Bloom's hex code into a color finder and it did come back "light greyish olive" yet clicking all the colors near it that are visually indistinguishable come back as light yellow. Colors aren't meant to be binary, they come in gradients, debating anything past one shade of color, I.E. white, light grey, grey, dark grey, black is unnecessary unless you need machine precision for physical recreation like in flash animation, other forms of physical art, or repainting something.
Those mechanical definitions of color either hold no symbolism for drawing images to mind or hold the wrong symbolism, at that point you might as well textually describe them by their hex code because at least then the reader would be less likely to misunderstand that they're unintentionally being misled. You say light greyish Oliver my minds eye is drawing a picture of Daring Doo, where if you give me the hex code my mind doesn't draw anything it instead looks for understanding elsewhere.
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*nudge nudge*
I was hoping Spike wouldn't meet Spoiled Rich. Wishful Thinking.
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Don't worry i'm certain something will prevent any type of bad scenario spoiled rich will do
I can’t wait to see what happens next, please update soon
When's the next chapter coming up
Loved it and I am looking forward to the next chapter! Funny work great read too!
Spikes new nickname Titian cock Spoiled rich or super bitch.