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Uh-hmmm


I come from the land of the green and unknown, from tenth page drop, where the horse words flow.

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No rest for the wicked, it seems. :rainbowkiss:

I'm going to have to ask how this RGRE works.

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This is Casual Sex Equestia, which is entirely different and 100% for porn.

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Judging by how Anon acts, I'm guessing he's like a typical insert in MLP, and has basically abused RGRE as a sane man would, especially a casual sex Equestria?

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Like I said, no RGRE going on here, but yes, Anon is a self-insert character revelling in the possibilities of this fantastical world.

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I could certainly go for a sequel, its interesting.

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There won't be a sequel, but there may be some other stories using the Casual Sex setting.

Casual Sexquestria is my favorite AU. I would love to see more stories set in it (though preferably in Actual Equestria, without Anon; just a view of day to day life in a world where fucking is as tabboo as breathing.)

Also, a couple typos.

The story should end with a period, and the starting "be anon" almost made me quit reading. You could stand to cut it out entirely.

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It is an artifact of the original format, but is "You are Anon, watching..." better?

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Definitely better, but you don't really need to say who the audience is. Something like "it was a warm summer's day in the Equestria beyond the mirror, and you were at [whatever the name of the stadium is] to watch Rainbow Dash play soccer, along with Rarity and Sunset Shimmer." would be better.

Maybe a bit more refined than that, but you never need to say "you are X." Especially if you're using the (imo a bit lazy but it's whatever) Anon route to avoid making an actual character.

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Hmm, I think there is a philosophical disagreement here. While the audience surrogate might not need to be named immediately, if characters address him, it's a little smoother if you know who they are talking to. Not to mention when switching POV characters, "(Be/You are) So-and-So, doing/feeling such and such" is a useful transition.
I'll respectfully disagree that having a character named Anon is avoiding making a character. There's nothing stopping me from having a Scottish, legally defined midget Anon with amatuer piano mastery, or any other combination of traits. I'd say the only thing I really lose is having a name with an ethnic heritage and/or pun opportunities. Perhaps it's because I come from /mlp/, but having a character with a real person name introduces the possibility that the character is specifically a reproduction of the author in the fictional universe. This can be done well, but there is an aspect of self-gratification there that I find somewhat distasteful. Of course, there is nothing stopping an author from writing themselves in the story, and merely naming the character Anon, but there is a layer of dissociation that makes it palatable.

i have no words to describe this!:trollestia:
best dimension/EQG world ever!:rainbowlaugh:

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I'd say the only thing I really lose is having a name with an ethnic heritage and/or pun opportunities. Perhaps it's because I come from /mlp/,

Not so. Well, not quite, anyway. You're from /mlp/ so you know - "You are Anon." is a classic way of starting greentext stories, it has years of history behind it, and it can be used in creative ways (notably, describing an action right in the same sentence, hopefully something normatively outrageous). Anon has boatloads of heritage - enough so that I outright cringe when he's portrayed as a caring and thoughtful individual* without renaming him to something like Incognito.

I mean, he can be, but it's not the facade he shows to the world - and, to be perfectly honest, "Anon" being thoughtful is often not even being nice, in my headcanon. He's the amalgam of all of us, so he's abrasive and obnoxious, but also speaks openly about things that matter and disregards openly things which ultimately don't. Tons of heritage coming from the Internet culture as a whole.

* Though I'm personally a veteran of that other subboard, so my view may be biased.

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