Okay SO BEFORE YOU READ there are some important things that need to be made note of:
1) This is a story I wrote years ago and submitted only to Equestria Daily. It was long ago enough that Sethisto was still one of the major moderators that oversaw the approval of content to the website, which just kind of shows this story's age now that there are teams of moderators doing that sort of stuff. I wanted to bring it over to FiMFiction to archive it and also introduce it to a new audience. It's an early story of mine so I don't feel the dialogue or story progression is at a standard I hold today, but I still see it as passable enough to archive on my FiMFiction account. That and...
2) Literally no one cares about it but I find this hilarious and I thought I'd share it with everyone here: I made the FIRST My Little Pony/Fallout fanfiction EVER. Years ago when the most major repository for MLP fanfiction to be widely seen by the Brony fandom was Equestria Daily, I remember randomly searching EqD to see if there were any Fallout-themed MLP stories to read because I was really into playing Fallout: New Vegas at the time. There were none when I searched EqD in early 2011, so on a whim, I decided to write the first Fallout/MLP piece (To my knowledge. One could have existed on a chan board or general fanfic website before, but I didn't know of it and if it did exist it seems to have been lost to time.) My story went up on EqD on Saturday, April 23, 2011. Kkat's Fallout: Equestria story was first submitted to EqD later that year on Sunday, December 25, 2011 with the prologue, introduction, and I think the first or second chapter ready to read. Don't get me wrong, I think Kkat's story is MUCH better in terms of character, writing, and story and deserves to go down into the MLP Fanfiction hall of fame for how influential it became on the fandom. I just think it's rather hilarious that Kkat's amazing story could have been all that AND one of the first widely released Fallout/MLP fanfiction crossovers...but my stupid little rinky-dink short story stole that thunder. Still, it just goes to show that the firsts to the finish line aren't always the first to be remembered.
Anyways, please enjoy this weird little quirky tidbit of MLP Fanfiction history haha.
The original Equestria Daily description:
Story: Blue Moon by Sethisto
[Crossover][Sad] Luna and Fallout? That's the wildest combo ever! I'm pretty sure Luna stories are default awesome judging by the 20 five star stories in her part of the archive.... but can she survive a nuclear crossover?
Author: Bongo
Description: Nuclear bombs have struck Equestria and the world is plunged into a nuclear winter. Princess Celestia is soon sick with radiation poisoning while trying to protect her smaller sister, Princess Luna. The great emotional intake is starting to take its toll on Princess Luna, as her world starts to grow darker and darker with sadness and grief... Based off the apocalyptic nuclear wasteland of Fallout: New Vegas. Best read when listening to Frank Sinatra's Blue Moon.
Additional Tags: Fallout: New Vegas, flashback, nuclear radiation,
Frank Sinatra, Blue Moon(FimFiction doesn't like copyrighted lyrics)
Not really. "Fallout: Equestria" IS one of the first widely-released ones. Even with your story, it's still the second Fallout-inspired ponyfic that has gotten a wide release, making it one of the first ones. Not to mention the very first one that went and actually ponified "Fallout" by taking the game's different elements and adapting them to ponies and Equestria.
So you didn't steal any thunder from it, really.
Edit: If possible, please give me access to the Google Docs version of the story, for further archival purposes. I sent a request for access just now.
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I know what you mean by that. Kkat's story is the first widely released story by reaching a much wider audience and creating a much larger following than mine did, which was more of a one-and-done thing. That and he actually created a modified version of the Fallout universe and lore. Whereas my story is more heavily inspired by the world of Fallout without really doing anything with the idea outside of the bombs going off. Still, years ago I do remember it was the first Fallout-anything story to hit Equestria Daily and I do remember searching several times prior for something Fallout-esque to read on EqD, which was the premier place to dump one's fanfictions to try and reach the widest audience.
Also, I just looked at the settings for the Google Doc, for some reason it was set to private only. I don't know why it did that though, it should have been viewable by people who had the link from Equestria Daily but whatever. I changed the access from private to viewable via link now so it should work. I think it automatically switched over for some reason because I don't remember editing that.
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I know. I was talking about your implication that "Fallout: Equestria" only could have been one of the first widely released ones if you hadn't released your story:
"I just think it's rather hilarious that Kkat's amazing story could have been [...] one of the first widely released Fallout/MLP fanfiction crossovers...but my stupid little rinky-dink short story stole that thunder."
It works now. Thanks.