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Type_Writer


Self-taught writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it seems to be working out okay so far. (Enjoying my writing? How about a tip? https://ko-fi.com/type_writer )

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RyRy #1 · Aug 29th, 2022 · · 1 ·

haven't read the story: just wanted you to know I first read the title as lu-stha-ze

I was.. confused

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Hah, I knew I should've hyphenated the word!

Runaway aphrodisiac magic, fun with dimensional counterparts, Pinkie still offering service with a smile...

This was a delight from start to finish. The only way it could have been better would've been Sunset getting involved with the Twilights (and that's just my own pairing preferences speaking. It's a very tightly written story and I have to acknowledge that getting Bacon Horse involved would've been a needless complication.) Great stuff. Good luck in the contest!

That was a good story.

Okay so, going in blind - Pink haze in Ponyville, intense breeding frenzies, it's anthro, Twilight's involved...

I gotta ask the big question.

Is this based on Night Mares 6, and if so, can I please have your wonderful hand in marriage because this is EXACTLY THE FIC I WOULD HAVE DONE IF I HAD THE TIME I AM LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A LONGFIC SEQUEL TO THIS AMAZING SERIES

ahem

Still, this is a fantastic fic and I'm going to look through it in its entirety.

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Surprisingly no, this story was totally original! I'm actually not familiar with the Night Mares series; I'll need to check that out when I get time.

In fact, this story started as a plan for an April Fools chapter of my long-running Dark Souls crossover, but a series of reworks to the narrative caused the concept to fully diverge from any real relation to Dark Souls or Hollow Pony. I put it on the back burner for a year, then when I was looking for ideas I could use for this contest, I decided to use revisit it—especially once I conceived of the twist at the end.

From there, the story practically wrote itself, though I had a lot of difficulty corralling the resulting story under 10k words. If that word limit were higher or non-existent, this concept could have easily exploded into the length of a novella, though I would have had to further tweak the pacing to fit, as opposed to just slapping more scenes in between the beginning and final encounter.

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Ah, I can see that - I've been in similar straits myself - the fic I released to great acclaim a week back, Quartz-er Pounder, was a product of a collab with another writier I had that ran out of gas two years ago. I only just now hauled it out of mothballs as a promise to myself to finally tackle the folder of abandoned clop stories I'd built up during my first time here, when all I was was a clop-writing machine. Now, I can finally focus on quality over quantity, and QP showed it in spades, especially with the crisp yet saucy writing.

Not a shameless pop, of course :rainbowkiss:

Speaking of possible collabs, that time of you getting familiar with Night Mares may come earlier than you think - I was dead serious about that sequel I was writing for Night Mares, and I've got fellow clopficionado ArDee helping me out on it too.

And I know this may sound a bit presumptuous, but... do you think I could bounce a couple ideas off you from time to time? Like your fic, mine's going to involve a lot of Ponyville's most famous locales - and ponies - in absolutely lust-twisted versions of themselves, and I gotta admit - you've got the talent for making such settings and stallions stand out in ways I'd like my own work to.

So, what do you say? Feel like this might be a good opportunity for us to talk shop more?

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I'll respond in a PM, I suppose. In any case, it sounds as though you enjoyed the story?

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With flying colors. Especially the twist as to who it was at the end, how you managed to wrap everything in a nice bow, and... goodness gracious, how you weave clop in with heart so easily. Think yo'll be a top 5-er in Dezmo's contest for sure.

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Awwww, thank you! I certainly hope so too, though I have two friends who have also entered the contest that I feel are just as deserving of awards, if not more.

Pretty good. I really enjoyed how casual everything was. Though Pinkie’s pregnancy kind of came out of nowhere. And it was well written—not amazingly poetic or anything, but the prose gets out of the story’s way and isn’t distracting.

Only two shortfalls as I see it:
1) Because so much sex is packed into a relatively small story, none of the individual sex scenes fully get the attention and details they deserve. It’s often more of a summary of what’s happening. Leans a lot on tell rather than show. But that’s a necessary evil in order to cram so much in so little space.
2) Because it starts of with such a bang and just keeps going, there’s not much sense of escalation. Which leaves it feeling kind of flat and makes the climax feel anticlimactic. This is exacerbated by Cadance’s nonchalant acceptance of it all from the beginning. If Cadance had been trying to resist but gradually giving in more and more, that would have provided a sense of escalation and story progression. A character arc. As it is, though, Cadance doesn’t change between the beginning of the story and the end, which contributes to it feeling flat.

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