How much fun Twilight is to write. I mean, it's been a year-and-a-half since I finished Half the Day is Night, and I haven't really featured her in anything I've done since!
But I finally settled on "wiggler" 'cause I needed something that would sound cute and innocent to Fluttershy. Her whole life, she's disliked every word she's ever heard to describe her anatomical irregularity, and not having a word for it has intensified her hatred for it and for herself--she's very much a victim of "the tyranny of language" the way I write her. That AJ can just come up with a term so light and unrefined and giggly at the very moment that Fluttershy feels the most shameful and vulnerable is a threshold moment in the whole "exchange of gifts" thing I'm exploring with their relationship, the way they each supply traits that the other lacks.
But yeah. I keep thinking of worms ev'ry time I type it...
I think it's really impressive that the emotions of Applejack and Fluttershy always come out as authentic as I've ever read in a fanfic. Each chaper, from Biology to this current chapter I'm commenting on, really do a powerful job of delivering the characters. I wish I knew how to write Applejack's dialogue like this, where it feels and sounds real. That's such an awesome talent that really keeps me reading to see what she'll say next and how.
Which ends Act I:
Of our current melodrama. Act II, Igneous, wlll also have three chapters, and I'm gonna try updating on the 8th, the 18th, and the 28th of February.
Mike
Ooof, poor Fluttershy. Not a great set of choices for her.
Twilight's handling this pretty well, but she's still not quite the best at tact, is she?
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Alas:
But I'm sure it'll build character...
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I'd forgotten:
How much fun Twilight is to write. I mean, it's been a year-and-a-half since I finished Half the Day is Night, and I haven't really featured her in anything I've done since!
Mike
... I still hate "wiggler". 'Tis a coarse term, fitting as it may be. A minor complaint, mind you, requiring no redress.
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I agree to an extent:
But I finally settled on "wiggler" 'cause I needed something that would sound cute and innocent to Fluttershy. Her whole life, she's disliked every word she's ever heard to describe her anatomical irregularity, and not having a word for it has intensified her hatred for it and for herself--she's very much a victim of "the tyranny of language" the way I write her. That AJ can just come up with a term so light and unrefined and giggly at the very moment that Fluttershy feels the most shameful and vulnerable is a threshold moment in the whole "exchange of gifts" thing I'm exploring with their relationship, the way they each supply traits that the other lacks.
But yeah. I keep thinking of worms ev'ry time I type it...
Mike
I think it's really impressive that the emotions of Applejack and Fluttershy always come out as authentic as I've ever read in a fanfic. Each chaper, from Biology to this current chapter I'm commenting on, really do a powerful job of delivering the characters. I wish I knew how to write Applejack's dialogue like this, where it feels and sounds real. That's such an awesome talent that really keeps me reading to see what she'll say next and how.