As I've just handed out my first thumbs-down on the site (a rarity as, usually, I simply stop reading a fic if I don't like it), I thought I'd take a moment to gripe about things I often see in My Little Pony fanfiction that turn me right off. In no particular order of severity, here's a non-comprehensive list:

* The phrase 'Celestia's sun'.

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It'd been more than a week since I heard back from Equestria Daily regarding the dismayingly inconsistent feedback I received for 'Worlds Beyond' (after what had seemed to be a most promising first reading), so I sent an email yesterday (well, strictly speaking, two days ago, as it's now 1 AM) to make sure I hadn't fallen out of the pile again. Today

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How would you like to die horribly—I mean, appear in an episode of 'Worlds Beyond'?

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When I described the visuals of the linear drive in 'Worlds Beyond', I was concerned that folks might not 'get it'; I had a very specific special effect in mind, but special effects can be tricky to describe in words. So, since I had an hour or two to spare, I decided to make a GIF showing what it would look like if Twilight Sparkle cast Linear Drive. (Disclaimer: this is in no way canon; I don't want to introduce the same headaches that

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On March 1st, I submitted 'Worlds Beyond' to be featured on Equestria Daily. My first MLP fanfic, 'The Monster Mash', was featured there, and the effect on my readership can't be underestimated.

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I have a confession to make, one that may surprise you, given that I've written a half-dozen short stories and started several larger fanfics set in the world of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' and am currently working on a story that is intended to be the length of an entire season of the show.

I don't like 'My Little Pony'.

In fact, though it would be a stretch to say I hate it, it would be a small one.

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I submitted 'Worlds Beyond' to Equestria Daily, and the prereaders came back with a few suggestions, which I've implemented. Specifically, I removed the 'opening credits', gave Applejack a lesson in the Princess's English (though some of her characteristic drawl remains), and added a brief section to the 'examining the capsule' scene where they discuss the question of who sent the thing. I also offered to let their prereaders have a crack at

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If you'd like to be a prereader too, just let me know. I'm looking for people who can pick even the tiniest nits of spelling and grammar, suggest ways the story could be improved and things I may have missed explaining, and spot that I used the word 'stared' eight times in the chapter.

A few days ago, I put up the first chapter of 'Worlds Beyond', my new My Little Pony fanfic, which I intend to be an epic journey across the stars, testing the ponies' principles and convictions against a vast, often hostile galaxy. While I was at it, I put up the first My Little Pony fanfic I'd written: a joke of a thing, less than 2,000 words, called 'Special Friends', which I wrote last year,

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I've finished the first chapter of the fic I mentioned writing (and yes, the musical number made it in), but I'd like to get it into the hooves of some prereaders before I put it up. It's a sci-fi fantasy story, involving Equestria being given the secrets of space travel and what they find up there. If that's a thing that would interest you, PM me, and I'll send you what I've got!