Random Ramblings CCXCIII · 6:30am Jul 16th, 2018
IN WHICH IDEAS AND DISCUSSION
Hey there! Do you like Kizuna AI, the "Virtual Youtuber"? Too bad; here's Travis Stebbins's remix of her theme songs.
Listening to Odyssey brings back memories of the fandom days of yore, when I should have started writing here. Oh well.
I've finally decided who I'm going to pair up for Blogpost 300. I think. You'll probably hate it. And that's fine with me. I feel like Emperor Palpatine talking to Luke Skywalker and/or Anakin -- "Let the hate flow through you."
Well, Orangeglow Visits Ponyville is back to a slightly positive rating, but BOY was I right about its attracting the MAGA crowd. I guess they don't like it when I use Lord Dampnut's own words and syntax for Orangeglow.
That said, I started my artistic life as a political cartoonist. I feel I owe it to myself to go after Obama too -- as, even though I gladly voted for him twice (not like it mattered in my very GOP state), I certainly didn't agree with him on every issue.
I've also got a serious bug up my ass because RI2 keeps getting onto me for making Twilight "a bitch" and "a terrible person". So I'm trying to write a story where she's actually nice… but I can't do it! My first attempt devolved into Celestia quoting The Prince at her and Twilight refusing to believe she's unpopular. Obviously I need to scrap it and try again. But how do I make likeable a character I don't like? From a character perspective, Twilight doesn't believe she's done anything wrong.
This is going to take some work. I don't usually write stories specifically for one person who I personally want to smack. Still, Twilight is not the greater evil in my world -- Orangeglow is, at least for Equestria. For EQG-land, where Orangeglow is dead, well, I'm not going to spoil what I have planned, although I've already set the ball rolling and many if not most of my readers have no idea despite the hints I've dropped. Which is fine. After all, even if I believe the journey is more important than the destination, plenty of folks disagree and don't want to be spoiled.
I still want to reveal my plans to SOMEONE in case something happens to me (I'm paranoid as fuck), so maybe a good writer can carry on the wider Burritoverse if I can't. Although, reading my notes might lead one to correctly conclude I am batshit crazy and should probably be locked up.
Orangeglow Visits Ponyville is unique amongst my stories in several ways. It's one of the very few I've posted that has profanity (two Sunset fics and my "Spike Is Stuck in a Youtube Poop" fic also have cursing, as does my unpublished Babs Seed story). It's my only story that has Mayor Mare genuinely lose her temper. It's my first story to feature a character being openly homophobic… but sadly won't be my last. Homophobia, or rather dealing with it, is an important plot element for one specific character in my EQG-verse.
No, it's not Rarity -- her parents hate Sunset because of what Sunset did to her, not because she's a girl. They'd be perfectly happy with Rarity dating literally anyone else, male or female. Plus, Rarity has her own career path and already doesn't give a shit what her parents think.
Crazier, crazier. My stories aren't insane enough. I want to go off the deep end. I don't have the patience to write an acrostic, but there need to be more one-shots by me that break the rules. I'm too wedded to the old ways. I tried to copy a certain badfic writer but ended up creating a well-received comedy because I made it too obvious it was a parody. Honestly, if I tried to do a badfic at this point, after 3½ years and 30 stories with very high upvote ratios (plus OGVP), my readers would see right through it because they know I can do better. My loyal wonderful readers deserve the displeasure of getting to delve deep into the abyss that is my mind.
The guy who passes out while listening to Sakura Gakuin and dreamed about being arrested and not remembering anything meant I'd be certain to go away for 20 years, screaming so loud I thought I woke myself up but ended up in a second dream instead. Constantly dreaming about failing class even though I earned my degree six years ago. Gone half-insane from missing my ex, even though I know she treated me poorly (and owes me a LOT of money that I'll never see). But it's my fault because I have a penis <-- spoiler, I guess. And if there's anything society has taught us the last many years, it's always always always the man's fault. I'm no MRA freak, but men do get screwed over big time when it comes to certain aspects of the legal system -- my ex would have turned out better had the court let her live with her dad, because her mother's a neglectful piece of shit, but courts almost always award custody to the mother no matter how unfit she is.
Where is Yui? She's sick and/or injured. Moa ate her. I ate her. She's rollin' doobies and LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER! Well, la-dee-frickin'-da!! She's locked in my basement. I've never met Yui, but it's as good an explanation as any.
Apple Bloom is the most important character after Sunset. The world exists for Sunset and because of her. Twilight is a nice pony who's been tortured by me and I should probably fix that. How? I'unno. Things won't go well for anyone. Sonata....
I'm sleepy, and I've got stuff to do tomorrow evening.
Peace out!
You can always have Celestia apologize for the mistakes she made. If Celestia admits she made mistakes it'd probably cause Twilight to do some self-reflection and go. "Well everything might have turned out well in the end, but all in all things didn't go perfectly and they could have gone better. I made mistakes even if I corrected them, and I should probably try harder."
I don't know if you've seen it because you haven't been keeping up with the series but Twilight recently reconnected with her friends from Canterlot because she realized she made a mistake in not keeping in touch with Moondancer and not being there for her birthday party (even if that was partly Celestia's fault.) I'd recommend this fic if you want an idea of how to do a remorseful Celestia: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/408419/calling-out