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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 27, 2016 8:07:44 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 31, 2016 18:55:43 GMT
I had an odd dream last night which I think I might be able to retool into a story. I dunno if it would work better as ponyfic or something original.
So, in the dream, there was this ghost who was jogging. Like in The Sixth Sense, she had no idea she was dead. She still thought she was running some race, and she was super intent on getting a good time. I was at this outdoor Halloween party, like a block party, and the ghost jogger tried to run through and got super furious at us for blocking the race course. She didn't do anything ghosty at that point—just yelled and made a scene—because my brain was hiding the fact she was a ghost. WHAT A TWEEST.
Anyway, eventually I just figured out that she was a ghost all along—the way you just randomly know things in dreams. And I saw her the next day, still running the same race, and ran alongside her so we could talk a bit. For some reason, I was the only one who could see her, now. And this is where it turned into something out of MLP: the next time I saw her, I just clapped and cheered for her. And she just looked so happy to have a fan. Somehow, other people joined me in cheering for her. And the more people cheered for her, the more people could see her, so she started attracting a crowd.
I woke up at that point, but I had the impression that what we were doing would, in some way, enable her to enter the afterlife and end her existence as a ghost.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Mar 31, 2016 19:59:34 GMT
It does sound like a good idea for a FIM story. But it also sounds like a good plot for an original story. It's very nice, even though it deals with death. Whatever one you do choose I'm sure you'll make it work. I'm jealous that you can remember your dreams. I can't, and who knows what I'm missing out on.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Mar 31, 2016 21:07:25 GMT
That does sound like a pretty interesting story. I'm not sure how well it would quite fit in the MLP universe, but it probably could if you wanted to. I don't remember my dreams often, but when I do they're usually not very good story material. In other news, I finished the latest chapter of my Vinyl and Octavia fic, so if anybody wants to take a look that would be great.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 7, 2016 15:55:42 GMT
So I'm writing a bit for my Pinkie fic, and I'm not sure the best way to deliver a particular joke.
Pinkie visits Time Turner by climbing in though his window. His second-story window. She flies up with a bunch of helium balloons, grabs the window, climbs in, then ties the balloons to the window sill. Then she has her conversation with Time Turner. After getting the answer she needs:
Now, the first option for the punchline is to immediately follow that paragraph with this one:
Alternately, I can skip to the next scene, where Pinkie goes to visit Twilight. Twi and Spike are both surprised at Pinkie's appearance, and when Twi finally gets the chance to ask what happened:
Thoughts?
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 7, 2016 17:26:55 GMT
The second one works much better for me. Especially if you can fit something in between them to space it out a bit. A readable version of a cut to joke. I love those sort of call back jokes. The first paragraph seems clunky, but the second one is better imo.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 8, 2016 0:40:51 GMT
Yeah, I like the second one better.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 13, 2016 23:51:51 GMT
The magic behind the ship is my fic is finally starting to come together. Initially they try to simply use pegasus magic to get it into the air but even that isn't enough to get it to fly. Turns out wood and steel is simply too heavy even for thay. But when they finally become friends it suddenly gets a boost strong enough to get it to fly. And they don't know that. Personally I actually want it to be a bit of a mystery until they eventfully meet Twilight. Friendship is magic and all that. I know it's not terribly original but I am trying to stick to the spirit of the show.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 14, 2016 0:21:58 GMT
It could work pretty well as long as you don't make it too obvious what's going on.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 14, 2016 0:55:09 GMT
Yeah suitable...I hope I didn't ruin the surprise for you guys.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 14, 2016 21:14:32 GMT
Nah, it's fine.
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Post by Kyler Thatch on Apr 15, 2016 0:09:05 GMT
How does a friendship-powered vehicle work, I wonder?
"Stop bickering, guys! The engine just stalled!"
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 15, 2016 0:22:53 GMT
I had that same thought too! Seriously though, my reasoning was that so long as the team are in good standing with each other the engine will always work. Or maybe it's a one time thing. I'll have to work out the details. More than that though, the ship is alive. It won't be talking but it will act in strange ways. It might occasionally act like it's on autopilot, or it can pin point the exact location of every crew mate even though it wasn't built to do so. I might even have it repair itself, with the metal twisting back into shape by itself. And it will not fly without the skipper at the controls.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 20, 2016 3:57:48 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 21, 2016 16:38:52 GMT
This isn't pony-specific, but I ran across a passage that struck me:
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