Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Story: A Better Life

[Normal][Comedy]

Author: Dashalicious
Description: Princess Luna leaves Canterlot when she feels un-appreciated, and
eventually winds up in Ponyville, where she winds up in the middle of a
lesson in friendship that may be exactly what she needs.
A Better Life


Additional Tags: Lonely Luna, friendship, non-shipping relationships

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

sage

Anonymous said...

MOAR LUNA!

Anonymous said...

inb4 looks cute "3

Not A Good Username 360 said...

>non-shipping relationships

O_O

...so...

...the legends were true...

Anonymous said...

I am just waiting for mah story to be posted...

lesserpoet said...

@Not A Good Username 360 Hush! We must not speak of such things here!

Rita Lot said...

cute! will ther be more?

BlasTech said...

Nice, enjoyed the concept although the pacing does seem a little rushed.

Keep up the good work :)

Anonymous said...

a very uneventful story with a very bland character, Can't wait till we finally get to see how enjoyable Luna's personality truly is in Season 2

Popcorn said...

I like the concept so far. But you've got a little too much "tell" and not enough "show" going on with the emotions the characters are feeling. For example, the very last line of the chapter.

Looking forward to your next chapter!

Fifth Alicorn said...

@Anonymous

I don't often agree with Legion, but in this case, I feel I must. The pacing was incredibly off, and it was hard to get into Luna's character. And that's actually saying something, seeing as I read Lunafics the most.


I'd try again with another story. I think you have potential, but it just didn't come out much in this story, I'm sad to say

Anonymous said...

Y U NO SAD TAG

Anonymous said...

Not bad. Not great either. That's all. Go work more on Song in the Shadows.

Gilliam Vespa said...

This is the first ponyfic I've read. thank you for making it a good one.

Moonshine said...

Needs the help of a good editor. Too much switching between past and present tense, 'telling' instead of 'showing', the Trixie meeting felt out of place and odd, 'consolation' and 'constellation' are NOT the same word... yeah, this fic needs a lot of help. Has a good premise, but needs work to make it shine.

Dashalicious said...

@Gilliam Vespa

There are much, MUCH better ponyfics out there. The first one I read was Circle of Friends. It was a good one.

Dubs Rewatcher said...

How is this comedy?

Anonymous said...

Just read the fanfic 'cupcakes'... This story really cheered me up!

Wierdplatformer said...

Aside from a bit of weird pacing and the Deus Ex Machina Trixie, you have a pretty solid beginning. The part when Luna gets to Ponyville is when the story starts to pick up. I encourage you to keep improving and to use the next chapter as a launch pad.

Anonymous said...

It's great how you incorporated the famous Lunadance into the story. I love you for that.
However, the way the chapter ended seems suspiciously like it'll head into shipping. I'm normally okay with this, but not only is is Luna and TS, but it's a great story and making it into shipping would mess it up.
Great work so far, but as said before the pacing is a little off. The speed at which Luna became friends with Trixie was a bit odd to say the least, along with how she left her so quickly.
Sort out the pacing and this story will be legendary.

Anonymous said...

Good concept, needs more work on the execution. the potential is there.

Dashalicious said...

@Anonymous
No. No shipping. I'm sorry if it seems like it's going that way, but there will be no LunaXTwilight in this story >:|
Also, I will put a lot of work into the next part and make sure it flows better and redeems the first chapter.

Anonymous said...

Good Story want to see more, and I got no idea why it is rated below 4 star. It could use some work but so far it is quite nice.

Dashalicious said...

@Anonymous
Mostly the pacing, and the unecessary, pretty much entirely pointless encounter with Trixie.

itsme said...

Very happy with this, I needed a good Luna story and I think I found it.

itsme said...

Although it would have been nice to see more, either as a Luna adventure or just her stay in ponyville

Dashalicious said...

@itsme

I actually do plan on finishing this. I just got very distracted for quite a while.

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