• Story Updates September 19

    Remember that post yesterday? Well it was only about half, so have part two of the story update queue.  I don't know what season two did, but you guys are updating these things at the speed of light lately.

    I did actually dig around some of the stories that were updated yesterday with this method, and two of them actually maxed out their google docs, forcing it into view only mode, so I don't think any are missing out on viewers.

    Just a reminder: New fics, and final update (complete) Fics will not be found here. It's also not the entire update queue.

    Anyway, you can find all them all after the break. As always please comment on their respective story posts, and not here. 



    This is actually the savage worlds campaign transcript for those following that.


    Four Ride Forth (Update 11+12+13)


    [Human in Equestria][Sci-Fi]
    Description: The Princesses find an alien creature barely clinging to life at the scene of a terrifying crash. Can the Combined Power of the Elements of Harmony save it, or more importantly, should they save it?
    ARTICLE 2  (Update Part 3!)


    [Shipping]
    Description: Many things flourish under the sun. While adapting to a new lifestyle, Gilda learns more about herself than she does the intricacies of being a city guard.
    Summer Days and Evening Flames (Update Part 7)


    [Normal][Light Shipping]
    Description: A Journalist is given a major scoop about a certain six ponies at the Grand Galloping Gala. But it seems that these ponies don't like the attention. Will he be able to get his story? Will he be able to go through writing it if he does? And what consequences await the aspiring writer's choice? Whatever the outcome, it is all Newsworthy.
    Newsworthy (Update Part 6)



    [Grimdark][Adventure]
    Description:Twilight Sparkle's horn begins to hurt one morning, and after an exhausting trip to the doctor she finds herself and her friends whisked away on an adventure whose success can decide the fate of Equestria. Contains OC Pony Villians.
    Growing Pains (Update Chapter 18)

    [Grimdark] [Normal]
    Description: When Twilight Sparkle and her friends awaken in the Everfree Forest following a spell cast by Twilight, they attempt to find their way home. However, what they stumble on to is more than they could have expected, or imagined, in their wildest Nightmares.
    A Future Worth Saving (Update Chapter 8)

    [Grimdark][Crossover]
    Description: An otherworldly figure steps into Equestria, and already things take a turn for the disturbing. The girls try to investigate a rash of disappearances and reappearances of foals, but soon discover something far more dark and terrifying in store. Something big. Something involving the return of a nightmare. Something that will change their world beyond recognition, turn it upside down beyond anypony's control. Except, perhaps, for the tall one in the dark suit.
    Peripeteia (Update Chapter 12+13)




    [Normal][Crossover][Sci-fi]

    Description: The Doctor takes the mane cast on an adventure unlike any they've had before. Thrills! Chills! Timey-Wimey!
    Life Among the Distant Stars (Story 2)

    [Crossover] A TF2 Fic! It's about time!
    Description: After a mishap in a magic duel, the ponies are transported to the Team Fortress universe. They'll take the classes places while The Engineer tries to find a way to get them home.
    My Little Fortress, Teamwork Is Magic (Chapter 7)


    [Crossover][Adventure][Comedy]
    Description: Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is just looking for an escape from his latest set of enemies and happens to teleport into Equestria. Surely nothing could go wrong with that set-up.
    The Dresden Fillies: Strange Friends(New Part 2)



    [Crossover][Grimdark][Shipping][Adventure][Random]
    Description: How did Celestia and Luna raise the Sun and Moon (respectively) before they used their magic to do so? What happens when said object decides to pay them a visit? And what happens to Equestria when it brings around 500 humans or so with it? And turns them ALL into ponies? And what happens when Pinkie gets an MP40?
    Uncharted Lands (Update Part 2)



    [Comedy][Normal] Hey! Finally someone wrote some other form of fanon for the dude with the hourglass!

    Author: CanvasWolfDoll
    Description: Sepia Tock is an artisan, friend, and citizen of Ponyville. He is not, however, Doctor Whoof.
    Sepia Tock: Adventures of the Ponyville Clockmaker(New Part 8)


    [Comedy] [Crossover]
    Description: More popular than the "Celestia's Homecare" omnibus, better selling than "Fifty-Three More Things to do When Trapped on the Moon", and more controversial than the infamous "Cupcakes", how does the story of this remarkable book differ in a universe full of... pony?
    So Long And Thanks For All The Ponies (Update Part 7)

    30 comments:

    1. Aww man, these updates are confusing for my inferior mind!

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    2. If you are going to be doing it like this from now on, it will be good to know, especially for those of us who are working on several fanfics to be posted on here.

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    3. Can we have the titles at the top instead of the bottom?

      Or both?

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    4. @wackyteen Agreed, that's why its so confusing for me, title at top and bottom of it would be good.

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    5. Glad to see we're finally doing it this way: keeps the homepage cleaner. I hope this is a regular thing. I'm also glad to see the community using spreadsheets.

      IBM's working on some really interesting spreadsheet-like query engines BTW. If I find more info, I'll make sure to pass it around.

      Also, did anyone see the Google search volume spike on the KYM page? it's crazy!

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    6. Still kind of ambivalent about doing it like this, but if it is necessity than I suppose I'm alright with it for the time being.




      Of all the times for Heart of Gold to update, though. *sigh*

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    7. Automating most of the blog posts would save Sethisto a bucketload of time, and this post format in particular looks like something that could be automated easily... I wish I knew HTML.

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    8. This is how you should've done it from the start! Just pile them up in one nightly roundup or something! As cool as the fanfics are, there's just too much individual fanfic blog updates.

      Also, automated blog posts is awesome.

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    9. @Mike


      Learn Dreamweaver, hardcoding is old school and takes a lot of time.

      *has some experience in Web Design*

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    10. I don't mind individual blog posts, but they should be collapsable or smaller.

      Or we can all just use Non-Fanfiction mode.

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    11. @wackyteen
      Thanks so much, I'll look into it!

      ...to be honest, I'm so oldschool I learned C, and I've been trying to learn assembly language XD. I'm having trouble finding books for that which haven't already turned to dust...

      Always start w/ the basics, amirite? I'm even using a ViM editor with UNIX... I'll get to the recent stuff like Java and Python some other year.

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    12. Yay Article II update AND Clockmaker!

      +1000 Ponies :)

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    13. BTW, Rarity's cutie mark is definately 3 anatase crystals:

      http://www.google.com/imgres?q=anatase&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1366&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=lqtO0mM9I5-Z2M:&imgrefurl=http://www.oxititan.com/html/zinc--titanium-dioxide-p2.html&docid=tkYf6Gc8liNZsM&w=500&h=375&ei=t553TvnSGeXY0QGpt6C8DQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=297&page=1&tbnh=163&tbnw=230&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0&tx=148&ty=67

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    14. Ugh, seriously? Seven fics to read now, plus one someone linked to me earlier, plus two non-MLP ones...


      Yeesh.

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    15. @DeRockProject

      And what if you are following several of the stories in the update? Suddenly, you can have 12 stories dumped on you at once to sort through.

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    16. @TenchiFreak5 I know right? I was going to do voice-overs...apparently not.

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    17. Where the hell is Through The Eyes of Another Pony? That's like the only awesome fic here!

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    18. New ARTICLE 2, new Dresden Fillies, FUCK YEAH.

      Once GanonFLCL drops a new CRISIS: Equestria, I can die happy. Well, not really. You know.

      @Unknown

      That was in the first part of the story update.

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    19. Dang it. Still no update for Duties. Why won't it update.

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    20. Not a fan of this system. It kind of buries the writers away. Plus it makes it more difficult to tell whether something you read has updated.

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    21. Just wondering, is this a list of Fanfics in progress? If so, cool idea, but you should really be sure to include all of them in one post. For instance, I'm planning on having Part Four of mine come out sometime this week, so I'd think it'd be on here, as well as all the other fanfics that are currently in progress. Or is that way too many? Perhaps I just don't understand what this post is about.

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    22. Article 2 updated! *cues heavenly chorus*

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    23. Article 2 is boss as -Yay!- and apparently the author is actually in the armed forces or something

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    24. If this is how your gonna be doing the updates now is their anyway it could be modified to indicate what each stories star rating is? I actually do take that into account when I'm trying to decide on a new FanFic to read.

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    25. You even going to throw Fallout: Equestria in here with the rest?

      This will be interesting.

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    26. Whatever happened to the Mort takes a Holiday....anyone know? Is it dead? (Oh the sweet irony)

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    27. I still think there should be separate posts. How am I supposed to look at the ratings when they're all crammed together like this? For those who don't like seeing a ton of fanfic, there's already no-fanfic mode. We don't need this combined thingy on top of that.

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    28. For everyone who apparently didn't read the top of Queue Dump pt 1, this format is only for current in-progress stories (nothing new, nothing finished), and Seth's only doing it this way because of a spike in high-quality submissions, so he's getting as many new stories as he normally gets updates. He's goimg to switch back to the old way as soon as it's feasible to do so.For everyone who apparently didn't read the top of Queue Dump pt 1, this format is only for current in-progress stories (nothing new, nothing finished), and Seth's only doing it this way because of a spike in high-quality submissions, so he's getting as many new stories as he normally gets updates. He's goimg to switch back to the old way as soon as it's feasible to do so.

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