Fanfic Writing General

@toxicrystal  
@Pizzamovies  
You guys are both horrible >:(

@HJSDGCE  
Could be worse

wondering how fanfiction works and why its so popular  
Interesting stuff so far.

A cow manages to ascend. “Alicornish beef” pun almost required.

@Nyperold  
Sounds interesting.

You know what’d be a good fanfic?
 
If team RWBY or JNPR went to Mantel Academy instead of Beacon.

@HJSDGCE
 
Where’s that, again?

@YetAnotherBrony  
Mantel is technically the continent where Atlas resides, before being renamed Atlas. I just couldn’t remember the name of the Academy.

@HJSDGCE  
Technically, Mantle is the former name of the Kingdom, before the capital was moved to a new location and renamed Atlas. The name of the continent itself is something else (Solus, if I remember correctly).

Ooooo now were talking

@Psyga315  
I guess the outcome of this ruins the lives the mane fives and shining Armor.
 
What happened to spike?

Sonata discovers walking tacos.
 
Teaching her that that doesn’t mean what she thinks it does is Adagio and Aria’s job.
 
Pity them.

@Nyperold  
This is majestic.

Somepony makes one mistake thanks to a sneeze. Upon realizing it, (s)he then makes a second mistake…
 
…saying a frustrated “Oh, Flurry Heart!” in earshot of Twilight Sparkle. (Or Twilight Velvet, Night Light, Cadance, or Shining Armor. Your choice.)
 
(If posted on fimfiction, the problem may be squeezing 1000 words out of this idea while not making it excessively long for the idea.)

I had an idea for a book I might write.
 
So, the premise of this book is that it follows the story of a girl named Judy, transferred to a high school in the middle of nowhere on the East Coast for her senior year. Said middle of nowhere has recently been plagued by a rash of seemingly random deaths, where people would suddenly die in their sleep.
 
Within a few days, Judy finds herself in an alternate world that she can only enter when she’s asleep, known as the Dreamscape. There, she finds a mysterious man known as The Dreamer who frees her from her bonds and helps her awaken to her power, a pair of etheral chains that she has full control over. It turns out that something has been trapping people into the Dreamscape in their so-called “place of safety” and forcing them to an unending wave of the voices in their head, pounding all of their doubts and worries into their brain until they succumb to it and turn into a mysterious substance called Dream Fluid, killing the person in reality. The Dreamer is one such person stuck in the Dreamscape and is trying to find a way out.
 
Anyways, at one point, Judy finds the safe place for an antisocial girl at her school that moonlights as a DJ (stop me if you’ve heard this one before). It’s, of course, the club she performs at, but it’s warped and twisted. Destroyed machines litter the walls and ceiling, culminating in a hanging representation of her made out of broken electronics. After trying to confront the girl and help her out, the sculpture comes to life and bares her inner thoughts: the girl feels like a robot. With all of the depression weighing on her, she wants to die, but feels as if she can’t. This is reflected by the sculpture crawling around and asking Judy to kill her while simultaneously trying to push her away.
 
How does that sound?

@toxicrystal  
Like Psychonauts started dating Catherine.

@PonyPon  
Funnily enough, this idea stemmed from a Persona fanfic.  
As much as I wanna distance it from Persona, I want to keep that spirit of cool bosses and shit.
 
But wow, that’s a really good definition.

@toxicrystal  
I did consider adding Persona to the analogy, but I’m not that knowledgeable of the series and Psychonauts probably covers enough.

@PonyPon  
Yeah.
 
I was asking more of feedback on the electronics monster, in any case.

@toxicrystal  
She’s antisocial, so she keeps Judy at a physical distance? Yeah, fits blatantly well.

@PonyPon  

 
With a dash of Persona.

@warc9
 
I’ve never played Okami, but loved Psychonauts, so there you go.

@YetAnotherBrony  
Ok, thanks!

Late, but both are instant classics.
 
If you can get a hold of both, I recommend them.