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So I finally finished A Change in My Life, ohmygosh squeee! It felt so good to wrap it up at long last. I even added some stuff after re-reading it from scratch.
Another thing I had to do was figure out what to do with a vague dream Scott has in chapter 6. Originally the dream referenced In the Arms of the Angel, but that's the one fic I have eliminated from my "official canon". So I could either take the dream out or have it reference something else. Since I don't like to waste perfectly good material, and since it was vague enough that it could refer to something else, I opted for the latter choice.
I ended up, in the final chapter, having Scott tell about the dream and Elliott thinks on what it refers to. Right now I have it set to be about an explosion, with the feathers as part of the packing material for the bomb. And I have it that Scott and Elliott become trapped in another dimension. I toyed with the idea of writing that fic and I thought maybe I could take parts of the Angel fic, especially the dimensional stuff and the subplot with Sean and Barry looking for them. Unfortunately, to do that meant reading the original fic and seeing what could be taken from it, if anything.
I skim-read through it last night/early this morning. I determined that I can't really take any scenes from it and the other fic would have to be written from scratch, if at all. I also renewed my feelings that that story is weird. It's not just the wing thing; it's all the bizarre sci-fi stuff that really has no place in the fandom. None of my other Carmen stories are anything like that. The others are either grounded in reality and human villains or there's mild supernatural stuff with ghosts. Since I believe in ghosts, basically the other stories don't have things that I feel are not realistic. Dimensions collapsing on each other and having to repair broken rifts is definitely not realistic.
Of course, being trapped in some other dimension at all is sci-fi, so I question whether I'd want to do that at all. But it would certainly be more mild than having to save the world from being swallowed into a shadow dimension, oy vey.
If there's one thing I like about the Angel fic, it's having Elliott save the day. Well, that and the friendship squee with him and Scott. And I liked Sean's skepticism as part of his and Barry's subplot. But none of that keeps me from feeling the story is beyond weird.
After I finished the skim-read, I wanted a little brain bleach. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong episode for that; it ended up being the one with the troll song. **headdesk.** As soon as I realized, I stopped the episode and watched the Dancing in the Street parody. However, Latitude Adjustment does have one of the most hilarious lines I've heard in a while, from the ACME Man segment (which I normally find obnoxious): "I see the forces of evil are keeping you from having a balanced breakfast!" ROTFLOL. And I could totally relate to the poor guy struggling in vain to open the cereal box.
I have a bit of a history with that episode, actually; it's one of the season 5 episodes I saw on television back in the day. I took one look at the troll song and had two thoughts: "Why is there a fifth guy there? Who is he?" and "WHAT. THE. HECK."
And I'm toying with an idea for an Equestria Girls fic where Sunset tries to find out what happened to the Sunset Shimmer that's actually from the human world. I have several ideas on that, but the one I'm most curiously considering now is "... What if the human one went to the Pony world and decided she likes it better there?" Then there'd be a "balance", with a Sunset in both worlds, and I wouldn't have to worry that our Sunset will ever have to leave the human world, where she seems to be happiest.
I also have an idea where the girls are investigating a mystery at Applejack's farm. It would be kind of a nostalgic thing, probably similar to Trixie Beldon mysteries and other retro mysteries where the emphasis is more on the relationships between the characters and the innocence of the setting rather than real danger. Although there would definitely be some tense moments and a real mystery and a real culprit up to no good.
Other ideas are Sunset going back to Equestria just for a visit to see Princess Celestia and apologize to her, and a Christmas fic where Pony Twilight comes to visit the human world at Christmastime and learns about Thanksgiving and Christmas and their similarities and differences with her own Hearthwarming holiday. I'm dying to start the latter, but trying desperately to resist until Halloween is over. I always get the Christmas spirit before Halloween....
I'm always nervous to post any Pony/Equestria Girls fics, but I really shouldn't be, as the few times when I've done so, they seem to be well-liked. I finally got a title for one I've had sitting around here for weeks and posted it last night. I've been getting quite a few Favoriting notifications, even though only one person reviewed so far.
Another thing I had to do was figure out what to do with a vague dream Scott has in chapter 6. Originally the dream referenced In the Arms of the Angel, but that's the one fic I have eliminated from my "official canon". So I could either take the dream out or have it reference something else. Since I don't like to waste perfectly good material, and since it was vague enough that it could refer to something else, I opted for the latter choice.
I ended up, in the final chapter, having Scott tell about the dream and Elliott thinks on what it refers to. Right now I have it set to be about an explosion, with the feathers as part of the packing material for the bomb. And I have it that Scott and Elliott become trapped in another dimension. I toyed with the idea of writing that fic and I thought maybe I could take parts of the Angel fic, especially the dimensional stuff and the subplot with Sean and Barry looking for them. Unfortunately, to do that meant reading the original fic and seeing what could be taken from it, if anything.
I skim-read through it last night/early this morning. I determined that I can't really take any scenes from it and the other fic would have to be written from scratch, if at all. I also renewed my feelings that that story is weird. It's not just the wing thing; it's all the bizarre sci-fi stuff that really has no place in the fandom. None of my other Carmen stories are anything like that. The others are either grounded in reality and human villains or there's mild supernatural stuff with ghosts. Since I believe in ghosts, basically the other stories don't have things that I feel are not realistic. Dimensions collapsing on each other and having to repair broken rifts is definitely not realistic.
Of course, being trapped in some other dimension at all is sci-fi, so I question whether I'd want to do that at all. But it would certainly be more mild than having to save the world from being swallowed into a shadow dimension, oy vey.
If there's one thing I like about the Angel fic, it's having Elliott save the day. Well, that and the friendship squee with him and Scott. And I liked Sean's skepticism as part of his and Barry's subplot. But none of that keeps me from feeling the story is beyond weird.
After I finished the skim-read, I wanted a little brain bleach. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong episode for that; it ended up being the one with the troll song. **headdesk.** As soon as I realized, I stopped the episode and watched the Dancing in the Street parody. However, Latitude Adjustment does have one of the most hilarious lines I've heard in a while, from the ACME Man segment (which I normally find obnoxious): "I see the forces of evil are keeping you from having a balanced breakfast!" ROTFLOL. And I could totally relate to the poor guy struggling in vain to open the cereal box.
I have a bit of a history with that episode, actually; it's one of the season 5 episodes I saw on television back in the day. I took one look at the troll song and had two thoughts: "Why is there a fifth guy there? Who is he?" and "WHAT. THE. HECK."
And I'm toying with an idea for an Equestria Girls fic where Sunset tries to find out what happened to the Sunset Shimmer that's actually from the human world. I have several ideas on that, but the one I'm most curiously considering now is "... What if the human one went to the Pony world and decided she likes it better there?" Then there'd be a "balance", with a Sunset in both worlds, and I wouldn't have to worry that our Sunset will ever have to leave the human world, where she seems to be happiest.
I also have an idea where the girls are investigating a mystery at Applejack's farm. It would be kind of a nostalgic thing, probably similar to Trixie Beldon mysteries and other retro mysteries where the emphasis is more on the relationships between the characters and the innocence of the setting rather than real danger. Although there would definitely be some tense moments and a real mystery and a real culprit up to no good.
Other ideas are Sunset going back to Equestria just for a visit to see Princess Celestia and apologize to her, and a Christmas fic where Pony Twilight comes to visit the human world at Christmastime and learns about Thanksgiving and Christmas and their similarities and differences with her own Hearthwarming holiday. I'm dying to start the latter, but trying desperately to resist until Halloween is over. I always get the Christmas spirit before Halloween....
I'm always nervous to post any Pony/Equestria Girls fics, but I really shouldn't be, as the few times when I've done so, they seem to be well-liked. I finally got a title for one I've had sitting around here for weeks and posted it last night. I've been getting quite a few Favoriting notifications, even though only one person reviewed so far.
