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It's my 3 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 1000 likes!

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It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Heyy, I just found your mlp cutie mark takeover au ten mins ago, and read about the ponies and I'm so intrigued!!! I'm really interested to see Fluttershy and Twilight and the rest of this au and what you'll do with it!

Thank you! It might take a while for me to continue (I have one very crowded and stressful exam season ahead) but if you have any questions in the meant, I’m always ready for a lore-dump! And thank you for the encouragement!

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AJ’s condition is perhaps the worse off so far (that is until we get to Twilight). Stubborn as ever, she refused to take it easy on farm chores even after it was confirmed that using special talents speeds up the spread of the infection and despite Earth Ponies having the rapidest spread speed to begin with.

“If it means Granny, Big Mac and Bloom have to work less, while everyone still gets food on their plates, I’ll be working for as long as I can!”

There was no changing her mind about this. That was until Twilight figured out how the infection spread…

Due to her stubbornness and what it was doing to her body, she was the first one that Starlight’s temporary solution was tried out on. Tho it didn’t work out exactly as they wanted and she was still contagious, at least the spread has somewhat slowed. However by that time the physical effects of the infection and overwork and the emotional damage of guilt was so strong that she couldn’t really work anymore. Not wanting to make her feel useless, her family put her in charge of overseeing the training of creatures who volunteered to help out on the farm. She does it dutifully, but her enthusiasm is long gone.

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Rarity always loved being compared to gemstones, she is after all, beautiful, radiant and elegant. But actually being a gem might not be what she wanted…..

Our glam girl is still undeniably beautiful, but she’s way less preppy. Considering her deteriorating eyesight and the fact that she’s basically deaf, she can’t help but worry about how she’ll be able to take care of Sweetie Belle.

It doesn’t help that she can no longer use her magic, and getting used to handling objects while her precision and coordination are declining is just adding more to her stress…. She’s been eating quite the amount of ice-cream for comfort, and it’s clear she’s close to her wits’ end, if her accent getting heavier by each day is any indication.

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How did the infection begin? What are the stages of said outbreak? Sorry just your au is intresting! My guess so far about it is...that is has something to do with ponies turning into their cutie marks?

Also...who's patient zero?

Glad you find it interesting! And you are 100% correct about what the infection is about (hence why the name of the infection is Cutie Mark Takeover).

1. Without revealing too much, the “infection” was the result of a well intentioned, but powerful spell going quite wrong…

2. There are 4 known stages

Stage 0 (Warning Signs): Day ~1-3 after contact. Infected ponies will experience minor physical symptoms in hooves, wings or horn (depending on pony type). Symptoms will get progressively worse. Non-ponies appear to be immune.

Stage 1 (Cutie Mark Approximation): Day ~3-5 after contact. The afflicted body part(s) will begin to show signs of physical change to match the pony’s Cutie Mark. Physical change begins at the farthest point of the hooves/wings or the base of the horn.

Stage 2 (Spreading in Affected Area): Day ~5-7 after contact. The physical change will begin to spread throughout the entire affected body part(s). It appears that using one’s special talent speeds up the spread.

Stage 3 (Spreading to Rest of Body): Day of onset varies. The change will spread to the rest of the pony’s body. Progression of the spread appears to vary between different types of ponies. Spread speed appears fastest in Alicorns (due to infection spreading from all 3 affected areas at once), followed by Earth Ponies (who appear to havd a rather fast spread speed due to the size of the initial affected area), Pegasi (whose spread speed is moderate likely due to their wings providing less initial affection size) and finally, unicorns (their spread speed is pretty slow, most likely on account of the fact that their initial affected area is the smallest).

3. There’s no one Patient Zero, instead we have Group Zero consisting of 4 ponies (1 Earth Pony, 1 Pegasus and 2 Unicorns), one of whom is the reason for the whole outbreak.

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The infection AU continues! Poor Pinkie Pie has gone from happiest pony in Equestria to possibly the most depressed.

She feels extremely guilty because for some reason, her Pinkie Sense didn’t warn her about it all and she infected quite a few ponies, including the Cakes who were nothing but kind to her…

She thinks her losing her hind legs is a justified punishment and if it wasn’t for Twilight’s insistence, she would’ve been okay with losing her other legs too. Her Pinkie sense appears to be working, but she’s questioning whether she can trust it anymore.

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I’ve recently gotten a bit of a hyperfixation on MLP Infection AUs and decided to make one of my own, except without the excessive gore and body horror (because I can’t really handle either). It’s not as scary visually since it’s not a zombie-like infection, but considering some of the things the ponies have to go through, whilst fully conscious and aware of what is going on, I’d say it’s perhaps crueler than the regular ones.

I have plenty of lore already, but I may only post character info sheets slowly over time, so feel free to as questions if you’re curious!

For now, here’s Rainbow Dash, who was among the first to get infected. Poor girlie can’t fly anymore, which makes her understandably depressed (and getting hit with high doses of electricity on a daily basis probably doesn’t help).

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I feel called out.

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Alignments

People love to simplify things. Not having to deal with complexity and nuance makes it easier to make statements and stick by them guilt free. It also helps them not question why the higher powers seem to present everything in such wild extremes, if there’s no gray area or in between, surely either it’s one option or the other. Take the superpowered community for example.

Heroes are the epitomes of goodness, justice and light. They help, rescue, save, protect. Noble, caring, empathic, selfless, incorruptible. Worthy of love, respect, admiration, real role models.

Villains represent darkness, sin, all that’s evil and vile. They hurt, destroy, take, endanger. Cruel, manipulative, sadistic, irredeemable. The lowest of the low, detestable pest, the filth of society to be feared, hunted and eradicated.

Vigilantes, now they’re an interesting case. Slipping between darkness and light, breaking the law to serve justice, trying to do good, but clearly they’re misguided. They help those in need and hurt those who do harm, destroy what’s in their way to rescue anyone, take to save and protect others by endangering themselves. Brave, rebellious, irresponsible, idealistic. They make people anxious, because they’re trying to go against a system that works well, that has always worked well, but also, they’re clearly not rotten, right, surely they’re just lost and in need of help.

Of course, reality isn’t this simple.

Yes, there are heroes who hold themselves to the standard society set for them, who are devoted to the heroic ideal with all their hearts, who couldn’t and wouldn’t hurt a living being, eaten by guilt at night for perceived failure and refusing to budge in their ways or compromise their ideals, no matter what the world is telling them.

Villains who are evil for the sake of it, for the thrill of seeing others suffer, who get high on the fear and notoriety, so deeply rotten, corrupted and broken that they’ll destroy anything and everything for an unachievablr fever dream born of their twisted mind and soul.

Vigilantes who just want to screw the system in the biggest way possible, pissed off and ready to make noise, cause scandals, outcries, unrest, chaos. They’re ready to break the laws and pull off huge stunts publicly and getting away with it again and again, dancing on the nerves of the law enforcement and higher powers, throwing their well-being away until the public’s eye can finally be opened to see just how wrong everything is.

There are also heroes who don’t give a damn. Faking smiles, kindness, interest, nobility, doing everything required of them with gritted teeth, suppressed annoyance and even outright contempt for the common folk below them, all so they can achieve their entirely selfish goals of money, admiration, fame, worship, status.

Villains who are willing to be scapegoated, hunted, cast out, feared, who are ready to risk their lives, throw away their morals and do unspeakable things that will haunt them until the day they die, if it means they can achieve that one noble goal society has denied them. Killing, stealing, cheating, lying, deceiving, no matter who gets hurt, how many suffer or for how long, as long as it means that goal can be achieved, those people or just that one person, will be okay.

Vigilantes who just want to do the right thing, but understand that it can only be done working outside the system. Who have heroic aspirations but understand that some rules have to be broken if change is to really be achieved, that the system is flawed and rots from the inside out and it can only be cured by outside intervention. Breaking the law hurts them and weighs on their conscience, but they’re ultimately driven by the hope that even if society never forgives them, the change they make will make life better, in their time or in the next.

And of course we can’t forget about the heroes who aren’t anything more than mere pawns to those in power. Who do what they’re told, ask no questions, want no reward for their deeds, their actions aren’t their own, their thoughts aren’t their own, they’re not individuals, just cogs in a machine, and there’s nothing they can do about it, because they have no other choice but to oblige, because if they’re not heroes, then they have nothing. They are nothing.

Villains who don’t have a choice, because society didn’t give them one, because all they could ever be seen as was the bad guys. Because everyone looks at them and all they immediately see is some inhuman monster, a freak, a mistake and they either fight back for their right to exist and accept that they’ll have to live on the run, in fear, in darkness and eventually embrace that they can never be more, so why try or they hang their head, accept defeat, let society take them away, out of sight, do what they think deserves to be done to someone like them, because surely they must deserve it. In either case, their lives will be filled with suffering and they’ll wind up dying alone in pain and agony.

Vigilantes who are torn, trying to find their way and place in the world. People failed by the heroic system, dreamers whose hopes were crushed, adoring fans faced with the disappointment of their idols’ reality. No longer believing in the lie of the system, but unsure about what to do, hesitant to embrace a less noble life, questioning how far they’re willing to go now that they know the truth, their heart still yearning for that beautiful promise, but their minds already plummeting towards a darker path, standing at a crossroads and unable to make a decision, because they know once they’ve set out on a road, there can be no going back.

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Thank you very much for this reply! It really touched me (and not just because your writing is really just dang beautiful in general) and through that I think I can understand exactly the method you described for how to feel the same warm and kinda tingling feeling about my writing that I feel when reading yours and others’. Also, really grateful for that last part, because it put things into perspective: I generally feel like I write characters and worlds better than stories and scenes, but now I realized that to write the latter in the way I want, I just have to extend my passion for my characters and their worlds into the specific stories and scenes. It’s a simple solution and quite a beautiful one.

If you’d consider checking out my second account (one I made specifically for writing only, after I saw yours), I’d really appreciate it. There’s currently only one piece up there, tho I have so many ideas for more.

Your writing is so enchanting, do you have any tips for how to achieve a similar effect when writing?

quite literally just put down a book, one of the best books ive read in my life (ready player two for those of you who read this and are interested, the first one is obviously one of my all time favourites) and i'm in a hyped up mood to write/type so this is perfect timing for this question!

first off, thank you very much! a compliment means so much but for you to go even further and use such a lovely adjective to describe my writing genuinely does warm my heart

now to answer the question that accompanies such a lovely compliment, how do you achieve an enchanting effect when writing?

(insert me stretching out my hands to prepare to rant, really rant, since they're a little stiff from reading for two straight hours which is quite a while for me these days, it's usually an hour a day at most)

in my opinion, to quote one of the cheesiest cliches of all time, you write from the heart, you connect with the moment, the scene, the characters, whatever it is you're doing, and you feel, really feel, you let the emotion flow from your heart and into the words on the page - in my case, sometimes it's long paragraphs with very few full stops, sort of like a ramble it depends on the mood of the bit I'm writing, and sometimes it's adjectives, which brings me on to my next point,

unlike most writing advice I've ever seen when it comes to showing not telling, I prefer to do both, I prefer to describe an emotion, a feeling, a scene with as much detail as possible (which covers the show part) but I also love adjectives, I adore them, they're quite possibly one of my most favourite parts of the English language (or any language really, even fictional (side note - fictional languages are my jam, I love them and I love making glossaries at the backs of my novels too) ) and as far as the tell part goes in writing, as far as I'm concerned, do that too. Give the reader an idea of what your characters are feeling, let them connect, and when they're immersed in your world then the writing really does come across as enchanting,

And continuing the concept of immersing readers in your fictional world, I'm now going to go on a short but simple rant about world-building. Language is a vital part of any story, as is the plot, but without a world for your characters to reside in, that delightful feeling of being a part of that world from the very first page just isn't quite the same. Enchant not only your readers but your characters too, make the world live around them, give completely plot-irrelevant characters their own issues, invent the wackiest of settings or the humblest of ones, anything you can imagine, put it into a world, put it into your story, because it works, it's yours.

now to go onto the most important point of this ramble of mine, if you want to enchant your readers first of all, you have to enchant yourself; this is your writing, your story, your hopes and your dreams, this story is a part of you, and if you write something that doesn't feel quite right, rework it until it does, because this is your story and after all, you're the only one capable of telling it.

so that's the end of my little ramble, thank you for asking and I hope this helps!

~ A Girl and Her Quill

(as usual having a war with my keyboard and capitalising I, because I turned autocorrect off on scrivener a few months ago I tend to forget it's an issue elsewhere but I'll make do. also praying this makes sense because I seldom do read-throughs on my rambles, which we all know :) )

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100 posts!

Dang, that’s a lot!

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Started another account for writing things that aren’t prompts and random dialogue I come up with!

The Little Things

There was a time, when I could see no way,

No hope, no future, no reasons to stay.

But I’ve come to realize later on,

The little things are worth living for.

The family there by your side,

The friends you made along the way,

Images of love etched into your mind,

All beckoning you to stay.

Some of them will keep you proud:

Making others laugh out loud,

Those memories you’re yet to make,

Dreams that’ll keep you wide awake.

Tunes you blast on the radio,

Pets; a house cat, calico

Phases of pale Moon passing by,

All you want to see before you die.

Tv shows not yet to end,

Holidays in cheer to spend,

Proudly saying: I’m alive!

There’s things to see, to say, to write.

So much to feel and more to learn,

Feel inside, your passion burn,

Running barefoot in the sand,

Adventures that never end.

Sipping a drink with good books,

Being yourself, who cares how it looks?

Inhaling the fragrances of each new spring,

Wondering what the new day will bring.

Giving compliments,

Taking pictures,

Sharing excitement,

Laughing till it hurts.

Blushing from cute people,

Acts of love,

Dressing as comfortable,

Looking above.

Cuddly softness,

Bright, burning starts,

Symphony of instruments,

Iridescent crystals.

Birds singing,

Our goofy way to dance,

Seasons changing,

Finally having that self confidence.

Watching it rain and hear the wind it whisper

Crispy snow that falls in winter,

Leaves rustling under your feet,

Hugs, kisses, cuddles await!

Fireworks and flowers,

The Sun just shining,

Fireflies in the Moon’s glow,

Burning.

Sunrise and sunset, light and dark,

The beat of your heart,

Music, movies, art,

In this world, you’ll find your part.

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Story prompt #11

In a world where everyone is plagued by "monsters" spawning from the darkness of negativity, people have developed techniques to summon a "guardian" using the light of positivity.

But what would society think of someone whose "monster" comes from the light and their only "guardian" is summoned from darkness?

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Thank you! I’ve recently joined a discord server that has a really great alterhuman community, and even thought I’m neither, I was pleased to see that fictionkin and objectkin identities were talked about, because I’ve not seen them discussed in my previous alterhuman related spaces. Still, even there some of my identities were still not really talked about, at least from what I’ve seen since I joined and some of the ones you’ve mentioned here I’m hearing about for the first time.

My more uncommon types are:

Elementkin (the four base elements, aka fire, water, air and earth, tho I am now starting to question if perhaps light and darkness too)

Forestkin (had a new friend ask what this meant and I tried my best to explain it, but it’s honestly hard to put into words)

Nightkin (especially strong connection to the moon and stars)

:33 < iHATE having to fight EVERYTHING for the SMALLEST amount of representation in this community. therians get SO MUCH representation in this community, nobody talks of objectkins, or fictionkins, or plantkins, or conceptkins, or elemental kins, or space/voidkins, or songkins, or LITERALLY. ANY. "UNCOMMON". ALTERHUMAN IDENTITY. it is SO UNFAIR ON THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE LITERALLY HAVE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL JUST TO GET THE SMALLEST REPRESENTATION IN THIS COMMUNITY. WE NEVER GET TALKED ABOUT. EVER. (also, ihave NOTHING against therians. iam one. but iwont post about it because iwant to fight for representation of "uncommon" kins.)

:33 < shout out to alterhumans/non humans with NO kin identity, just saying they arent human. youdont "need" to have an identity and fit into a box. youre perfect just the way you are.

:33 < shout out to plantkins. every single plant/fungi. from the DEADLIEST venus fly traps to the BRIGHTEST boquet of roses. have a fresh ray of sunlight to beam upon you, youre shining so much its insane.

:33 < shout out to all the objects. whether it be a small eraser, or your favourite plushie, youre still valid, and awesome, and soooo cool /gen

:33 < shout out to elemental kins. burning fire, cold breezes of wind, all elements. the most HURTFUL, DEADLIEST elements to the ones that arent so dangerous. your kintype is never too dangerous for me. keep living life the way youwould

:33 < shout out to fictionkins. the weirdest characters, the "prettiest" characters, your favourite characters, your hated characters, your least favourite characters, characters from an uncommon source or from a common source, all of you.

:33 < shout out to songkins. from the strangest, most unusual melodies, to the songs everyone knows. you are the most beautiful, melodic songs ever. you keep being you bro.

:33 < shout out to placekins. youre a little cottage in the woods ? thats awesome. youre that corner shop down the street ? so cool. youre massive theme park, with flashing lights and fireworks and everything ? genuinely so amazing.

:33 < shout out to daykins/monthkins/seasonkins/yearkins. all the several days, seasons, months passing by us is so beautiful to watch

:33 < shout out to number/letter kins. all the numbers formed to make mathematics, all the letters we have in languages today, all so beautiful

:33 < shout out to spacekins. all the stars, cosmos, voids, even those who identify with being space as a whole. so beautiful.

:33 < shout out to conceptkins. strangest concept to comprehend, the easiest concepts, idont care. yall are amazing.

:33 < and shout out to any "unusual" or "uncommon" kintype ihavent mentioned.

:33 < yall are SO BEAUTIFUL !!

:33 < if you identify with an "uncommon kintype" PLEASE interact with this blog iwant more cool people to follow /nf

:33 < and if you are a therian blog iwould hope you to repost this so youcan show awareness for other kintypes in this community.

:33 < /nf

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Thank you @phantomhunt and everyone who got me to 100 reblogs!

Therian culture is realizing that the reason you’ve always hated when people asked “cats or dogs” is because you’re BOTH.