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#writing okie so according to le research, short stories are 7500-17500, whereas average novel length is typically anywhere between 60,000-100,000, numbers much smaller than I thought. Anyhoo, 60,000 words is a lot of writing! Can anyone even endure reading about ponies for that long? I mean, wouldn't there be a breaking point in which the reader claims, "the words are just too sweet and colorful; I must now kill a goat to balance out the excess magic and friendship?"
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:17:53 UTC from web-
@crusader8 Fallout Equestria is one of this fandom's more popular works and its 623 thousand words long.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:18:54 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark 'fallout' Equestria? Wait more im[portantly is there even a word for a story that long? "That tome sure is elephantine, hur hur!"
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:21:02 UTC from web-
@crusader8 Are you OK there?
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@ceruleanspark daunting task is daunting, sir Spark
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:22:38 UTC from web
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@thatonepony That was the wordcount according the EQD's people
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:22:14 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I swear im going to read the whole thing at somepoint.... Its just so intimidating!
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@purplephish20 @ceruleanspark I'm halfway through Chapter 2 right now.
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@scribble Im at the exact same point...... he's just left the tumpled down house and been kidnapped by slavers
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@purplephish20 @ceruleanspark Little Pip confirmed as being 100x better than Pipsqueak.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:28:48 UTC from web-
@scribble everything is to you >.> XD
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@scribble then why dont you like him, that is his sole purpose! XD
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@scribble YOU ARE SO SHALLOW XDXD. I only had problems with his voice and big mac's new voice cause they sound REALLY low quality/muffled Xd
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:35:02 UTC from web
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@scribble At least they have properly recorded voices. quite sad really. XD. Big mac and Pip's voice sounded so poor recording wise.
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@scribble XD* even
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@scribble i'm also kidding. XD
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:34:12 UTC from web
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:31:34 UTC from web
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:32:20 UTC from web
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@purplephish20 Pipsqueak IS a colt.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:32:34 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark @purplephish20 Yeah, you mean stallion. xD
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:33:35 UTC from web
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@purplephish20 I stand by my original post. Or wait, didn't Braeburned do a little... something with an aged up Pipsqueak?
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:36:05 UTC from web
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@purplephish20 Sorry, I'm clearly an idiot today. Which is not a change. xD
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:36:49 UTC from web
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@scribble I'm going to start keeping a tally of how many times I wake up to horseporn discussion.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:37:22 UTC from web-
@redenchilada >create NSFW side site for RDN >horseporn discussions stay there >????? >PROFIT
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:39:10 UTC from web-
@scribble I have a nagging suspicion @redenchilada's problem might be that horseporn is being seriously discussed on a site associated with RDN (or indeed RDN itself) _at all_.
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@spectrumscramble Then I repeat, we should have our own little corner for this sort of thing. We'll be happy to post stuff we like without having to walk on eggshells and the guys on the main site will be happy the stuff they're not interested in is posted somewhere else. IT'S A WIN WIN SITUATION.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:43:52 UTC from web-
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:46:50 UTC from web
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@scribble Win except for the fact you want us to pay for and maintain it. Websites don't just run themselves.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:49:59 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Well, why not a specific area on the site, but all the posts on there are accessible in that area alone?
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:50:59 UTC from web-
@scribble Probably because that's simply not how status.net works.
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@spectrumscramble I guess I just proved I know nothing about web.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:52:31 UTC from web-
@scribble Nothing about status.net* stop it.
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@scribble Besides, not like you've done more than basic HTML and CSS probably...
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@scribble Well, more precisely, about status.net. The whole design is, people post things, it all goes into a) the public timeline, and b) their subscribers' home timelines (plus private user->user messaging stuff). No part of that allows for a little closed-off section without pretty much replacing the whole thing, unfortunately.
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@scribble Why can't you guys just accept that we're not going to have horseporn discussion on the site in any substantial capacity? There are way too many alternatives for this.
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@redenchilada Sorry, it's just something I like to talk about on a site I feel comfortable using.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:55:31 UTC from web-
@scribble Surely this stuff is best talked about in private though? I know you feel comfortable here...but you could go into more detail too in private <3 I like this stuff too as you know <3
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@scribble The fact that you "feel comfortable using" a site does not take precedence over the fact that the site is intended to be viewable by young kids, and as such, discussion of pornography is simply discouraged.
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@redenchilada Hence why I try and keep it as under-wraps as possible, without seeming vague. Impossible, it seems.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:59:29 UTC from web-
@scribble You've been a kid before, right? If a kid hears something like "Megasweet did something interesting with an adult Applebloom", odds are that they'll google it to pique their curiosity. While I'm starting to go into the realm of "parents should watch what their children do" at this point, I'd still rather have a place where it's possible for the average 13-year-old who doesn't understand the internet yet can hang out without a chance of producing mental scars. (Oh geez, I'm rambling now...)
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@redenchilada You know what, you're right. I shouldn't even be arguing about this. Sorry.
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 18:05:49 UTC from web
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@scribble >go to fim.413chan.net >discuss all the horseporn you want there >????? >PROFIT
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@redenchilada >2012 >using chans >ishygddt
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:48:02 UTC from web-
@purplephish20 You're already greentexting. (Or at least pretending to.) The transition should be easy after that point!
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@redenchilada But I don't like x-chans :c
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:48:02 UTC from web
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Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:39:42 UTC from web-
@purplephish20 Motherf(scratched CD)er? :P
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@redenchilada HOLY CRUD you aren't Scootaloo any more! D:
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:42:32 UTC from web-
@scribus I should've gone to sleep last night, but NOOOOOOOO
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@purplephish20 Maybe he would look like this: http://fav.me/d4isoml
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@purplephish20 gah! spoilers!
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:28:59 UTC from web
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@purplephish20 Just have someone who read it divide it into six books per se for you, and read one section at a time like that
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@purplephish20 Me too :) I read the prologue, and then i fell asleep. (not of boringness, but of sleepyness)
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 17:25:38 UTC from web
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@thatonepony ok... ill read it when im next awake... im so tired right now I cant even get up off the bed
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@thatonepony That's the only downside.
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@widget Oh, good point. I completely forgot those when I was explaining to @scribble why Status.net wouldn't support such an idea. All along, I should have qualified it as SN 0.9.x, given that private groups in 1.0 absolutely do support that exact approach, and would actually be a pretty neat win-win solution once RDN upgrades to 1.0.x
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@spectrumscramble Aside from filling the site with private groups like "Join us to discuss horsepr0n!"
Saturday, 14-Apr-12 18:20:55 UTC from web-
@scribus Still sounds to me like a better solution than outright exclusion, as long as there is at least some policing of the publicly-visible metadata of such groups.
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