>>16871 >Welp. I've been gone long enough that either nobody cares anymore, or anyone who does care no longer visits this place. Likely a bit of both. I care. I'm not sure what more you expected than people just hoping to see the return of it some day. You do have people responding to you. But thanks for the little bit of BuggyCYOA extras. They are nice to see. I don't know that I have any specific questions, but I will say I did enjoy the story while it was going on.

>>16871 Oh, thanks. I'm >>14111. Also the one who suggested Notaulix' griffon form to be named Galahad at some point. Occasionaly (VERY occasionally) I come to check the thread, but I'll admit it's been at least six months since I bothered checking it. Anyways, it was a very nice story. These were a nice two years of entertainment. A pity the CYOA thread was always being bumped off to oblivion due to the upcoming Gen V or whatever was happening at /mlp/ at the moment.

>>16871 I'm >>16946 again and by the way, some of my inputs on that great post: >It would be up to (You) to decide how best to go about doing that, or if you'd rather wait for a different time I'd suggest doing that, and working up a believable story for his origins with him by combining the origin his hive came up with for his infiltration on the settlement to kill and replace the leaders with how he ended up at the Everfree >At this point, an entire group of changelings enter the scene. How (You) choose to handle them directly affects the ending of the CYOA Considering the pacing I think the changeling group coming from the bowels of Hell would take Gerson off for a talk and fill him in on their intent, which is not good. Notaulix would feel conflicted and talk with you, not letting all out at once of course. I'd work my way according to what he's willing to share... >the prequel For some reason this leads me to believe that Notaulix isn't just a random nobody from the colony... Anyway, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving, and in the following weeks, a Merry Christmas!

>>17157 The truth come out

>>17157 How even? Chrysalis and Cadence are both female.

>>17184 Maybe Chrysalis left Cadence with an egg?

>>16871 >Welp. I've been gone long enough that either nobody cares anymore, or anyone who does care no longer visits this place. Likely a bit of both. Apologies for the late reply, but I couldn't help but chime in after checking on this site to see how things were doing. It isn't a surprise that you got nothing in terms of engagement. Things have petered off in the fandom since your last post, and especially for this site. Add to the fact that you've been gone for all this time, it was safe to assume this project was yet another that could be added into the "deadfic" pile. I certainly thought this project to be of this state after radio silence after all this time. I am happy to see that at least partially, there's a chance for this work to continue in *some* form. But you are going to have to rebuild the community you had once more, seeing as they have probably left for other pastures due to a lack of activity for this work. And seeing how quiet it is here, you'll need to venture to other sites like Fimfiction, /mlp/ and wherever else you can scrounge up some engagement. As it is, the MLP fandom is in a very stagnant, somewhat dead state. Contrary to my expectations and ambivalence towards it, G5 hasn't done as well as I would have expected, playing it rather safe and resulting in mediocre to low engagement numbers. Which, in retrospect, isn't a surprise. The landscape that made MLP popular in the first place is no longer in effect, with it being another passing fad that is now dust in the wind. What is there is mostly self contained cliques that do their own thing, and is certainly no grounds for looking beyond that. Hence, you'll need to actively promote your work if you ever hope to get back into the swing of things, with an update of *some* sort to boot, even if small as 5000 words. -

>>17430 - I must contradict you in regards to hiding your work from common view. Whilst the project may no longer be updating as of its current state, that is no reason alone to hide it from anyone else from enjoying what you have already put up there. Plenty of dead fics get a trickle of engagement of some form, even if they may forever be consigned to the grave for one reason or another. I myself still read dead fics from time to time, enjoying what is there despite the incomplete nature of them. Merely change to title and description to indicate its hiatus, with perhaps an extra note edited into the introduction or elsewhere, and leave it at that. As it is, your work is one of the very few of the "old" guard that I enjoy, having no love for what FiM turned into during its mid and later seasons. I certainly don't care for what they did to the changelings, the gryphons, and other stuff with the lore that is now firmly embedded in the fandom's zeitgeist, having recontextualized all fandom output in terms of discussion and fan creations from then on going forward. They aren't all "bad" persay, but despite filling the world in, it feels emptier and more hollow in some ways than ever, the mystery filled in by what ultimately amounted to just adequate but ultimately mediocre "content" that exists to fill in the void for the sake of it. Alas, the mystery that was left in the earlier seasons where all sorts of diversity was to be had in filling in that void ourselves is no longer present, and part of the reason why engagement as a whole is not what it used to be. Speaking for no one but myself, there is little to nothing that has really engaged me with this fandom or FiM itself, save for in the form of old fan output or some newer projects that somehow miraculously managed to divest itself from modern FiM to do its own thing, such as that 4chan AI episode that turned out quite nicely as a blast from the past. https://youtu.be/QLGlrY7cooY It's a shame to see if your work would truly disappear, but ultimately it is up to you. I only ask you leave it up as a record for posterity, for what once was for anyone else that might eventually stumble across it for what had once been. - As for your other stuff, I can't say I can offer much in terms of comfort. That's a lot to go through for one man, and all I can say is you have to adapt to it, or just give up the ghost and move on to other ventures like you are doing now. As of right now for the CYOA, I never participated in it myself, save for as an enthusiastic commenter. But for the sake of it, I'll try to think of something. Just need to re-read the work and watch the episodes. Hopefully I'll have something soon enough for you, if you ever get back to it. In any case, I hope this post finds you well.