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2011-05-23, 01:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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I submitted my first version about three weeks ago. That didn't get a response. I assume it was rejected and thought no further.
The second version I submitted....was three days ago. The reason I'm asking is because I have seen fics submitted later than me got approved. Granted it was a short one-off fic which the readers can probably breeze through.
Not that I'm pressuring you guys or anything, I'm just curious at the process. I don't mind getting rejected, but at least I would want to know why. You know, so I can get to knowing whether it's worth continuing or not. (its the Mass Effect crossover fic I mentioned in the Thread VI).
EDIT: No, I'm not asking to speed up my fic or anything. 37 is alot and I totally understand if you guys are slow. Just that with no feedback or anything, I was getting a mite bit disillusioned.Last edited by Grif; 2011-05-23 at 02:04 AM.
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2011-05-23, 02:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's a pretty accurate description of what goes on. We also occasionally get bogged down by weird tangent discussions, like today's major debate on why Sethisto should take us all out to KFC, but mostly it's just reading stories and writing commentary that gets anonymously sent back to the author.
The pre-reader workload is more or less self contained. We all get sent every story now (a change from the original method of sending each one to a random group of 5), so if you sign up be prepared for your inbox to absolutely explode - I usually wake up in the morning to 15 plus new ones at this point. But you're free to read them or not as you like, and respond to only whichever ones you feel like. Many, I should say most, of the pre-readers hardly ever chime in. Some write very sparse reviews. I write essays. If you ever get an "anonymous" wall of text in response to a submitted story, it probably means I called dibs on it.
But really, you set your own pace.
That story's actually already been approved. But just to let you know, in general the turnover on Crossovers is a lot slower than on any other sort of story. There's a rule about shrinking audiences when you need to have two separate bodies of knowledge to enjoy a piece, and that rule makes a lot of us uncomfortable when offering commentary on things like this. "But who hasn't played Mass Effect?!" I hear you thinking. Uh... yo.Last edited by PhoeKun; 2011-05-23 at 02:12 AM.
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2011-05-23, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wait...
What? Bloody hell. Now I'm feel foolish for that rant I just made. (and talk about spectacular bad timing).
Can I now crawl into a small hole and hide for the rest of the week?
That story's actually already been approved. But just to let you know, in general the turnover on Crossovers is a lot slower than on any other sort of story. There's a rule about shrinking audiences when you need to have two separate bodies of knowledge to enjoy a piece, and that rule makes a lot of us uncomfortable when offering commentary on things like this. "But who hasn't played Mass Effect?!" I hear you thinking. Uh... yo.
(and I don't mind if you guys give out-of-context commentary for my piece. Even comments on my writing style is good, because I like to know how to improve my writing.)
/crawls back to that hole.Last edited by Grif; 2011-05-23 at 02:17 AM.
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2011-05-23, 02:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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How long does one generally have to post your reaction? Also, at what point is it accepted? Like, how many people have to yay it before it's yayed? Or nay it before it's nayed?
Also, Grif, you look no more foolish than the time I complained that I was being ignored... when it turned out the e-mail just didn't go through.Last edited by darthbobcat; 2011-05-23 at 02:14 AM.
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2011-05-23, 02:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Here's a nice box to hide inside, Grif.
Full of yummy hay. Mmmm....Gitp's No. 1 Cake hater
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2011-05-23, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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It fluctuates. The more concrete the information a pre-reader provides, or the more history a pre-reader has of knowing his or her stuff, the more Seth trusts it. There's several pre-readers who can get a story accepted or rejected just on their say so. The process is a very haphazard and sporadic one: sometimes you'll have days before something gets touched, other times you'll have hours. If two pre-readers disagree then a story will sit in stasis quite a while longer, and those ones you generally have the longest on. But I wouldn't count on having more than 12 hours on any individual story.
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2011-05-23, 02:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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If you're unable to draw a to scale Baneblade, how about one half hidden behind a lamp post.
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2011-05-23, 02:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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A Mass Effect/ MLP crossover O.O
Oh my yes. I'll be reading this as soon as I stop *eeeeeeeeeeeeeee*ing at that pic of the Geth pony thereAvatar by Azuyomi224
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2011-05-23, 02:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thankfully, those aren't true allergies in the medical sense.
Real allergies WILL put your sorry pony flank in a hospital if you're lucky, or six feet under if you happen to have an exceptionally severe reaction.
@Thanqol
Wait, what? A fic about Dash learning the birds and bees?
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2011-05-23, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's still in the panning process, but the structure is actually "The CMC go to each of the mane caste to try to find out where little ponies come from". Cutie Mark Chronicles style.
Only one I'm not sure about is Applejack... should she give it to 'em straight (honesty pony)?
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2011-05-23, 02:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 03:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow. Pardon me if this sounds condescending but... That is such a human response. I am fascinated and yet perplexed; from my point of view this doesn't represent a problem at all, or even anything concrete enough to fear.
Oh! Unless you mean it as annihilation and termination of the self, then I suppose it makes sense.
Fascinating.
Orzel! Hi Orzel. How's the texmex?
Better than hyperequinia. After long enough it becomes hyerequinitis, and well... I'm sure we all know what happens when your over-pony is swollen.
Bad things.
Good golly, no! Hm. Alternately, the ton of euphemisms. Aww, now I'm conflicted.
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2011-05-23, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Gonna spoiler my nightmare posts.
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Not even that. It's just the idea that you become the thing you're pretending to be. That the limitations you put up in your mind become the actual limits of the mind. That by building a mask around your spirit your spirit becomes a mask. That you invent a persona because you don't have the courage to be yourself, and the persona takes over and walks away with your life, and the person who used to be you disappears and is never seen again. That the mask rises up by itself after the body is broken.
It's not rational. Heck, I'm struggling to articulate what to me is a raw, incoherent nightmare. But it's what scares me.
And for those of you who are here for the ponies:
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2011-05-23, 03:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-05-23, 03:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Rarity would be all about the eyes meeting across a crowded room, pulses racing, breathes shortening, eyelashes a-flutter, dancing the night away in a romantic-whirlwind, followed by a secret assignations in the garden at midnight involving much exchanging of passionate glances and swooning.
CMC reactions: (except Scootaloo, who would be: )
Twilight would just give them a copy of "The Eggheads Guide to Where Foals Come From (Illustrated)" to read.
CMC reactions:
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2011-05-23, 04:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerWell hey, I understand raw, primal fear. I'm just... I fail to see how someone as coherent as you would allow it to become a fear, is all. there is a point where rationalization can help one overcome phobias.
What really gets me though, and why I bring it up at all, is that your worst nightmare is, in my eyes, the definition o human potential. You are limited by your own constraints, yes, but each mask can build a better mask in turn. One can have multiple false identities (though false identity is rare; we pick up and design masks for ourselves based on what we want to be) and the counterpoint of each persona becomes a nodality. It is a system of infinite progress, infinite becoming, infinite ascension.
I also think it's rare for a person to develop their own masks. Instead, we each pick behaviors to shape the masks that others build for us; a mask is only external, so it is a construct of socialization more than of ones own making.
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Irrational fear though, huh? Mine is/was zombies (I'm mostly over it, to the point of having a zombie dream I loved*), and I mean like actual, crippling phobia. Couldn't go near windows. Still worry when I get up some mornings that one of mycats will knock aside the blinds, and then a lumbering cadaver will smash through my patio window. One day I just thought "what if zombies were real?" and spent six hours afraid to breathe until I fell back on the God's Great Plan(tm) defense.
Man, I could have sworn this was coherent when I first structured it. I guess I need sleep more than I thought; I am rambling. Lemme know if the point of his got across, aye?
Twilight would just give them a copy of "The Eggheads Guide to Where Foals Come From (Illustrated)" to read.
SpoilerThe CMC are unable to find the book. Upon inspection, Twilight Sparkle discovers the last pony on file to have checked it out (about 2 hours ago). She falls to the ground laughing hysterically.
After a couple beats, the CMC ask what's so funny. Her response?
"oh my gosh! Mirriam?!?! Bwa-hahahahahaha!"
Unrelated.
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