Everyone please stfu and look at the beautiful art I commed from @thereisabearonmyceiling of my horsegirls (technically copyrighted Not Me except for Deia but they're My Girls To ME)
L->R Anne, Linda, Alex, Deia (My OC), and Lisa
Featuring multiple headcanons and personal design choices and a Whole lot of bitching and moaning about how SSE should've picked other concept art for the final outfits (Read: It says a lot about my personal views on the redesigns that Anne is the only one who kept her actual design)
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If there is anything I don't understand, it's SSE's absolute inability to write Linda as proactive as she really should be
This motherfucker is directly responsible for Most if not all major plot events in Both parts of my rewrite fic, the 2nd part wouldn't even exist had Linda not been going Ofc we're gonna do that like 7 times in a row (within the narrative logic itself)
It's so fucking easy to just have Linda be curious, nosey, and suggest ideas
I don't understand why she's so passive and nothingburger in the game
And also happy "I hit 500k words a chapter ago", but I just realised I could do it Now, so I'm doing it now! Huzzah! (I finished the first draft on the 17th of July 2024, hence I realised I had a fantastic opportunity of timing.)
Explanations for everything under the cut. Yes. Everything. (Contains minor mentions of unfiltered spoilers for part 1 and Particularly part 2)
More than one draft: There's two (technically, if we ignore all the editing the pre-50s chapters have gotten) drafts of the story. The one I wrote 2023-2024, and the one I'm still working on to this day. You're seeing the 2nd draft. If I hit 1 mil (which I will lbfr here), I'm gonna release the first draft in its own ao3 fic The Way of Kings Prime Style.
The 10k Curse: I keep accidentally writing chapters at 10k words or more, all the time, somehow. Even if, or especially if, there's no real reason for that chapter to be that long.
19k Chapter Split: What is now chapter 57 and 58 were originally supposed to be one chapter, but chapter 57 got so long when I wrote it that I decided to just cut my losses and split them in half. Which is a good thing, because if I hadn't, ch 57 would've been 19k words long.
The Fucking Google Docs Character Limit: Did YOU know that google documents has a limit for how many characters can coexist in a singular document? Well, if you didn't, know you do! Because I didn't, and neither did any of my friends, until that fateful day on the 16th of July 2024 (the same day I'm writing this, coincidentally, I didn't know that!), when we discovered that the limit is 1.02 million characters, because I hit it.
Horsefic: Horsefic is the nickname the fic has among my friends because they don't play SSO, which I refer to as "the horsegame" to them, and so, quint became horsefic
English Major: For those who don't know, I major in english literature. When I started the fic back in 2023, I was one year into a bachelors degree, and as of writing this I am one year into a masters degree, also in english literature (and if anyone is curious my minor is social studies). Yes, this has been the source of Many a joke.
280k: The original/first draft ended at 280 000 words. Hence why I always refer back to the fabled 280k whenever I manage to do something silly with the wordcount again.
Brando Sando Comparison: Brandon Sanderson is my favourite author, but even before I started reading The Stormlight Archives, me and my friends liked to joke about how I was basically Sanderson because he is also of the insanely long stories school of thought (fun fact: I just finished Edgedancer the other day and his author's note mentions how he planned for it to be 14k words but accidentally made it like 80k, which "happens a lot, especially when you're me", and I have never felt so seen in my LIFE.)
Thought She'd Be Done By NY 2025: When I started the 2nd draft in August 2024, I thought I'd be done with the second draft/the editing somewhere around the new year. Well, considering I have 63 chapters left and it's not almost 2 years since that, you can probably guess how that went.
Stream of Consciousness: The first draft is written using a somewhat reworked/Manda-ified version of stream of consciousness, which is a modernist style of writing that every sane person hates! I like it though, I think it's cool. (If you know about James Joyce's Ulysses, that's written in stream of consciousness. I'm not reading that though I don't hate myself THAT much.) <- inside joke between me and my ma coursemates
Jorvikpov Beta Reader Incident: On the 13th of September, @tobnuuy approached me and asked me if I could become his beta reader for his then ongoing rewrite fic jorvikpov, three days later, on the 16th of September, I DM'd him to ask if he wanted to read a little something I had done. That something was the first version of the first chapter of what would Very Quickly become Quint.
2011 Player: I've played SSO since December 3rd 2011, or since I was 8 years old. Which is funny for a lot of reasons, mostly because I not a very stereotypical "old" SSO players (mostly by virtue of preferring how it is in the present), and also because the story that would eventually become QuintSum started with me making up silly headcanons for my player character. Fun fact: in the first iteration of the story, Aideen was the main villain and abusive to Moonlight because 8 year old me thought she did something by turning the main god secretly evil.
We Broke The Google Docs Collaborative Sharing In Like a Week Lol: Early on, Toby liked to hang out in my document as I was writing the new chapters, except, at a certain point, we realised that things I wrote didn't translate over to his version of the document. Which is to say that we had to figure out what was wrong, and it turned out that (probably due to the document's size and the sharing feature/google docs at large being Asscheeks) he wasn't receiving my updates, and from then on, we realised that Maybe we should just have him read stuff on ao3 instead. Or at least, after the chapter is finished.
Qunt: A combination of the Quint from A Quintessential Jorvegian Summer Vacation/Part 1 and the Punt from How To Adequately Punt a Squirrel/Part 2, almost exclusively used, and coined by @tobnuuy
The Ao3 Wall of Chapter Buttons: I'll let the image speak for itself.
"A Quintessential Jorvegian Bonus Chapter Collection": Back in 2023, when I started the fic (and was doing that excellent tried and true method of finishing your work and making it good called "writing as I go along") I made a little thing where I wrote short stories that weren't canon where Deia and Moonlight fucked around and did stupid shit, reminiscent of what is Technically the original draft of quint, i.e a bunch of short stories I wrote when I was like 10 where Deia and Moonlight harassed Jorvik's citizens 2014 ship-obsessed tumblrina style. Suffice it to say it did not last long, because I had a plot to figure out, and the project very quickly got out of my hands. I do still have the storis in my google docs, though. (You'll have to send me actual money to get those published again though slash silly.)
"Deia and Moonlight's Various Horsegame Misadventures": The original title I gave to the story before I had an actual proper one. i.e the predecessor to Unto Daylight, and also why I write my tags like Deilight (other than it being a LOT better for tagging/searching than if I had just written Daylight the word in all my liveblog spam posts.)
Anonymous For Like 3 Months Lmao/The MayAlex Journal Incident: For those of you, which I assume is most of you, who weren't around back in 2023, the entire reason why the @equestrianequivalent tumblr blog exists, is because I was originally planning on posting quint anonymously. The entire reason for this is because @tobnuuy was originally anonymous while posting @jorvikpov, except he actually knows how to stfu and not talk about everything he does, so even before I actually revealed myself, it was obvious that it was me to everyone. As for when I ACTUALLY said hey this is my fic, a little Thing happened during the winter of that year (like November or December), where SSE accidentally(???) removed Alex and Maya being listed as each other's girlfriends in the in-game journal, which lead to all of us faggots here on tumblr getting pissed, and how I chose to be mad about it, Other than writing a long post about how it's cringe and stupid (because we assumed it was intentional, and tbfh we still have no proof that it wasn't) <- I think we all concluded they made it quest-dependant information but like. girl come tf on here. I also decided to make a joke about how. something something better than sse something something, and then I told people to read my fic and obvs linking to the eqeq blog. It wasn't a very big deal, I'm p sure nobody read the fic at that point. It was REALLY funny to me and Toby though.
Moonlight Gijinka/Children: Moonlight is my oldest OC. I used to be an SSO roleplayer of the "we roleplay as our horses" kind. Even after I stopped roleplaying, I took Moonlight and the other horses, and turned them into humans and used them as characters in my other original stories at the time (we're talking age 10-12 somewhere there). In one of them, Moonlight has two children named Grimmé and Nagya (named after Grima and Naga from Fire Emblem Awakening). That's it, that's the lore. She's an actual OC of mine outside of quint, too. In fact, chronologically, quint is like her third story of mine she features in. (Yes she has her scars in her human form, too, that lore is, like most things about Moonlight still present in her character, OLD.)
Pandora: Deia's dad that stepped up. (So remember how I said that there's actually Three completely original characters in the fic? Yeah, so about that-) <- learn more about this if I ever write that 2nd part (Based on the name, yes, it's actually what you think it is)
[THE ONE WITH PART 2 SPOILERS THAT ACTUALLY MATTER]
"It's not a tragedy, it's just sad": Actual thing I used to say about Unto Daylight as a whole. I love(d) to insist that the story isn't actually that sad even though (spoilers for part 2) Moonlight "dies" in the last chapter, and Elizabeth's death is the #1 most important thing that happens in the first part/overall. Not to mention the EVERYTHING ELSE going on. But the reason why I say that is because I'm an autistic literature critic and exclusively judge stories critically/with my english major lense (because I can't do it any other way) which means that when I look at stories I judge them based on their internal logic and the strength of their narrative. i.e the reason I say it's not a tragedy is because (particularly in reference to part 2) "Moonlight has to die, otherwise I'm a copout", and (in reference to part 1) "I have to actually sell Elizabeth's death as meaning something, otherwise I'm a copout". But, as all of my friends have said in response to That neurotypical ass statement: "Manda, that doesn't mean that it isn't sad."
The Origin of Equestrian Equivalent: It's the name of one of my original stories/OC groups. That's it. It's not more exciting than that. I name all my stories (or at least used to because nowadays quint is 99% of my brain power) and the name I picked for my original group of bri'ish equestrians was Equestrian Equivalent, which slaps, and should not be contained to only my head. And also I had an old ao3 that used my main username at the time so I made a new one for my horseficcing endeavours.
Garnok/Aideen: Famously based her entire original lore fanfic backstory on one (1) really shitty break-up. <- learn more about this in that hypothetical part 2 (also known as: if SSE won't explain why Garnok and Aideen are beefing, then they can't stop me, either!)
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Welcome to Manda Cunt(ress) Inc. Where we hold grudges, and keep them too!
Guess what, I'm finally caving and making a pinned post. Dire, I know.
I'm Manda Shiroselia (She/Her) (Early 20s) (And, despite what my Ao3 might imply, not straight!) (I'm also EquestrianEquivalent on Ao3 + Tumblr :3) And when I play SSO you can find me on my main Swedish account Amanda Silverlord (Avocado Island), and my alt NA account Amanda Winterbird (Night Sprinkles).
So whomst tf am I then? Well mostly I'm a resident annoying opinionated fuck who realised way too late she's been hyperfixating on a mid Swedish horse game for more than half her life. I am well known for never shutting the fuck up and having a lot of opinions on absolutely everything. I yap a lot about a lot of stuff with the only consistency being that I talk A Lot.
I also publish fanfiction on Ao3! Mostly, and usually, the longest fucking rewrite longfic fucking ever. And it's only Part 1. To figure out chapter releases, check the summary on Ao3, or play blues clues on this blog. (Or look at the pinned @equestrianequivalent)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
I also publish oneshots. When I feel like it and have ideas for them.
You can find those on my ao3 or under the tag #oneshots pile
(do be aware that that is also my yapping tag for talking about my oneshots, so if you want the fics just go on ao3)
If you know me through or because of my mcsr/adjacent fics, know that while I don't write rpf, I do come from the old school of fandom. Which means that I think modern "boundaries" are an incorrect use of that word and I don't really care if I do something a creator would mind. I keep to myself and my friends. If they find me, that's on them, not the other way around. (first rule of fight club, and all that)
If you don't fuck with my view on things, my headcanons, ships, fics, whatever the fuck, that's cool, and the door is over there.
Also if you wanna see my liveblogging shenanigans;
Fe3h - #Manda plays fe3h five years too late
Sanderson's various bludgeoning tomes - #Manda yaps about sanderson books
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - #Manda's maomao simpage
And now; Some useful terminology:
Deilight/QuintSum/SquirrelPunt/Horsefic: All the names I use to refer to my SSO rewrite longfic project. Deilight is the combined name of Unto Daylight (the name of the two-parter) spelt like a portmanteau of Deia and Moonlight 'cause it's funny, QuintSum is the name of part 1, SquirrelPunt is the name of part 2, and horsefic is what I call it because that's what my friends who don't know the game refer to it as.
The first three all have their own tags, but #deilight is the most useful one to read through cause I tag everything with that. The other two are only used for stuff related to the specific part.
If you don't want to follow people who swear enough to make sailors blush, are narcissistic enough to make Narcissus pale in comparison, and think themself both better than God herself and the funniest person alive, you should probably not follow me. I'm an opinionated egomaniac and I was made aroace because I'm just too good for anybody else. You have been warned.
Once in a while I remember that both of the Deilight duology fics have inaccurate titles and it always makes me chuckle because yes it's intentional and the joke is literally the same in both of them
Quint (A Quintessential Jorvegian Summer Vacation) - Obviously a joke about how the game, for starting with the premise of "MC goes to summer camp", is fucking bonkers. Except Deia very explicitly isn't on vacation.
Punt (How To Adequately Punt a Squirrel) - A title entirely centered around the image of throwing Fripp SSO like a baseball through the air. (with the implication of 'haha stupid squirrel we won over you') Except Fripp, as you will all discover in part 2, isn't even close to being an antagonist in deilight and is more so akin to a tired office worker running a solid few centuries on unpaid overtime. (what this means you'll have to find out in however many more years it takes me to finish quint, start punt, and get to the 2nd half of punt, cause I do many things but take my time is always one of them) ('is he an asset then, manda?' no, he doesn't want to be here)
(The duology's title as in Unto Daylight has no hidden joke in it I just thought it sounded cool lmao)
Deilight as a whole exists because I've always wanted to make an sso rewrite fic but quintsum in particular exists to make Elizabeth's death actually hit on any level other than moment-of-release shock value
Squirrel punt on the other hand will exist purely because I don't get a lot of time to write Anne in quint and also because I think Elizabeth should get to haunt the narrative a little bit (also so I can actually explain all the lore I have worked out that I can't actually talk about in quint because there's no way for them to figure all that out organically)
