Well, a big, fat Fluttershy is a terrible thing to waste.

XD Oh my gosh! I can't wait to see the art for this!

I haven't talked to Noc yet about it, I wanted to wait until I was finished so he could make one image to encompass the entire chapter. I don't know how he'd feel about two separate pics for two halves. I'm also hoping that he's up for doing it in the first place. We'll see, fingers crossed!

Oooh a new chapter! Keep up the great work! ;)

Thanks!

Love this new chapter. Now I'm even more excited to see how this story will end.

Suff I love:
-Fluttershy's awkwardness and embarrassment with the entire situation. Especially the bit where she asks if the others can restore her to normal, and they just ignore the question and roll her over.
-Twilight getting distracted by bad grammar and messy desks.
-Surprise Rarity inflation outta nowhere.
-Pinkie Pie complaining about clopfics that take forever to get to the action... in the chapter that gets to the good stuff faster than any prior chapter. Oh, the irony.

Thanks, glad to hear it!

I wanted to visually frame Pinkie between two giant plots as she complained, as well.

Yes. The only thing better than huge, inflated butts... is huge, inflated butts with goofy puns to go with them.

Thank you! It's something I was really conscious of, and I worked really hard not only to give all the characters a bit of "presence" in the scene, so that it felt like everypony was here, together, and not just background ponies, but without making it too chaotic or confusing to read. I leaned pretty hard on a couple of little tricks that I've found work pretty well at doing exactly that:
Compared to screenwriting, prose has the double whammy of not only not having a visual with which to guide the reader's eye, but also the character's name isn't displayed prominently at the beginning of their dialogue, it's written afterwards. So you run the risk of the reader reading dialogue as one character, and then realize afterwards that it was someone else who said it. So to help remedy that, you mention a character or describe an action just before they speak. It's a really easy way to guide the reader's "eye". Character does something, the reader imagines the character doing it, and then there's dialogue. Since the reader is already thinking of that character, they'll make a logical connection that since their attention was directed here, this character must be the one speaking. Writing in-character also really helps with this, and luckily the mane 6 have such wonderfully distinct personalities and mannerisms that this isn't usually an issue. However, I've also noticed writing this story that when stripped down to just words on a page, Applejack and Rainbow Dash's dialogue can sound really similar, so this helps with that.

The second is to break up the characters into smaller, more independent "scenes" within the scene, and this is something ripped straight from screenwriting 101. Every time I write

"Meanwhile, on the other side of Fluttershy, X and Y characters were doing Z."

it's essentially the same as writing

CUT TO:

INT. FLUTTERSHY'S COTTAGE - DAY

X and Y do Z on the other side of FLUTTERSHY.

Instead of having everypony talk at once, you have a few characters talk to each other at a time, and the smaller, individual parts of the scene still play off one another and push the overall scene along. So, I'm glad that you noticed!

When will this get an update?

Helloo. I love your work. But I haven't seen updates on your page for 2 years. I'm really interested in what's in the last part of Chapter 7 of your story. I hope you read this no later than the day after receipt.