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“Reading books does that to me. Also, it’s amazing what you learn to ignore when you live in Ponyville.”
Illustration to Chapter 1 of The Archetypist [semi-dark fic warning].

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Durabiznik

@Southpaw  
Sort of depends on your definition of dark. There is (almost) no explicit violence, but it definitely fit the bill for me (it was eerie / eldritch to the point that other stories never managed to reach through simple gore). I really liked the story, but it absolutely deserves the tag.
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@Southpaw  
[Adjusts the description] I don’t know, IMO it’s definitely not for everyone so I thought a warning on a “safe” image would be appropriate. It’s not that dark of a fic, yeah, but we do have a “semi-grimdark” tag on this site, right?  
Edit: huh, turns out I already did this for the other upload but forgot to do for this one.
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For the record, The Archetypist is not a darkfic, and it is not marked as such. No one dies, and no one is tortured, except for maybe for Twilight’s expectations as well as those of a few hypersensitive readers. It’s a story that could easily have headed in that direction, but it did not. Excellent story. And lovely art. ;)
 
For those who don’t know, the author is also the artist.
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