Flutterpriest

Flutterpriest is one of the six current members of The Barcast, usually responsible for asking the questions to the guest or guests. He also livestreams horror games and uploads the footage to The Barcast YouTube channel, as part of the series The Screaming Closet. As well as this, he is an author on FiMFiction.net, a long-time user of 4chan, and also occasionally makes narrations of stories, which he uploads to his personal YouTube channel.

Writing
Flutterpriest began writing in the brony fandom in May 2013 on the website 4chan, writing short stories on the /mlp/ board, especially Flutterrape threads. He has said he first started writing to "keep [his] mind off of suicide" by "venting subconscious feelings of hurt and betrayal". His name soon began to be recognised when he posted in other threads on /mlp/, and he started to produce many different types of short stories. This led him to discover and write Anon in Equestria (AiE), "the sister thread" to Flutterrape. His old greentext stories are still available on his Pastebin, although many of them have been converted to prose and published on FiMFiction.

FiMFiction
Flutterpriest joined FiMFiction.net on March 5th 2014 (his birthday ) and gained followers quickly, at least in part as a result of his reputation from 4chan. By the end of that year he had at least 450 followers. He reached one thousand followers in January 2016, and two thousand in late March 2017. As of January 2018, he is followed by around 2,400 people.

The first story Flutterpriest posted on FiMFiction was Trapped, although his oldest work available online is the first part of an ultimately cancelled Flutterrape greentext story, Remember Me, on Pastebin. Trapped preceded several other Princess Cadance x Anonymous stories, such as Something You'd Regret, and A Rainy Day's Date and its sequels. It is a wholly original story, "designed to experiment what it would be like to work in prose as opposed to greentext". It is also notable for having a 'choose your own ending', with two potential endings to the story. Flutterpriest has stated that his personal preference is 'Sacrifice'.

In May 2014, Flutterpriest posted Dreamscape, a prose version of a greentext story in two parts (part one and part two are both available on Pastebin). The story was very popular; Flutterpriest later credited it with bringing a large influx of followers, although Zero Punctutation Reviews said it "changes its act too quickly". Almost two years later, it was given a narration by veteran narrator Wuten.

Office Love
In July, the first chapter of a prose conversion of another of Flutterpriest's greentext stories, Office Love, was posted. First begun in 2013, it was originally a 'choose your own adventure' (CYOA) story. He had previously called posting Office Love a "stretch goal", although he had nine parts ready by the time he came to publish the story. By September, these nine parts had been posted, and subsequent chapters appeared sporadically. Chapter ten of the story was written after Flutterpriest held a poll of his readers to select a story for him to continue over Valentine's Day. By May 2015 he confirmed he considered the story half-done. In a blog the following May, Flutterpriest declared "this is the year the Office Love ends", although only a single further chapter was posted that year. He did, however, write an ' Office Love Prologue ' arc in his story Fluttershy Wants In Your Pants. 2017 saw two more chapters and another assertion that Office Love would be completed, but as of January 2018, the story is still unfinished.

Flutterpriest's slow progress with Office Love led to the 'Office Love when' meme, as a joking reminder of the huge lengths of time between updates. The oldest blog on FiMFiction to use the phrase is from December 2015, when anonpencil, advertising a gaming stream the two of them were doing, told her followers to "come by, say hi, harass him, ask office love when". A few months later, Damien Darkside used the phrase when advertising a podcast he was recording with Flutterpriest, telling people to "comment 'Office Love when' on all of his blog posts ... he loves it". Flutterpriest then wrote a meta one-shot, Office Love When?, for April Fools' Day 2016, in response to this joke, about Anon being "written out of his own story".

The Lyler Archive
The first of Flutterpriest's long, vignette-based stories, The Lyler Archive, was first posted on FiMFiction in February 2015. Comprising prose recreations of several of Flutterpriest's old short stories, the chapters do not necessarily form a coherent, overriding narrative. Each one describes the interactions between Anonymous and Lyra's mentally challenged sister, Lyler, whose name came about as a misspelling of 'Lyra', and her 'pet cactus' Mr Boomboom. . The story makes use of shocking descriptions of violence and sexuality for comedic effect. Another running joke is Lyler's constant demands for chicken tenders, known as "tendies", and the lengths to which she will go to attain them.

Lyler is arguably one of Flutterpriest's most recognisable characters. She has made guest appearances in anonpencil's Living With Twilight Sparkle is Weird, and VexerFrost's My Little Research & Development: Science is Mayhem. As well as this, she has also crossed over into Flutterpriest's own Fluttershy Wants In Your Pants, and he occasionally writes blogs as the character. On The Barcast Discord server, Nightbot is known as 'LylerBot' and can perform various functions for users, all in the voice of Lyler.

Fluttershy Wants In Your Pants
At the beginning of 2016, the other of Flutterpriest's long-running, vignette-based stories was first posted. Fluttershy Wants In Your Pants originally began as a series of "old, super short, one-shots" that he "wrote on 4chan". Indeed, every one of the initial chapters is under a thousand words. Nevertheless, the story was Featured on the front page of FiMFiction, despite Flutterpriest's claim it was not "the normal quality that I tend to like to release". The initial interest in the story helped him to reach one thousand followers on FiMFiction.

There was initially no real continuity between chapters. Flutterpriest wrote the first story arc, Redheart, in June 2016, as part of his challenge to himself to make daily updates. He initially began it in order to feature fetishes like cuckolding and infidelity, although it grew into a longer story of Anon's and Redheart's relationship. After thirteen chapters, he ended the arc, in order to get "back to basics". Nevertheless, four more arcs followed (including a prologue for Office Love), as well a guest chapter by ROBCakeran53.

In July 2017, the Red Returns arc began. After Fluttershy rapes Anon, he and Nurse Redheart flee to Baltimare and attempt to start their lives anew. However, despite them having ostensibly escaped, Fluttershy pursues them and ultimately kidnaps Redheart. The arc concludes with Anon killing Fluttershy, and then himself.

The Barcast
Flutterpriest's first appearance on the nascent Good HiE Podcast (later to become The Barcast) was in March 2016, approximately two months before the earliest casts appeared on YouTube. He and anonpencil were interviewed as a pair, presumably because of their relationship and their shared penchant for writing short and unusual stories.

However, they quickly showed themselves to be the most organised of the early casts (which could have more than ten people). When the regulars were "struggling to read [their] own questions", Flutterpriest and anonpencil "stole it, and started reading for [them]selves". They were invited back the following week, and after that "just stayed".