Twilight Time and me...

I...okay, the only purpose of this post is to remind me of that moment, as I feel I've got something to learn out of it int the whole "the other do it better, so I shouldn't even try".

I just watched the last episode "Twilight Time", which was very good, even if not quite the kind of episode I really like (the lesson is one I've learned a long time ago, so it's hard to identify with the eventual dilemma). But more importantly, I just couldn't stop (well, to about half of the episode, after what I just enjoyed the show) thinking that the episode was ironicly doing exactly what I had just tried to create through "To throw light on a Diamond" which I've finished writing just a day ago.

A big part of the episode was about Diamond Tiara (well, even if she was just a pretext and not a major protagonist)
Her domestic is introduced.
She interacts with the CMC.
It even had a f****g lemonade stand...
So in appearance the episode and my story seem very similar and I know that, had the episode aired just a week sooner, I would have never written "To throw light on a Diamond", even if, objectively, the episode and my story are completely different (for obvious reasons).

But now I'm in that strange position where I realize that all the fun I had writing that last story and the pride I have to have written it (because I'm proud of a lot of my stories, even if they are not that great) "shouldn't" have existed because that existence is only due of a good/bad timing (depending on the point of view).

So not only am I trying to convince myself that:
- the interest people had with my story isn't due to the fact the last episode showed Diamond Tiara
- my story is still worth as much as before, would it only be in my own eyes
- Diamond Tiara in the show didn't destroy my own interpretation of the character...
but now I'm wondering how I could have avoided to stop writing if I had been just a week late on my story.

And I see no answer.

I would have never finished my story in those new circumstances.
And I know I would have lost a lot (relatively speaking).
But I would have anyway, and maybe I will in the future.

This is stupid. Truly, incredibly stupid.

But at least the episode was very well done (the ending was great, Twilight was very enjoyable, Sweetie Belle was a lot of fun, I love Spike's expressions, Pinkie Pie was well used as a cameo, the lesson is a very important one for kids, and there is a ton of second level of reading (meta-critic of the relationship with the bronies, fourth wall aknowledgment with Pinkie Pie, little bits about pedagogy, etc...).
The only thing that could have gone better would have been a reference to princess Celestia and her own beginning as a teacher... but that would have probably been too much anyway.
God help me I like this show probably way too much :p.