Save Yourself (By Not Reading) · 8:49pm Feb 12th, 2014
So on a whim, I wrote a new story. Spoilers below if you haven't read it yet, because I'll do some explaining behind my thought process.
I like experimenting with writing. Warping language in some nefarious way that “works" in order to convey imagery a certain way and the like. While I may not necessarily be proud of Save Yourself, I certainly had fun writing it and seeing exactly what I could do with it.
As I hope it was caught on to about midway through the story, the story itself is about Princess Luna turning into Nightmare Moon. But the way this is told is unique. On the surface, there are two narrators and their voices intermingle. There's the “guide," the dominate one, the one being nihilistic, mean spirited, and guiding the unnamed protagonist through the story. Then there's the one in quotes who is the “storyteller," insofar as describing the physical events going on in the setting. They are told in 2nd-present and 3rd-past, respectively. The Guide is some unnamed entity who manipulates the protagonist in “opening up their eyes," whether this is an actual Nightmare-spirit of some kind is up for debate, I think, but that's what I was leaning towards in writing this.
However, there's also the Storyteller, who narrates a pony realizing something and running around. At first glance, as who the Guide is narrating becomes obvious, this pony the Storyteller refers to must be Princess Luna. But once we reach the end of this story, the “she" this narrator has been following suddenly reveals herself as being Celestia, and then the Guide talks directly to her. This implies the pony both the Guide and Storyteller were referring to this whole time is Celestia! Or does it?
That's what I'll leave for the reader to decide. I wrote this story with that idea in mind, so whoever either narrator is refering to could be either Celestia or Luna. It's all up to interpretation, but the ending throws a loop that encourages a reread with that thought in mind.
Hey, it works. Right? Right?
P.S: This is the last the I write a blog on my phone.
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1827292 3hard5 Regi to write on his phone
true poetry dear pony.
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Welp, that was mindbreaking.
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