Ah, you finally posted it!

These new universes... So pretty

Vision of a man about uploading humanity's mind to a new shell

The ideas of greater expansion of worlds, with a simple pocket universe named Equestria

A single virus to overturn the entire history of violence.

The great rebuild on a shattered civilization, consumed by their of arrogance

And this, a simple curtains, bridging the gap between two worlds so easily passable

Words cannot describe the awesomeness

It is written by the inimmitable Chatoyance, therefore I shall track it.

This whole thing really stings my brain.

Isn't it nice to read about horrible dystopias to feel better about our own world?

To be so lucky as to get not one but five new stories, HUZZAH!

Nice! I love it! Keep it up Chatoyance!

I am so impressed!  What an amazing set of stories, and as usual so beautifully written.   When I grow up (as a writer) I wanna be just like you!  

Dafaddah  

Hehe. This is cool!

This is getting a little.... strange.

Confusing, but cool concept!

Well, this is an interesting take on The Singularity.

Wow, this is a great idea. Celestia and Luna being supercomputers, controlling real-world avatars, and being gods because nanobots? Awesome.

Makes you think. Any one of these stories could be possible at some point in the future.

>>313133313133

That would be totally awesome!

But not the Phoenix In Hooves, that one required us to be dead first

>>313238313238 Meh.

"Zero point nine eight percent probability of an exact match..."

Less than one percent is pretty poor match.  I'm guessing it was intended to be "Zero point nine eight probability..."

>>313329313329

oops. I'll just go fix that.

The beginning of this chapter, and the attitude of the two characters, reminds me so much of the decadent elites in S. P. Somtow's great old "Mallworld" stories.

HOLY FUCK THIS FIC IS AWESOME!

ee kayt mak shoo boyt mey

this chapter weirded me out

>>313133313133

Ch.3, The Friendship Virus, is IMO the most unrealistic. If Singularity-level technology is achieved, whether in the next hundred years or the next thousand, the various technologies seen in The Pony Singularity, The Most Decadent Thing, and Phoenix in Hooves might all become mere theoretically solvable engineering problems instead of Science Fiction. Curtains of Light is the simple intersection of two universes. But for Ch.3, the truth of the matter is that, for better or worse, genetic manipulation can only go so far. Human culture, that is, the world that has been created by the uncounted generations of the past, is at the least as much to blame for the Human Condition as Humanity's Human-ness is. Basically, gender roles are culturally defined. There's lots of stuff about it, but it's late for me and I don't remember anything accurate about anthropology at all right now. I do remember reading something about the Man=Hunter, Woman=Gatherer view being extraordinarily stupid and narrow-minded and wrong and stuff. Oh, and uh, something something nothing stopping it from being reversed and blah blah chaos and moonbases and disease spreading models and that kind of stuff.

That's not to say that I didn't enjoy reading Ch.3, because it was hilarious! The breasts were totally intentional! It's an Ultimate Feminist Victory: World Peace and stay-at-home breast-feeding Dads. I certainly do agree with the sentiment: World Culture definitely needed an injection of femininity yesterday, where yesterday is quite a long time ago.

This is one of my favorite things about you, Chat: Your ability to conceive of all of these incredible sci-fi scenarios and then bring them home with excellent writing and compassionate detail. So. Much. AWESOME.

I am extremely disappointed in you Chatoyance: None of these stories are new! I may not have quite read as much Science Fiction as you have, but I can tell that all you've done is taken great inspiration from those stories, integrated FiM and TCB themes in clever and entertaining ways, and Jaywalking! How could you, you monster!

Seriously though, I would like to know what inspired these shorts. I know that I've read at least two very similar but different versions of the computer-becomes-god story, (I can't remember the name of the stories or the authors,) but if any of the others have been directly inspired by something I can't tell.

I'm kinda a bad scifi fan. Not to say that I haven't read stuff online or at libraries, but the only classic sci-fi book I own is a 400-page short-story collection from Philip K. Dick. That's only ONE book. From what you've said before, Chatoyance, it's clear that you've read much more than I have. For the last six months 90% of my fiction intake has been FiM fanfics. I'm so horrible!

I'm definitely leaking mental ability right now. To the bed-cave!

>>314304314304

I don't know where inspiration comes from. I just sat down because I needed to write and these spilled out over about two days. I was feeling bored with Going Pony (don't worry, I haven't abandoned it) and I really needed to write something really different. So I just went with that. It felt so good.

The image of old Gunter in the chair with Pinkie Pie in his hands just popped into my mind, whole. That image implied the whole story to me.

The Friendship Virus was actually the first story I wrote, that came, I think, from me chatting on IRC. I was arguing that going pony was a good thing, but some people actually told me that the reason they were against ponification was because it would end all the wars, and wars were cool and without them life would be boring. I choked and gagged inside, because I don't think they were joking. Seriously.

I'm a trannie. I've seen what testosterone does. I have a unique perspective. It really does cause all of those serious personality changes, whether or not people want to admit it. Humans are controlled by their chemistry, and our free will is tempered, strongly, by our bodies. We only have partial free will. I have personally seen this to be true. Thus my Friendship Virus story. It's not some feminist political crap. I tell you true: I have lived it, and I report that it is fact.

Also, I had just finished reading New Scientist about why Bonobo apes are so helpful to each other and so kind and gentle, unlike all other great apes. They are strictly matriarchal, and the female leaders simply will not abandon others or take any violent crap at all. They are the only great apes that live this way. And they are the only non-violent apes.

Instant story.

The Most Decadent thing was inspired, I think, by imagining humanity at its peak in the future, then slamming AbFab into it. The old Britcom 'Absolutely Fabulous'? That's my best guess.

Curtains Of Light came about, I think, by two things. One, I wanted a door to Equestria that was not a bubble. Second, I was still thinking about those people who oppose ponification on the grounds that suffering and war and cruelty are good things and that Man needs them somehow, and that losing them would be a wrong... somehow. Then I thought of El Salvador. I knew a guy from there. His entire family had been skinned alive by the enforcers, which is why he had run to America. Yea, ponification is such a bad thing. Oh, yeah.

Phoenix In Hooves was inspired by those really sharp, tall, Super Mario style mountains in the background of MLP? You know, the impossibly tall mountains in the cartoon? I thought, what if they were supermachines? What if Equestria was the future of the earth - a common and obvious speculation used by many authors. I started putting those together and came up with a gray goo scenario that fit.

Hey! I guess I CAN kinda explain where inspiration comes from after all.

Cool.

wow this was... amazing, brilliant, perfect, phenomenal, and epic

just the whole thing, its genius

i can almost visibly see the story's happening before my eyes

all of these chapters are... amazing

you did an amazing job building the characters in such a short pieces

i wish i had even a 16th the talent that you have

please keep being a genius, you are one of three or four other writers that have encouraged me to take my own project into my own hands instead of hoping someone else writes it

"She had to breath."

Guess what?

I wonder is Sylvia would be partial to calculating the exact value of pi...

Also, excellent fic. It's a nice break from the traditional crapsack CB world.

As I read each tale, more and more and more thoughts began pouring into my consciousness, like a great damn breaking and the water it holds back thundering down to fill an empty lake.  

At first, it was mainly pure curiosity that fueled the flow.  

Then, the water moved with understanding, of recognition.

Followed by amusement (not the mocking kind).

And next with utter imagination and wonder.

But finally, the last trickles came from the broken dam with the force of shame, and regret.

This entire work interested me in the way that a young child would stare at a dead thing: morbid fascination.  So ugly, so beautiful, so weirdly off-putting, but packed with a powerful dosage of revelation.

And I have to say, it scared the fuck out of me.

You address a lot of things in the real world here, intentional or not.  For instance, the hyper-connectivity seen in the second story.  One may merely go to a park, a place of great natural beauty, and see people on laptops or tablets or smartphones, completely ignoring the amazing world around them, instead opting to create one to live in.

No, that's hypocritical of me.  I'm an author, for fucks sake, and a brony at that.  Immersing myself in a different world is what I do.  And not all the real world is worth giving more than a second glance at.

The chapter about the virus, though, struck a chord with me.  As a hot-blooded, hairy, beer-swigging, knuckle-cracking, rugby-playing, hunting, unnecessary-risk-taking, lazy, belching, strong-but-silent man...  I completely agree with you.  Women should really be running everything, and they'd probably be doing it a hell of a lot better than men every did.  Maybe when humans were still rugged, still living free and wild, men were the best choice.  But not now.  Now, manly qualities are a bit unnecessary.  However, I must digress.  Contact sports (rugby) are very fun for me, and I really do love the simple, unexplainable sensation of ramming something at full speed.

Go figure.

Anyway, have an obligatory "MOAR!" and pat yourself on the back.  Good fucking job, indeed.

I'm going to go lay down and stare at the ceiling now.  Toodles!

>>312081312081

No kidding. It's like its saying that men are completely incapable of kindness while women are unable to be cruel with the only solution being men becoming man-ladies. Its like that crappy made for TV movie that was on syfy before it was syfy.

So I take it Luna is in Tycho Crater and has dimensions in the precise ratio of 1:4:9?

Amazing story, but I think you messed up the subject-verb order in your Spanish a bit. Transformación Departamento is like saying Bureau Conversion in English. I know enough Spanish to know that much, at least. This is, however, all hinging on the assumption that it wasn't intentional.

Oh, and on a less important note, Canterlot Mountain could just be a volcanic plug. They're usually made of rhyolite, which is extremely hard, resistant to weathering, and would form steep or almost shear cliff faces. It can also be the dark color displayed in the show, depending on its composition.

Being a science major is hard, I have to point out things like this about stories written about cartoons for little girls!

The only thing this has to do with The Conversion Bureau, or even with My Little Pony, is some name-dropping that could be replaced or removed without having any impact on the story. It's just a straight screed about how women are good, men are evil, and testosterone is a hideous psychoactive toxin responsible for all human suffering.

Hey, if these guys ever need a "patient zero", I've got some free time. ;)

Another compelling story by Chatoyance, and one that deals with what I consider to be the most alluring aspect of Conversion Bureau stories: The purging of Humanity's greater destructive evils. I have always seen the actual conversion portion of your stories to be just a very nice added benefit to the latter subject. I guess that means your CB stories have felt more like salvation stories to me, at least, which is one of the many reasons why I love reading them (besides the phenomenal writing and believable characters). In this story in particular resonated with me quite a bit because of its emphasis on this topic, and because, call me an escapist, it seems more down to earth and dare I say possible than actual CB stories. Right, then. Now that I have made myself sound suitably insane with the previous statement, allow me to go for broke. Your story about wiping clean the sins of humanity has touched me in a way that I did not expect such a short story to do. I think it is just wondrous, and if we all get a pair of boobs (or get turned into a candy-colored equine) to go along with it, the more the merrier!

Keep up the good work, Chatoyance.

-Ristar, the Shooting Star

>>317207317207

I don't think there's anything wrong with something as completely off-the-wall as this story occasionally. It is bad science, but it's fun bad science! Besides, this has everything to do with TCB. Humanity is transformed into a superior species, but instead of magic changing humans into Ponies, we have a genetic virus (impossibly perfect and pervasive I.E. magic technology and therefore silly bad science) that turns humans into compassion-mans.

>>314650314650

I very much like these stories, particularly The Pony Singularity, The Most Decadent Thing, and Phoenix in Hooves.  I would love to see any of these three turned into a larger story, if you ever decided to do so, though I am not quite sure how well that would work with Phoenix in Hooves, as you wrapped it up pretty neatly as an Equestria origins story.  While reading these three, especially The Most Decadent Thing and Phoenix in Hooves, but also somewhat from The Pony Singularity, I was very much reminded of some of Isaac Asimov's work, The Last Question in particular.  I got a little bit of a Ghost in the Shell vibe from The Pony Singularity, in addition to being reminded of Asimov.  You have been and continue to be my favourite TCB author.  

I hope my occasional teasing you for "breath" doesn't annoy you too terribly.  

Hm... one was Skynet, Sunshine and Rainbows Edition. I don't think it was too many years in the future, but I can say that what we saw of it was pretty plausible. Also a dash of Apprentice Adept, if I'm not mistaken.

Two was... that's an extremely plausible future. I've always been of the opinion that humanity could eventually learn from its mistakes and collectively pull its head out of its collective ass, and I find it extraordinarily amusing that going to the extreme end of where we currently are could lead to people actually wanting to do that as the latest fad.

Three... I have to respectfully disagree on the feminist part of the message here. Wars have always been about greed, violence is simply the method men chose to utilize. Whether for control, money, or power, I can't see women being any less ruthless if they made it to the top, even though the methods would likely differ. In the case of this particular story, however, I can accept the letter if not the spirit, since most people would have been focused on the obvious evils rather than the subtle ones, which were mostly likely also removed.

Four. Highly amusing idea. Nanomachines... I do believe Cracked.com actually rated them as most likely to end the world, all but one of the others being the LHC if I remember correctly. The memory banks being damaged and resulting in ponies... yeah. From the bronies responsible, I can almost hear the 'whoops... you're welcome!' Also a highly believable future.

Five. Eh, pretty realistic take on if the Singularity wasn't so inevitable. Not really anything special otherwise. Could be expanded into a full-on revolution/espionage/underground railroad style story if you wanted, but it's not really anything other than a brief action piece as-is.

Overall... good show.

So that's why canterlot is on a hill....

This has been real eye opener Chaty.  Every angle similar in result whilst altering the fundamental philosophical question.  Each has left me wanting more from the subsequent universe, yet on edge to see what you’ll come up with next.

If you have anymore to add to this wonderful collection, please do hun.  I’ll be watching with bated breath

And as if by plot device

That was a fun twist! I like it!

This was an incredibly weird and provocative story, quite honestly obviously designed to feature a good solid stick for poking into a hornets' nest of thought with.

It's only tangentially pony and I don't agree with every observation there (for example, I can say with absolute certainty that girls really are good at being absolute bitches), but again, that's not the point. Fantastic in multiple meanings of the word and a little disturbing. Just how I like it. Of all the universes out there though, this one holds no appeal. I'll make sure to set my Equestrian Portal for a different variation if that's alright

Out of all of them so far, this is my favourite because it is so far removed from everything. I like the way you describe this impossibly vast, ancient and impatient society of hedonists such that, as mad as it is, it makes twisted sense.

And then to have these post-humans reintegrate... fascinating. Whatever you were smoking, I want some.

Cool.

Whoa. Heavy stuff. Well done, but very intense. I wasn't expecting something this metaphysical. Not complaining, but when you aren't ready for this, it's something of a sucker punch.

>>328147328147

Yes! Each of these stories is supposed to be... a sucker punch. A complete re-envisioning of the Conversion Bureau. My goal is to show really different ways to interpret the idea of the Conversion Bureau itself, and to do so in creative and original forms. I want to blow minds here. I want to shake things up.

I'm a radical dudette: I can't play by their rules, baby.

Whoa whoa wait a minute. Ponies are supposedly immortal and they can't reproduce?

And the princesses are literally offering their realm as an after-life paradise?

*mindgasm

Somehow it feels like Doctor Who related stuff

Id just like to say, thank you, for these six masterpieces of literary creativity.

Out of all of the stories i have ever read, i don't think i have ever given so much close attention to each word that works its way thru my mind.

Stories like these, are what i seek to quench my thirst for a more open minded, and creative view of the world around me.

P.s #3 was just a tad.. awkward....

>>312950312950 Well the Singularity is roughly defined as when the human condition undergoes a fundamental change. It's called that because we don't have a concept of what is beyond it, because any predictions we make are based on the existing human thought process. So as far trans-humanism stories go, this one's premise pretty much hits the nail on the head.

>> Chatoyance

Oh fantastic! My very first story, not only my first fanfiction, not only my first TCB tale, but my VERY FIRST attempt at lengthy creative writing has trans-humanism as a recurring theme. From the description alone, I've already been outdone! I really hate to ask from such an obviously gifted writer, but could you give this scribe a few helpful tips?

Oh. My. God. Awesome premise, although there isn't going to be any more to the story in this chapter, is there?

Still as awesome as always.

Wow. Dark chocolate sitting in a cup of black coffee in the woods at midnight on a new moon ain't as dark as this.

Pardon me, I need to go look at something adorable for about an hour...

I'm honestly surprised the didn't think about the Earth fracturing. If Earth had split into several pieces...it would be so funny to see their faces. You saved Earth by destroying Equestria. Have fun on your living hells.

Grim AND dark...  But not grimdark.

Scary dark.

The beginning of this, the part in Canterlot, reminds me so much of a chapter I wrote for a CB story that I had in the early stages....  I had just about decided to scrap it in favor of some other stories that I think are more promising -- but reading this makes me waffle and think about picking it up again.  

Meh.

Seriously, replace every long and detailed analysis of LITERALLY absolutely everything in that story with the one conclusion I would always come to: Meh.

I'm sorry, but that's the honest truth. Meh.

Just... it's good, but it's kind of like the generic Bad End of a video game. This kind of worse than you imagined story is only as horrifying as your emotional investment in it, and in this case I had none.

Ok, fine, I suck at criticism. Most readers will react properly horrified at this. But for me, I was knocked right out of the reading mentality. I started unemotionally analyzing the story, and for me everything was Meh. Sorry.

And you have one the award for darkest fiction... cupcakes may be gruesome but my god it wasn't this horrific

>Celestia beheaded

>screaming, bleeding forever

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Oh god. There goes my sleep tonight

can you please expand on this story i love the whole idea of it and think it could turnout to be an epic story

...i ... only emoticons can sum up what i feal right now

(Ralph introduced [i read 800 year promise])

(celestia assassinated)

(in the end)

I believe this alternate universe expresses how the greedy, and prideful believes of a few unrelenting people, can can cause an entire history of greed, and hate to repeat itself, even in a new world...

Okay. Could have reeeealy done with not reading this before I went to work

That struck really close to home, Chaty.  The unspoken truth for any author in the CBU is that no matter what we write it is a lie.  Humanity would prevail, they're 'ingenious' like that.

And war? War never changes.

Equestria is pulverized, humanity flourishes, Celestia is damned for all eternity, and a part of me just died gruesomely, screaming and choking on it's blood. A piece of work, though.

"Mankind Triumphant"

Oh, this can't be good.

"Agent Ralph Vitoni"

Oh, this really can't be good.

"Discord"

Shit.

*gets to the end*

... Bad end. Everyone loses, though not everyone realizes it.

America...

America...

America, FUCK YEAH!

Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,

America, FUCK YEAH!

Freedom is the only way yeah,

Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,

America, FUCK YEAH!

So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,

America, FUCK YEAH!

What you going to do when we come for you now,

it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

FUCK YEAH!

McDonalds, FUCK YEAH!

Wal-Mart, FUCK YEAH!

The Gap, FUCK YEAH!

Baseball, FUCK YEAH!

NFL, FUCK, YEAH!

Rock and roll, FUCK YEAH!

The Internet, FUCK YEAH!

Slavery, FUCK YEAH!

FUCK YEAH!

Starbucks, FUCK YEAH!

Disney world, FUCK YEAH!

Porno, FUCK YEAH!

Valium, FUCK YEAH!

Reeboks, FUCK YEAH!

Fake Tits, FUCK YEAH!

Sushi, FUCK YEAH!

Taco Bell, FUCK YEAH!

Rodeos, FUCK YEAH!

Bed bath and beyond (Fuck yeah, Fuck yeah)

Liberty, FUCK YEAH!

White Slips, FUCK YEAH!

The Alamo, FUCK YEAH!

Band-aids, FUCK YEAH!

Las Vegas, FUCK YEAH!

Christmas, FUCK YEAH!

Immigrants, FUCK YEAH!

Popeye, FUCK YEAH!

Democrats, FUCK YEAH!

Republicans (republicans)

(fuck yeah, fuck yeah)

Sportsmanship

Books!

I LOVE YOU CHATOYENCE!!!!

*reads Chatoyance's comment on CB: Going pony.* Ok humanity winning one of these. This should be nice. A nice story on humanity pushing back the soft extinction of it's people and maybe learning to get along with the ponies and perhaps get some trade going. Maybe earth ponies could help turn back the damage done to the earth. After all even the fatcats would like some nice unpolluted air- *reads fic*

"More than this, humanity is represented as realistically and as truthfully as I can manage, with both noble self sacrifice and total dedication to the future, and the historic values of humankind."

How is noone batting an eye at xenocide even remotely close to human values?! Yes, we definitely have some real monsters among us, but for the most part humans are a pretty nice species. Hell, we're one of the few species that's even capable of altruism. Not gonna mention the corporations though, some are blood thirsty enough to try something like this.

Allstate: We kill ponies.

Walmart: Always evil. Always.

And yes at this point I'm being goofy.

I do like the fact that after all that effort the ponies put into defeating Discord, humanity just up and proceeds to end him permanently. I at first thought they were going to break him free and try to strike a deal with him. Definitely didn't see them chucking him into a pulverizer. Heh, in a way, he got to cause chaos one last time as well as get his revenge which totally doesn't give me a mental scene of humanity going right back to blowing each other up with Discord's laughter echoing through the air.

Chatoyance, you were right though, humanity did win. I'm gonna go read the rest of Going Pony. I could use some more pony now. Good job on this by the way. I feel like I just got gut-punched.....I'm going to go find a banana.

>>331577331577 Considering Equestria is free-floating vapor now, magic is gone, earth ponies are mere animals again, and Celestia is effectively one of those head-in-a-jar from Futurama, I'm thinking yes. Pretty sure there's really no place to go from here.

> agent Ralph Vitoni.

Oh shit, this isn't going to end well, is it?

>>337462337462

Oh god, it didn't

Excellently done, and painful to read, so very, very painful.

And now I need a hug :(

*begins reading all the chapters*

Oh my, scifi flavored conversion bureau?

*nomnoms the story*

Mythological cb? Don't mind if I do!

*many stories later*

I'm full, so many flavors. I think I'm sick.

What's this? Humanity wins?

Ok, just one more chapter.

*scarves down chapter 7*

...

It tastes...

... It tastes like....

POISON!

*vomits purple goop*

Nyooo, you made me eat teh sad!

*vomits*

So sad!

Ps: they are all gems of stories, even the last one dispite its large amount of sad ;_;

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Too bad I'm not a writer myself

I tip my hat off to you dear wonderful creator.

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I have to say Chat.  You created some might fine universes for people to create a story with.  The only one that I did not like was #7, but that's more due to personal problems rather than issues with the world story itself.  (Celestia's head eternally screaming...    That is one that's going to give me nightmares.)

I think you managed to reach the goal that you had set in trying to make several compelling concepts.  All we need now is a 'Pride' and 'Midnight's Tail' to seal the deal.  

i would love to expand on story six (assuming that i would be aloud to expand on it), but i am severely behind on my fic. all brilliant thank you for writing

Boy, are they going to be in for a nasty surprise eventually.

Sun. and. Moon.

this is BRILLIANT!!!

the entire thing sounds like the middleman combined with Dead like me with just a hint of Doctor Who thrown in for good measure, and the result is BEAUTIFUL!

I would love to see some followup on this.

Also, I apologize for linking to TvTropes.

Woooooo! Bravo

Have to say, I'm personaly quite tempted by a few of those consepts, specificaly the machine singularity. The last one has a lot of potential too, but like any 'apocoliptic' setting there's no way I should ever write for it, because all I'd want to do if fix things, which never provides a good story

Anywho, THANKYOU CHATTY!  A wonderful colection shorts, each a window into a whole other parralel univerce, like a hall way of paintings depicting the same scene in difrent seasons.  I only hope you enjoyed writing these as much as I've enjoyed reading them!

Oh... Wow...

Being a person deeply interested in the passing of time, of past and future history, this is... Wow, and the amazing, mind-blowing thing is, well, this is actually realistic. Actually, properly realistic. If you think about, there are a large number of people even today who make it their personal job to know about every "hottest trend" and every new thing, imagine how massively blown up that gets when people have direct links to the universe-wide-web in their minds. When people are born from nothing, from nobody, and given vast amounts of information, they base their entire being on it. Because it seems, that these two individuals live almost entirely in the mind, so much so that experiencing something like agony is a leisure, and leaning against a wall or breathing is actually something new.

Liked, already tracked, and five stars for a strange kind of realism.

Huh. Interesting.

To all those saying that men aren't the bad half, they are right.

But then, there ought to be a reason that men start all the wars, that bar fights are always started by men, and that the social norm for men is to be tougher, meaner then the other half of the world.

>>316028316028

Sounds about right, yes.

Maybe Celestia is secretly my computer? After all, it is named TMA-0

Ummm, I just want to note that the amount of hormones to make a man grow boobs would render them infertile, effectively killing the human race.

Oh man!

These stories are... amazing! They are simple, amazing, pure stories, each belonging to a universe, similar, yet unique and wildly different. Like Ra10k said, reminds be a bunch of that show "Dead like Me"

>>341149341149

Sterility isn't guaranteed; it's only a risk. (A high risk, but not 100%.) Besides, this is genetic engineering (and science fiction) -- the creator of the virus could have accounted for that and engineered the male gonads to be able to operate on other hormones besides the staple androgens.

I do observe that Mankind Triumphant can't be EXACTLY the same universe as The 800 Year Promise or 27 Ounces. That's not a problem, of course, since this was already stated to be a set of alternate universes. It can't be the same as 27 Ounces because if Celestia's blood is the primordial ponification serum, it should have been red like the female-only potion. And it can't be the same as The 800 Year Promise because Celestia's magic maintains its potency when there's no connection to Equestria.

>>317207317207

That really hits the nail on the head there. You said it better than I could have (or did).

>>341131341131

Only if your computer is a featureless black non-reflective rectangular solid with dimensions in the precise ratio of 1:4:9. Keep in mind those ratios don't stop at three dimensions.

Humanity wins has stabbed me deeper then cupcakes and rainbow factory.

It created a headcanon of Celestia, screaming, in a chest. Forever and ever and ever ever and ever and ever and ever and ;_; ever and ...

Someone write a sequel, where we let her out or something

>>341149341149

Not even close. Gynocomastia is a surprisingly common problem for men, and the primary cause is hormone imbalance. Fertility might be lowered, sex drive might be lowered, but it also might not. Sterility is not guaranteed.

Yes, it is possible to chemically castrate a male with estrogen. However the dose needed for this is well above what is needed to grow breasts. The changes described in the story would not eliminate the human species. They would, however, very likely help reduce the population -over time- to a reasonable level where a Malthusian nightmare was not likely. Another benefit.

Even if all males became infertile, though, it has been demonstrated that it is a surprisingly simple matter to convert skin or fat cells into viable sperm. Already animals with a female father have been born using this technique and I think I recall it being used for a lesbian couple. We have the technology, right now, to assure that even an all-female version of humanity could survive and thrive. Another technique permits even three or four individuals to share their genes and be co-fathers and co-mothers to a single child.

Thanks to technology, males are effectively superfluous right now. The human species would absolutely survive, even if every last male vanished tomorrow.

It would simply be an all-female humanity that used technology to manufacture viable sperm from collected cells. Reproduction would be divorced from sex, and become a conscious choice rather than an accident in every case. The only children born would be wanted children, deliberately chosen and available only to those that could afford to pay the cost of conception, and by extension, to provide for them.

Jesus fuck. That would be so much better. No unwanted, starving children, ever, anymore. Holy shit.

Wow. Good thing that will never happen, huh?

i took this snippet of a small story and started a sort of "continuation"..

it is not anything to look at at the moment.

just ideas out there waiting to be formatted to something more tolerable.

but this is an amazing chapter and one that is closer to the true TCB universe.

metamemes. they could appear soon

so she brought up MLP files instead of earth files? aleast she didnt get not clop files

that was pretty badass

that seems...a bit unfair, what about people who dont become agents of the bureau?

so much win

I have the beginnings of an idea for Mankind Triumphant!. Basically, an alien race (another universe or solar system) comes to see if Earth is ready to join them. Earth is deemed unworthy because of the destruction of Equestria. And that's all I have for now, but it will have cities being completely destroyed and humans turning Celestia's blood into a weapon. No clue where it will go though.

>>332596332596 I agree, this specific story seems like it could make for an amazing series.

Aah, (I refrain from reading the final afterword/note -thingy before I write this) I sure didn't waste my time reading this, time well spent, but instead of bluntly telling what I think about these universes I'll describe in short what kind of a short film I'd make out of each short story.

1# The one with the twist. Excellent movie material! Ambient atmosphere, a bizarre mystery, a nice dia-/monologue, and flashbacks as well. Perfect! The very end might be a bit hard to straight up transfer to film, so I might have to take some liberties...

2# Just the setting of this one can't satisfy for too long, and a lot of the story is concepts the characters are thinking about. Envisioning something like this is always hard, which is the beaty of it. In the end, I might succeed, I think the feelings can be put to film.

3# Nobody would give me any budget to film this one. If we'd keep it a secret, the hormone thing... until the end, or maybe the middle... It could be done, but... All in all, not a very cinematic tale.

4# Well, this one has a simple plot. With dramatic visuals it could become a powerful piece. No need for narration, let the visual flashbacks speak for themselves. Most would still lose it at some point or another, but what the heck... This one needs good music.

5# This one's more of a shocking experience than a drama. I doubt people would enjoy a faithful adaptation, I mean, there probably a lot of screaming. A challenge nonetheless, the backstory would have to be carefully explored somewhere amidst Andres' efforts -- or I could just leave it out. But who watches short films anyway? Scream away!

6# Dialogue always makes a story more appealing. "The Mysterious Shop" plot does give an entire setting already, so filming this one would be a delight! The plot "twist" at the end is kind of ridiculous, though, for a movie.

7# Ponies killing ponies... And big explosions? YEAH! This one is the least standalone story, so liberties would have to be taken, I don't want to get sued, y'know. Bidding Michael Bay to produce (side note: dark? It's not dark, it's Humanity Triumphant! Go us! Make things explooooode!).

Now after reading the final notes I'd have to say that 7# would be the most interesting to write about (however, I'd shorten the time frames. A pony living for over 150 years? That's just too much...). Possibly 6# and 5# as well, but they lack human-pony interaction by default (not necessarily, of course, if one is willing to take things further).

I will say this Chat

You've given me so many devilish ideas for the Action arc of my fic, because I am just that politically-inclined writer.

Also in regards to Story 7: Let's just say Vindel Mauser would be so very proud of this batch of humanity, who knows how many war mecha he could sell (his theme from Super Robot Taisen Original Generations 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdfcFuiiv2s&feature=related )

Well, I can hardly say this comes as a surprise to me, seeing as I've read Unicorn Jelly and Pastel Defender Heliotrope, but I have to say, you are still an expert at building mind-blowing universes which don't need a shred of suspension of disbelief, because they simply fit. Everything you build is believable, and that's what makes it awesome

So, I salute you, and will now read on to see in what other ways you can blow my mind

"... and so, not but a world ends, but an entire universe collapses.

no-one will care. care went out of fashion ages ago, but ponification has become colder than hot, so many look out from the bubble as the last of the world is consumed, commenting on the great show.

come with me, to the bureau, I promise you that every instant will bring a new emotion unfelt for aeons.

Oh, and do try to worry about the end of the universe. worry is very much in fashion nowadays."

/\ the result of me reading this after an entire night without sleep.

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So you're basically saying that overpopulation is solely the fault of all men and that a society composed only of women would solve all such problems? As opposed to overpopulation being a problem brought on by a lack of education about contraception and cultural attitudes about reproduction with the blame equally distributed between men and women. Don't get me wrong, you're a GREAT writer. Your CB stories are some of the best sci-fi I've read in a while. It's just that blaming men for the world's problems is rather offensive to me, oddly enough. Not many things DO offend me like that. Then again, I could just be seeing an implication where one was never intended.

Articulating myself at a quarter to one in the morning is hard...

As soon as I read "Agent Ralph Vitoni", man. You should've seen the look on my face.

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And in the end, the only winning side was the dinosaurs.

I do wish I had the skill and time to write, I can think of a bunch of awesome alternate universes.

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No. I am saying nothing of the sort. Not even vaguely.

I am saying that Thomas Malthus was absolutely right, and that only a planned society, run intelligently can prevent overpopulation, and that a species that breeds without limit or let is inevitably doomed.

I am saying that the patriarchal attitude that women are property and not people, that they are rightfully to be used for making babies alone, and at best tolerated as individuals contributes to the problem of overpopulation in an incredibly vast way.

I am staying that this is why the third world, filled with that same patriarchal ideal, with religions to back it up, is hopelessly damned to a Malthusian nightmare... excuse me, is currently experiencing a Malthusian nightmare... and that there is no cure for this, because they simply do not want to hear their beliefs are destroying them any more that men in the first world want to hear that women only make 60% of what males make for the same jobs, everywhere, in virtually every first world nation.

I am saying that since education is impossible - they won't listen, or consider it 'cultural genocide', that force is impossible - no nation or group of nations is going to conquer and re-educate the entirety of the third world, they can't, and since the driving force for the whole matter is a heady mixture of hormones, sex, power, and testosterone-fueled patriarchy mixed with religious fervor, that the only possible hope to avoid a massive collapse is...

... some kind of drastic and total social change, likely involving the alteration of humanity itself. Why? Because humankind is manifestly unequipped for a technocratic civilization. Humans are hunter-gatherers who still behave as they did 25,000 years ago. Humanity is a baby with a gun.

I am not saying that 'men are bad'. I am saying that humanity was evolved for a lifestyle that does not involve agriculture and high technology, and we need to change dramatically if we want to live on. Only evolution is too slow to save us, so... either we change our biology, or we will die, en masse, and have to start over again. Like we have many times before. For the same reasons.

I do, however, ask the reader to consider how much better the world would be if the ideal of nurturance, rather than territoriality was dominant in the world. The difference is mother versus warrior. If our species was more the former, I honestly believe we would not be staring at the largest extinction of life in the history of the planet, nor the most critical survival-versus-annhilation age in the history of our species.