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Thanks. Blood sugar was crashing as I tried to finish, eating granola bars now.
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Bucky is now in a place where he has no choice to let go and let others, so the barriers are coming down, slowly but surely.
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Hope you're feeling better, man. I love this story so much, I just want to see errors get fixed.
Damn... that's some harsh after effects. And just where did you learn that magic, Buckminster?
Hmm... Celestia altering memories...
I dunno how I feel about her doing this with adults.
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The Ponyville Project is to important for the long term.
Plus, would you want to live a life having vivid memories where you were sexually aroused by a child?
One bad act of magic could theoretically introduce serious mental illness into surrounding society and incalculable harm. Imagine a bunch of ponies feeling sexually attracted to foals... and then liking it, and wanting to nurture that attraction.
Greater good, ends justify the means, pragmatism, etc.
Celestia is chasing something too, just like Derpy chased Bucky, and everypony in this story is doing in some form or another. Mistakes get made. Bad things happen. Good things happen. Ripple effects take place.
As someone who can't write to save his life,allow me to say "You're a monster. Please continue."
Also, yes:trbailey.net/g2/d/15129-2/bender-shits-bricks.png
Damn, Tia, that's some Foundation-level shit right there.
Hrrrrrrmmmmm. I'm not sure I'm entirely at ease about the aftermath....but I suppose it's all for the best. Mental stuff is weird like that.
Wasn't expecting Bucky to be put down for that long, but hey, stories go in unexpected directions all the time.
4355105 id rather live with that knowledge than have my memories altered without permission. Besides, as stated at the end of the chapter, he was proud of his resistance. Maybe he would want the memory removed, but that would be his choice. At the end of chapter 9 you specifically stated you wanted to make celestia not seem manipulative or villainous. I thought you did a good job. As far as i could tell Celestia really hadn't done anything i would consider immoral, simply subtly pushing ponies towards a hopefully greater good. But the memory thing has taken that and completely erased it. Unfortunately i am now forced to consider her in a much less favorable light.
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Yes and no.
Self control is a big part of OCD and the need to assert control over everything. I agree, we see that here.
But we also see a lot of repression happening in other places, and the fact that Bucky does a lot of emotional cramming, stuffing stuff down and never letting it out.
Neurosis combines elements of both into one big anxiety fest.
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I never said she'd stay that way. (Said for humour)
This is already turning into a "Cheerilee is a bad teacher" scenario again.
So memory alteration. Seems somewhat appropriate. After all, that would definitely be categorized in the traumatic events category.
how could we NOT remember discord shitting bricks last chapter?
4355194 True. I was just concerned that you were trying to glorify repression. Seems that I was wrong and you had the right idea after all.
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But you made a very important illustrative point for those that don't know the difference, which is important. So we split the difference and say we're both right for different reasons.
Repression is also used in psychology as a bit of an umbrella term as a catch all.
Woah, wait. What gives them the right to memory wipe everyone? Maybe you justify it on the kids so they aren't scarred, but the adults need this info.
Oh wait. Sorry, forgot I'm dealing with Celestia. Continue treating your subjects like rats in an experiment. Carry on then.
Loved it. Celestia altering memories is somewhat troubling, but it's also understandable in this situation. Dinky and Pina are just foals and shouldn't have to shoulder that kind of burden that Dinky could've been raped to death, and that Pina would've likely been involed. Same with the adults. Bucky is like one of the best OCs around! Also, Lyra and Bon bon hooray!
Edit: Discord is also a hero, and so is Fluttershy for being his friend!
Small nit pick before I head into the world of adult-like responsibility, second to last line needs a "be" in it. That is all
Your fan,
Aerigim
P.S. If this has already been pointed out, I'm very sorry.
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I cannot help but think about how many suicides she might be preventing, or drinking, or social ills, or ripple effects, all manner of things. The idea horrifies me, but I am a human trying to imagine herd structure using sociological imagination.
Herd integrity would probably be more important over my own individual concerns.
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Agreed. Everypony was literally being magically compelled into their actions and thus not responsible for them in my opinion. Especially since nopony except Bucky was seriously hurt.
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Actually, the herd subplot involving Rumble is a bit more important than it appears for now. In this continuity, Rumble is Flitter's foal, but is acknowledged as Thunderlane's little brother due to societal pressures. It is leading to an event that is going to involve a large white pony in the future.
If you paid attention to Berry Punch's ranting, she had to fight to keep Pina, not because of Clan Pickled's perceived drinking problem, but because of their herd marriage practices, and they were all considered unfit parents because of this.
Meanwhile, Twilight Sparkle flies off to Fillydelphia...
I've been dropping all kinds of hints and clues for a while now, little nudges about coming events.
The herd issue seems a bit one sided. By only presenting the side of the ponies suffering from the ban you're kinda making it look like Celestia outlawed it for shits and giggles.
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Intentional for now.
Forced perspective, sort of like what I did with Cheerilee and a number of other subjects earlier on.
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No. She is just a close 'sisterly' flock mate.
I am glad this was a short one, i don´t have time for two long chapters this morning, but i really like the story
i think this is a good chapter.
Well i sure did, read right passed it then came back when it hit me that he just did that, bust out into a fit
If this story continues like this my gut will become busted
Yes that is exactly what happened... and nothing else.
Fuckin, yes. Just, yes.
Celestia you dirty liar.
Changing the sexual parts of the memories was most likely the right call but you could at least take responsibility for bashing his head in a wall and cracking his horn.
Yep, Bucky's definitely a type 3.5.
Edit: Also, apparently Discord Does have a heart.
4594156 the heart is chaotic. Of course he has one.
On Chapter 29:
Good lord, you people in these comments have no concept of what surgical memory alteration would actually be like. She's not mentally killing people, and NO ONE needed to know about this. Imagine being trapped inside your own head, feeling it fill with poison that sapped away your will and forced your body to move. To do things you would never, ever do. Things that you would kill someone for if they had done it.
Dinky would have been raped to death. Not one of those people needed to live with the memory they almost killed an innocent child with sexual abuse. You people who look down on Celestia for what she's done are so blindly short-sighted that I feel sick just reading your posts. You know nothing of the way a sapient mind works. You know nothing of the burden of leadership. You can't even understand what it is she's trying to do and the mercy she has granted these people. You all keep talking like she's playing a game with her subjects.
She is the fucking Princess. The entire nation is her burden to bear. Ponyville has it great because she personally sees to it due to her interest in it. She's not playing a game, she's trying to better understand how her subjects feel and react and think. No ruler can do that. No form of government can absorb this information. No anarchist body could even hope to conceive. She is working tirelessly for the future. In a few decades all these ponies will be dead. They will cease to matter to the world by virtue of no longer being part of it. If she were a fully objective ruler, Celestia wouldn't care about them either. She's practically a guardian of the world insomuch as how important her role is to the planet and the fact Equestria is the top dog of the world's races and nations. What's the lives of some generations of ponies weighed against that?
And yet, what is she doing? She's caring. She worries. She takes time away from the big picture (the only thing that actually matters in the long run) to try and smooth things over. There's a reason why she was Magic, Generosity, and Kindness. She's not some evil tyrant or uncaring mastermind. Everything that's been written about her so far shows she is a warm and loving person, but even more than unicorns - a ruler has to greatly repress their own personal emotions and feelings on subjects in order to do what is best for EVERYONE at the time.
And for everyone in Ponyville, memory alteration was a godsend. A blessing. So many of them no doubt would have killed themselves if they'd kept their memories unaltered. Others would have wasted away into nothing, a prolonged half-death. Others still would have gone insane in one way or another, either trying to accept what they had been forced to do and nurturing that horrible event as something to be repeated, or losing all sense of their equinity and becoming raving mad.
So many wrongs prevented. Yet all you people do is whine that memories were altered. This is why you people aren't social leaders. Why you'd never be able to rule a country if you were in Celestia's position. Your petty and flawed morality would keep you from doing the true right thing in order to save as many as could be saved. You would have condemned all these ponies to death or a fate worse than death because 'memory alteration is bad'.
... Wait, I see what's going on here. Luna bent Filthy Rich's will and mind with carefully-crafted nightmares to influence and manipulate him directly, using his memories and fear against him - and no one said anything, they even praised Luna for it. Celestia removes the worst spearpoints of a horrific and traumatic event from good and innocent ponies so they can live with themselves, and you all get up in arms. More godsdamned pointless Celestia-hate - how many of you even realize you don't have real reasons to hate her? You work based on bias without true logical assertion and understanding, just saying things that feel plausible enough to fill the gaps left by lack of comprehension and deduction.
4594156 Bucky and Bondage, Edition 3,5.
Actually, that's awful, hmm... Bucky and Bonfires? Freakin' Wizards.
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4985239 Amen
Mind-edits and dream manipulation, that is why I couldn't live in Equestria. I understand with poor Piña, but it shouldn't be done to others without permission.
Yes, I see what you did there, discord shit bricks.
Good ol' Discord
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Preach it
4985239 As little my words carry meaning I bow to thee in respect.
Awesome chapter man, and... whew... whew...
Awesome job on this dude.
5168628 I approve of this comment, 10/10 would read again.
Don't you mean he shit brix?
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Wow talk about pushing your shelf pass your ablites. What he do was like asking a Chevy sonic make 500HP on a Nitrous oxide mad dash to red line on the stock 1.4L turbo engine.
Because of this:
I now owe my graveyard shift roomie (who WAS sleeping) a 2-liter bottle of Pepsi.
Worth it!
Markiplier reference?
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Derpy's cutie mark is a bunch of bubbles