30 years old closet brony from the center of Europe. Just happily doing my thing in my corner of the internet.
As Twilight discovers it, it's not always easy to make everpony happy when cutting the cake. And that particular day, it seems that they all went crazy all of a sudden, making such demands that it jeopardizes the simple trivial cutting of the cake.
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An idea struck me while reading this, and I was somewhat holding onto it until I was nearing the end: What if this was a nightmare for Twilight?
I mean, it's all mathematical - she's given a problem that she wants to solve as best possible, because it affects her circle of friends directly. And yet they are for some reason putting these increasingly ridiculous demands on her. It's not solveable by numbers and facts, which is (or at least once was) Twilight's go-to solution.
Heh, that aside. I was cracking up a bit at the absurdness of it all. And, we have a bit of a modified lesson from the earliest episodes - that sharing equally amongst your peers is hard sometimes. In the end, they all were equal afterall. And that ending pleased me. Heh. Twilight did solve it with good diplomacy though.
I am missing some second-degree reading, I'm sure. I'll ponder this for a while, and be back if I stumble upon something.
A nice little slice of life.
M
My first reaction was "I can't do the "it was a dream all along" trick, it's too cliché"
. But that said, let's explore the idea.
I actually struggle not to give the actual angle numbers It would have all become way too confusing, even for me. Okay, I'm disgressing.
This actually reminds me of the game "minuette versus tardiness". But this would be "Twilight versus non-mathematical translatable problems". Now this would mean that Twilight is living in an everlasting nightmare, as it would seem that life offers mostly non-mathematical translatable problems. Or not...
It is true most problems tend to be translated into probabilities (which is an actual nightmare into itself, as probabilities aren't actually something we should be taking decision with)...
I think I should think about it a little more actually.
I will admit, I once thought it was too obvious again, so I changed the ending to make it less direct as the second degree reading is a little bit political (which is also why I didn't want to make Twilight's solution too much of a definitive perfect solution).
[edit:] in fact, it is highly political... is it really not as obvious as I thought it was?
Glad to hear it is possible to enjoy the story without the second degree reading
. I was unable to feel how the first degree really is.
I hesitated to point out the connection with the ticket master episode. And I almost stopped writing the story because, as it is usually the case, the show already did the subject and did it way better than I could. But once again, the second degree is quite different as there isn't much of a moral lesson in my story (It would be quite a lack of modesty from myself to give a moral lesson on that subject...).