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it is interesting having one version of yourself as an alicorn, and another with some differences as a human. But then there is the version of you that is acting as a god by writing this story and making it all happen. The thing is, according to multi-verse theory this likely true. Do you feel special being a god. lol.
6354870 You just came so close to a horrible truth.
Haiku ku kachoo:
Children of great strife
In concatenated lives
Stormy horizon
Use the Cthulu Song, you foal ! Eldrich terrors are weak against song magic. Everypony knows that ! Whatever you do, don't counter with psychology (they're 68% psychology by volume) .
6354984 He really should just giggle at the ghosties. Problem solved.
6354972 Little snippets of a life outside this story.
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that you are actually a god, lol
6355078 I would argue anyone with an imagination can claim that.
6355157 I agree.
6355157 Gods I hope not. If so I'm more devil than god. I've unleashed things and stuff. More through scribbling than words. Just picking up on that. Still unleashing things and stuff. It's not like I'm gonna stop but I certainly hope that's not real somewhen. And now that's said.... Hey Silver Stars, It's been cannon since season one that bipolar ponies/people are allowed to break the fourth wall. Giggle at the ghostie, sing a little song, grab a fork and eat a brain, and Smile , Smile , Smile . Or do whatever, either way I've got a good read. I'm headed to my neighbor's to drink beers and play with new puppies. Later Silver, later David 2, later David Prime. Later Over David.
6355356 We require more vespene gas.
6355363 Kikimora used beer and puppies. It wad super effective.
Definitely a tough battle. Wouldn't this be the absolute worst time for the Text to "open paths"?
Keep going! ;)
wow this is going to be a war on several fronts all at the same time.
this is a good chapter.
I guess the larger question is, will every one make it back in one peace?
will they have scars yep, you cant go threw something like this and not be scared.
Harts Fire
This is in reference to the zombies, but that's not immediately clear, since our first thought is for the defenders. I'd change this to "those that had fascinated the one that controlled the living dead were no longer there."
Drop the "ly" from "single-mindedly."
The sun? I seem to recall that creature had waited until it was dark to begin its attack.
Its "still-rotting" and moist innards.
The "sickly-looking" human.
6360411 Typos buried at sea.
6360567 Okay, now this was a good chapter! I found myself enjoying the twist that the creature they're fighting is an entirely non-physical entity; given that the thing was playing into various Lovecraftian archetypes, having it be a completely incorporeal creature was a fun twist. This brings up issues of why it's apparently confined to this particular area, but rather than being a bug this is instead a feature, since this monster is quite clearly playing by different rules.
The amount by which the creature's motivations were showcased was also interesting. It apparently wants the information regarding how Silver can obtain the obedience of those around him. Why would it care, when it's confined to part of the ocean floor? It's mysteries like these - the mysteries themselves, rather than the answers - that help to define this creature by hinting at the alien standards that it plays by, without having to define them (and so letting us define them ourselves). Hopefully we can keep getting more exposition for it along these lines; this isn't so much pulling back the curtain as it is shining a light to let us see just how much of a curtain is there.
I do have to wonder, however, if Silver's battle here is a futile one. He's clearly fighting an uphill battle, because this thing seems to understand him enough to be able to leverage damaging psychic attacks at him, but the reverse doesn't seem to be true. So far this isn't a battle so much as it's Silver trying to deflect attacks and absorbing damage when that doesn't work. He's entirely on the defensive. Given that, I have to wonder if there's any real victory to be had here. Hopefully the boat is proceeding along, and they can simply break off this battle and some point and return to it when it's out of reach from this thing.
It does feel like the issue with underlying how the abhorrent psychic presence was causing revulsion on such a visceral level was worked over a little too hard - repeating the same thing over and over in fairly rapid sequence feels too heavy-handed - but that's an overall minor complaint.
Also...reading about Michael the cat hit me where it hurt.
6361338 Heh, it's nice to see you enjoy a chapter. It feels like the exception of late, which makes me a sad panda, but I push on, telling the story that wants to be told, for better or worse. Stay tuned, we'll get resolution!
6361450 I have been a bit of a grouch lately, haven't I?
I've been thinking about why that is, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm starting to find Silver less sympathetic lately. It's not that he hasn't changed, but lately it's largely been his personal pathos, not as a reaction to the events around him, but in spite of them. He has so much more than most people, be they humans, ponies, or whatnot, but he's still deeply unhappy on a personal level, and at this point it almost feels self-indulgent of him. At some point, you have to stand up and say "I've had bad stuff happen to me in the past, but I have a lot of light in my life now, so I'm choosing to focus on that and be happy."
It's not that Silver hasn't grown, or changed, but at the core of his character, he's still that distraught little boy that wants to be loved...that hasn't changed about him. Okay, change is hard and takes time, fair enough, but after so much time has passed, and so much that's happened, continuing to focus on his personal problems makes much of what's gone before seem pointless, like it's all been a rearranging of the deck chairs. That wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue if we focused on events, rather than how he personally reacts to events, which is why I wanted this story to remain outward-facing in its focus on politics. And that happened for a while, but lately they've been reverting to type.
This current arc is a nice move away from Silver's fear of being happy to an action sequence, so for that I'm glad.
6361478 I must have missed a lot of things? Has Silver not been challenged and up against severe things at most moments? Did he fold up and give up at some point I missed? Should he have been smiling more at the Anubians?
What's a stallion have to do? He's eager to get home and be done with this trip he hasn't planned that's turned out to be pretty awful, without any regard for his past. I think any sane person would also be! Heck, when he got his artifacts together, he was pretty happy about life, and took it by the balls, figuratively.
6361574 I really feel like you're not understanding the point I'm trying to make; I'll try restating my objection (which I might not be very clear on). I'm not saying that I dislike Silver's character; I'm saying that the continual repetition of his childhood angst has made that particular part of him cease to be compelling, and instead become boring.
No, it hasn't been brought up every single chapter, and I like to think that I've been fairly positive about the chapters that stepped away from that (which is why I've been so eager for the story to focus on external events, since those necessarily don't have room for Silver's internal pathos). But when it does come up, it's like hearing Batman talk about his dead parents; it elicits a reaction of "this again?" And it's quite clearly always there. We've seen it when he broke down after he found out he couldn't return Fiddah. We're seeing it again in his conversations with other-David (which has made me dislike him as a character, since he seems to be a foil solely to examine this well-trodden aspect of Silver yet again). Heck, we're seeing it now with Silver's psychic battle with whatever-it-is.
I'm tired of hearing about how Silver's father was cold and emotionally unavailable. I'm tired of hearing about "Dave the Destroyer." I'm tired of it to the point where even the specter of that coming up again - no matter how lightly it's presented or how appropriate it is to the situation at hand - is enough to dampen my enthusiasm for the story. It isn't enough to say "but this is true to the character" as though it can't be helped that this angle has been brought up at all. Of course it can be helped. The story can stop creating situations where this angle has a reason to be brought up.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but this has been presented as the central aspect of Silver's character, and I just don't find it compelling anymore.
6362016 I really don't know how to react to this. I mean, guy with a freeze ray freezes thing. He was there, he had to be dealt with, complaints about weather-related plots feels...
Off...
I don't really know how Fiddah has a damn thing to do with his childhood. Are you saying every moment of immaturity is a call back to his dad? Man, that's deep, and kind of annoying.
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I'm not sure I agree with the analogy, but the complaint isn't "off" if someone points out that writing about a guy with a freeze ray was a bad idea to begin with, because we've had nineteen issues about that guy before, and so his schtick isn't compelling anymore.
I'm not saying that Silver isn't an enjoyable character; I'm saying that his core conflict has become stale. He's a lot more fun when he's out there doing stuff, which is what's going on most of the time - I continue to like those aspects of the character. It's when he puts his daddy issues, and the attendant emotional problems that spring from that (I emboldened that to differentiate them from his other problems), up front that I find him less interesting.
I think that the presence of other-David is a big problem for me in that regard, since he serves no other narrative purpose besides being a convenient method for Silver to keep examining said personal issues.
I was referring to that instance when Silver tried to return her to the Sultan, failed, and ended up crying in Shei's forelegs in the garden about his childhood.
Not all of them - issues that are related to his life in Equestria (e.g. his problems with Celestia, his tumultuous relationship with Luna, etc.) are still things that I find compelling. But the stuff that deals with his childhood doesn't add anything to the story anymore, which makes it pointless when it comes up.
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