(AKA "a human sells out")
If there's no proof that ponies are ponies, then there's no proof changelings are changelings, right?
That totally makes sense.
Anyway, after getting blasted to the Deer Kingdom with the power of public displays of affection, some changelings talk about ethical problems and their sex lives.
This may or may not lead to mutiny.
Takes place in the Matterverse, a multiverse that encompasses every possible variation of the half-hour after the Canterlot Wedding in which all of Equestria suddenly drops everything and begins philosophizing furiously.
Stories in the Matterverse are currently Would It Matter If I Was? (the original), What Matters More? (I'll read it eventually), Do It Mattered If I Is (what), and, just to spite the admins, Yes, It Matters (the grammar is more heinous than the content).
And this thing, I guess. No, it didn't inspire me.
Not related in any way to the other story of the exact same name. (The capitalization's different, wasn't it obvious?)
Never have I been more tempted to upvote based purely on the description. After reading the story I can safely do so without feeling an ounce of guilt — it was good. Technically proficient, fits the mould while treading new ground, mildly amusing… overall it was a good take on the whole phenomenon.
Yay!
Sometimes I forget that you're good for more than just surprisingly good, really whacky metafictional stuff.
Quick note: 'Free Wills' might, in a sense, be correct - each changeling has an individual will of their own - but I usually see it written as people having free will, singular. Like how we all have faith or hope, not faiths and hopes (well, sometimes hopes).
Alright, now it's time to check out Masterweaver's story of the exact same title.
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That's because the concept of faith is a type of noun called an abstract noun. Abstract nouns are always treated as singular in terms of grammar, even if they are acting as a plural in meaning.
On the other hand, hope is a common noun, and seeing hopes used is auite common. Every heard of the term "hopes and dreams"?
Will is a tricky case, because will and free will are two different, but very similar terms. The concept of free will, the ability of a being to make decisions on their own, is an abstract noun, and is always treated as singular. In contrast, will is an individual being's manifestation of free will, and is a common noun.
Faith does the same thing when comparing the concept of faith (abstract noun) to the usage of the word faith as a synonym to specific religions (common noun).
Examples:
"Our free will is a natural right."
"Our wills are all concentrated towards winning."
"Humanity's faith is a wonderful thing."
"John and Jack's faiths are at odds with one another."
Yes, English is dumb and overcomplicated.
Just..... no. No more. The whole fic is a mess, a mess that fails to deliver a message about the whole thing and I fail to see a point where I am entertained.
Or else, it might have been a chance encounter with Nightmare Moon: Black Angel
Another story in the Matterverse, eh? Bring on the comments section blitzkrieg!
I'll be over here in my flame war bunker.
mine was published first
But seriously, this is pretty good.
Can someone create a group for all of the fics based off of "would it matter if it was?" There's over a dozen now
Maybe the author of the original?
EDIT - There's actually already is one
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/209036/would-it-matter-if-i-made-this-group
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Did we read the same fanfic?
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The parodies are a good deal more entertaining than the confirmation bias guilt-trap crap that was the original, in my opinion. Plenty of people pointed out all the problems and fallacies in that story and were ignored due to the influx of people who don't spend time thinking about what they read and take everything at face value. It wasn't entertaining. In some cases it was plain insulting.
These are more fun.
6523613 So in a sense you are saying that because it is a parody it is better.
No.
6523202 It is a mess, and failed to stand on one point to mock or focus its' humor. There was a joke I'm sure but the thing is it's mixed among the tons of tone changes that this fic has. Joke here, serious there, this issue here, more of another issue here, bla bla bla... Seriously leave me be okay? This was too short.
I rarely dislike fics and it's not just the issue that I dislike. It's also the size of this fic that proves that beyond the really overdone idea/parody of this... it really is rushed/sloppy. I mean changelings with names A and B? REALLY? Even changeling headcanons with numbers take more effort and time to make up!
Jesus why do I bother?
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I was actually thinking of making a Matterverse group, and came up with that description as a joke to use on the front page.
Among other things, the forum would be a "friendship deathmatch arena," in which every thread has to be in the form of "Would it matter if I was ______?", and you have to own up to some bizarre, possibly hypothetical secret. Then everyone else has to be really shocked and argue about the morality of it.
…but someone beat me to the punch, so whatever :|
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This is the passage you're talking about, right?
That… was just a typo, but now I'm not sure whether I should fix it or not. :(
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No one outside that story's fandom is going to get that joke.
To improve that joke's accessibility, maybe you could, say, invite large portions of that story's fandom to comment on and like this story? :p
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What the heck!? I could've sworn I searched for that story name and everything, and nothing came up! Arrrgh!
Glad you like it, though :p
6522904 I'm fairly sure that this came out first. It was released on the 9th, while yours came out on the 10th.
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Fwelin has the right of it. Free will is always singular.
I will install this to memory and forevermore know these stories as Matterverse fics.
Someone make a TvTropes page STAT.
If this has any flaws, it's in making fun of Mother Changeling. Love that song.
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I was wondering when someone was going to notice that :p
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I love that song too! I wasn't making fun of it! :(
6532065 Then let me revise my opinion to "flawless."
6523892 they're called Alpha and Beta, not A and B.
6534592 Doesn't matter. My point still stands.
6534649 A and B are also numbers in base 16.
6534660 65 and 66 are also ASCI representations of A and B. Still unoriginal names as fuck.
6534735 But it isn't more unoriginal than using numbers as a naming scheme, because for all you or I know any A or B could be a number.
6534742 Sigh. I hate the numbers thing equally as much. It's a gratuitus attempt to be edgy and cool.
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...I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 16.
6535611 Don't make me put a hex on you! Or force me to make (more) terrible puns!
6534592 Gamma and Epsilon was shocked over the conversation Alpha and Beta was having a little while away. But it sparked the seed of doubt in their minds.
Sorry I just wanted to write Gamma and Epsilon for some reason...
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No, no, it's Γ and ε. Do it right. :p
6561846 I'm sorry Sempai! I just don't know how to do those. Please forgive me Sempai!
6522346 Doesn't 'hopes and dreams' refer to multiple hopes and dreams, whether or not they belong to multiple entities?
Ahhhhhh, this was a nice read... I don't think there are a lot Changeling fics :| is there a group for them?
I wanna read some Changeling fluff.
Nice job!
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There are actually multiple changeling groups. This one appears to be the biggest, though if you want more there's a bunch listed in the "Similar Groups" sidebar of that page.
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thanks for finding that for meh! *glomps*
Ooooh yay!
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thanks for finding that for meh! *glomps*
Ooooh yay!
The link for 'Yes, it matters' is broken.
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Better late than never, I guess...