Everypony makes mistakes, so why not make a spell to correct them before they even happen? Starlight Glimmer had her Magnum Opus. All it had to do was survive testing.
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. ‘Exponentia Reprehendo
I think it's Italian
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Not anymore thanks for ruining it
Little D has her priorities straight. I like that.
7658825 Damn straight. Girl was promised ice cream, and she's going to get it one way or another.
As for this story, I actually liked it. Fits with Starlight's personality and very curious lack of sensible morals.
7658825 Damn straight.
7658508 I'm here now...
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Thanks for the kind words, guys!
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The strange titles are all in Latin.
Well,it seems like Starlight can't be home alone....
Great story!
Dinky's got a point at the end.
In any case, lovely little story of Starlight not thinking things through. Much less disturbing than "Every Little Thing She Does," plus it made great use of Best Filly. Thank you for it.
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Thanks!
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Huh. Less disturbing? She was experimenting on children. I tried to lighten it up as much as I could, at least, but still.
Anyhow, you're welcome. Best Filly was much fun to write.
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At least this time the mind slavery was subtle and had genuinely positive intentions rather than Starlight just trying to cheat her way out of having to learn how to socialize.
Wow, I have weird metrics for this kind of thing.
7659578 it was a reference to the Christmas story
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Amusingly, Twilight was originally supposed to fill the main role when I first thought of this story about a year ago, but I never could make it work well enough. Every Little Thing She Does just showed me that I finally have a character with the appropriately blurred moral lines to pull off my demented little experiment. Even so, I wanted to steer its most adverse effects away from direct fatality. Now it's just playing with fire instead of being like taking too many downers at once. Somehow this is less morally not okay.
It also helped that Starlight doesn't appear to regularly check her assumptions.
That you even have metrics for a comparison like this is the weird part.
I might be wrong here, but this is what I gathered from Twilight's berating explanation:
Sweetie Belle and Dinky have innate magical ability, and Snips and Snails don't? Is that right?
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How the Spell Check works is loosely based on the premise of actual spelling checkers (the kind that tell you "Equestria" isn't a word). Snips and Snails simply aren't responding the the subconscious suggestion, much as someone might ignore or not notice a red squiggly line.
Evidently Snails gets better at magic in later episodes, but he's never been shown to cast a spell of significant destructive power – that part is just them hoping for something out of their reach.
7660466 That's the part I didn't get. Twilight seemed to think that a pony attempting to cast a spell too powerful for them would cause permanent damage. But Snips and Snails attempted just that. Its only in this comment that we learn that they were ignoring the Spell Check's suggestions. Which apparently saved their lives. That's kind of a big deal to leave out of the story itself.
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Ah, I see.
Maybe I'm just oblivious, but I agree with Spamotron in that I don't think that part was clear enough in the story.
I still enjoyed it though!
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Twilight was only noting similarities, not necessarily thinking that it would be exactly the same as being drained by Tirek. Aside from that, you do have a point about what is and is not fully explained in this story, but the scope of the story wasn't intended to include an in-depth explanation of every aspect of what went on, as a lot of it was supposed to be implied. The specifics of the spell merit at least writing into a blog post linked in the Author's Notes box, or perhaps just a sequel/chapter if I have reason to believe it would work. Either way, it would cover all of this.
I'm reminded of a story with a similar idea I read here once. It even ran on the same pun. Very different outcome, though.
This wasn't exactly "laugh out out" funny, but still a solid, well-told story. Not bad.
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Actually, there is a plausible explanation for Snips and Snails from information given in the story. Namely, Starlight's initial library of spells happened to not include any blatant combat magic, but did contain a few flashy fireworks spells a la Trixie. When they called for a beam of destruction, the closest match was a harmless light show.
Sweetie Belle was more imaginative, attempting spells that are useful and practical, so she got closer results, even if there were some unintended consequences.
Dinky, on the other hoof, was being methodical and using references, probably the very same reference Starlight used in compiling her library, so she managed to wreak all kinds of havoc.
Why either a standard book of spells or Starlight's spell would include something that requires an exorcism to deal with is beyond me, though.
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I have written up an accompanying blog post here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/684265/the-magic-of-spellcasting (Others beware of spoilers!)
I hope that you find the answers you seek within it. Lunae Lumen is reasonably close, though.
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If Dinky miscast a simple conjuring spell or scrying spell... it's possible the most similar thing to it was a summoning spell.
Oh no, she's a scientist!
Also, knowing how to do something clearly does not provide the wisdom to know whether it should be done.
Sweetie: I cast Teraport!
Spell Check: Did you mean Tear Apart? Let me fix that for you...
And Dinky's line at the end was golden.
Even without all the fun shenanigans in this story, it's just really cute to see Starlight trying to organize things by herself. You write her really well. I like Twilight's teacherly reprimanding at the end too. Also the idea that she has Ponyville covered by alert spells is great too. I guess she's taking her Princess duties seriously!
How did the Crusaders get there so quickly?
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With the power of a scene break/perspective shift... and Scootaloo's scooter.
I've read through it and it was certainly interesting, but I don't think it falls under the "comedy" tag. I expected something rather more lighthearted from the tags and description, but this has a kind of stressful feeling to it rather than funny. Not that I mind but it left me a bit confused. I liked the writing style though