“My daughter Celestia, look at me. I love you, and I wish the best for you in the eons of labor you have yet to endure. So heed my words. When we planted light upon the fields of Creation, Celestia, it was a divine thing. But there will come a time when our brilliance won't be enough. It will take a great, unknowable darkness to test the luminescence that we have bequeathed life. That is an abyss that we can never, ever follow our children down, no matter how much we love them.”
A Silver Medalist of the Ponychan /Fic/ Write-Off: "Cutting Ties"
Chapters (14)
What the deuce, chapters that aren't 15k+ words long!?
897910 I agree, I was expecting mmore.
Huh, sounds interesting. Does this tie in with any other of your stories?
I LIKE CARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Trolls already with the -1...
What did I say SS&E, what did I fucking say about posting new fics with The End of Ponies STILL on hiatus.
Also, top 10 comments, thats the equivilent of first for a SS&E fic.
Apparently people are already rating you by the fics you wrote, and not the author you are. Anyways, 15k+ chapters aren't always needed, and good job on this.
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Also, top 10 comments, thats the equivilent of first for a SS&E fic.
QFT
898099 I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOOOUUUU
Also, NINTH!!!!
QFT = Quoted for Truth
FUCKING TEARS
FUCKING TEARS
SHORT SKIRTS AND EXPLOSIONS, I GIVE YOU MY TEARS
This chapter made me cry
Now that I read this, it's definitely worth of the silver nugget it won.
Still haven't cried yet though. I came close, with a trembling lip, but no fic is yet to make me cry. Can't tell if that's a good thing.
Once more, I am surprised by how fast you can write.
this.. this is looking fairly epic right now
..................... wow
Dat was hard on my tear ducts bro
My face is leaking all over the goddamn place now SS&E.
That was freaking beautiful, thank you so, so much for writing that.
You seriously are, hands down, my favorite author on this site.
I'm gonna get back to reading EoP now.
Quite good. A few grammatical errors, but they certainly didn't detract from the story.
Oh Celestia, you almost fell in your own trap again...
...I don't know why I came here expecting a short story.
20k+ words? Fbomb. I don't have time for this right now. I'm certain it'll be awesome, but I've got to come back to it.
Aww... Celly...
Scootalove
Alright, finished at 8:15am.
A couple things. First off. It's concise. It's punctual. It didn't wast any of my time. It didn't drag me around on a whimsical, boring exodus with vague, broken rules. And it managed to have a bucket full of angst that didn't keep me from liking it.
What has happened here?
Something pretty fabulous, I'd have to say. It even made me do that thing, where my eyes got painful for a bit while i refused to cry like some whiny pansy, and pressed onward in my never ending pursuit of plot progression. In fact, minus the couple (read, like 3) grammar errors, this was incredibly solid.
A couple times some details were withheld near the beginning, that would have served to more immediately ground the reader into the universe. Give us a couple more descriptors when bringing up a character for the first time, or say the start of that chapter with "They and they" with no mention of the eyes you were talking about until a sentence or two later, were my only problems.
That and the "..." format.
Yes it's effective. Yes it made me continue on with a fervor that would have been less strong had each chapter begun and ended on a solid mechanical click. I didn't mind it terribly, but as the story wore on i found the use to be weaker and weaker, and was actually calling out for a solid CHAPTER END. CHAPTER BEGIN to break it up. The jumps in time help, but it was that thing you have such a boner for with the
it's like max payne three. When he's stumbling through his apartment, and suddenly in the same camera take he's now stumbling through a burning building during some other point in his life. The character action goes on, repeated from past to present, in a linear translocation. It's good, but i don't want to see you overusing it. It's that spice that can make something BRILLIANT, and would be the best framing device ever, but i fear you're getting a thing for it, like most of my compositions have a slow verse, a buildup, and a fast repeat with additions verse. IT sounds good, but after a while it's all going to sound the same, and you don't want that. ESPECIALLY with the volume of content that you output.
So, i wish the chapters had slightly stonier walls between them. BUT, if this is what it takes to get your chapter length down to something more manageable than 'a billion fucking words', then i support it.
Also fuck you for making me almost cry at a stupid spoilarz deathscene, you prick.
Overall i have no big qualms. I skyped you the grammar problems. Thanks for the reads, you verbose thing you.
Hm.
Not sure if I could have expected anything less from this author.
Lovely.
898350 My little dashie. Your lips will quiver and you may even cry. It's beautiful.
I don't cry often, but I came close here.
I never cry at sad, but true emotions can pull it.
I don't really know what I can say to do this justice, in spite of my massive vocabulary, but it is simply beautiful
That said, I hope the loyalist Changeling Hives start policing the rowdier ones that seem to have gotten it into their collective heads to attack pony kind. They're a crying shame to all our kind.
Will read this later. Still have chapters left to read on broken spirit.
Excellent.
Hell, even if it didn't really add anything new to the whole immortal/mortal divide theme, everything was executed beautifully, as per usual.
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I've actually read that and a lot of other sadfics, but none of them have made me tear up yet for some reason. I'll Fly Higher is probably the one that came closest, though.
I want something that will make me cry, dammit!
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Because I felt it was necessary.
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I have a feeling we're going follow Celestia as she attempts to understand death. I could be entirely wrong, though :/
Welp, you did it again Skirts. Another fantastic tale with a whole crapton of depth. I'd say more, but long comments from me are few and far between. That said, very well done... again.
Hehe, yay, moar Scootaloo and airships! Even if it wasn't a major role.
Also, tears.
I LOVE THIS CHAPTER.
Out of the mouths of foals...
It is our burden to bare as immortals, after all. --> bear
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I agree with you. This is destined to become a classic of the fandom. Though I still don't know what the amniomorphic spell is... Whatever it is, it sounds impressive.
Also: Scootalike.
Ahh, should have known who the admiral would turn out to be.
Another excellent story, instant spot next to Background Pony on my user page wall of epic stories. Well, once I get home, user page editing is a tad painful on my phone.
Awesome. Made me really think about the hardships Celestia really has to go through.
Amazing story
well, is say that this a good story is and i found this trollestia 
story in my dream, and i found this up internet up FIMFiction! Here! This story is my dream! Amazing! 
Amazing story
well, is say that this a good story is and i found this trollestia 
story in my dream, and i found this up internet up FIMFiction! Here! This story is my dream! Amazing! 
You should know that in 'ye olde'-speak, 'thou' is informal and 'you' is formal, so Luna would most likely address Celestia with 'thou,' but most other ponies with 'you.'
Why can't I hold all these feels
beautiful story. once again, thank you for sharing your art.
Personally, I think some of your other works have been stronger. I think this is still a good story, but there are few things with it that held it back from being on the same level as your others. I wasn't entirely convinced by the first few chapters to be honest.
As Spotlight mentioned, a few more details in the beginning would have been nice, but it makes up for it in a big way as the story progresses. Maybe it is just late, but I didn't pick up what the problem of the story was until quite a few chapters in. I knew it had something to do with Celestia because of the flash backs, but for while it seemed like it could have to do with Nova, or some other events occurring in the world. They were in a hurry to get back in Canterlot to the point they were skipping visiting other nobles, and the changlings were apparently in full on shenanigan mode, There was also a lot of exposition regarding the Alicorn's father. Any of these things could have been what the story was going to be about, but I really had no idea which one, or how current event really related to them. I think this is what I felt caused the feeling of "lack of grounding" early on. Basically the exposition seemed like it lasted for too long and wasn't focused enough.
However once the story picked up, it was great. Chapter 9 really stood out in my mind as a great chapter as it becomes clear Celestia was making bad choices, but still seemed like the right thing to do in many ways. The reveals with Scoot and Twilight were great, and the last few chapters really tied the entire story together with was going on with all the different elements in the beginning, and why they were included.
Thanks for writing and posting SS&E.
On a side note, I would love to see another fic set in your Tartarus universe. I really enjoyed TLTIT and all the interesting ideas you introduced.
I read this when it was all ONE SINGLE 20K WORD CHAPTER, so I know of it. I know of its flow, its miseries, joys, uncertainties, triumphs. I've felt all the feels. I cried. That's something your stories do to me, SS&E: make me cry (well, I've only read EoP, but still, two for two
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So have my like, and have my favorite as well, in the off-chance I'm presented the opportunity of showing off the fandom's best. Cuz seriously, how do you make so much, so neatly, in such little time? Either you had written part of this ahead of time, or you have godlike levels of concentration and organizing. In that case, take a break from ponies and better the world of literature. Like, right now.
Anyway, cheers and best wishes on your endeavors (and perhaps finish up EoP... unless it's already finished?)
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It's a oneshot story that's 15,000 words long... split into fourteen chapters.
Touche, shortskirtsandexplosions. Touche
Lonely Is The World - Black Sabbath
Damn...Solid as always Shortskirts...well written, emotional, deep...Very good....Very good indeed...
Well done. I feel like this really points out the pain that comes with immorality. I don't really feel there's much else I could say...
Well done. Very, very well done.
Beautiful.