Forget not that I am a derp.
The introduction of magic to the human world changed everything.
Think about that for a moment. Everything. Economics, physics, hobbies, no part of existence was completely untouched by the transformation. Not even the smallest details.
Sweetie Belle's about to experience that firsthand.
Part of the Oversaturated World. Rated Teen for suggestive moments. Conceived months before the Covid-19 epidemic and unrelated to it in any way, shape, or form. Stay safe, everyone.
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Prophesneeze.
I laughed at the chapter title.
You know that crusty stuff that gets in your eyes when you sleep? It's worse in the Crystal Empire.
Well, nobody turned into a rhino, but that's totally okay :) Magic malfunctions are even cooler
I'm not sure if it counts as a feghoot if the concluding pun is in the author's note...
Disqhorse?
A headcold that causes random bursts of aspect-typed magic? That's going to run the gamut from silly to deadly, depending on who picked it up. I foresee a market for medical magic restraints, symptom suppression and all that, yes?
for regular people, congested sinuses screw up the sense of taste. Interesting that the cold here that clogs up both of them screws with their vision. And Rarity should have pointed out that as Sweetie Belle couldn't see properly she did need someone there
Nice story overall. I was kind of expecting a story with a bug going around the school
That took some turns.
This was most enjoyable, thanks.
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I genuinely giggled a bit when I realized that pegasus-aspects would literally sneeze up a storm.
I was almost laughing my socks off, that is a funny story. 9/10
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Sometimes the chapter title doesn't come to me until a few minutes before submission. Sometimes it comes before the story title. This was one of the latter.
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Any day in the Empire without a scratched cornea is a blessing.
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I was trying to be a little subtle. (Besides, Discord -> Q seemed like a logical transition in and of itself.
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Many companies would soon declare that being near a sneezing earth aspect voided device warranties. The resulting discrimination lawsuit was legendary.
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Bad enough that the story involves a character getting sick. I am not writing a story about an epidemic right now.
Sneezie Belle! Funny and heartwarming story, and IMO just the kind of a little distraction from the news that we all can use.
This is genius.
As expected, you have surpassed my expectations once again.
Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with all of the finer details of the Oversaturated World, but I'm a little concerned about how Redheart immediately had that information at hand.
The way the story started, I thought Sweetie had gotten shipping sickness.
Sunset has Phenomenal Cosmic Power and all the living space she can take. It’s just the LOCAL power she has some trouble with.
And throwing raw harmony at the problem would most likely give you symbiosis, making her an asymptomatic carrier with some odd aspect magic tricks. Interesting, but NOT what you’re looking for.
The approach to killing the virus probably relies on sympathetic magic and bibliomancy: getting the viral genome and targeting key matching sequences with an Erase spell. But that’s much easier said than done.
Actually, that’s a very nasty application of Bibliomancy isn’t it. Combining it with enough biomancy and erase all of someone’s dna. It’d be a walking ghost thing, like with Destroying Angel mushrooms. Better make VERY sure you’re only targeting the viral genome.
Actually Sunset might do better to address the harmonic gestalt of the disease and body processes rather than focusing on the individual components. Of course that has its own complications...
As mentioned, treating the viral invasion as a friendship problem gives you a symbiotic carrier. Which is great for the disease and for Sweetie, but bad for everyone else. And the real trouble is that the disease isn’t really Discordant. It’s a virus, which means it’s harmonically subversive. It’s akin to a conspiracy of musicians trying to warp the orchestra’s performance to their own ends. Pulling out the subversive ear worm that is spreading in the orchestra and then silencing it is a very difficult task, especially when the rest of the orchestra needs to keep playing.
Illness causing one's magic to go haywire? Delightful madness.
It was only a matter of time before viruses started playing havoc with magic in the OS verse. I like the headcanon about earth aspect verses unicorn aspect magic. It seems like Sunset should have earth aspect magic since she's an alicorn harmony god, but I guess she doesn't know how to use it and doesn't want to risk messing with an illness that she's pretty sure will just run its course.
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This probably is not the first (or even the tenth) time Rarity has done this.
I admit, given the disease doing what it does to unicorn aspect magics that it was a coronavirus,not a rhinovirus. After all, no horn. :)
Actually, I find the crystals a bit less horrifying, due to having experienced the real-world version of that five or so years back. (Waking up unable to see because severe sinus congestion had led to mucus leaking out tear ducts and gluing my eyelids shut. The catch is the muscles were still working so it felt like my eyes were opening and shutting normally, and seeing blue and feeling crystals would have spared me the most of two minutes' worth of panic over the idea infection had reached my optic nerves that it took to locate a sink and test the alternative hypothesis.)
How did I miss this??!?
Ugh... So late... Will read tomorrow...
Interesting...
Does Sweetie get glimpses of what herself would look like?
So, the questions are... Does Sweetie not mind sharing Button??
As we saw, Apple Bloom was very possessive of Tender Taps... So any poly relationship might not include them... Maybe...
Then again, the sentence wasn't completed... It could be anything...
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So, Sweetie can age things... Never seen her use it, but apparently she can, if the sneezes are any indication...
And Rarity can make crystals. I don't think we've seen that, either. Not much utility there...
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What more could Redheart say, if she had more advanced diagnostic tools?? Well, presumably nothing useful here, as we're dealing with a new magical illness...
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Rainbow Dash got splashed with a sneeze... Might she be ill too??
Is Applejack gonna hear of her girlfriend getting sick, and come and help... And then all 3 of the CMC get hit by this bug... HMM...
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Typo:
principals > principles
Fear will keep the local systems in line.
And back to the Oversaturated World we are. Fairly low-key, but enjoyable. Magical diseases and viruses are one of those aspects of world-building that I wish got more focus. Illness is such a ubiquitous part of life (especially these days) and so easy to put an interesting twist on in a fantasy setting, but I'm still hard pressed to name any notable examples in the fiction I've read. Greyscale in Song of Ice and Fire is the only one that immediately springs to mind.
Darn right she can. >:V
I know the feeling, I think about it everyday and often worry of what might come next.
I can relate to this as I too always have this issues whenever the weather changes. Hell, these last 2 days my allergies have been on a whole new level and it's been driving me like crazy!
How can it get stuck?
https://m.Good thinking Rarity.
Pushing Tropes count to 230... Calling this Sick Episode instead of Out Sick...
I wonder what R-rated movies the CMC want to see.
Typo:
And this one is currently at war with invading forces. [Needs closing quotation mark at end?]