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Princess Flurry Heart investigates the

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What the

I am confused...:rainbowhuh:

Scampy #3 · Apr 27th, 2020 · · · ج ·

Emojis? In my skirts fic?

It's more likely than you think.

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Author Interviewer

are you ok

those some :fluttershbad:ed up dreams there flurry, might wanna get some psych help for that

Well, this is the first fic that I marked both 'tracking' and 'read[red]' in my library. Very confusing, yet very amusing.

I live for these kinds of stories. I wished it wasn’t cancelled ( ͡°, ͜ʖ ͡°,)

... have you been running lines of scratch-n-sniff pony pictures again?

Seriously, an alternative title for this could be “Writing while stoned: Flurry Heart trips the light fantastic”.

So I'm not hallucinating and the months of isolation out in the cabin for three months haven't turned my mind to mush?!

I feel like I’m having a stroke.

Franso #11 · Apr 27th, 2020 · · · A ·

Shuffling forward, she approached the door. He rested the torch on the cold icy ground, then...

Should'nt there be a She in place of 'He'?

I.... what

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Pictured: Me ripping up my Master's Degree in "Understanding Skirtsian Drivel"

So I think that Flurry Heart is under mental assault by some ancient evil that wishes to take over her mind, evidenced by the constant requests for admin access last chapter and how she seems to be exposed to her insecurities. It might also be trying to get her body to do some sort of ritual due to how all the chapters reference killing something and how last chapter said something about dunking in blood of the father.

He brow furrowed.

"Her brow furrowed." maybe?

Umm... I...
...
Yeah

Very, and also slightly, reminiscent of one of Yuri's poems in Doki Doki Literature Club

fully operational == false

I...don´t...even...what ?

WOAH

REALLY MAN

WOAH

Very rarely do I read something so relentlessly clever it makes me jump out of my seat. I'm not terribly interested in plot when I read a story. What hooks me is vibe. This is one of the vibie-est stories I've ever read. It oozes vibe. It's not just the emojis and Fitter/Happier-esque stream of consciousness and the way the disjointed scenes in the final chapter slam into you one after the other. It's that after all that, I still don't have a clue what's going on. Instant fave.

Seriously man, emojis? Who does that? That's so cool!!!

usually you give a story some time before canceling it

was this like a machine learning experiment or something

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Cancellation is just a word. Closure can be concrete or not.

In this case, the sidewalk has hoofprints in it.

It's "cancelled" because you can't consider this kind of... story thing to be "complete".
It's meta.
It's clever.

...Or I'm reading too much into it.

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That 4th chapter was especially machine-learning-y. I bet that was Skirt's intent there

Investigates what, exactly?

It's a metaphor for dementia. Flurry Heart was born with one or more birth defects (as evidence, her giant wings). Unfortunately, the birth defects turned out to be more than just physical, and also manifest as extreme psychosis, made all the worse by her immortality.

Or at least that's my best guess. I don't think it has a single exact correct answer.

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Emoji are not a part of any real language. They are not glyphs in any real life writing system. IMO, The Unicode Consortium has betrayed its purpose by recognizing emoji.

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Interesting.

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I was reading this more like dreams and nightmares? It's disjointed and makes no sense like how a lot of people have dreams. I personally don't know anything about dementia, and being super sleepy isn't helping much, so I can't say much for this angle other than mental issues being very likely once you pointed out her wings as a defect. Makes me curious about such things, but not surprised that they didn't go that route since they supposedly nixed a plot of Scootaloo learning she would never fly due to wings being a birth defect?

Cancelled?
. . . Perhaps this is for the best, I'm not sure being in the head space to write this is possible without chemical aid... Then again, it IS Skirts.

The stallion spoke: “🦄:heart:💓🎒🍎!"

I know this is menat to be surreal, but I wouldn't be surprised if Ponish actually sounded like this when left untranslated.

First, I'd like to appreciate the black sorcery that went into the story page, preserved here in case the bug doesn't persist:
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Seriously, what even.

As for the story itself, fascinating stuff. It's hard to tell how much of Shining's failings are Flurry resenting him for dying and how much are her own sense of inadequacy. All he could give was her, and it wasn't enough. A lot of ways to cut that.

Luster's role is curious, somewhere between the darker interpretations of Twilight's relationship with Celestia and a vain attempt to recapture that magic by a mare without the millennium-plus of teaching experience. And whatever's asking for admin rights definitely shouldn't get them.

And Flurry herself... I believe this is shortly after Shining's passing. Throughout the story, there's a consistent theme of Flurry set adrift. She knows what she's doing in the first chapter, yes, but after that ritual, it's all dream decay, emoji death chants, and transdimensional dislocation. Great-Aunt Luna may need to come in sooner rather than later, assuming Flurry hasn't gone completely mad.

Or it's audience trolling on par with the Beatles' faux-deep tracks, in which case, kudos. Whatever the case, again, fascinating stuff. Thank you for it.

This whole story feels like it was made up by AI Dungeon, trying its hardest to make something coherent out of a few key phrases that Skirts occasionally adds in as it goes along. It even abruptly stops in the middle of a sentence sometimes, just like AI Dungeon or other similar AI story generators.

Good ol' Skirts.

The next thing in my feed after this fic was SPark talking about Lovecraft less than half an hour later. Just saying, OoooOooO!

Huh. This is.

A trollfic by SS&E... Huh... I'm not sure what to think about this. All I know for sure is that if you can read this comment, then you aren't drunk or high enough to read this story.

Actually this seems to me like a cuil fic.

Past three other perfectly-spaced wagons, she saw bodies in the water.

You do not recognize the bodies in the water.

the unicorn's glowlights twirled and twirled buffalo buffalo buffalo

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalololololololo

do you hate people who read sentences, skirts

and now, the weather

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But, I’m not sure if that’s true.
Sure, it’s labeled canceled, but this entire story gives a sense of warped reality. We can’t be sure of what’s what

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Thanks for reminding me that it's past time I rewatch Cowboy Beep Boop

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Tru, but also I haven't watched Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time yet so I feel maybe I should do that first.

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Expect it all to make sense by the end.

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And now I'm trying to figure out just what that would actually sound like and can only conclude it would be kind of like tasting the color fluffy.

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This made me laugh. A lot.

I realize now that I like the idea of a more cryptic interpretation as to where Flurry ends up. Mainly on account of her maybe being the most powerful person in MLP without a defined future? As far as I remember? It works well with the sense of warped reality in this, though it could just be all in her head. I suck at making heads or tails of the actual content, but I like the title/description/cover representing the mystery as well.

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Probably characters from right-to-left languages.

Buffalo on the brain

Apply directly to forehead. LusterDawn.

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