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RunicTreetops


Hug your nearest alicorn.

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This story is a sequel to The Worst Night Ever


My name is Twilight Sparkle. A few months ago, I made friends with a creature called a "human." I took on the responsibility of making sure that they adjust safely to their new life in Equestria, but today, I have failed at my job. Right now, they are nowhere to be found, but I intend to find them.

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Comments ( 44 )

What made you decide to not make this story in the second person?

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I mostly just wanted to try something new, but I also felt that a story like this is better told in the first person. I intend to return to a second person narrative in the next one.

HumanSVD #3 · Aug 23rd, 2022 · · 30 ·

Why are you referring to the single human as "they"? It's only one individual. This smacks of freaking woke pronoun crap.

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I use they/them for the human as the human in this series is meant to be the reader. As such, the pronouns for said human are whatever the reader would like for them to be.

Absolutely love the anthology going on, and I can’t wait for the next one (especially between the MC and Celestia). Keep up the great work!

With how much the human’s power is growing, one of these future stories is gonna be summarized as “baby’s first Kamehameha” isn’t it? :rainbowlaugh:

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The singular they, as to refer to one unnamed or unknown person, has been used in the English language as early as the 14th century. It's hardly new, and it's hardly "woke".

HumanSVD #8 · Aug 24th, 2022 · · 18 ·

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Oh please, no one uses that in practical everyday speech. It's a blatant attempt to promote the gender neutral pronoun game. It's asinine.

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I think we both know why no one in your friend group doesn't use gender neutral terms, and it's not because they are words that are unpopular or unused. Like I said, the definition of the singular they has been around for longer than the United State has existed. I get that you don't like that, but unfortunately you can't change the past. Seethe and cope, my friend. Seethe and cope.

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No one uses this and you damn well know it. It's garbage.

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If no one uses it, who are you getting angry at? lmao

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The writer, it's distracting to read this story. Having the MC be an ambiguous unknown is dumb.

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I am baffled how you can be serious while saying 'no one uses this word' and 'the writer uses this word' in the same breath. Holy shit the mental gymnastics are reaching olympian levels here.

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you're a grown ass man on a site about multicolored horses having a meltdown about pronouns - think about that for a minute and let it sink in just how ridiculously petulant you're acting

aren't there bigger issues in the world for you to get steamed at rn that don't involve treating people with some amount of common decency? have you self-emasculated nutbars learned fuck all from this show? be better m8, c'mon

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What are you lecturing me about? Where is the pro-noun episode? What lessons?

Oh, please, if that's your position then why are you here? Shouldn't YOU be doing something more important?

Oh, and you assumed my gender, bigot.

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cool now try it again without moving the goalposts/intentionally being obtuse and missing the point - if you can't do that then feel free to wallow in your own pointless fantasized persecution complex for the rest of time until you inevitably shrivel up into a microcosmic cortex of self-inflicted bitterness and SDE-induced malding meathead misery, it's no skin off my teeth if you have such an obvious humiliation kink

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I have to agree... the pronouns are kinda annoying... like Did Twilight never ask his name?

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We wouldn't know really. It's kinda of like Anonymous except we know it's a guy and said guy has a variety of characterizations. This just comes off as "person" and nothing else.

It's like naming a ship called the "Vessel". Oh wait...

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Eh.. I sorta take it as a insult when someone calls me them or him, I have a name...

Comment posted by RunicTreetops deleted Sep 4th, 2022

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I'm still waiting on the citation of pro-nouns from the episodes. All you're doing is slinging overinflated insults to make yourself sound articulate.

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Don't listen to him... he only throw insults at you and they're 5th grade level insults

В комментариях педерастия какая-то.

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Магия дружбы, а не педерастия

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Damn you're pathetic. Seriously, how miserable do you have to be to get upset about people trying to be inclusive. If you get this upset about people trying to be inclusive, how about you leave the site and go rewatch Bridle Gossip. And this time, actually pay attention to what the show is trying to teach you.

And no, that episode is not just about racism. It is about treating people with other worldviews with respect. There is no meaningful difference between where racism and your transphobia originate from. Both come from disgust for people who are different than you.

Oh, and one other thing. Don't bother resorting to gaslighting by pretending that you're not a transphobe. The fact that you have a problem with people who use the word "they" can only come forth out of wilful ignorance and transphobia. The fact that you are accusing the author of catering to "woke" culture tells me that it isn't ignorance. Nope, you're knowingly and willingly being abusive to trans people trying to pretend that they do not exist and attempting to silence anyone who supports them. "Ignore, silence, threaten, isolate, victim blame and downplay." Those are the tools of an abuser. And you've used 4 of those tools already.

Not to mention that you are openly displaying your transphobia on a fic that doesn't even have anything to do with the trans community. This is a first person fic in a second person series. Usage of the word they is the standard in these scenarios to refer to the main character. In fact, I suspect that the trans community adopted the use of the word they from these kinds of stories.

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Nah, stop worshipping mentally ill people.

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Excuse me? For your information, I myself have autism. I'm confident that I know quite a bit more about what makes someone mentally ill than someone as pathetic as you does. Both based on personal experience and the book worth of evidence I've encountered over the course of my life. Being trans is not by any usable standard a form of mental illness. Meanwhile, your behaviour fully qualifies as a form of abuse. Thanks for exposing what kind of person you really are.

All this arguing about pronouns and no one mentions how useful an One Orchard Tree would be.

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bro, you got absolutely flamed. and countered by people that are so much more educated than you. so shut up.
grow up kid, stop baby raging over a story that is literally about ponies on the internet

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Excuse me? For your information, I myself have autism.

So? So what?

I'm confident that I know quite a bit more about what makes someone mentally ill than someone as pathetic as you does.

How is boaby formed?

Both based on personal experience and the book worth of evidence I've encountered over the course of my life.

An anecdote with out telling me said anecdote and "the book worth of evidence". Translation: Trust me bro.

Being trans is not by any usable standard a form of mental illness

It most certainly is. It's not normal and it's almost a tragic fashion trend at this point. Even if you disagree with me on that point, which you are free to do like everyone else downvoting me, the overwhelming majority of people DO NOT REFER TO INDIVIDUALS AS THEY. It's stupid, it's dumb, and it's impractical as hell to play the guess the gender game.

Meanwhile, your behaviour fully qualifies as a form of abuse.

Voicing dissent and voicing an opinion that the author chose "they" instead of choosing to call the character a guy or gal is abuse? What are you, a fascist?

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Woah, like totes true duuude.

The issue is the choice of "they". It's dumb. Just call the guy a guy or write it as a girl. Not this undefined individual who cannot be described apparently. Saying don't get "mad at a pony story" is a cop out.

And good I got ratio'd. Someone needs to push back on this stupidity.

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No one uses "they" to refer to a person, it's either guy or gal, man or woman, he or she etc. The word "they" is used to refer to multiple people. Using the word, "they" to refer to a single person is stupid. That's a newly invested thing leftists and trans obsessed folks use. Now can you try to not be willfully ignorant?

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you're delusional. i literally use they all the time to basically everyone, i never use he or she because tbh too complex for half-lazy me. but, im not gonna argue and you can stay in your fairytale land of misinformation fed by twitter, and lack of friends (maybe probably father too).

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The average person does not. It's a new thing. Whoopie do

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really isnt though. but your entitled to your own warped opinions.

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Ah yes. A lot of whining about how I'm providing anecdotes while you've provided absolutely nothing. No evidence, no statements made by experts, nothing but your own bigoted worthless opinions. All while constantly throwing insults and accusations around that you have no basis for. All while pretending that you shouting an accusation is enough to shift the burden of proof to others.

Like I said before, you are absolutely pathetic.

And just in case you're planning to to play the pot meet kettle card: my accusations are based on your behaviour and the statements you made. As for the insults I throw your way, they are in addition to the arguments I present. Not as a replacement for arguments.

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A newly invented thing, you say? You've got a strange concept of "new". The singular they has been used since the 14th century. I would personally not call that new.

A source from the Oxford English Dictionary: https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

It's okay to be angry over things. But please do try to understand that you're wrong, empirically so. You're just angry and bitter and sad, with nothing better to do than to go around being confrontational over LANGUAGE. It's pathetic.

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A lot of whining about how I'm providing anecdotes while you've provided absolutely nothing

What anecdote? You didn't even provide that!

I see the woke American sickness is in the mlp fanfiction now. I'm not very surprised. Enjoy your Bud Light dude, cheer !

Yo viendo que todos los comentarios, gente peleándose porque el autor utilizo "they" para referirse al prota.

Buen capitulo, pero diría que tendrías que ser más profundo con el protagonista si quieres que estos momentos sean más sentimentales, y que hallan más diálogos.

Me gusta tus historias 😍

Man, this story made me tear up a little bit. Anon feeling like he violated his personal sanctuary was a pretty good tear-jerker. Still loved it tho!:twilightsmile:

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The 'woke American sickness'? I don't think I saw anything political or even controversial in this story. It's a cute but sad fic about Anon missing their home.

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This is months old I know but I still gotta say this. only thing I have a problem with is the t in lgb the trans community is targeting kids and even in worse cases are usually pedophiles and sexual predators just feels like people who identify as trans is using the lbg community as a shield. You got autism far as I'm concerned and society as well that's not a big deal you wanna talk about REAL mental issues go to a mental hospital see the difference between them and you.

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months old comment i know.No he is not you are the one who's delusional who ever is encouraging you to say that has failed you. never in my life has anyone every referred to a single person as they just sounds like your whole life has yes people if what your saying is true. Either way done venting if the author wanted the gender not to be know just say it or man and woman

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you are so out of touch with society that im going to withdraw, i totally forgot about this but you brought it up again. you didn't need to start this argument over again because of your opinion. you're now going to continue arguing because you don't know how to move on or leave something thats over alone.

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