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Equestria has appeared in the North Pacific, and the first thing that greets this new land is an American bomber, carrying a very special cargo, falling out of the sky. Now the race is on between the two superpowers to prove the justice and superiority of their two divergent ideologies in order to claim the prize, an entirely new nation.
How will Equestria fare in the playground of giants?
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So, this is the first serious piece of creative writing I have embarked upon since Elementary school. In other words rip it apart, I need to improve!
So... the Enola Gay in Equestria?
I know where this is going.
EDIT: Oops. I just guessed. And wrong.
Well...as long as humans are shown farely and not as a bunch of a-holes, and if the USA are the good guys...I might fave it.
OK my first impression was wrong, thought it was the Enola Gay crashing, but nope it's Peacemaker. Wonder how the Cold War will go with Equestria popping up. Don't see Equestria really going for communism though
1612801 Actually it's a B-36. The Enola Gay was a B-29. Totally different.
Happy to see you finally got this up.
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I made an assumption when I saw the description.
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The Enola Gay was a b-29 Superfortress, that right there's a Peacemaker (b-3... 6?), a plane not designed for peace.
Also, the title's French for calm, or a pause. Huh.
1612802 Why does the USA always have to be the good guys :(
Faved, will start reading when I'm supposedly asleep
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Yeah, I want to see one where the ponies get nazified.
"Mr. President, we cannot allow! AN EQUESTRIAN PONY GAP!"
Favoriting! I'm greatly looking forward to more of this. I've always been interested in nuclear weapon 'incidents'. And for something like it to happen in Equestria intrigues me. If those guys were carrying a nuke, anyway.
Putting this on my read later list.
B-36 on cover. Automatically must read.
Okay! This looks like it has potential. My only problem with it is that narration is usually done in past tense (ex: said), not present (ex: says).
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Sorry, I tried to stick to present tense, but I have trouble telling which I am writing in. Weird right?
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Yes exactly.
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Thanks!
Wow! I can't believe the response to this so far! Thank you all.
I am afraid that I won't be able update for a while yet, I have work to finish before the end of the semester, but seeing how many people are interested in my story is definitely inspirational.
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Détente can also refer to the trigger of a firearm.
"appuyer sur la détente" = "pulling the trigger"
1612999 Well the scary thing is that B-36's where almost always carrying nukes. only in the late fifties did they stop carrying them, having been replaced by more advanced bombers.
"How will Equestria fare in the playground of giants?
If they feel like they want to attack, immediate destruction.
I like it, but please don't make this another dualistic/maniqueist story (the usual USA are badass heroes and USSR are evil communists stuff) I truly hate that kind of stuff.
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Don't worry, the Soviets (and the Americans) will both have their heroic and dastardly moments.
Love it! Didn't notice any spelling or formatting errors, but, grammatically, you should definitely pick a tense. In my biased opinion, you should go with past tense. It's what we've been reading forever, and the story feels better that way.
Just my two bits.
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Yeah, I thought I was writing in present tense, but apparently I can't tell what tense I write in during the heat of creativity.
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and don't forget to show the power of the motherland and it's history with all it's glory!!!
YAY!!!
... and... the american too... if you want to...
1622858 Yeah. When creativity strikes like lightning, you gotta write fast, or it's lost.
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No, I'm just really blind when it comes to tense.
Present tense bothered me slightly, but that was very minor.
Faved, will track.
Will there be Dr Stangelove? That would officially make this one of my top ten favorite fan-fics of all time!
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Probably not. Sorry, I'm going to try and stick to the true history of the era.
1625279 Too bad...I'll still give it a read though! I can imagine it now...
1612802 Why should the US necessarily be the good guys?
If it's going to be a story about the Cold War, the allegiance should best be left open to interpretation.
1627084 The USSR single handily killed 30 million of it's own people. And that's just in the 30's. Not counting the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. I assure you, the USSR was evil.
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In this case of course, one should rather demand that the Soviets not being the good guys.
One should keep in mind that the US was far from saintly.
In such historical scenarios, one should always take the time to instill a sense of moral ambiguity. The Cold War was purely a battle for one's own ideology and influence, wth both sides acting exceptionally dirty and underhanded.
This works especially well in a story featuring ponies and Equestria, a literal third POV on the events between the two human powers.
1627152 Well, it's true the USA ain't no saint, but there's a big difference between the bad things we did (Jim Crow, Japanese Internment) and what the USSR did (genocide, selective starvation of the entire Ukraine, mass murder of its own citizens)
So yeah. I'd say no matter how you slice it, the USSR comes off as evil. Now the real choice Equestria would have to make is weather or not they become neutral (like Switzerland, who would sell Jews to Nazi's for the gold taken from dead Jews' teeth) or become an ally (like England, which had the whole India and Ireland thing)
That's the choice they have to make.
I'm sorry if this comes off as hyper-political, I often tend to avoid such things. They only lead to pointless fights. I hope you understand.
Seriously? You have typos in the description.
I hope you get an editor.
WOW i havent read somthing like this in a long time not in 17 years. i em 16 so thet means i have never read enythink like this. and i love it it's GOOD
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Glad to hear it.
Present tense is a bit awkward but the story could get very interesting,
Also, please don't go "Humans Are Bastards" or have the ponies be Purity Sues. Have all three sides be somewhat morally grey.
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Of course I won't.
Interesting; Equestria caught in the middle of the Cold War. Faved.
1612802 Why the US? Why not Canada?
1698003 Cause this is the Cold War, and in that case, the only major nations that were really involved were the USA, the UK and the USSR.
Canada really wasn't involved in the same way as the USA and the UK were.
And I like Canada.
They got awesome maple syrup.
This is quite promising, amigo. I look forward to whatever you have in store.
Oh, and as to that guy I mentioned before- Bruce Munro- he's on deviantart as "Quantum Branches", or something to that effect. He did a scenario quite similar to yours, and is certainly worth a look.
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What guy you mentioned before?
When you left your comment on my user page. I just brought it up because your story and his material are somewhat similar, and I figured you'd want to check it out.
Mostly, I like the potential that this story has. Most of the Equestria/Earth stories are set in the present, but this story is set in the 50's back when risk-less rewards were unheard of. Both the USSR and USA will scramble to curry favor with this new land if for no other reason than to deny their opponent Equestria, and in two years time, the space race will begin.
There has not been much in the way of character development or anything beyond basic set up yet, and while that is slightly disappointing, it is not surprising since it has yet to breach 2.5K words. The way that the story sways back and forth from present to past and then back to present tense should be addressed at some point, and only one of the two tenses should be used in narration.
You also bothered to track me down; therefor, you get a
Update on the update?
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What?
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When should I / can I - expect an update / new chapter to this fic?