Acknowledgements
Three weeks before Magical Mystery Cure came out, it seemed that everybody in the brony community knew what was going to happen—Twilicorn was going to become canon. As the fanart and fanfiction exploded, I grew into a deeper and deeper depression; I didn't want Twilicorn, Twilight was perfect the way she was! The show itself was perfect! Two unicorns, two earth ponies, two pegasi! It made sense! It wouldn't make any sense at all to make that dynamic suddenly change and, I'm not gonna lie here, I was worried about my OTP—the ship I'd written for back when there were only three fics about it total and FIMFiction was a baby: TwiDash.
I won't get into a shipping battle here; I've already been into plenty of those and I do not want to be in another. What I will say is that Twilight becoming an alicorn, to me at least, spelled Doomsday for me. Imagine Rainbow Dash actually accepting an offer into the Wonderbolts; sure, on the surface, this is a good thing: her dream has come true! But, eventually, her loyal nature would make her regret signing a contract and being so far away from everyone she cares about. Now imagine Twilight's now an all-powerful being with control of the entire country. Rainbow Dash's fears don't seem so far-fetched now, do they?
So, three weeks before MMC came out, I set about venting my feelings in the form of what I thought was going to be a quick and easy one-shot; if you know anything about the past seven months concerning me, then you know that it was anything but. My world fell apart as I wrote it. Every time I opened up the document, my mind broke. I knew where I wanted to go, but my brain was refusing to let me go there. If not for the support of my friends, bats, Timaeus, CalmNQuiet, Lostzilla and Tomthehunkydiamond (along with negative reinforcement from my friend Echriedz,) I probably never would have finished this story at all. Thank you, guys.
Another thank you goes to CalmNQuiet, who wrote a grand total of 0.1% of this story for me, when my brain was killing me on one part so badly, that I simply couldn't write anything for weeks. The short verse on the train (totaling about half a paragraph) including the phrase “like the crescendo of a song, my life was at its peak,” was written by him, then chopped into itty-bitty pieces by me and edited and styled and combed over and refined and so on so forth until it hardly looked anything like what he wrote, except for that line, which I kept because I liked. Thank you, buddy, for giving my addled brain something to work with.
And bats, Ech, I doubt you'll ever read this, since you both told me that you've sworn off sadfics, but I wanted to thank you for your horrible torment and teasing; without it, I probably would have given up and moved on to something else, like Elements of Chaos...
Vertorm, I know I just met you officially and that you only did Chapter 7 and the Epilogue, but thanks for beta-reading and showing me the errors that my glazed eyes couldn't catch at three o'clock in the morning. I really appreciate the help.
Readers, thanks for coming and joining in on my misery, whether you liked or disliked my fic. Please check out my other stories if you wish to read more from me! (Or follow, me! I'm trying to catch back up to bats. Somehow, he managed to pass me in followers, favorites and even story view counts while I was writing this.)
See you next time around, my friends!
—Blundy
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I know, right? He's such a dick! Always doing stuff and writing and finishing stuff. Geeze.
With Twilight's List and bats and Wiz running around, it's hard to believe I was ever Mr. TwiDash now, huh?
Great story, and an extra tip of the hat to you for pushing through and finishing it.
It's nice to see a tragedy based in a mental struggle and just not some random disaster or evil entity showing up and killing someone.
Nice job.
Just, nice job.
~Skeeter The Lurker
This was a very good read (even though I really don't like deathfics - but that's just personal taste)
I particularly liked how you wrote Rainbow's desperation and how she just started pushing everypony away after she got kicked out by Twilight, and later when Celestia went monopolizing her time.
Good thing I couldn't read this back in the pre-MMC days, or it would have sent me spiralling into depression...
well written, but looking back, i wish i hadn't read it, but whatever, when ever the hate pit opens, my mind creates an alternate ending... maybe with a passing zebonypassing and healing her, put rainbow is broken... yeah, i'll do that! still have the hate pit though... ah well, nothing ditzy can't fix.
So, I finally got around to reading this in one sitting.
Kudos to pulling off a tragedy. I have something of a soft spot for a well-done fic that does justice to the tag.
As for the dragons... I hated the ambassador, I hated his arrogance, and I hated his table manners. Good job. Also a wonderful job of foreshadowing just how much Celestia was desperately trying to appease him, and hinting at just how bad the situation really was, all while the mane6 were blissfully innocent that their goddess was failing.
I'd also like to give more thanks for taking off with the idea of the dragons being pissed about the spies. Excellently pulled off.
I suspect U.R.A Monkey is Prince Blueblood. Yet another superb part of the story. Such a trollfic!
There are so many parts that I want to say were wrong... but it's only because they fit the downward spiral, and I kept wanting poor Dashie to succeed and get her mare. I kept stopping at several points and thinking to myself,"OK this has to be a mistake. Point this thing out later in my critique." Yet now that it's finished being read, they all just... work.
So apparently I'm in these acknowledgments despite the fact my involvement in this fic was practically nonexistent. Aw yeah, Tom's so good that he gets credit for doing nothing. Get on my level
That was the most depressing, sad, over dramatic, unsensible fic ever. And I loved it.
I was kinda ticked at the ending until I went back and saw the tragedy tag.
Thanks. Thanks a lot. It took about two days to recover from this heartache.
On the other hand, from a writer's perspective, wow, that's amazing. You've really accomplished something when you can do that to a reader. Congratulations.
reread.. my heart hurts.... I need... (Passes out)
Lyra: *Whimper, sniff* w-w-wimp...
Read... or don't read... read... or don't read....
Read it... darn it man... I just read Losing Air too....
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Your indecision is delicious.
5686179 I read it though.... and it broke my heart
I accidentally spoilered the ending for myself when I was only on chapter 5. What I learned is that this is... this is...
so dark dude. It is SO DAMN DARK! You bucking gave me a depression right before I was going to bed! I woke up feeling awful after struggling for an hour to fall asleep! Why would you even write something like this? I love dark romance but only if it ends on a neutral or positive note with heroes overcoming the odds and bla-bla-blah. This... this on the other hand is just... pure concentrated depression AIDS!
I didn't downvote it because I view the vote system as indicative of story quality and not whether you like the genre or not... It's just that I can't finish it no matter what and yet I already know all key events up to the very end. WTF dude... just wtf... seriously. IS THERE AND ALTERNATIVE ENDING TO THIS? THERE MUST BE ONE! I DEMAND SOMEONE TO WRITE IT OR ELSE I WON'T BE ABLE TO PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED! DX
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Two years later, and this is still my favorite comment that I've ever gotten.
Throughout the entire story, I convinced myself the tragedy tag was for the Daring Doo book.
And then it suddenly wasn't.
And then I felt the twilycorn feels all over again.
And then I regretted everything.
heartbreaking
Oh god I really soaked my pillow with my damn tears
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What a coincidence! I just read it too!