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TO anyone curious, here it is
MUZJIKS
Noun
1:The best 7 letter word in scrabble, this word racks up 29 points, and receives a bonus of 50 for being 7 letters or longer, that totals to 79 points.
2:a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)
Alan: "What does muzjiks mean?"
Jim:"I don't know but I just owned you in scrabble"
Thank you!
There's a lot of Luna in the Ponyfic-o-sphere, and I think each author pulls his or her own interpretation out of the admittedly limited amount of material we have to work with. Which is why, I guess, something usually feels a little "off" about her depictions to me; it's no fault of the author in particular, it's just that there's a lot more holes to fill, and the material used to fill it doesn't always resonate with me. For whatever reason, though, this particular little short comes the closest I've seen to really making me happy, the closest to laying out a character that something about me feels that it knows.
It's a little odd for me to say "nicely done" for something that succeeds mostly in confirming my own inner paradigm, but I will say that this story made me happy, and I'm looking forward to more drabbles if you choose to pen them.
Luna: "Do you trust me?"
Twilight: "I trust yo-"
"Ahem."
Oh, James Cameron, what are you doing here?
"They're stealing from me."
No, they're learning to trust after a very long relationship, your Titanic love story has them trusting each other over a few days.
"Are you insulting my plot?"
Yes. This guy wrote a better love story than Titanic.
I was silently hoping Twilight would jump off the cloud, only to have Luna swiftly catch her. It pretty much gets to the same result, except with more falling off clouds and stuff! 
And again, I reread the whole thing because I keep forgeting what story this is! So many tracked stories, some update more often than others... oh well, it's still a blast after the third reading.
Lovely chapter, just one thing... you used quite a few words that I was unfamiliar with (not being English born (DRAGON BORN!)), so I dunno... maybe that should be something for you to consider for a future story? That not everyone is English and thus maybe it would be better to use more commonly used words? I dunno... it was just a suggestion :)
He should stick to Aliens, thats what he's good at :D
Couldn't have said it better myself brah!
That it does!
If you updated I would celebrate that date for 30 years afterward.
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A downer chapter?
Image: http://www.thiseuphoria.com/anime14/dragonballz-1-0.jpg"NO! None of that! Shame on you!"
I'll admit I did not expect the chapter from Celestia's point of view, and while its sad, sure, all I can really think is "All's fair in love and war" and "Early Bird Gets the Worm" It was also kinda nice for Celestia to feel jealous, note the emotion and then note the comparison to Luna. Given the first paragraph, it sounds like Celestia's been down the road of outliving lovers before and she tries to cut herself off from her emotions and purposely stays away from getting involved no matter how much she wants too, while Luna doesn't because she hasn't perhaps experienced the losses Celestia has. I eagerly look forward to more installments.
Edit: Are all these stories connected to each other? If so, I think it might retroactively make the Chapter "The Second Best Thing" kinda sad as well...
Her Radiant Majesty deserves happiness even more than Luna, who nearly brought about genocide out of pettiness. :|
To give so much, and get nothing in return that she actually -needs- is beyond cruel. Whereas Luna has always had Celestia looking out for her, then Luna tried to -take- from her, and now that Luna's back, she's taking -again- this time just without force and combat.
People can go on and on about poor sad little Luna, but I rarely hear anything about Celestia's far greater hardships outside of the ranks of the Solar Empire. Why does the sinner get to be happy and the martyr never find any peace?
JUSTICE! We call for it! Or... I'ma cry.
Even though I don't like Celestia I can't help but feel a little bad for her, I do understand her "problem" but I'm a rather selfish person and I would never sacrifice anything to obtain my own interests, even if I had to walk on thousands of corpses to achieve my desires (then again I'm not what you would consider a "decent" person).
PS. I forgot where I wanted to go with this...
uuuh okay i don't think i really understand how this got resolved.
Luna worries that she is just second best for Twilight(because she cant have celestia). Then Celestia tells Luna that she is not interested in Twilight.
How does that change that Luna feels like the second best? logically it would just show that twilight really can't have Celestia and then Lunas worry would improve.
Great way to keep on the TwiLuna topic but present it from an entirely different (outside) perspective.
Not sure about this wording: "The walls spoke through these monochromatic windows". If we're talking about stained glass, then they'd be polychromatic. Monochromatic means single-color, which seems out of place here.
>>1643611 Was the original conflict with Nightmare Moon as black and white as the wicked and petty Luna dooming all the world in a fit of jealousy and being struck down by the mighty and righteous Celestia? We don't know? Did Celestia ever feel remorse for what happened? We don't know. Is there any lingering resentment between the two? We don't know.
What do we know? Celestia and Luna were at one time the best of friends, then the most bitter of enemies, and now all seems to be forgiven. About Luna, we know that she always wanted to be as loved as Celestia, she is sorry for what happened, and she's struggling to putt the past behind her. About Celestia, we don't know much at all.
Considering what drove them apart was one being honored above the other I can't stand stand the Solar Empire and New Luna Republic. Why does one have to be better than the other? Aren't they supposed to be equals?
Well fuck. I don't know where you are gonna take this from here... But I know one thing. There. Are. Not. Enough. Twilestias.
Don't get me wrong. I frickn love a good twiluna. But twilestia was was the ship that confirmed my bronyhood. It also doesn't help that your write a damn good twilestia swag.
Also, my calendar has been marked. Swagday is now official, bitches.
It wasn't a matter of one being honored above the other. It's a matter that Celestia and Luna had opposing, similar duties, and that ponies are diurnal by nature. This is something Luna was supposed to be fine with... instead, showing an infinitely unattractive weakness as a leader, she grew dissatisfied and jealous because ponies didn't cavort about at night worshipping her sky. She dropped the ball as a role model, ruler, and person.
That's pretty fuckin' petty, Jeeves. And I never said Luna is wicked. Word of God has it that her jealousy and teenage-angst level of drama attracted and allowed her to be possessed by the malevolent spirit Nightmare, thus creating Nightmare Moon, who warped Luna's wants in order to bring the death and devastation it wanted. Eternal Night would have been genocide. You tell me what Celestia was supposed to do during their conflict. Kill her own sister to save the world? If she didn't have the Elements, which did not function properly due to being wielded by one pony, then yes... that's what would have had to have happened. Instead she managed to seal Nightmare Moon away, and given that she already knew NMM was returning, means she's been waiting all this time to see her sister again.
Unlike the NLR's unbridled and idiotic hatred of Celestia, considering they go about telling everyone NMM's genocidal machinations were just because she was misunderstood and that Celestia is an evil tyrant who wanted to be rid of her little sister and keep all the power for herself, the Solar Empire actually loves Luna. Yes, she's petty, and overall weak-willed compared to Celestia, but she still ends up being a victim. Not of Celestia, but a victim of her own faults, which means she needs to take time to get past them - rather than condemning her forever.
Which still changes nothing of what I've said. While Luna was dealing with the repercussions of her weakness of character, Celestia was holding the world together and keeping their nation safe, alone as the only alicorn - more alone than anyone can be, being the only one of your kind. The only problem I have with everyone fawning over Luna 24/7 with no love for Celestia is that out of the two of them, only ONE of them was petty enough to nearly destroy the world. With all plausibility and deductive logic in place, Celestia's sacrifices and sorrows know no end... but no, it's Luna who's treated by everyone as some sort of icon or hero by you people.
It's almost as if people can't fathom what Celestia had to deal with. To me, that's just pretty damn sad. So, you can hate all you want - just keep in mind that out of the two camps, only one of us tends to be shallow.
IC.
Also in regards to chapter 5, I'm not a big fan of how it treats love.
When you have a story, short stories in particular, you want to focus on the main issue. But this leads to the problem of excluding other things.
(In my experience it's a particular problem with romance.) That sort of exclusion can lead to a kind of one-note character, someone who seems to only have a single dimension to them. In this case we have a Celestia with an undeclared love for Twilight, so when Luna goes after her instead Celestia gets all morose and then that's basically the end of the vignette. It makes her appear very limited, and to be honest we don't know much about Celestia to begin with, so it can be hard to write her.
On the one hand, the story is about romance so it should definitely stay centered there, but on the other a character whose motivations and thoughts are so utterly centered on the romantic can simply be unrelatable. There's just not enough depth to make them seem like an actual person (or pony in this case).
Just my two cents. 
>>1646666 We don't know that eternal night would be as catastrophic in Equestria as would be in real life, we know almost nothing about Luna's fall from grace, and I'm pretty sure Luna was more lonely than her sister during her banishment. You have to make quite a few assumptions to come to the conclusions that you have. Also, while Luna tends to be the more popular character she is usually portrayed as inferior to her sister by the fandom.
Yes we do. Word of God, Lauren Faust. Eternal Night is just as dangerous as it logically would be.
And you're making some hefty assumptions there yourself, whereas I used deductive reasoning. You're assuming that Luna was even conscious while bound in the moon. It's not like NMM was up there stomping around on the surface or something for a thousand years while Luna was along for the ride. You can be alone, and lonely, in the middle of crowd of adoring people fawning over you every moment. If you can't understand that, then I can see why you might think Luna was worse off.
>>1647776 "Yes we do. Word of God, Lauren Faust. Eternal Night is just as dangerous as it logically would be."
I never heard what Lauren Faust had to say on the matter, but until it's in the show it isn't canon.
"And you're making some hefty assumptions there yourself, whereas I used deductive reasoning. You're assuming that Luna was even conscious while bound in the moon."
So you're saying she wasn't?
"You can be alone, and lonely, in the middle of crowd of adoring people fawning over you every moment. If you can't understand that, then I can see why you might think Luna was worse off."
Now you're making assumptions about me. Don't make this personal. Nothing I said was meant to offend.
Doesn't matter if you heard it or not, it's what she's said. And it was meant to be in the show, but was cut due to time constraints. Go look for it yourself, you'll see what I mean.
You said she was. I said you're assuming she was. She might or might not have been, however - it's far more likely she wasn't. For one, she was possessed. Two, she was sealed in a celestial body. That's two levels of shit to be buried under when it comes to one's conscious.
No one made anything personal. I said IF YOU CAN'T understand it, that's not offensive any way you look at it unless you are -trying- to see it that way. If you don't have the frame of reference necessary to understand that concept, then yes, it makes sense to me that you can so easily disagree with that part of my stance. Big difference between knowing something, and experiencing it first-hand; a difference we call understanding.
Anything else you want to misconstrue in a negative light?
>>1648173 For your information I have more experience with that than most. I did not say that I was offended by what you said, only that I did not mean to offend you. It seems you've made up your mind that Celestia is a better person and more sympathetic character than Luna and take personal offense when someone expresses an opinion to the contrary. I only wished to have a polite and civil argument, but unless I'm misjudging the tone of your replies, you do seem to be upset by what I've said. So, I apologize for touching on such a sensitive topic, and I find it unfortunate that who your favorite pretty pony princess is should be a sensitive topic.
Love is not diminished by being shared so
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What we have here is a lesson.
When one gives their all they recieve nothing in return.
When one gives nothing they recieve it all in return.
As you said Celestia's just too selfless to take anything for herself and thus is doomed to sit upon her gilded throne with the love of a nation but none of the heart.
It is so tragic and I wish she'd be more selfish... She of all deserves it most.
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Been a while since I've seen Trolluna make an appearance...
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YESSS UPDATE THANK YOU SWAG
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oh.... oh shes GOOOD.
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Just because they looked out for each other and were BBBFFs doesn't mean they didn't have sibling rivalry. In no way does that song invalidate your head cannon, I just means that at times they got along rather well. It doesn't mean there wasn't conflict at other moments. Like Twilight said, "The best and the worst."
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