It is the way of the world to change. But in the nightclubs on Ceres, where drinks and music flow in equal measure, those changes seem like distant problems. Sunset Shimmer thinks she can escape on past by running to another future, but when someone she knew finds her at the Blue Nova, she'll have no choice but to face the changes that have been waiting for her.
An entry for Bicyclette's Science Fiction Contest
It's a good story. Sci fi space exploration and colonization is always wonderful and the characters have been written well enough to fit into the setting. The concept of a world hopping Sunset or Twilight is interesting and might deserve more attention.
gotta admit, that is a pretty cool idea for a drink!
i liked this bit! fun way to do a bit of character background establishment
yay Maud
hehe, love this
oof! i can imagine this line having been said many times before in their relationship
oof, that Sunset hotheadedness leading to bad decisions!
hehe, Twilight is right, that is very fun!
i saw what you were doing with this story! in the end, it's really a low-concept story about Sunset and her relationships with a high-concept plot device. there is a very interesting contrast here, with Sunset using transdimensional travel and sci-fi shenanigans to avoid having to deal with drifting apart from her high school friends. that might make it seem like an overreaction, or the story elements being out of scale with each other, but really that is just an extension of the canon's themes, where world-changing magical crises and abilities are used to tell stories about learning how to be better people and friends. that said high-concept background being mundane space colonization is a combination rarely seen, and special for that.
and i just wanted to finally remark on how this is a great encapsulation of the story's theme. it's an understandable need, to see the relationships with the people we care about as something that will be singular and special forever. but needing to see things that way can lead us to valuing the idea of said relationship over the relationship itself, and subsequent bad paths and decisions, as demonstrated in the story. great stuff!
That was a good story.
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Thank you.
Wow, this is a really great story, thanks for sharing it!