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If you liked Big Mac Reads Something Purple, you might like Alicorn Cider

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[Admiral Biscuit]

I liked it. I liked it enough to quote it in Celestia Sleeps In.

[Westphalian_Musketeer]

Never read "Big Mac Reads Something Purple" but I enjoyed "Alicorn Cider" to some degree. Although I dislike characters with such painstakingly obvious mental blocks to their own perceiving of the world.

[cleversuggestion]

I told you before I really liked Big Mac Reads Something Purple, and don't remember if I mentioned that I think that was because the first time I saw it, it already had the third hopeful ending, and I very much enjoy happy TwiMac. This was sad TwiMac, and I ended thinking it was okay, which suggests that I would have thought it was good if I were unbiased.

I like that Alicorn Cider works for any of the three endings of BMRSP. It took me two reads to get the dream, but I also like that it works for any of the three endings.

(By the way, my interpretation of the dream to check for illusions of transparency: Ovt Znp ernyvmrf gung Gjvyvtug bayl creprvirf gur orfg cnegf bs uvz; rira vs fur yvxrf uvz naq jbhyq jnag gb qngr uvz, ur pna'g gehfg ure whqtzrag orpnhfr ur guvaxf vg'f onfrq ba vapbzcyrgr vasbezngvba. Ur pna'g frr uvzfrys qngvat n cevaprff, orpnhfr ur pbhyqa'g srry yvxr ur'f jbegu vg; vg jnf uneq rabhtu gb srry ur'f jbegujuvyr gb or gjb fgrcf njnl sebz n cevaprff. Ohg rira nf na nccyr ohpxre, ur pna znxr ure unccvre, naq fb ur qbrf nyy ur xabjf ubj gb qb (yvxr Gjvyvtug sebz raqvat 2 bs OZEFC).

Vg'f abg pyrne gung Ovt Znp ernyvmrf gur cbgragvny flzzrgel bs gur fvghngvba. Gjvyvtug unf ure bja synjf, arhebfrf, naq vafrphevgvrf; va raqvatf 2 naq 3 bs OZEFC, Gjvyvtug frrf urefrys nf vasrevbe / havagrerfgvat gb Ovt Znp, ohg fur pna srry yvxr fur'f jbegu uvf nggragvba gubhtu fur'f fhecevfrq gung fur unf vg.)

[Bad Horse]

1615396 Yes, that's pretty close. I tried to explain it in the comments, and Ghost was pretty close also in a later comment.

[Bad Horse]

1615058 ?

[Admiral Biscuit]

1621057

Twilight read the letter for the tenth time since Spike had belched it forth. Each time it seemed it had revealed some new bit of information, if the growing pile of books was any indication. Spike had a sudden, probably not entirely inaccurate vision of every shelf in the library being empty, and an increasingly frustrated purple unicorn attempting to stuff them all in her saddlebags, and decided he had to put a stop to this before it got out of control.
“Sure is a lot of books,” he mused, lifting a thin lavender book titled Theoretical Research in Neurponynomic Decision-Making. “Probably be a challenge to carry them all.”
“Mm-hmm,” she muttered, not really listening.