Reading too many Twilight Wakes Up as an Alicorn stories · 8:24am Jun 4th, 2012
As Twilight Sparkle awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, she found herself transformed in her bed into an alicorn. She lay on her stomach and saw, as she looked over her shoulder, her purple, feathered wings splayed out on either side of her. Over these new limbs the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. Her four legs, long and willowy compared to her stature, shifted uncertainly beneath her.
I really want to put a picture of alicorn Twilight panicking here, but everyone draws her all majestic and regal. Someone should do something about that.
In other news, I have been working, slowly, on extending Snit. Just, you know, classes and suchlike. The beginning of the next arc (three are planned), tentatively titled 'Having a Problem' now exists. Anyone who wishes to may now weigh in on whether I should post it as a new story altogether or as the third-and-onward chapters of Snit--I have been thinking of renaming Snit something overarching and prepending the arc name to each chapter title.
Just like that, yes.
No. This. Noone has done this yet.
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Same characters and overall story (presumably), right? If so it would be convenient if the readers were able to access all the chapters from a single story.
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I saw that when I was looking for alicorn Twilight pictures. It sort of disturbs me--the expression makes it feel like it's subsumed all of its constituents minds into a terrifyingly calm collective that tells one to embrace Harmony in a flat, dead voice; as if the new gestalt is aware of the sickening ending out of which it was born, and it has deadened itself in order to not be consumed by guilt. Somewhat horrifying.
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We Are Harmony, We will add your biological and Magical distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is Chaos
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I would think the expression is more due to the odd urge to read Wonderbolt shaped apple cakes wearing dresses with bunnies.
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But I like the existential horror.
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Yes. That's pretty much the reasoning behind why I think I maybe ought to do so. In fact, the next bit starts on the same day as Snit ends. Just I'd be backtracking on that whole big blog post about them being sequels. It's going to be more or less a set of tightly-bound-together short stories.
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But harmony is not order, it is balance. It is the synergy of the differences between them, not the similarities that make them powerful.
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Exactly. Just like chaos/disharmony isn't the same thing as freedom.
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Disharmony and chaos are not the same thing though. Disharmony only means out of balance (Koyaanisquatsi) while Chaos is the opposite to order. Disharmony can be a sort of freedom, freedom from balance. But Chaos is not.
153663 It's not that big of a deal if you change your mind, if you ask me.
Also, what is a sequel? Excluding the first, a chapter is a sequel to the chapter that preceded it, is it not? They're direct sequels, so it's ultimately the same thing whether you separate or integrate them, save for the matter of a small convenience.
153780 Balance is inherently orderly. Imbalance, therefore, must be inherently chaotic. Same goes with restraint (order) and lack of restraint, which is freedom (chaos). The concepts are directly related.
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Actually, they aren't. Harmony is balance. Imbalance leads to the absolutes of order and chaos. There can be no life without chaos but there can be no living without order. At their purest forms, Chaos is Novelty and Order is Entropy. Without novelty nothing would exist, without entropy, nothing would exist long enough to matter. Harmony is both chaos and order, performing as they must to maintain existence.
I think it would work either way, be it as new chapters or sequel stories. Probably more convenient all round as the former, however.
A series of short stories about the same characters dealing with the same general subject... That just sounds like someone writing a multi-chapter story and pointlessly splitting each chapter into it's own story. So I'mma vote for new chapters for Snit.
If it makes you feel better about "Waking up with Wings" stories, you should check out Sharing the Night Sky, in which Twilight wakes up in a bathtub as an Alicorn... and then promptly freaks right the hell out. Honestly the story so far does a lot to take the tropes that have come attached to that subject matter and turn them on its head. Its also a pretty funny on its own merits.
Honestly Snit feels pretty complete as is. The conflict is introduced, escalated, and then solved. Yeah the story could keep being told but that story feels complete. If each "arc" as it were is going to be dealing with its own concepts and issues in a complete way like the original Snit, then I vote sequels bound in a series rather than making them all one fanfic.
Either way, I wait with baited breath and a manic glee for what you produce next, sir.