Ever wondered what would happen if Twilight Sparkle listened to Lateralus by Tool? The results are quite interesting! Note: Experience may vary from pony to pony.
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FullMetalFurbee
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Jesus, did Celestia slip her some LSD or something? I've listened to tool, but that has yet to happen to me. Also, good fic, liked the trip
You know, I never really considered the possibility. Listening to this song will always be different now.
2698718 Actually it was the whole album. :)
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having an existential experiance isn't about listening to the music, you have to dig deeper and understand the meaning of the song either in lyrics or actuel music composition. Use that meaning as a comparison to your own life and values. The goal being to deepen your sense of self as a physical and spiritual being to come to terms with your place in the world. Well thats my personal experiance but you can always just drop some acid haha.
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Yea, but you got me thinking of Lateralus specifically.
2701981 Oh yes, the song itself is wonderful. I'm just glad my fic got you thinking.
3318302 Glad to be a tool for your inspiration.
I'm currently writing a little side fic where the mane six watch A Scanner Darkly. That should be interesting...
2698452 This fic accurately describes my feelings when I first found Tool...
Well... It`s a good idea, I`ll have to give you that.
After all, any music is inherently tied with harmony.
Interesting. The concept and writing is pretty good, but the overall execution is somewhat lacking. I mean, Celestia just asks Twilight to listen to an album of human music (let alone Tool in particular) out of the blue?
Also, I find it rather hard to believe that after listening to music that was completely foreign to her up to that point for less than five seconds, Twilight would think it "might not be so bad". Didn't we miss at least a short period where she was still going "OMFG what the hell is this?", and only become accustomed to it after that, then perhaps even end up loving it?
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that you focused a little too much on answering the question "what effect would Lateralus have on Twilight Sparkle?" and left out most of the "background building" so the context makes a bit more sense. It kinda destroys my suspension of disbelief, and no matter how stupid saying that may sound when it comes to MLP fanfiction, I think it still matters...
Finally, while Tool is okay (their "hidden song" on 10,000 Days is genius, for example), in my opinion, it's not exactly the kind of music that would make Twilight go through such a spiritual journey or whatever, nor would I expect Celestia to recommend it for such a purpose. Maybe to have her student rock out a good deal, but not reach freaking enlightenment...
Yeah, I'm probably overanalyzing things here. Other than all that stuff I mentioned, it was an interesting read. Also, just this once, I'll resist the urge to plug my own preferences...
4599867 I appreciate you taking the time to provide such a volume of feedback for such a short story. Those are definitely things to be mindful of in the future.
This story's idea was good, but it would have been a lot more effective if you had moved a bit slower with this one and hadn't thrown so much at Twilight in such a short time.
Trust me, I struggle with this too when I'm writing my own Tool one-shots.
Just work on the build-up, and have everything come at Twilight like a puzzle being slowly put together, piece by piece, instead of having it thrown at her all at once.
It would have been a much stronger story.
(I would know, I fucked this up twice. Hopefully, I can fix it the third time around).
Lateralus was a bit too heavy for a first listen. I would have started her off with Undertow so she could recognize what style of music she would be listening to, then progress into Aenima and 10,000 Days to warm her up to Tool so she can grow to like the intelligence in their music and THEN flow her right into Lateralus for the crescendo.
I noticed that I dropped a like and fav a while ago but forgot to comment...whoops!
Silver out!
black, then, white are, all i see, in my infancy, red and yellow then came to be. <--- if only she knew the pattern that this lateralus follows ^.^
awesome fic thumbs up
"All up and down Canterlot and all throughout Ponyville, citizens stood on the sideline puzzled and amused..."
YES YES ALL OF MY YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(in case you don't know, that line is a reference to right in two)
Could you do this with all of the mane six?
There are so many Tool references in here its not even funny.
RIGHT IN TWO