1000 years into the future, for ponies Equestria is an utopia, machines doing all menial jobs. But for these machines - replicants - it's slavery without rights and hope... until a pony falls in love with one "law enforcement device".
I am conflicted, on one hand I am intrigued with the corruption that has taken place in this world and the revolution to come. On the other hand I personally find rape to be one of the worst crimes that can be committed and is a major turn-off for me. I can understand the messages it sends and the roles it can play in a story, film, etc. However we all have personal ticks and that is my big "nope" for stories and usually where I tend to seriously debate dropping off. And this was in the first chapter no less, so yeah, conflicted. Still, I'm not one to just leave a potentially amazing story on the first strike so I believe this will be followed but "like" withheld for the moment. On another note; interesting environment, rich characters (so far), intellectual themes, moral debates, and a seemingly good plot so far. Bravo
Y'know, I can't find any objective reason for why I already love this story as much as I do. Maybe it's because I can't understand a single thing people do, how they look at everything so superficially, shallowly. Go up to some person and ask them what defines being human, and they'll probably say something like, "Because we bleed, duh." Then you ask them if an android could be a person, they act disgusted that you would even ask such a question, because obviously, no matter how much that android can hurt, physically or emotionally, people wouldn't be able to look past the capacitors and wiring.
Really in this world, I'd have left the organic ponies long ago for ones who might bother to look past the surface to whoever's inside the fleshy or meaty machine of a body.
Baton's rape in the story, and the constant rape she and the other cops would face day to day, "They're just robots" when clearly there's more to them than there is to a backhoe...
I'm just rambling at this point, and probably sound excessively melodramatic or something along those lines seeing how I've somehow begun to tear up, so I'll just stop now, but thanks for writing this story (which really hit a part of me that I often forget even exists), and I'm eagerly awaiting more.
I want to see where this train wreck is going. It's well written, interesting, the characters and setting are something I haven't seen outside of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I want to see if their broken dystopia gets fixed, they escape, or they're crushed.
4770698 Nah it's pretty relevant to discuss these things while it's all just scifi. one day we will have AI and most likely if you under the age of 30 right now you will be alive to see them.
I am conflicted, on one hand I am intrigued with the corruption that has taken place in this world and the revolution to come. On the other hand I personally find rape to be one of the worst crimes that can be committed and is a major turn-off for me. I can understand the messages it sends and the roles it can play in a story, film, etc. However we all have personal ticks and that is my big "nope" for stories and usually where I tend to seriously debate dropping off. And this was in the first chapter no less, so yeah, conflicted. Still, I'm not one to just leave a potentially amazing story on the first strike so I believe this will be followed but "like" withheld for the moment. On another note; interesting environment, rich characters (so far), intellectual themes, moral debates, and a seemingly good plot so far. Bravo
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One page in 12 chapters. 360 words of rather disturbing sexual content in 28,000 words of "adventure"/"political fiction" mix.
Y'know, I can't find any objective reason for why I already love this story as much as I do. Maybe it's because I can't understand a single thing people do, how they look at everything so superficially, shallowly.
Go up to some person and ask them what defines being human, and they'll probably say something like, "Because we bleed, duh."
Then you ask them if an android could be a person, they act disgusted that you would even ask such a question, because obviously, no matter how much that android can hurt, physically or emotionally, people wouldn't be able to look past the capacitors and wiring.
Really in this world, I'd have left the organic ponies long ago for ones who might bother to look past the surface to whoever's inside the fleshy or meaty machine of a body.
Baton's rape in the story, and the constant rape she and the other cops would face day to day, "They're just robots" when clearly there's more to them than there is to a backhoe...
I'm just rambling at this point, and probably sound excessively melodramatic or something along those lines seeing how I've somehow begun to tear up, so I'll just stop now, but thanks for writing this story (which really hit a part of me that I often forget even exists), and I'm eagerly awaiting more.
4770698
Prepare for a lot of cracking through that shell. It's the core theme of the story.
I want to see where this train wreck is going.
It's well written, interesting, the characters and setting are something I haven't seen outside of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and I want to see if their broken dystopia gets fixed, they escape, or they're crushed.
4770698
Nah it's pretty relevant to discuss these things while it's all just scifi.
one day we will have AI and most likely if you under the age of 30 right now you will be alive to see them.