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SheetGhost
I am a fan of MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC. I have written FANFICTION about MAGICAL MINIATURE HORSES. I should really RE-EXAMINE MY PRIORITIES IN LIFE.
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Neat story. It's like if Joseph Heller became a brony.
dont even have to read the discription, you have a fave
This, my friend, is beautiful.
You've successfully fused ponies with the style of one of 20th century America's greatest satirists. Well done, sir!
Pleasantly Kafkaesque, and I love the humour. I noticed you're not doing that thing in Catch-22 where it goes "...like the time X did Y..." and then goes on to explain exactly what that was, but that's neither here nor there. Keep it up!
How horrible! The changeling drove Mayor Mayor's father sane.
This shall be fanon.
(at least for me)
That was depressing.
This isn't Heller, but it really doesn't need to be. I mean, you can see Heller in it (like the echoes of Snowden in Book Binding), but it's your own beast. It's still brilliant, mind. All the byzantine "try as you might things will always suck" comes through nicely, and though it lacks Catch-22's glorious cathartic ending, it'd be unfair to compare the two. A first-class effort, all in all.
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A late reply, but a reply all the same. It's late because I kept planning on doing a long, complex postmortem that would enumerate all of this works failings and all that I learned from it. Really though, I don't need to. I know already where it worked and where it didn't, and tearing down ones own work when it isn't already an untouchable success is usually a bad sales pitch and a sign of low confidence in the work, so I'll kindly skip that chapter and keep it to my own records.
This isn't Heller, in some respects it wasn't intended to be. A lot of crossovers/inspired by works like this tend to fall into the camp of pale imitations, 'X but written by a hack,' usually the reason for this is because the reason the writer is imitating is because they aren't confident in their own work. It's the writing equivalent of sketching over another persons drawing. I don't condemn this, imitation proceeds creation, and it's just part of the learning process, but it's not what I was going for.
What I intended for this was something more akin to an artist drawing in the distinctive style of another artist they admire. The styles of fanart for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic are innumerable, but I imagine every artists takes at least one shot of copying the style of the show directly. Some are more successful then others, some are near carbon copies and others have the artists distinct style leaking through, but the love is still there, the clear admiration, and really, that's all it was ever about in the first place.
This work probably falls into the latter category, especially nearer to the end, but I hope my desire to replicate something like the joy Heller's work brought me shines through.
(Regarding the ending, Heller had a good set up to add a joyful moment to an otherwise dreary situation. Unfortunately, I failed to set a support for anything like this throughout the story. The ending was intended to be more of a case of black, grim humor about the situation, but in retrospect I think a little levity might've been useful. Alas, should've could've would've. It's done.)
I also want to thank BritBrony, who was a fantastic fellow who did my prereading and some editing for me and generally put up with my nonsense. You're a star, fellow.
I'm sorry that you don't seem to like this story very much, for what it's worth I think it's great.
This was a fun read and you did a good job on it. It definitely deserves more views.
Dear god, how does this not have more up‐votes?
The humour in this story is that delightful mix of perfect timing, horrible realisation, surreality and cringe‐inducing sympathy for the besieged protagonist that leaves you in stitches whilst grinning like a madman.
I really enjoyed this, it hit every note that I loved about the style and pacing of Catch-22. Thank you
Whatever lessons you decided to take from it, I hope you drew some measure of satisfaction, because you deserve it.
Even during most comedic fics I don't laugh out loud, but this one got me to guffaw at least three times, just like Catch-22 had me howling.
Thank you for that. It's good to have a laugh. Thumbed and favorited.
There's a missed opportunity here to have Mayor Mayor be sure the potion (which was Ponyville water) must have been effective because it tasted awful (because it tasted like almonds, as all water in Ponyville did).
A full decade later and this is still one of the funniest and most underrated comedies on the site.
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a full year later the writer to drunkenly check on his 11 year old fanfic and realizes a few people still appreciate it and remember it fondly