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"It could be a fucking cannibal grinning in some fucking tree lining you up in his grandpa’s rusty old hunting rifle with a big stupid grin on his face. His hands all movin’ with the shakes like he’s got the damn holy spirit. "
Ahh yeah, this is a wonderful line. I can see the cannibal grinning, waiting for a meal.
Kudos to you, I like how you phrase things.
I will watch this story and maybe learn something.
6954471 the shakes like the Holy Spirit made me laugh pretty hard at the time
This is awesome. Loving the focus on the human protagonist and the world she came from. Can't wait until she starts encountering crazy magic shit.
It is exactly as you described it, cyne. I found the focus pretty refreshing, honestly, and I too find myself anticipating the arrival of magic and sheeeit.
This is my favorite crossover with Cormac McCarthy's The Road yet.
6957211 okay that one made me laugh pretty hard
Which makes you an ass because I have pneumonia and laughing hurts
6957239 you're welcome
o fuk
Jeez man, I love you... Uh your work I mean.
...Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasshole.
Is that supposed to be a question or a statement?
Need moar. Damn nice story.
Damn, dude's a monster. Well, this is going to screw the pioneer hard. It's her work he used, after all...
The sooner that black-hearted scum dies, the better off everyone else will be.
Mr. Costello's comeuppance is going to be sweet, and hopefully soon. He's thoroughly unlikable.
Far out, that's some fast paced crazy heavy stuff man.
Daaaaaamn....
6993577 this version overall is way less dark than the initial story. Also a little longer.
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We’ve got an Earth that is close to (or is) post‐apocalyptic and the remnants of the U.S., having thrown off any pretensions of claiming to (much less trying to) be the good guy, metastasising and plaguing a peaceful world totally unprepared for a cancer that is not merely malignant but actively malevolent… and this is less dark?
Culture sharing! *yeeeeee*
If only it were under better circumstances.
7008644 that is the tragedy, isn't it?
Imagine if she had come alone, what it might have been like. I think Sam would have been happy.
7006785 yeah hi welcome to cynewulf's writing
7006785 well yeah nobody's been maddened by eldritch voices and no one's been eaten alive yet so
pretty tame!
7009681 we're never alone. Even when we're alone, we're still stuck with a head full of ghosts. The idyllicness would just drive her insane I think.
7010641 You think? Don't think she could have settled in Ponyville and said fuck those guys I'ma finally have my own ranch
7010648 As social creatures we would go mad. She could have all the friends she wants but they're not human, which would just constantly remind her she is utterly alone. And solitude breeds contemplation, and when you have PTSD...well that's quite dangerous. As sick as it sounds, fighting is making her comfortable because it's all she knows.
7010670 that is delightful
7010684 she would have snapped already if she were truly alone, for as opportunistic as Malthus is he is a human she has a loose bond with now.
Alone, armed, passive magic induced terrors? She'd have murdered 3 ponies before she realized they were sentient. This story would be way shorter and end on that Nietzche quote.
Why do I have the feeling that some or most of those guardsponies are going to suffer a horrible fate?...
7010736 I think the real tipping point is that reaction to magic. Without it she might could truly put down the gun. But it's just enough to make the difficult impossible, at least until she really acclimated.
Imagine what Celestia might do to her.
7010972 this story is dedicated to the guards of Echo company who got their heads exploded by a minigun and to the ponies is Ponyville who finally succumbed to diabetes in the wake of the Pink Terror
7010989 I'm vaguely surprised the sunrise itself doesn't send the poor humans into a raving panic. They need to lure their unwelcome third guest to the Crystal Empire just in time for the Crystal Faire and hopefully the heart attack will off him.
Ahahaha do not bring sunbutt anywhere near her. She'd fucking kill her.
Although, there's your tactical option for taking down The Butcher. Use Celestia as the rabbit while Luna stalks him and rips his soul apart when she comes out of nowhere. Alicorns hunting humans (or monsters in human shape)!
7013343 As she is now, meeting Celestia would go over about as well as Moses meeting God on Sinai
except instead of commandments she comes back a gibbering madwoman.
...Yeah...speaking about what comes after, history has shown this doesn't have a 100% positive track record...
7031563 the title of this chapter is very important.
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Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooboy.
7031598 looked it up I see : D
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...N-No...
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Oh C.S. Lewis, how right you are...
God, I hope Celestia doesn't get hurt or killed. That would be very bad...
7052204 Lewis basically trashed Imperialism every chance he got. It's rife in the Space Trilogy--at one point, trying to explain the Imperialistic goals of his fellow Englishmen, Ransom realizes that there is no way to NOT make it sound stupid as hell in the native language.
That should probably be 'wary'.
This is just the best thing. Princess Celestia: Eldritch Horror.
Damn. Well, with Celestia being a thing the ponies don't have to worry about human invasions. They'd stop them with pure madness inducing power. That's quite the weapon alright.
On the other side of the coin, she does seem like a tyrant here. One that has no idea of how much she hurts the future of her little ones by destroying that which was created. How much time was wasted because something that could be a weapon of war was erased before it's peaceful uses were discovered? Hard to know, but it does make one think...
Not to mention Twilight would never speak to her again if she found out she blatantly destroyed knowledge
7053062 interestingly, I'd say that the tyrant thing will seem both strong and weaker with the conclusion. Is she, or is she such a thing that that word loses some of its meaning? War to Celestia, when she "invented" it was not killing but the limitation of killing--she paradoxically saw her way as kindness (the last kindness of kings). No more constant raiding and endless feud. One brief explosion of shock and awe and death and then peace.
Scare them bad enough, and no one will ever fight. Look like a tyrant and you save them all.
It's s curious mixture in my head. On one hand, she would utterly annihilate without hesitation the Federal. On the other, she thinks of Sam as a frail little child she has to be careful not to break and sincerely tries to limit her potential effect. The wrath and mercy coexist and serve on another.
7053095 oh, no doubt about it concerning the humans. She'd most likely stop any offensive on their part with extreme prejudice, but help if they all but ask for it. No, I was talking about the ponies.
Certainly the peace and prosperity that flourished under her rule are unprecedented, but so is the stagnation. No conflict breeds contempt and dissuades progress. Kindness and peace are all fine and dandy until you need to motivate people to actually advance science and create. Without a greater objective you'll have a bunch of idea guys developing just a little bit in a lot of directions at once. As history has shown, that's a great way to advance at a snail's pace. Direct effort nets a way greater reward, reaching on years what would take decades... Or even things that otherwise would never be created, for the resources & manpower needed are impossible without it.
If you add the fact that she destroys technology that can be used for war... And you get a place that's excellent to live if you just want to have a happy life... But absolutely horrendous if you want to advance science.
Forever out of reach. Unexpectedly profound.
7055836 whoops
...Wow...
7055867 original ending was actually bleaker
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And it makes me wonder how.
Besides Sam offing herself or Celestia offing her. Or bad dude winning.
7055883 If you really want to know, the point of divergence was her capturing Zecora. The original version made me feel... Sordid. I think some of that horror is reflected in the scene as it is. Celestia wasn't present and the suicide took a different form--she deliberately strode into town delirious and losing it from all the magic, hoping to be judged for her crimes... Only to realize horrified that these gentle townsfolk were actually concerned for the blubbering wounded Everfree creature who seemed harmless and that no one would ever be able to deal with her as she should be dealt. She would get away with it.
I wonder what Celestia chose.
I don't know how this made me feel. I kinda like that.