Group Precipitation

by FanOfMostEverything

Definitive Proof, by FoME

Twilight sighed, a palm over her face. "Sunset..."

"What?" It was a shame Sunset wasn't in her demon form. Her smile would've fit perfectly. "I thought you'd appreciate it."

"I do, really, but—"

"I mean, even hinting about either one is enough to get you going."

Twilight sighed. "I'll admit you have a point there, but I was hoping we could resolve these misunderstandings through calm, rational discourse."

Sunset smirked. "Which is why you broke your keyboard last night on that one conspiracy forum."

Twilight glanced away. "Okay, maybe I went a little overboard." She rallied herself. "But this is not the answer!"

"I don't know about that," said Sunset, looking at her phone. "Pretty sure this going to be the most viewed picture on Immediagram."

On the screen, Sunset smiled for a selfie in front of a very stiff Amareican flag, the grey nightscape around her brightened by a blue orb in the sky.

"Hashtag not fake, hashtag not flat, hashtag no filter, hashtag no air... Did I forget anything?"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Good taste?"

"Strictly overrated."

Author's Note:

I'll be honest, this is the one photo opportunity that might get me to make an Instagram account.

Comments

[Talon and Thorn]

Given Sunset literally restructured the universe I'm not sure if her being on the moon with an American flag is going to convince anyone that she didn't make it herself and stick it up there.

You could probably add that you can't prove she didn't go back in time and cause the original moon landing which didn't happen in the original time line or something.

[PiMan]

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That second one would probably introduce too much magic into the past and cause an earlier oversaturation. I'm not sure if it has been explicitly stated, but I've always seen the oversaturation event as the earliest possible point for magical time travel to go back to.

[Neece]

Wasn't the flash supposed to be white due to UV decay of the chemical connections required for color, or something like that?

[JetstreamGW]

Point of order: the flag on the moon would at this point have long since been completely bleached by the sun.

[FanOfMostEverything]

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DragonGeek has the right of it. Chronomancy in the human world behaves similarly to a stationary time machine like a knotted wormhole. You can't go back further than the point the machine was built, because the machine doesn't yet exist to take you then. In this case, the machine is magic allowing sufficient usage of itself to violate causality.

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It ended up playing out something like this:

Sunset: "Darn, it's gone white. People might think I've surrendered control of the Earth or something. Let's touch it up real quick."
Moon landing deniers: "THE FLAG SHOULD'VE BEEN BLEACHED BY NOW! SHIMMERISM IS A LIE! OUR FILLINGS ARE GPS WAYPOINTS FOR GOVERNMENT DRONES!"
Sunset:
No, I didn't forget to take that into account. Don't be ridiculous.

[BenRG]

"Look, Propeller Beanie asked me to pick up a camera timer widget he left up there back in '69! He's an old man and it was a favour I owed him, okay?"

'Propeller Beanie' is a ponification of Pete Conrad of Apollo 12 fame; he and Al Bean left the timer for their camera on the Moon after they ran out of time to do a group shot in front of the LEM ladder; Sunset offered to find it for him!

[Void Knight]

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Problem is, the only source for that is Sunset herself. If you don't believe Sunset when she says that the moon landings did occur, why would you believe her when she says she can't go that far back in time?

[Whiteeyes]

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Anither common idea is that while you could you risk paradox by making it so that the vhain of events that lead it to being invented never happened when it did, resulting in a defunct timeline depending on how this all works. So even if you could you really shouldn't or you might end up making it so that time travel never came to be so you have no way bavk to.yoir own time or the like.

[Eroraf86]

I cannot tell you how many times I've wished I could send science deniers to the Moon.