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Cute. Some interesting stories and funnies too.
Just hope they can get over this all, on the end.
And with cute Alicorn foals
this was super floofy and awesome and I love it so much
a amassing chapter loved it.
I liked this chapter a great deal more than the previous one.
While I enjoy the premise of the story and how well it's written, I can't help but still feel a bit irritated reading it. I'm trying to rationalize why this is the case, moreso than just calling Tim a wuss and a doormat
At this point, the best explanation I can give is that this is following the typical archtypes of a romance novel geared towards women. The main character doesn't possess any remarkable personality traits, and they're passive to the point where they've ceased being an active agent of their destiny and more of an object to be acted upon. Where we experience more of the emotional ride of their circumstances than anything they actively attempt to change and overcome. This is hard to read, especially when we unconsciously expect more of an initative from Tim.
I think the main appeal of a human in a RGRE story is the conflict that arises from culture shock, difficulty, and even unwillingness to understand and adapt to everything relating to their new locale. Most of the major conflict here, has Tim on the bloody sidelines or having mares take up his cause. (like when he was getting a job). He's fitting in too damn well and being far too agreeable for me to be interested.
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I would have to agree. The character of Tim has pretty much been bentched, even through he was built up to be the main character in the first few chapters. He's adapting way too fast to situations that would be completely detremental to the human psyche or completely illegal in human culture, or just goes against every human social norm.
They continuously point out that he's an alien and doesn't think as they do. They continue to point out that his culture, language, background, and social norms are completely alien to theirs, and in some cases even completely incompadable. They claim to understand his longing and outright need for human interaction. They then turn right around and ignore all that to instil their own values and customs on him and punish him when he doesn't meet the standards that they themselves say that are instinctual for them and require no concious thought.
They vilify Twilight, though arguable Twilight is the only one who actually knows and understands Tim to ANY degree. She has spent countless hours talking to him and asking him questions about HIM about HIS culture, about HIS planet, about HIS socitey. She may not understand everything, or just how mentally straining their culture is on him, but at least she's made an effort. His herd has made absolutley NO effort to understand his background or culture, just constantly shoving theirs onto him. They know little to nothing about his past or how humanity thinks, our own instints, or our own social norms and needs.
What they did to him, would have driven a normal human either insane, or away. Humans are instinctively very social creatures. Lack of possitive social contact causes humans to mentally slip. Lack of contact at all causes humans to become delutional, hear voices, see things. By our standards, what they did and are still doing to him would be considered monterous, and on the outside looking it, it would appear he has a bad case of Stockholm's.
Reading this chapter, I honestly think Twilight is better suited to be with Tim then his herd is. Hearing their stories, Citrus and Twilight both fell in love with Tim, but only Twilight took the actual effort to learn about this alien who fell from the sky, where Citrus just seems to be crushing hard without really understanding or knowing anything about Tim. Ironically, Twilight currently knows more about human culture than any other member of their planet and CLEARLY understands Tim more than anyone else....but is she the bad guy here? The rival? I don't know anymore, because the story seems to have shifted onto the herd as the main characters and not Tim, he's just become an object in the background the various factions are fighting over, or talking about, or trying to figure out, or just generally interact with. He just keeps his head down and does whatever they tell him to, or takes a lecture when he doesn't do what they expect him to do even though they never explained to him what they expect of him.
And just to be clear. The story isn't bad. I like the premis. I like this culture that was made for Equestria. It's complex and shows actual thought and effort, and for that I applaud the writer. It just seems that Tim the Human isn't really human. None of his actions or reactions are human. He doesn't try to get them to understand his mind, or his morals, or anything really. He doesn't defend himself or stand up for himself and his culture. As the sole representative of his species on that planet, he as a right as a sapient being to defend and practice his culture as long as his cuture doesn't cause physical harm to those around him.
Tim really is the weak link in this story, because you could replace him with any non-pony character, and it would still work for the story, same dialoge, same actions and reactions, same "realizations that he's not a pony" same everything. In fact, I think this story would actually work better if he has been turned into a pony from the beginning, because at least they'd have the excuse of constantly forgetting he wasn't originally a pony.
In the end of it all, Tim isn't human, he's just a humanoid sentient manniquin that Herd Blush uses as a sex tool and punishes or berates when he acts weird and 'non-pony' even though he looks nothing like them, and even though Equestria has to deal with Diamond Dogs, Griffins, Minotaurs, Dragons, Zebras, Elk, Bufallo, and all the other species, and their individual cultues, these ponies seems to always forget this pink/tan semi-hairless bipedal primate isn't infact a pony and wouldn't think like one, but is a completely different sapient creature with his own culture.
An enjoyable update to one of my favorite stories. I liked getting a little bit of back story on Tim's recovery and how he and Citrus met. It seems the talk Citrus and Cadence shared did some good. I hope things get patched up between all parties. Thanks again and I look forward to reading the next chapter.
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again stopped
powerful and FRIGHTENING
holy crap i binged this story over the weekend and finished what there is today. this story sucked me in and it was awesome. i actually felt dread going through the infidelity arc and i haven't felt that in a lot of what i read. good on you and can't wait to see what else you have planned XD
That being said.
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I will say I do agree. Despite how much I was sucked in to the world I found myself raising my eyebrows a few times at how passive Tim has been. I was often wondering when the cultural misunderstandings would come to a head, especially in moments like when we see how silver was being punished alongside Tim for Tim’s mistake. I was expecting him to do something like grab silver, walk up to the bedroom, and throw the buck into the room and lead into a big fight with silver and the girls vs Tim about how that isnt ok for him and how he was solely responsible and the burden rests on him. But he just constantly bites the bullet and as far as I can see it isn’t addressed how the two months of social isolation is affecting him.
Would really love to see Tim push back a bit more against the equestrian customs (like he did in chapter 24 on the whole pheromones thing) that clash with american customs with some discussions and maybe even a few small arguments.
But seriously this is just an oppinion and aside from Tim’s passiveness this story is awesome and I’m eagerly awaiting more.
(also i deleted that comment above me cause i forgot i could just edit this original post. sorry for any confusion)
Yup, it's a great story, you Sparky and Kalash deserve a cookie. It's not "Oh mine fucking god, yes!" good, but what you are portraing you are doing good.
One think tho,Even if you say Twilight haven't raped Tim. I'm not sure about that, it is deep in the grey area and I'm not lawyer, but since Twilight was the one knowing what was happening, was enough right in the mind to transform herself, Tim was intoxicated with pheromones and if weakly then still resisted before Twilight made her move and he wouldn't do it if he wasn't under her effect. She clearly have abused him.
Yes they don't regret it because they had sex but because of the circumstances. And Tim is too proud to admit/believe that she used him, but she did what she did.
EDIT: Oh, also I forgot. Tho I know she isn't the only one to blame and try to switch the characters and say that Tim wouldn't feel like it too, or even worse.
But there is one thing that amuses me that ironically quite lot of ppl in the comments completely ignore what this story IMHO in the core is about.
To see a reason behind someone elses actions.
Oh I was just thinking, is Starlight Glimmer in herd?
Heh, girl talk.
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IANAL but I believe that it was still sexual assault if not rape, but (especially since this is a fictional story in horse land with different laws) without Tim's cooperation, there's not much that can be done.
Wow you did it again Spark. Another great chapter. I love this story so much.
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I've heard statistics that (here on earth) actual reporting of sexual assault and rape is probably only ~20%. Most of the time victims refuse to report their abusers...hell, I KNOW a few.
Unsexual healing, heh.
This whole story is the kind of sappiness I occasionally crave, and I've been really enjoying it so far. Nice to see a recent update, too.