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This was fascinating, and I adore the way you wrote Rarity.
Anchored to banana bread!
Wait, was I spike?
rawr
That was fascinating. I was hesitant to read it at first, as I don't generally like second-person fics—they're dependent on the reader sharing the feelings of the character being forced upon the reader, so they're often hit and miss—but it's SS&E, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It was an interesting read, and I probably need to re-read it sometime knowing the plot twist.
Welp . . . I tend to stay away from 2nd person fics, buuuuuuuut fuck it.
Tell me how much I love Rarity, Skirts. I will be disappointed if I don't think this is me after I read it!
Well that was a thing.
As far as second person stories go, this wasn't too bad.
I wonder if she was drawing our green Anonymous with a black suit and red tie.
This felt like old Skirts writing, more weighty and less fluffy than the new fare.
I'm not a fan of 2nd person and don't have much attachment to Spike, but this was still respectable and interesting. I like what you did with Starlight. Her bold, adventurous nature with magic could actually make for a lot of good stories.
-deep breath in-
-consideration of thoughts-
-dismissal of thoughts-
AAAAH YOU DID A SECOND PERSoN STORY AAAAH!
Excellent. A good character study of Rarity, a good twist, and a very good end, if slightly melancholy.
BAM! Whacked in the head with incredible, beautiful, perfect Rarity.
Man, you are one fine writer. Thanks for sharing this.
Well, that was certainly I did not expect. And I was so glad that 'Anonymous' wasn't an actual name, but merely an absence of one in this case.
And, in retrospect, all the anxiety makes so much sense. Great job, as always!
I do my best to read every Anon author on this site at least once. Second Person and Anon have always been a sort of 'bread and butter' for me since I began writing on /mlp/ in the FR and AiE threads.
This is an extremely refreshing take on Anonymous.
And I feel like in some ways this story is perfectly targeted towards those who commonly read Anon stories. With the twist at the end, it puts the story in new perspective and promotes rereads.
The prose is 'skirts-immaculate' as per typical. And it took me awhile to post some form of comment because... Well.
I took a step back to my old /mlp/ Skype chats and shared this with some of the writers. Most of them were of the same opinion. This was wonderful. (the rest went 'Ew. Fimfiction')
The style and flow that you can introduce and breathe into a story is admirable. The philosophical moments are very reminiscent of my time reading Background Pony (before I stopped at chapter 10).
Really a marvelous job.
I feel like "anchored to banana bread and shame" could describe a surprisingly high percentage of the population.
In any case, at first, I thiught this might be a Vonnegut-esque meditation between creator and creation, and I'm not fully convinced that it isn't. But the surface-level story is a most compelling one, a clever riff on the usual tropes that will never read the same way after that first run-through. Thank you for it.
(And on a lighter note, Rarity's answer to "What's in a name?" feels like the opening to a Calvin Klein fragrance commercial.)
very good, love the end and it felt like a very unique take on the whole "Anon" thing.
That cover art is just perfection.
Cool. Loved this. Funny enough, just yesterday I started taking notes for a 2nd-person fic I might write someday. Yours is much better. Great use of the genre to steer readers away from the twist.
I love this part of your writing, these clever ideas deeply embedded in the pony universe. There were tastes of the "old Skirts", so to speak... the philosophical. Even moreso than Just. The conversation between a melancholy, mysterious protagonist and a lively, wordy version of a beloved canon character felt super Background Pony, so of course I enjoyed it.
You're talented and a half, Mr. Explosions. Thanks for writing this.
Well...that happened
Nice.
They say a blank slate is often where a reader paints themselves best. What a way to do so.
...I was actually expecting the cockroach ending
Wow, well done! After two readings I still feel like there is an awful lot of depth to this piece that I didn't quite pick up on. I feel like I'm back in college trying to pick apart the meaning of a work of literature for a class. This is some great usage of second person perspective. Frankly it's not often used well at all, but this piece really shows its strengths.
Cool. Starlight knows a spell that turns you into Lyra.
Ahhh, this should have been a Most Dangerous Game contest entry. What a delightfully interesting and unique way to spin the 2nd Person Anonymous trope! I also enjoyed how "weighty" the prose felt; especially that touch of optimistic melancholy (as oxymoronic as that may be) at the end was lovely.