Every action taken is like dropping a pebble in a pond, creating ripples that extend ever outward. Every choice has consequences, good and bad... Putting on a Crown may have changed Sunset Shimmer's life...but it also Changed two worlds...
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To start with, I think this was one of your best chapters yet!
I enjoyed writing Pinkie, I enjoy seeing her portrayed well and you have done so masterfully. I like how Marble, who has keen observation, noticed that Sunset did not move like a normal human. I absolutely adored that Sunset wanted to do something for Vel, Twi and family and the exchange with Pinkie that triggered the magic, heh, I can imagine Marble with giant anime eyes.
Was worth the wait, totally and completely.
D'aww! Sunset's true nature had hand in befriending Marble.
Now, Sunset, tell the one about Nightmare Moon.
A wise decision, Sunny. Take it from Princess Twilight, looking into it will only lead to inevitable disaster.
1) Yay! Rubicon is back. (Hopefully I'll be saying the same thing about Phoenix-born soon).
2) I can only imagine what's going to happen when the darklings encounter Twilight after she's eaten some of those "good magic" tartlets. Probably nothing good, but what's a story without tension and conflict?
sunset is much more straightforward about these things than pony twi was
true, except for the fact that involuntary startle reactions don't really factor that in
listen to her sunset, the ponk is quite insightful (100% serious)
awwwww
i am still sitting here patiently waiting for the potential "sunset is a form of emotivore" reveal and it will be perfect because she's great and demons are great, but oh boy is she going to hate it for a while due to emotivore prejudice (which, to be fair, the last few emotivore's she's dealt with have been suuuuper evil)
magic science baking with pinkie! this can only go perfectly!
it's a date!
cough
oh right this isn't poly or omni-ship (yet?), my bad
it's a friend date then, which are still splendid
ah!
ahhhh!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
yay they're getting along
lovely! marble was great, fantastic first chapter of the new updates, can't wait for more!
The scene with Marble was just .
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I was pretty proud of how this chapter came out. Out of the three, it might be my second favorite.
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So, I wanted to address this, because of a couple of things.
First, I understand the heart of the point you are trying to make. I was lucky, as a child and teenager, in that I had parents who, for all their flaws, were willing to treat me like a human being, and, as long as conducted myself as was considered polite, appropriate, and the proper maturity (or exceeding it) for my age, I was treated accordingly. "Act like an adult, be treated like one" was a common saying. I was allowed, particularly as a teen, a measure of autonomy and privacy. My parents knocked at my door, I was allowed to lock it because I had younger brothers, one of whom had a kleptomania problem, i was allowed a computer and internet once that became a thing that didn't tie up phone lines and I stayed out of chatrooms because creeps. But, I also have known plenty of people whose parents did not give them privacy or treat them like people, and i have always found it pretty appalling. Kids aren't necessarily as mature or wise as adults, but they are still human beings worthy of basic respect and dignity, and...they aren't always wrong either.
But--and this is where I felt I needed to comment--Kids, even teenagers, are still children. They are not adults. They are not entitled to doing whatever the fuck they want without consequence (even adults shouldnt be, but thats another argument for another day.) More than that, if you do not impose consequences on children for bad behavior, and explain to them why the behavior is bad, you create someone who is a spoiled brat with no empathy for others in the face of 'Well I wanted to do/have the thing.' Teenagers, in particular, are prone to making impulsive, emotionally driven choices with no thought to consequences: "That's Future-Adora and Catra's problem" sums it up nicely.
In the case illustrated in the chapters of Rubicon, this is not Twilight Sparkle being anxious or distressed, and an overbearing parent not respecting her right to privacy. This is Twilight Sparkle being an absolute teenage shit-for-brains brat, and being deliberately nasty to a parent when it was completely uncalled for, and then storming off to throw a temper tantrum like a much younger child, followed by her father feeling that the behavior was inappropriate, uncalled for, and needed to be addressed with both a discussion and potentially further consequences to drive home the understanding that the way she behaved to her mother was NOT socially acceptable. He even does point out that on normal occassions he would give her time to chill out, but in this case, the situation is serious enough that he feels that it warrants the discussion sooner rather than later.
She also wasn't the only one who got taken to task in the matter--Shining Armor was hauled off like a teenager himself, and he is a man in his late twenties (as he is 12 years older than his sister). He was an adult, and his father still took him for a walk whether he wanted it or not, because his behavior was completely socially unacceptable and way out of line given the circumstances. Because...honestly, thats what decent parents do. I'm 37, and if I do something that is an absolute shit behavior, my mother full on calls me out. She will tell me to my face, "You're being a total bitch today." And when she does? I stop and say 'geez, am I?' Hell, its what decent family does, because I call my mother out too. "Ma, you're really acting like someone pissed in your cheerios, something go wrong this morning?"
Additionally, and perhaps it wasn't communicated well, but the way we are writing Twilight is as someone with social struggles, who has diifficulty grasping the "Rules of Social Behavior" with the same "intuitive" nature that the average person can. (Or, as I've heard my editor put it: "Its like everyone else got handed out some kind of guidebook, and I missed the give-away.") Her parents have long established a healthy pattern with her of talking through and explaining/answering questions and also modeling social behavior, so she can learn the ins and outs of "why you do this thing but not that thing," and established rules, structure, and guidelines of how to handle her both at her worst and her best. So what you were reading was part of that system, much like in the Chapter 77 where she is ignoring them at dinner and he tells her he is activating his authority to shut her out of the lab until they talk it out like human beings--pre-established and agreed upon actions that are delineated and defined for her understanding of what this thing means.
So, again, while I understand your comment's intentions, in all honesty, no situation is as black and white as that. The situation presented is nuanced, and full of shades of gray, and isn't as simple as one answer serves all events. And as someone who did have a few blow ups at my parents, some of which were justified in the long term, there were several that werent and my parents took me to task immediately. (And as an adult, I am mature and logical enough to look back and say, "Yeah, in this case here, I was absolutely being a shit-fuck and they needed to drive home the point that what I did wasnt okay."
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Hehe. That was the joke, yes.
And how do you know she didn't tell the one about Nightmare Moon? :P
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1. When you post, you can be assured I'll be there to read it. *cheers*
2. You'll find out Next time on Dragonba--Uhh...I mean...Next week, in that chapter. *coughs*
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Sunset is not OCD like a Twilight.
*startled horse noises*
The Pink One has wisdom disguised as cotton candy.
Sunset is loved. Pet the floofy pony and tell her that, pink one. She needs to hear it.
I will neither confirm nor deny Sunset being an emotiphage. I can agree though that such a concept would really be an issue with her psyche, given her associating it with BAD MOJO.
Baking with Pinkie is an experience, lets go with that.
Nah. Sunset is kind of possessive and would absolutely be the jealous type. She's not keen on sharing Twilight. With anyone. Ever. Poly-shipping wouldn't work well unless it was Sunset's harem, and this is not that kind of story. ....On the other hand, that doesn't mean there arent other characters in the background who are more open in their relationships in one way or another...
Don't scream yourself hoarse there, friend.
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It was fun.
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yeah i wasn't expecting poly i just like making poly jokes in the comments
i will so scream myself hoarse it's worth screaming about!
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That story would be interesting to others besides Sunset given it involves the counterparts of the school administrators (even if, going by the intro to the pilot episode, they're not mentioned by name), and the story eventually got a happy ending involving the girls counterparts.
Marble is gonna want Sunset to come over more often so she can hear more about "Ponyland"
Also, Sunset should be honoured to be (I assume) one of the few people Marble has directly spoken to.