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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Who is kibitz?
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Celestia's aide/majordomo from the comics
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I always love the comparative culture sharing in this story.
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I thought that was supposed to be raven inkwells job?
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So there's back and forth in the comics. In this story, Raven Inkwell is Princess Celestia's personal assistant/secretary/aide. She basically runs around next to Celestia, carrying paperwork, holding the briefcase o'shit, and tells her what appointments are next. Kibitz is the majordomo/Seneschal for the castle. He's responsible for overseeing the broader scheduling and also things like making sure that things like cultural/diplomatic faux pas are avoided.
TL:DR: Kibitz creates the castle's schedule for all the residents and employees, Raven makes sure Celestia follows her schedule and that she has everything she needs for whatever meeting is being had.
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Building the culture for Equestrian races has been one of our favorite parts of making this story. I love when I can sprinkle it in to the narrative, because you guys have no idea how much we do with this behind the scenes. Everything from cultural history to folktales to modern taboos to cultural DRIFT has been mapped out.
Looks like Sunny and Night got to work some things out. Hopefully Twiggles doesn't have a meltdown.
Damn, Night. You are a good Dad. It's hard to do self care when you are worried about your relationship. A bad fight, poor words chosen. How to handle the aftermath, what to say, what not to say. Hurts the heart. Vel and Night better be ready for serious damage control with Twilight, emotionally.
I have a feeling though, that Kibitz is where Sunset's flair for insults came from.
Well it's nice Sunset got to have a psuedo-dad for a talk, even if only for a short while. I'm still surprised Sunset's cover hasn't been blown yet. Nice chapter and here's hoping the cooldown works.
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Here's hoping, lol. One never knows with Twilight.
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Night is good dad. Even to pseudo-adopted unicorn girls secretly dating his daughter. :P We joke that the Sparkle family is representative of "the healthiest family dynamic" in the story, as all of the various characters have different kinds of families and some of them are good, but some of them are toxic, and some are just....there.
And yeah, self-care versus relationship work can sometimes be a hard choice, but...a relationship cannot be healthy if the people in it don't take care of themselves. Night and Velvet have had enough counseling and therapy for their own struggles in life to be aware of this.
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Sunset had a number of ponies teaching her how to swear without actually using bad language. Kibitz was probably the most dramatic, but don't sell Raven Inkwell short. Or Celestia, who has something like five thousand years of life to have come up with some very creative ones.
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I mean...how often does one EXPECT to hear a kid tell you theyre a horse from another dimension? As truths go, that's further out there than a lot of X-files episodes. Not exactly the kind of thing one guesses easy.
Unless you mean the "Sunset has a thing for Twilight." Because that was never a secret. Sunset does not DO subtle when it comes to her emotions for Twilight.
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"Nothing to seee here!"
MMm....Its definitely making Twilight wonder. I'm sure it wont bite them in the butt later.
And yes, Twilight has...issues. Thats why she has a therapist to talk to.
Luna is one of the unsung heroes in the story, not gonna lie.
Stupid human body being bad at magic!
Yes, the whole reason for not bringing Twilight around the girls is exactly that mess being what she wants to avoid. Shes working on a way to explain it.
*ominous music*
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It most certainly was not a dream. It was all too real.
Twilight's got some...strange shit happening in her life right now, and I'm not sure she's prepared to know the truth yet.
And yes, perhaps she should start keeping things close to home and not share what she learns too much with certain parties...
Sunset is learning! Sunset is good girlfriend!
And as I've often said in RPGs: "Paranoia is not a derangement if they're really out to get you. Its a survival skill."
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Why do you think he's so cranky? He's done with magic bullshit.
Heh. Revolutionary Girl Utena. Gods, that anime is an acid trip and a half. Good though, and the music is catchy as hell. ...Can't recommend the movie though. Its not possible to be on enough drugs to understand the movie.
Mystics pay attention to the signs, and they know when there's a disturbance in the Force. They might not know what or where, but they know.
Yes. Granny Smith is a badass.
And no, they really wont. *evil smirk*
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Yes, the princess has just been busy with things in Magic Pony Land. No reason to panic yet.
Yet.
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pffff, i'm going to pretend you didn't say that
puts on aviators and walks straight into a carwash
and it inspired the transformation sequence in revue starlight, so it's impossible to dislike
besides, it's "the show but with the gay turned up to 11 and a way better akio. suuuuuuuuuuper dead!", what's not to like?
and utena's uniform...
adolescence of utena is fucking perfect
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The gay being turned up does not automatically make the movie better. They tried to condense an already extreeeeemely complicated, convoluted plot from like 50 episodes into....90 minutes. That never works very well. And the whole car transformation thing still makes no sense, 20 years later and after subsequent viewings. Like don't get me wrong, some parts were better, (like some of the animation and design), but the plot did not handle being squashed well. But, I suppose that's my opinion.
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yeah i think the movie benefits from the ambiguity "is it a sequel? is it a remake? is it an AU?" because then it's just what it is, it's not supposed to be anything, and that makes it really neat
i mean you don't have to like it, but i certainly do
also the car sequence is about cars as a vehicle for freedom and utena helping anthy achieve hers, but anthy still has to be the person to take the last step and get herself the fuck outta there
but also it's a good transformation sequence
that and we get the amazing line "you think you're the only person that can turn into a car?" because why not!
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Yeah, I don't like that ambiguous anime nonsense any more than I like the ambiguous "anime endings." Or any more than I like "abstract art", where the value of a piece lies not in the skill of the painter, but in the manipulation of the audience by making THEM do the legwork to give a piece meaning, explanation, and value.
Some people do, I guess. But I'm definitely not one of them. Lazy or shoddy creators are kind of one of those things that make my teeth itch.
The same goes for the overly abstract metaphors and analogies. As someone who writes, who does often choose words very carefully, and leave very deliberate but subtle foreshadowing, things like "Oh, the curtains are blue, which is a metaphor for....<insert a dissertation about the curtain metaphor>" are...well, they're usually BS created by an audience looking in the wrong place, or by a pretentious demographic embarrassed to admit that they liked reading a short story about a sad puppy or whatever. Most of the times, the curtains are blue because the author liked the color or was basing the room off a place they'd been. (The RPG variant of this is "Sometimes the Innkeeper is just an innkeeper guys, he's not a dark lord or the important NPC. That's the dude over in the corner asking for help.")
If one is writing a cohesive story that makes sense and flows, metaphors, analogies, and themes are going to be part of a bigger whole, that flows and melds with the story. That makes sense for the narrative. It'll feel like PART of the story. If its done exceptionally well, you wont even be entirely aware of it, because its so thoroughly integrated into the narrative.
By comparison, the car transformation thing in the Utena Movie....doesn't feel that way. Its jarring, sudden, and even if you've seen the entire show before hand (which is also a bit narratively erratic, but still manages to keep most of it in a cohesive unit), does not make sense with the narrative. Its a weird left turn that completely knocked me out of any sense of immersion, and completely lost the narrative thread in favor of...a weird car race that ends with nearly naked girls on a car's bottom frame in the middle of some kind of highway wasteland.
It feels almost as if the creator themselves didn't know what theme or message they were trying to impart, or the back-ground/world building knowledge of the story for themselves. Which led to these really jarring moments because of a lack of a cohesive setting/history/theme/etc, and in turn left a portion of the audience in a few categories: royally confused, grumpy because wtf, or scrambling to assign meaning and metaphor on behalf of the authors.
If the audience has to work that hard to understand what's going on at the story's end, then the author fails as a storyteller.
*shrugs* Maybe content--stories, art, etc--just hit different when you're a content maker. Kind of like haunted houses and horror movies are never the same after you've run a haunted house. I dunno. To each their own, I suppose.