Sunset in The Land of Typos and Their Ilk

Do you know what it's like to start a revolution just because you accidentally had an ideal instead of an idea? Sunset does.

Sunset has seen her world bè͎c̣͌o̯ͧm̼͆̇e̥̽ ̲̈́͑i̪ͩn̲͐t̼͒e̲ͦ̓͗n̘̹̅̎ͅs̤̰͖ͬͪ̀e̯͔̅ͤ̃͗ḽ̟͂̇ͯy͓̜̻͍ͦ͊̍̊ ̳̻̎ ̴̢̢̘ͭ̆ͪ͐-̷̶̧̞ͭͭͭ-̴̦̮̊̆͂ͦ̓͠-̨͓̫̙͉̈̋͢-̵̴̢̩̺̜͇͌̎ͭ̕̕-̶͕̥͖̪̯̜̊̒-̉̐ͨ̾͏̸͇̘͎̞͙͍͜͝͡-̸̴͔̝ͨ̽̓ͧ̀̚̕- because, instead of being quiet, everything was quite but there was no indication of quite what it was quite.

The revolution is over. The world is no longer quite so quite. Susnet Shimmer, Sunset's evil duplicate, has been defeated and susses no more. But, for all of that progress, the typos continue, and Sunset is getting tired of it.

This was to be an entry into No Author left Unnoticed!'s “Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.” competition, but when I reached a point where a could cut a little bit to keep it under the word limit or ignore the word limit, add more scenes, and allow it to quadruple in size, I opted for the latter.

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Ninjadeadbeard

Ninjadeadbeard #1 · Sep 30th, 2019 · 2 · ·

Sunset said, "And I'm just saying that I'm fed up ," which everyone at the table would know meant, I'm trying to vent, you're getting your humble country advice all over my exhaust port, a direct hit could cause a chain reaction leading to my destruction, so please, kindly, shut up .

I suddenly wonder if Sunset watched Star Wars... hmmm...

Sorry to lose you from the competition, but it looks like you're doing fine considering this story exists now.

The Blue EM2

The Blue EM2 #2 · Oct 1st, 2019 · · ·

This was very funny, and neatly lampoons some of the common mistakes that crop up in stories (Principle, awkward plot points that don't fit, etc.).

Good job. Fave and fallow from me.

FanOfMostEverything

FanOfMostEverything #3 · Feb 27th, 2020 · 2 · ·

(who cared about Derpy anyway?)

You are toying with dangerous forces.

Sunset's heart was filled with liquid joy? Why liquid? Because hearts are designed to hold liquids and therefore would encounter problems if faced with solid or gaseous joy. Plasmatic joy need not be discussed at this juncture because, were it to be, the concept of that filling a heart might put a damper on Sunset's joy.

A Bose-Einstein condensate of joy was right out.

Multiversal Derpy, universe-mending Sunset... This feels delightfully familiar, even if it's a case of convergent inspiration. Wonderful madness, even if the subtextual transcriptions got obnoxious after a while. Of course, that was by design. Thank you for a wonderfully bizarre read.

(Also, if you thought Susnet was bad, you've never dealt with the doppleganger I most often face, Sinset Shimmer.)

chris the cynic

chris the cynic #4 · Mar 20th, 2020 · 1 · ·

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Hey, sorry for time it took me to respond to you, my depression has been really bad lately.

First off:

Thank you for a wonderfully bizarre read.

Thank you so much for speaking up.

I'm pretty sure that most writers have this to some degree, but it's definitely the case that my depression makes it much more severe. What is "this"? "This" is that I need the validation of people saying they liked something because otherwise, when I'm just writing into the void, I feel like everyone hated it or, just as bad, no one cared. The like/dislike function helps a little, but not much. If I don't hear it said, figuratively speaking, it doesn't feel real and I still feel like everything I make is crap.

Especially thanks for saying that on something like this that's . . . not remotely my best.

~ ~ ~

Someday, if I'm in a place where I feel I can actually do and do it well, I want to do a major revision of this. Basically bring a higher level of quality throughout, except the things that are intentionally low quality, and make it a more consistent read. Right now I think the beginning doesn't have enough words and the end has too many, which leaves it absurdly lopsided. I'm sure that some people looked at the beginning, concluded it was solely about cheap potshots at poor characterization with a gimmick of ontological typos, and left before getting to the other stuff.

Also part of that possible plan to revise maybe-someday is to break it up into chapters so things can be more clearly demarcated. So something along the lines of chapter one focusing on poor characterization, chapter two focusing on Sunset getting run down, chapter Derpy focusing on meta-textual concerns, and so forth. I don't mean removing such things from parts where they aren't the focus, but rather choosing the chapter boundaries such that the reader can have a sense of "Hitting this point so hard and so often is a trait of this chapter, rather than something that will continue from now to the end."

Wonderful madness, even if the subtextual transcriptions got obnoxious after a while.

So there's this quote about anapestic meter, that sort of sums up how that came about:

Swinburne's self-parody will do was well as any passage in English to demonstrate the dangers inherent in sustained anapest. The meter trips so fast that it tends to take over from the poet the management of the poem. The poet is left with nothing to do but to turn crank for more and more anapests...

If you use sub-textual transcriptions once or twice, that's that and there's nothing more to say. If you sustain them then they, like anapests, threaten to take over. In a story about bad writing, I let them.

(Swinburne's self-parody was Nephelidia, which also shows what it's like when alliteration takes over.)

A Bose-Einstein condensate of joy was right out.

Absolutely. (That made me smile, by the way.)

(who cared about Derpy anyway?)
You are toying with dangerous forces.

This also made me smile, for the record. I do actually care about Derpy. When her characterization is limited to "Clumsy cross-eyed mistake-maker who is dim" (so this includes canon) it frustrates me a great deal.

In the story I was planning to write for your "Imposing Sovereigns II: Once and Future" contest (I really am sorry about holding that spot down for the whole time, thus preventing others from using it; I really did think I could pull things together and write it right up till the end) I was going to have a bit part where Pony Twilight explained to Celestia that she and Time Turner had ensured their collaboration wouldn't go catastrophically wrong because they'd had Derpy be the beta tester, and she generates a reality warping bad luck field. (Only way I can explain what happened when sat there and did nothing.)

(Also, if you thought Susnet was bad, you've never dealt with the doppleganger I most often face, Sinset Shimmer.)

Adjacent key typo instead of out of order typo. That I didn't think of that should tell you which type I usually make.

I'm always verbose, but i think that in times when depression is preventing me from writing much in the way of fiction, it comes out far more in settings like this. If you read through all of the above and made it here, thank you for your time.

FanOfMostEverything

FanOfMostEverything #5 · Mar 20th, 2020 · 2 · ·

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If you read through all of the above and made it here, thank you for your time.

Thank you for the story.

No hard feelings on the IS2 no-show; you're far from the only one who didn't get something in in time. You're always welcome to use the prompt regardless.

And I completely understand that need for validation through comments. Watching the number of green thumbs going up only does so much against the feeling of shouting into the void. The worst fate a story can meet is indifference.

Spark the Outcast

Spark the Outcast #6 · Jul 19th, 2020 · 1 · ·

This story has taught me one very important thing, amongst lesser important things: the next time I encounter an annoyingly difficult problem I simply cannot solve, I simply need to except it. Thank you.

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A Bose-Einstein condensate of joy was right out.

Also, I was so looking for that.

10 out of 10 "oh my god what the heck did I just read"s!

SoloBrony

SoloBrony #7 · Aug 24th, 2021 · · ·

This was very well done. Combining drama, criticism, meta commentary and humor isn't an easy feat, but you did so quite adeptly.

Bicyclette

Bicyclette #8 · May 21st, 2022 · 1 · ·

"Pony Celestia, who is a princess, human Celestia, who is a principal, and principle Celestia, who is some sort of abstract concept."

i already love this, augh! a pun taken literally taken to absurd conclusions

Applejack said in a way that meant, Look at me, I'm a stereotype! which ‑‑Sunset felt‑‑ could have gone without saying,

ooh burn on Applejack

(who could be bothered to remember that Rainbow had other traits?)

burn on Rainbow Dash too!

S̼ͯu̫ͨn̠̊s̜̒̋e͇͒t̰̑ ͚ͥ́b̻ͣr̬̟̾̍ȧ̤c͙̀e̼̥̓ͬd̟̠ͮ ̝́͆h̘̻ͣͬḛ̮̲̔̔ͦr̻ͩs͉̜̻̀̌ē͚̣̞l̘̜̍͗f͉̪̍;̲̅ͩ̃ ̹̹̑͊t̠̩̝̓̋ͩh̰̭̦̄̅ͣe̖̦̊̅̐ ̬̪͇͂̾̽u̟̹͌̍ͅn̖̝̈ͣͤi̲̖̖̘̒͗ͮv͎̗̤̆̏̊e̻͍͋̊͊͗r̟ͦ̒̑ͤś̹͍͖͎͌ė̦ ̜̋͑r͖͈̬̻ͩe̲͎͆͂c̮̫͚̿ô̺̠͉n͓ͬf͉͔̮̪ͥi͙͇̣ͮ͐̒ͩg̯̣̱͂̔ͅu̹͇̜͎̺͊́̄r̫͓̣̽̀̄ḛ̟͒d͚̦̔ ̖̜͕̮̃i̝̰̮̦̳ͫ͂ț͚͔̬̟̖̄̂s͔͚̮̮̖͛e̼̗̜̮͔̋̓͌̓͒l͈̣̰̤͊ͨ̃͆̓̒f̬̫̬̍͛ͩ ̮̱͇̪̖̱̓̑͂̂t͇̱̝̽ö̹̯̰̟̭̬̽̏̚ ̬͎̊m͕̜̼̝̎̈â̝̮̟ͧ̂̈͛̿k̭͉̞͙̯̰̍́ͣ̒ͩ̐ȅ̫ͮ͒̔̓ ͖̿̽ͧ̋ͨ̚t̗̘̼̼͇͙͆ͥh̟̦̆̈́̚e̜̺̤̰̙̹̖̒̅͊̾̔ͩ ̹̳͖̲̱͉̓͆̑͛ͅs͚͈̗̘͓̹̈́ͩ̐̃̋̌̔ṯ̭͕̯̥̅a̜͋t͉͉͍̔͆ͤ̌̚e͉̎̃̊̇ͪm̗̯̗̱̮̖̂̑̓͋e̝͋ͭͅn͙̗̫̙̖͛͆̃t̗͔̞͙̥ͫ ͍̝̣͍͕̗̿̓̈ͪ̓t̗̺͓̤̀̃̉ͯ̉̔̋ͅr̲̠̞̓͋̓̇ͩu̪͕̤̖̗̱̓ͭ̏ͦ̄̏͌ẹ̺̞̘͑͋̈́̔͋̅̇.͖̰͙̤̯̹͙͖̥ͭ͂̍

ooh what a frightening metafictional premise

Rarity, on the other hand,

huh, interesting that she is the only one so far without a snide aside by the narration!

"Right. You know how this morning the steps of the high school turned into steeps? Who doesn't love mountain climbing in the morning?"

hehe, the absurdity of typos affecting the world of the narrative is fun!

Pinkie Pie said to Sunset, "You just need to put your super sharp rapier wit‑‑"

oof, took me a second to realize what the next paragraph was implying with this one

Pinkie Pie said, "You're welcome too," to the author because Pinkie Pie wasn't a character so much as a literary device one could use to smash the fourth wall, throw the broken pieces into a crusher and/or trash compactor, and finally jump up and down on whatever pitifully broken bit emerged from the process.

commentary!

[Thing punctuated as a sentence in spite of having no main verb].

hey i didn't come here to be directly called out!

everyone waited with baited breath (m̪͂͝ọ̌͢s̮̋͞t̛͚̮͋l̲͛͟ÿ̵̴̝ ̷̯̮̅̽͢s̷͎̞̈͛h̲ͭ̅͘͞r͚̿̌͞í̵̵̬͐m̢̞̊p̶͖͇̙̃̆͂)

ah yeah that very common misunderstanding of the phrase grates at me, too. also, i love shrimp!

"Consarn it!" the formerly human and currently pony Applejack shouted. Basically no one noticed. Who pays attention to a background pony?

who's Applejack

Sunset was more than a little miffed, but well short of very miffed,

maintaining a proper sense of scale when describing things is very important! but not quite extremely important

Wait, is my part in the story over? I've hardly said anything. I'm too young to become irrelevant!

that is often the trouble with stories that involve the entire main cast, not everyone's going to get a big part in the narrative no matter how meta it is, Sci-Twi! just be grateful you're not that other character i can't remember the name of

"It's a punctuation mark you perverts," Pinkie said to the probably-not-perverted readership.

hehehe, loved that phrasing, and no comment on the "perverts" part

"Have we really been in Sugarcube Corner, which I think is supposed to be called 'The Sweet Shoppe' in this universe, the entire time we've been talking?"

wait, really? that would have totally gotten me as well! why the heck isn't it just called Sugarcube Corner?

They do things that writers write about. That's why it's written here that Sunset walked along the sidewalk.

makes sense to me. i have no further questions

She was Sunset Shimmer. She would save the day.
Just like every other day.

oof, it must be tiring, this life of a protagonist

She had been walking into the school, with plenty of time to get to class, before she woke the second time; now she was at her apartment which changed "plenty of time" to "not enough time".

oof, those dreams where you already go through a portion of your ordinary day before waking! it's been a while since i've had those (maybe because i'm no longer in school?), but yeah, they are frustrating!

By the end of the day the population of the country they were in had drastically changed as a result of the large number of people who had emigrated from it rather than immigrated to it throughout its history. Sunset concluded that the point of eye-twitching had long since been passed.

haha, yeah, another common word mixup as people do not respect it having to agree with the location that is being referred to

He had, it seemed, made a great many gaffs in his time.

sounds like a nice hobby!

That evening Sunset had tea with Principle Celestia, that being the Celestia who was an abstract concept.
Like most principles, Principle Celestia didn't speak to people so much as provide a foundation upon which one could build a conceptual framework. Said framework could then be used to inform one's thoughts and actions.

i adore these paragraphs, they are just so fun

Celestia the principle was all about friendship and teamwork and helping those in need.

i hate how much i love how well this works

This was true. As the protagonist, her odds of success against the strange and eldritch forces that governed the universe were far higher than those of the unnamed undescribed characters who populated much of the world.

lampshading!

"Sunset, how and why am I here?" Principal Celestia asked.

a question that should be asked more often, and not just to Sunsets

"So . . ." Sunset said in that special way that meant, I'm not actually thinking out loud here, but I am pretending to do just that, "you're saying that selfishness is the way to be selfless?"
"Yes," Celestia said in a way that would make Nightmare Moon era Twilight Snarking Sparkle proud, "that is exactly what I'm saying."
Sunset didn't laugh, but she almost did, and after the resulting smile was over she ended the conversation with, "Thanks for talking to me."

aww, a sincere (if snarky) and heartfelt exchange in the middle of this madness!

Her presence might, however, have been a subtle commentary on how authors, if they wished to excel, need to learn to cut parts, even parts that they like, when those parts don't fit with the rest of the story. (It wasn't.)

hey, who are you to say what parts of stories mean, narration? i will interpret this to be exactly that! for you see, by recontextualizing this aspect of the story with this metacomment, the part was indeed "cut" from its original context and meaning and reshaped into one that does fit with the rest of the story, which is a good lesson to us all!

Derpy noticed Sunset because protagonists tend to be noticeable to viewpoint characters.

true in the sense of narrative tropes, but also true in-universe because everyone loves Sunset uwu

The last thing she wanted to do was cause problems for The Doctor Time Turner. (Derpy could think in strike through.)

hehe, useful ability, that!

. . . what was it with all the confrontational stabbing Gildas, anyway?

dang, i kinda feel like i'm missing out by never having read a stabbing Gilda fic. sounds like quite the genre!

(Motto: Urban Decay, Agriculture, and General Sketchiness.)

one does not see agriculture combined with urban decay much. interesting juxtaposition!

It was the sort of thing that might cause one to remark, "Oh, it must be Tuesday," though six times out of seven it wasn't actually Tuesday.

i do wonder if remarking that it is a weekend day, or Friday, would mean that something is not ordinary. that would be strange because those days happen all the time!

"Fnord," a shady character, who was probably named "Shady Character", said while making a wide gesture that left his hands as far apart as he could get them without risking injury.

that is how pony names work, yes. also, neat that Sunset is a Discordian here

This, and all of her characterization really, reflected the author's personal beliefs about clumsy people, unlucky people, and people with misaligned eyes. How it reflected upon those beliefs was hard to say, because the author wasn't telling and Pinkie Pie wasn't there to break the fourth wall.

oof, commentary

"Hey Derpster," Sunset said, deftly indicating that they had a nickname-level relationship, "what's up?"

nice! i can infer so many things about the nature of their relationship already!

"but we really need to do away with one word currency and the conspiracy group that implemented it, don't we?"

ah, misspelling of "one world currency", so that's what's going on!

The fact that we have to deal with doppelgangers like Sliver Spoon, Susnet Shimmer, and Sorin.

i do have a soft spot in my heart for Susnet Shimmer though, not least of which because i keep making that typo myself

It was really, really indescribably unconscionably excruciatingly outrageously incredibly emphatically excessively exceedingly extraordinarily annoying to be utterly incapable of expressing what had happened to make her upset.

oof, sounds like it!

With muffin in hand, she said, "Muffin?" to Sunset, in a way that meant, Want to end this scene and have something on which to munch?

honestly this just makes Derpy even more #winning here, i like it

The fnord in question, Derpy noted before walking out of the story, was about a foot and a half wide.

aww, i really like this! puts a nice, neat bow on Derpy's contribution to the story. idk, just leaves me with a good feeling

"Thank the four fundamental forces," Twilight sigh-said in relief.

hehe, that is so in line with the characterization of Sci-Twi!

They had to defuse a bomb that hadn't existed until their monitoring of diffuse magical energy went sideways, but that was pretty much par for the course these days.

love how quotidian this kind of thing has become to these characters

"Yes. I. Do,"

commentary!

‑‑not Flash Sentry; there are many other Pegasus guards, and some of them might even have names‑‑

yeah, but who cares about them?

"Shouldn't they at least have wondered about the Princess lookalike standing right here?" Twilight asked in a way that meant, What am I? Chopped Liver? Come on, I almost destroyed two universes here.

yes, and now you are a nerdy waïfu with an ordinary life and nothing to look forward to but being the mouth through which to give whatever overly detailed exposition about whatever topic an author is interested in and/or has an axe to grind about, too bad!

Actually, Twilight's mind should be fine, but it still felt like there was cause to pause.

yeah i mean especially to be fair, it canonically really doesn't take much to make ponies scream in fear

"That's the royal guard," Sunset said. "After a while, you sort of get used to the weirdness."

nice, leaning in to how little sense the worldbuilding of the show makes!

Twiligth got away, without even being noticed by Twilight, but that was an acceptable loss.

hey, better than Twighlight!

The kind that prioritizes fighting evil from the depths of malformed scrivening over comforting a friend who is, in truth, going to be perfectly fine even if left uncomforted.

oof, and also commentary on how characters in stories with really epic stakes prioritize things

Twilight herself seemed to think that the probability of her being ok in the future times referred to by "gonna" was closer to an 83:17 split.

that is impressive precision! or just rounding one result of a die roll

Castle of Friendship, Crystal, and Clashing (with the rest of the town)

hehe, that is what that weird thing is!

The possibility of a Science Princess Twilight, which was hard to completely ignore when in the thick of switching said gears, was downright terrifying.

i definitely agree with her there

discovered that Princess Celestia was off somewhere doing something, and opted to talk to Princess Luna instead.

she does keep being off somewhere doing something, doesn't she

"Then, when the distraction ends, it all comes crashing back in on me," Sunset said. "It's crushing."

oof, this sounds like such an awful thing for Sunset to go through

but she must have used a fairly unique dictionary to make her translation from the original Italian because it came out as,

ha, love the snark here

"But my friends and I have seven Elements of Harmony at our command," Sunset said in the way that a filly might claim, But I'm I year older than I was at this time last year, I shouldn't have a bedtime.

aww, this is my favorite one out of all of these so far. i guess i like fun similes

the seven Elephants of Harmony,

ooh i would love to see that one

Eventually I even ruminated at great length on the way in which these errors of textual truth cannot be avoided in hopes that, at some point, the 'not' in 'cannot' would be omitted.

ah fascinating in-universe tactic, as the author is a mortal and bound to make mistakes

the exemplar of fallaciloquence, froward foulness, and fabrefaction of feculent farraginous ferity fecund for fractally facinorous fardels

i learned a bunch of new words today looking these up, thank you!

'Quiet generously', ȯ̬͝f̨͙͚̋͛ ̸ͣ͊̕͏̭c̜̯͌͌͜͢͝ò̢̟͋̚ǘ̢͈̫̓̃̕̕͝r̸̶̖͎͙̬̍ͯ͊̀͘s̷̢̜̘̅ͪ̅e̵͖͊́, being the opposite of 'loud generously', a̸̻̾s͖ͪ́ ͩ͏͔ĕ͕̕v̱̄́e̦ͫ͞r̘͂͞ỳ̷͕p͙̔͟ǫ͎̿n̲ͫ͝y̧̻͐ ̶̜̊k͍̐͠n̞͂͟ö̡̠w̴͚ͨs͕ͧ͜.̡̯͐

so true

Irregardless, Sunset fumed at "irregardless" but did not dwell ‑‑it now appeared in dictionaries, after all‑‑

hehe nice. i mean it's just like flammable/inflammable now!

With Luna having been primed by that primer,

hehe that is what they're supposed to do

‑‑whatever the pony version of that word happened to be, which Sunset couldn't be bothered to remember‑‑

i'm partial to "equinity" myself

Whatever the word, it was [pony term for "humanizing"] in a way that Celestia never was around ponies that were, to her, as Sunset currently was to Luna.

and yes, that is why so many people relate to Luna more! though i admit i am partial to Celestia for her inapproachability and lack of relatability, and not despite it

Though . . . Princess Celestia did have a sense of humor now, a trolltastic one no less, so perhaps eye rolling was not out of the question.

Trollestia is always a fun reference!

No one did. The name had been proposed by the strange and metaphysical entity known only as "Pinkie Pie's direct line to the fandom", but it had been ‑‑quite quickly‑‑ shot down.

and i am glad! though it is nice to have a way to differentiate the two characters by name

I assure you that we have precisely as much reason to avoid so much as thinking the word for 'piano player' as you do.

well now i am stumped as to what typo they're trying to avoid here

"You cannot continue to hope for and wait for a solution that does not exist, Sunset Shimmer," Luna said. "You must face reality and all the errors that it contains."

ooh, yeah, love how this doubles as speaking to how to deal with living in our own very imperfect universe. even though the idea of facing certain things about it feels as absurdly wrong as having to accept a world where steps become steeps and words become worlds

slings and errors

love this very appropriate twist on the old phrase

"Yes, error in my favor!"

hehe, nice! all the better for this being a common typo that bothers me as well

just plain old pluralis maiestatis.

ooh, i learned a pretentious synonym today, love it

She didn't. She chose to answer not with words, but with actions. The fact that the "actions" were in fact singular and the fact that the singular action in question was speaking words, did not in any way, in Sunset's opinion, invalidate the fact that she was answering with actions rather than words. Nope. Not one bit.

so true

"Even when you came back," Celestia said, "I wasn't sure how to act around you."
"You mean when you were all stilted and formal while Twilight was skating on the edge of a nervous breakdown?" Sunset asked. It meant, You don't say . . .

yes, this exactly! that scene in Forgotten Friendship had a lot more going on than was probably intended by the writers, and leaves open a lot for a deeper and more complex relationship between Sunset and Celestia that can't be summarized with a single begging line and hug. at least, this is what i must believe!

Crap, I've started talking and I don't know how to stop because my current awkwardness is overriding all of my social skills. Oh sweet fuck, I've turned into Twilight Sparkle! Either of them.

oh no!

Celestia and Sunset hugged. Sunset remembered being a little unicorn filly snuggling with a majestic alicorn, who was too large for Sunset's bed yet never complained. Sunset was happy.

aww! i love that at all this metafictional madness is resolving on a moment of actual catharsis between Sunset and Celestia

Sunset's heart was filled with liquid joy? Why liquid? Because hearts are designed to hold liquids and therefore would encounter problems if faced with solid or gaseous joy. Plasmatic joy need not be discussed at this juncture because, were it to be, the concept of that filling a heart might put a damper on Sunset's joy.

ooh, a fun meditation on a often-used phrase that i've never really quite thought much about

By "lands", of course, she meant "world, singular" but that would have messed up the flow of the sentence.

and the flow of the prose is the far more important good to serve, here!

"Balling instead of bawling," Celestia said.

ooh, the origin story of this story idea?

"No," Celestia said, "I believe I understand you. Everything became very extremely," Celestia made a gesture of 'I don't know' and exhaled through closed lips to produce a 'ppppt' sound.

hehe, exactly what i was imagining!

. And . . . and then, at one point, I had to stage a revolution because when what I needed was an idea, but what I got was an ideal. It was a very good ideal that no one had ever had before, to the point that it needed to be spread across the whole of society and that couldn't be done without overthrowing the current power structure.

that does sound very tiring!

Sunset surrendered in the face of Celestia's verbal onslaught. Specifically, she giggled.

aww, love this sweet moment

Sunset was about to point out how extremely unhelpful that was, when she realized that it might actually be helpful. Just to be sure, she asked, "You mean . ? ."

it's fun that i realized what was going on here at the exact same time Sunset did in-story. good thing i am oblivious sometimes!

Well, alicorns and the smoking scorch mark on the floor where Sunset had previously been standing.

that aspect of the alicorn transformation remains a bit disquieting

"I do hereby decree that princesses are never too old to snuggle," Sunset said.
"It would be very poor form for me to countermand your first royal decree, Princess Sunset Shimmer," Celestia said, "so I suppose we can snuggle."

auauaugh too adorable

Sci-Twi's second outing was the only part wholly produced after that point, and it became the template I used in my attempt to standardize the rest. Luna and pony-Celestia, who originally had bit parts, became major characters, things changed, and this monstrosity was created.

and what a beautiful monstrosity it was! augh there is something so wonderful about welding a serious emotional rapprochement between Sunset and Celestia, an exploration of depression and hopelessness, and metacommentary on MLP fanfics/writing in general all together in one story, with plenty of wit, absurdity, and flexing of obscure linguistic facts and trivia. it's an experience that is hard to imagine having outside of the exact context that it exists in, and the specificity makes it all the more precious to me. yes, it's fragmented, but that fragmentation really works! i was right there with Sunset on every step of her metafictional journey, even the parts that pointed out how that itself was a narrative contrivance, and the transitions in location helped anchor the transitions in style from the cynical, seen-this-all-before trope deconstruction of the girls in the high school, to the self-aware yet still sincere, reconstructive Derpy in the unnamed industrial/agricultural sector of human Canterlot, to the characters and their past and present relationships mattering again in Equestria as the world is returned to a more, idk what's the right word, modernist(?) setting.

i wish there were more people around to both appreciate and produce content like this, as it would definitely be a hard sell to a general audience, which is a shame.

GBThundaII

GBThundaII #9 · Feb 21st, 2023 · · ·

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A Term for piano player is 'Pianist'

Misspel that.

AvoidingFever17

AvoidingFever17 #10 · Mar 18th, 2023 · 1 · ·

Well THIS is one crazy timeline
I dont think i could even Fix this timeline even if i wanted to

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