The war had been easier than the peace. And somehow the painter couldn't figure out how to go back to painting his buildings and his landscapes. But maybe he just needed a different subject to wrestle his muse into submission.
Such as a proud princess of the blood. Pony blood.
And if the painter fell a little in love with his subject?
Well, he wouldn't have been the first, and he wouldn't be the last.
(The trigger warning I should have included when this was published: yes, it's about Hitler.)
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Mate, it says you posted this five times on the New Stories section
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That's what I begun to notice as well....
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Those are other authors. What's going on?
Edit: HOLY SHIT! I just read the story and it's about Hitler!
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WAT?!!!!
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Actually, multiple different people are posting stories which are very similar to each other (Such as the same cover and title).
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Damb
What the duck.
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aka WTD
XD
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I think these stories are all part of a contest or something, cause all the stories have links to the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting group.
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Okie..... :P
That was different. Luna or Nightmare Moon or Maybe Luna pre-Nightmare Moon gave Adolf a vision that changed the course of history. Gave him confidence or maybe allowed him to cut away his bitterness?
Anyway it's an interesting take on what a vision at the right time and place could change history.
So my first thought is that it's some kind of experiment to, for example, see if eliminating as many distinguishing features as possible before posting the stories would have any effect on things like Likes or views or judgment or whatever. But of course such an experiment is doomed to failure on FiMFiction because every story is still tied to your screenname, so, for example, I still know I'm reading (or not) Mitch H's work.
Now perhaps this wasn't the case in whatever medium these stories were originally written in, the product was more anonymous, but still, it's not anonymous by the time it gets to here. So those of us sitting outside of the writing contest, unaware of what was coming, are instead just being hit by what looks like a series of trolls. Here's my thoughts on the matter.
Cast a stone, and watch the ripples.
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The odd part of this is I *just* got done writing a section of my Harry Potter crossover where the son of a Death Eater is painting a portrait of Princess Luna's Tantabus. I gotta up my game.
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Damn, I'm sorry I haven't been by in a while. I really do like that story.
Most people could have lived a different life and I enjoy how this small encounters like this could change history.
This book here is also about Adolf taking painting as his job and doing something surprising in the end after being influenced by a little girl. ( And it's an alternate universe in the sixties where Germany won WW1 and a new conflict is brewing.)
I said I was going to comment on all of these, and this is no exception.
I'm conflicted about it. On the one hand, the immediate antisemitism turns me way off, and I'm generally not interested in seeing Hitler in my ponyfic. On the other hand, it's kind of fascinating, and not at all what I was expecting. I don't think it's the kind of story I want to see personally, but at the same time, it's done in a way that makes it clear it's art, and I do want that kind of provocative art to exist.
So, good job, I think.
Not much to critique in this story. There’s some absolutely wonderful lines, like these:
Overall, great writing! My one little nitpick, if I have to make one, would be the Hitler thing dude what the actual fffffff
They certainly delivered.
I'm not sure which of them should feel more insulted by that.
... Oh. Huh. Such is the power of ponies. The National Socialists might still rise to power in this timeline, but without the burning vitriol of the man with the mustache. Or I'm being too optimistic. Regardless, this left me minimally disgusted, which is the best we can hope for given the perspective character. Well done.
I am unsure how to feel about this.
Whoof. It ain’t bad but it’s going to fly over people’s heads, crash into the moon and then push the moon into a black hole.
Mitch, you're genuinely an exceptional writer. Some of the lines here are breathtaking. Your imagery and narrative work are really top notch. It's great to have found your work through the Quills and Sofas group.
But I really, really wish this hadn't been about Hitler of all things.
A thought experiment suggesting how a pre-fallen Luna might interact with a young Hitler. Dark, for sure, but fascinating all the same. I suppose this could be an attempt to understand how a phsychopath's descent into darkness could start, or how it could end, depending on how you read this story. Superb writing, if a little tedious. I for one appreciate this story for what it is, though I suspect that most people who read this story will only see the "It's Hitler" part, and get stuck on that. It's a shame, really. In trying to erase or ignore the horrors of the past because it triggers people's feelings, we're bound to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of history.
Just think: if WWI had been delayed a couple years by some mysterious traveler of time and dimensions sticking his foot out from a café table to trip some brooding revolutionary, young Adolf likely would have ended up in architectural design.
But I decided to just see how things played out.
My verdict: you're all very boring, rote, and dismally predictable, and I'm therefore going to destroy the world in 2032.
I can't understand why this story has so many dislikes. Most of the other Kaleidoscope stories have a similar number of dislikes. Some troll with a bone to pick?
I remember seeing the Kaleidoscope stories on the main page when they were first published, and being very confused, like some other commenters here. I also remember reading the first couple paragraphs of this story and dismissing it out of hand.
Now, having read this author's work previously, I was a little more open-minded. Something to be said about social (or economic?) phenomena, there.
Anyway, this was brilliant. Very poetic. The ending was a punch in the guts, though! I suppose if you'd opened with
few people would have read to the end!