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The year eats away at Sunset Shimmer. It's more than not being in the spirit of things. How will things ever be normal again in her life? Sunset looks to the internet for answers.
This is a holiday story written for Anyone who needs it.
Things are going to be okay.
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Curse you and your ability to make me feel hope things will be better!
But seriously, I NEEDED this and didn't know until I read it, thank you and best of luck to all of us who are surviving this.
Good.
I'm actually having to spend my winter break alone, and that included my birthday (already) and will include Easter and other holidays from today onward. I won't get to see my family, and especially my cats, until summer. They're stuck in a part of the state that has been in total lockdown for months, and I'm safe on a university campus.
I haven't seen them since August.
I really am glad to have this story, Priest. Thank you.
If only.
There is no better time than Christmas to look for happiness AND hope.
all y'all thinkin 2021's gonna be better are deluding yourselves
at the least, the first 3 months of next year are still gonna be subsumed by this damnable pandemic, and even then the aftershocks are gonna be felt the rest of the year
also, the pandemic's the least of our worries, as the political part of things has been burning down worse than the rest of it
edit: go ahead and keep downvoting me, and while you're at it be thankful there's even a site to downvote me on
because in a year and a half, there might not even be a site to do so, with the way the damned politicians and their corporate overlords are going
The sentiment is greatly appreciated.
I did my own take on this with my story Holiday Masking 😷
This was a wonderful story that you shared with everyone and I enjoyed it greatly. Especially with the message you delivered in this. Thank you for writing this as it has giving me a little inspiration and I hope you are doing well.
Merry Christmas and Good Luck Flutterpriest.
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I'm sorry that you've lost hope so badly. Happy Hearth's Warming, and I hope things get better for you.
A message I think we all needed to some extent. Thank you for it.
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Who hurt you?
It's always disappointing to me watching people lower their expectations. It's likewise disappointing when people prioritize coping over resilience.
What is normal?
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A shared delusion.
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As a second generation immigrant, I never have and will never be normal.
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I suppose those that want 2021 to be better (myself included) is because we’re just hoping. Whether it's false hope or not, at least it's something.
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Genuine question - what's the difference between coping and resilience? (And how can we prioritize the latter?)
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lotta things, seasonal depression being one of them
Things can get better. But only if we work for it. Only if we fight for it. But without hope, there is no reason to fight. No reason to try.
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See the issue is people aren't downvoting you to drown you out or because you're wrong or whatever, it's because you're kinda bieng a dick (or were, if you've changed since you made that comment, I unno, just like.. maybe don't tell a bunch of people looking for hope in a self-aware manner (in which they know it's somewhat a delusion but don't really want to think about it because it's soul-crushing) that it's all hopeless? I'm trying to word this as politely as possible but I get the feeling you'll be offended no matter what I say here.)
Well this feel a lot like my story,
Maybe be I’ll read this for New Years as well
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Get help. Go talk to someone. Someone other then the people who tell you these things. Ask yourself, am I only getting information from people who believe the same things I do? If so, try looking up information that says otherwise. Don't just discard it, don't just accept it. Look into it. Treat information you do believe in the same way. Where does it come from? What is it based on? What do other people think of it? If there is contradicting information ask the same questions there.
Beware of the trap where you only hear one side all the time because you only interact with people who believe the same thing you do. Cheers mate.
Congratulations to all of us who survived
Happy Frieza Day!
This is 100% not okay. Don't you use my Sunset as your mouthpiece.
Sunset is a really weird choice to use as a mouthpiece for this story, because she's in a very unique situation; she can go through the mirror back to Equestria. No pandemic, friends like Twilight and Starlight and Philomena, deep connections with two of the rulers of the land for anything she wants, and carbon-copies of her human friends. And before you say, "She'd be leaving her real friends behind!" remember that the story already said "it was a year of silence, no get-togethers, no celebrations". She has a convenient option within walking distance to drastically improve her life at no cost and nothing lost, even if it's only until the nebulous condition of "things going back to the way they were".
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But what about those she still keeps in touch with online, and also the risk of bringing the virus to equestria, while I'd expect her to stay safe you never know, and better safe than sorry
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The story indicates that she doesn't keep in touch with anyone, though. To keep from bringing it to Equestria, aside from her already having been isolated for months, she could quarantine herself after going through the mirror. Plus, Twilight and Cadence are both able to cast the 'health bubble' spell from the episode where Discord got sick, and it proved able to keep illnesses, viruses, and bacteria from crossing through it. Ponies also have HAZMAT suits in several episodes.
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True, however I just think that despite all these precautions people should be aware that these aren’t 100% effective, just very effective the safest way to not spread a virus would be to not go to anyone
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But they are. The incubation time for covid-19 is known, and there have been procedures in place for months that safely prevent it from spreading. The only times it has spread under those conditions were when there wasn't enough PPE available, people ignored measures for their own convenience, or the routine of it made people sloppy. One VIP crossing over into Equestria where they have even more measures to prevent the spread of disease is not going to run into those possibilities. You're over-inflating this with fear and uncertainty.
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Yeah, she could go there but earth is her home now, even if she doesn’t meet with her friends, she still lives there like it’s her home, even though they’re separated they still are all friends as I doubt she’d sleep easy knowing she left her friends
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I'm sorry, but did you miss the part in this story where Sunset was considering suicide as a result of the conditions around her and her social isolation? The part where she felt trapped in awful circumstances that were driving her to thoughts of self-harm, even though she has a perfect solution available in the form of the portal to Equestria? I feel like you're forgetting what the actual point was.
For some of us, this pandemic is the worst thing that could ever happen to us, for a myriad of reasons. One of those reasons is the fact that there are many people not taking it seriously, and making things worse for everyone else. I'd say many people who haven't learned a new skill, or improved themself in some way or another, but... simply tried to survive... are valid, and justified. People cope with things differently, that's a fact of life. I'll be coming out of this pandemic as a different person (in more than one way) than I went into it. I made a personal transition to be a more authentic version of myself. Not only that, but I managed to learn a few smaller skills that make up a bigger one. But I couldn't have done that without support from my friends and my chosen family. Not everyone has that support, or even the energy to reach out to the people they need to, because of fear or anxiety or even depression, like in Sunset's case.
Greetings. Your reading has been completed and can be found here. I hope you enjoy.
There is a review of this story at the Reviewer's Mansion. Spoiler: Wonderful, uplifting story we all needed to hear this past... uh, 2 years.
I despise that this story remains relevant at this point in time.
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preach
Thanks, Priest…I very much needed to read this today. It helps more than you know.
Thank you.