This story is a sequel to Timescales
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Boulder's journey into the cosmological future of Equestria, and what he took with him.
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Sorry, had to get this out of my head.
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I've seen sillier hypotheticals. Lovely little thought exercise. Thank you for it.
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Glad you liked it!
Hm, was the word count deliberate, or a coincidence?
And nice; thank you for writing. :)
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I've been into aiming for deliberate word counts recently. It's only 1111 because I got tired of cutting to get 11 more.
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Ah, neat. :)
Though I'm afraid I'm not spotting the particular significance of 1100.
Damn. This made me cry, in a beautiful way. I shouldn't be surprised, given how deeply Timescales moved me. Lovely little expansion and thought exercise here. Such simple prose, some of it hypothetical, but all of it very heartfelt. A nice sort of epilogue/POV shift to that amazing work of yours that preceded it.
I do like your ideas on sapience. Maud basically giving Boulder the Breath of Life by talking to him over the years was lovely. Starlight having had other partners after Maud was a bit of a surprise, but her not finding that same happiness wasn't. Their love was one for the ages.
Amen. And that's why the connections we make is all we really have.
Thanks for this story.
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Thank you for this lovely recontextualization.
It truly was! And Starlight loving while still grieving, as she will be all her life, is a beautiful story I hope to be able to do justice one day, but it might be some time before I am ready for it. For some reason I foresee it as one of the last stories I'll write for this community, which is hopefully many years from now.
I am so glad you finally got to this story. Getting to know that I have communicated something I find meaningful is what makes all the time I spend writing worth it. Thank you for being a reader of mine.
just as lovely as the first. thank you
See this only adds to what I was saying at the end of Timescales. Meaning and effects far outstripping our ability to know how we can create them.
Also the idea of Boulder thinking of Maud as his mom is too cute for words. Eeee. Headcanon accepted. Boulder is Maud's little rock baby.
okay.
I’m fricking crying now.
Man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man.
This was definitely a oneup on yourself.
its good. that’s the only words I can form.
Eventually, Boulder will find himself at the center of a void more vast than the entire observable universe is today. His nearest neighbor will be a scattering of hydrogen and helium atoms, thousands of lightyears distant. And then, when they one by one vanish forever over the cosmological event horizon, they shall bestow upon him the twin titles of master and sole inhabitant of an entire universe of his very own. The last being in all of creation to remember a world of ponies and love and one very special pony, carrying those memories forward into the cold dark of eternity.
Now, this only deepened the existential crisis. I pack-bond to too many inanimate objects. This wasn’t a good thing for me to read at ten in the evening
The question in mind is if Boulder is sentient as we discover how much Boulder has experienced. Without dialogue and all narrative, it certainly feels lonely like Boulder is; alone with thoughts and only feelings to express. The nod to how isolation is one of the worst forms of torture is exactly how it felt. What happens to everything in time? The material things we care about will eventually be discarded and/or withered under the inviolable march of time.
Still, though, it mentions the very thing that is permanent: the memories, the experiences which we take with us. As the saying goes, “people might forget what you say to them, but they will never forget how you feel".
This is what makes this a great addition and finishing touch to Timescales. But I might be crazy. Boulder may only be a rock.
I want to believe Boulder is pulling a Trixie and is narrating this story himself.
Seriously, throughout every Maud appearance in the show - I never doubted Boulder was there, some form of an entity just observing, watching, looking down on us mortals. This story just added onto the greatness of Timescales.
First off, nice wordcount you got there.
Second-
oh.
aw.
Never has an extinction event sounded so mundane.
And... wow.
It's been a ride. A beautiful ride. I used that word a lot in my comments here, because this really was beautiful. I'm torn between feeling a deep sense of sadness but also relief that in one small part, the memory of Maud and Starlight and Grasping Hand and everything else is still there in one tiny pebble in this vast, ever-expanding cosmos.
I love this, Bike. Everything about Timescales and Cosmological.
Thank you, again.
Howdy, hi!
Okay, the flippant attitude of this fic is ridiculous, also boo on you.
Don't dictate my feelings of wanting to hug a sentient/non-sentient rock. I will hug a rock if I so damn choose.
In seriousness though, this was a trip. Just the absolute bonkers idea of a ship and love that transcends past known living life. You could even say Boulder who may or may not be sentient is an excellent spaceship carrying the memories of his time on Equestria. A very odd time capsule if you would.
I now have very conflicting feelings and no idea how to begin processing them.
Anywho, this was the bucking best, thanks for this.
You can has review!