A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)
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Every teenager has to discover for themselves who they really are.
Everyone has to make the journey in their own way.
I'd like to thank a lot of people for being who you are, as imperfect as we all are. I know we couldn't do what we do AND be perfect.
Quite aside from any talk about imperfections, Chatoyance and (someone who would perhaps rather not be named) are two of the people I'd like to thank.
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This is a.. weird, yet great story. No ‘transcending’ stuff will happen in the real world, right? (Unless you use creepy surgeries..)
What a fascinating world you've crafted. Great exploration of the concept, and of the relativity of normalcy. Thank you for this.
hehe, that is sort of what she does in the wilderness in Equestria!
ooh, love how this makes Fluttershy's cutie mark origin story make sense in the context of the pegasus-less human world! that hang-gliding is a common skill associated with a rite of passage is a very fun thought
dang, that is resourceful! i would not be nearly as dedicated to this form of vegetarianism
this set-off section feels like it is meant to be symbolic for its prominence. maybe the symbolism of crossing a stream being the start of a new life?
very understandable
oof, burn on enbies
the juxtaposition does make me think of Angel Bunny, who is a little shit!
ah, fascinating! i'm guessing this is the transition between the shorter, freshmare-year models we see for the CMCs and the younger versions of the Mane Six in Equestria Girls, and the typical upperclassmare models we see for them and the non-Principal adult characters the rest of the time. due to the use of Flash assets, it does look like an instantaneous change between two fixed and predetermined heights, and that this worldbuilding is taking that animation artifact and seriously explaining it is exactly the kind of unique thinking that i want to see in a fanfic!
more like birb friends
is this the dreaded "chaser" that i hear so much about? haha
this definitely brings to mind a whole lot of questions! but reading this as a text, i see this as placing being preyed on by men as a part of Fluttershy's rite of passage into womanhood, and then the story doing all it can to reduce the discomfort of the idea, with Fluttershy being able to fight back easily, and the narration doing its best to tie up the loose ends, both logistical and ethical, of killing a person for their crime. it is definitely very fascinating, and contributes to the feeling of this world working very differently from our own.
wing? interesting!
hehe, this feels more like a Sweetie Belle thing to do, which is a fun reversal
and i think this is the first time when it's spelled out what Transcending means explicity!
and this is such a fascinating perspective that would be very natural in the culture of this world, as well as having the air of being this world's version of heteronormativity, which also implies further things! since Transcendence is a physical process as well as mental, it sounds like this world's version of the cis experience is being expected to have a different gender role in your childhood and early teens than the one inhabited in adulthood. fascinating!
aww, that is considerate of Rarity's imagination!
ooh, fascinating take on how in this world, gender non-conformity would be perceived more as precociousness than something fundamentally undesirable
and now that is the Rarity attitude!
so true, this really says a lot about our cisiety
and this is where it differs! super fascinating to see what sounds like the academic language of childhood development being used so casually in this way
and yes, that is a fascinating paradox in how this culture would view itself!
hehe, and it is fun to see Rainbow Dash's parents' canonical characterization used in this way, as very supportive parents of a (possibly) trans child
and these little asides into Cheerilee's perspective are valuable, i think. it grounds the fact that these types of discussions that are so novel and exotic to us would very mundane and predictable in theirs, more a marker people use to categorize other people on how they approach it than something to seriously investigate and inform about.
so the second line really jumped out at me! it felt very inappropriate to the conversation, and even if Rainbow Dash for some reason wanted to bring this fact about the world up, it feels unnatural for her to do so this way, and if she does do so, it seems very strange for it to go completely unremarked-upon by the narration or the other characters. even something like a short moment of eyebrow-raising before moving on from the adults would be good!
interesting that Cheerilee would think this, are flawless experts a real phenomenon in this world?
aww, ApplePie, love to see it!
i like this ApplePie it makes me feel so nice and warm :)
yay ApplePie!
oof, burn on our world
while "-enby" modifications to existing gendered terms do feel like a good compromise way of creating gender-neutral terms that don't involve any "x"es, i do wonder what a culture that has lived with them for far longer would have settled on. but of course, translation must be done in that case anyway, to something that feels right for us in today's age
so true, and commentary!
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well now i really want to read this original version! i want my head to explode
i mean, this is what fiction on the internet is for, right? the kind of stories that contain ideas and moods too interesting and thought-provoking for to be appreciated by a publisher. and the use of our beloved Mane Six characters to explore a wide variety of relationships and attitudes to Transcendence, in these four very different microstories was a great way to approach it! it's such a great showcase of a big reason why this show is so uniquely suited for fan creations, which is the breadth of personalities in its main cast, including many archetypes that we usually see relegated to secondary characters or stereotypes in other shows. and the order was perfect for the experience! Fluttershy's as the intro, setting the mood of this being a world not quite our own with its contemplative feel, as well as giving what is in this universe a Transcendence that hits what is "expected" by the society at large. and then progressively picking at the edges of this expectation with Rarity, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash, who are each in their own way "deviant" from this model, and finally finishing up with an Applejack and Pinkie Pie to whom the issue is the least salient. this places Transcendence back in its context of what it really is: something that, while as deeply impactful on the lives of this world as gender and puberty are in ours, happily exists alongside aspects of life more familiar to us, giving us a perfectly adorable and familiar ApplePie within this setting.
this is one of the stories i am gladdest to have read in my fimfic career, as otherwise i would have gone my entire life without having read anything quite like it.