Twilight Sparkle is an addict. But in the wake of scrupulous crack-downs and bans, she has to turn to unsavory sources to get her fix. It’s fine. Just this once. After that, she’ll be done.
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. I seriously question what caused the world to become like this. Our world isn't this bad. No matter how hard some try.
I laughed. It's pretty funny and topical. I like the word play; it's simple and enjoyable.
This gave me a lot of steven he vibes
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Really wouldn't be that difficult, especially in the USA. Just a few pushes here and there from hardcore, religious fundamentalist politicians, the odd bit of propaganda and an indifferent party system.
Quietly horrifying underneath the veneer of comedy. Nice work in shining a spotlight on the deplorable efforts to silence voices with something to actually say.
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Well its a good thing we don't have a hard right Supreme Court packed with judges that have expressed interests in stripping long held rights in favor of some arcane interpretation of the constitution. . . Right?
(Cries)
…huh.
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Not like it hasn't happened before and in the end they got shoved back. Only good thing about conservatives - they're all stupid and overwhelming old. Eventually they either die from old age or get shoved out by the people who have to clean up their messes.
Now we just need to wise up and ban anyone over 55 from voting or holding office.
Lmao just when I thought it wasn't about drugs.
Oh you fucking got me and it was great
my god
10/10
~Reggie
I’m 99 percent sure this is satire but it’s the one percent chance that haunts me.
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I dunno why this got downvoted, it’s 100% accurate
This story seems particularly apropos for Banned Book Month
Ah, book bans, the bane of a free and healthy society.
Very topical stuff, considering the efforts in some parts of society to stop people from asking the difficult questions.
lol the books people ban and then the books they leave on the shelves...
None of those evangelists who banned books can claim to give a damn about free speech.
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Presumably the "Muh country right or wrong" types or those I'm explicitly calling out.
All she ever wanted was a copy of "If I Ran the Zoo", by Dr. Seuss...
Should there be a "Narcotics" tag on this story? For implications if nothing else.
This can only be an improvement.
Oh god, it's so funny but it's so hard to laugh at. Stretch this to a cinematic run time and you'll have the next don't look up.
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Thank you, that's kind of the feeling I wanted when I wrote this. We must laugh, else we just might cry.
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👀
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Thank you very much. The freedom to write and read is necessary for an informed democratic society.
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Thanks Reggie.
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The use is not depicted, only referenced or implied, so I don't believe that necessitates the tag. Though it would be a good way to double down on the joke.
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It's what the people want.
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It sure is a good thing, or else I might have to write more satire to vent.
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I don't know if I would call it a spotlight, I feel like it's not enough to really demonstrate the issue, but I am glad it gets people thinking and talking.
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Never have truer words have been spoken. In an ideal world it would be taken as a given.
But we, alas, do not live in an ideal world.
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Fair enough. Just sayin'.
This is my relationship with sugar in a nutshell.
I enjoyed your darkly hilarious take on a censored world. The message I took away is that "you can't stop the flow of information. Trying to will lead to...it being controlled by fanfic writers."
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It's definitely one major message, yes. More broadly, my intention was to make a satirical demonstration of how banning literature and preventing the free expression of ideas is futile because grassroots and local efforts will always find ways to circumvent them. And also, such bans on expression and literature will also lead to a corruption of our ideas, as satirised by the many knockoffs in the story.
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Prohibition didn't stop people from enjoying booze. In fact, it led to gangsters controlling booze and deadly moonshine.
The War on Drugs didn't stop people from doing drugs. In fact, it led to the Mexican drug war and unregulated drugs like Krokodil.
Banning books would be just one more futile thing that will blow up in our faces.
Glad I read the comments before reading the fic. 😬
Ok, this is still funny.
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You'd be amazed. I studied at the University of Alabama for a bit, and one of the topics I focused on there was the way that the education system is being manipulated by people in positions of power to try and hide the pretty dark stuff the USA has done. It's also by no means a new phenomenon; older history books about the American Civil War frequently ommitted critical events that did not fit the political narratives (pro-Confederate ones, for example, often leave out the siege of Fort Sumpter because the Confederacy firing first did not fit the narrative of the Civil War being a war of Northern Aggression).
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Especially in the age of internet distribution of text.
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Similarly, the stringent copyright laws haven't stopped the creation of derivative works. The laws try (and fail) to wipe out creativity in the name of creating IP cartels like Disney.
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Fanfiction is considered Fair Use in the UK AFAIK.
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I know. But for artists who want to turn a profit, copyright heavily restricts what they can produce.
Hence why it wasn’t until 2023 a Winnie the Pooh horror movie got made.
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This is news to me.
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Believe me. The copyright regime is so draconian, Disney was able to block a family from burying one of their relatives with a Spider Man tombstone, claiming THAT was a copyright violation.
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I remember that case. It certainly made Disney look pretty bad.
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I'll put it to you this way: Had it not been for the 1998 extension of copyright, stuff like Murder on the Orient Express, Charlie's Chaplin's Modern Times, and Casablanca would've entered the public domain. Independent creators could've done their for-profit works with them.
Sort of unrelated, but my mind wandered to this.
Very love the premise and execution. She needed to become the Princess of Books