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False Door


If you like feeling awful, you've come to the right place.

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That's not what I mean. You shouldn't be here. You're too young."

"They lowered the age restriction and…" She creases her forehead. "Their standards. I thought you'd be excited."

Rainbow grits her teeth apprehensively "Well… I just…" She looks to her right to see Derpy Hooves staring blankly off into space. "Derpy?" she blinks in disbelief. "You shouldn't be here either."

Wow, I kinda expected that ending but it still hit me like a truck.

lol, what did I just read?

Read this sitting in the airport as all flights got grounded. Prophetic I suppose.

Holy shit this is amazing. Feels like an scp exploration log.

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Thanks. The writing style is a departure from anything I've done in the past. Actually reminded me of the prerecorded messages in Portal 2 when I was writing it.

"I can fly faster than the speed of sound which is 760 miles per hour according to the eight hour math test I just took," she beams.

*noted*

And huh looks like the f-35 and f-22 raptor is faster than dash.

"Of course I do."

*cough*bullshit*cough*

"You can't do anything. I'm sorry, kid, they're gone. Grab their tags and fall back to cover."

Oh shit.

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Well all I know is a 'sonic rainboom' probably requires breaking the sound barrier and that's about her limit so her top speed is probably around there?

Words cannot express the amazing journey it was to read this. Excellent work. :heart:

Was starting to wonder where this one was going to end up at but it really was pretty grounded by the finish line.

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Readers get on me for ending stories abruptly and vague. I know that the weirdness of this one can be confusing at times so wanted to spell it out at the end but I feel like there's enough to figure it out before then... but just in case.

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Thanks! Glad to hear that.

Another amazing experience from false door. Congrats on 20 stories, I've read quite a few and absolutely loved them.

The beginning actually had me thinking a little because i wasn't sure if this was going to be a silly "coin-op girl" style story (loved that one too btw) or the usual super trippy and tragic story.

The hope that maybe things will turn out ok only to have the slow and progressive realization that it isn't going to turn out well at all is exactly why i love your stories, but having the comedic aspect to it really made this one special.

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I for one don't mind the abrupt and vague endings. Because of the way you write, the reader can figure it out themselves from pieces of the story. After spitfire repeated "follow orders" a few times, i knew dash screwed something up and this probably wasn't going to have a happy ending.

Although i didn't expect the war themed ending, and thought it was just another part of the death "dream". It was defenetly clear from the context she had some sort of accident. If you ended it at the cassette popping out, i don't think it would have detracted from the ending at all.

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Thank you. I had to choose only three blue tags and when I posted the story originally, I had the 'comedy' tag. Then like a day later I decided to switch it to tragedy since that's the overall feeling even though there's a lot of comedic elements still there (which I think makes it more disturbing.)

Back when I was still thinking it was going to be a comedy, the ending payoff/explanation I had in mind was that RD had fallen asleep at some party and her cool dream was being ruined/influenced by the conversations around her. e.g. Hearing Twilight talking made her have a math test. Hearing Rarity made her have to be at a fancy dinner in a ball gown. Rarity chiming in randomly with 'couture' was sort of a leftover of that idea.

Once I changed directions, the orientation became more of a blender of disillusionment over all the stuff she didn't like about being a Wonderbolt plus all her final thoughts and fears.

oohhhh i knew this one was gonna be good as soon as i read "She puked her brain out through her nose right on the academy tarmac" and you did Not disappoint me

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lol

For me it's the wholesome corniness of "Ah, I love the sound of flags in the wind!"

I had initially assumed the 'no-brainer' was suppose to be a clue in. It wasn't entirely, but I imagined that it was performed desparately.

I've thought about it more and now I understand her issue.

You've written well, Wordsmith! I had originally went in not really feeling that interested other than I am curious about all the tags labelled on this fic. I was looking for horror. You've sprinkled enough clues and suspension of disbelief that I had a good suspicion early on.

This story is sad and moving; "it all seems so short".

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Thanks. It's funny because I always write stories that I want to read and even enjoy reading again later but if I hypothetically forgot that I wrote my stories and then came across them and read the descriptions, I probably wouldn't be sold on about a third of them.

My god this is so good. the concept is so good, the execution made me feel a lot of things, it's just so cool

but then I listened to the voices and it became Amanda the Adventurer meets Jacob's Ladder.

I can only describe this story by comparing it to things I know, but I don't know what those are;
To me it's uncannily Slaughterhouse Five meets Omega Mart, I hope someone knows what I mean

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I thought of another one. I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

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Maybe a bit Stanley Parable as well.
It almost was just a slightly unnerving but really funny comedy but it got kinda deep!

So when you die, not only does your life flash before your eyes, you also get an instructional video on how you got there in the first place.

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At least a video is how it was formatted for Rainbow...

Well.

That was a well written psychological baseball bat to my knees.

My mind is in twists and I am going to go take a nap, good day.

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Another satisfied customer!

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