Today is the day, since I unpleasantly discovered that I am going to be staying here permanently.
Since I am going to be living in this world for the rest of my natural life, I am going to have to learn about this world as a whole. Even if it means going to the Golden Oaks Library where Twilight Sparkle resides.
Fluttershy's books have helped, but her cottage is not a library. I'll have to face Twilight, even if it means having to sit through a million questions.
I started to walk through Ponyville, I ignore the ponies around me. I am making my way to the library, every step make me sweat abit in nervousness.
Then, I finally see the library in the distance. I quicken my pace until I reach the front door.
I lift my arm to knock until I realized.
This is a public library. I simply just open the door and let myself in.
I entered the library, and then I got smacked in the face by a book and then multiple books fell on top of me
“Oh my gosh! I am sorry!” A female voice said. I pull the book off of my face to see Twilight Sparkle staring at me.
“Oh, Jumper! Surprised to see you again, I hope you aren't sad about what happened a week ago.” She said as she look at me with a sympathetic look.
“Oh, I am sad about it. The pain may never go away but I have to accept it. Anyways this is the second time I've been smacked in the face by a book.” I plainly said. Twilight smiled sheepishly.
“I was just reorganizing the library using levitation, it suddenly stopped working for some reason. What brings you here Jumper?” Twilight asked.
“I am here to read some books from the library, what else is there to do in the library?” I scratch my head. “Since I'll be here permanently, I need to learn about customs, laws, anything really to help me adjust living here.” Twilight's ears perks up.
“Well... since you're here.” She then levitates a scroll and quill as she put on a very wide smile. I gulp, knowing what's about to come.
Here we go.
Session
Me and Twilight looked at each other as we sit down. I speak up first.
“I think you already know what am I. I am a human, or homo sapiens if you prefer the scientific term.” She nodded as she writes down on the scroll.
“Where do you come from Jumper?” She asked.
“I came from the country of The United States of America in the state of Florida.” She writes them down.
“Could you tell me more about your species?” I nodded.
“We are pretty much the dominant species back home as we are the only sentient beings. Our lifespans are an average of 70 years but we can extent that with modern medicine and we are adaptable. We are everywhere in our planet, with 195 countries, each having their own culture and with a total population of over 8.1 billion.” Twilight jaw dropped in shock.
“8.1 billion!? How did you humans have so many!? Our population can barely reach a million!?” I shrugged.
“Advance technology. We don't have strength like earth ponies, we can't fly like pegasus, we can't use magic like unicorns. We use our brains and create things to make things easier or more efficiently. Our advance agriculture can fend all our people while our advance medicines extent our lifespans and make us live longer.” She scribbles all of that shit down.
“How advance is your technology compared to us.” I snatch my head.
“Pretty confusing, comparing our technology to your. I'll say its a combination of the mediaeval era, the industrial revolution, and the 1980s I think? By the way our current year is 2023.” I ended. Twilight again gobbling all of it up.
We talked for awhile as I exchange a bunch of stuff about humanity, Twilight's scroll is long as hell. Then its my turn to ask her questions about this world, apparently this world is named Equus, I begin learning stuff that I have never knew when I watched the show and learning their customs.
I've learned that further north in Griffonia there's apparently a land of the undead but Twilight dismisses it as a myth.
Yeah considering that this is the world of magic, I'll take that with a grain of salt.
“So, uh yeah I think we are done here for now.” I stand up. “Welp, see you tomorrow.” I quickly try to walk away not wanting to stay here much longer.
“Wait!” I stopped much to my chagrin. “I have one more thing to do.” Twilight walks up to me.
“And what is that?” I turn to look at her.
“I want to test your magic immunity, see how much it extents than just being immune.” She replied. I groan.
“Promise that after this, it will be everything for today?” She nodded.
Welp here we go.
Experimentation
We were testing the extents of my magic immunity to see if there's more to it, there was more.
Turns out I can cancel spells, when I touched a levitated book it dropped to the ground.
We have also found out I can redirect magic bolts, basically I can simply slap it away. Really useful if I have ever gotten into a fight with a magic user, I just have to catch it.
This immunity does have down sides, when I said its immune I mean immune. If I am gravely injured then I can't be healed with healing magic, sucks when your body is fragile, healing magic would've been super useful.
On the bright side cockatrices can't turn me into stone when they see me.
This magic immunity could explain why Pinkie couldn't sense me with her pinkie sense and her ability to somehow know things she shouldn't have. My guess is that Pinkie's abilities are their own unique magic because of generations living in a rock farm. Its probably why Twilight couldn't find magic in her when she test her in "Feeling Pinkie Keen".
Anyways I am tired as shit from answering Twilight long as questions. I was given a library card by Spike so I can burrow some of the books in the library for me to read, really tired as shit so I went to bed.
Today has been really knowledgeable, learned some slurs I could use as a last resort in case if a pony I encounter is a bitch.
Is it me or am I forgetting something?
Ooooooh, using Equestria At War lore, are we?
you forgot to actually borrow books, you goober.
I wonder if the undead are similar to ones from Lord of the Rings, where they're still aware and want nothing to do with the living, hence the phrase "the dead do not suffer the living"
It's weird, but I think this episode feels... empty.
Like, I didn't get interested while reading it. Don't really know why, but it feels bland compared to the previous ones. Might just be me.
The only thing that got me a reaction was this:
Not because of the typos, but because Twilight, being the clever unicorn she is, chose the worst words to say to him. Way to go, Twilight.
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Are you serious? Are you justifying the law of least effort? The laziness? I talked to the author and the dude himself told me that he felt miserable when writing that chapter, which means that he himself knows that he was plagiarizing. If we want to see people's reactions to the events of the show, for that better, take a camera, record yourself and tell the jokes that you have to say and upload it to YouTube, not write a fanfic. I understand that episodes of the series can be taken as reference points (I do that too), but it doesn't mean making transcriptions of almost the entire FIM episode. Dude could have summarized it or only left the parts where his OC did something that stood out, which kid did, but very few times, because as I said 90% is a plagiarism of the first episode.
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I wasn't justifying his writing. I was simply stating that there is no need to call it plagiarism. By your standards, literally every fanfic would be plagiarism. There's million other fics like these, and in the end, he's solely writing for his own enjoyment, not the readers. If he wants to improve sure, but calling it plagiarism isn't giving advice, and it technically doesn't even matter since it all comes under fair use. However, if he feels miserable like you said, then he should go back and revaluate what he truly wants to write and plan out his characters and plot. Moreover, he atleast takes the effort to write out chapter on a almost daily basis, which is much more effort than others. Calling it plagiarism is like saying all his words were for nothing. Also keep in mind, all youtube videos have scripts, so posting it as a fanfic and as a video is literally the same thing.
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I don't know what definition the word "plagiarism" will have in your country's dictionary, but in mine, it is said, which is in this case, paraphrasing a text already written and passing it off as yours counts as plagiarism, the dude doesn't have to say directly that he wrote it, but dude is copying and pasting it into his work and he didn't leave a note like "Some parts will be exactly the same as the series, if you already saw this episode, I recommend you skip it. All rights to the writers of Hasbro" but nothing.
For Celestia's holy ass, are there more fics like this? Who make transcripts of the episodes with minimal differences? Where the OC on duty hardly speaks or does anything relevant so that the plot doesn't feel like a copy of the original?
If you like these kinds of stories, who am I to judge?
Well, almost all the stories I've read have their own plots with their own dialogues, you can't call those plagiarism and the effort put into these stories is greatly appreciated, I'm not saying that all the guy's work is a copy, I'm talking about the chapter "Mare on the moon" specifically. No matter how you look at it, it is a plagiarism of the first episode of FIM, as I have already said several times.
Or are you going to tell me that he wrote The Laughter Song? Or that the Twilight friendship speech was written by him? Even when Pinkie Pie says "Girls, don't you see?" Did he write it? Dude didn't even change it to just "Don't you see" so Jumper is a woman? change gender suddenly, or is he a fucking trans?
Do you understand my point now? The difference is that one is only to react, meaning that there's not interaction with the Ponys, which is what really matters in these stories of humans in Equestria. In a reaction video it's not like you say "Applejack is a big ass background pony" and she answers you "Shut the fuck up bitch"
Great chapter
I have actually been down there once for a wedding and OMG it is BEAUTIFUL DOWN THERE.