When your name is Midnight Sparkle, love means never having to admit your girlfriend is dead.
Contest Information:
An entry in the Sunset Shimmer x Midnight Sparkle Competition AND in Bicyclette's & EileenSaysHi's SciSet Contest!
Art Credits: I edited an image by RileyAV (whose original version is larger, better, and unfortunately NSFW so I can't link directly to it from this T-rated fimfiction.net story description.)
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Chapters (2)
Ah. Midnight's greatest evil isn't the callous disregard for collateral damage as she indulges her insatiable curiosity. It's shipping. Cadence would be proud.
Fascinating tale of the many uses of an active dark side. Thank you for it.
Quoting one of the contest runners I see... ...
So firearms are allowed!...
I don’t want to be harsh, but as a contest judge I do need to be frank. I didn’t like this story very much. It feels like a lot of wasted potential, in that you have an intriguing setup — Midnight Sparkle’s talents including the power of resurrection — that is entirely neglected by the narrative as soon as it fulfills its immediate function. The overall plot feels like a bunch of characters shrugging their shoulders and saying “well, this happened,” and I honestly forgot about Midnight entirely for a good chunk of the storyline. Overall, it reads like a mishmash of odd ideas that just never gel.
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I suppose one take is:
'Midnight Sparkle only uses her powers to make her favorite ship's ponies kiss.'
establishing the crackfic personalities early
terrible pun, so probably what it actually is in the EqG world inexplicably
oh hey that’s what the voice in my head always says to me too!
very cool and normal
well that resolved easily!
commentary
having the character in the story point out that it’s going in an unsavory direction but then doing it anyway is certainly a choice
it does work a bit too well for the ponification that Augustine was from Hippo
you see, this is normally something i would love to read in a story but it’s like a weird twisted version of it that vacates it of the good things i like
birb i don’t want to discourage you from doing the thing where you take contest theme and fulfill them to letter but not the spirit in a way that makes a mockery of the theme itself, because weird birb ideas are fun and what writing is for. but i feel like the treatment of suicide here is in a weird spot where i assume it’s going for absurdist humor but it doesn't go absurdist enough so it just feels disrespectful. besides that, thanks for writing
Oh dear, what did Shining even react?–
WAIT- PRINCESS CELESTIA?
I NEVER EXPECTED THIS TO BE COMEDY OMG
He's.. he's not wrong..
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I just want to say I think it's interesting that this story can go through not one but TWO contests, have hundreds of views on both chapters, receive several comments, some in considerable detail...
and somehow, YOU, MONTHS LATER, are the first person to catch this and point it out.
Anyway, thank you for this help improving my story! (I fixed it now.)
I AGREE, MIDNIGHT. I, FRICKING, AGREE. 😭😭 (SUNSET SHIMMER, DON'T YOU CHEAT ON YOUR ADORKABLE GIRLFRIEND OR SO HELP ME–)
OMG YES.
(This actually makes me feel kinda sad. Sunzet doesn't love Twilight for her, she just loves her as a pony :{)