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Hifilly


I try to write, very clumsily.

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Anon awakes in a blizzard in Ponyville, vaguely remembering a past life. Anon tries to reconcile his understandings with an enigmatic new world, and Twilight tries to understand her. During this, Anon is given the opportunity to venture to Canterlot under Celestia's offer, and prepares.

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That is a long first chapter. :twilightsmile:

I like this so far, though some paragraphs seem a bit long, makes it feel slightly blocky. Keep up the good work though.

Such a bizarre start. HUGE intro chapter. The vocabulary level is a bit excessive. Anon is strange, or at least a different strange from the usual Anon. The writing and some of his knowledge tries to frame him as smart, or at least well educated. Then when they worry about him being hungry and cold, they go for ice cream. Not a warm meal, literally a frozen dessert. Then this well spoken individual advises for very brutal and violent revenge on hearing about children being bullied. Sounding more like a psychopath. Not sure what to make of this story so far.

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I'm glad you find the Anon here strange, since that was my intention. In later parts I will do a better job at fleshing out her personality, since not very much happens in this one. Sorry for the length also, my mind tends to wander when writing, but I've learned a lot from just doing this much. The next part I think will be more palatable, less meandering. I do have a plot in mind but it's somewhat secondary to the ideas I want for the story. As for the ice cream thing, when I wrote that I imagined Twilight thinking benightedly, "What would a filly want?" and framed her as more perfunctory regarding the presence of a random filly on her doorstep. She doesn't find Anon overtly offensive but doesn't care for her to be around, since this is sort of implied to be early Twilight, and her concerns lie elsewhere. Hopefully I did okay framing her this way, it was difficult to write the main characters in a sort of early nuanced way. I will spend more time on the next part to make sure the characters are more penetrating. I had originally intended to write this in third person, but decided on second person. I find that it's far more difficult to make broad strokes, metaphorically speaking in terms of detail and pace, with second person than with third, so I need to give extra care to that.

I like where this is going, please continue!

this is feeling really chatgpt given the rather extensive use of multiple high intellect words that never end up being used with this level of frequency and scope in a normal story.

I'm not a fan of the second person narrative, but this story is very enjoyable. I like the characterization of Anon being an intellegent, or at least not be afraid to show . And she doesn't laud it over others, I'm really excited to see where you take this story.

Someone’s been eating their thesaurus flakes.

the head, the legs, the torso, the back, your wings which you actually feel this time, and the ass as you journey gravitationally to the first floor.

Tumbling suddenly like some adamantine figure in a landslide you hit all the bases: the head, the legs, the torso, the back, your wings which you actually feel this time, and the ass as you journey gravitationally to the first floor. The fall is violent and as you finally hit the floor you roll into a table, smacking the right side of your head into the sharp tabletop with a horrific thud.

“Not to my knowledge.(——”

“There’s air everywhere Anon, including in space,” she concludes, raising a hoof to indicate her exactitude.

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if you had one of the largest wingspans in Equestria for your age group.

and with the added large size of your wings it seems like you won’t be flying for a bit.

“Well, I don’t want them getting cold,” you say with a bright beam.

“Uh, I’m Anon, what’s it to ya?” you ask awkwardly. She just beams at you.

“No, Rainbow, I know what Anon means. Honestly I’ve never seen a foal this distrustful of the princess, most fillies love her.

Obviously you haven’t met me but I’m a colt so there’s that.

Rainbow Dash zips by you and loops in a huge circle and stops in front of you trying to hover.

It was twilight, the sun just below the horizon, and you could see the moon was crescent and waxing.

so you thought. (——You feel without autonomy, but even if you did have freedom of choice that might not make a difference.

You ask yourself: What would be even the point? (——Are you not enjoying yourself?

Do you think the world is not real?

You slouch into the pillow of the wingback, your spirit all vulnerose. (——The white unicorn uses her hoof to wipe tears you didn’t notice dripping from your face.

“Sixteen?! My dear captain, that’s not necessary, especially for night guards. (——She only needs a few. Leave the best three and send the other thirteen back,” she commands.

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As far as you know, levitation is only possible with very powerful lasers and granule-sized diamonds

I mean, there's also good old magnets. Entire trains run on them.

Starting Go with the full board is a bit extreme. Calm down, Hikaru! Something like 9x9 is perfectly good for beginners.

Apparently, she gets a huge monthly emolument from the princess and never spends even a quarter of it, so she has boatloads of money just lying around in boxes.

I understand that this is closer to an AU (and might require the tag eventually), but it seems more likely that she blows all of it on books and weird lab equipment, lol.


Memories of this like, you would come to think, bleed together vaguely like those of early life.

"this life", I'm guessing.

The deed was already made up, there is nothing to done about it,

"to be done/to do"

Those whose temperamental style align with that of the city,

"aligns"

Outside is nearly nearly three o’clock,

duplicate word

There's also a fair amount of word usage that's technically correct, but seems a little off.

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