Fifty-odd years after Twilight Sparkle took the throne, Equestria is in a golden age of technomagical innovation, with concepts from the human world competing with entirely original innovations in an upward spiral of ingenuity that promises to last forever.
… Sorry, make that promised to last forever.
On an entirely unrelated note, two elderly twin unicorns just teleported to an uncharted tropical island.
A double entry in the Dialogue-Only contest and the Tropical Post-Apocalyptic contest. Rated Teen for references to alcohol and almost certain death.
Chapters (2)
You know, that's crazy but it actually kind of works for those two. (Also hiiiiii Wally)
Never change, boys. Never change.
See, the real key to writing the Flim Flam Brothers (or whatever they call themselves these days) is the impression of a run-on sentence that's so smooth you can't tell if it's a run-on sentence or an entire novel but you don't care because it's so entertaining you could hear these guys read a phone book or perhaps an A.I. instruction manual.
Wow. Sombre.
Thinking about it, this reminds me of a Doctor Who episode I never finished watching.
A colony had malfunctioning "Arcane Intelligence" units - they interpreted human sadness as undesired elements, then killed said humans.
Good job writing the story, you could almost believe it happened.
And we were all wondering how it was these two ended the world back in that one timeline offshoot in the Season 5 finale
I have this odd feeling that this reflects real world issues and I don't mind the shout-out, because it's a very important one to make.
Such good titles!
Soo many implications! Nice to know that ponies survived!
At least there's no time travel magic happening! Opaline probably won't be back! No backups!
Bringing tech to the sorta haunted robo island. heh.
Okay, I really like this story, but Flim and Flam splitting their memories 50/50 between them is way too cool and idea for you to just casually toss it into an otherwise unrelated story. I demand this Idea gets a full story all to itself!
The arcs, they have been welded. Nice work!
I just watched the TYT short and I gotta say, it seems odd to worry about a departing ferry when you have a flying campervan.
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"Bringing characters seen only on one side of the mirror to the other" is even more of a FoME trope than "Yet another Opaline origin."
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The really interesting scenarios come when the brothers are arguing, and so that run-on sentence is effectively filled with intrusive thoughts and inner conflict but still going.
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Ah yes, the emoji-bots. Fun fact, they got not one but two cards in the Doctor Who MtG decks. Mind you, Opaline never actually wanted to help...
Glad you enjoyed the story, at least on a conceptual level.
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Science fiction is meant to hold up a highly-polished, Space Age alloy mirror to reality.
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It is my curse to conceive of novel-length ideas while only having the motivation and executive function to throw them into random short stories.
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I'd say something about OSHA certification, but with the Flimflams involved, that doesn't seem terribly likely.
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G5 short quality varies wildly. (Though in this case, the fear was presumably said camper van running out of power and crashing in the middle of the ocean... not that stopped them with trips to other islands.)
The difficulty in writing a story about Flim and Flam is getting the reader to remember which one is which. The approach you've taken here works well for this story.
But by gum, it put them on the map!
"Crazed magical AI trying to do a Skynet in Equestria" is definitely one of Fanfic Twilight's better excuses for shutting down magic.
Entirely plausible!
Good luck in the contests!
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing
To tell her her commandment is fulfilled,
That RoFlimcrantz and GuildenFlam are dead.
(Sorry, couldn't resist a nod given the whole which-one's-which thing.)
I first read that line as "heap of dildoes." Rotflol.
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Regular "lol" for Flim & Flam not being able to remember who was who.
Ohhh, that's a good damn reference for the FlimFlams. I wonder if he took the monorail back home... somehow I doubt it.