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2012-08-26, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Personally I've never noticed any Flutterdash hints. *shrug*
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I should point out this example has subtle factual inaccuracies:
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... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2012-08-26, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Like I said this is what I think has already pretty much happened.
Zombies were mentioned and I believe immediately rebutted with "Zombies aren't real!" So I imagine Zombies exist like they do in our world.
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2012-08-26, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-26, 05:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Chapter 2 of II is nearly done, it's fairly short. I'm going to do final edits and then publish it tomorrow, once I've had some sleep, but I'd love some second thoughts before then. Anything, even if it's just 'it was good'. I'm sure there's plenty that could be improved, though.
II.2 - Breathless (draft)
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2012-08-26, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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breathless 2
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i would expect RD to be more unnerved by the "ghosts".
"He walked up to the table and picked up some bandages and a long"
“Now just lie still while I bind up that leg so it grows back straight.”
i would think "heals properly" sounds better. "grows back" makes me think of a lizard regenerating its tail or something.
also earlier, wounds are generally "cleaned" not "washed"
*has horrible mental image of someone taking a scrub brush to a wound*
("cleaned and dressed" is an option)
Rainbow wasn't sure why she lay down again, but part of her wanted to stay here with him.
this might be "laid", not entirely sure.
so there are 2 RD's running around? one with no heart, the other no breathing?
i get that this is supposed to be keeping us off balance, but the disconnect from last chapter is so huge i literally had to check that I was reading the same story from last chapter.
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2012-08-26, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-26, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Good catches. Thanks.
SpoilerYup, that's the gist of it. You didn't suspect this from chapter 1? If so I can imagine that made this chapter a little harder to catch up on than otherwise. It is a little tricky, but I expect now that you know there are two perspectives going on it's going to be easier. The sooner people catch up on that, the better.
There's going to be some amount of switching back and forth, mostly here at the beginning I expect.
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2012-08-26, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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What exactly is happening is, intentionally, still up in the air. Next chapter will help with some of the most pressing questions, but until then it's my hope that you're left wondering about it Of course I hope it's not impossible to follow, and it is admittedly a bit tricky.
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2012-08-26, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoileri didnt catch a "not breathing" reference in ch1. my first thought was that they did something to her (which is why she wasnt hurt), then put her back. of course dreams and other shenanigans crossed my mind, but not some kind of split/clone/thing.
not that it's a problem, makes sense in retrospect. it's just that since i didnt know that when i started the chapter, i was confused as hell.Last edited by thubby; 2012-08-26 at 07:45 PM.
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2012-08-26, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerDear Twilight,
Tonight we were sent in to protect a city named Delhi. The aliens had launched an attack so we headed off as soon as we could since we were the closer squad. Unfortantly we arrived at night. It was a horrible mess. We could barely see and the town was so crowded and smelt so bad. The humans were screaming in terror and pain as we moved through.
We moved slowly to avoid ambushes and when we spotted a cyberdisc tank we shot at it. Next thing we know the whole building explodes in a gigantic fireball! Needless to say the tank was utterly destroyed. Later we noticed some aliens hiding in a similar building so we blew that one up too! Honestly what kind of civilization designs it's buildings to explode?
The mission finished up when we spotted a pair of disc tanks close together behind the ruins of one of the exploding buildings. Everypony shot at them but they managed to destroy our tank first.SpikeSpruce and I moved in and finished them off with a pair of grenades.
In other news the human's took away Spitfire's autocannon. With how broken up she seemed it was like they told her she could never fly again! Honestly I'm glad. Spitfire can barely move at all lugging that giant thing around and even though she got a few good shots off it really does belong with a stronger pony. Also I hear word that our two bases will be trading some ponies soon. Something about making sure each base had a high ranking officer.
Sincerely,
Rarity Unicorn
I hate night missions. Had to do so many resets due to the stupid deaths I'd get since I couldn't see the aliens. Also I'm finding it pretty funny that Rarity can't seem to complete a mission without losing a tank.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
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2012-08-26, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I get it!
I...I got that reference!
To add some pony to the mix, I found both an adorable ask blog, and Baldumborat doing a dub for said adorable ask blog.Last edited by TheAmishPirate; 2012-08-26 at 09:24 PM.
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2012-08-26, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah I'd have to agree with you on that one we don't want anything anywhere close to that happening again. I would love to Dash show a little lesbianism though.
Why can't the world just love and tolerate. Oh well, as much as we'd all love to see our shippings and fanfics come true it's probably never going to happen.
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2012-08-26, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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*Hugs Lixie*
Seriously, best game. I even visited Shibuya for the first time ever this summer and it was pretty neat.
Okay yeah, I'm totally going to buy this as soon as I finish the clerical stuff I have to do for job-related stuff this week.
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2012-08-26, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Already do that. They do help a little but it's still really annoying.
On that note
Rainbow Dash Presents UFO-22
SpoilerHey Twilight, Princess Celestia. How are you guys doing?
Twilight where did that paper and quill come from? D-did you create a summon quill spell? Bwhahahaha! Oh you are too much fun Twilight Sparkle. So you want to hear how the mission went?
It was easy! Flew in, kicked some flank, looted the bodies and done! No challenge at all.
What you want more details?
Ugh, fine. Me and Pinkie and Fluttershy followed our tank and cleaned up the aliens that the tank spotted. Well Fluttershy of course didn't shoot. She refuses to, though it was nice to have her there.
Sectoids? You mean those grey guys? Nah, these were these crazy snake aliens. I call them Snakemen! Yeah that's right. I just named an entirely new alien species. I'm awesome.
I guess you've heard that Scoots and Applebloom snuck along? No big deal really. We just had Cadance guard them in the ship. Fight was so easy they were hardly in any real danger. Though these Snakemen were packing some serious heat. Luckily they can't seem to aim! Ha!
Anyways glad to see the two of you are feeling better.
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Umm... Guys?
Veggie's... leaving...(Un?)official ponythread element of airships.
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2012-08-26, 11:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, what are you standing around here for? You've got pins to earn and reapers whose butts need kicking! Also, you'll need to decide on your feelings about the Neku-Shiki pairing.
Seriously though, The World Ends With You is really good and basically unique.
Sad. He was one of the best comics artists in terms of doing vectors, although I agree with his farewell post that his stuff has always been on the weird side.
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2012-08-26, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, hm. Let's see if I can be both brief and convincing then.
Rainbow Dash demonstrates enthusiasm for stereotypically 'girly' behaviors in every situation where she wouldn't expect rebuke for it. She squees, she fangirls, she considers playing dress up and having a fashion show a fun thing he loves to do.
She enjoys being athletic, but mostly she enjoys winning. Rather than actual, athletic training like one would expect for a sport, she does tricks until she is tire or bored. This resembles skateboarding (a gender neutral sport) more than racing, or any other track-and-field style sport, which is typically more male-oriented.
Further, she shows very few, shallow, tomboy tendencies. Most of them are extrapolations from other things - if she were the same character, but without a rainbow mullet, then assertions of being a lesbian, who must also be butch because sports, who must also be a tomboy because butch lesbian would fall away. Women exist and excel in all of the sports her activities can be hearkened to, and aren't tomboys. The evidence for her being such is tenuous at best.
Rainbow Dash's most masculine traits are her angry, bored-now "gotta move!" attention span, and her desire for adulation. Being fidgety isn't exactly masculine, it's just active. She has an obvious eat, nap, be hyper cycle. Her love of adulation and her fear of reprisal are both more cultural than anything else - even her yelling at Fluttershy in DragonShy could be likened to her worrying that Fluttershy made pegasi, and her by extension, look bad. Her being so prone to yelling is supposedly proof that she is a tomboy, and "doesn't tolerate fluttershy's feminine antics", but I fin that falls apart pretty fast.
Yes. That is my problem with the tomboy theory. It's circular logic.
Remember that article claiming that Rainbow Dash was promoting a lesbian stereotype? Well, the problem with that article was that it was complaining about her being a lesbian stereotype when in fact, the show never even suggested that she was a lesbian. The article simply complained about her being a lesbian stereotype going on the assumption that she was a lesbian BECAUSE of her characteristics in the show. So, the writer complained about her own assumption of the character, rather then actual character.*
Now, if RD really was a Lesbian, then it might make this kind of criticism more relevant.
On a related note, I'd actually like to see queer relationships in the show, as long as they treat it in the same way they would treat a heterosexual relationship, like Adventure Time did. Rather then "ERMAHGERD A GAY COUPLE. WE MUST TREAT THEM EQUALLY. DEHR PRINCESS CELESTA, I LERN GAYS R PPL TOO."
And that's fine. :P
Personally? I would like to see Rainbow Dash outed as asexual. (is outed the right word?) it's one of those things that would harm none and be beneficial, as a huge swathe of the population don't even know such things *exist.
True. But the fear that someone's boat would be rocked is a faulty one. That the ponies don't conform to stereotypes close enough is already a problem. They are tryin to hard to masculine! What with their success and their self respect an their never being shown in the kitchen. -_-
The fuss was also not over Derpy speaking. Or at least, there were two fusses, and Derpy speaking was the one Hasbro ignored. The real fracas came from basically calling a goofy character retarded on public television. As much as I don't see the word that way, I understand their decision to remove her name-drop. It would be akin to calling a pony who started a fire [british slang for cigarette].
We are, indeed. But that doesn't make it right, necessarily.
Little too close to politics for my liking, actually. But yeah, that too is contested. Having it addressed as no big deal in a children's cartoon show would be grand. It would be one hel of a better statement than the usual one, where a girl's life is all about eventually getting married and having the best possible stereotypical cathedral wedding and that's the best day of her life and it's all downhill from there.
Spirits I hate and despise that. I have never seen anything good come from having One True Love shoved down everypony's throats. Just misery and self-loathing for "missing the boat".
Good enough is never good enough.
Too late!
Not at all. In fact, I would find that to be a huge disservice.
I can count twenty personal examples of people who have had terrible lives because the notion that something is normal and natural was alien to them. Kids discover both love an sexuality at VERY young ages - dealing with masturbation is the unspoken phase of raising a two year old, for example. And yet the only media portrayals are terribly unhealthy, forcing kids to try and wedge who and what they are into a narrow, socially accepted box.
Sound familiar?
"girls don't have to be frilly, vapid and passive. They can be beautiful and active and nice, and aggressive and smart and still be girls." we already have an implicit mission statement of broadening horizons and dealing with the one thing that matters for everyone; self-judgement.
Sure it's possible to make another show to handle this, but what are the odds of such a show having the cultural traction MLP does? If it can be done without ruining the show - and all the implicit shipping material says that it can - then why not? "because let sleeping dogs lie" or "don't stir up social issues" is a terrible rational of playing it safe. If we had played it safe in the first place, we wouldn't have Friendship is Magic at all! We would have gen 3.5, and no power in the verse could make that watchable. We wouldn't have Rarity dealing with the differences between romantic fantasy and romantic reality. We wouldn't have anything that deviates from the pattern. And that is terrible.
You know that picture of AppleJack hugging Rainbow Dash? With the caption "it's okay to be you"? I refuse to accept that means 'it's okay to be you, unless you rock my boat.'
Undeath isnt all that dark unless you explore it's concepts. A zombie isn't the reanimated, defiled corpse of a love one, enslaved to fight against its former friends while it's shackled soul weeps in horror; it's a monster that's gross.
Well, to be fair we were looking for it to fuel our crack-theories. Also
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2012-08-27, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, not just grim in the sense of it being undead, but it's a Dragon and a Lich. That's a pretty serious, unpleasant thing to encounter.
Dragons are already in the Run Away! catagory, making one a moving blasphemy and probably magical too just makes it worse. Add to that the thematic overtones of the whole undead thing and it just seems a bit much, really.
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See, you're looking too far into it. It's seriously just a dragon skeleton.
Also, the whole "in death is an abomination" is one of those things that falls apart under scrutiny. It's an abomination against what? Nature? In a universe where it can occur naturally? It's blasphemy, against... What, exactly? You could say most burial rituals stem, specifically, from attempts to prevent undeath. So it's not like it's implicitly against any specific religious system, even in D&D games that try to make gods who dislike undeath.
If you believe in the sanctity of the natural order enough for undeath to be a problem, then well, anything that deviates from the norm is just as backwards. And while an interesting road for a fantasy game or story, I just argued against that. I require at least three pages between my hypocrisies, so it's not quite so apparent!
Actually, that would be a Pretry interesting bent. Heroes jump in and the undead are all like "hey, man! What gives?"