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  1. I agree with this take, because the series has more time to build the up. I think for a movie it did a great job of setting up all the characters, and it was really well done in a variety of ways (and amazing VAing etc), but it can't spend much time on any character as it also has to set up the world and the lore and tell a story etc etc.

    as for each char:

    Pipp. Her and Zipp's role in TYT are easily the best IMO, and Pipp's character in the movie was quite backgroundish (although I love her supporting Sunny's dancing) so she is clearly an improvement I agree

    Hitch. Him being a dragon dad is a hooves down great little departure for the show. Didn't realise people weren't into this D:

    Sunny is the char I'd say was least improved on. In TYT and MYM she sometimes feels backgroundish to me. Her alicorn responsibilities and status, unlike Twi's, are kinda vague. She gets stressed about setting events up, and there's a few sweet moments around that. Sunny in the movie, meanwhile, drove it forward as she was helping resolve the main conflict, and her relationship with Hitch and Izzy illuminates both her and those others. She has her moments though.

    Izzy. TYT and MYM build on the fun and creativeness of this char nicely. Movie Izzy was good and TYT/MYM give us more Izzy.

    Zipp. As I said above, Zipp and Pipp's relationship is one of the best developments post movie. Zipp was also one of the only good things about early MYM for me (chaps 4-6 are where it really took off IMO).

     

     

     

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  2. Misty Misty Misty, there's so much negativity because old fans are gonna gripe - they miss a great team, a great story and a great period of their lives. If you enjoy this thing, then that is fine :) I do too! But that feeling of loss is the root of all fan gripe-ishness, and there's no problem with that.

    Gen 5 was trying to do something different to FiM, which it had to do. It wasn't trying to appeal to the old fan base, because that fan base... was crazy and kinda time specific. Make Your Mark is solid kiddie story writing, while the Movie was absolutely hooves down fabulous and a very worthy legacy. Tell your Tale is a Ponylife attempt to ape kiddie stuff that I never even liked much as a kid (but as a fan, I can't help myself so I watch :P ).

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  3. Another contribution that fits the Celestianism theme!

    Tolerance is important, especially when caring for young, growing people: The Tale of Tony the Pony

    Listen to the audio here!

    Tony was a boy who liked to think hard,

    About himself and all those in the schoolyard.


    At school most of his peers wore elephant ears

    And trumpeted loudly so all could hear.

    Therefore, Tony did as expected.

    (Even if it made him feel demented.)

     

     

    Often, however, his mind would wander,

    To his friend and the activity round her.

     

     

    Around the yard she would gallop, whinny, neigh.

    Seeing this fun made his doubts go away.

    One break-time he was decided:

    “I will join in!”

    (Though I might be derided.)

     

     

    Skipping along, he put his ears down,

    And, instead of yelling, let his friend pat his crown.

    Then his new herd joined him in prancing.

    (Ignoring all the looks they were getting.)

     

     

    His peers saw all this and frowned,

    Some even stomped their big boots on the ground.

     

     

    When the teachers came out,

    “What’s all the fuss about?”

    But instead of breaking things up,

    They huddled in a hush.

     

     

    As Tony pranced around,

    And the elephants howled,

    Teacherly glances were thrown,

    One picked up a phone…

     

     

    Later, at home, after the fun,

    He knew that while his playtime was done.

    Tony the pony had just begun.

     

     

    In the following weeks and years,

    He ignored elephant jeers

    And adult cheers

    And teacherly fears…

     

     

    But ignoring grew thin when he wore his first tail,

    For as the adults locked horns and talked about jail

    His peers stole the item away,

    Declaring:

    “Trunks and ears are the only way!”

     

     

    At this, poor Tony started to cry,

    Fortunately, his mommy was nearby.

    She got the teachers all to do their job,

    And soon they dispersed the elephant mob.

     

    From then on, many games did Tony play,

    Always featuring ponies some way.

    Eventually, his peers grew to accept it,

    “For Tony, elephant ears just don’t fit!”

     

     

    Now all grown up, he looks back to those days,

    Remembering all the friends that he made.

    “Being a pony sure is fun,

    Even if it isn’t for everyone.”

    [Spoilered due to politics]

    Spoiler

    If ponies haven't guessed, this is partly in response to Matt Walsh's attempt at a kiddie book that tried to take to take trans debate talking points and turn them into a kid book - far from being cancelled, as that branch of the right-lite like to claim, the book has been a commercial success for Walsh, because 'will someone please think about the children' types of books are always going to sell. It's not the end of the world though, as a book, and I really enjoyed giving a go at writing a kiddie rhyming book that has a message about caring for kids as they relate to their worlds and throwing some well-earned barbs at social media.

    Just a warning if you look up Matt Walsh - he's the "But what is a woman?" guy and is essentially a troll, despite one or two decent interviews, so I don't recommend his stuff. If you're looking for critical yet humane takes on trans debates that are accessible, then I recommend people like Contrapoints on the one hoof, and Buck Angel and even Blaire White on the other.

     

  4. ooh, interesting :) brave to go over past fics you're unhappy with. 

    Lyra’s Human Weiners :P

    Transcending Fluttershy Sky this is crazy :D I had to abridge it! Ok, I abridged the first two chaps. So silly!:pinkie:

    Princess Celestia, tries to explain the origin of it all...

    "In the beginning, there was nothing but nothing. But that nothing soon created a deity. [That deity created, souls, morals, insanity and the deity's daughter. The daughter made immorality, evil spirits, entropy, decay and destruction and the daughter's son, Sky. Sky also made destruction.]

    ---

    [Sky wakes up]

    Hey, I'm awake! How is this possible? The only answer is that I must have fallen asleep and woken up..."

    The person was in a bedroom lying on a bed covered in empty beer bottles that he had been lying on.

    "These empty bottles don't have anything in them..." said [Sky], "why do they exist? Why do I exist?"

    [Sky got out of bed and] saw a mysterious note on a computer desk, which read:

    Hello Honey! I am your mother, and you are my son. I am an alicorn, a winged horse with a big long horn on her head, and you are a human... [I am also your teacher. Go to school.] I guess I can forgive you if you are late, for you drank too much beer, caught alcohol poisoning, died last night, and forced me to give birth to you again behind my back. That'll teach you to play too much Amnesia...

    Yours is Truly,

    ...You Nothing"

    "Hmm...if this letter is true, it can only be inferred that I have a mother and she's a winged horse with a horn on her head," he said to himself.

    Sky then noticed something else on the computer desk, it was a copy of the computer game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

    He also noticed that there was a television in the room that said "CELESTIA IS WATCHING YOU" on the screen.

    "She's watching me too?" Sky remarked. "I wonder if she can see what I'm doing and saying. I better get to school if that's the case."

    Sky noticed that the only way to get to this school was to leave the room. As he left, he had to walk down the stairs, as his room in this house was on the second floor.

    "These stairs descend for an eternity down to the floor," Sky pondered. "I wonder where they lead..."

    Sky walked down the stairs in a foreboding manner.

    Sky opened the front door, but he did not find the school. All he could find was the ponies, earth, unicorn and dead. [He also found] smog, air pollution, and beautiful rainbows. 

    Sky looked at the world.

    "Wow, there's ponies with arms and unicorns driving in cars and pegasi making graves in the sky so that there can be rainbows. [But no school.]"

    Sky said as he noticed the sidewalk that was a line that ended with a curve.

    "That sidewalk looks like it's a line about to turn into a circle, so I assume I will have to walk in circles until I reach my destination."

    Sky walked around in a linear manner as well as in a circular motion until he bumped into one of the earth ponies.

    "Hey, watch where you're going..." the earth pony took notice of Sky's appearance. "You have arms and legs and you use them to walk...

    "GO BACK TO EQUESTRIA YOU WORTHLESS BRONY WANNABE!" the earth pony pulled a pistol [and died]

    "Did he kill himself?" [Sky wondered].

    The crowd gasped in horror.

    "I AM CELESTIA," a mist that resembled Celestia that came out of Sky's head spoke, "AND YOU FOOLISH IDIOTS WILL NOT HURT MY SON."

    As they ran away, the mist teleported Sky to where the school was.

    "Wow, I'm finally here," Sky said

    Sky walked into the classroom

    "Ah, you finally came," a winged horse dressed in a white shirt, black pants, a blazer, a red tie, and glasses with a horn on its head said.

    "Wait, you're Celestia?" Sky asked Celestia. "But if you're my mother...who is my teacher?"

    "Fool..." Celestia laughed. "I may be a winged horse with a horn on its head, your mother, and the creator of all humans, but that doesn't mean I'm not also...YOUR TEACHER!

     “I didn’t know..." Sky said. "Does that mean I’m just a lie?” Sky said like a liar who told lies.

    " I’ve grown tired of the truth," [Celestia replied].

    “Talking animals who can talk and drive?"

    What did you just say?!” Celestia shouted. “You’re a human, but you’re not a horse right now!"

    “Wait, I’m human but I’m not a horse?”

    “Don’t you understand? YOU ARE THE WORST HUMAN BEING TO HAVE EVER BEEN BEING EXISTED!”

    “The worst human being?” Sky took it to heart. “Wow, I guess I’m kind of a bad person.”

    “DON’T EVEN DARE SAY THAT!”

    Celestia went red, white, blue, and then back to white.

    “Heh heh...sorry about that nervous breakdown,” Celestia remorsed. “I just get a little criminally insane every now and then. I almost forgot about our after-school lesson...which will take place...NOW.”

    Celestia... unzipped her pants and revealed that she was wearing pregnancy pants. “I’m not going to teach you about evolution...I’m going to teach you...how to CREATE!”

    Celestia grabbed the woman and the android that were tied up in the corner, and extended her jaw to a size so big that it was bigger than like, the like universe [and ate them].

    “Wow, your mouth is pretty big,” Sky commented.

    [Soon] Celestia's belly was big and round.

    “This is how life is created my son.” Celestia said as Sky noticed that there was something tough, long, straight, and soft in Celestia’s pregnancy pants. It was a computer.

    “I didn’t know it worked like that,” Sky replied.

    “I shall now eat you...and become pregnant with you."

    “You’re going to eat me, does that mean I’m going to be eaten?” Sky shook like peanut brittle.

    "Class is dismissed."

    Suddenly, a car was thrown through the wall and hit Sky dead on its arrival, and he was dead.

    “Oh no, not again...” Celestia suddenly vomitted.

    “Hey, I’ve been brought back to life,” Sky said. “Was I dead?”

    “WHO THREW THAT CAR?!” Celestia shouted angrily. “Was it a unicorn?"

    “No my faithless teacher,” Twilight said [as she] walked through the hole dressed in a black suit and an eyepatch and armed with a shotgun. “Class just started...”

    “YOU IDIOT!” Celestia shouted.

    Celestia was interrupted as Twilight hit Celestia in the forehead, causing her head to explode.

    “Wow, that’s strange.” Sky said.

    “Hello, Sky. I have killed your mother...it is time for you to follow in my footsteps and trust me now.”

    “That sounds reasonable, but what’s your name?” Sky asked.

    “I am an assassin, the most trusted pony in Equestria."

    “Wow, your employers must really like you.”

    “Alright, I’ve been honest with you, can you trust me to take you back to Equestria and raise you to be my apprentice?”

    “Sure, I’ll gladly become your apprentice,” Sky agreed. "But just one and two questions...what’s Equestria and how did I come back to life again?”

    “Equestria is your home town where you were born by your mother, Celestia,” Twilight explained. “That corpse lying there has been killed and has died and she’s dead now.”

    “Thanks for answering my questions.”

    Twilight and Sky both got into the car that Twilight threw, but unfortunately, it wouldn’t start.

    “I wish I had a learner’s permit.” Twilight didn’t know how to drive like the other unicorns.

    “I guess we’ll just have to do things manually, sit here and wait," Sky said stupidly.

    “Wait, that’s it, MANUAL!” Twilight said. “Get out of the car, I know what to do!”

    Both of them got out of the car as Twilight’s mouth extended a long way, just like Celestia’s.

    “Just like Celestia taught me...” Twilight muttered.

    “Wow, your mouth is pretty big,” Sky commented.

    [Soon] Twilight's belly was big and round.

    Something came out of Twilight’s pants, and it was...a living car.

    "Carry us to a new world!” Twilight instructed [the car].

    The living car did as it was instructed, for it was infused with the instruction manual, and followed all the rules of the road, so he allowed the maternal strangers inside of him.

    “Wow, we’re inside of a living car, and the car is alive!” [Sky] shouted as they got on the road. “How did you do that?”

    “The power of creation,” Twilight replied.

    “Oh, now this all makes sense.”

    Sky sensed the falsely true antilogic in the air.

    [Meanwhile back at the school] Celestia’s head regenerated, and detached itself from her body. She could do it because she was not Celestia, she was [Robolestia], a magic robot. The robot was filled with destruction in its heart...ITS CHEST WAS FILLED WITH BOMBS.

    [Robolestia]’s horn lit up again, and it stole all the knowledge that was in the learning school. [With this knowledge Robolestia blew up its body] while its head chased after [Twilight and Sky].

    ---

    “Since Equestria is in another world, we’ll have to travel across the world for quite a long time before we reach another universe.” Twilight elaborated.

    “Wow, that’s pretty far away,” responded Sky.

    “NOT SO FAST FOR FUTILITY, ARE WE?!” the robotic head of Celestia shouted [at them].

    “Your a stupidy," Twilight yelled [back].

    “Silence, you factual myths!” Headlestia fired her magical tour of known facts at the car, “I’ll get you stoned!"

    “Not in your childhood dreams!"

    “You broken English arts!” Headlestia tried. “I’ll send you to a school bought with foreign money!"

    “I hope my mother['s head] doesn’t destroy the car,” Sky showed concern, “I don’t want the car to get hurt or destroyed.”

    “Keep the quiet concerns to the carried lingering remainder of yourself, it provides innumerable challenges to my ears! Can we pleadingly lower the volume please?!” Headlestia shouted.

    The car was about to approach an impending bridge.

    “HOLD IT THE MUSTARD YOU PICKLED HOTDOGS!” the hotheaded Headlestia barked like a dog.

    “E!N!O!U!G!H! W!I!T!H! T!H!E! S!H!O!U!T!I!N!G!!” Twilight exclaimed.

    [In the confusion] the car mounted the bridge but drove into a hole.

    “Are we going to die and fall?” [Sky wondered.]

    “NO... we will waterfall,” [Twilight replied.]

    With that, Twilight fired a squirt gun that shoots tidal waves!

    “...!” the car shouted feeling like a peeled grape [as it felt itself drowning].

    [However, soon] the vehicle floated up to the surface in the water.

    “No...the arc has...” Headelestia said her last words as [her metal head sunk below the waves].

    ---

    “Wow, everyone in the world is dead,” Sky noticed. “Were you and the water the ones that killed them? I don’t why but I just feel...that that feels wrong.”

    “Killing and dying are two different things my friend.” Twilight explained. “People don’t die when they are killed, because killing someone is the antithesis of dying yourself. They weren’t killed, they just died..."

    “Oh, I think I understand what you mean now.” Sky comprehended. “But is the car going to live even though he was killed?”

    “Actually...” said Twilight, “I think he is a living resident of the undead.”

    “..!?,” proclaimed the car.

    [Twilight activated] the car's GPS.

    “ALL I CAN DO NOW IS LEAD YOU FROM EQUESTRIA TO EQUESTRIA,” [it proclaimed].

    “Wait, we’re in Equestria, and we’re going to Equestria?” Sky asked. “I thought we were in the human world, now I don’t even know where we are.”

    “Everywhere in all of the universes is Equestria, Sky,” Twilight replied. “That’s how it’s always been.....since the dawn of Fluttershy’s dark sky!”

    "So how are we going to reach our destination?” Sky wondered.

    “I know the way, we just have to follow the GPS.” Twilight assured.

    “Alright.” Sky said.

    Twilight got out her cell phone, [which was ringing, and put it to her upturned ear. “Hello,” she said].

    “This is your boss...” Twilight’s boss reminded. “What’s the status?”

    “Mission successful. I rescued Sky and showed [him] some of my evil ways just like you asked. The stupid boy is just as naive and oblivious as you said. I can even have a private conversation on the phone revealing all my secrets with him right next to me and he’d never suspect a thing.”

    “Good work, Twilight.” the boss chuckled sinisterly.

    “You know you can always trust a pacifist assassin...” Twilight laughed, “...Celestia. Goodbye.”

    Twilight hung up as the princess on the other line was revealed to be...Princess Celestia.

    “Woah,” Sky was shocked by this particular revelation, “you were on the phone with Celestia? You can talk to someone who’s dead?!”

    “...” sighed the car.

    “Of course I can...” Twilight laughed. “I’ve always been able to talk to the dead! HA HA HA! YOU’RE SO STUPID!”

    “Wow!” a surprised Sky said.

    You know, since we’re in Equestria right now, and our journey began at our destination, Sky thought, I wonder if this will be the end.

    Unfortunately, the end was neither near or far away for our heroes.

    This ends the story of Princess Celestia’s big horn, which is the beginning of the second dark sky.

    Thank you for reading, hero!

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  5. My Celestianism submission :3 if ponies want to provide lil kiddie drawings to go along with this silly tale, then please do :)

    Spoiler

    Silky's OC used with permission

    Inspiration:

     

    Helping Others is the Best Way to Help Yourself: The Tale of Blackberry

    Listen to the audio here!

    Once upon a time, there was a little black pony with hazel eyes and a fluffy green tail, called Blackberry.

    He lived in a little village in Ponyland, where he had many little pony friends and he was very happy. His talent was to make potions, which his friends enjoyed including in their many games.

     One day he thought to himself, “I want to be happier. If I make a happiness potion, then I will become the happiest little pony in the world!”

    So little Blackberry set to work.

    On the first day he made a pale blue creation which looked very promising, but when he tried to drink it, it was so sharp that it cut his tongue! This made him sad.

    His friends came round to try to cheer him up. He tried to enjoy playing with them like before, but all he could think about was how his potion had not worked (as well as the pain in his tongue).

    “Adding the pins and needles was a mistake!” he suddenly shouted, in the middle of a game. “Next time I will leave those out and add rotten eggs instead.”

    His friends tried to continue playing with him, and he did join in a little, but not nearly so much as before, because he was distracted by thinking about his potion.

    The next day he made another brew. This one was darker than the first. When he tried to drink it, he spat it out – it tasted awful! Also, it made his room smell. Even after covering his snout and spitting and spitting, he could not get rid of the terrible smell and taste. This made him feel even sadder than.

    Again, his friends came round to try to cheer him up. However, when they suggested they play a game together, instead of trying to join in like before, he instead stomped his hoof angrily.

    “I’m too smelly to play games! You don’t care about me, or my potion!”

    The friends were upset by him shouting at them, as they were trying very hard to cheer him up. Some of his friends were so upset by his behaviour that they asked him to say sorry.

    However, Blackberry ignored them – he was too busy thinking about his next potion.

    ‘Adding the rotten eggs was a mistake’ he thought to himself. ‘Next time I will leave those out and add shadows instead.’

    The next potion he made was so dark that it looked black as night. It was so dark in fact that when he went to drink it, he knocked it over – he couldn’t see it! The black liquid spilled everywhere: onto his desk, the floor and even his fur! At first this didn’t matter, as his coat was already black, but he soon realised that it was spreading! When the liquid touched his green tail and hazel eyes it stained them black too. Even worse, when it reached his eyes, the whole world went dark - he was unable to see! This only made him even sadder.

    But this time his friends were not there to cheer him up, because he had still not apologised. He had meant to, but had been so busy that he had forgotten. 

    In the darkness, he tried to pretend that the shadows were his friends. At first, he had a little fun, but when he became tired and wanted to go to bed, they became angry. They said that the day was the time to go to bed and that night was the time to play. But he could not play, because it was after his bedtime. The angry shadows jumped on his bed every night after that to wake him up. Also, sometimes they would howl and move things around in the dark, which made him frightened.

    One night, he became truly fed up.

    “I wanted to be the happiest pony in the world! But instead, I became the saddest pony,” he cried into the dark, but the shadows only laughed and continued to howl, jump on his bed and move things around.

    At that, poor Blackberry cried so much that he fell ill. A moonbeam took pity on the poor pony and rang an ambulance (which is the car that takes you to hospital, a place where they make people who are very poorly all better).

    But after the ambulance took Blackberry to the hospital, the doctors who worked there didn’t know how to make him well again. They decided to put him in the room where ponies go when they can’t be made better.

    Because he still couldn’t see, it was a while before Blackberry realised that there was another pony in the room with him.

    “Hello, I’m Blackberry. What’s your name?” he asked the other.

    But they did not reply.

    After a little while, he tried again, but still without success.

    Eventually, he gave up asking the other’s name, but he was still determined to talk, so he decided to ask the silent pony another question.

    “Why can’t they make you better?” he asked. When the other still didn’t respond, he was not deterred and continued:

    “I’m here because I spilled a potion on myself, which made me sad. That’s why I can’t get better.”

    To his surprise he heard a filly’s voice reply to him.

    “I’m sorry you spilled your potion. I’m here because I lost my wing,” the other said. “And not being able to fly makes me very, very sad, so I can’t get well. Thank you for asking, though. My name is Silky Wings. Nice to meet you, Blackberry.”

    It was the first kind voice he had heard in a long time, nothing like the mean shadows from before.

    Soon the two began to chat back and forth, and both felt a little happier, but only a little because Silky still couldn’t fly, and Blackberry still couldn’t see.

    After a while, Blackberry had a thought.

    “Maybe I can make you a potion that will help you to fly again? But as I can’t see, you will have to help.”

    Silky agreed and they soon set to work making a new potion. This one was pale pink, and the final ingredient was one of the feathers from the filly’s remaining wing.

    When Silky drank the mixture, she felt much better. The potion hadn’t been a flying potion - instead it had been the happiness potion that Blackberry had been trying to make all along!

    Realising this, Silky, being a kind pony, guided the potion to Blackberry’s lips because he still couldn’t see it, hoping to cure him of his sadness, which he had told her all about. 

    As soon as Blackberry drank, he began to feel better too.

    Soon both ponies were so much happier that they were able to leave the hospital and go back home.

    When Blackberry’s friends saw him, they didn’t recognise him at first because the new potion had turned him pink!

    After he explained what happened, and said sorry for before, he introduced the new filly to his friends, and she introduced hers to his.

    Soon they all lived happily ever after. The happiest little ponies in all Ponyland.

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  6. When your disciple is a musical ass and your congregation includes fluttering pink epistemophiles, then you have to listen :P 

    good commandments. I suggest adding "And your manes shall be wavy" :3

    also, holy hoof Fireking D: it's a whole, huge work! Taking the moral ideas and lore of the show and turning it into a bible-like work. I could tongue-poke at the silliness, but I'm more impressed than anything. I could quote any of it, but will go with this bit:

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    this slightly sad and very cute song seems slightly relevant (spoilered due to challenging themes)

    Spoiler

    I'll believe in anything
    If you take away all this pain
    Oh god is this the end?
    I've seen it before on CNN

     

     

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  7. well, Twi needed a push to make new friends, like a new filly at school being pushed by her momma :3

    while Sunny was already a gregarious, friendly pony, who found friends she wasn't meant to like

    also, without adopting Twi's perspective, we have Rarity and AJ being former friends, and Dashie and Flutters, and Pinkie, like Sunny, was always gonna friend everypony.

    overall, I think both are pretty natural, but I do like that in both it is clear that the protagonist respects her friends as good ponies - she likes Izzy's creativity, Pipp's smolness, Zipp's brains, Hitch's good sense and caringness.

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  8. I agree :) closest we can come to knowing about physical reality is from our senses and instruments, and they're pretty limited (altho there is some evidence for how the universe has progressed based on certain visual clues, like the seeming expansion of the distance between our stars and others).

    We shouldn't get too distracted by focusing on the unknown and try to do what is in our power, like trying to be a good person. Christian scripture talks about the mystery of the world quite a bit (as you'd expect an ancient text to), but I always think its most powerful messages are directed at people doing what they can and not fussing over things that they can't understand too much eg Proverbs 4: 5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not... 23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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  9. thanks @Silly Druidwill add the lizard part and sorry about being late to that. Was a shame that idea (the only idea that we brainstormed which actually worked other than Silkeh and Virbant being outside the cell) did not quite get converted into something useful :(   

    nothing will ever disabuse me of the idea that Pawel did not become a hunky bearded lizard though :P

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  10. eep true D: thinking about things in themselves without even grounding them in time is hurting my pony brain though. I think you end up with consciousness not as a process but as something else at the end. I shall call this consciousness 'sparky' since it illuminates everything. Sparky obviously has to have a consciousness-process in order to exist, at least according to the best Sparky can come up with, but Sparky is prolly the only thing that really exists so even that is possible to doubt. As for simples, Sparky breathes life into them, like all things, but he understands the difference between your eye atoms, Twilight Sparkle as a fiction of consciousness-processes and semi-fictional things like chairs.

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    According to Philip K. Dick, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

    ooh I like this definition :3

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    Reality is everything that can directly or indirectly interact with consciousness.

    there seems to be another aspect of what Philip's getting at - it seemed to be there before you or anyone became conscious too, which differentiates the existence of non-fictional things from fictional ones. I'm gonna say everything that only gains its meaning due to consciousness acting on it 'fictional'. because that is is silly :3

    Chairs are semi-fictional. It is made of 'simples' but is characterised by consciousness. Twilight Sparkle is entirely fictional. No 'simples' in her. The photons hitting the bag of your big fleshy human eyes as you read that are only fictional to the extent that when you begin to think about them they become an idea of an atom rather than an atom, but they clearly seem like they existed before you or anyone was conscious. They are the most simple of simples. Although I know there are crazy tiny mewing little bitty bits of atoms too

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