tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post4918007663893384603..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Just the two of me -- Ch 1: Home again, home again, jiggi- ...the heck?chris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-48858038826376506392018-03-31T17:49:52.848-04:002018-03-31T17:49:52.848-04:00Do note that "Where's the native Sunset?&...Do note that "Where's the native Sunset?" has been the question on my mind since first encountering the first <i>Equestria Girls</i> movie. (It was established, via Pinkie, that the native Twilight lived nearby but attended a different school in that movie, but native Sunset has never, ever, been mentioned.)<br /><br />The question on my mind in the main universe ever since I saw the first episode was, "But what about Moon Dancer?" which eventually did get answered in mid season five. The side question was always, "Did she ever get her present?" and the answer was "Not the impaled teddy bear, but there was more in the gift-wrapped box than that."chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-23505253069985111642018-03-31T17:44:36.920-04:002018-03-31T17:44:36.920-04:00My personal head-canon, obviously not at play in t...My personal head-canon, obviously not at play in this story, is that just as Sunset is a pony who seems to fit better in the human world, Sunset's double was a human who fit better in Equestria.<br /><br />It was probably her coming out of the mirror that caused Celestia to introduce canon-Sunset to the mirror in the first place. She came from a bad situation and didn't want to talk about it, Celestia didn't press, and that's why Celestia doesn't know anything about the world on the other side except for the fact that there is one.<br /><br />Canon Sunset doesn't know any of this because it wasn't her business. The other Sunset was sent somewhere that she wouldn't be confused with Celestia's personal student and has lived a happy, unremarkable, life since then.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-62817819982673058162018-03-31T10:16:21.008-04:002018-03-31T10:16:21.008-04:00thus "I'm hungry and need calories" ...<em>thus "I'm hungry and need calories" doesn't produce thoughts of ingredients so much as meals. Obviously what constitutes an ingredient vs. a meal is very subjective, but something like peanut butter simply wouldn't occur to them.</em><br /><br />Makes sense. Well, I don't <em>grok</em> it, but I <em>have</em> met a lot of people with similar hangups.<br /><br />(They and I tend to regard each other with mutual horror-tinged incomprehension. "What do you mean, you routinely spend two days' worth of food money on a single meal?!" "What do you mean, you subsist on, like, $5/day when you're <em>not</em> trying to save money?!")<br /><br />(I mean, in a way I'm <em>grateful</em> these people exist, because as a fast-food worker a lot of my paycheque comes from them. But it's...usually best not to talk food budgets with them.)Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-16373210211059119122018-03-31T00:47:13.681-04:002018-03-31T00:47:13.681-04:00I have been chewing on "where's the mirro...I have been chewing on "where's the mirrorverse Sunset anyway?" ever since I tracked that plotline. (I have MLP-aged kids.)Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-11097417259803066282018-03-30T21:00:04.363-04:002018-03-30T21:00:04.363-04:00it looks like something that will get more positiv...<i>it looks like something that will get more positive later</i><br /><br />That's the plan.<br /><br />-<br /><br /><i>This felt off to me.</i><br /><br />Yeah, it is off. In my defense, I actually have a good reason for that oversight. I didn't need to think it through because the character wouldn't think it through.<br /><br />It's because of the way I conceive of Nativeset Shimmer here. Actually, both of the Sunsets.<br /><br />As I'm writing them, both Sunsets have specific ideas about what constitutes food, ideas that they've been able to maintain in large part because they're primarily scavengers.<br /><br />Food is something that you can pull out of a dumpster for free in a convenient pizza-shaped form (something featured with different-continuity-Sunset in <i>Stumbling Toward Redemption</i>) and thus "I'm hungry and need calories" doesn't produce thoughts of ingredients so much as meals. Obviously what constitutes an ingredient vs. a meal is very subjective, but something like peanut butter simply wouldn't occur to them.<br /><br />The fact that neither one trades money for food as a primary source of sustenance means that the massive pitfalls this <i>could</i> lead to aren't really inconveniencing them that much.<br /><br />They have completely reasons for both having the same oversights. Nativeset Shimmer let other people handle food and has been on her own for a relatively short time (one year out of a lifetime.) Canonset Shimmer has never had someone who simultaneously knew her well enough and cared enough to point out what she's overlooking.<br /><br />The biggest differences they have on food, though, have nothing to do with any of this.<br /><br />Canon-Sunset knows where to find waste-food because she stays in one place and has learned its ins and outs. World-Native-Sunset knows where to find food because she asks people who have been where she's going and trusts their advice.<br /><br />World-Native-Sunset is an omnivore; canon Sunset is a pescetarian with vegetarian leanings (lacto-ovo varieties of both) and thus wouldn't get burgers unless her life literally depended on it.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-63222630222652024182018-03-30T13:39:15.021-04:002018-03-30T13:39:15.021-04:00Yeah, this was a bit upsetting to read, though it ...Yeah, this was a bit upsetting to read, though it looks like something that will get more positive later. I do intend to read the next chapter, for what it's worth.<br /><br />---<br /><br /><em>Sunset had long ago learned that nothing got you more calories for your money than fast food.<br /><br />Ideally you didn't use money at all, but that kind of scavenging was best done after dark and she was hungry now. She had a five, three ones, and enough change to stick in a sock and use as a pretty devastating defensive weapon. Thus: burgers.</em><br /><br />This felt off to me. As I understand it, fast food is only most-calories-for-your-money if you insist on your food being served hot (and aren't able to cook it yourself, but that's pretty much a given under the circumstances).<br /><br />I went and checked my food-prices spreadsheet, and a five and three ones will get you roughly 17,500 calories of peanut butter. And that's at Wegmans, a place not known for their rock-bottom prices (but they do have excellent peanut butter, which in fact I am eating right now; probably part of what made this salient to me).<br /><br />(I'm assuming this is set in America or local equivalent.)Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034585577015417306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-87718855391449892992018-03-29T06:14:40.265-04:002018-03-29T06:14:40.265-04:00Thank you for understanding.
---RedcrowThank you for understanding.<br /><br />---RedcrowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-30292901526591766622018-03-28T12:33:18.523-04:002018-03-28T12:33:18.523-04:00One, I totally understand. Thanks for giving it a...One, I totally understand. Thanks for giving it a try and leaving a comment. As much as I want readers I don't want you to read if it's going to bad for you.<br /><br />Two, canon-Sunset <i>doesn't</i> deserve such treatment. That's part of why there's so much desire to see the original story overwritten.<br /><br />This story is going to be about Human-set helping Canon-set through all of this. (In canon she has to face it all completely alone apart from a magical pen pal.)chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-83296654604209948232018-03-27T18:39:58.889-04:002018-03-27T18:39:58.889-04:00Okay. I read it.
I can't promise I'll rea...Okay. I read it.<br /><br />I can't promise I'll read further - I don't feel I'm in the right state of mind for that, regardless of how much real!Sunset deserves such treatment. Sorry.<br /><br />(Hopefully you understand that I'm NOT telling you what your own story is allowed to be about. I feel like now I have to always clarify it every time something fictional upsets me. Sometimes I can deal with upsetting fictional things. Currently I can't.)<br /><br />---RedcrowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com