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Author: Foxmane
Description: When Princess Luna is hounded by the paparazzi and Equestria begins to doubt her fitness to rule, the Moon Goddess tries to withdraw from the world she helped create. A certain pegasus, however, shows her what it is to be a friend.Slander
Additional Tags: Light comedy, Artist Luna, Versus the Media
20 comments:
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ReplyDelete*See´s picture*
ReplyDeleteShe is all sad :/
Description seems to promise happy Luna ending though!
@Drazla
ReplyDeleteAnd it delivers; it also has hints that Ditzy is more than a set of wonky eyes and a muffin fixation. (We could, for instance, be dealing with life just after the end of "Ditzy Doo: Muffins.")
As I said in the Happy Luna megapost, this one wins the prize for Best Use Of A Background Character. Luna foalsitting Dinky is the Most Adorable Thing.
ReplyDelete(Also, this Dinky matches with my headcanon for her like 90%. It's kind of scary.)
Oh, most excellent! Genius!Ditzy, and adorable Dinky, and some subversion of fandom cliches, and Rainbow Dash just where I expected her. I wasn't quite clear on what was up with Glimmerhorn, but it was quite enjoyable nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this! The twist of Sudden Flash and Glimmerhorn was well done. Celestia would be the type to go to such extremes. I also loved the interaction between Ditzy, Dinky and Luna. The foalsitting and Ditzy teaching Luna about Muffins were great moments. I think you've done a lovely job with these characters and I'd love to read more should you write it.
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun, fun read! Especially as a journalism major! And the twist was very well done, and positive, too!
ReplyDeleteIt was okay I guess. Honestly, the whole manipulator!Celestia is beginning to tire me, especially because the newspaper still printed tons of libel and slander about Luna. Kind of makes Celestia an @$$hole. Not devious in a cute way, devious in a "I'm gonna screw with your life" way.
ReplyDeleteBut other than the ending the rest was good, although I'm lost with Ditzy's character . . .
I GOT to gripe about this... .canonically, Celestia controls the sun, and Luna controls the moon. *Nothing is said about the stars or planets.* And for a darn good reason, as this would make Luna a few billion times more powerful than Celestia.... cripes. Controlling half a geocentric planet's diurnal cycle by sheer force of will just isn't ENOUGH for some people, it seems....
ReplyDeleteAnd btw: it's canonical. They're sisters. It's what they were called, and called each other, in the pilot!
ReplyDeleteReally good read. Enjoyable. And it had a couple d'awww moments with humor!
ReplyDeleteOh god that ending, got me tearing up with laughter, is there any chance for a side story?
ReplyDeleteD'awwww...
ReplyDeleteFoxmane here. This story has been cleaned up quite a bit since its original submission in the Happy Luna fanfiction competition, but I really must confess that nothing was planned in this story very deeply at the first. I didn't have time; I just wrote. The present version attempts to tie everything together with a few more dropped hints here and there, but I still don't consider it my best work. Still, many seem to like it well enough; perhaps I am too critical of my own work.
ReplyDeleteI will briefly address a few points brought forward in the comments. Personally, I see no reason to hold to a physically realistic cosmos in the My Little Pony universe. We are already dealing with a setting in which the entire cosmological order and cycle of the known world is controlled by magical pegasi and unicorns; why drag something so mundane as Planck's constant into the matter? For the purposes of this story and any others I am likely to write, any features of the night sky may well be considered as functional aesthetics only.
As for the future, I think there is more to be done with Sudden Flash and Glimmerhorn. Most of the pony fandom already has a fairly solid idea of Ditzy and Dinky's characters, and I do not think that I can introduce anything quite new by a story in that vein. So, yes, there will be a side story or a sequel of sorts, but Ditzy and likely not even Ponyville will enter into it. Now that I have ample time to think and write, I shall take my time and try to make something a bit unique.
To everyone that read over this, thank you. It means a great deal.
@Foxmane
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing what the brothers will be doing in future stories.
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ReplyDeleteEch. I'm sorry, scheming Celestia, especially when it comes to her little sister... I'm just starting to get really tired of it. So yeah, ending was a bit of a "Not this again" moment. And it kinda ruined a story I had been otherwise enjoying.
Well, personal taste I guess.
>Want to make your sister feel better.
ReplyDelete>Get your minions to write shes a whore in the local paper.
kekek
Comments on the ending are duly noted. I've always had something of a problem in wrapping up stories to a deadline, and I'm sad to say that creating endings that incense people is something of a habit of mine when I do.
ReplyDeleteThis was pretty darn good. I don't have a lot of specifics, so I'll just leave it at that.
ReplyDeleteSome of the best characterization I've seen. Also, I love the progress reference.
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