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Lily is going to have a field day with this episode.
Lily is going to have a field day with this episode.
Actually, I liked it early on when Starlight was walking around Ponyville trying to make a friend, it was when Trixie turned up that the wheels started coming off.
Read through pages. Way too many. Started, like, 20 pages back, made it to about 8 pages ago, then was like, “ah heck with it, it’s late and this is taking too long,” so I skipped to about 3 pages ago :qI don’t normally come around these parts, but dang, did Trixie just attempt suicide?@Background Pony #D463
I love this idea so much it kind of hurts.Honestly Glimmer already seems kind of filly-ish, though… I’ve re-written this a number of times and I still can’t find a positive way to word this :q But mentally, she seems kind of like she still is a bit of a filly, to me. The problem is, Pinkie is a very fun-loving, ideal sort of filly. She’s a more “realistic” one that can be… Rather petulant and selfish at times.…though I would’ve liked it if Celestia actually said something…+1@PonyPon
I think she wasn’t really thinking straight up until she launched herself.Well you know what they say; “The show must go on!”“Okay, I’m going to die if I don’t do this without my assistant, and my assistant left… The show must go on!”Stage fright paralyzes. I don’t think anyone but psycopaths don’t experience some sort of increase in awareness/nervousness/anxiety or otherwise adrenaline-related rush when facing a huge crowd. Some love the rush, though, just like some love jumping out of airplanes. In any case, it paralyzes rational thought, so stage performers through the centuries have made “the show must go on.” Otherwise, in a panic, they’d end up cancelling shows for the dumbest reasons that seemed legitimate in their heightened pre-performance state (aka, panic). So they cling to “the show must go on” as a stone of certainty in a chaotic world awash with panic and indecisiveness and fear all around them.So it’s actually kind of believable, unless ahead of time she’d decided that Starlight dropping would be a real reason to cancel. But she never even considered it, so she clung to decisions made beforehoof. And she wasn’t even thinking clearly earlier, either, what with that emotional moment.It makes a bit less suicide-y… but isn’t that typically how suicides are done, though? Rarely in a mentally well state?I really don’t wish badly on ponies, and certainly stand against suicide IRL, but I honestly think it’s kind of neat for fiction to explore. It’s a deep and hard topic, the most cliche’ and overused/widely-known line from all of drama is probably “to be, or not to be?” It strikes deep in a lot of interesting areas. Next response is related:It was moreso a cry for help than suicide.Fun fact: if you compare the suicides of men and women, women’s have a much higher chance of failing an attempt. Sometimes, it can almost be like a cry for help as opposed to a legitimate wish for death.It’s fascinating how it’s easier for Trixie to do something that would kill her, than for her to swallow her own pride and cry and humble herself to somepony for love.It was easier to die than to face the lonely life of rejection and outcast that she thought she was doomed to.It was easier to die than to give up her narcissism.Ironic how the one who screams the loudest about how great she is, is the one who hates her own existence the most.Anyways, to the main question I came here with… “Did Trixie just attempt suicide?” - actually yes. Well, testing the ropes, so to speak. It was literally, “will she save my life? If she doesn’t, then I’m okay with what happens, but I really hope she does!” It wasn’t a decision made in a right state of mind, but say, if Starlight had left (assuming that Trixie wouldn’t try the stunt without her), then it would’ve been suicide all the same.
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