Shattered · 7:51am Nov 6th, 2012
So, I've been waiting to see if BronyNeumo was going to update Applejoy. No luck yet. Since I like the author, I figured I'd give another story a go instead, and read Shattered.
Wow.
It has caused a powerful reaction for me. It strikes as an accurate fictional account of a horribly real topic.
First, I didn't want it to happen to Rainbow Dash. Then I didn't want it to happen to anypony at all. Then I stopped and realized it's a *real* thing that happens in the *real* world and it's even *worse*. I don't have even second or third hand knowledge of this issue IRL. I'm lucky enough that my friends haven't had this happen. I hope it stays that way.
Just like Twilight in the story, I don't even want to say the word. I wish it wasn't a real thing.
None of this is a complaint against the author or the story. It's well told, and handled in (so far as I can imagine) an appropriately mature manner.
Writing this can't be easy.
I'm simultaneously sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the next part, and wishing it didn't exist at all.
