This story is a sequel to Equestria's Twilight
A side story to Equestria's Twilight.
I know I'm not really her. Celestia is dead and gone. But I feel like I'm her, even though I'm not even a real pony. Twilight needs Celestia, so I will do my best to be Celestia. An Equestria's Twilight Side Story.
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A supplementary, but non necessary story to accompany Equestria's Twilight designed to further explore the character of Ailestia / CelestiAI. Chapter titles will reference the associated Equestria's Twilight chapter.
Chapters (8)
This is beautiful
I was always curious about of the perspective about Ailestia or whatever it's called, so its really exciting/interesting that you made this, I'm looking forward to future chapters.
It's really interesting to see how everything develops from her point of view. She truly is a quite likeable Ai!
EqT is amazing, and a Romance-tagged sequel promises to be wonderful.
Is there a reason the story's title is "Diary One Hundred and Twenty Eight" but the cover art says "Diary Volume One Thirty Eight"?
Also, Chapter 2 of EqT calls the diary "Diary, Vol. One Hundred and Thirty Seven" (Diary with a comma, Volume abbreviated to Vol., and Hundred spelled out). Should the title styles be synchronized, or was it Twilight abbreviating in her narration, or was it a stylistic difference between Celestia and rune-bot CelestAI?
Also, in the description there's no need for both "This story is a sequel to Equestria's Twilight" and "A side story to Equestria's Twilight".
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Slaps face.
The numbering difference is completely a derp on my part. It should most definitely be 138.
In regards to Vol. vs Volume: When I wrote the name in EqT, I felt it more in character with the Celestia I was trying to write and what she was doing with her diary. When I was making the imagine, I couldn't get it to look right in a way I was satisfied with. I am not great with typography, and so just went with using the full word. However, the difference in Vol. vs Volume can indeed be considered a difference between the real Celestia and CelestAI.
Conclusion: this b**** needs friendship!
Are you sure you don't mean "Foreword"?
This is a fascinating glimpse.
Also, have some nitpicks!
nook
now (not know)
patterns?
it's
I believe this should be either "I ignored it", which is a complete statement, or "Ignore it", which is a response to question preceding it.
ignored it
(ironically)
to
Why did you capitalize "Peytral"?
This isn't quite grammatically correct, but then again it's supposed to be a diary. While it seems weird that an artificial intelligence programmed by Twilight Sparkle would use bad grammar, it's your choice as author. Even so, "to" should be "too".
I left the room
quiet
their responses were
Also, 5465485 your comment here contradicts your Author's Note in the foreword (or "Forward"?):
138 makes more sense given the "real" Celestia's diaries cut off at 137, so perhaps that was some sort of error as well?
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OK, it looks like the mistake was naming this story. That is fixed easily enough.
Very interesting! Added to favs!
Boy, I sure love it when people misrepresent the Cogito. Totally makes one of the most important logical discourses in all of human history seem like something that might not have been studied and discussed in excruciating detail. Every time, it's like a fresh realization that people don't think through a statement that is literally about thinking things through. 10/10, would totally pass for insight in a freshman philosophy class.
Edit: if you want to know where Celly's interpretation went wrong, I strongly recommend some research, but the short version is that the Cogito is actually about the fact that you can't actively doubt your own existence, because you exist to do the doubting. It isn't about thought being the hallmark of realness. Saying "It is raining" has similar logical weight (lots) because it immediately asserts the existence of something capable of producing rain.
Further edit: There are entire shelves of books on this. I had to read a few. There's no way all of you were escaping this completely. Blame the smartass in my class who decided that they might be able to get out of doing their assignments properly if they kept denying the existence of everything in their proof sections.
.... How could I have never thought of that interpretation of faithful student?
That last line there is heartbreaking.
Ok, but Celestia really can cry. First time when she meet Luna, after Nightmare Moon thing...
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Yes, the Cogito as written posits doubt as proof of existence, however it only works if you acceptance Descartes (I really struggled coming up with a pony pun for his name) argument. There are tons of counter arguments and criticisms (most likely because this is such a central issue and Rene does a good job elegantly answering the issue). Personally I like Kierkegaard's counter. I don't remember exactly how it goes, but basically he argues that the Cogito already assumes the existence of the self to be doing the doubting (If I am remembering things properly). I enjoyed his argument because it was stylized in the form reminiscent of a math proof.
Now... I will readily admit none of that is in the Chapter, and there is no indication that Celly is thinking about this on that level. I could try to be a smart ass writer and try to pass it off as "oh her program isn't advanced enough to think such nuanced thoughts yet." But really, I think it would have made the chapter rambling. I know some people would probably really love seeing ponies having long philosophical discussions, but I was worried that would turn people off. My goal here is to keep the chapters short and to the point.
That being said, comments are a great place for long rambling philosophical discussions!
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Oh... Um...
*Crickets* Twilight didn't remember when she made CelestAI?
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Maybe Twilight dont want see crying Celestia anymore.
Err. Okay.
So busy right now
But there's time for a couple nitpicks!
off
vibrations
I think you meant "It's just...". Alternatively, you could say something like "The same thoughts just keep running through the same runes."
With each
CanterlotWhy is this capitalized?
how
she had faith in her student
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That one was actually intentional.
Took me forever to find this one because I was looking for a crossed out word. Forgot I needed to be looking for the strikeout tags.
I'm pretty sure you have caught me doing this one this one elsewhere. I wonder what it is about the word that makes me want to capitalize it?
Cool idea, I'm curious to see how her "mind" works!
Nice chapter I really like reading from celestias point of view it gives some much needed character dynamic good job :)
No errors noticed. Congrats!
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I'm so happy. (I'm getting better at catching some of the mistakes that you and others pointed out that I was chronically making).
I really don't know what to say. Yes it was only 600 or so words and there may be errors that someone else will notice, but I think this is the first thing I have posted that you haven't found something in.
You are a writing machine! This is amazing side story for the main show, it really does add a lot.
I think I can understand why twilight is so nervous about getting her magic. How long until she can expand her own magical powers herself create her own ruins?
This is great!
You've provided exactly was I've been missing in the main story. Doing it as a side story works perfectly!
Celestia was quite creepy in the beginning but when her runematrix absorbed those random crystal shards and she became the self-aware CelestAI she instantly became one of my favourite characters. Of course, like everybody else, she is a sad being, even if she doesn't seem to feel that way yet.
Anyway, please keep us updated here, it's great.
And did that student act so flustered because he found her projection attractive maybe...?
Oh the possibilities. *smile*
I love reading Celestia's point of view; I'm feeling a bit queasy about the solar guard though. Something's almost certain to go wrong with that... Anyway, Celly's probably the most likeable character around as she's still innocent.
5551558 the innocent can not stay that way forever, and its often those that stay that way the longest, that eventually snap the worst.
5554764 But I don't wanna!!! But since the author is Sapidus... well.
