Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
"...which is when Mac walked in. Ya'll can figure out what happened next."
Rarity rolled her eyes. "Well, I'll have a talk with Sweetie Belle, I can guarantee that. Oh!" She reached out and pulled a jar from the shelves. "I didn't know the De Lis company was making skin creams!"
Applejack snorted. "Rares, Ah don't think ya need any skin creams."
"That's kind of you to say, but as a designer in training I simply must keep up with the trends." Rarity flipped the jar in her hand. "Ingredients: acai, hydroquinbione, alpha-lipoic acid--"
"Hold up." Applejack took the jar. "What was that?"
"Alpha-lipoic acid. It's a natural part of biology, which--"
"No, no, Ah'm talkin' bout the hydroquinbione!" The cowgirl groaned as she read the label. "In a skin cream? That's just askin' for trouble."
Rarity blinked. "I've... never really heard of hydroquinbione before. Why are you reacting so strongly?"
"When Ah was a girl, there was a time where our money was hit hard. Ma and Pa bought some soap for me on the cheap--had hydroquinbione in it." Applejack gestured at herself. "Washed the chromelanin right out of me. Now Ah only got ordinary melanin."
"Oh... that would explain why you're so pale," Rarity mused, examining her friend. "...But you're still quite lovely, nonetheless!" she rallied quickly.
Applejack half smirked. "No need ta hide it, Rares, Ah know Ah'm a freak. Course, now Ah'm worried bout this skin cream."
Rarity nodded, taking the jar and putting it delicately back on the shelf. "I'll set up an online petition, get the De Lis company to know about this. Right now, we should talk to the manager..."
For those new to the term "chromelanin," you can read my dissertation on the subject here.
Also, hydroquinone is in fact a topical skin whitener.
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I really want to know what story AJ was telling just before this, it sounds super interesting
But wouldn't her body just produce more chromelanin?
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Maybe, but because of the effects of hydroquinbione, the resultant product would be sparse and take cues from similar localized proteins, essentially becoming identical to ordinary melanin.
And now we know why AJ is mostly normal-colored. Wow.
Would it be ok if one of you Authors maybe tackle an idea I have? Well not idea, but question? Mainly, I want to know how the Flower Trio are taking these new changes. The "One Day I Found a Multiverse in My Pajamas" story showed a bit with the pony versions, got me curious to how the Human versions are going to react. Not just to themselves but to others and stuff. Could be very funny.
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I may have to work this idea into something larger. For now, imagine a trio of girls who believe every piece of clickbait they read. Now imagine the Internet has a wide, unexplored field of study where it can disseminate all of the misinformation it can imagine, only one person knows when it's wrong, and she's busy keeping the universe intact.
Long story short, it isn't pretty.
7578865 Doesn't have to be pretty to be funny.
Plus with how bad the internet is, I highly doubt the Flower Trio ever touch the internet except very safe sites they trust lol.
But I can picture them just going about normal. Then seeing something 'strange' to them and freaking out about it comically. Meanwhile the 'strange' thing is normal to everyone else. And then coming up impossible reasons to explain that strangeness.
Like seeing Fluttershy as half tree, and believing the forest are now out infecting people into half tree people. Or seeing Sunset as the devil, because she brought about all the weird things.
Basically, It's less about them believing every clickbait they read, tho they do, but more of THEY are the ones making up most of them. They are the 'who' when everyone says "Who would think up that crazy stuff?!" And of course, believing all of it too. Heh.
7575070 I concur. I am intrigued by whatever story AJ was telling.
7587090 That's beside the point. A girl wouldn't be comfortable changing clothes in front of a boy, and now that Spike can talk, he ceases to be "just a dog, doesn't matter if he's looking or not" and becomes "a boy is in my room while I'm changing clothes!"
You know, because girl logic.
"Why you're so pale." said the person with egg white skin.
Makes a certain amount of sense, actually. Although, Applejack you could consider yourself exotic rather than a freak. It's not as if you grew a beak out of your armpit or anything.
You have created dozens, maybe even hundreds of chapters of pure, unadulterated worldbuilding. You've just ensured I won't sleep for hours.
The title made me think undead, but this fits too.
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That's what I thought too. Silly Rarity.