Celestia had decided to become better at acting. It was a skill that could become useful in the future, and also something she wanted to learn. So she found the most expensive, well-regarded, respected, praised and recommended instructor in all Equestria and arranged a private lesson with her.
She was rather surprised when she found out who her teacher was going to be, and so was her teacher when she found out she would be teaching to Celestia.
Things didn't exactly play out the way they'd planned after that.
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Yeah, the stomach growl is a insult in acting class. I wasn't in one but my class did do an amateur movie in High School
But, isn't Chrysalis a wanted criminal at this point? Or does this story take place before From Where and Back Again?
This looks like it will be fun!
It seems a changeling replaced a "there are" with "they're". Also, I don't think you need an "a" to allow regicide to be committed.
I'm sensing some similarities between this Celestia and the abridged version of Goku...
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Nope wanted criminal, but that's addressed in this fic.
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The only difference is that Celestia has of yet to discover the magics of the "Muffin Button".
Could use a tad bit of polish, but looks hilarious!
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If she finds out, may dear Luna have mercy on us all.
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Neither of those is technically incorrect. 'they' is referring to the guards which Chrysalis already introduced in her sentence and 'a' is perfectly acceptable, especially given the fact that there could be multiple simultaneous regicides in Equestria.
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When you say a story needs better polish you should also point out what the author should do. If they posted it then it's clear that they didn't see any problems with it, so just telling them to do better without explaining how or in which parts comes off as demotivating.
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both are correct, a regicide would be a single act of murdering Selestia while regicide would also be the act of murdering Selestia
I'm loving this princess though, poor Krysalis
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... is it bad that I now want Tia to discover it? Just to see Luna's face?
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You know ... if Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Books, and the worlds greatest OmegaNerd Queen. Ever heard what Celestia said in this fic about how her name, centaur, or Chrysalis's name is spelled. I'm pretty sure the sound of her brain breaking could be heard from space. As is the scream of pure academic rage and despair at her teacher's inability to spell.
OMC! That'd be hilarious.
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A fair point!
I meant in terms of some grammar/punctuation. Saw a few capitalization/ect errors.
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"they're" is wrong the second time it is used in this chapter.
It should be: "with you being here there are even more than usual."
Bets on wether Selestia is actively trolling Chrysalis, or is she actually this hopeless.
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"Well that's how it used to be cpelled, nobody ever asked me how to cpell my name 1000 years ago!"
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It would probably be helpful to the writer if you pointed them out, if they didn't notice them before then they might not notice them while re-reading the story.
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I still don't feel like it's incorrect, redundant maybe but not wrong. It's only wrong if you want to read it as how it would be supposed to be if that was a 'there are'.
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"I nevar had aneewan kooract me cpelleen befar Twiright Cparkul. Evareewan cez I'm bestest cpellar evar!
Bestest Prinsecc, Selestia"
*Twilight then has an aneurysm after reading the note.*
I'm oddly torn between wanting to know the rest of that story, and not wanting to know...
I'm leaning more towards the latter.
Poor bug-horse...
Was waiting for some sort of trolling reveal. Now Chrysi is going to be waiting(hoping) for such a reveal for who knows how long. Justice is served?
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I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I wouldn't even wish endless Celestia acting classes on Spoiled Rich. No ... no Justice has had an aneurysm this day.
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My sentiments exactly.
I am just going to say that this was different. The "random" tag was fully appropriate.
Like this?
Technically that's not even a lie...
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From the IDW comics:
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Either Celestia is a massive troll, or this story is on enough crack to kill a horse. Either way, I was greatly amused.
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Pretty sure she's just that hopeless.
"A scared, angry little queen who never got a break. Now she has everything she's ever wanted – and she's going to have to live with it for eternity – in The Twilight Zone."
The guard who won was really a changeling
... *facepalm*
I see this is set in the Totally Legit Recap universe, or one where Celestia is similarly suffering from a neurodegenerative disease that nopony has the heart to mention.
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she's 1000 years old that doesn't make her automagically wise, most people 80 years old just stop trying to even figure out the most basic things in life, a 1000+ year old royalty figure would probably be as helpless as a baby if they wanted to.
Is Celestia just dimwitted here, it's Discord in disguise or Trollestia strikes again?
But Chrysalis' name wasn't mentioned in ACW. We first heard about it in a tweet, then in the comics, and first spoken I believe in the S5 finale.
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True, but for the purpose of the story it's possible that they talked to each other off-screen.
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He was actually probably Discord in disguise. I mean, you have to be the spirit of chaos if you're going to call your own card in a game of Briscola Chiamata. And technically he didn't win, he would have but they never finished (or started, for that matter) the actual match.
Derp-lestia.
But, but what about her teaching career? The media has destroyed Queen Chrysalis?
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"they are even more [guards] than usual" is definitely incorrect.
Poor Chryssi...
The Trolletsia cide is strong wit dis.
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No, that's definitely a case of accidentally using the wrong 'there/their/they're'. It's a common mistake.
... Is Princess Celestia quite all right?
Hmmmmmmmm
Welp.
. A silly tale. Poor Chrysalis 
...
Oh...OK
So Celestia has become as moronic as that grey pony?
Then conquering Equestria will be easy.
Don't worry Chryssi.
We'll get her in her sleep.
Chrysalis name wasn't uttered once in this episode.
Celestia just said Queen. Nobody,not herself, used Chrysalis. It's only in the credits we learned the name.
If you don't trust me do the twilight and double check.
PS. I am not too much of a fan of this story. Yes Celestia is a terrible actor..
And sure enough she tries to prank sometimes... But for now she just comes off as overly... Uhm. Naive and kinda dumb?
Your mileage may vary.
Coplestia for example shows more of s thought process behind it, so it's funnier... /Constructive criticism
PS. If it was a trap for Chrisy... And infect Celestia acting dumb... That be something
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That’s why Raven does all the the paperwork
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*Dies laughing* Ain't that the truth.
Selestia is a spelling problem.
Sellestia on the other hoof is the Alicorn of marketing, who often gets called"Pinklestia". She has no governmental powers, and most of her magic bus focused around mind-control. She claims to not use this magic, saying it would be "cheating, way too easy". Some tin-foil hat wearers dispute this, claiming the hats are the only reason they can think clearly enough to realize this truth.
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Pretty much agree with this.
Though, I can't help but wonder if all of this is just Tia trolling the hell out of Chrissie, if that's the case, this story gets so much more fun.
I’m choosing from believe Celestia is an amazing actor and that she’s so good, she can fool Chrysalis into thinking she’s awful so badly that Chrysalis arrests herself rather then spend any more time around her. It makes the story even funnier.