Quantum Decoherence · 9:04pm Dec 31st, 2023
Happy end-of-2023 everyone.
I just posted a new story.
This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.
It is incomplete. I’m posting a teaser chapter now so that I can get a story out in 2023, and hence claim at least one for every calendar year since 2012 (my last one was 7 January 2022). Also because if I don’t publish it now, it will likely be put to the side and never finished. I have another three chapters drafted and I hope to finish it in the next week or so.
Ever since Bridlewoodstock, I have wanted to have a go at a fic crossing pony generations. Linking G4 and G5 is easy, but when you try to add any more, it quickly becomes incoherent. I realized that it would be necessary to make decoherence part of the story. That reminded me of some ideas I had years ago about a possible crossover with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It occurred to me that as MLP and H2G2 both run on very similar types of absurdist logic, it should be easy to fuse them together, however doing so might lead to some sort of adverse reaction due to the very different cultures. Ponies are all about harmony and friendship, while hitchhikers shows the galaxy to be not a very harmonious or friendly place. The Tell Your Tale episode Mission Imponable provided a twist of the English language that I could bend further into a horseshoe and nail to the hooves of five generations of ponies.
I can think of many reasons not to do this experiment, but I decided to ignore them and do it anyway.
Share and enjoy.
OMGrflgr! This ought to be incredible!
This feels more like something that Douglas Adams would have wrote than anything currently in the story and I'm not sure how to feel about that.