Editing User:Reversedragon/metasoc/EscapeSSSR (section)

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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">Starlight: I had an awful dream where everypony had made up this new insult and because I walked away from the village and away from the party they relentlessly kept calling me a "trot".

(later)
Spike:     why would you be worried about what some stuffy old village thinks when <em>you</em> can be a <em>trot</em>
Twilight:  Spike, that doesn't mean anything!
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">pinkie pie tells all sorts of horror stories about the SSSR she somehow knows, every one of them with an incongruous smile as if this is nothing but a fun fact. the stories all call back to the real [[redlink|Starlight Glimmer episode]] but are more elaborate

'then why would you want to come here'
pinkie: <em>because</em> they make the best vegetable spread!

when she finds the legendary vegetable spread, pinkie pie is every bit as excited as it seemed she would be,
but rarity says it is 'unremarkable'
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">SSSR = stellar single-soul republics

the SSSR is made of three national republics
it could have been six but that just seemed too large-scale compared with the relatively small scale of Equestria
one is the Lithuwhinnian SSR, which contains Ponies
one is the Sakkirin SSR, which contains <em>all</em> variations of Kirin: Kirin, Senrima, and <del class="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">(unknown)</del>
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">I like the idea that the SSSR actually has more technology than Equestria and it's like, this futuristic setting in comparison, stunning all the ponies who see it. flintstones meet jetsons
MLP has never necessarily had a 'future' realm per se even though we've got sky and underwater and frightening forest and 1900s big city etc

Ponyville has remained this idyllic medieval town of tiny artisanal businesses but the SSSR had nobody telling it to do that so it has become a bit more industrial
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">the former princess of the SSSR region, Princess Persica, was once responsible for granting <em>every</em> equid a name and cutie mark
Ponies get a cutie mark, but many creatures including Kirin get an invisible "element" which corresponds to their name and cutie mark. this process finally explains why some ponies take a while to get a cutie mark

when Persica was transformed into the Terrain of Personalities there was a short time where Ponies did not have cutie marks or they randomly cycled in weird ways. no one really liked this, so they worked immediately to recreate a council of cutie marks that would be able to procure an artifact for the task and take it over. this was during the "old" republics, and was crude at first, but was redone and improved when the three became the SSSR.

now there is just some Ministry of Cutie Marks or something, and you go in there and find out the SSSR is responsible for all the world's cutie marks and if you were to destroy the SSSR no ponies would have them and other creatures like Kirin would hardly get names.
this could lead to a hilarious conflict where the ponies of Equestria at first freak out that the SSSR is "assigning everyone jobs", and then realize that this is the way it's always been and they've always been used to, and they can't disrupt the SSSR or they lose cutie marks.
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">G5 ... the weird way its pieces go together it's almost like the ponies are so afraid of having a bad leader they don't want a unified country and would rather it keep splintering into tinier pieces while everyone pretends things are okay.
I think it may have been loosely intended that the cutie marks thing is <em>supposed to</em> be the power once restricted to the elements extending to all ponies, instead of what seems more like everything descending into chaos and the stories trying to pretend everything is normal and okay.

anyway... I do think the G5 show could have been better if it had been a little self-aware about what a trainwreck it <em>could</em> be and decided to make Discord some kind of teacher at the friendship school helping all the ponies (and other creatures that should still exist) through this time of unstructured chaos that everyone has apparently chosen.
this could be played positively as the writers trying to genuinely dig out of their hole and explain to us why chaos and disintegration are a good thing, or it could be played negatively where ponies eventually realize everything is a mess and they need to find their way out of this instead of just telling themselves individuality will fix everything.
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">I've had one particular line from the <cite>make your mark</cite> theme echoing in my head:
<strong style="text-transform: uppercase;"><q style="quotes: none;">Keeps getting</q>  <q style="quotes: none;">Better and better</q></strong>
it's the irony of that line next to how it is questionable the show is good and especially questionable whether it keeps getting better

mlp g5 is already a horror story. it makes a lot more sense played as subtle horror.
everything keeps getting better. nothing is breaking apart. just keep smiling. <q style="quotes: none;"><strong style="text-transform: uppercase;">Better and better</strong></q>!
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<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: inherit; background: inherit; border: none;">there are two major possibilities for this SSSR timeline

1. it is just an alternate story for Starlight and it culminates in forming the Starshine League and saving Equestria - acting as a kind of pseudo-prequel for "G4B" where nothing works quite the same but things neatly come full circle anyway

2. Starlight goes back to the SSSR as her plan fails and Equestria insists on devolving into postmodern Existentialist-Structuralist nonsense

3. option 2 happens but Starlight has to fix it - likely only with the help of Moondancer - and we end with option 1
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