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I intend for this to be more targeted towards the brony community than LW. I've gotten mixed feedback here. I've gotten reactions from "equally accessible to the brony off the street as the LWer," your suspicion that bronies would find the singularity jarring (which I interpret as a request to make singularity concepts more explicit), and a comment in this thread that I need to make the LW references more subtle.
As accessibility is my intention, what do you think I should do here?
None of us can accurately assess the reaction of someone who finds the concepts unfamiliar. I owuld suggest getting an entirely seperate group of non-LW bronies to read it and get their feedback.
Agreed with FiftyTwo, which is why I had to say "suspect" regarding whether or not people with no interest in MLP would be interested in the story.
Honestly, I don't think it's inaccessible to your average brony. You're pretty explicit, and I found it easy to read. But this isn't a "Singularity in the MLP universe" it is a "Singularity which ends up looking like the MLP universe from the inside." So it falls a little outside of typical My Little Pony fanfic, the same way that a fanfic about a rationalist who reads Harry Potter would be very different than HPMOR.
So anyone who reads it expecting to find the My Little Pony universe implicit in the show (as it is an MLP fanfic) doesn't know what they are in for. IMO, this is fine, since the distinction is cleared up right from the start that this takes place in something set to more closely resemble our world than the MLP universe, but it could still be jarring if they were expecting to find a story occurring in the MLP universe.
But as FiftyTwo points out, I am already familiar with the concepts in the story, so I have some trouble putting myself in the shoes of someone without those concepts who just likes My Little Pony.
I've taken the liberty of taking it to be looked at by non-LW bronies (because of a misunderstanding; I've stopped now). They lose interest during the first chapter. I really have to tell them "IT GETS MUCH BETTER."