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Comment author: roryokane 02 November 2013 12:32:55AM 3 points [-]

Link to the story: Friendship is Optimal. Though I wouldn’t call the story as a whole a horror story; rather, it has some fridge horror. And it is particularly horrifying to those interested in the singularity, rather than to rationalists in general.

Comment author: DanielLC 02 November 2013 06:25:44PM 3 points [-]

I was referring to the recursive fanfic, Friendship Is Optimal: Caelum Est Conterrens.

Comment author: ikrase 02 November 2013 08:41:55PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't the recursive fic Caelum Est Conterrens explore the horror aspects a bit more?

Comment author: Leonhart 02 November 2013 10:21:28PM *  7 points [-]

Read them both, enjoyed them both, and didn't find either even slightly horrifying, although I think I understand why I am supposed to find them horrifying (Fun-theory-wise). I'm genuinely unsure if I should be trying to fix myself on this count.

Those who have a) read them, b) been horrified by them (either for EY's reasons or different ones) and c) would be reading more pone fanfic anyway, I'd be very curious to know if the existence depicted in MLP Loops is more, less, or differently horrifying to you.