>>42472016
I like this one. Although maybe that's just because it's a Twilight fic. I was also getting Jigsaw flashbacks, which made me realize that was the Celestia Code and I think Jigsaw gets mentioned one single time and not by name after the Luna Cypher kek. I like how Twilight thinks of the expedition team while she's stranded, it's very considerate. She never outright thinks they abandoned her and when she finally accepts the situation she wishes both them and herself good luck. Twilight's survival is completely secondary and the author straight up tells us that in an A/N to stave off the horde of survival experts that inevitably show up in the comments. The fic goes as far as to never show us Twilight getting her own food. Not once do we see it, and yet it supposedly occurs offscreen on a regular enough basis for her to not die. Which also leads to my least favorite part of the fic so far, the last chapter. Thorax has some sort of brain blast when he sees Twilight hungry (she's been hungry 100% of the time he's known her) and has the great idea to go steal more food! ??? I suppose the plot just truly needed this to happen since he has already done that. It makes no sense that it hits him like a new idea. And it makes no sense that it would even happen since she is no longer dying. Also it wouldn't even be in preparation for Twilight's journey home, it's just for no reason at all.
>the name of the next chapter
Truly a certified plot moment. Anyways
>worm attack reminds Twilight that she is more kino than the average pony
>a/n telling shippers to fuck off
kek
>the hive is like a living entity that will build you a bridge as you walk
>Thorax gets home and asks some drones where his bro is and they tell him to fuck off because they don't know
>the hive has crime
Kek, a weird interpretation of a changeling hive but sure
>Twilight never thinks to just send the letter back
Celestia must've been using that same parchment to polish her idiot orb

>>42472016
>Was there ever a more "eh, it's OK" story than this?
>I know some will say the writing is bad, but what happened is that we've just had a few above-average stories in a row
Meanwhile me thinking it's a breathe of fresh air after reading hie
>it is very close to FiM's setting and not too far in tone, either
Yes, Twilight's view of things is nice and pony. She even has an internal battle accepting the changeling society from a pony in equestria view vs. a scientific badlands ecology view
>"time to explain/retcon small error from the last chapter that the commenters pointed out"
seems inevitable when doing something survival based like this unfortunately. This is probably what led to Twilight feeding herself entirely off-screen