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icekatze — Immortality Blues
Published: 2011-05-11 02:06:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 39031; Favourites: 808; Downloads: 5176
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hi hiThis is for everyone who's ever missed someone else. Even if you're not into the whole friendship is magic thing, maybe you'll at least appreciate the message.
This was one of those things that my muse wouldn't let me give up, no matter how frustrating it got. I poked at it on and off for a while now in my free time.
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I think it is entirely possible to go for lifetimes without love. There are plenty of emotions available to drive people to continue living, but the idea behind immortality blues is that there may be a sense of ennui that arises someone starts to realize that every day brings nothing new, novel, or different, and the realization that every joy would inevitably precede the sting of loss. While I don't have any particular headcanon regarding Celestia's love life, I suspect that if I were in her position, I would feel isolated and alone, with not a suitor in sight that could understand and relate to my perspective and treat me as a peer.
That being said, I don't think your headcanon is impossible either. If you decide to make a comic about it, let me know, I bet it'll be an interesting read.
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if you want or are inmortal is best be alone.
The pain for the lost friends is the worst
At less she have her sister
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Immortal or not, "to love at all is to be vulnerable," or so the saying goes. Lucky for her, things worked out with her sister in the end.
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I'm glad my little comic left you with a smile.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz -
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That is one of my favorite quotes. Here's another good one that I like:
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. " - C.S. Lewis
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Immortality is never an easy thing, even if you have others to be immortal with you, when does the time come that everything, even the bonds of friends and family lose their meaning and death feels so welcoming but you know you can never meet him. Then all you have left to do is run from yourself in a case that never ends, you could see all ends of the multiverse and see all the beauty it has to offer, but a part of you will always crave rest.
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"Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one. It will become unbreakable, impenetrable... irredeemable. To love at all is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
One wonders sometimes how the very old and wise can ever be vulnerable.
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Very wise words my friend.Stop me if I'm wrong, C.S.Lewis wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" correct?
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According to google he did, but I've never read them.
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I haven't read them either, but I do know JR Tolken and CS Lewis were good friends!
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She shares the same sadness that Van Hoenheim endures: Living forever while he watches everyone else die of old age around him.
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Sometimes it isn't easy, but some of the best things in life aren't easy.
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Well, yeah they have lived for over 1000 years, but they don't live forever. That's just mere speculation. BUT, yes it would still be painful to be in a world where you live longer than almost everyone you love or befriend. Good work.
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Thank ya kindly. Even once is hard enough, and it might become easier if you wall yourself off, but in doing so you miss out on the joy as much as the sorrow.
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I like this concept. Celestia being around for all the gens of ponies. This is very sweet too.
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Thanks very much. I figure it might take a strong heart, but even a strong heart can have a bad day. Thats when having people who care about you is perhaps most important.
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Thank ya kindly.
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I hope you felt better by the end.
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She is a pretty awesome character, its true.
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Pretty awesome? Look at what she did in A Canterlot Wedding Part 2!
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that is sooooooooooooo sad! immortallity must suck!!
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I think it just goes to show the strength of her heart, never giving up, even if its true that some days are dark and lonely.
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You're more than welcome to another interpretation though if you like. I just hope you can come away with something positive, even though it's sad.
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omg the pink pony with green hear is back from the dead and 2 fluttershy's
.....? pinkie did you brake the 4th wall again?
pinkie; well it was for a good course
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I dunno, I just assigned colors largely at random 
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Does anypony else see, in the 2nd to last panel, Applejack and Fluttershy in the far right, and Pinkie in front of the banner, and Rarity a little to her left, and Twilight and Rainbow Dash in the bottom right corner?
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Nice catch. 
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Thank you. It's a great comic, and a great message.
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You're very welcome, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.
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This is a wonderfully touching comic that so effectively details a realistic aspect of life the way it would affect a moral immortal.
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Thanks, it means a lot to me.
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What a profound lesson.
Why can't the show teach THAT instead of some of the other moral they give us?
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