Imma just comment on each of them with 1 sentence, then with more if it seems needed.
Like THIS.
Sum
Someone decided to watch the Star Wars in alphabetical order.
But really, the movie characters would feel the same no matter how their life is reshuffled.
Egalitaire
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| Wow! Glimmer is God! |
Circle of Friends
Solipsism (and data compression) gone wrong.
Giantess
There's a great cosmic being and it doesn't care about us.
Descent of Species
Smart creatures want to get dumber.
Also there's no mention of the problem that no matter what reincarnation is chosen, there's no memory preservation.
Mary
God: I accidentally humanity. Is it bad?
Mary Shelley: Yeah you are fucked like Dr Frankenstein.
God: Let's be misery together.
The Cast
I knew Princess Luna uses the souls for some dream-making.
Metamorphosis
Names are chains that bound you to existence.
Missing
Heteronormativity agenda disguised as a cosmic love story.
Also... Lysistrata, battle of the sexes...
Spirals
A very good metaphor for what it would feel like to be a mildly superhuman AI, talking with humans.
Scales
Children are literally cancer.
Seriously though, pregnancy always seems like barely controlled cancer to me. The mother's body tries hard to kill the fetus, and the fetus grows a placenta and sucks all the nutrition from the mother.
Adhesion
Heteronormativity agenda disguised as a cosmic science story.
Angst
We are very busy Gods and our tiny insignificant human lives are just Virtual(?) Reality vacations.
Oz
God doesn't exist, so you should be a brave absurdist.
Great Expectations
Turns out Christianity is a better religion than Mind Uploading.
Mirrors
Consciousness is its own antiparticle.
Perpetuity
Evil has no dominion over nonexistence.
The Unnatural
When the students actually LOVE unpredictable deadlines...
Distance
Don't tell God how to do his work.
Reins
Microbe
Like the Giantess story, but one lengthscale down.
Absence
Battle Royale in heaven!!
Will-'o-the-Wisp
Nothing lasts, the good are happily deluded and the bad are sadly revealed the truth.
The Buddhists should be able to handle the truth better, though.
Incentive
Dumbest story in the collection. Incomprehensible.
Death Switch
Pranking my friends after my own death! [Gone Wrong] [I Literally Died]
Encore
Pretty much exactly what future historians would do to us. The Simulation Hypothesis actually mentions this as a possibility.
Princess Luna sometimes does this, I imagine, when she needs to reconstruct ponies whose souls have been destroyed.
Prism
I am... all of me, but way lamer.
Also note the mention of how there's far less time-continuity than our delusions tell us.
Personally, I think of myself as having a half-life of 3-5 years, and simply refuse to acknowledge personal identity beyond 10 years. I'd be dead certainly before 10 years pass, one way or another.
Ineffable
Emergent consciousness, but way too real!
I sometimes think of governments and companies, and other organizations, as separate agents, instead of made of individual humans. The fact that they run on human hardware doesn't mean they aren't real and inhuman agents. They are like the China Brain (but much less dramatic, I admit).
Pantheon
Gods are super petty bureaucrats.
It's kind of like the Shintoism, with its 0.8 billion kamis (八百万の神).
Impulse
Humans are literally fucking fork bombs.
More seriously, though, it's quite common for algorithms to do something completely undesigned by their creators. See The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution (2018), or this video.
Quantum
Frustrated lover's complaints disguised as a quantum mechanics paradox.
Pretty much what the Many Worlds Interpretation says is true in this universe, actually.
Conservation
One quark universe instead.
Also, deadly sleep.
Narcissus
TFW you made von Neumann probes to explore the universe but they spend their days making robotic porn and selfies instead.
It's another metaphor of humans making some self-sufficient AI (not necessarily superhuman), and it does something completely undesigned for and humans can't stop them.
Seed
God: I accidentally humans, is it bad?
Humans: No it's okay we understand. We accidentally things too.
[group hug]
Graveyard of the Gods
The most boring crossover fanfic of all religions in the world but set in a 20th century American city.
Apostasy
The Book but not for Erdos.
Blueprints
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| The numbers don't lie. |
Which is why, even if determinism can be fully proven to the intellect, the feeling of free will would persist in humans.
Subjunctive
TFW you depress yourself by being never good enough.
Search
There's a party in your body. A particle party!
Reversal
Life is an illusion can only be disillusioned backwards.
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