It Is Recommendsday, My Dudes #115 · 7:00pm May 31st, 2023
Trixie is one of my favorite ponies to write or read about, mostly due to her flexibility. Some folks have probably heard me refer to her as 'literary lubricant' - she's a capable of making any story situation flow easier.
Need someone to do something unfathomably stupid to make the scene work? Trixie can do that. Need a moment of brilliance to solve a problem? Trixie can also do that. She can be hero or villain, victim or fool, all with equal skill. That adaptability is rare in characters without changing the essence of who they are, but Trixie pulls it off. She just helps make things work, and that's part of why she's fun.
Though admittedly, she does the 'unfathomably stupid' a little better.
So to lead today's double shot, we start with killing Trixie in dawnbreez's Murder, Murder, Also Murder.
Twilight and Starlight have discovered a spell that can return the recently dead to life! It worked on the small scale with a mouse, so now they need to try it on the pony scale. So they go to Trixie for a body.
Not for her to provide them a body. For her to be a body. Which is when the knives come out.
This is just a wonderful quick comedy that's the usual chaos of the Crazy Unicorn Brigade turned up to 11. Twilight's in full mad magic scientist mode, Trixie is peak Trixie, and Starlight is there too. There's really not a ton else to say other than it has one of the most Trixie lines I think I've ever read in it:
"Trixie sees no reason to celebrate. The afterlife had Trixie in it for a brief moment, and then it stopped having Trixie in it, so now there is no reason to go there."
So to companion that, let's go with The Ring That She Wanted by The Sleepless Beholder.
Trixie is in love and has decided to propose to Starlight. To be sure she gets this right, she ropes Sunburst into helping her pick out the perfect ring. He heads out to the jeweler's to make the pick. Starlight, as fate would have it, runs into Trixie immediately after and enthusiastically tells her that she's finally ready - today will be the day she proposes to Sunburst! ...And on cue, Sunburst returns with the ring he picked, and guilelessly admits that he got it for Trixie.
You can see the gag here, I'm sure.
StarBurstTrix is a favorite ship of mine to read for the exact reasons shown here: all three of them are hopeless idiots. Sweet, loving idiots, but idiots. Even when they're not group-dating, they're just such a pile of dumbasses that everything's hilarious. And yet it's also adorably sweet at the same time, because they're pure as hell in their stupidity.
This story really nails that on its head: each of them cares deeply for the other two and is willing to do what it takes, even as they completely misinterpret every part of what's going on in the situation. Here, it's short, it's snappy, they're dumbasses, and it's a good laugh that you can see coming a mile away but remains funny. Plus Sleeps is an expert when it comes to cute moments, and this story's got plenty.
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This was a pleasant surprise after a long day. Thank you!
I agree with you in Trixie being able to fit basically any role one could need. And having her plus Starlight and Sunburst is just always a recipe for hilarity.
I say "literary nitrous oxide." But you are correct.