Ideas that tickle my brain lately

So when I say ideas that tickle my brain, I mean... it's not that I am necessarily thinking about them all the time. It's just ideas that keep coming back to me.

I'm not sure when this one started. Perhaps it's always been there. Shipping ensues, fair warning.

Spike and Rarity. I think it's obvious to most sensible people that Spike's crush on Rarity is just a childish crush, a phase he is in, perhaps. Rarity is an adult pony, Spike is a child, at least for a dragon. I saw an image recently that is reportedly a quote from Meghan Mccarthy at Babscon regarding the Spike/Rarity relationship that basically supports this. This isn't where I began with this, though.

I began a long while back, with this picture I made for NATGII.

What's happening in that picture? It's left unresolved. I did that on purpose because I knew in my heart that it would go unresolved. I also love unresolved plot points (for readers of my fanfic, don't worry! I don't love them enough to torment others that much!) - for me, the unresolved is a place where the imagination can take hold.

For that picture, though, I know where my mind went. My mind had resolved it when I came up with the idea. Spike is crying as he confesses his feelings, presents a ring, and knows in his heart what the answer will be. Rarity cries in that picture because she knows that the end has come. She's finally going to have to do the decent thing, the right thing, and let Spike down. She's going to have to tell him no. It's not going to be easy for her after all the time they've known one another.

The words in the picture represent Spike gripping to something bigger in his life that he perhaps doesn't even fully realize.

Think about Spike for a moment here. He's been raised his whole life around ponies. He went to try and find out about himself in Dragon Quest, and found that he didn't fit in with dragons. What has this done to him, really? I mean developmentally. He clearly finds beauty in mares, he has been raised with a pony-like expectation of what beauty is. Would he find a female dragon attractive at all?

No, his heart is only for ponies, and that is perhaps the most damaging thing that has been done to our poor little baby dragon. He lives like a pony, and he loves like one. And yet, raised and having lived in that exact same environment, the object of his affection knows that she would not be able to be his special somepony.

A tragedy.

I have a lot more thoughts on this. Not sure if they are suited for a blog post like this, or a short fanfic. Exploring this inner turmoil appeals to me a lot. I bet this has been written about before, but there's another one of my great shames as a fanfiction writer in this fandom - I just haven't read much fanfiction. Not sure if that ends up being detrimental to me or not... but that's another subject for another time.

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[BronyWhooves]

This is how I've always seen it, but man, I never realized the tragedy of it. this section-

Think about Spike for a moment here. He's been raised his whole life around ponies. He went to try and find out about himself in Dragon Quest, and found that he didn't fit in with dragons. What has this done to him, really? I mean developmentally. He clearly finds beauty in mares, he has been raised with a pony-like expectation of what beauty is. Would he find a female dragon attractive at all?

No, his heart is only for ponies, and that is perhaps the most damaging thing that has been done to our poor little baby dragon. He lives like a pony, and he loves like one. And yet, raised and having lived in that exact same environment, the object of his affection knows that she would not be able to be his special somepony.

That is crazy. And I think would be completely accurate, Spike is ostracized because in his mind, he is a pony, but will never be accepted though he will be accepted by society, no one will ever treat him like a pony, like he identifies.

Some great ideas, that probably would make a great story.