"Rarity, your feathers are making it hard to breath." a quiet voice said.
"Oh, my goodness Fluttershy, I am so sorry. They seem to have a life of their own." Rarity said, quite embarrassed at the faux pas.
"So you have them too? I tried flying over here and my wings were much bigger, much stronger, than ever. I flew way up high... then I got scared and fell. When I fell, the ground just caved in. I felt the impact, but it was like I just... absorbed it somehow."
"You poor dear! Your wings locked up again?"
"Yes, I don't know what is happening, it's very startling."
"I would imagine so... did anything else happen?"
"Ditzy was saying something about my hair glowing..."
Rarity grabbed a brush from a nearby stand "Hold still a moment Fluttershy, I have a theory." She parted Fluttershy long bangs and there on her forehead was a small budding horn, as one would see on a unicorn filly.
"As I thought, Fluttershy I don't know how or why but you and I have much more in common than a shared love of fine haute couture and spa treatments now. It also seems the next time we visit you should take them up on their horn filing services." Rarity chuckled a bit, remembering Lotus telling her about her sister's mistake.
"What do you mean, Rarity?"
"I mean if you like you could take lessons from Twilight now on basic spell casting, you've grown a horn dear."
"I've grown a horn, and giant wings... oh my." Fluttershy looked lost and a little frightened.
"It's not all bad dear, I've always wanted to join royalty. I just never imagined it would be quite this way."
"Don't tell me you've gotten back together with that Blueblood..."
"Oh no dear, perish the thought! No I mean the only ponies I know of with wings and a horn, excluding spells of course, are the princesses." Rarity's eyes flashed a bit, Princess Rarity, it had a nice ring to it.
Fluttershy quailed, court appearances, audiences, and the press... No, never again. "Rarity, we should ask Twilight about this, it can't be normal to just change race. I mean that should be impossible..."
Something had clicked in Fluttershy's head, Pinkie's party invitation. She had discounted the party theme as Pinkie being Pinkie, and yet here sat two ponies who seemed to be Alicorns for all intents and purposes. Wings? Check. Horns? Check.
"Rarity we should definitely check with Twilight about this, Pinkie Pie sent me an invitation today, she called it-" Here Fluttershy pulled out the invitation she had tucked away. "her "I woke up this morning and now I'm an Alicorn" party."
"Oh I hadn't gotten an invitation for that, I wonder if Miss Doo is running late?"
"Ditzy had a satchel stuffed with them, Pinkie invited everypony in Ponyville."
"Oh how lovely, I do love Pinkie's parties. Even if she does get a bit trying at times."
Fluttershy nodded. "The party is not the point, my point is three of us have become something we weren't yesterday. The last time that happened we were all suffering from poison joke. What causes you to suddenly change into an Alicorn? We need Twilight to figure this out. We should also go talk to Pinkie Pie, Twilight may want to study all of us." Fluttershy shuddered a bit at that, but this was all too odd, somepony needed to explain what was going on.
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Pinkie Pie hummed happily as party decorations flew around the room covered in a soft pink glow. Dashie was off trying to see how quickly she could fly around the world, but she'd promised to be back in time for the party. The Cakes had stammered they were going to visit Cup's mother for a while and had left Pinkie in charge of things for a few weeks.
She toyed with the idea of trying to shift space on the inside of the shop, she expected a lot of guests and it might be useful to have more space for ponies to party in. She wondered just how many people did live in Equestria and how much she would have to twist space to fit them all. She knew it was possible, after all that blue box Doctor Hooves showed up in at times was huge on the inside. Did she remember to send him an invitation? Was he a part of everypony in Equestria? She'd better check.
There was a knock on the front door. Pinkie opened it with a thought.
"Pinkie Pie? Hello?" Rarity's voice drifted into the room.
"Come in silly filly! I am in here, getting the party ready!"
Rarity and Fluttershy walked into the room.
"The room was decorated with a typical but twisted Pinkie Pie flair. Colorful streamers of dried entrails fluttered around on the ceiling, brightly painted skulls of all sizes were attached to the walls, and organs done up in pastels filled with helium were tied to the backs of chairs. The tables and chairs were made of bones and the preserved flesh of past ponies."
Pinkie I swear to Celestia... stop messing with the storyline, we're not doing grimdark here.
"You're no fun!"
The room was decorated with what you would normally expect of any of Pinkie's parties. The most noticeable difference was the common theme of all the decorations. Paper wings and tacks taped to each balloon, the balloons were separated by about a foot between. Popped balloons on the ground pointed out the reason for the separation, taping sharp objects onto balloons seemed an unwise idea. The "Pin the tail on the pony" game had been modified, the tails pile now included felt wings and horns. The Pinata had similar modifications.
Pinkie smiled so widely it seemed she must have been using magic to make it fit her face as Fluttershy and Rarity walked in. "OHMYGOSH both of you too? Dashie is gonna be so happy when she gets back!"
lol no problem
yes there is a problem, the princess is hitting all the keys at once because she has no fingers
Cupcakes Ref? You are a bad, bad pony!
236120 I'm sowwy, wait no, that other thing. Totally unrepentant.
Celestia, why did you turn Mac into a laptop?
Granted, the visual pun is exquisite, but that's no excuse.
Loved the new chapter, Pinkie is epic as always, also LOVE 's Royal Duties list in the picture, it's hilarious.
At Pinkie's scene I half expected multiple Pinkie Pie's to randomly show up
Ugh. Stop giving Cupcakes more power! It's like a leech. The more people reference it, the more exposure it gets and quite frankly it's not even that scary.
Second sentence its faux "pas" I believe
And lol at that picture at the end.
After the Lion mac update, there will be a Big Macintosh update, Celestia is the new CEO of Apple, so she uses it already.
This is further proof that Mac > PC.
236167 actually its rather funny once you get past the ick factor. MPP3K did an excellent riff on it. Rainbow Dash presents made it freaking hilarious also. I am just giggling at the ghosties.
236170 fixed. for some reason I saw faux pas and decided that was plural, meaning singular was clearly faux pa... my brain can be a moron sometimes.
I love Pinkie. But her as an alicorn...
236215 She's not that scary
A whip cracks and the author screams. "Write faster slave! My world domination awaits! All will bow before me! They're going to LOVE ME!
Fluttershy on the other hand... is turning into a bit of a handful.
236184 Ah. Still I don't get the fascination so many people have for that story. Quite frankly I'd find a shipfic with Pipsqueak and Granny Smith more disturbing.
See how smart I am, I left for lunch and no comments were up, so now that i'm back I can be unlucky 13th. Yay! So now the new fun begins? Darn, steel you took my spot.
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Except his name is Big Mcintosh.
236131 Oh the horrible nightmares.... The bad writing... The lack of grammar and spelling! It's all coming back to me now!!!
I love what "Pinkie" did there with the Cupcakes reference
Is it a good or bad thing that I don't know what "Cupcakes" is?
Hmm...
1) Feed Philomena
2) Incinerate Twilight's letters
3) Banish Luna again
4) ???
5) Profit!
Interesting list I see.
Anyways, I thought the use of Cupcakes here was hilarious. Great story so far!
no... no problem
please dont send me to the moon...
that is all
kthanxbai
236692 Actually the full text is:
Royal Duties - Friday
1) Feed Philomena
2) Incinerate Twilight's Letters
3) Banish Luna (Again)
4) Sleep
5)???
6) Profit!
Keep on trollin' Celestia, keep on Trollin'.
Great, now I'm waiting for the Troll-war between Alicorn Pinkie Pie and Trollestia... May Luna have mercy on our souls...
Dear Princess Celestia,
How do you type with hooves?
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That's why she has that Equestrian Innovations poster - she's waiting for her new ponyboard. :D
"The room was decorated with a typical but twisted Pinkie Pie flair. Colorful streamers of dried entrails fluttered around on the ceiling, brightly painted skulls of all sizes were attached to the walls, and organs done up in pastels filled with helium were tied to the backs of chairs. The tables and chairs were made of bones and the preserved flesh of past ponies."
Oh dear Celestia, not her again.
Y YOU TEASE WITH GRIMDARK
(I fucking love grimdark)
236801 Probably the same way StrongBad types with Boxing Gloves.
Can I get a long neck reaction guy here? The Cupcakes reference demands it!
236260 Oh god! The mental images that brings up! You sick bastard!
236260 now that... sounds horrifying. unless its the loosest defination of shipfic, friendshipping. I choose to believe thats what you mean because I really don't want to know otherwise.
236801 I think you mean:
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added a link to the artists work, I could see alot of you praising the picture (which I love too) so since scramjet747 doesn't watermark his/her work(I really can't make assumptions in a community based on a show for little girls which attracts such talented people) I added a link for anyone who is not familiar with it.
235708 Please let me know when that one-shot is finished.
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237422
Sorry Steel and Sin, I meant it in the most extreme sense of shipfics. That mere thought conjures up mental images more horrifying than anything Cupcakes ever done.
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You'll need it if you think too hard about Pipsmith.
Going by wikipiedia, it seems Busking is completely legal in public property such as a park although that may be altered by local law. Going to have to check into that, so thus far it seems Lyra will be able to avoid a run-in with the law...
I would be interested to see her take on human religion. I would imagine that it would come across as rather to... vague* for a being that comes from a society where even the average citizen has a decent chance of getting a conversation with their religion's deities.
*Not sure that this is the right word...
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Now it just needs a music video...
Somepony, make it happen!
NAO
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YAY!
Also the chorus and first line seem to work best when sung to the actual music, I keep stumbling on Starswirl the Bearded, this line also seems a bit to long to fit the part of the track it's in "Then NMMoon Came back With a Big Bruise Blue and Black"
Overall I'd recommend listening to the USoUD while trying to sing the lyrics to your version UHoUBP abd try to get the lyrics to match better with the songs tempo/rhythm.
other then that
Oh God! She's aware of Cupcakes! EVERY PONY FOR THEMSELVES
236184 I have an aerosol can of fourth wall repair agent somewhere if you want to borrow it
SPOILER ALERT!!!
-Accidentally lost a some of my commentary for this episode. Not in the mood to try to re-create it in anywhere near the detail. What I remember, in no particular order was that:
-I wondered why Rarity was making multiple dresses, and found it interesting that she assumed that the wings came with understanding of how to use them like her previous set did, otherwise she wouldn't be worried about mobility. Then again maybe she just thought that she would want to be able to spread them dramatically.
-I noted that the wings seem to come in much faster than the horns, unless Fluttershy started later,.
"Rarity we should ask Twilight about this, it can't be normal to just change race..."
-Wise, hope they don't freak too much when they discover large parts of the library teleported away.
-Wasn't sure if All of Equestria was invited to the party and Fluttershy just didn't know that, or now that I think of it if Pinkie was going to be throwing one party per city (using powered-up bilocation).
-Picking up approximately where I left off.
Dashie was off trying to see how quickly she could fly around the world, but she'd promised to be back in time for the party.
-Hope she doesn't break too many windows, or even mountains that someone was using for something. Or large portions of cloud-cities. I guess as long as she keeps to her goal, rather than doing any complex acrobatics, and if her vision is good enough that she can see stuff before she hits it, and she remembers to stay at high altitude that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
The Cakes had stammered they were going to visit Cup's mother for a while and had left Pinkie in charge of things for a few weeks.
-In other words they know enough to be scared.
She toyed with the idea of trying to shift space on the inside of the shop, she expected a lot of guests and it might be useful to have more space for ponies to party in. She wondered just how many people did live in Equestria and how much she would have to twist space to fit them all.
-Ah, so Fluttershy just thought that she was only inviting all of Equestria, and Pinkie Pie is considering the obvious solution(assuming she realizes that she twists space with her Toon Physics).
She knew it was possible, after all that blue box Doctor Hooves showed up in at times was huge on the inside.
-Ah, that works too.
Did she remember to send him an invitation? Was he a part of everypony in Equestria? She'd better check.
-Interesting point, shows forethought to realize that the inside of the Tardis might not count as "In Equestria"... not to mention if she knows that he might not exist at any given moment due to time-traveling and having skipped that bit. Then again she probably doesn't know that.
Pinkie I swear to Celestia... stop messing with the storyline, we're not doing grimdark here.
"You're no fun!"
-The disturbing thing is that if that had been allowed to stand it would have actually resulted in the death of Ponies.
Paper wings and tacks taped to each balloon, the balloons were separated by about a foot between.
-"Tacks" seems a bit poor of a visual effect to weight ratio, but I suppose she could have made such a mistake.
OK, i have no idea what to say...
ONTO THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!
So Pinkie Pie has read cupcakes
The breaking of the fourth wall is gettin annoying...
236905 Pinkamania as an alicon.......... I'd rather be BUCKED through the moon right into to center of the sun and sent back to earth crashing into tartarus and into the depths of Hell than spend one mili-nanosecond with her. oh god HELP ME!-transmition error please stand by-
3332042 OMG Cupcakes!!! I love Cupcakes!
Ah I see you referencing Silent Ponyville :D
It’s “piñata”, with an “ñ”, not an “n”, and it shouldn’t be capitalized here.
6398134 Appreciated, but... I have deliberately avoided editing this story beyond what I did at the time. It's a bit like a time capsule, showing my strengths and weaknesses when I began, for good or ill. Editing it now would feel like painting over a drawing I did when I was five