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Trixie and Twilight are best ponies! (Diamond Tiara is best filly :D )

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After a little argument at a sleepover escalates rapidly out of control, the two once-best friends Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon start fighting with one another. When the Cutie Mark Crusaders get drawn into the mix, they decide to help the two become friends once more.

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Another Diamond Tiara Story?
:yay:

NOT SAMANTHA!

First I was like:
HMMMM. WEIRD.
Then I was like:
INTERESTING.
Then I was like:
WTF IS THIS ****!

loved the story, especially the cover pic. where did you find it?

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Google searched "Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon fighting". Interestingly, was the first and only pic of them fighting that showed up.

3018390 i woulda bet my bits on Silver

Gimme dat smartphone.

Maybe AB can get more money by convincing the others into 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Robbin' Hoods'.

I feel so bad for Samantha :applecry:....

Diamond totally won that fight.

Well no good deed goes unpunished it seems. Meh, better than being stuck with them as friends I guess.

Also, Button Mash sure has gotten popular. One video and suddenly everywhere. Too bad most of the fics are clopfics with his mom.. ewww.

Don't drink coffee, Button.

Eh, I'd bet Diamond would win. She's got that drive and isn't afraid to throw down against anypony.

I'm a bit disappointed one of the questions wasn't directed at Apple Bloom though, I could see Scootaloo wanting to see AB take a Truth or Dare xD

It was a decent story. Not a fan of a few things, especially the can't read big words thing. But I can see how you'd want to even up characters with each other like SB and SS being the smart ones in class and AB and DT being the 'average' or 'under performing' pair of the class. Still, I found a few parts hard to stomach with how very Silver Spoony sided this story was feeling for most of the beginning. And DT being thrown over the teacher's desk or what? Was hard to get a good feel of what exactly went on there with lack of context.

Overall, it had a lot of ups and downs for me. Though the bumps got smoother and less jarring as it began to unravel. Two scenes I enjoyed most was Diamond Tiara knowing surprisingly well more of what AB would ever assume DT would know, showing DT has an amazing attention to detail and insight-fulness. Some traits that I saw almost contradict the simpleness of what DT let's others to believe she's like.

And my other was Silver and Sweetie's penchant for their love of grammatical correctness. I would not want to face those two in a game of Scrabble lol

It took awhile to grow on me, and to really reveal your intentions, but it turned out to be a pretty good story. Which, I'll fav, but I won't be giving a Like or Dislike to due to the bumpy ride I had with this story. If this is a standalone fic, it might be best to fix that Buttons scene since it feels a bit contrived.

Good story if read all the way through. Apple Bloom's loss of the phone didn't feel as painful as it should've or trigger any eye-rolls or deadpanning from Scoots or Sweetie Belle. A knowing grin shared between them to follow with a lets snap her out of it line like you did with "Cutie Mark Lawnmowers?" would of helped make the scene a little less flat.

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for those who don't know who Button is, its that one colt from Hearts and Hooves Day S2 ep 17 start of the song. Also, we need something done with Archer. She's clearly worth adding to the roster if any nice interpretations can give her some life. Maybe Apple Core could be used as Button's High Scoring arcade rival who he's so intent on topping all the time.
Oops, I said something that can be taken out of context and turned into a clop. Whelp. Good night everypony.

Saw the picture and I blurted out "bite that bitches hoof off" with out thinking and now my sister is staring at me.

‘Kiss Diamond Tiara!’ was the first thing to enter Sweetie Belle’s mind.

:pinkiecrazy: Give in, Sweetie Belle! EMBRACE your inner shipper! And then make out with her!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Freakiest picture I've seen for a while.

I wish they could still be friends. Nice story.

and if I hear one more peep form anypony

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:moustache:Is it bad I enjoyed those two fighting? And Apple Bloom's time with Samantha was cut so short...:applecry:

That was hilarious, great job on this story.

Yukito writes like the best DT fics I've seen. :pinkiehappy:

“We’re playing dolls here, not Resident Evil.”

“I was actually thinking more Left 4 Dead,” Diamond Tiara said as she had Colonel Mustard turn around and point his spear forward.

Eh, I prefer State of Decay

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Also, we need something done with Archer.

Funny you should say that because I'm planning a story for Archer

3045956 Seriously? Oh, well, damn. I'll be looking out for that one for sure. :D

And they are friends again and all is...well maybe not right per se, but correct in Equestria again. Personal headcanon has DT sending Samantha(:yay:) back to AB in a package, because tsun tsun. And it wouldn't surprise me if SS starts treating Sweetie a bit better in the future.
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Yeah, what's up with that? You would think people would find somepony to pair her with other than her 8 yr. old son. :pinkiesick:

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Yeah, I was expecting a flood of Button X Sweetie fics, but so far nothing.

Also, meant to mention it earlier, but that is a disturbing piece of cover art.

I had a dream a couple of months ago that this premise was going to be an episode in season three. Only saw the commercial for it, but it looked heavily watered-down and predictable. They had their initial fight on the playground, and I'm reasonably sure they were arguing about what to wear for the school play. Glad to see your version doesn't involve Diamond dressing up like a ladybug.

This one's a tricky subject of critique, because on one hand, Diamond and Silver's "defriendlinization" is something I've seen about as many times as the number of words in your story. On the other hand, every time I've seen it done it usually remains an unresolved issue with Silver befriending the CMC and Diamond being miserable or...actually, that's really the only way I've seen it end. In that sense, this is an entirely new frontier to explore, only its layout is based around something that anyone who has ever seen a sitcom has burned into their memory so fiercely it's permanently on fire. However, like a zombie invasion or a game of Clue, the premise is merely a selling point, the story's skin if you will. So to properly critique this story, let's examine its internal organs.

First, we have the story itself. Diamond and Silver fight. They keep fighting. Then *Spoilers* they stop fighting. It's simple, but so is the reason they start fighting, and it's such a powerful reason at that: an insult. We all know this one, and it works because it's so true. A single slight that Silver Spoon says after a natural sense of building frustration starts an entire chain of lashings out that pride will not let either of them take back or apologize for. It's the truth behind any friendship. No matter how strong it is, sensitivization will form as a result of spending too much time with each other, and eventually it will boil over like any botched Hollywood science experiment. In the end, it's finding greater value in their positives over their negatives that allows them to overcome their blind anger and resume their friendship.

In regards to the fight, the story plays it completely safe. There's no real deviation to the "friendship stumbling" formula between them finding replacements and eventually realizing why they were friends in the first place, which has the double effect of being more predictable and also more logical. I can say this about the fight: none of it feels contrived. Realism robbed romanticism blind, but it did pay off in capturing realism.

The story has everything one would come to expect when visiting the Yukiverse: modern technology, real or ponyfied versions of actual video games, the one trickle or drop of blood that inevitably reveals itself, a few choice words that aren't fit at the family dinner table, etc. From the very beginning, there's a detachment from the show that breaks the shackles of strict one-to-one characterization. Frankly, Rarity could be out of town for her career as a travelling acrobat in this story and it wouldn't be too distracting. Even so, the characters presented in this story are likable, believable, and they fit into their roles as necessary. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom had some chemistry with their respective new 'friends', and they helped to embellish the key to the Diamond/Silver dispute: intelligence.

When Diamond and Silver argue, they almost exclusively criticize intelligence extremes or some derivation of them, and that leads to an interesting point of note. It's very simple to show characters being immature by having them do immature things like spitting raspberries and pulling pranks on each other, but it drives the point home so much stronger when their understanding of the situation is itself immature. Diamond and Silver go back and forth with the "too nerdy" and "too stupid" debate to the point where you start to wonder if Miss Cheerilee could stop the fight simply by banning those insults in particular. That level of single-mindedness not only captures the shallowness of their fight, but it also showcases the simplicity of their mindset given their age. One could even suggest that the fact that they each only have one bullet in the chamber says something about how little they know about each others' faults, providing further evidence as to why they've never had a spat like this before.

Scootaloo very much felt like a third wheel in this story. Maybe we just needed Babs Seed or a similar substitute to fix it, but the winged one really served no purpose in this story that Apple Bloom couldn't have filled in or Sweetie Belle couldn't have handled on her own. If Scootaloo were home sick the entire story, nothing would be affected other than a few missing lines of dialogue. At first, I thought her role in the story was to be a third wheel and that it would end up being a key plot point, but then Sweetie Belle came up with an idea and Scootaloo just hopped on board, blending into the background for the rest of the story. It's only natural that you would have Scootaloo there to complete the triad, but it's very important that a character exists in a scene because you need them to be there rather than you think they need to be. Mainly I feel it was a bit of wasted potential, because Scootaloo was your 'X' factor here. She was basically your ticket to subverting that standard formula that mandates that you include the line "what's she doing here" under penalty of law, and you never cashed her in. Trixie, Rainbow, and Button were in a similar boat, but their roles were restricted to cameo appearances. From a storytelling perspective, they only served the role of fanservice, which, while distracting, is fine when done in moderation.

I'd have to say of Diamond and Silver friendshipping stories I've seen, this one wins by default. Though sympathy was a bit Silver-sided at first, it did reach a balance by the end. Your quality control's fine as always. No grammar/spelling/punctuation for me to obsessively correct in my head. All in all, a sweet story of the natural law of friendship with some very believable cause and effect. I'd call it a quintuple-layer parfait with a cherry on top. Seen it a million times before, yet never actually tasted it. Tastes sweet, but there may be one too many layers.

Make the most!

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There was one Sweetie/Button fic, but as it was foalclop....:pinkiesick:

SAMANTHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!:applecry:

seriously? she named the phone Samantha? well at least she got a free Spa Treatment out of DT.::trixieshiftleft:

I'm kina disappointed that they went back to being Bullies when AB and Sweetie made such good friends for them:facehoof:

and hay love the Trixie and Buttons cameos:trixieshiftright::yay:

Amazing job. Enough said.

Positives: :twilightsmile:
A Yukito DT Fic; good as always.
Pop culture references; Cell-phones, Video games, and Innuendos
Old-shit reference; Clue.

Negative: :twilightangry2:
Ends with CMC continued in being bullied

Is good story.

I feel like I'd be like Applebloom with that there Cell-phone. I'd non-chalantly state I don't have one, be given one only to quickly get addicted, and when it's taken away I'd :fluttercry: for all of five seconds and right after would just be like, "Who gives two shits about phones?" :trollestia:

10/10 Could be actually a totally common episode.

Nothing more to add here.

(Hooves up)

Apple Bloom hesitantly sat down opposite Diamond Tiara on the blanket. “Even so, that’s not really ‘knowin’’ me at all. Ah bet ya don’t know what mah favourite food is.”

Well you come from the Apple family so I think I can make a solid guess

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