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Between Lines


A purveyor of intelligent literary commentary some of the time, and whatever I feel like the rest of the time.

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You know those warning labels on appliances? "Do not submerge. Do not expose to heat. Do not drop."

The element of magic should have one: "Do not use for evil."

Kind of late on that one though.

(Big thanks to MythrilMoth for the cover art!)

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....Pffftttt.

Oh god... This was too good.

~Skeeter The Lurker

It's 2am and I'm gonna be dreaming of this weird fic.

Funny stuff! Kinda hard to make an ending when you've worked up such a roll, isn't it?

Oh man, that was fucking great! Awesome job as always!

ALL HAIL THE NEW PRINCESS!!

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OH MY GOD CAN I PLEASE USE THAT AS A COVER IMAGE

3443758 Sure, just be sure to credit me. :twilightsmile:

3443758 Oh, and also, you might enjoy this.

It's Twilit Sporkle's ballown!

That was pretty freaking good :rainbowlaugh:

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Awesome!

Kinda surprised you didn't comment on Hand of Man. I'm always curious what other HiE authors think of it.

Still, Twilit Sporkle is probably my favorite piece so far as construction goes. It's really where I feel everything started to come together.

YOU ARE-
Ahem. You are awesome.

TWILIGHT "SPORKLE" SPARKLE. That image is yes.

"It's so easy to criticize, so hard to create!"

Shining Armour to his wife moments after he did better than anypony else in the given situation.

You're Captain for a reason Shining.

And we all know you voted.

I don't get it? Why were ponies calling her Twilit Sporkle?

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Sunset Shimmer misused the element of magic. The element of magic, like a garbage disposal with a spoon in it, was damaged. Twilight Sparkle is bonded to the element of magic. In many ways she is the embodiment of the element of magic. Thus she was damaged.

In this case, that damage manifested as a corruption of her colors and name, admittedly silly ones.

Sadly, I find no humor in this. TWILIGHT FIXES EVERYTHING is amazing. This is boring. Disliked.

:rainbowlaugh:Made me laugh!:trollestia:

The last two lines were what really made the fic. Hilarious.

Funny, but a bit disappointing because I was expecting the cover image to have more relevance to the story. (I was expecting the story to feature "spork", the concept, rather than "spork", the string of letters that just happens to resemble "spark".)

An hour after that, the newly crowned princess Blazemane Powerhoof sat before a pile of ballots, glaring on as Pinkie Pie, Spike, and Rainbow Dash high-hoofed.
"I can't believe that won." She growled to herself.

BEAUTiFUL:rainbowlaugh:

Liked the simile of gold-plated encyclopedias.

Only thing I'd change is have Twilight call it a "trichrometer" instead of a "spectrometer". Nothing wrong with a continuity in which reality is computer-rendered and color can be expressed as RGB, but if Twilight can also say a rainbow mane has "all the colors" and isn't freaking out over the internal inconsistency it implies she's speaking colloquially and knows the "visible spectrum" is a fictitious construct - so probably wouldn't call a measuring device by a technically inaccurate name.

Overthinking, I know. Happened to read it as I was trying to further work out my approach to Equestrian police procedure for registering horn aura colours in regions where a proper spectrographic test taken under a proven emotional baseline isn't practical to carry out. I've been thinking a paint swatch book where a set of test swatches are eye-matched in a hornlit tube to their closest equivalents in a known light type to get a rough "fingerprint" classification... anyway, nice overall.

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