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Brumby_Run


G'day. Aussie Brony here. I'm not very active in the comment threads of my stories, but I read and cherish every one. Thanks for reading.

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After a chance meeting at the Ponyville markets, a group of friends retire to the library for a pleasant conversation.

About nuts.

One of them strays off topic with a shocking revelation...

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Comments ( 16 )

Hah, that was a thoroughly enjoyable fic, good work! Oh, you misspelled Apple jack the first time around.

3492160 thanks for that. One of the joys of self editing, stupid typos like that slip through...

wouldn't surprise Mr at all if twiley actually had that list.

most entertaining. that was am amusing read

"Or how about a great big pony pile, with Mackie in the middle?" Pinkie responded.

Wow, Pinkie. Why don't you stab Spike in the crotch while you're at it?

"But if Ah find out Mac is being passed around my friends like a party favour, I'll geld him with Pappy's razor."

Sure, that makes sense, AJ. He's your brother, so that gives you the right to do him harm if he's getting awesome sex from ponies just because you happen to know them. I really hate Applejack when people writer her as a knee-jerk hillbilly.

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Or perhaps it's like a brother getting annoyed because his sister is a bit of a slut, the genders are just reversed. Of course, Mac isn't called out on this. Double standards, ho!

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Whoa, very different interpretations from what I intended...

With regard to Spike, he's still a child. Despite the fact that he may try to present himself as sophisticated and worldly, he is no more ready for sex than the cutie mark crusaders. He just overheard a conversation by accident.

As for Applejack's comments... Some people are squeamish about hearing about the sex life of their family members. People that scream "Ewwww" when their parents kiss, for example. Pinkie and Rainbow had made a crack to try to get Applejack to react, and she fell for it. Of course she wouldn't maim her brother, it was said in the heat of the moment, for the pranksters to overhear. The same way someone may say, "I'm going to kill whoever took the last cookie."

I obviously haven't written this story very well if that's what you guys think...

"Ah don't know why y'all aren't keen on cashews," Applejack drawled.

"You're just saying that because they grow from apples, and you can use the fruit in your apple pies," Pinkie said.

I hate to be "that guy", but -- I don't think that would work very well, actually. Despite the name, the "cashew apple" isn't even remotely an apple, as such; cashews are a member of the Anacardiaceae family, while apples are part of the Rosaceae family (related to roses, oddly enough). it's also a soft tropical fruit, closer to a mango or a papaya, not firm and crispy like a true apple.

(Aw, don't listen ta him, he's just bein' persnickerty. Apples is apples.) :ajbemused:
(That's "apples are apples,", Applejack.) :twilightsmile:
(Ah know, Ah just said that.)
(No, you said... oh, never mind.) :facehoof:

Cute story, though! :twilightsmile:

(Yyyeah, but Ah really did not need ta know th' details of mah brother's love life...)

That was short and cute. Just what I needed.

NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TALK OF NUTS TO WARRANT TITLE. IF I WANTED DIALOGUE THAT DEALS WITH HOW "HOT" BIG MAC IS, I WOULD READ A CLOPFIC (WHICH I WONT.)

4/10 PUT IN MORE NUTS.

A very silly story although, I'm rather confused as to why there's a "sex" tag to this story as nothing is truly mentioned or brought into detal... I'd understand if FS had gone into detail but that didn't occur...
3.75 / 5 stars...
Cute story!

3492523 Don't worry, that was obvious enough. It just angers me when people get so worked up over something that really isn't their business. Big Mac can sleep with whomever he likes, just as Applejack can.

And it's clear AJ would never do anything so violent to anyone, but her words were much more intense than necessary. If I had a sister who was sleeping around, I sure as hell wouldn't say, "If she is, I'll carve out her uterus." That's kinda goin' too far.

... I honestly don't really even know what to think here. :unsuresweetie:

When I read the description, I thought it was going to switch between being about nuts... To being about another type of "nuts" (and thus, making the characters less childish than we would have expected). Yet, this is not the case; apparently Big Mac just had to step in and drop some metaphorical panties.
I mean, I don't exactly hate the way it turned out... It just feels like a brown-nosing fic. I'd rather read about the Mane 6 somehow revealing themselves to be skanks than to read about how, apparently, awesome Big Mac is.
:eeyup: :trixieshiftleft:

Comment posted by exbrony deleted Feb 4th, 2014

I'm curious about the cashews-- what's going on there?

7192273 Cashews are a seed of the cashew apple. Applejack grows all kinds of apples... At harvest time, you can sell the cashews to the nut lovers, and use the fruit for something else. A crop you can sell twice. Who else but Macintosh would come up with that (fancy mathematics)?

True, the Cashew tree is more tropical than whatever latitude Ponyville is, and the fruit is softer and more pulp like... But look! Magical talking horses! Eating nuts!

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