• Member Since 22nd Feb, 2012
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A Hoof-ful of Dust


You can't see the forest...

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This feels so sad here, sitting with no comments. Your unenthusiasm was noticeable, but the story isn't completely unremarkable. It was charmingly slice-of-lifey – for being the entire basis of the show, there sure is a dearth of the mane six just being friends. Conflict breeds stories, though, so what can we do. And I certainly can never turn down Rarijack! Even if Rainbow's impatience and blunt-force detectivery are the real stars of the show here.

France being precisely transposed to the Equestrian world is an entirely-too-amusing idea and you should definitely run with it as a background detail in anything you write.

I haven't commented on much of your other stuff – any of it? – but it's always a pleasant experience, and getting to read these shortfics has been a highlight of the recent weeks. Keep it up, please and thank you.

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Aw, thanks. I like slice-of-life type things -- very often the moments I like the best from movies and TV shows are little bits of non-plot stuff between characters that establish them as having an existence outside of the story they're in -- but they are pretty light on conflict; the best you can usually manage out of that kind of material is a mellow "huh, that's neat".

I worry sometimes that when I write Dash she comes off as... I dunno, a bit dense. And she's not, really, she's just so all-or-nothing about everything that she does that she misses subtle (and obvious) cues all the time. She does have her moments like that in the show, I guess, and SociallyOblivious!Dash is (hopefully) preferable to Awesome!/20%Cooler!Dash.

And, I don't really have a horse in the race (ship in the harbour?) when it comes to shipping, but even the show itself has been pretty insistent on Rarijack...

> “I have this dumb headcanon that says that, since Fluttershy mentioned French fashion specifically in Suited for Success, that France is a place somewhere just outside of Equestria’s borders, exactly as it is in the real world. Whether it’s populated by humans or not, I haven’t decided.”

I always interpreted that line as a mispronunciation of Prench Fashion. I imagine a land called Prance where ponies speak Fancy like AppleBloom does in CutiePox.

We know from Equestrian Girls that humans are not native to Equus and are rare to nonexistent on Equus.

I have not read the story at the time of this post just had to comment about the tree/forest pic. It has to be the coolest picture I have seen in some time! How did you get it?

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The boring technology of Google Image Search. I think I was looking for "hidden tree" or something similar, which is 99% pictures of faces and penises hidden in tree branches.

Very nice, the subtle touches were magnifique.

OH MY GOD THIS WAS THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!!

I looooved them being switched up with their behavior and I want so so so so much more I could die begging for it lol

Like I don't even understand the behavior necessarily, and I do kinda want to know what happened and what is happening after this and omg it was just so wonderful!!!!!!

Faving!

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