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aquilerafroot


I write about Rari-Twi, Twi-Luna, Twi-Lestia, and combinations of these. On a long hiatus. Thanks for reading!

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Emotions really depend on double coincidence of wants.

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Translates into "The Letters of Love" if anyone was wondering.

It's interesting to see how much emotion you can convey even though it isn't a single narrative, I like it. :twilightsmile:

361938

Thought it was 'Words Of Love' huh i could be wrong

Promising introduction

Can't wait

Love this ship

Wonderful. I love the patchwork style, and you've used it beautifully. So heartbreaking.

Noticed a possible typo:
"... or the world around be should ..."
Unless I'm mistaken, it should be "me" instead of "be".

I hate leaving comments when I don't have anything constructive to say, but here I am doing just that.

361980 No, "mots" is french for "letters".

361938 Thanks :twilightsmile: well I did a search before and thought it meant words of love, but I know that languages can be translated in many ways... so just understanding the general meaning will do for me :raritywink:
361955 Hoho, it means a lot, coming from you! :pinkiehappy: This is quite a change from my usual writing, though it does have quite a lot of my personal experience in it. :rainbowwild:
361980 I thought that too, after my Google search, but then languages can be hard to translate... few words can be completely substituted with one another :twilightoops:
362088 Thanks! This is really different from my other :twilightsmile::raritywink: ship, so... :pinkiesmile:
362202 Woah, thanks for pointing that out, and it is constructive :raritywink:
362445 :fluttershysad:

363003 BTdubs, I didn't read this, I avoid shipping like the plague. Just wanted to clarify. Good luck on your writing.

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tsk tsk, 'faut demander à quelqu'un qui parle déjà français...

Do you know what you're talking about? ಠ_ಠ
"mots" certainly doesn't mean letters. It can sometimes be used as an expression "laisser un mot" for "leaving a note" but it's not referring to actual letters. It's the kind of note we'll leave on the fridge or the door when we go outside, not a full written letter that we put in an envelop and mail.

Otherwise, "mots" simply means "words". But meh, translating English into French is probably the worst thing to do. Especially if you do it word for word. The other way around is not that bad, but English-to-French is just...Horrible. You didn't had to translate a whole paragraph though, lucky you. Otherwise I would still be correcting those awful syntax mistakes Google does.

The way the story is written is fitting what I'm explaining. Twilight doesn't write a letter, she's writing notes, in a journal, or on parchments. The title is right in it's own way. She's writing notes about her loved one, while writing actual words to express her love. It's working in both possible way, there's no need to modify it.

363550 I can't say I do know what I'm talking about; I'm taking a grade nine French program that I do not excel in. In Canadian French it may be different, because I know that actual French differs slightly from that. I can understand what you said in French; you want to know if I'm sure if I speak French. 361980 Sorry, I'm a blind fool, you're probably correct. J'ai tres stuipide. That was probably wrong. I give up.

363598 It's so different from anything I've done before... :fluttershbad::derpyderp1: Glad u like it tho!

363600 So you're Canadian? Me too. It doesn't matter, languages are hard to translate anyway, and as a person fluent in two very different languages (English, Chinese), I encounter these situations frequently. Definitions aren't that important :twilightsheepish: To me, any explanation could be correct.

363550 I hate learning French. The words have genders that change their meanings and stuff, the order in which everything strings together is so different, verbs are crazy, and it's too fast to speak and too slow to write. For me, at least. 363681 It seems that we differ in that. I HATE using a word wrong. Makes me look like I don't know squat, and yet I (I think I do) know so much compared to others my age. Gee, ninth graders are pretty dumb sometimes, arn't we?

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I have but one problem.

Now I wanna know what happens next. :facehoof:

Other than I don't really get what the numbering was about, it was a good read.

363003 Yea that happens alot :/

This. . .is. . .so. . .beautiful. . .I cried.

364565 Whoops, didn't plan that... :fluttershyouch: But the whole story was written really fast. Actually only the first two pieces are from my blogs. :rainbowlaugh: :twilightoops:

364575 Well I'll break it down for you then! :twilightsheepish: It was a bit subtle I admit.
18 and zero are red. 6 is pink, and 3 is blue.
I used red, the color of a heart (or just some color associated with roses or something), to signify well, love, and beginnings. The beginning of Twilight's writing her sorrow, and their new beginning together.

6 is when Twilight thinks about her cutie mark (six points on the star), and 3 is Rarity's cutie mark (3 diamonds). 3 says that Twi had a silly notion that 6x3=18, so 18 is a special number for her (yes it's so very subtle:twilightoops:)

Hence the countdown starts from 18.

364601 Wow... just wow. :twilightsheepish: I didn't know I could write something emotional... your comment really made this piece worth it. :raritydespair:

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Well... uhhh.... Start planning! :twilightsheepish:

364774

If you have not seen it: Curls

Would likely be similar just with another way of starting out.

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Yes I know about Curls, and No I don't like the start of that nearly as much as this one. :facehoof:

364768 Actually, I meant that's ALL that I understood out of the numbers. Was that, like, the ENTIRE point of the numbers?

365422 Just some sentimental boo-hoo-hooey :rainbowwild:

365412 Haha, first thing I ever wrote... :facehoof: So awful.

368034

pssstttt

Re-write it! :twilightsheepish:

Elle me dis des mots d'amour, des mots de tous le jours, et ça me fait quelque chose;
Elle est entre dans ma couer, une part de bonheur, et dont je connais le cause.
C'est elle pour moi, moi pour elle dans la vie, elle me la dit la juré pour la vie ....
:raritywink:

Love your stuff. Go finish one of these sometime!

374580 :twilightblush: Thanks >< it means a lot to me :D
But finish one of these? i'm not sure what you mean...? :duck:

There is French speaking in this? Goodbye.

380250 There's only one line that's french, and it's a song title :raritywink:

Until 3 it is the story of my life <_<

381940 Mine too... and really, I did not succeed where Twilight did :fluttercry::fluttershysad:

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I can feel lil Twilight pain there, being with someone you love all the time and knowing she does not love you back it's horrible, lucky me I could channel all the pain into constructive self destruction a.k.a. martial arts, it's difficult to feel emotional pain over physical pain, at least in my case :pinkiehappy:. And even after I moved on it still felt good when I saw her new boyfriend with a beer belly :rainbowlaugh:

459974 :fluttercry: More than one sentence (fine, I confess, a lot of sentences) were actually from my note/doodle book :twilightsheepish: It's basically what I felt as well when love didn't work :fluttershysad: LOL that's funny... weird girls like beer bellies... ~"~ exes getting stds~ (lyrics from a song in Avenue Q):rainbowlaugh:

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it's not that girls like beer bellies, it's more that there are so many mans that have it that the girls don't really have a choice in the matter :rainbowlaugh: we should totally make a brony health campaign, so that the bronies will not only be the best and nicest community on the internet but also the healthiest!
I've got a motto for it! "we will lift and tone up the shit out of you!" and there's a already an official supporter th03.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2012/100/0/5/rainbow_dash_coach_by_maximillian_alpine-d4vripo.png

When I saw the title, I expected some deep literary reference to Le mort d'Arthur. When I saw the backwards numbering, it reminded me of Merlin's reversed perception of time.
What I'm saying is that my expectations were unreasonably high, and I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
:twilightsmile::raritywink:

Nice short one-shot, was sort of expected a horrible ending the way it sounding like Twilight was going crazy. lol:raritywink:

Felt like reading something of yours since I had some time to myself for once.

It's a nice change of pace to see Rarity being unsure of how she feels about Twilight. The few other fics I've read with Twarity usually make the fashionista head-over-hooves in love with the librarian, kind of in an unbelievable way. There's a lot more to Rarity than the over-the-top drama queen that's used for comedy, and I think you captured it pretty well.
It was interesting to see Twilight so expressive about her emotions, without being too scientific about them. I think it would have been cool if she had started out scientific (questioning why she was feeling this way about Rarity), and then slowly build up to being artistic (realizing she's hopelessly devoted to her).

Very sweet. And I'm glad the Sad tag didn't account for the ending! :twilightsmile:

There was so much emotion in this... I'll be honest... I felt almost... robbed when it ended with an inexplicable deus ex machina. Why did Rarity change her mind? I'll almost always take a happy ending when I can get one, but honestly, this one just didn't ring true with me.

Anyways, considering how incredible this was for the first 95% of the story, I'm still feeling overall very positive about this. After all, how it ends is your personal decision. Job well done! :twilightsmile:

quite a pleasant little fiction.

I enjoyed the format and idea behind the counting very much, it was methodical without being overly so. :ajsmug:

Hmm. As soon as you mentioned it being the title of a song, I went searching and I found this:

Not to say that my opinion is more important than the author's (it most definitely isn't), but for me it was easier to visualize Rarity at work listening to this one. I think it's that classic accordion sound that does it.

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Hey thanks a lot for the vid! I think it actually sounds more 'French' than the one I was listening to, and very fitting as well :twilightsheepish: I didn't really mean for the song to be completely linked to the story, everyone can put whatever song that gives them similar emotions into this story, it just happened that that was a song that brought up a lot of emotions in me and helped me finish this story :twilightsmile: Thanks so much for reading too!

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It's so cool that you replied to my comment! Believe it or not, I was actually trying to find this story again because I forgot to favorite it and the name had just slipped my mind.

Random, but why is it that Rarity is so easy to visualize as French? Maybe it's because Rareté sounds so good when spoken, or fashion is automatically associated with France for some reason. I dunno.

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I just didn't want it to be like most times in my life :twilightoops: And how're things going? Haven't seen u around recently. (oh and I read this comment ages ago, just suddenly figured I'd reply lolz)

1956073 Ha, you thought a painful ending would be too difficult to write or something? Anyways, I'm doing great, but have been quite busy. Exams are in two weeks for me. Writing has slowed to a halt, unfortunately. How about yourself?

How dare you tear me down, break my heart and make me feel such despair only to pull me up and bring a smile to my face and warmth to my heart. Thank you.

I honestly thought this was going to end in suicide, and that makes me feel horrible. Fuck you for making me cry, and for making me think that.

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