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D G D Davidson


D. G. D. is a science fiction writer and archaeologist. He blogs on occasion at www.deusexmagicalgirl.com.

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Twilight Sparkle has made a strange deal with Brad: he ties her up, and she does everything he tells her to.

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wiiman #1 · Aug 1st, 2014 · · 1 ·

...what the hell did I just read?

I like it, I guess in this universe the Mirror works a little bit...differently. Now I REALLY want to know where Sunset Shimmer is, is she in the stable with Twilight?

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There is no place for your grammar Nazi here. Even is another word for evening.

Creepy.

This was exactly what I expected. I even mentally prepared myself to pronounce "pony" in an Irish accent.

as read by Gilbert Gottfried.

But like... what if all well-trained animals are just subs who are super in to it?

And every time you tell your dog to sit your dog is secretly like "UNF YES I'M A BAD DOGGY"

This was darkly hilarious. Very, very well done: bravo!

Huh. I thought I could tell where you were going with this at first, but you took a few unexpected turns, and now I'm rather thoroughly creeped out. You touched on a concept I find incredibly disturbing, and yet I still enjoyed the story. Well done. Thank you for a shudder-inducing read.

Oh man, that went from hilarious to really damn dark.

Well, that's fairly depressing. :fluttercry:

PresentPerfect
Author Interviewer

You have just entertained about half a dozen writers with this hotness.

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Yes, that does accurately describe my hit count.

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No.
Perfectly viable formatting.
Easier to read as well.

Huh. she's a real pony now.
Never seen that done before. I like it. :twilightsmile:

That was... really creepy feeling. Especially the bit at the end. Well written, just... creepy. :applecry:

Marked complete.

Daaa-(insert so many 'a' that you forget how I started and end up thinking I'm refering to a character from Avatar)-ang.

I'm reading the comments and they're all like:
>Dark
>Hilariously dark

.... It's just the story of a lonely horse in a stable.

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that sounds like something I'd do just to see her reaction.

4787009 I've not read it, and I don't think I'll plan to LOL...

No wonder I didn't get it.

4787023, 4787009

I've never read Fifty Shades of Grey either.

4785363 No there were a bunch of us in Quills and Sofas at Bronycon, reading this on PP's laptop. and you broke our happy little brains.:pinkiesad2:

4787265 It's all one big cliche thing, isn't it?

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Ah, I see. I am flattered.

But I admit that I am perhaps a little ashamed that the story of mine that got read there was one mocking bondage porn. I personally would have preferred "To My Princess, on the Day of My Departure," or "Love on the Reef," both of which are honest love stories instead, though the latter proved decidedly unpopular.

4788735 To be frank I think it was morbid curiousity that got the best of us. Since we had all seen it pop up in our feeds.

Yes, but calling it a satire of bondage porn does it a great disservice. It is far more than it's inspiration.

As for the latter I do recall it being distressingly underappreciated.

Hook, line, and sinker. Bellissimo.

4782491 In 1600, maybe. In 2014, no.

But great story. I did not know you harbored such disturbing thoughts. There's hope for you yet!

This needs to be marked tragedy, man.

...I'm out.

I'm done.

This was creepy as... Hell I don't even know.

~Skeeter The Lurker

Eh. Maybe it is the fact that i came in knowing what this was about, but this story did nothing to me.

Huh. Upvoted. Favorited.

Based on the Present Perfect and Bad Horse word-of-mouth blog posts, I came in half-expecting a story that would read like a comedic version of Equus taking refuge in extreme audacity. Instead I got 50 Shades of Grey mashed up with Somewhere Only We Know(*). Definitely broke my expectations, but worthwhile all the same! This really nails what it sets out to do.

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And I am utterly unfamiliar with all three of the works you just referenced.

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The third one I referenced is like if you took the last quarter of your story, ripped it away from its first three-quarters, and then shot its mother and left it to fend for itself for a few years. (It's good and you should read it. It got a Pony Fiction Vault feature.)

The first one I referenced is a thoroughly disturbing story for horrible people. Wait, no, that's the second one. Equus, on the other hand, is the one that became (slightly more) infamous when Harry Potter got naked.

On second thought, I'm genuinely not sure whether Equus or Fifty Shades of Grey is more horrifying. Equus is an unflinching look into skin-crawling aberrant psychology, while 50SG takes a borderline-disturbing fantasy done in a deeply unhealthy way and tries to pretend that it's all whips and roses.

This is intensely disturbing. I want to downvote on that grounds alone, but instead you get an upvote. Nevermind that I don't like the content. I have no complaints about the craft.

Yeah, I hate it when people downvote my fics without explanation, so I'll comment here as well, even though I suspect that the downvote won't actually bother you.

Basically, downvoted because you've skipped the 'dark' tag. I appreciate that putting it in would diminish the strength of a well-written story, but frankly reading a fic like this is a lousy way to start the day. I prefer to chose when I read depressing stuff, and now wasn't a good time.

Dammit! I tried, but I couldn't turn this into an über kinky smutfic in my head. Oh well... *sniff*
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Or, it's a normal horse in the real world that has been plagued by delusions of grandeur, and just a little bit of (possibly unwanted) intelligence. Twilight has gone done goofed an experiment and sent her thoughts hurtling through space/time, affecting this poor, bay coloured equine, who has no horn nor wings and nary a lavender hair on her body.

As for Brad having blue hair... I dunno. Prolly something to do with radiation and space/time screw ups. Sure. Whatever. I now wonder what zany stuff is going through his head. I mean, we've see what TwiHorse thinks. How much more for Brad, who must be plagued with memories of Flash Sentry/Francis?

Of course, I could be completely wrong about that and it's simply Brad daydreaming his horse was Twilight from a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, a show he enjoys watching when his dad ain't looking. He ain't got too many friends so he likes to project his deranged loneliness into his horse as he grooms and rides her.

Or TwiHorse was not a horse, but instead a Leotau. Whatever possibilities that may offer.

Anyways, I should stop with the crazy assed interpretations. I'm out of em. And I have ta be up in a few hours for work.

Upvote and fave cuz this fic was crazy, yet strangely mundane.

4802924 It's worse than that, it's manipulation to make the ending have more "impact". Biblical Monsters pulled the same stunt on a much larger scale (didn't add a Tragedy or Sad tag until the final chapter, upped the rating to mature for gore), which is why it is the Fimfic equivalent of Satan.

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I'm sure it put some grins on some faces. Just... not on the ones who normally smile a lot.

4788735 Don't be ashamed.

In practice, Quills and Sofas isn't a workshop for bettering one's writing, it's a seedy dive where horseword-makers congregate. Anyone who came in there with serious, heavy motivations didn't fit in too well, but those who came to party rubbed fetlocks with the horsefamous and were welcomed without reservation. :raritywink:

I liked this creepy story. You kinda have to appreciate that there's a real Fifty Shades, and not approve of its subtext, and perhaps even disapprove of Equestria Girls on top of that, to really 'get' Fifty Shades Of Brad. It's like a little editorial told through ponies and the most subtly sick and wrong multiple crossover I've ever seen :rainbowlaugh:

Seriously. If I'm counting properly, this desecrates three fandoms utterly, in under 1500 words. BraVO.

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I am all if those things and I loved this story!

The story doesn't work for me but had me chewing over why for a while. The title and summary suggested a clop parody. Not really my thing, but I like Davidson's work and got around to it on Bad Horse's recommendation. The first half, instead, was closer to Skywriters "Sun Princess," and was an interesting alternate sort of relationship between the two.

The second twist broke the story for me. I appreciate the tragedy, but something is missing from Brad. I see two possibilities. If he does not know who Twilight is, how are the two of them together and why does he have this pony? My preferred branch, the story is trying not to end as a tragedy. She has chosen to be with him and he has to bear the weight of that choice. She might not have the depth to understand her situation any longer, but he would, and she know something trouble him. But he does not. This Brad is a cipher. He cares, in a conventional way, for a pony. But if only Twilight knows she was different, how did this pairing happen? And if he knows, how is he hiding so much?

How has no one mentioned the similarity of this story's ending to that of "Flowers for Algeron"? :rainbowhuh:

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