After a long and happy life, Tom left us today. Now Twilight Sparkle honors his memory by telling the story of their love.
Written primarily in honor of the great Tom Magliozzi, of Car Talk fame, who passed away on November 3, 2014.
But it also happened to fit perfectly with the game of Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder I'm playing with some friends, in which we are writing fics for all of the ships we play. Find out more about that here and read the other fics written for the game here.
This story ships Fanfic Author Twilight with Tom using the Crossover ship. (I'm counting it as a crossover for the purposes of the card because Tom in this story is basically Car Talk's Tom, but I decided not to give it the Crossover tag, because it's not really a true crossover.)
So, exactly how stoned was Twilight during all this?
Poor Tom
I thought of Boulder (Maud's pet rock) at first.
You should totally add a "sad" tag to this one. Believe it or not, my eyes were getting a bit moist toward the end there.
Beautifully written!
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Hey now, be gneiss. There's no need for such basalt accusations.
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Well, Boulder is a pretty great rock too.
He was going to make a cameo appearance, but I couldn't find a good way to fit him in. So instead you just get the implication that Maud really can talk with him.
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I did consider it. I think the story ended up in some weird gray area between a sad story and a comedy, though it probably does fall more on the sad side. I ultimately decided not to use either tag, but I'll reconsider if you think the Sad tag is appropriate.
And I thought that Tom would probably appreciate a funny story more than a sad one.
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Thanks!
His re-manes were used for the bed in the I-47 freeway carriage over pass.
Still passing in the slow lane.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/44928/rarity-apologizes-to-a-rock
You had no reason to make this story actually good, The Letter J. But you did, and it was awesome.
Seriously, that last line made the entire fic.
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No reason to make it good? Of course there was a reason! I'm not going to go and post something that I don't think is decent, at the very least.
And thank you.
You're killing me here!
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I think it might be a rule now that all of my stories have to have at least one awful pun in them.
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By the way, I did decide to follow your advice and add the Sad tag.
Brilliant! I especially liked the fanon about the study of Maud's Earth pony magic allowing Twilight to understand Tom.
An appropriately random end credits note for a random ship fic.
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I was pretty happy with that idea myself. I have ideas for at least one other fic based on the same concept that I might get around to writing sometime.
I wish I could take credit for those, but they came straight from the Car Talk credits. I just ponified some of it.
This was hilarious, and that Author's Note...
This needs a
Tom
tag!