Author's Notes
THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE!
One night I was listening to Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' and I was thinking that I should dust off my old 1920's Underwood, and maybe oil it. Sometime later that night, in my sleepiness-induced delerium, the thought crossed my mind of the description of keystrokes being used as a sexual innuendo. For some reason, I kept thinking of typewriter-related innuendos, and then it dawned on me that this was a pony fic a-brewing. Question is, which pony would suit this story? I had considered Applejack, it would be easy to make her out to be the closet-literary type. But Dashie was so much more ready for the role. She's already a hard-core Daring Do fangirl... fanfilly? And she actually has mentioned - in the show - that she writes stories (S3 E9). Might've been a bit of a joke, but it's not a far stretch to assume she'd write some Daring Do fanfiction. Plus, Dashie has that reputation complex, wanting to look like the awesomest pony in town to everyone. That works both ways, she could just as easily be embarassed about buying personal toys as she would be about buying a typewriter.
As for the whole 'used' thing, obviously a thing with adult toys. But not so much with a typewriter, you might say. Well, I once had a friend who compared owning a used car to using a used condom. Some people are just picky about stuff like that, and not necessarily germophobes. I have, of course, heard of ashamed kids buying used toys on ebay. Which genuinely does disgust me. Hence that whole bit in the story. That's just nasty. Like... buying used underwear, but worse.
Actually that whole schtick influenced the part of the story about Rainbow not wanting to put a return address on the envelope. Hehe. And the idea that the manufacturer's name is abbreviated is also part of that. I suppose the goal of buying used toys is for kids using their parents' credit cards, and not wanting 'DRAGON DILDO' showing up on a statement. I'm not sure of the actual name they use, but I'm pretty sure Bad Dragon is marked under something along the lines of 'Dragon, Inc.' Which is something professional looking and not... implicative.
The section with the mail order catalog, or rather the vast selection therein, came to me when I randomly looked up my Underwood typewriter on ebay, for pricing. Apparently, it isn't worth a whole lot :/ While searching ebay listings, I actually came across a bunch of strange and bizarre models. Most notably, an otherwise normal model that had an extremely wide carriage, meant for 3 foot wide paper. And also, a smaller 'portable' model that typed in cursive font. Those kind of blew my mind, I guess I never really looked into typewriters before. And, of course, that matches up quite well with all the crazy adult toys that exist.
The lubrication innuendo spawned directly from me considering oiling my own typewriter. Which would probably be a pain.
The ending reveal actually took some thinking. It was probably the last part of the story that I conceived. I didn't really know how to deliver it. I was originally going to just have it say, 'she typed "once upon a time..." ' hence the name of the chapter. But then, I realized, I'll just do what I do best: put an obnoxiously large paragraph space, to force a pause. A lot of readers despise my long breaks. But they get the job done.
By the way, I own a couple typewriters, yes, but I've honestly never actually typed anything of any importance on one. I'm not some hard-core literary nerd who prefers using a mechanical typewriter. MS Word is the way to go, in my opinion. (Although I am a bit picky about my computer keyboard.) Truthfully, I appreciate typewriters as mechanical marvels more than anything, and I'm hardly a collector.
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This cannot end well. At all.
You posted it without my knowing!? I thought we were friends! D:
6183210 6183427 Glad you liked!
6183280 Did you even read it? lol
6183331 Hey Merlos. I posted that story.
You sneaky little writer, you made it look like she was ordering a sex toy, not a type writer.
6183783 6184330 lol
6183823 You don't say...
6183834 I was
6183922 Hehehe...
That cover
+1 goodfuck
I mean goodfic
6184531 I did!
6184657 6187240 :3
6184850 Maybe I should've done that...
6185083 6186730 Got ya!
6185558 lol. The cover was comissioned from KaoKay
6185594 Nice!
6186955 Heheh.
6187149 I accept this victory!
6189029 Thanks!
6201606 Uhhhh... I'd rather you didn't.
As I think we ended up discussing -- the punchline is everything, and yours delivered beautifully.
10/10, gold star.
6212141 Mmm... dough.
eeeenope.
Indeed, the punchline. I'm glad you liked it. GOLD STAR! 
6218485
6320576 Hey! You actually read it!
6323147 I did, yes!
Would've gone for the platinum star, but it was out of my price range.
6330372 Huh. That would've been interesting!
6330706 lol I think all the hints were wrong. mybad.
Considering all the smut that can be created with Dash's new toy, I'd say this is just as lewd if not more so than the usual adult toy.
Finally got around to reading this, and I have to say well done on the build up.
6386540 Touché, sir. And I'm glad you liked it!
To be honest, I was reluctant to read this story, in fact I did not want to read this story period... (see what I did there... no... lol I'm bad at this :P)
, told me to read this - as it had a comedy to it and unexpected ending. And so, I did. 
If this was just a random story on FIMfiction I would had brushed it off. But my friend, to this day I have no idea how he found out I was a brony
Now the ending was not that unexpected, mind you, yet I still found myself giggling throughout the read and almost died with the typewriter bit. Anyway, to my great un-expectation, this was a great story, I'm looking forward to your other ones as well sir!
6555834 Well I am very pleased that you found yourself liking it!
7027600
Heheh.
I was all like
...this is gonna be from Bad Dragon.
...This is most definitely gonna be from Bad Dragon.
.....Welp, here we go.. Oh, brilliant she's using it already-
7291614 Hehehehe! Yeah, all sorts of bits and pieces of this are inspired by Bad Dragon... uh... patrons? Yeah, patrons. Not a patron myself, but I used to know a lot of furries... so...
7293866
Not a patron yourself? Uh-huh, suuuure.
When you say you knew a lot of furries, what do you mean by that?
*shrug*
I still own a typewriter.
9071285 I have 3. They are neat little machines.
Maybe I should be smarter next time......
Good job, pal!
9072243 Thanks, I think.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
This is what the internet is for lol
BD is USUALLY packaged as "BD Enterprises Inc." If you google "BD Entreprises" you'll find "B+D Enterprises", a supplier of small electronic parts.
Granted, the last order I got from them was packaged as "Jan Mulders" which is a LOT less discreet on the google search.
10506460 Interesting. I wonder if B+D C&D'd BD.