On Rarity's request, Twilight goes to talk Pinkie Pie to go to Rarity's tea party.
She isn't supposed to take no for an answer but nobody said anything about what Pinkie Pie was really up to.
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I find myself confused, i understand that the joke is a play on words while also saying that Twilight is a virgin, yet i do not understand why Pinkie is making said tea/potion.
Also could we get to see a follow up to see Twilight try to make the other five drink it?
Wat.
I just...
Yeah.
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Virginity is not the joke. Twilight is the joke. Think about it. Twilight the former unicorn is drinking 'tea' from her friend Pinkie Pie who is an earth pony who isn't from around 'here'.
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Fun fact: That will be a future story.
Uhhhh... What? This is totally... what?
Ohmygosh am I missing something here?!
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There is a punchline. Think about it.
Twilight was and is a unicorn. Pinkie Pie is an earth pony. Rarity is also a unicorn. Mr. Cake has unicorn relatives. And despite Pinkie Pie's kettle and pot, she wasn't making tea.
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Your profile pic is the exact copy of my face right now...
5543961 Apologies for missing the joke,I am not really good at such things as finding underlying meaning in ether speech or writing ,and do not see why that specifically would be funny?
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Say, what are you confused about? Really? Did it feel like the story ended too abruptly?
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I really liked word-play. I did the add the random tag as a warning. It's a punchline that makes you say 'oh' instead of 'ha'. Don't get distracted from the point like Twilight was.
5544009 Okay thanks for taking the time to explain.
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Heheh... Maybe I'm just too Twilight and the point flew over my head too
I almost never have trouble picking up any underlying humor or hidden jokes with the exception of references that I'm not familiar with (and I LOVE word play and puns). So I can say without a doubt, even after reading your "hints" in the comments, if this has some kind of punch line you've obscured it to a point beyond reasonable recognition.
The characters felt a little off in how they spoke, speaking in abrupt short start and go sentences but over all it wasn't off putting and went from point A to point B well enough. Overall, it doesn't deserve a thumbs down by any means but I can't find a reason to give it a thumbs up either. Just kinda, stuck in limbo.
Okay this is pissing me right the fuck off.
What the fuckdiggityuck is the meaning? Where's the pun?? Does 'unicorn' mean something??? Or is 'virgin' a metaphor for something unrelated????
And why is Pinkie acting weird?!?
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Weird for Pinkie, I mean...
I'm sure you've got clever answers that make perfect sense but they're not visible to the rest of us! Please fucking explain!
I have to be honest...
The reason everyone is confused? Is because there is no apparent point to anything in this story, and there certainly doesn't appear to be any wordplay. Whatever you intended the point and punchline of this to be? Nobody's going to get it because it isn't making any sense to anybody but you.
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Blog here for why I wrote it. But why don't I explain myself?
Virgin definition:
: a person who has not had sexual intercourse
: a person who does not have experience in a particular activity, job, etc.
And this one,
The tribal years when earth ponies basically had to make all the food. With all of Pinkie Pie's movement and smells, it looks like she is making something really good. But when Twilight drinks it...
The Emperor's New Clothes.
Like so,
Twilight goes to tell Rarity to straighten this out, whether the tea is really tea. Rarity is also a unicorn, she would smell the same thing and as Pinkie implied by reminding Twilight of Rarity's unicorn status, would also be tasting nothing and lying about it.
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Other Things:
-Mr. Cake has unicorn relatives, thereby unicorn blood.
-Pinkie Pie was anxious when Twilight first came and tried to discreetly encourage her to leave.
-Despite what Twilight thinks, Pinkie Pie wasn't done what she was doing. She kept on cooking.
-Pinkie Pie's tail twitched in a z-pattern and she took the time to think about what she was going to say. She asked Twilight if she liked being friends before resuming to discreetly remind Twilight that she was a unicorn. She knew what Twilight was going to do.
-In Hearth's Warming Eve, unicorns are called snobs by the earth ponies. But that doesn't stop them from eating the food the earth ponies make and grow. In this story, Twilight is firmly calling what Pinkie Pie is doing as tea and goes forth to share it with Rarity, a unicorn. Her intention is to see if Rarity will also taste nothing but of course, Rarity might also say the tea tastes great and force it on to the others.
And outright, Pinkie Pie says, “But Twilight, it's not tea. You can't taste anything-”
But Twilight laughs over her, continuing to force her opinion. How snobbish of her, though she admitted she knew nothing about tea.
5544300 okay, it's part criticism of unicorns and people who assert their opinions on matters they have little understanding of
I got that the first time around
But what I couldn't understand and what made me second guess every idea I had was this: what in the name of Celestia's big fat ASS does Pinkie mean when she says "only virgins can drink it?"
Is she deliberately trying to trick Twilight, as the clothes maker in The Emperor's New Clothes did?
Is the drink itself some kind of metaphor for the story, with a seemingly complex and alluring face value but with no taste or meaning underneath??
Or is it something else entirely?
I am also confused.
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She means what she says. Only virgins can taste it. Why? Because they haven't tasted it before and they'll say it tastes like something!
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How come?
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5544381 Yyyyeah see...that's too abstract. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be abstract and all? But 99% of the time, when you write abstractism like this, you're going to get EXACTLY the kind of reaction this has been met with.
IE, utter confusion.
Read the story, read all the comments (and the blog post), re-read the story. Still don't get what is suppose to be the point. *shrugs*
I...
What?
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From what I gather.. It was some sort of Earth Pony witchcraft and, at that point in brewing, it smelled like excellent tea. And for reasons, only pure blooded Earth Pony virgins can taste it.
So.. Twilight was babbling to convince Pinkie that she was a virgin. During this, Pinkie was probably thinking "Shut up and go away, kinda trying to summon Shub-Niggurath here".
Or something.
Though I would've pegged Pinkie as the most likely to be sexually experienced.
Hmm.. Time for a list! From most likely to have made the Spider Pony to least likely.
Pinkie
Rainbow Dash
Rarity
Applejack
Twilight
Fluttershy
Yeah, add me to the list of people who don't get it.
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Guys, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't understand what there is to not get. The entire story is just a punchline for the title. Virginity and Virgini-Tea. Freakin hilarious. When I commented earlier, I didn't mean to leave hints like there was a greater message. There isn't. I might write a story in the same vein with Twilight and Pinkie Pie talking about cooking but that is far, far from now.
Is there a point to this story, well I'm going to say to look at that bright blue random tag and tell me. What is the point that you are looking for?
See, I don't get what's so abstract about it. Maybe I put too much focus on Pinkie Pie's cooking but Twilight lied about the taste, kept on calling it tea and took off with the intention to make Rarity drink it. Why was she doing it? Because if only virgins can taste it and Twilight couldn't, then Rarity could or couldn't either. Choose your headcannon about Rarity but the punchline is that this was the same sort of behavior going on in the old ages. And it's about to resume.
Shoot, that makes me want to write that fic about cooking even more.
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That was a long way to go for a pun.
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Have you read Feathers For The Featherlord? I'm known for this crazyness!
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I like this oneshot and I find it quite amusing to see how many people try to find an underlying punchline when there simply isn't.
English isn't even my native language and in all honesty I've understood it immediately. Maybe not the emperors clothes reference as such but I understood. Reading Regina Wright's explanations only confirmed what I already thought was intended.
So I guess sometimes, the joke is that there simply is none. It's just what is said and, like Regina said, that Twilight immediately thought Pinkie was referring to Twilight being a virgin as in sexually not a virgin as in 'has never tried that tea before'.
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Where have you been, you glorious person you! Thank you,
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No problem. I guess your humour has just been a little bit too high for some people, since it's no ordinary pun-based-punchline-humour.
It's more dry and plain. It's directed more at behaviour and thinking patterns into which people easily fall than at situations and funny turns of events as such.
Am I correct with my approach at explaining it?
You would probably be one of those who understand the comics at xkcd.com
Do you know xkcd?
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Yes, you're right and I do know about xkcd. I just didn't expect all these comments. I figured I get three going 'haha' with the rest moving on. And I haven't said yet but thank you for reading. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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It was nice to have something so radically different for once. I think your story is the first one with this focus here.
..or at least the first one I see.
Oh and to object to 5544132 , I didn't think the characters were off. Pinkie was not making very much sense, true, but only if you didn't take her words literal. Twilight's sentences being to short, I don't see, since she's flustered by the fact that she's so blankly being told about her virginity. It makes sense for her neurotic character to become a little erratic.
Also I don't think it's all that important what meaning the tea has or if it has any meaning at all. (I hope, again, I understood your intentions correctly). The point is simply the aforementioned. If that tea has special properties and/or meaning or not is not relevant to the story. This to those who might criticise this point of your story.
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I said they felt a "little" off, not a lot. It felt like their conversation was more jarring than fluid and more stiff than casual conversation between friends. To your statement of: "Twilight's sentences being to short, I don't see, since she's flustered by the fact that she's so blankly being told about her virginity." Here is the first paragraph right when she speaks to Pinkie, before Virginity is even brought up:
These are short abrupt sentences that I feel could have been presented better without such stiffness in the speech. So, it seemed like it was worthwhile constructive criticism to put forth for the author's consideration for future endeavors.
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Okay, well, if there's nothing to get, then instead add me to the list of people who didn't think it was amusing.
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You have been noted.
My brain farted then exploded. This was good. Write more.
Is it weird that I understood this?
I enjoyed the joke, but as a story it doesn't really work. It's just too incomplete with that sudden stop.
After rereading this story, I have determined one important fact: Both Twilight and I did not learn anything from "Swarm of the Century."
Specifically, we failed to learn that Pinkie Pie is a needlessly cryptic bastard and one should not take anything she says at face value.
Also racism?
For some reason?
This really messed me up.
I thought that the punchline was Twilight wasn't a virgin and then I thought pinkie was cooking unicorn then it went to elder gods and now it's back to Twilight not being a virgin.
That is the punchline, right? Right?
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5548678 You feckin troll! I'll knock you out, you piece o' shite! I swear it on me mum!
(I did enjoy the story.)
5545112 i get a feeling this virgini-tea might have been a folksy earth pony lesson in humili-tea.
Well, this is way too complicated even after understanding your point. Also, Twilight feels a little OOC if that is the answer... Damn this fic made me tired trying to get it.
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Yes! That is the story in a nut-shell!
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Some people don't coffee, some people don't like tea.
5544009 it made me say "what?" I can find no point. But then it appears to be some sort of sex joke and I never get them. Nor see why they're funny.
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I don't like either, but that doesn't make this a bad story. I just got a brain cramp.
I just now found this story. I must chide Ozmandias42 for not recommending it to me.
Quite well done.
Ahhh I see what ya did there.
The point of virgini-tea is to be pure and uncorrupted by other flavors.
Or maybe I'm over thinking it.