What have you done?

yay another story!!

TwilightxSoarin?

FluttershyxBlueblood?

Talk about ya crack pairings ^^

Can't wait for more

Fluttershy and Blueblood.

FLUTTERSHY and BLUEBLOOD.

Wow I wasn't expecting it to be Soarin!

Nice start! I like the fact you'll be doing less well known pairings. I like SoarinxTwilight!

I'm excited to see who the others will be paired with!

Well, interesting. It took me a while to figure out Soarin', but I got there in the end, mainly because of 'Distance Flight.' Blueblood just came out of nowhere. Cool!

First i saw the picture then i said "yes this will be a good story" now i have been proved right can't wait for more....mush.

Fluttershy and Blueblood! Haha was not expecing that one either!

Good job! i like your writing style.

Dashie next!! Whoopee! I hope she's paired with somepony good!

Nicely unusual pairing, and I like the astronomical bits as well.

There we go! I'm always worried about stories like these, because just about every pairing has been done. The last one has at least two prominent serials that I can think of, which did nothing to belay my fears (although it was quite good), but HERE there be dragons.

Good work.

You monster!

<3

Whoa nice! TwilightxSoarin, didn't see that coming!

Is there going to be a way to get Blue Blood get mauled(if not eaten) by sharks in the incoming future?

i love it!!!

BearShy, wait I mean BlueShy is a great new ship. Unless I misread it, I assume Bluey is trying to track down some seaponies?

I can't believe this, but partway through this, you somehow got me almost liking Blueblood a bit, without massive character change over story! Wow!!!

Funny thing is, the more I think of it, I'm honestly surprised that I haven't seen more Fluttershy/Blueblood...It seems like if anypony could possibly make him a little more tolerable, it would be her.

You're going to have one hell of a time finding an original crack pairing for Dash. She's been shipped with pretty much everything out there.

Blue and green chariot teams, eh? Someone's been taking notes from Byzantine history, it seems.

Er, shouldn't Fancy Pants still think Rainbow Dash is the Wonderbolts' trainer?

Ok, this really is an original story. I was kind of skeptic when you said that it would contain different shipping that had ever been done before, but I was really surprised by a lot of the pairings, great job. I almost thought that Blue-blood  was Dr. Whooves, it  would've been just as surprising. Rare spelling/grammar mistakes, nothing of real note. Great story, keep up the chapter flow and I can easily see this being one of my favorite stories.

FancyDash? Wow. (RainbowPants just sounds weird...)

hmmmmm... soarin cool story bro

Rariburn? Braeity? Yet another new (to me at least) and interesting matchup.

For some reason I see the Titanic....

Not bad.

"I figure I'll probably live to sixty."

Do ponies have short life-spans or something?

That, sir, was absurdly unexpected!

Twi & Soarin? Why not?

Shy & Blueblood. Interesting.

But Rainbow and Fancy... wow.. just wow. This is a little weird.

But I still feel surprised.

Annnnd, this is really good fanfic.

YES! Blueblood and Fluttershy! Very nice pairing, though, she'll ease his rudeness and he'll make her even more assertive (the HORROR)

THANKS

YEEEEEESH!

Woah this pairing is odd...

For some reason BraeburnxRarity seems perfect.

>>562103562103

I just sort of typed that without thinking about it much. RL horses, like most animals, don't tend to live as long as us humans, plus my own view of canon is that pony technology is 19th century, wherein a generous life expectancy would be around 60. Of course, to most of us first world types here and now, 60 is way too short; we expect to at least eek out 100 if we mind our health.

>>558853558853

RD and Fancy met briefly at the end of Sweet and Elite, and I think he figured out she wasn't the Wonderbolts trainer at that time or afterwards.

>>557289557289

He did seem a little worried by the white-tip that swam over in ch2, but with Fluttershy around, I don't think any animal would dare take a bite.

To most everyone else:

Thanks for the comments, I'll just say again that the purpose of this was odd, unexpected pairings! My own personal take on the serials?

Sparklin' Blueshy Fancydash Braeity

Only Applejack and Pinkie Pie left now...

I think what makes this story good is that despite being very surprising/unexpected, the actions of the characters are very believable. Its a good piece of writing and I'm looking forward to the final chapter.

I love this, it really is pairings I've never seen done before, and wonderfully done. Never considered any of these pairs, or some of the non-main characters you used, but still done well. Non of them are even acting unlike they normally would, you haven't really changed who they are, but you've pulled it off.

Awww, only one more chapter left?! But you've barely given us a glimpse into these strange yet fascinating ships! Now that you've started my imagination running I'd like to see some of them fleshed out more just to see how the romance would play out.

Oh well, the story is still very enjoyable and I hope the Epilogue will be as well! I wonder if everypony will learn about the other's dates... The reactions should be fun to watch! My only gripe is that I couldn't sense much romantic potential between AJ and Flim. To me it felt like they reconciled and became business associates, there was maybe even a tentative friendship forming between the two, but nothing beyond that. I just didn't feel that certain romantic vibe I guess...

AppleFlim? I like the "noone is actually a villain" approach you appear to be taking.

Very nice.

YAY! Pinkie\Trix! SHOW AND PARTY AND STUFF.

This is not that much of a crack pairing, if you think about it. It's about on par with Twixie, in fact, in terms of canon, so if that's not a crack pairing this certainly isn't. BluebloodxRarity (couldn't think of a shortened form that looked right) is also on the same level, though it's less common.

The epilogue is going to be all of them seeing who the others have paired off with, isn't it? Also, I am impressed that you have not used any background characters; you've only used characters with defined names and personalities.

you WILL sequel this.

You're gonna have a grey unicorn filly named Pippin!  

What makes ya say that?

All the signs are in place...

Meanwhile...

Darling, just look at Twilight's new niece!  She has the most beautiful black coat!

I dunno, she's got weird eyes like spike's...

Not bad. Mind you, as one of Dashie's creepy obsessed fans, I'm always ambivalent about unusual pairings with her, but this was done well enough that I shall rein in my fanboyism.

Also, blues and greens, whites and reds? Someone's been reading up on Byzantium. Also, it reminded me of this song, which I listened to as I read the part about the races.

Good jorb.

Oh man you made me spit my drink BLUEBLOOD!! OUT OF FREAKIN NOWHERE!!!

Fancy pants is always a basass, in whatever fic he's in.

>>562909562909 It's ok allright, but the very moment he makes fluttershy cry he's fair game for all the predator animals around, no exeptions

>>562909562909 "My own view of canon is that pony technology is 19th century."

Though I have seen a modern dam, an arcade machine, and an EKG cutie mark.  I'd say 1970's at the high end but 1870's at the low.  Media seems to be in the middle, ponies have sound systems but the only visual media I've seen was a black & white film.

Pony-tech is fascinating, really.  

Rainbow  Dash and Fancypants?, well this was completely unexpectd and it looks very good so far, but one question, What happend with Fleur De Lis?, Isn't Fancypants and her where an Item? or just two very good friends and nothing more

>>572590572590

Something to cover in a potential epilogue. I liked one alternative that no one thought of before: she's his bodyguard!

>>568786568786

Haha. Yep. I was lucky to find that this pairing hadn't been done before.

>>563867563867

Exactly what I wanted. The pairings couldn't just be 'new,' they also had to be at least semi-established characters. But you don't think AppleFlim is crack enough? I guess there have been pictures of AJ and the brothers, but as far as I knew, no fics.

>>563685563685

One of the things I considered, writing these chapters, is just how much each pair needed just to get back on even footing before any real chemistry could click. AJ's chapter required the most, and she was very proactive in it. I guess you could say I thought of the 'partnership' step as being the biggest hurtle with the hypothetical litmus test being how the brothers integrate to life on Sweet Apple Acres. It doesn't help that I've always thought of AJ s very professional-minded.

>>568247568247

The Eastern Roman Empire is always on my mind. lol. I figured it was just a fun little bit of trivia to stick in and I'm glad a bunch of people noticed! Though Dash's loyalty towards the Reds also matches some of the grief we modern sports fans often feel towards our favorite teams that tend to struggle.

>>563725563725

Thanks. I sort of figure, imagine if we saw any of the mane six on a really bad day (or a freak out) - we'd get a bad impression of them too. So I tried to give all the former antagonists the benefit of the doubt in my own way, though I also didn't want this to be about a 'villain's redemption.' They are who they are.

Thanks again for reading, guys!

>>572705572705 Well, AppleFlim is something I haven't seen done before. It just occurs to me that, given show canon and nothing more, it seems about as likely as something like Twixie.

>>572705572705 Fleur being Fancypants bodyguard?... hmmm... ME GUSTA!, that's really an interesting concept and nopony would expect that, then again your AppleFlim starting out as a buisness relationship at first have a lot of potential, and finally the Trixie Pie was just simply awesome and the way you put it makes as much sense as the pinkie sense(don't question it, just acept it)

>>572705572705 >>572799572799 Fleur as a bodyguard sounds like a great idea.

>>572928572928 Talking about decieving apearances don't we?

Rock paper scissors... With ponies...

HOW?!

SoarinTwi? I can already tell just by how you've written Soarin' that I'm going to like the rest of this story. It'll be nice to see some M/f shipping for once. Not that I have a problem with the usual.

Capn, I'll admit that I've had a bit of a negative thought when I first saw this story go up. When I saw the first couple ships, along with the established plot point in This Platinum Crown of the imbalance of mares to stallions seemingly being solved simply by each stallion having multiple mares, I began to think that you had issues with same-sex shipping. And I'll admit, the idea that one of my favourite pony authors might be so close-minded irritated me greatly, and so I ignored this story (though I still followed This Platinum Crown, because you already had me hooked on that).

So when Eros Dreaming was posted at EqD, I clicked the link before noticing that it was this story, and I saw that there were six chapters rather than the two seen last time, and I decided to glance through the comments briefly to see if the trend had continued. And it did for the third chapter, and the fourth, and the fifth, and my irritation grew... and then I got to the sixth chapter, and I saw it was Pinkie paired with Trixie.

And I also see that I owe you an apology, Capn. I judged too soon, on too circumstantial of evidence, and I will now actually go and read what you have written. I am sorry.

>> rock-paper-scissors match

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Also Soarin'Twi. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think this is a new one!

The Eros Dreaming!

Exciting and New!

Come aboard!

We're expecting you!

>Fluttershy reached out to touch it's hard shell

Just a passing note. So far, so good.

Uh, Pixie? Is that what we're going to call this? I can't think of anything else...

To say this entire story was unusual is an understatement. Despite that, or rather because of it, this has been one of the most entertaining things I have read in a while. You kept me guessing with Shy's and Twi's, and surprised the hell out of me with everyone of them except Rarity. I don't know why, but that one didn't have as much of a profound effect on me as the others.

Also, Pinkie's was easily the best out of all of them. It's also the only mare mare shipping here as well.

I knew I sensed sleaze in 'Bellarus'!  Espcially when he refused to pay for anything else for Fluttershy. I'm a bit wary of this pairing.

I enjoyed the chapter for the most part, though.

Except for

A sea snake soon came by, wrapping around her arm before uncoiling and heading into shallower waters.

Arm? WhatisthisIdon'teven.

Heh.  I knew it was Soarin, but only because he's just about the only male pegasus we know.  Other than like, Roid Rage.

>>575731575731

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm

"In other animals, the term arm can also be used for analogous structures, such as one of the paired forelimbs of a four-legged animal or the arms of cephalopods."

Furthermore, while I would never berate any author for the use of the word foreleg, the word would imply that the front two limbs of a pony are used just like the rear limbs, as legs, and this is simply not true. In the show, a pony's front limbs are used to manipulate the environment, to pick up items, to hug. These are not the sorts of actions associated with legs; they are things one generally does with one's arms.

I wonder how many times I'll have to copy and paste that...

This is real crack... I like crack

RainbowPants is now best ship.

Yeah, this isn't even Romance - more like Friendshipping - but still pretty darn good. Possibly because I love Flim & Flam, I reckon this is my favourite one out of the bunch.

>>575593575593

>>575621575621

Since this was brought up twice in succession, please let me take a moment to reply to it. Oddly, I never really thought much about this issue, which I suspect you'll be thinking "bullshit" on. Pairings had no bearing in my first MLP fanfic, World of Ponycraft, and the BB/Rarity pairing was simply a given in TBNE because of the plot. Platinum Crown has the wife-vs-mistress element inherited from the fact that it was so endemic among nobility, especially where one did not marry for love as we do now. Pairings in general play such a minor role in most of what I write, I don't think much about m/m or m/f or f/f ... the exception being this one fic, Eros Dreaming. Coming up with the pairings, I actually had two rows of single characters, and created a variety of "never before seen ships," winnowing it down based on what could be interesting (I'll admit I had preference in mane six partners: I didn't want them to be backgrounders, like Whooves or even my beloved Lyra). I think the problem with f/f is that there was so much of it among core characters that I couldn't use it, because it had been done before. Luckily there was no Pinkie/Trixie, or else I'd have had to swap Trixie in with AJ and then do Flam/Pinkie... or something.

Anyway, the point is that as long as a pairing "gets the job done" in the story, I don't care what it is, really. Which you can either say is very utilitarian, or terribly unfeeling and lacking in romance.

>>575729575729

I had a lot of fun imagining Pinkie and Trixie as the wild pair of entertainers, though it also depends on how you handle Trixie's character (and how abrasive her personality gets). Especially "off stage." Plus I love that name. Pixie! For some reason, I can't say it without chuckling.

>>575731575731

>>575725575725

Thanks for the catch! I actually did use "arm" in earlier fics, but switched to foreleg, not so much because it is technically incorrect, but because the readership prefers it. Just like we all use "alicorn" to describe a "winged unicorn."

"Winged unicorn? Why not horned pegasus, huh?"

"I'm sure it doesn't mean anything..."

"We live in a unicorn-centric world. Deal with it."

>>560305560305 Are you kidding?

RainbowPants sounds awesome

It's better than ApplePie (i'm not a fan of the ship, but the name is cool)

I kind of saw this one coming, also, I've seen it done before.

But still good none the less, loving the story so far

EDIT: I guess I shouldn't say it's been done before as so much that I read a fic where Rarity has a crush on Braeburn, I just sayin' it had been thought of before still saw it coming and still can't wait for the epiloge

Saw this on EqD, and thought, 'eh, sounds interesting.' I must say I was pleasantly suppressed, and this comming from an OTP shipper

>>560305560305 wow that. Does sound pretty weird

It wasn't until the very end did I realize that Pegasus was Soarin'. Blue Blood I recognized immediately. I guess he just has that stink about him

bravo, sir, bravo. you managed to take the mane 6, and ship them with the 6 last ponies i'd expect. and you did it GOOD too . Great job!

Read this before it even made it to EqD. Some of the ships aren't that new to me. But I LOVE seeing other people trying new ships, a breath of fresh air, FancyDash and BlueShy are definitely new to me.

Isn't Fancy Pants Married?

Bravo! I was very, very impressed by every single one of these; some of the best reading I've done in a while here!

I was wrong, there are actually two strait Braeburns the the multiverse.

Bloody hell Pinkie Pie, calm down!

Blueblood as something other than the scum of Equestria? Heresy! Heresy I say! Shun the non-believer! Shuuuuuuuuuuuunnnn!!!!

To be fair to Blueblood, at the Gala Rarity did come across as extremely vapid and shallow. She didn't show even the slightest hint of interest in him as a pony and basically assigned him a personality that she felt a prince should have. He probably assumed she was just another gold-digger after his status/power/wealth, and to be honest that doesn't seem entirely incorrect.

The guy is almost universally reviled by the fandom, but I think he gets a bad rap. This version of Blueblood is going in my head-canon. He's confident and intelligent, but still smarmy and slightly jerkish.

A lot of people seem to think that Flim is the one with the mustache and Flam the clean shaven one. This annoys the heck out of me

Hah!  As soon as he gave his alias!  Very well done, actually giving a believable reason for Blueblood to be about four degrees less douchebag than we saw at the Gala.  One has to imagine years after years of fighting off obvious Canterlot gold-diggers would make him turn up the repulsors 110% as soon as he saw

Oh, the dolphin.  Somehow I knew that was coming.

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>>576104576104

You mean Fleur? Nothing in canon says she's his wife, that's just the most common fan theory. She's as likely to be his wife as she is just a friend with no sense of personal space.

>>576198576198

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Somewhere in the beginning when Twilight gets the tickets you say she gets 5 tickets even though they are with 6 on the ship

...well.  Congratulations, you successfully found like the one pony left in Equestria that hasn't tasted the rainbow yet.

Huh, an interpretation of Trixie I haven't really seem much of before. Normally she's either pretentious to the point of being evil, or she 'just putting on an act' or 'was on some kind of emotional high' and was actually good along. But here she seems somewhat in the middle, I like it.

Now, that being said, is this Yuri? Or just friendshipping? Either way I'm cool with it. Still, you say that the next chapter the the last? But you can't end it here! There's so much story left to tell! You'll write a sequel, right? D:

Congratulations on the EQD feature, you definitely deserve it.

Oh, the Blues and the Greens! I bucking love anachronism stew.

>>576205576205

Or a temporary lover, or even *cough cough* an escort.

Ponytech follows the Rule of Funny in the TV show. Lauren Faust actually had a more medieval setting in mind and apparently tends to assume things like fridges and Tank's little propeller thing are run by magic - there's a unicorn sorcerer around who gives them a buzz now and then.

>>575488575488

Wait a minute....

Okay, I see Penn and Teller...

Wow, nice! (Eastern) Roman chariot racing system, transposed. Nice to see the use of ancient culture. Though I have to wonder whether there's a nicker (heh) revolt in the future..

Bullet bill?

good at endurance races, nice acceleration, low high speed

Weakness to plumbers...

Hate to spoil the fun, but I've seen Soarin/Twilight. (dawns hipster shades) But Twi's parents just asked him to dance with her on her birthday and said they would make a cute couple. Twilight just blushed and told her parents to piss off. (sadly removes hipster shades)

Fluttershy x Blublood?...that's new. Also the way of portraying Blueblood. Though, 'd rather ship Fluttershy with...yeah..the dolphin

Fancy Pants, eh? Veeedy Eeenteresting.

When I can't think of a good enough name for a shipping pair that encompasses parts of both of their names, I always try to name them by aspects of themselves.

For Rainbow Dash, the brash, bold and confident mare with the multicolored mane and tail, and Fancy Pants, the refined, gentlemanly Canterlot stallion,

I dub thee PrismicBounty. I'm sure someone else will come up with something better, but I like mine all the same.

Oh god, Braeburn! And he's (le gasp) straight?! I...I think I need a bit of time to recompose myself...

*takes a deep breath in and out*

Okay! Rariburn is a go! Love it! Absolutely splendid! To be sure, there were a few spelling errors I caught, but other than that, another fantastic chapter!

Like a lot of other commenters, I've been fascinated with Equestria's state of technological advancement. In certain aspects, they're fairly old timey, but in others, they're quite modern (Scootaloo's scooter, Vinyl Scratch's sound system at the Royal Reception, anyone?) I hope we never see a television, though. Film projectors are fine, but an actual television might throw off the charm completely as far as I'm concerned.

SoarinxTwi? Well, I certainly didn't expect that, even though I figured that it was Soarin a couple minutes in with it being a blue, male pegasus and not Thundermane. Or is it Thunderlane?

Either way, time to display that over-used, but still hilarious gif.

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May the Grace of the Valar Protect You

Shire Folk

>>576156576156

You do realize that this is the Pink Pony you're talking to, yes? I'm not altogether sure if 'calm' is a word that exists in her vernacular.

Anyhow, I'm loving this story so much! There's almost nothing about it that makes me cringe!

Except for one word that has twice now derailed my reading train. Arm. Just what in Harmony's name is an arm?! I thought we were Equestrians!

crack parings?

more like crack with heroin and a hint of LSD!

Love the parings. quite predictable

ankles?

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