After a particularly rough day of flying, Rainbow Dash crashes at Sweet Apple Acres with a dire need for preening. Applejack is more than willing to help her marefriend in whatever way she can.
Hey everyone! This is my first time writing anything substantial in the past three years, and I have to say that it feels good to be back. This was a quick little thing written for the first Preening Group Contest, partially at the insistence of a friend. There was no editor involved, and it took slightly under an hour and a half. Kind of slow to write, but I'll improve.
Cover art is property of Feather-Chan on Deviantart. All credit goes to the artist of the amazing piece ^^
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Good work
Worthy candidate for the contest
2500 words in an hour and a half sounds pretty good to me. Usually I can barely manage more than 1000 words in that amount of time.
While I don't think someone like Dash would leave her wings unpreened, I do think this is a lovely bit of fluff :3
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Wow! I'm surprised you actually read this XD you're one of my favorite writers on here. That's some mighty fine praise from an idol, so I'll take what I can get ^^
And it's supposed to be after a crash, to explain why her wings are unpreened. Otherwise, I totally agree with you.
5792368 You're welcome! It was a fun little read ^^
And, really? The impression I got from reading was that she didn't really care in a general sense o.O
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Yeah, I tried to make if seem like she was only unpreened because she had crashed, but I might not have gotten that across well XD
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This part, really. Makes it seem like that is how Dash treats it all the time! Just gotta reword that to be more specific about after-crashes only :P
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Ahhh, fair point XD I'll have to fix that.
It was cute
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Thanks! ^^ A little bit of fluff to lighten the day.
I like it, and welcome back to the world of writing things.
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Thanks DonnE, it's a good little exercise but it feels good to be back. ^^
Love it...
Nice and sexy.
Hello! Have a review. A cute bit of romantic fluff, and I like AJ going outside her comfort zone for Dash's sake -- though given the story's origins it's no surprise if I say I think people who really like preening fics will get a little more out of it than I did.