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I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.

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This story is a sequel to The Play's The Thing


Diamond Tiara is used to being the center of attention.

When she's excluded from the starring role of a school play under the prospect of having to kiss Scootaloo, she's unhappy.

When the kiss is then removed after casting, she's absolutely livid.

Story runs parallel to The Play's The Thing. It shouldn't be necessary reading to understand this story though.

This is my entry for Nonpareil Fiction's "Minimalism" prompt, mandating a story with a net 1510 word cap.

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Daniel Neigh-Lewis, I see what you did there. Very clever. :rainbowlaugh:

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Yay! Also, "Of Apples and Oil" is a reference to Day-Lewis' "There Will Be Blood", where the main character is a selfish, cruel individual with little concern for the feelings of others.

Wonder why Diamond Tiara likes it so much?

5791489 Beats me we may never know, haha! Overall, a good little setup or followup to the story before this and plus Diamond getting angry over not having a crucial role in the play, especially the kiss.

She was played like a damn fiddle!

This was a fun little side story to the main story. I like DT being given some reason to her actions and bullying, I could see this in her character on the show, ya know, if they tried to give her some depth other than being a spoiled, villainess filly.

Hehe.

I like this one, and the pun on the names with Daniel Neigh-Lewis.

I also like how once again, Cheerilee is a reasonable authority figure, you're really good at handling her.

And also, I like how we see in Diamond's head and how she sees things. It definitely shows she has a skewed perspective, but then again, she IS a child.

And while she IS doing it just for popularity and future fame, Diamond actually DOES show herself to be a competent actress in the main story.

So I just read The Play's The Thing and Playing Second Fiddle, and I've got to say I completely agree with Diamond Tiara about Sweetie Belle ruining the play for the other actors; since Sweetie tricked Diamond out of the lead role she wound up stealing a role that she didn’t want, even though she claimed all of the roles would be chosen based on who wanted them the most, which caused Silver Spoon to suddenly want a role she didn’t previously want, which took away the role Sunny Daze wanted most, and their kiss did steal the spotlight away from any other actor’s performance.

While I did enjoy both of these stories I’d say Diamond Tiara and Sunny Daze, at the least, are both vindicated with their objection to Sweetie’s choices and probably should have been given the roles they wanted, as that was the arrangement prior to Sweetie Belle just overruling it.

...But then again ‘green eyed unicorn = automatically evil’ so I see you’re just keeping her in character.

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I agree with you. I didn't think too much on it while writing it, but there is truth to the saying "if someone wins, someone else loses."

I think that Sunny Daze was the worst off, because Silver Spoon did legitimately earn the role (despite her reason for wanting it being muddled), and Diamond Tiara probably felt good about her performance after Cheerilee’s pep talk.

If you have seen Hairspray (2007), all of the fantastic dances at the competition were in the shadow of the main characters triumphant romantic victory. It must be the nature of the stage?

This is a nice character-piece. We get to see into the head of a spoiled brat.

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