Ships that makes sense and Ships that don't.

by Sweetie Belle

Apple Dash

My opinion on Apple Dash

AppleDash is a good shipping, but highly overrated. And their relationship probably in well if in love. Here's how it will start. Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash will fall in love., they get into a relationship. Nothing wrong with that, everything's going smoothly, right? Wrong. Everyone ever noticed how much Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash argue? They're arguing will be ten times worse being in a relationship. They might make up a few times.. but eventually one of them will just get tired of it. And they will probably call a quits. Would you like to live and stay with a person who you constantly argue with all the time? I hope not. Otherwise, you do not have a bright future. I know what your thinking right now, "APPLE DASH IS BEST PAIRING> THEY BELONG TOGETHER AND WILL LOVE EACH OTHER FOREVER" or " I think you really wrong. Apple Dash is blah blah blah blah blah I don't care about your opinion crap and your totally wrong and you should listen to me." Well, frankly I won't care a bit. In fact, I will write a short fanfic of an Apple Dash story, you'll see how it'll work out for yourself.

"Apple Jack. I love you." I uttered the words, afraid of what the response would be. I stood boldly, my eyes fixed on the farm mare. I tried to look tough as possible, not letting any weakness showing. The mare's eyes watered and a grin shattered the blank face. She pulled me into a surprise into a surprise hug and she barreled me over.
"I love you Rainbow!" SHe shouted loudly. A blush swept over my face as she embraced me and yelled out those words."Calm down AJ. Somepony might overhear us." I tried to calm the mare down.
"Why should I Rainbow? I want to show of my new mare friend." Apple Jack said, pushing her nose into hers.
"Err... Well okay, It's not like I'm embarrassed or nothing." I rolled my eyes, the blush still stuck on my face. Before I knew the mare kissed me. It was warm and passionate. It was obvious the mare wasn't faking this love. We broke the kiss and he took deep breaths.
"I'm not good with that mushy kissing stuff." I admitted. The mare simply kissed my forehead and embraced me. All I knew at that moment was, that I wanted to stay like this with AJ forever. Being with mare of my dreams, who couldn't be happy? I couldn't wait to start a new beginning with her. Start a life in a nice place, gave some kids, grow old together, and the rest will be spent in heaven.
A FEW MONTHS LATER

"Rainbow! Get off your lazy butt and help me out here!" Apple Jack yelled at me. Apple Jack and I had moved into a apartment together, to spend our lives together. It seemed so perfect, we would start a life together. Any maybe bring some kids into the world with us. But as son as we moved in, thing turned for the worst. We were always arguing, it was like part of our schedule.
I would if you would stop whining!" I yelled back at her.
A frown corned her face. "You don't do a damn thing around here, while I'm doing all the work. So much for the tastes pony in Ponyville. Might as well be called the laziest pony in Lazyville!" pile Jack threw back at her.
I stood up, and gritted my teeth. "Oh, you do all the work? The only thing I've seen you do is cook the worst meals I've ever tasted and whine about how I do nothing, When I do everything!"
"I do a heck of a lot of work! I do my job at Sweet Apple Acres nearly all day to earn money for us to live in this apartment, and then I come back to this place to find a dirty, unclean apartment that stinks, with a lazy, good for nothing you!" She screamed.
I shook my head in disgust. "Well at least you do have to wake up, to and despicable, ugly, whiny, bratty, who thinks to much about herself mare. And you know what? Your the most boring mare in my life. Even Twilight's more interesting. And I'm pretty sure Pinkie Pie's a better kisser than you." Before I knew I crossed the line, Her hand slammed down on my cheek, and I stumbled backwards. Tears streamed down her face.
"You know RD. Maybe it's better if we just broke up, if you think Pinkie Pie's such a great kisser!" She sobbed, covering her face with her hooves. I being to regret what I said. I reached out my hoof to hug Apple Jack, but she growled at me through her tears before I could even touch me. "Don't touch me!" She screamed and stood up. "I'm going to go pack my bags." She said, and walked out of the room.
"Fine. I was about to ask you to do that anyway." I told her as she left the room. I watched her pack her bags and leave. After a few minutes, I burst into tears.
"We really as perfect as we thought we were huh? HUH? You terrible mare, you steal my heart and then crush into pieces? I hate you!" I scream doug to no one, letting all my feelings flow out. I cried for minutes. After a few days, I moved out of that apartment. I moved back into my cloud house in Ponyville. I talked to all my friends again. It just wasn't the same with Applejack. She tried to make it sound like old times when we were best friends, but it just wasn't the same. I just couldn't get over the fact that she tricked my heart like that. She tricked me. I thought she was beautiful, honest mare, but I was wrong. Maybe next time, I would find some pony else that would treat me with respect. Like we're equals. Not thinking about what we look like, or what we do, or what we did. The pony just appreciating every second of both of us together. I may not find that pony today, but i'll find that some pony someday.

Comments

[DeiStar]

Oh boy, more meta fics.

[stinker mcpinkerton]

Hmmm, well to start with... MAY THE FANFICTION GODS HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUUUUUUL.
Ok, know that's out of the way. It was nice that you gave us your opinion and the fact you believe in it is very respectable buttttt.
To be honest it's the fact that RD and AJ would argue and be competitive towards each other that leads us to believe that they would be good together, well that and a whole bunch of other things i'm to lazy to type up. I liked it because I like people stating their own opinions.
p.s I wont be surprised if this ends up on the featured box
MOAR PL0X? p.s prepare for the H@TERS!!!

[stinker mcpinkerton]

624935 LOOKS LIKE A SHIT STORMS A' BREWIN

[jar'o'mayo]

I can't wait to see what you do for MacinDash. I hope It's positive.

[Prowler]

Shipfics may be tedious, bland, stale, and overdone, but bashfics are just the same. I hate to say it, mate, but this is pretty much the same thing 'cept on the opposite side of the spectrum. Ruined characterization (Rainbow Dash may be a selfish bitch, but there is a line between mean-spirited and cruelty), self-serving mentality (I feel like you're trying to MAKE people agree with you due to that last line before the fic. "You'll see for yourself." I see something alright), and signs of botched spelling and grammar.

Also, you apparently forget that no relationship is perfect, mate. I noted that you used their arguing as the basis for why the pairing wouldn't work. I couldn't really care less about you hating the pairing, but from a realistic point of view, a non-arguing couple is worse. They know nothing of compromise and are unable to work on such a skill, thus one partner ends up giving too much and it leads to a very unhappy relationship. Yes, arguing can still ruin a relationship (if cruelty is involved, like the uncharacteristic cruelty shown by Dash), but it can also strengthen the bonds of said relationship tenfold.

You should probably do more research in this topic because this looks, to be bluntly honest, like an immature child wrote it.

[Arbarano]

Ugh...

Firstly:

"Just remember one thing before you post a hate message to me. Love and Tolerance."

And just remember before you trot out that banal, hopelessly worthless attempt to avoid criticism for this hopelessly worthless fanfic: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/14266/Three-Little-Words

And secondly:

It's fairly obvious that you have borrowed the idea from TheOnly's story. You have also quite clearly added your own opinions, so there's not real issue there. No, the issue is that you have bluntly stated your opinion at the start of the chapter, and then have constructed the rest of the story to match that.

The beauty of TheOnly's work, to me at least, is that their opinion was never mentioned within the story itself. They just had the characters act in a way that fit their character, or the author's interpretation of their character for the background ponies, and the conclusion could be wrought from there. It was pretty-much always a fairly-blatant, foregone conclusion at any rate, but it did at least rely on fitting character interaction.

This though... Well, since you've had to ask for people to love and tolerate your work, it's clear that your predicting criticism and won't pay a blind bit of notice to any, but here goes:

The actual story element of this is dreadful. Characterisations are wildly off (Why would AJ ever leave her farm? Why would RD ever be that needlessly cruel? She's insensitive, yes, but she also cares about her friends when it actually matters), the writing is riddled with errors and spelling mistakes ("So much for the tastes pony in Ponyville", " I scream doug to no one"), and it just feels lazy, like you wrote it only after you realised that merely bluntly stating your opinion does not constitute a fanfic.

EDIT: And 624993 has summed up why your issues with this pairing are essentially skin-deep niggles far more eloquently than I ever could.

[Jumpitydude]

You need to make it more obvious that these will be your opinion on certain ships and a story. Also, it's cluttered as all hell, so you might want to fix that.

[FlamingMane]

I think that your opinion was right. They are challenging each other nearly every second they are together, but since the Running of the Leaves, they have started to do this only for fun and there is actually a room for this kind reationship. I think AJ or RD are sensitive enough to be together, but I also think that they are better matches.

About your work...I would just repeat some of the things the others said before me.

[Tommy_Wiseau]

No just no twidash is best ship

[Flutter(noun/adjective here)]

Appledash is horrible.

[The sad mare]

*reads title* Oh gwad and they said i can read anything... dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_YouDontSay2.png

[bookplayer]

Dude, take the essay to your blog and write me a real fic, with a beginning, middle, and end, showing the relationship not working. That's what shipfic authors do to show the relationship working, so why should bashers get off any easier?

If you want to know how I would argue that it could work, you can read my fics. That's my argument for this ship, and it's all I have to say.

[SwiperTheFox]

624993
625006
I really can't say anything that they haven't said.

[Sweetie Belle]

624993

And your extremely correct. I'm still a child. I don't know everything about grammar yet. I'm still trying to improve though. And I'm just trying to state my opinion. I never said that Applejack stopped working at the farm. She just doesn't live there anymore. Simple as that. I'll still try to take your critism though. I should think more about Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash's personalities. Even write some stories to get the hang of it.

And no. I did not get the idea from his story. I thought of this way before TheOnly posted his work.

[SuperPinkBrony12]

You know you shoudn't have snuck the fiic into this chapter it just made things worse.

I do agree though that the Appledash ship would probably sink with all their arguing, it's been done to death alongside Fluttermac.

[Kail]

Just a thought but couldn't it go either way with this ship? I mean if ya wanna tally the relationship compatibility points of these two it looks about even. (in my opinion)

[Prowler]

627606

Well just think of it this way. If you improve from this, then it wasn't time wasted. You have to mess up to get better, after all, so just keep that in mind and you'll find your work improving.

[Reed Libro]

I am going to give my honest opinion on this ...
I only tolerate non -straight shippings.There I said it .
I just find it a bit disturbing.I use Mlp :Fim to escape realty
and to avoid conflict and done appreciate people using some
sisterly love between the mane six .I am terribly sorry to say that
but I keep myself bottled up enough in my life
I just can't take it .And growing up now adays just easy.(12)
Sorry if i offend .I am never respeced in and never asked for my opinion.
I feel free to state my opinion here .Again,my apologies to those who I offend.

[raindrops sparkle]

Twi dash is terrible appledash is best