Being a human roommate to a pony leads to all sorts of cultural misunderstandings . . but one fundamental proverb remains true.
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I'm not sure whether this was brilliant, or awful, or both.
Fool -- if you want Rainbow Dash to drink, bring the cider.
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It's a definite yes, IMO. I laughed, though.
I enjoyed this!
6162237 How about Awfully brilliant!?
This was strangely interesting. I kind of liked it.
You may not be able to make her drink water but I bet if you lead her to cyder you would not have to.
6162395 I was thinking more "brilliantly awful"
A nice slice of life story, I know it's all a pun but why doesn't Rainbow drink? Some strange Equestrian taboo?
love it, I must say I hade a really good laugh over the hole story.
it is silly and really good at the same time.
Harts Fire
6162237
I'm not sure either.
6162357
Corrections made, thank you!
Soo... why wont Rainbow drink?
Imagine her reaction if she'd gone to the baby food aisle and seen all the little bottles with pictures of human baby heads on them.
I have to agree with Nikita: there doesn't seem to be a point to this story. The writing is well done and the characters are belivable, but your entire story is meant to prove a figure of speech. I don't get it.
A fun shaggy pony story, I see.
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Because you can lead a
horsepony to water but you can't make her drink.6162931
There is no point. It's a shaggy dog story with a lousy punchline.
This would have been truly excellent - with any other title.
As it is - enjoyable and interesting premise neglecting the water thing.
All that to test a saying? It's kinda disappointing, I guess I should have read the comments first.
heh cute story. I was honestly expecting her to be caught by the end drinking from the toilet like a dog but this ending was still cute.
When you mentioned this in your blog post, I confess that my first thought was the "horticulture" joke...
"Horse to culture..." is such a small bastardisation of the pun (with yet another pun) that a follow up chapter of visiting the Museum of Modern Art could be fun...
Just awful.
Throws mug at Biscuit.
+1
Well, that happened
That was a fun little read! Maybe ponies just don't drink anything that is not at least 5% sugar.
Story felt underwhelming. Pony as an exchange student, and the human is in collage? Sigh...
It's like almost all pony on Earth stories are of this subject matter... Seriously I skipped most of the story because this is just way to common.
It isn't a bad one shot, per se. I simply have to echo the opinion that the fic's title ruins the payoff. Ever consider renaming it to something like "Want a drink, Rainbow Dash?" , "Idiom exchange" or something?
I don't really get it.
I'm not sure, I kind of expected more. The ending just felt very abrupt and flat.
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I didn't want to mislead readers into thinking there was some substance here when there really isn't. I figured most people would get a few chuckles out of it, and a groan at the ending, which is exactly what the story title promised.
This could've been better
It's all fun and games until Rainbow dies of dehydration.
6162237 TRIFECTA!
A OR B OR C!
weird but cute.
Was expecting the build-up to be that pegasi just suck moisture out of the air, or something. Or be like those creatures that get all their moisture from their food.
Lol, saw it coming of course, but the execution wasn't expected. Thought it would be obvious, then you have a mini adventure instead.
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The ending definitely felt...lacking.
I mean it wasn't bad, but I really don't understand the context of what you were trying to tell the readers. Did she build up that relationship she had with Rainbow Dash just to see if that metaphor is true? That makes their entire friendship seem almost pointless, if that's all she was trying to get out of it.
Also, I'm guessing RD didn't drink the water because of her pride, implied earlier in the story when she went two more laps despite being really tired. Like, if it had been another pony, something different might've happened.
But as it was, the ending just felt really abrupt and sudden. Wasn't bad, wasn't good.
I like this. It's short, sweet, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. I think there's an opportunity for some expansion here, a firm foundation for a slice of life sort of thing based on the cultural differences between earth and equestria, but if you're not interested in expanding it I don't see any reason to. Well done.
6164027 I think you're missing the point. The whole story was a setup for a delicious pun, and its not about rainbows pride, the joke is that the ponies as a species refuse to drink when led to water. The girl being friends with rainbow dash was just an excuse for the pun. There is no deeper meaning.
I think most of the people commenting here would hate antijokes.
6163512
Well I could make her drink.
Wait does waterboarding count as drinking?
6163512
I groaned. You have succeeded in your mission.
I wanna know why ponies won't drink the water on Earth.
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I think many of the commentators are overthinking things.
6164855
The story was a setup for the pun, but the story and chapter titles totally spoiled the joke in advance.
6163998 They are actually yeast. They reproduce by budding and share genes via conjugation tubules.
That is all.
(I actually expected something weird such as the discovery that ponies don't need to drink. They just like cider.
)
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On the contrary- it's an excellent punchline. The problem is you deliver the punchline before telling the joke.
People are thinking too hard about this story because there is nothing at the end of it to catch them by surprise. Since the unexpected is a major component in most forms of humor, people naturally have a hard time believing that they didn't miss the "real joke" or the "deeper meaning" hidden somewhere in the story.
Making the old saying the title of the story would work just fine if you were somehow subverting the proverb, but playing it straight without even a semblance of being coy is guaranteed to leave a number of people confused.
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Yeah . . . as mentioned in a previous blog post, I'm trying a different tack to get my muse to cooperate.
There are--I can think of a few, but HiE is way more common than PoE. I've probably got a dozen or so chapters/one-shots/short multi-chapter stories on the theme, but most of them are comedies, I think. Except for The Breakup (not linked 'cause mature).
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Thanks!
6162506
The proverb only says water. Any other beverage would be fine.
6162781
Thank you!
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6165091
The punchline (if there is one) is that ponies literally cannot drink water if they're lead to it.
6162917
Really, any of our advertising practices would likely be foreign to a pony, and undoubtedly the cause of all sorts of misunderstandings. Ditto for TV. I've played with that a little in some PoEs, but never really done it in a serious story . . . yet.