Career Advice
The first day of the Helping Hooves Music Festival was a success by all means. Coloratura's new friends had surpassed their profit goal, and it was only the first night! The past few years had been tumultuous, but in that moment gratefulness overcame her. Without her career, without her fame and fans, who knows how the festival would have fared?
Coloratura gazed at the reflection in the guest room's mirror, her eyes soft and contemplative.
Svengallop. Applejack.
Coloratura tilted her head, examining each midnight blue hair in her mane. After moons of that obnoxious dyed ponytail, the sight of her natural locks felt foreign.
How could I ever have been so blind as to not notice Svengallop's greed? she wondered, blinking.
The bedroom door creaked open, and Applejack's blonde head appeared in the doorway.
"Are ya findin' everythin' alright, Rara?" Applejack grinned.
"Yes, of course!" Coloratura beamed and embraced her friend in a brief hug. "Thanks so much for letting me stay here until I return to Manehattan!" Svengallop had taken Coloratura's backup dancers and trailer back to Manehattan faster than a cowpony chased by a rattlesnake. Coloratura had business to settle with him, but she'd deal with that when she returned home.
"Of course, Rara!" Applejack replied. "Anything to get you away from that dirty rotten Svengallop.
"By the way"—Applejack stepped back—"you have some visitors."
"Hi Countess Rara!" A marshmallow with a curly mane walked in.
The mishmash of aliases endeared Coloratura. A grin split across her face. "Sweetie Belle!"
"I had so much fun singing with you!" Sweetie Belle squeaked as she hugged Coloratura. "Scootaloo and I are sleeping over with Apple Bloom, but I wanted to talk with you first."
"I'll be downstairs." Applejack withdrew from the room.
Coloratura sat down on the edge of the quilt-covered bed. With a flick of her hoof, she motioned for Sweetie Belle to join her.
Once the filly was nestled beside her, Coloratura asked, "So, Sweetie Belle, what's on your mind?"
Sweetie Belle's warm green eyes peered up at Coloratura. "I overheard you and Applejack talking about how charity concerts are your favorite thing about singing. Why?"
I wasn't expecting that, Coloratura thought, masking her surprise. "Charity's about helping ponies! Shouldn't that be the most important thing to focus on?"
"Yeah," Sweetie agreed, "but what if your cutie mark is about helping ponies? Do you have time to be a singer?"
Coloratura's gaze fell on Sweetie Belle's cutie mark. "Is this about you, Sweetie Belle?"
"You caught me," Sweetie admitted, smiling sheepishly. "My friends and I, well, our cutie marks are about helping other ponies figure out their cutie marks."
"That sounds fun!" Coloratura chuckled.
"How could it not be fun?" Sweetie giggled. "If it's your talent, you should like it!"
"Agreed," Coloratura nodded. "So what's the problem, Sweetie?"
"The problem is that your talent is singing, and my talent is helping ponies." Sweetie hopped off the bed and began to pace. "I like to sing, and I've always loved your music!"
Coloratura flinched slightly. After being used by her manager, she was seeing her past music in a new light, one that didn't appeal to her.
Sweetie continued. "If I could, I would want to become a famous singer like you! But if I'm always traveling, how can I help ponies like I'm supposed to?"
Coloratura cocked her head. She's really overthinking this, isn't she?
"Sweetie," the pop star said gently, "if you're traveling, what do you get to do?"
Sweetie Belle tilted her head, thinking. "Jet lag?"
Coloratura giggled and hopped off the bed. "That, I suppose, but you get to meet so many fans! I've always loved seeing the look on little ponies' faces when I meet with them. It makes me feel good knowing I've inspired them."
Sweetie Belle perked up. Coloratura's smile widened. She could practically see Sweetie Belle's brain grasping the concept.
"So you're saying I should become an inspirational pop sensation?" Sweetie asked, her eyes lighting up. "'Be true to yourself' and all that mumbo jumbo?"
"And all that mumbo jumbo," Coloratura confirmed, hugging Sweetie Belle.
Sweetie Belle beamed, but after a moment her smile faltered. "What about Apple Bloom and Scootaloo? They're probably not interested in singing with me."
"I can't advise you on all your decisions," Coloratura told the filly gently. "You three will have to figure that out with each other. But whatever happens, I know you three are going to succeed."
Sweetie nodded thoughtfully. "I guess that makes sense."
Suddenly, they heard a tapping on the door. Apple Bloom's muffled voice called, "Sweetie! We can't start truth or dare without you!"
"I'll be there in a minute!" Sweetie promised.
Coloratura smiled. "Anything else you want to ask?"
Sweetie grinned shyly. "Can I record a song with you?"
"Applejack told me she and Rarity have a friend in Manehattan. Next time you visit her, maybe we can set up a time to record!" Coloratura winked.
Sweetie's horn ignited with a green aura, and she pulled the bedroom door open. "Thanks for talking with me, Coloratura!"
"You're welcome!" Coloratura replied as her visitor left the room to join her friends.
I need to make a note and get Sweetie's address from Applejack, Coloratura thought when she returned to her mirror. Having a pen pal is so much fun!
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Ooh, a multichapter, i see.
Feature box, here you come! I'm calling it. o3o You have the right timing and right kind of fic. Just see if I'm wrong!
Oh yeah, and I liked it.
6660270 I'm sorry, but let's be honest about this; unless it's a clopfic, this won't get featured, and it's sad really cause' the majority of clopfics on this site are cliche unoriginal pieces of shit that don't deserve to get attention. If I had my way I'd put this in the Featured section, but sadly I don't have that power.
I just hope a nice compliment to the author is enough to compensate however.
So. Much. D'awww
6661170 Yeah, you're probably right. . .there's a strange obsession going around with cartoon horse porn.
This is in my headcanon: CMC's Cutie mark is about help ponies with their cutie marks, but no one say that this coudln't be with sings (Sweetie), races (Scoot) and pratical stuffs (AB) :D
6661503 On the plus side, though...
...all the awful shitty unoriginal cliche fuckfest clopfic stories are excellent comedy material for how badly and poorly written they are.
Take my advice and spread the word; don't give clopfics your attention. Focus it on the little golden stars like this story that are trying the damn hardest to make something of themselves.
Oh, and er, please elect my buddy Unique the anthro-pegasus (as seen in my profile pic) for 2016's Best Pony. Because I'm admittedly pathetically bad at advertisement. XD
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It hasn't gotten featured yet! Oh, and you know there's a separate feature box for those with the mature filter, right? 
Thanks for the support, you two!
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6660218 No, that's just me forgetting to mark it as complete.
6661515 Exactly!
6662246 Like I care. I still hate clopfics. Well no, that's a lie. I like to read clopfics for the hilariously bad writing, so I suppose in terms of comedy they're alright. Makes me giggle at how many viewers actually buy into these ridiculous porno fanfics.
Well, here's hoping you'll get this or another story of yours into the featured box soon and keep another clopfic from getting in there.
Simple: Scoots will be head of security, Bloom will be your technician, and DT and Silver will fund and manage
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Cutie Mark Crusaders CONCERT CREW! 
I can't wait for Rara and Coco to meet.
Dunno if you want it, but here's an edit of your cover image:
http://i.imgur.com/AjVXkP6.png
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I don't know why people always say that. I've been featured six times, and three of those stories were E-rated, one was T-rated, and the other two were, yes, clop. You, UniqueSKD, have had a story featured. It was T-rated. And the author of this story, Tennis Match Fan, has been featured twice, but has never written any clop. (Or if she has, she's not published it.
A lot of this site's users have M-rated stories filtered out by their settings, so for M-rated stories, there is a smaller audience. This gives E-rated and T-rated stories an advantage if you want to be featured.
If you take a look at the current featured box (at the time I'm posting this comment), even with M-rated stories enabled, there is not a single clop story in the featured box. The top four entries in the box are E-rated. The rest are a mixture of T-rated and E-rated stories.
Seriously, the idea that clop = instant feature is plain wrong. Getting into the featured box, regardless of the genre, is a lot of work and an even bigger amount of luck.
6664489 Thanks!
When I get home I'll update it!
The mare in the cover art. I'm seeing her on quite a few stories. This tells me there was another episode.
6665427 Coloratura starred in the latest episode! Check it!
6665675 aight :D
This is gorgeous. Delightful. I swear, Coloratura might become my new inspiration...
Along with Paul McCartney, of course...
Obviously...
6667554 Thanks!
Coloratura is such a lovely character!
Now that was a nice little fanfic. Glad to see Sweetie Belle get to talk with Coloratura and how it's always good to be true to yourself.
6669495 Thank you!
The shortness of it is what makes it cute.
FWIW, I think that the Crusaders' cutie marks include primary and secondary talents or aptitudes.
The main shield is representative of the Crusade, of course, helping ponies find out who they really are. However, the secondary element - the sigil on the shield - represents the Crusaders' individual ways of doing things.
Sweetie Belle is an inspirational pony. Through singing and through her ability to understand ponies' thinking, she can get them looking in the right place. Apple Bloom values her family and her place in it above all other things and, through that, has come to understand family and social interactions; she will steer a pony in the right direction from this understanding. Finally, Scootaloo loves the flashy and the awesome (as exemplified by Rainbow Dash). It is through her essentially fearless and extrovert nature that she'd motivate ponies to do something new and something that may lead them to their destinies.
6673654 EXACTLY!
The CMC would share an overall purpose, but how they go about doing it is unique to each of them.
This was a cute fic. It's nice to see these two interact a little more given their common interests.
speaking of sweetie belle, rara, and music
You can has review!
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And the third element, within the sigil?
Awww. This was a sweet interaction between Rara and Sweetie