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Tumbleweed


A guy. A guy who writes stories. Stories about ponies. (And sometimes robots).

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Twilight Sparkle will do anything to emulate her hero, Starswirl the Bearded.

Anything.

Chapters (3)
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I'm so ready

This is a plan that can't go beardly.

My beardy is ready
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There one was a man from Tyre
Who got too close to a pyre
When he checked his beard
It was just as he feared
He'd lost the dear thing to the fire

I'm shaving this fic for later.

So she going to be following the hoofsteps of the pony who's responsible of disasters he caused and put in many of asylums?

I can beardly wait for the next chapter. So how many ponies will end up with beards by the time this is done? Except for Spike, he should just stick with his excellent mustache. :moustache: Well, unless Twilight tries to change gender, inspired by Spike listing everyone else with a beard. Twilight probably can't just modify the mustache spell into a beard spell, huh? Everypony (and dragon) should probably start running soon.

By the beard of Celestia, this looks promising! :trollestia:

Interesting story, but it put a probably horrible story idea in my head that i cant write. Twilight dealing with the wizards of unseen university. It could easily be funny or absolute crap if you dont pull the wizards off right.

There is no way this is going to end well or sanely.

I can't wait. :pinkiehappy:

Well, Twilight's most definitely found the path to madness. Guess we just have to wait and see where it leads.

Also, if I may say so, Star Swirl the Bearded having an obsession bordering on sexual fixation with beards is...brilliant. Bloody brilliant and hilarious. Weird as hell, but awesome nonetheless and I wish I had thought of it first.

I can't beard all these stupid puns.

What the hell? Who knew Starswirl the Bearded would have had a fetish for beards? It's freaking brilliant and hilarious.

Also, I think it's awesome how you had him write poems about beards like Maud Pie writes poems about rocks. You deserve another thumbs up.

This is absolutely halarious :rainbowlaugh: make more for the sake of beards:moustache:

Lookin' sharp.

CCC

Well, this is a promising start...

Kudos this is awesome. Can't wait to see what kind of beard twilight gets haha.

Figures Twlight's strange mind would see a beard as a sign of power level. Oh sure, Sombra is nowhere near Discord and Tirek's power level (he "only" banished the Crystal Empire for a 1000 years), and of course Star Swirl is on a whole other level. And of course, messing with her own hormones is worse than kind of changing her gender. :raritydespair:

Twilight would probably want to be remembered as having a beard, so don't really see a problem yet. :twilightsheepish: Well, Celesta might be upset. Now to see just how tough that beard is. I wish Spike could have stopped her, but then there's no stopping Twilight when she's in that kind of mood.

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Twilight is going to have a very interesting portrait, I can tell.

I think Sombra has muttonchops, though. :twistnerd:

And there goes of what's all of Twilight social life.

Huh. I figured Twilight would just have to adjust the mustache growing spell. That works on reptiles, after all. Oh well, I'm sure this one was a lot more fun.

Still, that portrait may end being the stuff of legends. Unpleasant legends. The sort you tell around campfires.

Yay another chapter
Also
This time Miss Sparkle will pay
For she got the feeling gay
To grow a beard
which is quite weird
For this is royal portrait day

You know what is going to freak Rarity out? Twilight is the most popular Princess, the #1 trend-setter in Equestria. So sooner or later, every mare will need to grow their own beard as well... :raritycry:

“Therefore! I found a far easier, far safer way to grow a beard. Namely, there are certain spells in certain tomes-- texts that I am only familiar with in an academic sense, mind you, and I only began researching them when I was well of legal age. These rare spells, when cast, allow certain mares to take on certain characteristics of certain stallions.” One of the many advantages to beard-dom, Twilight found, was the ability to conceal a blush.

On the plus side, at least this story is not inspired by the song Detachable Penis.

a special princessy necklace

That would be a peytral. Nice story though. I for one enjoyed it.

Of course Twilight would make her beard magically invulnerable. Because Twilight. :raritydespair:

“Because I made that bet. I once bet him he couldn't write a whole book on beards. So he did. The poetry thing was just an extra

I think you accidentally a phrase here.

“Because I made that bet. I once bet him he couldn't write a whole book on beards. So he did. The poetry thing was just an extra

An extra what? Good chapter regardless, though!

CCC

Heh. Brilliant.

Poor Rarity, but that's Twilight Sparkle for you- throw more magic at the problem until it goes away. And kind of nice to know Starswirl wasn't quite that crazy. And I could certainly believe the show would suddenly introduce semi-identical twin brothers from out of nowhere. I wonder if Spike got a beard, he could probably pull that look off too. Fluttershy's beard as a nest sounds like a great idea, Pinkie's hair already acts as storage for her, Fluttershy might as well have animals in her beard too.

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Dangit, must've been a C&P error or something. Fixed it! Thanks for the head's up!

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1) This is the pony who once called her tiara a "crown-thingee"
2) A petryal is part of a set of barding. Celestia isn't canonically wearing armor. Ergo, no one calling it a necklace is wrong.

Good thing Spike had his portrait done before that stuff happened.

“That doesn't make any sense! Do you really think everypony's going to believe that my friends and I all had random siblings that suddenly just showed up without anypony even mentioning any of them before?”

“It happens more often than you'd think.” Celestia said.

:rainbowlaugh: Funniest lines in the entire story.

A fantastic and fitting conclusion to a delightful bit of madness. Thank you for it.

By the beards, this is going to be epic!!

An elegant solution to hilarious madness. I approve.

When Pinkie Pie says "that makes perfect sense", it is generally a good idea to sit down and reconsider your life choices.

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“That doesn't make any sense! Do you really think everypony's going to believe that my friends and I all had random siblings that suddenly just showed up without anypony even mentioning any of them before?”

“It happens more often than you'd think.” Celestia said.

:rainbowlaugh: Funniest lines in the entire story.

This.

You're really my favorite writer.
Please keep writing stuff.

I reviewed this story as part of Read It Later Reviews #83!

My review can be found here.

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