She's looking at you. Yes you. And she is judging you with her eyes. There is no escape.
This story is a sequel to The Perilous Romance of Swans
The Cookie Court. A place where foals can come to air their grievances and petition the Crown for help. One such foal, Flapjack, comes to ask for help for her community, which is in dire need of a some new schoolbooks.
Perhaps a new exchequer agent is needed as well.
An entry in the Weedverse.
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Someone say Flapjack?
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I have no idea what Tia's doing?
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No no, we listen to the foals, not eat them.
7697507 But pancakes after OK?
Aw, by the end I was hoping there would be more.
I had my hopes up and then I see the word Gosling in the second sentence. Ah well.
I want to see if Gosling sloves Flap Jacka issue and more of the Cookie Court.
This is an interesting slice of life story and almost too short.
Why can't we give multiple up votes
I can just imagine Gosling's accent getting steadily more pronounced as he verbally tears that tribalist a new plot hole XD
He's actually being REALLY smart politically, all these foals and parents he's helping are going to spread all this goodwill toward the crown slowly but surely, Gosling has learned to play the long game.
Did you name the main character after the show on Cartoon Network?
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Nope.
I named her Flapjack because of Vanhoover. Maple syrup. Cannuckistan ponies. It amused me.
7697541 Cookie Court needs to be longer than this or at least show up in other stories. There is so much potential here to learn about the world and for Gosling to show of his political skills.
7697535 Something tells me the exchequer might get a nice earthy job after this, pick work in a quarry, cleaning roads or worse, local sewer works employee.
Damn you for making me want to read more of stuff like this. Entertaining as always, and while i certainly dont expect something like this to ever get as big/long as your other weedverse stories having a few random chapters of goslings cookie court would be appreciated.
7697504 tia is acting like a dog with a chew toy. Shes grabbing and shaking it back and forth.
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Outhouse basement cleaner.
Another positively lovely tale in the Weed 'verse. Wonderful!
Ok, this really made me smile and I'm a little sad to see that it's just a quick one shot, but still, great addition to the Weedverse.
Ohh. I would love to see this added too from time to time. Not as a main story but as the mood suits you. This is an amazing way to show prices of your world that don't show up as well in the main story verses.
A delightful addition. Gosling continues to do good work, even if some mugs might find it silly, no wait, especially if they find it silly.
Lovely! How we wish our Governements might work like this.
that was cute and i want more!! >_<
No inquiry,no verification whatsoever, and this clown has already promised, in front of the press, to fire an authority he has never met and whose name he doesn't even know. This idiot shouldn't in charge of a laundromat, much less Canterlot.
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He's an agent of the crown and serves at the crown's pleasure. Also, there's no mention of press in the audience chamber, Gosling just requests that they speak to Seville afterwards. Not sure if Seville really counts as press anyway, he's almost more of a propaganda minister at this point.
This was adorable. Thanks Kudzu!
That was short.
I liked it.
But it was painfully short.
Awwww ... that is heart warming
Have a Fav + thumbs up!
But now I want to read how gosling deals with the exchequer agent ...
This was awemazing on so many levels. Now I'm sad because I want more but this is only a one-shot and that means this is all I get.
Very sweet.
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Foals are friends, not food!
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Except as we have seen in other Weedverse fics, many members of the Bureaucracy are exactly like the one described here, and even worse as many of them want to get the workhouses and Child Labor offices back up and running. And while the crown has agents to deal with this sort of thing, the fact the asshole has probably already heard about Flapjack and her mother goign to this Cookie Court, even if he wouldn't take it seriously, he would probably take seriously any new ponies coming around he doesn't recognize and put on an act of not being as bad as he actually is.
7697504 I was actually think of Flapjack from that cartoon, "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack".
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It's a Weedverse story. By definition it will have Weedverse characters in it.
I approve of this court. I, too, hope it succeeds.
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No shit, I avoid the Gosling centric ones, and I didn't see his name in the tittle.
This fits right in with "A Basket, A Blanket, and a Bundle of Bills" . Woe is Mr. agent if Twilight Velvet gets wind of him.
7697843 And furthermore, he has the option to - if the agent turns out not to be the jackass everyone assumes he is at this point (no offense, Cranky Doodle Donkey) - just reassign that agent without firing him, thus keeping his promise while not being a total toolbox.
7697535 He has at that. Then again, playing the long game really seems to be the theme of Gosling's arc, here. And if I'm right, he's learning from the best. Celestia is obviously a master of the game, but if my wild guesses are right, Cadance is playing one hell of a long game here, and Gosling's a big part of it. And he's doing precisely what she hopes he will.
And I'll bet dollars to donuts that she's doing something similar up in the Crystal Empire (or putting one of her best ponies up to the task).
Adorably good.
I really expected Gosling to summarize what was wrong to the little squirt as "The Crown sends tax money for new textbooks every year, so if your school isn't getting new textbooks, that money is going somewhere it shouldn't. Think of it as a leak in the money pipe, and I'm--"
"A plumber?" The foal squinted at him. "You're weird. Nice, but weird."
Seriously, I can hardly wait until Prince Gosling goes to talk to the textbook manufacturers.
Gosling rubbed his forehead. The hair on his coat was starting to thin there, and if he kept it up, he was going to have an embarrassing bald spot before he was even old enough to grow a good mustache. "So the textbooks you sell to Equestrian school now cost more because they're 'enhanced' for the modern age?"
"Yes, Your Highness," said the small, mousy stallion on the other side of the table. It was a table piled with 'Sample' copies of his company's books, all of which Gosling had briefly flipped through and none of which looked familiar from his fairly recent time in school.
"These enhancements you're so proud of include an update service for any current historical events, such as Luna's return," added Gosling as he hefted a fairly thin history book and opened it up to the back. "In this case, the return of Princess Luna well over a year ago, which your modern and up-to-date history book refers to by way of stapling the official press release from the Crown onto the back cover."
"Yes, Your Highness. The updated edition will be out next year, when the previous edition expires."
"And by expires," said Gosling, his lips thinning into narrow lines, "you refer to the fading enchantment with which all of your 'enhanced' editions use so the schools have to re-order their textbooks from you every single year. And not just history books. Math, science, alchemstry..."
"It's only fair," said the textbook representative. "They're only licensed for a year, and the schools get a rebate for sending the blank books back."
"Five bits each," said Gosling. "A princely sum, considering the new book costs five hundred bits!"
You had me at 'Cookie'.
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Luna: "Not in the modern era, at least. Now back in MY day...."
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Well at least it's better than how they write textbooks in the USA.
So what's the punishment if its obvious a foal doesn't have a complaint of their own but has been pressured into being a mouthpiece for an adult?
Does the adult have to stand in the corner?
That cookie looks great... May I click it? I have the unexplainable urge to click this cookie so often right now...
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I know that in some of the old mythologies unicorns always had curved horns. But I never get why people draw MLP that way, it looks so awkward that way.
Still, Celestia teaches us the proper way to eat whatever the fuck that thing was. Killed it dead, she did.
There's a whole spinoff series here; we need more of this!
i want another cookie in court
I would greatly enjoy seeing more of these.
If not their own stories, perhaps in chapters of Perilous Gestation.
Damnit, now I've got to go and make flapjacks!
That was good, but painfully short.
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I know this is a bad idea, but im curios.
Why?
7697808 Actually, this is part of Gosling's growth as a leader. He's a natural at it, but he's still going to make mistakes. I should imagine Celestia would allow Gosling some leeway until she thinks he's going to make a really big mistake. She's paying attention to what he's doing and if what he was doing was wrong or way out of line, she'd step in.
Gosling is growing as a leader and Celestia is letting him do just that.
More please if possible.