A.K. Yearling is famous throughout Equestria and even beyond for being the author of the well-known, well-written Daring Do book series. From the casual reader to the devoted fan, her books have influenced not just the lives of many ponies but even Equestrian literature itself. From the very first book to the latest one, each story had inside treasures of that literary quality that would astound and amaze any reader.
Despite that, Quibble Pants, a fan of the Daring Do book series, is convinced that, outside of the first three books, the Daring Do books are actually low-quality, dumbed down, action-filled products that were evidence of an author that was selling out to the publisher which was only out to seek more profit. However, there was a question in his head: Why would an author want to sell out?
So, despite the adventure he'd had with Rainbow Dash and A.K Yearling herself—who turned out to actually be Daring Do, which meant that all the Daring Do stories were real—Quibble Pants visits another Daring Do convention to settle the matter once and for all with the writer herself:
Why did A.K. Yearling sell out?
I really enjoyed this story. Just everything. Everything was good.
note to Self: go to the Daring Doo con... bring oar... break oar in Quibble Pants' head ...
That's what I was thinking when he brought it up. If somepony keeps solving the puzzles you like to sadistically watch them fail at, then you move from that to acting much more directly. You don't stick with the same tactic that they've been shown to do well against.
I hated this episode, but this is a good fic, and the "Nonfanon-ing stuff is dumb" moral should have been in the episode.
There is simply no in-between with a Daring Do convention. You're either a Groupie Brigade candidate, or you're as jaded and bored as the vendors that clearly want to move on.
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who is this comment referring to, exactly
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why cause he has a second opinion
also, just cause it really happened doesn't mean it's automatically well-written, just look at Gabby Rivera's work, it's based on her won expiriences, but that doesn't mean it's interesting or well written
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No, because he is annoying as
This makes for an interesting conversation, and you vocabulary is impressive.
But a part of me feels like this story is ALMOST a lecture, close, but not quiet.
Quibble Pants has a RIGHT not to like the books after the trilogy.
Also, I REALLY don't think Yearling copies down everything that happens word for word, action for action. Her editor would be BOUND to change things up. Which WOULD result in inconsistencies later on. And Yearling is writing things from her point of view, that isn't going to be magically unbiased.
I get the point you are trying to make and the somewhat lesson Daring/AK is teaching but I feel that the story misses the point of the lesson Quibble and Rainbow learned in that episode