Caught in the midst of a heated conflict between two armies, Pvt. Juniper Montage fights the most brutal, intense and realistic battle of her life.
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Bookish Delight
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This was fun.
How is this like Saving Private Ryan?
Only #2, Junie.
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I... oh, come on, that's Sam and Max
That's like saying, "hey, great driving test, now go race Andretti"
Well, this was certainly enjoyable. It was a nice and fluffy little piece. This site needs more Juniper stories. Well done Darling
brb, headcanoning the Pie family's history of military service in the Pastry Corps. Harder than I already was, anyway.
(this was immensely goofy but also still kind of cute)
War is hell.
Cleaning up the house after a hardcore slumber party is worse.
The innuendos are getting worse.
I'm already loving this.
Water cannons?
I think a window was shattered.
A question for the ages, Juniper.
This was adorable and hilarious and kind of heartwarming, too. I loved it!
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Or are they getting better
and this is the story of why juniper was banished to the moon by her parents
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Do you want to be the one to bring up the CMCs to Sunset
do you
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She already has them! And apparently they are no less troublesome!
Ever notice Starswirl or any of the Pillars just dump bad stuff in the EG world as a trash hole?
I can't believe Sunset and Juniper are dead forever. I'll miss them.
Jokes aside, this was a fun little romp -- though the odds of Junie getting a bit of a talking to are probably pretty high because... well, actually; I was going to say that they don't seem like they'd be very good at cleaning things up, but Twilight can just use her geode to make things go a lot faster right? ("But they're not supposed to use them for little things!" It's an EMERGENCY though!) So everything will be fine! You know, probably.
Bernadetto!! I didn't even get the five bucks!
Incredible fun... though the line about feathers and Scootaloo's aunts had me wondering which Twilight I was dealing with for a bit. Still, loved it from start to finish. A wonderful blend of humor, sweetness, melodrama, and the closest thing the human world can offer to hay pizza. Thank you for it.
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WAT?
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Clover didn't send the Memory Stone to the human world. The sorceress fled to that world and Clover followed. Clover just thought it would be a good idea to bury the stone there, probably assuming that that world lacked the ambient magic required to use it or anyone capable of reading the instructions. (Seriously, how was Wallflower able to read Old Ponish?)
Is good. I like.
Look, you'll get the full review when I can (and at this rate who knows WHEN the shit THAT'LL be but let's not repeat TOO many old bad habits here lD; ), but Capsule Version right now 'cuz I need you to know this: this was fucking delightful. Like...top to bottom, start to finish. It's funny, and it's clever, and it's sweet in all the ways you do best, but focused like a damned laser by virtue of how you utilize those elements to make this particular point. Ugh. SO damned GOOD.
That was fun. A delightful story to read and why have I not been shipping Juniper and Starlight?!
This is the best.
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I welcome all Juniper shippers
to say nothing of people writing her into actual stories, period! It's lonely over here with just me and like 2 other people XD8747044
Careful, I might start thinking I'm actually worthy of the Comedy tag.
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All the more motivation for me to get that Review ready 'n' convince you, then! 8D
Wow, I never realized before that the Windigos basically function as the Doomsday Device in Dr. Strangelove.
This was silly and fun. I regret not having read it sooner.
Still, Equestria so has motion pictures. How else do you explain that film reel from "Hurricane Fluttershy"? I mean, why create the technology for educational material alone when there are other equally viable (and far more lucrative) uses for it?
CLEAR THE RAMP 30 SECONDS, GOD BE WITH YOU!!!
That girl needs therapy.
Poor Princess Twilight going to have to untangle those unrelated unsta-- er, instances.
Well, for one perspective. Princess Twilight would probably be your best source for the rest.
And now I'm thinking of the one with the confetti.
We love you, Bookie. Come to Northern Cali next year for BABSCon, well treat you right.
Its honestly kind of funny to consider you haven’t really done a parody before now. I mean, on the one hand it makes perfect sense; that kind of mean-spirited poking-fun isn’t really your bag most of the time. But on the other hand, parody invites us to play with the tropes and trappings of the stories we love in a manner freer and more playful than “straight” narratives do. Which, naturally, is the kind of parody you bring us here. And the result is just straight-cut, start-to-finishdelightful. It’s got just enough of a purpose behind the fun to keep things coherent and insightful, yes, but oh my glob, the meat and potatoes of this story are fun, fun,fun, and I am 100%herefor it.
Especially because you've created something like The Ideal Bookish Premise here. Like, playing around with the dynamics of one couple has proven itself a reliably enjoyable story style for you (indeed, I don't think it's unfair to place this in the same continuum of the "BFF" series, given that it shares with those stories an almost-but-not-quite plotless structure that's designed more to highlight the mechanics of the couples in play), but playing around with two at once, and putting them into (playful) conflict with each other? That's a new twist, and one that provides the story with theperfectenergy, because it means we just haveso manylayers of Character to play with here, and each one is wonderful and fun and enjoyable in just the way you've proven yourself so talented at. Like, layer #1: we get to delight in the dynamic of the individual couples. Starlight and Juniper, the star-struck storyteller and the pragmatic realist? That's great; it's hilarious to see Juniper's wide-eyed perspective, enjoying as it does all the great Drama of the Story (and analyzing it via her comprehensive knowledge of this exactkindof Story), bounce up against Starlight, who for her part is playing along more so than personally invested, but who nonetheless has an interesting grasp of the What and Why of all this. On the other side of the line, meanwhile, we have Sunset and Twilight, twoverytactical minds (indeed, an unexpected bonus is how this story points out that connecting line between the two that I'd never really considered before but, as always, blows my mind for how keenly you hit on it) who nonetheless approach this scenario in very different fashions: Sunset is much more going at this with instinct and strategy, whereas Twilight is more into Breaking It Down and assessing the full picture before moving forward. Andthen, on top ofallthat, you pit the two of themagainsteach other, and the ways in which that all unfolds is like pure poetry in motion. Each individual member bounces off each other in just the right way (I especially appreciated Starlight's nigh-constant sarcastic barbs toward Twilight), but moreover eachcouplebounces off of each other in just the right way. Again, it's a game of contrasts; Twilight and Sunset are playing this in a slightly more detached manner, not exactly hiding their feelings for each other but not leaning on them too heavily either, which in turn highlights the easy-going sense of bedrock trust between them that flows so naturally. Starlight and Juniper, meanwhile, are a bit more open, a bit more raw; they bounce off of each other more and more noticeably, and that higher energy translates right back into their style, wilder and more openly playful. It is seriously just a layer cake of Character, and I could feast on it for days and days; I could in fact continue to write this section forever if I was so inclined, but thereareother cylinders this story is firing on that also deserve attention.
Case in point, as I said, this feels like your first explicit parody, and I deeply appreciate that this too plays out on a variety of layers. The most obvious one is right there on the surface: everyone and their grandmother on this website has their Ponies At War story (including me X3), done either as a deliberate subversion or a radical expansion of the show's narrative universe. By taking that same concept and turning it into a Sleepover game, however, "Saving Juniper Montage" manages to, if not take the piss (as the story never becomes mean enough in its satire for that to really take), then at least take some of the air out of the tires of the whole premise, highlighting the intrinsic absurdity of combining what is, after all, a bright and cheerful Kid's Show with the grisly gruesomeness of warfare (the choice of "Saving Private Ryan" as the specific locus of that parody helps a lot too; it provides a structure strong enough to hang the story on but loose enough to be played around with as needed). But the other layer is the one that highlights, to me, why this genre is so perfectly up your alley. The best parodies, after all, are those rooted in affection, and, thanks in no small part to having Juniper to speak to that very element, the story manages to weave that aspect of parody into its being as well. As I say, the mean bone typically associated with parody isn't quite present here; again, you play up the absurdity of the situation such that it's impossible to miss the point, but therealhumor instead comes from recognizing exactly why these stories are so popular with the people who make and consume them, and allowing that perspective too to have its due. That this in turn plays so perfectly to Juniper's character just renders the whole story all the more delightful; watching her excitement as she recognizes each new twist and turn in the narrative, or else sees the potential for how to REALLY play into the Drama of things, is fantastically endearing, and reminds us that even as it is in fact all just so ridiculous, that ridiculousness stillmeanssomething to someone. You've always been adept at balancing acts when it comes to that exact kind of tonal play, but here in particular the rope you're walking is a tight one; to tip even slightly to one side or another would risk the joke becoming a bit too crass or else the sentiment a bit too saccharine, but you walk the whole thing just right each step of the way, and as a result the humor is simultaneously warm and fun but also with just enough of a bite to it to get you toreallypay attention.
And then, on top ofallthat, you build all those pieces together into a coherent whole that speaks to the entire nature of the series' world and the characters who inhabit it. Using the War Game as a lens by which to discuss how ponies and humans relate to conflict in different ways is such a brilliant final turn to bring the whole thing together, in a way that plays perfectly not only to your own strengths but indeed the strengths of the story as a whole, because here too that profound sense of balance makes the whole thing sing. It's humorous, in its way; again, you don't shy away from how trulybizarrethis whole concept is, but at the same time, you also approach the underlying point underlying the discussion with the utmost sincerity, and that in turn allows us to laughwiththe funnier side of it while also understanding the more philosophical aspect. Moreover, you ground it so perfectly in Character; the perspective of each of the four people participating in the discussion receives its due, and the particulars, the ways they compare and contrast and in so doing reveal something meaningful about the deeper truth at issue in all of this, feel real and believable.
"Saving Juniper Montage", then, is the best kind of fun: in the moment, it's all sweet and froth and laughs, but the more you think about it, the more you realize there was something of real substance there. The fun, the sweetness, is still present, but you can see how it informs another, equally important concept that makes said fun evenmoreenjoyable by fortifying it without overwhelming it. It is, in other words, something like the platonic ideal of My Kind Of Parody Story, and I love it to pieces for that.
The use of pies as weapons? It's totally using the harmonic magic of laughter! Could you drop a buffalo with a single arrow? Of course not! But a pie on the other hand...
Pies penetrate barriers they shouldn't, cause an unreasonable amount of chaos, and are far more of problem for an allegedly prepared enemy than using real weapons. LITERALLY because it's funnier!
Lots of fun.
Is this crossover? I...I am surprised
I thought I would get "Some Real Human Starlight that not come from Equestria" story, but...it isn't...