I'm older than your average brony, but then I've always enjoyed cartoons. I'm an experienced reviewer, EqD pre-reader, and occasional author.
Twilight Sparkle only wants to check Sweet Apple Acres off her list of wells, but according to Applejack, some nasty little animals live near it. Bureaucracy will save the day!
A slightly eligible entry in the FiMFiction Feghoot Festival
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Good story, but far too short. I was expecting something else to happen.
Anyway, thanks for explaining what a "feghoot" is. I'm still not painting an exact mental picture, but you've given me enough to go on.
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The group linked in the description has a good definition, but in short it's a kind of story which leads to a joke ending, usually a pun version of a familiar expression, but can be other things like a tongue twister or a meme reference. The story can appear to be serious until it gets to that point.
"Are you sure you don't want me to put some magical protections around your well, Applejack? It would only take a minute."
"Naa," scoffed the farmer. "Although, if yer goin' back that way, you could take.... Oh, this old rocking chair here and put it next to the well. That'll be enough wood to keep them varmints at bay, easy."
"That makes sense," said Twilight, marking a note on her form and lifting the chair in her magic. "A picked chair is worth a thousand wards, after all."
(Look, the story was just sitting there, and I had this pencil...)
Wow -- elaborate, surprising, totally justified without feeling forced.
Great feghoot - it just slipped right there at the end
Too bad the feghoot competition already ended.
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It ends in just under 20 hours.
9739425 From the rules
It's now the 19th, so it's been over for several days now.
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Shoot, it looks like I didn’t update the rules, but I’ve made multiple announcements that it was extended to the end of Friday. I’ll update the rules in the morning.
Textbook feghoot, and I mean that in a good way. Thank you for it, and best of luck on the judging.
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Roger dodger!
Aaaagh!
I'll get you for this one day.
I was waiting for an "all's well that ends well" joke, so I'm very pleased you went with something better. For a metric of 'better', anyway. XD
And I love this for reasons.
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See, the kind of pun you were dreading does okay as a title or a passing joke in the story, but for a punchline? That's just the laziest. I have little respect for feghoots that end on such low-hanging fruit, that just rely on a single homonym/homophone, or that only change one word in a long phrase. I prefer ones that go for a lengthy, complex pun that still fits the original's rhythm, since it's obviously tougher to pull those off.
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We should all be thankful Bronycon is right around the corner, because I'm in "just finished contest, must write story" mode and the pun I have in mind is just awful
and probably no one would get itNice pun at the end. Very intricate. Though I wonder what critters were they that would be fended off by wood?
I woodn't do that if I were you...
...
Oh!