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The Bricklayer


Slow down, you're doing fine, you can't be everything you want to be, before your time... -Vienna, The Stranger: Billy Joel. (Any Pronouns)

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Two awkward ducks walk into a house together. Sunlit snuggles and talks about relationships ensue.

(Takes some inspiration from Study-Cuddling with Sunset Shimmer by CategoricalGrant. Go give him a shout eh?)

Featured on 5/18/20

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Comments ( 35 )

I don't usually involve myself with romance fics or EQG, but this was pretty good.

This was a lot of fun! :pinkiehappy: I really enjoy Flash/Sunset as a ship and I was really surprised (and delighted) to see what you'd do with them. And this was honestly pretty well-done. I quite liked the way you handled the idea of what made Flash stay with Sunset back in the past (and the mention of the Memory Stone incident was a very inspired touch), and how their relationship is in the present.

I think you did a pretty good job with Flash as a character here. Admittedly, he's pretty basic, but then again it can work towards writing him - he's just a nice, caring guy, and as long as you consider that you're pretty good to go I reckon.

One thing, you do have some typos at the beginning - namely, typing "Okay" with a comma thrown in at the wrong place.

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Yeah, trying to aim for sappy and sweet as of late. Apparently I've been told it's my 'niche'.

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As SilverQuill says... CONTINUITY! But yeah, I was in a bit of a rush to do this story. May not have done the proper grammar checks. *laughs nervously* I am shame.

That is delightfully wholesome.

Is a nice and is enjoy!

I always love this ship.

Congrats on the feature!

This was wholesome, full of fluff and looked like a healthy relationship. Dialog sound natural and at no place I found something for criticism. A lovely little piece and I kind of hope we will more of this ship from you. Good job.

Hey now. Nothing wrong with a cute fluff story between a boy and a girl. Plus its cannon that Sunset is bi, and speaking as a bi person, when we settle into a longterm loving relationship, we do pick the gender connected to the person we fell for. Doesn't mean we stop being bi XP

That was sweet and believable.

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Most of it, I'd like to think. Some of the lines -'my kind of horrible'- weren't my best I think. They didn't come off as 'natural.'

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Oh, I know. It's just, more often than not I don't do het stories and couldn't resist making fun of myself. ...granted, this is largely because there's very large female to male cast member ratio so it's not exactly as if I'm spoiled for choice.

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It was still really good. I'm always down for some FlashShimmer fluff. They really are adorable.

Good! You're fulfilling my quota for more Flashimmer stories! Short, fluffy, realistic, and enjoyable! Have all my likes!

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This was more of an experiment actually, just to see if I could pull it off. Some of my usual passion wasn't there I admit, but do you know how hard writing 3,000 words of just cuddling is? It's... actually a fair bit more difficult than you'd think.

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Oh don't worry, I'm more than aware of how hard writing 3k words of just cuddling is. I pretty much physically can't even write a story if it doesn't have a physical plot. A short section of a chapter dedicated to cuddling sure, but something that is just pure slice of life and nothing else? Heavens forbid!

Still, that makes what you wrote here all the more enjoyable for it. You did a good job, I enjoyed reading it, and you captured what I love about these two reconnecting and giving dating another try. Absolutely not enough of that in this fandom, so I just wanted to send my approvals!

This felt real. Not just "Flash harem." But a real reconnection.

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Ugh, god no. Let's not bring up the word 'harem'. Fantasy wish fulfillment.

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Yeah. It is not only unrealistic, I think it does promote a very misjudged view of romance.

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Yeah, it does. Aside from the obvious question of how to care for every woman -or man- and not have them feel jealous over one of the others, it does sorta objectify them a bit. Like they're prizes to be won.

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You touch on another point: harem stories more or less trivialize the notion of free love itself.

I genuinely believe in free love. That is to say, I believe that confining yourself to one person n your life just isn't natural. But in a real free love situation, you have more responsibility, and you still have to be respectful of others. Free love does NOT mean "treating people like a sex toy."

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Yes, thank you! Exactly this. It's exactly this.

This deserves a follow up fic or two! Very well done

All aboard!!! The S.S IShipIt! We got a swimming pool, an all-you-can-eat buffet, bands, submarines, and even...A THEATRE ROOM! So come on down and have some fun!

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They did, it's even explicitly stated in story.

Comment posted by knightcommander deleted Dec 2nd, 2020
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