This story is a sequel to Filly Cheesesteaks
In Equestria, it's Nightmare Night. On Earth, it's Halloween. For ponies on Earth, adapting to Halloween wasn't difficult. Costumes, spooky decorations, and candy? They may have a different name for it, but it's celebrated very similarly in both our worlds.
Trunk-or-treating? Okay, that's a new one for the ponies.
Trick-or-treating antics with a trio of rambunctious fillies. And Minty. Expect a corn maze and even cornier jokes. Some of which are actually about corn.
Additional tags: Self-Insert & Trixie
While this is a sequel to Car Wash and Filly Cheesesteaks, it's not necessary to read either of those stories first.
Written for Admiral Biscuit's challenge/request for more slice of life fics featuring ponies working on Earth:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/869870/story-notes-labor-day-plus-a-challenge-to-readers
Pre-read/edited by Admiral Biscuit
Very nice! Loved Petunia here. She really needs more stories
The corn puns were corny.
Please tell me that was intentional.
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Very intentional!
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That she does! You'd think a dinosaur-obsessed filly would get more love from the community. I know I'm not the only dinosaur geek on this site!
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Indeed! I did a story with her too, as I found she deservers more
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Found it and I'll check out when I have a chance! I'm always down for reading Petunia stories!
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THen I hope you enjoy it when you get to it
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I'm sure I will!
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Eager to see your comments.
I count myself lucky to have found this story at towards the end of Halloween!
My mate, I so badly wish these stories had thousands of views; Filly Cheesesteaks in particular, I want to put that story in my Stories That Deserve More Attention folder multiple times. This first-person series of this narrating character and these fillies + some adults have to contain the most fun stories I've ever read on this site. I gave a follow too!
Given that Trixie is here instead of Europe or Asia, it's absolutely amazing that she hasn't gotten shot yet. Perhaps she's only been in the country for a week.
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She's only visiting. It won't be for long, that's for sure.
She took a leave of absence from being the School of Friendship's guidance counselor as she saw an opportunity to go 'on the road' and dazzle people who've never seen a unicorn before, believing that we'd be be awed by even run-of-the-mill magic; the only problem is it's Trixie, so you know she's going to find a way to mess up even an 'easy gig' like this. 
She'll live through it, but her passport's probably going to be revoked.
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Thank you very much!
I'm glad you're having fun reading them! I have a lot of fun writing this series! What is life if it isn't fun? At the end of the day that's what stories exist for: to entertain. They entertain me to write, and my hope is that they entertain the readers as well. Part of the fun for me is trying to blend the cartoon world of Equestria with our world as seamlessly and realistically as possible.
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She's quite fortunate that Petunia disrupted her cast. Turning a human into a toad would probably have gotten people to pull their concealed carry and open fire. Wouldn't that be an interdimensional diplomatic disaster- not sure the School of Friendship counts as any official diplomatic post, but "potentially influential foreign citizen casts baleful polymorph without provocation; gets killed in retaliation" would be awkward all around. It'd be pretty funny in a certain way as well.
The sympathetic Trixies are the ones who successfully combine jerkass and woobie; this one is all jerkass and no woobie.
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It's very fortunate. It's a self-insert, and I really wouldn't like being a toad all that much.
It would've ended up as quite the inter-dimensional incident, but I don't think Trixie actually knows how to turn a person into a toad (or kumquat). She was making noise, and she seemed as surprised at being able to turn the Toyota's doors into wings as anybody else. She'd been studying Transmogrify in order to transform herself into an alicorn, and that's where the wings came from. So instead of a toad, had she actually hit me with the magical blast more like than not I would've sprouted wings. As for her getting shot, it's possible. There's a lot of overlap between car enthusiasts and gun enthusiasts, so I can't rule it out. It would likely depend on if people considered her a threat to themselves or any of the kids around.
I went for a season 1 portrayal of Trixie for the story. So extra-jerkass, hold the woobie. She got better as the series progressed, but once I got the flying car idea in my head, I knew I needed an antagonistic unicorn to play the part. Trixie seemed like the pony most likely to troll everyone on Halloween by offering tricks instead of treats, so I gave her the nod. But no harm was done, and much like the end of Boastbusters, it's her wagon that's taken the brunt of the damage (in this case, her Volkswagen). Starlight will give her a good chewing out once she gets home, and the towing bill to Ponyville will cost her several thousand dollars.
I never knew that trunk-or-treating was a thing.
As great as it's prequels.
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Thank you!
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This year was my first time attending one. It won't be my last! I had a lot of fun and it seemed like everyone there did too.
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I feel that it’s more popular in rural areas, where going house-to-house isn’t practical for a lot of people (for example, anyone who wanted to trick-or-treat at my house would have to walk on the shoulder of a state highway, which isn’t ideal).
Dammit Trixie, I thought you would have learned by now to calm the balls down.
'This was adorable.' Sees who the author is 'I really shouldn't be surprised at this point.'
Seriously though, the costume and character descriptions were cute and detailed. My favorite kind of story.
Trixie was a tad aggressive (even for her) but other than that, I enjoyed it immensely.
Although it does make me wonder, what the status of the villians is in this universe, given no one had a problem with their children dressing up as them?
Regardless this was a delightful read. Thank you for writing.
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this!
I admit, adorable is my favorite genre to write.
I like to think it's what I do best!
Trixie was a bit aggressive, but she was based on her season 1 characterization. Though I cranked her obnoxiousness up to 11 for the sake of the story.
Much like humans dress as things that go bump in the night (ghosts, witches, etc.), some ponies dress up like their biggest threats. In this case, they've got villains to pick from. Nopony really minds if ponies dress up like the villains. Even Discord seems flattered by the attention when somepony dresses like him. I have a habit of releasing the trio from stone, and Cozy Glow is set to be released in a future installment in this series. We'll see about Tirek and Chrysalis after that. My idea for Cozy Glow won't really work with them, unfortunately. Our hapless self-insert protagonist gets roped into adopting her and is tasked with reforming her. I'm not sure if it'll serve as an official ending for the series or if that'll lead to more wacky adventures with Cozy Glow by my side. Either way, there are two completed stories in this series that will be released before this one.
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I was getting some real Alicorn Amulet vibes there, to be honest.
As much as I love Cozy Glow, Tirek strikes me as being the most likely to change his ways, between the three of them. He showed a interest in understanding Twilight the first time he was free, and was willing to compromise throughout Season 9 for the sake of his allies.
Cozy Glow's claim to reformation (besides being extremely young) is that she is acts a lot like a more sociable version of Discord from post Twilight's Kingdom, so a similar path for her reformation might be likely to happen, given that similar tactics have 'worked' before (for a relative definition of 'working').
Sounds extremely cute. Looking forward to see how it plays out.
I won't lie, I'll be hoping for the later.
Either way, your installments are often top notch, so I will eagerly await the results.
Sounds promising. Can't wait for whatever you come up with next!
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While it will have its cute moments, it'll be rated 'teen' as it's a bit darker than most of what I write. Probably not enough to warrant a 'dark' tag (as it's not finished, I can't say for certain if it'll need it or not), but certainly beyond my normal E-rated fare. That said, it's me, so it'll still have its cute moments to make up for it. Cozy can be cute and lovable... when she wants to be.
I get the feeling Tirek's tired of having the ponies kick his flank. Cozy's still got that youthful invincibility thing going on, and hasn't had the stupid knocked out of her just yet. Her defeats are 'setbacks' and not yet a pattern showing her ultimately futile efforts.
I have to get through it first, and see where it takes me. But if there's room for future installments I'm game to keep writing them (and I thoroughly enjoy writing Cozy Glow, so that's a distinct possibility).
It's been stalled out for a while, waiting for inspiration to strike. This story is tentatively titled The Pony Without A Country, though I'm not sure that's what it'll be released as.
Thank you! Put A Pegasus In Your Tank and Every Breath You Take will be next, marking the seventh and eighth installments of the Car Wash series. Both are complete; the first is waiting only on cover art, while the second needs cover art, pre-reading/editing, and some photos for the associated blog post. But both of those should be released before the end of the year.
Trunk-Or-Treat is a terrible development:
The point of Halloween is that it is the only time children can go to the homes on strangers unattended, but is is safe because gzillions of eyes are on the street. Unfortunately, fearmongers ruined it with their lies about poisoned candy —— ¡no child has died from the candy of strangers! —— and fears about abducting children (the last time that happened was in the 1970s).
Trunk-Or-Treats do not have the fun of running around unattended at night and are also far too often exclusionary:
Many church run Trunk-Or-Treats. They often limit the Trunk-Or-Treats to members-only.
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The one I went to (and wrote about) was held by a car club in a (mostly) dead strip mall. If you look at the cars in the cover image (Mustang, Japanese domestic market exclusive Toyota Sera, Chevy Cobalt SS, and a vintage Mini Cooper) you can tell that this wasn't your normal church-sponsored trunk-or-treat. I posted pics of more cars from the event in the associated blog post (mostly import tuners since it was hosted by a tuner club).
I used to give out candy on Halloween but I was pretty much the only house on the block that did. After several years of only getting single digit trick-or-treaters I decided to try something different.
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We have stingy people not handing out candy here too —— ¡It is only once an year! I even kicked my brother out of mine house this year for his greedy stinginess:
My brother has always been greedy for candy. When we were little, he stole my candy. As an adult, he is expected to hand out candy, but he only gives 1 candy per child so that he has more candy left over for himself. He steals all the good candy from his own kids.
He brought his kids to mine house. He saw me handout a fistful of candy to each Trick-OrTreatEr. He criticized me for not handing out 1 per child. I told him that he will not get any of the leftover candy and to buzz off. I gave my niece and nephew 2 fistfuls of candy each, in front of my brother, and told them, with my brother right there watching and listening, to not let their dad steal "the good stuff".
Some years I have gotten high double-digit numbers. Usually, I get about 50 kids. Since the Pandemic, one has to flip that 5 around, because I get about a score (20) now. This makes no sense to me:
Trick-Or-TreatIng is the perfect PandemicActivity; it is outdoor and one can wear a mask under the mask. ¡Go figure!
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Most of my block is comprised of retirees. Since I never had many kids show up at my place I always urged them to take more than one piece of candy too. My preference was to give out Nerds. As for eating it myself, I eat enough candy as is, and I'm perfectly capable of buying more any time I want some. Usually Swedish Fish...
Seriously, your brother is an adult. He knows where the store is. He knows how to buy candy if he needs to indulge his sweet tooth. Like parents who eat the ears off chocolate Easter bunnies...
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I feel sorry for you. Retirees rarely Trick-Or-Treat.
I made the same point —— ¡yet again! —— in a TextMessage, the next day, but with many more 4-letter words.
I've noticed that too.
Trixy is an illusionist.