A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)
Finding out she and Applejack might be related was the worst day of Pinkie Pie's life.
What is it with these contests?
Dear ApplePie contest judges: You said you wanted an ApplePie story? Maybe even an authentic one? There's this MLP:FiM episode called "Pinkie Apple Pie."
Depending on how you look at it, maybe the episode is a little bit tragic...or maybe a whole lot.
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Poor Pinkie. As they are both girls, they wouldn't have to deal with the main reason why incest is wrong-deformed children.
Ah yes, cotton candy flavoured tears, my favourite flavour, nothing compares.
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And even that isn't a concern past the level of first cousins. As an enforced taboo it doesn't make a lot of sense.
aww, they really are so orange, muscular, and beautiful!
and oof, i quite like the flavor of this with the consecutive "pretend"s. quite the tragic reïnterpretation of that scene
and oof, of course Honest Applejack couldn't live with such a thing
ooh, i learned today that "keen" can also be a verb. and yes, they are both so family-minded aren't they :(
oh hey, it's a theme that comes up in my own writing a lot! that happiness is still precious even if it's contingent and temporary
aww, these are good Applejack countryisms, really love "live in some kinda fool's paradise"
yeah, and with all the emphasis they put on being one big family growing up, it makes sense the taboo would be even stronger for them
i would bawl too, this is very sad :(
and i am blown away by how amazing this section is. how it wraps up everything that they are losing in one big bundle of sorrow, and the powerful bittersweetness of this final declaration of love before the end.
i can feel their love for each other in these words, so clearly and genuinely that it makes me unable to imagine "Pinkie Apple Pie" unfolding the way it did, even though that episode's events are necessary for this bittersweet tragedy, which is sort of a referential paradox. but really, wow! what a beautiful, tragic romance. their chemistry is exactly what i imagine when imagining that warm and tender ApplePie that overwhelmed me with emotion in the contest post.
i know that the whole point of this fic is to put in front and center an aspect of the canon i'd rather minimize, and make the best case for why ApplePie wouldn't work. but in making that maximally tragic, it also showed exactly why the ApplePie chemistry works wonderfully, and that is just beautiful. it is ironic that this is one of my favorite shipfics i've ever read, but also is one of the fics that have caused me the most pain. please, write more stories with this amount of chemistry for my shipping contests!
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The Apple family must not be very old, or they’d be related to *everyone*. If they’re counting a fourth cousin, who do they not count? 4th cousins have roughly the same DNA similarities as a random sample of the population.
Maybe Equestrian genetics is different.