It is not a fun week to be Rarity. She has an important photo-shoot to prepare for. She needs to scramble to put together a dress before a big deadline. And for some reason all her friends seem to think she is romantically involved with the local librarian.
Oh, yes, and she has gone blind.
Now Rarity learns just how many mud puddles one can step in around Ponyville, just how pointy her needles are, and just how many things there are around her place that exist solely to bang her fetlocks on. ...And presumably something about the strength of friendship, and the perserverance of the pony spirit, and what not, but come on, invisible mud puddles!
Big thanks as always to my pre-reader LovingTolerance.
Chapters (3)
Cool.
This is one of the few comedy stories I’ve read on here recently that had me actually laughing out loud in parts.
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okay, so, fun concept.
I think you could have done better with this chapter though. It seems unlikely that Rarity would fail to notice her vision fading like that. I understand you were trying to make it a slow process, but really, I think she would have noticed at some point after giving them a 100-bit coin, but before arriving at home and not realizing she was there, that her vision was going.
So...I'm going to just try to forget about that and enjoy the rest of the story.
Excellent, well-written story. EqD worthy, I believe!
...So, was this whole story just a front for making a bunch of RariTwi innuendos? Cause those were the best parts. Hands down. And honestly, the idea that Rarity would be that worried about someone finding out she'd temporarily lost her sight is a bit of a stretch.
Also, what 1299360 said.
...not bad. not bad at all.
I think I'll give you a thumbs up.
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Are you joking?!
That was the best part!
Fantastic. A new personal favorite.
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Oops, my bad. I thought that comma was a period.
1299360
I knew I wanted to do a terrible sunglasses--yeaah! joke from the moment I started this.
1299380 She didn't fail to notice her blindness. She was just in denial until she was alone enough to freak out about it.
1300050 I dunno. Even without any fillyfooling, the premise itself would be difficult to pull off in a visual medium. They would either have to make the entire episode all dark and blurry, which would make everyone's head hurt, or have it be from outside of Rarity's perspective, which would completely change the whole idea of the story.
1300323 RariTwi is fun to shiptease, I find. I enjoy writing banter between them. This isn't the first fic of mine that has relied heavily on this fact.
1300518 Glad to hear it!
YES.
JUST YES.
Well Job done! What a shame, this excelent story is so unknown.
Great character acting and a really nice own mlp epsiode (ok, rated teen episode. i'm ok with that. 
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It is a real pleasure to read this story!
5 senses are for ponies that aren't as fabulous as Rarity. Creating visual masterpieces through a format that requires a great deal of very precise physical activity may require vision for OTHER ponies, but for Rarity all it takes is a pattern and some kind of crazy deal with the Random Number Gods to exchange a ton of tiny misfortunes for one large success practically falling in her lap.
Now if you'll excuse me, someone asked for my help "making a dress." Not sure how they managed to pronounce the quotation marks, or why, but I'm sure it's urgent.
2040509 Make sure to wear a thimble, darling!
The lack of mentioning your friends can be morons is tactful XD also I feel like there needs to be some AJ apologising for feeling guilty that it's her apples that made rarity blind but cute nevertheless.
1299360
Well now I have to read this.
1299380
I interpreted it as her 'acting natural'. I assume she found out that her vision had gone after the cucumbers were removed, but kept her cool so that no pony would suspect that she couldn't see. As she explained:
...The dress is going to be green checkered, isn't it?
This was wonderful. I loved the humor infused with the obstacle of a lack of sight, the complete misunderstanding with her friends, and how everyone seemed to like the watermelon dress over the blue and yellow one. Nice fic! You get a fave from me!
2226179 This was what I was going for. That I failed to convey it to a lot of readers is my failing, not theirs.
I'm glad you liked the story! Writing for a blind character was a real challenge, and some aspects of the story may have suffered a little from the constraint, but it was fun to write, regardless, and I hope to write around another sensory handicap sometime.
Excellent! I think I like Rarity because she is the polar opposite of me, or at least my complement number in the imaginary plane. I think it's hard to write her so that her flaws don't make her annoying, but rather adorable. You pulled that off well. I'd love to see you really ship off Twirity!
2506535 I sure do like to ship-tease the pairing, don't I?
Once I get around to writing it, the sequel to my story Stubborn as Ponies is going to focus on a genuine Raritwi/Twirity/Gosh-as-much-as-I-love-this-ship-there-really-isn't-a-good-way-to-portmanteau-it. But I do have a few stories queued up before it, so it may be a little while.
I enjoy writing Rarity a lot, she's a very fun character with a lot of depth. I'm glad you like my portrayal of her.
Okay, Rarity is now blind, and this is "Comedy"? Interesting...hopefully she'll eventually get her sight back.
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Er, Rarilight?
(Personally, "Rari-" sounds so much better than "-ity" I shoul know, since I'm a hardcore Rarijack shipper.)
2850416 But.. But.. Twitty is a perfect name for this pairing!
That was an entertaining story, and I am so glad that I have eyesight
None are so blind as those who can't see, Rarity! (Twilight's not Ms. Perceptive of Ponyville, either.)
That CSI:Miami joke was heinous. I hope I didn't scare my neighbours by suddenly laughing like a lunatic.
Bravo. Who knew one could so much mileage out of a blind Rarity?
Haha
Great story
But you know Braille doesn't work that way right? :)
Oh and blind people don't necessarily have better senses. We just pay attention more.
That being said, you don't read comedy stories for accuracy. Rambling over. Fun and enjoyable story in a style true to the show.
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First of all I’m glad I’m not the only one that uses the text to speech function on this site. And second I completely agree with your rambling and and add that it is much Much less of an obstacle when you’re surrounded by good friends, gross I have a hair in my mouth
Oooh Ok Wonder how she handle it.