Silver Spoon is a busy mare. So very, very busy. But she makes time for Diamond Tiara. Best friends and all that. And as Diamond's best friend, she's willing to take time out of one of her rare days off to meet with an old classmate as a favor.
It'll be nice to see Featherweight again. For business purposes. Yeah. Just business. Diamond surely didn't have any ulterior motives. Nope. Never. Not Diamond Tiara, nooooo.
Don't let the bad cover art fool you, this is set many years after the events of the show.
An idea inspired by a recurring element in PatchworkPoltergeist's The Silver Standard. Written purely for the sake of getting it out of my head.
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A random thought, but Silver Spoon's obsessive need to keep schedules reminded me of the Clock King from Batman: The Animated Series. She was just one missed appointment away from becoming a supervillain.
Looks like that won't be happening after the events of this story. Very cute, even if two (mostly) mature adults act like blushing school children trying to admit their feelings. It's a tired cliché, but your humous descriptions and banter made it worthwhile. I may just go and give The Silver Standard a try after this.
Well done!
Now this was adorable.
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You should! It's an extraordinarily good fic, one of the best on this site IMO. (And there are a lot of quality horsewords here!)
As a rather awkward person myself I can sympathize with Featherweight. Truth be told I always liked Silverspoon more than DT in the show, I felt she had some serious smarts and would do well for herself in the future.
P.S.
I did some digging and found a couple images that cross Featherweight and Silverspoon
Okay, this is going to end with Silver Spoon either learning to loosen up or becoming the Clock King. Either way, I'm here for it!
(Huh, turns out the first comment got there before I did. Ah well, I like the joke, so I'm keeping it.)
Yeah, I know that feeling.
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Fun little story. Not a pairing that's ever occurred to me before of course, but that just makes it more fun - nothing like a good original pairing to shake things up, I say! And this definitely worked.
Also, interesting interpretation of both Silver's Talent and how she'd use it professionally. No idea if it was gotten for the inspiration story or original to this one (haven't read it yet, might in the future but I have a heck of a backlog to get through and that word count would not expedite that), but either way I like it.
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I approve of this idea. Every character needs a potential avenue into villainy.
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Yes. Do so. It's easily among the best stories on the site.
I must do my due diligence and warn you that the story suffers from a terrible drawback: there is no Trixie to be found. But It is still awesome, despite this grave flaw.
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Silver Spoon is always adorable. I am very fond of that classy rich filly.
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Seconded.
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Silver was always a favorite character for me, which became all the greater when she stood up for herself against DT. It's a shame we didn't get anything more of either of them after that episode.
Luckily, fanfiction delivers.
I have to wonder where, because they certainly eluded me.
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That is the funniest Peter Parker-related thing I think I've ever seen.
It's my own idea, but it turns out me and PatchworkPoltergeist were in firm agreement about it without having known it. I did borrow a few extra elements from The Silver Standard. For example, Silver having been Pinkie's
event organizerparty planning apprentice, which a chapter of the story is devoted to. The fact that Patchwork made it work beautifully is just one example of why the story is so good.Oh wow is Silver oblivious to the many, many hints. The results were pretty wholesome though.
Outstanding work. The Silver Standard is still one of the best stories on the site, and this spiritual sequel lives up to its legacy. Great work in establishing where each character is in their lives, and just how dramatically Silver and Featherweight collide, hard enough to send her all but flying out of her rut. Thank you for this.
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On Derpibooru.org granted it was like 1 or 2 pics that actually fit the bill, the rest being group pics or pg-13+ arts.
I could also probably sketch something if you wanted to do an art exchange or something similar.
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"Spiritual sequel"? Nah, you give me too much credit. If it was that I'd have added a few things impossible to forgo, such as ghost-hunter Dinky warding the site of Precious's wedding against 'evil spirits' or something (Dinky in The Silver Standard? That's my pony.). I would have mentioned Ferdinand VI, Pinkie would have made an appearance, and somewhere would be a hint that Berry Pinch is a professional Lucha Libre wrestler. Oh, and Diamond would note her fury that Wisteria removed Silver's name from a building; Silver wouldn't give a shit.
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I am genuinely surprised how much of that story I remember.
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I checked Derpibooru and didn't see anything that I felt would work, although it's entirely possible that the tags I searched could have prevented something from popping up.
An art exchange? Like fic for pic? Never did anything like that before. I suppose I could be tempted, depending on specifics.
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By the time her classmates' kids are getting married, I assume the Dink has ascended to alicornhood, been imprisoned in Tartarus, or both.
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Here's the pic links:
https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/6/16/654243/medium.png
https://derpicdn.net/img/2012/12/12/181025/medium.png
https://derpicdn.net/img/2012/7/22/53298/medium.png
Maybe you could help me polish up one of my fic ideas in exchange for a sketch or two?
This was a really cute story and I liked them fumbling around each other a lot.
It's probably mainly more modern sensibilities talking, but I sorta feel Featherweight's obsession with Silver Spoon went a few notches into too far territory. By the end of all of the stuff he had that was Silver adjacent it really started to feel like more stalker-ish territory than cute.
It could've worked well if it was only one photo in the office; being objectively worse it's easy to imagine Diamond asking why and he blushes or stammers or something and Diamond sets the stage up the same way, with everything else playing along similar beats.
Overthinking aside though, this was really genuinely a fun read.
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I actually have that third one in my collection. It's nice, but I'm not about to commit the cardinal sin of putting humans on the cover art of a pony story.
To be honest, the cover art doesn't bug me as much as I intentionally let on and I'm willing to leave it as-is. Appreciate the offer, though!
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no worries, but if you ever need cover art or an in-story doodle feel free to give me a whinny
This story, I like it. ANOTHER!
Holy cow, I think *I* want to date Featherweight. This was amazing! So romantic and truly in the spirit of TSS :)