Self sure in ability or supremely stupid.
Applejack and Rainbow have been together a while and life is good. Too good in fact. They've been living the dream, but the fabric of reality quickly unwinds for the rainbow maned pegasus. Sometimes, things aren't quite what they seem. Other times, maybe they're exactly what you want them to be.
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -Oscar Wilde
My submission for the Appldash contest here.
Props go to Gutovi-kun for editing for me. Thanks again.
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Got a little choppy there in the beginning of the intervention scene grammarwise, but otherwise, I enjoyed it.
1913483 Yikes. I havn't even fully submitted this yet, but I appreciate it. I didn't have as much time to properly work on this as I would have liked, so thank you for pointing that out.
Don't support the ship, but this is good
Honest! 
This is fantastic. I din't even care which one is real. Bravo.
that freaked me out a world with out applejack?
this is story is depressing i cant begin to imagine a life without Applejack that would be terrible! other then that i didnt like that jab you made at pinkie and rarity. the ending kinda confused me so was she dreaming again or what?
1914469 1914630 Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it.
1915537 It kind of made me depressed writing it but the idea popped into my head after receiving some of bad news in the middle of the week. I wasn't meaning to or trying to take jabs at Pinkie or Rarity, I was just trying to illustrate their pain and suffering with the situation and how difficult it was getting for them to cope. The ending was meant to be ambiguous with no real resolution. I wanted both worlds to be a viable reality. You tell me which world you want to be the dream. I will agree though, a world with no Applejack is a very sad world.
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i cant wait to see more work from you.
Yup i see what you mean now showing ponies coping in different ways still the fanfic was just so
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1916707 RED PILL!!!
Y'know the funny part is that I can relate to this. I took some heavy trauma to the head and was out for two and a half weeks. My memory is torn to hell; I tend to forget things alot, but my friends and family help and I don't think I ever created an imaginary friend. To tell the truth my dreams are of the lives I've imagined and I write them out; some of them are really quite beautiful.
But hey, thanks for the great read!
Didn't mean to drone on like that.
Sorry.
I'm feeling something between a humongous hate and a deep admiration, except for the grammar f*** ups, still good story
1917072 Come with me friend.
1917851 I can't rightly say I know how you feel, but I can say I understand. My grandmother suffers from some serious mental health issues and her memory and grasp of reality are greatly skewed and trying to hold a conversation can just be heartbreaking for both parties. My mother suffered a really severe concussion a few years back, and for about a 12 month period even normal every day tasks took an immense amount of effort on top of the memory issues over the simple things you do on a daily basis. She's fully recovered now thankfully, though she does get severe migraines on occasion from it. I can imagine it can be very frustrating at times, and It really is great that you have good friends and family.
That really does mean the world. For Rainbow, her problems were born out of both her own injuries as well as a sense of guilt and failure, feeling responsible for what happened. And with each failure she continues to slip. Anyways, now that this has gotten exceptionally lengthy, thanks for taking your time to read it and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
1919226 I hope you don't hate me.
I don't know that I'm worthy of any admiration either though. I just wanted to tell a thought provoking and emotional story, and I wanted the ending to inspire hope that maybe Rainbow was just having a bad dream, a really bad dream. Could you help point out the grammar errors please? I know it could have been better executed but I only had 3 nights to try and write this before the contest deadline. Before they moved it anyways. And of course, I'm glad that you think it's a good story.
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Ugh... they were quite a few and I don't have that much time nowadays, but I'll try to re-read it, without feeling bad for RD, and point out the errors. Do you have an email account or something? They were too many to write in a single comment.
1922428 yeah I'll pm it too you.
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Wow. It's hard to endure for sure, but I can't imagine what it's like for the people around me. I feel for you and just want to say stay strong. Is it messed up to say I'm glad I'm not alone out there? I don't mean to, and I appreciate your openness.
On a side-note: will you continue this story?
P.S.
I actually kinda forgot I even posted a comment on this at all.
Thought I might have but wasn't sure. Peace bro or sis.
1922893 I can promise you that for family and true friends, it doesn't matter and eventually everyone becomes so use to it that it's no longer a handicap, and you can still go out and do a lot of "normal" things, just maybe there's a few extra considerations when planning or doing. People living with those kinds of conditions should be commended, it takes a lot of courage to deal with.
I've dealt with a lot of tragedy, so it usually doesn't phase me too much and I don't really have a problem talking about it. Plus I always try to find the good in a situation, there's a silver lining in every cloud right? As for your question, rhetorical or not, no one wants to be alone, and when there's others that are going through a similar situation it creates an understanding and a support network. To go through hell without someone to relate can be a very cold and lonely existence and that's an even greater tragedy.
You know... I'll think about extending this with a second chapter or epilogue seeing as the contest deadline has been extended another two weeks. I still want to leave it open to interpretation as to which is real and which is the dream though.
So, wait, which instance was the fabrication and which was the reality? I love the beginning, how they are with each other, but when she woke up the second time to Twilight, I got a little confused, and extremely bummed out. Still love how it was written, but I was saddened by the turn of events, right up until I read that last little "Mornin', Sugarcube.". So that leaves me reiterating my first question:
Which is real, and which is the lie?
2007368 It really means a lot to me that you like this story, it's one that's kind of personal for me. As it's written, neither one is meant to be more real than the other. The idea behind it is; what if someone you love, someone who means the world to you is gone or maybe never even existed, and what would life be like filling in the holes where they could have been? That there's also, always hope that life will work out, come whatever may.
I've actually had several ideas I've kind of put on the back burner to continue this while I was working on "Fancy Mathematics". I'm not sure what kind of interest there would be in it, but it could potentially be a very long chaptered story of Dash taking a journey filled with plenty of hardship and just enough hope to keep going, waking up, back and forth between each existence as she searches for answers. I think it could have potential to keep the reader in suspense and be a very profound tale.
Feel free to PM me if you want to know more.