It could have been a very casual picnic, but it turned otherwise. Words were exchange and Rarity accepted the challenge from Twilight and Rainbow Dash, adding another one against Applejack.
This is the story of how Rarity got Rainbow Dash to become captain of the wonderbolts.
This is the story of how Rarity beat Twilight in a magic duel.
This is the story of how she did it all in one day, using the magic of art.
But as always, the real lesson is elsewhere and Applejack won't deny it, as she was the target from the very beginning.
Because art is magic...
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Corrected the dual/duel thing, thanks for pointing it out for me
I really would like to be able to polish it the way you probably imagine it, but... Well... I'm sorry, not only I don't really have the time, but mostly I don't have the needed skills. I tried to polish things as much as possible in my last story, but... well... I'm still bad with english and even without the language barrier, I'm just not a writer. (this is a poor excuse, I realize it... I just don't know how to improve).
Hope I didn't make you lose your time though. That's, to be honest, my biggest fear.
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Thanks ^^.
After having read it for the ninth or tenth time, I think I finally got what Rarity meant by saying that art can be used to feed ponies:
Art is capable of satisfying someone emotionally, which fills a hole in them, which can also be described as "feeding them".
And the right words are art just as much as music or drawings
Is that what you were getting at with that?
I realize that it's an old story, but I never quite got what Rarity was getting at with the stuff dealing with AJ specifically, at least until this reading.
And I'm still not sure.
Hence why I'm asking.
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This is exactly what I meant. Someone can be well fed with enough to eat and enough to drink, but we are emotional beings and we need so much more. Art is one way (not the only one) to explore and help fill that emotional part of us.
Words have their own power. Some words make us happy, some words make us sad, some make us angry... and I've read so many stories over the years that I think I can assert that words can make art.
So again, you're completely right in your interpretation.
8047177 Cool.
That leads into my other question, though I realize this one was probably left unanswered in the story itself on purpose:
What DID Rarity say to AJ to make her "accept her emotions and listen to herself"?
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I indeed have to leave that unanswered. I know that whatever your brain will have come up with is way better than anything I could ever write.
That and when I wrote the story, the words I had in mind for AJ weren't directed at her character, but at myself, and I would rather keep them for myself.
8047445 Yeah, I kind of figured that would be the case.
I would kind of like to see a sequel that explores what exactly AJ listening to herself would entail, since Rarity did say that the initial phrase was just the start of a long process, but that's probably something you've already considered and maybe tried to write.
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I didn't really consider it actually. I mean, it's a journey I'm making myself so the danger would be for the story to be too self centered. And I can confirm it's a long and weird process.
I probably wouldn't make a sequel to that story. I would better write another one entirely, maybe about Rainbow Dash painting.
I also had an idea about AJ cleaning the farm's attic and finding old drawings of hers from when she was very young. There would have been a few flashbacks to when she had drawn them and how her father considered that activity "a waste of time" as AJ explains to AB why she is hesitating to get rid of those drawings. AB wouldn't really understand, as the drawings are really bad and meaningless (just a sensless mash of crayon), even if she feels some sort of weird nostalgia looking at them. AB would leave and AJ would look one more time at the drawings and one in particular through which she could see the warm look of her mother.
I imagine you can see why I never got around to write it...
8048017 Yeah, I can understand why.
I think the story of RD painting would definitely be interesting to see.