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i am best barbeque. put your hamburgers on me.

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Apples aren't edible. They are actually grenades that explode once they fall from the tree. Since nopony knows how to get rid of or move these trees without killing themselves in the process, and the trees blossom year round, since hundreds of years, bucking the almost ripe 'apples' from these trees is a profession. It is a dangerous job.

Applejack and Big Macintosh have this job.

Note: implied AppleDash

Preread by CloudHop.

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Comments ( 39 )

This ... this is clever. I love a good story idea.

The crazy thing is, when I got to the end I laughed. It's just so absurd.

Now I have to go lie down in a dark room for a bit... :ajsleepy:

What? I just... what?

You took one of the most hilarious AU concepts I've ever heard, and forged it into a genuinely touching, genuinely believeable story. That's really something special, right there. I think you should be proud of this. You handled the loss and grief really well, and the premise actually made sense in a weird sort of way.

Kudos for giving me the most surreal feels I've had all week :rainbowwild:

This is actually pretty clever.

Yay death of worst pony is best canon!

What the... what... what....:twilightoops:

I have mixed feelings. It starts out like a funny concept but turns dark and depressing with implied shipping.

Dunno. Neither like or dislike.

I was instantly reminded of I Wanna Be The Guy's Delicious Fruit.
Points for absurdity.

Well, I'm going to give an honest assessment here, because you're a cool guy and I wanna be straight with you and your mustache.

The concept was brilliant. The idea is just... quite out there but somehow realistic enough to work under the constraints you gave it. I like the idea, I liked the concept, and I liked the overall plot and what you CHOSE to write about under those constraints.

However... reading it, the one detriment, which was unfortunately big enough to be a bit of a discouragement to me, was the way I felt that rather than reading a story, I was reading a summary of things that happened. I find it hard to invest in reports, and the narrative style you chose to employ in the fic was difficult for me to get over.

I found the idea superb, but I almost wish it were told more traditionally so that I could receive it better.

I'm sorry! Don't hate me. =(

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Originally, this was going to be Random, but because of the events, I decided to just call it AU. Random combined with Tragedy just didn't make any sense in my head.

The implied shipping wasn't even in there when I started writing, it wrote itself. It was also a good oppurtunity to try my hand at writing something like this.

And I like taking funny/weird/crazy concepts and turning them into a serious attempt.

This story is actually- a yes.
Mazeltov. Mazeltov!
Or maybe Molotov?
Sequel idea in three- two- one-

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I've never written anything sad/tragedic like this before, so to me, it was all really an experiment, to see if I could pull this off at all. The narrative style just kind of happened when I was writing (and also kinda experiment).

Just reading your comment, it gives me ideas to expand this into a full-fledged, longer story (which I've also never done before...), so I definitely don't hate you for that comment. I might just try it someday. If not with this concept, maybe another.

I can only imagine the terrorism problem Equestria has.

...Huh. I'm all for experimenting with random writing suggestions. Considering the oddity that was your motivation, I don't think anyone else would imagine the story developing into anything else.

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My response to the story.

Honeytiger does not like pomegranates.:twilightangry2:

Aside from the fact at my brain won't stop coming up with better solutions to the "pomegranate" problem than bucking the trees (girdling, various uses of fire, and a few ways of safely felling them) it wasa good story despite the ridiculous initial premise.

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You should write a story where a mustache calamity hits ponyville, and mustaches start to sprout randomly all over the place. Even on things which should not technically grow hair.

You know how we all love mustaches here...

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Excuse me sir. Do you see this? --> [_]

Good. Do you know what it is?
It's my Fuck jar. It's empty.
If you don't catch my drift, let me explain in gif form: dashie.mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/img/mlfw9056-Mr_Beaverton_Beaverteeth.gif

Intriguing premise! Sad read, but interesting.

Since there was implied shipping you need to put a warning up so that those who dont like shipping wont get slammed in the face with it. That's what i dont like about certain fics the author never mentions shipping, so we go in blindly and then unexpectedly shipping is there basically ruining the fic. it was bad enough that you brutally murdered Applejack yet you had to add shipping without warning. eh whatever Applejack still died that was just horrible poor AJ:raritycry:

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Alright, I added a small note on it in the description. I kind of figured people would put one and one together when they see the addition Rainbow Dash tag, but I guess I was mistaken. Fixed that now. Thanks.

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Gah! Stop giving me ideas! On the other hand... I like this idea.

me upon reading the description: why doesn't this have a comedy tag? that sounds hill-fucking-arious

upon reading the story::fluttercry: why would anyone do thos? waaaaaaaah

I never thought I'd see the day a crackfic gets deconstructed.

2492992 IM ON CRACK! :pinkiecrazy:
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I don't mind a little offtopic, but you've had your fun now. Time to get back ontopic.

originally pine trees of some sort

Pine apples. Tee hee.

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