Authors notes for "Nuts!" · 3:12am Nov 18th, 2013
Inspiration can strike anywhere. Daydreaming during a quiet spell at work. Watching couples on Valentines Day. Rewatching a favourite episode.
Standing in the snack isle of a supermarket...
This fic started out as a mental exercise while looking at the nut display in my local supermarket. Looking at the various offerings I was struck by the thought "What would the ponies eat?" From there, it was a fun game, fitting types of nuts to the different characters.
Pistachios, with their split shells, were an easy fit for Twilight. Having them as a game of magical dexterity for unicorns just seemed fitting. I can just see it now, ponies lording their skill over younger siblings. Teasing them with their ability to maneuver the nuts and shell. Twilight and Cadance, plotting to show up Shining Armour was a fun idea.
Nuts are also a bonding experience. I remember sitting with my father at a cricket game, shelling peanuts. Yeah, the nuts were far more interesting to me than the game. It's been more than a decade since I've had unshelled peanuts...
Rarity's father is much underused in fan fiction. I wanted to just give a little taste here, of how the two may have bonded. Despite their differences, I wanted Rarity to take something she could use in life from her father. Shelling peanuts with her hooves seemed as good as anything else.
Yeah, you got me. I'm not too fond of walnuts. Horrid things. So I used them here as comic relief, with Rainbow Dash. You just know she'd turn shelling nuts into a competition, and eating them would be pretty low on her list of priorities.
Yeah, yeah. I know the cashew apple is not technically an apple. That's why I had them being used in the pies, they are described as being very sweet. Call it artistic licence, the joke about the Apples selling one crop twice was too much to pass up.
Which brings me to Big Mac's part in this fic. Reaction has been mixed. Too much... Not enough... Should have been another stallion... It should have been all stallions, with no nuts... You can't please everybody. My only intention was to tell a funny story.
With all of that said, I hope you got a laugh from it. Thanks for reading.
