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JawJoe


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Oct
28th
2017

Had a pony dream · 11:02am Oct 28th, 2017

Fluff post about a dream I had last night. May be a bit humourous, but probably mostly pointless. You've been warned.


I'm writing this as a spur of the moment kind of thing. I had a dream about MLP last night, which is and always has been really rare for me despite my obvious and longstanding interest in the show. I think I had two pony dreams back at the height of season 2 (both of which made it into Night Shift in some capacity), and maybe one or two more in the intervening years, and now this one. I figured I might post it for others to see. Maybe you'll be able to appreciate it for being a bit funny, or as inspiration for a fanfic (more like a crack fic), or something. I dunno. Look, I warned you this is a pointless one, okay?

So the dream starts out with the mane 6 on some adventure. Can't remember the details, but it involved falling off at least one waterfall, a lot of screaming, travelling, distant lands, you know, the like. The adventure actually isn't happening in real time, but is being recounted by Fluttershy through narration. Said narration is also kind of rushed and basic, giving very little detail and making absurd time jumps to a point where I could barely follow what was happening. In the dream, I think, the actual adventure was in fact an earlier episode of the show that I haven't seen, although I don't think the episode actually exists. Its events were probably smushed together from various sources by my brain.

So anyway. Fluttershy recounts the adventure, and at the end, the camera finally cuts to her. It's kind of zoomed in on her face so we don't see much of her surroundings. She seems to be sitting indoors in a completely unremarkable house. Then she says something like, "and that's how so-and-so happened."

Jump-cut to a wide shot. In a shocking revelation, Fluttershy is not in Equestria -- but in the EqG-human world. Which is extra weird for me 'cause I ain't never seen a single frame of EqG. But anyway, apparently Fluttershy was recounting all this to Humanshy. And Humanshy stays silent for a beat, then puts on this stupid-ass grin, does a kind of cough-laugh, and finally goes "Nice!" before hitting a blunt.

Humanshy looks more or less like she does in canon/IRL, and her mannerisms/way of speaking are also more or less on point... except that her voice is really deep/butch and she sounds like she's been smoking since she was 8.

After breathing out a fine puff of smoke, Humanshy goes off on a tale of her own. I'm not sure my brain actually bothered to give her any actual words to say, but what she says was kind of an overblown account of an otherwise completely mundane situation that a teen girl her age might face. Can't remember a single detail, but you know, something everyday, something completely boring, but she's talking about it like it was also some kind of grand adventure. The whole thing is interspersed with "basic teen girl" phrases like you know like yeah das totally like the time when way cool like yknow totes gay but oh em gee and a healthy serving of swear words.

Fluttershy just kind of stares at her, desperately holding on to an awkward smile. As Humanshy's tale finishes (with a natural "...and shit." ending, of course), she goes to have another sip of her blunt. Fluttershy grabs her hand and lowers it before the thing reaches her lips and says something like "Maybe you shouldn't be sitting at home alone smoking and instead going out to actually live your life." Fluttershy pulls Humanshy off screen and the show's theme songs starts up, you know, with Twilight in the balloon and all.

And then the whole episode is basically about Fluttershy trying to figure out where Humanshy's life went so wrong that she became an ineffectual stoner so early in her life. Basically, why isn't Humanshy just like Fluttershy? The dream kind of ended after that premise.

I'm not saying it makes sense or it relates to canon in any meaningful way, but I thought it was entertaining enough to share. I suppose it's a lot less funny when you're just reading it, but I remember cracking up in my dream when Humanshy first started speaking.

Make of that what you will.

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before hitting a blunt.

Where's the lie? :V

I dunno, if you took out the random adventure part, this could be an interesting setup for an EQG fic.

Only pony dream I had was me waking up as Cadance. It was really annoying in the dream cause I had an interview that day and driving was going to be hard.

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