“Senator, you’re no GaPJaxie” · 7:31pm Mar 14th, 2021
As it happens, this fellow over here threw out a request for story prompts, and my own suggestion has garnered quite a few upvotes. Not only did this strike me as a fun thing to see in the venerable Pony fandom in the Year of Our Lord 2021, but it reminded me of my own such post from two years ago. That was pre-MLP finale, pre-COVID, pre-BronyCon 2019... in other words, from a distant past of untold legends. And perhaps a past worth revisiting.
Tl;dr: toss me a few prompts and I’ll crank out some short content. GaPJaxie said he’d write ten(!). I’m maybe half the writer he is, so I’ll cap it at five.
Rules/guidelines will be the same as before. These might be real shortand written as I get time; please calibrate expectations accordingly. Also please keep it E or T, with preferably no/minimal shipping (though I’ll make some exceptions here, especially if I’ve shipped it before).
Apple Bloom plants a tree that turns out to be the World Tree, Yggdrasil.
Prince Rutherford sets out to prove yaks are best at Zen gardening.
Spike and Gabby briefly ruminate on the disconnections between them and their respective kinds' cultures.
(Fun Fact: thus far, my suggestion on Jaxie's page is the only prompt that's been downvoted.)
Each of Pinkie's sisters has her own way of dealing with her... Pinkieness.
Spike and Rainbow Dash go to a comic shop...
Daring Do the manga?
Same prompt I come up with and don’t write every year:
Just a steel-town mare on a Saturday night, looking for the fight of her life.
Thanks all! This is plenty of suggestions. I’m not opposed to hearing more, but these are where I’ll focus.
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I like this. It could go in several directions. I’m thinking existential or horror right now—but I’ll see where it takes me.
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Yaks aggressively best at zen? Yes! I’ve been meaning to write some Rutherford for the longest time...
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Sounds like a perfect palate-cleanser slice-of-life. (And I’m not sure why your suggestion would get downvoted, other than people being unpredictable!)
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This is relevant to my interests!
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But seriously, this could have legs. Thank you for it!
Don’t tempt me with comic shops and MLP; I’m liable to drop someone into the Power Ponies ‘verse.
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I can’t believe it was five years ago that we were first kicking that around. I still have what I started for that way back when, and I keep going back to it every so often. One of these days I’m just gonna hammer down and see what it turns into.
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Imagine her disappointment when it turns out to be a bog-standard oak tree; it was a Breezie World Tree...
