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Urgh, feels... The fading remnants of Twilight saving Little Pip was one of the most memorable things in the fanfic for me. So completely unexpected the first time I read it, and it made me so sad. I wanted her to stay somehow.
I decided to read this chapter on Pony Fiction Archive early. Watch out, readers. There's some feels comin' your way.
Oh god here it is. Chapter 39... This chapter... I don't think I've ever read anything in fiction that's affected me more emotionally than this chapter.
First time through, it was at about midnight when I finished it. I could not get to sleep that night. Just stayed awake alternating between tears and stunned contemplation over what I just read. There's so many sad parts, and they hit you like a hammer. Over and over. Just after the soul-crushing moment with Twilight is past, and you think Fallout Equestria's thrown every possible feel it can at you, the rest of the chapter happens.
It doesn't get better the more times you read it either. This is my third time through, and I still cried like a little bitch. I just... I can't... This is easily one of the best, if not the best, stories I've ever read. Nothing else has kept me reading (and re-reading) as intently as this story has.
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If humans got cutie marks, I'd probably have one for speed reading.
Oh I remeber this chapter, it made me very sad.
3118634 Hey, at least you can have the feels. I read this, know I'm supposed to feel something and I got nothing, first time reading this and the most I got is 'this story is good'.
On the actual story I only have one thought from the very end bit: 'Well, at least LP doesn't have to worry about dying young like she was a couple chapters ago anymore.'
*Chapter Thirty-Nine Spoilers!! Be Warned!*
Fuck, I read this chapter at around 2:00am about a year prior to now, and—as I had said—I was literally reading from a huge ass printed copy of the story. By now, I'd accumulated maybe over two-hundred pages, and so you should picture this gigantic fricken' pile of thumbprint covered, wrinkled, and weathered paper that I just kept in my grasp the whole time. Quite hilariously, since I had OCD, I refused to read it any other way and physically had to get through it all with every page in my grasp. When the crowning feces pile of all shit truly hit the fan in this chapter, I literally dropped the entire stack on the floor out of pure shock, and every page just flew everywhere around the room like this big explosion had happened. You could even feel this tangible THUMP, and it sent two of my cats running out of the room in shock. It was quite the boner to pull with something like that .
Anyhow, I spent the next half-hour punching various places in my house and telling my brother—the only one even slightly awake at the time—how shitty a writer Kkat is, and how we should totally go find her and lynch her in front of everyone she holds dear... y'know because she killed off my favorite character and all. Then the tears started happening; and that was the first time I'd ever cried while reading this, which opened a door to a lot more of doing such (might've cried maybe three more times in the future). Then I just laid face-down on my bed and remained there for a looong time. Upwards of almost an hour later, I got this sinking urge to read the rest of the chapter that progressively got worse throughout the night to the point that it just had to happen.
I went out to ground zero and found that my once-beautiful stack was now scattered throughout the entire room in just about every possible spot. Using nothing but my rewarding intuition and detective skills, I got a flashlight and spent the next hour or so putting pages together by reading the first and last sentence of each one. Most of the time, it was vague and I had no idea where the connection could be made, but in the end, I did a fucking GREAT job when you consider what I had to deal with! By the time I was finished, it was about 5:00am, my back felt like I'd just gotten ran over by a T-rex in a monster truck, and my cheeks were just stained with tears of both frustration and legitimate sadness. Yet I wasn't tired at all.
So, picking up from where I started, I read the entire last of the chapter. The whole time, I was hoping that something magical was gonna happen. I was utterly convinced that Kkat was gonna pull a Disney and bring back my favorite character. But nope; everything was still cruel and realistic. So I sat on my bed, went through exactly all five stages of grief, and went to bed. When I woke up I was freakin' stomach sick .
And that's the story of how I conquered Mercury with nothing but a fridge and a balled-up napkin .
~DC
It was nice of them to give Steelhooves a funeral, but I think he should have been buried in Stable 2 next to Applejack
Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grand Pegasus Enclave
3118949 I remember hearing this song thousands of fucking times. Good God...
Ditzy!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Dizty Doo! NO!
SteelHooves . It just HAD to be SteelHooves . It just HAD to be my favorite character . All this time later and I STILL cry like a baby after his death and the destruction of Stable City.
God this chapter is so emotionally trying. On one hand, Littlepip playing the recording to what remained of Twilight and what happened to Steelhooves ;_;
On the other hand, epic end of chapter is epic :D
Great!
"Stay away love. Mommy's poison."
That phrase hits like a ten ton brick to the gut. Everything about the wasteland can be condensed to those two simple sentences.
It hits harder the second time...
-Twilicorn Feels
-Steelhooves Feels
+Ditzy Doo
-Stable City Feels
-Steelhooves Feels
-Velvet Remedy Feels
+Sonic Radboom!
-Steelhooves Feels
-Friendship City Feels
-Steelhooves Feels
...
-Steelhooves Feels
...
Goddammit Kkat.
Okay, so, I was reading this chapter this morning at the beginning of school, before class had begun. Knowing what was coming and dreading it, I made it through the introduction, and all the way up through Steelhooves' death. I'm in the middle of his funeral. The music is playing. They are lowering his body into the motherfing ground.
And class begins, and I have to stop reading for the next hour and a half.
WORST.
POSSIBLE.
THING.
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What do you expect enclave radio only has 8 songs
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I could bearly continue when Steelhooves died on the second read through. It was that sad, heck I saluted at his grave just for respect. Heck the rest of th chapter is just as heartwrenching all the way through. I do love the cutie mark stories though
Applesnack... He really did deserve this rest. I mean, he would have done much good for the Wastes, but he deserved an end. Imagine how hard it was for him - more than a hundred years of soul-crushing guilt. With the guilt cleansed, he could finally rest in peace. I imagine Dropkick Murphys' Green Fields of France playing for him (actually, I may have heard this song first on the Fo:E Inspirational playlist; thanks to you again, Kkat, in that case), only with different lyrics:
(WARNING: I wrote these lyrics on the spot so they may be bad! Also may contain spoilers!)
Oh how do you do, fair ranger SteelHooves?
Do you mind if I sit here and tell you the news,
While I rest for a while in the Saviour’s sun.
I’ve been trotting all day, and I’m nearly done.
And I know you were loyal, courageous and brave
Till you joined your beloved and brethren in grave.
Oh, I know you died quick,
But the war wasn’t clean.
Oh, ranger SteelHooves, that damn war was obscene!
CHORUS:
Did they stomp their hooves loud?
And did they scream and shout?
And did they march away after setting you down?
Were they really that broken or did they just pretend?
As they buried you here in this nopony’s land.
And I know that you left your beloved behind
When she died in a Stable and you were ghoulified.
Did she tell you that she had been bearing your foal?
Would you care? Would you even remember it all?
Or would you lay down in Equestrian Wastes
And weep for your loss till the end of your days?
No, of course you would not, for you were way too strong.
But you lived by her side, and you’re never alone.
CHORUS
Now the cloud curtain’s gone, and the sun shines so bright.
For the Saviour has granted us mercy and light.
The raiders don’t bug us and don’t kill any more.
We can hope that your war was the last of all wars.
But you are the reminder of times long past gone
When you struggled to bring us the glorious sun.
You succeeded, all be it sacrificing your life.
You perished to save us from darkness and strife.
CHORUS
And I can’t help but wonder, fair ranger SteelHooves,
If the ponies remember the whole of the truth?
Do they know that you helped, or their memory lacks
The Steel Ranger who once we could call Applesnack?
Well I know that I do, and I forever will.
Though that some ponies don’t and will speak of you ill.
But rest now in peace; you have suffered enough.
For if war never changes, then neither does love.
CHORUS
The song in question (I hope the embed works; I'm linking to the song without the playlist):
I know that the chapter title is referencing the song, but it's still a very misleading title. "This Coming Storm"? Hell no, this is the chapter where the storm hits with all its might and shit hits the fan.
So... much... feels... Feels of... awwww... and...d'awwww... and.... rage... and fury... and more awwww...
Luna's glorious teats you know how to play with your audience KKat!
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Well that's sad, thank you for pointing that out to me.
Also
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Bye Ditzy
The moment right after they recite Applesnack and AJ's song, I almost broke down, straight out bawling like a scared filly... At least they're together now, right?
Red Eye, the Enclave, the Goddess, all evil forces meet their doom in the most epic of fashions. Steel Hooves did not die in vain, and Little Pip does his memory proud.
Why does SteelHooves' death remind me of Maes Hughes death in FMA?! I was nearly in tears from that! A simple hellhound killing him?
I just felt that he deserved a more heroic death than that...but living for a long time with the past hanging on and dying for a pony who would save the wasteland seems heroic enough.
Chapter is full of feels. I can't function anymore.
I always thought C39 should have been marked a "Wham" chapter. Awful lot happens here. It's a real game-changer.
I really love this chapter. This is the wasteland: anyone can die! This story does't play softball (in case you didn't know that already).
However...
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It all ends with sunshine and rainbows...
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Actually, the reason why the people that post these images from hotlink-protected sites can see the pics after posting is quite simply because they already downloaded them. When they're looking at them, they're not actually loading them through this site, in the way that is blocked; they already have them downloaded, so their browser doesn't need to try downloading them again. Hence, it doesn't fail for them, that first time, and they don't notice it breaks for other users.
The first time I read this (via audio book), that part with SteelHooves I could have sworn was a misread, but then when it wasnt my world actually did stop.
And all I could think was this.
This chapter gave me feels!
*sniffle* Everything to do with SteelHooves is so much worse the second time.
Re-reading this story for the third time now and damnit this chapter gets me to tears every time
DIE YOU ENCLAVE BASTARDS!
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Anyone else cry at Steelhooves's death?
FEELS. GOD DAMN THE FEELS!
FEELS FOR TWI!
FEELS FOR STEELHOOVES!
FEELS FOR EVERYTHING IN THIS CHAPTER!
Bloody hell I love this fic. Fantastic job Kkat.
On a positive note,
That's about the most adorable thing said by Ditzy.
You made steelhooves immortal and totally hoss, getting beaten and broken every step of the way. And yet he always got back up.
that made this chapter so much worse, expecting him to get back up...
…Fuck this story, it's too sad. especially cause they're straight back into the storm not a few hours later.
SPOILERS
Littlepip survives the bomb
Friendship is strength. Friendship is exponential. That there are six shards matters far more than that they are but shards.
Your Goddesses are nothing if not forgiving. If Luna does watch over the afterlife, she could no more turn away the most depraved of raiders than she could turn away herself. All souls are at the very least worth redeeming.
A racist to the end.
PipLeg. You kill me, Littlepip. Like you kill so many ponies.
Being a fully natural member of a species is overrated.
Passed on, most likely. Wherever it is that souls go. A journey long overdue.
I thought a lot about this, from a Doylist perspective. And I concluded that this had to happen. Some major character had to die, and by being the most durable, SteelHooves was painting a target on his back. I could have seen this coming. I've identified characters guaranteed to die with no more evidence before.
That this was a surprise is proof that I retain the ability not to ruin stories for myself. Sometimes. There've been times that I've given up on a story in disgust over a plot twist that hasn't happened yet. Knowing all the tropes is not always a good thing.
She still arrived looking like a disgusting burnt corpse. Just FYI.
Element of Laughter, folks. One cannot fight for good when one is mired in despair.
You say that like they should be ashamed. Red Eye has amazing propaganda. You just can't fake the effect of truly meaning what you are saying.
They've been cut off from most of what they once were. Most of what they once were is dead. They are more lost than you can even imagine.
I know that feel. Not as well as you, though.
Did you miss the ponies who lead you to Fluttershy's cottage? How about the mercenaries who chose to hep you save your home first, and ask about payment later? The Steel Rangers who chose to become outcasts to help others? Homage, Ditzy, Spike? Deep inside, we all want to be good. We just don't know if we can.
My roommate says "sooner than later" sometimes. I hate it when he does that.
You've got to be careful about who you open the door for, out here. But that's no reason for the doormat to be unfriendly.
You know how sciency types are. They get very excited over a chance for new research. Sometimes they forget the need for social niceties. Doesn't mean she's a bad pony.
The hardest part of being a hero is that you can never escape your mistakes. They're too public. And it only gets easier to believe you're a bad pony and the world would be better off without your help.
Really? You were able to figure out Tart was involved just from how he said "Tart says hello" as he was shooting at you? Truly, you are a master detective.
Littlepip, there is a reason that Velvet does the negotiating. You have absolutely no diplomacy when you're not on PTMs.
Homage never disappoints. DJ Pon3 will bring you the truth, no matter what stands in the way.
Everypony has standards.
Just because your enemy has loyalties that conflict with yours does not make them evil.
Once a Cutie Mark Crusader, always a Cutie Mark Crusader.
You came down expecting a weak and anarchic land. You thought you'd find weak city-states, barely scraping by on what they can scavenge of the old Equestria, and none of which would help another for all the tea in Chineigh.
The Wasteland is stronger than you think, these days.
Twice.
3182569 *pats on shoulder* don't worry, steel hooves isn't so weak that a simple slash from a hellhound's claws could kill him.
you'd have to drop a whole city and a balefire bomb on his head to kill him...and then it's only about a 63% chance it will kill him.
he's tougher than a space marine crossed with an applejack's ranger and a young dragon.
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Lemme guess, The crusader protocol?
You mention that they stopped at Trixie's Cottage in this, seems odd since Fluttershy's is so much closer. I'm not sure if it was made like that in the GDocs version, but I thought I should mention it.
T... Twilight? Oh god.
I've only really cried at all a couple times in this story. I clearly remember the imagery of Luna and Celestia holding each other as they kept the shield up and being exposed to the Cloud making me feel things. I think Pinkie's I sent message did it too. And at least another point or two, perhaps, that I don't quite remember.
Now this. Yeesh...
The PipLeg thing always kills me.
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...Yes.
Look up 'Ecstacy of Gold' on Youtube. Listen to it, and picture the entire ending part of chapter 39 in your head. Shivers will ensue.
WHY MUST THE GOOD DIE YOUNG?( OR OLD!)
DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY STEELHOOVES!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Wow...can't help but think Pip's gonna go Alicorn on us.
Ditzy best living bomb pony!
STEELHOOVES!!!
YOU ANIMALS!! HE'S ALREADY DEAD!
SONIC RADBOOM