Happily Ever After*

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* May not be happy and may not be forever.

It's the ending of your typical Flutterdash shipfic. Everything is perfect. Everyone is perfectly in love. Everyone has put aside their anti-homosexual views after firstly being stubborn to the point of mundanity. Everything is perfect. But the MLP universe, even though it is a lot better than our own in some respects, is not perfect. What happens ex post facto?

What happens after 'happily ever after'?

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0 Years Later · 10th Jul 2013 · 84 words
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10 Years Later · 10th Jul 2013 · 4,111 words
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? Years Later · 10th Jul 2013 · 80 words
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Utruiwe

Utruiwe #1 · Jul 10th, 2013 · 1 · · ? Years Later ·

Precious little trust after 10 years of marriage on Fluttershy's side here. There are hints to an insecurity accumulated over years, but maybe you should have gone a bit more in depth there, because it feels like they hadn't actually lived with each other for the last decade. It doesn't feel like that time would have counted for something.
Otherwise a nice story.

Seether00

Seether00 #2 · Jul 10th, 2013 · · · ? Years Later ·

You know there needs to be more fics that shows what happens after the shipping is complete.

Or at least more fics that show divorces.

Mr Marshmallow

Mr Marshmallow #3 · Jul 10th, 2013 · · · ? Years Later ·

Loved it!

Puppo530

Puppo530 #4 · Jul 10th, 2013 · · · ? Years Later ·

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Thank you for your input. I'll be thinking about how I can explain a bit more on Fluttershy's side over the next few days.

Utruiwe

Utruiwe #5 · Jul 10th, 2013 · · · ? Years Later ·

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Why? Do you want to get divorced just to fit a statistic? Equestria doesn't need to reflect every fault and flaw of our world, not even in fanfics.
At least personally I have no need whatsoever to read about divorces.
Fics that show relationships after a long time has passed can be interesting, especially because there are few of them. But they are by their nature quite detached from canon, and it's difficult to convey a believable setting set apart from the reference frame of the show by such a time gap.
Also if there were even a tenth as many such stories as there are normal shipfics, the subject would be completely stale.

fferror

fferror #6 · Jul 11th, 2013 · 1 · · ? Years Later ·

Interesting idea here, but it definitely feels like Dash and especially Fluttershy are carrying the Idiot Ball here. On Dash's side, a bit of fighting back rather than freezing up would be far more in character (I kept expecting him to buck Spitfire straight in the face for that one), and/or running after Fluttershy. And even with all of Fluttershy's insecurities, ten years of marriage ought to be enough to question whether something else was going on. This is the kind of plot that would make far more sense a few weeks into their relationship rather than ten years.

Fallflower