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XfluttersX


Oh, hi. My name is, um, flutters...

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This story is about a pony named Meadow Weave. She is really good at growing plants, and nopony really knows how. We think its because of her magic, but we don't know. She seemed kind of suspicious at first, nothing too bad. The weird part was soon after she came to town, a unicorn went missing. She probably just went on vacation, didn't matter either way. After I, Fluttershy, watched her plant the last tree I had asked her to plant at my cottage I realized something was wrong. She was different than everypony else. Plus, she had meat. I didn't like that, not one bit. I charged her and beat her. She was knocked unconscious, and later re-awoke. I told her the truth, we went into Ponyville, and we lied blatantly to everyponies faces. She seemed pretty fun to be around, so me and her became friends! At the end of the day she went home and so did I, but on the way Rarity stopped me, sobbing. She cried about how something had happened to Sweetie Belle, but after saying that couldn't speak any longer, for she couldn't stop the stream of tears and sobs.

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Comments ( 15 )
Comment posted by XfluttersX deleted Sep 12th, 2013

Very good! :pinkiehappy: I'm just wondering...at the start, you refer to Meadow Weave as a Pegasus: "Her name was Meadow Weave, and she LOVED plants. She was actually kinda cute at first, being a smaller-than-usual Pegasus" was this just a typo or something?

Comment posted by XfluttersX deleted Sep 13th, 2013

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@nightwolf,
Thank you for pointing this out, my mistake :derpytongue2: will fix that immediately. Also thanks for the compliment! :yay:

-XfluttersX

Now here come the harsh truths that you need to read, but probably don't want to.

First issue: Your chapters are out of order.

Second: Fluttershy is out of character. Instead of being horrified, she flies into a rage instantly. She's not a rageful (is that a word?) pony, nor is she violent. She would NEVER euthanize, execute, or otherwise kill anything. EVER. For any reason. If she was the way you depicted her, she wouldn't be the Bearer of the Element of Kindness.

Third: Your grammar could be a little better. For example, every instance of the word "bare" should be "bear" instead. It's not too bad compared to some other stories I've seen. I'm just a perfectionist when it comes to grammar, so I had to point it out anyway.

Fourth: You should generally write out small numbers instead of using numerals when writing a story.

Fifth: That ending. It's what's called a deus ex machina (god out of the machine). It's a cop-out ending that doesn't make much sense that the author just seemed to pull out of his/her backside because it's better than no ending at all. Alicorn Pinkie beats the snot out of the villain when Celestia and Luna could not? Even as an alicorn, Celestia and Luna would still be stronger. If Celestia was on the verge of death, she wouldn't have the strength to turn anyone into an alicorn. "And then she died." That was so anticlimactic, I had to reread the paragraph three times before I found where you wrote her fate. Then you have Fluttershy finish the villain off. So out of character. See #2 above.

Sixth: The premise & plot. It's like "Cupcakes" on steroids, except everyone's OOC. The plot was also confusing, especially in the second half of the first chapter. There's a lot of details that are hard to follow and probably don't matter much.

I'm not downvoting because I'm sure you get the idea already.

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1. That is why I had numbers with the chapters after realizing what I had done.

2. You saw Grand Galloping Gala, right? She did go all rageful in that one, and I am sure if rainbow dash died she would freak out.

3. Okay thank you for the grammar help, couldn't decide between bear and bare.

4.Thank you for helping me understand that I should write it like this, 1 instead of like this, one.

5. This part really gets to me, and I do realize the ending could have been better including the Epilogue, Celestia obviously already turned Pinkie into an allicorn, and Pinkie is already a 4th wall breaker. Obviously Luna couldn't defeat Nightmare moon, because I explained that Luna was indeed Meadow Weave, and that the actual Meadow Weave never did anything wrong, she was just stuck looking and acting like Princess Luna. Also, If I was fluttershy, I would have easily finished off Nightmare. She just killed everypony I know, so yeah. I can see her killing Nightmare.

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1. There's a simple fix: delete chapter 2 and re-upload it.

2. But she never hurt anyone. And her rage was from frustration. It's a completely different kind of anger. You forget the most important aspect of her character: she's a coward. Sure, if pushed enough, she might fight back, but she'd be mainly defensive, not offensive, and she'd never go that far. She is the element of Kindness, after all.

4. I think you misunderstood. You should write "one" instead of "1".

5. Luna was Meadow Weave? I must've missed that part. Reading that would've cleared things up a bit. I really need to learn to stop reading so fast. :facehoof:
And like I said, Fluttershy just doesn't have it in her to kill anything, no matter what they've done. Maybe make the lethality of her blow accidental? It would cause additional mental scarring for her, but it would be much more in character. When she euthanized her friends, maybe they can just die on their own without her help.

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1. Awesome I will do that immediately.

2.I understand she never hurt anypony in that one, and maybe I didn't say this in the story, so I will have to go and put it in, its over a long period of time that she goes between Ponyville to Manehatten, and then from Manehatten to Canterlot, so she changed a little bit during that time. Also it is a fimfiction, so it isn't meant to be totally true, or totally mandated by the previous episodes of MLP: FIM.

4. Ohhhh! That does make more sense, doesn't it.

5. Hahahah not your fault, I didn't really clearly say that Luna was Meadow Weave. But it was my first FIMFiction, so...

6. I do understand the part about Fluttershy killing AJ off. That was definitely not in character, but as I said above, she had changed over time, going from the cute and loving Fluttershy she once was to a close-to-emotionless pony, who had kept her previous name of Fluttershy.

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Thank you for your criticism and comments, they will help me indefinitely to make my next FIMFiction better than this one.

But in all honesty, for my first FIMFiction, was there anything good?

-XfluttersX

3199870 Well, like I said earlier, the grammar is pretty good. It's not perfect, but it's certainly far from bad.

Great story. I was confused there when Meadow Weave was Nightmare and I still am a bit confused. I wasn't sure if it was actually Nightmare doing all the bad stuff or if it was Meadow doing it in her form. Out of character Fluttershy is the best Fluttershy.

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Yea that was a bit confusing wasn't it. I didn't really clarify it too well. Nightmare was the one doing the bad stuff, she had changed into Meadow's form, and changed Meadow to look and act like Luna.
Hahah Yea I tried to explain the whole Fluttershy thing to Jphypher, but he/she wouldn't have it. :duck:

3225185 Alright, now I know. It was Nightmare doing all the bad stuff, not Meadow. I thought Meadow had turned into a complete serial killer sociopath.

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hahah no. I didn't really clarify that very well. Anyway who cares. It was my first FIMFiction, so you know. Whaddaya Expect?

3225205 I'm working on my ninth and things still happen with me. I get some who have yet to write a single story yet criticizing me over not just my writing skills, but over my entire plot. My view was "I will write what I want, it is my story and I will have what I want happen." Ugh....people who tell me that my plot was wrong really anger me.

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Oh I get it. That's like one of the worst things for me. It's like 'If you don't like what I wrote, then go write your own!' I mean for real? Who does that? :flutterrage:

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