Chapter 1
It was opening day for Cloudsdale's most famous and popular amusement park, Cloudy Canyons. The lines for everything in the park, as expected, stretched out as far as the eye could see. For an average park-goer, today was clearly not the optimal day to visit the park. Blossomforth and her friends, however, were no average park-goers. The group had enough experience with amusement parks to write a book on them. Blossomforth, Flitter, and Cloud Chaser were the founders of this little club, as they had been friends since they were fillies and had been going to Cloudy Canyons together since then. Thunder Lane started joining them once he and Blossom started dating, and Raindrops and Cloud Kicker had joined up shortly after upon Lane's insistence. The six of them tried to hit as many parks as they could every season, but no matter what, they had to be there for opening day at Cloudy Canyons.
After a long day of rollercoasters, log flumes, overpriced food, and the like, the group was about ready to head home. Even the most intrepid park-goers got exhausted eventually, and hours and hours of stimulation had wiped them out. Blossom was about to exit the park, when Raindrops grabbed her by the shoulder.
"We should visit the souvenir shop this time!" Raindrops said. "We always skip it!"
"That's because it's a waste of time," Flitter said, rolling her eyes. "We got pictures of us on the Flume-ulonimbus and the Stratusfear. What other souvenirs do we need?" She emphasized this by holding out the photo of the six of them being splashed with rainbow water on the Flume-ulonimbus.
"Eh...I kinda did want to get a T-shirt," Chaser said.
"Yeah, c'mon, we never go to the souvenir shop!" Lane added. "I want a silly hat!"
"And I wouldn't mind one of those stuffed clouds," Cloud Kicker said. "What do you say, Blossomforth?" Blossom had been chosen as leader of the group, due to being the only one never to vomit when leaving the centrifuge.
"I say let's check it out!" Blossom said with a smile. The group, minus Flitter, cheered and entered the shop immediately. Flitter just rolled her eyes and followed. She'd been grumpy today ever since missing out on the inaugural trip of the park's newest rollercoaster, Batmare: the Ride.
Once inside, the group spread out, each heading towards the items that interested them most. Lane quickly found what had to be the silliest hat available and bought it. Chaser found herself a nice T-shirt that went well with her coat. Raindrops and Kicker both spent some time squeeing over the adorable stuffed clouds, and finally decided on a cirrus and an altostratus, respectively. Even Flitter found something that made her smile, and ended up buying a tiny model of the Stratusfear.
Blossom, however, seemed vexed. While the others had all found what they wanted, she was stuck staring in consternation at the rack of nametags.
"What's the problem, Bloss?" Lane asked as he approached her.
"This is crazy," Blossom responded. "They don't have my name here!"
"Really?" Chaser asked as she joined the two. She was joined in short order by the rest, who all began looking through the rack.
"Really!" Blossom said, frowning. "I mean, there's tags for so many other ponies! Why not me?"
"Hey, here's mine!" Lane said, grabbing the Thunder Lane tag.
"And mine!" Kicker said with a giggle. This only made Blossom even more upset.
"Aw, come on!" Blossom said, stomping a hoof. "You all have one! Even Cloud Kicker and Raindrops!"
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Raindrops asked as she picked up her own tag.
"We barely ever see you two," Blossom said with a pout. "Why do you have your own tags and I don't?"
"I guess I'm just a winning pony," Kicker said with a grin.
"Well I am too!" Blossom answered quickly. "Why do you get one and I don't?"
"Hey, it could be worse!" Flitter said with a frown. "The only tag my sister and I have is one of our names together! What happens if one of us wants to do something by ourselves?"
"Uh, Flitts?" Chaser said. "We barely ever do anything by ourselves!"
"That's besides the point!" Flitter shot back.
"It's all besides the point!" Blossom shouted.
"Come on, Bloss," Lane said. "It's really not a big deal. I mean, you're still a great pony, even if you don't have your own tag."
"But I want my own tag!" Blossom pouted. "How else are ponies supposed to find me? If they wanna find the rest of you, all they have to do is look for your tags! They can't do that with me!"
"It's really okay, Blossom," Lane insisted. "It's nothing worth worrying about. I'm sure ponies will be able to find you if they really want to."
"But this would make it so much easier!" Blossom whined.
"Is there a problem?" the souvenir store's manager asked, trotting over to the group.
"Yes!" Blossom said. "There's no tag here for me! All of my friends here have tags, even the ones that we don't see very often! Why isn't there a tag for me?"
The manager hummed to himself, tapping his chin with a hoof. Then his eyes lit up.
"I believe I have just the solution," the manager said.
~~~~~~~~~~
The park-going group left the souvenir shop, all ready to head home. Everypony had purchased their tags on their way out.
"See, Forth?" Flitter said, patting Blossom on the back. She'd taken one of her and her sister's tags and broken it in half. "Everything worked out, right?"
"Yeah," Blossom said, rolling her eyes. She looked down at her "OTHER" tag with disdain. "Right."
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Brilliant. You know who else needs a tag? Mr. Greenhooves.
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thought he was an old goat.
3398889 Except for Greenhooves isn't used all that often. Blossomforth is.
Edit: Loved the story, by the way.
Upvoted for the level of meta.
I agree that there should be a Blossomforth tag. We need to make this happen.
This story is just amazing!
Cloudchaser is a Wonderbolt Cadet; Flitter isn't. Boom, characters separated.
This was an enjoyable read, if only for the meta antics that you managed to pull off. My only contention is that you use nicknames too much. It's alright if the characters refer to each other by nicknames, but in general, the names don't need to be shortened.
Also, while a Blossomforth tag would be alright (and I know at least a few people pushing for it), I'd also like to see Snowflake, Button Mash (who is not an OC), Chief Thunderhooves, Twilight's parents, and Donut Joe.
Bloody brilliant.
Nice touch.
~Skeeter The Lurker
There is message hidden in this story. I just can't.... it's so close...
Surprised this made it past the mods due to the blatant meta, but I'm glad they let it slide because I liked the play on the souvenir shop. Everyone has that friend who can never find that key chain with their name on it because their parents gave them an uncommon name. Unless I order it special, I'm never going to find my nephew's name on one of those fake license plates or one of those shot glasses that light up when you pour liquid in them.
As I read the discription, I thought, "No, she didn't just write a story about that." This is just plain wonderful. It's funny, clever, and well written. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
You got this after reading my Blossomforth with all your might, didn't you?
All the truth. Poor Blossom.
It's the most famous and popular, but it hasn't even been open for a whole day yet? Is it the only one? Or just the only one of its scale?
So it's not the first day? Does the park shut down for the winter or something?
3402887 Possibly opening for the season. Six Flags shuts down and opens up. We refer to that as opening day
Oh, this is so meta.
Harshwhinny don't have tag too! xD
Well played, author. Well played.
It's a meta fic but fun even without that. The stuff with the theme park leading up to the "Bort" moment was pretty cool with some good world building. The ride names were cool.
The Flitter and Cloudchaser thing was a little too meta but that bit at the end with the "Other" tag made up for it.
its so meta it puts this guy to shame
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I love you for calling it a Bort moment
My best ship isn't between Thunderlane and Other! >:(
3398889and hayseed turniptruck ... unless he has one already dont actually know
This was very clever.
Nice job!
Poor Blossom. You'd think that name would be more popular.
But meta overtones for the win.
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I tried buying one for a friend named Mallory, and I found NOTHING. There was one for Emile, but not Mallory. No offense to anyone named Emile, but that's way less common than Mallory.
This was silly. Thinly veiled and still managed to be funny. Good job.
Hilarious.
Very very clever story. Only the silliest of hats will do for the hat connoisseur Thunderlane.
I like it!
My god do I sympathize with her. I have only found my name spelled right on two things. A glass and a pack of stickers.
Very nice.
Hah, that was fun.
How delighfully meta XD
Someone needs to ship Blossomforth and Filthy Rich. Clearly those 'OTHERS' were meant for each other.
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But of course, Filthy Rich has that irresistible charm.
A-men, in short.
Soon, hopefully...
3781236 I have yet to find mine, in either the short version or the long version.
Clever. Quite clever.
Who wouldn't want one of them?
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The meta! I love it!
Heehee! I enjoyed this.
I'd be tempted to give this a like anyway for being that rare thing, a OneShotober fic that I actually enjoyed! But when you add in the fact that it has one of the most gloriously terrible puns I've ever seen (Flume-ulonimbus! Genius!) it pretty much demands an upvote. So here it is.
As an aside, I wonder whether a story like this would be passed these days, now that Fimfiction is tougher on meta stories. I hope it would.
I totally sympathize with Blossomforth here. My family travelled a lot and it took five years to find a tag with my name on it, which is ridiculous because my name is one of the most common names there is. When we did find on with my name on it... it was a nickname, go figure.
With the latest admin poll, Blossomforth is getting a tag.
We did it
redditFimfiction!I can't wait to see Other getting a tag after all this time!
6603513 Flitter still has to share though.
I don't understand why this is such a big deal with admins, if the site is programmed in any sane way it should be as simple as writing the name and picking a thumbnail. I'm pretty sure Knighty is sane too. So what's up here?
6795051 they used to take a lot of character requests when fimfiction was just starting up. Then idiots spoiled it by kicking up a shit storm when their self-insert MarySue/GaryStu OCs (thankfully) didn't get a tag, or even "bandwagon" oc characters like Nyx
6795061 it would probably be easier and more effective to just set up a tag system like hash tags alongside the official system, and then just make the most searched or used tags into official tags. I don't know how that would effect performance though, or how much coding that would take.