Cheerilee has been secure in her sexuality all her life, but when she finds out that it was actually Fluttershy of all ponies that was singing with the Ponytones, everything that she was sure of is suddenly thrown into doubt.
The question now is whether a voice is enough when it doesn’t actually have the stallion to go along with it.
Massive thanks to my pre-readers/ideas tasters: Bronetheus and RK_Striker_JK_5. Go check out Night Errantry and The Game of Thrones, Alicorn Style for two great fics that are well worth your time.
So, what's with the two versions then?: When I watched Filly Vanilli I was annoyed at Pinkie's treatment in an otherwise excellent ep which resulted in the original version. Thing is, as quite a few people pointed out, was that the random out of left field twist to bring in the fix fic part towards the end properly derailed the rest of the story. Because of this feedback I've rewritten the fic to give the crack ship part the focus it deserved.
I am leaving the original version up though, as there are some bits I do think that are really funny in there.
Again, not sure if I should comment on the 'fix fic' part considering my own... feelings concerning Pinkie Pie. But otherwise I rather liked this one. Pretty quick, too.
You know, this was kind of going alight until that fake pinkie thing. Came out of nowhere. That should have been a separate story. Thumbs up none the less
It was fine, but kind of went off the rails at the Pinkie part. You don't have to explain Pinkie's behavior. She's Pinkie.
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A cute and novel coupling - particularly interesting since both of them get shipped with Mac, who is still a facilitator here. And a novel idea to have Fluttershy take the offer so eagerly, sparing us from twelve chapters of them beating around the bush before getting to the good stuff. It's always nice to see her show some confidence in her own special way.
Evidently more than a few people disagreed on Pinkie's recent portrayal. Personally I think being innocently insensitive is fairly in character for her, and she deserves the right to not be perfect all the time. But opinions vary.
Nice touch on Berry and Colgate's relationship, it being a fairly popular background ship, and the Twixie mention was sweet.
All in all, a good read.
Dear God THANK YOU for providing SOME rationale for Pinkie Pie going all Bitch Mode! I swear... after her episode she went full retard!
3965157 The thing is for a lot of her fans and myself, she went way too far. And 'innocently insensitive' does not give her a pass to act like a... flankhole.
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Given there were parts of that ep where I think you could have swapped Gilda in for Pinkie, and Gilda might actually have been more sympathetic, I do think they went a tad too far with her with that one.
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I'm sure it probably has to have been done to ship these two before, but it's new to me and I think it worked out
Yes, and of course there's also the gratuitous Out in the Cold reff
Thanks it's always appreciated.
I've read like 6 mirror pool stories in the last 2 days, WTH? I mean they were all good, but it's just kind of a weird coincidence. Nobody has been really talking about it lately anyway! roundstable.com/forums/images/smilies/tabeflip.png
Good story though, keep it up! roundstable.com/forums/images/smilies/twisthi.png
Nice fic. I laughed at the reveal. A+ would "yay" again.
was completely OOC this season, those stories were borne out of the obvious fan theory as to why. 
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Given how many people think that
Ehhhh, having a little trouble buying Flutters being that bold honestly. Pacing was a little weak in general honestly. Seems like a longer story that got truncated.
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Probably something to do with that I pretty much knocked it out in a day, which if you'll check my usual update times is not something I've been able to do before
As Mooncalf says sometimes its nice to have things get to the point. There probably is a far better story to be told with the same concept that gives the proper time to it, but I fancied doing a bit of silly fluff combined with getting my annoyance with Pinkie's portrayal out at the same time as a bonus.
I amused me to write it and hopefully others get some fun out of it too.
Pinkie has seemed a bit off all season, really, even though this episode might be considered the 'worst'. She's been... shoutier, if that makes sense. An evil twin might be over-compensating, though.
Also, is it just me or is Rarity greyer than she used to be? I keep thinking she's been discorded, but maybe she just stopped dyeing herself nearly white.
The Cherilee/Fluttershy bit had it's moments but... Well, Cherilee loved Fluttershy's modified voice not even her usual one, and it didn't entirely convince me there was anything there for her normal self. It wasn't entirely flat, just not the best executed crack pairing I've seen.
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What I was going for with Cheerilee was that while she thought she'd fallen for the voice, she actually fell for the passion at the performance behind it. Clearly fluffed the landing somewhat on that though I guess.
This... I don't know. Everything happened so fast. Fluttershy's behavior was weird.
I stopped reading when The Pinkie of the mirror pool showed up.
Honestly, I expected more of this fic.
It was like, "let's write whatever comes to mind".
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... There are parts of Gilda's first (and only?) appearance where Gilda is more sympathetic than Pinkie, so that's not saying as much as you think.
Also, I know what I wanted to say earlier. Shriller. Pinkie has been shriller and more abrupt than before this season. She feels less like a Toon (as she did previously) and more like a caricature of a middle-school cheerleader.
I like the edits. Cheerilee's shift in affection seems more sensible this time. Passionate feeling is as good as anything to fall for someone over, I guess.
Still think it's cute that Fluttershy is taking the initiative. The moment she realizes that Cheerilee fancies her, she heads straight for the prize. Dash would be proud.
Oh, OH! God... that makes me... kinda glad he's loose!
perfect, perfect ending!
I like it.
The clone incident broke anything the story had before it happened, I don't think that Rarity and Cheerilee would have nicknames for each other, and I don't think Rarity would dismiss the question being a romantic and a gossip. Other than that good job.
Meh still not a good tangent, but funny nonetheless.
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Thanks for the comments, which are always great to see.
Very much take your point on the Rarity scene and I've reworked it a little.
Well, fixfics aren't inherently bad, no. But I don't think this one quite works, imo. Mainly because there's actually two different stories here: the fixfic, and the shipfic. If you're going to write a fixfic, then just go ahead and write the fixfic, don't stick the fix in as a sidenote on an otherwise-unrelated fic.
The expanded romance scene does work a bit better.
Ha! Rainbow's suggestion that Cheerilee go talk to Fluttershy about her problems was perfect for that scene.
Sah-weet.
Nice touchups. The new scenes work very well, and the bit with Cheerilee admitting her feelings to the Singing One felt more cohesive while still retaining that touch of no-nonsense straightforwardness I liked.
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Excellent, glad that you thought that addition worked out.
Not too shabby. I did like the first version of this, but this is a good rewrite, too.
Feels more coherent than the fixfic version. Nice!
...How did I miss the new version of this?
Maybe I knew and I forgot?
Gold.
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I'd have preferred to have uploaded it as a new story I'll admit given how much it's changed, but that's a no-no alas.
You shouldn't have said that.