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A carnival comes to Ponyville, and Fluttershy and the CMC prevail on Twilight Sparkle to come with them to watch the Barnstorming Wrestling Association's show. How could such a gentle soul as poor Fluttershy be interested in this barbarism? Twilight finds out, the hard way.
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That was thrilling.
Okay, thrilling is an understatement. That was simply amazing. I never saw that coming.
4073125 Wow. Thanks. I have to admit, I more expected curses and 'what the heck is this?', but if folks like yourself actually like this -- I'm pleased!
I would have liked it better if Twilight turned out to love wrestling.
4074467 Well, sorry about that. Maybe in the future she'll learn to like it. I was mostly basing this on my own memories of the things I've seen at house events and the way people (mis)behaved.
ANNOUNCER: "Oh, and Solar Blaze is unleashing her ultimate attack against Sunset Stomp! Yes, she's hitting her with the Elements of HARM-ony! Ooh! That's gotta hurt!"
The fact that Applejack is scared of going to the wrestling match with Fluttershy should have been Twilight's first wake-up call. Of course by then Twilight had already promised Fluttershy and the ... aw, aren't they adorable ... Cutie Mark Crusaders. Who could let that much concentrated cuteness down?
And that's another clear warning. On top of the fact that Applejack just warned her of exactly why this is a bad idea. Poor Twilight ...
... and Twilight begins to get a small taste of the problem ...
Children say the darndest things ... ::
I like the way you show the whole staged Heel / Face persona conflicts the way they would look in the Ponyverse.
Yes, that's a good thing ... the very first time I read this I knew that Twilight was in for some major embarassment ahead.
And when I read this the first time, my thought was "Tempting Fate." Literally those words.
The fact that the professional wrestlers know (and are afraid of) Fluttershy from her previous attendance just sets up the climax so beautifully. But then she's pretty scary in Flutterrage mode. This is actually plausible, since she bottles it all up most of the time. And she is, even in canon, essentially a meta-pony. I think that a Flutter-raged Fluttershy would make a really scary wrestler. The problem is, she wouldn't know when to stop ...
I knew enough about carny culture to know that this was the point when we needed to have a technical discussion of the design of Equestrian fans so that we knew exactly what the ... stuff ... had hit ...
Third time was the charm.
I wonder if Discord would enjoy going with her, or if Fluttershy in this state would terrify him, too?
(I mean, it's hardly beyond the bounds of possibility that he would want to go with her, considering their friendship).
Ooh, someone's going to the principal's office ...:seriously, this takes me all the way back to high school. Where I was a frequent involuntary guest of the headmaster ... all misunderstandings, I assure you!
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Cost of a ticket to the match, five bits. Cost of the refreshments, ten bits. The look on Twilight Sparkle's face at this point? Priceless ...
The part at the end with the CMC and Cheerilee's whole class? That's the part where the words "THE END?" flash across the screen. With the question-mark.
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Seriously, this was hilarious. The first time I read this I was laughing almost all through it, laughing out loud, especially starting from the point when Fluttershy scared the griffin fans. I was expecting Fluttershy to go completely nuts at the match, yet it was still beyond what I imagined.
You do really good comedy.
4084904 Ugh! Yes, how could I have forgotten that?
4085088 Children say the darndest things ... ::
I based that (and nearly everything else in this story, in fact) on my and my father's own real-life experiences at various live house events. The CMC? Some ten-year-old kid I saw with his father years ago yelling at 'garbage wrestler' Abdullah the Butcher, "YOU FAT, UGLY, MOTHER-[BLEEP]ING PIECE OF [BLEEP]!" Fluttershy's antics, Way too many crazy fans, male and female alike, who we saw trying to take a poke at a wrestler with everything from literal hatpins to (once) a cast-iron skillet. Some fans take the matches entirely too seriously.
Heck, even the chair-hurling climax is something I personally experienced. Though the chairs being flung there were steel and not wooden.
For that matter a lot of the grapplers we see are based at least in part on old and now mostly gone performers. The Baron is basically every 'Evil German' from the 50's to the 70's, down to the 'killer claw hold'.
I like the way you show the whole staged Heel / Face persona conflicts the way they would look in the Ponyverse.
I figured it would work like that, as pro wrestling has usually used whatever ideas and trends are current to help connect with the fans. And besides, don;t feel too sorry for the Baron and the rest -- when they're running a card in the griffin aeries, he's the good guy and the ponies are the heels out to cheat their way to victory, complete with a 'But we're ponies, we're better than everyone, we DESERVE to win!' schtick.
The fact that the professional wrestlers know (and are afraid of) Fluttershy from her previous attendance just sets up the climax so beautifully. But then she's pretty scary in Flutterrage mode. This is actually plausible, since she bottles it all up most of the time.
Oh, believe me, fans like that get a reputation fast among the performers And they learn to watch for them.
I wonder if Discord would enjoy going with her, or if Fluttershy in this state would terrify him, too?
(I mean, it's hardly beyond the bounds of possibility that he would want to go with her, considering their friendship).
My original idea for the finish was for us to see Fluttershy asking a wary Discord if he'd go to the next set of matches with her. Of course that would probably be an even bigger disaster, assuming you could get any of the grapplers to dare come within ten miles of Discord in the first place.
Cost of a ticket to the match, five bits. Cost of the refreshments, ten bits. The look on Twilight Sparkle's face at this point? Priceless ...
The part at the end with the CMC and Cheerilee's whole class? That's the part where the words "THE END?" flash across the screen. With the question-mark.
Thanks, glad you like it! I'm surprised this story has done as well as it has.
Nea... fuck it. I dislike wrestling but I like this story. It's nuttier than some troll fics/comedy I've read. Good job and thumbs up.
4136496 Thanks, I appreciate it.
This story was so, so much better than I expected.
5520614 Thanks for the comment, the fave, and the watch! Very sorry it took this long to respond, I was visiting out of state with some friends and had little to no time for the Internet. But I really appreciate it when someone likes my work and wants to see more; I hope you also enjoy some of the other works I have posted here on FIMfic.
So good I read it twice. The fact that this only has nineteen up‐votes should be considered a crime against humanity.
5942332 The fact that this only has nineteen up‐votes should be considered a crime against humanity.
Thanks, and while I wish it did have more upvotes, I don't know if I'd go quite as far as that.
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I’m half tempted to make more off‐colour jokes of the same vein in a feeble attempt to give this the praise it deserves but I’m not sure whether you’d find that funny or would prefer not to have some bastard child of absurdist and black humour clogging up the comments on this story because it might scare off the terminally humour impaired.
Heh.
I’m serious about the deserving more praise, B.T.W.; this story is eminently accessible to such a degree that even those utterly clueless about wrestling should find it gut busting‐ly funny. When you manage to take a niche subject and make humour about it accessible to the unwashed masses (i.e., schmucks like myself who are mostly oblivious about wrestling) you’ve accomplished a feat all too few prove capable of.
5945598 I’m serious about the deserving more praise, B.T.W.; this story is eminently accessible to such a degree that even those utterly clueless about wrestling should find it gut busting‐ly funny. When you manage to take a niche subject and make humour about it accessible to the unwashed masses (i.e., schmucks like myself who are mostly oblivious about wrestling) you’ve accomplished a feat all too few prove capable of.
Thanks again for the kind words, I really do appreciate them. I'm pleased that anyone likes this story, I always figured it was going to sink out of sight on the site.
I hope you find the time to read and enjoy some of my other work here!
Pretty good. Probably the only thing I can think of that is keeping this from the feature box is the lenght.
A 12k words oneshot is something that people are wary of. Most of the times they are just drawn out or could have been split. However I think that this story works best as it is.
Deserves a feature.
6091349 Thanks, glad you like it. And as far as length goes, I just have a habit born from my own reading habits to write at novella length. I wish I knew how to shorten some of my work, but I've yet too figure it out.
The irony now with Cherry Blossom, Cheerilee's twin sister.
6964236 I wrote this long before that comic was published. I hope I didn't butcher Fluttershy's personality TOO much here; I based it on some real-life very sweet young (and little old) ladies I've known who went to wrestling shows and turned into blood-lusting fiends. Most of her dialogue and actions are based on things I saw people actually doing.
Of course the POV Fluttercruel would probably enjoy watching pro wrestling.
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7536071 Well, she wasn't quite that bad, but she came pretty close. And thanks.
>>Ardashir it just seem like an appropriate picture for the story.I love the story anyway.
... Okay. I loved this. And I desperately want more.
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Thanks for the comment and for liking the story. It means quite a bit, especially from a writer as skilled as yourself.
As for more, I have thought sometimes about a story where Fluttershy and Discord go to take in a wrestling card. The problem is figuring out how to handle Dissey. He can be a hard character to write well.
Or maybe something with Fluttershy giving the Student Six a 'field trip' for pony culture that leads to Maredison Square Garden.
Thank you again, Your words are deeply appreciated.
Wouldn't be surprising if there was a bulky stallion who used to be a carnie for Dan Hay by the name of Reuben Sandwich.
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Okay, I know less about the history of pro wrestling than I thought because I'm blanking on both those references.
Thanks for the fave and for commenting on this story.
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The names Dan Hay and Reuben Sandwich were puns that i had used in reference to real people from the 1840's when the carnie battlecry HEY RUBE was first introduced (the actual names were Dan Rice and Reuben who were carnies during that time). Back then, when the carnival patrons were rowdy on steroids, if it was just one unruly guest they would just get thrown out, but when that one turned into a mob, "HEY RUBE!" was called and any carnie within earshot stopped what they were doing, picked up the closest weapon they could find and step into the fray (carnies are so close knit they can be compared to an Italian mob family, each one watching the others' backs). Nowadays it is used to call security for when performers feel uncomfortable or threatened by unruly, grabby, or just plain unacceptable customers. Good job on the usage of the phrase, it was just how I would have imagined the staff would have reacted with respect to Flutterrage's misunderstanding of the application of stage combat in an entertainment setting.
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Thanks for the background. I know about "HEY RUBE!", like I know what it means when the band plays 'The Stars and Stripes Forever' at a circus, but I didn't know the origin of the phrase.
And Flutterrage didn't misunderstand so much as get so caught up in it she forgot it was staged. That used to be very common among wrestling fans. My father saw quite a few brawls at wrestling live shows in the 50's, including one memorable one in, I think, Philadelphia that ended in a literal chair-tossing riot.
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Did not know about the significance of the playing of "Stars and Stripes Forever", so it prompted me to look it up. Now I know to act in a calm, professional manner instead of panicking like the flower ponies while screaming "THE HORROR! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIE!" when I hear it played at a festival. Hmm... learn something new every day.
That was very very nice.
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Glad you like it.
As an old timey (and old) rasslin' fan from way back in the territorial days when kayfabe prevailed and the heels had to live their roles all the time (it must have taken a very special sort of person to agree to be literally HATED by so many other people), I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It was hilarious, and Fluttershy was of course the best part!
Ironically, now that kayfabe has been destroyed professional wrestling seems to have a much better reputation than it used to, but the old demimonde--the half world that was neither "sports" nor "entertainment" but a world apart in the half light really deserves our respect and it's kind of sad that the kids know only admittedly "fake" and respectable wrestling nowadays.
Back in the day, the boys (and sometimes girls) would be someplace like Madison Square Garden one night, and the abandoned, dilapidated gym of the old high school in Finger, Tennessee the next. And jobber or star, they put just as much of their heart into it in one place as the other. ::Sigh:: I miss those days.
I also really like your classification of alicorns into "major" and "minor," and your backstory on how the tradition began in Equestria made perfect sense!
Bravo!