• Published 2nd Apr 2014
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The Life and Times of a Winning Goat - Chengar Qordath



It's a stupid April Fools Prank Story. About goats. The title is also a lie, because there is no such thing as a Winning Goat. Goats do not win, because they're to busy doing whatever the hell it is goats do.

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It's like Winning Pony, But With Goats. And actually nothing like Winning Pony at all.

Cloud Goat and Blossom Goat were both, shockingly enough, goats. They lived in the town of Goatville, where they watched the clouds and ate whatever happened to be near their mouths when they happened to be hungry. Cloud Goat was also a fan of banging. She would bang Blossom Goat, and Derpy Goat and Flutter Goat, and any other goat that happened be around. She would also bang fences, tables, couches, jars of jelly, tin cans, and the trampoline next door.

It should perhaps be clarified at this point that banged thing by ramming her head into them. She did not, in fact, have sex with most of the things on that list. And if she did, nobody wanted to hear about it. Because goats having sex is gross.

At the moment, Cloud Goat and Blossom Goat were lying in their back, staring up at the clouds and contemplating the mysteries of the universe. Eventually, one of them decided to speak about about their latest realization. Cloud Goat turned to Blossom Goat. “Baaa.”

“Baaa?” Blossom inquired, not entirely grasping the thrust of Cloud’s statement. After a few second’s to contemplate, she added. “Baaa.”

“Baaa.” Cloud agreed, giving a satisfied nod. “Baaa” She further explained, just to be certain there was no potential for misunderstanding. They were discussing important things, after all.

“Baaa,” Blossom announced, entirely satisfied with Cloud’s explanation. Now that they had resolved one of the great mysteries of the universe, the two returned to staring up at the clouds, content to rest and relax as the day went by.

Eventually, their day was interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Rainbow Goat. Rainbow Goat was Blossom and Cloud Goat’s boss. Or at least, she would be if any of them had jobs other being goats. Since they were, in fact, goats, Rainbow Goat was not their boss at all, making the previous sentence entirely pointless. Then again, this entire story is pointless, because it’s about goats, and nobody wants to read about goats. Not even goats want to read about goats. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a goat reading a book about a goat. Never! That’s because goats are boring.

Rainbow Goat, however, was not boring. Or at least, she was not boring by the standards of most goats. Compared to some kind of flying, rainbow-maned pegasus, Rainbow Goat was incredibly boring. Rainbow Goat did not have a multicolored mane, wings, or a generally awesome attitude. Because goats do not have any of those things, on account of being goats and not magical cartoon ponies.

Rainbow Goat did, however, have one important asset. She had a fondness for feats of physical daring. far beyond the likes of ordinary goats. Indeed, there were few goats alive with the guts to replicate Rainbow Goat’s many death-defying stunts. Rainbow Goat was outrageous. She was truly, truly outrageous. At least, by goat standards.

Cloud Goat and Blossom Goat turned to face her, eagerly awaiting Rainbow’s performance. This new stunt was sure to be the talk of the town for weeks afterwards. It might even make the local goat newspaper. It was a pity that none of the local goats actually read the paper, as they much preferred eating it, and were not literate in any case. How it is that a goat newspaper came to exist when goats are not capable of reading or writing is a mystery for the ages. Or at least, it would be one if anyone ever cared enough to wonder about it.

But nobody did, because nobody cares about goats.

However, at this point we’ve had enough buildup to the inevitable disappointing and underwhelming payoff, so let’s not delay things any longer. Rainbow Goat stood tall on her four goat legs, allowing her to tower over Blossom Goat and Cloud Goat. Then, when she was certain that all attention was focused on her, she slowly rolled over onto her back, her four legs sticking straight up in the air. Then she let out her victory cry. “Baa!”

Blossom and Cloud turned to one another, carefully evaluating their friend’s performance. Blossom was first to offer her thoughts on the stunt. “Baaa,” she announced approvingly.

“Baaa,” Cloud agreed, most impressed by Rainbow’s performance. While the stunt might not have seemed terribly impressive to an outside observer, the depressing truth was that this performance would probably be the highlight of their week. Goat life really is that boring.

Their celebration was interrupted by the arrival of Derpy Goat crashing through the fence. She did not crash through the fence because she was destructively clumsy, because that might have been an endearing trait, and goats do not have endearing traits. Instead, she crashed through the fence because goats are just ugly and graceless creatures by nature.

Walking alongside Derpy Goat was her kid, Dinky Goat. By the standards of most goats, Dinky Goat was heart-meltingly adorable. It should be mentioned that goats have incredibly low standards. To the rest of the world, she was just a goat. Any cuteness she might have possessed on account of being a baby goat was offset by the fact that she would one day grow up to be an adult goat.

However, since everyone present was, in fact, a goat, they all agreed that Dinky Goat was concentrated adorableness. “Baaa.” Rainbow Goat trotted up, and lightly headbutted Dinky Goat. Blossom and Cloud shortly followed, adding their own words of approval accompanied by headbutts.

And then they all ate grass, and did other boring goat things. And nobody cared, because they were goats.


“That wuzza weird bedtime story,” Dinky announced, frowning at the book in my hooves. “Not like the ones Mommy reads for me.”

“No kidding.” I stared down at it as well. Between the rather obvious name references and the fact that the binding looked less than professional, it didn’t take a genius to figure out that something was up. “Where’d you get this anyway, Dash?”

Rainbow scratched the side of her head, offering a confused look of her own for the book. “Weird. No idea what could’ve happened, Cloud. Sparkler told me that was Dinky’s new favorite bedtime story when she gave it to me.”

From just outside the bedroom, the two of us heard a very audible snort of poorly suppressed laughter.

I turned to Rainbow. “Dash, I think we’ve been had.”

“Yeah.” Rainbow turned to me, a mischievous grin on her face. “You hold her down, and I’ll tickle her.”

“Deal.”

And then we got some righteous vengeance on a certain smartflanked teenager. We didn’t go too far, though. It was April Foals’ Day, after all.

Author's Note:

I hope that this will be the first of many, many goat stories. I look forward to unleashing a new wave of goat-based fiction upon the world, so that all my read of the wonder and glory of goats.

Comments ( 66 )

Wow, I'm genuinely impressed that you actually did this. Take my respect. Take all of it. :rainbowkiss:

I love this story! so original! I wonder what goat Celestia will do next?

4169971 Er......GOATLESTIA. yeah. I meant to type that the first time.

Baaah bah baaaaaah bah baaaahaaaaa

I bow to your glorious goatness. Now to complete this, I must play Goat Simulator.

Huh... Did not expect an actual story.

The writing style also strangely reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut.

Also, I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrgZtlOAisE

Baaaah-rilliant!

Rainbow Goat was outrageous. She was truly, truly outrageous.

But not truly, truly, truly outrageous. That's the domain of Jem Goat.

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...Wat. Da buq.:rainbowhuh:

There were no goats screaming like people. This story is a disappointment.

There. Much better! :trollestia:

RAAAPIST!!!!!
least of the mind rape variety:raritywink:

Goddammit Chen.

...I'm so reading this tomorrow.

Faved, not for the goats, but for the tickles!

I sense you might not appreciate goats fully.

Just a gut feeling really.

It's a shame because goats are really cool, much better than ponies.

Okay, it started out with me firmly clicking the dislike button (as I dislike joke/troll fics in general) but the ending paid off fairly well. Sparkler, you fool.

You ever read a word so many times that it ceases to make sense anymore?

goat.

Ha, I didn't think you'd actually go through with it! Well played. :ajsmug:

Call this odd, but its surprisingly fun to read along with this riveting dialogue. Insane, creepy and weird mind you, but fun too.:pinkiecrazy:

In this particular instance, we know Winning Pony is a better story, because this one has, like a, like a goat demon on the front.
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Just look at the eyes...

I'm not sure if you speak goat, but you just insulted every readers family and life and called them a ***********.

Hmm... I can see where this would eventually lead.
"Iron Will offers all goats his banging techniques, which will teach you the confidence you need to bang the right nanny."

should have been the life and times of a winning goatse

Beautiful. A thousand thumbs up!

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Not so. Rainbow Goat shall shortly be putting Jem Goat out of goating business, with Rainbow Goat Rocks. Where she will upstage Jem Goat in goatliness.

We need fanart of this now. Come on people please make this happen :rainbowlaugh:

Oh dear God yes. Sequel nao plz. :rainbowlaugh:

4169971
Well, she'll 'baaaa' a few times, and maybe eat some grass. And then she won't raise the sun, because she is a goat and goats do not have magical sun-raising powers.

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

I have things to do, you know. I have things to do and I cannot pull myself away from all the April Fools because there is just too much April Fools. I hope you're happy. I hope you're proud of yourself.

Cloud Goat was also a fan of banging. She would bang Blossom Goat, and Derpy Goat and Flutter Goat, and any other goat that happened be around. She would also bang fences, tables, couches, jars of jelly, tin cans, and the trampoline next door.

Oh, that Cloud Goat. She's such a character.

Eventually, one of them decided to speak about about their latest realization. Cloud Goat turned to Blossom Goat. “Baaa.”

Now that's just silly. Everygoat knows that baaa, which clearly contradicts baaa.

“Baaa.” Cloud agreed, giving a satisfied nod. “Baaa” She further explained, just to be certain there was no potential for misunderstanding. They were discussing important things, after all.

Oh, I see what you're saying now. Yeah, that's probably true.

Rainbow Goat stood tall on her four goat legs, allowing her to tower over Blossom Goat and Cloud Goat. Then, when she was certain that all attention was focused on her, she slowly rolled over onto her back, her four legs sticking straight up in the air. Then she let out her victory cry. “Baa!”

I can only imagine how much time she spent practicing to get that right. It's quite impressive that she kept it a surprise until it was ready for the limelight.

Rainbow scratched the side of her head, offering a confused look of her own for the book. “Weird. No idea what could’ve happened, Cloud. Sparkler told me that was Dinky’s new favorite bedtime story when she gave it to me.”

Oh, that Sparkler.
And she even used "everybody"! She must be going through one of those politically-correct phases. But I'm sure she'll grow out of it soon. I hope.

. . . The existence of a framing narrative to bring some semblance of sense to this actually bothers me a little. I'm probably weird like that.
It just threw all my silly comments so very off-kilter when there was suddenly something I could take relatively seriously.

Oh, and

She did not, in fact, have sex with most of the things on that list. And if she did, nobody wanted to hear about it. Because goats having sex is gross.

For shame, Sparkler. In a bedtime story? For Dinky?

Rainbow Goat was outrageous. She was truly, truly outrageous.

I can't tell whether you're making the reference I think you're making, or not. Regardless, Rainbow Goat is truly outrageous. She is truly, truly, truly, outrageous.

Mooving on...

This was way funnier than it had any right to be. Who would have thought that a story about goats of all things could ever be amusing?

Well played, Mister Qordath. Well played...

Write on,
Legion

This is the best goat story I have ever read.:pinkiehappy:

Ahahahahaha!

Should... I point out that goats are... probably more like Cloud Kicker than you might expect...?

They, among other things... Well, not too put a finer point on it, they have a tendancy, when in heat, for the female goats to mount the other female goats while the male is, well, banging. (According to QI.) (Mind you, givengoats in mythology (e.g. satyrs) maybe this isn't that surprising...)

Interestingly, according to wiki, goats are noted to have high intelligence (so MLP's goats are... probably kind of racist... Good job MLP!) and are the the only ruminant capable of climbing trees (to a degree). The more you know if half the battle or something.

Actually, that inteliigence thing almost makes me want to see MLP or Winning Pony done with goats, sort of seriously, where basically everygoat gets an intelligence boost... That'd be... interesting...!

YB
YB #38 · Apr 2nd, 2014 · · ·

Oh look Winning Pony's still on top of popular box
I don't remember Rainbow having such a weird haircut though
...Wait
THAT'S NOT HER MANE

And this is how you almost lost an upvote
Sweet story by the way :trollestia:

this floats my goat

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This story made the popular box? I'm so ashamed...

The dialogue was a bit uninspired. I was expecting at least one good "Baa" from Blossom Goat, but all I got were lackluster "Baa"s.

Also. Rainbow Goat should learn to climb a tree. Cool goats climb trees. Maybe next week.
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Also also, I would probably read a sequel. Eventually.

goats are not intresting? someone clearly has not plaied goat simulator.

Oh yyyeeessssshhhh plzzz.... This needs to be in a hall of fame somewhere.... Hahaha

Amazing, now I don't have to waste my time reading TLaToaWP! :rainbowkiss:

Then again, this entire story is pointless, because it’s about goats, and nobody wants to read about goats.

You're right, we just want to watch goats with jetpacks.

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Blame the legion of followers you have.

Far and away, without a doubt, this is the best thing Chengoat has ever written.

Fluttergoat was asked to be in the Goattones, but all she knew how to sing was "Baa baa baa, baa baa baa ram." :trollestia:

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