"When I get old, I am going to be: Rice. Frisco style." - Ed 2004
One minute you have a changeling enter your boutique,
and the next minute you're getting a lecture of how offensive it is to think changelings are bugs.
Maybe Rarity should've thought twice before hitting a changeling with a flyswatter.
~Another fanfic I now regret writing...way to go Atlas~
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You can blame Zacatron's short comic for the beginning
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please continue!
Iz byoutavul.
It's a nice story certainly, and a concept I haven't seen written like this so far, but the Complete tag confuses me. Is there going to be more chapters, because so far the story feels like it is only halfway done at most, with no satisfying ending for either of the characters...
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If this gets more attention than my past three fics, then I'll think about adding another chapter or two.
I love it!!! I always felt that everypony was being racist to changelings and having them take the abuse like they deserved it. Seeing a changeling finally snapping and turning the tables made me happy, especially with Rarity asking herself if she really is racist. The flyswatter was an excellent touch.
Poor Carl, can't even eat Rarity
please continue the story!dont leave carl and rarity like this! your story is just fantastic! well done to you!!
The type of story or reaction to typical feelings against changelings in a story that I've always wanted to see.
6842449 *Alondro sprays it with RAID...*
Pfft, nah, we're all bigot racists! The Dragontown Comic says so! And who am I to prove it wrong?
Well gee, maybe if the rest of you had warned ponies... and maybe revealed yourselves BEFORE the invasion at least...
There's this little thing about bad first impressions. And Equestria's first impression of changelings was like China's first impression of mongols.
Stories like this annoy the heck out of me, where the SJW is allowed to bellow like a tard and the recipient is forbidden to make a counterargument. It's NOT comedic to go on a ridiculous rant like that either. It becomes one-sided rhetoric of a topic which doesn't fit the scenario in the show.
This is more akin to a bear getting angry that bees sting it when it shows up near their hive because other bears have already torn open their hive once before and stolen honey from them. The bees reacting badly is perfectly justifiable.
Probably should make sure that's in a non public area drawer sweetheart...
I like it. Also, the idea that Rarity actually is canonically racist to some degree is plausible. Nightmare Moon reboot Rarity was definitely racist.
6842174 Soooooo, you would openly welcome a member of a shape-shifting species which, the last time you saw them, had imprisoned your friends and your ruler, was SINGING about taking over your nation and imprisoning every member of your kind while draining the positive emotions from them...
Then the one that does show up is in disguise and lying about itself... just like the ONLY OTHERS OF ITS KIND YOU'VE EVER SEEN?
And then it goes on a rant about how you should feel sorry for it because people don't quite trust these shape-shifting, lying creatures who've never been seen before the thwarted invasion.
See, that's what we call 'hopelessly naive', the sort of personality trait would-be con artists love to find in a mark.
6840949 sequel?
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Too small for changeling.
6842599 That's just Freudian Excuse. It's okay explanation if person in question is just seamstress, and changeling been lying in the first place (shape-shifting or not, doesn't matter), and result is just swatter shenanigans. BUT if person in question is ruler of the nation, and result is banning entire species (regardless of affiliation) from country forever (thousands years and going), that's definitely no excuse. Many authors like to pretend it is, but it really isn't.
lol
*Offensive
I don't think that's how you should spell offensive....
Rarity was a little wimpy here, kinda made the rant fall flat.
Carl needs a hug, the stress seems to be getting to him. Also, fail infiltrator, never should have left the hive, or is there more to the story?
Keep going! ;)
Hm, a Changeling getting hit in the head with a fly swatter and thinking it a racial slur the moment he sees it. Now who's the real racist here, hmm?
Reminds me of a little ditty from a certain show actually:
Jeff: It's in your blood!
Troy: That's racist.
Jeff: Your soul.
Troy: That's racist.
Jeff: Your eyes?
Troy: That's gay.
Jeff: That's homophobic.
Troy: That's black.
Jeff: That's racist!
Troy: Damn...
P.S. Carl+Rarity 4 Evah!
Have a like
"Good-day, Madam."
"Bu-"
"I SAID GOOD-DAY!" *Slams door*
Surprised you didn't make this reference.
He should've tried Pinkie or Fluttershy.
This started off professionally, quickly became goofy... then got kind of implicitively philosophical, then it got downright depressing.
I'm not entirely sure what to think.
6842599 Given the obvious insectoid biology, anypony who didn't agree with or at least conciser a changeling's statement of "... Queens just lead individual colonies." actually would be being a little racist. And even if that wasn't the case, anyone can call themselves anything. Who says that Queen of the Changelings is anything more than one leader's boastful nature? Hell I could call myself the President of Space if I wanted. Would ponies believe that? If most changeling fics are anything to go by, yes.
I never see a Changeling (or a group of them) coming into town openly with a flag of truce in these stories. If they want to be treated like honest, decent, civilized beings they have to act like honest, decent, civilized beings. They know damn well that there's been bad blood lately and should be looking for ways to reduce the tension. Sure, the ponies are going to be suspicious of them the first time they come to town. Maybe they'll even be sent away. But if they can get their foot in the door and explain their situation, maybe after a few good visits they won't need the flag and can come and go as they please.
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Speaking of rulers, the first place Carl should've gone was to Twilight's tree-castle to announce that he was in town. Showing that you respect and trust local authorities is the best way to get them on your side. Once he's got Twilight's blessing to roam the town, if ponyvillians still want to treat him like crap, he can drag them in front of her to be punished.
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O.o we think alike.. oh crap...
But... would it matter if you were?
i know right.. its comedy eather you like it or you dont
you dont need to explain it and if you do its not comedy
Hahaha, nice.
Hah, ponies are racist. I mean, the entirety of ponyville was afraid of Zecora and she's just slightly different from ponies.
Cya
Raziel-chan
6843306 Oh jolly someone who took this seriously even with the comedy tag and Atlas's writing history.
Wonderful.
6843397 NOT FUNNY!
6842168 Well, does being featured count as more attention?
This story was pretty good. Have a like and a favourite, my dear chap.
No, but you did try to trick her with a laughably bad disguise as if she were some sort of idiot and made blanket statements about her home town.
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Stopped reading there. Joke is older than dinosaur bones, not funny, completely out of place.
Thumbed down. Better luck next time.
Brilliant. Just brilliant!
I want to think you wanted this to be a joke, as Carl taking refuge in audacity and just BS'ing his way out of a bad situation, but I'm not actually sure because that SJW rant was both too silly and not silly enough.
6843632 It was hella accurate to the real thing though.
I hope you add more chapters or somethin' cause this is so frinkin' hilarious!
6842555 I find it hilarious because this is exactly how SJW's work.
6843306 That's a retarded mindset. Y'know, I think the Nazis should've just waltzed into fucking Britian holding truce banners.
You think that would've worked? No, they'd all get gunned down or captured.
1) 'Carl' comes into town, in a bad disguise and with no plan for explaining himself, even unto apparently not knowing basic pony biology. Either he's too naive to live, or else he's intentionally setting the stage to be discovered, thus permitting him to invoke his own attack.
2) Upon being discovered, within moments 'Carl' has turned things around, accusing Rarity - and all of Ponykind, by his own words - of being racist. In Rarity's case, there's at least the fig-leaf of having her try to turn a flyswatter against him; that doesn't appear to have happened elsewhere.
3) Rarity's actions are perfectly normal - she's witnessing a member of a race whose entire known representation has been the group that attacked the Equestrian capital, captured the Equestrian ruler, and explicitly stated their desire to conquer the entire realm. As we know of no other representatives of the species, at this point, 'Changeling' is a pretty good shorthand for 'Description Of The Enemy'!
4) Despite this, Rarity is made to feel bad for pointing out the actual facts available to her - exactly the tactic that an attacking invader might invoke to prevent others from standing against him and those with him.
Final conclusion: Carl is a mouthpiece, Rarity is being hobbled and not allowed to respond normally, and the story itself gets a downvote.
This smacks far too much of 'Chrysalis a good bug, she dindu nuffin' for me to actually enjoy it. Especially when Carl says that not all Changelings wanted to invade Canterlot and then goes on to imply that he took part in the invasion!
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Why do people get the idea that there are only two type of proper reactions to a situation like this. "Welcome with open arms" and "Act out extreme prejudice openly".
Neither options are smart. They're both incredibly stupid.
The proper reaction going forward would to proceed with (extreme) caution and get out the facts about the individual(s)/race.
Rarity's reaction can definitely be attributed to racism. Literally jumping to the worst possible conclusions/assumptions about a person solely because of ones race and then proceeding to act on them with practically no knowledge about the individual or the race as if they were fact. That's a horrible response.
6842555
And they're terrible friends and people!
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That could actually be interpreted as him being in the area, and seeing the end result of the invasion.
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The flag is banner-speak for "I want to talk" and abusing it is a war crime. People are expected to recognize and honor it's use even in battle if they want to be considered civilized. And, yes, even the Nazis respected the flag of truce. If the ponies are wont to shoot changelings on sight even under a flag of truce, then things are in outright genocide conditions and Carl is mad to be going from town to town wandering into shops when he should be fleeing the country.
This definitely needs more chapters! Great story!
I think I'd rather be smacked with a flyswatter. At least it doesn't smell funny.
Also, "offensive." Offence is proper British English, "offencive" is not.
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I swear, it's like the guy has never heard of diplomatic immunity. You do not kill heralds because then nobody will have heralds. Who would be stupid enough to do that kind of job if they didn't know that they had free passage and immunity from persecution and being murdered? That's "shoot all POWs" grade pointless butchery.