• Published 2nd Mar 2015
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Minuette, Part II: Mummies, Tentacles, and Shit - Samey90



After suddenly becoming rich, Minuette decides to invest her money wisely. Delivery services company – yeah, that sounds good enough. Nothing can go wrong with that...

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Stay tuned for "The Misadventures of Minuette Part III: I'm Getting Too Old For This Random Fuckery"

8100846
Well, they say sixty is the new forty, after all...

Thank you for this story, I needed that :)

Good stuff as usual. This was an improvement over the first part, back when anyone on any kind of situation led to someone getting wet on a really over the top fashion. Might be they're getting older thought

8109331
Yeah. The first one didn't have a clear outline and was mostly improvised, while in here I planned at least some plot points (which somehow led to less sex and explosions).
And yes, their experience is also a factor. I imagine Minuette was more like Ruby when she was a kid and then switched to more sophisticated ways of dealing with trouble.

I love how you actually had an adventure in such an over the top comedy

8371907
No problem, also really enjoying the story so far :D
It's been in my "todo" pile way too long :twilightsheepish:

Finally finished this chapter. Seriously, I've been sitting on it for two months!

8378166
Funnily enough, writing it probably took me a similar amount of time...

8379405
I look forward to more. There is something about this little band of misfits I enjoy.

I think my biggest problem trying to finish reading this is the huge chapters. I really recommend staying under 9k words. The 13k+ chapters were kind of like the fic reading equivalent of not going to sleep and thus having two days remembered as one big long one.

Anyways, love the vulgar in-the-moment nature of these two stories. It's very refreshing after reading entire stories that, even when rated mature, will go out of their way to make things all sanitized like the show, seeming to have a bunch of emotionally-dead non-peeing robot ponies dealing with things like war.
My only beef with the format is the frequent omission of actual sex scenes, despite constant references to them happening. It feels odd because it becomes a sort of tell don't show situation in a fic that otherwise usually tells you things, even the ones most wouldn't want to hear about, as they happen.

8404252
I found it really weird to write sex scenes in first person. Thus Minuette doesn't delve into details.

This was absolutely side wreckingly hilarious. I remember being extremely sad one or two years ago when I saw this incomplete... But it was so worth the wait. It made me lose it completely several times, it is simply wonderful.

I am curious about Muffin and Play though, what happened to them? Will they be in the next one? Because let's be honest, the only place they could go live and be pretty much normal is ponyville.

Still want a sequel, though :pinkiehappy:

8646680
I'm planning to write a sequel/spin-off this year. Some highlights include an OC whose special talent is not-drowning and a pegasus who met a dropbear once.

Also, I guess Muffin lives in Ponyville. That is, once she learned not to swap her DNA with everyone around...

8646735
So there's a whole lot of little Muffins around? That somehow doesn't surprise me :rainbowlaugh:

I'll be anxiously awaiting said spin-off/sequel, though :pinkiehappy:

8682639
Soon. Most likely this year.

Review of this since I finally finished it:
I think this fic was pretty good overall and a bit above the first one in terms of plot. Things were generally smoother between locales and the incestuous twins showed up more predictably.

One big problem I see that affects what makes the fic interesting to begin with (the vulgar nature of it in a normally non-vulgar setting) is that it seems like there's a shift in content after they get to Hagypt; things become more violent, less sexual, and the vulgarity becomes entirely verbal.
Before Hagypt, there was sex, masturbation, pissing, vomiting, and no turning ponies into chunky salsa.
After Hagypt, the closest we got to sex was with Muffin/Vinyl, masturbation was only implied, pissing was only implied, there was some vomiting and implied shitting, and eventually there were so many dead bodies involved that Hexie decided to make artwork out of pony's heads.
I feel like part of this was caused by a sort of plot fatigue after the events with Trixie, most obviously when Vinyl rightly asks everypony for sex after a crazy mummy encounter and everypony is more interested in advancing to the next plot location.

Related to the point above, I think there were a few too many protagonists this time around. The story is really about Minuette and Vinyl at its core, and I feel that Inkie was basically superfluous and Ruby's character arc ended underground in Hagypt. Ruby fulfilled a necessary aspect of picking up slack from the main two becoming less vulgar for some reason as the story went on (to the point Vinyl isn't even taking inappropriate snow shits), but her 7-year-wait comment was I think inconsistent with it and she had nothing to do at all once they left Hagypt.
This excess of characters and issues portraying them culminates in the unusual debate about killing one's enemies. I feel that up to that point, aside of Ruby joking about Kyrie, everypony was pretty against actually killing, but then the debate ends and Hexie takes it into her own hooves to kill some enemies...because they tried to kill her frenemy. The worst part about it was that Minuette etc. didn't even seem to care.

So, if it's not already obvious, I felt the high point of the story was Mexicolt to Maneaus. That whole section was exactly what I expected out of the fic.
Things with Trixie's sideplot were okay, but I feel the story took a huge nosedive with the North Zebrica incident. Put simply, we the audience know that Minuette and friends have plot armor thick as a mountain, and the more mortal danger you introduce (especially with stormtrooper accuracy or last second rescues like Minuette's execution), the more apparent it becomes, to the detriment of the story; it began to feel like a chore reading it past them losing their tank. The gorillas and Minuette's cousin, in addition to being deus ex machinas with no real place being there, also felt just kind of thrown in arbitrarily and didn't live up to their potential. Also, the whole North Zebrica incident did nothing plotwise; no characters were developed except for the dead-end male Aryanne crony and the only change to situation was Trixie arriving. It felt like a really unnecessary detour into crazy land (even brought on by them arbitrarily getting lost to begin with).
As an aside relating to the setting and the gorillas especially, I think that a lot of the stuff based on real-world locations just felt superfluous, from the Hooviet spies to the whole North/South Zebrican conflict to even the Trottoman Empire. The last fic I feel had less superfluous stuff in its world and was better for it, less distractions to the plot's main conflict.
The story picked up again after they got Muffin, with everything up to the end being pretty good again. However, I think there were a few too many crazy threats in the town and I feel that the last chapter was too short. It would've been better to have a few more characters and more time devoted to the final locale (and to Kyrie's change of heart), with the epilog separated.

On the subject of content again, I feel it's better to have Minuette see something vulgar happening as much as possible as opposed to characters commenting later that something vulgar happened. The last fic's scene with Minuette masturbating really brought home the vulgarity. Towards the end of this fic, however, I think we got a little too much of characters only saying somepony shat themselves, pissed themselves, farted, or masturbated. Strangely, on farts in particular, we didn't get any that Minuette saw/heard/smelled unlike the last fic, but got a lot more dialog about them.


In conclusion, I think that the formula works best when Minuette and Vinyl and select others are engaging in light-hearted death-defying action spaced out with rampant vulgarity in a confined setting. What hampers this fic for me is that towards the end it gets a little too dark, tells instead of shows too much of the vulgarity, and adds in too many characters/locales/concepts that it doesn't have time to fully explore and use.

8695975
At some point I got tired of vulgar jokes, hence kicking the plot off in another direction. Also, to think about it, I could've sent a few characters off along with Lyra (I felt there were too many of them, but killing them off would make it even darker).

8696092
Well, at least you sent Lyra off. She was the least essential between her, Daring Do, and Inkie, all of whom felt like one character glob of boring. I think what really makes these two stories work is the contrasting of extreme characters like Vinyl (who violate social norms primarily with vulgarity/idiocy) with normal characters like Trixie, with Minuette playing both sides against the middle in the chaos with more snark than Colonel O'Neill; a normal character like Trixie needs things like the moment of Minuette violating her with colonic teleportation.

9662082
You're absolutely right. When I translated this fanfic Fiddlesticks, the song took more time than everything else combined :(

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It seems she prefers to hang out with Silver Spanner and a version of Sea Swirl with a different cutie mark.

9980929
It was meant to be a tfs reference actually.

10081512
Well it's nice to have one eternal mystery solved, albeit retroactively.

10081785

This reminds me, for whatever reason, is English your first language?

Nah, it's Polish (that's why google translate loses the fight with Hexie's slang). Also, she is kinda right.

10082643
It's like that here if you see a Mickey D's you find wherever you need to go.

10086515
True a maneausian Snips and Snails is completely possible.




Not all Jehovah's witnesses are bad people. I just really dislike some of their policies like the whole 'rule of two' thing.

10086542
Yeah, they're pretty annoying (they often try to talk to me, but my dog doesn't like visitors).

10086602
They don't try to talk to me anymore. (They don't like my gun.)

10088144
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10919649
Pretty much any time I feel like getting stoned and laughing, I reread this while stoned.

10919656
Ah, this explains a lot.

Will there ever be a threequel.

Always a good story to reread.

Thanks author. This is one of the best stories about Minuette on Fimfic I've ever read. I really love it.

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