Important note: I claim all creative rights to all characters in this work and deny any and all royalties. Furthermore, resemblance of any character in this story to real life persons(especially Ron Paul), living, or dead is fully intentional and intended as a factual statement. Finally, I accept all liability for any incidents incurred while reading this fic, including, but not limited to, nausea, kuru, temporary insanity, death, and stubbed toes.
That aside, this is a collection of short fics that I've written just for the hell of it. These fics are highly experimental - expect bizarre tenses, fanon, atypical writing styles, multiple narrators and more! Don't read if your mind is allergic to screws - the topics range from the sonic rainboom as a metaphor for FlutterDash, to a second person fic starring three metaphysical entities and even normal stuff, like a prequel to "A Canterlot Wedding" (spoiler: Chrysalis disguises herself as Cadence).
I'm also accepting requests, with the goal of writing at least one prompt a day - feel free to drop suggestions in the comments. As long as it's short, interesting and MLP related, I'll give it a shot!
The fics(bold for pride):
Pressure [Light Shipping] - FlutterDash, with the relationship written as a metaphor for a sonic rainboom. A little alcohol is involved.
Chrysalis' Break - A prequel for the events in "A Canterlot Wedding", written from Chrysalis' and Cadence's points of view.
Forgiveness - Celestia has forgiven Luna, but she needs some help to forgive herself...
Equestria Noir - Twilight Sparkle tries to write a detective novel based on her own life. Too bad it's not the thirties.
Rainbow Dash and the MacGuffin [Random] - I'm so meta, even this acronym. A meta trollfic disguised as a pirate story.
How You Met My Mother [SURREAL SHIPPING] - Second person, you(as Twilight Sparkle's magic) x Pinkie Sense. The narrator is your smug son.
Author's Notes - Prompts, background, etc.
Boone In Equestria [Trollfic] - so yea i was sleep deprived and had a deadline
Ron Paul and the Elements of Tyranny [political troll satire] - It's been four years since President Obama banished Ron Paul to the moon - soon he will return to ensure that Freedom™ lasts forever! Twilight Sparkle and her friends must stop him using the Elements of Tyranny before The Fed™ is destroyed! Faced against the power of the Invisible Hand and unbound delegates, the protagonists must fight to keep the status quo! Will they succeed? Too cool for a standalone story!
MLP: REPRUCASSIONS OF EVAL - I squat 85 pounds, and everypony walks the dinosaur!
Quick mistake - You said hand instead of hoof when Dash knocks on the door.
Umm... a prompt...
How about Twilight trying to figure out how she spontaneously combusted on that one episode with the Pinkie Sense?
Other than that, I'll be sure to give these stories a read through.
d'awwwww
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Oops. Thanks, fixed!
What if the mane six were all cats, and they lived in Kittieville and all the pony puns were cat puns? That fic would be purr-fect!
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Unfortunately I'm not that punny
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All right, hmm... I just thought of who's perspective to write it from...
What about one where Fluttershy gets locked out of her house and as a result gets involved in some zany events? Sort of a "Dude, Where's My Car?" but with ponies. Like, she gave Pinkie Pie her spare key, but Pinkie Pie can't remember where she left it, and so on...
Send Craig Boone to Equestria as a unicron, and Celestia recruits him to fight slaving Griffin tribe. Boone x Celestia OTP!
If you want a serious prompt, have a story where young Twilight has a goldfish and it dies, and then Celestia has to explain mortality to Twilight.\, and explain why she's different from everypony else.
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Hmm... The serious prompt sounds like a great way to sharpen up my dialogue. Added to my rapidly growing queue.
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But her cottage doesn't have a lock :c
Oh well, more lamp stands!
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What are you talking about? She had it thoroughly locked down in "Putting Your Hoof Down"
Also, I bear more prompts, of varying seriousness:
* (Headfanon time!) Rainbow Dash learns that Fluttershy's dad used to be a Wonderbolt, and keeps perstering her about it. FLuttershy's meekness doesn't let Rainbow know she doesn't enjoy being thought of only as "[x]'s daughter", an eventually breaks down while explaining she has daddy dissapointment issues. Friendshipping ensures.
* A "what did I do last night" fic starring Celestia. Events transpired included promoting Twilight to Archmage, releasing and resealing Discord, inventing a new fashion trend, beating an ogre at a belching competition, winning rulership over a bordering nation with Blackjack, and drying her mane like Luna's.
* Twilight inventing firearms and subsequently discarding them since nopony with hooves can use them.
* Cadance finds out she's pregnant, and she and Shining have a heartwarming discusion on what kind of parents they'd be.
* Or, like above, Cadance is sick with worry when she doesn't know if the baby will be immortal like here (if she is immortal, that is)
* Something that opens with Celestia reading a a friendship report about confronting fears, and then the Typanophobic goddess running from her doctor who needs a blood sample.
* Celestia entering a Rocky-style training montage after her defeat by Chrysalis, and surprising everypony (who've by now dismissed her) by defeating Tirek all on her own.
...Just a few.
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Weren't those boards and not an actual lock? Eh. I'll go rewatch the episode.
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Done - written as How You Met My Mother. Please reply with your favorite wat image marco.
uh what?
I felt like expanding on my fanon concept of magic. I think I took it a wee bit too far. Also whee, simulation hypothesis.
I think I'd actually be able to recycle some of my concepts from these prompts when writing my serious project(Poptard's prompt actually could be a good beginning for Transponyist Twilight).
... I... don't understand this. Sorry. The writing was real nice though!
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Technical explanation of my fanon:
Magic has some level of intelligence - molecular neurosurgery isn't easy. Same with moving a rope around - you have to calculate exactly how much momentum to apply to each atom. The intelligence required increases with more complex tasks - bigger objects mean more atoms to juggle around. While the caster may find it as simple as "move this rope around", it's not that simple.
Magic also has a ton of energy. Lots of energy. E=mc^2 states how much energy is required to create or destroy matter. The energy required to summon a gram of matter(about a paper clip) is equal to the energy released by the Fat Man atomic bomb. Yea. When you look at all the things unicorns can do, that is a lot of energy.
Now for the fic's purposes, I assume that Twilight's magic developed enough intelligence to become sapient. I figured that if any magical energy had enough intelligence to be self-aware, it would have to be Twilight's. It would also have to have a lot of computational power to preform the acts on the show. This is actually a bit of a leap - magic demonstrates a very specific form of intelligence that doesn't seem prone to sapience under normal circumstances.
The simulation hypothesis is a reasonable, well thought out and fairly old idea in philosophy - from ancient Buddhism and Plato's cave, to Descartism and all the way to it's current transhumanist version. It basically states a combination of different arguments that more or less sum down to:
If simulating a universe with conscious beings is easy, then it is incredibly likely that any given universe is being simulated.
But what do simulations have to do with super intelligence? Simple - simulations are useful for super intelligences, like how Twilight's magic and the Elements of Harmony simulated every permutation of Luna's brain to purge the darkness from it. Twilight's magic might have also found it useful to keep a few simulations of every possible universe around, which would inevitably have simulators making their own universe, etc.
So the narrator(the child of Pinkie Sense and Twilight's Magic) is talking to the reader as the reader is the inhabitant of what the narrator assumes is one of Twilight's Magic's (sub) simulations, and so a part of Twilight's Magic that isn't aware of the actions of the old.
(no i did not write this while on drugs)
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Hooray, an explanation!
Even more mind-screwy than my imagination!
Well, it's something for my fanfic-starved mind, so keep it up! And use moar of my prompts!
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Bah. I've been busy writing my real fic(thanks for the goldfish idea, I'll be sure to credit you when it comes out), but I'm still going to go with my goal of a fic every day!
Boone in Equestria up. Made with 100% all natural sleep deprivation.
That story was so awesome that I had a braingasm Truly, an epic piece of literature.
Turns out, mine is the prompt that shall pierce the featured box!
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Yea... Gonna have to put this on hiatus for my other, more serious work. Sorry.
Also someone downvoted this without even bothering to explain why
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Well, it's good to see you're not dead.
I... don't get any of this. Well, kinda, but not much.
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Which one? Ron Paul or REPACUSSIONS OF EVAL
Nice twist at the end there. I rate this Ron Paul out of 666 stars.
You are a bucking genius. I would like to state that I actually understood exactly what was going on by about a third of the way in (hold your applause)!
Long live Ron Paul!
And Jack Thompson, he'll save us from the evil of video games!
Oh, and that one reverend who said MLP was satanic. He'll protect us from all the evil, satanic children's shows that somehow got on to a nationally syndicated television channel!
I [LE]TERALLY CRIED TEARS OF BRAVERY AT THE END. MAY SAGAN BLESS ALL YOUR ENDEAVORS FROM HERE ON.i.minus.com/iQP2oSgKeX3uU.gif
"This is the worst my little pony fanfiction ever. BTW MLP sucks and Littlest Petshop owns!" -Mittler "Papa John" Romney, lead singer of Nickelback and CEO of EA Games.
oh god I can't stop cumming my computer is on fire hellllllllllllllllllllllp
my brain
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who are you and where did you brave teapots come from
Is Ron Paul Trump?