Being against evil doesn't make you good.
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Mootilda is a cannulated cow: she has undergone a medical procedure to allow direct access to her first stomach, for the purpose of collecting rumen. Twilight Sparkle is fascinated by the idea, and asks Applejack to introduce her.
Twilight is about to learn that cattle see life from a different point of view.
Written for The Writeoff Association's "Illusion of Choice" contest.
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I feel like I missed something...
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Roughly speaking, the message is that Mootilda comes from an alien culture that doesn't value individuality in the same way as ponies. Nothing much deeper than that.
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Or...they are all facets of the same hivemind! Bwahahahaha....
6648062 *Fingers* poking through from *Outside*...
Really interesting story, TQ! I dunno how you think of these things.
6647983 Ok, that made sense. I thought it might be something more like what 6648062 said, but there didn't seem to be any hints towards that.
The story ended there because Twilight promptly had an aneurysm.
This actually put me in mind of Fate/ Stay Night. Specifically, Kiritsugu's belief.
For ten to prosper, one must suffer. Or in his words, for ten to live, one must die.
A very intriguing point of view into the symbiotic relationship between cows and ponies.
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In this case I saw a Youtube video with a cannulated cow's cannula being demonstrated. It was remarkable that the cow didn't seem to mind the thing at all, and then I knew I had to write this story.
Interesting...
cannulated cows...first time hearing about this, and it ain't right...
Who knows what kind of medical problems can come from this: I mean, they have a freakin door to their stomachs on the side of their bodies! Who knows what could crawl in and do major damage from the inside out!
Well damn...
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It seems pretty awful, but what I've read suggests their lifespan is normal and complications are very rare. This is primarily because rumen from the first stomach is filled with probiotic (symbiotic bacteria) that protect the cow from any sort of infection. A cannula to any other location in the cow would be dangerous.
Further information: http://thelantern.com/2003/12/a-window-to-the-world-of-a-cows-stomach/
Most of the article focuses on research, which glosses over the paragraph most relevant to this story( which covers a likely separate group of cattle):
Cows are changelings confirmed.
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Because they're holey?
Hm. I had to read the comments to figure out happened in the end. And now I know. I feel like I've read this story before but I didn't leave a like before so I don't think I did read it. So I will leave a like. This was pretty good too! I think this is the second story of yours I've read today.
Excelent fic, and, headcannon tottally incorporated. I always thought it was a little akward that ponies had sentient cattle, this just fits perfectly. I just loved the idea.
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Interesting!
Well this is terrifying and realistic.
This was creepy.
As a bit of a linguistics nerd, I could give a lecture on how the words for cattle developed through the transition from Early to Middle English to lose the gender neutral singular, but that would be missing the point entirely, I know. Still want to, though.
This is my favorite of your stories.
Reminds me of my own Muselpferde, but coming from the opposite direction.
Thoroughly spooky.
I didn't find it creepy or spooky. Well, when applied to real-life cows, yeah. But in this setting I just found it interesting and fascinating.
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*Cackle.* That's great!! I love this!
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Just to be sure, the thing that caused my brain to suddenly grind to a stop, they're all a hivemind is what's implied?
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Nope, nothing about hivemind was intended. But different people get different things from a story.
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Ah, okay, I understand now! Helps that I'm better rested, lol
Fuller review here, but in brief: a thought-provoking look at a side of farming we won't be seeing in the show. I liked it.
Heeeeey, I made a podfic/dramatic reading of this! https://studio.youtube.com/video/H27baS0Twp8/edit
I feel like this stopped about a page early, but I still got what you were going for. :)
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PresentPerfect reviewed this story over here.
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I did? :O
You can has review!