The Diamond Cutter Anthology is a collection of prompt-based Diamond Tiara stories organized by the Diamond Cutters group. These are my entries for those prompts.
Brief descriptions for each story:
The CMC Cheer Up Diamond Tiara - SoL - As the title says.
Attitude - SoL - DT and Silver Spoon have both moved to Canterlot, and who should they run into at their new school but Babs Seed.
Spies Like Us - SoL - Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are spies, on a way to a meeting with their superior.
Bird-thing - SoL - Diamond Tiara is having some pet issues.
Somewhere - SoL - Diamond Tiara sets off to find her mother (Pre-season 5).
The Silo - SoL - With silos all the craze in Ponyville, Apple Bloom is off gathering wood from a spooky, abandoned mill.
A Good Pony - SoL, Dark - Diamond Tiara is off to meet her fiance, Sombra, the conqueror of Equestria.
Applesat - SoL - Applejack, recently returned from Manehattan, babysits a young Diamond Tiara.
The Badass Crossover of Badassitude - Adventure, Crossover (Borderlands) - Diamond Tiara and Mr. Torgue save Equestria
Daring Di and the Dastardly Duo - Comedy - DT, Silver Spoon, and Alula play.
Just One Kiss - Comedy - Pinkie convinces Diamond Tiara that she has to be kissed by Rainbow Dash.
Little Orphan Tiara - Comedy/Random - The Ponyville orphanage is closing down, and every orphan must go.
Pool Party - Comedy - DT and Sil are bored, so decide to host a pool party.
Popular - SoL - Spoiled Rich tells her daughter what is most important in life.
28 Cases of Cookies Later - SoL - Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon are assigned a very important mission.
Optimistic young DT is a cutie, kinda reflect the cover art.
Too bad in the show she never got popular, with ponies and bronies.
6943387 She's come a long way though.
I remember when I first started writing her, it wasn't uncommon for people to bash you just for saying you like her or else be genuinely curious as to how you could be a fan. If she was used in a story, she was typically extremely one dimensional, existing only to be hated. Slowly, that changed, as more people began to do more with her, developing other dimensions. And now that she's had a canon redemption, well, the sky is the limit. So give her time and a few more musical numbers
6943519 Five years dude, we have her enough time.
We all know that with her redemption, she lost all of her purpose in the show, so I don't think she will have a significant role again. I'm worried for the future of my bratty filly. At least, we still have fanart and fiction for a quick fix.
6943569 That's why she needs more musical numbers!
But yeah, what her future will be now is why I'd always hoped her redemption would come in the show's last season. But that said, even redeemed, there's still a lot the writers can do with her. She should still be Diamond, after all, if not as mean as she used to be, and the show has more than a few episodes centered around conflict between friends. And as a friend, it makes more sense to have her hanging with the CMC, meaning potentially more screen time. Plus Silver Spoon is pretty much completely unexplored. We don't know what her cutie mark actually means, what her homelife is like, etc. So I think there is a lot the writers can do with DT. The question will be if they do. Hopefully, the knowledge that there are fans of DT and Spoon will inspire them to do so.
And in the meantime, as you said, we've got the fan-works.
Shipping Dash and Tiara, what king of madness is this ? We are lucky that this story didn't end in tears, blood, town destruction and pillow talk.
Yeah, how someone can believe something this crazy ?
Thanks for making me want something I can't have.
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I feel your pain. I always want more DT as well.
It could also be an episode.
I think of the Earth Ponies in this fic as like black people in the USA, often distrusted and looked down on or even hated.
6990379 The original plan for the fic involved DT, Spoon, and Babs forming a rap group, one similar to NWA. So that's why a lot of the parallels exist. The rap aspect got dropped, but the central theme of standing up for yourself still draws heavily on NWA's name... the fillies are earth ponies with attitude.
Heh. *giggles*
That was really cute, loved seeing the three fillies playing Daring Do and their posh contract, reminds me a bit of the time in Powerpuff Girls when Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup couldn't decide who'd be who in their game (And the Amazing Father Professor Utoniom ended up playing as Bubbles briefly).
But Mudpony, please tell me..WHAT was the Pretty Pony Princess Play set incident? As an avid reader, I'm DYING to know!!!
Good prompt but....
Listen. I ship like a package, though I'm destined to die alone. I ship two boys or two girls if they so much as look at each other. I ship a fifteen-year-old girl with a twelve-year-old boy even though everyone else thinks it's kinda gross. I mean, occasionally, I ship people who are related to one another, if they fit the shipping shoe.
But, um...Diamond Tiara is somewhere between 8-12, you realize.
And Dashie is, canonimically, twenty-one.
As a fangirl, I hereby declare this ship...DENIED!!!
8002395 To be honest, I have no idea what the Pretty Pony Princess Playset incident was, either, but I'm sure it was pretty spectacular.
8003405 As far as I know, Dash has no canon age. I believe the only characters that do are the three babies and Gummy. And yup, I deny the ship as well, hence why Diamond doesn't want it, Dash is running like mad to get away from it, and Pinkie stops it just before it goes too far. But as mentioned in the author's note, back then, Dash got shipped with everything, so that's what I messing with.