This story is a sequel to Weekly Disaster
Discord is back in town to see how his friends are doing. During his visit, he gets into an argument with Max the changeling over what constitutes a prank.
Discord is of the opinion that for a prank to be funny, everyone must see it. Therefore it must be loud and showy.
Max says some of the best pranks are only ever noticed by the one who set it up.
...Twilight Sparkle's day was ruined from the moment she slipped out of bed.
Commenter challenged me to throw out a story in which Twilight keeps tripping. This is the result of the idea. Turned out I found the topic funny and that made it pretty easy to write. Please note that this story is in no way connected to Twisted Fate. Max was the name I started with a while ago, I just made the bad decision to use the name again.
I like it. I think the premise worked out pretty well. It was funny without being too over-the-top, and wasn't so long that the joke got old. Just a nice, funny little slice of life.
We need more Max one-shots. Or a chaptered fic where he deals with ponykind, craziness and Twilight in general.
Snrk, tripping Twilight is funny.
Hah, I wonder if it's Chryssie's hive.
Actually this is the first time I heard this idiom.
To sum up my reaction to this sentence: laksdfkéjasirdgnadbnaidfűőjkjagr.
You know, this kinda made me wonder, next time you hit a snag, what if you just toss up a blog post asking for ideas like this? I'm pretty sure there would be a few that might start up those gears again. Some silly one shot could give you a bit of a respite from all of your longer stories, letting you let loose for a bit. (Or rest. That can work as well, albeit not as funny)
Short, sweet, and to the point. I liked the casual way that backstory elements were brought up, just enough to make the reader curious, but not so much that they took over. Could easily see this as a 5- or 10-minute segment woven into a slice of life MLP episode.
7164950 full saying would be "there's more than one way to skin a cat." I don't know where I frat heard it, but it was used in the movie The Rescuers: Down Under.
On an unrelated note, I've still not figured out how to display spoilers on mobile.
7164832 he tends to be my joke-type one shot changeling character.
7165932 Yeah, i googled it when I read it.
Also, under the spoiler, I just rolled my head on the keyboard.
As to how to show spoilers: tap on them? That works for me.
7167218 for some reason that doesn't work with my iPhone. kills me sometimes, when I cant read what people are saying under those.
Glad you ran with my idea!
I'm surprised you experienced no stumbling blocks with your muse this time.
Do you think this exercise has gotten you back on the ball?
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Highlight them, you'll be able to see 'em then.
7167656 tried it, still didn't work on the phone.
They don't like me.
YES! MAX IS BACK!!!
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Can we have more now?
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Well, from a quick Google search, these are the most commonly used methods to solve a phone problem:
1) Tap harder.
2) Slap the side of the phone a few times.
3) Stare at the phone until it works.
4) Yell at the phone.*
*Results inconclusive.
7167665 I've actually got one more idea for that, and it includes Max teaching Pinkie this song.
7167694 You sir are a cruel and vindictive person for posting that song.... Give it too Pinkie With a bow on top would you please?
Simple. Yet it makes so much sense.
Chapters dude. Love this character and story, but finding all the different ones is a bit of a pain. I only knew of the first one until I found this. To my joy there was more. Love it
7470407 The story is kind of a "what if?" situation. If I come up with any good things to do with this Max, I add more, but otherwise they're too broken and sporadic to be an actual story.
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Clunkiest way: copy the spoilers and paste them elsewhere, URL bar, notepad, etc.
Also, interesting to see the evolution of the Max the changeling concept.
(1) I believe the word is than.
Have you ever heard of the firefighters dance? It's a prank my friends and I used to play on other students who fell asleep during class.
Just apply some drops of hot sauce (Tabasco for example) on their lips and watch as they get swollen and they start screaming
Sometimes pranks don't have to be elaborate in order to be good...
These fics are just incapable of being bad, aren't they?