Hee hee, my upvote pushed you into 7 to 3, meaning I cast the crucial vote to make the ratio visible!

He turned back and looked her straight in the eye. “Dash, we just stopped fighting about Daring Do. We just decided that it’s cool and we’re friends. I don’t want to talk about it if this is going to end in ‘eewww, Quibble, that’s disgusting.’ I saw how you were acting with the ropes and the chains, and I thought, ‘hey, maybe this is something else we have in common, aside from Daring Do.’ Obviously, I blew it, so let’s drop it. Forget I said anything. Come on, let’s get out of here. I have a fanfic reading I’m supposed to go to.”

He trotted away before Dash had a chance to do anything. She could hear his monologue fading into the distance: “…of course, Farrier’s Law, almost all of it is going to be horrible, but I think some scathing but honest criticism is just what some writers need to…”

She took off, jetted past, and swooped in front of him in a matter of seconds, landing and blocking his path with her wings. “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” she said, cutting him off. “I never said anything about anything being disgusting or not being your friend. Some of my friends build shrines to other ponies, have things for furless bipeds, and give massages to bears. On the weirdness scale,” she said, ruffling her feathers and folding her wings up, “I’d say you’re right in the middle. I just never heard of this before. And that was kinda fun back there. And—well, anyway, I still want us to be friends.”

This exchange is seriously good both in terms of Quibble's display of emotional vulnerability -- it's obvious that he not merely finds Dashie attractive but also likes and respects her and wants her to like and respect him and is afraid that if he reveals he's into bondage she will think he's disgusting; also that Dashie does like and respect him, and aside from having enjoyed their brief experiment, is accepting of harmless eccentricity.

Which is totally in Dashie's character. One thing I like about this so far is that you've nailed both their characters perfectly, including the things about Rainbow Dash that make me love her. Under all the bluster and braggadocio, she's a very good Pony, kind and protective and caring toward others. And of course a Pony whose friends include Rarity, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy has to accept eccentricity in her friends.

It was cool with her, because he wasn’t trying to be the best at something she was best at, so she didn’t have to destroy him.

Have a giggle.

"I’m, like, the winningest pony in Equestria.”

Cloudchaser might have something to say about that.

Sold on the idea within the first chapter.

Noice.

~Skeeter The Lurker

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Applejack was stronger than her, though she hated to admit that.

Rainbowdash beat her in a contest of raw strength (hoofwrestling)

7475636 - Rainbow also caught the roof of Ponyville town hall as it was falling, on one hoof, and brought it to the ground. That takes some serious strength to accomplish. Then again...cartoon physics.

Daw....

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What makes you think that? Cloud chaser is just a background Pony who isn't explored much in terms of personality, so we really don't know what she would think.

He shrugged. “I’m big-boned and I have a sedentary job. That’s irrelevant. Don’t change the subject.”

As ICR Who pointed out to Cartman on South Park "You don't have bones in your ass.".