Equestria is suffering a dire problem. You are part of that solution, even if you aren't entirely aware of it. No, we don't need a dragon slayer or something like that. We're sure you can handle this just as you are.
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1, 4, 7
1,3,7
Well, I just gave Trixie a bath, but giving her another, proper onewould only be fair. So, #1, definitely.
Honestly, I'm kind of open to being a stallion for Trixie, BUT! I want to know how that might affect my magi-physical self in terms of breeding and whatnot. We're already so concerned over making me last as long as possible, and I don't think we should stop. So... #8 as well.
Oh, and yes, I haven't forgotten #7. Very important, that.
EDIT: I keep mulling over this idea that Celestia tied ponies so close to fate - a fate that cares little one way or another for the survival of its subjects - that ponies are literally going to go extinct for following their fate. How can fate allow something like this? It seems self-defeating to let your agents die out - like there should be some failsafe so that there will always be agents of fate.
Then it hit me; maybe Celestia tied ponies too closely to their individual fates! This turned every pony into an island. What does anyone's individual fate care about the fates of others? It's likely indifferent.
Perhaps a better solution would have been to tie ponies to the fate of pony-kind as a whole. Then, if population gets too low, more breeding cutie marks start showing up. If it gets too high (for a relative rating of "too high") then breeding cutie marks become less common. Though really, in such a situation, I would expect things to reach an equilibrium until an outside force pushes the fate of pony-kind to adjust to compensate.
7,1,4. While recuperation will likely resume at better speed (we dare you to compare it to exercising a muscle! ), we still need those answers. Also, giving baths is a good way to relax...
Keep going! ;)
1, 4, 7
Trixie certainly deserves some pampering right now, and once she's comfortable with a human we should set about servicing her. But changing into a pony for her just doesn't feel right.
As a small request, can you move the prior chapter's results to the top?
This is mostly personal preference, but that little summary of the results you give would make a great lead in for the chapter.
7757486 I've had folks complain that it's spoilers, and I can't separate out the next vote easily then. Complications!
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Separating out the next vote is easy, just make that the AN and the summary part of the chapter proper.
As for the spoilers... well, can please them all. (Though it seems your making a good try!) I suppose just do what you feel is best.
i vote # 3
it be cool to see how that works out
Add #8 to my vote, didn't notice it there, and that's important too!
8, 7, 1
4,5,7,8
in order I vote 7 1
Due to current location, association and variable temporal duration of chapters.
8, 7
We need more information as to procreation being more like muscle use in weight lifting than marathon, which governs response and recovery rate.
What happened to these other cutie marks mentioned that were associated with it? Maybe each village will end up needing a spa and bordello to keep fertility up?
I'm noticing that the voting options are becoming more and more complementary. It seems that various options, which formerly could be chosen either in isolation or as a group, since the subsequent chapter would try to portray itself according to the vote totals for all options, rather than aligning solely with whichever options had the most votes, now presume that such decisions will be made in clusters of options. To that end, it's become such that several of the choices given now explicitly rely on previous choices (e.g. Option #2 presumes that the bath from Option #1 is going to happen).
I feel like this reduces the range of options that are available, while disguising it to make it look like there's more choices than there actually are. Given that future chapters, like previous ones, are going to be a blend of whatever options receive the most choices, "pre-bundling" those choices together makes them more likely to be chosen (since picking one of them tends to encourage taking the remainder of that set, increasing the overall chances of those options being picked), and so in turn make the actual decisions made less relevant. At this point it seems like a foregone conclusion that there's going to be a bath scene with Trixie wherein you fuck her. While there are still a few decisions to be made (e.g. if you temporarily take on a pony form or not), there seems to be less than eight actual choices available; the only real alternative seems like you ignore bath-sex in favor of more magical research.
To that end, I'm choosing only option #2 in protest.
8, 1, 5
7757603 So you vote to breed her no matter where you happen to be. Got it.
I'm not sure how this is a protest, or mucks anything up.
So, about that chapter?
7757626 I'm voting for a single option, rather than several of them, because I don't care for how the various choices are beginning to complement each other, even if that is an understandable effect of having the results be applied to future chapters in their totality, rather than just the wining vote.
7757635 Still not following you, but I did rephrase the options. Does that help?
1 and 3 at the same time.
7757638 That does seem nicer, yes.
7757667 Great. So, about the chapter?
8, 7, 1. Getting better, knowledge, bath. Trixie can stay covered a little bit, she's even more beautiful when covered with our seed.
1, 2, 3
8, then 5, 6 before coming back to 3, 1, 2.
The breakdown of my choices: We're still being careful about our capacity in the effort to avoid damage, so doing the full deed with Trixie needs to wait until the end of the day. At the end of the day, we could also acquiesce to her desire to have a full stallion, though only temporary for the act. Trixie has been helpful and, underneath the ego, kind and vulnerable. Knowing a full body change will only be temporary, it can help us decide how we feel about it in turn for the future. For now, Trixie will just have to clean her face on her own and have a very intimate private bath for two that she can look forward to all day.
In the meantime while waiting for an idea of recovery rate from Careful's studying (heh), there is still plenty of work to do on learning magic and the possibility of making use of a wand to prevent 'messy' spellwork. As more understanding of magic comes in over time, we can do more work with the cutie mark issues. For now, that's just too big to do more than touch on a little at a time. A foundation of magic knowledge will make it much easier.
Beyond that, it feels like you gave a few too many flowing options that sound like they belong together in the next chapter or two. Almost like it's more specifically leading than open-ended as some of the options have been previously. This is neither good or bad to me, merely being an observation from my perspective.
Okay. I have to ask. You didn't have your ring on. Therefore, that was 'live ammunition'. One, isn't that going to lower the time of your usefulness? And two, I know at least one of the princesses are going to find out about this. So, how pissed and/or disappointed are they going to be?
My brain says more research but another part says 1 and 3. I want to know is what it's like going pony, even if it's just for a while.
7757677 Reading it over, I have mixed thoughts on most of it. There's a lot to like here, but some of the foundations that go into why things are going the way they are struck me as odd.
Trixie, for instance, seemed to come across as insecure here. That doesn't seem to be who she is, to my mind. While one could put forth the idea that she's ultimately insecure as a plausible motivation for her initial bout of lying about her accomplishments (e.g. defeating an Ursa Major), and that episode by itself does seem to lean in that direction, subsequent portrayals don't seem to support that idea. Trixie, as her recent appearances suggest, wants the limelight simply because she loves it, rather than having it fill some deep-seated lack of confidence in herself. She was bold enough to apologize to Twilight on her own, without prompting, at the end of her second appearance, which suggest that she's grown out of her need for external affirmation by then (and, hence, she hasn't been a villain since then when she's appeared in the show).
On the other hoof, I like the idea of Starlight as being the doomsayer, trying to get everyone to throw away their most valued possession (e.g. their cutie mark) who ultimately turns out to be correct in doing so. That's a kind of delightful irony, though it'd be more delightful if we got to make that particular journey of discovery with her, rather than seeing her already having come to that realization when she makes her appearance. It would have been a lot of fun to be right there with her when she gets hit with the realization that her anti-cutie mark stance was right all along, even if she was going at it for the completely wrong reasons.
That said, I shook my head at that guard giving her shit over using magic for everything. That's entirely the wrong tact to take, to my mind. Blaming specialists for specializing is wrong-headed, because they serve a valuable function, that being that they can do something better than a generalist can. The trade-off is that a generalist can function in situations where a specialist can't due to something negating their specialty. Both have their pros and cons (though it's generally considered optimal to put together a team of specialists that covers all applicable areas when facing a difficult task), and castigating one for not being more like the other is narrow-minded. The irony here is redoubled since that guard pointed out that Starlight had recently faced some issues where she couldn't use magic as a reason for her to engage in non-magical training; I say that's ironic because even in that situation Starlight was able to pull off a victory, even without that training. She should have pointed that out and put that guard in his place.
Turning back to Trixie, she ended up being kinkier than I'd have given her credit for, since she sucked you off in full-view of the other three. I'm not that surprised, since Trixie isn't the sort to back off when she's confronted by something - unless she thinks it's impossible or completely beyond her ability to deal with - but other than that the scene felt oddly asexual to me. While it does make sense that a bunch of eggheads would be more interested in the science of it all, this feels like a missed opportunity to have a room full of mares start to get horny by seeing a sex-show right in front of them. Why wasn't Careful getting turned on watching another mare go down on you and imagining it was her? Why wasn't Moon Dancer caught watching you and Trixie a little too closely? Why wasn't Starlight getting wet and trying to hide it? This should have had "potential orgy" written all over it.
It was helpful that this showed that you're losing less potency than other studs, and perhaps even on the verge of not losing it at all when you copulate, but this scene felt a lot like what I was talking about with the plot overshadowing the sex. The fact that the other three were so uninterested in the erotic aspect of what happened feels like a miss.
And by the by, it's a bit gauche to press me for my thoughts on your chapter when you haven't commented on any of my own in quite some time.
7757737 If the goal was to shame me, mission success.
I am not a reviewer. I never claimed to be, and I'm pretty bad at it. Most movies I review with a 'I like it' or 'I didn't like it' unless some particular part leaps out at me and sticks in my craw, but that's rare. Were I more a reviewer, I'd volunteer for one of the many swamped reviewing groups on this site. Unfortunately, my talent lies more with disgorging an unending stream of content.
I nudged you because you read my unusually long chapter and... chastised me on the author's notes, as if the rest really hadn't happened at all without even a passing grunt of approval. That and you do analyze things and have before.
I will refrain from nudging in the future.
Apologies.
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Damn it, David, my goal wasn't to shame you - if anything, I want to apologize for having caused you to feel that way - but rather was to encourage you to give me some of the same feedback that I give you. Obviously that's not going to be precisely the same, since I know you don't write the same voluminous reviews I do, but anything is better than nothing.
My goal, in other words, was to encourage altruistic reciprocity. If I came across as too heavy-handed in it, then please know that that wasn't my intent.
7 and 1
7757803 I'll try :) I need to catch up first. Why do I write so much more than I read?!
Back to your thoughts, Starlight is in a place of physical training. If she wants to just use magic... she doesn't really need to be there. She chose to come along, she gets to sweat with everypony else, or leave. Considering their unease with her, that wasn't that big a thing to ask, and they were reasonable when she showed she wasn't as adept at physical tasks and didn't poke fun at her.
1 and 8 are good options right now.
8, 1 and 5
I'm gonna copy Scrambled Crackers here.
8, then 5, 6 before coming back to 3, 1, 2.
2
7758039 No preference for as-horse or as-human?
moved that hoof - moved her hoof
explained Celestia - explained that Celestia
brush of them against - brush
of themagainstyou couldn't climax. - you couldn't
climax.slipped those calipers - slipped the calipers
8, 7, 5-6
Probably best to recover back to 100% before we breed again. It is yet to be determined if that will be Starlight or Trixie, despite Trixie's apparent eagerness. The target for this round is supposed to be Starlight, after all.
While we're doing that a little more info on cutie marks can't hurt. If the Princesses object I'm sure they will not hesitate to intervene.
Our magic control has advanced
buby leaps and bounds, especially given that we never put the inhibitor ring back on. Did we do that off-screen? In any case are we ready to learn more; how about those wands/fake horns? These seem so closely related they may as well be the same choice.It's a relief to see that Starlight isn't fixated on any one particular solution. She is being pragmatic and will go with anything that solves the challenge. We can work with pragmatism, as opposed to ideology. It remains to be seen if the Princesses are pragmatists or ideologues. I really hope it's the former and not the latter, especially for Princess Celestia.
Barring all of this, bath time with the Rousing and Amorous Trixie sounds like a fine idea as long as the lustful play is kept in check until we can come to an accord as to how and when.
Trixie... is certainly more passionate than I'd have expected -- even in a story where one of the goals is to breed all the little ponies that we can, safety permitting. It certainly warms us to the prospect of giving her the foal she desires, although it would be best if we learn more about her motivations and perhaps why the Princesses are opposed before we defy their wishes. Even so, it was a very pleasant surprise.
7758044 As human.
Question, did they have us wearing the magic restrictor for practice? It wasnt clear if we were wearing it.
Hmmm, after considering things 8, lets wait and see what our body needs. It seems that we are able to recover fairly well and it might be time to work our real magic. If we werent wearing the restrictor then its a sign that we have mastered control. If we were wearing it then maybe we should work to get to the point that we dont need it... perhaps number 6.
7758156 Typos thrown in the swimming pool. It seems Trixie has taken a shine to your big, virile, equine apparatus. Now is she busy pretending its attached to an equally impressive pony?
1 & 8 he still must recover first.
8
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7757710 I was going to bring it up next chapter, but the fact that you weren't wearing it is why Trixie was hosed down quite so thoroughly, but the fact that you held back is all the more a triumph.
3
Assuming pony-tf is a temporary affair, we may as well give the mare what she wants. Trying out a different body has a lot of benefits for us, too – a direct comparison to how real unicorn horn magic in contrast to what we've been messing with would be fascinating. Though a part of me wants to end up as a different tribe just to mess with Trixie, and if we go down that route it raises questions of whether our lower wand still counts – are there any native Earth Pony/Pegasi dudes that have experimented with this theory before?
Also, it's not every day you get to experience sex as another species, so we may as well take advantage of the opportunity at some point. (Okay, it probably is going to be every day from this point, but shut up.)
I've got some vague opinions on some of the other options – I'm worried about passing over investigating wands in case that never comes up again – but the species vote seems too contested to split my attention.
Uh, other topics: Starlight's totally right about everything forever, and that makes me want to defend her from the accusations of being an anti-authoritarian psycho... but the reason I agree with her is because I'm also that.
(deleted and reposted because it ended up on the wrong chapter somehow)
8 and we know from the show that cutie marks predate the casting of the spell as we see the princesses in discord flash back about 1000+ years ago having cutie marks but the spell is only 500 or so years old. If this is not the case we should talk to celestia and see if we can establish a coralation between cutie marks and the spell casting if not causation
#3,2,1. Then see if turning ponies into humans will make them have better fertility. Think about it if they're humans without cutie marks then they should be plenty fertile.
7,6,2
I remember some mention of the distance between the reservoir and focus being the real issue, but what if the focus was especially open to magic? It could draw magic in like how water flows downstream.
Should also ask what other possible causes it could be, if not Cutie Marks.
Finally, breed trixie because, well the list isn't getting any shorter.
8
4.7.8