I could never tell if their interest was genuine, or if they merely wanted me for my position.
I understand that indecision so very well. Surrounded by those who don't seem to be interested at all, you find someone who appears to be. And you get rebuffed. So you look for someone who's more obviously interested, but on finding them, you also discover why they can't possibly be. So if the mildly interested aren't actually, and the certainly interested definitely aren't, what options does that leave you with?
I must admit, seeing others succeed where I failed – most notably Cadance and Shining Armor – has made me wonder if I made the right choice.
Preach it, sister. I question it every day.
This is why The 40 Year Old Virgin was such a conflicting movie to watch.
Celestia needs to get herself some prehensile tentacles. No deception. No pain. Nothing but sexual relief at her leisure. Doubt there'd be romance, but who knows what sort of chemistry such a pairing might entail?
I politely call bullshit on the premise alone. She ruled alone for 1,000 years, supposively aided in establishing Equestria, kept her country safe throughso many things... and sex is where she gets tripped up?
Forced humorous situation with zero grounding reality. Even though we're talking about magical, talking ponies and all, yeah. This is not really believable. Sorry.
8173976 I was about to say that it's not cheating if he's aware of and agrees to it. And then immediately remembered that we were not presented with any evidence that this is the case.
If we're going to be totally honest, this fact does perhaps raise a rather interesting question: If she really is opposed to "limiting" herself in the way she outlined, then why did she get married in the first place?
All things considered, it's gotta be one hell of a reason.
The literal reason: because canon. Fanfics that ignore this are considered Alternate Universe, and thus (if they don't want to be AU) have to go around this. Also needed a reason for a race of love-absorbing creatures to invade Canterlot for Season 2's finale.
The in-story reason: Cadence probably doesn't want to have foals (i.e. Flurry Heart) with anypony except Shining Armor, so she married the one stallion she's fine with impregnating her. Otherwise, she enjoys a free sex life, and I doubt Cadence would've married Shining if he wasn't okay with that.
8174646 Oh I agree, and that's the only reason I made the comment.
We aren't presented with that evidence that he's ok with it. I don't think jumping to a conclusion and saying that he's ok with it for the sake of the story is a good idea.
Also, her excuse is bullshit.
Both Princess Twilight and Princess Luna burst into laughter. Princess Cadance took a deep swig of pricey bourbon, then leaned in conspiratorially toward Princess Celestia. “Puh-leas. Prince Dopey is nice and all, but I'm the Princess of Love! You can't expect me to limit myself to just one cock in my life – that would be a breach of, of...” She took another gulp. “Of my royal duties ... or something.”
That type of sex isn't about love, I would think the Princess of Love would know this.
All in all, slutty Cadance ruins the story for me. Had there been an explanation along the lines of, "we talked about this, we agreed to an Open Marriage" I'd accept it.
8175044 Another thing I'd like to add on to that is that Cadance is basically insulting Shining Armor right in front of Twilight and Twilight doesn't care. What, is this some AU where Twilight doesn't know the meaning of family love and loyalty?
I get that this is supposed to be a light-hearted fun fanfic, but its neither light nor fun when the cast are acting like corrupted facsimile's of their canon selves.
8174787 I am over 40 years old. I hate stories where established couple are either unfaithful, unless it is established in the story that it is an open marriage, or are broken up for one reason or another. If the stories stated this is the case in the description, I stay away from it. If it shows up in a chapter of a story I am reading, and I am warned, I skip the chapter. If I am just hit in the face with it, I usually downvote the story.
She didn't call her on the insult, and also outright laughed at Celestia's reaction/comment when Cadance stated she had sex with the masseuse.
Celestia's reaction actually hints at:
a) Marital Fidelity is expected b) Cheating is frowned upon
Then Twilight subsequently hinted at the veiled incestuous relationship that she wants with Shining Armor.
It was all very confusing/infuriating, and overall detracts from the story as a whole.
This would have easily been averted had the author not used the quoted paragraph, and just had Cadance say something like, "Oh relax auntie! Shining and I have an open relationship; he loves the mares, I love the stallions." Of course more comedically written.
The way it is right now gets a lot of hatred down-votes.
8175008 ...I guess? I don't know much about marriages, really; heck, never had a single girlfriend (never been interested in one, and am not an overly-social person; romance stories and Rule34.xxx are enough for me, for now). I just tried to view the 'logic' behind the decision, and then describe the 'logic'.
8175240 It's not really an open marriage, since that requires agreement on the part of all married parties.
As it's written, it implies that it's not an open marriage; as Bytestorm points out, it doesn't seem like "Prince Dopey" is similarly engaging in the "open" part," or for that matter is even aware that there is an open part.
“Of course. You can make your own life choices, and the rest of us have no right to criticize you for that.”
Again, there's the Twilight I know and love!
It's a complete 180°, this. I must ask, just how much pent-up frustration would lead to Twilight – that modest, sometimes awkward Twilight – to be so casual about sexuality?
10084214 Well, you'd think that she'd get around to it at some point, right?
It doesn't specifically say when this is happening, so it might be a few decades into the future. Twilight may be awkward (aren't we all?), but she has loads and loads of time to figure it all out, and certain friends to help her along the way... ;]
wow she just has no luck........
Damn...talk about bad luck.
Here's an upvote take care of it...
I understand that indecision so very well. Surrounded by those who don't seem to be interested at all, you find someone who appears to be. And you get rebuffed. So you look for someone who's more obviously interested, but on finding them, you also discover why they can't possibly be. So if the mildly interested aren't actually, and the certainly interested definitely aren't, what options does that leave you with?
Preach it, sister. I question it every day.
This is why The 40 Year Old Virgin was such a conflicting movie to watch.
Damn...
But yeah, I like this story. Twily, Cady, and Lulu better be careful.
They go too far, and we'll have Molestia on our hooves...
She's cheating on her husband every chance she gets; how is that any way a success?
Celestia needs to get herself some prehensile tentacles. No deception. No pain. Nothing but sexual relief at her leisure. Doubt there'd be romance, but who knows what sort of chemistry such a pairing might entail?
I politely call bullshit on the premise alone. She ruled alone for 1,000 years, supposively aided in establishing Equestria, kept her country safe throughso many things... and sex is where she gets tripped up?
Forced humorous situation with zero grounding reality. Even though we're talking about magical, talking ponies and all, yeah. This is not really believable. Sorry.
8173991 To me, that sounds just crack-filled enough to be plausible.
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I was about to say that it's not cheating if he's aware of and agrees to it. And then immediately remembered that we were not presented with any evidence that this is the case.
If we're going to be totally honest, this fact does perhaps raise a rather interesting question: If she really is opposed to "limiting" herself in the way she outlined, then why did she get married in the first place?
All things considered, it's gotta be one hell of a reason.
8174646 Why did Cadence get married?
The literal reason: because canon. Fanfics that ignore this are considered Alternate Universe, and thus (if they don't want to be AU) have to go around this. Also needed a reason for a race of love-absorbing creatures to invade Canterlot for Season 2's finale.
The in-story reason: Cadence probably doesn't want to have foals (i.e. Flurry Heart) with anypony except Shining Armor, so she married the one stallion she's fine with impregnating her.
Otherwise, she enjoys a free sex life, and I doubt Cadence would've married Shining if he wasn't okay with that.
Wait, this is now rated M !
8174669 So essentially an open marriage.
8174646 Oh I agree, and that's the only reason I made the comment.
We aren't presented with that evidence that he's ok with it. I don't think jumping to a conclusion and saying that he's ok with it for the sake of the story is a good idea.
Also, her excuse is bullshit.
That type of sex isn't about love, I would think the Princess of Love would know this.
All in all, slutty Cadance ruins the story for me. Had there been an explanation along the lines of, "we talked about this, we agreed to an Open Marriage" I'd accept it.
8175044 Another thing I'd like to add on to that is that Cadance is basically insulting Shining Armor right in front of Twilight and Twilight doesn't care. What, is this some AU where Twilight doesn't know the meaning of family love and loyalty?
I get that this is supposed to be a light-hearted fun fanfic, but its neither light nor fun when the cast are acting like corrupted facsimile's of their canon selves.
8174926 Since up-votes and down-votes are purely opinion, no it isn't a misuse or wrong in any way.
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8175123 Thank you for putting into words that I could not.
8174787 I am over 40 years old. I hate stories where established couple are either unfaithful, unless it is established in the story that it is an open marriage, or are broken up for one reason or another. If the stories stated this is the case in the description, I stay away from it. If it shows up in a chapter of a story I am reading, and I am warned, I skip the chapter. If I am just hit in the face with it, I usually downvote the story.
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At least Twilight called her on this, I guess?
8175176 Not really.
She didn't call her on the insult, and also outright laughed at Celestia's reaction/comment when Cadance stated she had sex with the masseuse.
Celestia's reaction actually hints at:
a) Marital Fidelity is expected
b) Cheating is frowned upon
Then Twilight subsequently hinted at the veiled incestuous relationship that she wants with Shining Armor.
It was all very confusing/infuriating, and overall detracts from the story as a whole.
This would have easily been averted had the author not used the quoted paragraph, and just had Cadance say something like, "Oh relax auntie! Shining and I have an open relationship; he loves the mares, I love the stallions." Of course more comedically written.
The way it is right now gets a lot of hatred down-votes.
8175008 ...I guess?
I don't know much about marriages, really; heck, never had a single girlfriend (never been interested in one, and am not an overly-social person; romance stories and Rule34.xxx are enough for me, for now).
I just tried to view the 'logic' behind the decision, and then describe the 'logic'.
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It's not really an open marriage, since that requires agreement on the part of all married parties.
As it's written, it implies that it's not an open marriage; as Bytestorm points out, it doesn't seem like "Prince Dopey" is similarly engaging in the "open" part," or for that matter is even aware that there is an open part.
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I'm, probably, nitpicking a bit, but claiming that it has never happened for thousands of years is a pretty high burden of improbability.
This chapter was surprisingly feels heavy.
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Are you surprised, though? ^.^
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^.^ I will cherish this.
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In retrospect, it's a weird movie.
I've watched it way too many times, preparing to write this story.
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And then all their plans would backfire as Celestia takes all the available stallions in the land...
8173976
Um... Cadance is happy?
8173991
Um, that would be a very different sort of story, now wouldn't it?
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Eh, so it goes.
Still fun though, I think.
8174646
Probably because she got pregnant. ^.^
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That's a much better explanation than mine!
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Yeah, I guess so. But I'm leaving that so nobody will think it's a clopfic and be disappointed.
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There are a lot of improbable things in this story, actually...
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Yeah, some will. There might even be some feels...
I really liked this chapter. Twilight made sure to assure her and tell her that it is okay and her choice.
while the premise is a tad out there... I like this and sofar the story is entertaining. Take an up-vote.
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Heh, yeah. Hopefully I'll find time to finish it soon.
So, how much of that did she tell her nephew, and did it traumatize him enough to be a douche to girls who are interested in him to drive them away?
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Quite possibly... Although I don't think she'd be likely to share such secrets with him.
Again, there's the Twilight I know and love!
It's a complete 180°, this. I must ask, just how much pent-up frustration would lead to Twilight – that modest, sometimes awkward Twilight – to be so casual about sexuality?
Gender-bending spells. Twilight is a prodigy, and who else to 'have fun with' than those you know already respect and love you for you? ;-]
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Well, you'd think that she'd get around to it at some point, right?
It doesn't specifically say when this is happening, so it might be a few decades into the future. Twilight may be awkward (aren't we all?), but she has loads and loads of time to figure it all out, and certain friends to help her along the way... ;]
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But there are plenty of those stories on Fimfic already!
And a good many of them are written by my evil twin!