Silverware is typically only used by unicorns. By the time any other pony managed to manipulate it properly with their hooves they likely would have made a mess of their food, and if they used it with their mouths they couldn't very well eat the food on the utensil.
So when the Cutie Mark Crusaders start discussing amongst themselves the meanings of their classmates cutie marks they come to a puzzle in Silver Spoon.
What is an earth pony doing with a cutie mark of something she can't effectively use?
Edit: Featured on January 4th 2018! I shouted with joy.
Thanks for Alias_the_J and Cosmic Eclipse for edits.
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Love this take on Silver Spoon, and like the fact that it doesn't actually say in the end that is what her cutie mark means. It is implied but we still have to see if it works out for her.
I really enjoyed this! Quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes, though!
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Will have another look through. Wrote this all mostly in one sitting on a phone.
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Haha, I get get that too! Inspiration can strike at awkward times!
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I am glad you liked it. I don't think the CMC always have to solve the problem of a cutie mark to actually do what they do. Ultimately it is up to whatever pony they are helping to come to a realization. What the CMC need to do is give a pony guidance on how to come to that realization. Silver Spoon has a direction now to explore what her cutie mark means, and even if it turns out to be something different than that she has at least moved away from thinking it just means she is rich.
Kudos.
I also wondered about her cutie mark.
"They can't use a spoon to take care of themselves, it just isn't possible, but they can use a spoon to take care of others."
Interesting.
So now we know what the Pony equivalent of the Red Cross is.
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I had a feeling that this was done on a phone, only a phone autocorrect can mess up this badly.
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Cell phone autocorrect is the devil. After looking back over some of it my eyes about popped at the sight of some of the more unusual errors.
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Taking the cake.
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Fixed, thank you.
So either a nurse or a medicine mare like Zecora?
This was really cool to read! An interesting take on her mark! I like it, definitely!
A few grammar mistakes or missing words. Typos and the like.
It's an interesting thought... if only Applejack hadn't said
in Somepony to Watch Over Me. If Apple Bloom can't use a spoon with her hooves, why would she even want a spoon while she's home alone?
Ignoring that, I feel positive enough about to give it the ol' thumbs-up.
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I think using spoons for stirring something an earth pony can do. Eating with a spoon (on their own) still seems an improbability. Spoons for cooking and spoons that are silverware tend to be very different, and Silver Spoon's is clearly a piece of silverware.
A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down the medicine of down
Oh neat.
Nice little story. The only thing that seems a wee bit off is Sweetie Bell not understanding how non-unicorns eat. She hasn't had the use of her own magic all that long, has she? I guess explaining it to her did serve as exposition for the rest of us, though?
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This phrase is not working properly, It may be Silver Tiara messing up speaking.
then the fact
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Found and fixed. Thanks for pointing those out.
Given, for me Silver Spoon's cutie mark story standard is...er, literally the The Silver Standard. But this is a good one too!
Hm. ... At times the CMC's vocabulary is off. There's times they would be using contractions, but are not in the story.
I like the premise and lesson of the story, however.
Also, in a kind of sad way it'd explain DT and SS's symbiotic relationship while they were still bullies. DT gets people to do what she wants, SS takes care of someone other than herself.
This was good. I didn’t expect the ending, and I liked it
Had an insane sense of Deja Vu when I originally read this, not sure why.
But I really like the story.
A sweet story that would fit nicely into a 22 minute episode
Very nice and like a real MLP episode.
That last sentence is very clever. Sums it all up perfectly.
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I think it's a play on the phrase, "Born with a silver spoon in her mouth" which denotes she is upper class. since she spends most of her school time and after school activities with Diamond Tiara, she is pretty much welcome at the Rich Mansion.
I tried to write a story on a phone once, but I couldn't get the rotary dial to cooperate.
(Agh, I'm old.)
This was a nice idea for a story.
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I'm old enough to have used a rotary phone as my regular phone, so don't feel too old.
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did you remember to dial 0 first ?
Really nice, short read, focusing on the things the show ignores
Also, really well-played with the feels in Silver’s backstory, I almost cried. Thank you for this story!
This was a sweet oneshot
This was a good, in-character fic based on a pretty amusing fridge-logic observation about the show. I like your rationalization of why she might do with a spoon and how she might have gotten her mark, and you wrote the whole thing out at a good pace. Good work.
Dexterous would make more sense than agile, being agile is just being able to move quickly and easily, dexterous is your skill your able to perform with you hands.
This was really sweet. The dialogue was... perhaps somewhat stilted, a bit "straight to the point statements" rather than what the characters might actually say? But the message was lovely. I find it very plausible that the CMCs haven't spent much time with Silver Spoon and none of them thought about what her cutie mark would mean.
The bit at the start where Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were drawing seemed a bit random and unnecessary, and then I wondered if it was meant to foreshadow the issue of how non-unicorns hold implements in their mouths, in which case it's rather cleverer than I'd realised at first
Nice story - thanks for writing it!
that was a nice story