Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Sunset Shimmer meet at sugarcube Corner to discuss sexuality and tolerance, and historical acceptance of it.
Some facts may suprise them
This story is being published here for archival purposes and does not follow the continuity of my other stories and will not be treated as such, (as I have changed a lot of things in my hadcannon between when I wrote this story and now.)
Warning: if you are turned off by discussions of sexual orientation do not read this
Graciously and Painstakingly Edited by Nightwalker
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You for got the SEX tag !
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It really didn’t need one
I'd say "criticized" or "villified" rather than "scrutinized," since obviously sexual orientation would exist (unless they are all bisexual) and Ponies would consider it a relevant fact about other Ponies (for one thing, when considering courting or matching them).
There is a mating system under which sexual orientation truly wouldn't matter. That would be heats so uncontrollably-intense that everypony just mated with the closest Pony of the opposite sex, or one of the same sex if none of the opposite sex was available, and actions during heat had no connection with friendship or love in the normal senses of the words. But that doesn't seem to be the Equestrian system: for one thing, they have romantic, companionate marriage.
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as I have stated in the author's notes, this is one of my earlier stroies that I never published, and I may consider rewriting it
Ironic given that some fans have Snails secretly be Glittershell. But then, Snips and Snails were both trying to be "evil minions" at the time.
Given that Pony Limestone's resentment seems to stem from the fact that both Pinkie and Maud are finding love and success in the big wide world while Limestone remains to run the farm for her ageing parents, I can see why Human Limestone might have even more intense feeligns and use the family's religious fundamentalism as an excuse to condemn Pinkie. Particularly if this is a Promiscuous Pinkie rather than a Chaste one: but even if this Pinkie is in a stable relationship and simply has pansexual feelings, the same logic would apply.
Pinkie's parents, on the other hand, seem to be the good kind of "religious," are are quite loving and accepting toward their extremely weird brood of offspring. None of the Pie Daughters are what I would call "normal," even though some of them are what I would call "heroic."
Pretty much what I think too, with the advisory that this is "history as told by Celestia," who would have a bias in the telling. Given that the speaker is Sunset Shimmer, it's probably "history as told directly and personally by Celestia," too.
I think if Sunset was to fall for any female, it would be Sci-Twi, though there's an obvious problem with that in vanilla canon -- Sci-Twi loves Spruce.
Yes, totally agree:
Humans are indeed naturally judgemental and hypocritical.