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Rainbow Dash wants to go big. Applejack just wants to go home. And Petunia Paleo wants to dig up dinosaur bones. It's the palaeontological find of the century... but will it send Rainbow and AJ's relationship into a tailspin?
A post-Season 9 AppleDash story, written for the AppleDash group's Sixth AppleDash Contest, "Go Big or Go Home".
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Just saying, but do you mean paleontological discovery?
Paleontology is the study of fossilized animal remains.
Archaeology is the study of old civilizations from the past.
I am just saying and I am not trying to nag you about it. I am a person that knows her dinosaur facts.
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It's a fair cop (although the show itself also makes that mistake!) Amended. Cheers!
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Okay, I thought I'd say something. It's alright with me because I know people will get the fields words mixed up. I am fine with it.
So hyped to see where this is going! It’s so wholesome😭👏🏻
I kind of maybe like it.
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy it. Despite my username, there's no clop in this; I thought the two of them being smartasses and making mild innuendos to each other would be enough to push it to T rather than E, just to be safe.
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I've had worse reviews
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Oh. What I mean is, I like it, but this is the first AppleJack story I've read so far. I'm talking about the subject, not your story. The story is good, I just don't know about the subject.
I love Applejack so much. Even my drunken old lady version of her.
Hope you're all enjoying the story!
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Drunk maudlin AJ is adorable
Two (or maybe three, depending on how I divide it up) more chapters to go. Genuinely curious as to whether it's super obvious what's going on, or whether it's going to seem like a complete rump-pull of a conclusion. Hope the handful of readers are still enjoying it, anyway!
I can't really see them as any older than their forties in the epilogue episode (Big Mac and Sweetie Belle waiting a decade or longer before having their kid seems...unlikely), but perhaps this is further down the timeline.
Edit: I cant walk down the street else I'm like to fall to my death,
Wait, what the fuck? How old is she supposed to be again???
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It is!
When she's staying at Rainbow's old place in Cloudsdale. I liked the idea of earth ponies being able to visit certain parts of the city, but not being able to wander around freely in case they stepped on the wrong cloud and fell through the floor.
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It’s a popular head canon that Lil Cheese and SugarMac’s unnamed child are just the kids young enough that they needed adult supervision and there are as many next-gen spawn as a fan prefers offscreen doing their own thing.
AJ is going to kiss RD for being a sweetheart then slug her for being thoughtless. Not necessarily in that order.
My longest ever story, now completed. (Not sure why it says chapter 8 was published in January, but there we are.) Enjoy! I hope. I had fun writing it, anyway.
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Just so you know this chapter didn’t show up in my feed. I only noticed it by chance. So you might want to do a blog post letting people know the story is finished.
Sweet ending by the way.
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Thanks! Fimfiction seems to have done a weird thing where it says this chapter was published back in January. I don't know why (it obviously wasn't)!
And thank you! I'm really glad you liked it.
Well then, this was trip. I never once believed Rainbow was actually having an affair, which I'm sure is what you were going for ("come on guys, I gotta make it sound like they are but of course not"), but I have to applaud you for keeping me guessing what the big reveal actually was, and then what AJ's reaction would be to the whole thing. I thought for a spell that AJ would say no right there to teach Dash not to keep secrets from her, but still agree to get married soon anyway.
This deserves a favourite as well as a like, because even though some parts strike me as something I wouldn't write -- or think to write, anyway -- this'll be in my head for a while.
Small critique, though, one author to another, not every new line of dialogue needs a dialogue tag if we know who's talking and haven't switched up how they're speaking since last time they spoke. I'm guilty of this too, so it's the pot calling the kettle black, but whatever. That's my two cents.
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Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and kind words. Yeah, it was pretty artificial from the start (I left a meta comment somewhere with AJ pointing out that their relationship couldn't be ending, because the contest rules prohibited it,) but I'm glad the reveal of what was actually going on was still a nice surprise. And thank you for the advice, I hadn't even realised I was overdoing that!
This has been my least popular story to date by every measure, but thank you to everyone who has read and enjoyed it - I really had a lot of fun writing it.
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Old enough to realize that walking around Cloudsdale, or whatever sky settlement Rainbow’s place is located, is a dangerous prospect for an earth pony like her.
The chapter that ended with Rainbow and Rarity talking had me figuring Dash was either renewing her vows, or (and this is mostly just my dirty mind talking) trying to bring Rarity in to a poly relationship. Then the next chapter had her using the word marefriend, and I realized she was going to propose.
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Heh, I wanted it to be pretty ambiguous as to what it was she was really planning until as late as possible, so the reader could try and guess - people seem to have figured it out at different stages, but I hope you liked it half as much as I liked writing it!
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Exactly! The idea was that no matter how often she had visited over the years, I wanted Cloudsdale to remain a slightly weird and dangerous place for an unaccompanied earth pony - that even a sober one who was thinking straight might step on the wrong cloud and plummet - and to have a little think about what that said about Applejack's relationship with Dash.
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/213901/my-little-reviews-feedback/thread/440052/review-diplodocus#comment/7254048
Reviewed!
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Thank you for the nice review! This is my least popular story ever by every metric that exists (!) so I'm glad someone read and enjoyed it.
wtf?
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Hello! Thanks for reading, would you care to elaborate?
Been meaning to read this for awhile and finally got to it this morning. You handled the dynamic between these two really well - they may have mellowed some but they’re still acting similar to their younger selves, and the ways that rubs up against the weight of time makes for some interesting bits of introspection from them. Really enjoyed the idea towards the end of Applejack secretly enjoying when a fuss is made of her and Dash recognizing that and the way it actually played out felt really apt for each of them. Fun story