Former Occupations: Boxcar, Jug of Wine, and a Straight Razor (if you get too close).
Fluttershy might know a thing or two about stitching, but not so much the process in which certain exotic clothing materials are procured outside of Equestria's vegetarian borders. Rarity doesn't have that luxury.
Now in audio form, thanks to FireRain. Not only do I appreciate the time he put in, but honestly he does a really good job of conveying the characters in dialog. I get a kick when people just read my stuff, so this made my day. Thanks again, friend.
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Wow..... though would they really be this disturbed by it? Fluttershy is a given, but what about the majority of the pony tribes?
Rarity is put off by a little leather? Does she not know how all that silk in her shop was made? Definitely don't tell Fluttershy.
Even in the chilly dawn’s atmosphere, the combination of the climbing sun and the wind-resistant jacket protecting her skin made her feel comfy.
"comfortable" ??
You may consider going over this, for any further mistakes?
Otherwise it was a engaging story, I enjoyed reading ..
Meanwhile, Sunset Shimmer's like, "I don't see the issue here."
Indigence means poverty. Indignance or indignantly seems to be what you want.
Should be spelled peeked.
This story made me laugh. While I don't think Fluttershy wouldn't know what leather is, her general meek attitude makes this super funny.
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Similarly, given Twilight uses parchment, which is also from dried animal skin, she'll also have no idea what's the problem.
Also curious how other animals know what's leather.
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I mean... gotta use those Background Ponies for something...
Given that the ponies in the show itself are demonstrably not vegetarian (checkout the banquet in the episode "A Bird in the Hoof," where Applejack is about to eat a ham sandwich, or another episode where Rarity is choosing between pate and caviar at a Canterlot social function), even if they do make a lot of substitutions, I'm not sure what the big deal is for Rarity.
Granted, with Rarity, she might not know what pate and caviar actually are other than something rich ponies eat at parties, but Applejack should darn well know what sliced ham looks like, since Sweet Apple Acres raises pigs (presumably to dispose of apple leavings and other organic trash). And keep in mind that the Cakes thought that ham sandwiches were perfectly acceptable luncheon fare to serve Princess Celestia, and they were a nervous wreck the whole time for fear of offending her during her visit!
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That's just it - the other animals shouldn't know what leather is. Regular animals do not treat people who wear leather any differently than they treat people who wear anything else, and if Fluttershy, who is in tune with animals, failed to recognize leather, then her animal friends most likely wouldn't recognize it for what it is either. The only one who might arguably know what leather is would be Angel Bunny, and he's enough of an asshole to not care that his mistress is now wearing some other animal's skin.
For that matter, Rarity shouldn't recognize leather for what it is unless she has encountered it before. Otherwise she would probably think Fluttershy's new jacket was suede (fake leather) or some form of vinyl or plastic...
Heh. So, I'm picturing the animals all wearing peasant's rags and shoes with their toes poking out of them.
AHHHH CURSE YOU FOR POINTING OUT MY LACK OF REAL WORLD/HORSE WORLD KNOWLEDGE lol, but thanks for the feature and corrections all the same.
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I definitely didn't know until you made me look it up lol. Thanks for that. We can just pretend I did and that it's all the cruelty free kind.
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I appreciate it, thank you.
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This is my bad. You can blame too much Austraeoh in my brain for this - in that universe Equestria is vegetarian, which you have to admit makes sense. I did think about the Rarity recognizing leather and toying with a bit about pleather, but I scrapped it. I just figured Rarity is a fashion expert and she'd have heard of foreign clothing styles. Mayhap I should have clarified a tad more what was in my head.
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LOL maybe another story idea - Fluttershy's cottage is just a halfway house?
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No idea
As a completely unrelated note, what would be your opinions on a jacket made out of human leather? I'm trying to diversify my wardrobe on this troubling times, and I'm looking for an exotic and intimidating garment.
If i were writing this story i would make fluttershy become creepy pinkie and treat the jacket like one of her animals. Its animal skin, right?
Good job haha
made me crack up quite a couple of times
Interesting take on this. I don't think that Flutters would be as upset as that, Rarity, perhaps, but not Flutters. She deals in "death" everyday to feed her animals that happen to be carnivores. And I've read stories of her putting down animals that needed to be released from pain.
However, you handled the premise well, and I enjoyed the story. I'd be interested in how Twilight would solve this friendship problem. Fanfics allow for a wide range of thought experiments for which I'm grateful. You get a thumbs up from me!
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I have no problems with the idea of Equestria being mostly vegetarian, even to the point where most of the ponies don't even know that they are capable of digesting meat and might be put off by the idea of other ponies doing so, or using leather and other animal based products. And the resulting horror such ponies go through each time they find out just what whichever totally essential convenience they simply can't do without just happens to be made from animal byproducts (such as glue and anything made using glue - which is a lot of things at their demonstrated level of technology deals with). Not to mention certain perfumes and other cosmetics that also used animal byproducts at that level. Which I figure that the majority of the populate remains blissfully unaware of.
Heck, I've even used the varying levels of veganism, from passive, personal choice vegans to proactive militant vegans in the backgrounds of some of my own fics, and have suggested that there's a secretive society of vegan revisionists who are attempting to rewrite history in order to suppress the knowledge that, not only can ponies eat meat, there are also situations in which they should eat more protein in order to stay healthy and alert. Such as any pony that regularly lives in high altitude environments such as mountains and/or clouds. It would really go a long way towards explaining some of the goofy behavior we see in MLP ponies in Canterlot and Cloudsdale…
That said, the necessary part is the protein, which, since ponies aren't obligate carnivores, they can get via the right combinations of certain plants if they go through the trouble to do so.
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Odd bit of trivia (that I'm currently having touble finding the link to): There was a judge in the Old West who once had a pair of shoes made from a criminal he had executed. He apparently had it done to serve as a warning for other would-be outlaws to behave themselves while they were in his jurisdiction.
Wonderful.
In my humble opinion, would've been funnier if Fluttershy had known exactly what leather was made from and was completely nonchalant about it.
Rarity: "Don't you know it's made from the skin of animals?!"
Fluttershy: "Well, yes. It's even stated in he catalog which animal the skin came from; apparently different animals have different skins that are better for different things."
Rarity: *Jaw drop, mouth agape*
I mean, remember, this is the pony who feeds fish to ferrets, takes care of wolves and bears (apex predators), and in the comics watched on in utter fascination as two monsters fought each other, and then one killed and ate the other. If any pony would have been capable of wearing leather, it'd be Flutters.
Flutters: "Ooooh, this jacket really IS intimidating! I can't wait to try it out when I go to the market! That mean ol' pegasus stallion won't be cheating me on the cherry tomato price today!"
10233970 I can actually see her doing this to boost her confidence. Maybe she took a page from Sunset?
10233355 I‘M honestly more comfortable with human hair being used as fabric than human skin.
Eh
I’m dying
Thank you
I was kinda hope the jacket would has some kind of enchantment to increase the aggressiveness of the wearer. But, well, the story would lose comedy tag that way.
absolutely love that ending, well done!!
clicked on the story cuz of fluttershy dressing like she was in Redline, was not disappointed at all, love it
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Man, that would have been a nice curve ball. To be honest it'd be super easy to change the ending too that also. I actually read this comment quite a bit ago but do to the tech problems I was facing couldn't really respond. I thought about writing another, alternate ending chapter, where that happens but meh. You're more than welcome too though if the desire hits you. Really, there's alot of ideas for the ending in the comments that are as good if not better than the one I through on there.
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Such as this idea - could make a nice few hundred word epilogue.
Kinda want a sequel where somepony finds out what vellum or parchment is and thinks Twi is a serial killer.
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