Aspiring to live under a bridge, but the man keeps holding me down.
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When Applebloom comes across some spades in the apple-orchard, the crusaders are ecstatic. They believe the discovery has opened up a whole new door of opportunity in the ongoing quest of earning their cutie marks. Armed with their new commodities, the three young fillies embark on a digging adventure.
As usual, however, things don't seem to go according to plan...
From a certain point of view.
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What do I even call this?
It was super humorous and then super creepy...
...And it was great
I'm faving this
EDIT: Ok, I reread this and it basically went from miscommunicational humor to the twilight zone and supernatural.
EDIT 2: Ok, this story is giving me the creeps... I must flee!
I dare someone to write a weirder, more bizarre fic than this.
This was really just for my own enjoyment lol, I'm probably the only person in the world who would think this is funny. I just love randomness, I basically eat it for breakfast. For those who read my stuff often, my next fic won't be this stupid, I promise.
You may find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
My mind just exploded from all the WHAT THE FUCKS! I thought of in this story.....I'm so confused, nonetheless, it was written by you Magee so I'm 100% DOWN!
1179143 True that...I completely agree, well, that's my impressive bout of knowledge for the day.
What the...?
Can anyone here explain what happened?!
1491706 Do you agree this is the weirdest story on Fimfiction? And do you actually understand what went down here? Nothing really happened... But in theory something did lol. I feel like I did just a terrible job, however, of planting the subtle hints everywhere. Eventually to the point where it just makes no sense at all.
So.. (spoilers, I think)...
The bones they dug up were really Scootaloo's parents. Applejack collapsed from a brain aneurysm or stroke. I don't know the reason for the weird stuff or the voice. Would you mind explaining a bit for your readers? Weirdness is all well and good, but it loses its punch if the reader can't figure out the logic behind it.
THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!
WTF just happened??
Hey, just out of curiosity, could I do a review of this story? This fits in perfectly with my underrated-story theme.
Did they just pull a huge prank on Scootaloo?
I have no idea, but that was pretty funny.
1916883 Believe it or not, there is actually an underlying point to this story. But it's extremely convoluted (maybe even too convoluted
). I'm still waiting for the day when somebody finally puts the pieces together and understands what really happened in this story lol. I may be the only to ever understand this.
Anyways, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
1916906 Is it a joke point or serious point? I SHALL FIND THIS POINT.
1916916 It's not a point exactly... it's just... this story should make sense if you read closely enough I think, idk, at least it does to me. It's not exactly 100% canon... which probably makes it a little harder to figure out haha.
Maybe I'm crazy (probably
), but this story was no joke, Otherwise I would have a comedy tag up there. It's by far the most in depth story I've written (or tried to write 
, I am more of a mindless-comedy writer lol).
If you really want to know what happened, I can PM it to you if you want.
1916938 Well, I think maybe it was her parents, but the laugh she trusted at the end makes me think it was a prank. My curiosity is rising...
You can PM me if you want to.
1916945 Alright, I actually need to read over it myself and remember exactly what went down before I send you the PM. This story is like a puzzle... so many little things you need to put together for it to kind of make sense. I don't even remember some of it lol.
What....in...the world....
Sidjsjskkaa
I am.. extremely confused.
It seems like they accidentally dug up Scoot's parents, whose spirits were possibly revived by the phoenix, and there's gotta be something with the droppings... It might be that anypony touched by phoenix droppings is marked for death..? Anyway.
The fire of the phoenix burns bright and strong, and can revive anything. But what happens if it is doused ? I would not want to even imagine what would happen to the poor ponies caught up in the path of raging, half-revived souls.
That's the feeling I get from the ending bit with the phoenix and the rain.
For all this, though, I don't have any actual answers, and I still remain confused. You wouldn't mind shedding some light on this, would you?
7178018 Lol. There is a weird underlying message to this story and I would shed some light right now, but honestly it's been so long since I've written this (in 2012) I can't even remember what that is as like I said I know it's weird and it's obviously a bit convoluted. I'm sorry I know I probably should know since I wrote the story!
Do you want me to reread this, which hopefully will jog my memory so I can tell you what this is actually about?
7178106
Yes, please ;-;
7178189 Okay, even after rereading this (and cringing at my several amateurish grammar mistakes here from my early writing days XD), I still couldn't fully remember what this was about. I remember spending a lot of time making this into a kind of shameless puzzle of a story almost four years ago, and after rereading I still couldn't remember a good portion of this.
However, earlier in these comments someone asked me to PM them what this story was really about, so I actually went way back in my PM archives and found what I sent user BronyDerp117 with a detailed explanation, the majority of which I couldn't remember at all after just reading this through again. You could say I stumped myself the author at first with this all this time later, but after rereading this explanation I remember this pretty clearly now and it does kinda make sense. It is very convoluted though, to the point where I can understand why nobody could fully decipher this really. I mean I, the person who wrote this, couldn't even understand much of it after a few years. How could an average reader? Perhaps that makes this a bad story XD.
Anyhow, I think enough time has passed for me to tell you and the rest of the world what this story is really about. Here's the copy and pasted PMs I sent the guy in October of 2012:
"173w, 25m ago
Fattymagee1 said:
Okay, so what happened...
The story is obviously about Scootaloo, I believe most people understood that.
But I don't think most people realized this story is just as much about Rainbow Dash.
The underlying themes of the story is the mystery of Scootaloo's parents, the lack of parental guidance in her life, Rainbow Dash's affection towards the filly as a daughter-like figure, and freedom in general.
The very basic synopsis of the story is Scootaloo's parents met their ends at the hands of Applejack's parents (who had since obviously passed away as well), and Applejack knows it. Rainbow Dash, who knows this as well (this is where it gets really weird, a little dark and maybe a tad uncanon) by accidentally stumbling upon Scootaloo's parent's grave, and wants to use this as a way to gain full custody of Scootaloo.
Rainbow Dash devises a plan to basically scare and remove Scootaloo from her current crappy, basically homeless, lifestyle and into her own care. She manipulates Applejack, Rarity, and the crusaders into going along with the plan. At the end, when the two ponies are laughing, it's actually just one pony, Rainbow Dash. And Celestia's bird Philomena, whom she stole and later befriended while on "Royal business" in Canterlot as part of her plan. They were chuckling because their twisted plan was a success after also swapping away and disposing of Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Rainbow Dash wanted Scootaloo all to herself.
Really weird and hard to believe, right? Yeah, I know. I get that a lot. You really need to use your imagination for this to make sense.
Or maybe I really am just crazy and it makes absolutely no sense haha.
Anyways, If you really want me to, I can go very in depth and basically explain to you each key piece of the puzzle that is this story in a separate PM.
Hopefully my story might make a little more sense though to you now. : )
173w, 5m ago
BronyDerp117 said:
Oh my God, that is clever as fuck xD.
*Insert clapping gif here*
172w, 6d ago
Fattymagee1 said:
Haha you get it now? Congrats! You're the first in almost 600 people to finally kinda understand it...
Just a few key points you may have missed...
Yeah, Applejack was poisoned by the "Zap-apple Jam" she got as a gift, and the bird who crapped on Applejack was Philomena without her feathers (lol), who had befriended Rainbow Dash, then at the end she appears transformed whilst Rainbow Dash makes a thunderstorm since she's a weatherpony. It was Philomena's crap that covered what was originally Applejack's parent's originally white gravestone, which Rainbow Dash had recolored Orange and Purple and covered in the bird's white crap in order to fool Applejack in a delirious poisoned state (Yeah, so weird I know lol). Rarity was taken care of when she went to the "fashion show". It was Rainbow Dash and philomena chuckling at the end in celebration of the success of their plan with the other ponies taking care of Scootaloo out of the way. All of that was hidden under the facade of the comedic play on words in "Spay" and "Spade" lol.
So yeah, overall, the story is actually pretty dark, a little bittersweet, a little comedic, and 100% random.
Glad you enjoyed it and thought it was clever. "
So you were partially right like some of other people commented here. But there's probably no way someone could get all of this without probably rereading and studying it for days to make the right inferences. It really might not make sense at all actually lol. I guess at the time I just felt like writing a very twisted and extremely convoluted story. I might even want to consider adding a dark tag to this. In fact, I think I will.
Without a doubt though, I'm pretty sure this is still one of the weirdest stories on Fimfiction to date.
Do you think I should make a blog post for my followers telling everyone that I'm finally letting them know the real story behind this bizarre fanfic? Lol...
7178346
I applaud your brilliance.
But I would like to raise a point.
The skeletons had wings. They were pegasi. Applejack's parents? That's hard to believe.
7178543
It's assumed Rainbow Dash planted the spades and made sure Apple Bloom was the one to find it. The grave was Scootaloo's parents', but Applejack thought it was her parents' gravesite in her delirious poisoned state, but Rainbow Dash moved the gravestone to Scootaloo's parents site and covered it with Philomena's white crap to get Applejack angry at Scootaloo in order for the filly to feel more inclined to accept a new caretaker like Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash painted the Apple Family gravestone Orange and Purple to show her when it the white crap washed off in the rain Applejack's knowledge and lies about Scootaloo's parents' fate as well, for Applejack's parents killed Scootaloo's parents somehow and Applejack knew it all along. It's never revealed what happened to Applejack's parents or where their grave site, for its a bit irrelevant to the plot. It can be assumed that it's in a public cemetary somewhere, and Rainbow Dash could easily find it and steal it away.
Like I said, super convoluted probably to the point of absurdity. And very messed up and dark. There's like almost no way anyone could get that lol. Also keep in mind this was written between season 2 and season 3.
Speaking of dark, I'm going to actually add a dark tag to this. I'm not sure why I didn't before, because I think this definitely qualifies as dark.
7178575
You don't have to. It's an element of darcomedic writing - unexpected dark/comedic twist. I've seen it before, and it adds loads to the story. I recommend not adding the dark tag.
I love how deep and thought-out this whole thing is.
Brilliance. Utter, complete brilliance. It's honestly amazing.
For this, I'm giving you an award I haven't handed out in a while - the Holy Muffin. I give this to stories that I find to be the most amazing, unparalleled writing I've seen on this site. And this earns it well.
Yours,
Spirit
7178622 Thank you... I'm honored, seriously
. I honestly thought you'd probably just call me crazy or something.
7178726
Mate, you are crazy. I am, too.
I honestly believe that people that are seen as 'crazy' are only called that because they see more truth in the world than the rest of society chooses to. Frightened of this, society has branded them with a derogatory term in order to be able to pretend that it's not true.
Why do you think the most common aspect of soothsayers, oracles, and genii is that they're not all quite there?
Crazy is, in my book, a compliment.
So, yes. You're crazy. You are one of us that sees more truth than society ever will. that, my friend, is the true honor. And so, it is I that thanks you, for gifting us with a piece of your knowledge, your ability to see more than what lies on the surface.
Yours,
Spirit
7180222 Great people in history usually didn't become great by conforming, that's for sure. Crazy for sure is a subjective societal term bestowed on people displaying eccentricity. You're right, I generally like to keep things real in a society that in many instances doesn't run on common sense.
It's good to know there are other like-minded people out there like yourself.
Thanks man.