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Dashie04


Your friendly neighborhood writer of entirely too many trans ponies! (Dashie | she/her | Discord: velvetred2004 | pfp by Malphym)

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Everypony seems to remember their cutie mark story, and this is true for Reinn. A pegasus drummer, she recounts precisely how her cutie mark came to be, and how she happened to use it.

With plenty of side commentary, of course.

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Comments ( 9 )

I saw the title and my mind went... elsewhere... :facehoof:

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Good point.

I mean, it’s only rated E... so...

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Had I not seen that, I would have clicked away from it... Oops

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It’s about a drummer.

I have not seen Enola Holmes, and know little about it. Which is fine; I'm just letting you know to help you understand my pov.

I liked this story, but I didn't want to run out and marry it. :twilightsmile:

Like another commenter, when I saw the title I wasn't thinking of drums. But I saw the story art, and figured out that I was looking at drumsticks before I read the story. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have read it.

At the beginning, I was a bit confused by the use of "large" and "larger." I didn't think it quite made sense. I'm still not sure it quite makes sense in how it's used. Are you trying to apply it to physical size, level of fame, or some of both? And are you really gaining benefits worth the confusingness? That's just how one particular reader sees it, anyway.

without getting my feathers in a mesh

I liked this expression, in your story's context where she'd earlier gotten her wings crossed.

It was almost like a sensation of quicksilver running down my flank. Wait a minute, I thought ponies talk about this all the time!

Good use of italics. I think there's a missing comma, though, after "thought."

It was almost like a sensation of quicksilver running down my flank. Wait a minute, I thought, ponies talk about this all the time!

I think people could debate whether "a sensation of quicksilver running down my flank" is a sufficiently easy thing to imagine or not. Most people nowadays have probably never directly played with quicksilver (mercury and its vapor are notoriously poisonous, so it's discouraged nowadays.) So I think it's kind of an old-fashioned expression that doesn't work as well for some readers anymore?

I think I might be like a lot of readers, in my disappointment about not getting to read more (or anything, really?) about the transitioning process. If you write a story that does talk about that, someone will probably show up to complain that you aren't handling the transgender issue in whatever their favorite way for it to always be handled is. Well, you can't please everyone.

Thanks for sharing this story with us!

Oh... Oh wow. I'm slowly becoming more and more comfortable with the idea of transgender, although I do not support it at all, but do not shun it. Beautiful story, of course!

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Sweats in trans author.

Well, I’m glad you liked the story regardless.

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Oh, no, I didn't mean it like that, I still realize that those who are trans are still people and should be treated as such, but as a "mormon" I do not support it, but we open our arms to all, so I'm sitting on the fence, as it were, but with more appeciation to the trans "field".

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