Starlight learns to let go of her stress. Trixie finds a new way to process her emotions. Maud reveals why she always wears a frock. Ellie says trans rights, and not just with her mouth. F/F/F/F Pony/Pony/Pony/Human with sweetness and character.
I'm sorry to tell you Ellie this, but, technically, she, along with all bronies in general, is a furry by virtue of liking anthromorphic animals alone, even if she's not into the weird anthro stuff. It's a mantle thrust upon her by definition. The first step is admitting she has a problem. The second step is not giving a shit and enjoying it anyway.
But if she's enjoying it a lot already without any inhibition whatsoever, can't she skip the part about admitting anything at all? Asking for a friend.
I guess my grammar is just too technical to be understood! More stoic rock pony for you Ellie, I guess.
I love stoic rock pony. That is what I will call her from now on.
I'm sure I'll enjoy both either way!
I blame you for the turn this chapter took, by the way. It was supposed to be half the length and cover both this and the next chapter and not involve this much Trixie!
But if she's enjoying it a lot already without any inhibition whatsoever, can't she skip the part about admitting anything at all? Asking for a friend.
I mean... I guess? I'm not one to judge. Personally, I'm a big fan of embracing uncomfortable labels because screw people who actually judge you based on them, (they're basically a weeding tool at that point) but you Ellie can do whatever she wants.
I blame you for the turn this chapter took, by the way. It was supposed to be half the length and cover both this and the next chapter and not involve this much Trixie!
Big oooooooooof. Sorry!
Although, I love what you did with this chapter. So much introspection, character analysis/development, and vulnerability. I think I share Ellie's weird fetish of friendship lessons, because my God. This chapter was equal parts hilarious, sweet, and sexy. I'm glad it didn't just devolve into Trixie sitting on Ellie's face and that being it, because there's soooooo much more they could/should do together. Not to mention that there's so much more to Trixie. I'm glad Ellie recognized that, because there's more depth beneath that attitude.
If you allow me to self-indulge a bit here, I think Trixie's a seriously unexplored character, both in terms of the show and the fandom. Going from being a narcissistic vagabond, to somepony who literally moved to Ponyville to be closer to Starlight (the wagon basically becomes a permanent fixture near Twilight's castle sometime between No Second Prances and To Where And Back Again), to somepony who became the frickin' Guidance Counselor at the School of Friendship after bombing her own Vice Headmare interview (and finding the perfect candidate in her stead, no less!) suggests an evolving late-adulthood maturity that lends to more than "Blah blah smoke bombs and third-person grammar". People who suggest StarTrix (or Mauxie, or Trixie ships in general) can't work because "Trixie bad" or just hate her in general haven't been paying attention. Glad to see someone else recognizing this disconnect and writing it out in a way that makes sense.
“Intimacy can be the best fetish sometimes, and nopony should be afraid to admit that.”
This x 9000. With this line in mind, I know some of my spicier stories are on your Read It Later, so I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on those when you get to them...
Damn. Can't wait for the next chapter. No pressure though! I know Ellie x ego horse is gonna be hot AF and well worth all this character-building dialogue. Starlight and stoic rock pony are excited, and so am I.
"Ellie had to reconsider her previous assessments of Trixie’s shows." Interesting. Why that reconsideration now, I wonder?
"Ellie did not say that before the conversation, she actually hadn’t taken Trixie this seriously. It was through having to actually talk to her that made her reconsider how she saw the blue unicorn, who in her mind she always called “smug blue horse”." Oh. :D
"Wow, we have a lot more in common than I would have thought." ...Now I'm sad about this conversation being noncanon. Well... maybe they'll have a similar one in a different context?
I mean... I guess? I'm not one to judge. Personally, I'm a big fan of embracing uncomfortable labels because screw people who actually judge you based on them, (they're basically a weeding tool at that point) but you Ellie can do whatever she wants.
Ha, well, I do begrudgingly accept the furry label for myself with this logic of it being an umbrella term for being into non-human anthropomorphic stuff in general. I've had months to come to terms with it, though it is pretty funny reading my journal from back then and my desperate, desperate attempts to rationalize it and try to find the reasons why this terrible, wonderful thing happened to me. But in a way, all this fanfic stuff I'm doing is part of the whole rationalization process, so, you're welcome!
But it did get me thinking, and hear me out on this. It's not that I think the furry label is "cringe" or "bad". I self-deprecatingly write that whatever label one would give Ellie (and thus myself) is worse than "furry". It's that it's not specific enough to express what I like, which is due to its position as an umbrella term. It's not just the anatomical stuff of being limited to pony, zebra and kirin mares (and only mares lol) depicted with proportions fitting with the cute/round/puffy style of the show, but also the feeeemale-centric world it takes place in that lacks so many of the bad things of our world, with the emotional health waterline generally being higher (both artifacts of the G-ratedness of the canon), and the sex generally being more happy and intimate and reciprocal (obviously extra-canonical but I feel is implied).
So I accept "furry" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that doesn't exist which would be more specific. Much in the same way, I accept "queer" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that does exist which is more specific.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Big oooooooooof. Sorry!
Noooooooooo don't apologize! It definitely led things in a better, sexier, if more time-consuming direction.
I think I share Ellie's weird fetish of friendship lessons
Noooooooooo she specifically doesn't have one of those, okay!? It just came out!
But I am glad you liked it so much.
If you allow me to self-indulge a bit here
Please, indulge all the time if this is how you indulge. i agree, I always thought of Trixie as more complex and interesting even before her arc starting in No Second Prances. I mean, she's a showpony! One that was actually successfully out-magicking and wowing the ponies of this one-horse farming village until the future Goddess-Queen in embryo who just happened to be living in said random farming village ruined it! Then there was that series of flashbacks in Magic Duel, depicting her as a homeless vagabond living a tragic life of getting mocked and rejected wherever she goes, until finally she has to lower herself to working at a rock farm.
(Where, obviously, a lot of wonderful things happened between her and whichever of the Pie sisters you might imagine, however you might imagine it. So much good fan stuff from that one-second throwaway line!)
But then, yes! The arc with Starlight started in No Second Prances (but not finished as a romance because the toy company are cowards), and the late-young-adulthood process of settling into a less exciting but more realistic and stable career, and finding ways to manage that transition without becoming a boring pony (a process that the author is currently undergoing), all great things that objectively make her an interesting character with true depth. (Then there's how hot the smug, nasal whine in her voice is but that one's more subjective.) "Trixie good”, as one might say.
This x 9000. With this line in mind, I know some of my spicier stories are on your Read It Later, so I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on those when you get to them...
They are literally the next fics I am intending to read! It's just that if I'm in a space where I can do more than comment and actually read something with attention, I'm also in a space where I could be writing instead, and I've just been choosing to spend that time writing since there's so much in my dumb brain I want to get out. But I am very excited to get to them. And don't worry, you will definitely hear my thoughts.
10584211 No, I mean like, homomorphisms don't deserve their name because they don't carry any structure that can't be flattened down to the concept of a morphism. Homotopies and homologies, however, are good and cool and interesting on their own, thus meriting the first four letters of their names. Homomorphisms without any additional structure are basically combinatorics.
I've had months to come to terms with it, though it is pretty funny reading my journal from back then and my desperate, desperate attempts to rationalize it and try to find the reasons why this terrible, wonderful thing happened to me.
Oh, this is all recent for you? Man, COVID did a number on us all, didn't it? Just kidding. I've been in the fandom almost since its inception (2012) so... welcome to the Hotel California! Although, I personally don't find it to be a bad thing, any more than me liking anything else is. Yeah it's weird, but so what? Life is weird. *shrug*
But in a way, all this fanfic stuff I'm doing is part of the whole rationalization process, so, you're welcome!
Well, thank you for working all of this out on here and making fun stories out of it!
So I accept "furry" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that doesn't exist which would be more specific. Much in the same way, I accept "queer" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that does exist which is more specific.
That's fair. The only term that comes to mind for all of what you've described is... well, you have a very specific headcanon. But that's a description of your thoughts, not necessarily what you are. I guess I've either been in this fandom too long, or don't really care what other people think (or both) enough to worry about what to label myself. Furry, brony, that bitch over there... all of them work for me!
Then there was that series of flashbacks in Magic Duel, depicting her as a homeless vagabond living a tragic life of getting mocked and rejected wherever she goes, until finally she has to lower herself to working at a rock farm.
See, I think she liked the "homeless vagabond" part of it, prior to meeting Starlight (where she either cut down on travel or stopped entirely). Her dad works in Las Pegasus with his husband business partner, and unless there's really bad blood between him and Trix, he could've gotten her a gig there easily. But she liked traveling around, spreading her name far and wide. What happened in Boast Busters damaged her reputation enough for her to seek alternate employment and revenge, but I don't think it sent her on the road to begin with.
(Where, obviously, a lot of wonderful things happened between her and whichever of the Pie sisters you might imagine, however you might imagine it. So much good fan stuff from that one-second throwaway line!)
My personal headcanon is that it was probably Limestone. My less happy headcanon is that Trixie basically used her though, given that Trixie was still a unrepentant jackass at the time and Limestone seems like she hasn't had much good happen in her life. Trixie doesn't seem to have any prior history with Maud from the interactions they have in the show. Marble maybe, but I still would bet on Limey first.
But then, yes! The arc with Starlight started in No Second Prances (but not finished as a romance because the toy company are cowards), and the late-young-adulthood process of settling into a less exciting but more realistic and stable career, and finding ways to manage that transition without becoming a boring pony (a process that the author is currently undergoing), all great things that objectively make her an interesting character with true depth.
Amen to all of that (including cowardly toy company). Trixie can still be Great and Powerful while still having a stable job and home life. We all can.
(Then there's how hot the smug, nasal whine in her voice is but that one's more subjective.)
It's hot in an endearing way. Definitely grew on me from S6 on.
They are literally the next fics I am intending to read! It's just that if I'm in a space where I can do more than comment and actually read something with attention, I'm also in a space where I could be writing instead, and I've just been choosing to spend that time writing since there's so much in my dumb brain I want to get out. But I am very excited to get to them. And don't worry, you will definitely hear my thoughts.
Oh, no rush! I figured as much. I also usually prefer to work on my own stuff before reading and commenting on other things, although I have slowly managed to trim at my massive Read It Later list. Somewhat. I'm sure you'll have a lot of interesting things to say when you get around to 'em.
That's fair. The only term that comes to mind for all of what you've described is... well, you have a very specific headcanon. But that's a description of your thoughts, not necessarily what you are. I guess I've either been in this fandom too long, or don't really care what other people think (or both) enough to worry about what to label myself. Furry, brony, that bitch over there... all of them work for me!
Dude, have you read those terrible words I posted? It's way too specific to be about what you or anypony else thinks of me! It's about what I think of me! (Again, the whole rationalization thing!) But maybe your point is that I shouldn't care about what I think of me either.
See, I think she liked the "homeless vagabond" part of it, prior to meeting Starlight (where she either cut down on travel or stopped entirely). Her dad works in Las Pegasus with his husband business partner, and unless there's really bad blood between him and Trix, he could've gotten her a gig there easily. But she liked traveling around, spreading her name far and wide. What happened in Boast Busters damaged her reputation enough for her to seek alternate employment and revenge, but I don't think it sent her on the road to begin with.
I agree, she enjoyed homeless vagabonding and it was that it was ruined for her after Boast Busters that made that life tragic, not the life itself. But it's kind of funny that my headcanon is the exact opposite of yours. Her alive gay dad refused to get her a gig at Las Pegasus, and that is what caused the bad blood between them and Trixie to be so full of that delicious angry energy at the world.
My personal headcanon is that it was probably Limestone. My less happy headcanon is that Trixie basically used her though, given that Trixie was still a unrepentant jackass at the time and Limestone seems like she hasn't had much good happen in her life. Trixie doesn't seem to have any prior history with Maud from the interactions they have in the show. Marble maybe, but I still would bet on Limey first.
Aww, if she would hurt Limestone, I don't want to imagine what she'd do to poor Marble! Getting hurt by a relationship gone wrong with Trixie would dovetail nicely with either of their personalities expressed after that time in the canon, too. So maybe she hurt both of them at once? Maybe a love triangle gone wrong? This is fun.
Amen to all of that (including cowardly toy company). Trixie can still be Great and Powerful while still having a stable job and home life. We all can.
But maybe your point is that I shouldn't care about what I think of me either.
Essentially, yeah. I just find this to be a really harmless way to spend my time, all things considered, so I have no self-judgment entangled with it. But that's probably more due to the years of (unrelated) therapy I've had, rather than anything specific about the magic gay horses, so take it with a grain of salt. In any case, however you rationalize it, just keep doin' what you're doin'.
But it's kind of funny that my headcanon is the exact opposite of yours. Her alive gay dad refused to get her a gig at Las Pegasus, and that is what caused the bad blood between them and Trixie to be so full of that delicious angry energy at the world.
Oooh, that's an interesting divergence of headcanon. It's always fun to trade these. Trixie has a chip on her shoulder one way or the other. I personally pin it on her failure to get into Celestia's school (comic canon), as well as her being a spoiled only child, but your explanation makes a lot of sense too.
Aww, if she would hurt Limestone, I don't want to imagine what she'd do to poor Marble! Getting hurt by a relationship gone wrong with Trixie would dovetail nicely with either of their personalities expressed after that time in the canon, too. So maybe she hurt both of them at once? Maybe a love triangle gone wrong? This is fun.
As unfair as it is to Limestone and Marble, I like the way you think. Might have to steal this at some point in the future...
Essentially, yeah. I just find this to be a really harmless way to spend my time, all things considered, so I have no self-judgment entangled with it. But that's probably more due to the years of (unrelated) therapy I've had, rather than anything specific about the magic gay horses, so take it with a grain of salt. In any case, however you rationalize it, just keep doin' what you're doin'.
Ooh, fun, I get to clarify again! My rationalization isn't taking me from a negative self-judgment for liking the magic gay horses to being okay with it. It's taking me from being resignedly okay with it to thinking of it as reinforcing some positive self-conceptions I have and a part of my identity that is very important to me, making me even more healthy and cool.
As unfair as it is to Limestone and Marble, I like the way you think. Might have to steal this at some point in the future...
Ooh, ooh, make sure to have this explain why Marble doesn't really talk. Maybe Trixie said her voice is bad and nopony should ever hear it or something, something to really hurt her emotionally in a way that kind of makes me sad thinking about it and I'm the one writing this sentence.
EDIT: Actually, I might want to do this idea. Mine will just involve Marble/Trixie though, and not the love triangle, so we can both do our things.
EDIT 2: There are literally 0 Marble/Trixie OR Limestone/Trixie shipping fics out there! We've struck uncharted gold, baby! Demand/Supply ratio is literally infinite!
Oh geez, my bad for getting confused. Didn't mean for you to have to clarify again. In that case, your rationalizations make sense in the bigger picture of recontextualizing/affirming things that are important to you. That actually is pretty healthy and cool, no joke. More power to ya.
Ooh, ooh, make sure to have this explain why Marble doesn't really talk. Maybe Trixie said her voice is bad and nopony should ever hear it or something, something to really hurt her emotionally in a way that kind of makes me sad thinking about it and I'm the one writing this sentence.
Geez, way to twist the knife. Although, I think you could easily characterize Marble as essentially mute from the beginning, whether by birth, accident, or some unresolved psychological issue. If you look at the transcripts for Hearthbreakers and Best Gift Ever (the only episodes she appears in) she has no real lines (just "uh's" and "mm's"). Maybe Trixie found this charming at first, but weaponized it when she was being a total bitch and stomping poor Marble's heart into the dirt? (God, what is wrong with me?) I could see her doing something like that between Boast Busters and Magic Duel.
Also, if you haven't read Damp Rocks, you should check it out. I don't agree with every choice the artist made, and the comic was sadly left unfinished, but it adds an interesting take on Trixie's time on the rock farm.
EDIT: Actually, I might want to do this idea. Mine will just involve Marble/Trixie though, and not the love triangle, so we can both do our things.
I have a couple of vague ideas for Limestone/Trixie anyhow, so I will gladly accept this trade.
EDIT 2: There are literally 0 Marble/Trixie OR Limestone/Trixie shipping fics out there! We've struck uncharted gold, baby! Demand/Supply ratio is literally infinite!
Geez, way to twist the knife. Although, I think you could easily characterize Marble as essentially mute from the beginning, whether by birth, accident, or some unresolved psychological issue. If you look at the transcripts for Hearthbreakers and Best Gift Ever (the only episodes she appears in) she has no real lines (just "uh's" and "mm's"). Maybe Trixie found this charming at first, but weaponized it when she was being a total bitch and stomping poor Marble's heart into the dirt? (God, what is wrong with me?) I could see her doing something like that between Boast Busters and Magic Duel.
Oh, it gets worse! The Rock Farm is so isolated that Trixie is the first available mare close to Marble's age not part of her family she has ever spent any significant time around after puberty. So Trixie is Marble's first crush, with all of its soul-destroying power unleashed on a mind that hasn't even developed the rudimentary immune system one does from schoolchild crushes in our world. Trixie manipulates the eff out of her, and stomps her into the ground at the end hard! (Whatever is wrong with you is clearly also wrong with me, I feel like I just excitedly described a kitten-stomping video).
Also, if you haven't read Damp Rocks, you should check it out. I don't agree with every choice the artist made, and the comic was sadly left unfinished, but it adds an interesting take on Trixie's time on the rock farm.
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*tips fedora*
But if she's enjoying it a lot already without any inhibition whatsoever, can't she skip the part about admitting anything at all? Asking for a friend.
I love stoic rock pony. That is what I will call her from now on.
I blame you for the turn this chapter took, by the way. It was supposed to be half the length and cover both this and the next chapter and not involve this much Trixie!
I thought I was the only one with topology terms thrown into gay fanfic
- Equestria Girls
- Romance
- Sci-Fi
Open sets and open kisses.This line makes the chapter
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I mean... I guess? I'm not one to judge. Personally, I'm a big fan of embracing uncomfortable labels because screw people who actually judge you based on them, (they're basically a weeding tool at that point) but
youEllie can do whatever she wants.Big oooooooooof. Sorry!
Although, I love what you did with this chapter. So much introspection, character analysis/development, and vulnerability. I think I share Ellie's weird fetish of friendship lessons, because my God. This chapter was equal parts hilarious, sweet, and sexy. I'm glad it didn't just devolve into Trixie sitting on Ellie's face and that being it, because there's soooooo much more they could/should do together. Not to mention that there's so much more to Trixie. I'm glad Ellie recognized that, because there's more depth beneath that attitude.
If you allow me to self-indulge a bit here, I think Trixie's a seriously unexplored character, both in terms of the show and the fandom. Going from being a narcissistic vagabond, to somepony who literally moved to Ponyville to be closer to Starlight (the wagon basically becomes a permanent fixture near Twilight's castle sometime between No Second Prances and To Where And Back Again), to somepony who became the frickin' Guidance Counselor at the School of Friendship after bombing her own Vice Headmare interview (and finding the perfect candidate in her stead, no less!) suggests an evolving late-adulthood maturity that lends to more than "Blah blah smoke bombs and third-person grammar". People who suggest StarTrix (or Mauxie, or Trixie ships in general) can't work because "Trixie bad" or just hate her in general haven't been paying attention. Glad to see someone else recognizing this disconnect and writing it out in a way that makes sense.
This x 9000. With this line in mind, I know some of my spicier stories are on your Read It Later, so I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on those when you get to them...
Damn. Can't wait for the next chapter. No pressure though! I know Ellie x ego horse is gonna be hot AF and well worth all this character-building dialogue. Starlight and stoic rock pony are excited, and so am I.
"Ellie had to reconsider her previous assessments of Trixie’s shows."
Interesting.
Why that reconsiderationnow, I wonder?"Ellie did not say that before the conversation, she actually hadn’t taken Trixie this seriously. It was through having to actually talk to her that made her reconsider how she saw the blue unicorn, who in her mind she always called “smug blue horse”."
Oh. :D
"Wow, we have a lot more in common than I would have thought."
...Now I'm sad about this conversation being noncanon. Well... maybe they'll have a similar one in a different context?
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Well, it has the word "homo" right in the name!
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That's the trouble with making these scenes so nice, it would be nice if they happened! Ellie does respect Trixie more in the canon, though.
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Ha, well, I do begrudgingly accept the furry label for myself with this logic of it being an umbrella term for being into non-human anthropomorphic stuff in general. I've had months to come to terms with it, though it is pretty funny reading my journal from back then and my desperate, desperate attempts to rationalize it and try to find the reasons why this terrible, wonderful thing happened to me. But in a way, all this fanfic stuff I'm doing is part of the whole rationalization process, so, you're welcome!
But it did get me thinking, and hear me out on this. It's not that I think the furry label is "cringe" or "bad". I self-deprecatingly write that whatever label one would give Ellie (and thus myself) is worse than "furry". It's that it's not specific enough to express what I like, which is due to its position as an umbrella term. It's not just the anatomical stuff of being limited to pony, zebra and kirin mares (and only mares lol) depicted with proportions fitting with the cute/round/puffy style of the show, but also the feeeemale-centric world it takes place in that lacks so many of the bad things of our world, with the emotional health waterline generally being higher (both artifacts of the G-ratedness of the canon), and the sex generally being more happy and intimate and reciprocal (obviously extra-canonical but I feel is implied).
So I accept "furry" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that doesn't exist which would be more specific. Much in the same way, I accept "queer" as an umbrella label for myself, but prefer a term that does exist which is more specific.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Noooooooooo don't apologize! It definitely led things in a better, sexier, if more time-consuming direction.
Noooooooooo she specifically doesn't have one of those, okay!? It just came out!
But I am glad you liked it so much.
Please, indulge all the time if this is how you indulge. i agree, I always thought of Trixie as more complex and interesting even before her arc starting in No Second Prances. I mean, she's a showpony! One that was actually successfully out-magicking and wowing the ponies of this one-horse farming village until the future Goddess-Queen in embryo who just happened to be living in said random farming village ruined it! Then there was that series of flashbacks in Magic Duel, depicting her as a homeless vagabond living a tragic life of getting mocked and rejected wherever she goes, until finally she has to lower herself to working at a rock farm.
(Where, obviously, a lot of wonderful things happened between her and whichever of the Pie sisters you might imagine, however you might imagine it. So much good fan stuff from that one-second throwaway line!)
But then, yes! The arc with Starlight started in No Second Prances (but not finished as a romance because the toy company are cowards), and the late-young-adulthood process of settling into a less exciting but more realistic and stable career, and finding ways to manage that transition without becoming a boring pony (a process that the author is currently undergoing), all great things that objectively make her an interesting character with true depth. (Then there's how hot the smug, nasal whine in her voice is but that one's more subjective.) "Trixie good”, as one might say.
They are literally the next fics I am intending to read! It's just that if I'm in a space where I can do more than comment and actually read something with attention, I'm also in a space where I could be writing instead, and I've just been choosing to spend that time writing since there's so much in my dumb brain I want to get out. But I am very excited to get to them. And don't worry, you will definitely hear my thoughts.
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Group theory (/abstract algebra more generally) is better, it's about the study of homomorphisms. Lots of homo in math.
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It's all just morphisms to me lol
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That's alright, because it's all just homo to me.
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No, I mean like, homomorphisms don't deserve their name because they don't carry any structure that can't be flattened down to the concept of a morphism. Homotopies and homologies, however, are good and cool and interesting on their own, thus meriting the first four letters of their names. Homomorphisms without any additional structure are basically combinatorics.
Sorry, this is my most controversial opinion.
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Was not expecting to have this conversation in the comments of a clopfic. Have an upvote.
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It's called erotica and it's art
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Oh, this is all recent for you? Man, COVID did a number on us all, didn't it? Just kidding. I've been in the fandom almost since its inception (2012) so... welcome to the Hotel California! Although, I personally don't find it to be a bad thing, any more than me liking anything else is. Yeah it's weird, but so what? Life is weird. *shrug*
Well, thank you for working all of this out on here and making fun stories out of it!
That's fair. The only term that comes to mind for all of what you've described is... well, you have a very specific headcanon. But that's a description of your thoughts, not necessarily what you are. I guess I've either been in this fandom too long, or don't really care what other people think (or both) enough to worry about what to label myself. Furry, brony, that bitch over there... all of them work for me!
See, I think she liked the "homeless vagabond" part of it, prior to meeting Starlight (where she either cut down on travel or stopped entirely). Her dad works in Las Pegasus with his
husbandbusiness partner, and unless there's really bad blood between him and Trix, he could've gotten her a gig there easily. But she liked traveling around, spreading her name far and wide. What happened in Boast Busters damaged her reputation enough for her to seek alternate employment and revenge, but I don't think it sent her on the road to begin with.My personal headcanon is that it was probably Limestone. My less happy headcanon is that Trixie basically used her though, given that Trixie was still a unrepentant jackass at the time and Limestone seems like she hasn't had much good happen in her life. Trixie doesn't seem to have any prior history with Maud from the interactions they have in the show. Marble maybe, but I still would bet on Limey first.
Amen to all of that (including cowardly toy company). Trixie can still be Great and Powerful while still having a stable job and home life. We all can.
It's hot in an endearing way. Definitely grew on me from S6 on.
Oh, no rush! I figured as much. I also usually prefer to work on my own stuff before reading and commenting on other things, although I have slowly managed to trim at my massive Read It Later list. Somewhat. I'm sure you'll have a lot of interesting things to say when you get around to 'em.
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Dude, have you read those terrible words I posted? It's way too specific to be about what you or anypony else thinks of me! It's about what I think of me! (Again, the whole rationalization thing!) But maybe your point is that I shouldn't care about what I think of me either.
I agree, she enjoyed homeless vagabonding and it was that it was ruined for her after Boast Busters that made that life tragic, not the life itself. But it's kind of funny that my headcanon is the exact opposite of yours. Her alive gay dad refused to get her a gig at Las Pegasus, and that is what caused the bad blood between them and Trixie to be so full of that delicious angry energy at the world.
Aww, if she would hurt Limestone, I don't want to imagine what she'd do to poor Marble! Getting hurt by a relationship gone wrong with Trixie would dovetail nicely with either of their personalities expressed after that time in the canon, too. So maybe she hurt both of them at once? Maybe a love triangle gone wrong? This is fun.
Yes. I must convince myself of this.
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Essentially, yeah. I just find this to be a really harmless way to spend my time, all things considered, so I have no self-judgment entangled with it. But that's probably more due to the years of (unrelated) therapy I've had, rather than anything specific about the magic gay horses, so take it with a grain of salt. In any case, however you rationalize it, just keep doin' what you're doin'.
Oooh, that's an interesting divergence of headcanon. It's always fun to trade these. Trixie has a chip on her shoulder one way or the other. I personally pin it on her failure to get into Celestia's school (comic canon), as well as her being a spoiled only child, but your explanation makes a lot of sense too.
As unfair as it is to Limestone and Marble, I like the way you think. Might have to steal this at some point in the future...
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Ooh, fun, I get to clarify again! My rationalization isn't taking me from a negative self-judgment for liking the magic gay horses to being okay with it. It's taking me from being resignedly okay with it to thinking of it as reinforcing some positive self-conceptions I have and a part of my identity that is very important to me, making me even more healthy and cool.
Ooh, ooh, make sure to have this explain why Marble doesn't really talk. Maybe Trixie said her voice is bad and nopony should ever hear it or something, something to really hurt her emotionally in a way that kind of makes me sad thinking about it and I'm the one writing this sentence.
EDIT: Actually, I might want to do this idea. Mine will just involve Marble/Trixie though, and not the love triangle, so we can both do our things.
EDIT 2: There are literally 0 Marble/Trixie OR Limestone/Trixie shipping fics out there! We've struck uncharted gold, baby! Demand/Supply ratio is literally infinite!
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Oh geez, my bad for getting confused. Didn't mean for you to have to clarify again. In that case, your rationalizations make sense in the bigger picture of recontextualizing/affirming things that are important to you. That actually is pretty healthy and cool, no joke. More power to ya.
Geez, way to twist the knife. Although, I think you could easily characterize Marble as essentially mute from the beginning, whether by birth, accident, or some unresolved psychological issue. If you look at the transcripts for Hearthbreakers and Best Gift Ever (the only episodes she appears in) she has no real lines (just "uh's" and "mm's"). Maybe Trixie found this charming at first, but weaponized it when she was being a total bitch and stomping poor Marble's heart into the dirt? (God, what is wrong with me?) I could see her doing something like that between Boast Busters and Magic Duel.
Also, if you haven't read Damp Rocks, you should check it out. I don't agree with every choice the artist made, and the comic was sadly left unfinished, but it adds an interesting take on Trixie's time on the rock farm.
I have a couple of vague ideas for Limestone/Trixie anyhow, so I will gladly accept this trade.
Yet another market to corner!
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Oh, it gets worse! The Rock Farm is so isolated that Trixie is the first available mare close to Marble's age not part of her family she has ever spent any significant time around after puberty. So Trixie is Marble's first crush, with all of its soul-destroying power unleashed on a mind that hasn't even developed the rudimentary immune system one does from schoolchild crushes in our world. Trixie manipulates the eff out of her, and stomps her into the ground at the end hard! (Whatever is wrong with you is clearly also wrong with me, I feel like I just excitedly described a kitten-stomping video).
Looks fun, thanks!