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"...he had a little bit of talent, and some of the concepts he wrote about were a little bit interesting. "

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ive been waiting for this!

Maud didn’t have a concrete answer.

More of a flaky Shale answer at best.

Trixie had thoughtlessly given lots of ponies the ability to kill her. Did that say something about her? Should it concern her that she had been so lackadaisical with her own life? Was this a manifestation of some kind of deep trauma, or was she just a dumbass?

:rainbowlaugh:

A strange story whose Trixieish presentation belies its Maudly emotional core. Thanks for sharing.

There's a lot of things here that don't fit with season 6 and onwards of the show and I can't tell if that's because you didn't see them or because this is fanfic and that doesn't matter. But inb4 nitpicks.

This should go in the contest, yes?

daaaaaannnnnnggggg

this was good. Probably the best MauXie intro I’ve read.

Everything good is there except the decaf coffee. Where is the decaf coffee

hello! you should have already been PMed about this, but this comment is just to record that this fic has won Best MauXie and Fifth Place n the StarTrixMaud Shipping Contest!

Then the bottom of her wagon fell out, after she loaded it with hundreds of brand new Trixie™ t-shirts. She managed to haul them all to her show anyway, but only sold three out of five hundred. The numbers shocked her. Didn’t ponies want to wear her face on their bodies?

the ™ really sells this

It was no wonder at all that the most famous magicians were earth ponies or pegasi. When someone can’t use real magic, it’s easy to impress the crowd. But for a unicorn to make ponies believe that her fantastic tricks had nothing to do with her horn? That took showponyship.

this is because Trixie is the most galaxy-brained pony of all, to use real magic to perform fake magic. i love her

This was unusual, because Maud had never spoken to Trixie before. She was

canon (sadly)

So she had to agree to Trixie’s request. How else could she figure out why she agreed to Trixie’s request?

aww! hope she figures it out

Trixie was speechless for a moment.

“Well, I’ll see you then.”

“Yes.”

this made me laugh despite myself

“I’m supposed to lie.” Maud had a way of asking questions without putting question marks at the end of them.

oh hey that's what i do!

Trixie had thoughtlessly given lots of ponies the ability to kill her. Did that say something about her? Should it concern her that she had been so lackadaisical with her own life? Was this a manifestation of some kind of deep trauma, or was she just a dumbass?

definitely runs the gamut of all the ways to analyze Trixie's character in No Second Prances, very nice!

“Razzmatazz is lying for the benefit of the audience. Is that what you were doing just now?”

ah, that Maud perceptiveness, very good

“Not even the lies are getting to you?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“They aren’t for me.”

really channeling that us-against-the-world chemistry Maud had with Starlight in Rock Solid Friendship, very nice touch

Trixie realized that ‘friends’ wasn’t what she wanted to be with Maud.

and very thematic, for Trixie to learn to not lie to herself about this, at the end!


a lovely MauXie, with Trixie's ridiculousness and self-denial breaking on the rocks of Maud's perceptiveness and candor. the contrast between their personalities was delightful, as was the out-of-placeness of Maud in Trixie's world. fantastic dry humor throughout, too. this could have been tagged "Comedy" if that tag didn't have the association of being for lighter stories. really great stuff, thanks for writing it!

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