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Trixie buys a mirror. She loves it a lot.
And Discord teaches Twilight a lesson.
CONTENT NOTICE: Some lines of sultry-sounding dialogue.
ERA: Season 9, before Episode 20.
- "Trixie is Terrible" Scale for This Tale: Violates Her Best Friend's Possessions, Although She Believes She's Doing it for a Very Good Reason (6 
out of 10).
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The GIF link in the Author's Note is broken.
Here, this works:
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- Thank you! It was working in my testing before publishing but you are right that it was broken at least as of a few minutes ago.
- I have revised it by linking to your corrected link.
- For all others, if the "This .GIF" author's note segment is still broken, the link provided by "The Sixth Child" works!
I am impressed you were able to provide a fix so rapidly!
Alright, I just wanted to say that I have enjoyed this and all of the stories you've done that that featured Trixie (and her "Trixie is Terrible" scale, haha). I like how you portray her and how the characters usually interact with her. Trixie is usually just so socially oblivious and self centered, unable to see how what she does affects others and their perception of her. You don't really whitewash her or flatten her rough edges, but you do manage to make her sympathetic.
I'm this story, for example, I like how in her own head she really is trying to do something nice for Starlight, but she never thinks past her first thought and self sabotages her own attempts to be a better pony. This story in particular you show just how much slack the creatures that love her have to pick up when dealing with her though, with Starlight having to walk away to maturely (I assume) process strong emotions.
I love how even in thought Trixie builds up Starlight in her head. Even though Starlight seems to dismiss it as mostly empty flattery, Trixie’s internal dialog would imply this is how she really feels. Likewise, the way Trixie talks about her mistakes is so dismissive you could assume that she thinks nothing of them. Her breaking of the vases and using Starlight's money are things she continually down plays as no big deal and that can be infuriating to have your grievances stomped all over like that... But at the end of the day she plays the game with some principle without needing her arm twisted. Maybe if things got really tough she might back down... But she seemed to fully intend to pay back Twilight and Starlight (and there is some principle in paying the "merchant" what she promised, even if her lack of respect for other pony's property is a problem).
Anyways, I could wax poetic about why I like your Trixie portrayal for far to long, so I'll move onto a couple other things.
I always like seeing Twilight as an antagonist. I feel like she's often portrayed as the perfect friend in fanfiction, so calm and collected and logical... I like to see her have weaknesses and some irrational frustration on occasion. This normally plays so well with Trixie, because their dynamic easily lends itself to Trixie being so antagonistic that she really challenges Twilight's ability to make friends with everyone. It's fun and I like to see it!
Your limber lexiconic flexing was amusing and I liked how you used it to once again both show that Trixie is trying to improve herself be reading a dictionary... While also showing that having a wider vocabulary only makes it harder for her to keep from saying all the wrong things.
All in all, a very fun story that I liked very much. Honestly there is more I could probably say... But I'm tired of typing this all out in my phone! I hope to see more from you in the future, but regardless I wish you luck on future writing and endeavors!!
Thank you for the story!
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Thank you very much for the detailed comment! It is quite motivating and well-appreciated.
- I was hoping that would be fun/useful! I may compile them into a blog entry and update it like I do my chronological-by-season index, so it may be of note to keep an eye out for that! (They are already compiled on my 'landing page'; however, I think landing pages may not be viewable on phones).
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- (I have also considered posting a fulsome index rating other authors' Trixie tales with same--that is, rating by Trixie's attitude/actions rather than quality of story--obviously there is a concern that someone might misinterpret the intent of the scale's title.
Impressive!
The comments certainly help! And if following is a thing you do, it may make it easier to find new pieces I put up (no pressure though; I suggest it because you stated the above line.
Your comment was already great!) 
what a Great and Powerfully Trixie opener! i can see why you use her so much
loved Trixie's viewpoint on the events of her past here!
this is such a great way to describe Twilight pre-accession!
the "mostly" really makes this bit here
love the metaphor for the Celestian State, as well as Trixie pointing out Sparkle's clear hypocrisy
gottem
so true and meta
all these alliterations are so great and so Trixie. it's hard not to take her side completely in all of these recountings
love it, will have to steal
i love this conflict between Trixie's desire to put Twilight's achievements down without putting down Starlight
this is a great point! makes Trixie's career change even more logical and sensible
well, that just makes the whole thing very suspicious
a very interesting aside by a possibly very oblivious Trixie
aww, this is a cute idea, and so very Trixie to take advantage of it
your devotion to the proper use of footnotes (hoofnotes?) is admirable. much more Generous and Merciful than i, who do not explain my usage of non-English languages
ha, good ponifications
nice
very Trixie to be so self-serving
dangit, Trixie!
ah, nice! guess the unknown traveling pony was not so unknown after all
ha, interesting way to maintain both proper grammar and a grammar-breaking conceit
lots of interesting things to ponder about how chirality works here
lots of interesting things to ponder about how mirror-beings work here
Mirror Trixie learns fast!
this conversation was about 80% "Trixie"s by words, which was great
now this is what i made this contest to see! very nice!
ah, love this mental image
that would be my reaction too
hehe, they are ponies! cute
that would be my reaction too
indeed she is, which makes sense canonically!
Trixie's combination of self-awareness and obliviousness is great
and Trixie continues her thing of dedicating tours to making up for her past crimes
oof, i would say!
a love triangle between Trixie, mirror Trixie, and Starlight, that Trixie interprets in her own very strange way? very nice
aww, love the cute mental image of them wearing horse blinders
very judicious use of the jump cut, and a great bonus of this fic containing Twixie in a bizarre way as well
hehe
augh, i just want to steal all of these!
so true
i hate to say it but Discord does have a point here, as endearing as Twilight's inexplicable phobia is
very nice! canonical existence of love spells and Equestria being a nice place in general never sat well with me together
it is an interesting choice to have philosophical discussions on the meaning of states and rulership in the middle of a fic about Trixie kissing herself in the mirror, and i am very here for it
hmm, meta reference to the name of the Tyrant Sparkle group?
hmm, combination of two distinct concepts in this world, or a non-binary term?
oof! having Twilight learn a genuine friendship lesson due to Discord of all creatures, that really stings
so true, but neither does she need to
nice (also FiMfic's auto-formatting feature doesn't work on color, literally unusable)
the best part is that this would have been gleaned from context but there is a hoofnote anyway
nice
the sting of the current iteration is more fitting for its place in the story
it makes sense for Trixie's tendencies to be magnified in the context of reflecting on herself being reflected in the mirror, in a feedback loop
well now i guess i'll have to keep that gif in its prominent place forever, or else this reference will no longer work!
Trixe
i must disagree with this rating, sadly, considering that this places Trixie's Terribleness lower than the 7/10 on Strangely Truculent Unicorn Portaled Inside Demesne!! but in the end, i acknowledge your authority in arbiting
This was fun and very much like, how appropriate, looking into a mere at my own writing. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone who uses as many parenthetical assides, abuses as many thesauruses, and something else that rhymes but I don't want to spend 5 minutes finessing it there are lots of other words that would rhyme here but none that immediately fit but anyway having tons of links in the story but yeah I loved it but would have liked to see a little bit more maybe where Trixie realizes her feelings and then she and starlight make out or I mean you know maybe not that last bit but you've already had a bunch of making out in this story why not have it end with some more?
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I get the feeling you might have found this a little bit quotable