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Pinkie is extremely unsettled when the words comprising the story she's in are suddenly replaced by emojis.


An entry to Bicyclette's A Thousand Words Contest under the Experimental category. I'm also somewhat generously going to call it Humor.

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Only Pinkie would get into a bizarre situation

Happy noodle/meal horse world? My Little Pony?

An enjoyably creative idea.

Re: your authorial comment about icons and words: (after testing-->) the icons may be system-counted as separate words if you put spaces in-between them. I am mentioning this in case it will be useful rather than as a criticism--indeed, one of the contest rules (as I recall) was that humor and experimental stories can break the word counts. :derpytongue2: Which I think was a great rule exception. :pinkiecrazy:

WTF did I just not read?

It feels like I'm trying to read Egyptian :trollestia:

I understood enough to follow most of what happened, though I didn't get all of it. I'm sorry we didn't get to see ๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿฆ„ and ๐ŸŒˆโšก๏ธ๐Ÿค๐Ÿด to see what they thought of the situation. Maybe ๐Ÿ‘‘โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿฆ„ or ๐Ÿ‘‘๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿฆ„ could have helped?

And I thought my comments were bad.....
:ajbemused::fluttercry::pinkiegasp::rainbowhuh::twilightangry2::moustache::raritywink:
Using emoji...
:trollestia: and I still do nothing
:derpytongue2: Eat cake

๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿฅ‡๐ŸŽต๐Ÿ”š๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌNormally I can't, but our author pal decided I should be able to for this story. You know, since I'd taken that part over for you in that one spinoff show.

I love the Pony Life reference!

If as ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ–ผ๐ŸŸฐโ…ฏ๐Ÿ—ฃ, this might be one longest stories Iโ€™ve ever read.

๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ“ฏโ˜ข๐Ÿ’ฒ๐Ÿคถ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ‘พ๐Ÿคธ๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿ‘ 

I canโ€™t even.

๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿฅ‡๐ŸŽต๐Ÿ”š

How bad of a person am think that translates to โ€œAJ loosed a prize winning, musical fartโ€?

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Lol, that second one is supposed to be that she hummed once. The first is intentionally uninterpretaable; it's Discord trolling the reader.

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Itโ€™s always ๐Ÿคธ๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿ‘  with that guy.

Nice work, ๐Ÿงป.

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ“ค๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ”š๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿก๐Ÿšฝ๐Ÿ”š๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ”š๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ”š

Does that mean what I think it does? (Pinkie Pie teleported to Fluttershy's toilet)

If only I could see emoji rather than empty boxes, I might know what the title has in it. :V

Had to read this one on my phone; a good chunk of the โ€œtextโ€ displayed as little squares of Unicode on my laptop.

In any case, certainly interesting and undeniably experimental. Perhaps a bit too meta for its own good, but it still made for an enjoyable puzzle, and the textual dialogue made for a good touchstone to keep things from going completely off the handle. All told, a fun bit of surrealityโ€ฆ though thereโ€™s an argument for exploiting the โ€œemojis donโ€™t countโ€ principle to provide a longer plot arc that could resolve the crisis.

Eh, you did what you set out to do. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.

๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿฅก๐Ÿฆ„๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ”š

i feel like "๐Ÿฆ„๐ŸŒŽ" stands for "Equestria", but then don't know what verb "๐Ÿฅก" represents. emojis "took out Equestria"?

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด

hehe, that is a cute name for Pinkie

๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ˜„

ah, "๐ŸŽ" as a "present tense" marker?

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ”ฎโ“

hehe, hard to know what "๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ”ฎ" would have been exactly in Ponish but the meaning feels clear in emoji form

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ’ฏ

aww, glad nothing's wrong to other ponies! also, Nurse Redheart, of course!

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌ

hehe, talking to herself, as Ponks often does

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐ŸŽญโ˜๐Ÿ”š

and of course she would be hamming it up in her little detective costume, classic

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ“คโฌœ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ”š

guess "๐Ÿฐ" is meant to be "quickly", but the other parts of this sentence elude me. something right angle?

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿ‘ญ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ”š

aww, Princess Twilight Sparkle's Friendship Castle! i love her

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿšช๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿ”š

hehe, i like how this is one of those dialogue tags that ends a full sentence

๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฒ

Spike!

๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ”š

augh, what is "๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ˜"? unsure of her goal?

๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„โœ…๐Ÿ“œโŒ๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿ”š

aww, Twilight's not awake by her schedule yet? or forbid entering her bedroom by her rules? that is what

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐ŸƒโŒ๐Ÿ›Œ

makes me think

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿ’งโœ…๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ”š

aww, she's busy being hard at work doing important document stuff? that is so her!

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿข๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿง๐Ÿดโ›”โ“

hehe, her asking what's wrong again, but slowly?

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ”š

there's that "๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ˜" again!

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ˆ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿง๐Ÿ“Ÿ๐Ÿ”š

hehe, very Pinkie thing to do

๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐ŸšถโŒ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿ”š

hehe, "๐Ÿค๐Ÿด" for pegasus, cute! and i guess "โŒ" is a preposition like "to", but then i would think an arrow is more appropriate there

๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ”š

ahaha aww, poor Flutters!

๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿœ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿ”š

aww, is "๐Ÿœ" her being quiet? being lost? how is a desert a verb???

๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

yay Discord

๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿฅก๐Ÿฆ„๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ”š

ah, so he knows something about "๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿฅก๐Ÿฆ„๐ŸŒŽ", interesting

๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ’ฌ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ”š

hehe, he promises that it wasn't him

๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿš€โฌ†๐Ÿ˜ต๐ŸŽฒ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ—ฃ๐Ÿ”š

ah, he made a halo appear on himself to emphasize his point? or Discord's shadow was doing something separately?

๐Ÿง๐Ÿดโธ๐Ÿ•’๐Ÿ•’๐Ÿ”š๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌI'm not going to be able to unsee that, am I?

guessing that is something so disturbing that it is somehow only communicable in emojis and not Ponish

๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด๐Ÿคข๐Ÿ”š

aww, poor Fluttershy!

๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด

yay Applejack!

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ–‹๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿ”š

haha this took me a second. and i'm not the only judge, you know! also, i don't have long hair!

๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ”š๐ŸŽ๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌNo kidding. Still, there are enough honest holdouts left kicking around to keep the new content coming for a while.

i certainly hope so!

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’ฌOur man TP here is one of the good ones, if I do say so myself!

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well that was certainly unexpected and interesting! an experimental fic if i've ever seen one, up to getting if anything much too meta toward the end, making it "experimental" in the metafictional way as well. great job!

I'm glad I discovered this. It reminds me to purchase a copy of Emoji Dick the next time I can snag a 30% off coupon for Lulu (I'd also stock up on horse fiction once I find such a coupon).

I feel sorry for the people who get tons of empty unicode boxes on their screen instead of emojis. What's even worse is when you download a story to read on an e-reader, and have to scroll through pages of random numbers. That happened to me once, as my kindle doesn't support emojis.๐Ÿ™ƒ

I always enjoyed James Corden's "Emoji News," even though I sucked at deciphering the emojis. I'm thankful for the comments explaining "what the fuq I just read," (thank you, ๐Ÿ–‹๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿ‘ฉ!) and will figure the rest of it out some day!

๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿฅก๐Ÿฆ„๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ”š

"Emojis are taking out Equestria"?

๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿค๐Ÿด ๐ŸŸฐ ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿด๐Ÿ”š

๐Ÿง๐Ÿด๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ“คโฌœ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ”š

Cupcake pony quickly left Sugarcube Corner.

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