Fluttershy is horrified to discover that Twilight Sparkle is positively profligate with parchment, despite the fact that it comes from animals. They have a falling out, and Pinkie Pie suggests Twilight can make it up to Fluttershy by inventing artificial parchment, which she does. But what price will our purple pony protagonist pay for provoking the wrath of the stationery-industrial complex?
Warning: May contain alliteration.
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Tragedy and comedy?
Are you trying to confuse us? We're fanfiction readers, we can't handle that level of contradiction!
First of all, I enjoyed this, found it really funny. Particularly Pinkie Pie's antics. That said there's a certain disturbing element to this story. First is the fact that Twilight apparently doesn't care herself about the rather brutal source of parchment herself, which seems rather out of character. Secondly... aren't the animals in Friendship is Magic sentient?
That bit of fridge logic aside, which I'm not sure you can do anything about, what the heck does stutfuller mean? Because babylon translator is baffled. And yes I included the umlow.
That was great though. I'm looking forward to seeing the next chapter!
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Thank you for your input!
There isn't a tag for tragicomedy, unfortunately.
People (including, I assume, little ponies) can convince themselves that anything isn't horrible simply through familiarity. This is in essence "the banality of evil;" Twilight was raised to think this was just the way things are normally done. For a real life analog, think of Fluttershy as being a vegan.
That said, for the purposes of this story, I don't interpret the animals in FiM as all being sentient, or at least, they're not on the same order as non-pony talking creatures like say zebras or griffons. (Still, one has to wonder about the talking sheep.)
Stutfüllen means "filly" according to my dictionary. It may well be an obscure term of art, however, since the dictionary gives no usage information.
This... is nothing short of amazing. I try to avoid throwing around praise and superlatives unless I think they're deserved, but for a first chapter, it had me cackling hysterically in spite of the morbid elements - without a doubt, the funniest thing I've seen in weeks! Keep going at this rate, and by the time you're done, you'll most likely have earned that overused clapping gif a hundred times over. Alliteration for the win!
1290711 I know what you mean regarding the second point... I always feel some guilt at eating meat, but I can get past that because the animals in the real world are (mostly) kinda stupid. Maybe the lambs in this story just have a horribly incompetent union?
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I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the positive feedback. I just started this sort of on a lark after being introduced to MLP:FiM by some friends and hearing Twilight mention parchment... and wondering if the writers knew where parchment came from.
I was also reminded that the sheep (unlike bunnies and squirrels) do actually talk, so, um, yeah. I guess they do have a really bad union!
Chief Sheep: ":Lets see that contract AJ... hmm. Free bed and board, payment for wool, full access to village and grounds... and of course a dental plan! Looking good!"
AJ: "Glad you like our arrangement Mr Sheep! Now if you'll just sign here..."
Ch. S. "Sure thing..." (scribble) "...wait... what's this about sacrificing every firstborn to the publishing industry?"
AJ: "No backsies!"
...
Ch. S.: "Awww."
Sheep: "Looks like we made a baaaaaad decision boss!"
Well, if you want to get technical, the hoof IS the finger. Equines, like all digitigrades, walk on their fingertips. The hart part of the hoof is the equivalent of the fingernail. Same material, too. So yes, equines have 1 finger on each foot.
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If you want to get really technical, the horse hoof is homologous to the fingernail of the third digit.
I guess it is sort of a trick question, though. And honestly if one of these things appeared in real life I think biologists would argue over it was even a mammal. (Pegasus ponies have six limbs! SIX LIMBS!) They're certainly not in the genus Equus. :)
I suppose what's ultimately relevant, though, is if it would be funnier to have her correct him or not. I'm not sure.
Well, I've not spotted any problems so far. I look forward to reading more.
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Thank you!
1291393 That was horrible. Horrible, terrible! How dare you subject us to that kind of punnage!
Anyways, this story is great. I feel like some of Pinkie's humor flew over my head, but it was still very funny! I especially liked the German accent.
Now, let's look at this next chapter...
Subtle fourth wall breakage.
Very good! The dream was pretty trippy, though.
This is nuts. Gloriously, gloriously nuts. Could have been from the show itself.
I've got the next chapter mostly written, but need to finish it at get it proofread. I've been very busy these last two weeks.
1396343 So, almost done by now?