While Twilight Sparkle and her friends are off saving the day, Starlight Glimmer is at home in the Castle of Friendship taking care of a bunch of ponies driven from their homes.
Including several farmers.
And, because this is Equestria, their livestock as well.
To be fair, they're considerate house guests...
... all but one.
Bronze medalist for Humo(u)r in the Thousand Words contest, written in haste.
Audiobook by the Mystery Fluttershy Fan here!
Part of the Remember Fort Libris print anthology, thanks to our Kickstarter supporters!
Chapters (1)
This. So much this! Or chicken legs for me.
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I know right?
Little surprised it didn't end via Starlight having to apologize for vaporizing the attacking rooster, but that would've been less funny.
This picture...
It's so....weird. it freaks me out
Dwl this gave me a good laugh. Thanks.
When my niece was three years old, she visited us on the farm.
The rooster chased her (barefoot) into a cluster of buckburs.
We had chicken and dumplings for lunch.
Honestly? I'm impressed by Starlight's restraint. That rooster could have easily ended up a sooty smear.
Oh, and for fans of The Maretian, this is what Starlight now thinks of roosters: "Crunch crunch crunch."
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What are buckburs?
Google isn't producing any useful search results.
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sorry not sorry, I couldn;t resist
Hmmm. Non magical pony violence is hard to see.
11254407 Also cockleburs, aka the spiky grass seeds that cling to fur, cling to clothes, and stab like vicious things into unprotected skin. And a toddler's bare feet are very tender.
"I only read this because I saw there were goats in it"
11254781 There are more ornery things in the farm than goats.
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Technical term for this little (censored) is Buffalo Burr. What we commonly call it cannot be repeated in polite company. It has stickers on the stems, stickers on the flowers, stickers on the seed pods, and I swear it has stickers on its stickers.
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11254790 Ugh. That particular plant isn't among the afflictions we suffer in the Big Thicket. (Not that we don't have plenty of things with thorns on...)
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I Know, It's Just A Funny Reason For Me To Look At A Story...
*facehoof*
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Yikes. Those berries look like the business end of a morning star.
Starlight going cockadoodle do had me thinking of this cartoon by Tex Avery.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and do an Audiobook reading of this and also bring attention to that Go Fund Me.
Do not try to intimidate the tiny dinosaur. It still remembers when its ancestors considered yours something they had to scrape off their feet on occasion.
Delightful bit of madness. I can only assume Starlight brushed off any warnings with the self-assured, completely unfounded confidence of a Skylight Lightverb in the full grip of her hubris. (That or nopony bothered because they wanted to see what would happen. After all, there would be slim pickings for street theater until the Bearers did their thing.)
Also, well done/shame on you for the name of the villain.
In all, outstanding work. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
aww so true, especially when they display clearly that they're able to completely understand Ponish!
it really is! that thing is ridiculous
hehe, definitely see this kind of confident self-satisfaction from Starlight
aww, the dinosaurs in them!
hehe, this does remind me of Starlight's confrontation with Discord in "A Matter of Principals", though with a less satisfactory resolution for Starlight
ahaha, that was definitely the wrong way to go! stooping to the level of the animal/child/baby rarely is, though it's a classic comedic trope for a reason
i have to say i adore the name "Meatier Ologist" for a weather-themed Equestrian villain, it just has that right combination of silly pun and magical whimsy
aww! i can imagine normally vegetarian Equestria making an exception for chickens that are jerks, which is convenient because that is how most chickens seem to be. good source of protein for our pony friends!
i'd hate to borrow a phrase FoME owns so much but i can't describe this as anything other than "a delightful bit of madness"! Starlight was a great choice for this, and this story captures just why it's so fun to watch her deal with frustrating situations of her own making. thank you for writing!
Hello! Have a review. This was just a lot of fun, and Starlight was exactly the right pony for it. Have a like, and well done on the Bronze Medal!
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Chickens aren't half as mean as ducks, although in general the males are more aggressive.
11792966 A duck is a chicken that thinks it's a goose.
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Oh yeah, geese ARE mean. I put it down to them being flat footed and thus having constant sore feet.