Fan of MLP:FiM since 2013; musician who occasionally dabbles in writing. I make content related the show sometimes, and have so far written and finished one fic.
While cleaning Cheerilee's house, Sweetie Belle discovers a photo with a colt who looks an awful lot like her big sister. This leads Rarity to tell the story of how she went from a confused colt whose life didn't feel right to the famed mare she is today.
Features Rarity's parents, who don't have their own tag.
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Is discovering old photos a common thing in trans fics? I mean, I did this in mine, but I avoided getting inspiration from other stories.
Why is it almost exclusively M2F when a story like this comes up?
Is it asking too much to have a change of pace and see some F2M pop up once in a while?
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I understand where you're coming from, but I think this is hard to avoid in a show with such a bias towards female characters. Plus, it's not very nice to comment on a fic just to complain about what it isn't.
you manage to keep a nice balance between being carefully empathetic and retaining the light-hearted tone of the show. it's not easy to tread, even for a trans person writing about their own experiences. and i like the positive direction it's taking. looking forward to what's next!
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Glad to hear it! That's pretty much what I was aiming to do, and I'll be sure to continue it when I'm in the right mood.
Well, this is a contrived way to explain why Rarity is so different from the rest of her family. Meh 😐.
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That isn't really the point of this fic. I am writing this story because I find this headcanon as a whole interesting, not just to explain a few oddities about Rarity's backstory.
Huh, Trans Rarity. I really like the concept. Be prepared for a flood of downvotes though. folks just love to brigade trans stories here. Still. I really like what I've read so far, and keep up the good work.
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Thank you! There's plenty more to come. I actually disabled ratings for the exact reason you said—I really didn't want to, but floods of downvotes are just too demotivating.
This story is nice so far
this chapter was sweet. the story is pretty good so far
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Thank you! This was the toughest chapter to write so far.
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I think it's less him have a problem with this story, and more him have a problem with concept in general.
Why not just use the other tag?
i like the idea, but feels like going from 0 to 60 too fast here
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That's a fair criticism. I have been trying to even out the pace in later chapters by giving the characters more time for casual conversation, but I would feel weird about editing early chapters to match that better.
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Somepony really dont like this story because downvote every time you say something
I know is hard sometimes, and downvotes and bad coments dont help a lot, (mi first story was trash), but there a lot of ponies (or people and maybe some griffs dont know really) who can help you and give a hoof up.
Just keep up and dont let yourself down
Good story
, but make me curious what Spike say about his crush when he know, 
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I know mi grammar is bad, english is not mi main language
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Thanks for the encouraging words! I think that since I disabled ratings on this fic, people who downvote trans fics solely for being trans fics (which there are sadly a LOT of) decided that the next best thing would be to downvote every comment on them from the author, plus every positive comment on them. It's dumb and petty and I hate it, but it's either that or no comments at all.
Also, the next chapter is going to be the biggest gut punch I've ever written. Be warned.
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I like this story because while I tend to read long/big stories sometimes it is nice to just have small "comfort food".
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Aw, thanks. I'm really glad to hear that.
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You're Welcome, like I said earlier so far it is good for casual reading. An example of a short story that I like is Kingdom of Monsters where the characters one by one turn into different monsters and basically take over Equestria. I bring it up because technically it is "rushed" I still like it because of the premise.
A very sweet story
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Thanks so much! I'm glad I was able to finish it on a positive note.
Nice interaction between Sweetie Belle and Rarity. Well written and caring for a sensitive subject.
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It's my first time publishing a story about this difficult topic, so I'm happy you felt it was handled well.
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Have you seen my other reply because some how it ended up on the chapter after this?
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I did. I didn't have anything to say in response.
I had someone have this exact type of reaction at a support group that I used to attend. They had thought that I was there in support of someone else, and when I said that I was a transgender person, they could not believe that I wanted to be male. I then clarified it to them that I was a transgender woman.
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It's always fun to learn when something that happened in a fic also happened in reality. That must have felt incredibly satisfying for you!
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It was, especially since it was only about 5 to 8 months since I had started my transition.
oof, not the best sign for how Cheerilee’s life is going if her house is bug-infested
so true, now that they have their cutie marks there is no reason for them to do anything
glad Sweetie Belle is more sensible than Rainbow Dash here. though granted, not too high of a bar
aww, Rarity really had no contingency for this at all!
what Rarity meltdown would be complete without this?
aww that does make sense as their parents’ jobs
hehe that is what kid Rarity would think
very Rarity tangent, love it
aww, Rarity describing her future self!
yay! love to see Sweetie Belle getting better with cooking once she actually has some time to grow up and get better at things in general
aww, the origin of the accent, which Rarity clearly had to have deliberately trained herself to do since it’s not the accent of her parents or neighbors!
oof, hope Rarity settled the deed for it at some point or else that might come back to bite her
so true! and if flashbacks are the characters reminiscing, details are gonna get jumbled up!
oof, quite the moment for their first meeting to be about
aww, Rarity’s too young to pick up on the implications here! what a faux pas
that is ironic that Applejack had a closer connection to Manehattan than Rarity did growing up
very Rarity sentence
yay unpaid foal labor!
aww!
love the absolutely gratuitous French
never, Rarity! never think that!
oof… neither of them making the connection here!
so true
well that explains Applejack always having one around
aww! i mean it would be extra terrible to deliberately switch after such a confession (but that is transphobes for ya. ugh, this is why i imagine Equestria as not having any of them and also why i want to be there)
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Wow, it's always fun when someone comments on your fic in detail! I felt I had to make some stuff up about Rarity's parents and since there wasn't much to work with, I based it on their cutie marks.
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I had never thought about it, but it does make sense that Rarity's younger age in this scene is why she didn't put two and two together.
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Some people theorize that Applejack's hat was a keepsake from her father, but the reveal that she has tons of copies of her hat (plus Apple Bloom has tons of copies of her bow) contradicts that. As a compromise, I believe Applejack instead inherited the habit of having backup hats from her dad.
Also, Applejack never learned her mom was best friends with Mrs. Cake until The Perfect Pear. Like you said in your Chapter 4 comment, this is kids/teenagers being bad at putting clues together.
they sure do go on vacations a lot
aww Rarity, i’m sure that’s not the reason at all! but catastrophizing like this is a very Rarity trait
well i gotta hoof it to Rarity, this does sound like a very non-suspiciously Rarity reaction so she did a good job here
huh, that is certainly something to think about for a younger sibling!
aww! Rarity being jealous of a literal baby would be very unbecoming even for a teenager, but it’s clearly an expression of her deep insecurity about being trans in the end
this does sound very much like a Fluttershy sentence and problem
oh no!
yes she doesn’t have to but that’s what makes life so fun!
it is very fun that all this is just about Rarity speaking like the Rarity we all know and love
and what’s the fun in being ordinary?
i’m sure in Ponyville of all places Rarity would actually be the only one to judge somepony for this (and i love her for that)
love the gratuitous French as always
so true
in the human world one would assume a teenager stealing vanilla extract to drink would have done it for this purpose lol
so true she would never
hehe, makes sense why Sweetie Belle was the way she was around a kitchen
hehehe she definitely has a sweet tooth
aww, i guess this places the scene between the first CMC episode and the first season finale
very Rarity correction
aww, the nicest way to tell Twilight that she never learned how to not be a jerk
it does make sense that Spike, having grown up as the only member of his species among ponies, would have a better understanding of what it means to be an outsider, which i guess is also shown in the canon episode introducing Thorax. but also, very sad to see that Rarity’s secureness as a mare is still so fragile for her even after all these years!
hehe, very true to them both
it is a nice touch to bring it back around to the childhood drawing!
cute story! though i admit, i found Rarity being so jealous of literal children for so long a bit strange? some of her conversations with Sweetie Belle would make a lot more sense if they were a lot closer in age
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It pleases me to see someone remark that the lines I wrote are "very Rarity". That means I wrote her well!
I assumed that Sweetie Belle met Scootaloo before the show began, then they both befriended Apple Bloom during Call of the Cutie. But it's definitely up to interpretation.