“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” - Patrick Rothfuss
Fluttershy would like to be a tree. She said so once, long long ago.
On her last night, a tree answers.
Written for the Arboreal Yearnings Contest, which it won!
Featured 2/28/2023 - 3/3/2023!
Featured in Equestria Daily's 28 More of the Best Fluttershy Fanfics to Read for Fluttershy Day! on 4/28/2023!
Reviewed by Loganberry in the blog Louder Yay!, earning a four out of five stars rating!
And now with a reading by The Mystery Fluttershy Fan!
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... And? That's it?
I'm convinced! How does this petitioning process work?
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No idea! Step one would be trying to figure out how that happens because I've never bothered before.
This is a delightful little story. Very poetically written. I do wish there were a little bit more of it, but I can understand why there isn’t.
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Your best bet is probably either to go into the Fimfic Discord and ask for it in the site help channel, or to try directly contacting someone on site staff. Majin Syeekoh’s a good sport for this sort of thing, usually. I’d try him either way you decide to go.
11518621
IIRC, The Red Parade and a couple other authors successfully campaigned to get Fiddlesticks a character tag a while back; might be worth asking them.
Great story, by the way!
T-man, this was a great story from start to finish, and I agree with you: Tree of Harmony needs a character tag.
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I agree there should be a time skip to her proud tree life or something. And is the tree of harmony killing it's very new sense of self for her. I'd think it would make her a young sapling. I do like the harmony though of Fluttershy becoming an avatar of harmony though considering her attachment to discord.
It's great... But I think I'm a shoe-in.
I even wrote a song
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Shortest story to ever make me cry. Fucking beautiful.
I'd love a sequel that is either a longer form exploration of what being the elements is like or another one-shot consisting of the reactions of the characters that care about her and ends with Discord hugging the tree of harmony or something like that.
On not this is amazing on its own.
Great job!
While this was very short, it was very good and very deep.
Lovely moment... though I do have to wonder what will happen to the emergent consciousness of Harmony after tonight. Well-intentioned as this is, it may be the beginning of the end.
Or I'm overthinking it. In any case, thank you for a wonderfully heartfelt scene. Best of luck in the judging.
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I can confirm 11518648's suggestion. Asking on the Discord was how I got the Magic: the Gathering series tag to exist... though you may be better off asking in DMs. The server's kind of a morass.
Why must you play with my emotions this way
The bit with Loyalty and Honesty is such a short sentence that feels like it holds so much more deep within..
Sweet, solemn, and well done.
Beautiful 💗 It seems the great gift the tree gave Twilight was her friends for eternity.
Very creative - hope to see more!
Read aloud for the audio version, coming soon :)
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I am absolutely honored. Thank you.
And please drop a link once it's up so I can put it into the story's long desc.
Hello! I've been reading and reviewing all the treefics, so here's yours. I'm not going to argue with the contest judges here: I think this is a worthy winner. Satisfyingly imaginative, bittersweet and haunting. Liked and favourited.
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Thank you! I actually had the blog pointed out to me a few days ago - it's already notated in the description.
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So I see -- thank you! Still, I like to give a courtesy note to everyone whose story I feature in my reviews, so I hope you don't mind the duplication too much!