For months now, Ponyville Schoolhouse has enjoyed peace and harmony, but such tranquility can never last. A new bully has risen to power, striking fear into everypony at school, and her name is Dinky Doo! When she's not listening attentively in class, taking a test, or doing her homework, she becomes the baddest of the bad. It falls to Miss Cheerilee to set the filly back on the straight and narrow before it's too late, at least according to Dinky herself.
An entry for The Red Parade's 2023 May Pairings Contest hosted by the Original Pairings group.
Edited by: TheAncientPolitzanian
Preread by: Jymbroni and Alchemik
Cover Art by: Askpinchy on Tumblr
Featured from 05/13/23 to 05/18/23. Thank you all!
Now with a Russian Translation on Ponyfiction!
Check out the blog post on The Herd (Табун).
Translated by: NovemberDragon on FimFiction
Russian Version Edited by: Randy1974 and Nuclear-pony-Jack on The Herd (Табун)
Really cute story, I enjoyed all the fun shenanigans.
lovely! i expected tis kinda, i can't ever imagine Dinky being a bully
Absolutely brilliant. I couldn't stop laughing.
That was adorable! Excellent read!
Love the careless whisper set up!
Cutest got dam thing
I am happy.
thanks for the heartwarmer <3
oh looks like im magically better due to frienship <.< lmao :D
XD Okay, this is absolutely a Crusader thing to do. I love it.
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Glad you all enjoyed it! Sometimes, you just gotta write something short, simple, and cute.
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indeed
I could not, for the life of me, figure out where this was going until we actually got to the twist. Impressive.
Subtlety
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Fun little bit of silliness. I love how, other than her, nobody - characters, writer or readers - was buying Dinky as a bully. Not to mention how, even when she's trying to fake bad grades, she does it in a way that requires care, studiousness and diligence.
Shoulda released this today my dude, its Mother's day.
Regardless that was a nice story.
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Oh really? Nice! Tags usually spoil things.
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Spelling... my biggest weakness.
I had a lot of fun writing it and trying to get into her head of bad behavior. Smart filly, but she's still a filly.
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That was yesterday for me, but I also didn't think about that aspect when writing it. Hadn't even remembered Mother's Day was coming up when editing it. I was more caught up with Ditzy Doo discovering she's a lesbian after a relationship with a stallion than anything else with her. Also, if anyone is wondering, I wrote Cheerilee as bi.
I would love to see a sequel where Cheery and Ditzy go on a date :D
Pretty cute story, (Even if it was a little hard to follow sometimes)
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I am tempted if I can find a story in there, but if I do it'll be a while. Got Electro Swing and Unchanging Truths to get through first.
One of the prereaders actually pointed that out which sent me to the drawing board to try to clarify things as they went along. Gonna guess it was the section after the first line break where I wanted to jar the reader alongside Cheerilee since she was lost in her thoughts. Glad you still enjoyed it regardless.
Awwwww
Read it on a whim... that was absolutely adorable. I loved it.
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Thanks for giving this one a shot! Glad you had a good time.
Oh, this was delightful. I'm always a sucker for a good Best Filly story, and this was very good indeed. And I always appreciate "For peat's sake" being used as a pony exclamation. Lovely stuff all around. Thank you for it, and best of luck in the judging.
Awwww!
'Twas quite a cute story, mate!
Loved Dinky's plan for how silly it is, yet completely logical to a young filly's mind, and of course the CMC had to join in or it wouldn't have been proper shenanigans
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As I said in my blog post, Dinky is almost a cheat code for writing cute fics, but I'm glad you enjoyed my take on her. I do enjoy "For peat's sake" a lot as well as my own continuity for explaining why "For Pete's Sake" could exist in this universe. From my undetstanding, it derives from St. Peter, so gotta figure out how to substitute those cultural artifacts we take for granted.
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And we can't forget "Sweet Celestia!" in place of "Jesus Christ!"
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Yay! the premise was belivable. I don't have kids, so I had to run the fic by Jymbroni who is a father of two to help check a few things for me in the prereading. Wouldn't have been as good without his help.
Such a vile, irredeemable monster. To tartarus with her.
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I will gladly give you a thumbs up for this, and a moustache!
I quite enjoyed this tale, and its well-meant mischief.
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Okay where did you find that link? Also sequel or a epilogue to this.
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I will wear it well.
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Thanks for giving my entry a read as well. Good luck in the May Pairings contest!
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From my reply to ThePeer:
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Awww, what a cute ship.
Hmm. Dinky created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the double dare, and going right for the throat.
Well, that IS a big plus, Cheerilee, admit it.
I'm surprised Cheerilee didn't catch on to what the intended plan was sooner. I figured it out the moment it became clear Dinky wanted Cheerilee to meet with Ditzy.
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Thats' just how BAD Dinky is! Rebel!
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1. Cheerilee doesn't have [Romance] tags to look at.
2. Catching on too quickly puts the story in a failed state/makes the story less interesting.
That's hilarious 😂
She feels better but you are killing me XD
Hahahajahasn i give up!
Habe your like! Please i surrender 🤣
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I'm happy to see that my dumb jokes landed.
Thank you for the like, the laughter, and for enjoying the fic!
It is a very cute ending but also a shame the humor had to back to back seat ;p
I will take a peek if you got more comedy somewhere 😀
This is phenomenal. Made me laugh. Almost made me cry. It made my heart feel warm and that's about the best compliment I can give.
How I wish there was more coming, but I guess I'll have to just check out your other stuff.
Wonderful short.
Oh that was a pretty wholesome read ^^
Both extremely funny and very heartfelt, another great work Rego! The CMC carry the jokes in the background, and Dinky's extremely sweet for her age
I don't know if it may have been the music I was listening to at the time, or maybe the complete coincidence that I've been crunching down on the equivalent to academic horseapples the past few weeks. But holy moly, a faux bullying cry to get two adults to reconnect and have one realize they might've not been their best self to a previous friend was a nice way to bring it about.
AND THEN IT WENT WHERE I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING, OH BOY
Loved it, thanks for writing it, as always
I really loved this. It was unbelievably sweet- and I always enjoy seeing how people write Cheerilee. A lovely read :)
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheerilee needs more love!
Hehe. That was rather cute ending reveal. Daww
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I'm glad you enjoyed it! I always want to make sure I earn the cute warm fuzzies rather than just jumping straight into them.
Huh. Not everyday I come across a ship i've never seen before. Cute story.
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I do tend to write odd pairings (see any of my other romance stories for proof), but this one was honestly surprising to find that no one had shipped these two specifically before. I did a search before writing this and unless I missed one or it's an unmentioned aspect of a different fic, I did not see it. Finding a cover with both characters proved to be impossible as well.
Thanks for reading!