Twilight Sparkle tangles with the most fearsome enemy since Nightmare Moon; an unfamiliar Coffee Maker.
My submission to the Thousand Words Contest, Slice-of-Life category.
Now with an audio version! Link!
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Kodeake
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Stupid word limit. It was just going somewhere
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Haha, I'll admit writing within the word limit was quite a challenge. First draft was almost 200 words over. Though this ending was not a casualty of the limit, and even if I had no limit at all I think I still would have ended it there.
did... did this get an emotional reaction out of me? yes... shh don't tell anyone. Great work!
Cute story, my gut reaction would be to place this in Comedy instead of SoL, but I understand why you chose this one instead. I really like the lines about the clock and the bed, they are great to show how unused Twiggles is to her new environment without ever needing to spell it out with these particular words.
Ha, ha. Ha, ha! It was the absolute absurdity of your premise that drew me to read your tale. And yet, this is so Twilight! Good job! Here, have a moustache:
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Honestly the potnetial comedy of this didn't even strike me until I was writing the description. Looking at it now, it feels a little disconnected from the story, but I also kind of like how it primes the reader for something silly and instead you get something rather grounded. Kinda makes you feel as off-kilter as Twilight does.
Or maybe I'm nuts. At any rate, I'm glad you enjoyed :)
Most interesting.
Tho I've gotta admit, when I saw that title I thought we finally were getting the long awaited sequal to Georg's Her Royal Morning Coffee
Very sweet. You used your 1k well. Best of luck in the contest!
Best ways of making coffee:
Stovetop/Campfire percolator, pour over pot or aeropress.
Worst ways of making coffee:
Drip brewer with a "bold" option.
French Press.
K-Cups.
Also, don't ever buy preground. Or a rotary grinder, unless you dry your own herbs or something. Only use a burr grinder at home.
Twilight needs a measuring cup, a pour over coffee maker and some filters in the correct size.
Poor Twilight lol.
sometimes i think stories don't focus enough on small unimportant things because that's most of what we're aware of in our day to day lives, but this is twilight so that could never happen
Ah a fond reminder of time at cons trying to figure out the dumb hotel Keurigs.
I prefer my extremely simple Mr. Coffee.
Then, just when Twilight figures out this coffee maker and get attached to it, Tirek happens.
I'm not a TwiDash shipper, but this great character study of Twilight has convinced me to not only upvote, but also subscribe so that I can look through more of your work. Your wordsmithing is delightful, & I appreciate how vividly it paints her feelings. Moreover, I could see this completely in character as a prequel episode or comic. Kudos to you, & I look forward to more of your stories!
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Ha, wow, that's quite the compliment! Thank you, hopefully I can live up to it.
Oh poor Twi. Glad she's got Spike on hoof.
Greetings. Your reading has been completed and can be found below. I hope you enjoy.
aww, very Twilight to be so particular about her alarm clock!
typical Twilight anxiety love it
hehe that is a nice touch
this seems quite infeasible just from a chemistry perspective, but then again Twilight does live in a world with literal magic
aww! of course anxiety horse of all horses would find difficult adjusting to such a very sudden change in her life. and it makes sense that it’s the little unfamiliar things more than the big ones, since the big ones at least feel big enough to make sense in how difficult they are. great Twilight character study, and great example of a slice-of-life. thank you for writing!
This worked quite well for me… though more as a Drama entry. We have here a portrait of Twilight in her very first days in Ponyville, forced to adapt and confront the inevitability of change after years of comfortable existence as a creature of habit who ate hay and excreted homework. Now she has to be a pony again, and she barely remembers how to do that. How better to symbolize this uprooting than denying her one of the defining accessories of the academic, a steady flow of caffeine?
Or I’m overanalyzing a rough morning as she works out the kinks of living in Golden Oaks.
Either way, good stuff. Thank you for it and congrats on the honorable mention.
Hello! I read all the stories in this contest that won recognition, so here's a review. I love "the mid-life crisis of her alarm clock". Nice characterisation and I liked the parallel with Twi's new life. A bit wordy for my taste,¹ but definitely an upvote from me.
¹ I'm probably being unfair there, since I often like wordiness and this is a Twific. Just how it read this time. I make no promises about my own logical faculties!