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If she wins, it's a date. If Flurry Heart wins, they hang out. Rising Hope is worried about what the difference is, but she's going to try her hardest anyway.
Written for Pride Month, and for the A Thousand Words Contest II in the slice of life category. Find the other entries here!
Art is a commission by the incomparable Mutter_Butter! Preread by the lovely Perfectly Insane! Inspired by the Horslips song Dearg Doom!
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"I'm not sorry!"
The pride disliking bigots are crying from this one. it was a nice story :) sweet and short.
🖤💜
Love comes in many forms.
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I was wondering why such an innocuous story had so many downvotes.
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Happens every year. Even when the story doesn't bash you over the head that one side is right, and you're a homophobic asshat if you think otherwise, like this one.
Clicked out of curiosity...
I will now dispense my pointless drivel that will likely make people not like me:
If he wants grandchildren, Shining should just have another kid.
What are the odds he won't get some eventually?
I joke, I joke... kinda...
For some reason I feel Slightly offended by how it presents Shining... "mom had to explain it to him a few times..."
Also, to me it's not really "Lame"... but I understand why kids would say that I suppose... I still feel like the wording is... off. In contrast that bit about Shining wanting what's best for her right after that was nice to see. Bloodlines are important to many people as well so it was a bit nice to see the part about him wanting grandchildren.
I don't know about self-diagnosis...
But as a possible Ace or Demi myself, I can kinda get it... but I wonder if that is it or she just needs to form a bond with "the right pony" first...
Don't agree with the comments calling others bigots for downvoting, but I'm not here to chime in on such things. Just wish to make myself understood.
Edit: I realized that it was pointless for my to talk about length because it was specificly locked to 1000 words. I apologize. I sometimes don't realize I made a mistake before I hit send. I will remove that bit.
This is a cute story. Why are people downvoting I actually do not understand.
It's always nice to be able to find someone that helps one understand a difficult to comprehend notion. Excellent short little story, thank you very much.
A fun little romp and I totally get where Flurry is coming from, especially having experienced it myself being Ace. Though I'm not Aro.
Only gripe I would say is that I think you could've budgeted your words a bit better. Little less fencing, bit more concise wording. You got the message you wanted to deliver across though, so have a like to counteract the "strange" amount of downvotes you're getting on this one. My guess would be they didn't even bother reading it and just saw "Pride Month" and went for the dislike button instinctually.
So many dislikes…..
This comment section looked like a random drone strike-ed middle east hellhole, wow!
Weeeeeeeeeee…… 💥 fuck yeah🦅
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If she's demiromantic and/or demisexual then forming a bond with someone could lead her to feel attraction for them, but from how she was talking I definitely got the impression that she's aromantic asexual.
I don't know if you're already familiar with them or not, but you might want to check out the AVEN forums at asexuality.org. There are a lot of people there who are looking for support/guidance as they "self-diagnose", and the community is very nice.
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Because some people are bigoted idiots.
Edit: the bunch of downvotes proves my point. Cry some more, you hateful losers.
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As a straight person who has noticed there seem to be more gay shippings on this site than straight ones, it surprises me too. I always thought this site was super welcoming of Pride members and that most of the community identified somehow because I see so many lesbian shipping fanfics or gay shipping fanfics being released I didn’t think anyone had a problem with these people (I’ve even referred to this site as LGBTQ+ dominant). I’m not gonna read this story, but I was intrigued by the large amount of dislikes and wondered if the comments had an explanation...
You know… maybe I will read this. Perhaps there’s something people aren’t noticing that maybe a straight person will notice… I don’t even know 🤷🏻♀️
This was indeed a cute story. Wholesome, not too in your face, and that last bit was funny too! 😂 It seems at that point Shining didn’t even care if the date was a stallion anymore (to make grandkids) “just get fricken married please even if it is a mare!” 😂 (she can adopt some grandkids for him 😊)
I know this will get downvoted no matter what because every comment did, but it is a genuinely cute story and, again, it doesn’t end in any kissing or love action, just a simple rejection and hang out later as friends. The story hardly even counts as romance in the end.
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More likely, one or two bigots using a pile of fake accounts
I read this and it was cool and I liked this. Sometimes I feel like Flurry sometimes, too, but it’s hard to tell if that’s me or just the medication I’m on.
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People are dumb lol. A great story with no problems but people are such assholes that they downvote anyways. Grow up
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I'm straight as well, but all of my characters are lesbians (even if it's never shown, they are). Call me weird 🙃. Hell, I usually have Twilight start straight, but change at some point. Or even be into mare her entire life in some stories.
Bring me your downvotes, salty trolls. I never cared about getting them anyway.
Nice to see some aromantic representation, it's not really something I've seen in many stories I've read on here :p
The story was cute and concise, and the ending was quite funny
All in all, I enjoyed the story
Cheers mate, and don't let bigotry discourage you from writing!
Definitely did not go the way I was expecting (I thought Flurry was going to come out as a lesbian at first), but it's nice to see some aromantic rep all the same. As someone who is aroace, this was sweet and cute and I can definitely relate to it. Brava!
Hey why are people disliking this? I like it!
Here's to good representation! Cute and concise, well done. n_n
so true
ahaha
skill issue
oh that is ironic! and oof, yeah, i am sure Flurry has heard that a million times at this point
ahaha, so Flurry is talking about her dad when he could very well be within earshot! classic. and yes, love the irony of Flurry Heart being aroace, which just means she has to decline romantic overtures from every gender of pony for who knows how long as a young alicorn princess. and happy Pride Month, two months late, or three months by the time you read this!
Cadence’s child being aromantic is—
Yes, thank you, Rising.
Lovely little tale. Impressive work in fitting both a fight scene and a heartfelt conversation within this word limit. And Shining continuing to play matchmaker is the kind of adorkability I love to see from him. All in all, a delightful read. Thank you for it.
Aro flurry, hell yeah. I envy her realizing early on
btw, Shining's lucky to be a very lovable idiot