This story is a sequel to Salmon Run
When the leaves turn golden and crisp, fried by the Summer Sun to a tender perfection, Twilight Sparkle discovers something even MORE alarming than whatever was up with the pegasi in the previous fic.
Alternate Summary: The pegasi are missing. Twilight is the only one alarmed about this, and it's up to Applejack to make things worse.
Other Alternate Summary: "Twilight learns things that outrage her and Applejack uses potato as a verb."
Written as an "intentionally-bad" sequel to Mushroom's fabulous and genuinely well-written Salmon Run for a contest in which a group of friends all wrote awful expansions to each other's stuff. When asked to comment, Mushroom had the following to say:
"I am absolutely HOWLING.
I should have known this would be stupidly brilliant. I'm genuinely angry that this is so good and creative and interesting because it's literally. This. It's potatoes.
I have a mighty need to create an image of roided out RD. Silent, you're a terrifying genius. This will genuinely, truly never leave me." -Mushroom
Art done by Mushroom immediately after their comment.
Topping the list of stories to engrave into my tombstone
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Looking forward to being able to squint and just make out the words "Do potatoes breathe?" right above your name
Howdy, hi~!
This is unbelievably stupid. 10/10 would read again. Almost want to write a serious sequel to this about earth pony hibernation and some Pegasus that’s half and half that can’t decide which one to do. Thanks for the read!
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Please do!
I honestly don't know what I just read but it did make work go by quicker 😂. This was funny
You know I scrolled through until I found this, the single greatest line ever fucking written.
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Are we talking mundane shedding like deer antlers, or is that their means of reproduction?
This was unbelievably stupid, and extremely entertaining. Poor, sheltered Twi.
Great story, couldn't stop myself from laughing. Entire train i am in probably thinks i am crazy now.
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Probably the later.
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Unicorns apparently share a lot in common with angler fish; their horn is actually an extremely sexually dimorphic reduced male that parasitises a female pony host (most commonly earth ponies during their sessile potato phase, very rarely pegasus; that is why alicorns are so rare)
This is consistent with classical art unicorns having cloven hooves. They’ve been deer pretending to be horses this entire time!