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Cackling Moron


"Fluff" in the same way what collects under the sofa is fluff.

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This story is a sequel to Crowded house


Horse invasions continue, though they're accepted now and all is well. The human has invaded in return, after all. They have an arrangement. They don't particularly want to define it, but they do.

Then something slightly new happens. Only slightly, but still.

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I am the gadfly of inspiration.

‘Hello? Nine-nine-nine? Yeah, the magical horse is poorly. Mane isn’t wafting how it’s meant to. Hmm? What’s that? Wasting time? Pressing charges? Well, the same to you!’

This is the most British summary ever written.

I couldn’t remember why I’d bought tealights, but I had, and this seemed as good a time to deploy them as any. The bubbles are even more of a mystery to me because I could not for the life of me imagine any circumstances where I’d get anything like them. Still, I had them, and so I used them. The ultimate result was a piping-hot, bubbly bath and a lot of flickering lights balancing on whatever flat, available surfaces I had been able to find in the bathroom.

Definitely a housewarming gift from a clever relative. Mother, likely.

“There isn’t a lot of difference between me dry and me wet as far as modesty goes,” she said. I may have frozen in place on hearing this.

“... Um…”

“Yes?” She asked, sweetly, fluttering her lashes at me.

“You know what you did,” I said, finger wagging at her.

She absolutely knows what she just did, he's right.


This was great. Soothing and goofy and all-around a pleasure.

Oh? What do we have here? More chill, wholesome sun horse and man interactions?

Is this taking place at some particular point in the timeline?

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Timeline? Place? Continuity?
S'what?
(For real though it's just meant to be a little after the last one.)

I was tidying my sock drawer when I heard hooves. Most people would probably find that unusual. Most people never bothered with their sock drawer, for one

By the time I bother to sort my laundry, I'm already out of socks or nearly so. :derpytongue2:

“Oh you know, bad day at the office,” she said breezily.

“Horses have offices? Wait, no, you were joking.

I mean, you watched the show at some point in one of the previous ones. You know full well that she's referring to an assassination attempt, because that has happened before. :trollestia:

“You’re messing with me. I’m just not sure how.”

Well, it's not the bit about being able to casually shove around the sun. The show, which you have watched, made that pretty clear.

I could never drape even half as well and it was my sofa.

If nothing else, you aren't nearly large enough. You aren't a Yankee, after all.

If I can slop water out of the bath, she most certainly could,

Body hair is quite good at that, and she has enough of it to be confused for fur. Might actually cause problems with your drain later, all that alien horsehair.

It was, frankly, heart-wrenchingly adorable to see, only offset by her being, you know, beat up and all that.

And also, for that matter, slightly enormous. She's no mere pony, after all. She can look you in the eye standing up and she's a quadruped. :rainbowderp:

Luckily for me she isn’t actually that heavy

She can fly under her own power, so she's a lot lighter than something of her size should technically be. She still has the volume and awkward shape to make lifting nontrivial, but it's not absurd the way a Clydesdale would be.

her fancy clobber. Regalia, I believe the technical term might be.

This feels a bit too American. You still sort of have a reigning monarch, after all.

It implied things. Things I wasn’t sure she should be implying about us.

Yeah, the age gap is a problem. :pinkiecrazy:

“A castle full of guards would probably do a better job of creating a sense of safety and security, just saying.”

"Tell me you've never seen my so-called guards in action without telling me you've seen my so-called guards in action." :trollestia:

“I did that, once,” she said.

“You’re not joking, are you?”

Probably a reference to moving out of Everfree Castle on account of the bad memories therein.

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Like we give a shit about the king...

Stello #7 · May 7th · · ·

Gasp! He has RETURNED! :pinkiegasp:

Pretty cute stuff as always, hooray. :yay:

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Fancy seeing you here.

Stello #9 · May 7th · · ·

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I'm just looking through stories to find your name popping up for the ones that I find interesting lmao. Good day to you, even if it's through works you've happened to proofread a few years ago! :trollestia:

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Oh my. Are you looking at one of Nyronus's works, or High Score? :rainbowlaugh:

Stello #11 · May 7th · · ·

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Gasp! How'd you know! :pinkiegasp:

The latter. Finishing it was a tragedy that I will never recover from. :ajsleepy:

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I'm literally working on High Score right now, heh.

I’ve been missing your writing. I just started rereading your works just yesterday.

Delkan #15 · May 7th · · ·

cackling for the love of god tag your stories right /j
cough romance tag cough

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Pffbt, yeah, I'm gonna start now!

You'll be saying I should have artwork next. Madness!

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Rereading?! You poor soul!

Nice to see your work again, Moron~!

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Sure, but his mom was cool and most people should still remember her.

EDIT: There's a reason I only said you "sort of" have a reigning monarch, and it wasn't the lack of actual power.

Actually, I don't quite understand when people say that Cackling characters are British or that it's British humor exactly. anyone care to explain?

Tbh, to me the guy feels like someone on the autistic spectrum or neurodivergent person. It reminds me a lot of my own thought processes.

By the way, lovely mood as always: still love how all your characters have that weird sense of tone. Even when the guy is dense he seems so stoic about it that he doesn't seem so at all.

Glad to see you still writing! Great story as usual and I'm happy this series is still being updated. See your new chapter makes me want to go back and reread your other works again.

They're adorable.

I never get tired of the way you write Celestia.

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I'll take a random crack at that. I'll make the wild guess when those somebodies are referencing British humour in general, there are likely referring to dry, deadpan, dark and often self deprecating aspects of that humour along with sarcasm and irony.

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Thank you for your response! I guess it makes a lot more sense now, given the general characterization. It also contextualizes a lot of things I've read/heard about Terry Pratchet and his sense of humor.

Although the nature of your response (the first part, specifically) gives me the feeling that my question could have been a social mine in itself.

5 years in the making and it comes together.

I didn’t really believe this. She neither looked nor sounded alright to me.Didn’t really want to force the issue though. This isn’t my wheelhouse. Remonstrating? Yes. Looking after people who’ve clearly been through some sort of a wringer? No.

Missing a space

Also where's the story where he goes to her place as it said the previous one was where Cadence made him breakfast?

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Deliberately unwritten, for a lark.

Crow is happy for this shiny to be found today, your way of writing is a treat. CAW

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