Storm
The skies over Ponyville were dark. This was highly unusual to happen by itself, much more so on a warm Tuesday morning, and even more so just a few days after the last thunderstorm. One pony in particular wouldn't react even if the Sun came crashing down onto Equestria, though seeing the weather unfold filled her with an odd glee. She quickly dashed back into the library and into the kitchen. She knew exactly what to do and when it had to be done. Humming a gay little tune to the empty room, she used a combination of magic and hooves to simultaneously operate the stove and portion about two cups of milk. As the liquid was set and the time for another game of waiting had come, she gazed out the window. There was nearly no sound save for a crackling fire somewhere in another room and the gentle tapping of raindrops on said window. Her dearest would return soon, she never took too long after each storm broke out.
Indeed, just after boiling point had been reached and she'd filled the milk into two white-spotted red cups and added cacao powder to both, there was the sound of a heavy door falling shut coming from behind. Leaving the drinks steaming where they stood, she bolted back to the main room and tossed her arms around the neck of the prismatically maned mare who had just arrived, only to recoil once she realised that her love was soaking wet.
"Heh, sorry, lemme just," Rainbow Dash began, but before she could actually finish her sentence, a selection of fireplace-warmed towels had floated their way towards her. She took one of them and wrapped her mane in it while the others gently rubbed her down. "Thanks. Can't imagine what I'd do without you, you're always so thoughtful and... stuff."
"You wouldn't know how much you do for me," Twilight before tossing the used towels onto a designated rack far away from any kind of paper and going in for a quick, but nevertheless sensible kiss. "Mh, you taste bitter. Had only a hay sandwich all day again?"
"Y'know, I gotta be agile and back up in the sky as quickly as possible. For Ponyville's good," Rainbow defended herself.
"Didn't doubt that for a second. Come on, I made something to change that - or, actually, you stay right here, warm up the fire for me, I'll go and fetch them." Resuming her tune, Twilight pranced back into the side room, pleased to find that the cups had hardly lost any of their warmth, before coming back into the main chamber with them floating beside her just a little too fast for safety. Luckily, their contents remained where they were until she reached Dash who, by this point, was stretched out on her side, exposing her belly to the fire's blessed warmth as much as possible. "Cold out there?" the unicorn teased while setting down the drinks and laying down nearby.
"Scheduled to be a perfect two degrees above freezing point and manufacture didn't disappoint. Would ya believe that? Two! How do they expect ponies to fly in such weather or even build it?" She sat up and took an initial sip of chocolaty goodness. "I swear, I ain't workin' again until they make that difference at least twenty degrees. Kelvin, of course."
"Of course. What else would you use?" Now that she too could feel the physical warmth as opposed to simply the one she always experienced in the pegasus' proximity, Twilight had to admit that it simply melted away a pony's pride, and rolled onto her side, pressing the back of her head into her friend's flank.
"Sparky, I still deal daily with ponies who insist on Fillyheit. Impractical dumbheads." With a spare hoof, Rainbow began to slowly stroke her lover's mane, to which said pony always responded with something Dash insisted was literally purring. She didn't disappoint this time either. "You're not like that. I know, that's obvious, but... still."
Twilight didn't respond. There was no need for further conversation, they were both content with simply laying next to each other, staring into the flames, always slightly shuffling in order to increase contact between their bodies. After an eternity of silence which was broken only by their hot breaths and the sound of Dash's successful work outside, the pegasus had to get something off her chest, "Sparky?"
"Hmm?"
"It's just, you're always there for me. Since that storm tore up my cloud house and I showed up soaking at your doorstep..."
"Much like today," Twilight intercepted. "Everypony would do it. After all, it's just a night until you can rebuild your own home, right?" She let out a giggle that stood to rivalry for the most adorable thing Dash had ever heard. "Besides, I'd say I'm getting something pretty awesome in exchange. Oh, but ignore my manners, keep going."
"Yeah, about that, but also everything else you did for me, without asking for a thing." For some reason, despite the fact that all that should be awkward had been said and done long ago, Rainbow felt that she was fiddling with her words as a young filly would. She liked to blame it on her friend's aura, always putting her to awe simply by being there. She felt insignificant, unworthy to even speak to her, and her tongue certainly obeyed that sensation. "I really appreciate that. Don't ever leave me."
"No worries. After all, staying with your friends is what the Element of Magic is all about, right?" the unicorn teased. It was that attitude of hers, that constant refusal to take things seriously that made Rainbow Dash want to hate that wonderful filly, yet only reinforced her actual emotions for her. She'd only stumbled into this relationship, but now she could not imagine a thing in the world which she'd trade for it.
"Oh, be quiet and kiss me," Dash said before bending her head down the remaining distance. It tasted sweet as nectar.
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You may not believe this, but this is actually my first attempt at writing something anywhere near as... this.
Christ, call M-W, we've got a new definition standard for buckety. "This."
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to writing fics with actual content.
I hope I'm getting my point across. I don't like such fics. I have no practice with them and don't intend to gather it. Judge it as such. Then again, you're either going to suck my candy on it or see it critically. In a way, you could even call this an experiment.
Oh well. Intrare massarum.
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i like it
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Relevant.
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2078116 I no rite.
Well, experiment run and data gathered. It, in fact, does not matter shit what you write, the success of your stories depends directly on your slaves count. That is, unless you write OC clop.
I'll go back to my novel now, right?
*sneezes* I think my allergies are kicking in.
I didn't daw but I did enjoy reading this.
I say good job. Good job.
"Sparky, I still deal daily with ponies who insist on Fillyheit. Impractical dumbheads."
Do I smell something burning? Muahaha. But why did you use Kelvin? Celcius is way more used, even though they're practically the same.
2206714 They're literally the exact same... except for those 273.15 difference and that Kelvin is a set unit, not degrees.
Yeah, I love bashing Americans. And yes, Celsius is more common (it's the common measurement in my country, as in literally every other civilised), but imagine the following: A world in which there never was anything but Kelvin and thus people (or ponies) are simply used to that. Wouldn't it be a perfect world?
Also, I'm a chem student. Go figure.
(The fun thing is, Celsius is actually pretty common in chem as it performs well for basically anything but the ideal gas law. But the physics prof will hit you if you even think of Celsius.)
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Yep, Kelvin as a standard would be pretty cool, even though it might be annoying to say 283 instead of 10 degrees. Then again, you'd be used to that if it were a standard.
I have a question. Why did this show up as 28 notifications when it was added to The Fillyfoolers?
2206727 Ah yes, physics revolves around Kelvin, except in Astrophysics (~273 degrees is neglegable). Especially in Nanotechnology/Quantum, the units come out properly with no conversions neccessary.
But enough about physics and my adventures with it, this story was well written, the nickname Sparky that I like so much in TwiDash is present, and the dialogue is different to others I've read, but fits well. I commend you on a great story, looking forward to more from you.
2210208 I added a lot of my stuff there at once, due to forgetting about groups for a while. Boy, was I mistaken (this fic was originally at something like 15:7)
2210454 If the units don't check out, you're not doing real physics. Period.
Wait, others use that nickname as well? C+D! I totally invented it!
Yeah, I basically set it that, whenever I write TwiDash, that is the name she uses for Twilight, in reference to an eh work of mine which may or may not share that name, which in itself is based off of a slightly awesomified trailer to be found here.
Hooray, universal coincidences!
Different dialogue, eh? As in, not filled with slime and floating hearts? Burrrrrn... yeah, anyhow.
Oh yes;
-Slightly reduced LUS in this fic. Somehow, I just came to an illumination about that. Not that I don't still think that repeating names twenty thousand times is stupid and am thus simply going to write fitting spots to insert LUS... as if those existed.
2212127 I was talking more along the lines of Fahrenheit is bad for Thermodynamics and such.
Also, the name Sparky, not just from your story Sparky, I think someone on dA used it too.
I kind of think you should have scratched the very last line but... sweet short story nonetheless^^
Either you or someone else put this in the Incoming folder for Twilight's Library. To be honest, I'd read it previously, and felt a little meh about it.
My main issue was that when I was reading this fanfic, it felt rushed, and the ending seemed rather abrupt. In my opinion, it could have used to have been longer and more descriptive, spending more time on the scene. I also couldn't help but wish that you'd actually written about Rainbow's cloud house being destroyed and her turning up soaking wet on Twilight's doorstep, rather then just mentioning it offhand. That actually sounded like a more interesting story to me, unfortunately.
I suppose I do prefer more content with my fanfic, or at least more time spent on the lack of content, and the backstory more fleshed out. Oh well. It is still technically well written, doesn't really fit into any of the reasons to reject it, and I didn't really actively dislike it. I'll go ahead and add it into Twilight's Library.
2241569 Huh. Thank ya kindly then.
I didn't actually mean to put it into the library, seeing as it's just a oneshot to prove that d'aww beats story development (experiment successful, by the way.)
It could've been more, but it was never intended to be.
If you want fleshed out plot, I suppose you could try Splitting aMid the Night by me. I don't think I submitted it to your group because Twilight is only a main character, not the.
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Heh. Maybe that unpublished fic I'm near the end of chapter five of will do well, then. It's got a plot, but I keep finding myself writing d'aww scenes between Ditzy and Scootaloo as the plot inches forward.
And don't worry, despite the name, Twilight's Library doesn't actually specialize in Twilight-related fanfiction. Otherwise I wouldn't have a folder dedicated to Scootaloo, for example. Think of the group as being more what Twilight's library would be like if she was obsessed with reading mlp fanfiction.
And it's quite possible someone else put it in. Pretty much the way the group works is that I (or other admins on occasion) add fiction I like to it, and other members of the group fiction they like (usually their own, in my experience) to the incoming folder. Eventually an admin looks at it and decides whether to allow it into the main group or not.
Think of it was being a point somewhere between no rules at all, and equestria daily.
As far as "Splitting aMid the Night", I'll stick it in my read later list. Unfortunately, that's pretty large, but it'll be there. For some reason, "An unknown sensation" doesn't show in your list of stories, btw...
2243548 Ah yes. I must have been thinking of the Twilight Sparkle group. Once you're pretentious enough, there are a lot of groups to which you gotta submit your stuff. Why are there even like ten notewothy Twilight Sparkle groups?
Aus (That's an abbreviation) doesn't show up because I unsubmitted it. It's old, its canon is no longer followed, and I hate it. My first work. Fittingly shit. I don't want to have people judge me by it.
Also, I stuck you some of my good stuph, including SatN for convenience, into the group. You're welcome.
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Beats me on the names. I flippantly dubbed my group "Twilight's Library" back when it was just a group for two of us to organize and share fanfic we liked. Somewhere along the line, two people became two hundred, resulting in my suddenly leading this thing. And I know what you mean on the plethora of Twilight Sparkle groups, since my first fanfic had her as a main character. Since then, I've only used her once, and that's as a supporting character...
And I can understand on Aus. The blog post you have linked on SatN still lists it as recommended reading before reading SatN, though. Might want to update that.
And I'm in process of recruiting some new admins to help handle the Incoming folder, so one of us should go through those. There are about 40 fics in there at the moment, though, and some of them are pretty large.
Nice, but it didn't feel complete.