"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."
Honeysuckle is a flutter pony, one of many from the Sweet Apple Acres hive, and she is starving. The heat wave of a particularly bad summer has forced them to take their chances on the orchard’s dwindling apple supply, which holds the best food available for miles around. But dangers are always waiting for her outside the nest, and the young earth pony who runs the farm will not be pleased when his already meagre stockpile begins to shrink.
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This is pretty decent. Why does it have downvotes?
I mean there's not too much to go off of with this one chapter but what's there is well written and interesting and makes me want to read more.
Different. I like different.
This looks very interesting! I will be keeping an eye on it.
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Still, the comments I've received so far have been great and encouraging, and it's nice to see the upvotes turning the tide. Thanks again!
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Different is one of my favourites, too. Hope you enjoy!
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You capture in those two sentences everything I want to see in a comment. Thank you!
Poor Big Mac and Honeysuckle. Forced to go beyond what they should have to do in order to support their families. As a human with our traditional stance towards pests damaging our crops--kill them all--, I am interested to see how you have Equestrians deal with this issue. Are they the same as us, or do they take a more peaceful stance as may be suggested by what we have seen of their rather non-violent society,
I did rather enjoyed Big Mac's interactions with Winona. They made me miss my dog back home.
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Yes, one thing I wanted to get across in this fic is the fact that both sides have reasonable and understandable motives for what they do. It's just the hardness of life that makes things difficult for them. As for the rest... you'll see as the story progresses.
Well, I've released chapter two now, so it should give a bit more meat to the story. I definitely can't promise every update will come along so quickly, but I'll do my best.
so far so good
First contact, and it could have gone worse. No one was eaten by Winona or squashed under a hoof, after all.
This is good. You've got me rooting for Honeysuckle all the way through and I still don't get why it got downvote bombed right off the bat...
Fluttershy is the true queen, it was revealed with her cutie-mark, when she landed in the Flutter-pony swarm, huh?
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Glad you think so.
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On that front, I was debating over whether to tag this as dark or to change the age rating, or both. It's certainly grimmer than the usual MLP stuff, what with the threat of starvation and the way flutter pony life is depicted, but I didn't think it was right up there in teen territory.
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Thanks for the compliment. I always wonder how OCs are going to be received, so it's great to hear I did a good job on Honeysuckle.
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Unless you were making a joke, of course.
2355485 Darn, no I meant it. It's cool though, I just thought it would be clever.
That was pretty solid. I'd love to read Chapter 2, but I think I'll hold off on that until judging is complete.
I like where this story is going. And I'm glad I finally got to read chapter two. Good stuff. Do go on
This thing is roughly five and a half years overdue for an update. Much as I've resisted doing it, I think it's about time I admitted it's not going anywhere anytime soon. As of now, I'm setting the status of this fic to cancelled. I'll remove the status only if I ever actually come back to continue it.
Yes, I'm aware I'm copy-pasting a similar message on many of these old fics. But the gist is the same anyway. The only thing that needs changing is the number of years a particular fic is overdue by.