It was a dull and dreary day for me and going home wasn't gonna make it better. I already had to put up with the bullies at school. I really don't like them. They always make fun of me because I like the show called My Little Pony. Today didn't make it any better because I wore my Octavia shirt. I normally don't care what people say, but they do get on my nerves.
When I got home it got even worse. "Hey look it's my fag of a son Michael," my dad yelled when I walked through my front door. That's when my mother walked inside living room. "John that's no way to talk to your own son. He's a grown boy, almost out of high school. He can like and do what he wants, so shut up!!" Then my father got up off the couch and set his beer down. He started walking toward's my mother. Before he could do anything I stepped in between him and my mother. "Don't you dare lay a hand on mom or you will get hurt," I said to him. He laughed and pushed me aside. That was his first mistake. I got back up and ran toward's him and grabbed him by the throat and gave him one final warning. "Leave and don't come back." He must be really stubborn because he started fighting back. I reared back and gave one final swing straight to his face and knocked him out cold. Im utterly shocked that I had that much power in that swing.
After I calmed down from shock I turned around and walked over to my mom. I gave her a hug and told her I was sorry for all the trouble. After a few moments of silence I told her to call the police to have my dad taken away. When the police showed up I told them what had happened and they took my dad away for good.
I decided to head up to my room so I could calm down some more and to get my head on straight. When I got inside my room I heard my computer go off signaling me that I got a message. I went over to the computer and checked it to see who it was from. Shockingly it was from my friend Anthony. I hadn't heard from him in a long time. Not since he moved to Arkansas. He wanted me to get on skype so he could show me his new Vinyl Scratch shirt and just to chat for a bit. I grabbed my web cam and hooked it up to my computer.
As I waited for him to connect with me I thought about what had just happened downstairs. I just couldn't get over it. My dad had went after my mom just because she was protecting me from my dad's hatred. Why did I cause so much conflict in my family and it's all because of my love of the show.
While I was in deep thought I didn't notice that my friend showed up on the screen. "Hey earth to Michael you ok man, you kinda zoned out on me." I turned around and faced the computer screen. "Sorry man I'm kinda in a pissed off mood right now. I had to call the police on my dad, but I'm not gonna get into that." My friend nodded to show that he understood. I decided to change the subject, "So what's this new shirt that you messaged me about?" He bent down and picked his shirt up off the ground. "This is my new Vinyl Scrach shirt. It's so COOL!!!" Anthony tends to get over excited when it comes to Vinyl. As you can tell by the way he's acting. "Now Anthony do I have to remind you that true music is made by Octavia. She always keeps her cool and sweet music flows from her cello when her bow touches it." From the way he was looking at me showed that he wasn't going to accept this.
Next thing I know is that he was yelling at me. Not in a harsh way but from utter shock. "Hey Vinyl gots the best beats around along with *BIG* bass drops. What does your favorite background pony got? Tiring orchestrated music that isn't all that exciting." I'm in utter disbelief right now. "Octavia may not be extremely loud and crazy like Vinyl but she still plays good music. Trust me I do like Vinyl Scratch but I love Octavia more."
After hours of arguing back in forth I finally tell Anthony good night and decided to go to bed.
Later that same night I was awaken by this loud explosion right outside my window. I run over to my window and open it up to see what just happened. I look down towards the ground and notice there was a crater in my back yard. Not only that it looks like someone is in the middle of it. I run downstairs and out the front door. I'm shocked that my mother didn't wake up from the sound that it made.
When I make it to the back yard I walk slowly to the gigantic hole and look down into it. As the smoke cleared away I notice that it wasn't a person but a pony. I'm confused at this moment and trying to figure out all the possibilities that this could happen. After thinking for a minute I hear a groan and I thought that it must be hurt, so I run down into the crater to see if it was alright. When I reached it I notice that it wasn't just a pony but it was Octavia. I'm even more shocked and amazed at the same time. Octavia is here and real but the kicker was that she is a filly.
After checking her over to see if she is hurt I carry her inside to get her warm. She just had a couple of bruises so I take her up to my room and make her a bed in one of my baskets. Making sure she was nice and warm I climbed back into bed and layed there in thought. I hope mom will let me keep her. Then I fell asleep waiting for tomorrow to come.
Is this supposed to be like My Little Dashie, only with Octavia?
you sir have my attention
2370376 Well... actualy, he says: "I wanted to make this different from all those other fics based off of My Little Dashie" so I think he's going to write the story in a different way
Oh Jesus, another MLD spinoff?
Christ almighty.
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More MLD Spinoffs?
NO. GOD NO.
I would love to see the upcoming events
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I swear by the nine gates, if I see one more MLD coat-tailer, I'm going to stab my eyes out with a plastic fork.
To the author: MLD spin-offs will gain you even more disdain than making your lead character an alicorn with the Death Star laser in its forehead. I hope you have a raincoat and umbrella handy: you're probably going to be hit by a shit-storm.
MLD spinoffs aren't that good, because the original wasn't amazing to begin with. Please try again later.
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I, for one, am interested in seeing where this goes. He said that he will make this different from MLD, so don't expect any feels.
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Twixie's next fic!
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Various strains of influenza can have differing symptoms - that doesn't mean I plan to infect myself to find out.
A kid with an abusive alcoholic father? The only difference between me and this kid is that Vinyl Scratch is best pony to me, not 'Tavi.
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Hey, not so rude. I have read MLD spinoffs that have been quite good, so don't go around judging a book by it's cover. I am interested in this story, and if you're here to hate, buzz off. This is a respectful community, one where we should be kind to all authors. Believe me, I've experienced hate also. It doesn't feel good. So stop. Obviously this story isn't for you, and that's okay. Just go somewhere else. We're only one chapter in so far, so I wouldn't be too hasty on deciding this story is bad. Thank you
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MD spinoffs : a good way to start... a bad idea for keep writing.
Who said this was based off My Little Dashie?
I think it is a cool concept
Like it so far :3
I'm almost certain I've seen this fic before. I mean, a MLD spin-off featuring Octavia. Am I hallucinating or is the author just that unoriginal?
I'm interested to see where you take this. I like stories like these, but everytime someone tries to write one, people talk shit and make the writer stop. So PLEASE don't stop writing this!! Octavia is also not only best background pony, but my favorite pony.
To the story though. I think it was a little to fast paced, and the main character was too accepting to see Octavia. If it were me, i'd be freaking out like, "Holy shit! It's mother bucking OCTAVIA!!!"
Um, I don't recall any grammar errors.
Overall, Fuck everyone who be hating on you, Do what YOU want. They don't like it, they don't have to read it.
2372479 There was one with Octavia. But people were butthurt over the author writing it and bitched him out. So he took it down. A shame too, it was pretty good.
Um, there's My little Tavi http://www.fimfiction.net/story/68628/my-little-tavi which is ok.
And http://www.fimfiction.net/story/50365/my-little-tavi wich sems interesting, but i havent read it.
And as for 'unorigional', maybe rainbowdash_25 didn't know they existed. But, regardless, does it really matter?
No
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Yes. I am.
2371733 I will take back what I said if you can find me an MLD spinoff that is good. PM it to me or just link it.
Okay, so let's see:
We got a teenager who loves My Little Pony. He is bullied by people because of that. His father calls him a faggot, you know, because he's a bad man with an alcohol problem. The teenager is apparently stronger than an adult and punches his lights out. Then they call the cops, smart, considering you could have done that before. Later he hears something crash into his backyard, which NO ONE else seems to notice. Ooh and did I mention that it is his favourite pony and she survived falling like a fucking meteor from the sky? Yes, she only has a couple of bruises.
Before you're gonna jump on me, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I have nothing against teenage angst, but only when it's either:
1. Well explained or,
2. Something unique.
You have got neither going on, it's typical and uninteresting. And your logic is... well, you punched a full-grown man unconscious, Octavia survive her fall (seriously, how does that work?) and no one, and I repeat, NO ONE, hears the crash?
I showed my reasons why I don't like this one. It's typical teenage angst mixed with wish-fullfilling logic. I won't say 'TAKE IT DOWN!', but I will say that it's bad.
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You're on! http://www.fimfiction.net/story/82686/tds-little-rarity
2374948 Although it's popular, I didn't like it. Next, please.
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uh...http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12666/my-little-apple-pie
You know what? Unlike what others may say, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt about this and see where this goes. Good luck with this and I'll be watching.
2376501 Nice try, but nope. Too many spelling errors, a messed-up plot, and tons of missed commas.
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You seem to be missing something here. The quality or likeability of a story often times has little to do with the story itself but the person writing it.
You used "My Little Rarity" as an example but the person that wrote that seems to have a big following and he's come up with a rather novel idea. It's not your standard, "find a little pony in a box and raise her as your own" type story. Yes, there is that element but there's more going on than just that.
Personally I've got a special dislike for "My Little Dashie". Not because of the subject or the quality of the story but because it's so cliche. Person with nothing in their life finds a baby, raises it as their own and through that child becomes a better person. Child is taken away, everybody is sad. Manly tears are shed. The end. It's been done before and it will be done again. I will give the author of that piece props for the simple reason that he managed to find a way to dupe so many people.
Then there's a special hatred for people who try to capitalize on that fame by writing their own watered down version of "My Little" whatever. The setup to those stories is always the same. Guy has a bad life, finds a pony inna box and magical things happen.
What this, and other authors, need to do is to find some new way of bringing this to the masses so we're not always faced with the same, bland, watered down stuff that has been peddled a hundred times before and will continue to be a go to piece for people with no imagination or skill in writing.
2377572 I know it may seem Im going to be a my little dashie knock off but I got a completely different storyline set up trust me on this. Maybe for the first few chapters it may seem similar but its just build up for the big event
2375361 Check this one out it is a part 2 for MLD and Rob the original author for mld sayed it was good if i remember http://waltzbrony.deviantart.com/gallery/38648451
2372142 Thank you for liking it
2371283 hows it going twixie
2370376 Its kinda similar but Its totally going to be different man just keep reading when I get chapters up
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Forgive me but I've heard this all before.
"Oh no, my story is completely different! Just keep reading and you'll see." You can also replace "completely different" with "going to get better" & "just warming up" for variety but the problem is you've already failed to grab an audience. Think about it. If you watch a TV show for the first time and by the first commercial break you're bored silly do you say to yourself, "maybe it'll get better by the second half'? No, most people will turn it off or change the channel at that point. The same goes for any story like this especially those that want to follow in the footsteps of "My Little Dashie", "Cupcakes" or "The Rainbow Factory". All you're doing is tying your story to a much more popular or infamous story in an attempt to ride their coattails to fame.
You can't tell me that "My Little Dashie" was not an inspiration to write this just like other more famous stories have been inspiration for others to try their hand at writing something similar. It's been done a thousand times before and you're not going to be the last one to do so.
2379091 Sure I got a little inspiration from MLD but its not the same storyline. The only thing thats same in this, that is also in MLD is my OC finding Octavia as a filly. That's the only thing that is the same. Now if you have a problem with that than you don't have to continue reading it. Some people like this story of mine and others don't and i'm ok with that.
2374616 Im planning on explaining how and why Octavia showed up there later on in the story. All this is, is build up for the coming events
2372673 thanks man for liking this story and ya I can see how this was a little fast paced. I try not to do that but it seems to usually happen.
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It goes exceptionally well! Twixie sees that your take on My Little Dashie isn't going that well on the contrary. Perhaps you should have released it as a full one-shot rather than in chapters?
2378401 Comics don't count.
2379975 why not
2379492 trust me its not going to be anything like MLD you'll see in the next chapter im putting up tonight
2380554 Are you writing a story or drawing a comic?
2380753 that wasn't my comic it was somebody that I found
2380906 Sorry, but when I said to find a spinoff that was actually good, I though the part that it had to be a fic was implied.
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But the impression you give is "My Little Dashie: The Reskin." In order to not have such a negative intial reaction, it probably would have been better to write and post the entire story at once, so people could have read further and seen those differences.
At face value, this is Dashie turns into Octavia.
2381055 ok
2381360 good point but trust me on chapter 2