I've been waiting for a hilarious confrontation for a while and I've got to say this is so much better than anything i imagined happening. The laughter - oh dear gods, the laughter - it almost killed me this chapter. I've still got a bigass smile on my face from some of those jokes.
Also, totally called it with the recording of Twi's evil rant. You don't fuck with sound engineers. They can make every word you say come back to haunt you.
this was hilarious to read. Pinkie pretty much destroying Twilight's case step by step all the while keeping her light hearted attitude. and i appreciate the use of a Phoenix Wright refenence as a joke in the chapter not just as a chapter title somehow felt it would have been in bad taste to do otherwise
I made a sound akin to a trumpet when I read the title. By the way, what is a "land shark" in this context? I tried Urban Dictionary, and it just mentioned a sex act and sticking a CD in one's rear end while crowd surfing. None of those fit.
Also, did Twilight mean to say "bimbo" while talking to Spike, instead of "himbo?"
You know, I should've expected it, I should've seen it coming, but in the end I was still surprised to see Pinkie Pie in the lawyer business. She would make an excellent lawyer with her ability to stay up for days on end, using her randomness to make her opponents underestimate her completely.
YES! I thought this story couldn't get any better. I was fortunately proven wrong! It's always good to see Pinkie's spontaneity used so effectively to glue the story together, and all those shout-outs/references was the glue that held my attention together. You have my attention ever since the prequel, let's see you keep it with the next update!
The only thing this chapter lacked was a total and complete demolition of Twilight's arguments by Pinkie Pie, down to her mental breakdown and subsequent screaming of anguish.
Yeeeeah, um. See, the problem with how you've used Spike so far is that you've gone way past him being a buttmonkey and straight into the territory of making him an unlikable little shit instead. Hell, reading his later appearances actually started getting almost physically painful since so much of his words and actions, post meeting Rarity, seemed to exist just to make him more and more hate-able for little to no apparent reason, plotwise, beyond making him hate-able.
The worst part about it is that earlier on in this fic Spike seemed like he would be in a good position to be used either to hobble Twilight (given he clearly didn't care for her stance on porn and could have gone behind her back on the issue) or as an example by Twilight (since clearly porn has corrupted this young dragon entirely to a point where he cannot distinguish fiction from reality). Either of those goals, made clear to the reader earlier on, would have made some of Spikes dickishness more bearable (though, assuming you used what you have currently, you'd still be going too far)
Of specific note is that his outburst before Rarity's argument with Photo was frankly so incredibly stupid for him to do since even with his belief that Rarity was better off away from the Dogs he knew she was at least on good terms with them (and thus may react badly to insulting them). This kind of fits with his earlier thoughts on driving the company out of business so they would leave her alone - it implies he believes that she wouldn't abandon them herself because she clearly doesn't see how wrong they are for her. Surely given this is stuff he must know, even if he really hates it, he must have known that actively insulting the Dogs in front of Rarity would reflect badly on himself in her eyes.
However, had he not ended that outburst with a dig at the Dogs themselves but had instead made a comment along the lines of how the Dogs are dirty monsters because the porno's intended audience want to imagine themselves saving/comforting/etc the victim (which seems more in line with how it appears he's supposed to see it) then you could have had much the same 'everyone thinks Dogs are monsters' impact without making Spike seem such a total dick. Plus, y'know, it would have tied in with the idea that he doesn't separate reality and fiction well enough since he is essentially trying to enact this fantasy in life.
Now... all that aside; I can't say I dislike this fic, outside of the Spike thing most of the cast seem pretty like-able (well, I'm not sure on how the secretary set Spike up. It seems the kind of horribly unprofessional thing Hoity would frown on - especially since such a 'prank' seems like they're intentionally trying to cause the kind of altercation that could potentially get the company in deep shit). Twilight is suitably uptight and very reminiscent of the big censor types in recent history while Applejack... yeah, she comes off more as someone who is after a reason for what happened and porn is just the easiest thing (for her) to blame for it.
Meanwhile: Hah! Go Sweetie Belle. Someone deserves a cutie mark in ruining court cases it seems.
Yes! Phoenix Wright references everywhere. Saw it coming and I approve. If I could leap through the internet and give you a hug, I would. But, alas, technology isn't there yet.
Since this is Turnabout style and Pinkie is winning. I am sure Twilight has something, or someone she can pull out. She just needs to channel a little Miles Edgeworth.
2620364 Yep you called it, I honestly didn't think they'd recorded it because it said that everyone else had left by the end of her rant. Then again, it may have said ALMOST everyone.
Is Discord being a judge a Star Trek reference, you know cause Q was depicted as a judge a few times I think.
Discord cooed and smiled. “Awww, look at those big, lawyer eyes. She looks like some sort of legal beagle. Go on, but please get to your point.”
i losted at this part and i just embraced the laughter, oh cold floor you where so welcoming to me and my mistress as we rolled on you
“Hold it!” Pinkie concentrated hard, her hair temporarily taking on a spiky appearance. A large screen appeared above her head, showing off a grid box of various papers and odd objects. Several screens of the same passed by until one particular cassette tape was highlighted. Pinkie shouted, “Take that!” She then produced the tape itself from one of her pockets and threw it up to Discord.
ha i knew it since the moment Pinkie where wearing a blue suit
i have something to say about this story and this chapter, you freaking genius, you are writing pure gold for Phoenixmena Diane Wrighkie
First, I don't like Spike being the butt-monkey. I like his character, and I think that somewhere in the story the "butt monkey" (as you so eloquently and adamantly make so), is gonna go rogue here against Twilight and completely show his disdain for Twilight's excessive pandering and politicking for wanting to change a law/regulation that ultimately is so minor and insignificant that it makes Discord look sane. Essentially, he's gonna come out in the middle of court and completely tell all of Equestria that Twilight's completely off her rocker, and that he enjoys the porn that Bare Mare has produced.
Second. Pinkie Pie as an attorney.....Just take all my bits...You have won the Internet. that is Pinkie 100%, and the fact that behind her random childishness expertly masks a keen and brilliant legal mind truly is making this story for me, even after the disillusionment of Spike finding out the real skinny for porn, and that Iron Will and Fluttershy are a couple.
Kinda off-topic, I think what has to happen here is that Spike fucks Twilight so hard that she loses all sense of this "crusade" that she's apparently bonkers over, and that she sees first hand the benefits and need for porn, or at least have her star in one.....
I love how well you've used Pinkie's Randomness to seamlessly supplement her legalese. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that everything is so clear cut with Twilight's side as the corrupt power-tripping dirtballs, while the porn industry only has hard-working artists dedicated to their craft. Meh, I get that it's meant to be a silly comedy, but I just find it annoying when a situation is depicted as good vs evil when it's morally ambiguous at best. It isn't just from a moral stance either, but where's the fun in rooting for a side when every single plot point in the story aligns to determine that they should win? I never had the sense that Bare Mare Studios' continued operation was ever really being threatened. I like a LITTLE drama, at least for subjects that warrant it.
Still, I'm actually wondering if Will himself is going to end up on the prosecution's testimony. He never really WANTED to work in porn, and his relationship with Fluttershy is definitely suffering from her own issues with being a porn actress.
Sadly, some situations are like that. It would be like seeing a carbon copy of Snake Plisskin punching a paralyzed premature fawn. Even in a world of idiotic relativism and rigidly enforced subjective positions some things are just asshole moves. This is especially true in politics where much of it, on both sides, is a combination of grandstanding and self-involvement. Twilight is a professional politician, she even has a degree in it.
I'm now sad that this fic received relatively little attention. Everything up to now has been both well thought out and enjoyable, but this... this chapter was fantabulously amazingly hilarious. I can't even list all the times I literally laughed out loud. Good show! And there's still more to go.
Brilliant. Discord is the perfect judge to bring order out of chaos, or vice versa should he so choose.
And Pinkie is an amazing lawyer. I was expecting Pinkamena but this was way better.
I've been waiting for a hilarious confrontation for a while and I've got to say this is so much better than anything i imagined happening. The laughter - oh dear gods, the laughter - it almost killed me this chapter. I've still got a bigass smile on my face from some of those jokes.
Also, totally called it with the recording of Twi's evil rant. You don't fuck with sound engineers. They can make every word you say come back to haunt you.
this was hilarious to read. Pinkie pretty much destroying Twilight's case step by step all the while keeping her light hearted attitude. and i appreciate the use of a Phoenix Wright refenence as a joke in the chapter not just as a chapter title somehow felt it would have been in bad taste to do otherwise
I made a sound akin to a trumpet when I read the title. By the way, what is a "land shark" in this context? I tried Urban Dictionary, and it just mentioned a sex act and sticking a CD in one's rear end while crowd surfing. None of those fit.
Also, did Twilight mean to say "bimbo" while talking to Spike, instead of "himbo?"
Ohhhh Evil Twi.... Looks like you just got Pursuit ~ CORNERED! BEEY-EETTCCH!
2620472 himbo is a male version of a bimbo
You know, I should've expected it, I should've seen it coming, but in the end I was still surprised to see Pinkie Pie in the lawyer business. She would make an excellent lawyer with her ability to stay up for days on end, using her randomness to make her opponents underestimate her completely.
YES! I thought this story couldn't get any better. I was fortunately proven wrong!
It's always good to see Pinkie's spontaneity used so effectively to glue the story together, and all those shout-outs/references was the glue that held my attention together.
You have my attention ever since the prequel, let's see you keep it with the next update!
The only thing this chapter lacked was a total and complete demolition of Twilight's arguments by Pinkie Pie, down to her mental breakdown and subsequent screaming of anguish.
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The "Land Sharks" are the mail company that this universe's Derpy works for.
Hence Derpy's dialogue, "I just don't know what went wrong," being attached to them.
This is glorious. It is silly, dumb and stupid. In a really glorious way.
Discord the judge, Pinkie the defense attorney, this chapter is pure gold! Absolutely brilliant, can't wait for the continuance!
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Yeeeeah, um. See, the problem with how you've used Spike so far is that you've gone way past him being a buttmonkey and straight into the territory of making him an unlikable little shit instead. Hell, reading his later appearances actually started getting almost physically painful since so much of his words and actions, post meeting Rarity, seemed to exist just to make him more and more hate-able for little to no apparent reason, plotwise, beyond making him hate-able.
The worst part about it is that earlier on in this fic Spike seemed like he would be in a good position to be used either to hobble Twilight (given he clearly didn't care for her stance on porn and could have gone behind her back on the issue) or as an example by Twilight (since clearly porn has corrupted this young dragon entirely to a point where he cannot distinguish fiction from reality). Either of those goals, made clear to the reader earlier on, would have made some of Spikes dickishness more bearable (though, assuming you used what you have currently, you'd still be going too far)
Of specific note is that his outburst before Rarity's argument with Photo was frankly so incredibly stupid for him to do since even with his belief that Rarity was better off away from the Dogs he knew she was at least on good terms with them (and thus may react badly to insulting them). This kind of fits with his earlier thoughts on driving the company out of business so they would leave her alone - it implies he believes that she wouldn't abandon them herself because she clearly doesn't see how wrong they are for her. Surely given this is stuff he must know, even if he really hates it, he must have known that actively insulting the Dogs in front of Rarity would reflect badly on himself in her eyes.
However, had he not ended that outburst with a dig at the Dogs themselves but had instead made a comment along the lines of how the Dogs are dirty monsters because the porno's intended audience want to imagine themselves saving/comforting/etc the victim (which seems more in line with how it appears he's supposed to see it) then you could have had much the same 'everyone thinks Dogs are monsters' impact without making Spike seem such a total dick. Plus, y'know, it would have tied in with the idea that he doesn't separate reality and fiction well enough since he is essentially trying to enact this fantasy in life.
Now... all that aside; I can't say I dislike this fic, outside of the Spike thing most of the cast seem pretty like-able (well, I'm not sure on how the secretary set Spike up. It seems the kind of horribly unprofessional thing Hoity would frown on - especially since such a 'prank' seems like they're intentionally trying to cause the kind of altercation that could potentially get the company in deep shit). Twilight is suitably uptight and very reminiscent of the big censor types in recent history while Applejack... yeah, she comes off more as someone who is after a reason for what happened and porn is just the easiest thing (for her) to blame for it.
Meanwhile: Hah! Go Sweetie Belle. Someone deserves a cutie mark in ruining court cases it seems.
Phoenix Wright references? Discord as a judge? Pinkie causing courtroom mayhem?
WHY CAN'T I THUMB THIS UP TWICE
Pinkie as a bunny-ears lawyer. I LOVE IT!
Yes! Phoenix Wright references everywhere. Saw it coming and I approve. If I could leap through the internet and give you a hug, I would. But, alas, technology isn't there yet.
Since this is Turnabout style and Pinkie is winning. I am sure Twilight has something, or someone she can pull out. She just needs to channel a little Miles Edgeworth.
2620364 Yep you called it, I honestly didn't think they'd recorded it because it said that everyone else had left by the end of her rant. Then again, it may have said ALMOST everyone.
Is Discord being a judge a Star Trek reference, you know cause Q was depicted as a judge a few times I think.
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More 'Rule of Funny' than anything, but that too.
i losted at this part and i just embraced the laughter, oh cold floor you where so welcoming to me and my mistress as we rolled on you
ha i knew it since the moment Pinkie where wearing a blue suit
i have something to say about this story and this chapter, you freaking genius, you are writing pure gold
for Phoenixmena Diane Wrighkie
First, I don't like Spike being the butt-monkey. I like his character, and I think that somewhere in the story the "butt monkey" (as you so eloquently and adamantly make so), is gonna go rogue here against Twilight and completely show his disdain for Twilight's excessive pandering and politicking for wanting to change a law/regulation that ultimately is so minor and insignificant that it makes Discord look sane. Essentially, he's gonna come out in the middle of court and completely tell all of Equestria that Twilight's completely off her rocker, and that he enjoys the porn that Bare Mare has produced.
Second. Pinkie Pie as an attorney.....Just take all my bits...You have won the Internet. that is Pinkie 100%, and the fact that behind her random childishness expertly masks a keen and brilliant legal mind truly is making this story for me, even after the disillusionment of Spike finding out the real skinny for porn, and that Iron Will and Fluttershy are a couple.
Kinda off-topic, I think what has to happen here is that Spike fucks Twilight so hard that she loses all sense of this "crusade" that she's apparently bonkers over, and that she sees first hand the benefits and need for porn, or at least have her star in one.....
I love how well you've used Pinkie's Randomness to seamlessly supplement her legalese. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that everything is so clear cut with Twilight's side as the corrupt power-tripping dirtballs, while the porn industry only has hard-working artists dedicated to their craft. Meh, I get that it's meant to be a silly comedy, but I just find it annoying when a situation is depicted as good vs evil when it's morally ambiguous at best. It isn't just from a moral stance either, but where's the fun in rooting for a side when every single plot point in the story aligns to determine that they should win? I never had the sense that Bare Mare Studios' continued operation was ever really being threatened. I like a LITTLE drama, at least for subjects that warrant it.
Still, I'm actually wondering if Will himself is going to end up on the prosecution's testimony. He never really WANTED to work in porn, and his relationship with Fluttershy is definitely suffering from her own issues with being a porn actress.
If I ever need a lawyer I just get pinkie with me to help.
Pinkie Pie is best Bunny Ears Lawyer!
Her majesty's Secret Servicer, it's nice to see that those two still managed to find each other in this 'verse.
Niece/nephew plus puppy, brilliant!
Derpy is much more destructive than a land shark.
I was wondering when Phoenix Wright would pop in, given the chapter title.
monologing. monologuing.
How will Twilight get out of this one? Find out next time on Chaos Court.
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Sadly, some situations are like that. It would be like seeing a carbon copy of Snake Plisskin punching a paralyzed premature fawn. Even in a world of idiotic relativism and rigidly enforced subjective positions some things are just asshole moves. This is especially true in politics where much of it, on both sides, is a combination of grandstanding and self-involvement. Twilight is a professional politician, she even has a degree in it.
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There are certain elements I like to keep and love is one of those. Hence this, and back a few chapters Blueblood and Connie.
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Twilight sparkle, please prepare for summary judgement.
2620742 agreed the way he making spike look is horrible
I'm now sad that this fic received relatively little attention. Everything up to now has been both well thought out and enjoyable, but this... this chapter was fantabulously amazingly hilarious. I can't even list all the times I literally laughed out loud. Good show! And there's still more to go.
Wait, am I reading MLP fic, or watching Harvey Birdman?
i was wondering when pinkie would show up in this. simply glorious
*wheeze* ... oh Faust, my sides...
Discord as the judge and Pinkie as a lawyer?
BEST! TRIAL! EVER!