All things considered, Rarity finds a bitter prom better than a lonely one.

Still, it doesn't make watching her dream school dance from afar any less pitiful. Neither does Rainbow Dash's insistence on hanging around.

Or; misery loves company, and no one loves rejection -- it's a bitter slow dance, really.

Words, sometimes, aren’t enough when they're all you have. For Fluttershy, they somehow fall short.

Or; a conversation about words, when words just don’t say much at all.

Additional Tags: Rainbow Dash Is A Bad Listener, But A Good Stubborn Try-er, Closure Doesn't Always Come To Those Who Wait

“Honey,” Rarity said as she proof-read her post about her crying fit in the washroom just earlier that day, “the internet isn’t your diary.”

In which Rarity makes the most of the internet. Anonymously, of course.

Expect an unhealthy amount of a poor interpretation of internet culture.

The pilot episode of the Rainbooms' reality television show, in which the band breaks up.

As expected, mild drama, washout humour, awkward pop culture references, and character bending to breaking point ensues.

A bad form of self-aware satire.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy: what brings them together, and how it breaks them apart.

But mostly, the years in-between that teach them and test them and keep them at each other's side when the world comes crashing in.

A friendship in three parts.

Rainbow Dash can totally believe she drank a temporary amnesia potion on a dare. What she can’t level with is the idea that she’s been Rarity’s loyal right-hand seamstress for the past few years.

She’s gotta be missing something – y’know, aside from a bunch of memories.

In a collection of moments that don’t make the whole, Rarity learns that dancing in the rain is worth catching the cold.

Rarity and Rainbow Dash embark on many byzantine heists – where it takes two to live with the dire straits of mediocre life and still keep it together.

Keywords: suspension of disbelief, context (or lack thereof), and dramatic crackfic.

Chicken scratch Cover image by me. A 1000-word pictorial representation of what you can expect herein.