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In the heat of the moment, a poor choice of words is all the difference between pragmatism and spite. Especially when spoken out of anger.

Three weeks without a word to her girlfriend has nagged at the back of Applejack's mind. But she's not in the wrong, she's sure of it.

She was only trying to look out for Rainbow's future.

Preread by Jondor.
Vector posted by SlayerBVC on Derpibooru.

Entry for the AppleDash Contest. Soak it in, Tcherno. You absolute heathen.

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Comments ( 38 )

There you go, Tcherno. Hope you're happy. :P

Glad you've gone to the dark side and embraced this ship.:derpytongue2: But in all seriousness, not a bad job really. It's actually very sweet and conveys the characters and their emotions well.

Pretty nice.

Carafluff makes adorable fluffs with feels and stuff.

This was really beautiful. The characterisation was spot on, and the chemistry between the two of them would make a periodic table blush. Usually a fic this short would leave me wanting more, but the pacing here was spot on and the story just feels finished.

Thank you so much for sharing!

All because of that damn fight over some stupid show 

"Make your choice, Rainbow!" Applejack cried out, tears freely flowing as if the floodgates of the Hoover dam opened in her eye socket. "It's me or the cartoon!"

Rainbow rubbed her chin in thought, reflecting on her life; present, future and past. "Sorry, AJ. I love you, but I need my cartoons. If leaving you is the only way, then it must be done."

Sorry, that's the conversation that popped in my head upon reading that one part of that one line.

Great story, by the way. Unique, as we mentioned in discord, yet it also retains the familiarity of the characters and the situation one expects.

It's like a Periphery album: familiar and comfortable, but with enough originality and flavor to set it apart from the rest of the djent/hardcore scene.

Cryosite #9 · Jul 20th, 2017 · · 10 ·

So, Twilight sounded way out of character. You forgot about Spike. Also getting tired of all these lesbian stories. Rainbow isn't a lesbian just because her hair is rainbow-colored.

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<3 u bby
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He'd better be, dammit!
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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^^
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I will drown you all in fluff >:o
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Really glad you liked it! I was trying really hard to keep this as close to the show as possible, but add a little bit extra of my own, so I'm glad to hear it played well!
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God, Cryo and Jon will love you for that.

And thanks! As mentioned above, I did try to keep it close, but just enough that we could maybe consider it later on in the show's timeline, so to speak. And it was fun making AJ go looking for forgiveness ;)

Where the hell is Pinkie? You pinkie hating bully!

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She's dead, AJ locked her in the barn.

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I propose we go back in time and replace Cupcakes with Apple Fritters.

I'm not crying, you're crying.

That went really well. Like wow.

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In MLP, everybody's a lesbian :P

I don't get why people fight over ships sometimes. I have like seven shippings of the mane six because the stories that made me ship them were all so well-written.

Make that eight, eh?

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Oh :twilightsheepish: I was wasn't quite sure. I'm terrible at detecting sarcasm

A decent bit of fluff that, in many ways, also illustrates most of the flaws in this ship. Well done.

Looked already an’ had Muffins check her bag. Twice, before ya ask.”

Finally someone uses her actual name, also it was a nice story 😁

oh goodness, have a read an Appledash before Tcherno? and a new one? omgawrsh

Nice story, really enjoyed it. I dont feel like the Apples are that poor, and wouldn't Rainbow be loaded? even if she is i am glad that wasn't even a thought AJ had. Short but quite good, i'll be recommending to Rawr also :3

:c Interruption of love. Go AJ! Punch her with adoration!

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Especially Big Mac and Shining Armor, they're male lesbians!
(lesbians are females who like like females, so male lesbians are males who like females.)

Did you win the AppleDash Contest?

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I believe the contest runs until September.

Really sweet, but I'm disappointed that the story's about the resolution of the conflict, rather than the conflict and its resolution.

If that makes any sense.

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Sorry, but that's not the story I felt like telling. I wanted it to be more about an internal conflict within Applejack rather than the pair screaming at one another. Felt I should play it another way.

Not a hint of the scent of cirrus or blur of rainbow mane as eyes as green as the forest cracked open and blinked away sleep.

Is AJ's inner monologue referring to her own eyes, here? Dash's eyes are a sharp pinkish-red.

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She's referring to her own eyes as she blinks away sleep. Sorry, that sentence does read a bit weird now that I look at it.

I reviewed this story as part of Read It Now Reviews #109.

My review can be found here.

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Thanks for reading. Cheers.

This was sweet. AppleDash isn't my fav, but this was pretty nice. :)

So here it is! I remember really liking this one!

I like(d) it. Especially how they were rather mature - once they'd overcome their thick-headedness. No overblown drama, no rivers of tears or life-threatening scenarios, no 'all or nothing'-approach, just... 'yeah, let's talk'. 'I did wrong, I'm sorry - we're good? Good.' I love it. AJ has a bad temper and RD sure as hell can be forgetful, but they pull through in the end. They always do.
It's nice. Thank you! :twilightsmile:

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