Author: Raz_Fox.
Description: Rainbow Dash is finally chosen for the most important run in Equestria, and Twilight Sparkle throws a party in her honor. But will she be able to cheer up an inconsolable Applejack, and make her enjoy the party?All Hallows Night
Additional Tags: Party, Faerie-Tale, One-Shot.
45 comments:
Huh... what is grimbright?
Grimbright reminds me of Nite-Brite's, or whatever those were called. Well read soon.
@Anonymous
Dark and happy at the same time
Honestly I don't know.
panty and stocking with pony's
twilight does make a good stocking, though grimbright sounds to much like rainbow bright xD it could just be an adventure with a mature rating
[GrimBRIGHT]?
We must dwelve deeper into these hybrid tags! They could mean the future of ALL stories! We must research this!
This is tagged party. I suppose I should check it out sooner or later. And besides, I'm just pretty curious about what the heck a GrimBright is.
GrimBright is only the beginning. Soon there will be Grim + the color of each of the mane cast to signify a grim story centering around that character.
I really liked this story. It reminded me in some ways of the works of Poe and Longfellow, but it's also still rather Halloweenie and philosophical. It made me feel completed to read to the end, but I can't say I don't have questions. This dark stag of the woods who shares such an agreement with Celestia to hunt a pony a year...? It raises ideas in me.
TL;DR: I want to write GrimBright too.
Just finished reading the story. Took me a second reading to understand, and when I did understand, I just fell in love with the story. In my opinion, its very similar with the Goosebumps Stories I read as a kid, very bright while still remaining dark, and always ends with a twist ending.
Definatly hoping to see more similar stories from the writer!
@Sethisto
Dealing with the dark, the unknown, and the potentially frightening, but reaching an uplifting conclusion. Grim, but not dark. And certainly no place for Space Marines.
It's just an author pushing against the boundaries of a tag with very restrictive connotations. I'm happy to see you indulging the eccentricity, though. *chuckles*
This was ridiculously good.
Everybody in the chat said she was raped.
O_o
I liked it.
This is like one of those stories that swap the status of the A and B plots so that the normally B plot gets center stage and the A plot gets relegated to the background. Except here the A plot goes completely unseen and all we're left with the B plot.
And it WORKS! I like it!
If Halloween is All Hallow's Eve, then would All Hallows Night be November first?
Awesome story, but my short attention span made me not completely get the ending...Anypony mind explaining it?
http://gallery.burrowowl.net/index.php?q=/post/view/23034&search=alignment
The Prefix is the general attitude of the peoples of the setting. noble being, well, noble. And Grim being jackasses.
The suffix is the general ambiance of the setting. Bright being nice and tidy and dark being dirty and jury-rigged.
I. LOVE. THIS. STORY.
Sudden urge to make that hart the Black Rabbit of Inle to ponies...
I respect the story, heck I even like the story... the ending leaves me with a queasy emptiness with which I do not want to share my bed. I am REALLY creeped out. What happened?! Was this.. or was this the .. but.. Oh for pony's sake. I know that's the whole point. Which, I guess when tallied up, is still preferable to what happens in grim"bright"'s opposite.
Curse you with a blanket of a hundred kittens for getting my anxiety worked up, Raz_Fox. o_o
It's an interesting story...Now only if I understood it completely.
So Rainbow Dash volunteers to distract whatever you call that thing and Applejack is worried. Now at the end that thing brings a battered and sleeping RD and then tells something to Celestia. So she succeeds or what?
What am I missing?
@Display Name Nobody's ever gonna know. Least of all us. This Halloween, I wouldn't mind a sequel of sorts. But if it shows a different, um, outcome, will that mean that this one was "eh?" or that this one was, "... oh. Oh. ... ;_; "
@Anonymous:
A story that you're not expected to understand? Even more points with me.
For now I'm just going to believe that RD put up a fight all night long and then fell asleep, and the hunter refused to hunt a defenseless target because virtues.
@Anonymous
http://www.google.com/m/search?q=define:+macabre&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
Except everyone lives in the end! (yay!)
I don't know if it was serendipity or what, but I had my music player on shuffle, and it started up Der Erlkonig while I was reading this fic. As if the story itself wasn't enough, that knocked the intensity up to about 11.
This was well written, well paced, and left plenty to the reader's imagination. Well done.
Damnit, I feel both anxious and completed, but I must know more details.
Confound these ponies, they drive me to feelings
What is this, i don't even?
Not entirely sure what's going on, but we've got Celestia being awesome, Applejack and Twilight being Applejack and Twilight, and Rainbow Dash is okay, so that's good enough for me.
Well done.
Man, I want to see this as an episode, and directed by David Lynch. ^^
Guys, it's based off the Wild Hunt, I think...
@Anonymous I thought it seemed familiar.
I thought this was pretty good and their worry for Rainbow Dash was well presented.
I'm assuming it's related to the concept of 'NobleBright'
used to describe roleplaying settings, noblebright is the opposite of grimdark, used to describe settings where noble heroes valiantly fight against evil forces to create a brighter future.
So Grimbright would be the portmanteu of the two. (Portman-chain combo)
A Dark oppressive world, where heroes valiantly create a brighter future. Or in other words, Grimdark with 60% less sad endings, and clearer heroic characters.
@Anonymous
Eve means night, not the night before. Thus, technically, All Hallow's Eve, is the Night of All Hallow's.
This was really good; I liked the mood here. Equestria is pretty much a fairy-tale land, so it's nice to occasionally see darker glimpses of it.
As for Dash, I assume she was somewhat roughed up by racing through the forest, with the black hart after her, for the whole night... and as he never caught her up, he delivered her back in the morning.
(Also, I think the site could use a tag for stuff that's dark but not grimdark; grimbright's kind of... weird for that purpose. Still, it's an amusing word!)
I have to say that... I don't know what to think of this?
Not because there's too much of something, or emotions or whatnot, but rather because I can't exactly tell ''What'' was the story about.
''What'' was the goal of it or... What was the story about ?
All I can figure out is that: RD is, running?, for a reason and that it's, important?, because of ''something''... I'm a bit confuse on that point.
Also... did she died ?? That would be kinda bad.
@Fanloser
"Eve means night, not the night before."
Really? So at your house, Christmas Eve comes after Christmas Day, does it?
Eve means the night before a holiday. All Hallows' Eve is the night before All Hallows' Day (which is also known as All Saints' Day), which is November 1st.
@nova_25
The story is based on the legend of the Wild Hunt, where on Halloween night, a band of faeries pick somebody and chase them until dawn. If they catch you, you're taken away; if not, you either go on about your life, or get a gift, or something. (Varies depending on who's telling it.)
The dude with the horns is probably the pony version of Cernunnos, the Horned God, the Erlking -- got a couple different names -- which suggests that the author was influenced by the Dresden Files version of the hunt.
Interesting story. I don't think Dash died -- she collapsed when dawn came, and Cernunnos brought her back. He didn't take her away, because she evaded him just long enough.
"It is true, and will be when... the ravens have forgotten the word 'unicorn'."
That sounds like a line from The Last Unicorn, but isn't.
@Escher
You're close: The term "eve", in this context, can be applied to any day and refers to the portion of that day where the sun is not in the sky.
However, it comes from a time when the calendar was considered to advance when the sun set rather than the current use of midnight. This is also why you have things like the Jewish Sabbath starting at sundown on Friday and running to sundown on Saturday.
Wow, I really liked it! I'm a sucker for Hallowe'en themed/creepy ghost stuff, and this had the right mood. I agree that we need a grimbright category or something like it to separate ghost stories from bloodbaths.
Holy horse apples, I don't want to encounter that faerie-elf-horned-pony-thing-guy!
*ahem* Awesome story. Yeah, I love creepy/macabre stuff, especially if it has a good ending.
@ItsTheWhinyGuys
Derp, I mean hart, not pony.
does she death?
@Escher
Thanks bud, you managed to alleviate all my fears for Rainbow Dash's fate. :)
@Homfrog
This dark stag of the woods who shares such an agreement with Celestia to hunt a pony a year...?
Not just "hunt", Homfrog.
THE WILD HUNT.
this was one of the wierdest things i've ever read.
strangely it was great, so "Off" but great..
Huh.. wierd.
The atmosphere in this was just breathtaking.
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