Saturday, July 23, 2011

Story: The F-Grade Drinking Game.


[Comedy][Random][Shipping] Cheerisparkle!


Author: James Corck
Description: Twilight Sparkle joins Cheerilee to help her correct the exams of her students. It may not seem like a very exciting Sunday night plan, but then, they also plan on playing Cheerilee's favourite game: The F-Grade Drinking Game.
The F-Grade Drinking Game


The F-Grade Drinking Game Alternate



Additional Tags: Random, Comedy, Teachers, Self-Parody, Exams.

113 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting.

Anonymous said...

what is this...my brain hurts.

Valmir_R0yalGuArd said...

lul, I should try my hand at a quick scene of a fan fiction.

Xeonneo said...

Only 4.626 words?
Short fic...

Anonymous said...

And that's how Equestria was made.

Zarkanorf said...

Hey, Sethisto; not that I give a rat's ass or anything, but didn't you say you were gonna try to keep kissing ponies off of the front page? Meh, whatever; it fits with the fic.

Valmir_R0yalGuArd said...

why would you keep kissing ponies off the front page? The front page is where I read most of my crap from :D

Anonymous said...

And cue lots of people bitching about the picture

Seattle_Lite said...

Alright, what the hell happened here? I was going to wait for Midnight to post the review you said was necessary before Seth posted it here, and contrast his with the one I'd written up. And yet... this hasn't happened. And yet it's up.

Wat.

(congrats btw, I enjoyed it)

Doc Steedly said...

YAY I have been yearning for a new fanfic with cheerilee in it. Not many are out there. Gonna read it later. n.n

Anonymous said...

Woa Woa Woa, that pic is way too much Sethisto. Thats just terrible judgement right there

Anonymous said...

@Zarkanorf

Rat wants its ass back.

A grin without a cat said...

Whatever just happened in this story, I thoroughly enjoyed it. -applause-

PewnyPL said...

That fic was quite nice, I will say. Funny at that. Also, Sweetie Belle's essay made me laugh hard.

Anonymous said...

Gotta wonder what the FiM staff think of fics like these... I bet they like 'em.


Saucy! 5/5

Narwhals' Bend said...

>shipping
>Twilight
I'll read it.

Derptastic said...

DAT PIC.... me gusta? The content is a bit saucy but as pencil sketches go I think it is done quite nicely :) onwards to the fic!

Anonymous said...

*looks at picture*

*reads fic*

Eeyup.

Anonymous said...

shit just got real

Anonymous said...

Twenty oneth

Midnight Shadow said...

Well that went up quick, and received well! I guess the editing spree did it. 4am. goddamn you transmetropolitan. As addicting as ponies.

Scootaloo said...

When I take a test, I always get a 'Fantastic', and I took a bunch 'a tests yesterday!

Sinez said...

Random, Comedy, and Shipping?

My three favorite tags!

*reads*

Anonymous said...

“Oh my word…Is that what she thinks that organ does?”

Looks like somepony's been taking sex ed lessons from Pinkie Pie again.

Anonymous said...

I don't know why, but I really like this ship.

Twilight seems like the kind of pony that would desire carnal relations with the town's primary school teacher.

Icehawk said...

Lol, this was great, for some strange reason, I had never thought about a twilight/cheerilee pairing before, but it seems so obvious now considering their professions and interests and they actually do well together.

Unknown said...

Well that was fun.. and methinks I might have to take a stab at vectorizing that pic there...

Ace12541 said...

This story was funny 5/5 ^-^

Scootaloo said...

Hay, look! I'm in the window and- oh Luna! Why is Twilight trying to bite-off Miss Cheerilee's face and why do my wings tingle?

twilightlover21 said...

Ive said it one and i will say it again. Drunk twilight is best twilight.

ZeldaFan777 said...

hehe, Twilight drunk *giggles*

Pretty good, and really funny haha, I liked it!

Anonymous said...

I liked it. Nice, short, and funny. Its funny, I never thought about this ship before and I thought I had shipped everypony. Also, I don't think the picture is too much. If it were in a drawfriend it wouldn't even be tagged saucy.

Anonymous said...

Who honestly gives a fuck about the picture?

Cold in Gardez said...

After reading the rules of the game, I wonder if this is a subtle commentary on fanfics in general.

Anonymous said...

Always love a risque picture of pony makeout. Technically it's entirely non sexual (due to the absence of genitals).

I just find it cute, not raunchy.

Anonymous said...

The story was well written, so I'll just take a few nitpicks at the plot.

-Do teachers normally grade a bunch of exams after midnight? Especially on a school night?

-I feel like too much focus was placed on the papers of the CMC and Diamond Tiara/Silver Spoon. Doesn't Cheerilee have more than five students?

-That must have been some really weak alcohol if the two of them could last that many shots and still objectively grade a bunch of papers. I know the content of every exam wasn't exactly high school/college level thinking, but being drunk would still make anything involving thought more challenging than it should be.

-I know it's a one-shot, but since it's presented as a weekly ritual for Twilight and Cheerliee, I would be super interested in how exactly this relationship started, and how both of them can be okay with it being so casual. Anyone could extend this into a major ship fic and it would probably be one of the most interesting reads on the site. Soooooo much potential.

But like I said, that's just me kind of complaining about the content. It's not a critique on the writing style, because it's well written. It's just not the way I would have wrote the fic. I'm still giving it a 5/5.

Scootaloo said...

Like I said, all my tests are Fantastic!

Now somepony go save Miss Cheerilee from the zombie-Twilight!

Brony Neumo said...

The ballad of Twilight Soparkle suggested the hypothesis, and this story confirms it. Ponies + Alcohol = madness. funny, ridiculously cute madness.

Anonymous said...

“Oh, good…” said Twilight before clearing her scratchy throat. “How many do we have left?”



“Forty.”



“Oh, Celestia…” Twilight groaned as if in pain, “that’s terrible.”

It's also as many as four tens. And that's terrible. :D

Sir Peppermint Jam said...

Whoa. Drunk ponies are adorable. Most ship-fics are awesome to read. This puts them both together pretty well in my opinion.

Drunk ponies...oh wow, I think I understand Butterscotch Sundae's shtick a little better.
Which reminds me, I gotta read part two of 'Luna's Socks.'

Hmm, I know this is a shipping story. I know they're drunk. I know they're ponies. And yet, as soon as I read 'same thing we do every Sunday, Twi,' I instantly thought of Pinkie and the Brain. Why? What is wrong with me?

Ridict said...

What
The
Duck?
Jesus, my unit would flip their shit if they caught me reading this!

Anonymous said...

I admit I started reading this after seeing "Drinking Game" in the title. Glad I did read it. Great story. Now where's my MLP:FIM drinking game?

ZeldaFan777 said...

@Anonymous
lol doesnt butterscotch sundae have one on her deviantart page?

Anonymous said...

Redraw it with Big Mac looking through the Window EEYUP

Anonymous said...

OK, it's official, we need not just an MLP:FIM drinking game, but a fanfic drinking game. I'll start.

1. Every time the plot hinges on Twilight messing up a mass teleport spell, take a drink.

SodaCat16 said...

NEW OTP

Flygon16 said...

Good god, I've just barely gotten through the rules and I've already fallen out of my chair. A sign of things to come I hope...

blindferret said...

Good God I literally pissed my pants when I saw the pic. Not sure why.

Anonymous said...

@Anonymous
2. Any mention of an abacus, take a drink.

Not A Good Username 360 said...

@Anonymous 2. Take a shot for every time an OC pony is introduced.

3. Take a shot for every misspelling that slipped through Auto-Correct.

4. Take a shot for every Cupcakes reference.

5. Take a shot every time one of the mane 6 goes out-of-character

6. Take a shot for every time Rainbow Dash is referred to as "Dash".

7. Take a shot every time the tense changes.

And for Rainbow Dash difficulty:

8. Take a shot for every background pony appearance (eg. Derpy, Lyra, BonBon, Octavia)

9. Take a shot for every chapter change, including side stories and followups. (DON'T try this with Fallout: Equestria. Just... don't.)

10. Take a shot for every hour you spend reading.

Flygon16 said...

...and I was not disappointed. Fantastically ridiculous, good sir!

Oh, and I would suggest "Take a drink every time Dash is shipped with something," but I don't want to be responsible for so many cases of alcohol poisoning.

Not A Good Username 360 said...

@Flygon16 That usually only happens once per fic, though...

Here, have a bonus challenge instead:

BONUS: Take a shot for every time Pinkie Pie breaks the fourth wall.

Anonymous said...

@Ridict

That's why Operational Security was invented.

J0J0 said...

@Not A Good Username 360

11. Take a shot for every mention of either "20%" or "ten seconds flat".

ZeldaFan777 said...

@Not A Good Username 360
You just doomed so many a long, painful morning hahaha!

Anonymous said...

Eh, there really isn't much to this fic. No plot to speak of, and most of the jokes fall a little flat, but I did find it cute. It's... nice.

Anonymous said...

I have the most suitable wingboner right now... Lmfao jk this is a good fic, sure brings someone up when their feeling down (emotionally get your mind outta the gutter) lol :3

Torrential Rains said...

@Scootaloo

Ya see Scoot...

When a mare and a stallion, or in this case two mares, love each other very much...

*Rambles on for twenty minutes trying to explain to Scootaloo*

And that's how foals are made.

Anonymous said...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Drunk ponies are best ponies.

Dave said...

Picture be damned, story was good.

Drunk Twilight is best Twilight

Anonymous said...

The picture is cute, And for pity's sake please tell me that the mistakes and errors quoted in the story are not based on similar real-life test errors.

~Ardashir

Anonymous said...

*Looks at the tags* Comedy, Random...Shipping?
That sure is a bit of a odd mix, i wonder what...
*sees "Cheerisparkle!" Mind explodes*

Ill read it later today, when i have time, this looks like to be a very interesting read.

Crusty Bread said...

So what do you think about what the ponies read...

Twilight Sparkle - romance novels
Fluttershy - romance novels
Rairity -romance..nah..poniporn
Rainbow Dash - tough one..I sliding towards poniporn
Pinkie Pie - Cupcake porn
Apple Jack - Apple porn
Spike - poniporn and lots of it

twilightlover21 said...

"Twilight and cheerilee stumble out"
"we're drunk and we're irish!
"we're fat and we're gAy!!"

DJ Kat said...

I love my Twilight shipped with The Great and Powerful Trixie, but damn, Cheerlie feels so much better!

So fitting! :3

ultra8 said...

Instant win.
I don't know what's funnier Sweetie doing a book report on a steamy romance novel she didn't understand or Scoots doing a report on a novel about Rainbowdash written by Rainbowdash that even she agree's was hard to read.
Booze+Ponies+School/work=Fun.

Anonymous said...

They were drawing Deadpool, weren't they?

Midnight Shadow said...

@Cold in Gardez

You'll be amused to know that a fanfic about bad grammar, spelling and punctuation needed help with the spelling, grammar and punctuation ^^

how very meta :)

glad you liked it, the author worked hard one it.

TillsterRulz said...

Derp.
That is all I have to say.

sparkleshyguy85 said...

Cheerilee should be used in more fics. :)

Anonymous said...

Booze + Ponies = lulz.

Sorrowful said...

I lost it at:

· Take a shot if a student misuses the past perfect tense.

Twilight must've made that rule. It's just so ... nerdy.

Anonymous said...

LOL

The part where the #10 = sadface made me LOL IRL for like 2 min straight. ;p

James Corck said...

@Midnight Shadow

Hey, you worked as hard, or even harder than me :)

James Corck said...

@Anonymous

Quoting the immortal words of that workhorse stallion known as Big Macintosh:

"Eeyup"

James Corck said...

@Crusty Bread

I'd go for:

Twilight - Issaac Assimov.
Fluttershy - Stephanie Meyers.
Rarity - Harley Queen Romance Novels in general.
Rainbow Dash - Marvel Comics.
Pinkie Pie - Where's Waldo books.
Applejack - Instruction manuals.
Spike - Poniporn. Lots of it.

James Corck said...

@Anonymous

Hey there! I am really happy that you liked the story so much. I also liked the things you pointed out. If you allow me, I'd like to answer every one of them.

- They usually grade the exams before the end of the week. At least, that's how all the teachers I have had did it in the past, so I am basing this one on personal experience.

- I guessed focusing on characters we all know would keep the story tightly contained, so the readers don't have to track every character. Besides, I think we all want to know what the CMC do in class.

- I agree with you on the alcohol part. Horses surely don't have that high tolerance, but I bet Jaggermeister is not as hard as Vodka. I never tried any, so I squeewed reality here.

- I also agree with your point here. I could have dragged the story for a while, make it a seven parter and make you guys wait for the steamy parts. I wrote this in a rash of creativity and pretty much glared over that possibility. Still, it's not a bad one-shot story, right?

Thanks a lot for your feedback man/woman/person/human being.

Anonymous said...

Hehe, not bad ^^

You should try writing the prequel; on HOW they ended up with such an...interesting... sunday habit! ^^

- The Jack

Sunset Rose said...

I liked the story itself quite a bit, but the dialogue seemed just a tad stale every now and then.
4/5

Anonymous said...

> artistic savant

+1 for subtle puns.

Rauzu said...

There only needs to be one rule for a MLP drinking game.
1. Every time a real life object is ponified take a shot

TenchiFreak5 said...

I was expecting this to be funny, but I was not expecting there to be so many subtle little jokes squirreled away everywhere.

Present Perfect said...

The student-specific rules are hilarious. That Twilight has a tolerance for alcohol is kind of surprising. Cheers needs to organize a little better; a whole week's worth of exams the night before class? And weren't they leaving off on the past perfect rule? (My arch-nemesis!)

Oh god, Sweetie Belle's book choice.

And the snogging begins. This is actually a pretty cute relationship here, FWBs and all. Overall, the story's a fun, fluffy read and the student's tests are amusing, but the writing's a little on the loose side, especially near the beginning. Though, if you're a non-native English speaker, this is pretty darn good.

Hellfish said...

LoL cutie mark crusaders in the background

WavemasterRyx said...

A genuinely amusing story, well done.

Ah... were I a drinking man, I would be sorely tempted to re-read this with my own bottle of Jaegermareister and try taking shots along with them. That probably wouldn't end well though heh.

sleepingcobrox said...

Fully enjoyed it all the way through

James Corck said...

@WavemasterRyx

Reading your comment makes me wonder we should have put a health safety warning label.

I totally NOT recomend you do that, seriously.

Although, the idea is very funny in its own right XD

WavemasterRyx said...

@James Corck

Oh I agree, it's a funny idea so long as it just stays an idea.
A health safety warning label shouldn't be necessary, but if you really feel you should have one added I'm sure you could get it put in the description. Which, if so I apologize for causing you any trouble with it.

James Corck said...

@WavemasterRyx

Oh hey, no worries ;) It's all in good fun, after all, this story is a random comedy X3 I think I tried to do something lighter and funny for once. We need more comedy and less grimdark ;)

Stryke said...

Oh man Sweetie Belle's review of the trashy romance novel absolutely slayed me.

Anonymous said...

How long did reviewing fifty exams take? If they were particularly thorough about it (not hard to imagine in any case involving Twilight Sparkle), that could well've taken most of the way until morning.

Just a note to help people wondering about their tolerances.

Anonymous said...

Comedy+Random+shipping+drunk kissing ponies..... What could possiably go wrong!?

BroniesN'Hoenies said...

Never really thought of shipping Twilight and Cheerilee, it was something new for me lol. But it was a nice story, grabbed my attention, and made me laugh! Keep up the good work! Also poor Sweetiebelle lol.

Lordlyhour said...

The CMC made that image up there. Sweetiebelle is all like MY EYES THEY BURN, Applebloom is clearly wishing she had brainbleach and Scootaloo is INTRIGUED. Seriously, RD is a bad influence on that girl

Anonymous said...

I need more like this.

blindferret said...

Damn at the ending.
weirdestwingboner.jpg

Anonymous said...

Wow, I didn't even notice the CMCs in the window in the picture until you guys mentioned it. I can't stop laughing now.

Anonymous said...

I couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing. Great fic.

Anonymous said...

Good story. Very funny. My only concern is the dialogue is a little bit dry at times. Solid 4/5.

SparksEmberhoof said...

Love it :D

Reever said...

I think it got a little too saucy, even for a shipping story.

@Crusty Bread

You probably haven't read Romance Quest. Twi hates romance novels. She probably gets off of scientific formulas.

As for Dashi, definitely PonyPorn.

Reever said...

@SPOILER@
"Take a shot if Silver Spoon draws a heart at the end of a SENTENCE."

“Oh right! I just remembered, she saves them for her MATH EXAMS, of course.”

Wait wah?

Reever said...

Last comment, honest.
I found this highly amusing especially towards the end when they were almost completely wasted.

@Crusty Bread

Twilight Sparkle - Scientific Formulas
Fluttershy - FairyTales. She WAY to timid for even romance novels. She'd probably really enjoy it until it got to the saucy parts at which point she'd be scarred for life.
Rairity - Romance Novels, and she shares them with her friends which I find a little weird.
Rainbow Dash - Who needs that when she can have any mare or colt she desires.
Pinkie Pie - Cookbooks
Apple Jack - Humanporn
Spike - Writes his own romances about himself and Rarity.

Anonymous said...

AGH! My liver!

James Corck said...

@Reever

Math formulas :3

What? Didn't you have to write the explanation of a formula in school? I had to. For every. Single. One.

James Corck said...

@Anonymous

I told you it wasn't a good idea to play that game while reading this >_>

McRamen said...

Page 7

//“That can’t be the title.” said Twilight, leaning forward.

“It is. And before you ask, yes, it’s real. And yes, I have a copy of it.”

“that’s it like?” asked Twilight.//

So just how smashed is Twilight at this point?


Page 8

//My sister says they are hammy. I don’t know, I didn’t see any pigs in the story.//

I'll let the first one slide, but.. what makes 'Belle draw a connection between "hammy" and pigs? Did I miss a "Grimdark" tag somewhere? :p


Page 9

//There were a lot of portraits of parents and super-ponies from popular comic books. They knew none of them, but a particular one appeared three times: He had a red and black costume, and carried two katanas with his mouth. When they came across Scootaloo’s drawing, Cheerilee didn’t even look at it.//

Ignoring for a moment that katana would make the show 20 new kinds of awesome; doesn't the presence of "super-pony" comics and katana suggest that the world we know and love has a darker side to it?


In closure:
It's good. It kept my interest and was well written. That said, it is not the kind of story I would return to. There's no drama or tension or memorable moments. It's just a nice, short read.

~D

James Corck said...

@McRamen

Thanks for pointing out that typo. It's fixed now <3

Both the "hammy" and the katana jokes are there just for that. They are jokes. No need to over-read them like other people do with stuff appearing on the show.

Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to make. A short, sweet story that will make you forget your problems for 30 minutes. Thanks a lot for checking it out!

Axquirix said...

Oh hey, you got this uploaded! Congrats!

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