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The only reason I'm even including a second comic is because Scratch's face in the last panel of this one is a pretty good mirror of what I looked like after seeing the above.
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The image above is connected to a comic. This is standard practice around here. The comic, however, is not standard. It is... beautiful. Beyond words. Among the best works ever seen in the pony fandom, and I say this without hyperbole. I implore you, click it. See it. Please.
The only reason I'm even including a second comic is because Scratch's face in the last panel of this one is a pretty good mirror of what I looked like after seeing the above.
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Scratch comic? woohoo!
ReplyDeleteCream gravy.
ReplyDeleteI literally teared up at this. fgdfg ;___;
ReplyDeleteYAY! CUTIE MARK CRUSADER COMIC READERS! YAY!!! 8D *Reads comics*
ReplyDeletemy emotions are shredded in two. damn it, Phoe
ReplyDeleteThat first one is like concentrated doom nailed directly to my heartstrings.
ReplyDeleteScratch! <3 ;_________;
ReplyDeleteFirst one is too good.
ReplyDeleteMY EYES!!! I CANT SEE CAUSE OF ALL THE TEARS
ReplyDeleteOmg whhhy (1st one) its soo sad :"(
ReplyDeleteI love both of these so much <3
ReplyDeleteWhat? audience? No I'm not crying, I merely got a piece of grit lodged in my eye.
ReplyDeleteThe first comic speaks loads to me because my uncle has liver cancer, it's gotten so bad the tumor is pushing against his ribcage and he's having trouble breathing, I want to be there for him but I can't because I don't have a passport to fly back to Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteSomething I've been struggling for a while, thank you though very much for this very beautiful and touching comic.
I... I... T-that's so sad... Poor Pinkie Pie...
ReplyDeleteNO!!! TAVI! Whai would you do that to poor Scratchy?! WHAI?!?! *Sobbing like a baby*
~ Magical Trevor, Minstrel of Equestria
Oh, my heart, #1 is just so...beautiful.
ReplyDelete#2 No! not the glasses! Anything, but the glasses!
It hurts. It hurts so bad. So bad, yet a tiny bit of good. But so, so bad. :|
ReplyDeleteThe top comic is beautiful :D
ReplyDeleteAnd then Pinkie was patch Adams?
ReplyDeleteCopious daawwwing.
That comic... it inspires me to want to do so many good things...
ReplyDeleteOKAY, GUYS.
ReplyDeleteTHE CANCER COMIC HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN MADE. IT EXISTS. WE ALL SAW IT. NOW WE CAN STOP MAKING SAD THINGS.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE.
ok i teared a bit in the first one (totally lying i cried A LOT)
ReplyDeleteand well poor scratch her glasses are awesome
First one has been bouncing around lately, but it got here relatively fast.
ReplyDeleteAnd for good reason, it's fantastic.
fuck man. Just got done reading Somewhere only we know, which led to Forever is Forever, then I read this thing!
ReplyDeleteI dont have anymore tears left.
The first one connects to me deeply. Really like it, and it's the fact it stars my favorite pony is a big plus.
ReplyDeleteSecond one is funny. It'd be cool if the show crew picked up on the Octavia/Scratch duo.
Oh... the first one makes me so sad....
ReplyDelete;o; < why cruel world! )
ReplyDeleteWell, my manly tears quota has been met for the next lifetime.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, though, WOW, that is a touching comic. It is just... I can't think of a worthy enough description. "Amazing" just doesn't cut it for me. I need a stronger word.
@MikotheSiko
ReplyDeleteOkay okay
what
I'm sorry, that is too much sad for you to legally experience in a day.
I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ban you from the internet for a few months to let you recover.
IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.
T_T
ReplyDeleteI would come up with some witty comment to express my overwhelming explosion of emotion from the first comic, but I can't it was too
...
I just don't know the right words to properly describe it.
Also, in case nopony else has noticed, each glare patch(white spot/circle) on the eye of a pony adds a level of adorableness(this is actually true); for example, the CMC each has 3 in their eyes while each of the mane 6 only has two(except on certain occasions where an extra heap of adorable is called for), and again, with Scratch in the last frame of #2.
ReplyDelete@Jelfes
ReplyDeleteartist interpretation of extra water building up due to an incomming crying possibly.
That's how I see it anyway.
11/10
ReplyDeleteWould cry again.
#1, I'm welling up right now... just so sad, yet happy
ReplyDelete#2, i've been following for some time (love the discorded ask blogs, Octavia in particular)
Wow. Just wow on that first comic. I cried a few manly tears on that one.
ReplyDelete@Iron Raptor
ReplyDeleteDude, I wish your family all the best.
Whatever happens, keep your head high and your spirits strong.
Know that somewhere, someone is offering you their strength in any rough times you may suffer.
I know we Bronies all are...
We are Bronies.
We Love You...
why, phoe? why must you post these comics and hurt me in the best way imaginable? it's hardly fair...
ReplyDeleteI... Am actually tearing up at the first one. I usually almost never tear up to pony things, but that first one... Damn...
ReplyDeleteFANDOM. WHY MUST YOU MAKE MY HEART ACHE?
ReplyDeleteyeah if that was the actual way how pinkie pie got her cutie mark, I wouldn't have blamed her for telling the CMC what she actually told them
ReplyDeleteThat first comic... oh goodness, was that ever a tear-jerker. So very very sad. But so nice Pinkie was such a wonderful and loyal friend. :')
ReplyDeleteWait, what's goin' on? What'd I do to your glasses? Also, that face in the last panel is so adorably sad.
That first one... many manly tears were shed, and inarticulate blubbering. :(
ReplyDeleteThat first one is just evil D':
ReplyDeleteOh #1 ;_; It's so emotional and sad
ReplyDeleteI'M NOT CRYING. IT'S JUST RAINING INSIDE MY HOUSE. DIRECTLY ON MY FACE.
ReplyDelete>Pinkie Pie is Patch Adams.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense.
Not only is it sad, but it' probably accurate.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be a sudden surge of cancer ponies lately.
ReplyDeleteIs this thing turning into an epidemic?
I wasn't supposed to cry tonight!
ReplyDeleteIve died on the first one. I was crying at some fruits basket videos but... That one made me wanna start bawling. Thank you.
ReplyDelete@gillnavisingh
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the love and support. All I can do is give him my well wishes, and hope that they're able to perform surgery and successfully remove the tumor, at least it'll allow him to breathe easier.
*sniff* Dammit. Now I gotta go punch out some Smurfs to beat of Slipknot. Stop making me "Dawww".
ReplyDeleteMan, the first one is sad. If that was the real story of her cutie, it makes perfect sense for Pinkie to tell the story she did to the CMC.
ReplyDeleteThe second one was pretty good. Would like to see Discorded Octavia.
Simply beautiful...I wish I could shake that authors hand. I got a bit teary eyed from reading that through, maybe because I can relate just a bit. Wonderful work author...kudos to you for making one of the most heartwarming pieces of art I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteMy heart doesn't know whether to break or to grow 3 sizes...
ReplyDeleteI thought up the first comic a few days ago, when I went to pick up some stuff I bought from my friend (who has a brain tumor) for her choir fundraiser. She reminds me of Pinkie, bubbly and always trying to make others smile. :) Thanks to everyone who has read it. It means a ton.
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to Vinyl, I dropped my favorite glasses in the lake, they were never seen again.
ReplyDelete-Minty
I'm so very torn between bawling and chuckling. I'll settle with bawkling.
ReplyDelete@ToonNinja
ReplyDeleteIt's posts like these that let me know I'm doing my job right.
@Pasha
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing something so beautiful. It's very heart-warming! Pinkie would definitely be the one to cheer up any friend of hers, no matter how dark or dire their situation.
NO MORE SAD OKAY?
ReplyDeletegeez, I'm going to have to get the carpet cleaned AGAIN because I just flooded my house with tears.
Oh God, that first one...
ReplyDeleteWhy?
Why would you do this?
Ponies make everything worse emotion-wise. So much sadness.
Poor Pinkie, you did all you could, and no doubt made her passing much easier. Christ, I'm tearing up just thinking about this...
#2 was a good break from the sadness of the first. Vinyl's face in the last panel is adorable.
Great comics.
@Phoe Is it even possible for you to not do your job right? Your job is to embarrass Seth and Cereal and make us feel sweet sweet emotions, right?
ReplyDeleteThat first one...damn. That hits WAY too close to home. Beautiful.
ReplyDelete#1. Oh my heart! That... that is so much just something I could see Pinkie Pie doing, the sweetheart! Don't hate me for this, but part of me wishes this was canon. Having lost three grandparents to cancer, this comic touched me deeply. Bravo to you, Artist, bravisimo and thank you!
ReplyDeleteYa know, if I HADN'T read To Be An Alicorn for the first time last night, and HADN'T spent the next 24 hours of my life pondering the inevitability of death, rueing the friends I've let slip away, and generally feeling like someone had ripped out my heart like Kano.....OH GOD TWILIGHT IS IMMORTAL WATCHING HER FRIENDS GROW OLD AND DIE *SOBBBBBB* ;_; I'VE WASTED MY LIFE, WHYYYY DID I LET YOU GET AWAY JENNY WHYYYYYYY, WHYYYYYYYYY, THAT JERK TREATS YOU LIKE GARBAGE, WHYYYYYYYYY (*gathers self* okay...I think I'm good now)......I might be a little more emotional at the sight of Pinkie Pie watching a fillyhood friend waste away from cancer.
ReplyDeleteBut now? Meh. THE SCABS ON MY HEART HAVE REFORMED.......once again. :(
I totally didn't get the 2nd comic. Wut?
So, Pinkie Pie is Patch Adams, who knew?
ReplyDeleteThere's no way the ponies could make me feel any more... oh.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I hear about people dying and suffering in the news and honestly it's hard to feel anything for them,but this, it really reminds me that sometimes sorrow can be a beautiful thing, that it reminds me what true happiness is, bravo.
God, this really hits home. My mother died of lymphoma in 2009, and watching her slow decline and death was most painful experience I've ever gone through. I wish I could have done more to make her happy and comfortable in her final months, but I was a stupid, angry teenager. I feel like there are so many wasted moments when I could have spent time with her, been a better son to her. The regret just gnaws away at you.
ReplyDeleteJust as well as many others in here, I too have had to watch a similar process. Curse cancer.
ReplyDeleteMy mother died from cancer. That was very heartwarming, and sad at the same time.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it feels good to just cry.
ReplyDeleteManly tears have been shed.
ReplyDelete1st one is good. really good.
ReplyDeleteWow! The first one is so emotionally powerful. Already had an emotional day and this had me crying in no time!
ReplyDelete*sniff*
ReplyDeleteOh gawd the first one.
ReplyDeleteOh gawd ;.;
First one, heartwarming and at the same time so depressing.
ReplyDeleteSecond one is more "ahahaaa you poor thing no i'm not laughing at you i swear"
Brony artists why must you make me shed manly tears?!!!
ReplyDeleteFirst Spike + Twilight movie now this.... T_____T
Good god! ;;
ReplyDeleteThat first one :'(
"I'm fine. I have something in my eye, that's all. [sobs] ... I have something in my other eye. [sobbing] I have something in my heart..." — Stephen Colbert
ReplyDeletebwaaaaaaaaaaa! *sniffles*
ReplyDeleteI laughed when I realized the blue pony had cancer.
ReplyDeleteI am such a terrible human being.
Sadness/sweetness is right up there with Simply Rarity.
ReplyDeleteSweet mother of ponyville! The first comic had me crying my eyes out. I have lost many members of my family to cancer, most recently my Aunt, and that comic just blasted right through my heart. Beautifully done. Oh goodness, I need a box of tissues. Excuse me.
ReplyDeleteJust more proof that in this fandom the power of these ponies used for good always outshines. Seriously, cancer agencies should use this comic. I want to go donate bone marrow right f***ing now.
ReplyDeleteThat Pinkie Pie comic...it makes me feel several things at once. I'm tearing up.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who thinks Pinkie Pie killed her friend with a baked bad? Looking at it that way, the comic makes me giggle.
ReplyDeleteWhy did I read the second one first? Why? T_T
ReplyDeleteBack around 2002 my Auntie Marlene was diagnosed with breast cancer - I remember the day me and my siblings learnt about it. It was a shock, but worse was when we met her after the chemo treatments - she seemed so frail, and bald.
ReplyDeleteBut, wonderously, she fought it off, and lived for several more years. Then, last year, she relapsed, and passed away this month. She slipped away in the night, a few days after going back into hospital.
Seeing this comic reminds me of the courage my uncle showed at the funeral as he read the eulogy - his voice was quavering, he was on the verge of tearing up, but he got through right to the end, and how we applauded!
Rest in peace Auntie Marlene, and Pinkie, take heart :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMWDXjRigU
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help but try my hand at animating this. It's so beautiful.
That makes me love Pinkie Pie all the more.
ReplyDelete@Aquaman52
Damn you for making me laugh while I'm in tears. :)
Oh my Sweet Jesus that first comic XC I can't cry harder, why can't I cry harder!? I need to emote damnit! I want to cry harder but I can't DX
ReplyDeleteHonestly though, that first comic is really heart touching and turns Pinkie in a more dramatic and deep character than the canon Cutie Mark Origin Story. Good work!
sooo sad T.T it really was quite beautiful, fantastic work!
ReplyDelete*sniffle*
ReplyDeleteI'm a horrible person compared to these ponies. My only attempt at redemption is the Peace Corps for my entire life...
It's just so beautiful!
Omg...so sad...I can't...stop crying...
ReplyDeleteWHY THE GLASSES 'TAVI!? HOW COULD YOU!?
I hate to make the first comic even more sad, but think that the blue one looks more like a sibling than a friend.
ReplyDeleteWell, now my eyes are leaking. Why do ponues do this to me so often?
The first one is far too dark for the intended audience of the show, so it's understandable why something of this caliber couldn't make it in. Nevertheless, that is possibly one of the most touching and heartfelt stories I've ever seen. I sincerely hope that the writers of the show are sent this comic repeatedly, and that some sort of hint gets dropped as the series goes on that Inkie... just isn't around anymore.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the sheer amount of depth and tone this adds to the character is staggering, and it would behoove (see what I did there?) the writers to incorporate some element of it into the show proper. Nothing overt, naturally, but some sort of small nod to Pinkie's obviously untapped dramatic potential.
Note: The artist's own comments more or less establish that the blue/grey pony is Inkie Pie, Pinkie's sister.
I've never wanted to hug Scratch in my life as I do now.
ReplyDeleteWHAT DID THE GLASSES EVER DO TO YOU,TAVI? ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS LOOK AT YOU!
Beautiful comic. Thanks for having posted it here, it deserved it <3
ReplyDeleteDamn it Phoe!!!! I'm at work! I can't be seen blubbering like a big idiot at work! My customers are gonna think I'm nuts if I pull.up crying.....damnit....
ReplyDeleteManly(and not so mcuh) tears were shed
ReplyDeleteMany manly tears were shed.
ReplyDeleteOh god what have I done to myself. First I read bubbles and now this? And who the hell's chopping onions... oh who am I kidding, BWAAHHHHH
ReplyDeleteThat first comic... wow. There aren't words to adequately describe it. Seeing the comments here, I don't think there's any doubt that Patch/Pasha got it just right, and this from someone who normally can't stand sad backstories for happy ponies. My thoughts and prayers are with all of y'all who are going through a similar situation, or dealing with the grief of such a loss.
ReplyDeleteD:
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much all there is to say on the matter.
If that were the original story for Pinkie's cutie mark, I would have undoubtedly been able to connect with her on similar terms. I really had to stop looking at that comic a few times because of the chords it struck. I sort of wish I never saw it, but I would be lying to myself then.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate to be the base breaker in the first comic... it cannot be the true origin of her Cutie Mark. Not currently as it is. All the friends were brought together by Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom and that's what helped them get their cutie marks. With a minor tweak or two though, I'm sure you can fit that bit into it though. Maybe have Pinkie being to depressed and saddened by the situation and it was seeing the Rainbow that helped her do something. Maybe... it's very heart-wrenching. But it just needs a little bit more to it to connect.
ReplyDeleteMy heart, it has been popped like a party balloon~
ReplyDeleteBecause she's always so happy, sad Pinkie just makes it that much sadder.
ow. a bit personal for many people. luckily it's not cancer in my case. but that doesn't matter, really. she'll die almost the same way.
ReplyDeleteow.
#1 manly tears were rightfully shed
ReplyDelete#2 DAT FACE. It's adowable
nooo pony cancer ;-;
ReplyDeletei would buy scratch new glassed....
Oh man, I teared up a little.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the pinkie pie one is a Patch Adams reference.
ReplyDelete#2 It's not fair, I had TIME!
ReplyDeleteI cried so much at the first one :'(
ReplyDeleteOuch. My soul.
ReplyDeleteOuch. My soul.
ReplyDeleteMy heart strings were pulled so hard in the first comic..... Oh PinkiePie..
ReplyDeleteGuh rrrgghh nnnnn.............. DAMNIT COULD BARLY HOLD IN THE MANLY TEARS!! The only thing that can make a brony cry. I do so love mlp....
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOD. My hearth just died a little. This... this is the most uplifting and depressing Pinkie Pie comic so far. It was very good.
ReplyDeleteAbout the second... I didn't get it? Was it a pun? a secret message? somekind of meme?... huh?
Well, hope you make another one with the mane cast. Shine one, you crazy diamond.
When i read the first this song get in my mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk&ob=av3e
ReplyDeleteso sad and beautyfull
Not chemo related baldness for ponies! Someone needs to make a pony organization like Locks for Love quick!
ReplyDeleteWow! That first comic, amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt's been a while since I cried...
PashaPup, you are absolutely amazing to be able to evoke such poignant emotions! :)
I has a sad... A big one... :,(
ReplyDeleteThe first comic is like a wave of sadness brushed with colours of happiness to form an artistic masterpiece of beauty most pure.
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