Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy Have Words

the end of the sentence, which was late to the party, as usual. Most of the ice had melted, by now, and the punch was getting watery and gross. Worse than Kool-Aid.

“Oh, yeah!” said the Kool-Aid Man, bursting through a wall.

“Hey, asshole, the 1990s called, and they said that you suck,” said Rainbow Dash, kicking the anthropomorphic pitcher into shards. Mysteriously bland and watery fruit beverage flooded the stage and left everypony's hooves with an unpleasant stickiness. The Kool-Aid Man's Sharpie face fell to bits, except they weren’t the money sort of bit, which was too bad. At least he had not succumbed to science fiction cliché and fallen to credits.

“One must have pride,” said Jeremy Irons. He looked around to see if anybody got the joke, saw that they hadn’t, and slunk off to shoot a hilarious game movie.

“Writer” said Fluttershy, forgetting, in her agitation, to add punctuation, “You know that thing you’re writing? Where you wonder what would happen if I was given an animal in such poor shape that the only kind act available to me was to end its life?”

Yeah?

“Let’s just say that this story is that animal.”

Aw, you think so?

“Yes. Nobody’s going to like this.”

But I thought it was funny.

“It’s not, sugarcube,” said Applejack, as kindly as she could. "It's obvious that you're trying too hard."

But I'm not trying at all. See, the whole idea was--

"One might argue that that's even worse," said Twilight. "I know you don't mean it, but it comes across sounding kind of condescending to the reader."

“I’m afraid I have to agree,” said Rarity.

Come on. I like--

“Nobody else does,” said Twilight Sparkle. "You're really alienating anybody who looks at this. And you're moping, which I have to say does not suit you at all."

I'm not moping! I didn't write this because I wanted to be popular. I wrote it because I wanted to write it. I knew full well, going into this, that it was going to be weird, and not for everybody. It’s just how my sense of humor--

“I like it!” said Pinkie Pie. "And you still sound like you're moping."

Well, I knew you would like it. And I'm not moping!

“What, exactly, is happening, here?” said Rainbow Dash, chewing on a contrived joke.

I’m not sure, but it should probably end.

“Mmhm,” said the Mane Six.

“No offense,” said Fluttershy, “but I just think you’re running out of steam on this one and should probably move on to another project.”

Yeah, you’re probably right.

“So we’re going to let this one go, okay?”

Yeah.

The End