My Little Disney: Music is Magic
The 100th Chapter Spectacularmathon! With Applejack
Previous ChapterNext ChapterHello, and welcome to the My Little Disney: Music is Magic 100th Chapter Spectacularmathon. I'm here to count down the ten most well-loved chapters of this insane little project as judged by my readers, with some input of my own.
I'm also delighted to announce that joining me in my attic by my computer side is Applejack. Hello there.
The farmpony looked nervous. "Hi." She then looked around the attic. "It's...rather cramped here."
Yeah, sorry, it is rather cramped, isn't it? But I appreciate you coming along, nonetheless. I'll even let you have my swivel chair.
"Ya didn't INVITE me," Applejack sighed. "Ya used that strange monkey thang to whisk me to your attic."
Ah yes, I should explain to our readers is that Applejack joins us from Ponyville today with the aid of a dimension hopping monkey I bought at Safeway, and she has generously agreed to host the event with me...as long as I return her home as soon as I'm done. And jut to preserve future canon, she'll have absolutely no memory of ever being here.
"What Ah don't get is why it's lil' ol' me ya picked to co-host this thang," Applejack said.
Because you're best pony.
"Am Ah?" Applejack blushed.
Yes. NOW THEN. I think we should get started on this countdown, don't you?
But before I could get started, Applejack raised her hoof. "Uh...what exactly am Ah supposed to do, again?"
Just ask me questions as I comment, and maybe insert a few observations of your own. Conversation 101.
"Oh. Okay."
It's time to count down the top ten Pony Parodies!
"YEE-HAW!"
Now you're getting into it!
10. Chapter 19: We've Got No Things
I found this one surprising. When I first uploaded it, it barely got any comments until recently. But who am I to argue?
"It's about Rarity after gettin' marenapped by nose low-down Diamond Dogs, right?" Applejack said. "Ah wasn't there for it, Mah friends and Ah only got to take her away. They were beggin' us to get Rarity away from 'em...was it that bad?"
If you like, I could show you what it looked AND sounded like on a DVD I have at home!
"DVD?"
Never mind.
"...Also, no thanks."
Figures. But regardless, I enjoyed writing this one. Partially because I have more of a fondness for the older songs (although I'll do almost any movie), but also because I just found Rarity so fascinating in that episode. It was the episode that revealed that she knew about her inner-spoiled brat, and also knew how to weapon-ize it.
Also, I have to ask. Applejack: Pinkie on Motor Mouth Mode, or Rarity whining?
"Whining. At least THAT sounds like it would eventually stop."
9. Cabbages
Any scenario that appeared in a canon episode are my preferred scenarios to write about. When I'm forced to resort to non-canon situations, I sometimes feel like the punny titles are a bit forced.
"Well, this one made it on the list, so it's gotta be better than ya think it is," Applejack pointed out. She then craned over my neck, and read the lyrics. "Wait a second...what the heck is this!?"
Oh boy, this is awkward...well, this was the closest rhyme I've got to 'Savages', you were the only pony I knew who had anything to do with growing stuff as far as canon goes, and I had a request to fulfil, okay?
"Yeah, but...really? How do ya even know Braeburn and them buffalos would even...?"
Now you know the evils of a dry imagination. At least it was overblown, like I want a lot of my song's situations to be.
"Ah'm glad that Ah won't remember any of this when Ah get back," Applejack grumbled. She brought her Stetson hat over her eyes, and sighed. "Yer readers have weird tastes."
...Should I mention that I only picked this one because of the amount of comments it got, not because it was a favourite of mine...?
8. Chapter 5: Prince Blueblood
Ah, an old work of mine...
"Old? It's only 2 months old!" protested Applejack.
Let's not get wrapped up in technicalities here. It's only the 5th Chapter, and as author, I declare it old.
"...Okay...?" Applejack shook her head. "So why's it here? This song?"
Well, readers didn't comment on this until recently, like the Chapter 18, so I can only assume it was by the power of re-read. That and I hadn't had a dedicated reader-base yet. But I know that both they and I liked it; I wanted to see how much of a jerk I could make Prince Blueblood. Another fanfic (which even has its own TV Tropes page, incidentally) prompted the idea. It seemed obvious.
"Is that okay?" Applejack asked. "Rarity didn't talk that highly of him, but maybe he was only rude? Ah mean, who's to say...?"
Don't you remember that canonically, he insulted your food in front of both you AND Rarity at the Grand Galloping Gala?
"So he did. The low-down snake!" she growled.
7. Chapter 60: Bothering The Teacher
Again, my preference towards classics lead me to do this parody. I haven't been able to mess around with Peter Pan songs as often as I would like, partially because I can't think of good titles, but also because I felt that some weren't long enough to justify a chapter.
"Ah'm readin' this, and Ah feel mighty sorry for Miss Cheerilee," Applejack was looking at the laptop on my desk, reading through the song. "Even Applebloom was just a mischief maker rather than a nuisance on purpose."
Well, at least it's not yet canon. Take comfort in that.
"...Yet?" Applejack looked nervous.
A problem student sounds like an excellent plot for an episode to me! Don't you think?
"...Don't ya dare jinx it."
Well, now I've said it, it probably won't happen. Pity.
6. Chapter 91: Bucking That Tree
"Ah, right," Applejack said, squirming uncomfortably. "That wasn't one of mah better moments, Ah'll admit..."
Well, I got a song out of it. Your loss is my gain.
The remark earned me a swift buck to my side. "Yer a jerk."
Well (excuse me as I rub my bruise here), to be honest, I came up with the idea before the title, unusually for my chapters. It was a trivial scenario I thought of round about the time I hit the 49th Chapter. I couldn't think of a good song for it until the request for Under The Sea came in.
"And you leapt on it because tree rhymes with sea," Applejack said flatly.
Yup. And it gave me the opportunity to exercise my references, because, well, who doesn't love Monty Python?
"Ah don't, Ah've never heard of him," Applejack raised her hoof.
And apparently neither did the folks commenting, they all kept imagining Twilight with a Jamaican accent...Well, at least it was somewhat well received for those who do know, right? Lesson here is to only work to the standard that won't get you completely screwed over.
"But...that's not how yer meant to work at all!" Applejack hotly protested. "Yer meant to work as hard as ya can not just for yerself, but for others!"
...I'm pretty sure I'll have that misconception dispelled as soon as I find paid work. At least Applejack appreciates what she does because she's her own boss.
5. Chapter 11: Drama You Can Bring
My only regret was that by the time I came up with this one, somepony else requested a Pocahontas song, so I had to delay their request for a bit until I felt there was enough distance between it and my idea.
"...A song about Rarity's faintin' couch?" Applejack looked at the computer screen. "What?"
It sounded funny in my head and I had to put it down on the fic before it disappeared from memory. I was at the train station (again) and I literally thought of the word 'faint', and...
"Do ya always think of funny words when out in public?" Appejack brought a hoof to her face. "Ya sound like Pinkie."
Well, there is a fine line between genius and absolutely crazy. Maybe Pinkie and I are in fact secretly geniuses?
Applejack took one look at me, paused, and finally, she said, "Mmm...nah."
HEY!
4. Chapter 56: Kick The Girl
"What exactly was THAT all about?" Applejack raised an eyebrow.
Oh yeah, you didn't appear in that episode, so you don't know. Well, there was an assertiveness seminar being held in the middle of town by a minotaur called Iron Will. Fluttershy attended, took his lessons to heart, and started to act like a colossal jerk to everypony. Including Pinkie Pie and Rarity.
"Fluttershy? Really? She's the sweetest gal ya ever saw!" Applejack protested.
Oh, it's true. She tossed a pony over her head because she was in the way. Heck, remember the time she caught RAINBOW DASH while towing a hot air balloon carrying four other ponies and a baby dragon? Seriously, take away her timid side and Fluttershy is like even stronger than anypony in all of existence.
"...Even Twilight?" Applejack raised an eyebrow.
ESPECIALLY TWILIGHT.
There was a tense pause, before Applejack finally cleared her throat. "So this one's here because people liked the plot of the song?"
Apparently. It also helped that Iron Will's lessons were in rhyme, which made it easy to write. Another request fulfilled easy!
"Lazy bum," Applejack remarked.
3. Chapter 35: The Wonderful Thing About Fingers
I didn't even have to resort to a rhyming dictionary online for this one. I instantly thought "fingers" and that was the end of it as far as I was concerned. It seems to be popular because it seems to fit perfectly with Lyra's character, and it's also easy how to imagine she would sing the song, if the comments on it are anything to go by.
"That explains how ya barely changed a lot of the lines to it," Applejack remarked. "And this seems a little...loose. Ah thought ya preferred canon events to write about?"
I do, but fanon interpretations are fine. Partially because their fan perceptions are almost certainly never going to be expanded on, but the writers for both the comics and the animated series seem to acknowledge them in-universe with some sort of in-joke.
"Personally, Ah'm just waitin' for the time it turns out she has no clue what humans are."
On the day that happens, many bronies will lose their reason to live. And they'd have to revise all their Lyra fics, which would be a pain.
2. Chapter 48: Hurling My Wife
I wanted to do this parody for some time, but I really put off doing it since I already had a lot of requests from commenters to deal with and I couldn't find the time.
"Not going to mention how ya didn't even think of starting on rhyming words for 'life' rather than 'circle', Brody boy?" Applejack smirked.
...Shut up. But unfortunately, it's true. I didn't even think of doing that until I was at my local train station (funny how a lot of my ideas come at the train station), trying to think of which request to respond to as I was heading to town. (At this point, the request for a Circle Of Life parody had come and I was sort of obliged to start on one.) I thought of the word "wife", and immediately had the title as soon as it happened. After that, I confirmed that 'hurling' could be used in the context I was looking for, and I typed up the title as soon as I got home.
"And it's ranked this high because...it's a Circle of Life parody?" Applejack asked. "That's it?"
Well that, and it's so...trivial! I love writing about something that happened once, and is pretty much never mentioned again as I said earlier, or a throwaway line worthy of a meme.
"Meme?"
...If only Equestria had the internet. Actually wait, no, that would be bad.
"It would be, there's people like you on there," Applejack said dryly.
Shut up.
1. Chapter 17: Super Cutie Mark Crusader Experts On Explosions
I had a feeling that this would definitely make it here, on this spot. This song was my most well-received one whenever a new reader realised this fic actually existed and gives it a read.
I got the idea for this literally when I was working at the local charity shop. (Yeah, it's pretty lax on the whole 'keep thyself busy policy'.) I just thought of the word 'explosion' and I immediately thought of the only ponies I know in canon who could feasibly be associated with enormous booms. I couldn't stop grinning at the conceived name, and when I got back home, I immediately started writing it up; the only time I have ever worked on lyrics as soon as I think of a title.
Applejack shuddered. "Heavens ta Betsy, those three. Ah swear Ah should have done keeled over in shock over all the property damage those three caused."
It IS rather shocking, isn't it? But it made for great TV, and a song, so it's all good.
"Ya wouldn't say that if ya had to pay for all of it," Applejack grumbled.
And as long as I keep my dimension hopping monkey under control, I shall never have to.
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We've made it to the end! But of course, it's not over. There's still tons of songs, heck, even MOVIES, from Disney I haven't even started on...
"Oh horseapples..." sighed Applejack.
Hey, just be grateful that you won't remember how any of this relates to me. Now then...I should thank all my readers, who stuck around with my insane little project, dropping likes and suggestions for songs; without you, I wouldn't have been able to even DO one hundred chapters! And of course, Applejack, for not attempting to murder me when my dimension hopping monkey whisked her away from Sweet Apple Acres, and hosting this chapter with me.
"Not too late for that though..." Applejack threatened, scraping one of her back legs behind.
Urk...okay, hold onto the monkey. I'll wrap this up myself.
"Thank Celestia..." Applejack sighed. "If Ah wind up anywhere that ain't home, Ah'll kick yer scrawny backside...!"
I don't doubt it. It looks like she's gone...Now then...dust off the microphone...hey, it's the 100th chapter. Even THAT has to have a song, you know.
...Try to imagine my voice being better than it actually is. Thank Celestia for text. With thanks to all my readers, here goes.
When You Faved Me
(Note: Sung to the tune of Toy Story 2's "When She Loved Me")
Sung by Brony_of_Brody
When I wrote this story
Technically an exercise
Every hour I spent just writing
Lives within my heart
I wanted a comment
Motivate me to write more
And when they were happy so was I
When you faved me
Through the hundred chapters wrote
Some were good, some got down-votes,
At least the reception was good
Like it was meant to be
And I got subscribers
Someone there to read my junk
And I knew that you faved me
So the days went by
I stayed the same
I wrote about what came my way
No matter how droll
Still I waited for the day
When I get at least a thousand views
Lonely and forgotten
Yes, but until that day arrives
I'll write songs about insanity
Just like I always do
Since you faved me
When you faved me
When I wrote this story
It was just a project piece
Every time regulars came back
Lives within my heart
When you faved me
Author's Note
Off the top of my head, thanks to keam, Awesomo3000, Revenant Wings, The Princess Rarity, BrownDog77, sieurin, ShadowLDrago, SeanChow806Napoleonic, Ugly-Duckling123, HB_DS2013, Dirty Bit, SoldierForce, Le_DragonBroneE, dragonspinner33, Spirit Guide, iamthesoulfinder, and Blue Sparkle 227 for regular input and suggestions for my strange little fanfic. For you guys, I'll soldier on and write!
Stay tuned as we return to your regularly scheduled parodies next chapter!
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