I remember when this fan fic first came out everyone was like "OMG this is the saddest story ever" then I think around the time the Rainbow Dash Presents came out everyone started to go "You know this fan fic is kinda hilariously bad" It was a fun era to see that shift
tha RDP episode does a great job depicting how implicitly messed up & pathological & like emotionally dysfunctional "My Little Dashie" is beneath its veneer of sweetness lol; tha narrator can barely take care of himself or form relationships wit people like him, but we supposed to believe he'd adequetely care for a flying cartoon horse he found in tha street lmao? its srsly deranged writing 😅😅😅
@@awnaur0no919I don't think its "deranged"- tons of depressed people find a will to live and take care of themselves if they get a pet- see the 4chan shrimp greentext for one of my fav examples. This is just a more fantasical version of that
A couple of things people don't realize about this story. First off Dashie is not Rainbow Dash, she is essentially an OC. When she came over to the human world she was de-aged and had no memories of the pony she used to be. She grew up with a whole new set of memories. In fact at the end when Dashie goes back to Equestria Twilight suppresses Dashie's memories to bring back Rainbow Dash's memories. Dashie essentially dies at the end so Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty, can be returned to the good fight. I have a Tear-Jerker classification system from 1-5. 1 being wet eyes only and 5 being snot, blubbering, and fat tear tracks down the face. Every time I watch StormXf3 mini movie I get hit with a Class 5. The fanfic only hits with a 3.
Thats what really did it for me, I sometimes theorize about if it was all an allegory for a father raising his daughter and having her actually die, glad im not the only one to be a bit emotional over it aswell
i will always remember this one live action brony video that i saw as a kid, where this guy goes on a date with rainbow dash and confesses his feelings to her. and i swear to god, in this guy's OWN imagination, she rejects him.
OMG I think I remember this... Is it the one where the guy asks a rainbow dash plushie if she wants to have sex with him? I came across that video when I was a kid and it was so weird lol
I remember printing out this fanfic as a kid and showing it to my mom and then later being horrified that the fanfic has the word "shit" in it. I took out a whiteout so the sentence said "same STUFF, different days" but the existence of a swear word in my wholesome my little dashie story saddened/scared me so much I threw it away
Awww😭. I would've done the same thing, if I even recognized it as a curse word. I once took a warrior cats quiz and at one point it said "f**k you Tigerstar!" Censored just like that. I showed it to my mom and asked her what it meant. She freaked out and told me it was a very very bad word. I started crying and tried to give her my tablet to take away because I felt like I did something horrible.😭
Am I the only person who came to see "irrational hatred of Rarity" as a potential red flag? Cuz whenever it comes up, it's always so weird and so... violent.
I’m not even an enormous fan of the show, but Rarity’s actually one of the main characters I find myself liking. If anything, her demeanor makes her feel a little less “perfect waifu material” and more of a “person” if that makes any sense. I honestly think Fluttershy is bland, not too interesting, and borderline Sue-ish due to how “cutesy-wootsey” she is with her whole “OMG, I’m a sputtering moe wallflower who’s anxiety exists only to appeal to those who think that passes for cute! Love me!!!”
@@rockmangurlx4973 yeah but at that point it's not the shows fault, is it? I was the target demographic (little girls) during the shows airing and fluttershy helped me a whole lot with embracing shyness and that sometimes im not gonna be able to make everyone like me. I dont 'need' to like big crowds and having the spotlight in order to have a fufilling social life. Im not saying youre obligated to like fluttershy, but the show never depicted her as desirable...?
4:42 what is it with fanfiction writers hating on Rarity for no reason? It's one thing to not like a character but they treat her like she just murdered their entire family.
I mean... I can understand getting pissed off when someone insinuates that you are being romantic with your adopted daughter, but going full "oh I OUGHTA KICK YOUR ASS" is a bit much.
When I was deep into the pony fandom back in the day, I remember thinking My Little Dashie was bad..... I still don't think it's amazing, but I can at least appreciate it for what it is these days instead of being an edgy teenager who thinks not having emotions is cool. It is pretty refreshing to revisit something that old and NOT have it contain some weird undertones.
I remember this one video of a guy who was doing a reading of it. At the start he was all like, "I've heard that people get all emotional over this, what wimps," and you gradually get to see him go from disinterested and vaguely mocking to crying to the point that he can barely read it. Good times.
I saw this story years back and it was pretty emotional and well made. However a month ago, i watched the " rainbow dash presents " version and now that's how I see the story lol.
Do any of you guys remember (if you were here for the early days of the fandom like around S1 and a bit of S2) how Equestria was seen as this utopia and wonderful place to live in (I remember this brony song my highschool friend used to play called "we are a long ways from Equestra" lmao) But as the show went on we got to see more and more dangers that these ponies had to deal with and how just helpless they are against it Like dang the fact that Equestria survived this long and these ponies manage to have functioning towns is beyond me Timber wolves alone look like they are a constant threat
YES, it really was like as the season went on into its later seasons, it became more fleshed out and honestly more realistic with how not EVERYONE would be all friendly and nice.
@@screamingbean7509 Yeah lmao either they get attacked by some magical being or by some giant monster or some of these ponies are kinda jerks to each other
I met the author at a convention recently. He's a really nice and kind guy, so my hatred of this story melted away when I spent a few minutes talking to him.
It goes without saying that "My Little Dashie" is one of if not THE most emotional mlp fanfic ever written and to be adapted into a fanmade short film! Almost anyone who watches it just can't keep from turning on the water works when they see it, Hell to this day I still watch it whenever I need a good cry!
I remember watching this when I was like 6 years old and getting so sad because of it that I couldn't watch any MLP: FiM episodes without skipping the parts with Rainbow Dash. Good times.
I always thought that the part about punshing Rarity in the face was because she assumed he was dating Rainbow Dash witch made him feel disgusted, not just cause it's a random Rarity hate moment
That was my take on it, tbh. there was a small number of people that would often call it cringe and such just because they had that in mind. I kind of wondered if there was a bit of self-awareness during the writing of the story where the author was afraid people my assume it would go in that direction.
I mean, it is, but it’s also very overtly aggressive and violent in a way it doesn’t need to be. Getting frustrated that a stranger assumed your dating your adoptive daughter is one thing, wanting to and being portrayed as very nearly enacting violence due to that assumption is something else. He could have just, made a passive aggressive comment, instead of(atleast in the animated version) make Rarity feel like she was about to be assaulted. It’s also Rarity, the comment itself makes sense from Rarity, but any other character could have made a similar comment and probly wouldn’t have been met with so much vitriol. Rarity, like many other Uber-Feminine Diva Characters who aren’t villanized, got a lot of and still gets some irrational hate for being a female character who is a Diva. It would be entirely unsurprising to me to learn that the author specifically made Rarity say that so they could be unnecessarily violent towards a fictional character to quell some insecurity they have.
@@calicomarker maybe the moment is ment to show the main character's flaw of how overdependant he is of Rainbow Dash. He keeps her around to keep her safe and loved but also to make himself less miserable and more happy, and even an obviously sarcastic jokey comment from Rarity in the moment where he knows he's gonna loose RD forever made him rage
@Goat89013 I would consider that and also with the fact that he doesn’t have the context to know that they spent only 15 days to find Rainbow while he spent 15 years. So Rarity does come off as insensitive due to his perspective being that Rainbow was left stranded for too long. Bottom line. Not a random Rarity hate thing.
Never read the fanfic but I remember being super deep into Pony RUclips as a kid, finding this video and genuinely sobbing Although now in retrospect the video is pretty silly
Author of The Titans' Orb here, (mentioned at 6:15). I genuinely had no idea my work was added to any fan-made wiki, and was blown away to hear it mentioned in your video. Flattered as I am that it was specified as 'notorious', I can assure you that I most certainly didn't write that myself. Personally, I consider my series to be FAR from well-known, but I do have a handful of dedicated readers, one of whom I'm sure was responsible for adding my story to that wiki and taking it upon themselves to credit it as notorious. 😆 Still, it brought a smile to my face to hear it briefly talked about, so thanks for that! 😁
@@christopherbravo1813 It's a "ponies come to Earth" kind of story, set around a holy artefact named the Titans' Orb, which keeps the pony world of Equus safe from interdimensional threats. After a villain from Tartarus escapes his cell, he breaks the Orb into six pieces, and sends them to Planet Earth, scattering them across the globe, to which Twilight and her five friends are sent to retrieve it. Told in the first-person perspective from a human named Callum, he is chosen as the ponies' guide and protector, and he eagerly accompanies them to find all the pieces. The story is a gritty one, aimed at an older and/or mature audience, and it touches on a lot of heavy subjects, and also serves to bring realism and deeper worldbuilding to the ponies and their home. That's the long and short of it. It's now a novel series, currently coming to the end of the 3rd book, with another two (possibly three) planned to follow.
@@christopherbravo1813 Yup, once I had the story in mind, I wanted to make it into something weighty and long-standing. Each book is 30 chapters long, with chapters ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 words. The long-term plan is to make audiobooks out of them, and a handful of limited paperback editions, but I likely won't do that until I've finished the story, which won't be for a handful of years yet.
@@MisterHorncastle can't wait. this actually sounds like something I'd be interested in reading. here's to praying that Has-been doesn't give you the dreaded C and D!
Ok so, back when the fic was still fresh on everyone’s mind in the community, I never read the story in its entirety, only recaps. However upon reading them it still made me feel a negative emotion I’ve never felt before. I didn’t cry like most people have claimed. I had no idea what that feeling was, but I now I think it was regret. Keep in mind I was a simple 12 year old with ADHD and middle school was awful. But that fanfic will forever stick with me.
Everytime i hear about My Little Dashie all I can think about is that one gruesome "pony care game" called Joy Pony, a game disguised as one of those classic tomadachi type games like Pou or The My Talking Tom games. In reality though, it was a foal torture simulator, although, it was your choice if you wanted to do such horrible things. I'm not sure if My Little Dashie started the trend which led to this game, but it seems so as when I got into the My Little Dashie it didn't take long for me to unfortunately witness playthroughs of the Joy Pony game, and not the good kind. My most vivid memory of it was someone suffocating the baby pony (which was rainbow dash. I'm not sure if you have made a video about Joy Pony, but I'd definitely like to see it, I have no idea how many people know about this game and I think it was definitely a result of the clashing themes of My Little Dashie and the iconic pony gore animations.
@@whiteasparagus4331 AHH ok someone else does remember it, and found it in the same way, I really hope we get/have a video about that game, its pretty much never talked about in recent days, despite it being probably one of the most gruesome fan games.
I would like to see more simple fanfic retrospectives like this. The multi-hour ones are fun, but it's nice to have something simple like My Little Dashie.
just rewatched the stormxf3 version after a decade. i am almost a 17 year guy now, far from the community, haven’t watched the show in years yet still shed a tear maybe because dash was my favorite
I haven't thought about My Little Dashie in years it was one of my favorite fics when I was younger for just sorta the heart warming feel it had. It didn't make me cry but it did hit me in the feels at that time and yeah sure its cheesy maybe a little bit dramatic for what it is but honestly its harmless and well meaning, it standed out nicely from the more grim dark stuff so its a nice little pallet cleanser overall.
1:27 Horse Vergilius! I also remember some Library of Ruina songs made it into the Reviewing Every FiM Episode vid, so either Shunks herself or one of her editors is a Project Moon fan
I remember when I saw the animation/mini movie, I was like 12 or 13 and I actually cried. I watched it during a sleepover and my friend wanted to know why I was crying and I had to tell her 😭😭
when i was like 7 i watched the mini movie and started crying so hard my parents thought something was wrong. i was banned from watching youtube on my own for like 4 years after that lmfao. memories ❤️
What makes the story weird in retrospect is that MLP ponies are _people._ Like, they talk and own businesses and go on adventures. But Rainbow Dash here is framed less like an adoptive child and more like a stray dog, all in service of... some dude's bizarre wish fulfillment?
Did you even read the story? Dashie literally calls him "dad" in it. She's like a daughter to him. The only thing that's animal-like is her being found in a box like a puppy.
i remember watching this when I was ~7 on the family computer a crying my eyes out, and NOTHING else i watched at the time made me cry. core memory for any mlp fan
I loved the Rainbow Dash My Little Dashie video, but I had no idea it was based off of/inspired by a fanfic, that’s ridiculously funny. Gonna rewatch that after this, I was in love with that back then 🥹🥹🥹
you'd think a fanfic with the premise of "brony adopts filly rainbow dash" would be pretty Yikes but it's really clean lol. like one of the top reviews for MLD on letterboxd descrbes the part with rarity as "the part where the pony Rarity cheekily suggests that sad incel Real-Life You are romantically 'friendly' with Rainbow Dash™" and honestly that's kind of a fucking reach?? although i gotta admit that i'm super dense when it comes to Implied Romance/flirting/etc lol, it just comes off as rarity hatred to me.
I’m showing a friend mlp for the first time, and tonight we are gonna watch my little dashie. He’s in LOVE with rainbow dash. I’ll update his reaction later.
This made me bawl for 20 minutes straight I began watching the gigachad stormXF3 when I became a brony again abt 2 weeks ago and in the middle of 2am scrolling through his channel I watched the mini movie itself and woke the entire house up by crying. So yes it is as sad as they claim it to be
Rembered that I cried so hard after watching that when I was like in elementary and forced my older cousin to watch it thinking it would make her cry(it didn't)
The tears are coming back again ;-; Shunks, if you want to know why we really love My Little Dashie, it's like you described, Ponies in the real world. Everyone knows how amazing that would be if we got to see our favorite Pony, but taking care of them and raising them, it's even more emotional
One summer vacation, I was so heartbroken by the story, that I would listen to the unofficial sequels on RUclips up all night just so I could find peace. Unfortunately, I was listening to them so often, I ran over my family’s data plan twice in the same month.
How would you feel about a video on five score divided by four? The fic itself is the prime example of an interesting idea with very rough execution, and it's sorta an inside joke in my friend group. Plus, for a fic that got so popular fimfiction banned spinoffs of it for like about a month people don't talk about it a lot
Five score? *Awesome* It takes the stereotype of "ive become a pony" and flips it upside to say "wait I've always been this pony?" Yep! Also this quote: “She'd never abandon her friends and would fight until the last dying breath if she had to...” That quote is LOYALTY in a nutshell I SECOND THIS!
Hey Shunks, I know you won’t see this but recently I had my first surgery and have been in quite a bit of pain. Your videos help distract me and help me sleep when I’m in too much pain to function. I wish I could support you on patreon but unfortunately I can’t, so I’m writing this comment to support you instead. Thanks so much for making my recovery just that little bit less painful ❤
This just unlocked the vivid memory of little me (I think i was like 8) watching one of the comic dubs video where i definitely cried haha- This was a blast from the past
I was hoping you would cover My Little Dashie eventually! Bawled my eyes out the first time I watched it and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Cue the line from The Brony Song: "My Little Dashie made me cry 🥺"
I think in the 2010s there was a real niche for those dad/daughter bonds, you can see it with video games too, Bioshock, Dead Rising, The Walking Dead. IDK why everyone was dadbrained for a hot minute.
Omg I remember this - When I was little, never in my lifetime I thought that I would hate Celestia, Twilight and her friends so much for taking away Dashie 😢
I highly doubt this was related. After all, this is a story about adopting a pony as a daughter. But what you're talking about is ponies as pets. Very different. Also that thing was started by a text post about hasbro genetically modifying ponies, it going wrong, and them escaping into the wild as pests. So we already know what the origin was, and it isn't my little dashie.
When I saw this when it first got released. It made me cry every single time I watch it and it still does. This has to be the number 1 my little pony fanfic EVER
I went from crying to this story, to overanalyzing and hating it and mocking anyone who enjoyed it, to where I am now- realizing that it's not amazing, but someone wrote and was proud of it.
I was a really imaginative child so when I first read my little dashie not only did it break my child heart but there was a rainbow kite stuck in a tree near my house and I whole heartedly believed for a couple days it was actually rainbow dash, kinda useless information but this video made me remember that lol
i actually refused to watch this video for a couple months because every time i remembered My Little Dashie i would tear up i loved mlp as a kid but something about this series is soo insanely nostalgic and beautiful that it makes me lose my breath genuinely don't even know if it holds up its just such a fond memory edit: i should clarify the one that made me cry was the monkey parody. deadass i love it soo much
Definitely remember this gettung to me back in the day, although the random rarity hate took me out a bit cause she was my fave and like it literally came out of nowhere
The story did stick with me, read it in either 2012 or 2013, I know it was before season 3's compleation at the very least. Took about a year for me to find another story that would get me to cry again after reading MLD. 4:45 I do not like where my mind is going now... atleast it flew over my head back then, and now see why Anon had that reaction.
If well written in a new story and if they could design CGI Live Action Rainbow Dash Right they could make My Little Dashie even more rewarding And by CGI Like how they did with Sonic but they should design CGI Live Action Rainbow Dash Fresher and twice as sweet and 220% Cooler @@rampagephoenix1735
i was very young when mlp g4 came out, i remember going on either my dads or moms computer and watching as much Mlp stuff as i could and i found my little dashie on youtube. I had no idea it was a fanfic untill now. wow
I don't know you guys, but i always thought that Rainbow Dash was special, because of her rainbow mane and the Sonic Rainboom, and the fact that the rainbow is an icon in FIM
This reminds me of this off-the-cuff video Joshua Burner was doing with some other bronies, I forget what the topic was, but partway through they start talking about My Little Dashie and how it was just a gut punch fanfic and nothing much more than that. Then they mentioned Rainbow Dash being out of character, and someone said "Well if you were raised by a sad sack your whole life, I think you'd be depressed and sad too." I dunno why, but that's stuck with me to this day.
The Storm FX video was my only exposure to the fanfic I didn't know there was an "Iceburg", towards this special one-of-a-kind fanfic that I do like and it does bring me tears to this very day very well done Shunks!👍
I listened to the reading by Mic a few years ago. I think he read even the other 3 (there were 4 total) and man, the 4th one got me bawling like a foal...
I remember seeing this when I saw 8, and I ACTUALLY CRIED. It probably made other people cry but this is the most emotional thing ever. (Obviously I saw the video version.)
I watched the video as a kid. I grew up with the bronies and g4 as a whole the creepy the good but seriously cupcakes and Rainbow Factory scared me as a kid especially mlp stop-motion with pinkamina and this one RUclipsr who's soda pets now but used to be yum soda her vids as a kid might seem cringe to her now but the Rainbow factory series scared me. Mind you these are were with mop toys mop stop-motion still does crazy mlp stuff and the recent thing was the others was so cool but also crazy the final was crazy and cool and I guess it wasn't a good idea for both mane 6s to become one.
*deep childhood memories unlocked* I remember i quoted phrases from there when i wanted to cry. Shot with a polyethylene bag rolling down the empty road is forever engraved in my memory
when i was a young kid and self-proclaimed brony, i read my little dashie, and then i also read a few of the many continuations written by other people. in one of them, appledash was a thing, and that was how i found out gay people existed.
Bro I was like nine and this story made me cry lol. It was really touching. Tbh I completely forgot about it and now I kinda wanna go back and rewatch the thing.
imma be honest, back when i was a brony in 4th grade(?) i often spend my breaks and after school hours (waiting for mom to pick me up) in front of school library since my friend cracked wifi password somehow and since i watched MLP RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, i spend that free time watching MLP official comic pages and fan comic dubs (etc) on my phone one day after school i was on the bench watching MLP content and it was when i saw "my little Dashie" comic dub, idk who dubbded it or made it but i realy liked it i continued to watch it and get more invested in it untill the end where i cried alot for good 10 minutes (i was less doom and gloom back then) now when i look back, even after leaving fandom (got diffrent intrests in life) and just becoming 20 i realised that it was first time when i actually cried from something that isnt physical pain.... and to this day it only happend... 3 times afterwards i know its off topic alot but i guess as dumb as it sounds, this comic and self reflection, made me realised how.. emotionally dead i am without realising it for a long time our minds work in mysterious ways... arent they?
I watch this back when it came out 😂 I was a kid but it was literally my favorite besides om num or the weird fluffy pink pony shorts with queen Chrysalis
I was thinking about this fanfiction last night, And i was honestly crying a bit just thinking about it. Convenient to see a video made about it was made 9 hours ago
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I remember when this fan fic first came out everyone was like "OMG this is the saddest story ever" then I think around the time the Rainbow Dash Presents came out everyone started to go "You know this fan fic is kinda hilariously bad" It was a fun era to see that shift
tha RDP episode does a great job depicting how implicitly messed up & pathological & like emotionally dysfunctional "My Little Dashie" is beneath its veneer of sweetness lol; tha narrator can barely take care of himself or form relationships wit people like him, but we supposed to believe he'd adequetely care for a flying cartoon horse he found in tha street lmao? its srsly deranged writing 😅😅😅
Man though the fan film of it is shockingly good and very easy to overlook the issues
@@awnaur0no919that’s definitely a huge overexaggeration and clearly haven’t seen Storm’s videos
@@awnaur0no919I don't think its "deranged"- tons of depressed people find a will to live and take care of themselves if they get a pet- see the 4chan shrimp greentext for one of my fav examples. This is just a more fantasical version of that
@@axolotlfairy2473indeed
Right now our world lost a lot of color
A dashie could help us see color again
A couple of things people don't realize about this story. First off Dashie is not Rainbow Dash, she is essentially an OC. When she came over to the human world she was de-aged and had no memories of the pony she used to be. She grew up with a whole new set of memories. In fact at the end when Dashie goes back to Equestria Twilight suppresses Dashie's memories to bring back Rainbow Dash's memories. Dashie essentially dies at the end so Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty, can be returned to the good fight. I have a Tear-Jerker classification system from 1-5. 1 being wet eyes only and 5 being snot, blubbering, and fat tear tracks down the face. Every time I watch StormXf3 mini movie I get hit with a Class 5. The fanfic only hits with a 3.
Cool idea/theory!
I think I have a new headcanon, thanks!
Indeed
Thats what really did it for me, I sometimes theorize about if it was all an allegory for a father raising his daughter and having her actually die, glad im not the only one to be a bit emotional over it aswell
Wait, isnt that Kaguya?
So she's somewhat of a christ figure is what I'm hearing.
i will always remember this one live action brony video that i saw as a kid, where this guy goes on a date with rainbow dash and confesses his feelings to her. and i swear to god, in this guy's OWN imagination, she rejects him.
Hey at least he was being realistic
Ouch
OMG I think I remember this... Is it the one where the guy asks a rainbow dash plushie if she wants to have sex with him? I came across that video when I was a kid and it was so weird lol
@@chimerianidiot Whoa what?
i remember a twilight one where the guy married twilight
I remember printing out this fanfic as a kid and showing it to my mom and then later being horrified that the fanfic has the word "shit" in it. I took out a whiteout so the sentence said "same STUFF, different days" but the existence of a swear word in my wholesome my little dashie story saddened/scared me so much I threw it away
Awww, I used to be scared of curses too
That was the saddest thing I've ever heard! 😔😥😏😅
HAHAHAH
Awww😭. I would've done the same thing, if I even recognized it as a curse word. I once took a warrior cats quiz and at one point it said "f**k you Tigerstar!" Censored just like that. I showed it to my mom and asked her what it meant. She freaked out and told me it was a very very bad word. I started crying and tried to give her my tablet to take away because I felt like I did something horrible.😭
I can't imagine that happening.
Am I the only person who came to see "irrational hatred of Rarity" as a potential red flag? Cuz whenever it comes up, it's always so weird and so... violent.
rarity fucking slays. they hate to see a mare winning
I’m not even an enormous fan of the show, but Rarity’s actually one of the main characters I find myself liking. If anything, her demeanor makes her feel a little less “perfect waifu material” and more of a “person” if that makes any sense.
I honestly think Fluttershy is bland, not too interesting, and borderline Sue-ish due to how “cutesy-wootsey” she is with her whole “OMG, I’m a sputtering moe wallflower who’s anxiety exists only to appeal to those who think that passes for cute! Love me!!!”
@@rockmangurlx4973its a show for kids? fluttershys shyness isnt supposed to make her waifubait what r u even talking about
@@heartcatchprecure it is for kids, but that hasn’t stopped people from assigning said status to the characters.
@@rockmangurlx4973 yeah but at that point it's not the shows fault, is it? I was the target demographic (little girls) during the shows airing and fluttershy helped me a whole lot with embracing shyness and that sometimes im not gonna be able to make everyone like me. I dont 'need' to like big crowds and having the spotlight in order to have a fufilling social life. Im not saying youre obligated to like fluttershy, but the show never depicted her as desirable...?
4:42 what is it with fanfiction writers hating on Rarity for no reason? It's one thing to not like a character but they treat her like she just murdered their entire family.
probably because she’s the most overtly feminine character out of the Mane 6
@@_kaleidothat and in some episodes she does act kinda annoying but still
well, that was not a reason for hating Rarity, in the story she has not the context of the situation.
I guess among the main 6, she is the most propense to turn evil/be antagonistic
It was a big thing in some early-show fandom groups
I mean... I can understand getting pissed off when someone insinuates that you are being romantic with your adopted daughter, but going full "oh I OUGHTA KICK YOUR ASS" is a bit much.
In his defense, being a parent does that to a guy.
The scene where he wants to punch Rarity lives in my head rent free. I’ve had the clenched fist screenshot to use as a reaction image tor years. 4:40
When I was deep into the pony fandom back in the day, I remember thinking My Little Dashie was bad..... I still don't think it's amazing, but I can at least appreciate it for what it is these days instead of being an edgy teenager who thinks not having emotions is cool. It is pretty refreshing to revisit something that old and NOT have it contain some weird undertones.
I remember this one video of a guy who was doing a reading of it. At the start he was all like, "I've heard that people get all emotional over this, what wimps," and you gradually get to see him go from disinterested and vaguely mocking to crying to the point that he can barely read it.
Good times.
i'm pretty such that was the micthemicrophone reading that was mentioned. lol
bro this unearthed the memory of me drawing fanart years ago of Spy and Pyro as a couple adopting rainbow dash together
that sounds genuinely delightful, i support past-you's endeavours wholeheartedly
Who is spy and pyro?
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979
characters from 'Team Fortress 2'! it's an online multiplayer team battle game.
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979team fortress 2
@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979 i think they mean spy and pyro from tf2
I saw this story years back and it was pretty emotional and well made. However a month ago, i watched the " rainbow dash presents " version and now that's how I see the story lol.
"I am the bat who lived"
I've seen it too and it's wonderful!
Do any of you guys remember (if you were here for the early days of the fandom like around S1 and a bit of S2) how Equestria was seen as this utopia and wonderful place to live in (I remember this brony song my highschool friend used to play called "we are a long ways from Equestra" lmao)
But as the show went on we got to see more and more dangers that these ponies had to deal with and how just helpless they are against it
Like dang the fact that Equestria survived this long and these ponies manage to have functioning towns is beyond me
Timber wolves alone look like they are a constant threat
YES, it really was like as the season went on into its later seasons, it became more fleshed out and honestly more realistic with how not EVERYONE would be all friendly and nice.
@@screamingbean7509 Yeah lmao either they get attacked by some magical being or by some giant monster or some of these ponies are kinda jerks to each other
Yup at the start everyone wanted to live in a world like equestria because it was seen as heaven.
I met the author at a convention recently. He's a really nice and kind guy, so my hatred of this story melted away when I spent a few minutes talking to him.
It goes without saying that "My Little Dashie" is one of if not THE most emotional mlp fanfic ever written and to be adapted into a fanmade short film! Almost anyone who watches it just can't keep from turning on the water works when they see it, Hell to this day I still watch it whenever I need a good cry!
Indeed
We all need a dashie(or a sunset shimmer)
I remember watching this when I was like 6 years old and getting so sad because of it that I couldn't watch any MLP: FiM episodes without skipping the parts with Rainbow Dash. Good times.
I always thought that the part about punshing Rarity in the face was because she assumed he was dating Rainbow Dash witch made him feel disgusted, not just cause it's a random Rarity hate moment
That was my take on it, tbh. there was a small number of people that would often call it cringe and such just because they had that in mind. I kind of wondered if there was a bit of self-awareness during the writing of the story where the author was afraid people my assume it would go in that direction.
I mean, it is, but it’s also very overtly aggressive and violent in a way it doesn’t need to be. Getting frustrated that a stranger assumed your dating your adoptive daughter is one thing, wanting to and being portrayed as very nearly enacting violence due to that assumption is something else. He could have just, made a passive aggressive comment, instead of(atleast in the animated version) make Rarity feel like she was about to be assaulted.
It’s also Rarity, the comment itself makes sense from Rarity, but any other character could have made a similar comment and probly wouldn’t have been met with so much vitriol. Rarity, like many other Uber-Feminine Diva Characters who aren’t villanized, got a lot of and still gets some irrational hate for being a female character who is a Diva. It would be entirely unsurprising to me to learn that the author specifically made Rarity say that so they could be unnecessarily violent towards a fictional character to quell some insecurity they have.
@@calicomarker maybe the moment is ment to show the main character's flaw of how overdependant he is of Rainbow Dash. He keeps her around to keep her safe and loved but also to make himself less miserable and more happy, and even an obviously sarcastic jokey comment from Rarity in the moment where he knows he's gonna loose RD forever made him rage
@Goat89013 I would consider that and also with the fact that he doesn’t have the context to know that they spent only 15 days to find Rainbow while he spent 15 years. So Rarity does come off as insensitive due to his perspective being that Rainbow was left stranded for too long. Bottom line. Not a random Rarity hate thing.
Never read the fanfic but I remember being super deep into Pony RUclips as a kid, finding this video and genuinely sobbing
Although now in retrospect the video is pretty silly
lmao same!
Author of The Titans' Orb here, (mentioned at 6:15).
I genuinely had no idea my work was added to any fan-made wiki, and was blown away to hear it mentioned in your video.
Flattered as I am that it was specified as 'notorious', I can assure you that I most certainly didn't write that myself. Personally, I consider my series to be FAR from well-known, but I do have a handful of dedicated readers, one of whom I'm sure was responsible for adding my story to that wiki and taking it upon themselves to credit it as notorious. 😆
Still, it brought a smile to my face to hear it briefly talked about, so thanks for that! 😁
What's the story about?
@@christopherbravo1813 It's a "ponies come to Earth" kind of story, set around a holy artefact named the Titans' Orb, which keeps the pony world of Equus safe from interdimensional threats.
After a villain from Tartarus escapes his cell, he breaks the Orb into six pieces, and sends them to Planet Earth, scattering them across the globe, to which Twilight and her five friends are sent to retrieve it.
Told in the first-person perspective from a human named Callum, he is chosen as the ponies' guide and protector, and he eagerly accompanies them to find all the pieces.
The story is a gritty one, aimed at an older and/or mature audience, and it touches on a lot of heavy subjects, and also serves to bring realism and deeper worldbuilding to the ponies and their home.
That's the long and short of it.
It's now a novel series, currently coming to the end of the 3rd book, with another two (possibly three) planned to follow.
@@MisterHorncastle wow. you made actual books out of this premise?
@@christopherbravo1813 Yup, once I had the story in mind, I wanted to make it into something weighty and long-standing. Each book is 30 chapters long, with chapters ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 words.
The long-term plan is to make audiobooks out of them, and a handful of limited paperback editions, but I likely won't do that until I've finished the story, which won't be for a handful of years yet.
@@MisterHorncastle can't wait. this actually sounds like something I'd be interested in reading.
here's to praying that Has-been doesn't give you the dreaded C and D!
Ok so, back when the fic was still fresh on everyone’s mind in the community, I never read the story in its entirety, only recaps. However upon reading them it still made me feel a negative emotion I’ve never felt before. I didn’t cry like most people have claimed. I had no idea what that feeling was, but I now I think it was regret. Keep in mind I was a simple 12 year old with ADHD and middle school was awful. But that fanfic will forever stick with me.
When I was a kid and stumbled across this story I cried for days , and I’m hardly exaggerating
Everytime i hear about My Little Dashie all I can think about is that one gruesome "pony care game" called Joy Pony, a game disguised as one of those classic tomadachi type games like Pou or The My Talking Tom games. In reality though, it was a foal torture simulator, although, it was your choice if you wanted to do such horrible things. I'm not sure if My Little Dashie started the trend which led to this game, but it seems so as when I got into the My Little Dashie it didn't take long for me to unfortunately witness playthroughs of the Joy Pony game, and not the good kind. My most vivid memory of it was someone suffocating the baby pony (which was rainbow dash.
I'm not sure if you have made a video about Joy Pony, but I'd definitely like to see it, I have no idea how many people know about this game and I think it was definitely a result of the clashing themes of My Little Dashie and the iconic pony gore animations.
OH SO IT WAS THAT GAME, yeah i vividly remember searching my little dashie and finding gameplays of that one
@@whiteasparagus4331 AHH ok someone else does remember it, and found it in the same way, I really hope we get/have a video about that game, its pretty much never talked about in recent days, despite it being probably one of the most gruesome fan games.
Those games, oh man, I remember them. I played them myself too 😭 I was messed up as a kid
wait, you could suffocate ponies in that game? I thought the only torture options were cutting, punching, and throwing it around the house
I would like to see more simple fanfic retrospectives like this. The multi-hour ones are fun, but it's nice to have something simple like My Little Dashie.
Nice to see you here Smoke
@@TheDJBalloonz Who are you, again?
@@SmokeTheHorsehog DJ. I know you from Mr. Jays rap battles
@@TheDJBalloonz You do?
@@SmokeTheHorsehog yes sir.
the rainbow dash presents parody with "the bat who lived" has haunted me all my life
"Just like his parents "
Made me laugh mah ahh off 😂
just rewatched the stormxf3 version after a decade. i am almost a 17 year guy now, far from the community, haven’t watched the show in years yet still shed a tear maybe because dash was my favorite
I haven't thought about My Little Dashie in years it was one of my favorite fics when I was younger for just sorta the heart warming feel it had. It didn't make me cry but it did hit me in the feels at that time and yeah sure its cheesy maybe a little bit dramatic for what it is but honestly its harmless and well meaning, it standed out nicely from the more grim dark stuff so its a nice little pallet cleanser overall.
1:27 Horse Vergilius! I also remember some Library of Ruina songs made it into the Reviewing Every FiM Episode vid, so either Shunks herself or one of her editors is a Project Moon fan
We all gaze upon fixer horse in awe
I remember when I saw the animation/mini movie, I was like 12 or 13 and I actually cried. I watched it during a sleepover and my friend wanted to know why I was crying and I had to tell her 😭😭
I was like- 10 when I watched this and sobbed my ass off
pony meets world was really amazing! the first season was the best in my opinion. It was not to serious and has more goofy and chaotic moments
I genuinely sobbed watching this as a baby brony. Granted i was in 3rd grade but still
I see someone has been playing library of runia
when i was like 7 i watched the mini movie and started crying so hard my parents thought something was wrong. i was banned from watching youtube on my own for like 4 years after that lmfao. memories ❤️
What makes the story weird in retrospect is that MLP ponies are _people._ Like, they talk and own businesses and go on adventures. But Rainbow Dash here is framed less like an adoptive child and more like a stray dog, all in service of... some dude's bizarre wish fulfillment?
She’s depicted as a child in the story that he raises as a daughter tho
She's depicted more as an adoptive daughter
Did you even read the story? Dashie literally calls him "dad" in it. She's like a daughter to him. The only thing that's animal-like is her being found in a box like a puppy.
i remember watching this when I was ~7 on the family computer a crying my eyes out, and NOTHING else i watched at the time made me cry. core memory for any mlp fan
I loved the Rainbow Dash My Little Dashie video, but I had no idea it was based off of/inspired by a fanfic, that’s ridiculously funny. Gonna rewatch that after this, I was in love with that back then 🥹🥹🥹
you'd think a fanfic with the premise of "brony adopts filly rainbow dash" would be pretty Yikes but it's really clean lol. like one of the top reviews for MLD on letterboxd descrbes the part with rarity as "the part where the pony Rarity cheekily suggests that sad incel Real-Life You are romantically 'friendly' with Rainbow Dash™" and honestly that's kind of a fucking reach?? although i gotta admit that i'm super dense when it comes to Implied Romance/flirting/etc lol, it just comes off as rarity hatred to me.
I’m showing a friend mlp for the first time, and tonight we are gonna watch my little dashie. He’s in LOVE with rainbow dash. I’ll update his reaction later.
This made me bawl for 20 minutes straight
I began watching the gigachad stormXF3 when I became a brony again abt 2 weeks ago and in the middle of 2am scrolling through his channel I watched the mini movie itself and woke the entire house up by crying.
So yes it is as sad as they claim it to be
I remember watching this and thinking it was the saddest story ever (I was 7)
Rembered that I cried so hard after watching that when I was like in elementary and forced my older cousin to watch it thinking it would make her cry(it didn't)
I remember being 13 and *trying* to cry to this fanfic because everyone said it was sad and I just couldn’t 😂 I’m so glad others thought the same
I remember I saw the my little dashie live action and i cried
1:27 LIMBUS COMPANY REFERENCED !?!
There was also a fan made visual novel game adaptation.
Bro
Truly a modernday emotional masterpiece. My Little Dashie will live on forever
The tears are coming back again ;-; Shunks, if you want to know why we really love My Little Dashie, it's like you described, Ponies in the real world. Everyone knows how amazing that would be if we got to see our favorite Pony, but taking care of them and raising them, it's even more emotional
We're going back in time to the first thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu
Mind if I tag along? The taste of turkey makes me feel queasy. That’s why every Thanksgiving I have spiral ham.
That’s right, we’re going back in time to get turkeys off the menu
*Stares ominously into the camera*
One summer vacation, I was so heartbroken by the story, that I would listen to the unofficial sequels on RUclips up all night just so I could find peace. Unfortunately, I was listening to them so often, I ran over my family’s data plan twice in the same month.
This unlocked a strangely beautiful memory I haven’t thought of in years.
How would you feel about a video on five score divided by four? The fic itself is the prime example of an interesting idea with very rough execution, and it's sorta an inside joke in my friend group. Plus, for a fic that got so popular fimfiction banned spinoffs of it for like about a month people don't talk about it a lot
Five score?
*Awesome*
It takes the stereotype of "ive become a pony" and flips it upside to say "wait I've always been this pony?" Yep!
Also this quote:
“She'd never abandon her friends and would fight until the last dying breath if she had to...”
That quote is LOYALTY in a nutshell
I SECOND THIS!
I think the ending hit me harder than Boromir's death in Lord of The Rings
This is the only piece of literature that has ever made me cry
Hey Shunks, I know you won’t see this but recently I had my first surgery and have been in quite a bit of pain. Your videos help distract me and help me sleep when I’m in too much pain to function. I wish I could support you on patreon but unfortunately I can’t, so I’m writing this comment to support you instead. Thanks so much for making my recovery just that little bit less painful ❤
VERGILIUS LIMBUS COMPANY-
This just unlocked the vivid memory of little me (I think i was like 8) watching one of the comic dubs video where i definitely cried haha- This was a blast from the past
I was hoping you would cover My Little Dashie eventually! Bawled my eyes out the first time I watched it and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Cue the line from The Brony Song: "My Little Dashie made me cry 🥺"
It always felt like he was going to date his child with how weirdly it was written. I was always uncomfortable as hell with this fic, even as a kid.
I think in the 2010s there was a real niche for those dad/daughter bonds, you can see it with video games too, Bioshock, Dead Rising, The Walking Dead. IDK why everyone was dadbrained for a hot minute.
I don't think that ever stopped, The last of us, Logan, The Mandalorian, hell even in anime you got Spy x Family and Buddy Daddies.
Omg I remember this -
When I was little, never in my lifetime I thought that I would hate Celestia, Twilight and her friends so much for taking away Dashie 😢
Thanks for reminding me about this. I first watched it when i was 7
That fanfic was the thing that started the Fluffy Pony Community, wasn't it? Would be nice to see a video on THOSE guys sometime soon.
I highly doubt this was related. After all, this is a story about adopting a pony as a daughter. But what you're talking about is ponies as pets. Very different. Also that thing was started by a text post about hasbro genetically modifying ponies, it going wrong, and them escaping into the wild as pests. So we already know what the origin was, and it isn't my little dashie.
@@--CHARLIE-- oh. Okay.
Thank god the jar guy didn't find her first
When I saw this when it first got released. It made me cry every single time I watch it and it still does. This has to be the number 1 my little pony fanfic EVER
I went from crying to this story, to overanalyzing and hating it and mocking anyone who enjoyed it, to where I am now- realizing that it's not amazing, but someone wrote and was proud of it.
I was a really imaginative child so when I first read my little dashie not only did it break my child heart but there was a rainbow kite stuck in a tree near my house and I whole heartedly believed for a couple days it was actually rainbow dash, kinda useless information but this video made me remember that lol
i actually refused to watch this video for a couple months because every time i remembered My Little Dashie i would tear up
i loved mlp as a kid but something about this series is soo insanely nostalgic and beautiful that it makes me lose my breath
genuinely don't even know if it holds up its just such a fond memory
edit: i should clarify the one that made me cry was the monkey parody. deadass i love it soo much
Definitely remember this gettung to me back in the day, although the random rarity hate took me out a bit cause she was my fave and like it literally came out of nowhere
The story did stick with me, read it in either 2012 or 2013, I know it was before season 3's compleation at the very least.
Took about a year for me to find another story that would get me to cry again after reading MLD.
4:45
I do not like where my mind is going now... atleast it flew over my head back then, and now see why Anon had that reaction.
You just awaken my childhood
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That was an Awesome story
My Little Dashie felt like an
Oscar Awarding movie
It really did, and in my opinion, if it was tweaked a bit in some areas, it actually might've been.
If well written in a new story and if they could design CGI Live Action Rainbow Dash Right they could make My Little Dashie even more rewarding
And by CGI Like how they did with Sonic but they should design CGI Live Action Rainbow Dash Fresher and twice as sweet and 220% Cooler @@rampagephoenix1735
VERGILIUUS HORSE LIMBUS COMAPJYYYYYT (i have ths brain rot)
my little dashie always made me just straight up sob for like an hour every time i watched the live action one when i was little TwT
This is sooooooo Nostalgic... "My little dashie" was soooooo sad...
_I didn't want dashie to be sent back..._
i was very young when mlp g4 came out, i remember going on either my dads or moms computer and watching as much Mlp stuff as i could and i found my little dashie on youtube. I had no idea it was a fanfic untill now. wow
I don't know you guys, but i always thought that Rainbow Dash was special, because of her rainbow mane and the Sonic Rainboom, and the fact that the rainbow is an icon in FIM
This reminds me of this off-the-cuff video Joshua Burner was doing with some other bronies, I forget what the topic was, but partway through they start talking about My Little Dashie and how it was just a gut punch fanfic and nothing much more than that. Then they mentioned Rainbow Dash being out of character, and someone said "Well if you were raised by a sad sack your whole life, I think you'd be depressed and sad too."
I dunno why, but that's stuck with me to this day.
I loved this fan fic the ending makes me cry every time I watch it
The Storm FX video was my only exposure to the fanfic I didn't know there was an "Iceburg", towards this special one-of-a-kind fanfic that I do like and it does bring me tears to this very day very well done Shunks!👍
I listened to the reading by Mic a few years ago. I think he read even the other 3 (there were 4 total) and man, the 4th one got me bawling like a foal...
I remember this, I loved watching those videos as a kid.
I remember when I watched this at the ripe age of 6, I sobbed HARD.
I also thought it was made by hasbro for awhile 💀
I remember seeing this when I saw 8, and I ACTUALLY CRIED. It probably made other people cry but this is the most emotional thing ever. (Obviously I saw the video version.)
I watched the video as a kid. I grew up with the bronies and g4 as a whole the creepy the good but seriously cupcakes and Rainbow Factory scared me as a kid especially mlp stop-motion with pinkamina and this one RUclipsr who's soda pets now but used to be yum soda her vids as a kid might seem cringe to her now but the Rainbow factory series scared me. Mind you these are were with mop toys mop stop-motion still does crazy mlp stuff and the recent thing was the others was so cool but also crazy the final was crazy and cool and I guess it wasn't a good idea for both mane 6s to become one.
I REMEMBER SOBBING WHEN I SAW THIS IS A KID..
Oh I remember seeing this
I’m not ashamed to admit that I used to cry like a baby when I saw videos of this
*deep childhood memories unlocked*
I remember i quoted phrases from there when i wanted to cry. Shot with a polyethylene bag rolling down the empty road is forever engraved in my memory
when i was a young kid and self-proclaimed brony, i read my little dashie, and then i also read a few of the many continuations written by other people. in one of them, appledash was a thing, and that was how i found out gay people existed.
It’s so funny that I only NOW just got what rarity said to earn that reaction. Wow.
Bro I was like nine and this story made me cry lol. It was really touching. Tbh I completely forgot about it and now I kinda wanna go back and rewatch the thing.
my little dashie is a classic i re watched it what a master peace
that one video where everything is in black and white broke me when i was little sure the story has its plot holes but man did it do its job right
imma be honest, back when i was a brony in 4th grade(?) i often spend my breaks and after school hours (waiting for mom to pick me up) in front of school library since my friend cracked wifi password somehow
and since i watched MLP RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, i spend that free time watching MLP official comic pages and fan comic dubs (etc) on my phone
one day after school i was on the bench watching MLP content and it was when i saw "my little Dashie" comic dub, idk who dubbded it or made it but i realy liked it
i continued to watch it and get more invested in it untill the end where i cried alot for good 10 minutes (i was less doom and gloom back then)
now when i look back, even after leaving fandom (got diffrent intrests in life) and just becoming 20
i realised that it was first time when i actually cried from something that isnt physical pain.... and to this day it only happend... 3 times afterwards
i know its off topic alot but i guess as dumb as it sounds, this comic and self reflection, made me realised how.. emotionally dead i am without realising it for a long time
our minds work in mysterious ways... arent they?
I watch this back when it came out 😂 I was a kid but it was literally my favorite besides om num or the weird fluffy pink pony shorts with queen Chrysalis
I remember watching 'My Little Dashie' when I was a kid and I loved it, and I cried "this was the Most saddest story ever" I still loved it
I was thinking about this fanfiction last night, And i was honestly crying a bit just thinking about it. Convenient to see a video made about it was made 9 hours ago
The video movie made me cry while hugging my Rainbow Dash plush
I love the music they used in the fic.