History Fanfic / TheVinylScratchTapes

''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-vinyl-scratch-tapes.html The Vinyl Scratch Tapes]]'' is a {{dramedy}} fanfic for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Written by Tropers/CoreyWWilliams and featured on both Blog/EquestriaDaily and Website/FimfictionDotNet (the story can also be [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/24/the-vinyl-scratch-tapes read here]] on the latter site), ''The Vinyl Scratch Tapes'' is a record following two of the ''MLP:[=FiM=]'' fandom’s favorite background ponies, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, as {{Radio}} TalkShow hosts. In this story, Vinyl is an eccentric, uninhibited JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and Octavia is her BeleagueredAssistant. HilarityEnsues, along with some {{shipping}} (which becomes increasingly prominent as the story progresses) and a surprising amount of CharacterDevelopment.

The whole thing was being adapted into an audio drama on Website/YouTube by ''Midnight Magic Productions''. Begin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jGp0OxMOY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL here]]. It was ultimately cancelled after the 5th episode. However, Featherfall Studios is working on a remake of this audio version that will supposedly continue all the way to the end of the fic, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k-lWOp0C9w starting with a short prequel video]].

** Rover is hired to be security at Vinyl's party. The fact that he has unrepentantly attempted to/succeeded in assaulting, kidnapping, and enslaving Equestrian citizens is quickly glossed over.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Vinyl and Spitfire apparently used to be this.

* NotSoDifferent: Vinyl uses the exact phrase while comparing herself with [[spoiler: Prince Blueblood]] in Season 2, Chapter 5.

** Vinyl is so CrazyAwesome that she's somehow aware of Earth pop culture. She opens her show with quotes from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'''s OpeningNarration (Season 1, Chapter 2) and Music/{{Queen}}'s "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Season 1, Chapter 3).

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Vinyl endorses this trope wholeheartedly while advertising Ponyville Library. She barely misses a beat after learning the dragon in question is a baby.

** In Season 2 Chapter 3, lines delivered by Princess Luna [[spoiler: show that Vinyl's attitude towards Princess Celestia in the first season's first episode was completely out of line and that Blueblood knows how much he's hated and that his life has become almost a living hell because of what Vinyl did during Season 1 episodes 3 and 4.]] For some readers those episodes are no longer funny because of the subtext that is now known.

** Rover is hired to be security at Vinyl's party. The fact that he has unrepentantly either attempted to, or has succeeded in assaulting, kidnapping, and enslaving Equestrian citizens is quickly glossed over.

* SelfDeprecation: Vinyl is always willing to laugh at herself. [[spoiler: At least, until Princess Luna chews her out for disrespecting her family and never thinking things through.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Vinyl's interview with Princess Celestia boils down to this regarding Luna's banishment, particularly for not trying to TakeAThirdOption during the incident and for never checking up on Luna even once during all that time.

* YoureInsane: Octavia says this to Vinyl at the end of the first chapter, but it's more of a resigned lament than an angry accusation.

* KarmaHoudini: Rover is hired to be security at Vinyl's party. The fact that he has unrepentantly either attempted to, or has succeeded in assaulting, kidnapping, and enslaving Equestrian citizens is quickly glossed over.

''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-vinyl-scratch-tapes.html The Vinyl Scratch Tapes]]'' is a {{dramedy}} fanfic for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Written by Tropers/CoreyWWilliams and featured on both Blog/EquestriaDaily and Website/FimfictionDotNet (the story can also be [[https://www.fimfiction.net/user/53/Corey_/stories read here]] on the latter site), ''The Vinyl Scratch Tapes'' is a record following two of the ''MLP:[=FiM=]'' fandom’s favorite background ponies, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, as {{Radio}} TalkShow hosts. In this story, Vinyl is an eccentric, uninhibited JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and Octavia is her BeleagueredAssistant. HilarityEnsues, along with some {{shipping}} (which becomes increasingly prominent as the story progresses) and a surprising amount of CharacterDevelopment.

[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-vinyl-scratch-tapes.html The Vinyl Scratch Tapes]] is a {{dramedy}} fanfic for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Written by Tropers/CoreyWWilliams and featured on both Blog/EquestriaDaily and Website/FimfictionDotNet, ''The Vinyl Scratch Tapes'' is a record following two of the ''MLP:[=FiM=]'' fandom’s favorite background ponies, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, as {{Radio}} TalkShow hosts. In this story, Vinyl is an eccentric, uninhibited JerkWithAHeartOfGold, and Octavia is her BeleagueredAssistant. HilarityEnsues, along with some {{shipping}} (which becomes increasingly prominent as the story progresses) and a surprising amount of CharacterDevelopment.

The whole thing was being adapted into an audio drama on Website/YouTube by ''Midnight Magic Productions''. Begin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jGp0OxMOY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL here]]. It was ultimately cancelled after the 5th episode. However, Featherfall Studios is working on a remake of this audio version that will preposedly continue all the way to the end of the fic, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k-lWOp0C9w starting with a short prequel video]].

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The fic is a series of transcripts from the radio show.

-->'''Celestia''' (on the topic of imprisoning Luna on the moon): T-that’s a bit out of context.
-->'''Vinyl''': Fair enough. Please explain the context of hurling your little sister into the dark reaches of space.

-->'''[=DJ-P0n3=]''': "I believe you are [[spoiler: a bland, unintelligent, cowardly, prissy, stuck-up, laughable excuse for a stallion with a silver spoon shoved so, SO very far up his flank that you cannot possibly relate to anypony, anywhere, ever....My listeners like Octavia, Mr. Blueblood. They don’t like you. Nopony likes you. Heck, I have to wonder if ''Celestia'' even likes you. Or if your own mother does. Assuming, you know, you actually have a mother and didn’t just slither out of a pile of filth one day.]]"

-->'''Trixie:''' [[spoiler: [[SarcasmMode Oh no! [Vinyl]’s so full of herself, but inside she’s a delicate flower! She hires known criminals as security guards to beat up aristocrats and insults ponies on the air all the time, but I’m sure she has good intentions. SOMEONE GET HER A FRUIT BASKET!]]]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: The entire story is one for the two mane characters. Also, Williams takes the other members of Octavia's ensemble (who are often ignored by the fandom) and gives them names, personalities and dialogue (except for Harpo Parish Nadermane, who's TheVoiceless [[spoiler:until chapter two of the second season).

-->'''Octavia:''' …that's so stupid I don't know how to respond.
-->'''Vinyl:''' Hurray, that means I win by default!

* ADayInTheLimelight: The entire story is one for the two mane characters. Also, Williams takes the other members of Octavia's ensemble (who are often ignored by the fandom) and gives them names, personalities and dialogue (except for Harpo Parish Nadermane, who's TheVoiceless [[spoiler:until chapter two of the second season to provide a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming]]).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Despite the CantHoldHerLiquor incident below, real horses ''can't'' throw up

The whole thing is being adapted into an audio drama on Website/YouTube by ''Midnight Magic Productions''. Begin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jGp0OxMOY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL here]]. It was ultimately cancelled after the 5th episode. However, Featherfall Studios is working on a remake of this audio version that will preposedly continue all the way to the end of the fic, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_k-lWOp0C9w starting with a short prequel video]].

The whole thing is being adapted into an audio drama on Website/YouTube by ''Midnight Magic Productions''. Begin [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jGp0OxMOY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL here]].

-->'''Spitfire''': "Vinyl doesn’t talk about her feelings much, but she has them. She’ll act like nothing bothers her, laugh, and make fun of you…but she’ll also never tell you a lie, she’ll never cross the line once it’s been drawn, and she’ll never, ever, let you down when you really need her."

* BeleagueredAssistant: Octavia at the beginning of the story, although her role on the showrapidly becomes equal to Vinyl's.

* AttentionWhore: Vinyl and Trixie.

%%* BeleagueredAssistant: Octavia.
* BerserkButton: If you mess with one of Octavia's friends, she will beat the crap out of you. If you mess with Octavia, Vinyl will call you a jerk, go out of her way to humiliate you, and then have ''security'' ([[spoiler:the Diamond Dogs]]) beat the crap out of you.