One night, while reading Sweetie Belle her favourite fairy tale, Rarity decides that her sister just isn't getting sufficient positive role models from her current literary choices. Spurred on, she decides that the only way to overcome this terrible fact is to adapt one of the fairy tales herself. After all, when the source material is as bad as this how hard can it be?

Folklore cannot be easily tamed however; those creating and imparting the tales often learn about themselves just as much as the audience they're telling them to.

A one-shot written for this Hazardous Writing Materials character prompt challenge

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