Cirrus Light 
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This is fiction, though. Basically what"[@Alexlayer":](/1547046#comment_6549307) and "[@cloudkicker108":](/1547046#comment_6547615) said. With some extra component of "[@cheezedoodle":](/1547046#comment_6547912) said. People can make art of Rarity's mane and it's cool and fun. Much less intense and such than Fluttershy almost dying. People aren't too interested in seeing Fluttershy looking horrible, they want to see Rarity looking great and in a shocking new way.
Cool and fun trumps sad and pitiful for the short term. You'll probably see more and deeper fics about Fluttershy, though.
It's like, if your best friend almost dies, you don't really feel like going and talking about that everywhere to everyone. But if a pretty pony got a cool punk mane, you feel much more like talking about that with everyone.
And they really didn't focus enough on her almost dying to make it really feelsy. It was just her determination and a problem she focused on, rather than "oh, woe is me! Did you love me, Twilight? Will you look after my animals and Angel and my NEET brother when I'm gone? I loved you so, even as a friend. Then fall Fluttershy."
(Just playing around - truth be told, I actually would've loved to see more drama to it. Like her not being strong enough to walk there but fighting on, anyways, breaking into a fit of coughing when she tries to get to the tree, and far too weak to climb it. Maybe even collapsing along the way. Maybe crying at how unfair it is that she doesn't have the strength to undo what she'd done, having to confront that it was just a dumb mistake and not her fault, and Twi or Cattail having to do the dangerous thing she wanted to try.)
Sciencepone of Science!
This is fiction, though. Basically what
Cool and fun trumps sad and pitiful for the short term. You'll probably see more and deeper fics about Fluttershy, though.
It's like, if your best friend almost dies, you don't really feel like going and talking about that everywhere to everyone. But if a pretty pony got a cool punk mane, you feel much more like talking about that with everyone.
And they really didn't focus enough on her almost dying to make it really feelsy. It was just her determination and a problem she focused on, rather than "oh, woe is me! Did you love me, Twilight? Will you look after my animals and Angel and my NEET brother when I'm gone? I loved you so, even as a friend. Then fall Fluttershy."
(Just playing around - truth be told, I actually would've loved to see more drama to it. Like her not being strong enough to walk there but fighting on, anyways, breaking into a fit of coughing when she tries to get to the tree, and far too weak to climb it. Maybe even collapsing along the way. Maybe crying at how unfair it is that she doesn't have the strength to undo what she'd done, having to confront that it was just a dumb mistake and not her fault, and Twi or Cattail having to do the dangerous thing she wanted to try.)