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Gilda and Celestia discuss Gilda's falling-out with Rainbow Dash. Nothing long, unexpected or dramatic here - I just had this kind of gentle scene stuck in my head, and needed to write it out.

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Yeah... that's how that episode should have ended.

Not bad, not sure if it would have happened, but still not bad at all. Gilda grew up in Cloudsdale so she would be one of Celestia's subjects, and Celestia would help. So good job ~Celestia's Paladin,Ex Solis et Lunae, Providentia et Prospera

This reminds me a lot, in a good way, of a fanfiction about Susan Pensieve of Narnia. (I can't find the original again.) Although she never came back to Narnia, she found her way back to Aslan and to Heaven.

You've rehabilitated Gilda in my mind. Great job!

I love it. Finally, good story about Gilda!

9112 tell that to [insert the name of the author of at episode]...

but i think that gildy should turn up in season 2 to make amends!!

Bawwwww Dx

Very nice story. I enjoyed it immensely.

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Celestia licking Gilda's tears away was a little disturbing, but then again she's a pony. It really wouldn't make much sense for her to do anything else. Which is something we don't see in FiM fiction that often: ponies acting like ponies. So you definitely get huge props from me for that, and a few more points for writing a genuinely sweet and enjoyable story. :twilightsmile:

Thank you. She deserved this.

Well, I look forward towards an eventual sequel if you ever decide on it.
Maybe Gilda X Spitfire shipping?

Aww, this is the most heartwarming story about Gilda I have ever seen. Thank you for making it.

Cute little story :twilightsmile:

Slightly creepy at the end with Celestia commenting that she gets a power boost from it.

A great story.

I also didn't like how that episode ended, especially Twilight's friendship report. About your friends wanting to "spend time with somepony who's not so nice" and "difference between false friend and the one who is true" (actual quotes from the episode). I mean, wtb? That's our moral? How about fear of rejection, jealousy and forgiveness? :rainbowhuh:

Your story, if implemented right, could've been a great ending for an episode. Especially with Gilda writing the friendship report. :rainbowlaugh:

Does anyone know how to add a picture that is on your computer and not the internet to a comment?:applecry:

... well, damn. That was... all I wanted after seeing the original episode, really, and delivered in a shockingly believable way. I am impressed.

D'aaaaaw. :fluttercry: This fits the "everything turns out alright in the end"-feel of MLP perfectly. The tearlicking is odd at first, but, well, alternate displays of affection usually does that. It's an interesting idea at least, even if it at least strikes me and at least a few others as a little too intimate.

Then again, personal space and touching is very culture dependent, so I can't say it's wrong.

Good work.

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Loved it.

I know that story is from 2011 (very old), but is a great way to see how this episode should have ended. Congratulations, you now with a Dash Stamp of Approval to your story, made by 'Dashie's Library'.
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~Spectrum Shine

Great story. It's short, but heartwarming and sweet. :raritystarry:

Gilda really needs to come back in Season 5. They already did a reconciliation with Trixie, why not Gilda? I'd at least like to know a little bit of their history.

A tidy little scene here. Have a ribbon:
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She was in the crowd in 'Games Ponies Play.'

Man...I remember reading this fic before I even made an account on this site. I still love it every bit now as I did then. I absolutely adore the little physical interactions Celestia has with Gilda; all the nuzzling and grooming. The little tear licking part was my favorite touch.

Motherly Goddess Celestia, that protects and nurtures all, is my favorite Celestia. :twilightsmile:

6058201 Heya. I'm pleased and flattered that it stayed with you all that time. The story's as much or more about Celestia, of course, as it is about Gilda. IIRC, the first group that put it in their story folder was 'Protect Celestia', which is for stories that show Celestia in her proper character, so that was very gratifying to me. Thanks again!

And now that the lost treasure of Griffinstone has come out?

6774404 Well, I wrote this beforehand, obviously, and had the events in my story happened, then Pinkie and Dash's trip to Griffinstone would have been much different, had it taken place at all.

That being said, I enjoyed the episode. I'd been hoping for Gilda to have a redemption episode since S1. I didn't really find it all that plausible how the gryphons let their city fall apart like it did. People who are that obsessive about money are generally going to be more careful about preserving their property. The greed worked for me better than the ruin, as gryphons traditionally love gold, although it's more a love of the metal itself than as coins or treasure. In Herodotus, the Arimaspi are a race of violent, one-eyed barbarians who steal the gold that the gryphons dig to decorate their nests, so that worked for me.

On some level the ruin of the city did work for me as signifying Gilda's depression at having lost her friend Dash. I'm one of those people who suspects that the relationship was a great deal more important to Gilda than it was to Dash. I think RD acted like a bit of a prat here, staying mad four years onward over something that really shouldn't have been that huge of an incident. I found it jarring when the tone of Gilda's voice changed so abruptly. Never in a bazillion years would I have suspected that Gilda made her living as a baker. Gilda's grandpa was hilarious, and I like that Gilda may have a new girlfriend in Greta.

Thanks for asking!

By tonight there would be ever so slightly more friendship in the world, and with that her own powers would increase, ever so slightly.

You know...that makes another story make sense in a rather dark way...:pinkiesad2:

Was enjoyable, until it started implying Gilda is the bad guy and should be the one who is in the wrong and needs to apologize. Yes she wasn't that nice, but she had reason to believe what she said about the party being set up to humiliate her in front of the entire town. That, and Pinkie caused all of this by antagonizing Gilda the whole day and not telling RD she provoked the griffon.

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Okay, interesting. I didn't really see it that way.

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Most people tend to ignore that in the episode there were problems on both sides, but Gilda is the one branded as the villian of the day when the ponies overlook what caused her to act that way. Twilight even calls Pinkie out on being jealous of Gilda, but neither of them say anything when the party goes wrong, leading RD to blame Gilda.

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