Derpy and Dinky celebrate their first Hearth's Warming in Ponyville, and although Derpy had intended to spend it alone with her daughter, her friends had other ideas and invite the two of them for an earth pony Hearth's Warming dinner.
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The thing I like the most about this story is how happy it is. You easily could have taken this story in a different direction if you had wanted to, considering Derpy's backstory and what we have learned from A Gift from Celestia. Its a good way finish off the year. Happy Holidays!
7818091 Beautiful Story good work!
D'awww now that was just the heartwarming touch I needed while I wait for Christmas to begin (my own family will be here soon). Thank you for writing this!
I favorited this story and I haven't even read it yet! Because:
A) It's Admiral Biscuit
B) It's Dinky and Derpy!
Nice Llanowar reference.
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It's set in the same 'verse, so this story does tell you how that one's going to end.
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It was originally written for FoME, so I had to put a M:tG reference in it.
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Thank you!
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I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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I hope that it lives up to your expectations
So sweet! Glad to see that Derpy got her old doll for Hearths Warming.
7818426 you're welcome
Too... cute...
A real feel good story, thanks for that. Loved the little detail with the carrot used for a horn, not a nose. These little details that simultaneously highlight the differences and similarities between us and ponies are really nice.
Also: tap Daring Do to destroy target artefact. Put a 1/1 counter on Daring Do.
thats when heck of a reach.
A somewhat subdued story. Rather touching.
Very well done.
What a sweet and wonderful story! I could feel the warmth and I love Derpy and Dinky. Thank you for a nice little story for Hearthswarming.
7819406 I didn't even notice that. I guess my mind instantly turned it into down.
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Thank you!
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Somewhat related
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Thank you!
Also, correction made; thank you!
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You're welcome!
7820506 SSSTTTTOPPP IITTTTT.... MY LUUUNNGGGSS.... MY HEAAARTT.... TOO MUCH
7818425 Psst... it's Llanowar.
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Oops. That's a kind of embarrassing mistake.
Great story, reminds me a little of my first Christmas as a mom... I love it, nice job.
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7821999 And plus it was happier than the last fanfic I read involving Derpy/Ditzy and Dinky... not that the last one was a bad fanfic, it was actually very good, but it was really freakin' sad.
What a wholesome fellow you are, admiral
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Indeed. Heck, I might take that as a prompt.
In any case, wonderful stuff from start to finish. I know you got me the same thing last year, but that didn't lessen my enjoyment by one tiny iota. (I guess I'm easy to shop for.) Thank you for giving this the opportunity to stand on its own.
I will echo what everyone else has said thus far: this certainly is a sweet and adorable story!
This is the reason Derpy dominates the "[Equestria's Best Mother]" tag on derpibooru...
I could actually see a reindeer as Derpy's coworker working in a parcel shipping company (like DHL, or FedEx, or UPS) playing up the whole Santa Hooves thing.
Come to think of it, Equestrian Santa Hooves sounds like it could be an amalgamation of Saint Nicholas and USA Thanksgiving: During the pre-unification era, pony refugees fled north to escape the ravages of the Windingos. They were unprepared for the brutal winter and began to starve and freeze. A reindeer warlord and battlemage, Red Victory, took pity on the ponies and brought them gifts of fire, food, and shelter...
Really sweet story. I'm a sucker for Derpy and Dinky stuff. Although I read Life and Times of a Wining Pony and that really cemented Amethyst as Sparkler for me and gave her a background so it's kind of weird seeing her in a different context.
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Have you read the Pony Psychology series, by chance? A lot of it's kind of sad/tragic, but the part with Derpy is really, really good.
Muffins: Part 1
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Thanks!
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Do it, and I'll put a link in the story.
Obs really deserves the thanks; he took down the original so that anyone who wanted to could publish on their own. Obs brings joy to the masses.
7851411 No, can't say that I have, last one I read before this one was In Memory Of which is set in Fallout: Equestria's universe, good fanfic but very sad.
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Derpy is Equestria's best mother, and that's a fact.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Reindeer were delivering in the Crystal Empire or something like that. Maybe there's a post somewhere near where the frozen wastes start, and northbound mail is given to the reindeer. . . .
Ooh, I like that. That sounds like a pretty good hook for a story, to be honest.
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I started reading Life and Times, but after a while I just stopped, mostly because I got wrapped up in writing my own stuff, and didn't have as much time to read anymore. Incidentally, that story's the reason that I abandoned a Cloudkicker story that I was working on--I wanted to pick an obscure pony that nobody had ever heard of, and then I saw Life and Times in the feature box. . . .
It is always weird seeing a character that you're really used to in one context being used totally differently.
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I recommend it. It's got a great backstory for her and great characterization.
Sweet.
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7851429 Life and times is pretty good, along with a lot of that AU. Although i never really liked how they handled the majority of ponies being mares. It's getting a sequel, but I don't think it's pretty good. One of the side fics had a pretty good explanation for the whole sparkler vs Amethyst Star thing. Spoilers for Study of a Wining Pony. Twilight's mom had an illegitimate foal that was named Amethyst Star. In order to protect the family image, her and Night Light put out the story that the foal died in childbirth, but in reality thy gave her up for adoption where she was named Sparkler. Also Dinky's dad is Shining Armor, so lots of drama when everything comes to light.
In some way's Cloud Kicker is back to an obscure character. Life and Times is fairly old, and the sequel doesn't seem to be as popular (the original was before my time), most of the major AU stuff is about other characters (with some exceptions).
It's also kind of weird seeing her shipped with Time Turner/Dr. Whooves as well. Most of the early stuff I've seen for Derpy was OC or other characters, not Time Turner.
When you published that story, I wasn't to sure about reading it, since it was about Pony Planet's Derpy who I remember as a bully. So an happy feeling story about a nasty pony felt a bit too sureal for me that morning. It sat for a while on my short story R-I-L list till this morning, when I had a few minutes to kill and I decided that I could get over my dislike of your character, ignore it and just enjoy the story.
So.
It's exactly what you should expect from a short christmas special slice of life fic: a short slice of life about ponies celebrating Hearth Warming. It was very subdued and as such it did not have any lasting impact. But had I read it when I should have, two months ago, it would've been an enjoyable slice of life. No drama, no over the top emotions or big moral lesson. Just fun time like it should be on christmas day.
So yeah, still a nice thing to read this morning, thank you for sharing it!
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Man, that just seems like a really hard sell. Not saying that it couldn't be done, but . . . I dunno. One thing that I think is a problem for a lot of ponyfics is that there are other ponies than the main characters, so unless the author can really justify it, it doesn't work for me.
I don't know exactly when the Dr. Whooves/Derpy shipping started becoming popular, but there was enough of it that they actually made fun of it in the official comics.
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Although to be fair, she was only mean to Perry Pierce 'cause she thought he'd come to take Dinky away from her.
Thank you!
A lot of holiday fics do have a kind of short shelf life, it's true. There's always next year, if you feel the desire to re-read it.
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It wasn't really explained in the story. All we knew is she was angry at him for just being there. Beat him up (when it's clear he don't wan't a confrontation) and then tell the town he is the one who attacked her.
Add to that that the stallion (Perry?) was expecting her to be violent, I can't help but think it is not unusual for her.
Not so; it was hinted at several times:
(from OPP chapter 3)
Although never explicitly stated.
Perry got Derpy pregnant one Winter Wrap-Up, and then he went back to Canterlot, leaving Derpy alone to raise Dinky. If she wrote him, he never responded, never offered to help at all, and then all of a sudden here he is in Ponyville and so she fights him before he can take her foal away from her (obviously, that wasn't why he was there, but she doesn't know that).
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it does work fairly well. A good chunk of the story is playing Cloud kicker off of Twilight so Twilight is pretty involved in the story. And of course since this is winningverse, Derpy is pretty involved as well. The story got wrapped up early so a lot of stuff didn't play out.
it was before my time
7978877 The fact that Perry is the father was more then clear to me. Don't wory
What wasn't clear is why Derpy was angry at him?