This story is a sequel to If You Give a Little Love...
Almost a year after adopting Babs Seed, Coco Pommel's life has never looked better. After forging connections both inside and outside her filly's family and facing the darkest moments of her life, she's finally ready to put her past beside her and settle down for real. But as her play prepares to go on tour, as her love life heats up, and as Rarity makes her an all-too-tempting offer, Coco finds that ordinary family life is far more complicated than she ever imagined.
Changes abound, but love lasts forever. And Coco Pommel has always been a mare full of love.
Takes place around S6-S7. Knowledge of the past series is not required for this story, as it's mainly a series of slice-of-life episodes. Coverart by DreamscapeValley
This was a fantastic start. I guess the moral of the story is "Never let Scene Stealer get the last word", huh.
The joy I feel is immeasurable, I'm only a quarter way through the first one and I'm already getting more to read.
Um what
?! Where the hay did that come from?!
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This is actually based on a time when I sang the song all the way through and included the "negative one" but after it's finished. It's basically trolling people into thinking it'll go on forever, and no, it doesn't make much sense if you sit down and think about it.
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Huh...quite a troll if you ask me
Nothing wrong with striking a balance between comedy and drama.
Babs it’s not your fault
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Bedmane Coco and Babs are the best
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Cause your not Babs
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Damn right you can
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Yes she would have, and dawwww
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This was really fun to read. And I think you're allowed a little self-insert, since I wouldn't have guessed anything if you didn't say so, and it was a great addition to the story.
Oh Babs, please stop this...
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Seriously, first Pinkie and now Coco
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...and she will
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An iredeemable bastard
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Another great chapter! I can’t wait to see what happens next
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If you’re talking about Babs’ father, he wasn’t Mosely. He was an aromatherapist related to the Flim Flam Brothers. If you’re talking about Mosely, then call him that by all means.
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Oops
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He wasn’t brought up in a while, so it’s cool. Glad you enjoyed.
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Sure did
Hmm. This definitely is a bit of a question, huh. Coco seems pretty happy where she is currently, though working at Rarity's shop would probably be great for her career. But at the same time, Coco doesn't really have a reason other than Rarity's vague concerns over the industry to leave her position at Silver Phoenix.
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Exactly. Most of this stems from the fact that, while Coco's more assertive now, she still has a hard time saying no to ponies. (Since her major friend in canon before Rarity was Suri, there's probably a good reason for that.) Plus, she still has Rarity on a pedestal, and therefore doesn't want to disappoint her. So it's basically more of a "friendship problem" arc that I came up with after the Saddle Row Review episode tried to give Coco a new job out of the blue. I'll try my best to resolve all this in my own way.
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Yeah, I getcha. Hopefully Coco can really decide what makes her the happiest
Considering the shenanigans that the CMC get into, I'm not surprised
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Don't let their friendship get ruined
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Callback to the Season 2 Primer
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should you wouldn't become someone who could liberate entire lands with barely a thought, liberation is all well good so long as A. It actually is a liberation and B. You have a plan for what happens after said liberation, it definitely requires more than a single thought for a liberation to be achieved and even more thoughts that what comes from said liberation is something stable and works for the good of all.
Can not believe I missed this somehow!
Tracking now...
What is the meaning of life?
Why was this cancelled?
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IRL novel writing was starting to take a priority over it. I might eventually complete it, but it would probably just be a couple more chapters at the most.
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If you are going to complete it, why was it cancelled?
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I was unsure of whether or not to complete it when I made this announcement. After a lot of thought, I decided a sequel this close to the events of the original didn’t really work for me, and retconned it so Let Somepony Love You (Before It’s Too Late) is the new distant sequel to IYGALL.
I’m finishing up my novel right now, but rest assured that more parts of that will be coming!
(snorts with amusement) Somepony is definitely bored.