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Alaborn


Somewhere in the USA. Probably older than you. And something about MLP:FIM makes me want to write stories. Unfortunately, being gainfully employed cuts into my writing time.

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Princess Celestia has given many Hearth’s Warming gifts through the ages, but there is one gift she regrets never having been able to give. But fate and circumstance has given her a second chance, and she refuses to pass it up.

But finding a gift lost for a thousand years? That requires an expert.

A Jinglemas gift for Carabas.

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Comments ( 16 )

This was a bonny Jinglemas gift to have received, with ample amounts of Daring Do derring-do and cute backstory for Celestia. Grateful to have received it. It's good to see it published. :twilightsmile:

In the Equestria Girls special about the Memory Stone, Twilight finds a scroll by Clover the Clever and mentions that Clover is a 'him'.

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I referred to the Wiki, which mentioned that, and also showed a picture (probably from a comic) where his muzzle looked like a stallion's. But there's probably contradictory information out there as well.

Oh man, that was a lot of fun! 4k seemed short at first, but it worked way better than I expected.

Caballeron and Ahuizotl disliked this. I am neither of them. I liked this. Merry Christmas, Alaborn.

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...Wait, perpetual motion machines are that easy to make?! How has Equestrian science not vastly exceeded ours, then?

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It could have been longer with more Daring Do, but this was a Jinglemas story with Celestia as the focus.

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It's a perpetual motion machine in the same way that a spinning disk powered by an electric motor is a perpetual motion machine in our world. It's not a mechanism powered by its own motions; the perpetual motion machine I'm envisioning in the pony world is constantly refreshing itself by pulling magic from Equestria's magic field.

Only the magic of true friendship, like that of Pansy, Clover, and Smart Cookie, can generate more magic than it uses.

Ri2

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Ah well.

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Glad to know I'm not the only one who has decided that friendship (and other forms of love) are something that specifically beats entropy.

Cadance and Twilight are the Princesses of Averting the Heat Death of the Universe :pinkiehappy:
(And the more direct death of the universe in the meantime...)

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At the same time, though, Discord would surely oppose the heat death of the universe. Sounds terribly uninteresting!

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Oh definitely. It's just a question of how much, as a being that's the essence of division and chaos, he could possibly have succeeded. Especially since being too orderly and harmonious can make him disappear.

Of course, now he has Fluttershy and hopefully more friends in the future...maybe Discord will ultimately be the seed of another Big Bang.

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With a television series and theme song by Barenaked Ladies?

loved the hearth warming gift Celestia gave to derring-do

The wing of the castle that was one Princess Luna’s was her primary focus.

Once?

Great otherwise!

Love it here as much as in the collection. A most elegant "screw you" from apprentice to master, and some great character interaction to boot.

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One of the unmentioned perils of apprenticing with Star Swirl is not knowing if you'll wake up in the same body as the one you fell asleep in. Worse, history might disagree with your expectations.

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That's how I've interpreted the whole "new magic" thing. Twilight won her wings in a game of thermodynamics, much as Cadence won her horn.

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