After years of ever-mounting pressures of princesshood and the running the School of Friendship, Twilight makes a difficult choice. Now, she needs to surrender the stewardship of the Castle Library to somepony else. At least it’s her old friend Moondancer.
That should be simple enough. Shouldn’t be any complications. None at all. Right?
Historian’s Note:
The Librarian's Torch is set around 10 years after the events of the episode Amending Fences.
Cast: Twilight Sparkle & Moondancer with special guest star, Sunset Shimmer.
Cover Artwork by the amazing and lovely Firimil
Cover Text & Chapter Header Design by Novel Idea
Twilight Sparkle Cutie Mark By Intbrony
Beta Reader & Editor Credits
Ebon Quill: Author, Supporter and Friend
JayMan155: Artist & Author Extraordiane!
Rose Quill: Pretty Author Kitty!
Beltorn: Commenter-at-Large on FimFiction
Cursori: Reader of Many a Pony Word
Word Count: 7,500 words
Version: 4.2
Possibly the best Twidancer story on this site. So adorable.
Any timeline where Best Pony is a notable notary public is a darn good timeline.
Fantastic work. An excellent look at neurotic bookhorses in love, with Sunbutt Jr. helping them work through these strange, poorly researched emotion things. Twilight giving up another library wonderfully adds to the pathos. This is one heck of a way to end a hiatus, Novel. Thank you for it.
Very sweet, Twilight getting help and support from her friends against her unhelpful instincts. And good to see that Sunset shows up for Twilight when she needs her.
The Pink Starship has been doubled! I can’t imagine the weddings but I bet they were glorious. And since I’m calling it Pink Starship and you can’t stop me, I can say I’m over the moon about it. Also that one of the weddings was likely betazoid style even if no one noticed. Rarity must have been miffed that dresses underwater are a challenge at best.
And now I’m just writing land and sea based wedding ceremonies and picturing seashell chic. It’s fun.
So glad you’re together again enough to write.
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Everyone knows about the power of the secret Order of the Notaries Public. Cross them at your peril.
Seriously, it was a whole arc in Skin Horse and everything.
I'm in love
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Okay, wow. That's freaking huge praise, especially since I've read a ton of them myself! Thank you so much!
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Thanks FoME! I really wanted to take them beyond the veneer of social awkwardness. Twilight's awkwardness comes from a lot of sources, but it isn't the traditional type we see. I thought they deserved better. Both of them interested, curious... just not sure how to do it. So, they start with the most innocent of things.
Twilight's issues regarding giving up what she had to give up came from my own need to add further depth to the story. I learned her lesson the hard way. One of many lessons I learned. Stay tuned, you'll see a lot more of them.
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With a little backup from Starlight going HALP.
I both love this and hate this. Love because ADORBS and hate because PUNS.
Hehehehehe. I instantly understood THAT reference. And Rarity doing underwater designs? That's epic.
Thank you. Me too.
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She worked hard for that. She still sometimes misses with the stamp though.
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Friends who will go HALP for you are incredibly valuable.
Puns may be the lowest form of wit, but wit is the highest form of humor.
...There are eight libraries? I'm torn between that being too many or not enough.
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Which must mean it's the perfect number...
I sniffled more and more as this went on. While short it's beautiful and perfect. Thank you for creating this.
Ponies? As-is, though, it's pretty amusing. Just not sure if it was intentional.
Also, SQUEEEE! This looks like it might be cute...
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Well, it's not like you have a lot of competition in that department. Most are just shameless fluff, which is all well and good, but...
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If you have any of those you recommend as especially good by the way...
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Not enough, of course. Twilight said so. Anyway, that doesn't include her backup libraries. Plus her studies. And... well, she told me not to tell folks about those rooms.
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Totally intentional. Everything I do is intentional. Of course. Especially the unintentional ones.
And I like to think it is cute!
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HALPers are definitely a treasure you should keep close.
...I can't parse the math for that. I'm a writer, for pete's sake!
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And thank you for leaving a comment for it. These kinds of comments make my day so much brighter. Thank you!!!
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There may be some of that, no argument here. But I've found some authors to be more than capable of creating something both heartwarming and fluffy at the same time. Fluff ain't bad. I wish I could do it better! It would be so fun to relax with that. But my brain and heart tend to make it a lot more complicated. They do exist, but you need to do some digging (yes, that's a challenge).
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I've read little in the last half a year (compared to my normal reading load), but I do remember Bookish Delight being a freaking master of them!
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I do like Bookish, I should find those. I mostly got into her Juniper/Wallflower shipping, which is just lovely.
Should "wore that manual" be "wrote that manual"?
D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Short. Sweet. Awkward. Amazing. Love it. =)
Gak!
Twilight, you can't just hire people and then awkwardly sexually harass them. Either commit to it or try to hold it in.
This is fantastic!
Amazing work ;3 this goes on my favorites for sure!
Anxious-alicorn wing-flapping is not something I'd have imagined on my own, but I love it.
Oh, Twilight...
Annoyed/sulking Twilight is cutest Twilight.
Wow, it is good to read one of your stories again. Wish I could finish this up now, but I have a lot to do and too little time to do it in, so leisure reading will have to wait.
Extremely accomplished ponies can be extremely hopeless, too.
We can rebuild it, we have the technology.
One of the best animations the fandom has produced.
This was lovely! I was easily immersed in the story and loved seeing our two favorite book horses get together!
Damn no kidding
I don't know, kinda hard to imagine. Funny, I know this great author who happens to ship SkyPie lately
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Twilight can get kinda twitchy. Twitchy Twi. Twitchy Twi.
All Twilight is cutest Twilight! But this type is super cutest!
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Three days later when Sunset woke up on the floor next to Novo's bed, she began to have second thoughts...
They must be wise and insightful to see that those two are perfect for one another in every way and must be shipped AT ALL TIMES!
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But of course, darling!
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The awkward is my favorite part.
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Thank you both! I definitely loved working on this little warm up!
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I'd argue and say it's the best, hands down. But that's me!
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Thank you! They are rather perfectly awkward together, aren't they?!
Well that was a perfectly vile look at exploitation and manipulation.
I love this! Twilight and Moondancer are just so endearingly awkward. I had to feature it on episode 251 of my podcast, Pony 411.
Beautiful.
Thanks for the cry...
I didn't know I needed it.
My life has been a mess recently, and I needed something to break through the depression shell around my heart.
Thank you, I'm going to miss this fandom... But I'll never forget it.
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Thank you so much! Awkward bookhorses are best bookhorses, as far as I'm concerned.
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Thanks!
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If the feels are feeling that much, I hesitate to recommend any of my other stories! I thought this was gentle, yet strong feels! I miscalculated!
I've been there. Plenty of times before. More than a few time recently. I hope it helped, truly.
You are welcome, but you should know one very important thing. Just because the franchise changes after Season 9, doesn't mean the fandom is going anywhere. I'm definitely not.
...I've got too many stories left to tell.
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Agreed, there are always stories to be told, and when I can get the energy and the willpower to work like i used to, I'm going to be publishing SO many stories.
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That's my secret Cap. I'm always low on motivation and energy.
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Heh, true.