Winter Break has come to Canterlot High. But Sunset Shimmer has no one to spend it with, as her friends are otherwise occupied. Rather than spend the time alone, she decides to travel to Equestria to enjoy Hearth's Warming with her friend Twilight Sparkle.
After the craziness of the Battle of the Bands and the general stress of the holidays, Sunset is looking forward to the peace and quiet of Equestria, where ponies never have to worry about wacky hijinks or impending magical catastrophes.
At least, that's how Sunset remembers it.
Cover art done by the amazing NixWorld
Chapters (12)
This is great. I love the dynamic you have with Luna and Sunset here, Sunset’s such a tease and easily knows how to get on Luna’s last nerve
i hope you do more with them two.
Oh god, this is hilarious.
But...what's this thing Celestia and Luna need to resolve?
Oh lord, is this Anon-a-miss?
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Glad you liked it. Luna's a really fun character to write, there'll be plenty of her down the line.
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Can’t wait!
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You have no idea how happy I am to hear the humor lands well. Sometimes when you're editing and doing rewrites and rereads you can start to doubt if it'll be funny to the reader or not.
But as for Anon-A-Miss, I have no idea what you could be talking about.
This is a story about Hearth's Warming. 
Okay, so this is set post Friendship Games at least, with Twilight mentioning Starlight. All I have really for when it's set.
I still feel this is going to devolve into another story with a certain pile of horsehit comic that this fandom refuses to let die.
Because people are just that stupid apparently. I hope this doesn't.
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Actually I shifted the timeline just a smidge cause I liked Starlight's character and wanted to use her. It happens somewhere in season 6 on the fim side and between Rainbow Rocks and Friendship games on the EG side.
Worry not tho, this is a tale about Hearth's Warming and fun times. Also, it takes place almost exclusively in Equestria to set your mind at ease.
I hope you enjoy it
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That helps for sure. Not sold yet on the messing with the timeline, but I can change my mind. It doesn't hurt the story for sure.
Great chapter! Do you plan to have Celestia reunite with Sunset? I would love to see that, if Sunset is in Equestria for 12 days surely she’s going to bump into Celestia at some point, will it be unexpected and she freaks out?
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Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
I've now got all the story beats mapped out and let's just say, despite the description, It's going to be a very eventful 12 days.
Great chapter
I must say, this is quite a good first story and I'm enjoying the character and interplay you've got going on here. Looking forward to seeing more of it.
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keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see more of this.
I look forward to it! I love stories like this and known Twilight, she would probably have plans for Sunset sorted and tires her best to keep Celestia away from her castle since Sunset doesn’t want to see her but also known Celestia she’ll get suspicious and show up anyway
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Thanks! It's been alot of work, but Im loving it.
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Im glad you liked it! Thanks for reading
I appreciate the realistic plausibility you put into Spike's character development. It actually resolves some underlying issues from the show, and adds realism while still maintaining some of the humorous aspects regarding his development.
In other words, teenagers will be teenagers, be they human, dragon, or pony.
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Thanks, I'm really glad that scanned well.
To me, especially in later seasons, Spike often came off as too mature to simply be a baby dragon, but there are still times when he's too childish to be fully grown. So I felt an intermediate stage, mixed with some Twilight acknowledged uncertainty regarding how dragons develop, would help explain how he's able to play the maturity field so to speak.
I also enjoyed the idea of Twilight, as his guardian, having to continuously deal with dilemma of trying to work out when its appropriate to step in.
I can not help laughing whenever i see -that- joke..
Why do we even.....
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It has always been one of my favorites.
I'm glad it brought a smile to your day. Thank you for reading
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It's one of my favourites too. God, why does it work so well here...
Thank you for that.
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I think the type of humor that joke uses just fits perfectly in the mlp universe.
Im glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for reading.
The refrances in this are really old emporars old Grove tv series and even mario 64 were two I noticed
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I was hoping someone would catch the Mario 64 one. You have excellent taste.
Thanks so much for reading.
What's cursed about the shovel?
I can understand how everyone found the vault, but how'd they know the code to get in?
Also...that was a mysterious bit at the end...
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Why don't you take a look at both the chapter name and the scene of Twilight imagining Trixie using the vault?
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Ohhhhhhh
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Awesome! That was exactly it!
I wanted to try tossing in a sort of hidden joke. Something that isn't outright told to the reader but all the clues are there to be worked out. I was worried it might be a bit too buried so I didn't want to make it a super important detail.
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Ah, that shovel is actually a reference to a short horror story on this site I read a while back. I thought the idea was really unique so when I was coming up with example items to put in the vault I decided it would make a good ominous item.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/449639/1/im-digging-a-hole/shes-digging-a-hole
Okay. Sunset's bit at the end felt tacked on for no other reason than because "Buck reasons," and that's it. This has enough going on as is.
It doesn't need more.
Preach it GlimGlam! Not the kite part. But any self respecting hobbiest knows this feeling. And the urge to vaporize anyone who tries to be a Twilight Sparkle in all of it, with wasting time on unneeded things.
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Glad to see you're enjoying it. Thanks for sticking around, got quite a bit planned for the future.
... You made the vault just for that joke, didn't you?
Also preach it Starlight! I don't do kites, but I get where Starlight is coming from. I could use a secret vault for all my Warhammer 40k miniatures I have. I'm running out of room for them all.
And I still want more. Plus I don't have to justify any of it to anyone. It's my money and hobby.
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It has always been one of my favorites.
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I love the scene too. Just seemed like the Tree of Harmony is trolling Twilight with it.
Hehheheh. Spike having to grow up with Twilight when she goes Twilinanas is always a fun thought .
To start with this was hilarious and fun. However, I need to point out you said this takes place before Friendship Games and Twilight does not befriend Starlight until after the games. Since timing-wise Sunset can't get ahold of Twi because she's time traveling with Starlight.
Still fun and hope to see where you go with this, bit felt compelled to point that out.
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Thank you so much for reading. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it so far.
You aren't wrong about the timelines, I just really wanted to include Starlight cause I love her character so much.
So, I pushed them just a skosh out of alignment and used the season 6 Equestria.
If you don't mind my asking, of what you've read so far, is there any particular joke, scene, or sequence that stood out to you as especially enjoyable? I was a history major so I'm decent at writing non-fiction but this is my first attempt at writing a story.
At any rate, I hope you stick around, I've got lots of things planned for the future that I think will be quite spectacular.
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Your scene timing has been excellent for giggles, but what really stole the show this last time was Luna letting out her frustration involving her sister in a more healthy gaming situation this time. The mental image of that was enough to make me laugh to tears.
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Oh Im glad you liked that. I worked very hard on that bit. I loved the idea of Luna playing O&Os but getting so into it that she accidentally hijacks the campaign and lets some recent frustrations bleed through into it.
Thanks for the chapter
Just enough to drag me back in, but not enough to sate my hunger!
Thanks for the update, looking forward to more!
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Thanks for reading
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Glad you liked it. Im really looking forward to what's coming next
I enjoyed the flashbacks. I'm wondering what the entire donuts shop ordeal was like in my head.
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I'm glad you enjoyed them. I was really happy with how they turned out.
Somewhere, another Sunset Shimmer has a suddent urge to vaporize herself.
No seriously, is this a reference to the Madverse? Cause it feels like it is, just turned Sunset's seething hatred of trains on its head.
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While I do love the Madverse it's not actually a reference to that. Sunset's hatred of the train there is based on the fact that it refuses to obey the laws of physics.
The Sunset in Frozen Hearth just likes riding the train as a solitary leisure activity.
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I get the feeling this Sunset will have the same reaction Madverse Sunset does. Trains across the Equestrian multiverse don't obey the laws of common sense.