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Princess Celestia takes a moment on her birthday to recall the cakes she has eaten and the memories they elicit.
Now featured on Equestria Daily and Las Pegasus Tribune.
Edited by: PropdowPony
Princess Celestia With Cake used with Ric-M's permission
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I loved that ending!! And you did a VERY good job of playing Celestias character!
By HRH Princess Celestia, this is beautiful.
It's really spoken to me about life's simple pleasures and how great is not always good.
With your permission, I'd like to feature this fic on my blog. I'm responsible for Fiction Illumination on the Las Pegasus Tribune fan page. If you'd like, send me a pm regarding it. I delight in spotlighting lesser known / newer authors and I feel this fic truly deserves as much exposure as possible.
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Thank you. Funnily enough, the ending was one of the first things I thought of when coming up with idea.
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In some ways I am considering doing a bit of a second chapter, though I have still not settled on what I should write. As much as it might be fun to do more of the characters, I don't think it would have the same effect or impact (save one or two). I'd be more inclined to write a similar style of story, relating to a different aspect of their characters than another one in the same manner.
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Certainly.
That's a lot of insight and story for cake.
MUST BE ALL LIES! Also, can we revolt now?
Nifty fic; it's the ending paragraph that makes it shine.
ObSpellcheck:
- Paragraph four, about romance novels - "I welcome an escape from this work into one where...". Did you mean "..an escape from this world"?
- Early paragraph about memory-associations - "the chance to eat the delicious confection is somewhat of a (missing word) for me".
- The later paragraph about her medical staff - "It’s become their manta.". You probably meant "mantra", unless they have a pet ray.
My only other quibble is that I'm told that drinking while depressed is a Very Bad Idea, but as I don't drink, I can't give first-hand commentary on that.
I'll second the request for a "Luna's Guilty Pleasures" follow-up, too!
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Thanks for pointing them out.
Hmm, very surprised this fic didn't receive more attention.
As well as having a great premise and being very well written it seems like the sort of thing fimfic would eat up...like cake.
Strange.
Very well done! Reading this story was just as pleasant as indulging in one's own harmless yet guilty pleasures! And many congratulations on being featured on Equestria Daily!
I was JUST having an argument earlier about how Marie Antoinette never actually said those infamous words. And also about why that wasn't actually a bad thing to say.
EQD sent me here...
I am an absolute sucker for slice-of-life stories featuring Celestia. My favourite genre.
I really love how you linked the major events in Celestia's life with the cakes...
I am going to direct all my brony friends to this fic.
It deserves it.
I can totally see carrot cake as being Luna's favorite, but I have no idea why.
Also, I love how the final paragraph ties it all together. This was a great story. 
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Thank you!
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I'm a bit of fan of history myself. I know she didn't say those words, but when I first thought up the story, I couldn't resist. Turning something which has been seen as negative to something positive, just seemed so fitting.
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Thank you. In truth, part of the idea came from a trip I was on just before the time I wrote this. The thing I remember most, and through it everything else, was the taste of the fish I caught. But I don't think writing about fish would have turned out quite the same way.
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I don't know why I chose it either. It just seems right. Perhaps she needs her vitamin A since she is the Princess of the Night.
Congratulations on your Equestria Daily appearance!
That was really nice.
Carrot cake? At least it wasn't red velvet, that would have been a real tragedy.
wow.
I honestly didn't know what to expect when I walked into this story, but I gotta say: Fan-fucking-tastic.
A story well worth reading. It was concise, and didn't ramble. 9/10 would read again.
I really do like perspective-based slice of life stories. Is it bad that I was thinking of this while reading it?
First LPT, then EQD, next, the feature box... then, THE WORLD!
That story was delicious
I found a few crumbs, if you want to remove them :
Something sounds wrong with that sentence (past or present ? When or before ? not both...
)
usually
surrounded by ? (or just sit with...)
I would expect a knife to slice, even if it can slide too...
You're missing a verb here.
wrestling ?
revelling ?
That's all I saw. Now I'm hungry... Maybe I'll get some cake at lunch
Beautiful
Never has the slice of life tag been so ironically appropriate. Good work on this, absolutely stunning.
Short but very sweet...in more ways than one. Great work! Have some mustaches.
I really enjoyed this.
3216522 Spike's guilty pleasure is Rarity.
One of these things is unlike the other...
Now the mental image is forever burned to my head (imagine the ending of MMMMystery on Friendship Express but with Celestia instead of Pinkie).
This...
I graduated from a vocational high school, majored in Computer and Network Engineering. We were learning about IP subnetting. The class was very hot, a wound in my head (one I got from an accident) kept throbbing and I just can't focus. At one point I couldn't withstand the heat and my wound any ;onger, so I just lashed out screaming. The next thing I knew I just threw a book at the classmate sitting beside me, right at the face. To this day, everytime I do IP subnetting, I'll remember how I just hurt someone innocent for no good reason, and then my stomach will feel weird.
I think this story has the most likes without any dislikes I've ever seen. Excellent story, very beautifully written. The part about carrot cake got me a little, it was very well written, and such a little thing really stuck out to me. Wonderful story, congrats on EQD. It was well deserved.
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It's certainly well up there in the ratings department. My personal record is The Science of Magic (about Lyra gaining the power of chaos) which didn't get a dislike until 289 likes.
Nevertheless, this is one of the greatest slice of cake (I mean life) stories on the site. I rank it right up there with Battle of Book Fort and Sunny Skies All Day Long.
3322997 One of these things is unlike the other...
It's the gryphonic whiskey isn't it?
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The only one with an 'M' rating.
this was great stuff. i could really feel the emotions as i read. in many ways, celestias life is a pretty awful one - outliving everypony, over and over again, always being treated as a symbol rather than a person (however necessary that mite be). terrific story, great characterization.
No dislikes?
Let's keep it that way.
I loved the story.
BigAsh has struck again!
This is such a nice, sincere reflective piece by Celestia, and it's so beautifully tied together at the end, giving it a sense of completeness which I liked very much.
Finally got around to reading this, good stuff
Spotted one tiny mistake: "It was a square piece of marble cake" should be present tense.
Other than that, this story is one of the few which I can declare "flawless". There is nothing about this tale I didn't like. It's so beautiful in its simplicity, in its presentation of a tiny, inconsequential, but oh-so-telling moment in Celestia's life. I adore its presentation of Celestia as precisely what I believe her to be: a flawed but mature pony with a huge responsibility on her shoulders, and a profound desire to see her subjects happy. This is possibly the best Celestia I have ever seen. Absolutely wonderful.
Now that was just beautiful. Kudos, and have another up vote.
This was great; just really great. I love a fluffy-yet-believable feel-good fic once in a while, and this hit the spot.
–Pinkie Pie devoured the rest of it in a single bite. It was quite an incredible feat. One time I managed to replicate it, though not without my sister catching me in the act (who still reminds me of it to this day).
That... sounds amazing. I cannot put into words how much I would love to see that.
–I hadn’t even made it ten steps before tears were streaming down my face and my breath came out in ragged sobs. I cried till I didn’t have any tears left to shed, and then I cried some more. Were it not for my friends back then (and the whiskey which one of them introduced me to), I may have never been lifted from my depression.
This serious, if brief, side of the story was quite nicely timed – it brought a more, well, serious moment of thought and remembrance to the fic, sort of compensating for all the purely happy sentiments in a way. Also, I like how you tied in the whisky; that was perfect.
–A confession: I am not a morning pony. Were it not for my duty of raising the sun, the castle staff would be vainly trying to wake me at noon; I am a very deep sleeper.
I love how you wrote Princess Celestia. We can see that, at heart, she is like any other pony, just with a rather large burden of ruling placed on her shoulders.
What I love about this story is that is isn't just some feel-good, fluffy cakefic: The cheery vibes are mixed seamlessly with very wise messages, making the story run deeper than I expected it to when I first saw it on EQD. The way that we come to love this material things not simply for the immediate gratification they bring – such as the deliciousness of cake – but also the memories associated with them, is something to be appreciated, for sure. This story serves as a great change of pace from any and all more serious fics, but you pull it off intelligently and without coming across as cliche, and with some good messages scattered around here and there. You had me smiling in all the right places, and left me feeling uplifted and content. Very, very nicely done.
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You were a great help with the editing.
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Carrot cake just seemed to fit.
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That's good to hear. I was actually a little worried about that part not carrying enough meaning and the meaning being the face value only.
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Thank you for pointing them out. Speaking of cake, I actually had a slice of chocolate cake (made with chocolate pudding to make it fudgier) and vanilla icing on the day I wrote this.
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That made me chuckle.
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Considering doing a bit of a pie one when I get to Applejack.
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Glad to see you could relate to the story.
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Thank you for your praise.
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Thank you for taking the time to make this.
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I'm glad you liked the story so much. Getting Celestia's character right was the hardest part, and I'm glad to see it paid off.
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Thank you for taking the time to write such a lengthy comment. Personally, I feel there are too many slice of life stories that dive headfirst into cliches. I'm happy to see my story avoided the traps from the response it has been receiving.
How this never made the feature box, when so many others with far less views, upvotes and more downvotes did, is a mystery I will never know the answer to.
Beautiful.
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Guess I should join the horde of likes. What a great twist on a historic phrase. It was really insightful, and built a very compelling reason for her love of cake.
The best thing is just how you set up cake as a framing device for her life, highlighting and marking particularly important moments. I wonder how her relationship with whiskey and trashy romance novels relates to that.
This story has been added to the Good Grammar Directory. Congratulations!
I want to know who the one dislike is...
Anyway, enjoyable short story. +1
God, what a beautiful little story, and such a wonderful idea and perspective. An instant favourite, no question.
3322997 Don't feel bad, I sometimes want to do that even without the head wound.
But seriously subnetting is an awful dark magic and is the cause of more networking frustrations than I care to admit.
How amusing amusing that I found this one through it's sequel...
~Skeeter The Lurker
My eyes teared.
*favz*