I can't thank you guys enough for all of your support on this diabeetus driven adventure. I never expected it to go this far. Or take off like it did. That said, I would like to periodically continue to update this story, and I've been hit with writers block lately, as far as childhood adventures go. I would like to take a moment to invite you all to share with me your own games and ideas in the comments, things you did as kids that you might like to see Tia and Woona do. Even Discord, perhaps. Tia and Woona pretended the floor was lava, and got on each others nerves. Did you guys build lemonade stands? Did you have your own games you made up? Let me know, and if you inspire a new chapter, you'll be credited.
From this point onwards, Goodnight Woon will advance only with the participation of you guys, as my cuteness well has run dry, and I'm working on Life Lessons in the meantime.
As always, thank you for reading, and I look forward to hearing your stories.
Lunabrony
Oh gods, there's something from my own childhood that would be perfectly adorable for Tia and Woona...and maybe even Discord.
We have a huge garage, and when I was really little we filled it up with large boxes, big enough that I could crawl around inside. The boxes opened up into each other in a maze through the entire garage. ...I was so sad when we had to take it apart.
I think Tia and Woona with a box maze would be adorable...especially with Discord's magic making things in the boxes come playfully to life.
Well, my sister and I once stole all the loose bricks from our neighbourhood driveways... I forgot why...
4433396 That's fun, but I can't see the little princesses engaging in pointless theft ^^;
I remember playing a version of tag with the neighborhood kids. We would form teams, and if someone was tagged they were "captured" and brought back to the enemy base. The game went until all members on a team were tagged, and captured members could be freed if one of their free teammates snuck into enemy territory and tagged them.
I would love to see Tia and Woona do something like this with the castle guards.
4433413 Kids do strange things when they let their minds run free. Like when I let my sister dress me up in my mom's Garda uniform... The first and only time I ever wore a stab vest...
Tia and Woona get it into their heads to turn Discord into a sparkly pretty princess like them. Discord is enthusiastic about the idea, but it still goes just about as well as you would expect. (Based on the number of times I talked my baby brother into dressing as a girl for shits and giggles).
Woona and Discord take up baking. Nuff said.
Tia tries to set a good example to Woona until the day dinner is the thing Tia HATES HATES HATES and why don't her parents know how much she HATES this gross food and why are they making her eat food she HATES? Meanwhile Woona thinks it's tasty.
Tobogganing is more dangerous than little alicorns realize because when they slide down a giant snow-covered mountain and kick up a lot of snow it interferes with their wings, which means they actually have to steer the thing or they will crash. (They crash anyway into a giant pile of snow.)
Woona learns about the negative health consequences of some habit of one of their parents (drinking, eating too much cake, whatever) and attempts to remove the dangerous substance from the palace entirely, insisting that Tia should help her with this.
Turns out that Discord reacts to catnip in pretty much the same way cats do, being part lion. (In real life I do not think lions are affected by catnip but la la la I can't hear you, logic, this is funny.)
I got my head stuck in the railing for stairs once... We had to cut off one of the support beam(things) but that in itself took a while... I could see that happening with Luna.
Or maybe Celestia looses Luna, and in the end, it turns out that Luna's just hiding in the most obvious of areas. Anyway, those are just two things that happened to me that I could see happening with the two
I remember grabbing onto my sister's hand, spinning around with her in the living room for a couple of seconds and then letting go. The rest of my memories at the moment revolve around finishing our schoolwork from our homeschooling years early so that we could get on the Nintendo for the rest of the day, exploring the field behind our house (once encountering our cat), and finding a way up onto the roof of our house via a tree by the side of the house.
Oh, relating to the tobogganing thing someone mentioned, I have two: my father would take boxes from work and we would cut them into makeshift sleds for going down a nearby hill on. One time, I slid down but encountered a hole. Thus, the rest of the sled ride was spent tumbling head-over-tuchus until I finally ran out of momentum.
Also, there was one my mother remembers about my uncle and my grandmama on a big rug-slide at Six Flags. My uncle was a small boy and so my grandmama decided to hold his hand while they slid down on separate mats. Grandmama went all the way down. My uncle ran out of momentum half-way, so the park employees had to send people down the slide to get him moving again.
Comment on 5/22/2014
I am a bitter old man. Every time I look back on my childhood, I can only remember the stuff that bums me out.
I went to an amusement/water park twice. I got horribly sick and badly sunburned twice. There was not a third time.
The rest of my childhood was filled with tedious mediocrity. It was also filled with instant karma and Equivalent Exchange. Every time I did something bad, life would smack me down. Every time something good happened, something bad would happen. However it made me into the cynical, introverted, amoral, apathetic, agnostic pragmatist I am today.
Well, at least there is television.
KBO.
I remember in preschool we had two shelves full of picture books. The tall-ish kids could reach the lower shelf with the stepstool but ony the adults could reach the high one. I can recall many a day with my friends trying to figure out a way to reach the books on the top shelf. Ah, memories...
Two things:
1. I like the idea of baking with Woona and Discord...adding onto that here...
When I was a kid I used to bake cookies all the time. When my mom wasn't looking, I would always steal some sugar/cookie dough, so by the time we actually had to put them in the oven there was considerably less cookie dough than expected.
2. Playing the doorbell game! Ringing a doorbell/knocking on a neighbor's door, and running away before they could catch you. Annoyed the heck out of my parents.
4434808 your lucky you just annoyed your parents, I almost got shot... Texas is dangerous
Perhaps a little story about Woona and Tia going for a swim, only to be harassed by the paparazzi, so Tia has to pull the “big sis, protector" role? Or, maybe a story about Luna getting her flowing mane? Along with Tia?
Geese! back when I was a kid my parents had geese and those monsters were constantly trying to kill me. I can picture in my head Woona being chased around by geese... and it is adorable...
My sister and I used to pretend that we were dinosaurs. Fillies playing pretend are always wonderful.
Plus almost all of the other ideas from the other commentors would also be great too.
I think Tia and Woona playing school would be cute.
I must say your story ideas are quite amusing, try something involving cake.. Anyway I hope you find your inspiration for the next chapter.
Give us Luna's first flight please! Since she's afraid of heights...
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Now that my heart exploded twice, this MUST become a real thing. I'd write it myself, but I have zero talent.
If you're still taking ideas, perhaps one of Celestia's reaction to newborn Woona being brought home from the hospital.
Luna's magic going out of control and she accidentally turns Tia into cheddar cheese and tries to cjange her back but it just turns parts of her body I to different foods and Tia becomes a cookie and she's tempted to eat her