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Salnalus


Just your friendly neighborhood Salnalus. Writing stories and pointless blog posts. Feel free to check them out, and stuff.

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Princess Luna has never heard of Hearts and Hooves Day. It's hard to believe, but when you've been gone a thousand years, you tend to miss a few things here and there. Eager to learn about the holiday and what a "date" is, she's recommended to see Rarity to see what all there is to dating. The fashionista's solution? A practice date. However, by the end of the night, the two might drop the "practice" in practice date.

Collaboration with Soothing Stone

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 27 )

Glad to finally see this story up again. :pinkiehappy:

This chapter... I like it!

Another!

Nice story looking forward to the next one.

Seems good so far, I've never actually read a shipping story yet so I might keep an eye on this one.

cautiously faving for easier tracking.
good setup thus far.

You've piqued my interest with this sadly underrepresented ship. I'm interested to see where this will go.

Very interesting story! I shall be putting this in the Read Later folder. :ajsmug::raritywink:

I'm gonna write this, sort of my own author's notes to the story.

As you likely know, I collaborated on this story with Sal, this being our third story together at the very least(I'm pretty sure it was more, but I don't want to go overboard with the number).

Writing the story itself with him was fine by itself, but there were issues that came up outside the story. You all likely know about what happened the first time it was uploaded, with the drama that happened over the cover image(nothing but love and support for Amber Rays, the artist of that original cover) but there was something that happened with me as well in the meantime, something personal I'd rather not talk about openly...but it was terrible to go through. I felt awful not just because of that drama, but it tore me up not being able to write for the story like I wanted to.

In the end though, the second issue worked out and I was able to help Sal finish the story like we wanted. So I'm happy that I get to comment on the final chapter of the story, and that Sal can now mark this story as finished.

And it was fun actually writing about this shipping. It's not a very popular one, but I find that it's fun to explore, not just because they share the same VA in the show :rainbowwild: but because they're both regal in their lifestyle. Having Rarity be someone out of her league with this, while Luna was the wise princess that was still willing to learn, was an entertaining pair to explore. Hopefully that shows in the final product, but once I got over the jitters starting out, it was fun to write.

So major thanks to Sal for letting me work with him on this project, and thanks to the supporters of the story after it was uploaded again. It was welcome to see after all the drama that surrounded this story.

Soothing Stone

Wonderful fic. You did an amazing job.

The lacing was great and same with your dialogue.

Well done

4595051 lol the lacing? I meant pacing. Damn auto correct. Seriously though I loved the chemistry between the two. Luna fics are wonderful because we get to see Luna learning all the simple things over again. You captured this beautifully

4595097
Heh, I was wondering about the "lacing" part too. :rainbowlaugh:

But yeah, thanks. But Soothing Stone deserves credit too. We worked on this together.

4595136 of course I'm sorry. This is one of the more interesting ships to me. It's nice to see a pony like rarity date royalty. How will she be in the relationship? Will she still want to be pampered? Will she take the lead like in your fic and plan nice things for Luna? So many possibilities yet not many fics that explore them well. Props again for doing this ship.

4595177
In that case, I will say why I did this ship.

First of all, Princess Luna is my favorite pony. Secondly, Rarity is tied as my favorite Mane 6 pony, along with Pinkie Pie. Thirdly, both Rarity and Princess Luna share the same voice actress, Tabitha St. Germain. Fourthly, RariLuna is a very underrated ship. Lastly, both are rather high class (with Luna being one of the two royal sisters, and Rarity acting like a high class pony at times).

Plus they look cute together. :raritywink:

4596456
I want to do a few more in the future (once I get ideas and time). I just love the pairings.

Is there an appropriate name for this particularly rare ship?:unsuresweetie:
If not, I'll stick with Lunarity because it flows off the tongue easier for me.:twilightsmile::heart:
The story was awesome with it's innocent curiosity and the refreshing perspective of a steady, romantic gravity.:scootangel:

4603916
RariLuna, is what it's called. You can say Lunarity if you wish, but most prefer RariLuna. But whatever floats your boat, or "ship" in this case. :twilightsheepish:

4604221
RariLuna huh, that works.:trollestia:
Understanding the fandom is easy, understanding our naming choices, not so much.:pinkiecrazy:

Because we’re in a dream, and there’s no logic whatsoever, I could throw THE BIGGEST PARTY OF ALL TIME for you!”

Pinkie, there's no logic to you anyways!

The whole time I was reading this, I was imagining Tabitha St. Germain in a studio talking to herself as both characters like Ashleigh Ball did with Rainbow Dash and Applejack in Fall Weather Friends. :raritywink:

4615690
Same here. :rainbowlaugh:

Was one reason why I wanted to put both these ponies in the same fic. It could just be one long passage read by one person doing more than one voice.

Like it, hope you continue it, thanks for sharing

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