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I've never seen a place that's quite like this. Everything is turned around; this crazy world is upside down.

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Hearth's Warming is fast approaching, and Ponyville needs its decorations! But with Pinkie Pie out of town for the holiday, Mayor Mare hosts a competition to determine who should take her place as Ponyville's lead Hearth's Warming Decorator and Parade Coordinator.

As far as Rainbow Dash and Applejack are concerned, you had 'em at "competition."


The second story in The Twelve Days of Ficmas. You can read the first one here, and you can read the third one here. Happy holidays!

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Ri2

Applejack won? Huh. I was expecting some third party you didn't mention in the narrative to win instead.

5386589
I considered that. Part of the original concept was actually that Fluttershy won, but I figured that ending's been overdone. I also toyed with the idea of having both Rainbow and Applejack win, but that seemed too cheesy. In the end, I'm happy with the ending I picked.

5386589 Wow thanks for the spoiler :applecry:

Ri2

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Oh, sorry.

Ri2

5386644
I was thinking more like the Mayor's niece won even though her project was terrible because nepotism.

I'm not sure I could articulate how much I loved the portrayal of the Dash & Scootaloo relationship in this. The rest of the story was great too, but that adopted sisterhood.

but the snowball was travelling so quickly that it caught fire and evaporated before it could reach her

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“And gunpowder. Mostly gunpowder.” funny, and relevant it turns out! Anyway I really enjoyed what Rainbow and Scoots came up with, and it was nice to see Rainbow grow as a pony for it.
Also I really appreciate that Applejack says "I"... it's just not very common. It's not that I hate "Ah" and "Ah'm" or anything, but it gets grating after a while, whereas "I" never does - plus the way you wrote her speech read very naturally for AJ so I read it in her voice regardless. :yay:

5386644
Bleh a tie only chsnglelings are that cheesy. Hehe just kidding. I love it. So cute and reading dash and scoots hand ouf morning d always functions

The sisterly bonding was sweet and the friendly rivalry was nice.

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