Stories are dreams on screen~
It's Hearth's Warming Eve, and everypony is happy. Except for a little filly, sitting outside, trying to sell matches.
This is the ponified story of Hans Christian Andersen's classic The Little Match Girl. I'm sure most of you know it, but if you don't, now you do. I hope you enjoy.
This was written for the Equestrian Writers Guild's contest of fairytales.
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How depressing...
Goddammit.
This has potential of being a classic story. Good on you, mate!
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Thank you so much!
.......Oh, to hell with my manliness.
Dude... I was going to write a story EXACTLY like this, and even name it "The Little Match Filly" and everything... You have snuck into my mind somehow and swiped it out from under me!! Oh well....
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Except my story wasn't going to be "exactly" like the Hans Christian Andersen version. I was going to throw my own unique twist in it. But oh well, good on ya' for creativity and for like-mindedness!! You just beat me to the punch, but still a good story
6811498 Great minds think alike
6811404 Thank you for your feedback. I have been thinking about it too, but I couldn't quite figure out how I could be able to pull it off. I could have sketched an image of a poorer city, or maybe one that wasn't in Equestria at all, but I felt that that would have taken away the focus on the real story. What do you think?
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All your tears~
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You monster.
Read the bloody original ant gonna read this one it was too dam depressing... thumbs up though.
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Thank you!
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I refuse to read it if the protagonist dies in the end.Therefore, If you didn't take the opportunity to give this a happy ending I refuse admire it's merit.
6814263 Okay, that's fine. Not all stories have to have a happy ending, though. This is the story that I grew up with and I wanted to honor it the best I could.
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In my estimation, If you're going to rewrite it all anyway, it would be a disservice to not to rewrite the ending to suit your own interests or desires. But, I can understand the exercise as a way of learning something about an author you admire. Sometimes I like copying the words my critics, so that I can be sure even if I misinterpret their words or motive, they can't accuse me of being inattentive.
Naturally, this could also be perceived as mockery. Which, I figure would happen either way given the circumstances. That being the case, one might as well do what makes you happy or brings the most joy to others. After all, that's how 'the princess bride' was written and conceived as an example of the first abridged parody (assuming Candide and Don Quixote don't count because they redefined a genre). And, as time marches on, the chasm between the original and the counterfeit (for lack of a better term) will become both satirically noteworthy and revolutionize the paradigm of a generation.
I understand many of Shakespeare's plays were remakes/reinterpretations of popular stories as well.
66815424 If you do not wish for me to take your reply as mockery, I won't. I am not taking your reply as mockery now either. However, I have to be honest with you, in your first comment you sound as if you hadn't even bothered to read my story at all simply because the ending didn't fit your likings.
Moving on from that, I haven't been planning to rewrite the story completely, nor change the ending. So far, the only thing I have been considering is to change the intro slightly to establish an AU where the ending is more likely.
I have never read the Princess Bride, nor am I really knowledgable of Shakespeare, but I do know that he has written both comedies and tragedies, and that he was not afraid to make the audience feel.
Hm...
I love the original "the matchstick girl" and I love this version Too!
7110183 ^w^ Thanks!
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But it's got a happy ending, doesn't it? The visions the little foal sees are dreams sent to her by Princess Luna, while she lies unconscious, and while she is being carried away from her life of misery and into a loving family. (Luna probably assumed her granny's form in the dream.) And I defy anybrony to tell me otherwise.
Yes, I know that this interpretation is contrary to the author's words and difficult to reconcile with the story's timeline. But that's not important. (I'm a sucker for happy endings.)
Wow, this was really good.
Glad I read it!
I gave it a đź‘Ť. But still, she died, right? You could've changed that part!
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This is a ponified version of the Disney short “Little match girl,” the same events in that short happen in this story but with a pony instead of a human. So don’t let this make you feel sad, let the original do that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16L8S_w7wRQ
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there is a reason this is in the seriously sad story group