"How about those two?"
Cadance sighed. "No, Luna. They're just friends."
"Them?"
"Friends."
"Alright, then that couple right there! They've definitely both gotten past second base, minimum."
"Luna, those are siblings!" Cadance barked. "Now stop it! Not every pair of ponies sitting together is automatically in a romantic relationship."
"Hmph. Well, by the look of things, nopony is," Luna growled. "Personally, I think the Princess of Love is slacking. Isn't it, like, spring? Isn't love supposed to be in the air?"
"No," Celestia said, and then sneezed violently. "That would be pollen. And mud. And rain. Spring is the worst."
"Huh," Cadance said. "Spring is my favourite season."
"Seriously? It's just a less pleasant version of summer," Celestia replied. "Except, unlike autumn, it doesn't include pumpkin pie."
"Or cafés seeing fit to pumpkinify everything," Luna snorted. "Coffee? Pumpkin coffee! Scone? Pumpkin scone!"
"...This seems like a very personal thing, Luna," Cadance frowned.
"I assure you it is," Luna said. "But more generally, I must agree with Celestia. Spring is just stormy and unpleasant."
"I like storms," Cadance replied. "Especially up in the Crystal Empire, we get some epic ones. And when it's not storming, we've got epic northern lights. Why do you girls have such an objection to a bit of rain, anyways? Is it your manes? Does it mess up your manes?"
The sisters shared a look.
Celestia smiled sheepishly.
"...maybe...?"
"Well, I've gotta see that," Cadance chortled. "Then if spring is so taboo, what are the best seasons?"
"Summer, obviously."
"Winter," Luna glared at Celestia. "Longer nights. Not dying underneath a furious summer sun. Tons of holidays. The chance to throw snowballs right at Celestia's face."
"...Remember when I said spring is the worst?" Celestia growled. "I change my answer to winter."
Cadance giggled. "Out of spite?"
"Certainly."
"So that leaves fall," Cadance said.
"Heh. Leaves fall."
"Oh, would you shut up, Luna?" Celestia groaned. "To make a topical comparison, fall is the equivalent of those little caramel cubes on Nightmare Night. Not many ponies dislike them persay, but they usually end up at the bottom of the pillow case. That's how most see fall."
"Pure poetry." Cadance rolled her eyes. "But not inaccurate, I guess. Where did seasons even come from, anyways? Did you two do that?"
"Huh," Celestia said, and the sisters shared a look. "Did we?"
"I don't recall," Luna said. "Certainly not something Discord came up with."
"I guess it just happened," Celestia shrugged. "Oh, there was that time we accidentally scorched all the leaves of the Whitetail Woods when we were fighting that dragon! Remember that, Luna?"
"Ah yes." Luna smiled. "We told everypony we 'meant to do that.' And thus, a season was born."
"Wow," Cadance blinked. "You girls sounded a lot more... uh, reckless."
"Perhaps," Celestia shrugged. "We matured. Either way, the cycle of seasons hasn't always been consistent. When one has full control over both the sun and moon, and the weather, they don't always have to be."
"That's a good point," Cadance nodded.
And then, she perked up suddenly. "Oh! Luna! Those ponies there!"
Luna nearly spat out her coffee in surprise as she was jerked back into the recently discarded conversation. "Them?"
"Definitely love magic eligible," Cadance nodded, and her horn began to glow.
"But how can you tell?!"
"It's just basic magic yo," Cadance said. "Now shut up and watch me work. It's springtime, bitches."
Winter is the best season and all other seasons are merely variations. There's Pre-Winter, Winter, Post-Winter, and Anti-Winter.
P.S. Anti-Winter is worst season.
I still think Cadence has some seriously frightening powers.
The possibilities for manipulation are scurry.
Truth about winter. I think of them as Hot and Gorgeous, A Different Temperature Than You Expected, The Snow is Taller Than Me, and Can't Make Up Its Mind.
Foals gotten be made somehow.
On a scale of 1 to 7,how bad is this joke.
If it's snowy in Equestria, does that mean the unicorns are Wizards in Winter?
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Then you must move to Michigan, for according to the comment of an old man to my father. "Michigan only has three seasons.
July, August and Winter."
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But Canada is so close to there. What if they decide to invade?!
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we hid out in the snow drifts until July then attack while their troops are down with heat stroke
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Chicago only has two seasons: winter and road construction.
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What do you mean, "What if they decide to invade?" They started in 1948!
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Sounds like a plan.
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I'm actually going to watch this whole thing
As much as I like a good storm, your empire is under an epic shield, Cadance. It's not the same when you don't have the epic shield.
7224444 You are a pony after my heart. I do rate pre-winter over winter, only because I don't have to shovel nearly as much driveways.
7224615 Chicago sounds like Canada. Though we 'It's snowing but barely Warm enough for Construction' too.
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I concede your point, my good fellow.
7224582 Then at least we'd be really polite about it!
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Now I'm imagining a Red Dawn movie where Canada invaded and are shoving guns in people faces and stuff while apologizing about it at the same time. POW camps are actually spas and top tier hotels.
...On second thought, invade us pls!
But...I love those little caramel cubes. Those are the first things I would eat!
Im gonna be real sad when this story ends. It's so enjoyable.
Winter is awesome up here in the tropics of Australia (Because this place is un-bearably humid!) But in Seasons there's Blazing Summer, there's Summer 2.0 Slightly Cool (Winter) as in twenty degrees cool and then there's Summer 3.0.
Hmmph. I happen to like
fallautumn. It's pretty, and nice. And like Spring except the opposite.Also, I blame you for the fact that I feel like I'm coughing up my lungs. I'm still getting over a cold and laughing starts me coughing.
But seriously, I like this a lot. It's hilarious.
7225166 Thanks alot, yo.
And y'know what? Joking aside, I think autumn is my favourite season. Where I live, Winter is great but really tends to overstay its welcome, so honestly I think it can only be called my second favourite season. But Autumn is great. It even kinda, like, smells great. Autumn has a smell. I'm not crazy.
Beside, I mean, Thanksgiving and Halloween in the same month? Ya can't beat that.
7225185 Autumn totally has a smell. But Thanksgiving and Halloween are not in the same month. Ever. Halloween is the last day of October and Thanksgiving is the fourth thursday in November
Autumn is the best because that means Winter is coming, the insects are dying, and everything gets better for enjoying the outdoors. Winter is second because for all the good it has (less sun to blind me, cold to prevent instant sweat, and freedom from insects) it means Spring is coming. Spring is third because that means the bees are coming back to attack me if I look at them funny and Summer is coming, but it has nice weather and it's neat to see the trees regrowing. Summer is last (so last that if you separated Spring into "rainy season" and "growing season" it would be last. So last that if you ran out of paper to write the number of seasons, Summer wouldn't make it) because it's hot, humid (90%+ means insta-sweating), everything wants to get in your face, and sunny too long. My best day is cloudy, 70 degrees, no humidity, and no bugs. So, a particularly warm Winter day.
That means Luna wins. If I had a Summer home in Canada, Winter would be the best season. I wouldn't have to worry about Spring's inevitable end.
Fall is great, it's basically summer with a more reasonable temperature. Spring tends to throw me off more, I never know whether I should be dressing lightly or heavily.
All of the seasons have pros and cons in my book, so that I can't decide on a favorite. I was going to leave a comment explaining this, but I decided that it would be way to long and so I blogged about it instead, here!
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You're assuming that all holidays are celebrated on the same day all over the world. Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Spend any time dealing with a world-wide supply chain and you'll quickly learn you need to pay attention to such things.
AWWWWW no spit-take I love those, especially if she got Celestia.
7225277 Oh! Here in Canada, we have usually have our Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October.
I honestly didn't even clue in that it's different elsewhere. Shows how little I clue in on things.
Meanwhile, the UK doesn't have an official harvest festival date at all. How sad.
So if Luna, Cadance, and Celestia claim winter, spring, and summer as their respective favorites does that mean that Twilight's favorite is fall? One princess for each season?
I feel like this chapter missed a good opportunity to work in a Snowdrop reference, though perhaps it wouldn't have worked well with the comedic tone.
7225424 You should feel bad for us.
Or maybe not, because we get a day off on the Queen's bday.
In Central Florida, we don't get Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter - we get the Dry Season, the Tourist Season, the Wet Season, and Love-Bug Season.
Dry season is when you find that you can't go outside because of heat ranging anywhere from 90-degree-Fahrenheit to 105-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures and no clouds.
Tourist Season is when you wake up one day and find that the population of your local area spontaneously quadrupled overnight, and everything gets about five times as expensive.
Wet season is where you get soaked by being outside, because there's a storm every afternoon. And not just any storm, mind you, but to the scale of what any other sane place would call either a severe thunderstorm, or a hurricane.
Love-bug season is where, anytime you drive anywhere, you get a new coat of bug-gut paint. The live-bug population multiplies about 12 to 15 times in this two-month-long season, and they love to fly near water - so, basically everywhere. And they'really a pain in the ass to clean off your car, because of how sticky their guts are.
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At the risk of sounding the ass, I always snicker when I hear that about Canada. You'd hate it here. I've lived in both 'Lake effect (southern Ontario)' and 'Continental' places in Canada, and neither are what you'd want. Admittedly, I've never lived near the coasts. Summers nearer the lakes are often well into the 30s (low to mid 90s) and within a hundred miles of any of the lakes, it's never below around 80% humidity in summer, usually higher. Away from the lakes, it gets hotter (and much, much colder in winter) but with less humidity.
Bugs here start getting active around 15C (low 60s) and actually get worse (and active colder) as you go north. Want to know why caribou stampede? Black flies bigger than house flies. To borrow a line from my uncle: When you go camping in mid to northern Ontario, or anywhere you can even see a forest for that matter, you bring a tent. This isn't for shelter. This is just to give you enough mass that the mosquitos can't actually pick you up and carry you off in the night.
In my time with the reserves, I knew a guy who was actually hospitalized for reasons of mosquitos and, in boot camp, we had an unofficial cleaning doctrine to prevent mosquito bites. It was never disobeyed twice.
This is one of the reasons I actually like spiders. I once lived in a place where there were none. No idea why. You learn to appreciate the difference real quick.
To be fair, Vancouver may be more your style temperature-wise. I don't know the bug situation there, though.
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I guess I thought that, since Thanksgiving is an American holiday, it was celebrated on the same day everywhere. I stand corrected.
Winter is my least favorite season. Sure, the holidays are great, but it tends to overstay its welcome, and where I live, it gets nasty cold.
Summer and Fall are pretty much tied for second best. Summer has time off and great weather, but can get pretty muggy and hot and I don't feel like doing anything. I like the overall atmosphere of Fall better, but it has the same problem as Winter of getting really cold really fast.
Spring, though, is my definite favorite. Usually there's lots of rain, and I love rain, and the rest of the time it's as sunny as summer. Only drawback is the pollen. I just wish it lasted longer, as once again, Winter tends to overstay its welcome and cut into spring's time.
Hey, what happened to the space chapter? Did you delete it?
Seasons don't vary so much here (Northwest England). My favourite season is Autumn, because I like the leaves falling down and the sun that's at just the right angle to kill your eyes all day. Then probably Spring, because the leaves are coming back, the days are getting longer, and the sun is at just the right angle to kill your eyes all day. Then Winter, because I like the long nights (sunrise at 10am, sundown at 3pm) and it actually getting cold enough to make it worth your while to wear a coat (around freezing; it rarely gets much colder than minus ten). Then lastly Summer, because wasps. And it gets really hot (for the UK!), around twenty degrees.
But it always rains. No matter what the season, a mac is always a potential requirement.
7226797 Just unpublished. You can still get to it through the comment links.
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By Canada, I mean Fort Mackenzie in Quebec or maybe Fort Providence in the NW Territories. Way north. Why I don't go to Alaska for that? Uh... too far? Or I just want to see what a different country is like...
For the more to-the-story: I like mid-spring and -fall, myself. When it's in and around the 15-22 degrees range (Celsius.) It's warm enough to do stuff outside comfortably if you dress properly. The humidity's in the 30-50% range, so not an issue yet especially at those temperatures. And the Sun's just off-kilter enough with my schedule that it's not straight in the eyes for when I go to and come back from work.
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I wasn't wondering why you'd want another country. My point was you go from no real difference in temperature, to bug territory. IE: http://walter-us.net/Canada/nwt_diary.htm
"After stopping to view all the waterfalls, we crossed the Mackenzie River. There is no bridge - only a small free ferry that transport large tractor trailers and cars. This was also our first encounter with the famous black flies. They are actually large gnat-like bugs that surround you - especially the face. Every time we got out of the car our arms were flailing trying to get them away. When we stopped at the first town after crossing the river, Fort Providence, the locals also had their arms flailing. We made a short stop to mail postcards then encountered bison on the road - twice. Took some pictures and immediately back in the car with windows up."
If you go north, and aren't at least past the Arctic Treeline, you're not north enough to avoid the bugs. And even then, kinda iffy. Arctic mosquitos.
7226865 Ah, so it is... it needs a password though.
Spring- I'm not allergic to pollen and I like some rain every once in a while. Though where I live it's not really any more rainy than summer. So for me it's a MORE pleasant version of summer.
Summer- ITS HOT. Sure I don't have school, and I get to go to camp and my church youth conference...but ITS FREAKIN' HOT! I live in the southern states people.
Fall- Early fall is nice where I live. Not too cold. Then it really gets cold right before halloween. Fall is basically a more pleasant winter. Plus it has my first (Thanksgiving) and third (Halloween) favorite holidays, National Novel Writing Month (November), and Inktober. The downside is that's when school starts.
Winter- I hate it. The holidays are nice, Christmas being my second favorite. But it's SO COLD, snow is fun to play in but where I live it rarely snows, meaning all that cold weather and I get nothing to enjoy from it. Because I live in a southern state some people will probably tell me I have no business complaining about the cold, but I FRICKIN' HATE THE COLD, and it gets into the 30s and sometimes the 20s, so don't tell me it isn't cold. It's also gets into the teens a couple times every year.
Winter sucks. Fall is the best.
7227185 Weird, I never set one.
Try bumbersnazzle
7227383 Yup, that did it, thanks! I'd been wanting to reread that chapter for some time.
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Dangit, if Canada isn't safe, what is? Maybe Greenland? Didn't think bugs went that far north... and I hope we never get Canada bugs flying south for Winter.
In Central Texas,There's really not a definite set of seasons. Like they sorta blend together for example,One week in winter can be the definition of it but then the next week can be spring like and it goes vice versa. So when I get a chuckle when all the stores change directly into one season but it feels like the last one. For example Pumpkin Spice Everything when it's still feeling like Summer. But I like Spring and Summer equally since the rainy days really set the mood for writing/drawing dark stuff. :P
Its rained here for a month +...
Hah! Yeah.
Its magic we don't need to explain it
The more and this goes on Cadence sounds like this girl here.Trinity Glassfield
I could give everybody in the world at LEAST 10 reasons winter is better than summer. AT LEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. You don't start sweating the moment you walk out the door.( I live in Florida.)
2. There are only so many clothes you can take off to keep cool.( again, I live in Florida.) Yet you can just add a few layers if your cold in the winter.
3. No sun burns while swimming!!!!! wouldn't the water be cold in winter you ask? Get a heated pool!!!!
4. Less dangerous animals such as snakes, bears, ect.
5. Less Bees (this ones personal.)
6. Grass grows slower so you don't have to mow you lawn as much!!!!
7. Nice cool breezes, or snow if you live further north. I know some people hate snow because when it melts it gets really messy, but guess what??? SUMMER MELTS THE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!ILLUMINATIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Not as many allergies!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. A 10% chance for snow the melts as soon as it hits the ground in Florida!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!(XD)
10. This one is for the win!!!!!!!!!! Super Clear night skies to star gaze!!!!! DO IT FOR LUNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUNA IS BEST PRINCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
And then there's Georgia. We have Summer....and sometimes that thing after summer where it's not as hot. Sometimes. After that we get this thing officially known as "Winter." I don't know, sometimes it's just a really pleasant summer or fall, and sometimes there's SNOW! Usually within the same "season". And then it's Summer again. Or Winter. Or Spring for a day. or maybe a week. Once it lasted a month, before it reached 98 Fahrenheit.
In other words, come to Georgia, you probably won't need Winter clothes. Probably. If it doesn't snow a lot that year.
It feels like a solid ending, so I wouldn't worry too much.