Twilight composes a letter to the Princess about a terrible Hearth's Warming gift.
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cool story...wheres nocturne
Beautiful.
Nicely done DH, nice to see you hit your stride again.
Touching, with deep themes as well as shout outs (and jabs) to your previous work. See now that you made it so obvious I actually got it and it made me feel good!
This story brought tears to my eyes. Now I need to find something a bit more lighthearted to read.
Very sad and painfully reflective of real life. Dare I say someone is projecting? In any case stellar work.
I'm trying to think of something more to say but that's all that I'm coming up with at moment.
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damn it device...
I'm going to go hug my parents now.
Ah, a wonderful work... Just the right amount of a twist, and I particularly enjoyed the message.. A great little piece of fiction, all-in-all. You ought to be proud of yourself.
Hmm, so any parallels here to the relationship you have with your own parents?
On my side, I regularly feel like Twilight at the end, that I really should love and appreciate my parents more for what they do for me. It's something that I've managed to improve on a bit here as I've entered my twenties.
I don't know how to express how I feel right now.
Today is the five year anniversary of my father's death. I've got an awful lot of empathy for Twilight right now.
This story meant a lot to me. Thank you for writing it, and sharing it with the world.
That was excellent. It flowed well, and the transition came suddenly and honestly it gave me a little jump. Certainly not an expected turn of events.
Loved the story; it captured well the essence of a one-shot - I don't feel a want to read the letter she dictated. Not only because Twilight said so, but also because it would be a moot point. Ending stories like that is not only effective but also meaningful.
MUST READ NOW.
Edit: Wow... Amazing.
That was wonderful.
This was a rather exquisite piece, even at far too early in the morning.
Good work, can't wait to see more from you.
Oh man... Oh man. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to lose close family, parents especially, and not feel guilty or regretful of all the things you didn't do or say.
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Well. That was unexpectedly awesome. Not that anything from you isn't, but this one was especially so. Nice to hear that you're feeling better as well, device.
Nice one!
I'll leave a longer review, once I'm not at work anymore. Because I totally do not read pony fiction at work...
The problem with this sort of story is that, now I've just finished reading it, I want to go and tell my parents, my family, just how much I love them. But I don't know how to. Not really. I feel bad for not having said it in the past but.. because it's not a thing I do, I don't know how to do it in the future. So I'm going to sit here, sad and fearful for what is coming in the years ahead. *And then go see them in the evening, and tell them anyway.
(I spotted a single letter missing from the end of a single word but cannot find it now, so... magic I guess)
(Edit: Ahh, it's been found. I read that paragraph a few times in my search for the missing letter and completely missed it, but I do tend to autocorrect for typos a lot of the time. So much so that even when reading something out loud and actually trying to figure out what wrong with a sentence, I will say what's supposed to be there instead of what is. Not the most annoying problem to have.)
And now I realise that I didn't actually comment on the quality of the fic itself. - It's good, Mr Heretic. Your work continues to shine.
Very nice. Simple and well-executed.
Your good at forcing me to take a step back and look at my life.
Thanks for witing
For some reason this story made me think of my dad.
He'll be 62 in a few weeks, and with his health problems I'm honestly not sure how many years he has left ahead of him.
I don't know how I'd be able to take his eventual death, especially since I'm only 19 at the present time. It's odd how this story made me think of that. It's not sad, but it certainly is most... depressing.
I'm glad you left the details of Twilight's parents' death vague; it wasn't really the focus of the story, but the fallout from it was.
I am depressed and also strangely apathetic. I don't like the void you've made in my emotions.
I always appreciate how well you depict somepony in a state of emotional distress. You do suffering well.
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The first one a genuine typo, but the other two are correct the way they are - even "We are none of us perfect." It's a common variant of the famous quote "We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us."
Oh gods. The moment I read the word 'headstone'.
Goddammit Device, every time I read one of your stories I cannot help but look at my writings in progress and think "what crap!"
Also: "Anyways"
Really? Infinite pet peeve.
My poor heart. D:
Brilliant work, device.
Something about the prose seems... "off" at certain points. I'll have to re-read it to pin-point where.
A nice read nonetheless, and a worthy message.
A great story. I spent a long time trying to settle on what I felt was a suitable compliment, but I keep focusing back on not what it is, but what it does. Yes, it's well written, emotional, and touching, it seems to flow well, I definitely enjoyed reading it. I get a little touchy whenever someone bumps Twilight's parents out of her life and sticks Celestia in their place, like they weren't the ones who raised her, who supported her studies and got her to that entrance exam in the first place, so I loved seeing that tackled head on. I'm sure I could keep going.
But it's the effect it has on the people who read it that really seems the most important to me. There are other stories on FIMFiction that are thought-provoking, or that can make people step back and reconsider how they've been handling or interpreting things in their lives (some of your own other works included), but precious few of them will ever actually move someone to action. I think this story is one of those few. I can already see it in the comments above me, and I know I'm going to hug my own parents extra hard when I visit them this weekend.
So the best compliment I can give, in my mind, is that your little one-shot has actually done something. And that's rare.
I really liked this one. It was simple enough and deep character building at the same time.
So much better than the crap I produce.
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DH, you are one of exactly two authors who manage to get me to cry on a regular basis. I eagerly await your next work.
This gif is getting a lot of mileage, think I have read too many sadfics lately.
This is a really good story, I'd suggest re-reading it with the Dead Island theme song playing, it really creates that type of sad mood.
Ow fuck my heart...
"Ha, the compass doesn't even work properly anymore, because so much residual magic from me staring at it and manipulating the indicator has messed up the magnetism. It only points at me, now, and only when I'm upset; otherwise, it just sort of spins on its own, really slowly."
There's something terribly profound about this line. Wish I could put into words what it is.
I kept waiting for Twi to come down hard on the fundamental astronomic incorrectness of the pithy inscription, but it never quite happened.
Damn it...
Now I'm crying, you heartless...
Device. You magnificent bastard I read YOUR FICS!
I won't say that it is wonderful and emotionally affecting. Not because it isn't true, but because, well, it's a DH fic. Birds fly, grass grows and device heretic makes you weepy about cartoon ponies. Somehow. I suspect witchcraft is involved.
What I will say is that it felt real. It was sad, but not in a way that smacks of artifice[1]. The relationship between Celestia and Twilight was pleasantly understated, too. A chamber piece of a fic, really, if you'll forgive the pretentious expression.
I'd belabor the point some more, as is my wont, but I need to call my parents. Actually, what I need is to hug them, but the space-time continuum is being difficult again.
[1] Not that "Eternal" wasn't amazing, but its latter half was essentially a prolonged attempt by DH to grind our hearts into a fine snortable powder. You can see your heartstrings being manipulated, but, at the time, you don't care because you are busy re-evaluating your life, finding it wanting, and promising to be a better person for the rest of your days.
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That jumped out at me, too. I don't know what it is, and it keeps niggling at me. A meaningless gift rendered meaningful because of context? Imperfect and broken, as their relationship, it's still deeply personal, still points towards Twilight? Damn. I feel there's some pithy way to say it but it eludes me.
Oh my goodness, I'm in love with your writing. You portrayed the characters so well that I actually read the dialogue in their voices. Well done!
We've all recieved gifts that let us down, and I'm sure most of us have lost someone shortly after a fight, I think that's just the univers being a dick.
I love the little references in here, it's a good story (aren't all of yours?)
Fuck. That hit a little too close to home for my liking, so I am not sure how objective I can be right now. Still, this was a great jump back to some really solid form, device. Simple and executed very well. Nice work.
Oh man. Being a feeler sucks. I can't see things coming, and the hit me like a brick. Not to mention I'll never be able to put down what I felt in words. English fails me at every turn, it seems. I don't know why you wrote this, but it has meaning.
Now I'm going to go tell my parents I love them; won't they be surprised? ... They probably will be, and that's the sad part.
makes me realize i need to talk to my dad more sure hes never there when i needed him and always late to anything thats not for him ..but for fucks sake hes my dad he put up with sooo much bullshit from me.
Sometimes I read a sentence that really sticks with me for reasons beyond my understanding.
In Eternal, it was toward the story's conclusion.
“Twilight,” she said, staring at the staircase before her thoughtfully. “How many plans have you come up with to help me avoid this?”
So like people have mentioned before me, this line "Ha, the compass doesn't even work properly anymore, because so much residual magic from me staring at it and manipulating the indicator has messed up the magnetism. It only points at me, now, and only when I'm upset; otherwise, it just sort of spins on its own, really slowly." is very moving. I'm not sure if it's just your lyrical writing style or some hidden message I'm too sleep deprived to decipher.
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I swear sometimes ponies can convey human emotions better than humans can
Hey,
This is the best thing you've ever written.
JMH
Not sure if I want...
I just spent a week with my oldest sister, her husband and their eldest son. It's been an interesting and delightful week seeing how they interact. I think that you've captured well what I would consider to be a very common yet very profound and defining factor to the relationship that children have with their parents.
Wonderful story and excellent read, DH. Thank you for sharing this!
Oh God. Wow.... This story is wow. Just wow.
Can't describe it. Thumbed up
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Hit me right in the feels. My feels man, they are tormented!!! Seriously though manly tears were shed after the initial heartbreak.
Faust damn it! I just read a pair of "Ditzy Do Dies" stories last night. A matching pair of stories, in fact. Two different authors, two different viewpoint characters, but the same event. ...and now this.
I'm a teetotaler, damn it! I don't HAVE any booze in the house right now!