It was the evening of Hearth's Warming. Stallions hurried home from work to celebrate with their families, mothers were busy buying last-minute gifts for their daughters and sons and little foals were sitting in front of the chimney, waiting for presents and a festive dinner.
As the sun begins to set and it grows darker and darker on the streets, only few ponies remained outside.
One of these ponies was a little filly. Even though it was cold and even though nopony stopped for her, she abided the frost and the darkness.
For all she wanted was to sell her matches. This is the story of.....
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The Little Match-Filly
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A ponification of H.C. Andersen's work "The Little Match-Girl", staying true to the original story's style and spelling, with a few expansions and additions and a slightly altered ending to present it in a new light.
So beautiful and so sad at the same moment. May we all remember those less fortunate than ourselves. And be not cruel to those that seek a bit of favor, for you know not what beauty and magic they possess.
Happy Hearths Warming!
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Finally you read one of my stories again!
Thank you for reading it and for favouriting it too!
I'm proud of this one, because it is the first time I really ponified something and also because it's the first time I tried to imitate another author's style and I think it came out pretty well.
While it does not look like this on its surface, there went a lot of hard work into this story.
Happy Hearth's Warming to you as well!
Really sad
Reminds me of the two fics i'm working at the Moment where something familiar happens
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Thank you for leaving the fave!
It's much appreciated, I'm glad you like it. 
7809238 you're welcome, i love storys like this
interested on what i work? Or what happens to noi in my fic? (Sorry, it's a old habit i can't get rid of)
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You can send me a PM if you like.
Just don't want to spam the comments under my fics too much.
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What's the difference from the original story?
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Thank you for reading "The Little Match-Filly" and for favouriting it, as well as the follow!
It was not easy to write and came with lots of work to do so, even though the fic doesn't look like that, so every reader here is appreciated.
Not too much, because I wanted to capture the spirit of the original tale as best as possible. There are some bits and pieces sprinkled in that are from me, though, on top of the necessary changes to make it fit to Equestria. The most notable one being the slightly different end, that already got some build-up at the beginning of the story.
I went into detail about the writing process here:
http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/699979/my-first-hearths-warming-eve-fic-the-little-match-filly-a-pony-adaptation-of-hc-andersens-the-little-match-girl
So it ends the same way?
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If you mean that she dies at the end, then yes. But it's still slightly different, because I added an own idea to give it something unique too.
2021 reader, I found several pieces of artwork of ponified LMG which inspired me to seek out fanfictions. Of the four that seem to exist on this website yours is wonderful and I honestly have a hard time conceptualizing how much work it was but nevertheless it shows handsomely. Your version and one other are currently holding a tie for my favorite version although I liked all four versions.
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Thank you for your comment! I am happy that you like my adaptation so much!
I looked at your bookshelves and where you added mine and the other three stories and it looks like mine came in on second place for you, after Mark Young's adaptation "The Little Match Mare", as his story is the only one in your holiday favourites bookshelf, but second place of four is very great and you give me a smile by liking my story that much! 
Yes, I've indeed put a lot of work into this story, for how short it is. Before I began writing it, I read the original story by H. C. Andersen four times (one time in german, three times in english), I searched for the best english translation of it and compared quite many while doing so (which means I actually read it more than four times, as I had to read each translation before I could compare them, but I didn't count those reads, so there are dark figures here), I watched several animated adaptations of it on YouTube and I read all three ponyfied versions of "The Little Match-Filly" that existed here on FIMFiction.net at that time to avoid that I accidentally write something another pony author has already written before me. Only then I started to write the story. I talked in-depth about the writing process here:
My first Hearth's Warming Eve fic: "The Little Match-Filly", a pony adaptation of H.C. Andersen's "The Little Match-Girl"
It's five years ago now that I read the other three stories, so I don't remember them much at the moment, but I enjoyed each of them, as well, and the one with Applebloom as little match filly is my favourite.
Nonetheless, I wanted to keep the original, tragic tone here and get the same feelings and message across, to make a true ponification of the story. This story is still one of my most work-intense and best ponyfics that I have written to date.
It makes me very happy that you enjoyed it so much, this year, my older Hearth's Warming Eve stories are independently found by readers, without me having to promote them, and that makes your reaction to my story all the better.
11074112Glad to be of service
Twilight and I wish you and yours a safe and happy Hearth's Warming/Christmas holiday season.
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Scootaloo and I wish you the same thing.