Hey, LyraHands :)
You created so much feels yesterday :P I never took you for the dramatic pony :P I still think you shouldn’t have been so public about it, but I’ll respect your choice. Also, I’ve gotten permission to let you in on a little secret. I know you well enough so am confident you can keep it to yourself ;)
I’ve spoken to all the new authors of the MC team and they have given the okay to send you a personal PM revealing their identity. Better be thankful :P Even they don’t know all of their identities, and that’s why I’ll be forwarding their messages. :)
Have fun being a mom ;)
Hello, hello :)
Quote the curtain call. I’ll have to think of something to trump it. :P Of course, I suspect you already knew about me. You make a few comments that my style seemed close to that one of the MC writers, and you were right.
I must thank you, though. If it hadn’t been for your site I wouldn’t have improved as much as I have :) And we both know I like getting praise from the masses, which I now do on a regular basis. ;)
I think InItForTheShipping is a bit mad at me, to be honest. She helped me get to make my character appear much more natural, so much so that now her daughter is one of my greatest fanfillys. (As an added bonus DarkSparkle is still grumbling that Flurry considers me a better writer :))
I hope you enjoyed your dream last night. Princess Luna and I put a lot of effort into that, and if I remember right it was one of your favorite stories. Tell me, was it what you imagined? I took some liberties with the buildings (that’s one of the problems of authors. They never describe the buildings adequately :/)
All the best from the new Cyan (don’t ask. It was Blueblood’s idea to change the nicknames again :/)
Simile
And I thought I was the crazy *yay* in Equestria :) After what you went through I’m no longer sure.
I know everyone will be mad, especially my Mom, but after the *yay* I had to put up with I don’t care. I’ll be revealing 3 secrets.
As you guessed, I’m the new Orange, and also in charge of the the Blazen adventure. What the others don’t know is that I was also tasked with recruiting other members (with the exception of Cyan who was there before me) as speculator7, which leads me to the third secret.
Earth is real! No, it’s nothing like what it’s described in MC, but it’s filled with humans. Even I am a human (as is every pony who passed through the portal). My offer for still stands by the way, so if you decide hop over :)
Orange Sunset
LightSparkle
This is awkward on so many levels.
Yes, I am on the writing team, which is something I didn’t at all expect. I thought that after college I’ll get into some boring postgraduate program and then do something useless with my life. Instead I got offered a really exciting job being here... and that’s without even mentioning everything else that you made possible.
If it wasn’t for your site and MasterOfThisAstra, I doubt I’d have achieved any of this, let alone grown as a pony. I wasn’t the most sociable one before I joined the site. (They didn’t call me the Evervirgin for nothing.)
I haven’t told anypony this, even Max, but I’ll name my first foal after you. I doubt Max will have anything against.
Good luck from Blue,
Jade
I still hate the nick you gave me... well, sort of have it. It’s grown onto me... sort of. I really love you, though. A thousand hugs won’t be enough. I’ll never forget everything you did for RRBB and myself. It’s no wonder you’re my sister’s best friend. You have no idea how many times I wished I was the older one only to have grown up with you.
Also, I had such a huge crush on you when I was young. In a different world, where I was the elder sister, we might have even hooked up. Who knows? (Maybe I’ll write a fic about it :))
As you know from my lively loudmouth, we are expecting foals. Yes, both of us. It’s a long and complicated story, which I promise to tell you soon. :)
You’re the best, Lyra!
Hugs from Violet,
Short&Hoofy
Umm, hello, Miss Lyra.
It still sounds weird calling you that, but I hardly know you outside of school and later the site. Sure, we saw each other all the time when you were visiting Ponyville, but... I’m case you can’t remember I’m Lily (the strong one).
I won’t lie, my family was a wreck, which is why I went to your site. And I’m glad I did. I think it’s a common theme, but it’s thanks to you that I have a job and a coltfriend, not to mention a lot of real life and online friends.
If you want we can meet and talk sometime? I’m not very sociable still, but... well, it’s you :)
Many thanks from Red,
Quarters
From one princess to another, hello!
Well, I’m not exactly a princess... or a pony, but you are both! I must tell you this site has helped me learn so much about pony stuff that my mind boggles! No offense to DarkSparkle, but her lessons and letters are really boring :/ Please don’t tell her I said that. She’ll get all emotional and start apologizing and I’ll be wondering what to do. I have enough trouble juggling being dragon Lord and having a changeling boyfriend.
It was his idea that I join the site, by the way, he kept on going on and on how it would help me “get in touch with my emotions”. I joined just to prove him wrong! Please don’t tell him it helped. I hate when he gets all smug on me!)
Well, that’s it, I guess. Green signing out.
HoofTies
Howdy,
Shocks, when Luna told me I need to write to you I was a nervous as a chicken before dawn. Even my cousins don’t know I was into Midnight Castle, then one day little Applebloom told me about this site, here. Golly, I never thought it could be so fun!
Now I’m no writer, but I told myself I’d be darned if I can’t write a story or two! That was fifty stories ago. I reckon I got carried away a bit. O:)
Thanks mighty to ya, princess of the site!
Yellow
Human_in_a_Hat
Luna
prediction: S.Child is a time traveling LyraHands
I think Lyra was unable to read the rest after Lightsparkle's message
It'll be sad to see this story go. Aside from the (rather frequent) typographical errors which sometimes obscured the narrative, this is as close to a perfect execution of this idea as I can imagine. To be honest, I think that this sits above many of the 'classics' of our fandom already for its sincerity and its ability to affectionately act as a send-up to a lot of the experiences we've had on this site. It's clear that you understand not just the specifics of our community, but of what it means to be a community in general, especially online, where we almost never see each other's faces, but know that there is something linking us and reminding us that there's a face on the other side of the text. I'd say something about how silly it is to post something like this over fanfiction made for a children's show, but this story already illustrated exactly why it isn't quite as silly as we might think. It's probably not the highest praise for a random name on a screen to say this, but out of the hundreds of stories I've read, I think yours is the most sincere and heartfelt interpretation of what brings us all here that I've seen, and it might just be my favorite story on this site.
PS: After the epilogue, you should post a chapter containing the usernames and real names of all of the cast, for those who haven't seen the google doc and who want confirmation by Word of God.
Oh wow... was not expecting Lily or Ember.
Will we be getting a big list of who everyone was after this ends?
8635036
Well, you have your answer :P (one of the reasons I avoided responding until it was done :))
8635222
Hey, Lyra is made of sterner stuff! She was an alicorn candidate ;)
8635542
Wow. I’m really touched by your comment :~) when I started this it was based on a silly idea and yeh test to see if I can maintain a daily for one year. I can thank you enough for being along for the ride. The comments here and in discord brought me a lot of joy and helped me go on with new chapters.
I think I’ll add an appendix at some point with all names and characters, most of them you’ve already guessed :)
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Ember has feelings too! :P
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There will ;)