Pegasus ponies have never experienced Hearths Warming like other ponies. Where Earth ponies enjoy snow and presents, pegasi must provide the snow and keep the post service working. One fateful holiday season, they get fed up.
This is the exchange of letters between the Under-Diplomat Sayonara Serious from Cloudsdale Cloud 9, stationed in Ponyville, and Minister Angle, regarding the fearsome Hearth's Warming Boycott.
What would you do if a certain holiday never ended?
Rated Teen for shenanigans.
Chapters (1)
Wow!
This was extremely well written and easy to read, it wasn't an eye ache at all. I believe there is nothing directly wrong with the story, it balances out everything. Great job!
8626917 Glad you enjoyed it. This is actually the first time I've played around with epistolary format, so I'm actually sitting here expecting to get feedback prompting some small tweaks. Hopefully nothing too drastic.
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From what I have read it's an excellent story and hope you do more great stories in the future.
8626933 Yeah, I actually got halfway through and found myself in the odd position of being unsure whether I had made a romance story, a comedy, or a horror.
Usually I go into stories with quite a defined goal for what I want to write. This one was an unusual experience.
8626934 Feel free to check some of the other ones I've got kicking around. You might like One Week Year, if you're into the idea of playing with the weather (which features a bit here) or maybe Part-Time Goddess if you want to see a different comedy one.
Aragon did another epistolary narrative at one point, but I forget it's name. If you check his account I'm sure you'll be able to find it, though.
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I think it would've been an interesting thing if we could see dates between acute's letter and the one from daddy harthswarming or something like that, maybe sayonara sending some letters as she hadn't received a reply in a while.
And I suppose the Unicorns are just chopped liver, then?
8627076 Someone's got to make the foie gras. Although most of the ponies tend towards vegetarianism.
For real though, how many non-pegasi have we seen operate the weather factories generating snow?
There are some deep magics one must not meddle with. Time, space, fate, holidays...
Well, the last is pretty much a subdivision of the first. Good thing the pegasi learned that lesson before it was too late.
8633074 Good thing indeed. They would have had to implement a rotating cloud system to ensure that all cloud-houses were provided with equal snow levels.
Honestly, the whole thing would have become very convoluted.
Laughed really hard at the frankness of "we've been investigating food poisoning in town, turns out mince pies are just terrible."
this killed me, it hit like a running joke without even needing a setup