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Hearth's Warming in Chonamare starts the night before, as the weatherponies bring in fresh snow, and it culminates with a big feast on the village green for everypony. It doesn't involve a nor'easter blowing into town and all the weatherponies cutting their celebration short to deal with it.
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My first thought was "Must correct grammar."
My second thought was "Wait! No, it's perfect. Absolutely perfect."
Wonderful work, Admiral.
"Some of the ship pegasuses were really good and knew how to let the ship come up under their hooves and I wasn't that graceful, but I only stumbled a little bit when my hooves hit the deck..."
Sounds like they need a version of RAST (Recovery Assist Securing and Traversing) system (otherwise known as a Beartrap) for landing pegasi in that kind of weather.
It's Silver Glow! This was a beautiful story and always glad to see a good moment of our favorite exchange student. I wonder if this is what later propelled her to want to continue her education as apparently Twilight hasn't discovered Earth yet.
Wonderful !
I... just cant find good enough words for this. I am so... moved. Just...
Ah I really loved this story Biscuit, I always get excited when I see them in my feed. Also that little cameo was super sweet. Another great story.
A nice story of ponies working together against adversity.
Although my headcanon is that the weather teams actually work to clear the snow on hearth's warming day so the foals can see that the windigo have once again been defeated by all the ponies haveing a good time together on hearth's warming eve.
That is an awesome Hearth's Warming story.
then
What a wonderful Hearth's Warming adventure they all had! True to the original tale, everypony worked to help each other; the Captain to assist the peagusi to the whole town and the weather team help her in return. A very beautiful story the whole word should read and follow the example of, Biscuit!
Happy Hearth's Warming to you and yours.
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I actually had considered different ways of writing it (limited third person, for example), but it didn't feel like it would be 'right' unless it was in Silver Glow's voice.
Another option would be suction cups on their hooves.
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Thank you!
In story canon, she almost certainly would have by this time, but it's probably a little bit early for Silver Glow to have been thinking about being an exchange student there.
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Thanks!
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Thank you!
Glad you liked it! I knew I had to put Juniper in the story.
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Thanks!
That's actually an interesting idea. Canon suggests that lots of ponies like playing in the snow, but of course they might not have the same view of a 'White Christmas' as we do--it certainly could be the opposite. [We also don't know when Hearth's Warming occurs; it could be later in the winter, like February or something.]
I really do like that idea, though.
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Correction made; thank you!
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Thanks!
I agree, we should all learn to work together, 'cause we're all better off that way. It's pretty obvious that the ponies have learned a valuable lession that we humans haven't quite figured out yet.
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They may work together, but Silver Glow still calls them ground ponies.
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Well, she's not wrong; they are ground ponies. And at least she isn't calling them mudponies.
It was Silver Glow, it was hearth warming, it was a hard core hearth warming with a big strom and a badass ship capitain, it was a hearth warming hearth warming with a tightely-knitted village making a beautiful show of solidarity.
A great gift you made us. And lucky me, I did not have the time to read it yesterday and had once again the chance to have some Silver Glow's awesomeness to begin my day in the best way possible. Something that was much needed when I had to get up early to go to my job and survive the boxing day.
(I'm getting convinced that reading it all over again, one chapter a day, might be a great way of getting through the next semester)
Merry Christmas Biscuit.
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Captain Disko's got balls the size of watermelons. Which is interesting, because she's a mare.
Plus, seafaring ponies got to stick together.
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you get to enjoy right after Christmas.
All of Silver Glow's Journal? Well, I'm not against the idea. Certainly, there are parts of it I've read again just for the warm fuzzies.
Merry Christmas! And Happy Boxing day!
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We survived. Last year boss' report said that "We had 7 staff in the ski section, it was not too much", so we were 8 this year. We managed.
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It was a day of complete madness for us, and we're going to be even more behind tomorrow. Seems like everything broke over the long weekend (cold weather didn't help), and we've got more cars in the shop than we know what to do with.
Always happy to see more of Silver Glow, between this and the last story I'm getting my hopes up that we might see some more of her and Meghan .
That's Silver Glow narrating, isn't it? Her unique writing style is recognizable.
I wonder how long ago it was before the exchange year - I guess it can't be more than a few years, or she would be too young to fly out in storms.
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I am considering a Silver Glow/Meghan story for the future.
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Of course it is!
Yeah, it wouldn't be that terribly long. Probably no more than four years.
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Please, it would be awesome to see Meghan in Equestria, and just seeing the world through her eyes.
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Seconded, I'd love a Meghan-in-Equestria story, whether on a visit or settling.
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Odds are that it would be seeing the world through Meghan's eyes as told by Silver Glow, because it just doesn't seem right to have a Silver Glow story that isn't told from her perspective.
I think you're one of the few writers here that have captured the real essence of Equestrianess. (Whatever the heck that means.) This is an awesome story that really conveys the warmth and natural community of these ponies... plus sailing ships for bonus points!
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I think that's probably one of those things that you can feel but not actually define.
As an aside, there need to be more pony stories with sailing ships.
This reminds me of the olden days when townspeople would all get together for gatherings. Now the majority are isolated and appears to fear to talk to their neighbors in many locations, especially in cities.
The sense of community is disappearing as more often than not days off are spent cloistered around a TV screen or monitor rather than being outside and self-centered attitudes prevail among other anti-social tendencies.
I still have witnessed this communal nature in Japanese towns where local people put together festivals and old traditions are maintained with pride.
But here, even on the finest of spring, summer, or autumn days, the outside is eerily silent too often as compared to my younger days when we would be outside sometimes from dawn to dusk.
Hence it is that I, a withered 42-year old biologist, have more physical strength and endurance than most children and young adults less than half my age.
Which of course means it'll be quite easy to conquer them all when The Plan has reached the final stage!
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I think that that depends, although the truth is that I'm not entirely sure, since I don't live in a city. Locally, we have various festivals that I sometimes go to, and a farmer's market, and so on. Those tend to be reasonably well attended. And there are also other social gatherings, like church, at least for a lot of people.
The sense of community is disappearing as more often than not days off are spent cloistered around a TV screen or monitor rather than being outside and self-centered attitudes prevail among other anti-social tendencies.
). As for the TV . . . fun fact, for Christmas I bought myself a new 44" flatscreen to replace my 12 year old plasma. I've used it maybe five hours, tops. Possibly not even that much.
Well, being cloistered around a TV screen or a monitor is kind of a mixed blessing. I wouldn't be reaching y'all if it wasn't for the internet (and you can argue about whether that is a good or a bad thing
I feel that we still have that, too, although maybe not in the same way as it used to be. But it's hard to say for sure.
That really depends on where you live. To my annoyance, my neighbors across the street are sometimes hanging out on their front porch until late in the night, and my neighbors down the hill sometimes have bonfires and whatnot in the summer. Now that I've got my back porch rebuilt, I'll probably spend some more time outside once the snow finishes melting.
8758723 I'm in NJ. If you wander too far outside, you end up running into a drug deal at some point.
The house 4 lots down from us has been shot up 3 times.
So, yeah, not exactly the same as when I grew up and the biggest crimes we had were kids setting fires in the woods.
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Where I live, we just have meth houses blowing up every now and then. I suppose there are also people buying it and selling it, although I've never seen a meth-seller.
Or somebody making donuts in the high school lawn with a Ford minivan and then outrunning the local cops with the same minivan.
8766517 Heh, we had kids trying to drive a truck over a frozen lake... which wasn't quite frozen enough.
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That sucks for them. Trucks usually don't float.
8770636 They had a learning experience.
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That's very true. Now maybe they'll know that trucks don't float.
Maybe they'll go on to build trucks that do float.
Silver Glow!
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Yes, indeed! And odds are she'll eventually come back in another story, too. Although not for a while yet.
Chonamare is the Picture of the day from space:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Topic/ImageoftheDay
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92425/connemara-national-park
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92425/iss054e058026_lrg.jpg
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Huzzah!
Such a beautifully rugged place.
If anyone asks, I let the story age until it was seasonal again. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
In any case, a great tale of peace on earth (as opposed to turmoil in the skies) and good will towards ponies. Glad I finally read it.
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That’s perfectly reasonable. Some stories are best read at the right time of year, after all.
Thank you!
A lovely story of Equestrian stick-together-ness. It’s interesting to see how authors play with the idea of weather control.
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My headcannon is obviously the correct one.
In all seriousness, there’s a lot to explore that the show doesn’t. Some of the specifics of how they do it, if all weather is controlled by ponies (except over the Everfree), why they do it, etc.