To: Anon, From HRH Sunbutt.

by Snow

From Tia, RE: Letter 105

Author's Note:

Letter 105: Here.

Happy holidays (a teeny bit late) everypony. May the frozen wintery death held in abeyance by our friendship be withheld another year.

Dear Anon,

Please do not coerce my ponies into singing that as a heart song. Or Luna's ponies. Or any being's ponies for that matter.

Happy hearth's warming Anon, the odd parallel with your Christmas festivities where we celebrate another year of not being frozen to death thanks to the power of friendship and love.

Your loving friend,
Tia.

Comments

[Moonlight_Mist]

$10 she's too late with her letter to stop a heart song and in turn carol.

[oddmin]

10005044
i agree

[ANW]

10005044
I drop $10 with you, and add a side $5 bet that Pinkie Pie was the one that started it.

[Void Runner]

10005081
Sucker bet.

[A Wild Magikarp]

Real life is generally harder and darker than Equestria. Funny then that on Christmas we celebrate the coming of Christ with trees and presents, while ponies remember NOT GOING EXTINCT.

[FoxyLove]

Why do I get this feeling that Anon sent this song to Luna and she will soon be singing it...?

[Eroraf86]

10005180
That... is an excellent point.

[NecromanCREEEEEE]

10005180
You sir, do not understand the relevance to Christians of Jesus' coming, for it in fact represents the choice for us to not go extinct. I don't appreciate you downplaying the coming of our savior my mans, stop that.

[alfonso_rd_33]

10005180
Technically we are celebrating with merriment the fact that he came to avoid our extinction, sure, we'll be fundamentally different in the end, but we'll avoid extinction.

[Alicon Glactistar]

But when you sing it it's fun.

[KitsuneNoYomeiri]

10005386
Sorry, but Christmas is just christians hijacking pagan Yule.

[Bronzer]

10005543
Giggity!

[A Wild Magikarp]

10005386
I’m a devout Christian with upmost respect for my savior. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. I’m just saying one is the salvation story of mankind that, while no less sever in the end result, was a story of a baby in a manger. The Hearths Warming tale is set in a cave with the ponies freezing to death to snow demons.

Do not get defensive over perceived, unintended insults, you paint the Church in a poor light.

[Bronzer]

10005546
As a Christian, your half right half wrong. Pagans had their own festivals and rituals. Jesus was born in July on an unknown specific day therein. Most pagans had major holidays on December 25th (like several sun-related figures idiots who don’t know English didn’t in Roman times and earlier think is a link to the “Son” as Jesus and don’t realize Jesus was not born on Dec. 25th). So, the Church decided to celebrate Christmas on that day so that newly converted pagans would not be tempted to continue their previous holiday as well as making organization far easier as so many converts were used to a holiday on that day anyway.

[A Wild Magikarp]

10005400
Humanity would have gone on. Granted no one would receive salvation and we would spend eternity in the pit, but humanity would have continued to live on for however long God would permit without the promise of redemption (which I guess he wouldn’t if there was now way for us to return to him through Christ). The Windigo’s were a much more immediate, PHYSICAL threat to the ponies continued existence is my point.

[A Wild Magikarp]

Let’s not turn this comment section into a giant argument of one of the best days of the year. Good chapter OP, Merry Christmas everyone!

[Bookwurm666]

10005940
Your Welcome

[artofwar77]

Your loving friend,
Tia.

...I feel like I'm paying way too much attention to this one.
Might just be in keeping with the season.

Still, I can't help but try to remember if she's ever written that before.

[Officer Hotpants]

See, as old and wise as she is, she still hasn't learned the #1 rule shared by both our worlds: If you tell someone not to do something, they'll only do it faster and harder.

10005386
Dude. If you get this pissy over the meagerest of imagined slights towards deific figures then you might be reading the wrong series. I mean every letter Anon writes to Celestia starts with a joke about her big, sexy ass.

[Bookwurm666]

10006530
then thru the 4th wall

[Snow]

10006082
She has not, I don't think!

It's more of a nod to the line just above it.

[Zepher]

10005471
I'll take a MLP flamethrower please.

[Snow]

10008049
Would you like the Rainbow Dash version for only 20% more? It shoots rainbow flames!

[Zepher]

10008090
Does it come with a warranty? And any extra fuel canisters?

[Detsella Morningdew]

10009608
I had hoped (briefly) that the new movies would deal with the hypocrisy of the Jedi Order, and possibly end with reform. Obviously this did not happen, because this could be risky with a general populace that just thinks "jedi good."

I mean, they would have to have a plan to begin with as well.

[Bookwurm666]

10017745
A Wild Pony in Equestria

[Kadigan]

9881005
Actually, there could be an entire spectrum between "don't work at all" and "at full power"... though this way lays madness, because once you define such a fundamental characteristic, it will hold for a number of derivative characteristics. I mean, what does it do when the Rainbow Beam(tm) doesn't have enough Generosity in it? Or when it has way too much Loyalty pumping through? Does that change anything? How subtle are the changes?

There's a fic in this, I feel...

[Kadigan]

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10009608
10009708

And I'm just sitting here, quietly contemplating the original order which, above all else, held balance in all things... much like the original belief in "karma" and reincarnation. If they wanted to make a profound contribution, they'd have to push all of the existing films and other assorted media squarely into "and the Galaxy learned that this was the wrong approach" category.

Or, they'd need to have a Sith protagonist that, despite being an anti-hero, still saves the day. I mean, enlightened self-interest and all that. The way it's explained to me through various works, the Sith don't believe in being evil per se... but greed is a powerful force. What we need is a protagonist Sith that's greedy for a good life and continued survival.

Of course, this will never happen in the mainstream (despite having happened twice in the games - see Knights of the Old Republic), because that's not what the movies and stories are about. They're about hope, and taking the day despite impossible odds*. The 'good guys' have to eventually win, and they have to be better than the average folk.

Why? Because with the world we live in, it doesn't feel like someone 'average' could win like this - nobody really does, do they now? The movies are - and have always been - a parallel to our lives, and the perils we face: greed, anger, hate... but also blindness and rigidity, for those that find it.

* which, I realise, also describes the games to some extent... ;)

[Bronzer]

10039984
Then this is for you!