This story is a sequel to The Perfect Drink
Every year, on Hearth's Warming, Berry Punch makes a drink for ponies. One special, perfect drink for each pony that needs it. This year, Ocellus wants one.
A Jinglemas 2019 gift for GaPJaxie
"You magnificent horse! I can't believe you did it! What you wrote is fantastic and I'm going to give it a proper review. But damn, you outdid yourself!" - GaPJaxie
"Friggin' amazing! Your sequel is basically everything I wanted out of a sequel and better than I could have written!" - Petricord
"This is, in many ways, the best kind of sequel (and clearly a labour of passion, given Shakespearicles wrote it for GapJaxie for Jinglemas as a sequel to the Jinglemas story he got from GapJaxie the prior year)." - Ghost Mike
Wow. This was interesting and a good sequel to the original. Even though I'm only 17, I wonder what my 'The Drink' would be. Of course, I need to wait 4 years to really know.
And the bit with comparing Discord to the Jester was certainly intriguing, but all the while it felt... I don't know... something.
Happy Hearth's Warming Everpony, VShuffler42
Hmm, an interesting premise. This is the first time I've read this, and I'm not sure if I've read the first one. Should I have?
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I tried to write this as such to not explicitly require reading The Perfect Drink.
But that being said, go read The Perfect Drink. It's a masterpiece!
And while you're there, go ahead and make the 10,000,000th comment on FimFimfiction.
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You might say it’s perfect.
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Oh hey, so it looks like you're indirectly responsible for this!: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/882966/congratulations-to-juria-for-making-the-10000000th-story-comment
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It was not done by me.
It was done through me.
Very well done.
This is absolutely god damned brilliant and is going to help with how i view him from now on.
Shakes, you're a top tier fucking writer. Thank you for writing a wonderful sequel to one of my favorite stories.
This was just as excellent as the first. I'm glad Jinglemas gave you the chance to write it.
I wish I could fit half as much in two thousand words. Brilliant.
Now I'm gonna have to go and read the first one.
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If only Professional Fools were still a thing. Donald Trump is badly in need of one on his staff.
Maybe John Oliver and Stephen Colbert could learn to juggle... and then reenact Hop-Frog for the White House correspondents dinner. It's traditional to roast the President.
That was absolutely wonderful.
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bruh,
too perfect!
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I'd dare say Princess and The Frog was the last good disney film. Yeah, sure it was an inverted Princess story, but it had characters with actual personality outside the generic tropes. They had actual flaws that had an effect on the story and on their lives rather then it just being something solely made to push the plot forward and they had actual growth as characters without sacrificing their core person.
A hundred percent win in my book. Bad guy was a bit of a let down, and the songs were the usual hokey disney, but thats what butters their bread I suppose.
Barkeeps, mama's, and diner ladies have been fixing shit since time in memorial. Ironically Jordan Peterson is the one who wrote a book about it. And summed up the whole of the Barmamadiner experience
And tellingly bases a lot of his work on Disney
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No... no politics, please
She’ll get something better when she’s older.
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> Jinglemas 2020
A really good sequel. It's really nice to see Ocellus really has everything and gets some good lessons. It would be interesting, most people's drink orders seem to not change... even Discord's. But of course he never really got his the first time. We'll see what happens with his, and with Ocellus.
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Role Magic is deep stuff.
There really is some kind of magic to bartending.
It doesn't even require booze, as you've seen and I've experienced. :)
Were it so easy
I can't help but feel that upholding the rules when people least expect is expressly in Discord's nature. Unending irregularity would be too regular...
This was good, with everyone involved well-characterized.
Now that's a message I can certainly get behind, recognizing the difference between want and need.
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Was going to say this but you already said it better.
I had nearly forgotten how much I liked the "Goddess of Drink" style Berry Punch. Brilliantly executed continuation of a great core concept.
Really looking forward to next year's Jinglemas, now.
nice drive-by truckers reference
10034698 I have no idea who or what that is, so any reference is purely coincidental.
10035191 nice accidental drive-by truckers reference
there's a line in this song that goes
stop me if you've heard this one before
a man walks into a bar ...
Brilliantly done, from the meditation on Discord as Card 0 to the rationale for Ocellus's Drink. Glad I finally got to this point in my Jinglemas backlog. Thank you for a lovely read.
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How in the world did Berry Punch knew that was Ocellus
An oddball ghost happened across your fic and read it. Have a review!
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