With a pandemic in full swing, much of life for the world, especially the students of CHS, has drastically changed over the year. With no end in sight as the holidays near, instead of crying over what they canât do, they try to focus on what the can. So, instead of Pinkie Pie throwing her annual ugly sweater party, this year, she opts for an ugly, mask, one instead.
Written for AppleZombi for the 2020 Jingle-Miss gift exchange. Request: a story with Sunset Shimmer in it. Romance preferred, EQG is fine!
Pre-read by VividSyntax
Specialized cover art provided ViolaRules https://twitter.com/violarules2?s=21 (WIP)
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Holiday Masking; Notes from the pre-readers
Changed to; Plus, Sunset Shimmer looked as radiant as always to the little bookworm.
May just be...
Debated adding this, as I seemed to have trouble spelling cheek, and this pushed over that hesitation đ
Slapped myself with a fish after đ
*Advice given from the scene where they head to that party*;
Went with; âEr, yeah,â Twilight mumbled through a forced smile.
Thinking on it, went with: Dash shouted, having overhead them as she passed by. Keeping herself a notable thirty feet away from her friends.
Went with: âOf course I am!â Twilight protested. âOr at least as okay as someone can be after this year,â she admitted, slumping against the tree.
Finale thoughts;
Well thatâs all for this year. Happy Holidays, everyone. Hope you have a fun, and safe time. Things may change, and that may be scary, but that Dosnt mean we can adapt and grow rather than fear or run from it. â¤ď¸
Very cute SoL! Exactly the kind of story I was hoping for.
I love the positivity in the face of adversity. Each character approaches the conflict in a mature and realistic way, even though it occasionally becomes overwhelming.
The relationship between Sunset and Twi is also light and fluffy; it has the air of something brand new, but that has the potential to grow into something beautiful over the long term.
Minor typo here:
Thanks, and Happy Holidays!
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Nnooo!! I worked so hard to grammar right for once đ *fixed*
Well glad you liked enough to comment and made your criteria
Wasnât honestly sure where to go with this when I first drafted (why the intro almost seems like it be a solo story) the idea can of built more a; why not have something that might have meaning in relation to this year, but still try to reflect the holiday spirit. Which hopefully, even the mask part becomes dated, the story itself wonât
Despite I'm reading this after Christmas and in the year 2021 what twilight said is right. Things won't be the same even after the pandemic ends in the coming months. Hopefully 2021 will be better for all of us since other than covid 19 2020 was a sad year with losses and I sadly lost my grandma days before the world as we know it would change. And before anyone asks my grandma didn't have covid. She was having serious health problems and her body just couldn't take it anymore. Despite there sadly will be more deaths to come with covid hopefully once this pandemic ends some things will go back to normal and hopefully we'll slowly get things back to the way it was before 2020. But only time will tell.
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Thanks for the comment ^^
Sadly, Iâm not sure things will be âas the sameâ
This was more a story more about how to cope and adapt rather than wallowing in what canât be helped. Still, so far I say the years been good đ
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I know covid will still be an issue in the future but hopefully not as crazy as 2020 was so best to not worry
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This