Cover art by Little Tigress!
It's the start of the holiday season, and Crystal City Institute of Technology freshman Twilight Sparkle is eagerly anticipating her reunion date with her long-distance girlfriend Sunset Shimmer, who's spending two nights at her dorm before they join their old friends at Canterlot. But as they visit Crystal City's famous winter light festival together, Sunset can't help but notice Twilight's a little uncomfortable talking about campus life; can she bring her friend-turned-lover some Christmas cheer?
Read on for a Sciset (aka Sunlight) holiday date filled with fluff, angst, cuteness, humor, more angst, comfort and charm! And, if you stick around long enough, you can learn about a sore spot in the production history of the human world's version of Daring Do!
Revised 27 November 2022!
This is my first real shipfic and something I’ve been incredibly excited to write. A spiritual sequel to my previous fic "Late-Night Conversations" (which is in the same continuity, along with its direct sequel, but isn't necessary to understand this story). OC tag refers to a minor character, Twilight's college roommate.
Awww, Twiggles is happy to see her Sunny. So cute.
Off to a good start. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
I love sciset fics, if you couldn't tell by the profile pic
Cannot wait for more of this
Yup, still cute. I'm enjoying this adorable little slice of life story, so please keep it coming.
Another Simpsons reference, huh? Yeah, running out onto a baseball field does seem like a Pinkie Pie thing.
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I actually mocked up an (atrocious) “IDIOT RUINS GAME” photo edit with Pinkie’s head over Homer’s to put in the author’s notes, but Fimfiction kept rejecting the Imgur link I made for it.
(NOTE: The "deleted comment" is this same comment, but it got linked to the wrong chapter - d'oh!)
Hmm, putting the like in there feels kind of off for Twilight's voice. I just can't hear her using it as a filler like that. Otherwise the voices were pretty decent, but that stuck out to me.
"Ah, it's fine - one of the first things I learned to do with my telekinesis was pick locks. We could live in a prison cell and I'd be getting in and out freely."
(Yes, I know, she wouldn't want her roommate knowing about that, if their superpowers are even a thing in this story. I just thought it'd be funny.)
Anyway, pretty cute start. Be interested to see where it goes.
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Yeah, I kinda waffled on whether the "like" made sense for Twilight's voice after I wrote it and I agree with you after rereading it. Removed.
And their superpowers are definitely a thing in my stories (Sunset jokes in the first chapter that Twilight should come levitate the cars out of her way), but in this story they're operating at diminished capacity since all the gems are so far apart from each other now.
You know, I can't help but notice that you keep referring to Twilight's roommate as "they". Is there a reason for that?
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Yes — Bright Blaze is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns!
They don’t have a very big role in this story, but if I ever do a sequel I’m hoping to to do more with them.
Twiggles dragging Sunset around doing the scavenger hunt was cute.
The tunnel of love scene was sweet.
The ending was heartwrentching, but I'm glad she's got Sunset.
Glad they had the chance for this little heart to heart.
Lol
How embarrassing
She has a point there.
Yep, sure was fluttershy.
Looks like she's hiding something very serious, and it's probably not a good one.
I do hate traffic myself as well since it's common where I live.
Yeah, can't let the little guy stay there all alone and perhaps freeze.
Yeah, that's definitely a red flag she's hiding something
Awww
Not good! 😰
Not surprised there she'd be excited about it.
Still be best if you get that checked just in case sunset.
I doubt we'll hear the end of this for awhile now. 😒
Seems like it. 😏
Yep, quite a rip off if you ask me. 😠
Looks like the cat is out of the bag.
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The fact that Bright is non-binary makes it pretty difficult to visualize them.
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I’ll go back and add some detail in the first chapter before posting the final chapter. I’ve never written an OC before, and I didn’t spend much time on character design given how small the role was and because I wanted to leave it open in case I ever brought the character back for a bigger part in another story. (FWIW, that problem probably would’ve come up even if the character was a binary gender.) I envisioned them as being transmasc, lanky and dressing in a messy, didn’t-put-much-thought-into-it way.
EDIT: I've updated chapter one with some physical description of Bright during their first appearance.
Well, that would certain explain why she was so susceptible to all that power transforming her into Midnight Sparkle.
Yup, still cute. Thanks for the little slice of adorable to round out the year.
Lol
Sure must be hard for the both of them.
That's interesting.
See twilight. Sunset is in the same boat as you right now.
Damn. That's quite the story.
Yeah, those were great imo.
Cool, the song is friendship through the ages.
That's because both your singing voices as from the same person.
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Yeah, the Daring Do special bit was mostly based on The Star Wars Holiday Special (obviously) but the backstory I came up with was inspired by the 2015 debacle over a cheaply produced pilot for The Wheel of Time (not affiliated with the current Amazon series) that was made for basically that exact reason. Link Here
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I see thx.
Now I want to hear Friendship Through the Ages with Sunset singing instead of Twilight. I know same singing voice, but still!
There's not much that I like more than a cute SciSet story. Thanks for writing!
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Thanks! Stick around, I had an idea for an epilogue chapter I’ll be writing and posting in a few days.
Snowed in together is a good way to be. Happy New Year.
Aww, so sweet!
I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you have next. I read your post and I know what you were talking about with Jeopardy!. I can only imagine which one Sci-Twi will be pressuring to pay up. Oh, and btw, it might be nice if you gave a nod to 'Alex' in that story.
Incidentally, that scene where Twilight and the Princess conversed made me wonder if you had any ideas for the Rainbooms to interact with their pony counterparts? I mean, yeah, that field is growing, but not fast enough.
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I agree, those are always fun to read. Once I’m more comfortable writing the FiM characters I’d love to do some alternate-counterpart interaction stories like that.
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In the meantime, I know at least one that's pretty good, regarding the Rainbooms visiting Equestria. It's called "Mission to Pony Planet".
Btw, did you ever look into that group I mentioned? I should let you know that you have to request the moderators make a folder for you.
What a great gift.
That's one thing I often have to remind myself from time to time with sunset, not to mention for the dazzlings too.
Thank goodness it's over, I was a bit worried it was gonna get worse there for a moment.
I think she also passed because she didn't feel like encountering them and the incident that happened with the time twirler.
which I still dislike. The special where it happened alongside another one. Not gonna go into further detail but will share in a DM/private message if anyone is interested.
They'd also probably freak out too. 🙄
You technically have princess.
Happy new year girls. 😊
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Aw, I liked Backstage Pass, it’s the rare Sunset-centric movie/special where the conflict doesn’t revolve around her being tormented over her past. Anyway, “overly familiar with” was supposed to be a reference to the Time Twirler experience.
EDIT: Also, whoops, I totally forgot Spike was there at the end of Friendship Games when PriTwi crosses over. Made a quick dialogue correction.
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Good thx.
Something I want to mention. It's obvious that Rainbow Dash finally made her move on Fluttershy, and Sunset and Sci-Twi have gotten together, but what about things between a certain farmer and fashionista? I mean, that pairing was baited at a lot, not to mention that passing comment you made in your last story.
Lovely stuff. I do appreciate how you confront the adjustment issues of college head-on. There’s no happily ever after for these girls because their journey’s just begun. All of the issues they face feel painfully true to life, as do the ways they do (or don’t) deal with them. Thank goodness for the friends they can always count on.
Also, I always appreciate fluff with my OTP being wonderfully adorkable together.
Wonderful work. Thank you for another great read. (Also, any chance we could see that hayburger run? I feel like there’s a potential story there.)
Oh i really like this!!!!! I really feel for Twi and sunset being unable to see each other, poor things :( I really like your writing style, I can't wait to see how things develop!!!
Absolutely loved this from start to finish. This is obscenely adorable, and all the fluff/comfort between them is heart-melting. I have no idea how it took me this long to get around to reading this, but I'm very glad I did. Thanks for sharing this
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