The Glow of Hearthswarming

Hearth's Warming is almost here once again!

This year, Ponyville has a new visitor to enjoy the holidays. Dragon Lord Ember has been invited to sample some of the pony traditions of the season to try and better understand her new pony allies. Naturally it was Twilight's idea.

Smolder has been roped in as the Dragon Lord's guide in this wintry season. With a top student of the School of Friendship as her guide, there's no room for misunderstandings.

Written for Muggonny for Jinglemas 2022! Their stuff is great. If you haven't checked out any of their stories before, I highly recommend it!

The cover was compiled by me using a screenshot from the show and vectors from cheezedoodle96

Happy Hearthswarming everycreature!

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semillon

semillon #1 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

cUTE

Muggonny

Muggonny #2 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

Unfortunately, while the entire story came to me fully formed within seconds of reading the prompt, I find writing incredibly difficult and procrastination much easier, so about half of this was written in the last couple of days before the deadline.

Hey, same here! I think that's a consistent theme every year.

I liked the dynamic between Smolder and Ember. You captured it nicely. Good work!

Yoshifan30

Yoshifan30 #3 · Dec 27th, 2022 · 1 · ·

“But it was just a dusting yesterday!” Ember looked around at the white powder piling up everywhere with incredulity.

That's pretty much anybody's reaction when we never expected how much will it snow

Yoshifan30

Yoshifan30 #4 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

“Well, you wouldn't catch me wearing any of this stuff, heh.” Smolder awkwardly scratched at her crest.

I guess she's still a little embarrassed admitting that smolder loves wearing those dresses

Yoshifan30

Yoshifan30 #5 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

But more than that, it wasn't just ponies sharing the space. Ember spied a kirin, a couple of griffons and hippogryphs, a clawful of changelings and even a diamond dog all rubbing shoulders. Most likely students at the school enjoying themselves before going home for the holidays. Ember had dealings in the past with most of the species present, but she was surprised that every creature seemed to be getting on so well together. Their individual cultures were disparate and more often than not at odds with one another, but here they all were sharing the same room and getting along as if they were all cut from the same cloth.

It's always nice to see other creatures getting along with each other and other Ponies as well

Yoshifan30

Yoshifan30 #6 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

“It's called “Prance Prance Revolution”. It's one of Ocellus' favourites. She always beats me unless she's letting me win. I think this game's designed for creatures who stand on four legs instead of two.” Smolder looked over the unit with a fond smile, before smirking and looking at Ember. “Which means I've actually got a decent shot of winning fair and square for once!”

Oh yeah that game I always suck at that game I guess because I don't know how to dance

Yoshifan30

Yoshifan30 #7 · Dec 27th, 2022 · · ·

Well that was a pretty nice story and it's always nice to see ember and smolder interact with each other and even smolder showing her around the town and even traditional Hearts warming and it looks like ember was pretty having fun with this so that's pretty good again I like the story keep up the good work and Merry Christmas

Anon E Moose