Pinkie Pie's Balloons

by Pav Feira

Formatted Version

Author's Note:

Innumerable thanks to the many individuals who made this possible. To PonIver for proposing and organizing such a wonderful and heart-touching event. To Aaron, Sonja, and Kiki for their incredible and seriously-who's-chopping-onions-in-here illustrations, which truly brought this story to life. To the twenty five other authors who submitted their own terrific stories to the anthology, which you can read here! And thanks to RogerDodger, the /fic/ community, the large panel of celebrity judges, the Midwest Brony Division, and everypony else who was involved in making this Care Package a success.

To Kiki, wishing you a Happy Hearth's Warming and a warm life full of laughter and friendship.

If you would like to send Kiki your own message of good cheer, I encourage you to leave her a quick note on the Hugs tab here.

Comments

[RTStephens]

Great story! I read it when EqD posted it up and I downloaded the care package PDF. It's so sweet and cheerful that I feel good just thinking about it.

However, I did notice one typo in the prose and it looks like a page is missing from the Pinkie and Rainbow part.

Other than that, such a colorful tale! Well done!

[Appleloosa2011]

I hope this will reach EqD too.

[roryokane]

Those were interesting ways for each pony to use a balloon.

I was confused and disappointed at the ending at first – I thought that everypony had just given their balloons back to Pinkie Pie, which would mean that Rainbow Dash’s cloud had splattered on the ground and made a mess. The fact that the illustration of Pinkie answering the knock on the door had the five balloons of the same color reinforced that notion. But now I see that “[…] they each had five of the best balloons in Equestria tied to their tails” – the five others went back to the store and bought 25 more balloons for Pinkie. Maybe it would be clearer if the word “each” was italicized in that sentence.

The illustrations are all very fitting and well-drawn and helped me visualize and understand the story. (Except for that confusing five-balloon picture near the end).

[PresentPerfect]

Ah shit, just looking this over brought tears to my eyes. :|

[Solitair]

Ohmygersh this was adorable. This might actually be the first fic I've read on this site that I can actually recommend to the kids the show was made for. Well done!

[Charzoid]

Sweet story. Do you mind if I do a reading of this on my youtube channel? I will of course give you credit for it and a link to it here.

[LawnPygmy]

This was sweet.

[PinkiePiethePony]

Love this story! But, right now all the cute pictures are gone due to some changes in Photobucket or something...