[Shipping][Bittersweet]
Author: Thanqol
Description: Distance can drive us apart. It can also bring us closer together.Yours Truly
After all is said and done, and the ponies have gone their separate ways, the only way they have to keep in touch is through letters.
Additional Tags: Never let friends slip away
>600 Star ratings in a few hours
6 STAR!
296 comments:
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ReplyDeleteI win
The next morning and I'm still crying! I'm not saying I'm super tough, no. I'm saying I'm evil. I laugh at others misfortune. And I'm still crying the next day! I dont like you, Thanqol! But have more stars for an amazing story. And a few more just for kicks.
ReplyDeleteThat last letter.... hit me like a ton of bricks...
ReplyDeleteThe last couple made my breath catch on the back of my throat...
I'm crying right now. This is what I needed. So badly.
the message in this story was beautiful and so was the writing.
It is up there in my favourite fics. I think it easily rivals and maybe surpasses My Little Dashie. Thank you so much for blessing me with this. I loved it.
I never expected anything this good. Thank you
All I can say is thank you, and that I wish I could say more.
ReplyDeleteThis is the sort of thing that deserves those six stars. About the only question not quite answered is "Did Derpy travel through time to give Twilight the letter Applejack wanted to send her or did she simply regenerate?"
ReplyDeleteHoly shit
ReplyDeleteI'm crying...
Beginning: Hey this isn't sad. It's pretty sweet actually.
ReplyDeleteEnding three letters: "Bawling like a baby."
Tears were shed at several points. This was an excellent piece of writing.
ReplyDeleteTruly sweet.
ReplyDeleteDidn't cry, to be honest: no reason to cry when everything fits in place and is made as right as it can be. Still i felt somewhat... in peace, you know? Maybe the one who put his heart and mind in this story will never read this simple comment, but you made my heart feel lighter, even for just an evening. And for that, i thank you.
Honest truth.
What an undescribable story.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the best fanfic I've read so far, because it manages to tell the whole story and the emotions shared between the ponies just in letters written by them.
Awesome piece of work. Well done.
Yeah, that's probably one of the better stories I've read on this site. I won't bother comparing it to anything else because i don't believe it can be as it's a style all in it's own.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has already heaped praise on the story so there's not much more to be said. I will add that this story has such a good atmosphere and the author expresses everything so well the characters and the settings and their emotions play perfectly out in your head.
I enjoyed it, and i hate shipping. So there you go.
Do you ever get that feeling that whatever you have to say just isn't enough? You can be short and precise, or you can write everything that comes to mind, but it just never seems to be enough?
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking that My Little Pony was dead. Not just less televised, but dead. I remember thinking that the memes were ridiculous. Then I remember thinking that the people who hated the show were ridiculous. Then I thought that the crashing and burning of this fandom is a ridiculous concept.
If this fandom ever does die, I want it to die like this. It was just beautiful.
And now I feel like I'm rambling.
Thank you. Just thank you.
It looks like my comment didn't post. Good then! It was far too rambly for my tastes. This comment already feels more cathartic.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Thank you for this beautiful story. This is the reason I read My Little Pony fanfiction.
I'll just stop now...
ReplyDeleteNever been a man of many words, least not where feelings are concerned.
ReplyDeleteBut.
I Salute You.
You made this believable, and beautiful, and bittersweet.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read it again. And, like as not, to end up in tears.
Is this really a Fanfiction?
ReplyDeleteNo.
this is something else and im not capable of explaining what it is.. im baffled.. so much emotion, so much feeling, i don't know what to say.. or what to do..
here you go! a random person on the internet not only likes your story, he loves it and he's typing this with tears in his eyes but with the most satisfying smile he's had on his face in ages. words arent enough for this <3
Damn you. damn you all. This is just too good.
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ReplyDeleteSorry about that, just cleaning the tears off my keyboard. That was a beautiful story, and it definitely deserves that 6-star rating.
DAMMIT, i promised myself i wouldn't cry :'(
ReplyDeletehavent read it yet but gona soon
ReplyDeletehope its not a 1shot it sounds good D=
That was a simply brilliant read, I'm tearing up now. I told myself I wouldn't cry, but that was a marvellous read. I'm going to read it again, and maybe cry again
ReplyDeleteI have just read it and I cannot express how I feel right now... excellent story.
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I hate you.
Just finished it. Wow! My body is all shaky. Never been a fan of "shipping", but I loved the relationship between Twilight and Applejack. The story was sad, yet the beautiful ending left me with a warm feeling in my body and a smile on my face. Think I'm going to feel the effects from this for a couple of days. That's what I love about a good story ^^
ReplyDeleteThank you Thanqol
@Warjack
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. I also didn´t cried, i... i smiled. I was content reading those letters, i was sad when they were sad, happy when they were happy, afraid when they were afraid, but overall i smiled cause those letters showed well, how life is. How it changes. How something you believed would be or stay forever changes into something new or ends or begins as something else.
Though the best shipping done in this fic was the TwiJack one (especially since it was done this way with them living apart), i didn´t got into FlutterDash or RarityxSpike as into that one. Especially the letter of Applebloom was wonderful in an emotional way.
Best part was still Pinkie as Sky pirate though. XD
Great fic, i loved it. Thanks for writing it. :)
I never usually bother to comment on reads, but this one is worth it and more. It was great, one of the best I've read. All I really have to say, nothing I can think of can describe this well enough.
ReplyDeleteThis story hit something that few things ever do in me. I'm a pretty stoic individual but i'll admit i was in tears by the end of this. I keep thinking of more to stay but i will finish with this: Read this story. It's one of those rare pieces of majesty.
ReplyDeleteI will start by saying I am not a fan of shipping stories. But I am a fan of well-crafted tales and writing. I am not sure why I started reading this, but by the end I was amazed. Such a roller-coaster of emotions. It was less a reading of a story than seeing everything through the eyes and thoughts of each pony.
ReplyDeleteIn retrospect, hour later, after the tears have dried and I can actually think a little, I believe there is an unmentioned heroine in all this. After all, the letters had to get where they were needed, when they were needed, no matter what was happening. And some pony had to have rescued the other. (I really do not want to drop spoilers)
Simply beautiful, and utterly heart-wrenching. So much building, to probably the most bittersweet ending to a story I have seen from this fandom. Whatever your stance on shipping, this is a story you NEED to read. Still teary-eyed from it as I type this. AppleSparkle is now my favorite ship, without question.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I'm not crying like a girl is because I'm with my jackass of a father.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I'm not crying like a girl is because I'm with my jackass of a father.
ReplyDeleteI typically don't like shipping stories, but the amount of stars and comments made me read this.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can say it was beautiful, and it actually made me think about life.
Only My Little Dashie has actually ever made me do that before.
I absolutely love the story and the way it is told, and while many people dislike how short Rarity's story was, I think it just added extra emphasis on her desision.
I loved the story so much, and I did end up tearing up. This story had made me bookmark it along with My Little Dashie it's that good.
Fantastic, Heartwarming, Tear-Jerking, Beautiful. These 4 words come to mind but are still all inadequate to truly describe how much I enjoyed reading this fic and how much it moved me.
ReplyDeleteWords cannot describe how amazing this story is.
ReplyDeleteThere are many times when it just spoke to me. When the words didn't just flow off the page into my mind, but right into my soul.
This is truly my favorite story of all time. Not just of fan fiction, of ALL TIME
Twenty four hours and one thousand stars. My goodness. I'm reasonably certain that has never happened before.
ReplyDeleteThank you all, again. Thank you for every comment. Thank you for every rating. Thank you for letting me share this with you.
Thank you.
- Thanqol.
@C.S.
ReplyDeleteA shucks, that was the last piece of the puzzle I was looking for! Thank you so much for mentioning that.
An incredibly touching story.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is really good!
ReplyDelete...
SHHHHIIIIPPPPINGGGGG
;_;
ReplyDelete"I need six hundred balloons, a cream cake, 0.35 metric tonnes of confetti, an aerial cruise ship with accommodations for two hundred, and a treasure map. Oh, and some pirates."
ReplyDeleteOh Pinkie Pie, what are you planning?
Obviously I haven't finished reading it yet, but I already love it. Gonna keep reading now.
Okay...wow. There are just...no words. Take my stars. Take them all.
ReplyDeleteI'll never figure out how you managed to capture every emotion so perfectly in just a series of letters, but you did it somehow.
I especially love how the melancholy tone of the story was offset by Pinkie Pie's antics as a sky pirate. And how the last letter was delivered. The letters themselves were beautiful. While The TwiJack part was probably the best by virtue of being the one that was focused on the most, I loved the rest too. Rarity's final letter as well as Applebloom's letter and Applejack's last one all had me in tears.
Great story, disgusting comment section. o_O
ReplyDeleteThis is... Wow.
ReplyDeleteOkay, between this and The Games We Play, we don't have to write shipping fics anymore, 'cause nothing can match these.
ReplyDeletegoing on my top ten list for sure
ReplyDeletea great story like all it made me cry mutable times but two things grabbed my eye one: i think like many Rarity got out to quickly you could at lest had her say good bye to all her friends and two some thing that didn't need to be in it but i would have liked to see some zecora but all in all a beautiful story i greatly sincerer recommend if you like bittersweet story's
ReplyDeletewow, over 1000! we must spread this even further! Please post this link wherever you can!
ReplyDeleteOh...
ReplyDeleteOh... damn...
That was utterly beautiful. I honestly have tears in my eyes.
Beautiful. I just finished reading it, started about 3 hours ago, savoring the well written text with each letter. It made me feel sad, yet happy, that ponies feel as they do in this story, and express their feeling to each other through the letters. Bravo, good sir/madame, bravo.
ReplyDelete@Mikail Vat is this? A Heart Of Stone reference? Indeed.
ReplyDeleteI thank you, Thanqol, for gifting us with this marvelous ballade of a story. But let us not overlook the real hero here: Derpy Hooves, without whose insane dedication to the courier creed this story could not exist. What an absolute boss.
ReplyDeleteWords can't describe my feelings after reading... This is ... amazing, don't stop writing. These bittersweet tears is one of the best tears I've ever had. Ever.
ReplyDeleteThis is...wow
ReplyDeleteI can't really think of a way to describe it other than that, you got the characters of each of the mane six down wonderfully, not how they are in the show but how they might be years later. Life has a funny way of coming full circle I guess, I'm glad my fear,t hat they'd all move back to Ponyville and end up resenting one another for choosing them over their dreams, was completely false. The funny bits, like the Dread Pirate Pinkie and Rarity's quest, balanced the sad, I wouldn't call it bittersweet, no-one had to give up their love for their dream, they all got what they wanted in the end, there were no regrets, Applejack died at peace and happy, something many people want but few ever achieve
This. .... I just can't describe the heartache that this story delivers.
ReplyDelete5 stars undoubtedly
VERY long story... can’t help it, if comment is also a bit long.
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>It’s going to be hard writing everything out by hoof again.
-Twilight isn’t a unicorn or something ? She still has her huge magic...
>Spike goes into a Dragon Sleep, and he’s not going to wake up for a hundred years
-Aren’t dragons supposed to be, usually, a few centuries old (more than 1, at the very least) before starting their ‘long sleep’ periods ?
>Try me.
-Shortest. Letter. EVER!
>I asked the pegasus ponies to try to make sure that there's no wind for a couple of days
-Huh... Pegasi can manipulate weather phenomena, yes... But, I’m pretty sure ‘’wind’’ (considering what ‘’wind’’ truly is in itself) isn’t something they can ‘’prevent’’ from happening, aside of making tornadoes (but that’s more like ‘making’ a weather phenomenon).
>The campus is beautiful. It’s an old stone building and a collection of ancient wizard towers.
-One of them Towers named ‘’Dumbledore’’... nopony know why.
>scholars had searched for the locations of the Spirits for generations.
-Oh yeah, they were in her backyard all along. ;)
>thank you first and foremost for your gift of socks
>I realised that this was a trend that could surely catch on.
-This is a rather funny reference. ;)
>I'll have to consult with my cat >[wait, why am I consulting with Opal
-Surprisingly enough, cats are great listener... and can smell fishy ponies a mile away. A must for any business pony. ;)
... Story, so far (about 1/3), seems mostly about/between Twilight and AJ, with a side of the other 4 (very little of Pinky Pie) ...
>There’s also the rules that were made because the founders were senile.
-People would be surprised how often stuff like that happen for real. That, and weird forgotten laws... like that one about not eating Pudding after 22:00 on a Friday.
>it's testing each of these nonsense rules and finding out which ones are important and which ones are superstition.
-Mythbusters ? ;)
>At very least, have your sky pirates wash before they attack Canterlot again.
-Pinky Pie really became a Pirate (and not the owner of a multi-national Baking Company) ? ...well, as long as they are ‘’good’’ pirates.
Also... She became a pirate JUST because Twilight left, instead of doing what she loved doing (baking and parties) ?
>It’s like it’s something more than friendship at this point.
-Well, this was getting pretty obvious by now... Same with RD and Fluttershy, in fact.
>You’re asking me to choose between your dream and mine. I can't make that choice. I can't.
-Midpoint of story ? : Conflict !
@Nova25
ReplyDelete>Eucalypt and you’ll find your criminal.
-I bet my money on the sneaky Koala. ;)
>Lyra and Bon Bon typically win the event, though. Lyra can tango, you know?
-*cough* ‘’Was there ever any doubt ;) ?‘’
>word has reached me that Diamond Dogs have tunnelled into the cave
>If those diamonds are not returned, he might wake up early.
-This means WAR! Call Pinky Pie ! Call the Unpredictable Armada !
>I have in my team Hoity Toity, Fancy Pants and Fleur, who have all graciously agreed to assist me
-What’s that ? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or something ? (reference)
>I’m going to have Fancy Pants cast a sleep spell on me. I’ll sleep, ageless, by your side, for a hundred years. Until you wake up.
-Huhhhhhhhh... I don’t know what to think here, really ? Something between sad and dumb...
Soooo... She chose to abandon her family, to abandon her friends, to abandon Sweetie Belle, to abandon her obligations and responsibilities, to abandon her cat!.. just because she ‘’really-really’’ wants to be with Spike... without making any Will, without telling anyone/friends/family, without planning anything... and despite a promise she had made to Spike and him to her, to specifically not do that... How..‘’generous’’ of her ?
...I know this MAY depends on how you choose to see this, but... this is INCREDIBLY selfish and stupid of her, when you think about it ?
She didn’t think of ANYONE else than her own self, in all this...
Also, is Fancy Pant supposed to administrate her stuff&business for a hundred years ? Rarity, of ALL ponies, didn’t give even the smallest attention to details to anything ?... Rarity!
>according to roll call we’re missing a “G.P. Ixy”, so I might have a few suspicions.
-Trixie is going to University ? Well... that’s good for her, I guess ? Hopefully, the author will not ‘’throw her in the pit’’ and make her like a jealous-villain or something.
>And I value you more than I value this.
-Couldn’t she be like a ‘private teacher’ in Ponyville ? After all, she must have some important expertise in a field or another... She’s Twilight Sparkle, after all.
>“But you run all that distance! You’ll be tired!” I cried.
>she showed me that she wasn’t.
-This is awkwardly funny. Quite. ;)
>like Applejack said, a lack of communication can be as much a lack of Honesty as any lie.
-Or maybe the other one just don’t want to hear what you ate this morning, or how often go to the bathroom ? Too much talking is like none ; it’s 2 extremes.
>or in the form of that grey mailmare.
-The Main 6 know Derpy/Ditzy, so why does she keep calling her that ?... Also, how’s Dinky doing ?
>I tell you, Twilight, if Derpy wasn’t going through hell and braving the storm to make her mail rounds
-See ! They know her name... so why does Twilight always call her ‘’grey mailmare’’ ?
>We actually had to disenchant some of the teachers’ magic hats just so we’d be able to eat
-I don’t get this ? I mean... how the author decided that ‘’magic’’ worked here ? Fixed number of spells, or time you can use magic, per day ? ...not the usual, ‘regenerative mana’ limit ?
@Nova25
ReplyDelete>I know for sure that we won’t have enough to feed us all.
-Don’t they usually keep some quantities of apples, through the Winter, for Spring and stuff ?
I mean, not to eat ONLY apples all the time, but it would extend their food supply to cut it with a bit more apples... losing some money, but better than to die of starvation ?
>To: Rainbow Dash
>I need somepony brave enough to get through the blizzard and get the food home.
-Ask Derpy/Ditzy to help too... Obviously, she can already do the distance easily, with ALL those letters she keeps delivering.
>I tapped into the Element of Magic. I knew it was dangerous, knew that I could permanently lessen the Element’s power, even break it.
-Huh, wait... what ? What darn heavy nonsense is this ?!
This is a darn powerful, MILLENIA old artefact ! Not an pathetic alkaline battery ! It’s not ‘THAT’ fragile...
The -only- difficulty should be from being able to draw power from it in the first place, which Twilight probably can... considering who she is and all.
>And it shattered like glass.
-Why do so many stories seem to always end up having, at least, 1 point of ‘extreme’ nonsense in them ? Why ? (mostly rhetorical)... (sigh) That’s not how a MAJOR artefact works !
>Do you remember that winter, fifty years ago?
-Suddenly out of nowhere... half a century later. Ooook ?
(Nothing about Rarity... I guess her BEST FRIENDS and FAMILY didn’t care about her or something ?)
>I went up to the roof and watched the sun shine over Equestria for the first time in months. I saw the blizzard end.
-wait, wait... what ? MONTHS ? Surely she’s not saying that the Sun didn’t raise for several *months*, but just that SHE didn’t see it raise herself, right ?
>You, me, Pinkie, Rainbow, Fluttershy, side-by-side to celebrate the end of the Long Winter
-For Pete’s sake ! She doesn’t even vaguely mention Rarity and/or the fact that she’s missing... Did the author forgot that Rarity had been in the story at some point ?
>She flew to that blue box on the other side of the road.
-Derpy/Ditzy, existing forever and *through* Eternity... thanks to the Doctor and the strange blue box.
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A story equally as long as it was well made, and good... ‘except’ for a few details.
At one point, Rarity became quite dumb, and forgot the rest of the Universe, like the Universe itself apparently ALSO forgot about her very existence ? Seriously ?
Also, Pinky Pie barely got anything in this story (disputably better than Rarity, which got almost-literally thrown into ‘’the void between the stories’’), which really looked like it was mainly about AJ and Twilight anyway (with a small touch to Fluttershy and RD romance).
There’s also that ‘’most ridiculous thing’’ about the (one) Element(s), a MAJOR artefact, being shown as barely anything more than an AAA-battery made of glass...
So... yeah. Good, well made and all... but, had 2-3 intriguingly weird choices.
Is that a cleverly hidden Lonely Island reference I see..?
ReplyDeleteThis was beautiful! I cried the first time I read and and even more the second time.
ReplyDeleteWithout a Doubt a tie now with my little dashie for the fanfiction that has ever touched me so deeply. Thank you, for this Beautiful work of art.
ReplyDeleteThis was so beautiful. I won't say say I cried, but I only cry when I read if I'm feeling really emotionally vulnerable. I think this is possibly the most creative and natural feeling ship (especially of Twi and Applejack) I've read. Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a really good story, only one thing I didn't like about it.
ReplyDeletePP became a sky pirate, which was funny. But it seemed a farcical sideshow to a really good story. There was no explanation of her motivation or reasons for becoming a sky pirate. Which in a story that is primarily a comedy is fine, that's just PP, she is random, but in such an emotional story, I would have liked to know more about PP's emotions. Removing her letters and just having AJ remark that she stayed in Ponyville to run the shop wouldn't have taken anything away from the story, and hence her storyline was kinda pointless.
On the other hoof there are many things that are great about it, it's like My Little Dashie in the tear jerker department. I loved the obligatory Dr Whooves reference at the end. I loved Rarity's comments about how fashionable the squad she assembled (named the fashion police?) was. Also lazy trollestia sends a fashion designer, a fashion critic, a piece of arm candy and whatever Fancy Pants is to do her dirty work, instead of guards or something. Why does she have guards if she just sends random ponies to deal with everything including dragons? Because she's epic that's why.
TL;DR story is epic, deserves 6 manly tears out of 6.
I might be late to the party, but it was worth it. Very good. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThis thing here : http://karzahnii.deviantart.com/art/Heart-s-Desire-285284708
ReplyDelete...*THIS* is how the Rarity&Spike thing should have been handled.
To my opinion.
I don't care what kind of tears they were; I cried. Multiple times. The entire story was beautiful, and the way you put it all into letters really enhanced and portrayed the emotions reply well. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSeriously... not since bubbles have I cried anywhere near as much, and its still not even close, its just that... Good.
ReplyDeleteThis... this is the beauty I see. This is the glow that makes it all worth it. This is message that I live for. The words, they sing. The love, it grows. The joy, it brings. The message, it flows.
ReplyDeleteTruly this beauty makes this fandom worth it. Truly these words are the reason we read.
Truly the message is the reason of love.
Thank you for posting this story, it is lovely.
~~FurryForlife~~ §~§
beautiful... Thank you for putting this up.
ReplyDeleteMy breath caught on the back of my throat and i have to say, tears were shed..
loved it so much... just what i needed
beautiful... Thank you for putting this up.
ReplyDeleteMy breath caught on the back of my throat and i have to say, tears were shed..
loved it so much... just what i needed
I'm not one for grand emotional gestures, but this one made me cry like a little filly. Bravo :'( xx
ReplyDeleteThis fanfiction had successfully broke my heart to pieces, even though I'm not really a Twilejack fan.
ReplyDeleteI hated to admit it; this is nearly as great as My Little Dashie.
This was a well-constructed and written fanfic, but it had a bit too much same-sex shipping for my taste.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, the way the relationships were handled meant that the genders of the participants wasn't too important.
The Rarity shipping seemed horribly out-of-place, though. I can not picture that happening to an older Rarity at all.
Overall, a very good read as far as shipfics are concerned. Great prose!
@Thanqol
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be brutally honest here.
This is, easily, and by far, the best fanfic I have ever read.
In fact, I feel like calling it a "fanfic" is not doing it justice. This is real literature. Extremely well written literature. Everything in this story works: the way you deliver the narrative, the way you pace the story, the way you often lead us to think something and then surprise us by turning the situation around - it all works so well.
Not to mention the fantastic ending, which I somehow feel like I should have seen coming, but I totally didn't, and which was the best possible ending I could think of for this story.
Assuming you're not a professional author - Whatever you do, PLEASE keep writing. You have a real talent here.
(If, by chance, you actually are a professional author, please point me towards your books ;p)
@wloff
ReplyDeleteI'm not. Not yet. But I will be ;)
I'm speechless. That was one of the, if not THE, most beautiful fic...no, piece of LITERATURE I have ever read. You, sir, have a talent. A talent that I cannot wait to see grow and develop. Again, this is one of the best fics to come out of this fandom. This will go down in history. Somehow!
ReplyDelete@Thanqol
ReplyDeleteIf anypony deserves a muffin it's you, people like you are what's good about the brony community.
@ThanqolThere is no way I can accurately describe this beautiful piece of work that you wrote.I have been reading some of the comments and I have to disagree with you, you are a professional writer. Maybe not a fancy one with sponcors and all that jazz yet but you will. This is just beautiful. I laughed, i cried, I lost ten pounds...
ReplyDeleteYou are a genius.
Sorry, i just had to write this too... I am still thinking about what you wrote. It makes me happy, sad and a whole bunch of other words I dont know the meaning of. You are amazing.
ReplyDeleteThat was...
ReplyDeleteI thought I had read some good romance stories within my time. Some stories that truly show the relationship between the others...
But they are nothing compared to this. Friendship and love interwove, dedication and determination for one's friends to help them though thick and thin... the way that all those letters to Luna gave her the strength she needed.
Six stars? This doesn't deserve such a mere rating. Even my words now feel incomplete, that they do not give this story proper tribute.
Through shorter then some stories I have read... this is one of the - if not THE - greatest stories I have ever read
Gems like this make looking through dozens and dozens of fics worthwhile. After lots of 'okay' and 'not bad' stories, I have started to forget how reading can still arouse true emotions. I am not ashamed to admit that your fic made me cry.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to analyse this story, try to find hidden meanings or spot errors... Just to thank you for bringing something beautiful in this world.
Those last few letters.....I was inconsolable.
ReplyDelete5/5
wow. I'm not even sure what to say. most of the other comments cover it.
ReplyDeleteSeth, for the love of celestia, add a "top pick" tag for the best of the best (a ranking higher than a 6star, because there are lots of 6stars), so i dont miss out on beautiful literature like this ever again.
>9k/5
This story made my best friend cry and then hop on a plane the next day to go visit her long-distance boyfriend. She doesn't even watch MLP.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're pleased with yourself.
This story made me cry tears of pure happiness, thank you for such a valuable and relatable lesson :')
ReplyDeleteThis story punched me in the heart. Repeatedly. On end. For a good solid hour and a half.
ReplyDeleteIt is remarkable. As others have said, it does have a couple of minor, teensy flaws, but frankly I don't care. Your writing is truly spectacular.
I actually had to hold off commenting for a good forty-five minutes because I just couldn't get my words together. The way you wield words makes me feel like a fumbling neophyte without a speck of talent, while you're the master who with a flick of their wrist carves out a masterpiece within seconds.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. I am keeping an eye out for any other stories by you for sure!
Wow. That was beautiful. You captured both elements well. Especially Applejack. And Rarity sleeping for Spike? That was so touching. Bravo man, bravo.
ReplyDeleteDear author,
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the most beautiful fanfic I've ever read. I just closed it and I want to re-read it right away(edit: I did). I can't believe I've let it sit on my desktop unread for so long, but I was right; waiting for some peace and quiet to give it my full attention was SO worth it.
You weaved a beautiful story between all the characters we know and love, and more than once I found myself crying. Thank you for sharing this. I'll be looking out for more of your stories.
Yours Truly,
A grateful fan
Dang. This must have taken a good while to write. It took me a good while to read. But, very well done. You made everything as subtle or as obvious as it needed to be. I was a bit sad to see some of the directions each character took, and was slightly disappointed at how you left off Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's story (although I guess it kind of fits? I don't know. You're the writer). But good job. It made me feel feelings. More so than a lot of stories. That in itself makes it a success. I congratulate you, good sir.
ReplyDeleteAlthough this fic is nothing short of prefect and beautiful, i feel like AJs letter at the very end was a bit lacking - in that she said she spent all day trying to make it poetic and whatnot, and it seemed lacking in length (at least). I promise im not trolling, just trying to constructively criticize, my prior comment of >9k/5 still stands
ReplyDeleteYa know, I waited for a moment where I was alone in the house for more than a day just to read this, and I have to say that I'm glad that I did. The way you made this story, I feel that I could sit here and read different letters about their lives forever. This was truly a great story, and you deserve the 6 star rating.
ReplyDeleteNo idea if anyone will ever even see this comment, but I feel compelled to post anyways.
ReplyDeleteI did not cry manly tears. I bawled like a five year old with a scraped knee. I don't like sad (or even bittersweet) stories. In fact I REALLY don't like sad stories, but I have no regrets in reading this one. I can only stand and applaud your masterful work and it's ability to draw emotion from the reader.
This was absolutely amazing. This is coming from someone who usually refuses to read fanfics, and isn't usually a very emotional person. This was incredible. I first got choked up and teary at Rarity's final letter. Almost totally lost it at RD's 'final' letter, and completely started bawling at the end. I'm going to try to get all my friends to read it. Thank you for making this beautiful work of art. <3
ReplyDeleteJust reread this, and cried over it for the second time. A lot of fics hit me hard, but this one affects me in the same way that the show does, but just more extreme. It's a wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteThis is ... the paragon of a work of art... i don't know if that's an appropriate expression, but I seldom want to cry as much as I do now after reading this...
ReplyDeleteWhat this fandom creates is what makes me feel in a way I fail to describe...
Just... thank you... I know my words can't show how much I value this... just thank you!
Still my absolute favorite fic ever. Heartbreakingly beautiful, bittersweet, lovely. Amazing. I don't care if it has ships I don't ship, and anyone who refuses to read it because of that is denying themselves something incredible. <3
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