• Story: Laughter is the Music of the Soul

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    Author: The Mechanic
    Description: Celestia, Luna, and Twilight are visited by a mare who knows a lot more about history than she should... and sometimes the best of outcomes can come from the very worst of beginnings.
    Laughter is the Music of the Soul

    Additional Tags: History, Loss, Hope, Old and New

    20 comments:

    1. finally, a complete story I can read.

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    2. I liked it. If only politics these days were settled with cake and pie.

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    3. Dat ending! Brought a joyful tear to my eye. =')

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    4. Very nice. I also like how fandom has apparently universally accepted "the Summer-Lands" as the name and description of the pony afterlife. We seem to be quite good at filling in holes in the canon like that. :)

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    5. Laughing and crying at the same time here...

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    6. Man, that was very beautiful.

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    7. We need a {HappySad] tag. This is that. Also read the whole thing with the music from the final day of Majora's Masks playing on loop. It felt right.

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    8. @Bryan

      First time I've seen it being used in a pony fic.

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    9. @Specter Von Baren

      Heh. And I have to admit, I just remembered a couple of counterexamples where fanfics have the souls of dead ponies become stars instead. I guess it's not quite universal. However, I've seen the Summer Lands referred to in several different fanfics by several different authors at this point, so there is at least some consensus-building going on.

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    10. Short, sweet, title related. Pretty good.

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    11. @Bryan Ah, yes, I remember that, "dead ponies become stars," one, I believe it was Applejack telling Apple Bloom a story before she went to bed as the premise for the fic.

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    12. Just finished reading it, that was great, beautiful, heart warming, and many more good things I care not to say. The point being that this is an awesome story. Thank you for making this, The Mechanic.

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    13. That was a beautiful little story... very original concept, I thoroughly enjoyed it. <3

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    14. awwww, great work, i loved it

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    15. A very touching story with a small side of fun. Nice job! :)

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    16. That was a beautiful story, very touching. Thank you for sharing it :-)

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    17. Great world building in this heart-warming fic. I love the backstory of the not-quite-completed spell that created Shimmer, and also how the story ends! Thanks so much for writing and sharing. :)

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    18. That was beautiful. I agree, we do need a HappySad tag, as that is the only way to successfully describe this. To be honest, the ending brought a tear of joy to my eye. Excellent fic, one of my newest favs now(:

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