This story is a sequel to The Long-Eared Temptress
The Principality hails and honors Prince Blueblood for standing up to bigots and openly embracing his love for Connie, the humble donkey palace maid who has won his heart. Their love is grand, their intentions clear and their hooves are set towards the altar. They will be married.
In the upper echelons of society.
A Royal Wedding is no small challenge. Blueblood has lived his life in the upper reaches and his great-aunts have as well. Connie... hasn't. The bride-to-be knows stern practicality, sensibility and the donkey desire for simple and effective solutions to ordinary problems. The world of gold-foil wedding gowns, fifty-layer cakes, and other inanities of the nobility are beyond her.
And then... there are parents...
Yes! I have waited so long for this!
Edit:
Slight correction.
"They" should be "Then"
So get ready to hang out in the caverns beneath Canterlot and wait for someone to rescue you while your fiance gets with a changeling. Tis tradition, Connie.
I like this chapter! Another!
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I'm just so glad that folks are actually looking forward to this. Interspecis gets no respect unless it is with "protected" groups, meaning zebras, humans and changelings, and occasinally dragons. And Gilda, but no other griffins.
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.......Am I reading Shakespeare? Sorry, I just finished a class and we had to read some of his work. The dialogue here seemed rather Shakespearean. This isn't a bad thing. Oh contraire. I loved this because of it. I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare, mostly because I can't grasp what he means unless I happen to watch a movie/play so I can see the character's intentions and inflections in their voices. Here, I didn't get that problem. The dialogue was Shakespearean, but it was more modernized, Luna's archaic words and phrases none withstanding. Honestly, this was a step above the rest and oh boy do I love it.
Especially the dialogue between the two sisters. It seemed so old, yet filled with love. Please, for the love of everything, keep up this level of quality. {I'm also thankful you did a sequel. My heart was at a loss when I saw the first one complete.}
Wait, is this a non-Douchebag!Blueblood story? I think I've seen all of three since his first appearance.
Ha'za a Sequel!
I have been waiting for this.
I can't wait to see what is going to happen.
Good luck best wishes
I'm just waiting for the inadvertent bitchslap.
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Hah, quite. Write what you want. I keep meaning to do a donkey story. Never got around to it so far. Istormed through first one, havent commented yet.
*looks at title* And Connie is kidnapped at sea by the Dream Piratess Pinkie and Blueblood, in despair, agrees to marry the wicked Princess Platinum.
He is then ponynapped by the brilliant narcissistic Sicilian pony, The Great and Super Brilliant Trixie and her two associates the master swordpony Derpy, and the giant Big Mac.
5360054 Got a story for you.
A good non-douchebag Blueblood story
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Funny story, when "Luna Eclipsed" first aired I was just starting a University course on Elizabethan drama. So here I was with material from everyone besides Shakespeare, and there were some ripping good pines to add spice and personality to Luna, who could potentially end up generic. So I dove right in, aced my course and mined the Elizabethan era for good vocabulary and such. I'm glad it's appreciated.
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Of course. Donkeys need love too.
If I was going to nitpick, I would say that Luna's speech leaned too far towards Shakespearean where it became more of chore to read rather than the joy it has been in your previous stories.
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I love that you are ne of the wonderful few who give respect to Diamond Dogs. You would give great honor to donkeys.
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I guess I was just flexing my "Luna muscles" a little too much.
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and donkeys!? 
How could you not like diamond dogs?
...as characters at least
I really have to do a story with donkeys in, don't I?
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It's amazing but some folks just give no respect to "lesser" species. So I give them plenty and love folks like you who also give them some love.
Nice, Connie has some serious balls, don't she?
....I like her. She's cool.
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In this universe, with the gender ratios being what they are, it's called having ovaries and ovarian fortitude. Connie even said as much in the last story.
Donkeys always need more love. Delightful.
One Potential hiccup, Mules are sterile aren't they? You would think that a royal line would be an important thing. Or is there some way around that?
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All right, we actually get to see one of these relationships progress further! Promises to shake things up....
Brah. Moar. Plz. Naaaaoooooooooo!!!!!
Applaud or Luna will kick the crap out of you!
Nice way to turn it around, and nice to see some more of the original verse.
That was fun, you write a good Luna.
I wish you would come back to this
FUCK-ING FINALLY.
Very glad to see this return. Finally taking a break from exposing the subhuman gremlins in our society?
Thank you. I love this story and I've been waiting for more for a 2 years now.
*in
Cool your jets, Shakespeare.
But on their wedding day, who is Chrysalis going to impersonate, Connie or Blueblood?
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Funny story, this chapter could have gone up earlier. I found it last night, complete. It was written, polished and formatted for upload. What I think happened was that was about the time my aunt's cancer came back, so I sort of forgot about it. Plus, uploading was hard back then. Today I have a better system.
Good to see these folks back.
Yay! The wedding shall be wonderful!
As in the previous chapter, you've got "and" for archaic "an," meaning "if," here. I want to cite this, but you have no idea how difficult it is to google a phrase where the most important word is "an." Nevertheless, I did manage to find this from Henry IV, Act I:
Also, if you had some fascinating metaphor in mind when you used the word "ovarian" to describe Connie, it went well over my head. I'm rather hoping that was autocorrect speaking.
8026950 Sorry to hear about your aunt. Keep up the fine work, though. You give Blueblood character and that's important.
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It's actually supposed to be a very simple and intuitive reference. As it is a majority female population some phrases and references are different. Ovarian is meant to be the equivalent of testicular in terms of boldness.
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Well, that's, er. Incredibly problematic I suppose is a start. To take the least fraught reason, the only reason that the idea of testicles causing a certain set of behaviors entered the realm of common knowledge was their convenient exterior placement, which allowed people to discover what happens when you cut them off. To this add that you're attributing those behaviors caused by testosterone to an endocrine gland that produces a very different mix of hormones, and you're looking at a turn of phrase that could not conceivably have arisen.
It could be intuitive in our patriarchal society, and I did get it when I read Luna's "ovarian fortitude" line. But if we're trying to world-build, it doesn't work.
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Are we doing that? I missed you at the planning meeting.
Submit your minutes and I'll review them. I don't remember hiring you but I guess I did.
Damn, being funny needs way too much paperwork. Can you handle all the bureaucracy? The Ministry of Comedy is ironically boring.
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Sorry. I tend to take you seriously because your work is awesome.
I am glad that this flick finally up dated I wanted to see what happened next.
I could see a runaway wedding, but I live to see how Connie was able to stop it with a simple lecture.
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It helps that Connie is one of about six people that Luna respects very deeply.
I hope I can keep momentum.
8026733 Nah. He is purposely using older and accurate versions of older English for Luna. It is actually interesting. If it is not to you then so what? It was used heavily and appropriately in the prior story leading to this and continuing on into here as well. The other criticisms stand though.
That's a neologism, with an improper mix of singular and plural. And, in truth, "thou" is casual/familiar and "you" is formal/respectful. A princess calling everyone "thou" would be extremely uncouth.
I'm enjoying this story. I hope you continue it!
And it was never updated again, the end.
really nice story, hope that it will get an update at some point