This is NOT human x pony romance!
Rudy is a pegasus stallion, living on Earth for the last 5 years. He's been helping a human named Jack deliver newspapers since coming here, and in the newspaper industry, there's no such thing as a holiday, unless the presses break down and can't be fixed by 8am the next day. This New Years Eve, Rudy and Jack go out to do what they do every night, but tonight might just be something special for the first time, as a mare he's come to fancy working inside the press building asks him a strange question.
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Edited (or at least who I saw in the gdoc before posting it) by Bill Cypher and Moonshot.
Written for Admiral's Not a Contest contest. I delivered newspapers most of my life, and we worked every day, every night, holidays be damned. I wanted to convey just how... normal a holiday would be to us. It was just another day, like Christmas, or Easter. We worked, we lived on, and we did the same thing every night, from when I was a baby, up to my mid 20's. Side note: I'm immune to paper cuts.
As an aside, idk how this became a romance. It just kinda happened. Oops?
I love it!
Can confirm that Flint is a hellhole.
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From my understanding, that's how most romances happen.
Glad I was able to help with this one, Rob.
This was adorable! Happy New Year, Rob!
This was a really sweet story, Rob! I loved it!
Happy New Year!
We deliver papers on a much smaller scale, probably about a hundred and some. Still, just as much a pain. Nice work, Rob!
Cute little story Rob. I really appreciate the train drivers and other workers here in Japan because they never stop working. Emergency services especially.
Reminds me of my old job in a TV station.
Someone always had to hold the fort in the control room.
It wasn't that bad, in fact we had a great boss.
For those working on Christmas Day, management would arrange a Christmas lunch delivered to the station in a taxi.
Sadly, when redundancies came around, the boss would also lose his job and the rest of us were downsized heavily.
Good story Rob !
Some people (and ponies) never know the concept of a holiday or weekends.
As a former member of the Fourth Estate, I knew I had to read this story. I’m glad I did.
On top of being a very cute little romantic story, the references to newspapers rang true. It’s one of the few jobs left a person can get with no experience and limited skills. The pay’s horrible, the hours suck, and the conditions are brutal, but where else can a middle-school dropout get a job today?
That’s one reason (among many) I’m sad newspapers are disappearing. Support your local newspaper, people. You don’t realize what you’ll be missing until it’s gone.
That’s really sweet. I loved it, Rob.
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Hot Brew modded story. It's like Hot Coffee, only much nicer.
Wow.
Didn't know someone would write a MLP story about my job. :)
Even if in PL it looks a little different, it kinda looks the same. ;)
That was a cute story.
Christmas is Dec 25 not Dec 31 ya Ignoramus.
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Who, or what, said anything about Christmas? This story is about New Years, Christmas had already happened ya big pooty pooterhead.
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Full quoted paragraph Look after the previously quoted sentence.
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Christmas went well... Its in the past, other wise it would be "Christmas was going well". The whole story is about new years...
Am I the only one that pictured Jack as John Candy, circa Home Alone or Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?
Jack, the ultimate wing man with a shitty van.
All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain.
-Blade Runner
So fluffy 😍
A moment of silence for the loss of cable.
🎵In the aaaaaarms of the angel🎵
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It's the TV commercial but instead of starving pets it's cold and abandoned crt tvs.
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LOL. CRT TVs? You are an old too, huh? Tell kids these days about lugging one of those monsters during moving, they'll never believe you.
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Moving? Pfft, I hauled 4 of them for lan parties every other weekend.
I always love these kind of fanfics I normally listen to these ponies on earth fanfics on youtube on the channel StraightToThePointStudio but this first time I read one on this website and I liked the fanfic
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Thanks! I know several friends who get S2tP readings, for some reason I never do lol. If you check the other comments, someone did do a reading of this story!
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I saw but I normally listen to narrators on youtube who also have voice actors for different characters and that person does not seem to have that