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Hearts and Hooves Day Announcement

Because this is the only time of year we’re always here, we’re on for our Annual Hearts and Hooves Day Event. This year, Mistress Marevelous has decided that she and Radiance will be taking questions all day in order to protect Radiance from the Curse that has plagued her every year prior. Radiance never ends the day able to walk on her own, and now Marevelous is paranoid about it; she put the others on hero duty and it is her personal mission to keep Radiance standicapable until midnight.

To help her, keep them entertained! Ask them for advice, ask them about themselves, about their thus far invincible relationship; the good, the bad, the mundane, the funny, their favorite and least favorite things. They will need it.

Our ask box is here. We appreciate any help we can get saving Radiance from herself.

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Discord: My wife and I want a nice meal together but we have two kids and none of our friends can look after and my wife's mom is busy so what do we do?

Mistress Marevelous: No offense, but don’t you have reality bending powers? Why don’t you just make a babyproof dimension or manifest a nanny or something?

Radiance: Maybe they’ve had bad experiences with past conjured childcare. There’s bound to be a lonely teenager somewhere available to babysit. Maybe your friends are busy, but one of them might have a referral for you. Maybe a niece or nephew or a sitter they’ve used in the past?

Oh! I don’t know if you have it, but if you’re in Maretropolis there’s this childcare agency that has an arrangement with a bunch of local restaurants. So if you call ahead you can request a specific sitter for the restaurant you want to eat at, but there’s a staffed children’s room at each of them. It’s supposed to be for things like if you have a lunch meeting or a job interview or a date, and there’s a fixed price for the room and the children’s food, so they can order whatever they want off the kid’s menu without you and it won’t cost you if they order like ten extra cookies and a chocolate shake for their friends.

Marevelous: Kind of sounds like someone just remembered a time they got ten extra cookies and a shake for a friend.

Radiance: They had so many good cookies. The babysitter referral thing is more likely to work out for them though. They don’t even have to ask for a babysitter, just someone who’s good with babies or might have a very young sibling. Chances are if they have a sibling they’re already stuck at home babysitting anyway, adding a couple of babies they get paid for can’t hurt. I wasn’t even a babysitter but my aunt mentioned I was good with babies to a sleep deprived mom, and I still get asked to watch fussy babies.

Marevelous: Fussy is kind of your specialty.

Radiance: HA! You would know, fussypants!

(P.S. A gift from Hum Drum and Zapp, it was to be your reward.)

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Hearts and Hooves Day resolution

As of midnight, Radiance succumbed to the curse. She could not walk by the end of Hearts and Hooves day. Chiefly, because she was asleep, but also because at that particular point in time Mistress Marevelous’s hoof would have been decreasing circulation to one of her hind legs had she been awake.

But before that happened, our last ask got Mistress Marevelous very, very sappy, and Radiance tapped that sap for several hours, ultimately gathering the material she needed to create this:

There were several other slide proposals made, but they got tired of making slides and don’t have time to write a book.

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We’re Back and also

It’s that time of year again.

Maretropolis has always had pretty long, unusually snowy winters compared to most of Equestria. Hearts and Hooves Day is almost as important as Hearth’s Warming in keeping the city’s morale up, so we’d like to keep up the tradition of our annual Hearts and Hooves Day event.

Masked Matterhorn and Fillisecond will be on duty, but the others will be available for the following:

Hugs, kisses, and emotional support.(Mostly Zapp, but Hum Drum, Saddle Rager and Radiance are also happy to help.)

Personalized card making services.(Hum Drum is in charge, but they’re all contributing.)

Personal questions about their friendships.

Advice for your friendships or love lives.(Do not trust Saddle Rager.)

Questions for Marevelous and Radiance about their unfading mutual adoration for each other.(Recommended. Marevelous loves talking about Radiance and how much they’re definitely seeing each other romantically. It will make her winter.)

We will be aiming to release an ask or two a week from our backlog leading up to Hearts and Hooves Day. We will be accepting normal questions AND Heart’s and Hooves day questions right up until Hearts and Hooves day.

(Mod Note: Artist Mod still hasn’t recovered the files from her old computer yet, but has enough asks prepared to end the hiatus now anyway.)

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It’s a little late to the party, but we had too much to be proud of to not do anything at all.

Color Coding Note: Hum Drum is white, for he is a child with time to figure this stuff out. Masked Matterhorn is black because he declines to divulge information like this, which is fine too. So he graciously provided the rainbow.

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So, Radiance and Mare-Velous: When did you first realize you had feelings for each other?

Radiance: Oh, I don’t know. I want to say immediately, but to be safe, maybe ten minutes in?

Mistress Marevelous: Less than ten. Ten’s the conservative estimate here.

It took you almost a whole ten minutes to convince me you wanted me to kiss you, but I think the actual realizing happened already.

Radiance: This makes us sound incredibly… impulsive.

Marevelous: Better impulsive and happy than whatever would have happened if I were in charge.

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I think we deserve to know her name, at least. Y'know, so we know who NOT to vote for?

Marevelous: We don’t owe you anything. For one, you don’t need her name to just vote for Mayor Blossom or abstain, and for another, it’s literally plastered all over Maretropolis. Pick up a newspaper, tabloid, or magazine, look around next time you’re on a street corner, listen to the radio; It’s readily available information that we are under no obligation to provide for you. And also-

Radiance: Sorry Dearest, your grumpy rant allotment is up. The others asked me to answer this. Her name is Grenadine, and she doesn’t want to be mayor. A rumor started this summer that she did, but when she made a public announcement to deny that she was running, someone in the audience bellowed “Yeah, she’s winning!” Assuming it to be an audience plant and a humorous campaign slogan, the media ran with it. Now, no matter how she phrases it, she can’t try to drop out without somepony turning it around on her.

Whenever there’s a political event, at least three of the Power Ponies try to attend for security purposes. I’m usually one of them because my powers can be used discreetly and instantly. As demonstrated when I stopped Marevelous’ mouth just now. I’ve been there for each and every attempt to refute the existence of a campaign, and I know for a fact she genuinely isn’t running and is frustrated at the possibility of being voted into office against her will. The media just won’t drop her because she’s very popular right now and consistently in the news to begin with, so generating stories about her sells, and if she were to win, they anticipate a couple years worth of big headlines off her.

You would think Marevelous would be more sympathetic, but I suspect she’s irrationally jealous because I think Grenadine’s name is pretty. Okay. If you don’t rant, you may speak.

Marevelous: Making a muzzle is cheating. Now my face feels weird.

Radiance: I was supposed to answer this. I warned you it would happen and you accepted the risk. Do you have anything else to add or a correction to make?

Marevelous: I’m not jealous. I’m mad because she’d make a lousy mayor. And also, I hate her.

Radiance: You’ve said.

Marevelous: Also, making her mayor is absolutely a media conspiracy, and I hate that too.

Radiance: I know.

Marevelous: Also, you smell nice.

Radiance: Truly, the bright side in this situation.

Marevelous: Kinda, yeah.

[This answer is a follow up of this and this.]

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