Dear Readers,

Here’s the thing: I was going along and writing the end of A Parasprite’s POV Pt. 3 when I came across a small problem concerning the episode that was coming next, Winter Wrap-Up.

You know how Twilight is supposed to write to the Princess every week in Season One?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp4slcLpcXU

Well, think of it this way: If the Summer Sun Celebration is the summer solstice, then in that logic, Winter Wrap-Up is supposed to happen only 11 weeks later! (Not counting what I pulled in Dat Plot (And Subplot, then it shortens to 10 weeks.) That’s only a little over two measly months! Fall isn’t even supposed to come yet! All this time, it’s been summer on the other episodes!

So, I tried to write over the plothole. My first thought was to just skip over the time like the show, but that wouldn’t be enough, and would be letting down you, my viewers. I had to do better.

My second thought was to get Rainbow Dash to overhear a story that Dusk never had a snow day in Canterlot, and made it snow overnight so they could have a date. It sounded like a good idea at first. But if I did that, there would be whole new plotholes to cover up. Like, how would she have the birds fly south in that amount of time? How would she get the water in the lake to form ice so quickly? How would she force the woodland creatures into hibernation?

To add insult to injury, I found ANOTHER inconvenience: Fall Weather Friends was just two episodes later! By that logic, they should have ANOTHER Winter Wrap-Up episode! I was in the middle of some complicated explanation of a bizarre Equestrian ritual where the host town for the Summer Sun Celebration had to perform the seasons three times as fast when I finally gave up.

That’s right, I’m not doing the Winter Wrap-Up episode. Or the Fall Weather Friends. It’s too complicated. I’m sorry. To make up for it, here’s a list of all the jokes I was gonna use.

1. A running gag where Spike is trying to get the Winter Wrap-Up outta his head.

2. Dusk doing that butterfly wings spell in order to try out with helping the weather team, and failing horribly.

3. “Ditzy Doo went north instead of south to get the birds again!”

“Who the hell is Ditzy Doo? We sent Derpy to do that, remember?”

“ Don’t look at me, I thought her name was Bright Eyes.”

4. While under the “Come to Life” spell, the plow that Dusk is pulling literally comes to life, develops a personality, and starts to back-talk him.

5. In Fall Weather Friends, Trixie joins in the Iron Pony completion and the Running of the Leaves. She uses her magic to cheat in the events, like Rainbow Dash with her wings. Trixie justifies this by saying that Applejack can’t keep from using earth pony strength, and that it’s only fair that the other contestants use their natural abilities. Eventually, it descends into an argument on which race is superior; unicorn, pegasus or earth pony. As a result, windigos start to show up, attracted by the spike of racism. They have to use the Fires of Friendship in order to defeat them. All and all, it was a mediocre idea.

6. In announcing the Running of the Leaves, Spike asks Pinkie who owns the hot-air balloon they’re riding. Neither Pinkie nor Pinkamena has any clue.

Oh, and if that roll of ideas only fueled the rage you now have of not getting your favorite episode on my fic, I have a secret weapon that will totally and completely distract you…

There’s a manga.

You heard me. The same guy who did my cover art is making an anime-style comic book of this very story. Now, are you going to sit there and hate me for cutting out an episode, or are you going to fangasm, click the freaking link, read the manga, and fangasm some more?

Your choice.

With my deepest, most sincere apologies,

meme-asaurus (Spell it with a lower-case “m.”)