Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for September 04, 2022

Better show Marigold MLP “Friendship is magic”!

Does Florence live in this general area or not?

She must need a night light so she doesn’t fear the Red Bull

There was an older storyline about Phoebe showing Marigold the movie, though I don’t think it got reprinted in any of the book collections.

I remember Marigold screamed in terror after the titular unicorn became human.

never read the book, but have seen its animated motion picture adaptation

Absolutely essential reading. I read it when it was first published, in 1968 or so, and saw the animated film in the theater in 1982.

Don’t go all Magic Do What You Will on us. Lord knows what would happen.

My plan is progressing nicely! And now we indoctrinate the sheeple into believing The Last Unicorn is their favorite book—oh, whoops, did I say that out loud? :O

what happens if a unicorn drinks a Red Bull? Do they become a Pegi-corn?

I wonder how well Marigold dealt with the part where the unicorn turns into a human, think of how messed up she would be if she ever became a human in the series.

I think that should be more scary to her than wondering if she is the last unicorn.

That movie was rather heartbreaking but in sort of a good way.

and there are plenty of other unicorns if Marigold hasn’t forgot.

There’s her sister obviously, then there’s Lord Splendid Humility and Ferny and all the other unicorns from her other world and let’s not forget her parents who appeared in Unicorn Selfies.

I just want to say

“Think about it Marigold there are worse things than being the last unicorn, you could be a human woman who becomes mortal and learns what love and regret is and forgets about ever being a unicorn in the first place and falls in love with a prince and doesn’t want to become a unicorn again”.

You got bigger things to worry about.

Although I agree I would hate it if she ever became the last one.

unicorns are prevalent in Phoebe’s world, but if it was real life it wouldn’t be the Red Bull who took them all away.

It would be the people who would kill them all.

If Red Bull gives you wings, if Marigold drank it would she become Pegasus ?!

Well, I know what’s going on Phoebes banned book list!

Nice one, Dana!

Who does Marigold think she is? “The only gay in the village?”

If you get it, you get it.

Yes. Yes it is.

Good to see Florence is always somewhere around Marigold.

I was literally thinking of the animated movie just last night.

Marigold and Phoebe are correct though.

But is a better song, and a good one-time watch movie.

I understand this happen to Mohicans too.

I reread that periodically just to bask in the writing. What a wonderful book.

Pete Beagle loves this series. I met him once at a book signing. He took partial credit for Marigold, because he was the first person to write about a female unicorn. Until then all unicorns o myth and legend had been male.

I hope Mr. Beagle was joking when he said that.

Fun Fact: Dana Simpson is a fan of The Last Unicorn. Also Marigold is based on the ancient royal tapestries.

It’s not like humans freak out watching “The Last Man on Earth.”

For additional end-of-species angst, try “The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek.”

It really, really is.

Not to mention the 80s animated movie “The Last Unicorn”.

Ah, Amalthea… one of my favorite quotes, how does it go? “This body is dying all around me — I can FEEL it!”

I still think that the late Theodore Sturgeon was the most versatile science-fiction writer ever, turning out works as different from each other as “Killdozer,” “The World Well Lost,” “The Professor’s Teddy Bear,” and Some of Your Blood. I had a chat with him at a Vancouver science-fiction convention and told him how much I particularly loved his fantasy short story “The Silken-Swift,” which features a unicorn. He told me that Peter Beagle had told him that that story had been the inspiration for Beagle’s The Last Unicorn.

(A few years later I had the pleasure of chatting with Beagle at a subsequent convention.)

Some years later, Beagle was touring, mostly in college towns, with a restored version of the film, with an entrepreneur who was with him, selling books and paraphernalia (I saw the movie in Tucson and got a lovely tote bag with the complete text of the book— https://www.litographs.com/ ). It later turned out that the entrepreneur had completely ripped off Beagle and run away with the money, or something like that. A sad story, and that tote bag is no longer available.