September 11
When we woke up, Meghan said that her uncle was going to come over at noon, so we couldn't spend all day in bed. And she asked when Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn were going to come by and help me move and I said that I had to call them when I was ready, so she didn't have to worry about them showing up unexpectedly.
So we snuggled up in bed together for a while and then she took the shirt off me 'cause she said that I was meant to be naked, and after I'd stretched out my wings I pulled the covers back and kissed her in the stomach and then I said that we'd ought to get up and start making breakfast 'cause the sun was already over the horizon and we both had a lot to do today.
Meghan chopped up the vegetables again and also chopped up a little bit of hay for my omelet, and we watched the birds eating their breakfast while we ate ours. Then she offered to do all the dishes for me and since I didn't have anything else to do and it was a little bit earlier than I'd thought, I sneaked up behind her and tickled her with my wing and she almost dropped the plate she was washing, and she said I was being bad but she didn't stop me either. She leaned over the sink and I made her forget about the dishes for a while.
Then she chased me to the futon and I let her pin me down, and when we finally got done she looked at her portable telephone and said that we'd better hurry up and take our shower so that she could get back to her apartment.
She got dressed and put away her clothes and said that I ought to hide my stallion toy in something so that my helpers didn't get the wrong idea and I wasn't sure how they'd get the wrong idea, because what else would it be for? But she said that maybe they wouldn't be understanding and I thought that they would be, but I put it in my pillowcase anyway to make her happy. And then we snuggled in the papasan for a little bit until it was half to noon, and she said that she'd better get to her apartment and we'd catch up back on campus.
Me and Peggy were going to be in the same room we'd had before, which was nice. And Meghan said that they'd also gotten rooms in Trowbridge, but they were a floor down and in the farthest-away wing. Still, we'd be close enough that we could hang out a lot.
While I waited for Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn, I took all the blankets off the futon and bundled them up and then I folded up my papasan chair and there wasn't much more that I could do because I didn't have any boxes to put things in and I didn't want to start taking the wires out of my computer because there were a lot of them and I didn't know where they all went.
So I pushed the futon kind of close to the balcony and watched the birds. And I wasn't sure what would happen to my bird feeder. I didn't know if I was allowed to have it outside the dorm, and even if I did these birds wouldn't be visiting me any more.
I could have given it to Tina who lived downstairs, maybe. Although I didn't know her very well—it was kind of odd to think about how we'd shared the same house but hardly ever talked at all. And maybe she didn't like birds. Then I thought that maybe Jeff and Caleb and Lindy and Trinity would like it, so I flew over to their house and knocked on their door and asked if they would adopt my bird feeder and my birds.
Jeff said that he would, so I flew back to my balcony and unhooked the birdfeeder and he was in the backyard when he was done and he decided that there were a couple of branches of the tree that hung over his backyard and he could hang it from that if he had a ladder. I didn't need a ladder, though, so he got me some rope and I went up and tied it around the branch and then we put it down low enough that he could fill it with seeds pretty easily.
By the time we were done with that, Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn had arrived in Sienna, and they helped me pack everything up, which didn't take all that long. And it was kind of sad when we were all done to see the apartment empty except for my futon and my desk and my chair—he said he was going to come back and get them later.
I asked him what he was going to do with it, and he said that the easiest thing would be to just donate them to Goodwill but that the government's accountability program wouldn't let him, and he had to list them as surplus equipment and then any other government office that wanted them could ask for them and it was really kind of dumb but it gave him something to do when he was bored. And he said that he could do the same thing with the bathtub mat and the drain plug and the shower curtain and everything else that I didn't need in the dorm room.
Well, I thought that was nice that everything was going to get to be reused by somebody else. I hoped that they liked it. And then I thought that maybe I could have gotten a bed from them instead of having to buy a new one, and he said that mostly when beds were available they were either left over from a prison or a mental institution and I didn't want those.
When we got to college, there were lots of cars and trucks parked in the wrong place and people carrying in furniture and boxes and everything else, and we sort of had to work our way through them all. I felt like I wasn't putting in as much work as he and Miss Cherilyn were, 'cause they wouldn't let me carry any boxes, and after they'd taken the first ones up they told me that I ought to start setting up the room the way I liked it.
Peggy's side of the room was empty, and after we'd unloaded everything and I gave Mister Salvatore the key to my apartment (Meghan still had the other one) he asked if I wanted to go out for pizza together or if I'd rather hang out with my friends.
I thought that I'd rather hang out with my friends, but it would be rude to turn him down after he'd spent so much time helping me move, even carrying up a couple of boxes of what was left of my hay bales, so we went together to Bilbo’s.
While we were eating lunch, I asked him if it might be possible to get the tornado team to come to Kalamazoo before they went back to Equestria, 'cause it would be fun to fly with them and I think there were a lot of people in town who would want to see them.
He said that he would have to look into it but he wasn't sure how he could justify it, and then Miss Cherilyn said that it could be educational and she thought he could try to work that angle, and she'd talk to the college administration and see if they could also push for it, and maybe also the airport since I was friends with the airplane directors.
So then I said that we could get Doctor Thomas Thompson to come along and measure things, if there were clouds in the sky, and so he started taking some notes and he said he'd do his best to get the team up here for a weekend but he couldn't make absolute promises because he didn't know what kind of agreements they'd worked out with the National Weather Service and NOAA and however many other agencies they'd had to go through before they'd even gotten permission to come to the US.
It was even more crowded in the afternoon, and a bunch of people who were coming in were staring at me. They were all people that I didn't know, so I guess they must have been new students who maybe weren't expecting to have a pony in their dorm. And after Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn left I went upstairs to see if Peggy was there yet but she wasn't. I could have called her but you weren't supposed to use your telephone when you were driving, and if she knew I was calling she would probably want to.
So I thought that I'd fly to the quad and see if any of my friends were out there, and Luke waved at me and I waved back at him, and I heard a shout as I was getting close to Hoben, so I flew over there to see who it was and Cedric stuck his fist up against the window screen and so I gave him a hoofbump. Then he turned around and told Leon that his marefriend was back and I said that I wasn't his marefriend, and Cedric told me that Leon had been wasting away all summer because he was pining for me and my ears dropped and I felt really bad that I hadn't known, and then he started laughing and said that he was just pulling my leg but that he'd missed me.
I didn't have to use my plastic badge to get into the building, 'cause the door was held open with a brick someone had taken out of the road, so I just went inside and up to their room and sat down on Cedric's bed and we talked for a little bit.
They'd both been back for almost a month, because they had to go to football camp, and they'd already played some games, too. And I asked how they'd done and he said that they'd won the first game but lost in the second by a little bit, and Leon said they'd lost by 54 points and that sounded like a lot. Cedric said it was Leon's fault for not making more touchdowns, and Leon said that he never had a chance to catch the ball because the offensive line was so weak that the quarterback never had time to throw it. But I could tell they were just kidding around, and Cedric asked if I wanted to see their next game and I could cheer them on. It was at Rockford, which was near Grand Rapids, and he said that they had buses that went there for people who wanted to watch.
I said I didn't know yet but I thought it would be a lot of fun, and then I hugged them and said that I was going to see how many of my other friends were on campus, although I felt like I could have spent the rest of the day hanging out with them.
So I flew back to Trowbridge and since I didn't want to go inside if Peggy wasn't there, I flew up and looked through the window, and I saw that some of her bags were on her bed, even though she wasn't in the room.
I went up and over, and only when I was landing on Pebble Beach did I remember I could have just dropped down and gone through the front door. But I was here now, so I opened up the door and went inside, and then upstairs to our room. Probably Peggy had called me when she'd gotten back and I bet she'd laughed when she heard my portable telephone ringing in our dorm room.
She still wasn't in the room when I opened the door, and I looked and saw that I'd gotten a call from her. So I told my telephone to call her back and I heard it ringing out in the hallway, then she came in the door and dropped her bag and hugged me.
I helped her bring up her last bags, and then the two of us spent the rest of the afternoon putting away our things and catching up. She thought that the boxes of hay were really funny and said that it was okay with her if I had them, so long as they didn't attract mice. But she was pretty sure that mice couldn't get in to our dorm room anyways since all the walls were big cement bricks and the ceiling was plaster.
I thought about washing my laundry before we went to dinner, but I decided that I could do it later, either tonight or tomorrow. Peggy said that there probably wasn't anybody else on campus who'd brought dirty laundry back with them, so there wouldn't be much competition for the washing machines.
We sat down at our usual table and dinner took a really long time because everyone including me kept getting up and saying hello to their friends as they got back. And I got lots of hugs from all my friends, and gave lots of hugs and nuzzles, too and it was really good to be back on campus and have all my friends around me.
It was kind of stressful, too, 'cause a bunch of different people were all having parties in their dorm rooms and invited me and I couldn't be everywhere, but Peggy said that it was okay to show up for a little while and then move on somewhere else. So we went to visit Christine and her friends in their suite first—they weren't in the same place as before, but when we got inside their room arrangement was the same. And we sat around and talked for a bit, and Peggy showed some pictures she had on her portable telephone of when I was in Colorado Springs with her.
Amanda had been in New York City, and she'd taken lots of pictures of it. Some of them were really pretty and others of them were really gritty and dirty but they were all interesting. There was even a picture of her sleeping on a stack of cardboard boxes and she said that her friend Grant had taken that one, and she really liked how it had come out even though he was normally a terrible photographer.
Christine had pictures of New Orleans, and it was really pretty, too. I wish that I'd had time to go down there and visit her, and I wish that I'd taken some pictures of my own, although I did have some movies and I knew how to find them, so before we left I had Christine find the YouTube movie of our team fighting the tornado. And Sean noticed that it had over twelve thousand comments, which was a lot.
I thought that we were going to wind up staying there all night, so I asked Peggy if she minded if I went and visited with Meghan and Lisa and Amy and Becky and she said that she didn't mind, and she was going to go hang out with Rebekka and Cat and Ruth, who were all in DeWaters this year. So we walked together up through the quad and stopped partway across 'cause we ran into Gates, and he congratulated me on my YouTube videos and said that he'd known that they'd be popular, and he said that if I wanted to make another one with him where we had filming on the ground and in the sky that would be awesome, so I said maybe we could do one with me catching a cloud and bringing it down.
Then I hung out with the girls for a while and I could have spent all night with them but I hadn't seen Aric in a while and maybe he was back. He'd be happy if I waited for him at his house, but then maybe Peggy would be lonely so I didn't know what I should do.
If everyone still wanted to play Durak on Monday, then I'd go to Aric's after that, or even if we didn't play. And I'd stay with Peggy tonight, 'cause that was fair, and it would also give me time to figure out the shower schedule in the morning. So I hugged everyone and went back to our room and I sat on my bed and sent a telegram to Aric.
He answered back a little bit later and said that he was somewhere in Indiana and he wouldn't be back for a couple more hours at least because he'd finished up in the the theatre late in the afternoon and at least he'd had the foresight to have all his important stuff in Winston already but he had to go back and pick up another load. And he said that I shouldn't wait up for him because there wasn't a bed in his room anyways, that was in Winston. So I told him that I'd see him tomorrow after Durak if I didn't see him sooner during the day, and then I put my portable telephone away and lay down in bed.
It took a while to get to sleep, though, 'cause it was noisy in the dorm with everyone still talking and being social, and I was also kind of eager about my new classes and seeing Aric tomorrow night.
Nice to see that everyone didn't tell Silver about what happened on September 11th in 2001. I don't think she would enjoy learning about such hate.
So some luckless government employee is gonna get stuck with Bad Dragon histories in their workstation in the future. Meghan had better remembered to clean it.
Welp.
7720436 I sorta wonder what her reaction would be to 9/11?
As to "what else could it be?" on Big Bang Theory Sheldon was organizing Penny's closet & asked her if she'd gotten a dog because he'd found a dog's chew toy.
I've been wondering at all that for a while, who pay for Silver's expense? The US governement? Equestria's? Scholarship? Herself? A bit of everything? How far can she go before running out of fund?
7720579 We always have flooding when it rains like that. Some underpasses get flooded out too.
Heh, she is such a social Fluttershy.
7718580
Considering the fact that it's a deep question in humanity as a whole, did you expect it to end any other way?
7719751
I would think a human would have a far greater advantage for hand-to-hood combat.
Judging just based on body positioning, a pony is pretty much limited to bucking and head-butting, which can be devastating, but a human would have a huge agility and grappling advantage, as we as being able to stay grounded while attacking.
If a pony wanted to fight with jabs, they'd be forced to put themselves off-balance and expose their sensitive stomachs to the opponent. All you would have to do is one good side-kick to the head, or catch their stupidly enormous eye-balls with a fist or foot.
Then again, if it's a friendly commotion, or there is armor, the best thing to do would probably ride them into the ground.
7719964
Indeed. We also know which one we missed.
7662012
Especially in college these days. In fact, I think there's a class in SG's school that's supposed to be teaching both.
BTW, in case you're not aware of it, the Rangers, the League of Assassins, the Bat Guild of Shadows, the Grey Counsel, and the Redjack Reformation Melioration Group all agree that the Best Assassin is Fluttershy, beating out Princess Luna by a narrow margin (just 0.519962%).
7720436 I suspect that such things are not completely unknown in Equestria, and the nations that make up the rest of their world.
7720646
All of the Grape-Flavored FlavorAid is the best part of living in Starlight Village. Foals get to drink the Grape-Flavored FlavorAid before the adults.
G1 because in the CadænceVerse, all ElementBearers are musicians, the Elements of Harmony take the form of musical instruments, and the Bearers activate the Elements of Harmony by playing them harmoniously.
7720598
Commercial wrist computers do exist, but they run restricted walled-garden Android environments, which are nothing but headaches.
On the other hand, there has been successes in mounting the formidable Kali Linux on top of android, which brings all sorts of possibilities.
http://www.techworm.net/2015/09/how-to-install-and-run-kali-linux-on-any-android-smartphone.html
Of course, packet injection is probably beyond the capabilities of most mobile networking chipsets.
So there's a One Caleb Limit in this verse?
7719780
yeah, we were working with 6 foot staffs. It was really tight. Especially with combat drills with a bit of power and speed behind them. Actual sparing would be way worse. We could get 3 or so matches (depending on age and skill level) with room for people watching doing regular spars. With staffs, i'd say one with on room for observers. Don't know how big our floor was, or how you measure stages for that matter.
Digital circuitry is made of switches, which aren't exactly complex. It's the size and number of them. the reliability of individual parts need to go up exponentially to keep the same overall reliability. And what people don't realize is that the support parts for computers are just as complex as the processor. memory controllers, chipsets, and timers can be just as complex so you end up with a stupid number of parts where a single break could potentially fry everything.
7720641
PWC - Pegasi Weather Channel
They send raw weather data 24/7 from all around the planet, with equestrian language and cloud and weather terminologies.
Pegasi get free plane passes, and earth becomes their extrem sport park.
Getting from storm to stom, fighting it down.
Watering all the great deserts on the globe and so on.
Aww, I wanted to see Mister Salvatore and Miss Cherilyn's reactions to that.
Mister Salvatore: But but, you're my good little pony not like Cayenne, there must be some sort of mistake!
Miss Cherilyn: Wow, that's rather impressive. So, um, where did you get it? For the paperwork you know.
7720479
It doesn't have quite the same impact on the latest crop of college kids.
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It was my highschool sophomore year when that shit went down. Or rather, a week before my sophomore year started, since the start of the semester had been pushed back a week due to construction on the school building. I got up late, around 10 AM, enjoying my last few days of vacation. Decided to drive to Best Buy and do some browsing. Heard about a terrorist attack on the radio, but didn't listen too closely, since in those days, hardly a week went by without hearing about new bloodshed in Gaza and Ariel Sharon making threats and Arafat thumbing his nose.
I got to Best Buy and all the display TVs were showing the same images of New York burning.
I well remember a little over a year later when Paul Wellstone was assassinated for opposing Bush's warmongering. There were girls crying in the school halls.
7720511 Should be Equestria, but if I remember correctly the financial situation isn't quite settled, so my theory is combination of scholarship and the government taking the debt as a "favor" to Equestria... You know, so they have something they can use in negotiations later on.
What's a little debt amongst "friends" right?
7720620
She would have seen that on the way to NM, yes. Also, you've been that way more recently than I have; is the leaning water tower still there along I-40?
sorry I do not remember that. and it has bean a few year since I have made that trip on that road.
If Silver isnt careful, she is going to get into the type of problem like Too Many Pinkie Pies? And at that point, theres likely to be a Pinkie Pie in her kitchen cupboard.
7721140 Now that you mention it, Equestria could do the same for the human students. Afterall, there is one human for each pony. So the debt is pretty much equivalent.
Ah, to be young.
7721140 Billions spent on the LHC and various space missions, what's a few million spent on a couple of hundred aliens who exhibit hitherto unknown physical forces?
If they can reverse engineer (maybe in this case it's 'engineer') antigravity that's worth HUNDREDS of billions!
Heh, I sort of drop off the story for a while, and catch up just in time for Silver going back to school.
Here's a though, though: She's got all these nice things and souveniers and stuff to take home with her, now. How will that fare with living in a cloud house, if she does?
7720472 nah. It's probably (literally) a standard issue machine, so whoever handles tech services with Mr. Salvatore's particular agency will almost certainly wipe it and install a fresh OS image. Privacy laws, doncha know. Despite her not being a citizen, they'll probably treat her like one, when it comes to that. Don't mean the NSA won't look over their shoulder without them knowing, but there won't be any poor office schlubs stumbling on her browser history.
I"m honestly a bit glad you didn't draw attention to 9/11 and just let Silver have a good day back at college. I'm around people who don't remember it(I'm friends with some 17+ year olds and I don't remember it either - I'm 21 now.) and every year they all pretend they remember and make huge speeches about #NeverForgetting and...yeah, it kind of just makes me feel weird, like they're pretending to remember to fit in for some reason, heh.
(I'm not saying no one my age remembers, I know some remember bits and pieces especially if they were friend New York, but I was 5/6 when it happened so it makes sense how most of us don't)
7721573
True.
I wonder what innocence breaking things the ponies innocently did that NSA uncovered?
Random NSA analyst: "No! Innocent ponies this cute shouldn't be looking at this!" *Grabs brain bleach*
7722840
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
ATC: "oh, futa!"
7718621
Silver Glow is an old soul.
7720503 I'm pretty sure this stallion toy is too realistic to easily mistake. Also, why would Silver have a dog toy?
It's always great to see old friends after a long time.
7720436
I don't know that there would be much point to it, and also as strange as it is to think about, for the students on campus, most of them would have been in pre-school or younger when it happened, so for most of them it wouldn't even have been much of an event. Certainly not something that was seared into their memories like it was for me.
7720472
"I'll just see what's on this machine and OH GOD MY EYES."
7720479
In some ways, it was a 'you had to be there' type of event. And I don't mean to sound callous, but in many ways it was like the assassination of JFK or Pearl Harbor or any number of other historical events--if you lived through them, your thoughts and reactions would be a lot different than if it was just something you read about in a history book and had no real connection to whatsoever. So for her it would be something without context, much like the Vietnam Wall that she saw not that long ago.
7720503
If you can't tell a chew toy apart from a dk . . . well, I suppose if the dog had been chewing on it for a while, maybe it would be hard to tell what it was supposed to be. . . .
7720511
The US government pays her expenses, and Equestria pays the person who's there in her stead.* She's got a fairly substantial budget, so she's not likely to go over, especially since she doesn't have a lot of the expenses that other students would, and there are also things that Mister Salvatore is getting at discount rates or free (like her pilot's watch).
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*obviously, the college is accepting some of the burden, as well; odds are that she's not paying tuition or for her dorm room or meal plan or books or any of those other things that get pricey at a modern college. And likewise, the human on the other side probably isn't paying tuition or for room and board or any of that.
7720588
Most of ours don't, because we do normally have to deal with reasonably large quantities of rain and snow. But in real bad storms, there are always some spots that should have been designed better.
(in my old hometown, the river would come up as much as 16 feet in the spring thaw, and the city fathers had dealt with that by not building anything that mattered in the river valley)
7720594
One of the best things about going back to college was seeing all your friends again.
7720631
Grappling, yes; staying grounded, maybe. Four legs is better for staying grounded since you're still stable with three; lose one as a human and you've got a problem. But at closer range, you're right, the pony pretty quickly loses a lot of its advantages, so if you make it across the 'devastating kick' threshold, you've got a decent chance of winning (although even a minor strike with a forehoof could be pretty damaging, especially if the pony has shoes on).
A skull kick might not do it; I've heard IRL horses have really thick skulls. Less sure about ponies of course, the show doesn't go into very realistic detail on that. Eyeball's probably a safe bet, assuming that they're roughly the same as human eyeballs. Granted, against a unicorn that could also open you up to evisceration, so it would pay to be cautious.
There it would depend on how strong they were. Cartoon physics again, but Twilight, Rainbow, and AJ were all able to buck Diamond Dogs off of their backs. Four legs, it would hard to drag them to the ground, but if we go with remotely plausible muscle and bone structure, once you've got them down they're going to have a very hard time getting back up again.
There'd definitely be a learning curve for both parties, since humans generally aren't used to fighting quadrupeds, and ponies aren't used to fighting bipeds, but my thoughts are that if the human can get close enough to grapple, he's got a pretty good chance of at the very least choking out the pony. If the pony's quick, though, a good buck to pretty much anywhere might end the fight in the pony's favor.
7720642
I'd argue that we don't know (although perhaps that's being pedantic). But it's something I thought about during the Bush vs. Gore days--would there have been a 9/11 if Gore had been president? I'm sure that Osama would have still tried to carry out the plot, but would Gore have picked Cabinet members, etc., who might have foiled the plot before it came to fruition? I don't think that there's any way to know.
I could see that. You'd never suspect her, and any animal could be her ally. Plus she's already backed down a dragon and outstared a cockatrice, so there's canon evidence that when she wants to she can be a complete badass.
7720663
I suspect that such things are not completely unknown in Equestria, and the nations that make up the rest of their world.
Well, in their case it's more often literal monsters rather than figurative monsters, but yeah.
7720690
I suppose it would largely depend on what you wanted your wrist computer to do. For a luddite like me who doesn't really think about the nuts and bolts of his smartphone, a wrist-mounted version of what I have right now would be pretty awesome, so long as it had better battery life.
7720850
That is correct.
(Correction made; thank you)
7720899
The big thing is the footwork; even if you're just moving back and forth, you eat up ground pretty quick. And while fencing drills, you can have ten or twenty people in a line, staffs have a really big swing when you're using them like you're supposed to, so yeah. Lots of room. Not a good inside toy.
Usually length x width. And most stages are wider than they are deep, and for swordfighting we usually want to be side-on to the audience anyways or else they won't see the moves, so we usually only concern ourselves with length--most of our fights are set up to only move along a line, although of course you can make it wider if you want to.
I was watching a YouTube video a little while back about a memory delay box, which was a big coil of wire that bimetallic strips twisted, and that was how the memory got delayed--it had to go around a loop and come back again. Obviously these days it would be solid state, but that's just one small function which has to work right or else the system doesn't work right. Back in my younger days, trying to play a video game on something with a processor at a faster clock speed was a problem, too. Some of the games we had for our IIe were unplayable on my friend's IIgs.
7720950
That might be a fun channel to watch. Especially if there was a weatherpony showing highlights on the map, or maybe it would be so low-tech that the information would be on paper on an easel, and the weatherpony would keep flipping through the charts.
That would be a lot of fun. They could sell adventure packages. "Want to surf a feral hurricane? Come to Earth!"
One of the things I thought was funny in Battlefield Earth (the book, not the movie) is when one of the alien races that was helping to rebuild the planet figured out that the Sahara used to be a forest, they replanted it.
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7721140
It's more the fact that they're still working out exchange rates and so on, because nobody wants to accidentally crash a market.
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7721159
A few years? You've got me beat by a decade or so. I think the last time I went out that was was 03 or 04.
7721184
A Pinkie Pie for every cupboard? That sounds like a campaign promise which would go horribly wrong.
7721186
Yeah, that was my thought. The schools/government could arbitrarily decide that the value was the same for both, and leave it at that.
7721241
Quite. I'd still give it a go if the opportunity arose, mind you.
7721302
Exactly! One unicorn could provide the breakthrough for the Grand Unified Theory, or an earth pony could figure out how to make a staple crop immune to insects. Heck, stopping one tornado completely could potentially save millions of dollars worth of property.
7721427
We've seen in canon that they have some way of putting furnishings in a cloud house without them falling through, so she could put the small stuff up there. There's actually not all that much that she's likely to take back with her--things like the radios would be useless in Equestria, for example.
7721573
Or else they just take out the hard drives and hand them to the NSA, and then put a new one in the machine.
Oh, they're almost certainly monitoring her computer usage, cell phone usage, etc. So just like every other citizen.
7722001
That's what I was thinking. I was going to mention it, but virtually none of Silver Glow's friends would have any clear memories or understanding of it, unless they lived in New York City at the time. Had she wanted to, obviously she could have found people who did, gone to a Patriot Day parade or whatever, but to most of the students on campus it would be a thing that had happened when they were alive that had historical significance but that they didn't really understand until well after the fact.
7722350
Just imagine what the poor analyst going over Cayenne's computer might have seen.
7722881
Imagine them setting up a practice center in Equestria, and having some poor bastard of an ATC controller trying to keep track of them doing Winter Wrap-Up.
You know that one of the problems they're going to have in training the pegasi to use flight radios and talk to ATC is getting them to not report everything. Especially if there are several in the same area.
7723780
To distract the pony-herding dog?
7724065
That was the part I liked about going back to college the best.
And I'm back from reading through David Silver's magnum opus. Let's see what Silver Glow's up to. Hmmm... Sneaking fake penises and boxes of dried grass onto campus. Naughty, naughty pegasus!
7750996
"Man, I have seen some shit but this mare is wicked!" *chugs brain bleach*
NSA probably assign analysts on "Cayenne duty" as punishment detail.
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They probably do. You know, there was speculation in the comments if being on pony duty was a punishment for the FBI agents.
I wonder . . . I bet IRL the NSA does punish employees by making them watch the worst of the worst.
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Judging by the amount of paperwork Mister Salvatore gave that poor cop, probably very true.
But they get to meet "innocent", adorable little horses.
That's what I'm suspecting too...
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I'm sure Gusty's handlers are having a good time. She's kinda the goody-fourshoes of the bunch.
At Meijer, the janitor with lowest seniority got to clean the breakrooms and the bathrooms. That was me . . . for only one day, luckily.
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Definitely, she won't even get naked!
(Except when she's with Nicky, of course )
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Rocs, Bugbears, Dragons, Griffons, Sphinx, Flyder Swarm, we've seen a few flying hazards.
Like that fact it actually cuts out you vision for a moment when ever your eyes move.
We had a cat who acted like a dog, played fetch, sat up and begged, etc... Also an alcoholic ferret. It LOVED beer.
Silly cute pony being silly cute and wanting to fly out rather then talk on the phone.
And a great little scene between the two that just further shows how much more chemistry and how much deeper a bond these two have then with Aric, just, having fun sitting together watching the birds, nothing else needed.
So, only EP's have stoves? I get cooking in the clouds has to be a bit of a chore, but it can happen, we've seen RD and FLuttershy's family's kitchens, and meals they made. Granted, that could be because it's Cloudsdale and so the cloud homes are more stable and able to be built up more like that, versus her little village that is mostly just whatever clouds they gathered up since the last time it blew away.
D'awwww Pony getting to like just being around the big silly foals. And being extra horsey cute about whinnying to them.
Silver, you actually being in the barn where you belong is all the treat that puppy needs.
And she is just so extra eager to help, even if it's mucking out stalls.
That poor, poor doggy. "Why smol horse no be like big horses!'
So, would pissing on your bed to claim it be a normal thing for ponies for her to take it so in stride?
'Get back here smol horse! Horse be on ground! No horse fly!'
Bad store, why you not be identical to other stores of your type and confuse pony!
Yeah... supermarket Sushi is... not the best. Still at least it stayed down,
Pfffft, her dropping the seeds on a car, better hope your insurance covers pegasus damage. And just had a thought. insurance adjusters trying to get an idea for the odds and risks of ponies, so they know how to adjust their prices for things, heading over to get an idea about how often various accidents etc occur over there, and shitting themselves at the number of times a year entire towns get destroyed and rebuilt. And no insurer would ever even mention Equestria after that.
Pony.... playing... Frisbee...... so.... CUUUUTE!
And she got a new viral video.
D;awww and we see Silver being a truly amazing friendship ambassador and just, being so pony and winning everyone over to loving her through it.
As discussed, yeah your mind does all kinds of things to the images your eyes see. Like there are two patches of vision, (one in each eye Where the optic nerve connects to your retina), that you see nothing out of, and the only reason there ins't a big black dot there is your brain just fills in what it thinks should be there.
Whoooo product test that toy! And the leave a very, very details feedback review on the site about it!
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Teleporting taking relative velocity into account reminds me of Days of Wasp and Spider, where it tried to be as 'hard sci-fi' as possible about things. (Short version, set in the very, very, very distant past where ponies are all slaves to the 'Masters' aka ancestors of the diamond dogs, who have a massive, uber high tech global empire, built on the backs of their slave race's magic. To the point ponies are all given 'The Blessing' as a 'coming of age ceremony' which is actually a magical control feature that causes them intense pain if they even think about disappointing or disobeying a Master, pain they are taught to believe comes from 'The Maker' as divine punishment for being bad. Until an experiment (involving a pony in a particle accelerator) results in The Blessing being removed from a certain white coated, pink maned pony, who frees her darker hued sister, and proceeds to wage a rebellion against their former Masters.)
Anyway, point, teleporting in that 'verse keeps actual momentum intact, meaning if you teleport any significant distance north or south, it can mess with you hard. Luna uses this to turn a mountain into a shotgun. Carving it up into more manageable blocks, and then just teleporting it in front of the enemy, letting Newton do the rest.
And Meghan finding some creative ways of waking up her pony, WHOOOO have fun you two!
Also, first naked cooking, then toys, now food play? Meghan, you kinky kinky little thing.
Who of course knows who her mistress is and wants to do whatever Pony wants to do.
Sneaky sneaky storms, sneaking up on pony and surprising her.
She's not wrong on humans likely messing up the saddlebags to be easier for humans, but not easy for ponies.
Silly cute human servant, just so eager and excited to help her Pony, even just carry her things for her.
Dog mode 'Oh no, that smol horse is back... oh well, time to try and get her to do what she's supposed to again....'
D'awwww so cute, Silver worrying about if the horses want to go out in the rain or not.
"Why there smol horse on my back? This not right."
And Deanne is loving the oddness of having a pony riding her horses, and then being a pony in the yards. Again, great publicity and vote of confidence "The only riding stable in <insert area here> so good to be Pony approved"
Also, I'm so curious of Deanna was trolling Meghan about the 'warm horse between your legs' comment.
Pizza, the ultimate "Fuck it we're lazy' food.
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The big issue is 'if', and when dealing with say, RD, good luck dealing with that much raw speed and agility. Maud... even a simple head tap would knock you on your ass, so don't even try. Getting in closer to Maud just gives her more ways to make you suffer. And just try grappling Pinkie Pie, go on, I dare you.
Would Meghan meeting Gusty cause a BSOD? "But but, ponies are naked, why isn't the pony naked!?"
Yet again, so damn insatiable, while still being cute about it.
Very simple pony wisdom, it's obvious what the toy is for, how could there be a wrong idea about it?
Sharing a house without being friends is only odd for pony.
D'awww again just her phrasing "Adopt my birdfeeder'
Not needing ladders #pegaperks
Let the pony carry something and feel helpful! She no likes having her servants do EVERYTHING for her,
But she is learning how to get what she does want.
And even if she is learning to not be so gullible, she's still so damn easy a target, bad humans, teasing pony with unrequited love.
Reunion with lots of friends day, best day for pony! so many hugs!
Drop everything and hug, the proper response to a pony.
I doubt the cement would stop determined rodents.
Let's be glad Silver doesn't have a nearby Mirror Pool to help with this situation....
So, noting a bunch of comments on her video, why not read some of them?
Gates knows how to hop on that pony viral video craze.
Pony dilemmas, go get laid, or hang with a friend, and these are both equally weighty decisions.
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Oh yeah, tons on Equestria, but on Earth, the only things she’s really got to worry about is airplanes and electrical wires.
And fills in the background for you, which is why it sometimes seems when you look at an analog clock that the second hand moves backwards once before going forward.
A cat that thought it was a dog would be awesome. Not sure how I’d feel about an alcoholic ferret . . . I suppose it would depend on if it was a happy drunk or a mean drunk.
It’s always best to talk face to fact . . . plus, Silver Glow isn’t all that good with telephones anyway.
They really do. Meghan is happy whenever she’s with Silver, no matter what the two of them are doing.
[When I wrote SGJ I don’t think either of those episodes had aired yet--and if they had, I hadn’t seen them.]
We do know from canon that you can keep stuff in a cloudhouse--I’m pretty sure that we’ve seen things in RD’s house, and of course all the machines in Cloudsdale, not to mention whatever Boxxy Joe and company were moving that they dropped on Twilight (I assume that was going to a cloudhouse, since why else would you carry it in a flying wagon and not on the ground?). But, I think that especially in a rural area like Chonamare, stoves in clouds aren’t going to be terribly popular. I mean, there’s not only the stove to think of; you’ve got to carry wood or coal or something up there to use as fuel for the stove . . . and yeah, you’d also want to consider that your stove might get lost at sea when a storm blows your house away.
There might be community stoves on the ground, or it just might be easier for most of the pegasi to graze, and to eat hot food at the pub or other places on the ground, rather than make their own food.
Which I guess means she knows three languages--Equestrian, English, and Horse.
He’s so happy that the silly birdhorse is where she belongs for once.
Which, let’s be honest, is a pretty shitty job.
He’s surely completely perplexed by her, but he’s trying his best.
While I doubt that ponies do that, there are likely plenty of other animals in Equestria that would do that (cats, dogs, etc.), so just as it’s common knowledge/folklore among humans that dogs pee on trees to mark their territory, it would be for the ponies, too.
That poor dog. He’s probably wishing that he could fly after her and corral her and get her back in the barn where she belongs.
The layout of Meijer stores is always similar, but not always the same. There are currently two that I regularly shop at, and two more that I infrequently shop at, and none of them are arranged the same.
Yeah. It’s better than gas station Sushi, I’m sure, but not all that great.
True story, I was once going to write a story about a Ponyville insurance agent. You’re right that no insurance company would touch anything in Equestria with a ten foot pole, not after seeing the aftermath of the first monster attack or literally anything that the CMC get up to.
I’d think that in general, accidental pegasus damage would be covered under comprehensive insurance, and at least for now it’s a very small risk, probably not really worth considering on Earth.
Seriously, practically anything that Silver Glow does would make a viral video.
You must love the pony. There is no escape.
Ooh, I was just thinking--imagine show like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood but with a pony host? That would be sooooooo amazing.
Pattern recognition, too (or what the brain thinks it should be seeing . . . that’s another fun one. Back when I used to drive wrecker, on some nights when I was really, really tired I’d hallucinate semi-trucks--my brain would see a few yellow lights (like in a parking lot), assume that they were clearance lights, and fill in the semi truck that should have been there.
It also has trouble when you’re really focused on one thing, which is how I once managed to see a Geo Metro but not see the city bus behind it.
“It’s all right, but doesn’t really feel like a real stallion, and trust me, I know.”
Days of Wasp and Spider is one of those things that’s been on my RiL forever and I’ve never gotten around to it.
Relative velocity when teleporting is also a plot point in Celestia Sleeps In/Onto the Pony Planet (<--shameless self-promotion)
There was one moment in the show where they did this, too--when they were all running from the dragon, they came back out on the other side still running at the same speed. I assume since they wound up just outside the forest, it wasn’t a very long teleport.
That’s all it would take. And if you take it to its logical end--especially given that the ponies might be able to move heavenly bodies--a decent-sized asteroid teleported right into the orbital path of a planet you didn’t like too much would solve a lot of problems.
I actually tried to use this type of thing in a sci-fi RPG once: grabbed an asteroid in the tractor beam on my spaceship, accelerated to warp speed, aimed at a planet, hit the brakes and released the asteroid.
She’s just having fun. And anyway, naked cooking is preparation to living a nearly (or completely) clothes-free lifestyle in Equestria. So it counts for research and therefore is not kinky.
Of course she wants to do whatever Pony wants to do.
With an alert Silver Glow on patrol, the only chance the storm has is to be sneaky.
I know, right? All the buckles and fasteners are in the wrong place for a pony to use.
She’ll do almost anything for her pony. In fact, I think the only place she draws the line is skydiving.
One of these days, Dog will win.
That’s a fair thing to worry about. I bet there are ponies (obviously, not peagasi) who don’t like going out in the rain.
Poor Henry. This is really too much for him to figure out.
That can’t be the only riding stable that ponies have visited, of course--either to learn to ride horses, or to just hang out with them, or for whatever other reason a pony might have to visit. But yeah, I suppose an endorsement from an actual pony would be something kind of amazing, even if in Silver Glow’s case her visits are a weird combination of her acting like a horse and her acting like a human.
Remember that the first time they met, this happened:
“I said that I wanted to and she asked if I'd even ridden a horse before and I admitted that I hadn't but I'd ridden Meghan this morning for practice.” Even though they cleared that up, you know that whether or not Deanne thinks they’re actually doing the horizontal pony pokey, she’s going to keep tossing out innuendo whenever the opportunity presents itself.
It’s true. Especially since in most places that’s about the only food that’s reliably delivered [well, and Jimmy John’s] (although these days with Uber cars, that’s probably not so much the case any more)
Yeah, that’s it--storms are her cheese. And let’s be honest here, she’s probably going to eventually die in one, she knows it, and she doesn’t care because that’s way better than dying in her sleep.
RD might not be so bad. She’s fast, but she’s not overly clever in a fight and probably only has one or two good moves. Maud, yeah, one shot from her and it’s all over.
Humans don’t work in as many dimensions as Pinkie Pie does.
I suppose it would depend on how up on Equestrian culture Meghan is. Surely she knows that in some cities, ponies wear clothes a lot (plus, let’s be honest, Gusty is probably super-adorable in her clothes) . . . I think the real weirdness would set in if/when Meghan discovers that she’s more comfortable without clothes than Gusty is.
I know, right?
It kind of is, at least here in the US. Not so sure how it works in other cultures.
Which I suppose carries the implication of Jeff also adopting her birds.
There are a lot of problems that a flying creature solves very differently than one who can’t fly.
Yeah, at least she’s got the humility to want to do things for herself and not want to just let her humans do all the things for her . . . there are probably some ponies who have fallen into that trap (I can only imagine how Diamond Tiara would behave on Earth).
Ask nicely, and add ‘it’s educational’ (those are often the magic words) and see what happens.
Unrequited love is probably a crime in Equestria
I know, right? That’s why school starting back up is always such a mixed blessing.
It is.
No chance. I used to have gerbils, who obsessively chew anything they can get their chompers on. I bought a ‘chew proof’ food dish. It lasted a week. They even chewed the metal water bottle hanger.
I’d have to look it up, but I think that they really did have problems with putting naked mole rats in a zoo, because if the rats didn’t like the tunnel arrangement, they’d chew new ones. Through the concrete.
Related; one of my friends wants me to write a Filly Anon story around this image:
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Maybe she doesn’t know that you can. And let me tell you, that’s a rabbit hole because then you feel like you need to write a reply to them and all of a sudden there are nineteen thousand comments. . . I don’t know for sure, but I bet that the number of comments on the video is the number of comments on SGJ on that date.
He does, but let’s be honest here, Meghan’s the one putting most of them up now, and Meghan’s making bank on those videos (not that Silver would care). That’s how she’s going to finance her emigration to Equestria if it comes down to it.
I know, right?