August 28
I was eager to get going when I woke up, so I got out of bed carefully so I wouldn't wake up Peggy and went to the shower. I'd kind of gotten spoiled by mine, and while hers was nice 'cause it was just a shower without a bathtub, it didn't have a mat and the floor was really slippery.
I shook off before I got out and put my towel around my mane, and then went back to her bedroom. She was still asleep so I went to her desk and sat in her chair and wrote in my journal. She had a really cute red lamp that was on wheels, and made a little pool of light just over the desk so it wouldn't wake her up.
I looked up when I heard another airplane taking off and I thought that that would wake her up, too, but it didn't.
It was already pretty light when Peggy finally woke up and when I wasn't in bed she first looked over at the cot and then saw me sitting at her desk.
She got out of bed and petted my mane and asked me if I'd been writing all summer long, and I said that I had. She said that it must be pretty long by now, and I suppose it was.
I asked her if she wanted me to get breakfast for her, and she said that we could get it together. And then I asked if she wanted me to get out clothes for her, 'cause Meghan let me pick out her clothes. She said I could pick a shirt, so I started to look through her dresser for shirts. It was easier to pick for Meghan 'cause I knew what she had.
I finally found one I liked that said 'I love them double Ds' and had two diamonds on it, which was how they marked snowboard trails.
Peggy thought it was a funny choice, and she said if anyone asked she was going to tell them that I'd picked it. And when she put it on she said it was a little bit tight, which was appropriate enough.
She checked on the weather, and said that there were probably going to be afternoon thunderstorms. I asked her if I should go and patrol during them, but she said that she didn't think it would be necessary. And then she asked if I'd ever been to a zoo.
I said that I hadn't, and she said that it would be fun. I could get a quick look and then we could go meet up with her friends downtown for lunch and maybe visit the park and a dispensary and then after that we could figure out what else we wanted to do. She said that there was also an airplane museum that wasn't too far but she thought that her mom would want to go there with me.
So we had a quick breakfast of cereal and then she went into the garage and got her wheeled snowboard and put that in the back of Cobalt, 'cause she said that there was a park near downtown where you could ride them, which wasn't as good as snowboarding but it was almost as good. And she got her helmet, too.
The park was towards Pikes Peak, and Peggy said it was famous for being the only zoo on the side of a mountain. That seemed like an odd thing to be famous for, and Peggy agreed. She said it wasn't as big or as good as the Denver Zoo, but it was a lot closer, which was nice, and we were also allowed to feed giraffes.
The giraffes were a lot of fun—the lettuce was overpriced and I said that we should have just brought our own, but Peggy said that we weren't allowed to. I guess the giraffes were used to people feeding them, 'cause when we got over to the boardwalk a couple of them came right over and put their heads down so that they could reach the food and she said that you could even pet them if they'd let you. So I nuzzled one on the cheek and he drooled on me a little bit and she said that she wished she'd gotten that on camera. And I found out that they didn't like it so much when you blew into their nostrils. I guess that's not how giraffes make friends.
We also saw some lions, who were kind of boring, 'cause they were all napping, and we weren't allowed to bang on the glass to wake them up. But the other African animals were fun to watch—the elephants played around in their pool and sometimes blew water out of their trunks, and we got to look at the rhinos from inside an airplane that was mounted on a pole. Peggy said it was kind of strange, and that they hadn't had the airplane when she was younger.
There was an enclosure that had meerkats, too, and they were a lot of fun to watch. They ran around and stood up a lot, so that they could see better. Their favorite food was termites, and in Africa instead of living in trees, the termites built mounds on the ground that the meerkats dug through to get their dinner.
I asked Peggy how the animals liked living in Colorado, since all the pictures of Africa made it look like it was warm and flat, and I couldn't remember what we'd learned all the different continents were like but I didn't think that Africa got cold and snowy in the wintertime. I guess the lion's shaggy mane would keep him warm if it did.
She said that they kept them inside when it was really bad out, but that the zoo stayed open all year and most of the animals that were outside didn't mind the cold too much, and they had warm places they could go if they were too cold.
We went and saw the Colorado animals next. They had some mooses, which looked a lot like horses, but with bigger faces and huge horns. They stayed away from us and just went on grazing in their boggy pasture.
There was a mountain lion that was prowling around its habitat, going right up to the glass and then jumping over the rocks that it had, and it looked like it was trying to figure out if there was a way to escape and eat someone, and I didn't trust it at all. At least if it did get out, I could fly away.
They had a little display with otters, who were like meerkats that lived in the water. They liked floating on their backs which was really cute, and the sign said that different kinds of otters lived in rivers and streams and lakes all over the United States, so I was going to have to keep an eye out for them when I was back in Kalamazoo.
Once we'd gotten done looking at the animals, we took a chairlift across the park and then we went up to the Will Rogers shrine, which was a tall building that overlooked Colorado Springs. I could see the airport, but not Peggy's house, even though I knew about where it was. She said that maybe if we'd had binoculars we'd have been able to spot it.
When we were back in Cobalt she said that none of her friends could make it for lunch, but that some of them were free for dinner, and so we'd meet up then for a late night at the pub, and that sounded like it would be fun to me.
So we went to a Taco Bell for a light lunch, and then we drove over to Memorial Park. She had to park her car a little ways away because there were so many cars parked close, and she got out her wheeled snowboard and her helmet and we started walking towards the park.
Well, when we got there there was a big crowd of people, and a bunch of police cars, too, and she didn't know what was going on. So I offered to fly up and see, but she said that might not be safe until we knew what was happening.
When we got closer, there were a bunch of people standing around without shirts and holding signs that said #freethenipple and some of them had that painted on them, too. Some people were talking to them and one woman was talking to a man with a microphone.
I wanted to go over and talk to them, too, and so Peggy followed along, and there was this really nice girl named Leah who I thought was a boy when I first saw her because she had short hair and really small breasts. She said that they were protesting how it was unfair that men could go around without shirts on but women couldn't.
Well, I thought that was unfair, too.
Then she told me that all over the United States people were having protests and parades to draw attention to it, and she asked if we wanted to join with them.
Well, I did want to stay with them for a little bit especially because Leah had started to scratch my ears. Peggy didn't really want to until she saw one of her friends who was named Gina. And she asked Gina if this was why she wasn’t free for lunch, and Gina said it was, and then said that she liked Peggy's shirt, and Peggy got all red and said that I'd picked it for her.
So then Gina and Peggy sat down with us and Gina tried to convince Peggy to take off her shirt but Peggy said that she wasn't going to show her boobs to all of Colorado Springs and anyone with an internet connection as well.
After they'd caught up and Gina had met me, we walked more towards the center where a skinny man with long, tangled hair who smelled kind of skunky painted their slogan on my belly so that you could see it when you saw my belly and then after we'd met a few more people we went off to the other end of the park. And Peggy asked if it was okay if I posed with Gina and Leah and she took my picture, and I said that it was.
There were some things that Peggy called half-pipes, and then a big, recessed area that you could ride in, and there were already some people playing there but not too many. Peggy said that most of them were boys and that they were probably gawking at all the topless girls but that was fine because it was more space for us.
She rode down first and it was just like snowboarding, although the sides were steeper and there were more frequent obstacles. And there were things that she could do with her board that she couldn't do with a normal snowboard, 'cause it would have been strapped to her shoes.
So the most basic thing was to ride down one side and then back up the other, and I got the hang of that pretty quickly. And as long as I kept some weight down on the board, I could use my wings to help me with some tricks, so I was having lots of fun. I couldn't make the board flip around; I tried a few times but I never managed to get my hooves on it in the right place at the right time and usually if it did flip, it just landed on its back and skidded off.
She also showed me how to jump for height and that was a lot of fun except that I lost the board every time, and she said that didn't really matter. And then she told me that people compete for how high they can go, and she shouldn't have said that right when I was at the edge, 'cause the next time I went I used my wings to get extra speed on the downside, and after the board fell out from under my hooves I kept flying up, until I was about a hundred feet high and I said that I won.
She said that using my wings was cheating, and I said that she was just jealous because she didn't have wings of her own. And I guess I shouldn't have been so boasty, because she went over to the other course and just flew around it, flipping her board around and landing back on it and then when she'd finally jumped over every obstacle and gone around all the banks, she got off the board and said that it was my turn. I did make the first jump but the board didn't.
After that we went back to Cobalt, because it was getting really dark and cloudy and it felt like it was going to rain soon. Everyone was still out in the park with their nipples free, and they'd put up a small pavilion for shelter if it rained. I waved to Leah and then flew up a bit so that she could see the message on my belly, then looped back around and down.
When we got to the corner, I saw Miss Cherilyn standing there, and she waved at me. Peggy asked her what she was doing, and she said she was keeping an eye on things, just in case. And I asked her if Mister Salvatore was around, and she said that she'd suggested he take a two-day Jeep trip up in the mountains, just to keep him away because she was sure he'd find a way to get himself in trouble if he was watching a topless protest.
I thought that he was going to be kind of mad that he'd missed it, and she smiled and said she thought so too.
Peggy asked if it was okay for us to go to a dispensary, and Miss Cherilyn said that she was going to be here, and Mister Salvatore was somewhere in the mountains, so she had no problem with it, but she advised against letting me try anything that they had for sale, and Peggy said that we weren't buying, just looking around.
She raised her eyebrow, and then told me and Peggy not to do anything stupid, and then went back to watching the protest.
We got to Cobalt just before it started to rain, and Peggy used her portable telephone to get us directions to a dispensary. She said that she had never imagined that she would tell a federal officer that she was going to look at drugs and that that was a story which was never going to grow old.
We had to drive all the way through town but we finally got to a little brick shop that was called The Dankery, which was a brown brick building with a green stripe and all the windows covered up.
She said that it looked kind of sketchy, but we went in anyways, and inside it was a lot nicer although the smell was pretty intense. Peggy said that she thought she might get a contact buzz just from being in here, and after we looked around a little bit and had a nice girl with blue hair that was almost the same color as my coat tell us about all the different kinds they had, we left without buying anything. I was glad it was raining because that helped wash some of the scent off of me and clear out my nostrils.
We had a little bit of time before we were supposed to meet everyone for dinner, so we went back to Peggy's house and she took another shower and changed into clean clothes, and she also gave me a washcloth so that I could clean the paint off my belly.
It had stopped raining by the time we got back in Cobalt and went to the Jack Quinn Irish Alehouse and Pub. Which was kind of like Olde Peninsula inside.
Gina was already there, along with another friend who was named Clive. When they saw us, we all got a big table 'cause Peggy said some more of her friends were coming to visit, and we ordered some appetizers and beer for before they got there.
Peggy asked Gina how the rest of the protest had gone, and she said it had gotten cold when it started raining and a lot of people had wimped out and gone home which was too bad. But she thought that there was going to be some coverage on the news tonight, although they'd probably edit it so that nobody could see a single nipple.
We were still snacking on our appetizers when Heather and Lindsay arrived, and Lindsay was another snowboarder, so the first thing she said when she met me was that she'd seen the video of me snowboarding and that I had good style.
We'd ordered our dinner by the time her last friend arrived who was named Victoria and brought her boyfriend who was named Blake. And they were also snowboarders, too. I don't know if everyone in Colorado Springs was or if just Peggy's friends were. But that was mostly what we talked about at first, and then after a while we talked about lots of stuff like college and what we were gonna do after it. Lindsay said unless she broke something bad she was going to the Winter Olympics, and everyone said that they'd cheer her on.
It was funny—once Peggy told me what the Olympics were, I thought it was pretty amazing to be talking to someone who might be good enough to actually compete in them, and at the same time Lindsay thought it was really amazing that she was talking to a pony. And I don't know how we got on the topic, but someone brought up Orange is the New Black and nobody but Peggy believed that I actually knew Gusty. Peggy said that she'd met her, too, the last time we'd been through on a train.
It was really late when we left the bar, and I'd had too many beers to drink. I started singing along with the radio on the way home because they were playing Renegade, and we had to go in to a gas station so that I could pee. Peggy said that she should have told me that the altitude would make me drunker, and I said that I wasn’t at all because altitude didn't affect pegasuses. And then I must have fallen asleep because I don't remember the rest of the ride home.
Peggy woke me up in front of her house and we walked upstairs together, and got in her bed and curled up on the pillow and told her that I'd had a really fun time today.
You're dern right that shirt exists:
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If Silver Glow where to have her journals published when she returns home, with a few minor edits, she could get more pegasus visitors here on Earth.
Pegasuses love runon sentences.
This chapter really brought to the fore something that's been bugging me for a while now: when is she writing these entries? She writes about how she falls asleep, so it's not at night. She writes about how she doesn't have time in the morning. She's only ever written about writing once before that I remember, but she chronicles every day from beginning to end, and never stops at where she catches up to the present time. And now we find out that Peggy has never witnessed her writing, by mouth, a hefty novel's worth of journal entries?
I can see why Silver Glow was looking for rain to wash the smell off. With legal marijuana here in Oregon, you have to contend with people on the train who smell like they've been giving a skunk a rimjob. I can't even imagine how bad that shit must smell when you're actually smoking it.
Wait a minute. She calls it a
and then every time she mentions skateboards afterwards
She clearly knows the term skateboard exists.
I remember the last time I tried to make friends with someone by blowing into their nose. It worked perfectly.
A wise policy. I've never met a feline of any kind that I'd trust.
Her and every other sane, intelligent human being on the planet. Along with all the rest of us.
There's a missing space after the comma.
That name causes me physical pain.
So then what's the point? They're just protesting shirts because they wanted something to protest over. If you love letting them breathe so much, there's a lovely nudist resort SG could point you towards.
Miss Cherilyn and Mister Salvatore have been partnered together for a long time, haven't they?
Salvatore: I missed a topless protest? Why did you let me miss a topless protest?
Silver: Awww. You can look at my nipples if you like. *balances on hind legs and gestures with foreleg*
Salvatore: It's just not the same.
Cherilyn: Pervert.
Salvatore: How does not looking at horse nipples make me a pervert?
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"Skateboard" has now been removed from Silver Glow's vocabulary
(I thought I'd caught them all)
Fun fact--I didn't make that name up. That's an actual dispensary in Colorado Springs.
Ask yourself this, though: why is is legal for a man to go bare-chested, but when a woman does, it's illegal?
they
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Correction made; thank you!
I like your new avatar.
7684144 You should, you gave it to me.
7684113 *rereads context*Wait, it's the news channel that's doing the editing, not the protesters. Forget I mentioned it.
7684077 Welp. I guess the story has to stop then.
We had a good run guys, it's a shame someone had to point this out.
......
Seriously? You're going to complain about the story being written as being a plot hole?
7684027 I wonder what Double Diamond would think of that shirt.
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It would depend on what point in they're at in the show's timeline when Silver's participation in the exchange program takes place. If it's before "The Cutie Map," then his opinion of it would be whatever Starlight wants his opinion of it to be.
And a thousand and one likes. Very nice.
7684226 It's not a "cloak" so I doubt she'd approve.
Also if you noticed in the finale, they tore down Starlight's house and planted a big ass tree.
Welcoming her back or not, nothing says "no one lived here, ever." like tearing down someone's house and planting a giant tree in its place.
He wouldn't be a car-collecting, scuba-diving, Colorado adventure/spy novelist now, would he? :)
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Yeah, I noticed that. Granted, it was on my second viewing of the finale, and only because I'd seen it mentioned in a comment either here or on EQD, but I did eventually notice it.
And yeah, they may have forgiven her, but that sort of thing makes it obvious that they'd rather not remember her time as a spiteful bitch who brainwashed them and made their lives a living hell. If she noticed the change, it probably only added to her anxiety about meeting everyone again.
I kept waiting for some stupid remark like 'Aren't you on the wrong side of the fence?' in the Zoo, but thankfully the world doesn't deliver twats everywhere. The SG's approach to taboos and/or nudity never gets old - it's always the human custom that ends up looking weird because she just looks at it as it is without cultural baggage. I like it... the world needs more SGs.
"Peggy, you know the one about the pegasus that walks into a dispensary?"
I don't, dammit.
Peggy, you are a disappointment. I bet Meghan would have taken her shirt off when Silver Glow asked. But no, you can't just enjoy a little freedom.
I think Silver should be the one wearing that shirt.
Whenever Silver does this, I'm thinking of the Ninth Doctor going "I give you... air from my lungs."
Dont Clive like to drive around in a Bently Blower?
Pikes Peak is weird like The Pyramids. You keep seeing it in the news due to the primary establishment and carefully shot views, then when you see how close houses of the city edges are to it gets really confusing.
Mr Salvatore might have missed the demonstrators hanging out, but he gets to enjoy Fishing instead.
Skunk is Weed, the same way that psychotic doped vodka is the same as Budweiser. they just dont like the effort in so called fine discrimnation. Then again, Im biased because Im allergic intolerant of it. Im also registered mental, so pity most anyone who keeps trying their best to be as mind broken as I am.
7684249 Unless you make tree-house out of it
7684601 Yeah, I was expecting something to be said at the gate.
It's not as if anyone could keep her there, but I almost expected a 'Visitor' badge so she could leave afterward.
Also....
People aren't making as much of a fuss as you would expect from an alien talking horse being around in public.
Maybe THAT'S the bit that violates suspension of disbelief.
People being courteous and respectful.
7684027
the text should be at the bottom xD
and that's how Mr Salvatore made it mandatory for Sliver to wear her go pro all the time?
7684712 Honestly it looks like it might be the eventual goal for it.
Ah, the joys of understanding both the local colloquialisms and innuendos...
I just don't understand anyone using a skate park. If you fall down on a snowboard, you fall into snow. If you fall down on a skateboard, you hit concrete. Not much more you can say about that.
Lion: Ha! At last I'm free, now to feast on tasty tasty pony flesh!
Silver: Whoosh!
Lion: Wait! What! Since when could they do that! That's not fair!
Dangerously meta, don't you think Admiral?
IMO if someone videos Silver cooking pancakes the video could go viral. I'd bet you could get a pancake mix company to pay a few thousand dollars to Silver to make the video and keep their mix in the shot
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He just might be.
7686207 *grins*
Raising a certain shipwreck sure would be a lot easier with magical assistance...
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I hear he hangs around this place a lot... :D
Oh, only 251 chapters so far.
Yes Silver, never trust a big cat. Cats in general are designed by evolution to be pretty much the perfect killing machine, but at least the smaller ones don't typically have anything sapient on the menu. The big ones have mostly learned to be wary around humans, but that doesn't mean they won't take advantage of an opportunity (even the "tame" ones that are genuinely fond of their caretakers can't help stalking them when their backs are turned). Also, they can jump and climb really well, so if you're gonna use your wings to escape, make sure you go high.
*drunk horse noises*
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In regards to the protest, frankly I don't want to see anybody walking around in public topless, but as long as it's legal for men to do it, I don't see any reason for it to be illegal for women.
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Same here, though it would probably be easier to make it illegal for men to go topless.
7686449 Ironically, the most effective way to get rid of such behavior, what our culture considers obscene, is to have a lot more of it. If we were used to it, it wouldn't invoke the thoughts that we don't like ourselves having. Well, it still would, just not to the same extent. An attractive person is still going to turn heads regardless of clothing level.
Ha ha yeah I drove through Colorado earlier and there was a store with tow green medical looking neon lit crosses and the sign that said, "The Green Joint"
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Everypony will want to come so they can push around feral clouds and carry GoPro cameras everywhere they go
From a story standpoint, the lack of reciprocity is the biggest issue--you can send a pegasus to live in an Earth college, but the student she's exchanging with probably can't live at a cloud university. Still, that could probably be worked out: lots of people would probably be interested in straight-up sponsoring a pegasus, if that were an option.
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Usually the morning after, but not always. And not always all at once, either. Ironically, it's similar to the way I write them sometimes: recently, one of them was partially written on a notepad at work, then a section on the computer at home, then a piece on another notepad, then the ending on the computer.
She's mentioned writing in her journal a few times, but she doesn't mention it every day. She doesn't mention using the bathroom every day, either, but we can assume that she does.
I'm pretty sure she's mentioned that Peggy's seen her writing in it before.
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I can see why Silver Glow was looking for rain to wash the smell off. With legal marijuana here in Oregon, you have to contend with people on the train who smell like they've been giving a skunk a rimjob. I can't even imagine how bad that shit must smell when you're actually smoking it.
Well, I've heard when you're actually smoking it that you don't really notice the smell after a couple of tokes. But you're right, it does have a pretty distinctive odor.
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They have. Probably at least five years, probably more.
And you know that was the very first thing that he said to Miss Cherilyn when he found out.
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He's not the first to ask, IIRC.
There's actually a few plotholes that I've basically handwaved away, but I'm not telling you what the others are, because sometimes you don't notice something like that until it's pointed out, and then you can't not see it.
He totally misinterpret what it actually means, and love it. Probably wear one. And then he'd pick up all sorts of girls. So basically, wins all around.
Hmm, I don't think I saw that episode yet.
Well, that's still better than in one of my one-shots where Starlight got killed by an angry mob trying to get their cutie marks back.
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Heh, it's after, so he doesn't have to worry about being told what to think.
Well, we've torn down buildings where tragedies have taken place or where notorious serial killers lived, so it's not like we humans are any different when you really get down to it. Honestly, I don't blame the ponies. It probably felt really good to knock that house down.
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7684601
If Peggy's dad had been there, he would have said it.
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Meghan might or might not have, unless Silver pleaded. She's not really that into public nudity. Peggy might have if Silver had kept asking her to, or if a bunch of her friends had been doing it.
7684627
None of her snuggle buddies are quite that well-endowed.
Dang, now I've got a scene from a movie in my head, but not enough of it that I can figure out which movie.
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Yeah, the city goes right up to the base of it, practically. But I think that if you look out to the west or south, there isn't much of anything there.
Actually, it's kind of weird too because it's the very edge of the Rockies, so it's all fairly level plain to the east of it.
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Well, it's been a few years since the program started, and most people probably aren't going to go out of their way to say something, and Silver Glow is probably somewhat accustomed to stares anyway. Although lately I am wondering a bit about the courtesy and respect.
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That was a bit of bad phrasing on my part: it was Peggy who said that it was appropriate enough that it was a little tight. Although Silver Glow does know about cup sizes, so she has probably also gets the double meaning, but will pretend that she doesn't.
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That's why you should wear a helmet and various other bits of protective equipment. So it doesn't hurt as much. And falling in snow isn't so bad, it's those pesky trees and rocks that are the real problem.
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Soon enough, the dog and the lion will be commiserating at the bar over drinks. "Buddy, you think you've got it tough, just when I think she's finally going to go in the barn, she flies back out and sits in a tree."
7685698
Pushing the fourth wall just a little bit, for sure.
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Heck yes they could. Sooner or later some ad executive is going to to think of something like that. Just wait until there's a pony wearing a Starbucks logo over her cutie mark or something.
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Well . . . maybe. Depends on who you get on your crew.
"Raise the shipwreck? How about turning back time a little bit and having it not sink in the first place?"
"Won't that mess up the space-time continuum?"
"I've been tweaking Starlight's spell and I'm fairly sure it won't mess it up too much. Probably."
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I've heard that that's one of the biggest dangers of working with big cats. Some animals, like bears and dogs, once you've established yourself as the alpha, they probably won't test it unless you really piss them off. A cat, he's going to try every chance he gets. It's in his nature to go for it when he thinks he's got a chance, when he thinks you're not paying attention.
Incidentally, if you can find a copy of the movie Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, watch it. It has lion taming in it, among other things.
Nor do I. The laws ought to apply equally to both genders (and in some cities and states in the US, they do).
7686449
Until the 30s, IIRC, it was.
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Something about familiarity breeds 'meh.' But you're right--when you get to the point where nobody's wearing a top at the beach, it won't be a big deal at all.
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Ha ha yeah I drove through Colorado earlier and there was a store with two green medical looking neon lit crosses and the sign that said, "The Green Joint"
Next time I find myself in a state where it's legal, I'm going to stop in a dispensary just because I'm really curious what they're like. I expect it's mostly the same as a tobacco shop, except instead of old men at the counter, it's hippies in dreads.
Heck, I might even try something. When in Rome and all that.
After all, nobody likes a high horse.
Well, okay, maybe Fluttershy does.
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Time zone changes are always sooooooo fun. Even worse on a ship, because the ship was run by fucking assholes. Every time we crossed into one that gave us an extra hour, clocks got turned back at the end of the normal work hours, meaning we had to work for an extra hour. But every time we lost an hour, they did it at night.
Being more familiar with airplanes would make it easier for Silver now.
Spooked pegasus is cuter then spooked kitty.
Pony pancakes FTW!
I love his reaction to pony cooking in the kitchen. "Whelp, not caffeinated enough to deal with this." and nopes right the hell out.
But Pony Drool is good for you! honest.
What would happen if the gear slipped? A LOT of lawsuits.
Truly, the greatest words of wisdom ever uttered by a pegasus. "Flying was fun unless you hit something."
The wonders of modern tech, making the formerly impossible, utterly common. Or you could just be a pegasus and never have issues getting on top of anything.
Earth Pony mountain climbers..... all I though about was Maud Pie. Except, she doesn't climb mountains, she stays still, and pushes the mountain, and world it's attached to down under her.
Pony should be fine, Pony Sonar is epic level, planes are noisy, and Pony can get out of the way quick.
And of course Silver has to be a show off for her audience.
Then we get her dipping into her vault of pony philosphizing, and being very deep, yet adorable.
Anchovy Dog.........
Nom Nom Nom! Pony must taste all the flowers! And cuase all kinds of new issue for nature preserves and rangers.
Gullible humans forget that Pony is just as able to mess with you as you are her. Pinecones are for nomming anyway.
Biking up a mountain... I'm not sure how's more psychotic, them, or the people running for fun.
Pony wants to have fun being flying pone, so pony gets to have fun being flying pone. And now she decides using her wings is cheating...
Well, Peggy is right, Silver wouldn't SELL any of humanities secrets to Equestria, Agent Glow would simply divulge them as part of her mission as a Cuddlequest Vangaurd Pony.
Also, a reminder they are in Treehuggers favorite state.
D'awwww even Peggy wants sleepy time pony snuggles! YAY!
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End result.
Why is her using and even noticing that little red lamp so cute?
Pony so wants to be helpful! Best overlords ever!
"Love them Double D's" Pffffffftttt and, yeah, the 'appropriate enough' bit through me, thought it was Silver saying that and that felt odd.
"Wheeled Snowboard" Again... PFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!!!
Yeah, can't trust the lettuce people might bring in, use stuff you know is safe. And can charge for.
Pony nuzzling a girraffe...... D"AWWWWWWWWWWW
Yay war spots for the big kitties. Fun fact, that's one of the ways Disney's animal kingdom controls the animals without visible cages and fences. Aside from hidden pits, moats, and other ways of blending the containment into the scenery, the lion area has rocks that have a system of piping drilled through them that constantly pushes hot or cold air through them, depending on what is needed, to make the rocks the most comfortable place for the lions to chill and make them not want to go to far from them.
Trust the pony to recognize when a big kitty is scheming, more proof they are related.
Pony...with.... otters.... EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Comentator.exe has suffered a catastrophic cuteness overload and must reboot.*
One of the perks of having a pegasus wt you, easy to see what's going on at the head of a crowd.
See, curious pony, just like a kitty.
I'm sure someone who read about Silver mistaking a girl for a boy got triggered by it.
Pony will fight for the equal rights of all to be nakey!
Ear Scritches! A pony's greatest weakness! And adorably hilarious. Recently read a fic of the usual 'Twilight messes up some magic and ends up trapped in another world' type. After getting safe and making some friends, who just can't help but scratch he ears, while working on a way home, she pauses for a bit to try and figure out just what sort of evolutionary drive caused ponies to react so amazingly positively towards having their ears scritched.
Good choice on the shirt there Silver. Ponies are psychic! No they might be, I've seen several fics/headcanon that posit ponies have a low level psychic field that helps bind them together. And explains how they can break into perfectly choreographed musical numbers.
Cleary Agent Glow needs to work harder at spreading the pony nakey dive to Peggy,
Whooo! Peggy wants so pics of he topless friends!
Pony on a skateboard... all the yes!
Peggy, you should know better then to give the pegasus an opening like that.
Also, YAY Peggy! Showing up the show offy cheater pony!
Heh, She knows Mr. Salvatore far too well.
The power of ponies to make the weirdest things happen, like telling a fed you're about to go check out a weed shop.
Well, network news will censor it, but cable news.... they do need those ratings...
Silver is famous extreme sports pony!
Love Drunk Pony indulging in he cultural heritage of song.
D'awwww, yay fun time for pony and freinds!
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Luckily, when I worked retail and when we had to deal with that, it was a union shop, so we did get paid for the extra hour. The lost hour, we did suffer, but that’s the way of life (and to be fair, we did work a shorter shift that night).
Yeah, it certainly helps when you understand more of the experience. Although they’re still not her favorite thing.
True story, my friend’s mom had kittens in her lawnmower. One of them dug in real deep, so she took it to our shop to get him out. We had to do some disassembly to get him out of it, ‘cause he wasn’t going anywhere on his own. Didn’t like me very much (and I can’t blame him; I’m the one who dragged him out), and so we gave him to our GS to hold. Poor little guy was trembling with fear, buried his head in the crook of our GS’s elbow. Anyway, she wound up adopting him, and he’s gotten big and thinks he’s the boss of the house, but he still hates me.
It’s a skill that every pony needs.
Really, the only sensible reaction. There’s a pegasus standing on the counter, spatula in her mouth. . . .
Everypony in Equestria can’t be wrong.
Oh, yeah, no doubt. Given what we’ve seen in the show, ponies haven’t invented liability lawsuits yet, or else they’d be a lot more careful in their construction.
And as an aside, if you want to read a fascinating NTSB report on ballistic stupidity when it comes to operating a railroad, the Angel’s Flight accident in LA (I think it was) is good reading. They ignored dozens of safety suggestions, and when problems were found, changed their process to not check that any more.
She’s not wrong.
This is why mountain climbing in Equestria isn’t a very popular sport. <--shameless self-promotion.
There’s an old saying that goes something like “if you can’t bring Mohammad to the mountain, bring the mountain to Mohammad.” Maybe the Equestrian version is something along the line of “If the mountain’s in your way, have Maud move it.”
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Pony acrobatics would make most pilots green. Especially stuff like just stopping in the air.
True story (as far as I know): when the crew of the Goodyear Blimp has actual airplane pilots aboard, what they like to do is a ‘normal’ run along the runway, then they take off like an airplane . . . and then the cut the throttles back to idle and watch the pilot freak out.
Of course she does! And I’ll bet that among her audience, exactly zero people were bothered by that.
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I’ll be honest, that does sound horrible.
From now on, all signs in ecologically sensitive areas will read DO NOT PICK (or eat) THE FLOWERS.
I’d have to say that running for fun on flat ground is less insane than biking up a mountain. Just my opinion; I’ve never tried either.
It really depends on the game, whether using tribal abilities is cheating or not. And actually, I’d bet that there are all sorts of social rules in Equestria about that kind of thing, probably a lot of them falling into the category of ‘everypony knows.’
“They love petting us, and can be convinced to do practically anything with a little bit of prodding. Group showers, wing-preenings. . . .”
I think she’d be more of an Oregon pony . . . dunno why, but that feels more right to me.
Of course she does. Sleepy time pony snuggles are the best.
Eh, dinosaurs are cool.
Because that little red lamp is goddam adorable.
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One thing about humans that Silver Glow probably never learned was bra sizing. To be fair, that’s basically completely arcane.
If she’d learned about Peggy’s hobbies in the opposite order, they would have gone to the ski resort and played around on un-wheeled Skateboards.
Mostly the ‘and can charge for.’ Although in a state where recreational pot is legal, there has to be at least one person who’s wondered (probably to his detriment) what stoned giraffes would do.
That’s actually really clever.
The best zoos do hide all the containment stuff, to make you feel more like you’re actually there.
Big kitties can’t be trusted. Everypony knows that.
All sorts of advantages, really. Can see the head of crowds, fix the weather if it’s being bad, six limbs > four limbs for basically everything. . . .
Of course she is!
Some people are less sexually dimorphic than others. Now, if humans went around fully nude all the time, she’d never have made that mistake.
That’s a cause that’s right up her alley. Cayenne would also agree. Gusty, not so much.
For all the awesome magic that ponies can do, there’s nothing they have that equals the power of an ear-scritch.
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I don’t figure that they’re psychic in the mumbo-jumbo bs way, but I suppose in some ways magic could give that effect (also group familiarity could play a part). Although that’s not a headcanon I’m opposed to, either.
Peggy hasn’t fully embraced the proper pony lifestyle. Silver should spend some more time with her.
One of those really awkward things to turn up in the photo album.
It’s like a snowboard, really. And Silver’s got the advantage of not having to faceplant into concrete as she’s learning.
She really should, especially after having snowboarded with Silver before.
Sometimes talents makes up for using wings to cheat.
Of course she does. Good law-enforcement partners are like that. And he’s probably perfectly happy Jeeping in the mountains and has no idea he’s missing a topless protest.
One of Peggy’s future “No shit” stories.
I think that generally here in the US of A, they’d censor it even on cable news. Maybe not Silver, but basically everyone else.
Well, except channels like HBO; they’d probably just use the raw footage and not give a .
Never mind snowboarding or skateboarding, flying weather is more extreme than any of those things.
There’s no way that drunk ponies wouldn’t sing. That’s a fact.