October 13
I woke up a little bit early and I was a bit sore from last night, but in a good way. And I snuggled up to Aric and kissed his chest and then put my head down on his chest and dozed for a little bit, until he started to wake up, and then I perked my ears back up and kissed my way down his belly and under the covers and that woke him all the way up.
He didn't let me finish, 'cause he said that it wasn't fair to have me do all the work, and he used his hands until I was really close, and then I finally got up on top of him and we tried to stretch it out as long as we could.
We stayed in bed a little while longer before going down to breakfast. Aric had oatmeal so we made that and I was kind of hoping that Angela would come upstairs and cook eggs for us, too, but she didn't. Still, it was nice to be by ourselves, too.
I helped him wash the dishes once we were done eating, and then he kissed me and said that it looked like a good day for flying, and to let him know what the plan for the weekend was. He said that he'd let people or ponies come here if they wanted, and maybe we could even have a party one night, which I thought would be fun.
I had to go upstairs to put on my flight gear, 'cause it was still in his room, and he helped me dress, and then I kissed him goodbye and flew out his window.
On my way through the yard, I stopped at the birdfeeder, because I think he'd be sad if I didn't. And I dodged the sock that he threw at me, and I tried to throw it back but I missed and I had to fly over to the house and pick it up, and then as I went by his window I just threw it in and kept climbing.
Since I had the rest of the morning free, I thought I'd go on a little bit longer flight than usual, but not too long so that I would have time to read Mark. So the best way to go for medium flights was west, because that got me out of the way of airplanes the quickest, and I decided that I'd go out towards Mattewan and then follow Stadium Drive on the way back and maybe stop at the Doughnut Mill to get a doughnut.
So I got permission from Dori, and I kept low until after I'd crossed the 131 Highway. I'd gone almost due west, just to get there quicker, and I turned a little bit to the south as I climbed. I couldn't see Mattewan yet, but once I got a little bit higher it would be really easy to follow the path of the 94 Highway and then I'd be able to see familiar landmarks.
I hadn't even gotten high enough to see Mattewan yet when I saw the railroad tracks, and those ran right by it, and I knew from following them before that they ran nearly straight all the way there, and it was a little bit lazier to follow them than to look for landmarks, but any smart mare knew that there were some landmarks that were almost permanent and others that were bad to follow because they could change easily. Railroad tracks did not change very easily, so it was okay to follow them.
And I might get to see an Amtrak whizzing past me and that was always fun.
I stayed just to the west of them, and after a little while I could see the red sign with the white S poking above the trees, so I angled off just a bit more to the west to line up with it, and when I got closer I thought that it was such a good landmark, that it deserved some love, so I started descending, keeping it directly in front of me, and when I got there I was just a little bit above it and it was not difficult at all to flare and land right on top.
The top of the sign was kind of narrow, so it wasn't the best place to stand, but if I kept my wings out a little bit for balance it wasn't bad at all, and it was a great place to look around, just the kind of place a bird might like, too.
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to land on it—I knew I wasn't allowed to land on buildings off-campus without permission, but nobody had said anything about signs, so it was probably okay. Just the same, after I'd rested for a couple minutes, I took off again.
I picked up altitude over the 94 Highway, and then when it crossed the railroad tracks, I followed them instead, until they crossed Stadium Highway, and then I followed that.
Even if I hadn't had to descend before crossing the 131 Highway, I would have had to anyways to get my doughnut, so I dropped down and when I was close enough to spot the Doughnut Mill, I angled straight for it, and landed in their parking lot.
I thought it would be kind of greedy for me to just get a doughnut for myself, so I bought one for Peggy, too, and I had them put them into two different bags because the pockets on my camelback weren't big enough for both in one pocket without squishing them.
I was kinda hungry on the way back, just because I'd gotten the smell of fresh doughnuts in my nose and I knew that I had them in my camelback, and I kind of wanted to land and eat one but I resisted the urge. And I went back inside and up to our room.
I'd forgotten if Peggy got up early on Thursdays, and so I didn't know for sure if she'd be there or not. I felt like a bad roommate for not remembering.
She was, and she had gotten out of bed but not put on any of her daytime clothes or taken a shower yet. She was looking at her Facebook and was kind of surprised when I came in, and she said she was sorry for not wearing any pants.
I said I had doughnuts, and so she turned around and I gave her one, and they had gotten a little bit squished but tasted just fine.
She told me that the king of Thailand had died, and that was sad, even though I didn't know where Thailand was. She told me he had been the king for over seventy years, and I couldn't imagine what it would be like for him to suddenly be gone.
When we were done eating, she asked if I was going to go into the shower right away, and I said that I could wait for her if she needed to use it, but she said that I'd better because my coat was still pretty damp.
I said that it was drying off, and it didn't bother me, but she insisted that I go first, so I got my shampoo and conditioner and went into the bathroom, and I had to wait a little bit for Ruth to finish and then I went in. I tried to be quick, 'cause I felt bad that Peggy was waiting for me.
And when I got back to my room, she went in the shower while I groomed myself and preened my wings. I lost a couple of feathers on the other side, but not the one I'd nipped off for Aric.
I got my Bible and sat in the papasan chair and started reading it while Peggy was in the shower. Mark was a lot like Matthew, but much shorter. He just described what had happened in one or two paragraphs, which kind of made it easier to follow. And I learned that Jesus didn't always listen to His mother, who was worried that if He broke God's laws, they'd hurt Him, even though He had said that the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath. And it said that when He talked to lots of people, He used parables, but He explained it to his disciples so that they would understand exactly what He was saying.
And He told his disciples how it didn't matter what went in them but what came out of them, and said that that meant that the rules about what you could eat from the Old Testament didn't matter any more, and that if you stopped people from coming to Him, you would be better off drowning yourself with a millstone around your neck.
So it was mostly all the same as Matthew but a lot shorter, and it kind of made more sense, but I wasn't sure if that was because I knew from Matthew most of what happened, or if it was because it wasn't as detailed and easier to follow.
Me and Peggy walked to lunch together, even though I was going to be sitting with Leon and Cedric and Trevor. And when I got there everybody was kind of in a more lighthearted mood, 'cause for them and me mid-terms were over. So Leon and Cedric talked a little bit about the game, and Cedric said that Aquamarine and Jenny were planning on driving out after their classes on Friday, which should get them here in plenty of time for the game but they weren't really sure where Jenny could sleep, and so I said that she and Peggy had seemed to get along, so she could use my bed and I'd find somewhere else.
Cedric held out his fist and I bumped it with my hoof, and then Leon did too so he wouldn't feel left out.
Leon asked me if I'd heard about the king of Thailand dying, and I said that I had, 'cause Peggy had told me since she'd seen it on Facebook, and Cedric pointed to Leon and said that he listened to NPR in the morning, and Leon said that he wasn't supposed to tell anyone that because the brothers didn't listen to talk radio, and then Cedric said that he even had a membership, and a signed picture of Cokie Roberts and he said that it was Ophira Eisenberg, and he'd met her and her husband once.
And he told Cedric that if anybody else found out he'd probably be laughed off the football team, but I didn't see why if that was something he was interested in. Unless football players weren't supposed to know what a NPR was.
Trevor said that he'd seen a poem that was appropriate for the day when he was looking through the book before, and it was called The Old Whim Horse.
Cedric read through it and it was really sad. I thought about my great-grandmare and how even when she was too weak to get out of bed anymore, her ears perked whenever a storm rolled off the sea, and I saw Leon wiping his eyes. He said he'd gotten a little bit of dirt in them, but he wasn't fooling anyone, and when we got up to take our trays back, I gave him a hug.
Professor Miller told us more about black holes, and she said that astronomers think about the Ideal Gas Law in terms of density, which was something that Professor Brown hadn't taught us, but she also told us how the laws of thermodynamics said that things went from hot places to cold places and Professor Brown had said that.
And then she told us about how stars die when they run out of fuel, different things happen, and the human sun would turn into a very dense broken thing that had lost all of its electrons, and if it was bigger than our sun and died, it would turn into a black hole.
She told us more about how light couldn't get outside of it and reminded us of the formula for the escape velocity, and the edge of the black hole where the speed of light was equal to the escape velocity was called the event horizon. And she said that black holes were kind of holes in the universe.
It was kind of weird to wrap my head around, because things became strange inside the event horizon, and you could move through time just like you'd move through space, but she said that you couldn't get back out again.
And she started to teach us about relativity, and how time was the fourth dimension, and I wondered if she knew about unicorn spells that let you move through time, although usually bad things happened when ponies tried it.
She finished up by telling us that we'd be learning about special and general relativity next.
Me and Anna walked out of class together and I'd kind of felt that there was a lot in the class that I didn't know because ponies hadn't studied the sky as well as humans, but there was a lot she didn't know, either, so I guess at the end we were both equally confused, but in different ways.
When I got back to my room, I told Peggy that I'd told Cedric that Jenny could have my bed for the weekend, and I'd just find someplace else to sleep, and she said that was okay. And I also told her that Aric had said that we could have a party at his house, and she thought that sounded like fun, too, and wanted to know if he was coming to the football game, and I said that I thought he was. And she asked if I was going to the homecoming dance, and I said I would, and she said that she was going to try and hook up with someone for at least one night of fun, 'cause it had been too long.
So then I thought that maybe she'd want our room to herself, and she said that she'd rather go over to his room, 'cause that way she could get a better idea of who he was by what he had and it would give her a chance for second thoughts, but if she changed her mind she'd let me know and she was sure that Jenny would understand if we had to change plans a little bit.
When it was time, I went over to Stetson Chapel to talk to Pastor Liz.
We talked about Mark, and she said that scholars believed that it was the oldest gospel, and probably the most accurate. She said that nothing that was the same in Matthew and Luke didn't also appear in Mark, and she asked me what I thought about it so far.
And it was kind of hard to remember everything that I'd read before and where it was, but I thought that Jesus was making the rules simpler for people, and He was also doing lots of good things for them like healing them, but I was kind of wondering if I'd find out later that God was sort of mad at Jesus for telling people that they didn't have to follow all of His rules anymore. And she said that she didn't think that was the case because God wouldn't have sent Him if He hadn't been speaking for God, and I guess that was true.
I said that I also liked how Jesus kept telling people to do good things, that it wasn't enough to just make offerings at the temple any more, and she said that was one of the most important messages of Christianity and one that some people forgot.
After we were done talking, I went down the quad to fighting practice, and when we warmed up, Karla wanted to pair me with other people just for the fun of it, so I got to fight with Keith and also Seth, and they both had different styles. Keith was sometimes a little bit hesitant, and I thought that maybe if you knew that you could use it to your advantage, and get in while he was deciding if he wanted to commit or not. And Seth was kind of the opposite, he went straight in, and maybe you could use that, too, and fake him out with an attack and then get him when he responded to the wrong threat.
It was a lot harder to figure out when you had a lot of people or ponies fighting, because when they were all together they kind of had a group strategy and if you spent time trying to decide what anyone was likely to do, someone else would kill you. But when it was only two, you could figure it out, and I wondered if either of them were trying to decide my weaknesses when I fought. If they were smart, they were.
Then Karla said that she had a special surprise in the trunk of her car, and brought out a bunch of foam weapons and said that we could play with them and nobody would get hurt.
She underestimated us.
By the time we were done, most of the weapons had gotten broken, and we all had bruises. We'd stayed on our teams, at least, but it wasn't really clear who had won, if anybody had. And the weapons hadn't been up to the challenge. Karla said that was because they were meant for kids and while we might have acted like children, we were still stronger than her swords.
And we all felt kind of bad for breaking them, but she said we shouldn't, and she hoped that we'd all gotten the fight out of us, and de-stressed from our exams, and everyone nodded and said that it had been lots of fun and by next week most of the bruises would be healed.
I had a stiff wing from a hit to the side of the body, and Seth had gotten me in the backside hard enough to break his sword in two places. And I felt bad about bucking him in response, but he'd been wearing some of his armor, and he said that it hadn't hurt too much, and anyways it was kind of an instinctive response, and he shouldn't have been that close.
The best way to deal with my wing was to fly back to Trowbridge and see how well it worked. It was a little bit painful, but I could fly like that and it wasn’t the worst wing injury I'd had. I just had to remember to not trust it when I was too close to something to recover, and I'd be fine. And probably in a couple of days it would just be a little bit annoying, or I'd be used to it. I didn't think it was going to bother me as much as my leg had.
I hadn't done my lab work, and so I spent the rest of the evening figuring it out so that me and Lisa could go over it tomorrow, and then I stretched my wings a couple of times and got in bed and it took a little while for me to find a comfortable position, because I had a lot of other bruises, too, which I hadn't really noticed until I stretched out in bed.
I think she means "was called the event horizon."
"but"
"it"
Seth is a naughty boy.
No, Silver, Angela did NOT come up & cook eggs for Aric & you. I'd just about have bet the rent money that Hell would freeze before she would cook eggs for you. You're a girl & this surprises you? (I've got 3 sisters & I've picked up a few hints on the way women think)
Also, you've been in the USA about 9 months & you don't know that when you go to a donut shop you should not buy 1 or 2 but 1 AND 2? That is, 12. That way, you have some for lunch. If you worry about calories, buy bran muffins. They are good for you & everyone knows that if it's good for you the calories don't count.
Who hasn't been there?
About Kings:
Aric to Seth. You might need a splint for that?
Mark is the User Manual, Matthew is the EULA?
Supprised, with college students and equnes, that noones done the drink and donuts game yet. How many can You fit.
Ahh, there it was. If the escape velocity increases above the speed of light at the event horizon, and its geometry is hyperbolic, eventually its Orbital speed reaches teh speed of light, and the flow becomes Dyson choked, like plasma in apinched end magnetic bottle. It would be nice if working maths showed at this point the distorted geometry meant you had energy pressure, meaning it forced the wormhole open, because so many scientists seem to hate the idea of continous imaginary space, negative gravity, and faster than light. Einstein was so close with combining his papers into one unified proposal. I suspect it was his need to keep things Real that stopped him.
A reacent article mentions a mthod that gives variable gravity but doesnt need dark matter, but its said the first models hav gravity changing too quickly, so still waiting to see how it progresses, as it follows other behaviours so far.
They do have to be rather skilled to seriously injure yourself with children's foam weapons. Although I've never really understood the American LARP systems using more or less real weapons, it seems to dangerous. Most of the UK systems use weapons with solid foam cores with a layer of softer foam around them and then painted with latex. You have to work fairly hard to damage them or to damage other people with them, not unknown but its hard to do by accident.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/world/supermoon-november-14-2016/
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;
Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war:
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
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That is one of the most touching and beautiful movies ever made. And the core theme is friendship. Yes, definitely something for the SG to watch.
The Old Whim Horse.
I totally forgot to put the link in the chapter.
Became, I believe.
An excellentchapter, as always.
I can just imagine Twilight sitting in on a class like this, and raising her hoof to state: "I don't recommend it."
The professor's face
and suddenly Silver was a human ^.~
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Silver could cook eggs herself ?! water heating is not sooo hard.
Another fun movie to show Silver, Real Genius.
Or somepony...
Dangnabit Admiral and Fana, excellent entry then ya'll hit us in the feels.
Perhaps SG should ask if somepony on the weather team brought some Pegasus Armor thinking they'd need it because "Super Storm" was mistranslated into Equestrian as "Monster Storm". I'm sure her friends at fight practice would be interested in seeing the armor.
Silver, Meghan and Aric need more friendship building time. I meant to mention it earlier but I only just now got caught up.
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Real Genius is an excellent choice. It has real physics of Lasers and shows how one would really hack a computer in the mid1980s.
So, the one question Silver Glow might be wondering... is Celestia massive enough to become a black hole?
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Yes, if you compress her small enough. However, unlike most stars, Celestia can refuel. Usually with cake.
Engineers do this sometimes as well. It makes it per unit volume instead of an absolute amount. We also use straight up mass (easier to measure) and mass flow rate (open systems).
I was there last week. The people are apparently going to mourn him for a year. His son, the new king, sounds like kind of a knucklehead.
Unrelated, SG should visit a frat house at some point.
I guess Silver don't have that much figthing experience and training. It is usually the kind of thing you learn to curb down when doing martial arts.
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Corrections made; thank you!
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He underestimated how tough her rump is.
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Well, Silver Glow herself is barely a cook--being a pegasus living in a cloudhouse, she's never had the opportunity to learn. So she hasn't got the mentality of cooking food for people, but she knows that Angela has cooked for her and Aric (and David) before.
The cinnamon rolls that they sell at Sweetwater Donut Mill are the size of dinner plates. I've never eaten more than one, and I'm not exactly a little guy.
It's like the real men of genius taco salad commercial.
"Is your taco salad healthy?"
"Of course it is--it's a salad, isn't it?"
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Me and one other guy broke two rattan bokkens when we were messing around.
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Princess Celestia avoids this problem by not dying. Which is the best plan, if you can carry it out.
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That's one way to look at it. I think that really the writings of Paul are the user manual, though, since he's responsible for the Christian church as we know it.
I'm not sure what that game is, and the only thing I can think of is for boys only. I'm sure that's not the drink and donuts game.
There's a lot of stuff about how the universe works that I don't know, except to say that it's probably stranger than I think.
One of the things that strikes me as obvious if we imagine a universe where both ponies and humans live, is that they can manipulate forces in a way that we don't know is possible. Which is why scientists are so eager to do things like put Silver Glow in a wind tunnel or have Cayenne do things with her horn . . . really, anything she wants to is fine by them. If it costs them one year's tuition to Northwestern and a railcar full of booze to keep her happy, they've got no problem writing that check.
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Hah, never mind what the SCA-ers do; our theatre group uses real weapons and we don't wear safety gear. It's all about the choreography, so we can do things that look dangerous but really aren't.
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And everyone will be laughing that it's also called the 'beaver moon.' Except SIlver Glow, who won't get the joke.
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Alright, I've got to put that in, don't I?
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Correction made; thank you!
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And the best part is that since Twilight is such a researcher, you can be sure that she's figured out why the time spells are in the forbidden section, and can explain in great detail what happens to ponies who get stuck in time-loops or become their own grandpas.
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Heh, oops. Correction made.
You say that, but I started a stove fire trying to boil eggs once.
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That would be good for a laugh. Although that's another one where Silver Glow would probably believe that humans could actually do the things in the film.
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It's such a great poem . . . sad, but great.
Unfortunately, not too much chance of that. Just getting armor through the portal would probably be difficult, since I can't imagine that the Equestrians or humans want military equipment of any sort crossing over.
They're working on it.
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I think it was a lot easier back then. In the mid-nineties, one of my buddies hacked about a third of the passwords on K's e-mail server, just to see if he could, and we also hacked the keycard system.
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Probably not, although you never know. Equestrian physics are weird.
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True, although you run the risk of increasing her mass enough that she ultimately collapses into a bigger black hole.
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Luna, there's a sentient race in your mane
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I guess that makes sense. We measure AC systems by weight, although that's not exactly the same thing.
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That seems to often be the case, unfortunately. You have a good king, then a bad one.
I'm not sure she'd like that. But she probably should just the same, to experience all that college life has to offer.
Maybe Cayenne will take her to one the next time she visits Chicago.
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Yeah, although if you're just messing around and using children's weapons, it's not too surprising that they all got broken. There's only so much adults can do with foam swords before they break, after all.
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"So, Silver, what did you do on Earth?"
"I took a sword to the rump!"
"Is... Is that similar to 'excaliburizing the princess'? Human euphamisms sure are... evocative."
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I'm going to go out on a limb here (and mess around with the torch left by my grandmother), and say that no salad is healthy. You're eating it, so it can't be!
/silly semantics
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Excaliburizing the princess is my favorite euphemism. However, the Victorian slang for lesbian love 'a game of flats' is a very close second.
But what if it wants to be eaten?
7907608 'excaliburising the princess'?
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Yup. I doubt anyone ever has actually used that as a euphemism for sex, but hey, it amuses the hell out of me.
Of all the silly things, and cute situations Silver Glow has been in, I think this is the one I would love to see most of all.
Someone simply pumping gas at the pump, and they happen to look up at the Speedway sign, maybe trying to remember what they're paying per gallon, and they notice way up there, a pegasus, sitting, looking around in wonder... Idk why, but for everything that's happened so far in this story, this is the one scene that just screams to me that needs to be drawn.
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Every now and then, you see pictures of hawks or other birds of prey perched on road signs, and I kind of think it would be like that.
Anyone on the ground who wasn't used to it would probably freak out. I don't know off the top of my head how tall that sign is, but it's a reasonably respectable size. A good, commanding view for a pegasus; certainly above treetop level.
(This should be the street view link, but I've never tried linking a Google street view, so I have no idea what you're actually going to get.)
Now I'm imagining her buying food from some restaurant and then flying up to the top of the sign to eat it, so that other predators can't get her food. I wonder if that's a thing that pegasi do?
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Unless you are Pinkie Pie... or Discord.
Right into insatiable pony being insatiable.
Snrk, the bird feeder fun just never gets old.
Silly scardy deer, not pony's fault you are are scardy deer.
Sodium + water WHOOOO fun times!
Silver is clearly not speaking for ALL pegasi or Ponies when being so blasai about losing and just moving on without worrying about it.
But still cute how much she really is all about the 'just have fun' over being competitive about things.
Fancy Pony needs a chance to show off fancy pony dress! And yeah, dude, Leon knows where it's at here, listen to him.
Though, does it really matter if he knows how to dance given, dancing with a pony will be something all new and not really learnable yet?
Don't tell a pony to try something that's supposed to be impossible to prove it's impossibility... they will find a way to do it.
"Stars that had gone wrong" Hmmmmm, Hollywood star burnout and crashes joke... or Celestia joke..... decisions decisions...
Pony should never attend the 'monster class'. They'd spend the whole thing correcting everything the teacher said.
Cute pony being all playful and cute. She knows how important just relaxing and being silly and having fun is to staying sane.
Pegasus Prank... "Pull my feather!"
Listen to the resident pony expert. You all know by now Meghan knows more about ponies then every non-pony at the table combined.
Pika Pika! Thought, Silver should get some pokemon plushies, and bring them over to show the kids what ones she 'caught'.
Yes Silver, you are a silly pony. And it's so adorable.
Odds of random crashes when everypony has so much room to move... well remember the OotS/Discworld rule about odds.
"A ten percent chance is pretty unlikely, but a one-in-a-million chance is a sure thing"
Silly freshman learning of the fun of attending school with a pegasus. Having to look out for landing ponies while walking along high places.
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I remember a post MMC comic of Twilight having a joygasm as she realized she now has built in quill factories.
Extra fluffy pony cuddles!
Well, the tight shirt can't really hurt your score at all, and might encourage a slight boost. If the test is on a curve, maybe even be so distraction you push some other scores down to boost the curve higher.
Test, no omelette guy, and no waffles.... worst, morning, ever.
Yeah, the quill thing.... getting a bit over-prepared there. Tests aren't THAT serious, and IF every pen you have breaks, I'm sure the teacher will let you borrow one.
I'd say #ponyproblems on trying to mouthwrite small and neat, but lets face it, that's an issue plenty of people have with hand writing as it is.
D'awwwww sticking around for her friends just to be nice.
Cute pony silverism, letting all the thermodynamics out of her mind and the math back in.
Flowers being treat as a luxury look pretty item and priced accordingly rather then as a snack #ponyproblems.
Pony snuggle and pet time makes everything better and is a proven stress reliever.
Taking extra time on the test just to be a nerd and rewrite a problem... nerrrrrrrrrd!
SO hard for pony to wrap her mind around NOT going flying in a storm, no matter how minor.
But luckily, she has that good pegasus finder watch that is so awesome.
Well, pegasi have another way of getting away rather then tunnels. Then again, trying to keep a pony prisoner is pretty futile unless you're in Equestria, so many ways they can break everything.
Adventurers pony trying out new ways of having her pleasure slave please her!
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Depends how much cake she's eaten recently.
Eh, even then, not a threat. In order to collapse into a black hole large enough to keep going more then a few fractions of a second and be any kind
of threat, you would need at least a mass somewhere near The Moon.
My cousin once smoked out the whole house microwaving Easy-Mac.
This is Cayenne, they would need to be a liiiitle more specific here. Then again she must have some great spells. "Okay, now 'm gonna show you a trick for combing two bottle of cider into one. Same volume, twice the alcohol."
Silver is getting very used to humans tending to her every whim. "Where is egg cooking human?"
Getting a donut is never not the right idea.
She's not wrong about the railroad tracks not really shifting around.
D'awwww giving some love to the good sign, being a good pega-beacon! And yeah, hopefully someone got a few pictures of her up there being awesomdorable.
And Silver enjoys taking advantage of being the first long term pegasus around by exploiting all the rules they haven't gotten around to making about what she can and can't do.
But she's such a thoughtful pony, always grab some extra food for your friend! And so serious about being a good friend, even feeling bad for not keeping up to date on what's going on just to show she cares. Nooo you no bad pony, you very, very, very good pony!
Peggy, you know by now Pony does not really care if you are wearing pants or not.
Well, given that places laws regarding treatment of the royal family, the reaction is likely something along the lines of "By extremely sad and grieve constantly or get caned for disrespecting them."
JC knew how to teach ponies. USe the parables and metaphors, but always be sure to explain what you really meant as well, since they'll take it literally otherwise.
Yeah, most of that 'Oh the old rules don't apply' stuff was tacked on later when the early Christian's realized it was keeping down their ability to get converts. One of the first major schisms in the church was over whether or not to ditch the need for circumcision.
Nice they don't even consider Aquamarine sleeping anywhere else, and yeah Silver has plenty of places to crash for a night. Hell she'd probably be happy to just pull down a cloud and camp outside for a night if she had to.
Even elderly storm-pones can't stop the urge to go be storm pone. Once a storm-pone, always a Storm-Pone
"Strange inside a black hole' is an understatement. It's like saying "Pinkie Pie is a bit odd."
Ponies break everything, even the theories about time travel.
Whoooo, go have 'fun' Peggy, Silver will be be a great wingmare if you need one!
Again, yeah, never a doubt that Silver would like what the J man was teaching.
Also, on the whole "He wouldn't be talking against God if God had sent him" logic..... you've read the OT... it could just be that God is schizophrenic.
And once again, yeah Liz is awesome. And drills right to core issue with 'religious' people who miss the core point of it all. "Be cool to each other, help each other out, don't be a dick."
Tactical Pony being tactical and working out the best way to defeat the humans. See she is SO a agent of the Cuddlequest!
Yeah.. give people even soft blunt objects to hit each other with, and they will find a way to break something.
Buuut, it does help relive a lot of stress.
Beware the rear of the Pony. It is deadly, even without being loaded with taco bell and/or Chinese food.
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Yeah, if anyone’s going to successfully divide by zero, it would be one of them.
When is she not?
The pegasus snack tube, you mean.
Deer are strange creatures. Run at the sight of practically anything, except for my white minivan. Deer loved that van for some reason. Ran in front of it, two of them even ran into the side of it.
And the further down that side of the periodic table you get, the funner it gets.
Also, speaking of fun times, my manager actually considered pouring concentrated sulfuric acid into an aluminum heater core, to dissolve all the sludge out of it. I told him it was a terrible idea.
He didn’t do it, mostly because when he tried diluting it, it started to melt the container he’d put it in. Sort of too bad, because I’m sure that the results of the experiment would have been interesting and potentially very exciting.
He asked me if I was scared of his sulfuric acid, and I pointed out that I’d gotten sulfuric acid burns before and really didn’t want to repeat that experience.
Living in a coastal town where the sea and storms take what they want has certainly affected her philosophy on life.
I think that’s an important lesson in life that a lot of people don’t understand.
Fancy pony dresses are the best, and of course neither Leon nor Cedric have seen her wearing anything fancy. Leon knows this, and if Cedric still didn’t get it, Leon would be the one to call Aquamarine and tell her.
Not a bit, but then if he’s tripping over his own feet the whole night, nobody’s going to have much fun. Leon’s got lots of teaching to do in a very short amount of time.
That sounds like another thing that RD would want to try--fly fast enough to hit escape velocity.
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Can you imagine how much new material they’d have for the class after ponies showed up. “Hydras? Oh yeah, let me tell you about hydras.”
You can’t be serious all the time. Also, I think that people (or ponies) that do serious business learn that pretty quick or they burn out. Gotta have time to kick back and relax.
Not as fun as pull my tail, though.
She really does. There’s a good chance that she knows some things about ponies that even Silver Glow doesn’t know.
Wouldn’t that be just adorable? All the fillies and colts in Chonamare would love her for that.
Well, as they say, on paper there’s no chance of two airplanes colliding in midair, but it sure does happen.
Always look up for drop
bearsponies.And Davenport probably spent that night crying.
Still, even with alicorn wings, Twilight probably uses up feather pens faster than she can grow them.
Extra fluffy pony cuddles are the best!
It’s a win/win strategy, for sure.
I know, right?
People have made fun of me before for having three pens in my pocket sometimes. That’s in case two of them break, obviously. Best to be prepared.
My handwriting is appallingly bad. Cursive is even worse. Sometimes, even I can’t read what I wrote. Nothing like trying to puzzle out something in my own handwriting.
That’s why Silver Glow is best pony. Plus, she knows that it’s no fun being abandoned by your friends after an exam.
That’s how it works, right?
And the worst part is that not only are they expensive, they’re treated with all sorts of stuff so they don’t taste all that good.
Totally agreed--and it relieves stress for all participants.
This is why Silver Glow is best pony.
I know, right? And for her, besides the obvious duty, flying is a good way to relieve pent-up stress and energy. So much better if she’s got a storm to do it in.
That’s going to be one thing she’ll miss for sure. Even when she doesn’t know where she is, the watch does.
Pony prisons must be very interesting places when it comes to keeping ponies confined.
Always gotta try out new things, even if they’re kind of weird for both parties.
So it would take a lot of really big cakes, is what you’re saying.
I did that once with microwave popcorn, when I was certainly old enough to know better. For some reason, I set the microwave to seven minutes.
Cayenne winds up making 400 proof alcohol as a result of her experimentation. It’s so potent that touching the bottle makes you drunk.
Humans should tend to her every whim.
I know, right? I feel that I need to take a road trip to Kalamazoo just to get one.
Yeah, hopefully they don’t. Usually when they do, it’s a bad thing.
ROBCakeran said he wanted to commission someone to draw that and I’m kind of surprised that he hasn’t done it yet.
I know, right? Who would have thought to say it was against the rules to land on top of the Speedway sign?
Very true--force of habit on Peggy’s part. Silver could care less what she is or isn’t wearing; Silver’s never going to be offended.
Yeah, that’s true and very much a problem over there. From what I know, Thailand’s government wasn’t as restrictive as some (to use an obvious extreme, North Korea), but there was certainly some ‘respect the King or else.’
And let’s be honest, that’s the case with people, too. Parables are all good for the people who get them, but there are other people who need to be smacked upside the head with a two-by-four before they get what you’re talking about.
I’m sure there are at lest some records of some of the early discussions of church canon. I know my dad and I have talked about some of that stuff, but a lot of it more involved the Old Testament, or the modern church.
Well, it’s kind of a no-brainer. You can be sure that Leon didn’t even ask Cedric if he wants the room alone for the night; Leon has also already made other plans.
Or sleep in a tree. Which would actually be really funny.
It’s totally true.
Yeah, good point there.
They have at least learned that it’s generally not a good idea, so that’s something.
Silver would make the best wingmare. She’s not so good at picking up on human expressions and such, but then again she’d always be willing to fly in and solve problems if needed.
Really, it’s pretty much pony values.
Yeah, that argument could certainly be made. As far as I know, no mainstream Christian church has made it, for what that’s worth.
That’s really the most important lesson in the New Testament, at least in my opinion. Anybody who disagrees hasn’t understood Jesus’ teachings, and needs to be hit by that two-by-four.
The only downside--and one that Silver might not entirely realize--is that the weapons and tactics they’re using are a few centuries out of date.
Can confirm. Heck, I’ve even had an actual fencing foil broken on me before, and it was being used as designed.
Pounding the heck out of each other with foam weapons? Yeah, that actually is a great stress reliever.
The most dangerous part, honestly. Equipped with both biological and physical weapons.
And the "some people" in question tend not to keep up with their temple offerings, either.
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This is true. Most of those ‘some people’ kinda focus in on a couple verses or passages to the exclusion of all others.
This hits a little harder, considering the last few days.
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Yeah, even as a non-Brit it just seems weird for her to not be there any more. I guess it's not going to be very long before we start seeing Canadian coins with a king on them instead . . . that's gonna be weird.