July 3
Meghan must have been really tired, 'cause when I woke up she was still flat on her stomach, sound asleep. The towel had come off during the night, so I pulled it back up (she was still on top of all the blankets) and then I got up and went to my desk and wrote my bio for WWMT which I should have done already, and then I wrote in my journal.
Sometimes it was hard to keep up with it. I had a lot of long, busy days, and it was hard to make time, but it was important.
I heard her roll over in bed, and dropped the pen out of my mouth and turned to see her reaching for covers, but she'd kind of pushed the towel away from her and trapped it under her legs.
I don't think that she was really all the way awake yet, and so I got back in bed with her and covered her with my wing. Even with me nestled up right against her, my coverts only reached down to her knees, but I guess that was enough, because she stopped moving around and then I heard her start to softly snore again.
She probably snoozed for another third of an hour, then she woke up and brushed her hand over my wing and kind of pushed it off to the side, and I obliged her by pulling it in and out of the way.
She was still a bit stumbly as she went to the bathroom but she made it without my help. Then she went into the kitchen and drank two glasses of water and came out and asked me if I had any aspirin.
I did, so I got some out of my desk drawer and she took it into the kitchen and had a third glass of water and some aspirins and then sat down on the futon and said that she was going back to sleep. Then she rolled up in the covers like a little burrito. I kissed her on the forehead and she ran her hand through my forelock and said that she was sorry she was being a bad friend but she'd had too much to drink last night.
I said it was okay, and once she was asleep I went over to my desk and turned on my computer and copied the bio I'd written into a computer letter and then sent it to Cyndi.
Then I left my computer on in case they wanted to send a reply, and went out the balcony door to get my mail. I knew that it didn't get delivered on Sundays, but maybe there had been some that came yesterday while we were riding horses.
I was glad I did, 'cause I got a letter from Gusty, and as soon as I got back up to my apartment and checked on Meghan (she was fast asleep) I opened it.
She said that because of how well she'd done in A Midsummer Night's Dream, an agent that South Pole knew had negotiated to get her a recurring role on four episodes of Orange is the New Black, where she was playing an new inmate who was being held before transfer back to Equestria. She said that they hadn't really given her too much background at first, because they wanted to see how she'd do, but after her first scene they'd really liked her, and so in her second appearance she had a monologue about how she was a wanted fugitive in Equestria who had stolen another pony's identity and made her way to America on forged papers but then had gotten caught. She said it was kind of a silly premise, because the filmmakers really didn't understand that much about ponies, and I laughed when she said that there was a flashback scene of her inking her hoof and stamping it on a piece of paper because that was one thing that humans used to keep track of who was who.
And she said that if she'd really been in prison, she could have just used magic to escape, since the director didn't have her wearing a suppressor on her horn, and there weren't any magical barriers at all. She'd mentioned that, but the director said that the audience wouldn't know the difference anyway.
She said it was really different than theatre. She had to be up early so that they could put on makeup because they didn't trust her to dress herself, and then they'd shoot one little bit of a scene again and again until they were satisfied with it and then they'd move on to another one. And a lot of it was out of order, which made it kind of confusing to know how it fit in, and there was a lot of time when she had to just sit and wait.
The whole thing seemed pretty chaotic, and she said it was hard to imagine how it turned into an actual episode, but she'd seen rough cuts of the first episode she'd been in and it all made sense when it was together.
Gusty said that the episodes were filmed in New York and one weekend some of the girls had taken her to New York City and they'd seen a play on Broadway called Les Miserables.
When she wasn't filming, she said that she used Skype to talk to Nicky, who was in England, and she also talked to her agent about getting another film role after this one was over. She knew that she wasn't going to be able to get a main role in any major production, because she just didn't have time for it, but she hoped that she could still get a secondary role.
Then she reminded me that she'd be in Stratford the second week of August for their production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and that they had a whole week there of rehearsals before the actual show on the weekend and she'd be really happy if I could come.
At the very end she said that she'd put some pictures of her with some of the stars on Flickr, which is a computer photo album, and she included instructions for how I could look at them.
Each one of the pictures had the names of the people written in it, although I didn't know who any of them were. But they looked like they were happy and so did Gusty. Some of them were posed but there was also a really nice candid picture of her looking up at a small cloth ball that she was floating over her head while a woman named Ruby Rose watched. I could see cameras and stuff in the background, so that must have been on the set.
Meghan got up while I was looking at the pictures and came over to see what I was doing, so I told her all about what Gusty had said, and then went through the pictures again.
Then I checked my computer mail and I'd gotten a letter from Cyndi who wanted to know if I could come in in the afternoon to do a brief interview that they could put on their Facebook page. She said it would be really short, and it would be with her and Alex. She said that around three would be good, and I thought that the way she worded it made it not sound like they were flexible on the time.
So I said I would.
Meghan and I ate the leftover waffles, and then we took a shower together and when that was over she dried me and fussed over my coat and hair because she said that I needed to look my best to be on television.
She wanted to come with me and I guess we could have taken an Uber-Car but the TV station wasn't that far away and it was a nice day to be out.
So we had a little snack before leaving. I had some more alfalfa and Meghan tried a piece, too, and said it wasn't bad. And she filled a bottle she had with water in case we wanted some then she checked herself in the mirror before we left.
I let her lock the front door—I didn't like using human keys at all—and then I told her she might as well keep the key because I had a spare and I didn't think I'd need it anyway. My balcony door didn't have a lock, because nobody could get up there except me.
She knew about cars not paying attention when they turn, and always looked to make sure that there weren't any coming even when the walking man said we could go. I was surprised that people that careless were allowed to drive, but Meghan said that once you got your license it was really hard to lose it.
I led her until we were on Westnedge, and then after that we walked side-by-side. There weren't too many people out walking: I'd noticed that people liked to run in the morning and after three in the afternoon but the rest of the time there weren't too many people on the sidewalk except downtown.
It took us about an hour to get there and as soon as we'd signed in Meghan ran off to the bathroom, saying she wanted to make sure she was presentable. I just sat down in the chairs and waited.
We didn't have to wait too long. Cyndi came out and shook my hoof and Meghan introduced herself and then we all went back and went to the studio. Meghan had to stand in the back, behind the cameras, and promise not to make noise.
An assistant put a microphone on me, which gave him all sorts of trouble. Cyndi's was clipped to the neck of her shirt, but my coat was too short for it to stay and so he finally got a little piece of gaffer's tape and stuck it to me with that, then he strung the wire around my back and clipped the little box to my tail.
Then when I was ready, I sat in a chair and they had to make a couple of adjustments until they thought I was sitting at the right height, and then when everything was set, Cyndi sat down. She said that they'd decided to do two interviews; she'd ask me weather questions and then Alex would ask me general questions. And she said it was best to give short answers when I could because they'd want to chop it up some for editing.
So we had a little practice, and she asked me about what we did on weather patrols, and so I explained how we sometimes broke up storms and sometimes brought rain, and we also patrolled the sea near the coast for ships that were in trouble.
Then she asked me some questions about stormwatching, and asked me how it was different to be in the air in the heart of a storm as opposed to being on the ground feeling its effects.
Every now and then we'd have to stop because the cameraman had to do something, and once I answered a question too long and she had me go back and try again. And my microphone fell off and had to be taped back on, because I was sweating under the hot studio lights. I couldn't imagine how it must feel while wearing all those clothes.
When she was done, Alex came in and shook my hoof and mostly had me expand on what I'd said in my bio. She also wanted to know what I thought about Kalamazoo and I said it was the biggest place I'd ever lived and there was so much to do that I couldn't possibly get it in in one year. She asked what some of my goals were, and I told her that I wanted to fly to Chicago and that I wanted to go to a nudist resort and she had me do that question again without mentioning the nudist resort because she said that wasn't the kind of thing that their viewers really wanted to know.
And then she asked me how it felt to be a YouTube celebrity, and I said that I didn't know that I was. So she told me that the video that Gates had made of me flying had gotten millions of views which was hard to believe.
Then she asked me a couple of questions about how hard it had been adjusting to life in America, and I said that everyone at college had really been helpful, and it was the little things that took the most getting used to, like how a lot of the door handles were really hard to use with hooves and that there were coins and paper money and plastic money and that was all a lot to keep track of.
When she was done, they turned off the bright lights and she shook my hoof again and said that there would be a teaser on the evening news and that they'd air my weather interview in the morning before I did the weather and then they'd put on the one she'd done.
And she said that I should be at the station at 5 am in order to get ready.
I heard Meghan groan at that.
Then we got shooed out because they had to get ready for their evening news show. But Cyndi waved at me again on my way out.
It was a little easier walking back, 'cause it was more downhill. It also felt really good to get back outside, because the studio had been uncomfortably hot, which was maybe why Gusty said that they did the filming in little bits and then had breaks.
I asked Meghan how she thought I'd done, 'cause she'd probably seen other TV interviews, and she said that I'd done a really good job. And she thought it had been funny how the tape had come unstuck from me and made my microphone fall onto the desk.
We were both hungry for dinner by the time we got back to downtown, so we stopped at a little cafe called Bagel Beanery which was right next to Fourth Coast, but we couldn't stay too long because they were closing. I thought it was really early for them to close, but I guess on Sundays some places don't stay open very late.
So we took our sandwiches away in a little bag—we could have stayed, but Meghan said that they'd be happier if they could close up the store on time—and then walked a couple of blocks until she saw a small park with some hanging straps she called swings. They reminded me of the bos'n chairs some ships had.
They weren't very comfortable for me, but I didn't mind sitting on the ground.
When we were done eating we took our time going back to my apartment. She said that she'd like to go with me to the TV station in the morning, and I reminded her that meant that we had to leave at four in the morning, and she said that she would do it.
Then I said that meant we'd have to get up at three, and she said that was okay. And I kind of didn't think she'd really want to, but she was determined to do it, and she said that she'd gotten plenty of sleep this morning so that it wouldn't be any trouble at all.
So when we got back to my apartment, we sat on the papasan for a little while and watched the birds and then she reminded me that if we were going to get up that early we ought to go to bed now.
It was really strange getting ready for bed when it was so light out still, and I asked her one more time if she really meant to get up that early because she didn't have to, and if I went by myself I could leave a little bit later because it was faster to fly there, and I could just have a little nap now on the papasan and then get a half-night's sleep later and I'd be fine.
Meghan insisted that she wanted to, though. So she got undressed and got in bed and I curled up next to her.
It's really hard to force yourself to go to sleep, even when you know that you're going to need it. Neither of us was all that tired—Meghan had just gotten up less than a dozen hours ago—so we shifted around a lot trying to find a comfortable position.
It didn't help that there was a lot of noise outside. I could hear Caleb, Lindy, and Trinity playing next door, and the birds were still pretty active, and then around dusk we started to hear people sending off fireworks to celebrate.
Meghan muttered something about assholes who didn't have to get up at three, and put her head under her pillow to muffle the sound.
I thought that was a good idea, so I put my pillow over my head and tried to ignore the louder bangs that got through it and thought that I probably wouldn't get back to sleep.
Expect a late update again tomorrow, 'cause it's a holiday weekend.
This single line is far more adorable than it has any right to be.
So, has someone written a MLP/Orange is the New Black crossover yet?
And that kid, is how you can differenciate badn directors from the rest.
Detail like that are what you can build your strength on. Gloss over it too much and you can kill your film or series.
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I'm kind of sad CSI Cyber got axed. It was hilarious and half the time you were rooting for the bad guy.
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/csi-cyber-tech-talk/
On the other hand, TRON Legacy was pretty good with detail, down to actual Unix-syntax (though you have to question what he was thinking, running the last program a guy who disappeared ran and the last thing he did before running it was updating his last will and testament. That should have a been a tip-off that something bad had been expected to possibly happen).
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It's a damned shame the 3rd was cancelled. Also, the wankers retconned the classic PC game Tron2.0. Not cool, guys.
San Antonio sounds like a war zone. With beer. And barbeque.
Mommy, that horsie has a horn on.
Im sure its just a toilet roll dear, the director said it was a prank.
3 am is a horrible time to wake up. Might as well stay up from the previous day, certainly if you are younger.
I miss being able to pull 80 hour stints, even if I was only chatting and browsing on teh computer instead doing anything actually useful.
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Here you go:
Silver, you are lucky you live in a small town. In the big city you would find out that a truly disturbing number of truly disturbed people can too get in an unlocked balcony door.
They might have Gusty's character use her powers to try and escape but the director strikes me as too stupid to think of it.
Well, IIRC Frank Sinatra would occasionally turn in sloppy performances on the grounds "It's good enough for Jazz"
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I'm not entirely clear on why the sealing it in lead and dumping into a tectonic subduction zone idea has been rejected.
7538885 I've not found video, but I have read 'bout it. By all accounts a charge of heavy horse is a nightmarish experience. Men had to be either drilled or kept in line by force of violent threat to avoid fleeing in terror.
she'd
There is only one Caleb.
Also, wow, she got onto Orange is the New Black?
That bit about the inaccuracies in the episode confirm there is not a nerd-level obsession with Equestrian culture, because otherwise you know that episode will get torn apart.
Oh, wait! I just got a brilliant idea! There's probably a pony blogger out there who uses their blog to poke fun at horse inaccuracies in media.
Meghan is a small little donkey.
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I still love riding but now I prefer riding Paso fino horses.
now that I am back on the farm where I grew up I am thinking of getting one agene.
If I could, I'd get myself a draft horse to ride. But I haven't got the space or the money or the time to properly care for a horse.
draft horse did that grate to ride but they cost way to much to feed.
Glad to know Gusty is quite successful! This news cast that Silver is going to sounds very interesting indeed.
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Meghan the Little Burrito.
7537293 Nope, still need energy storage. 24 hours of demand with limited production time, it's an endemic problem with solar. That and climate and weather problems.
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yeah ... that probably should be fixed. My school machine shop one is pretty good. It just needs better burn creams (welding burns are nasty)
yeah but batteries are still the most common. I never would have though of the underground heating. I'm in a hot area so I have the opposite problem. I'm not sure how well that work for generating electricity though. The most common method is to use turbines, which require steam.
seems really inefficient. It'd be better just to dispose of the waste.
They actually don't go offline unless it's for something like reactor maintance, they pretty much run 24/7. My initial solution would be to run at partial capacity and then store energy using non battery means (flywheels or molten salt for example). You're probably right about lithium batteries, but a big push for solar is distributed production (ie on a house level), at least in my area, which would mean lithium batteries.
the cost is a big reason, they aren't exactly cheap. I'm not sure on the production you get in areas like Michigan or the pacific northwest. I'm in the central valley of California right now which is great for solar and solar thermal (my parents have a solar hot water heater for the house, it works better than our electric one).
I keep forgetting that Silver lived in a super rural area. I assume that somewhere like cloudesdale or cloud houses in larger towns would have power.
huh, i'm surprised you actually managed to get the handle to melt, but i've always been on electric so i'm not super familiar with gas.
Ooh, Gusty is playing a Bad Pony.
Well, they told Silver no profanity or sex talk on television, but what does that have to do with not wearing clothes? Silly humans.
I'm going to pretend the lack of a full stop implies that the rest of the paragraph is [redacted], and nopony can stop me.
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7538885 I still say she ought to have jumped into a hover, then pointed and told him to "Go." He would probably have done it!
(Maybe Aric will get to use one of these?)
squee
Meghan the little burrito and Silver Glow the little caballito.
(Which technically means hobbyhorse, not little horse; excuse my atrocious Spanish.)
Also: I really wish we had Meghan's POV too at some point - if only for a chapter or so. Watching Silver Glow's antics from the outside would be hilarious.
go to love noisy neighbors. revenge can be sweet loud diesel at 5 am for a week straight.
I don't believe that I've ever read a comment section that covers as broad a spectrum of subject matter as this one does. "It takes all kinds", indeed. Fascinating.
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Stand back, Silver Glow, it's Meghan's turn to be adorable now.
(Just kidding Silver Glow is still the cutest. )
More like "Gusty's Color is the New Black."
I don't think the weather station knows their audience very well. :pinkiecrazy2:
Oooooo! Meghan should totally go with her! She's already a quarter of the way there anyways - hanging out naked so much.
EDIT: I swear that there's a "her her" in this chapter somewhere, but now I can't find it again.
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I suspect it was this line,
Either one of those 'how's is superfluous or the second one should read 'hard'.
7538808 Odd that you would phrase it like that......
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It's a mixed thing. I've glossed over some police procedure in OPP to keep things simple, and directors have to do that sometimes, too. It's a big question of how important it is to the plot that you get it right, or if it even matters if you do. If Gusty had a main role, or if her attempting to escape somehow factored into the episodes, than her having a suppressor that maybe one of the other inmates files off could be an essential plot point. On the other hand, people watching the show might be more interested in seeing her do little bits of TK, rather than struggle to eat her dinner with her hooves, in which case he'll just not worry about the lack of a suppressor.
(I feel that I'm somewhat qualified to give my opinion on this since basically what I do every day is decide what to put in and what to leave out, and where I want to get my facts absolutely right and where close enough is good enough.)
So the short version, is a good director knows what to keep in and what to ignore, and a bad director can't see the difference.
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I read one review of it on this here site, and from what I could see it was basically as if the scriptwriters weren't really even sure what a computer was, so they just improvised.
Fun fact: Gusty was originally going to be on CSI, but then I did a bit of googling and found out that the show had been cancelled and had to come up with a different choice for a TV show, which was actually more difficult than you'd think because I don't have a TV and therefore have no real idea of what's on these days.
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Man, there was one Fourth where I was in Lansing and I kid you not, there were so many fireworks being launched from backyards that powder-smoke was drifting through the neighborhood.
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Thus enlarging the toilet-roll debate--does it go over, under, or on a unicorn's horn?
Yeah . . . maybe take an afternoon nap, wake up around midnight.
Time was, I used to work overnights all the time but I'm too old for that crap now.
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In one of the 'This Old House' episodes they used electrolysis as energy storage. Hydrogen would be created and then turned back into direct current using a fuel cell.
It looked like they stored only few cubic feet of hydrogen at 1 atmosphere.
I am a little disappointed in lithium batteries currently.
Over the last few weeks I've had to replace the batteries in my notebook,
Mobius camera and The Tile.
That last one needed the entire The Tile replaced.
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Yeah . . . although she lives in a fairly crime-free neighborhood. Plus, if she did get robbed, Mister Salvatore would take immense pleasure at tracking down the perp.
To be fair, though, they're throwing her in as a guest for four episodes, so the scripts would have already been written and some of the filming for those episodes has probably already taken place. It's way easier to give her a little mini-arc, rather than put in a larger arc where she attempts an escape.
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Maybe because that sounds too much like the mad scientist trope of throwing it in a volcano. (I'm not saying that it's the same thing, just that it sounds like the same thing.)
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See, I can understand that. I've been on the field when two heavy horses were jousting--just two--and they shook the ground. A hundred of them or even a thousand? You can bet your boots I'd be running as fast as I could anywhere else.
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There is only one Caleb.
I think Netflix would take the risk, and that's a good show to stick a short-term character in. Transfer prisoners come and go.
There are probably some, but I would think that in general, there are not. I know I've seen a number of shows where I'll pick apart something that happens to fall in my area of expertise, but not put the effort into finding out what else they got wrong.
I wouldn't be surprised. Probably a unicorn.
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Yeah, I can imagine. Having some good pasture-land for them to graze would cut down on the cost (plus it'd give them somewhere to play). Alas, I've not got the resources, so unless I suddenly win the lottery. . . .
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Gusty's got talent, plus she really, really wants to make it.
As for Silver Glow, reading off the weather isn't going to be quite as fun as she hopes, but still a good experience for her. But she'd rather be up in the clouds actually making the weather, not talking about it.
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Although at least they only get little spots at a time, usually. Coolant gets a much larger area all at once, trust me.
I don't know how well it would work for generating electricity, either. The plans I saw tied it into an in-floor heating system. But there might be a way to do it.
I think the idea was that it was a simpler, one-use system that was totally enclosed, so you make it, it goes online, and then in twenty years or so it stops working and that's it.
Although as I recall, if you're on the grid you can use net-metering systems and then you don't need your own batteries. Obviously, if you're completely off-grid you've got to come up with something.
Michigan's pretty good, out where I live. Not great, but we don't have all that many completely overcast days.
Probably some of the bigger cities do, to an extent, but even then I don't think that they'd use it like we do. The ponies seem to be really social, moreso than most humans, so I think it would be a hard sell to some of them to have your own stove and do your own cooking when it's more fun and easier anyway to just go to dinner with your friends a couple of times a week.
A lot of their activities are more social, and that would cut down the desire for ponies to have their own ______________. Like, if you want a proper hot bath, you go to the bathhouse or spa with a friend.
Well, that's the best part--it was an electric stove. And the handle didn't just melt, it was actually on fire.
Not sure what type of crime problem the Poni have in Equestria, but I can think of one serious crime.
Transporting magical items and technological items between Earth and Equestria without authorization.
That and copyright infringement like those VHS tapes used to threaten about before the movie started.
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Hinny of the Hills. That would be magnificent.
Cool! The only show I've seen on Broadway was Damn Yankees, way back in '94 or so.
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She is! Should be an interesting role for her.
I know, right? Doesn't make any sense.
I'm afraid not. Trust me, y'all will know.
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Who, the horse or the dog?
The horse might have; the dog's more duty-bound. Although he would have been pretty upset that she was flying, becuase he probably doens't know how to herd flying animals.
He might--the Civic might have something like that.
I don't know what K's got now, but back when I worked in their theatre, most of the equipment was pretty antiquated. The Dalton Theatre was still using a two-scene preset board, with a cable patchboard behind it, since there were only 20 dimmer packs for the whole theatre. And some of our lighting instruments were old enough that they still had asbestos wiring.
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Isn't it just as much fun to imagine how she's dealing with Silver Glow's antics?
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I got back at one by playing classical music just loud enough that you could hear it but not loud enough that you could really identify where it was coming from. Speaker was above the ceiling tiles.
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Isn't it wonderful? I love this site so much.
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What color is that even? It's kind of an orangish brown. . . .
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(I think I had to look it up on the Wiki last time I mentioned her coat color)
Or they know them very well and anticipate a flood of angry letters if the naked pony mentions nudity.
Hanging out naked in a room with a close friend and going to a nude resort are two very different things. I've actually been discussing this with one of my pre-readers.
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Good call--correction made!
i hope they don't cut the interview together in a bad way ...
7540115 don't worry about the comment. Electrolysis would work but you really should store it at higher pressures. It also is a safety hazard. Both hydrogen and oxygen are extremely volatile. It didn't occur to me to use electrolysis. I'm from California in the U.S. which is both agricultural and either in a drought, recovering from a drought or about to go into a drought so water is can be pretty scarce.
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But it's haaaard.
Too few radios and you aren't allowed to fly, too many and you can't
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yeah I remember your post. It's localized, but the most common burn is when you get slag (molten metal) on you. It will burn its way into your flesh, you actually have to dig bits of metal out or your flesh so you don't get an infection. Supposedly, if it's an over the counter cream, it's not strong enough. Luckily I haven't had this happen to me, although I had a close call. It turns out that my glove had a hole in it and I didn't notice.
yeah, you an use net metering, but there's some nuances to it.
The problem with that is that stuff like that it's expensive and it's going to eat up your pay pretty quick.
I'm still surprised.
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So far we have only have 2 MonsterAttacks:
* The Republican attacking her and Miss Peggy in January.
* The pervert trying to rape her in June.
7540194 Regarding Gusty's coat colour. My colour picker (in GIMP 2.8) used in the unshaded part of her coat, reports RGB values of 242 103 36. Of the formally named shades of orange listed by wikipedia, Giants Orange is the closest in terms of RGB values, though going by the naked eye I would have said Persimmon or Vermilion.
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Absolutely!
Okay, now I get it. It has sense. Surely you have already decided which classes she is gonna take later, but I hope she takes History (or, whatever the class is called, World History, American History, etc). I think it would be a little confusing at first but it would really help her to understand most of our world. In fact, we already have seen that for understanding better human philosophy, religion, culture and traditions, people end up always having to tell her the historical context of all those things.
And it has nothing to do with history being my actual career. Nothing at all.
Oh, yeah, it has sense. The college year ends before Summer holidays. Here is the same, only that as summer happens between december/march college year coincide with calendar year. I’d never heard of quarter system, only semesters, having one season for class only seems a little too short for me, but I suppose that at least one can graduate earlier.
Beside that, (or with that), you totally have to write a fic in which a pony tries to make a liberation movement to free horses of their human oppressors
Meghan was super adorable this chapter! Wanting to wake up at three am so she can go with Silver to the interview and she doesn’t have to be alone, she is such a good person. In a way or another I hope more good things happen to her in this story.
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*sigh* So much this. When it happens in the sequel though and there are people writing side stories already (because the worldbuilding is so inviting), those new bits of monster canon may be ignored. That's rather amusing to watch, actually.
7540096 That is true, but then, shouldn't the director's answer be that the audience would enjoy it more if she can use her inhibitor ring?
Placing little background detail to make sure the story is somewhat functional is a big part of creating a credible universe. A character with a backstory and a monologue kinda count as important, if only for an episode. If you put that character in the spotaligth, obvious flaw like not having any real way of keeping a certain prisoner under control is going to do damage to the suspension of disbelief.
And in the case of filming, you can have a little something to show rather then tell that you've thougth about it.
So no, I don't think it just something that can be brushed up as minor detail and not bother with it.
And more importantly, I do not think itwas something that required much effort. So yeah, I really feel like that director was being lazy.
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She's gonna need to be spanked!
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This is an interesting discussion, it made me remember something I read once.
My city, Buenos Aires, was mostly build with a great influence of italian and french architecture of the XIX century (or even spanish but from that century), the few buildings that were builded in the time of the spanish colonies were small (because Bs As wasn’t too important to the spanish like Lima, Mexico or Potosí) and most of them were demolished later, this lead to the city to look very different from most other latin american cities; well, I read once in a interview to an american screenwriter about our country, that when they wanted to show Buenos Aires in a movie, they filmed the scenes in México or in the few areas of the city that still had a spanish colonial style, because most americans aren’t gonna associate real Buenos Aires with their idea of an Latin American city.
And just recently I watched the film “Focus” with Will Smith, and part of the movies does take place in Buenos Aires, and they indeed did that. There is a scene in which Willl Smith is walking in a kind of public market, like a bazar, and people is around him buying things like if it’s a cotidian thing, but that place is a historical market (the only one in fact), visited only for tourist (we do our shops in supermarkets thank you very much). And all the rest of the scenes (included the extras) have all the stereotypical “latino/mexican” tropes.
And is not like they didn’t investigate about it. They filmed the movie here, so they knew that that’s not how the city looks. They intentionally choose to not be close to reality so their public could understand better what they wanted to say.
This doesn’t mean that I agree with their decision, but I do think that sometimes directors aren’t necessary lazy, but they rather can do that kind of things totally on purpose.
7541247 Unless you are doing a documentary, you don't need to portray thing exactly as they are. You need to portray them as they could be. It should be beleivable.
Take for exemple Sergio Leone's westerns. None of those were filmed in america, they were all done in Spain and Italia. But it does look like place that could be in america so we can beleive in the movies' universe.
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7541292 Hmm, I don't know if I agree with that. Yes, you can shoot a western movie in spain, because with the proper setting it looks like america. You can shoot a film in Belgium about France because you found a street that looks french. You can shoot a film in México City that looks like it's happening in Buenos Aires if the place looks like Buenos Aires. It's believable because it looks like how it should. But if you are shooting a movie about Buenos Aires, that doesn't looks like Buenos Aires, you aren't being believle. You can still do it, if you think that people doesn't know how the city looks and would be less confused that way , but it isn't seriusly believable. Is the same that if I did a western movie that happens in New Mexico but is filmed in the Sahara. You know the Mojave doesn't have camels.
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Exactly! And it thus make your setting unbeleivable.
If you cannot be bothered with making sure that camel don't show up in your film, or that no plane passes by your studio when you are trying make a shot set in imperial Rome, then you are being lazy.
You can make choice that won't matter and will make things look like what you wan't to portray, but you should be careful not to break the suspensin of disbelief.
I could buy a film filmed in Mexico being set in Argentina. But you'd have to be careful not showing thing that would point too obvisouly at the truth, like landsacpes.
And if you are thourough, you will pay attention to the shops and cars and stuff, some thing you may find in Mexico won't be there in Argentina.
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Well, "some thing you may find in Mexico won't be there in Argentina."
That's the thing, I think, they didn't left "out of place" stuff from the scene because they were lazy. They did because they intentionally wanted the place not to look like Argentina, but to look like a generic latin place, because is what they thought their public could understand. Why they bothered to say that was Argentina then? I don't know, maybe it was somehow symbollically related to the argument, but, the thing is they choose to be not believable to a knowing eye, it was an intentional choise, because they though that someting not real or believable by an "specialist" (in this, any argentinean), was more understandable than something more believable or close to reality but confusing for the general public.
I told this example because I though it was interesting, but I think it happens a lot with movies with foreign locations. If you film a movie in a arabic place you had to show scenes of people mounting camels and with traditonal clothes. It's what most people expects to see; it doesn't matters if in fact donkeys and mules are more common than cammels, or if in your specific country/city it's more common seeing people with occidental clothes. If you want to show a movie in Africa, people expects to see jungle and miserable poor towns, not the modern and thriving capitals of the continent, with their universities and public parks. And I personally don't think that always they do that because they are laizy, but because is what they thing people would easily understand.
For the opposite example, in X-Men Origines, they show a nazi that after WWII hides in a argentiean town, called Villa Gesell, which is a coastal town on a grassland. But they shoot a image of a alpine town in mountains . They confused Villa Gesell with some patagonian alpine towns, like Bariloche, (where real nazis did hide). That indeed was just plain lazy.
Well, that's my opinion at least, but maybe we should agree that we disagree.