Silver Glow's Journal

by Admiral Biscuit

October 31 [Halloween]

October 31

I was the first one awake, and I'd wound up on the outside. Meghan was in the middle and she had her arms around me and Aric had his arms around her, and so I nuzzled her and when she started waking up and moving around she also woke up Aric, and it was still kind of dark outside, so we had plenty of time to have morning sex, especially after I decided that I would skip flying.

After Meghan had gotten out of bed and started to get dressed, I got out and looked out the window at the bird feeder to see who was there. And there were a couple of blue jays who were fighting and so I thought I'd fly down there and scare them off, 'cause I looked kind of like a blue jay.

So I pushed the window open and jumped out and dove down and that scared them off, so I took the sunflower seeds that they would have eaten and when I looked back up Aric and Meghan were both standing by the window watching me, so I got some more and then I flew back up to the window and I wasn't as good at getting in as I was at getting out, so I hung over the sill for a moment and then told Meghan that I'd meet her downstairs when she had put the rest of her clothes on.

Aric leaned down and kissed me, and then I dropped off the sill and flew back a little bit before going down and around to the front. And I didn't go on the porch, but I landed on the roof instead. There was the window that went into Sara's old room, and I thought about how much easier it would be to get in and out this window, since I could just walk through. But I suppose if Aric had that room he wouldn't want to stand at the window naked because the neighbors would see.

I went right to the edge of the roof and leaned down to see if Meghan was on the porch yet, 'cause that was probably where she'd look for me. And I didn't see her but I did slide off the roof and didn't have enough time to really fly out of it, and I crashed into the bush in front of the house and felt like the biggest idiot ever.

Bushes looked a lot softer than they really were.

I climbed out of it and hoped that it would fluff back up, 'cause I hadn't done it any good at all. And then I went and sat on the porch like a normal pony would and when Meghan came downstairs she asked why there were bits of yew stuck in my mane and tail and I said that I didn't know how it had gotten there.

And when we went out the front door and she saw the bush she looked down at me and asked if I'd fallen off the roof and I tried to pretend I hadn't, but then I started giggling and that gave me away. I said that I'd tried to look over the edge and I'd leaned too far forward and then gravity did the rest.

She reminded me how I'd bragged that I could catch her if she fell off a balcony but apparently I couldn't stop myself from falling off a roof and I said it was because I wasn't expecting to fall off the roof and it's really hard to fly upside-down when you're only a few meters above a bush.

She said that I was lucky that I hadn't hurt myself, and I kind of thought that I was, too.

When I got back to my room, Peggy was already awake, 'cause I was kind of late, and she was getting dressed so she was done with her shower. And I decided that I wasn't gonna take one until later, 'cause I hadn't really exercised this morning, so I packed up my books for class and preened my wings and found some more yew needles in there, and when I brushed them off of the bed Peggy asked if I'd gotten in a fight with a tree, and I said it was actually a bush.

She wanted to know who won, and I said that it was too early to tell, but right now it was looking like it was me. But I hadn't looked to see if the yew had broken branches or if it was just bent.

We went to breakfast together and there were already some people wearing costumes for Halloween. When I got to the table, I saw Anna and Reese were wearing medieval clothes, and she had pointy ears like Spock. They were both talking with funny accents, too.

Christine said that she couldn't wear her Princess Leia costume 'cause it was too cold in it and Sean said that he wouldn't mind, and he said that he was going to dress as Captain Kirk just to balance things out.

I told everyone about my weekend and Sean found some pictures of the play on his portable telephone and showed them to everyone. And it wasn't the same as being there, but everyone thought that she looked really creepy and maybe if I hadn't already decided on a costume I would have got a costume like Gusty's.

I nuzzled Meghan when I was done with breakfast, and then flew over the quad to the Dow building and went to thermodynamics class.

Professor Brown told us that the secret of life was that water and silicon had a negative slope. And then he told us more about the formulas for changes in state, and how you could use that in machines. And it was still stuff that I mostly knew because of weather work—the formulas were different and more complex than some of the ones we had, 'cause they had to apply to materials besides water, but I understood everything that he was teaching.

And he asked us what the vapor pressure in a glass of water at one bar was, and he gave us time to think about it even though I knew right away, since he didn't want a specific value, just to know if it was less or more or the same, and then he did the formulas on the markerboard for people who hadn't figured it out.

Then he started talking about colligative properties, where you had a not-pure liquid, and that changed the vapor pressure. And I'd never heard them called that before, but he said it was why salt water froze at a lower temperature than pure water, and he didn't get too far before class ended but he did have time to teach us Gibbs' phase rule.

Since me and Lisa didn't have any work to do together, I flew back to my room and did my homework there, and when I was done I got out my Bible and started reading Corinthians.

It was another letter by Paul, and he said that he was worried that people were saying that they followed different leaders and that he was glad he'd only baptized a few people but he couldn't remember how many.

And he warned to be careful about picking leaders because God would know bad leaders, and he said that he was sending his son Timothy to them to teach them.

He had a lot to say about sex, because the Corinthians were having sex with the wrong people, and he said that God didn't like that, and that if you weren't married you shouldn't seek marriage, which I thought was pretty smart, but he also said that if you weren't married you shouldn't have sex, and he said that having sex defiled your body. And that didn't seem right to me, and I thought that I should remember to ask Pastor Liz.

There were a lot of rules, and he said that women shouldn't speak in church, and I guess some of his rules must have been changed after he wrote his letter, 'cause Pastor Liz talked a lot in church. And he also said that love never failed and that faith, hope, and love were the three things that remained and the greatest of them was love, and I really liked that verse.

I'd finished up the first letter to the Corinthians when it was time for lunch, so I packed up everything that I needed for math and once I'd put my saddlebags on, picked a little bit at a loose feather that was annoying me 'cause it didn't want to fall out like it ought to. And it stayed in and so I gave up and hoped that it would hurry up and fall out.

Maybe I needed to have a bunch of pegasuses run by me, and that would make my feathers fall out when they were being stubborn.

They had some fun Halloween snacks and treats for lunch, like little hearts that had messages on them and were called conversation hearts, and they also had some candy that was shaped like pumpkins and also some little wedge-shaped striped ones that were supposed to be corn. And they also had cookies that looked like pumpkins and had orange frosting on them, and others that looked like ghosts. Human ghosts were apparently pretty shapeless, and didn't look like humans at all which was kind of strange.

Christine was wearing a long coat and she said that her costume was under it and once everyone was at the table she opened up her coat and all she had on was a bra with copper loops on it and a panty and loincloth which was what Leia had been wearing when she was a slave, and Christine said it was the Hutt Slayer costume and she had made it herself.

Sean said it was much sexier than his Captain Kirk Starfleet uniform, and Christine said that no one ever wanted to see that much of William Shatner.

He said that that wasn't what she'd said last night and she said he hadn't been wearing his Starfleet uniform last night and if he had been he would have been sleeping alone. Then she closed up her coat and sat down and started writing new messages on the conversation hearts she had, and pretty soon almost everyone at the table was doing it.

I wanted to know what they tasted like, because they didn't smell very appealing and Christine said that they tasted like chalk and loneliness, and Peggy started laughing so hard that she was crying. And I tried one and I thought that was a fairly good description.

Meghan said that there were some foods that only got sold once a year because they were actually terrible but everyone forgot in the space of a year, and she said that the candy corn I had gotten was the same way, so I had a piece of that and I didn't like it either.

I thought it was really dumb to make a food that nobody liked, and Christine said that they were meant to serve as projectiles, and started throwing conversation hearts at Sean and then he started to throw candy corn and candy pumpkins back at her.

Anna held up her tray as a shield, and Reese reached over and took their bowl of candy away from them until they promised not to fight with candy any more.

Sean had somehow gotten some conversation hearts in his coat pocket and he found them as we were walking to math class, and all of them said 'fuck you' in Christine's writing. And he thought that was really funny.

Professor Pampena told us how to use vector fields to figure out the work done by a particular vector, and that was fun because there was lots of calculating to do, and then he told us the fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals, and proved that it worked.

And he also showed us a different way to solve the first problem he had given us, because it was a gradient, but he warned us that not all vector fields were gradient fields and we'd got the wrong answer if our vector field wasn't also a gradient field.

We went back to Sean's room after class and did our homework together and he ate the rest of his conversation hearts while he was working and I kind of wished that I had one even though they tasted terrible, so I think that Christine was right about them.

After we'd checked to make sure that we'd both gotten the same answers on our homework, he found some more Numberphile movies on his computer, and we watched one that was about how to put eight queens on a chessboard so that none of them could capture any of the other ones, and that was pretty neat, especially because he not only gave a solution to the problem, but worked out how many solutions there were.

And then he did another one with a magic hexagon, which was where all the rows and columns added up to the same number and there was only one real magic hexagon which was size three, and there was only one way to put the numbers in it.

When I got back to my room, I didn't know if I should put my costume on before dinner or after and I decided that it would be smarter to wait in case anyone was throwing food again. And so when Peggy came we went to dinner together and Meghan was already there and we were a bit too early for them to have all the different foods that they normally did but they still had the salad bar out so that was what I had.

We kind of ate quickly and then Meghan said that she'd meet us at our room and we could go to find Caleb and Lindy and Trinity.

So I put on my snowboarder costume and Peggy got dressed in what she said was a vampire costume and she had fake fangs that went in her mouth and she said that it really turned some guys on. And she had a really nice lacy bra under her shirt and she said that after we were done trick-or-treating with the kids she was going to unbutton a few more buttons on her shirt because she'd get more candy or maybe even pick up a guy that way.

When Meghan came to our room, she was dressed as a cat, and she had little furry cat-ears on her head that were moving and I didn't notice right away but Peggy did, and Meghan explained how they responded to her emotions because there was a little sensing probe that touched her head and knew what she was thinking.

While we were walking to Jeff's house, Meghan said that she had thought about going as a pony but that that might offend me, because sometimes people got offended when you took something from their culture and used it as a costume, but I said that I thought it would be cute if she'd done that, and then I think she was kind of disappointed that she hadn't, so I nuzzled her and said that she was a really cute cat, too. And that made her ears go forward.

I rang the doorbell when we got there, and pretty soon Caleb and Lindy and Trinity came out and they all had sacks to carry their candy in and I should have worn my saddlebags. And when Jeff saw that we didn't have anything for candy he found us some plastic pumpkins that we could carry it in. He only had two, but that was okay, because I didn't want to carry one around in my mouth so I thought that Meghan or Peggy could carry my candy and we could share it later if there was anything that I wanted.

There were lots of kids, some of them with their parents and some of them with older brothers and sisters, and some people kind of assumed that Peggy or Meghan were related to the kids, and after a while they just stopped explaining that they weren't. And some houses had spooky figures on the lawn or in the trees, and they had fake cobwebs, and there were carved pumpkins with candles inside of them that were called Jack-o-lanterns.

We walked all through the neighborhood, and I let Trinity ride on my back some of the way, although it was kind of hard for her because her skirt was pretty long.

Caleb was dressed as Ash, who he said caught Pokemons, and Lindy had dressed up as Usagi, who was a character from a television movie series, and who had a cat which Meghan thought was really funny, and so she pretended to be Lindy's cat.

We stayed out for a couple of hours, and everyone had gotten more candy than they could possibly eat, and it was a really fun night, although I started to get a little bit hot because of the shirt I was wearing and my hoof-boots started to hurt my legs by the end, 'cause they weren't really meant for me to walk in that much, and especially not with Trinity on my back.

When we got back to Jeff's house, he invited us in for a little bit but I was worried that my boots might damage his floor, 'cause it was wooden and I'd seen what horseshoes could do to a wood floor. So we went around to the back instead, and he thanked us for taking his kids trick-or-treating, and said that Trinity especially had been really looking forward to it.

And he brought us all what he called adult treats, which was beer, and we drank them and just inside, everyone was sorting through their candies and then trying to trade some of them that they didn't like for candy that they did want.

So we each wound up drinking a couple of beers with Jeff, and then he said that he hated to cut the evening short but it was time to get the kids to bed since they had school in the morning.

Well, we all did, too, but we didn't go to bed. Instead, we walked back to campus and there was a Halloween party in Old Wells, which was the same place that they had had the homecoming dance. Peggy unbuttoned her shirt most of the way, and I took off my hoof boots and Meghan set them with our stuff, and there was music and dancing, but we'd come kind of late so we didn't get to have too much fun.

And we were just getting ready to leave, and Peggy came over and asked if I could do her a really big favor and sleep with Meghan tonight, and I thought about telling her that I didn't want to just to make her mad, but I said that I would, and she leaned down and kissed my forehead and said that I was the best roommate ever.

We went back to Meghan's room so she could change out of her costume, and I took mine off, too, and she asked Lisa and Becky if they knew where Amy was, 'cause she wasn't in the room, and they said that she'd gone to Grand Rapids with her boyfriend and she'd said that she wasn't coming back tonight.

Meghan didn't feel like getting dressed again just to have to take it off in a couple of hours, and I knew that Aric probably wouldn't be back until really late, so we decided to just stay in her room, and she took off the rest of her clothes that she had been wearing under her costume and we snuggled up under the covers and I teased her with my wing and she reached under my tail and pretty soon we had to push off the blankets because we were too hot and they were getting in the way, and even after she only pulled them back up to her waist, ‘cause I was lying on her side with my wing over her belly and that was keeping her warm.

Comments

[Admiral Biscuit]

The eight-queen problem:

Magic Hexagon:

[Alaborn]

I happen to like candy corn and those pumpkin-shaped candies.

[Dan]

Usagi= Sailor Moon?

Usagi Yojimbo really deserves a (non-michael bay) movie of his own. All he's gotten were a couple TMNT guest appearances.

[M1Garand8]

... and we watched one that was about how to put eight queens on a chessboard so that none of them could capture any of the other ones, ...

I had to do the 8 Knights (or was it Rooks?) variant using a [provided] heuristics and come up with a recursive algorithm on our own. It was pretty fun. :3

7839090

Usagi= Sailor Moon?

Most likely, yeah. I doubt a little girl wants to be a gritty anthromorphic samurai rabbit. =P

[badninja]

Nice to see to great anime characters getting mentioned! Now I wonder how Silver is going to spen Thanksgiving? Hopefully in New York for the parade!

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

I think it was Mark Twain who said something to the effect that in the USA, God gave us 2 blessings.

The 1st was the God given right to do anything we wanted no matter how much it annoyed the neighbors.

The 2nd was the God given good sense never to want to do anything that would annoy the neighbors too much.

The bush will probably live. It's just getting an extreme trim back. Still, I'd tell Silver that it's an old tradition, you kill something you are supposed to eat it

[Walabio]

> "There were a lot of rules, and he said that women shouldn't speak in church, and I guess some of his rules must have been changed after he wrote his letter, 'cause Pastor Liz talked a lot in church."

Christianity is a misogynistic religion. Personally, I do not get why people believe things without evidence; we should have no religions and none should be theists.

[Alot Master]

I see this on the featured list again and I decide to check it out. I did not expect too see it say 309 hidden chapters.

[JimboTex]

Maybe I needed to have a bunch of pegasuses run by me, and that would make my feathers fall out when they were being stubborn.

Wouldn't that make it a Running of the Feathers?

[JetstreamGW]

They're WASTING mallowcreme pumpkins! Burn the heretics!

[Fetch]

7839104 'Sailor Moon Crystal' let her keep her name. Back in the 1990s, the English dub of 'Sailor Moon' changed her name to Serena.

[Talon and Thorn]

she asked why there were bits of yew stuck in my mane and tail and I said that I didn't know how it had gotten there.

Smooth Silver, smooth.

Human ghosts were apparently pretty shapeless, and didn't look like humans at all which was kind of strange.

Does this imply that Silver knows what pony ghosts look like? And that they have a different shape.

And we were just getting ready to leave, and Peggy came over and asked if I could do her a really big favor and sleep with Meghan tonight, and I thought about telling her that I didn't want to just to make her mad, but I said that I would, and she leaned down and kissed my forehead and said that I was the best roommate ever.

I guess the button's worked then.

[totallynotabrony]

7839104

gritty anthromorphic samurai rabbit

Apocalypse Meow!

[M1Garand8]

7839515
I thought those are MACV-SOG operators, not samurai?

[totallynotabrony]

7839520 Two out of three ain't bad.

[Celefin]

Maybe I needed to have a bunch of pegasuses run by me, and that would make my feathers fall out when they were being stubborn.

The Running of the Feathers.

7839257

you kill something you are supposed to eat it

Don't know for sure about Equestrian ponies of course, but eating yew would kill a horse very quickly, thus ending the SG's diary. Please don't eat yew.

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

Thought Yew was a tree, not a bush? I Was a Dungeon Master back in the 1970s & 80s. IIRC, Yew was the favored wood to make English Longbows (Side note, can't humans ever name things right? English Longbow came from Wales, Kentucky Long Rifle made in Pennsylvania)

[arancaytar]

I saw Anna and Reese were wearing medieval clothes, and she had pointy ears like Spock.

Tell her that, in those exact words, I'm sure she'll really appreciate it.

Maybe I needed to have a bunch of pegasuses run by me, and that would make my feathers fall out when they were being stubborn.

The Running of the Silver.

Meghan said that she had thought about going as a pony

Hoping to practice a bit for the Equestrian border crossing.

[Stainless Steel Fox]

7839515 Usagi Yojimbo, a graphic novel series by Stan Sakai. A ronin rabbit in an anthropomorphic version of Edo era Japan.

[arancaytar]

and Peggy came over and asked if I could do her a really big favor and sleep with Meghan tonight

This sounded like a really weird request until I realized Peggy simply wants the room.

[A.P.O.N.I.]

7839090
My first response to the name was, "When did Usagi Yojimbo get a cat?" Thank you for posting which show they were actually referencing.

[Dan]

7839206
http://kotaku.com/sailor-moon-cosplay-works-well-with-figure-skating-1783436390

More recently, you might have seen Ms. Medvedeva rocking Yuri on Ice cosplay.

(Considering Usagi is a rather clumsy dojikko-type character, I wonder if that little slip she made was deliberate.)

[Caliaponia]

Would love to see a side story showing the helpers' post-assignment debriefing (or possibly the post-debriefing commisseration at a bar).

'Wait, so so Silver hopped a train?' (laughter) meanwhile, cayenne's helpers do their best to vanish into the woodwork.

[FanOfMostEverything]

All caught up, with a lot to enjoy. I especially like Aquamarine's almost scientific approach to her magic (and seeing earth pony magic in general.)

As for this chapter, yeah, some candy is just awful. And I find myself wondering what Silver could tell us about pony ghosts.

[KMCA]

7839077 The pumpkin ones are amazing... I didn't get any this year and was sad.

[Booster Spice]

Human goes as a pon, pony goes as a human?

Not home yet, recovering fromfood poisoning on Sunday.

[jxj]

And I didn't see her but I did slide off the roof and didn't have enough time to really fly out of it, and I crashed into the bush in front of the house

Behold, the majestic Pegasus.

she asked why there were bits of yew stuck in my mane and tail and I said that I didn't know how it had gotten there.

Real smooth Silver.

[Winter Quill]

Hey, I like candy corn!

Also sad that there wasn't anyone dressed up as a pony Princess, oh well.

[DreamKitsune]

No mention of what Trinity was dressed as, or was that in an earlier chapter?

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839077
I happen to like candy corn and those pumpkin-shaped candies.
Well, you're welcome to them, because I don't like them very much.

7839090

Usagi= Sailor Moon?

It's this one:
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Which I think is from Sailor Moon.

7839104

I had to do the 8 Knights (or was it Rooks?) variant using a [provided] heuristics and come up with a recursive algorithm on our own. It was pretty fun. :3

I'd assume rooks; eight Knights would be pretty easy, I think, just because of the way that they move.

Most likely, yeah. I doubt a little girl wants to be a gritty anthromorphic samurai rabbit. =P

Well, now, I wouldn't be so sure. That rabbit looks badass.

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839206

Nice to see to great anime characters getting mentioned! Now I wonder how Silver is going to spend Thanksgiving? Hopefully in New York for the parade!

No such luck; her plan is to go to Peggy's for Thanksgiving.

7839257

I think it was Mark Twain who said something to the effect that in the USA, God gave us 2 blessings. The 1st was the God given right to do anything we wanted no matter how much it annoyed the neighbors. The 2nd was the God given good sense never to want to do anything that would annoy the neighbors too much.

That's pretty much how I live my life.

The bush will probably live. It's just getting an extreme trim back. Still, I'd tell Silver that it's an old tradition, you kill something you are supposed to eat it

Although yew is poisonous to horses, so maybe she shouldn't eat that bush.

7839261

Christianity is a misogynistic religion.

Depends on the branch, now doesn't it?

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839263

I see this on the featured list again and I decide to check it out. I did not expect too see it say 309 hidden chapters.

Daily updates and all that . . . not the most chapters by a long shot, though. Appledashery hit the limit (you can only have a thousand), and The Chase is in the very high 900s, IIRC.

7839326

Wouldn't that make it a Running of the Feathers?

It would be, and if it actually worked, they could choreograph it so every pegasus ran around every other pegasus. Which would actually be a really cool dance to see.

7839332

They're WASTING mallowcreme pumpkins! Burn the heretics!

I've never seen what the appeal of them were, to be honest.

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839356

'Sailor Moon Crystal' let her keep her name. Back in the 1990s, the English dub of 'Sailor Moon' changed her name to Serena.

Huh, that's interesting. Makes me think how Princess Luna was originally going to be named Princess Selene.

7839429

Smooth Silver, smooth.

It's the catlike traits that pegasi have. Deny that you fell, and if you can't deny, pretend that you did it on purpose.

Does this imply that Silver knows what pony ghosts look like? And that they have a different shape.

They're more pony-shaped, usually.
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(and relentlessly adorable)

She probably hasn't seen any actual pony ghosts, but she's probably seen drawings of them.

I guess the button's worked then.

It would work on me. Also the fake fangs; that's a particular weakness I have. Were vampires real, I could totally seeing that being how I met my demise.
vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/underworld/images/6/68/Seleneberettauwe.jpg
It would be worth it.

7839515

Apocalypse Meow!

If there was an anthropomorphic remake of Apocalypse Now, I would watch the hell out of it.

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839545

The Running of the Feathers.

Which would be totally adorable--a whole bunch of pegasi just running circles around each other.

Don't know for sure about Equestrian ponies of course, but eating yew would kill a horse very quickly, thus ending the SG's diary. Please don't eat yew.

Yeah, it's not something that she should eat, because it's also poisonous to her.

7839607

Thought Yew was a tree, not a bush? I Was a Dungeon Master back in the 1970s & 80s. IIRC, Yew was the favored wood to make English Longbows (Side note, can't humans ever name things right? English Longbow came from Wales, Kentucky Long Rifle made in Pennsylvania)

As I recall, there are a bunch of different types. The one behind my house is doing its damnedest to become a tree, I can tell you that. It's about ten feet tall, maybe more. And WIkipedia says that they can grow up to a hundred feet high or so, and can live for thousands of years.

7839695

Tell her that, in those exact words, I'm sure she'll really appreciate it.

Anna, medieval Spock. I mean, we all know that elves and Vulcans are the same race, right?

Meghan said that she had thought about going as a pony

Hoping to practice a bit for the Equestrian border crossing.

If it's a good enough costume to get through the border . . .

[Admiral Biscuit]

7839716

This sounded like a really weird request until I realized Peggy simply wants the room.

Yeah, it's not some weird matchmaking thing going on there. If it was, it would be a little bit late . . .

7840184

Would love to see a side story showing the helpers' post-assignment debriefing (or possibly the post-debriefing commiseration at a bar).
'Wait, so so Silver hopped a train?' (laughter) meanwhile, cayenne's helpers do their best to vanish into the woodwork.

That's probably part of their end-of-year party, when they're handing out new assignments. They probably all meet up at a hotel, and their bar tab is pre-paid, and everyone decides who had the worst pony to watch and who had the best pony.

I think that they have a draft, and whoever had the most troublesome pony gets first pick in the next round. Cayenne's helpers have probably been pushed right up to the top of the list.

"Well, let's see. She got arrested in a protest, spent her weekends at the bar and went home with a different guy each time, tried to use sexual favors to pay for a cab ride, grounded out the El by touching the third rail, and got banned from Starbucks after doing a pressed ham on their front window."
"Wow, sounds like you guys had a rough year,"
"Year? That was just January."

7840220

All caught up, with a lot to enjoy. I especially like Aquamarine's almost scientific approach to her magic (and seeing earth pony magic in general.)

Earth pony magic is the best magic. It's not flashy, and it's generally not fast, but it's ungodly powerful.

And I find myself wondering what Silver could tell us about pony ghosts.

She's probably never seen one on her own, but sailorponies have probably told her about the ghosts that they've seen. And maybe there are pictures in Equestrian books, as well.

7840483

The pumpkin ones are amazing... I didn't get any this year and was sad.

Man, next time I get some I'll send them to you guys. Is it smuggling if I take a trunkful of candy pumpkins across the border?

[Admiral Biscuit]

7840731

Human goes as a pon, pony goes as a human?

Weird how that can work, isn't it? I'm sure there's some psychology student somewhere figuring out pony costumes.

7845872

Behold, the majestic Pegasus.

Real smooth Silver.

Silver is really, really bad at lying.

7855441

Hey, I like candy corn!

There are more fans of the stuff than I would have expected.

Also sad that there wasn't anyone dressed up as a pony Princess, oh well.

No one that she knew, anyway.

I would think that none of her friends would want to offend her by going as a pony princess.

7879214

No mention of what Trinity was dressed as, or was that in an earlier chapter?

It was in an earlier chapter--she went as Elsa (from Frozen)

[Nikita]

Meghan came downstairs she asked why there were bits of yew stuck in my mane and tail and I said that I didn't know how it had gotten there.

And when we went out the front door and she saw the bush she looked down at me and asked if I'd fallen off the roof and I tried to pretend I hadn't, but then I started giggling and that gave me away. I said that I'd tried to look over the edge and I'd leaned too far forward and then gravity did the rest.

What a silly bird / floof horse

[Admiral Biscuit]

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What a silly bird / floof horse

Bird horses don't like admitting when they fell by mistake. They're kind of like cats in that regard.
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Pegasuses don't "fall by mistake." We are simply innocent victims of that alicorn trickster nopony talks about, Terra, who decided to move her ground into our flight path unexpectedly. Humph!

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Also, ponies totally act like cats.

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who was a character from a television movie series, and who had a cat which Mehgan thought was really funny

Misspelling your own character's name!
For shame!

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Misspelling your own character's name!
For shame!

Correction made; thank you!

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Meghan said that she had thought about going as a pony but that that might offend me, because sometimes people got offended when you took something from their culture and used it as a costume

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I suppose it depends on how well you do the appropriation.
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Poor Silver... I-I mean *huff* That bush had it coming, yeah!

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Poor Silver... I-I mean *huff* That bush had it coming, yeah!

I dunno; that bush was just sitting there, minding its own business, and all of a sudden, a pony comes crashing down on top of it.

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Piranha.

See the whole 'piranha's will rip your down to the bone in seconds' thing, and them even being that dangerous is MASSIVELY exaggerated. Though it dose stem from an actual, but one that was not natural in the least, event that created that idea of them, and we have one person to blame Teddy Roosevelt. When he was exploring the Amazon, some locals wanted to impress him when they heard he was coming, so they caught a whole bunch of piranha, stuffed them into a pond, then lowered in a cow to show him how fast they could tear it to shreds. But, here's the thing, yes it happened, but it would not happen like that in the river. They packed in WAY more fish then would ever be in that small an area, and then starved them to make them perform better when it came time to eat.

But yeah a hippo will FUCK YOU UP! It's pretty telling they are one of the only animals Steve Irwin was actually scared to even be near, let alone refused to mess with.

'Islands are like land clouds' well, again..... not wholly wrong in your reasoning.

Curious pony is curious and exploitative, and adorable.

Well, better it rings while grooming then when you're in the shower.

Of course dude has to be there to spend some time with Pony Waifu.

But but, those two are SO CUTE! Bring them out to the dining hall so everyone can see the cuteness!

Well, Tim Horton's is rather famous for the good coffee, but I've never heard of 'Timbits'.

Being able to pack in tight and not mind being extra snuggly in a seat. #ponyperks

Heh, more like Silver hasn't really realized there is a difference in the 'comfort' of those choices of cars because Pony is very easy to make comfy.

Now I have the image of them stuck in traffic, only for Silver to hop out a window, fly off, and return carrying Cayenne.

Two suitcases, at least one of them is nothing but booze.

Of course flirty pone gotta be flirty and slutty at all times. She's simply a more.... direct recruiter for future Pony Pleasure Slaves. Working to get as many humans as possible used to the idea of pleasing a pony. Silver is more about working on using a small simple to more extensively test different ways human pleasure slaves can be used.

Now Five Guys, that place I know WHOOOOOOOO!! Though odd choice with so many ponies.

I'm with her... bacon milkshakes..... WHYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

'Dumb' and 'Manly' do seem to go together quite often.

Not needing bellhops to carry multiple bags. #uniperks.

Awwww, good pony, be brave and face the scary elevator to stay with other ponies. Future 'pony friendly' build design will just have empty shafts running alongside the elevators for pegasi to use to go up and down.

Of course go see the Tree Zoo with plant pony! Also... Tree Zoo....

Once again Silver continues to be a very not a planning-pony about things. Just, see what happens and deal with it then.

Stuborn Earth trees not obeying Ponies! Learn who to listen to!

And you can tell these two are used to just going along with whatever odd stuff the ponies are doing.

I do love the take on the leaf dropping and it being a magic thing, not just a physics thing.

Of course you can order room service. Ponies must be pampered.

Also, of course promote the pony star front and center,without trying to appear like you are flaunting her.

Cayenne gets to do a LOT of stuff most girls at campus don't get to, only some of which are because she's a pony. Most of the pony related ones are likely some version of "Hey stick your head in this and zap something!"

True, her being a pony is the reason she's getting all this attention and helping, but story has mad very clear that is just a bit of a bonus that gets her hoof in the door and gets people willing to give her a chance a bit faster. It's what a freaking AMAZING actress she is the takes that chance and makes it freaking WORK!

Yes, musical plays are a lot better. Another change, all plays will have musical numbers to keep the ponies entertained. Hey, it's better then trying to produce plays in Ahnk-Morpork. Where if you don't include at least one pie fight scene, you'll be dealing with a bored and unhappy orangutan in the front row.

Yeah.... right fro the start pony not having fun.... this.... this was NOT a very pony friendly play. At all. In any way. Even if Gusty makes it freaking work for having one in it.

On the 'humans have their own monsters'.... ouch..... just... ouch... she finally realizes... just... But, it does bring to mind one of the best lines from one of the best Pony-fics ever.

“I dearly hope you’re right, Princess,” he replied. “But I’m afraid that it’s you who has misjudged them. I’ve read some of the materials provided. Enough to know that the worst monsters in human history have one thing in common: they are all human.”

“This is true,” Celestia replied, “but so are their greatest heroes. Humans who gave their lives to bring those monsters down, to make their world a better place for their children. Those who gave generously to those who had too little. Those who care for the sick, or the injured, or the dispossessed, and ask nothing in return. And, my dear Heart’s Bloom, those humans outnumber the monsters by a significant number.”

Of course people let ponies in t see pony!

And more proof Gusty is a born thespian. Getting into the character's motivations making it all click.

Yeah, I can bet putting on the role can really be draining.

Of course Slutty-Pone found out about the Kama-Sutra. Now, how long till someone comes out with the Pony-Sutra? Best positioning for pony/human fun?

And now Silver has unleashed a terrible creation upon the world. Cayenne's quest to get as many humans dicks as possible into her pony pussy being taken to a whole other level.And the helpers learn. No use getting multiple beds, ponies sleep best in one big pile.

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And the company could leverage that competition . . . And then both of them would be ashamed when the Cadance model showed up and outsold theirs.

Gotta go with a literal Love Goddess. You know there are already at least some companies making "Pony Princess" sex toys of some form or another the better question, is seeing their reaction to this.

You know damn well when they're bidding for next year's pony, they're looking for a nun who's afraid of open spaces, bars, and sex.

Pretty sure the entire regional staff has already agreed to let them have first choice after this.

I would think that as soon as it was established that Equestrians were friendly, WDW was already making plans for an exhibit.

f course they would, both for the financial reasons, but beyond that.... it's Disney World! how could they not?

He's probably already gotten a heads-up. You know that someone's reading all of the e-mails.

I'm not sure if I should be jealous of, or feel sorry for the person that has to read Cayenne's.

Able to drink all other ponies under the table and still be chipper in the morning. #EarthPonyPerks

Silver is so easy to make happy. "Waffles? BEST DAY EVER!"

None can resist the double begging pony eyes!

And such a great switch between being all cute and adorable trying to help her out, and cold, unfeeling 'Get up or we toss you in the shower'.

Of course Cayenne has hangover cures on her at all times.

Important lesson, do not proposition sex toy companies while drunk.

By this point, her helpers have got to be numb to this kind of crazy shit and are just going along with whatever non-illegal stuff she wants, hoping the next two months end soon.

And her idea of a 'legacy' is making a copy of her rump for others to fuck at will. Okay then........ Aim high.

Ponies at Disney World?... ahem...

Plant Pony gotta Plant.

Yes Silver, driving down the road you start on is usually a good first step in going somewhere.

And yes, you are so adorable when you are wrong, but being cute about the logic. 'Real mail isn't delivered on Sunday, so maybe electronic mail isn't either.' This is just something they likely have a process for that will take some time.

Yes, you can't go through WI and not bask in cheesy goodness.

Eh, 'Fermented milk'... that's more yogurt then cheese.

Aqua? It's called being a hunter-gatherer it wasn't JUST on what you could catch. Also, by being really really really damn good and catching stuff.

And an odd flash of insight from Silver, yes those cheese heads are mostly for tourists. Or football games.

Just give it up Mister, you can't beat ponies and you know it.

Of course he knows Ponish, evn if not conversationally fluent in speaking it, he'd know how to understand it well enough.

D'awwwwww, go hug the human husbanado.

Silly teasy Meghan, can't hold out till Aric gets up to have fun with Pony.

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everyone decides who had the worst pony to watch and who had the best pony.

At least 'worst' is an easy win this time.

"Year? That was just January."

Don't ask about February, they've blocked most of it from their minds following the V-Day debacle.

Silly pony. "I'm blueish,so I can be the top Bluejay"

So inconsiderate of humans to make their windows too small and not put landing pads outside of all of them.

That fall is just Karma for all the times you used being able to fly to get a one up on humans.

I wonder if there tend to be more pony injuries early in the year when they are still learning what is and isn't safe, or later in the year when they feel more secure and so tend to start doing things they shouldn't thinking they can handle it.

They have the full Nerd High Council at that table. Fantasy Nerds, Sci-Fi nerds, both Trek and Wars variety, Math Nerd, and Meghan is whatever the in 'verse version of a pony otaku nerd would be called. All they need is someone to break out a few D20's.Hmmm, assuming "Slave Leia" But even classic, Episode IV Leia would be a bit chilly and potentially embarrassing, given Lucas' decree that "There are no bras in space"

Ohhh yeah, WAY to much to say about sex in that book. All from what comes off as some stuck up, blue balled loser whining about not being able to get laid and blaming it on women. This is going to be an... interesting.. talk with Liz.

But, then break out a few good lines. "Faith, Hope, and Love." Granted, now when hearing it, all I can think of is The Dresden Files. Specifically the Knights of the Cross, the wielders of three holy swords, each imbued with one of the Nails of the Crucifixion. Fidelachius, Esperachius, Amorachius. The swords of Faith, Hope, and Love. (And in a nice touch, out of the five Knights we've seen, only one is actually a devout Christian. The other four are a Baptist who only became one due to misunderstanding an offer to 'see the King' as an invitation to meet Elvis at a tent revival, a lapsed Catholic, Jewish, and an Atheist.)

This is super silly pony day. Still "Running of the feathers" needs to happen.

So... ghosts confirmed as canon in Equestria?

Fun story about the 'Hutt Slayer' outfit. The reason it became that, was Carrie Fisher demanding to be allowed to do it. See, her and Richard Markland (The director of VI) really, really really did not get along, at all. To the point that by the end of shooting, neither would even talk to the other directly. In large part due to Marklan being a misogynistic asshole who thought Leia being a badass warrior was wrong and she should just be meek, helpless eye candy more or less like a 'proper' woman. Hence the 'Slave Leia' outfit in the first place and why Leia has a smaller role in that movie. By the time the Sail Barge scene's were filmed, Carrie was fed up with the shit and demanded she be allowed to kill Jabba, we can only assume while picturing Markland being the one getting chocked out the whole time.

There are several dozens of alien babes that say otherwise to the raw sexual power that is Kirk, Christine.

'Chalk and Lonlyness'.... pretty much.

Yeah, some candies are just..... why!? But, every year you gotta have some.

Well, in this case the 'Fuck You' isn't an insult, it's an offer.

I'm sure Caleb would really not mind if you want to undo those buttons a bit early Peggy.

Meghan.... worried Silver might be offended by you going as a pony.... Have you met her!?

Soon Ponylords shall decree all human to wear those ears to make it easier for ponies to read their body language.

See, long dresses like that and riding not mixing, is the entire reason side saddle exists for riding.

Of course little girl wants to go around with Pony. Pity they couldn't work out a costume between them that made Silver look like her steed.

Okay... why would Silver feel an urge to say 'no' or be upset at the request at all?

Pony is best everything ever! So long as no Yaks are around.

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See the whole 'piranha's will rip your down to the bone in seconds' thing, and them even being that dangerous is MASSIVELY exaggerated. ... They packed in WAY more fish then would ever be in that small an area, and then starved them to make them perform better when it came time to eat.

So what you’re saying is that you’re okay as long as it’s not a bathtub full of starving piranhas.

But yeah a hippo will FUCK YOU UP! It's pretty telling they are one of the only animals Steve Irwin was actually scared to even be near, let alone refused to mess with.

Hippos don’t mess around, and that’s a fact.

'Islands are like land clouds' well, again..... not wholly wrong in your reasoning.

She really isn’t.

Curious pony is curious and exploitative, and adorable.

Well, better it rings while grooming then when you're in the shower.

Yeah, although at least I tend to ignore my phone when it rings when I’m in the shower.

Of course dude has to be there to spend some time with Pony Waifu.

Well, yeah, of course he does.

But but, those two are SO CUTE! Bring them out to the dining hall so everyone can see the cuteness!

People would be keeling over left and right.

Well, Tim Horton's is rather famous for the good coffee, but I've never heard of 'Timbits'.

Those are their donut holes. That name apparently isn’t in common usage in the US.

Being able to pack in tight and not mind being extra snuggly in a seat. #ponyperks

Ponies would revolutionize mass transit.

Heh, more like Silver hasn't really realized there is a difference in the 'comfort' of those choices of cars because Pony is very easy to make comfy.

Pretty much. As long as she’s got a seat to sit on, or a nice big floor, she doesn’t mind too much what it is that she’s in.

Now I have the image of them stuck in traffic, only for Silver to hop out a window, fly off, and return carrying Cayenne.

That would have been an excellent solution to traffic. Probably raise some heads, and depending on how Cayenne’s carried, she might flash half of Chicago. Not that that thought would bother her at all; she’d probably be thrilled for the opportunity.

Two suitcases, at least one of them is nothing but booze.

Yeah, pretty much.

Of course flirty pone gotta be flirty and slutty at all times. She's simply a more.... direct recruiter for future Pony Pleasure Slaves. Working to get as many humans as possible used to the idea of pleasing a pony. Silver is more about working on using a small simple to more extensively test different ways human pleasure slaves can be used.

Cayenne does have a much more direct way of attracting humans than her other three friends, that’s for sure.

Now Five Guys, that place I know WHOOOOOOOO!! Though odd choice with so many ponies.

I’ve been there and wasn’t too impressed (well, not the one in Chicago; the one in Baltimore). It’s alright, I guess. I don’t know if there are any of them in Michigan. Probably are in the college towns.

I'm with her... bacon milkshakes..... WHYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

So you’re saying that there might be some things that bacon doesn’t make better?

'Dumb' and 'Manly' do seem to go together quite often.

As far as I know, the words are often interchangeable. Certainly in the case of doing something manly.

Not needing bellhops to carry multiple bags. #uniperks.

Which is why they have no motivation to pack light.

Awwww, good pony, be brave and face the scary elevator to stay with other ponies. Future 'pony friendly' build design will just have empty shafts running alongside the elevators for pegasi to use to go up and down.

The empty shafts idea would work, as would elevators with windows.

Of course go see the Tree Zoo with plant pony! Also... Tree Zoo....

Logically, any kind of arboretum or garden is a plant zoo.

Once again Silver continues to be a very not a planning-pony about things. Just, see what happens and deal with it then.

I think that that’s the attitude lots of pegasi would have, especially the weatherponies, and even more especially feral weather ponies like Silver Glow. The storms come when they come and that’s when you have to deal with them.

Stubborn Earth trees not obeying Ponies! Learn who to listen to!

One day the trees too will learn who their masters are.

And you can tell these two are used to just going along with whatever odd stuff the ponies are doing.

That’s probably something that they’re trained to do. Which would make life challenging, for sure. But also fun for them.

I do love the take on the leaf dropping and it being a magic thing, not just a physics thing.

I think it can be both. I think that in Equestria, leaves will eventually drop on their own if there are no ponies to help, but that ponies like to keep nature tame and orderly whenever possible.

Of course you can order room service. Ponies must be pampered.

Exactly!

Also, of course promote the pony star front and center,without trying to appear like you are flaunting her.

When you’ve got a superstar in your cast, that’s what you do. She gets top billing or nearly top billing (of course, her playing a major character really helps, too).

Cayenne gets to do a LOT of stuff most girls at campus don't get to, only some of which are because she's a pony. Most of the pony related ones are likely some version of "Hey stick your head in this and zap something!"

I have to imagine that there are girls in some of the high-end fields that get to do some interesting stuff, although I don’t know for sure. I never was in a high-end field in college, so I don’t know what kinds of things they do there, but I do know that MSU is building a rare isotope lab, and U of M has a wind tunnel.

Still, being a pony helps her get access to things that most other students don’t get, largely because she can stick her head in this and zap something.

True, her being a pony is the reason she's getting all this attention and helping, but story has made very clear that is just a bit of a bonus that gets her hoof in the door and gets people willing to give her a chance a bit faster. It's what a freaking AMAZING actress she is the takes that chance and makes it freaking WORK!

That’s very true. And in many ways it’s the same with Silver Glow, too--they’re not token ponies; they know what the hell they’re doing, and they do it well. Given her abilities, Silver doesn’t have as much opportunity to shine; K doesn’t have a proper weather lab or anything like that. Gusty, though, yeah, being a pony helps get her noticed, but she wouldn’t be getting leading roles or invited to Stratford if she wasn’t good.

Yes, musical plays are a lot better. Another change, all plays will have musical numbers to keep the ponies entertained. Hey, it's better then trying to produce plays in Ahnk-Morpork. Where if you don't include at least one pie fight scene, you'll be dealing with a bored and unhappy orangutan in the front row.

I bet that virtually all plays in Equestria are musicals. Even if they weren’t written that way.

I do wonder now if Quiet Gestures has background music, or if her act really stands out because it’s silent.

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Yeah.... right from the start pony not having fun.... this.... this was NOT a very pony friendly play. At all. In any way. Even if Gusty makes it freaking work for having one in it.

It’s a horrible play for ponies to watch, and that’s a fact. And I think that the contrast of Gusty being Mrs. Lovett probably makes it even worse.

On the 'humans have their own monsters'.... ouch..... just... ouch... she finally realizes... just...

Yeah, unfortunately. A lesson that ponies should learn, though.

But, it does bring to mind one of the best lines from one of the best Pony-fics ever.

“I dearly hope you’re right, Princess,” he replied. “But I’m afraid that it’s you who has misjudged them. I’ve read some of the materials provided. Enough to know that the worst monsters in human history have one thing in common: they are all human.”

“This is true,” Celestia replied, “but so are their greatest heroes. Humans who gave their lives to bring those monsters down, to make their world a better place for their children. Those who gave generously to those who had too little. Those who care for the sick, or the injured, or the dispossessed, and ask nothing in return. And, my dear Heart’s Bloom, those humans outnumber the monsters by a significant number.”

What’s that from? I don’t think I’ve read it.

It brings to mind a similar line from something else, but I’ll be damned if I can remember it.

Of course people let ponies in to see pony!

There are some things that you just make way for.

And more proof Gusty is a born thespian. Getting into the character's motivations making it all click.

A lot of times if you’ve got that, everything else falls into place. Certainly works for me when I’m writing.

Yeah, I can bet putting on the role can really be draining.

I think that that was one of the things that killed Heath Ledger, honestly. I think he went too far into the role and couldn’t get back out again.

Of course Slutty-Pone found out about the Kama-Sutra. Now, how long till someone comes out with the Pony-Sutra? Best positioning for pony/human fun?

Wouldn’t be surprised if Princess Cadance is already working on it. Maybe when ponies who have hooked up with humans get back to Equestria, she asks some questions about what works and what doesn’t.

And now Silver has unleashed a terrible creation upon the world. Cayenne's quest to get as many humans dicks as possible into her pony pussy being taken to a whole other level.

That’s kind of the goal, isn’t it? At least for Cayenne. . . .

And the helpers learn. No use getting multiple beds, ponies sleep best in one big pile.

Exactly--pony piles are the way to go. None of this separate beds; ponies wouldn’t like them anyway.

Gotta go with a literal Love Goddess. You know there are already at least some companies making "Pony Princess" sex toys of some form or another the better question, is seeing their reaction to this.

Depends on how many other ponies have already contacted them offering to model. Maybe none have thought of it yet, and maybe there are problems with them just asking a pony . . . but if a pony asks them, they’re good.

If Cadance saw a pony princess sex toy, she’d probably critique it, especially if it was wrong.

Pretty sure the entire regional staff has already agreed to let them have first choice after this.

Oh, yeah, for sure. They no doubt have a draft of sorts, and whoever got the worst pony last year gets first pick next year.

Of course they would, both for the financial reasons, but beyond that.... it's Disney World! how could they not?

It’s really a no-brainer for them, and I also have to think that companies like Disney would be putting pressure on lawmakers to get actual ponies. Who wouldn’t want to see actual ponies at Disney?

I'm not sure if I should be jealous of, or feel sorry for the person that has to read Cayenne's.

Oh, I’d feel very sorry for that person. You know damn well that Cayenne has figured out sexting and dock pics, and steamy e-mails and phone calls and maybe even a pony cam for some extra spending bits.

Able to drink all other ponies under the table and still be chipper in the morning. #EarthPonyPerks

Never attempt to out-drink an earth pony. You’ll die.

Silver is so easy to make happy. "Waffles? BEST DAY EVER!"

It’s the simple things that make her happy.

None can resist the double begging pony eyes!

Of course not! It should be illegal, honestly.

And such a great switch between being all cute and adorable trying to help her out, and cold, unfeeling 'Get up or we toss you in the shower'.

Well, the cute pony eyes don’t work as well on another pony.

Of course Cayenne has hangover cures on her at all times.

Those are in the other suitcase.

Important lesson, do not proposition sex toy companies while drunk.

Yeah, probably not the best idea, really.

By this point, her helpers have got to be numb to this kind of crazy shit and are just going along with whatever non-illegal stuff she wants, hoping the next two months end soon.

There’s a reason why they’re generally not with her on longer trips away from Chicago. They’re foisting off the responsibility on somebody else, and they’re taking a much needed break to either get drunk enough to try and forget, or to have some time to catch up on reports. Possibly both.

And her idea of a 'legacy' is making a copy of her rump for others to fuck at will. Okay then........ Aim high.

That’s a legacy of sorts. Maybe not the one that most normal people would want, but we are talking Cayenne.

Ponies at Disney World?... ahem...

Yes, that’s about right.

Plant Pony gotta Plant.

She does indeed.

Yes Silver, driving down the road you start on is usually a good first step in going somewhere.

I love that some GPSes say that when you’re in a parking lot. Usually they say which road to drive to, but not always.

And yes, you are so adorable when you are wrong, but being cute about the logic. 'Real mail isn't delivered on Sunday, so maybe electronic mail isn't either.' This is just something they likely have a process for that will take some time.

I mean, it’s logical reasoning. And yeah, the sex toy company has to review her e-mail before sending one back, and they probably aren’t in the shop on Saturday night or Sunday. Although maybe, since they’re a sex toy company. I’ve never checked; does their website have a help line?

Yes, you can't go through WI and not bask in cheesy goodness.

You really can’t. It’s like a law or something.

Eh, 'Fermented milk'... that's more yogurt then cheese.

Cheese counts (according to Wikipedia).

Aqua? It's called being a hunter-gatherer it wasn't JUST on what you could catch. Also, by being really really really damn good and catching stuff.

I figure we just developed agriculture since it was easier to chase down a potato than a woolly mammoth. But she does have a point; practically anything green is pony food, whereas humans can’t eat most of that stuff.

And an odd flash of insight from Silver, yes those cheese heads are mostly for tourists. Or football games.

For all her wrong logic about Earth, every now and then she gets it right.

Just give it up Mister, you can't beat ponies and you know it.

Except at poker. Ponies aren’t good at poker at all.

Of course he knows Ponish, even if not conversationally fluent in speaking it, he'd know how to understand it well enough.

Yeah, that would certainly be a requirement. And I think most of the handlers wouldn’t let on that they knew, since it would make it easier to read pony mail or evesdrop on conversations.

D'awwwwww, go hug the human husbanado.

Silly teasy Meghan, can't hold out till Aric gets up to have fun with Pony.

Of course she can’t! Such is the allure of pony.

At least 'worst' is an easy win this time.

Yes, it is.

Don't ask about February, they've blocked most of it from their minds following the V-Day debacle.

Oh, yeah, that would be a thing. A terrible, terrible thing.

Silly pony. "I'm blueish,so I can be the top Bluejay"

The question is whether or not the bluejay is smart enough to know the difference.

So inconsiderate of humans to make their windows too small and not put landing pads outside of all of them.

I know, right? A lot of architecture needs to be fixed to be pony-friendly.

That fall is just Karma for all the times you used being able to fly to get a one up on humans.

Yeah, it sure is.

I wonder if there tend to be more pony injuries early in the year when they are still learning what is and isn't safe, or later in the year when they feel more secure and so tend to start doing things they shouldn't thinking they can handle it.

Probably later in the year when they’re more comfortable and they think that they know things that they really don’t. I’ve heard that when doing high falls, more people are injured on the ladder than doing the fall itself.

They have the full Nerd High Council at that table. Fantasy Nerds, Sci-Fi nerds, both Trek and Wars variety, Math Nerd, and Meghan is whatever the in 'verse version of a pony otaku nerd would be called. All they need is someone to break out a few D20's.

They really do have it covered at their table. Which is why it’s a great table to be at.

Hmmm, assuming "Slave Leia" But even classic, Episode IV Leia would be a bit chilly and potentially embarrassing, given Lucas' decree that "There are no bras in space"

If Christine went that route (and she might), she’d embrace it. It would give her an opportunity to mock Sean if he looked and also if he didn’t.

Ohhh yeah, WAY to much to say about sex in that book. All from what comes off as some stuck up, blue balled loser whining about not being able to get laid and blaming it on women. This is going to be an... interesting.. talk with Liz.

He was the original incel.

But, then break out a few good lines. "Faith, Hope, and Love."

Like, honestly, I think that if you really want to give a single sentence saying what Jesus was all about, that’s a good contender (the other being “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” more often shortened to ‘don’t be a dick,’).

Granted, now when hearing it, all I can think of is The Dresden Files. Specifically the Knights of the Cross, the wielders of three holy swords, each imbued with one of the Nails of the Crucifixion. Fidelachius, Esperachius, Amorachius. The swords of Faith, Hope, and Love. (And in a nice touch, out of the five Knights we've seen, only one is actually a devout Christian. The other four are a Baptist who only became one due to misunderstanding an offer to 'see the King' as an invitation to meet Elvis at a tent revival, a lapsed Catholic, Jewish, and an Atheist.)

You’re gonna make me start reading The Dresden Files here.

This is super silly pony day. Still "Running of the feathers" needs to happen.

The feathers wouldn’t be so bad, but if loose down starts to come out, too, that could be problematic.

So... ghosts confirmed as canon in Equestria?

IMHO, yes.

(As it happens, I’m currently publishing a ghost story.)

Fun story about the 'Hutt Slayer' outfit. ... Carrie was fed up with the shit and demanded she be allowed to kill Jabba, we can only assume while picturing Markland being the one getting chocked out the whole time.

I’d like to kick Markland in the balls (if he has them) . . . I love scenes in movie where a woman kicks some serious ass. That was one of my favorite things in King Arthur (the one with Clive Owen and Kiera Knightly)--she didn’t mess around when it came to fighting.

There are several dozens of alien babes that say otherwise to the raw sexual power that is Kirk, Christine.

Well, yeah, that’s a good point.

'Chalk and Loneliness'.... pretty much.

I think those are two of the three ingredients in them.

Yeah, some candies are just..... why!? But, every year you gotta have some.

I’ve managed to get over that for the most part. I hardly ever eat candy corn, for example. Even if I can only get it once a year.

Well, in this case the 'Fuck You' isn't an insult, it's an offer.

Eh, it’s really both at once. Christine doesn’t limit herself.

I'm sure Caleb would really not mind if you want to undo those buttons a bit early Peggy.

He would not mind at all.

Meghan.... worried Silver might be offended by you going as a pony.... Have you met her!?

Silver would either love it or critique it (probably love it).

Soon Ponylords shall decree all human to wear those ears to make it easier for ponies to read their body language.

It would be quite helpful, that’s for sure.

See, long dresses like that and riding not mixing, is the entire reason side saddle exists for riding.

And why women’s bicycles have a dropped crossbar, too.

Of course little girl wants to go around with Pony. Pity they couldn't work out a costume between them that made Silver look like her steed.

They really should have.

You know that every year, there’s at least one pony and tiny human who do coordinate a costume like that.

Okay... why would Silver feel an urge to say 'no' or be upset at the request at all?

Just to troll Peggy, no other reason.

Pony is best everything ever! So long as no Yaks are around.

Ponies are still best everything ever, even though the Yaks don’t want to hear it.

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

And he also showed us a different way to solve the first problem he had given us, because it was a gradient, but he warned us that not all vector fields were gradient fields and we'd got (get) the wrong answer if our vector field wasn't also a gradient field.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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This one, while technically incorrect, I’m gonna chalk up to Silver Glow’s voice.