February 19 [play]
February 19
I had a lot on my mind this morning: both that I was going to spend the night with Aric and that if Christine was right, Meghan was interested in me as a partner. I was going to have to ask her about it after Equestrian class, but maybe alone just in case she was embarrassed by it.
My morning classes went by quickly, and I ate a light lunch so that I was early to Equestrian class in case Meghan came alone, but she didn't. She was with Lisa and Becky, and I wasn't sure how much she'd told them. I know that I would have told my marefriends but humans were different about stuff like that.
So I had to wait until after class, and then I asked if I could talk to her for a little bit. She told Lisa and Becky that she'd catch up to them, and then she crouched down in front of me.
Rather than flap around the sky, I just asked her directly if she was interested in having sex with me, if that was what Wednesday night had been about.
I told her that one of my friends had said that she was furry even though I'd only seen one furry patch when her robe came open while she was putting on her pants and she blushed and sort of slid down to her butt and looked up and down the hallway, and then motioned for me to sit next to her.
She said that my friend had probably meant a furry, and then explained to me what that meant. She said that a lot of people thought that was weird, but it didn't sound all that weird to me.
Meghan told me that she really liked my personality, and that I was cute, too. She said that she wanted to be my friend and she'd seen how much fun I was having in their bathtub and thought I'd enjoy the hot tub.
Well, I had enjoyed it, and I told her so. Then I stretched up and kissed her on the cheek and headed off to dinner and only then did it occur to me that I hadn't really gotten an answer.
I had a little bit of free time between dinner and when I was supposed to meet Aric at the theatre, so I played around in the snow on the quad. Christine and Sean and Peggy joined me and we had a short boys vs. girls snowball fight (Sean didn't think that was very fair).
I shook off the snow that was on me as I walked past the statue of the crabs fucking and followed the sidewalk through the parking lot until I came to the Balch Playhouse.
The door to the upstairs wasn't well-marked, but I found it and pretty soon I was in what Aric had called the lighting booth.
Just past the door was a huge bank of electric machines, humming and whirring away. Then past that room was another room with banks of controls; there was a man in a buttoned shirt sitting there with a set of headphones on. He scowled when he saw me, but I ignored him.
In the next room, Aric was sitting at a console that had a big computer screen and banks of sliders. The whole place looked like some futuristic spaceship, almost like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, especially with the big windows that looked over the house and stage below.
I nuzzled against his hip and he reached down and petted my mane and then pointed to a chair where I could sit and watch. I pulled it over so that I was a bit closer to him.
He was moving the sliders on the control board, and I could see lights going on and off. Each time he ran a set of lights, he'd make a mark on a legal pad, and I realized that he was running through a checklist. When he finally got done, he went over to a spotlight and turned that on, then he sat back in his chair.
He told me that he was still waiting for Lisa, the spotlight operator to show up. Just when he said that, I suddenly heard the crash of thunder, and only a moment later realized that it was a sound effect. The scowly man in the next room was testing his equipment.
It wasn't until all the theatre had fallen silent again that Lisa finally showed up. She was a really skinny girl with short dark hair. I'd seen her around a couple of times, but didn't really know her very well.
She and Aric chatted a bit about the show and I just stayed back out of the way. I could tell when somebody was getting their professional face on.
Then Lisa went over to her spotlight and they both put on their headsets. They had a little microphone on an adjustable boom, and Aric turned his up and out of the way.
He told me a little bit about the play that they were doing, which was called Bad Jews. I didn't really get it, but I figured once I saw the play it would all make sense.
Suddenly, mid-sentence, he spun on his chair back to the board and pulled his microphone down. He said 'Standing by' into it, and put his hands on the control board. I peered out the window and suddenly realized that the house was full of people: I'd been so busy concentrating on Aric, I hadn't even known they were there.
A few seconds later, he said 'house lights, going,' and began to pull some sliders down. When they reached the bottom, he said 'house lights, complete,' and then just waited.
I learned pretty quickly that that was how their radio commands worked. He would stand by, then be going, then be complete.
Lisa didn't have as much to do. She mostly sat in a chair watching out the window, but I could tell that she was familiar with the play. She stood up and walked over to her spotlight, and then a minute later, I heard her say 'follow spot, standing by.' Then when she was done with her duties, she sat down in her chair and leaned back.
Aric finally brought the house lights up for the intermission, and asked me what I thought of the play so far. I admitted that I hadn't really been watching it that much, but it was interesting to be in the control room. Lisa said sometimes it was boring, and I told her I didn't think I'd get bored. She said that she knew some of the lines better than the actors by now and thank God they weren't doing a musical. Then she and Aric looked at each other and both of them began quietly singing a song which it turns out was from the play Company that they'd put on last year. Aric said he'd probably be cursed to remember the song for the rest of his life.
The intermission lasted exactly fifteen minutes. I watched the clock, and Aric must have been as well. He was already back in place when he acknowledged that he was standing by for the house lights.
I was just fascinated watching them work. I didn't pay as much attention to the play as I ought to have, so I was still a bit lost about why the Jews were bad.
When the play was finally over, I had to wait until Aric wrapped up his job. He made a couple of notes on his yellow paper and then he left the control room with me following.
I cuddled up with him on the ride to his house and when we got there he went to the bathroom to pee and brush his teeth and I thought that maybe I ought to get another toothbrush that I could leave at his house if I was going to be spending a lot of time here because my teeth would be fuzzy in the morning.
He got ready for bed while I was peeing, and when I came back he was already lying in bed with his eyes closed. I lay down next to him and curled up with my head on his chest.
Aric asked me what I'd thought about the play and I said that I hadn't really paid all that much attention because it was just fun to watch him.
He hugged me close and said that it was fun to have me up there with him, too, and it was good just to be with me. I told him that he could do so much more with me, and he tensed up and said that he wasn't ready for that yet.
I rolled away from him and he followed, turning on his side and putting his arm around me and said that he was sorry but he wasn't sure what my boundaries were and he hadn't wanted to push me to do something I didn't want to do.
I rested my hoof on his hand and told him that if it had been up to me, we would have been having sex on the couch after the Super Bowl although Peggy had kind of put a damper on that—and I told him that I was glad she had, because I hadn't been thinking about things from his point of view and how hard it must be for him to think about.
He said that he wasn't so worried about what other people thought but it was just hard to prepare himself mentally and he knew that sounded dumb. I told him it didn't sound dumb at all; I'd fantasized about having sex with a griffon for years but when I finally got the opportunity it was really weird and awkward and we sort of muddled through it and I don't think either of us were satisfied when it was over.
Of course I know a lot more now than I did back then. Hopefully that griffon does, too.
I asked him if he would be comfortable taking off his underwear at least. He said that people might get the wrong idea and I asked him who was going to come into his bedroom and see? So I kind of got the idea that he might be uncomfortable being naked with me.
I rested my head on his chest and told him that he didn't have to if he didn't want to and we snuggled for a little bit.
I was almost asleep when I felt him shift under me and reach his hand down and kind of wiggle around, and then he pulled his underwear from under the covers and asked me if that was better.
I said that I thought it was.
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I took some liberties with the control board; other than that, the arrangement in the light booth/sound booth is accurate (well, that's how it was in the late 90s).
and most of us still don't know what it's about. AV guys are fun to hang with as long as you know when to shut up and let them do their jobs.
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Old guy dies and most of his children and grandchildren argue over an heirloom that he saved from the Nazis. Pretty soon they're arguing over who's the most Jewish....at least, that's what I got from Wikipedia. I haven't seen the play.
Finally, some satisfying resolution!
The development of the understanding they share now is wayyyy more arousing than the thought if them getting it on.
wow what a cliffhanger !!!
So it's a lot like sex, then!
...I'll... I'll just get my coat.
Sitcom plots are bullshit. Good for Silver for being direct.
You're totally teasing us with that chapter title, though.
This is a scandalous chapter and you should feel scandalous
Also, I've decided that Meg might have been more impulsive then calculating that night. As in, she may not have had a "plan" to seduce Silver so much as really wanted to connect with her and let it get out of control/out of proportion in her head
7127797 I hope it's a comedy, otherwise that's pretty dark.
Bad Jews is a great show.
Finally some resolution. Although explaining 'morning wood' might be fun to read.
Welcome to Earth.
S: "Aric, I want to have sex with you."
A: "Good to know, but I wasn't sure and was taking it easy."
S: "That's okay, I was taking it easy too."
A: "Alright. But in a bit."
S: "Okay!"
A: "..."
S: "..."
A: "..."
S: "Meghan wants to join in too."
A:
S:
"Hi Mom."
"
"Hi Aric! How's college?"
"It's pretty good. Different than I expected, though."
"I know, honey. Just remember, college is for exploration and self-discovery."
"Yeah, no kidding.
Interesting (and probably quite natural) that pegasi would develop "flap around the sky" as an equivalent figure of speech to "beating around the bush."
Wonder what the unicorn and earth pony equivalents would be...
7128139 Probably a spell-realted metaphor for them and an agriculture one for the others. (I let you figure wich is wich)
7127770 There is different model of control board anyway.
I shall now join the bandwagion and state that I am glad to see how things are develloping beetween these two.
With that kind of understanding of each other's feeling, it look like they have something that could be solid and last for a while.
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The thing about most humor is that depends on cultural context to be funny. If you have no real idea what a Jew is & have never heard of a Jewish American Princess, never mind any of the clichés of their behavior you are pretty much going to miss all the jokes. Over a long life I've learned the only thing less funny than a joke that has to be explained is a joke that can't be explained.
I liked the description of the lighting booth. Always wondered how those worked. Those fellas get a lot of cool toys to play with.
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Also, more than a few sentences felt a little awkwardly long here.
Um...
what?
Nice Pegasus saying there.
I'd say Silver's ardour for Aric might be dying a little or visa versa, he seemed so distant from her for this whole entry.
Not sure where things are going with Meghan either, Silver certainly seemed to be very understanding of human culture and gave her a chance to spell out what she want but got nothing. At this rate I can see Silver going out getting drunk and having a one night stand with a random stranger just to work out the tension.
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Mom: "So, did you meet any cute girls while you were there?"
Aric: "...uhm..."
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Oh, man. Speaking as someone who has had to explain unconventional relationship choices to conservative parents, I do not envy Aric that conversation. That's gonna be a doozy.
Fortunately it's also a long ways down the road. "Tomorrow will worry about itself."
7128424 Oh good, I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
7128693 7128424 See January 4.
I assume it's a real statue, but I haven't found a photo yet.
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...is it this thing?
https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.2906504,-85.6011035,3a,75y,109.91h,74.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8Y-sk0Kdt3PgpRzJwaCJdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
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"Well, cute is one way to call her."
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Not very understanding to expect a shy-ish girl to just come out and admit she wants to have sex. Meghan implied it with the whole calling Silver cute and fun and stuff, but didn't actually say it in a way Silver could know for sure.
Meghan probably is expecting Silver to take the intiative after she gave the first step, that's how it usually goes with most relationships when a girl is the one hitting on you in my experience. In her mind Meghan probably thinks she said everything that needs to be said.
7128738 The thing about modern sculpture is that you send 20 people into a gallery with instructions to "find the one that looks like two crabs doing it" and you'll get 15 different results.
This page gives it a different name, but a statue can have more than one. I agree there's a resemblance, but the same could be said for other statues on that page. So...maybe?
7128517 "For a given value of 'girl', sure...."
Ah, circumlocution. No one wants to admit that they want to sleep with the pony, even to themselves. It's entirely understandable, but still kind of amusing, especially from Silver's perspective.
Also, the bit in the lighting booth sounded really cool, but I imagine it would really grind after the first few shows.
I wonder if Aric is a virgin. People are commonly nervous or even scared their first time out; that fear might be multiplied many times over when wrestling with taboos and whatever other baggage Aric has accumulated up to this point.
Patience and good communication seem to be the best ways to deal with that. Aric and Silver Glow are, well, not completely terrible at those. I'm confident they'll figure it out soon enough...assuming something else doesn't go wrong in the meantime.
I'm actually hoping they take their time to sort an actual relationship before they do the horizontal tango. Jumping in too early is a great way to get yourself, and others, hurt. I've heard lots of stories were people think they're ready, but they actually weren't, and regretted it.
With casual sex, you're really just using the other person for your own pleasure. I hope they don't make that mistake here.
7127770 My one and only experience with theater lights was in high school. A buddy who did lights asked me to fill in. It was all preprogrammed. I just had to follow the script and push a button when noted.
I vote for meghan over aric
7129401 lol Same here with my cleric deck.^^
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That really depends on your personal hang ups on sex.
Apparently Silver is comfortable enough with herself that a breakup would affect her the same sex or no sex, for her that is just a given part of being on a relationship like holding hands or kissing is to some people.
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Eventually's a heck of a lot better than never. Glad I could make a good case.
7129658 How does using map make someone an activist for the use of manual labor in the textile industry?
7129720 Huh. I guess I've just never looked up the Ten Commandments in the RSV. It's from the early 1900's, and my dad still uses it himself, but the impression I've gotten is that it's gone out of fashion. The NRSV (New Revised Standard Version), on the other hand, is somewhat popular... but it says "murder."
I guess Liz's a little unusual and still prefers the RSV, then. Maybe Silver Glow's misunderstanding will motivate her to switch?
Lol the corruption of Silver is beginning to dig deeper slowly but surely. She is saying curse words almost second nature haha
7129907 If anything I would like silver to see metal gear solid 3. And see the relationship between revolver ocelot and big boss. She would see that there friends but still constantly fight leading to the understanding of the standard riviary type relationship as standard in hetrosexual men. As for fire arms I trust you'll make it a netrual, unbiased veiw for silver (depending on your personal views) I'm a very emotional supporter of gun rights and ateast as far as concerned. If you make a chapter that I'm offended by and truly disagree with I'll just disregard it as your opinion that your allowed to have and not say anything. (Same thing for comments in the comment section) in short, write what you want you see no hostilities from me.
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I've read a couple of daily webcomics (like Schlock Mercenary) that pull it off for a lot longer so it's doable, but not many keep it up so it is still hard. The ones I've heard of pulling it off don't write every day but write more than one day's worth when they do write generating a buffer to post every day from. Do you do something similar? If not I hope you have a plan to avoid burnout because I don't want this story to ever end. I'd even like to see her move here to keep close to a humanfriend (maybe Aric and/or Meghan) and open a custom weather business (though that would probably require a team with feral weather like ours) and maybe even make a cloud house...
I just rabbit trailed.
There should be a paragraph break up there somewhere. Seriously though, do you have a burnout prevention plan?
Or maybe her humanfriend comes to Equestria with her!
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Ponies panties pictures!
7129907
Damnit Biscuit quit teasing the lad!
If you are looking for poets I would recommend Rudyard Kipling, he is my favorite. Some of his later work involved motor cars, including a faux Shakespearian play involving Prince Hamlet getting into an accident and being defended by Portia.
7130395 Rudyard Kipling wrote fanfiction!?
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Depends on what you mean by "the right answer". If you mean what most people believe, then that's the popular theory at the time, which we all know doesn't guarantee accuracy at all. If you mean Truth, then the right answer doesn't change at all. Not to say the Truth isn't complicated or multi-faceted, but it's not subject to subjectivity. If the truth were subjective, then there wouldn't be any reason to even discuss differing viewpoints. We would just ignore each others' beliefs and fight each other like animals whenever we disagreed. However, as soon as we start arguing, we are implicitly agreeing that there is an objective standard that we are trying to measure our different positions up against.
After all, absolute subjectivity (or pure relativism) is an oxymoron.
Couldn't you say, though, that there are some arguments that can't be true simply because there is no way to get to them logically?
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Yes indeed.