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Wake up. Go to work. Protect your fellow ponies from sanity-shattering extra-spatial threats. Have lunch with your PFF.
Ditzy Doo has her routine, and it has served her well. Now, if only she could figure out why her alarm clock is acting so strangely...
Magilectric Light Orchestra: "Sweet Talkin' Mare"
The Hay LF: "What Time Is Friendship? (Live at Prancentral)"
As for the least subtle song reference in the story, I’m saving the explanation of that one for later.
I will be the first to admit that I really don’t quite get Krasnikov tubes. I’m mainly using them because the name is easier to ponify than “wormhole” is.
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From this angle, she could see Cloudchaser flying away, shouting at Dash as she left: “Fine! But there will be Tartarus to pay if you mules hold the rest of us up!”
Cloudchaser then turned to the mule who was, inexplicably, standing on a cloud at her side. “Uh, no offense,” she said.
“None taken.”
>>1448010 I know. The story clearly says it's a clock-radio, but that's just a mechanical alarm clock in the picture. Cover art, why must you always lie?
>>1448266 Thanks. And thanks again for your help whipping the draft into shape.
>>1448585 You're too kind. Wait... "tied to extra dimensional things"? I'm not touching that.
>>1450228 Three plancks isn't very long at all. How SLOW do you even have to BE moving?
>>1452798 A hard question to answer, but I'll give it my best shot.
First lets deal with what moving means. From a technical standpoint it means to have motion. Now lets say a ball is being thrown, the ball is considered to have motion. Now if the ball was just on the ground, it would still have motion. The Earth is spinning on it's axis, orbiting the sun, orbiting the center of the galaxy, that's speeding through the universe. So lets take that away by putting a atom out in the middle of space. Guess what? It is still moving. The background radiation and light of the universe would give the atom heat. Heat makes a atom vibrate at a higher frequency. Even then, if we have a atom at the lowest possible temperature, 0 degrees kelvin (even though its technically impossible to reach) it would still be considered moving. Why? Because the quarks that make up the atom still have a clockwise or counter clockwise spin.
So, the answer is, no matter how slow you are, you are still moving.
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: [aside] We are here at the Golden Oaks Library, where we’ve secretly replaced the fine coffee they usually serve with Foalgers Decaffeinated Crystals. Let’s see if anyone can tell the difference!
[Spike approaches Twilight Sparkle and holds a microphone in her direction.]
: Hey, Twilight, how’s the coffee?
: It’s great, Spike, thanks for— [falls asleep]
: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
: [aside] Yeeeeeeeah we can edit that last part out.
Got it in one. I was actually a little afraid that I hadn't made the connection clear enough.
What does it mean?!
You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut! That boy needs therapy.
...Sorry, it's a reflex.
Well, this is awesome. Not only is it a Ditzy-centric story, it's a Ditzy-centric story where she's the only one aware of eldritch secrets that lie beyond normal pony ken. Given my stories, I'm practically contractually obligated to like it. And I do.
Also, references to Lovecraft, Full Life Consequences, and Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff all in the same chapter? Are you my clone? Am I yours? Is there some kind of quantum entanglement resonance between our brains? This is far too much to be coincidental, I'm convinced of that. In any case, looking forward to more.
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