November 19
Meghan woke me up in the middle of the night when she started moving around, 'cause she was cold. The temperature had dropped in the night, and while it had been comfortable with the blankets we'd had when we went to bed last night, it wasn't enough now. And it didn't help that the window was open, either, so I got out of bed and closed it, and then I got back in and huddled up against Meghan.
She put her arm around my barrel and pulled me in close, and said that she wished she knew where the thermostat for the house was, because then she could go and make it warmer. I didn't know, either, and even if I had, I didn't know how to work it. Meghan said it was really simple, and she said that it was probably downstairs somewhere, but she wasn't sure it was worth getting out of bed just to find it. And she said that I was plenty warm and now that there wasn't an arctic wind blowing through the window, she'd warm up pretty quickly.
And I guess she did, 'cause she was a bit restless at first as she was trying to get warm, and then she fell asleep again. And I thought that I could get up and go looking for the thermostat and figure out how to work it, but then I decided that she'd probably get cold again if I left the bed, and I didn't really want to anyways.
It didn't take me that long to fall asleep again, and when I woke up in the morning, she was still asleep and still had her arm pretty tight around my barrel. So I turned my head and nuzzled her cheek until she woke up, and then when she let go of me, I stuck my head over the side of the bed and nosed around in her duffel bag until I found her sweatshirt. I liked it when she went without clothes, but I didn't want her to be cold, either.
She managed to put it on without getting too much out from under the covers, and then she asked if I was getting up and leaving, and I shook my head. I guess that I was picking up some human habits, 'cause I didn't really want to leave the bed for good just yet. But the little filly in me did want to see if it had snowed overnight and if I'd be greeted by a blanket of white in the morning, so I got out of bed and looked out the window.
I guess Meghan wanted to know, too, 'cause she asked me what I saw, and I said that there was just rain outside, and no sign of snow. And she was kind of disappointed in that.
All of our moving around woke Aric up, and pretty soon the three of us were all having sex which was a bit different 'cause both of them were trying to stay as much under the covers as they could, so they wouldn't get cold.
Meghan put on her pants before going to the bathroom, and Aric went downstairs to close more windows and make the furnace warm up the house, and I knew when he did it 'cause I could hear some clicking noises from downstairs and then pretty soon warm air started to come out of the vents in the floor. Our dorm room doesn't get warm like that; it's got a radiator filled with hot water, which all comes from pipes that are kept underneath the sidewalks.
Meghan was already in the shower when I went to the bathroom, and Aric joined us last, and we stayed until the hot water started to run out, and then they got out and left the bathroom door closed to dry off, even though it was crowded, 'cause all the steam kept the bathroom warmer than the rest of the house.
When we got back to his room, I looked out the window and the rain had turned to snow. There wasn't any sticking on the ground, 'cause it was still warm and wet, but I wanted to go out and play in the falling snow, so I pushed the window open and flew out and started flying around in it.
It wasn't good, fluffy snow, probably ‘cause it had just changed—they were big, wet flakes, but it was still the first snowfall of the season and that was exciting. It was very strange that it had been seventy degrees yesterday and now it was thirty and snowing. I think humans would do a lot better to have proper weather ponies managing their weather so that this doesn't happen, unless they like the sudden changes.
I didn't fly too far, 'cause I didn't want to abandon Aric and Meghan, and I still had to groom myself, although I could wait until I got back to campus to do that. And when I circled back to his house, the bedroom window was closed, which I guess I should have expected, so I hovered right up beside it and knocked on the wall, and when Meghan turned around and saw me, I made lifting motions with my hooves so she'd open the window, and she pulled up her sweatshirt instead which wasn't what I wanted, although it was nice to see.
Then she came over and actually opened the window, and I didn't try to make a graceful entrance, but just got my forehooves over the sill and let them pull me the rest of the way in.
The ends of my mane and tail were frozen, and I had a lot of snow in my feathers and on my back, 'cause I couldn't shake it off while I was flying, so I went back into the bathroom, 'cause I didn't want to drip on Aric's floor, and I got back in the shower and shook off as much as I could, and Meghan came in with a towel and dried me off some.
Aric started Winston and made us coffee to drink, and he said that he was going to be studying and working on homework all day, and Meghan was, too. I was going to study some and also play with Caleb, Lindy, and Trinity.
So once we'd drunk our coffee and Winston was warmed up, we got our things and Aric dropped us off on campus. It was a little bit late for a proper breakfast, but me and Meghan went anyway, and had a quick meal so that we wouldn't be hungry all day, and then she kissed me and said she was going to go study, and I said that I was going to fly first, 'cause my little flight around Aric's had only made me want to fly more.
I put on my flight gear, which was still wet from last night, and then I went outside and called the airplane directors. The grumpy man gave me permission to fly, and he wasn't too happy that I was just going to stay over Kalamazoo, until I promised to stay under a thousand feet, and then he said it was okay, and he'd warn me if there were any helicopters coming.
I didn't want to fly over downtown this time, so instead I went south, and kind of flew the same route that had gotten me lost in the fog. And in the daytime, even with the snow blocking some of my visibility, it was kind of hard to believe that I'd managed to fly that far off-course without knowing it. From now on, I was going to remember to at least wear my watch whenever I went flying, 'cause it wasn't too hard to put on, and as long as I remembered to look at the distance and bearing to the nearest airport, I could get back to where I had been.
I went all the way down to the 94 Highway, and I'd picked up a lot of ice and snow and wanted to shake it off, but I couldn't do that very well when I was flying, so when I turned around, I landed at the far end of a golf course, even though the golfers didn't like it when I did that. But there weren't any of them out there today. I don't think you'd want to play a game with a small, white ball when it was snowing, 'cause you'd never find it after you hit it. And I landed right next to one of the little flags that marked the holes, and shook off and when I flew back into the air, I felt a lot lighter.
The snow was starting to stick to things, and it was making the city look a lot prettier. There was some stuff that it just melted right off, like the roads, but houses and trees and lawns were getting covered, and it had started to turn to lighter, fluffier snow, which was nice.
I took off again and nobody yelled at me even though I stayed low over the whole golf course until I got towards their resort house at the front, and then I climbed up until I was a few hundred feet up and made my way back to campus.
When I landed on the balcony, I shook off and stomped my hooves to knock all the snow off my legs, then I went inside and got undressed in our room. Peggy wasn't there, so she must have been in the art shop working on her project, and I thought that maybe if I had time I'd see if I could find her. I wasn't exactly sure where the art shop was, though, except that it was in the Fine Arts building.
I got together all my notes for thermodynamics and I called Crystal Dawn and then went over to her room, and we studied together until it was lunch time. She had a really nice room on the corner of the top floor of Hoben, and it had windows on two sides, so you had a really good view from her room. And I was kind of jealous of it, but I did like my room, too.
It was kind of distracting, though, because I kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye and wanted to look closer and had to remind myself to focus on studying. I guess we could have pulled down the shades, although it would have been darker and gloomier in her room.
We studied until lunch, and I thought she was doing pretty well, especially for having started out so late, and she asked if we could do one more study session, and I thought that we could tomorrow. I didn't think that today would be any good, 'cause I didn't know how long it would take to hunt Pokemons, and I was gonna study more astronomy with Anna this afternoon anyways.
I went right to lunch, and there weren't very many people in the dining hall. I guess almost everyone was out studying or maybe playing in the snow. Anna and Reese were there, and so I talked to them, and we agreed to meet in my room to study astronomy, because Anna had been smart and had brought her things with her, and I hadn't been smart and had left mine in my room.
We were just getting ready to leave when Peggy arrived, and she had paint spots all over her arms and her clothes. She showed us a little movie of her catapult working—she said that she hadn't put the glitter in it yet because she didn't want to make a mess, and she also was using a wad of paper with a bunch of pennies in it so it weighed as much as an egg, because that meant she didn't have to clean that up, either. She said she had lost some pennies, but she didn't care because they weren't worth anything.
And it was really neat to watch—instead of having a stop-bar in the middle like most catapults did, its was on the base, so it would swing through a half-circle, and it slammed the paper down hard enough to tear it open and send some pennies flying off. She said that an egg didn't stand a chance.
Reese was a little confused about what the purpose of it was, and she said that it was supposed to be visually interesting, and there was nothing more visually interesting than making a mess. Reese said that it reminded him of the Rube Goldberg machine in the OK Go movie, and I didn't know what that was so he showed me on his portable telephone.
It was neat to see, but I didn't understand what the point of it was, and he said that that was the point, and I still didn't get it, until he explained that the machines were supposed to perform a very simple task in a very complicated manner. It seemed kind of silly to me, but it was fun to watch. And I guess that was the visually interesting part.
Me and Anna went outside and we didn't go to my room right away, 'cause there was snow on the quad and it was still snowing. So I started to play in the snow and roll around in it and she took off her backpack and made a snow angel, then she started making snowballs and throwing them at me, and I scooped some up with my wings and flung it at her, and that was a lot harder for her to dodge. But I had to be closer, so it was a good trade-off.
If the snowclouds had been lower, I could have flown up and gotten one and brought it back down, but I was having lots of fun playing down on the ground.
There wasn't enough snow on the ground yet and so after a little while, my hooves had started to make the snow muddy, and we decided that we needed to study anyway, so she used her hands to dust the snow off her clothes, and I shook myself off, and we went up to my room.
The two of us sat on my bed and we reviewed all the cards again, to make sure that we both knew everything that might be on the test. And then Anna thought that we might have pictures on the test, too, because astronomy was an observational science, and that was a lot harder to study, because even though we had our textbooks, the pictures had captions under them that said what they were, and even if we covered them, you could make a good guess about what it must be from where it was in the book.
But maybe that didn't matter, because it was just important to associate the picture with what it showed, and make sure that we knew all the details from it. So we looked through all the pictures in the book a couple of times, until Peggy came back and said that if I still wanted to, it was time to go meet Caleb and Lindy and Trinity.
She got dressed in her snow clothes, and when she was ready, she called Jeff to tell him that we were coming over. She said that way they'd be ready for when we got there, which was pretty smart of her to think of, although I wouldn't have minded waiting outside in the snow while they got their snow clothes on.
It was still snowing, and also a little bit foggy, which was really fun. We walked on the road, because it was clearer than the sidewalks, although I didn't like it as much because there was gritty salt on the road that kept poking at my frogs, and I finally said that I was going to walk on the sidewalk instead 'cause I'd rather be in snow than on sharp salt. And at first, I still had a little bit of pain in my left hind hoof, until I figured out that somehow a little bit of salt had gotten stuck between my frog and hoof wall, and I had to bend around and get it out, and it was a lot better after that.
I guess the salt doesn't bother people, because they've got shoes on when they walk in the snow. I bet if they had to walk around without shoes they'd grind the salt more finely.
When we got over to Jeff's house, Caleb and Lindy and Trinity were playing in the backyard, and I just flew over the fence, but Peggy had to go around to the gate to get in. It wasn't as strong a fence as the one behind her house, so she couldn't climb over it because she'd break it if she tried.
We all played in the snow for a little while—they were trying to make a snowman even though the snow wasn't very good for it, and I saw pretty quickly that they were also spending more time throwing snow at each other than working together, but they were having fun so that was what mattered. And Peggy helped them focus, 'cause Caleb would do what she told him to, instead of throwing snowballs.
So we did get a snowman made, although it didn't look much like a man, or a woman for that matter. But it was almost as tall as my head, and they stuck some branches in it for arms, and then Jeff gave them some prunes that they could use for eyes and a mouth, and a carrot for a nose. Peggy said that coal was the traditional thing to use for eyes and mouth, but these days most people didn't have coal any more. She said that only big power plants bought it any more, but it used to be that houses were heated with it, and people would get it delivered by the truckload and shovel it into their furnace.
Jeff brought us all hot chocolate so we could warm up some, and then he gave the kids their portable telephones and we all went out looking for Pokemons.
We split up a little bit, because Caleb and Peggy walked in the street and I walked on the sidewalk carrying Trinity, and Lindy walked with us. But they all worked as a team to find the Pokemons, and it didn't take them too long to find the first one, which was in the front lawn of a house. It was called an Articuno, which was pretty rare. It reminded me of a cockatrice, sort of, so I wasn't sure that it was safe to catch, but Lindy said that the Pokemons couldn't hurt them. It was pretty clever, though, and only Caleb was actually able to catch it.
Later, when we were close to Main Street, they also found a Vulpix, which was a cute fox-like thing, but he wasn't as crafty as a real fox, and all three of them caught him.
My legs were getting tired from carrying around Trinity, so she walked for a while, and we went onto campus and found a few more Pokemons which were pretty common ones that they already had. And up by Harmon, Trinity said that someone had put out a lure, but it hadn't attracted anything too exciting for them. They waited a little bit to see if something new would show up, but it didn't, and they were starting to get a little bit chilly from not moving around, even though they were wearing their snow clothes.
So we walked back to their house, and when we got to the top of the hill, I let Trinity get back on me, and ride ponyback the rest of the way back to her house. And Jeff had more hot chocolate, and he invited us to come in, so we sat at his kitchen table and drank hot chocolate, and he thanked me and Peggy for taking the kids around the neighborhood and said that he'd miss us. He said that we were always welcome at his house.
Me and Peggy hugged everyone before we left, 'cause neither of us knew when the next time we'd see them was, although I was determined that I'd visit them more before I went back to Equestria.
We had a few minutes back in our dorm to warm up, and Peggy said that I was making her feel cold, because on the way back home, I'd gathered some snow on my back. I explained how my undercoat kept the heat in, and if the snow was sticking to me and not melting, it meant that my coat was doing its job.
It was still snowing, and the ground was getting pretty well-covered. There were people on sleds and plastic trays who were sliding down the hill from the chapel, and they crashed a lot, but they didn't seem to mind—they'd get back up and brush themselves off and then go back up the hill to try again. Peggy said that she'd snowboarded it one winter but it wasn't all that much fun, because it wasn't much of a hill, and you had to be careful crossing the sidewalk, because it wasn't very good for the snowboard to go across it.
She said that one spring, a bunch of seniors had built a giant slip-and-slide on the hill, which was a plastic sheet that got covered with water, so you'd slide down it. And she said that had been a fun Saturday.
They had a pretty decent dinner, and they had scrod fillets to eat, which made me happy.
Everyone said that they hadn't gotten as much studying done as they'd wanted to, although I thought I was almost ready. I told Sean that we should study math one more time tomorrow, and told Anna that we should study some more astronomy, and that way it would all be fresh in my head for the finals, especially since I was studying with Crystal Dawn again tomorrow, and maybe thermodynamics with Lisa too.
And then we said that we'd all meet in Christine's room around eight, and get ready to go to the showers.
I didn't really have anything that I had to do before that, so I went with Peggy back to our room, and while she was studying, I was writing in my journal. And then I got started on a letter to my sister, too, 'cause I hadn't written her in a while. She'd probably been really busy with the late summer and fall storms; that was when you got hurricanes on the coast and even if they weren't coming towards your weather territory, they often spawned other storms that did, plus all the waves that came out of the storm meant that there were sometimes more rescue patrols. So I told her about what I'd been doing, and it felt really strange to be writing in Equestrian. I was out of practice at it, and I wondered if it would be possible if I stayed on Earth long enough, I'd completely forget how.
Before we went to Christine's, Peggy said that she wondered if she should put on a swimming underwear instead of her normal underwear, and I asked her what the point was if she was going to be taking it off anyway. And she said that she wasn't sure if she was going to take off her panties this time either, but I said that she should because it would be more relaxing, and she'd get used to it pretty quickly, and I said that if anyone tried anything bad I'd kick them. She decided she wanted to change anyways, but instead of wearing swimming underwear, she was going to wear a different set of normal underwear.
And we both remembered to take our towels, too, and then we went down to Christine's room. Sean and Meghan were already there, but it was a little while before Anna and Reese came, and it smelled like they'd been drinking a little bit, and Reese said he'd had to work up his courage a little bit and that was why.
Christine went to her bedroom and brought out the sign from last time, which she had kept in case we needed it again, and then all of us went over to Sean's dorm together.
She taped the sign to the door again, and then we went into the showers, and Christine went around and turned them on to let them warm up and start filling the room with steam, and then people started to get undressed.
Anna and Reese were kind of hesitant, and Christine said that if they were uncomfortable they could just wear their underwear and take it off later, and then Anna said that they hadn't known that that was an option, and so they'd made sure that they wouldn't wimp out by not wearing any, which Peggy thought was really funny. And I said that I should have suggested that to her.
Christine said she wasn't going to get out-nakeded by a pair of freshmen, and took off her underwear and went into the shower, and that kind of got everyone moving again. Sean was still wearing his, until Christine asked if she had to start explaining why Star Wars was better than Star Trek would ever be, and then Reese said that she should talk about Firefly instead, because Mal had actually been naked in one episode. And that was one that I hadn't seen.
So he took off his underwear, and Meghan finished getting undressed, too, and she went in the showers. Reese and Anna were really taking their time with getting their clothes off, and it was funny how Reese had taken off his shirt but not his pants, while Anna had done the opposite, 'cause her shirt was long enough to cover some of her legs.
Peggy decided that she wasn't going to be the last one wearing any clothes, so she took off her underwear and went into the showers, too, and that just left Reese and Anna standing by the bench, and they sort of waited until we weren't looking over in their direction before they joined us.
It was a little uncomfortable for everyone at first, until Christine started a water fight but holding her thumb over the nozzle of her shower so that she could make it spray in different directions, and pretty soon everyone was doing that. And Peggy went over and changed one of the showers so it was only making cold water and tried to spray people with that, until she miscalculated and got herself when she moved her thumb too far, and pretty soon everyone was laughing and giggling and having a good time.
The best part was that there was an unlimited supply of hot water, so we didn't have to hurry and finish up. We could play around as long as we wanted to.
Everyone was a lot more relaxed when we got done, and since the room was still nice and steamy, nobody hurried getting dressed. Both Anna and Reese said that once you got used to it it was a nice way to relax, and I said that I thought humans were dumb for not doing it more often, especially since the college had such nice big showers in some of the dorms.
Me and Meghan had to stop back at Trowbridge so that she could get clothes for tomorrow and I could get the Kama Sutra, and then we walked to Aric's house. It was really peaceful 'cause the snow kind of muted sounds, almost like fog would, and it was also brighter, since the snow was reflecting the street lights.
When we got there, Aric wasn't home, and I realized that I should have gone to the theatre, to see if Winston was there in the parking lot.
The key to his house was still under the mat, so we let ourselves in, and we went up to his room.
I got Meghan undressed and then she put her sweatshirt back on so she wouldn't get cold while we were looking through the Kama Sutra.
Most of the positions weren't too good for just two girls, but it gave us ideas for when Aric showed up.
She said we should get started without him, 'cause she was horny now, and she didn't think that Aric would mind if we were already having sex when he arrived.
We didn't get to find out, ' cause we were done and snuggling and talking when he finally came home, and after he'd gotten undressed, Meghan said that he'd arrived too late, and was gonna have to go to bed without sex.
But she was kidding, and it turned out well for Aric, 'cause we'd already had our pleasure, so we just focused on making him happy.
The best kind of happy for Eric, I guess. :V
Jeez, horny pony! ;)
D'awww. Lucky Aric is lucky.
When I was a kid, Rube Goldberg was a comic strip. If you've ever played Mouse Trap, that is based on one of the cartoons.
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She isn't a uni... *blink* was that a stealth pun?
Wasn't the pony actor SG's friends with a unicorn?
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I remember that game. Is it even still made?
I spent 5 years in Texas. There, honest politician = stays bought. They joke an honest politician is one that never stole the Sabine river (border between Texas and Louisiana)
You can't actually catch Articuno atm, or any of the other legendary pokemon.
7886687 Well, one supporter that seemed like a caricature in the beginning. And yeah, it was a one-sided conversation in the truck. Should have more things for Silver to say. Sorry for bending your ear.
7887191 You're exactly right here. To be fair, when you've been watching the news or chatter on the internet and seeing how much people are demonizing you to the point of calling you a literal Nazi, it's hard not to be like that and having resentment against other people. Especially when there are very vocal anti-Trump rallies and protests with them intimidating others, as well as bias from the administration in some campuses.
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Okay, let us look at what Trump and Clinton did:
Clinton ran a real charity which really helped real people. She made the mistake of setting up her own email-server. She lived off of money from speeches.
On the other side, we had all of the crap like encouraging foreign governments to hack the country, sexual assault, a charity which helped none, but he used as a piggybank, being beholden to Putin, mocking of the disabled, disparaging troops who become Prisoners of War, calling Troops suffering from PTSD weak, threatening to imprison the opposition when he gains power,* et cetera.
* I remember in 2012 when Obama imprisoned Romney and in 2008, he he imprisoned McCain. In 2004, Bush imprisoned Kerry. In 200, Bush imprisoned Gore. ¡Oh wait! ¡That never happened because that is not how we roll in this country!
On top that, Clinton is arguably the most qualified person to run for President in US-History, while Trump is a willfully ignorant conspiracy-theorist:
As an example, he has been an antivaccer since 2007, making that his most consistent position. He met with the Mister Andrew Wakefield, the fraud who lost his medical license because he did a fraudulent study linking the MMR-Vaccine with autism when he was on the payroll of lawyers trying to sue the manufacturers. Since then, he wants to place the antivaccer Robert Kennedy Junior in charge of Vaccine-Safety.
He have a man wanting to build a registry of moslems (I myself admit that it would be tempting to set up a registry of all theists to keep tract of them because one never knows when a theist is going to fly a plane into a building or blowup an abortionclinic, but it would be unamerican, so I pass). Such a registry is unammerican. On the same note, he also wants to ban all immigration of moslems: ALthough it would be tempting allow immigration only from atheists, I have to pass because it would be unamerican.
¿Need I go onward? Trump has far more skeletons in his closet than Clinton and is an unqualified willfully-ignorant conspiracy-theorist too.
All Silver has to do is get Peggy to join in, and Alric will be waking up to a dream Charlie Horse?
The snow is falling, the sun is fading, Silvers heading back to the stable.
I just hope that giant doesnt suddenly stand up on the horizon.
Funny thing, there are shoes for horses, and I don't mean the u shaped irons, I mean like real shoes (stupid English, Hufeisen und Hufschuh is much better to distinguish the two things)
So that might be an option for Silver, if she can get some in her size.
This may have already been posted somewhere, but perhaps the next chapter should be Meghan's journal? In Equestria?
This may have been the most unique story zimhave read on here in years, and while an HIE finish would be a bit cliche, cliche's happen for a reason, and I would love to see the opposite take from your writing perspective.
Silver should know why they salt the road now.
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Those are horse-boots.
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It's not a "religion" problem, it's a "people" problem.
Everyone on the planet is capable of being a shitty person, regardless of color, religious beliefs, political alignment, etc.
There's the potential to be a monster in everyone.
It all depends on whether or not you have the strength of character to avoid sinking to their level.
7888690 oh thanks, well yeah i was to lazy to research it on my mobile
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I think the two of you are in agreement on that point.
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Hm.
Stagnant paradise or absolute slavery?
Mayhaps we have been created with a God that is fearful of doing both too much and too little?
Free will is a sharply edged blade with great deeds done in terrible evil and for the greatest good in attempts to become the masters of ourselves.
But if God wished for Man to worship Him of its own volition then allowing the two trees to grow in the garden could have served as the first choice He ever truly allowed us.
Apparently he wanted Eve to overcome the temptation of being told to eat the one she did and when both of them ate, He was livid and removed the option to eat the other out of spite and anger.
7888977 OK, that video clip of Cirque Du Soleil was the sort of thing Olympic Athletes want to be when they grow up... Has Silver Glow watched their act? I'm sure she'd have a comment or two.
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Wasn't that a love pirat? Only stealing hearts?
7889039 I guess it's doing spoon bending mind trick, it was a psychic type pokemon afterall...
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I don't really know how much of a caricature the guy who harassed Silver is. Certainly, it's doubtful that all Trump supporters are like that, but then you have guys like this. I think it might be comforting to assume that the guy who harassed Silver is just fantasy and not representative of anyone or anything in the real world, but I suspect that's more of a comforting lie, not something grounded in an unfortunate reality.
The issue I'm taking here, with regards to Silver and Mel in this chapter is that Silver is her own character, who quite literally was afraid of what was going to happen to her the night of the election, and who was warned by her handlers that the world was suddenly a lot more dangerous for a individual such as herself. It's completely possible that Silver might listen to Mel, and let him say his piece, but at the same time I think she would be afraid of him, or worried, or something like. I don't think it makes sense for Silver to sit there and passively listen, not when she has all of this running around inside her. As I said, it feels like an attempt to show a non-crazy Trump supporter, but it comes off weird because Silver, as a character with agency, has her own biases and inclinations.
Ah, so I'm not the only one who noticed.
It's nice and serene, seeing snow falling, and the sky turned pink from light reflection...
7887522 It's an alternate timeline. Maybe the ponies arriving had some sort of butterfly effect, causing the company to have released them in this story's timeline.
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Ah, well, you see, in the church in which I grew up, and I understand that this interpretation isn't supported anywhere else, and I've no idea where they got this, but...
We were taught that he was a freedom fighter that advocated armed revolution against the Roman oppressors, and he legitimately thought that Christ was going to lead them to a military victory. And that when Judas left the last supper to go sell Jesus out, he thought that Jesus was on board with all of this. 'All of this' being arranging for Roman soldiers to show up, who Jesus and the disciples would then beat in a fight, thus launching their divinely ordained bid for freedom. And if he could get money from the collaborating Jewish elite while doing so, even better. So, yeah. I was taught as a child that Judas Iscariot was just some poor schmuck trying to do the right thing, but fair enough, because it had to happen anyway.
This is how traditions get started. Someone has an idea, and convinces their friends to try it. They enjoy it, and decide to do it again. As some people leave, new ones are invited...
When Silver comes back for a reunion in ten years, I bet she overhears someone making plans for the "Finals week group shower." (They may even be still using the original sign.) I'll bet nobody believes her when she says that she started it...
no apostrophe
Am I the only one who played at The Incredible Machine back then?
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Of course!
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He is. Unimaginably lucky.
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That comic strip was before my time, unfortunately. And I've never played Mouse Trap, either.
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Gusty? Yes, she's a unicorn.
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There's an old Mitchell Trio song about Billy Sol Estes, and one of the lines is "He bought him a federal judge."
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Oops. I've never played any Pokemon game (which probably shows).
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Living in a fairly conservative small town, I generally get the opposite on a day-to-day basis. So yeah, I can feel your pain. I think the best thing is to try and stay civil, and talk to those who want to have a meaningful discussion; anyone who's just chanting slogans probably isn't worth the time.
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Yes, and she does have a set of hoof-boots, although they've been modified to work with her snowboard.
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(Silly pony needs to tie its shoelaces before it trips on them)
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I currently don't have plans to undertake such a project; however, I'm not done with the Silver Glow 'verse yet, and I'm not opposed to writing a story--journal-style or otherwise--about a human exchange student in Equestria.
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Yes, although I think that they could use smaller crystals, that didn't dig into hooves, and get the same result.
I wonder if part of the reason for the large crystals is to provide traction before the ice melts?
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Exactly! Asshollery knows no bounds.
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Yes, it very much is.
You know, I'd never considered that, but you make a very good point.
Well, there have to be consequences when you do something which is forbidden.
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She does in fact get to watch Cirque Du Soleil in Florida. Not that particular show, but the acrobatics in the show she does watch are no less impressive.
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Ooh, I don't remember exactly what. It's been a long time since I read that comic, and I don't remember the arc. But only stealing hearts would fit in well in Equestria. (I think he was looking for a merpony, wasn't he?)
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Or it just holds up a spoon and says 'there is no spoon.'
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I always liked driving in Kalamazoo at night during a snowfall.
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I have never heard that before. I mean, I guess I see how you could get that from the story, and certainly Jesus knew that Judas was going to betray Him and didn't try and stop it. As I recall, there was only one injury in the actual capture, and Jesus healed the soldier.
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Well, streaking the quad is now a tradition after Frelon's show, although it wasn't when I went to K (but then I was there the first two years of Frelon).
I think it would make her very happy to know that students were carrying on with the pre-finals week group shower.
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I think I played it a couple of times on a friend's computer.
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I wonder if horses worry about getting scuffs on their shiny, new, Air Secretariats.
Here, in Delaware, while sometimes they do use flung salt, they also frequently spray the roads with some kind of salt solution. I'm sure the tradeoff for the smaller particulates is that they probably do a better job of getting everywhere. Yeah, I do my best to avoid the Deldot service dumptrucks when the state's getting ready for snow.
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I would think that they do. You don't want to scuff up your Air Secretariats.
(Who am I kidding? IRL horses probably step in horse poop about one second after putting on their new hoof boots.)
I drove 15 miles behind a MDot plow truck today. Luckily, my van's so bad, a little more rust won't hurt it at all.
stopped reading at this chapter, not because this story is bad (it is awesome) but because the ending was near and I am afraid of the end (of this story and in life). Awesome story you have written and thanks for taking your time for writing it.
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This is a rather odd place to stop, although I do see where you're coming from.
You might consider (if you want to avoid the sad ending stuff) reading the arc in December when Silver goes to Disneyland (Dec. 13-Dec 23); that's mostly happy and fun.
You can also get an additional Silver Glow fix with A Chonamare Hearth's Warming, which takes place before this story, and expands upon something that Silver Glow tells Meghan on Christmas.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Forget the politics:
This fills me with impotent rage.
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED. DAMN KIDS AND THEIR WASTE OF THE ALL MIGHTY PENNY.
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Her friends need to do everything possible to make this happen.
Then you have 'The Gospel of Judas" from some Gnostic manuscripts that were found in some old jars in a cave in that region that says Jesus told Judas to 'betray' him so that he could be sacrificed.
The main pirate in the story was Pony Jack Sparrow, and he was just after his merpony waifu. We also had Pony Tortuga that had some more pirates that tried to ponynap Twilight to ransom her off. And were then shown why trying to do that is a very bad idea unless you are on the same level as an alicorn.
Pony is best bed warmer!
Somehow, I see her going hunting for the thermostat ending with the phrase 'I just don't know what went wrong."
Such a craing Mistress, keep Slave all nice and toasty, knowing her humans are weak and get chilly easily without nice fluffy fur.
Also, yay poetic pony!
Pony playing so cute! Just, no worries about being 'grown up' just, go out and have fun! Truly they are very wise.
See, the Ponies are just taking over because they see how poorly we take care of ourselves. They are just trying to help.
Slight tangent, got reminded of an old fic where Celestia ends up trapped on Earth as a common, ordinary horse. She manages to make contact with a dude that's not an asshole, goes online to learn stuff, ends up almost accidentally making him a fortune playing and manipulating the stock market (She meant to make some money to help cover her expenses, but just kind of got caught up in playing the system and before she knew it was a multi millionaire. She also ended up buying several thousand dollars worth of Banana groves, but that was just a mistake, she was trying to invest in Barium, or maybe beryllium.) When all the regulating agencies come down on the guys head thinking he was doing something clearly illegal cause no way could anyone legit do that, she then crashes the global market just to make a point that yes, someone can play them that well if they are smart enough. All while being nothing but an anonymous person sending them e-mails. Fixes everthing once they let him go, and by the end, has world leaders more or less eating out of her hoof, to the point that once she manages to get back to Equestria, they send her messages asking her come back and take over.
Pony Slave is too well trained, show Mistress your boobs on command.
GPS watches, not quite as MUST HAVE as camelbacks, but close second. Now Ponies just need to make them work.
Too bad Golfers, pony wants on your course, so pony will go on your course.
Logical first step, I'd hope the art department was in the art building.
Future commands, visiting ponies get the corner rooms with the nice views!
Even if it does cause much 'ohhh shiny'
Yeah, I'd call that a successful test of the catapult. Also, yeah pennies are rather worthless, and the US Mint has been trying to get Congress to just get rid of them for years. They literally cost more to make then they are worth.
Silver, being over-complicated and silly, but fun to watch, is the entire POINT of a Rube Goldberg device.
Your Pegasus v1.0 comes equipped with two built in snow launchers.
Of course pony wants to go hunt pokemons!
Salt stuck in your hooves. #ponyproblems
Caleb is already whipped. "Must obey the booby haver!"
Yeah, Articuno is so rare, it's not even available outside maybe some very, very special occasions. Just blame Pony for this, sure she caused it somehow.
Yes Vulpix's are very cute.
Snowpone! Cover her in snow and let her run around chasing people!
Gaint slip and slide FTW!
Pony will get you naked one way or the other, just accept it.
Always remember your towel!
Pfffft, come prepared to wimp out and not wear underwear, smart.
And then there is Christine. All the PFFFFFFFT
True, and the naked Mal ep was really good. Then again,every ep of that show was great.
Yay Christine! Make nakey shower time fun!
Pony Wisdom Take more group showers and relax a bit.
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Aside from you, when’s the last time that anybody rolled up 50¢ in pennies and turned them into the bank for cash?
Back when that proverb was coined (no pun intended), pennies were worth about a quarter. Now about the only thing you can buy with them is a ride on Sandy at Meijer.
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Well, things become tradition when people keep doing them, so as long as her friends keep having group showers to relax for finals. . . .
Yeah, I’ve heard that one before. I can’t remember if it’s in The Lost Books of the Bible or not. To me, that particular gospel is more problematic than most of the ones that did get included in the New Testament, but depending on one’s view of Jesus and/or God, it’s not completely implausible.
I really need to catch up on the comics, honestly. And re-read the older ones, too . . . just never seem to have the time, is the problem. There’s some really good stuff in them, though, and when I was more actively reading them, I got plenty of story material from them.
Of course she is! She’s furry, and she also has a higher body temperature than humans, and she’s also downy and she’s also got wings. And she’s a pony.
It’s probably not the most delicate human thing she’s used, so as long as she didn’t start hitting it, things would work out okay.
She really is.
She’s a poet philosopher pony, and those are the best.
From personal experience, I tried being ‘grown up’ for a few years, and it was boring and I didn’t like it too much, so I went back to having fun and not caring what people think, and that’s worked out much better.
They really are!
I think that was called The White Mare, or something similar to that. I know exactly which story you’re talking about--that was a good one.
I would say that’s about the perfect amount of training.
They’d be great for pegasus weather patrols, but the ponies would have to invent a space program to get the satellites up there to make the system work . . . or else they could probably build a terrestrial system with lots of antennas (basically, LORAN).
There are times it works to her disadvantage to be the only pegasus in Kalamazoo . . . if there were more, they could come down on the course in a whole flock, and what would the golfers do then?
I’ll be honest with you, the departments weren’t always in the buildings they belonged in due to renovations. But in this case, yes, the art workshop is in the Fine Arts building.
Those are the best rooms. And hard to get, generally (other rooms have their advantages, too, though).
Yeah, that can be a downside. But you can get used to it, and when you do, the view’s worth it IMHO.
Although to be honest, when the goal is to break an egg, it’s difficult to build a catapult that won’t do that.
They really ought to. There is no point whatsoever in having them, and from what I’ve heard, even the company that makes the zinc blanks for the mint could care less if the government stops making pennies.
It really is. The more complicated, the better.
It’s her predator side showing again.
Dog problems, too, or so I’ve heard.
He’s a teenage boy, of course he is.
Well, one option is to blame my somewhat sloppy research; but another option is that Nintendo discovered that Silver Glow was hunting pokemons and that she sometimes recorded her doings on GoPro, and thought that if they tweaked the code a bit, they could get some really great publicity on a video that’s guaranteed to go viral.
They honestly look like something that probably exists in Equestria.
It’s the abominable Silver Glow!
That’s always something worth having. There’s a Mythbusters where they built one and it’s equal parts terrifying and ‘man I want to ride that.’
It’s just the way they are. Also, I bet a lot of people would be less stuck-up about clothes if nobody else was wearing them.
Very important.
See, this is true wisdom. Know in advance how you might fail, and set yourself up so you can’t.
She’s got a point, though. She’s done this before, and she can’t be out-nakeded by freshman. She’d never live it down.
Yes, and yes.
Of course she will. That’s the whole point of it--not to be nervous, but to have fun!
Pony Wisdom is good wisdom.
I just pictured Derpy going down the Mythbusters' supersized Slip 'n Slide on her back and immediately my mood elevated.
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Oh, that would be so epically amazing . . . literally no matter how she landed in the water (or if she flew off before hitting the water) . . . remember when you were saying you’d give all your money to see a pony riding a horse? Well, I’d spend everything I’ve got to watch Derpy slide down the Mythbusters slip-n-slide on her back.
Unless, of course, you don't have fingers.
Up here in Canada, we actually discontinued them because they literally cost more than their face value to mint.
So many people on the internet need to learn this.
More likely, salt just naturally forms even larger crystals and they don't break it up any more than they do because it'd be more work for no real gain.