December 7
It was dark out when I woke up and I could have stayed in bed but I didn't feel like it. I kind of thought that I was getting a little bit lazy now that I didn't have to go to classes anymore, and I was spending more time than I ought to in bed. And so I got out of bed and went to the window and looked out over the lake but there wasn't that much to see. The moon had set and aside from some light coming from the parking lot, it was pretty dark.
I thought about flying, but it'd be kind of lonely in the dark, and Meghan and Aric might worry if they woke up and I was gone.
So I went over to the tree and I had to do a little bit of hunting on the wall but I found the electricity outlet and stuck the cord in and that really made the room look a lot more cheerful.
I went back to the bed and sat down on it—I was facing the wrong way, so that I could see the tree. And I had my side up against Aric's back, and I probably could have gotten under the covers or pushed them aside a little bit or even woken them up but it was kinda early for people, so I just sat and watched the tree until it got light out.
Then I got back out of bed and went over to my desk and got out my journal and wrote in it until I heard Meghan start to move around a little bit, and when she did, Aric stopped snoring, so I knew he was probably gonna wake up soon, too.
I thought that I ought to get back in bed with them but before I could Meghan woke up enough to notice that I was gone and she was leaning on her elbow and looking over Aric's shoulder to see if I was there when I nuzzled her on the back and made her jump. And then she fell down on her back and pulled me into a hug and I kissed her on the tip of her nose, which made her laugh.
She poked me back with her finger and made me go cross-eyed, then she sat up and looked at the Christmas tree and I laid down next to her and put my head on her leg, so that she could scratch behind my ears, and we both admired the tree together.
Meghan finally told me that she had to get up and pee, and I admitted that I did too but I hadn't wanted to move and she said that she hadn't wanted to, either and so we sat a little bit longer before I took my head off her leg so that she could get up.
Aric was still asleep when we came out of the bathroom and I thought that we should start making breakfast 'cause maybe the smell would wake him up (and I was hungry, too). So we went in the kitchen and decided that we'd have waffles and an omelet again and this time I knew how the stove was supposed to work so I didn't need as much help with it.
Meghan said that tomorrow we ought to make a quiche but we'd have to get up a little bit early and we'd also have to get some supplies that we didn't have, like a pie crust. Or she said that we could get up even earlier and make one from scratch, but then we'd need a lot of supplies that we didn't have, but we could throw flour at each other which was fun. She said that I'd look really cute with a white blaze on my nose.
Then she asked if there were any ponies with blazes or socks or stars or any of the other markings that Earth horses had. And I said that there were some but it wasn't very common, and it was mostly stallions who had markings like that but I didn't know why. There weren't any who lived in our village but one time I'd seen a unicorn stallion called Gaffer who was sailing on a navy ship that had a white blaze on his muzzle and white socks and I'd been pretty young then so I thought it was because he was old but my mom said that some stallions were like that and he was kind of cute and she wished that my aunt was there to foalsit.
I let Meghan mix up the waffle batter 'cause it was easier for her to hold it in her hands and I stuck a hoof in and gave her a blaze on her nose and she couldn't do anything about it 'cause she was cradling the bowl with one hand and had the spoon in the other and I jumped back pretty quick. And she glared at me but she kept on mixing the batter and she didn't get me back until breakfast was all done and I'd set everything on the table and when I turned around she stuck an ice cube up under my tail.
Well, I yelped loud enough that Aric woke up and I'd just smacked Meghan with my wing so she was laughing while she was rubbing her thigh, and he just looked at us and asked what he'd missed and so I told him what Meghan had done. She said she hadn't meant for it to go in me, and then he started laughing which was kind of mean, but it was funny.
After we'd eaten breakfast we had to decide what to do for the day, and I said that I wanted to go flying and maybe get a snowcloud—there were a few flakes falling lazily down and I wanted to get one and play with it.
So we decided to drive out and find an open field so that they could watch. I knew that they probably weren't gonna see much because of the clouds but it would be nice to have them with me.
I got dressed in my flight gear and they got in their clothes and then we drove out along Stadium Drive until we'd crossed the railroad tracks and there were some fields there.
I called the airplane directors and got permission to go flying, and then I got out of Winston and kind of felt at the air for a moment before I took off. And then I went out over the fallow fields and started climbing up above the trees and I glanced down at my watch just so that I would know my position, 'cause I knew I was gonna lose the ground.
And I did. I wasn't even up to the cloud deck before all the flakes that were below me pretty much blocked out my sight of the ground. Air currents sort of blew it around and so sometimes I got glimpses of it, but while the flakes were still kinda sparse, when there were lots of them between me and the ground they mostly blocked it out.
I didn't go up to get the cloud right away, 'cause I was having fun just flying through it. I made little eddies in the snow and if I flew through fast enough, I'd sort of pull it along behind me and a bunch of flakes would stick to the front of my wings until I flexed them and then it would break off.
I made a couple of circles a little bit below the clouds and if anypony had asked, I would have told them that I was looking for the right cloud, but really I was just playing.
I did find a section of cloud that had rolled down from the rest of the cloud and it wasn't too hard to cut off. There wasn't a lot of snow in it, so I kind of put it off to the side while I gathered some more cloudstuff, and that turned out not working like I'd planned, 'cause it drifted off and I lost it. I thought that I knew where it was and then I went just a little bit further and when I went to come back it wasn't there any more. I probably wasn't in the right place, but I didn't know where the right place was, so I had to start over.
It turned out to be worth it, though, 'cause I found another bit of cloud that was even better, and I cut it out and then I pushed it with me while I gathered up some other small wisps to make it bigger, plus I was catching some more flakes on it and renewing it, too.
I made it stop snowing so it wouldn't run out—even with the little bit of extra I'd given it, there wasn't a whole lot of snow in it. If' I'd had to make a snowstorm on my own, I would have tried to hold the clouds over Lake Michigan a little bit longer, 'cause I bet the lake was still warm enough to be putting lots of moisture in the air that the clouds could drink.
But this cloud was just for play, and it was what I had to work with, so I finally figured that I'd gathered up enough pieces that it would last for a while, so I checked my watch again to figure out where Aric and Meghan were, and then I started bringing it down.
It would be nice if there was some way that I could make my watch find things that weren't airports, but it didn't do that. So I only got close, and I had to follow landmarks the rest of the way back. Luckily, Aric hadn't gone all that far from the railroad tracks, and so when I saw them I knew I had to go a little bit south still and also west, and then there was a little bit of a gap in the snow and I saw Winston, so I pushed the cloud over that way.
I didn't go right by the road, but stayed over the field. And Aric and Meghan came over, so I kept the cloud high enough that they couldn't touch it just in case it had some electricity in it. I hadn't really felt much but it was kind of deceptive when I was in the air, 'cause I'd match the sky so if it built up sort of slowly I might not notice it.
And then I sat on it for a little bit and then showed them how I could make it snow and then stop it again, and I could also sort of control the size of the flakes. It was a lot easier when you were up high, 'cause the distance the snow fell and what it fell through made a difference in how the snow came out, too. But it didn't really matter all that much, 'cause they were just amazed seeing it.
I played with it until it ran out of snow and it had made a kind of deep pile on the ground right under it. And then I got curious if I could refill the cloud—that was something that I'd never tried to do. Even back in Equestria, it wasn't something that I did very often, 'cause there were other pegasuses who made the clouds.
I couldn't do it here, because there wasn't any water to put in it. So we decided that we'd drive over to a lake and try it there, and Aric said that the closest one he knew that had public access was Wolf Lake.
So we got back in Winston and he drove until he got to Van Kal Street which was the county line, and we took that north and then went a little bit west on the 43 Road until we were at Wolf Lake. And when he got to the boat launch he asked Meghan if she wanted to go skinny-dipping in the lake again and she said that maybe if he would she would too but it was really a little cold for it and the hospital probably wouldn't let us share a bed while we were recovering from hypothermia.
I didn't think I'd get it, 'cause I'd gone swimming in the wintertime. It wasn't all that pleasant but I'd never had to go to the hospital afterwards, even when it had frozen my coat.
I told the airplane directors where I was and flew up again, and after I'd looked around a little bit I found the perfect bit of cloud and brought it down. There wasn't a lot of snow in it, but that was okay because that would actually make it go faster, since there wouldn't be as much to empty out. And I brought it down and when I got over the lake I jumped on the cloud until it started snowing heavily and it didn't take it too long at all before it had dumped out everything—just long enough to push it over Aric and Meghan and then back out over the lake.
Then I stopped it before it got so empty that it dissipated, and I brought it right down to the surface of the lake.
There was an art to putting water into a cloud, 'cause if you just tried to dip it in the water it'd melt into nothing, so you had to be really slow and careful getting it in. And I wasn't so good at it because I hadn't really practiced it since cloud class, so I was even slower and carefuler than an experienced weathermare would have been, but it was working.
At the rate I was going, it would be dark again before I'd refilled it all the way, so once I thought it had enough I lifted it up a little bit higher and then sort of felt around the cloud 'cause I didn't want it to just come back out as freezing rain, and that actually took a lot more work for me to get it to behave than I thought it would. Feral Earth clouds aren't nearly as cooperative as weather factory clouds.
My weather teacher would have failed me for the snow that fell back out of my cloud, but it was pretty good for my first attempt in years, especially since I was working with a wild cloud. It was snow, even if it was coming out almost melted and not in proper crystals. And after I'd stopped it and worked the water around in it a little bit more it got better, but it still wasn't right, and I felt kind of bad about it, but both Aric and Meghan thought that it was pretty amazing.
Meghan said that maybe we should make some movies where I was explaining to people how I made clouds and made them do what I wanted. And I wish she'd thought of that sooner, like maybe in the springtime, 'cause then I would have had a lot of things that I could have taught. Now that it was December, there weren't going to be that many different kinds of weather that I could play with, although I could probably make sort of unnatural clouds with some effort.
The one I had was starting to come apart, so I said that I was going to go up and get another one. And she said that this time she'd hold the GoPro, so I had to land to give it to her, and I made sure to spark off on a tree just in case. And I was glad that I had, 'cause I had picked up enough electricity to make a weak spark to the tree.
Then I went back up and I found another cloudling that felt like I could work it, so I cut it loose and brought it back down and went through the whole process again but this time I explained what I was doing every step of the way. And I think that helped some, 'cause I didn't get impatient when I was letting it make snowflakes, so they came out a lot better.
By the time I was done I was almost completely exhausted 'cause I'd used up so much of my magic on the clouds. And I forgot to spark off but the ground did that for me when I landed.
I was almost completely covered with snow and ice, and I thought that I ought to sit in the back on Winston so I didn't get the seat wet when I melted, but Aric and Meghan insisted that I should ride in the cab. And they brushed me off as much as they could and then I got in and instead of looking out the windows I put my head down on Meghan's lap and I dozed off until we got back home.
I was too tired to be hungry, and I just wanted to warm up a bit in the shower. And I was kind of cursing myself for getting so worn out, 'cause a year ago before I came to Earth I could have done a lot better—it wasn't just a lack of practice.
Maybe if I hadn't been cold and soaking wet I wouldn't have felt so bad, so I went right into the shower and then after I turned it on I thought that maybe a bath would be better, even though there was no way all three of us could fit into the bathtub.
Meghan said that I should, though, and she put some of the Mister Bubble in and that smelled really nice and made lots and lots of bubbles. And she had Aric go to K-Mart which was not too far from my apartment, because she said that I needed some soup to warm up and that was something that we should have gotten before.
She sat with me and we talked while I was sitting in the bath, and I let it warm me up. It wasn't as good as a hot tub, 'cause after a while the water had been in there for a while it started to get cold and I had to drain some out and refill it.
I stayed in probably longer than I should have but I felt a lot better when I got out and Aric had made soup and toast that was thick and dripping butter and while I was eating it he told me about a Boy Scout leader that he used to have called Jerry who sometimes made butter-fried bagels that he called Jerry Bagels and they were really good on cold days because of all the energy they had in them and if he'd thought about it he would have made them instead of the toast.
It was still snowing outside and it had started to come down a little bit thicker than before, and after I'd dried all the way off and was warm I decided that I wanted to go out and play in it some more. This time we didn't drive anywhere; we just stayed in the parking lot and played on the little islands that they had, and we threw snowballs at each other for a bit and then once we'd trampled up all the snow on one island we moved to another one, and then we started playing on the big snow-pile that was at the end of the parking lot. It was a lot denser, 'cause all the snow had been shoved there, but you could slide down it and climb back up it and I went back to my apartment and got my last Equestrian flag and planted it at the top but I didn't leave it there.
Then we went around behind the apartment houses and we all worked together to make a snowpony, and I thought it would be fun to make one on the roof but they couldn't have joined me if I had.
We had sandwiches and hot chocolate for dinner, and Aric said that he thought the hot chocolate would be better if it had brandy in it, but he didn't feel like going out to get any. And when we were done eating we all sat on the mattress on the floor and Meghan unfolded her computer and she turned it around so that we couldn't see what movie she was looking for, but she said that it was an important Christmas movie.
It was called A Christmas Story, and Meghan said that it was a part of her childhood. Ralphie really wanted a gun even though everyone said that he'd shoot his eye out, but he eventually got it anways. And when Flick got his tongue stuck to a pole I said that nopony in Chonamare had ever tried that 'cause we'd all heard that Blue Belle had done that when she was a filly and the only way to get it off was to have somepony else pee on it and everypony said that that was why she always had a sour expression but now that I thought about it I didn't know if anypony had ever actually asked her if that had really happened and it probably would have been just as easy to get some warm water from the tavern or even have a pegasus bring down a cloud and drop some rain on it to melt it off. Then Aric admitted that he'd gotten his tongue stuck to a pole once when he was in elementary school and he said that he thought probably almost every boy had. Meghan said that that was because boys were dumb and would do things just on a bet, and he said that that wasn't true.
She said that she bet that he couldn't write his name in the snow with pee and he said that he could and he'd prove it but before he got up she grabbed his arm and told him he could sit back down because he'd just proved her point.
Then Aric told me that you could get the leg as a Christmas ornament and that he'd even seen an actual leg-lamp for sale in a Think Geek catalog once. It was kind of ugly, though, so I didn't know why anybody would want it.
And I also thought that having Chinese food for a Christmas dinner would be pretty good, and Meghan said that maybe we should do that, since the movie made it sort of traditional.
When the movie was over, we were already in bed, and so Meghan closed her computer and then took the cups back to the kitchen and said that we could leave them until the morning. And then on her way back she plugged in the Christmas tree and we snuggled up on the mattress and they both took their time undressing.
I was kinda tired, 'cause I'd spent so much energy on the cloud today and I was wanting to just go to sleep, but then Meghan got up again and went back to the kitchen and brought back some ice like she said she was going to, and I hadn't expected something as dumb as little cubes of ice to heat things up so much, and I don't think that Aric had, either.
A Christmas Story, a unique Christmas movie one that never just caught on for me. Give me my Peanuts Christmas special and Rudolf the Red Nosed Raindeer and I will be happy. Possibly Earnest Saves Christmas also. I just realized this but I bet Silver Glow will try and call the controllers the first few times she wants to fly when she gets back home just because she has gotten use to it by now.
What... No history lesson for the date?
That's gotta hurt.
All the kinks are coming out.
A Christmas Story bombed in theaters, but now it's a Tradition. Also the one with Arnold Schwartzenegger where he is a father looking to get a toy the day before Christmas.
Still, the Peanuts Christmas Special is probably the best explanation for Christmas for someone who knows nothing about it.
I adore Thinkgeek, though the expiration rate for rewards points is kind of bullshit and the way stuff goes out of stock and how you can ask them to notify you when they get it back in stock, but they never do is disappointing.
Hate Christmas Story so much...
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You assume too much.
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Disappointing that they didn't spend December 7th watching Tora! Tora! Tora!
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Fuck Michael Bay's overdramatized/romanticized schlock.
An interesting look at pony genetics / development. Given it's sex linked I do wonder if it's like tortoise shell cats, which would suggest that the pony equivalent XX / XY chromosomes are the other way around. or it could be something else entirely.
Always interesting to see Silver playing around with her weather magic and doing impossible things with clouds.
I sort of thought that Meghan and Aric might be going home to their own families for Christmas and that she'd go with one or the other of them (might be a little tricky to explain to their parents) or that she'd end up spending the day with one or the other of her helpers.
7934090 Rudolf special is best special.
So silver is saying that all the extra bits work the same way? Splashes, hair, etc?
Hope she didnt pick a bug up when pushing a bit too much outside. Only got two more weeks to burn it out?
I've been meaning to ask. Is Chonamare supposed to correspond to an Earth city, like Manehattan or Las Pegasus, or is it only a very pony place?
7934090 Ernest Saves Christmas, the only time Bobby ever talks.
7934085 ah!
Yeah no, my mistake, it's spelled Coalfish.
But Cola fish does sound awesome!
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Peanuts Christmas Special should be on the list for sure.
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Indeed.
My wife introduce me to that one back when we were dating. Good times, good times.
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There's a region in the west of Ireland called Connemara, and a type of pony called a Connemara pony. Biscuit mentioned the name at least was an intentional reference.
I don't know if other similarities are intentional, but Connemara does also have a similar isolated, rural and coastal character to how Chonamare has been portrayed, so that could be an intentional thing or it could just be a coincidence.
...And the author didn't include any Silver-Glowisms about what kind or quality of soup it was?
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This is called ZW-Sex-Determination. The males are ZZ and the females are ZW. Birds, butterflies, and many other organisms use ZW-Sex-Determination. In the story, "This Platinum Crown" by Capn_Chryssalid, Dragons use ZW-Sex-Determination.
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I am so used to XY-Sex-Determination that I inverted the karyotype of the sexes. I corrected mine error.
[ / errata ]
7939285 My thoughts exactly
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She'll be lifting her hoof up and wondering where her radio went.
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Heh, no, I guess not.
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Or feel really awesome, depending on what shape the ice cubes are and where, exactly, it went.
Yes, they are. Would you expect anything else?
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As I recall, the same is true of Rocky Horror.
Well, she actually knows the Bible story quite well. The rest of it--trees, presents, and whatnot . . . well, it's not so different from Hearth's Warming.
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You know, it's funny, but I used to get their catalogue, but I'm not sure that I've ever ordered anything from them.
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I totally forgot it was Pearl Harbor Day.
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I've seen the movie once and a play version once and that's it. Probably if it was on TV all the time, and if I had a TV, I might not like it so much.
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I don't have a good answer for that, just that most of the ponies we've seen with blazes/stars/socks happen to be stallions, and there's only one mare that I'm aware of in canon who has markings like that. But it probably is genetic, and not likely in mares for whatever reason.
Yeah, she does wind up going home with one of them for Christmas, and doesn't have Chinese.
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Well, mares seem to more frequently have bi-tone (or more) manes than stallions, so maybe the mane/tail tends to be a mare trait, and the blazes/socks/whatever tend to be stallion traits.
She should be fine--pegasi are fairly cold-immune.
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No, it's not meant to correspond to any specific place on Earth. A generic, 1800s fishing village which has roots going back hundreds of years. That having been said:
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Correct; the name is an intentional reference to the Connemara pony.
That wasn't specifically intentional, but I was thinking of old, traditional fishing villages, with stone houses and wooden boats and all that, and it did have a more northern European feel in my mind than anywhere else.
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Like this, sort of.
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Or this, but the houses are stone, not wood.
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Cola fish sounds a lot better than coalfish.
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I don't think a standard fridge has icecube trays of that shape.
I blame the ice.
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I seem to also recall doing some things with ice when I was younger.
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Edible
(It very likely came out of a can, and he 'made' it by opening the can, pouring it in a pot, and heating it.
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Huh, that's interesting. I'd always assumed that it was just X/Y although in hindsight, that's a rather dumb thing to have assumed.
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Ice cubes can be lots of fun. And not nearly as messy as chocolate syrup.
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No, but you sure as hell can buy them. I'd put in a link, but it's kinda nsfw.
If you want to go all out, you can also get phallic popsicle molds. Also no link because nsfw.
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Well, I guess Meghan got them when Silver Glow wasn't looking.
Wonder when she got it.
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Ha! That picture was pretty much exactly what I imagined every time she described Chonamare! Even if it doesn't look like that now, it's still the image I have of it.
Also, like Chonamare, Connemara is just up the coast from Baltimare/Baltimore.
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Maybe they're Aric's ice-cube molds. . . .
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Huh, I didn't know that.
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Daaaaaaaaamn... Get that girl on Call of Duty, 'cause that's some good aim!
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It's not that great of aim . . . slide it around under her tail, and bam. Now, if she'd thrown it from across the room, that would have been mad skills.
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I was imagining Silver jerked away immediately in surprise, like most 'normal' people would, meaning Meghan only had a split second. Which makes for impressive aim. But Silver let her play around a bit?
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Her equine instincts might have actually done her a disservice; Silver might have turned a little bit to put Meghan in kicking range--if she did that, or backed up slightly . . . . Silver's not uncomfortable with Meghan getting under her tail, which might have been another contributing factor.
There is actually a video floating around with a scientific explanation about that--though more in the case of females having stripes and patches.
It was described as an effect die ot random differences in the sets of genomes chosen within the first few iterations of a pheutus' development. Every cell has two sets of genes, one of which is disabled by random early on, and any cells descended from those initial clumps end up inheriting minor differences.
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How are you transporting the cloud? I have this image of a truck barelling down the highway, with a stormcloud strapped to its back.
These christmas movies really are setting a bad example... "Bad Santa"
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Yup, I've seen that one.
Pony genetics could be the opposite, of course. Or it could be something entirely different.
Correction made; thank you!
If it was in the back of the truck with Silver Glow sitting on it, and Airc didn't drive too fast, that would keep it together. Although the thought of a big fluffy cloud strapped into the back of a pickup is pretty awesome.
I don't know what you're talking about. Bad Santa and Die Hard are great Christmas movies. They certainly put me in a Christmassy mood.
Reminds me of an old joke:
Doctor, I think my husband is ill.
What seems to be the problem?
He uses his urine to write his name in the snow
Mam, that may be disgusting but it doesn't mean that he's ill.
You don't understand. His name is John Jacob Jinglehymmer Schmidt.
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I'm actually curious now how long a name one could write in the snow. I suppose it would depend on how much one had had to drink and how much control they had. I'd bet that a pony could do it better if she/he tried (well, if they ps like real racehorses).
You know, human power sockets can't be safe for pony, sticking stuff in while holding it in their mouth and all.
D'awwww, just sit and watch the pretty tree because it's so pretty, and wait for the silly humans to wake up.
Of course Meghan wakes up first and notices no Pony being snuggled at the moment.
Meghan found the Boop Button!
I don't really see throwing food around as being' fun' but yes Silver with flour patches on her would be adorable.
Stellar Flare, technically the black splotches on Luna's flanks are part of her coat, not her Cutie Mark, there are mares with odd coat patterns too.
You know, that explains a lot about Silver, if even her mom was so open while she was so young as "Wish I could get a foal sitter for you so I could go buck that cute sailor."
Meghan, don't give pony ideas, she will use them against you, now you have batter face.
Very open and vulnerable to surprise ice cube sensitive parts. #ponyproblems.
Silver... always playing with snow... so cuuuute!
Naughty cloud, drifting away when pony not looking.
Still fun seeing how amazed Silver is at humans being amazed at things she sees as simple, or even half assed.
Yeeeeah, doubt you'd all get to share a bed while recovering from frostibite.
Extra protection against cold #pegaperk
Again, nice touch having her have her specialties, and there being aspects of weather work she isn't that good at just cause she doesn't usually do them
Ponies shall tame these clouds and make them listen one day.
She SO should have been doing a "Weather Control With Silver" series... oh well missed opportunity.
But, Meghan now has another path to getting to ponyland, filmmaker recording informational videos about ponies.
THese two keep forgetting how tough pony is, she no mind being wet in the cold like humans do.
But, soup to warm up pony still good.
And right back to wanting to have fun, just, so adorably cute.
Meeeeeh, never really got into A Christmas Story, just, meh. Bunch of dysfunctional idiots being dysfunctional idiots.
There is always somepony who's tried the stupid thing. Everytime anyone questioned a blatently "Why the hell would you need the rule?" rule the answer is always,"Becuase some dumbass did try it."
No... no... most people are not stupid enough to get their tongue stuck to a pole. Closest I had was getting my tongue frozen to a Popsicle once.
I'm with Pony, that lamp... just... why?
Silly cute pony, no see why Chinese for Christmas dinner is odd thing.
They are trying to get her as many kinks as possible before she leaves.
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Yeah, they’re probably not the best. On the other hoof, Silver Glow is electricity-resistant--she can theoretically take a hit from a lightning bolt (as long as it isn’t positive lightning), so a wall socket isn’t much of a problem for her.
Heck, she could probably carry a live power line back up to the pole. Which actually makes me think of another place pegasi would really be useful--no need for boom trucks or faraday suits or protective gloves or any of that, just grab the power line and put it back on the pole where it belongs.
Honestly, there is something nice about sitting in a dark room looking at a Christmas tree.
Her pega-senses are tingling.
Meghan has always known where the boop button is, but has been cautious about using it.
I dunno, there’s just something satisfying about grabbing a nice handful of mashed potatoes and letting them fly. Maybe that’s just me.
I think Stellar Flare is the only mare in current canon with horse-like markings (but I could be wrong; I’m behind on the show). There were certainly ones in earlier canon--but even so, they’re pretty rare. As for Luna’s marks, my headcanon is that they are related to her cutie mark; I don’t know if the show has officially confirmed otherwise, but it might have.
It’s possible that Silver Glow didn’t understand the reference. On the other hand, it’s reasonable to assume that in a society of nudists, they’re a little bit more open about sex, too.
What’s sauce for the human is sauce for the pegasus, or however that saying goes.
Yeah, that’s one disadvantage to not having a protective layer between her sensitive bits and other things.
Snow’s fun to play with, and even more fun if you’re fluffy and cold-resistant.
It’s trying to escape--it should be staying put and basking in the glory of being touched by the pegasus.
Of course, the reverse is also true; Silver Glow is constantly amazed by human things that are completely mundane to us.
Sharing a bed’s for hypothermia (seriously, if you’re out in the wilderness and have some warm people and one person who’s not warm, that’s your best bet, assuming you’ve got sleeping bags and stuff that will fit three people). Not so much for frostbite--although the Boy Scout manual says that you can stick cold hands in your groin; presumably you could also stick them in a friend’s groin, as long as you ask permission first.
Yeah, that’s a tribal bonus for her. Real equines can get hypothermia from swimming in the winter.
Well, of course! There’s just some stuff she doesn’t do, since it’s not her job--and there’s no sense in wanting a pony such as her on factory cloud duty when she’s so much better with feral storms.
Earth clouds are too feral for her to ever manage to whip them completely into shape. At best, she can control small, individual clouds, but in Equestria, teams can control giant areas of the sky.
That would have been another way to make probably millions on YouTube. As long as they didn’t demonitize her for accidentally showing under her tail.
That’s probably less of a feasible path; Meghan’s not much of a filmographer (although she’s certainly learning video editing). She’s just blessed with a pegasus who wears a GoPro and does cool stuff.
Honestly, it’s probably way less comfortable to be inside a storm for hours. She’s also got the advantage of a nice winter coat and down, and some of the snow and ice on her will be actually adding further insulation (proof of this is that a lot of IRL horses get snow on their backs which doesn’t melt).
Agreed!
That’s a glimpse of life in Chonamare. Go up, fight a feral storm, get soaked to the bone, fly back to the tavern, have a nice hot bowl of soup, and then do something else fun in the evening.
It’s a traditional Christmas movie, though. Everybody’s got to see it once.
Oh yeah, totally. That’s the reason for lots of warning stickers on products, too. Especially the weird ones--those are the ones where you know somebody tried it. And then probably sued.
I guess I’m not most people, then, because I did. And that was without having seen the movie, too--I just tried it, and got stuck. Lost some skin pulling it back off, but it wasn’t the worst thing ever.
I assume that in the context of the movie, somebody had extra sexy legs lying around and thought about making a lamp out of one of them. I would like to have heard the brainstorming session when they were figuring out what the prize would be, though.
True fact: apparently, it’s not an odd thing, at least back in the day. For people who couldn’t or wouldn’t cook, practically all American restaurants were closed, because it was Christmas. Chinese restaurants weren’t, because new immigrants didn’t celebrate Christmas, so for them it was just another day--so that was the only choice of restaurant. And I’d assume that the Chinese restaurants did a booming business on Christmas, so they just kept staying open.
Well, there’s no reason not to. . . .
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It’s a lot easier to do that to a pony, too. Silver kinda deserved it.
Saucy mama.
If you did a little spin off with these videos, I would absolutely read them.
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Where do you think Silver Glow and Spindrift got it from?
That would be an interesting series. I don't know exactly how to frame a story like that, but it could be doable.