Jan
10th
2016
My Best Thing of 2015 · 3:16am Jan 10th, 2016
So, remember stuff can be good? This is some good stuff.
Not the sunflower seeds. They are good, though. The birdfeeder, a Window Bird Feeder by Yardiculture, $19 from Amazon. I have this on the window next to my computer desk, so I have wild birds about 2 feet from my head when I'm writing during the day.
The birds don't like it when I look at them, and they definitely don't like it when I point a camera at them. I wonder how they even know the big pale moon in front of them is a face. But I think they're getting more used to it.
... soon, they'll be ready for Stage 2. 
...Stage 2? Where you make them watch Alfred Hitchcock movies?
("It's for your own good, Tweety!")
Well, they're getting a free meal, might as well get some entertainment out of them...
3675944 Close, but I was thinking more of a reenactment.
Stage 2 is where you indoctrinate them into becoming bronies, right?
Right?
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Bad Horse spends a lot of time teaching woodland creatures about the magic of friendship! It tends to make them more docile.
3675979 Unless he turns them into rabid TwiDash shippers who become violent at the first hint of any other pairing. Just like Bad Horse. (Sorry, but I had to spill your secret, dude.)
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...Eh, sounds good. They'll probably be more coherent and better behaved than a lot of the Shipping group.
I went looking for the upvote button two seconds after I read that line. (I would have gone looking sooner, but I was too busy laughing. (It just delays my dissatisfaction at the lack anyway. (I suspect that last sentence could have been phrased more coherently.)))
This sounds suspiciously Iike the beginnings of a reenactment of a famous MIT prank...
You want to try a computer made of silicon chirps?
Dinosaur minions.
It's this kind of attention to detail that makes him Bad Horse and the rest of us merely wannabes.
That's where you lead the Grimm into the city, right?
No, wait, that's Phase 2.
Birds and bees explained to Bad Horse…
Hoping to attract a pegasus?
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... Bad Horse is Fluttershy?
3676649 Doesn’t he write only tragic TwiMac stories?
Stage 2 probably involves properly rousing those wondrous, uplifting feelings of disappointment and betrayal
3677275 Oh, dear. I think I'm supposed to kill you now. If you don't mind, that is.
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Well, since you asked nicely... Wait, no, I'd prefer to keep living.
Odd pen name for Fluttershy to go by, but she is awfully self-critical, and some of the topics written about might trigger that response from her, especially in stories about her. Hm... This makes far too much sense.
Attracting birds? That's a credible step up from my current position.
Anyone familiar with invasive species? Like, beetle larvae?
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Aaaaaaand now I want to read a fic where Fluttershy secretly runs the Evil League of Evil.
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Have you had any bird strike problems? My mother keeps some feeders on stands near one window, and she's had some problems with strikes on the window.
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No window hits. I speculate that the feeder on the window makes them less likely, not more likely.
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I could see that. Hm. Might be what she needs, then.
3680260 Or just hang some nice stained glass in the window on suction cups.
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That's probably better for my office. It would go with the other eight Celestias.
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Fluttershy writes super grimdark fanfic about herself like Fluttershy's Night Out (close enough), Corpse Bride, and Pony Play.
Seems like a Fluttershy thing to do.
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Fluttershy's Night Out and Pony Play aren't grimdark. Not even close. But yes, calling herself a bad pony/horse for writing such things seems within character.
3682439 3683119 Oh, dear. I'm a bad pony for trying to write bad things--and an even worse pony for not doing it right!
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"'Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash kissed.' Oh no, that's far too lewd! Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash would never forgive me if I wrote something like that!"
Either that, or Fluttershy would write lewd things under an assumed name about 'Midnight Gleam', 'Scarcity', 'Prism Burst', 'Reddie Cake', 'Orangejoe', and 'Hovertimid'. "I'm a bad, bad pony..." (Self-loathing optional in this scenario. It probably becomes a guilty pleasure at some point.)