Jan
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How to solve space issues in a crowded city like Canterlot. · 2:50am Jan 9th, 2017
Step one: Be sufficiently powerful unicorn.
Step two: Be a sufficiently powerful unicorn.
Step three: Use a spell to shrink yourself down to a teeny, tiny state.
Step four: Live in the lap of luxury in a palatial dollhouse inside of your el-supercheapo one room efficiency.
Step five: Optional--charge others rent and allow them to store their dollhouses inside of your apartment.
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kudzuhaiku · 628 views
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Or option B. Turn all of Canterlot into a giant TARDIS.
Paper Pusher had barely swallowed away the nausea due to his trip through the magical doorway before the real estate agent was nudging him forward. "Don't worry about any inner ear disturbances caused by the reduction spell, sir. After several trips, the residents of Diminutive Estates hardly notice. Plus, it keeps out unauthorized visitors, since the transformation spell will not affect anypony without a key." Once they had passed through the glass atrium, Platt swept a hoof around the open area that was revealed. "Well, sir. Welcome to Diminutive Plaza. How do you like it?"
On the outside, the building had only looked like an ordinary two-story residence with the requisite number of windows and an exterior of plain blocked granite, much like hundreds of expensive house rentals in Canterlot. On the inside...
Rows of doors and interior walkways extended upwards of twenty or thirty floors, all opening up on a central green park with trees and a small pond containing a few boats floating around it. Above it all, a huge glass skylight allowed the bright noon sun to fill the entire plaza with warm and comfortable lighting. At normal size, the luxurious housing complex would have easily covered two or three city blocks, and even getting a look inside would have cost Paper more bits than he earned in a month. It was a stunning view, and well under Paper Pusher's estimated housing allowance with more than a few bits left over. There was just one problem.
"Spi--" he stammered, pointing with one hoof. "S-s-spi..." Ending with a shriek, the prospective renter turned tail and ran as if all the hounds of Tartarus were in pursuit. It made Platt frown and look in the direction his escaped meal ticket had just pointed at, and when he saw it too, his frown grew into a scowl.
"All right," bellowed Platt, pointing at the gigantic creature crawling down the inner wall of the apartment complex. "Somebody didn't pay attention to the 'No Pets' clause in the lease. Who owns that tarantula?"
Like Sealand?
Yup. Like Sealand.
Very interesting idea so we have a potentially mini-Canterlot inside an apartment in Canterlot. Fire-proofing would be important along probably some sound proofing. Paper thin walls take on a more literal meaning in this situation
I really want to read this. I hope you write it.
4375117
I did write it. It's just a blog post.
4375098 Unlike Sealand they aren't forming a nation. They are using thier magic live in a better home then they could normally afford in that location
I've wondered about this for a bit.
Consider the Breezie.
They seem as intelligent as ponies.
They seem rather unable to cope with outside well.
If you were a breezie, and you were offered a tenth of an apple a week for your family to be housed and to work as a security system - or any other menial work that doesn't involve physical strength.
Housing and food is almost free for ponies to provide. A much safer environment than the outside.
Any 'material goods' that are available in raw form and alterable by breezie craftsponies would be similarly cheap.
Imagine them as similar to the computational revolution - they can do a large fraction of what automation does, at very inexpensive prices.
Security alarm, access control, monitoring machinery, bookkeeping, note-taking, personal tutors, live music, ...
Minds were blown that day.
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Potential Title: "Copperquick's Apartment: An Origin Story"
Hmm... Judging by pretty much every interior scene ever, all structures in Equestria are larger on the inside by quite a margin.
Including airships and trains and everything with an "Interior".
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Do you mind if I either A) Steal the idea for myself or (more likely) B) Spread this idea for a better writer than myself?
The really powerful unicorns get to rent out the rooms of their dollhouses for even smaller dollhouses. The fractal nature of the extremely old noble family estates gets crazy.
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It's luxury apartments all the way down!
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Not true! Some layers are model railroads.
4375209 Enjoy. I won't tell you how many ideas I've stolen from Kudzu and scrubbed the serial numbers off
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I toss these ideas out so people might use them.
Step Six: Confuse the hell out the rats who suddenly have equally-sized Rat Catchers hunting them down in their own homes and drive them steadily from the city one baseball-sized Pyroclasm spell at a time.
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Tentative title: The Dollhouse.
The organization known as "Toybox" owns the apartment building called "The Dollhouse" next to Carousel Boutique, with plans to open another complex in Canterlot. Toybox is the result of the efforts of many illustrious ponies, including Twilight Sparkle herself. Rarity is Toybox's legal representative, as Sweetie Belle is too young, and founding member Dainty Dress feels Rarity to be a good choice over herself.
When so many obsess with thinking big, somepony has to remember everyone that size isn't everything, and you don't have to be big to be great.
Which is great for Dainty, because she's an animated one-sixth-size doll.
For more inspiration read
Ponyville's Tiny Librarian