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  • Today
    March Music Monday 3

    I think I mentioned in the first one of these that my manager always plays the same top-40 Country station all day every day.


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  • 1 week
    March Music Monday 2

    Alrighty fellow music lovers, it's another Monday in March, and you know what that means!

    ... 'cause you read the title :heart:


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    This one doesn't have as much of a back story.

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  • 2 weeks
    March Music Monday 1

    This is pretty much what it says on the tin.

    See, ponies like music, I think that's pretty well-established canon. I like music, too, and I thought I'd introduce you to some music you might not have heard before. After all, I've been introduced to music by other people through the years, oftentimes something I'd never have found on my own.

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  • 3 weeks
    MECHANIC: The Most Boring One Yet

    I hesitate to even suggest you grab your favorite beverage, you're just gonna skim this one. But, if you're game:


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  • 5 weeks
    MECHANIC: February ('cause I couldn't think of a better title)

    I coulda thought of a better title . . .

    Anyway, you know what to do!


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Jan
28th
2020

Story Notes: The Happiest Pony in Equestria · 4:44am Jan 28th, 2020

Today I was giving a customer a ride home, and she started talking about Kobe, and then asked if I though he was the happiest man on Earth.

I said that I didn’t know.

And by the time I’d dropped her off at her house and started on the way back, I had most of the plot of this story in place.


There’s not much more to say, really. Y’all know that happiness is in the eye of the beholder.


Sunfire


Star Spur


Ant-sized Cornflower image


A potboiler is a cheap story tossed out by an author to get views. Naturally, I wouldn’t know anything about those.

Whitewash is a cheap, effective coating for homes or fences or whatever. In its most basic form, it’s slaked lime or chalk calcium carbonate spread over wood (or whatever) to protect it from the elements. It makes a hard shell that keeps the weather from getting at the gooey goodness inside. Traditionally, it was used on the outsides of things, unless one was poor.

Hyperopia is farsightedness. I don’t know much about it; I live on the other end of the eyesight spectrum: I’m so nearsighted I can’t see the broad side of a barn. But by golly, I can read fine print like nobody’s business. :rainbowlaugh:

IRL New York was kinda discovered by Henry Hudson, sailing aboard the Halve Maen (Half Moon).

Cortland is a variety of heirloom apple, and back in Ye Olde Times, people didn’t have specific street addresses, but more of an ‘they live over there’ kind of thing. While I’d be lying if I said I remember when ZIP codes in the US became a thing, I have plenty of magazines that date to the era when they were being adopted, and also when state abbreviations weren’t universally two letters.

Meijer used to (and maybe still does) sell nine-grain bread that was dense enough that you could kill a man with it if the need arose.

Many thanks to Bugsydor, Duke of Battington, and hawthronbunny for giving helpful suggestions on Discord. :heart: And also to Thrackerzoid, who made a few last-minute corrections right on the cusp of going live (which side of the cusp, I’m not gonna tell you).



Jonagold

Comments ( 33 )

Kobe Bryant sexually assaulted a woman.

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When I give the little old lady a ride back to the shop tomorrow, do you think I should bring that up?

For that matter, should I even mention that our brief conversation as we turned onto Dexter Trail (before we passed the pen with the llamas and turned our conversation more towards animal husbandry) resulted in a story on FimFiction, for better or worse?

Would she be happy or horrified that I texted myself the brief notes that laid the foundation for this story while I was still driving her Jeep, even if it was only at twenty miles an hour since a truck towing a gooseneck trailer loaded with round bails got in front of me as I came up to Catholic Church Rd.?

She’s a pretty cool lady, but there are a lot of things where I don’t really know what her feelings on the matter are.

5193351
I dunno I'm just being an edgelord.

5193355
No offense, but you’d have done better if you’d hit the very low-hanging fruit in the blog where I mentioned potboilers. My ego says this isn’t that, but when I wake up tomorrow morning to fifty notifications and a prime spot in the box of shame, I will wonder if I’ve sold out, and if so, to whom.

5193351
Lol I have a policy of not reading story notes of stories I haven't read yet, but yes, potboilers are certainly a thing. Aren't they called that because they help you buy the fuel that keeps your food cooking?

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Aren't they called that because they help you buy the fuel that keeps your food cooking?

I suppose, if I got paid for pony stories.

<shakes fist>
“Knighty, you owe me”

5193367

I suppose, if I got paid for pony stories.

Take commissions. You'd make a bundle.

Hyperopia is nearsightedness.

I think you mean farsightedness, aye? Myopia is nearsightedness.

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Gah, yes, that’s what I meant.

I blame my keyboard. :trixieshiftright:

5193378
That sounds like cowardice.

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I have no idea what you’re talking about.
<scurries under rock>

Which Discord you hang out in?

5193378
The natural tendency is to get more farsighted as you get older.

Presbyopia
A special form of farsightedness is called “old age far-sightedness” or Presbyopia. It very frequently occurs in people older than 40 as a symptom of normal aging. The cause of this type of far-sightedness is the reduced elasticity of the eye lens producing ciliary muscle stiffness.
Wikipedia

I used to be near sighted myself, now I'm farsighted

Also, Lebron James passed him on the "Top NBA Scorers" list & now the crash, IDK that I'd call him happy

Interesting, if short; thanks. :)

5193367
Huh. I always thought they were called that because they could be used as the fuel that keeps your food cooking.

The crazy part about all of this is that very few people die in helicopter crashes, so having a celebrity die that way is even more shocking.

5193469
Which is equally inapplicable to FimFiction, for hopefully obvious reasons (pretty sure Randall was taking the piss with his "Kindle Edition" joke)

Would she be happy or horrified that I texted myself the brief notes that laid the foundation for this story while I was still driving her Jeep, even if it was only at twenty miles an hour since a truck towing a gooseneck trailer loaded with round bails got in front of me as I came up to Catholic Church Rd.?

Personally, I'd have been horrified. ()^_^

Aw, thanks! Glad to be of some service.

My guess on why it's called a potboiler is that it's the sort of thing you read to not go crazy watching a pot of water get to temperature, and then stashed until the next time you needed some light time-fill.

5193376

Take commissions. You'd make a bundle.

The thought has crossed my mind, but to make it worthwhile, I might price myself out of the market unless I were willing to write niche porn, which I’m not.

5193424

Which Discord you hang out in?

Mostly private ones with few members, honestly. Hole in the Wall, Unhinged, Writers Waffling about Writing Willingly, Equestrian Wordsmiths.

Send me a PM with your Discord user thingy and I’ll add you as a trustedcrazy friend.

5193432

The natural tendency is to get more farsighted as you get older.

Luckily, I’m so nearsighted that’s not likely to happen.

Also, Lebron James passed him on the "Top NBA Scorers" list & now the crash, IDK that I'd call him happy

I figure that happiness doesn’t necessarily have to do with fame or fortune. But what do I know; I hit things with wrenches and write pony fic.

5193433

Interesting, if short; thanks. :)

You’re welcome!

While short on new facts, the story makes up for that with adorable fluffiness.

5193469

Huh. I always thought they were called that because they could be used as the fuel that keeps your food cooking.

I suppose they could, although books don’t burn all that well, at least in an open fire. Although I haven’t done a lot of experimentation.

5193490

The crazy part about all of this is that very few people die in helicopter crashes, so having a celebrity die that way is even more shocking.

My brother and I discussed that once, although it’s been enough years that I don’t remember the exact conclusions. I do remember that in terms of miles traveled, helicopters are way less safe than fixed-wing aircraft, but given their different operating purposes, that’s expected. I know when I was in Chicago last spring, I saw a helicopter being used to lift things up onto a building. If something went wrong with the engine, he’d have a slim chance of finding a survivable landing spot . . . but in counterpoint, no sane person would be operating a fixed-wing aircraft over a city at or below building height.

5193523

Personally, I'd have been horrified. ()^_^

Don’t ever find out how or where I wrote some chapters of Silver Glow’s Journal, Turnpike, Peterbilt Glider, Fence Post, and a few other fics. :derpytongue2:

5193935

Aw, thanks! Glad to be of some service.

:heart:

My guess on why it's called a potboiler is that it's the sort of thing you read to not go crazy watching a pot of water get to temperature, and then stashed until the next time you needed some light time-fill.

Without bothering to look up the wiki, it’s because it was a low-effort fic that was what the audience wanted. The published version of daytime TV, more or less.

I suppose that in many cases, you could read a bit here and a bit there when you had downtime, and you’d never have to worry about missing nuance.

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I wouldn't bring up Fimfiction at all. We get a bad rap as it is.

As for the potboilers, simple stories like this one are usually pleasant. It's either that or going back to watching Tim Taylor's Tool Time accidents. :rainbowlaugh:

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I wouldn't bring up Fimfiction at all. We get a bad rap as it is.

Turned out it was a moot point; our new guy gave her a ride. (we’ve got a new guy now; let’s see how long he lasts!)

As for the potboilers, simple stories like this one are usually pleasant. It's either that or going back to watching Tim Taylor's Tool Time accidents. :rainbowlaugh:

:heart:
Also, what is Tim Taylor’s Tool Time accidents? That actually sounds kind of fun.

5194461
Tim Allen's old sitcom Home Improvement.

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That’s what I thought you were referencing, but I wasn’t sure.

Did you know he’s from Michigan, just like I am? Because he is.

(And I am)

He spent more time in jail than I did, though.

5195056
Yeah, I know. More power to ya. Arr, Arr, ARRRRGH!!!! 😁

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