The battle of the Hoof ended 9 years ago. For some ponies, the scars are still fresh in the mind. As Threnody, a young heartmender working with the Followers of the Apocalypse will find, sometimes the hardest step is getting a Patient to speak.
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*Sees an update*
Me: It's been... 84 years.
Ma! Ma come quick! She updated Speak! And it's getting weird!
Oh god, every time I see this story the cover art is so flipping adorable each time...
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I know.... ;-;
Oh excellent, it is a long chapter.
“Why is chubby here staring at me” new chapter
https://youtu.be/HDo3-vR6u1U
And we’re back with Smol Pega and friends having a superfun time.
(May not include superfun time at all.)
Alright, this comment may come across as overly negative. There’s a twist I don’t like at all. But to just be clear: it didn’t ruin the story for me and I’ll continue reading it despite said twist.
That is just a myth!
Sounds a lot like a certain worst Security pony in her Stable.
„Just a fair warning: If somepony breaks out in song, I’m not responsible for what happens next. I need at least three cups of coffee and a hour of utter silence before I can stand any kind of early morning happiness.”
Somehow, I always felt Overmare should be the gender-neutral term for overseers. Also, Oversire sounds weird. Personally I prefer Overstallion.
Okay, who was genius who thought giving Neighsayer a job a StableTec would be a good idea?
*insert very sad music here*
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She’s pretty well informed for a mare living in a Stable in a remote area of Equestria that didn’t had much contact with the outside world until recently.
Is that even their job? Heartmenders are therapists, not diplomates. I don’t remember any diplomatic crisis being solved with partner therapy or people talking about their daddy issues.
You need level-headed people in charge, who’s first impulse during a crisis isn’t blow stuff up.
Let’s hope no! Blackjack-tier problems usually don’t have a happy ending and even if they do at lot ponies will be death or miserable in the end.
Post-war politics and conflicts are something I really like. It’s not a problem you can solve by simply shooting a bad guy in raider armor. You have two states trying to get along, but always being one bad day away from repeating the mistakes that lead to the Great War.
And leave Blackjack alone in an unfamiliar Stable without anypony she knows after a traumatic event? That’s the kind of bad idea that could end with Blackjack accidentally stabbing one or two people with her horn.
Reminds me about how I once wrote a comment for Homelands in which I complained about how the Dealer felt like he wasn’t really adding anything to the story by only popping up once in a while and doing cryptic card stuff. In my comment I jokingly suggested he could be playing poker with the Spirit from the Black Book.
And now we have a scene in which the “Dealer” is having a tea party with another spirit. It may not be the same thing but’s it’s close enough.
Strange, I always thought being able to “see” Spirit was something unique to a certain Green Menace.
So, our main protagonist is a young filly, who doesn’t like fighting and instead wants ponies to get along. And after travelling with Blackjack aka the Maiden of the Stars she somehow gained the ability to see and talk with spirits.
Is it just me or does this sound oddly familiar?
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Nah must be my imagination.
Just wait until you learn that you’re also a direct descendant of Princess Cadance.
’m going to be honest: This was a huge letdown. Part of me has the sneaking suspicion this was done because the author nor longer wants or can’t use the Dealer and quickly had to change him into a new character.
A character pretending to be another character can be a really great and shocking twist, if it’s pulled off well and there’s a good in-universe reason for it.
This is not the case in this story. What did Huey gain by cosplaying as the Dealer? Thren didn’t know him so she had no reason to thrust a random skeletal horse more than a random coyote spirit. Nothing in the story would’ve changed if he had appeared in his true from right from the start.
Okay maybe there would’ve been less tarot cards, but he didn’t had to look like the Dealer to make a bet with Threnody.
It would’ve been far better to introduce Huey as new character right from the start, instead of getting people excited for the return of a fan favorite. And if you wanted him to conceal his identity there would’ve been other options. Maybe he could’ve looked like a character Thren saw on a sign? Maybe even the Sparkle-Cola mascot?
I can’t speak for others, but I was looking forward to more interactions between Thren and the Dealer. He’s an interesting character and the fact that he interacted with the main characters of all three PH stories was something unique. But nope, it’s not him and now I feel disappointment. What’s next? Is Blackjack just a random Earth Pony named Two-Bit with a fake horn who dyed her mane?
You know, with all the spirit and shame stuff and the fact that Threnody is now Scotch 2.0 it’s good that the story at least acknowledges how similar to Homelands this all feels.
Okay, feels like that guy is related to Discord.
Wait, is Discord a spirit? That would actually make a lot of sense in this setting.
I like to imagine that there’s still a lot of bad blood and not everything is sunshine and rainbows. The Enclave killed a lot of ponies. That’s not something that can be easily forgiven. There are probably ponies out there who consider every Pegasus without a Dashite brand to be a foal-killing Enclave member.
Most Pegasi don’t wake up one day and decide to be Dashites. The average Dashite is somepony like Calamity who served in the military, saw how hard things are one the surface and felt that the Enclave should help them. As a Heartmender Threnody probably would never left her cloud city, so her chances of becoming a Dashite were pretty low to begin with.
Even Glory only wanted to help the surface because of her father who ended up stranded in the Wasteland and married a surface Pegasus.
Sweetness would disagree.
How easily one can be motivated.
Okay that made me chuckle. Nice way of subverting the wise savage stereotype so common in fiction.
The sex apple; the strength… I think may be Stronghoof’s Bastard child.
I guess after fart jokes, boner jokers felt like the next logical step.
So all these big ponies with their power armors and huge weapons are oddly fixated on their penis size. There’s an obvious joke that could be made about this.
Neither did I. Maybe I didn’t hang out with the right kind of boys when I was younger, but I don’t think we really talked about our dicks that much.
Okay by the end of this chapter we get a vague idea what happened to him. But it still doesn’t explain why he hates Blackjack. My guess was that his parents had been among the many, many unnamed bounty hunters or gang members killed by Blackjack. Which would make sense considering him jokingly calling himself a half-tamed Raider once. But it turns out that’s not the case.
I mean it’s not really hard to figure out her true identity. She only did a half-assed job trying to hide it. Wigs and Cutie Mark decals are things that exist and she decided to not to use them.
As for why Blackjack talked him into coming along: My guess is guilty. Probably hoping that she came make amends somehow.
I’m currently at Chapter 33 of PH aka “That One”. So, I don’t know when exactly during PH this took place. Did Blackjack really destroyed another Stable? Normally I would worry about her mental health, but I realzed that's a lost cause. Or is this just something that happened because of Blackjack’s action and she didn’t even know about it? Like a villain did this and this somehow Blackjack fault?
It’s good to finally know more about Bubblegum’s backstory, but it doesn’t explain his hateboner for Blackjack.
Or did this happen before he met Blackjack. His Stable getting destroyed in a tragic accident, he’s the only survivor and gets found by the Crusaders. He then joins them, meets Blackjack and… well the usual Project Horizons stuff happens.
Okay now everypony can see spirits. I guess Blackjack is radiating off spirit energy or something.
Hey Bubblegum wasn’t a bitch in this chapter. Defiantly improved my opinion of him.
No need to apologize. Life happens and 2020 was bad. Sadly 2021 hasn't been much better either.
That said this was defiantly my favorite chapter of Homelands.
I really enjoyed this and was so worth the wait. Time to wait for Crazyperson to drop a new chapter.
awesome a new chapter here :D
and wow was that some grade A world building. also nice that threnody finally got better, this chapter was so nice and relaxing to read and really captivating and interesting.
i can tell you all the hard work and time to make a new chapter perfect payed of nicely ^^
But soon after
I am mighty interested to see how this may be compared with Scotch’s experiences of being spirit-touched, because woo nelly, Scotch could use some more Hidden in her life
Blackjack is confirmed carrier of the spirit-touched virus
I am intrigued to find out explicitly what are the spirits of the beyond if they are not the stars.
well dang, that answers my question, with a torch!
aaaaaa I want Scotch and Threnody to meet each other and compare notes no matter the fact that the time differential between them is probably still at least six years!
Honest to goodness laugh out loud at that one.
me too
Another fine chapter with good talks and world building, enough to allay the concern for the count down, which would certainly be a bad thing for me to become complacent with regards to, if I were living there.
Considering the grove in the cave, I would have thought most ponies would just say 'oh yeah that there be Earth Pony magic I tell ya whut' and not think about it further even though it would seem Snow Berry and Autumn are the only ones living there.
I like the nuances being worked into the spirit stuff and anticipate seeing how Threnody will adapt to it along with her pony relationships. Life can't never get too complicated!
God, I love to see when a good story updates
damm this is really good. thnx for the new chapter really loved it keep i up the good work
Thank you for writing. :)
And some pretty interesting revelations, and more questions, in this one! :D
Good luck with life.
"Dear Princess Celestia... I didn't learn nothin! I was right all along!"
-Applejack
Yeah, that...
Now I think of Balto...
*snerks* how you even... found that
That's an ancient word for a tall large pine tree (so related to modern word for conifers), also used to describe something long and bulky... not necessary an euphemusm, but that's funny
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A group of Russians on my server swears this is a euphamism. They either lied to me (hilarious) or it's a regional thing (Extra Hilarious).
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It's regional, or rather, less urban and more country-ism. And in this case it works as double entendre, he indeed meant somthing thick and long.
I clearly understood what he meant, but half of my peers wouldn't know the word. While being somewhat militant and tech-oriented person, I have some Twilight features, aka love to read dictionary.
Every language got those funny\oddball moments, like English with its Donkey\Ass swap, or history of verbs "bugger, "bug", "catch" and so on.
It's also funny that more common three letter word for that originally meant "little stream". Now imagine how I cracked up when in 3rd season of Stranger Things Robin told Steve to "redirect his stream".
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Dying. Yeah there's a few things like that, but I am going to be forever amused that it's considered a Russian 'country-ism' since my friend who taught it to me is from Khabarovsk, and gets very frustrated having to translate American country-isms that I throw into Speak because I grew up in a rural area. XD
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Ack, did I forget to mention in earlier chapters that VanHoover is sometimes referred to as 'the Hoove?' ACK!
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I actually totally understand the frustration with Huey. I went for that because of the myths around Coyote in First Nations legends. He's a trickster with a good heart, but he can be an asshole, and he wasn't above trying to look like someone else to get what he wants. Him presenting as Dealer to fuck with Threnody is him being kind of a dick. Which fits with his whole persona.
But I do understand why it's a letdown. Somber and I had a long discussion about Dealer, and his various incarnations in the wasteland. The first one Blackjack dealt with (and honestly who she dealt with most of the time) was Echo. But she did encounter the True Dealer, aka the Spirit of the Wasteland, at the end. Scotch seems to be dealing with that Dealer as well, so far as Somber and I can tell. But for Speak, the True Dealer is super heavy a character for the story. Thren already has enough shit on her plate without having an Anima that was the literal incarnation of all that represents the Wasteland on her about her shit. So Huehuecoyotl was a better fit to pester Threnody into good mental health.
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Have to mix some outdated and mangled grammar , using real accents as reference. I'm from Moscow, but I know their speech, it is slightly different. We have a female druid in wow guild from Khabarovsk.
He can try emulate speech from Gogol's short stories or use southern speak (Ukrainian-accented Russian, maybe with some Ukrainian words thrown in), trying to use Ural speak is harder and there are too few examples to find. Most of regional accents are phonetical only, our language didn't morph that much in last 150 years, only ribbed others for new words.
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I was discussing this with said friend, and he was amazed that the only real reference to 'an accent' for Russian is hilariously from a remote village in Alaska that has used the same dialect since the early 1800s, which was just enough time for it to start evolving into I guess an english equivalent of an accent. Though arguably, it's technically becoming a creole language of Russian and Athabaskan. But it has been pointed out to me that things like 'y'all're' is functionally impossible to translate.
... also apparently the joke idiom of 'to do someone' referring to having intercourse with them is literally untranslatable. XD
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Yeah, instead we have a thing with verb иметь - to have, to possess, in same context. But I never saw example where it was used in pun in same situation. Rather some workplace puns.
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Well, he’s a lot more helpful than Homelands’ Dealer who only decided to intervene when Scotch was about to be beaten to death by an angry legionary. So that’s a plus for him.
Still, why the Dealer? Thren has no history with him. It feels like a completely random choice. Here’s a crazy idea: Why couldn’t he have looked like Threndoy? He wants her to reflect on her flaws and what better way to do that, than look exactly like her and call her “little liar” in her own voice?
This is the first update since I started reading, and I'm super glad it came just a few days after I caught up.
Also, I'm reading Huey and Kajortoq's lines in their voices from No Evil. Gives the impression that this Huehuecoyotl is much more mature than the No Evil one. Kajortoq is exactly the same.
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Yeah, I... tried so hard to make Kajortoq not sound like Kitty. I tried. I tried so hard. But I failed.
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Threnody doesn't, but Blackjack does. A good way to freak out The Bigger Idiot.
Glad to see this back, i've missed the world of fallout equestria:team trauma
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Making The Bigger Idiot freak out sounds like a surefire way to commit suicide. The only thing dumber would be hanging around with The Bigger Idiot.
SCOTCH TAAAAAAAAAAAAPE
You got that right.
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Oh, while I have your attention, I've noticed you write "X and I" in every situation, even when it should be "me and X." I'd be putting quotes in comments under specific chapters, but reading on mobile makes that a pain.
The way I learned to remember is if you could abbreviate it as "we," then use "X and I," but if it would be "us," use "me and X."
Glad another chapter is out <3
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
Well, Blackjack still hasn't woken up, but this was certainly interesting. The countdown's still ominous, and Threnody's premonitions are tantalising. Not sure how I feel about the Coyote reveal, but eh. It is what it is. I feel like I'm missing some of these references to Homelands, too; I should really read it one of these days. But mostly I'm just glad we at last have... some kind of insight as to what the hell was going on with Bubblegum.
I'm not completely sure of this, but at a guess, I think the implication is that he was a Thunderhead stable pony, and that his family died when Blackjack set off that megaspell in Shadowbolt Tower? I mean, I'm pretty sure that the tower wasn't built into a mountain, and I don't see any clear way for the Crusaders to have gotten up there, so I'm probably wrong about this, but I also don't know how much of the geography I'm supposed to take at face value and how much is dream logic. That, and I'm hard-pressed to name many other stables in high places that Blackjack is directly responsible for ruining. Unless I'm totally misreading this, and the stable nightmare is somehow unrelated to why he hates Blackjack? Ech.
By the way, you referred to Autumn Harvest as Autumn Leaf here at one point there, which makes for a weird mental image considering who that name usually belongs to in the context of Fo:E.
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Ack! that was a mistake! I had forgotten that I'd typed her full name a paragraph earlier. Her name is supposed to be Autumn Harvest.
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It's too late. I will now forever imagine the character as Colonel Autumn Leaf in a very poor deer disguise that everybody else are simply too polite to comment on. There are no takebacks.
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Any hints about the Countdown?
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To make my readers concerned! :D
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Thank yeh.
Yes i need more. I am also curious about the spirit names I know there real mythology beings but it reminds me of the YouTube series (no evil). Especially Huey. That name is stays in my head.
As Russian readers, we admire your work! The sequel to FoE:PH is cool. We look forward to new chapters)
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What is Huey doing? His best.
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Thank you! :D
Dear Heartshine,
I have a question that I am sure some others are wondering about and that is, where is Boo? I mean she wasn't in Chapel at the beginning of this story or Homelands and hasn't really been mentioned either. I was mainly wondering this because she is in the epilogue of Horizons, 200 years later, so I just wanted to know what is going on with this.
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She's off on her own adventure! She's trying to figure out how to be her, and also leaving random stuff in lockers for ponies to find years later. I know a lot of people really love Boo, and I do too! I just didn't see her fitting in well in this story as of yet, so I tried to focus more on Threnody and Blackjack's stuff.
Ok, thanks Heartshine!
I'm a bit late to the party, but...
Oh man, I feel for Thren here. I rarely get up before 9 anymore and I have no idea why.
So Equestria has memetically speciated. Worse than humans have, too.
Water, huh? Is there some sort of synesthesia going on here?
...What happens in 11 days? I'm worried now...
I've also been wondering two things about Threnody. First, do you have a voice in mind for her? Second, which canon characters, if any, is she descended from? I personally headcanon Spur, but...
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I actually have someone specific in mind, hence why her dad's DNA was in the system owned by the Family!
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One of the Mane 6? I doubt it would be Spur, though you never know...