Twilight sighed, opened her star covered journal to a blank page, and stared at it for a little while. Soon her train of thought flowed onto the page courtesy of a pen coated in the purple aura of her magic.
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He’s an alright guy, Alex I mean. Rainbow’s right though about Alex being cool, but he can also be clever and intelligent. I wonder how he can do both. Actually, I think she knows a lot more about him then she lets on. Nopony’s talking about him like she is, but it isn’t too important right now.
Our idea was a total disaster today. Alex tried to tell me it was a long shot after the fiftieth failed message but I wouldn’t accept it. Now I see just how juvenile I was acting. I mean I was acting worse than Fluttershy was last week, claiming she was going to get the southern birds. It took four of us to just keep her indoors and explain to her Winter Wrap-Up doesn’t exist here. I mean, I explained that at the end of last month for pony’s sake. Did anypony actually listen to me?
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Twilight groaned. “All I’d like is for somepony to listen to me and not hear just what they want. Just once, I mean is that so hard to ask?”
Rarity gazed over to her roommate appraisingly. “Twilight, everypony only listens to the finer points of what you say because you tend to explain every detail of everything. I can’t exactly say for certain that’s exactly what everypony thinks, but I’d like to think that’s what everypony tries to do.”
“But that means that some details might end up being missed and someponies need to hear everything or they don’t know what’s going wrong. Rainbow Dash is a perfect example, she listens enough to get the idea but then she’s off in her own little world where she thinks everything’s cool.”
“But you can’t change that dear, just try to avoid too much detail next time you want to explain things.”
“Well, at least Alex listens to everything.”
“That’s the spirit Twilight.”
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I tried to explain magic to Alex a few times after dinner and he didn’t quite get it, but each time he seemed to understand it better. I just don’t think he can answer my questions without a better grasp of magic and I’m teaching at a snail’s pace. If he was a unicorn, and still had his knowledge of this world then it would be easier, but I don’t even know if there were spells in Canterlot that could change a pony, or in this case human, into a different species.
It’s a wonderful idea but if I was going to teach another unicorn, especially a stallion, somepony could take it the wrong way.
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Twilight took a quick glance back to the fashionista before returning to her journal.
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At least Alex isn’t a pony so it doesn’t seem as weird to talk to him about how things work in Equestria.
In b4 the unthinkable happens
1405536 Anything else?
1405538 Uhh... for now nope.
Why would Twilight teaching magic to a unicorn (male or not) be taken the wrong way?
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long, intensive private lessons, often behind closed doors "for safety" with a member of the opposite gender?
often including those involved shouting and/or coming out of the room exhausted and sweaty, with rumpled manes?
no, couldn't possibly be taken wrong by folks accustomed to jumping to conclusions.
1407098 of course. Because none of their friends have ever had to conduct physical training. After all, AJ and RD never had a workout in their lives. And Rarity would have no idea what goes on in a magic training session. And you know Fluttershy... She's so judgemental.
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Okay, who again was the ones freaking out because a new person with, ahem, "gaudy stripes" and odd ways came every month to Ponyville, then flipped out because one of their siblings tried to extend the metaphorical olive branch?
Who was the one freaking out because she thought that said newcomer was digging at the ground in frustration, thinking she could've been "digging for poor little creatures" ?
Who was the duo who regularly works out and never show a sweat unless doing long stretches of strenuous or stressful activities?
The only one who kept her head, for the most part, was usually was Twilight, up until the Lesson Zero incident.
You know, when everyone dismissed her worries as utterly inconsequential. And then did it again with the wedding.
Who, again, assumed that Twilight could be pressured or bribed into providing goods (the Gala tickets) and then performed several underhoofed and presumptuous favors to attempt to sway her judgement?
Really, all the ponies except Twilight have an extremely worrying tendency to jump to conclusions quickly.
To address the points you made directly;
AJ and Dash are both used to prolonged physical effort, and usually only sweat and look rumpled after putting specific effort into particularly difficult or intensive tasks.
It is doubtful that Rarity ever went to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, seeing as she has a lot of incorrect fantasies about Canterlot, and it was shown that many Unicorns inducted from a young age where still in the school when Twilight got her "assignment" to stay in Ponyville.
Fluttershy judged Zecora straightaway, finding a flimsy excuse to hold onto an irrational fear and prosecution simply because the others where thinking it too. She may not be judgmental, but she follows the flow worse than most sheep or lemmings. And I'm talking these:
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not these:
scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/wp-content/blogs.dir/253/files/2012/04/i-7e48e800d9f11a8c884b05749ec2f2c4-Lemming%20II.jpg
So yes, they would have some "jumping to conclusions" issues.
That said, after this multi-post rant, Twilight's probably also exaggerating, seeing as the portion was written from her POV, rather than from the Omnipotent 3rd Person. As such, while I can see the others getting some ideas, I doubt anypony would bring it up without being asked about it specifically. And they'd probably investigate first, to make sure.
static.tumblr.com/mfxyxgh/wZ5m5ze9a/tldr.jpg version:
Sure, they would probably jump to some conclusions, and Pinkie would try to be subtle (i.e. throwing a "you got a coltfriend! hooray!" party) but Twilight is worrying a bit too much, and it's unlikely anyone would start tossing accusations around, even RD, who is extremely impulsive.
1407294 Thanks for that and I'm really sorry that after all this time this was all I had to post but what can ya do? Some things have to be done "on camera" and I kinda lost my train of thought along the way.
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1407294 well, you have a lot of good points, but I'm not convinced. There are too many logical holes stemming from your argument. But this is a really minor point anyway, so I'm going to drop it and just enjoy the story.
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Oh, I was saying that the characters where acting perfectly in character, so that was good.
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I'm just saying that it's not impossible, and it's largely from being from Twilight's POV, and she's entitled to her opinion, even if it's incorrect.
I know this is far back and there are many chapters ahead for me to read, but I wonder when Alex may show Twilight and the others human's concepts of magic, such as mages, or the Harry Potter series. And I fear the day Pinkie Pie becomes a World of Warcraft addict.
*begins chant*
Please don't turn into a pony...
Please don't turn into a pony...
Please don't turn into a pony...
Please don't turn into a pony...
Please don't turn into a pony...
3167234 How did they make the foal humm? I mean, i don't want to explain again because this comment is old. so, learn it on Wiki to know how to get pregnant.
3167234 *continues chant*