After researching the Mirror Portal, Twilight has discovered countless other worlds and a simple spell to get ponies there. She offers Lyra the chance to visit a new nation called Wales. Can she and Bon Bon blend in for an entire day?
Tagged 'sex' for human and pony anatomy. There may be spoilers in the comments.
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Oops! Fixed it. Thanks!
Ponies in Wales. Like ponies on Earth. Only in Wales.
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That's an important distinction. Wales is not like other places. For starters, they have a dragon on their flag, and they're too cheap to buy a vowel when they play Wheel of Fortune, so they make do without them. No other nation would come up with a name like Ynysybwl.
Lyra/Bon at its finest. Can't wait to see what old Cymru has in store for them.
Um,Lyra, you- you should really- should really get some- YOU SHOULD PUT ON SOME CLOTHES, LYRA! LYRA, DON'T- ah, nope, they're gone. Oh well, good luck to them. Hehehe, it's not a one-shot! W00t!
Oh yeah, one more thing:
I hope they have a...
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Wales of a time. YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Even better, about 2/3 of it is already written and proof-read.
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Sneak peek:
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I'm sure they'll be fine.
lol Nice new start. Though more eager to see the pony planet one. But, I have to admit, this has potential.^^
One. Forgot Clothes.
Two. Forgot UK.
Three. Forgot Wales.
Hope you pick up some canvas for clothing quickly, such as from a handy flying deckchair.
It's hilarious already and i'll can't wait to read more of it!
*Excited giggling*
Niihihihih
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That is such a brilliant misunderstanding.
Have you ever heard of the Irish short film "Yu Ming is ainm dom" ("My name is Yu Ming")? It's about a Chinese man who decides to visit Ireland, having only read about it. Since the official first language of Ireland is Irish (English is officially the second language, even though it's the one almost everybody speaks), he learns Irish before visiting, but once he arrives discovers that nobody can understand him.
Not sure if it's the direction you're planning, but the mirror having Lyra and Bon Bon speak Welsh and dropping them off with a bunch of English speakers would definitely be pretty funny.
Also, I'm guessing the thing Lyra forgot to tell Bon Bon is that the spell will provide them with appropriate clothing when it transports them, since that would seem like a silly thing to remove from the spell.
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You even went and . . . ?
Wow. That must've taken dedication. Nicely done! Can't to see their first reaction to the signage around Cardiff -- sorry, Caerdydd.
And please tell me you've got something wonderful in store for Llanfair PG.
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I hadn't, it actually sounds pretty funny. Is it available online, do you know?
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? I might have an idea.
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The very same. Looking forward to it!
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It's on youtube here. I liked it, but I'm not sure whether the humour might be dependent on already knowing basic things about Ireland or being able to speak at least some Irish. It's quite short though, so it's definitely worth a look.
Lyra is still naked ! yay ! that's going to be fun. do the brits have FKK ?
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Okay, that was awesome. Well worth the watch.
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Not in the same way Germany and some other European countries do.
Okay... translate... dot... Google... dot.. com. Okay! ...Ha, poor dude. He's so hopeful, and he's just going to fall flat.
WEEEEEEE Have I ever mentioned how happy I get when I read your stuff? Seriously, I'm starting to worry... I don't want to become a crazy stalker fan, but... I don't know. HELP!
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Allow me to correct my earlier statement; after much research, I found pictures of beaches with blue FKK signs which I believe to be in England, so apparently they use it in England in the sense you mean.
Have you considered not writing dialogue in another language, forcing all your readers to use Google Translate?
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I meant to put the translation in the box at the bottom. But I forgot.
You can stalk, or you can become crazy.
Doing both will be awkward for both of us.
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I meant to put the translation in the box at the bottom, but forgot before I hit 'publish.' It's there now.
From this point on, all dialogue will be in English.
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*Cough cough*
You mean like this?
Or maybe this?
Welp, guess I'm stuck with my choice now. Might as well take it all the way.
Prepare now, for thou shalt never know when thy doom may come...
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Given that I actually work with developmentally disabled adults, and have already dealt with all that entails. . . .
The only real down side I could see to a fun 'who's crazier' fight on the internet is that it would cut into my writing time.
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That's ironic, because it would probably increase mine!
...HEY WAIT DID YOU JUST CALL ME DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED?! Oh, it. is. ON.
Interesting translation at the end.
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Is it wrong?
I don't speak Welsh, and so far I haven't been able to find anyone who does.
Transmit on all frequencies and in all languages including Welsh.
Ok, so now Im wondering what kind of guy can deliberatly place his patch near to two hot nude babes, then pull out his Harry Potter.
Oh, new develpments in portal generation. Caltechs Optical Phase Array Emmiter. Combined with Prime Harmonic Chaos coding, will give extremely compact space time disruptors. According to SLAC.
Hmm. I really should stay off the chocolate in the evening. I dont have a spare Bon Bon to dip it in.
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...Say, would you like to join the crazy parade?
Because I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HALF OF WHAT YOU JUST SAID!
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Congratulations. I plan crazy parades, and as for half, the average is 90% and rising.
I havent even pulled out my university notes.
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I've only ever taken Clancy, but as far as I know, none of his books have been translated into Welsh.
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What I really want to know is who 'SLAC' is.
P.S. Your hair is on fire.
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SLAC=Stanford Linear Accelerator. They announced last year that calculations showed it was possible to build a laser cannon powerful enough to rip space time apart so that matter and antimatter spewed out more efficintly than the current bombard a matter target with a high energy beam.
One, My hair looks like that normally.
Two, Headbut drywall. Gypsum is nice and soft and absorbs the thermal energy, smothering it.
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
All the cool stuff is in Californa. Maybe the Stanfordians are shooting their colliders at Grey's Wizard School.
According to Google Maps, the two are only 78 miles apart.
4140230 I wouldn't know. Just was an interesting twist to include a sudden speech change, but very glad you included the translation for it at the bottom.^^
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Excellent! We can finally build those FTL drives and teleporters we've been going on about for... what, a hundred years now? 'Bout time, science! Sheesh!
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Ah yes. I do enjoy making fun of the Welsh (my ancestral home!), since their language forgot to include vowels. Seriously, I think that's the reason we had to learn in school that 'y' and 'w' were sometimes vowels.
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SLAC is right next to where BABScon is going to be held... darn. I wish I wasn't broke. I'd take a trip to see the future of tech while I was there!
Also, the curvature of the Earth only allows a view range averaging between five and twenty miles depending on height from the ground, so Stanford would either need to curve the beam or use a satellite deflector to hit Grey's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Who the heck taught you that W is a vowel?!
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Caltech's Optical Phase Array Emitter can steer light (I think), so that shoudn't be too much of an issue. They also might be able to launch neutrinos at it from the SLAC [disclosure: I don't know if the SLAC can actually make neutrinos, but I bet they can], and those could take a straight-line path through the earth and anything else that happened to be in its way. While neutrinos normally don't have any effect on a person, wizards might be especially susceptible to them.
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Mrs. Lusher, my kindergarten teacher.
It's used as a vowel in some borrowed Welsh words, such as cwm, and crwth.
It's also used to represent a specific vowel sound (a dipothong) in words such as 'brown' and 'cow,' and also occasionally at the end of words such as 'saw' and 'drew.' In those cases, though, it doesn't stand alone.
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I'm going to be honest and say that I really have nothing left to say to continue this... intriguing series of comments. I'm just really bored + have nothing better I could be doing (coughcoughtotallynotlyingrighthere) + have a headache. Which apparently = desperately trying to carry on a conversation for some sort of human interaction with people who are probably fed up with all those notifications that keep popping out of their speakers every time I comment.
P.S. I'm lonely and it's raining.
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I don't mind carrying on a random comment thread., although this might not be the appropriate forum for it. (except that it might increase the heat on this story, which would improve its chances of hitting the feature box, and that's always a good thing)
If I can remember my FB password, I'll give you a link, or we can jump to PMs on FimFiction.
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Okay, got it. If you want to go the Facebook route, search for Thomas Davis and find the profile with my FimFiction avatar.
This is an open invitation to everypony; I'm re-activating that account for all who will, as they say in the SCA.
EDIT: This (thomas.davis.733450@facebook.com) might help narrow your search.
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Sorry, but I don't use Facebook. Or MySpace, so no you can't make fun of me for that. Actually-- hang on a sec, there's someone at the door.
Well, my house was just razed. Yeah, I don't know how they did it so quickly either. Who's they? The Facebookians, duh! Haven't you been paying attention? Really now, do try to keep up!
Anyway, the most I use in the way of social media is Skype, and then only very sparingly. FiMFiction PM's would be fine if you want, but I'm totally fine with adding heat to this story too. Do comments really add that much? If so, I might have to start begging on my stories...
P.S. My house didn't actually burn down. 'Twas a joke. And now it's ruined, because you made me explain it! Thanks a lot, bro! THAT WAS SARCASTIC TOO IN CASE YOU COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT!
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You mean I spent all this time re-activating a dormant Facebook account for nothing?
Ah well, it gave me a chance to scroll through my vast collection of pony pictures, and to lie, lie, lie about my age, hometown, people I know, and so on.
I even had to unfriend my real self from my fake self. That hurt a little bit.
Oh well, maybe other people will seize the opportunity to
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Oh, and I don't know how much comments actually weigh in on the decision whether or not a story's featured, but I'd think the view count and like/fave ratios are far too low for it to actually be a contender. Ah well.