May 23
Meghan was still holding my hoof when I woke up after a nightmareless night. I couldn't move around too much because of it, and I knew that nuzzling her armpit tickled her, so I just wiggled as close as I could and stretched my wing over her belly.
The moment lasted until her telephone alarm sounded, then she had to let go so she could roll over and turn it off. But right after she had, she turned back on her side and brushed my mane back and then kissed me.
She said that she'd dreamed that we were both in Equestria together, and I said that I hoped one day that would happen. I knew that I couldn't show her my home, but there was a lot of stuff in the village I think she would like. And it's only a couple days' train ride from Canterlot, which isn't all that far, especially since our trains go slower.
She got out of bed and stretched, and I followed, fluffing out my wings and reverse-arching my back. Then I told her I was going to go flying, and she said she wished she could go with me.
I told her that someday soon I was going to go skydiving and it would be fun if she came along. Her face got kinda pale, and when she said it sounded like fun, I don't think she was telling the truth.
We kissed goodbye and I took my Bible back to my room then got dressed for flight.
It was another perfect day outside, and I wanted to fly all the way up, but the grumpy man was on the radio again, and I didn't want to spoil his day by making him work too hard, so I kept low.
I flew all the way out across the 131 highway and landed to get a drink of water at the Kal-Haven trail. Then right when I took off, I made a new friend: a little blackbird with yellow and red stripes on his wings landed on my back and rode on me all the way to Drake Road, then he flew off. I tried to tell him that if he wanted to go towards downtown Kalamazoo, I'd take him the rest of the way, but he just chirped politely and headed north.
Ruth had gotten up a bit early, and I was a bit late, so I missed out on my normal shower slot. So I didn't get to go to breakfast at all, but I did have a can of anchovies and also ate two of Peggy's granola bars, then left a little note on her desk telling her that I'd get her new ones. I knew she wouldn't mind; she had already said that I could have some of her snack food if I wanted, but it was still polite to tell her I had.
I was still damp when I sat down in math, but at least I wasn't late. When Sean sat down next to me he asked me why I'd missed breakfast, and I told him. He said that sometimes when they were in a hurry he and Christine took a shower together and I said that none of the girls in my dorm had been interested, but if he wanted me to join them I wouldn't mind. The showers next to his room were really big, not a little stall like we had in our dorm.
His face got red and he said that he didn't mean it as an invitation, so I told him that he shouldn't have offered.
I bet he would be mad if I just showed up one morning.
And I bet Christine would think it was hilarious.
Professor Sir Doctor Banerjee taught us fractal algorithms. He started with deterministic algorithms and then taught us random iteration algorithms, where the probabilities of points became important. Next he told us about the inverse problem, which was how to generate the equation from a fractal. He had to start by showing us the collage theorem, and since he had been explaining as he went I figured out how it worked before he got to the very end.
That was really neat, because you could even do things with it like make a circle that turned into a four-part square. And then he spent the rest of class showing us how to reduce complicated fractals to only twenty-eight numbers.
They had pizza for lunch, which was really nice. I broadened my horizons by trying a slice of pepperoni (I didn't want to take a whole slice because it looked really oily and I knew I wouldn't eat it all, but Peggy peeled a piece off hers and let me try it) and ate two pieces of my own: one had mushrooms and bell peppers; the other had olives and onions and broccoli. Broccoli isn't as good as a lot of flowers, and they hadn't done it any favors by overcooking it.
I told Christine that Sean had invited me to shower with them, just to see what she would say. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Sean, who was shaking his head 'no.' Then she looked right back at me and said tomorrow at seven in Hoben, right by Sean's room.
I told her that I had other plans for Tuesday morning, otherwise I would. And then I thought that since his showers were big enough, wouldn't it be fun to have a shower party? But I didn't think that anyone would be interested in that, so I kept my mouth shut.
Joe said that group bathing was traditional in Japan, although the bath houses had a wall between the men's side and the women's side. He said that they were originally built because people didn't have water in their houses, but now they stayed popular because it was important for socialization.
I'm glad that some people on Earth are still sensible about that stuff.
I brought my partially-finished essay to Anthropology class. I wanted to make sure that I did well on it, so it was best that Professor Amy get a look at it right away before I got too far along. Or else I might waste a bunch of time writing something that wasn't any good at all.
She talked about different classes in society, and how sometimes one class could do things that another couldn't, or wouldn't. She said that different cultures had different ways of approaching it, and then she said that in some societies immigrants did the menial jobs and sometimes that was a good deal for them and that started a bunch of debate.
I think maybe she got bored with how many students weren't paying attention and so decided to say things that would get their attention.
So we mostly spent class debating whether it was right to pay migrant workers less than proper citizens, and if offshore manufacturing was fair, and a bunch of other things I really didn't know anything about, but it was good to listen to.
It's strange how students expect to be able to take up a different viewpoint than the teacher. I'd noticed in Conrad's class that people had different ideas about what a poem meant, and he didn't say whether anyone was right or wrong, but that was a poem. Something that spoke to the heart. This was supposed to be about fact, so wasn't there one fact that everyone agreed on?
Math is so much simpler.
Professor Amy said that my essay needed a lot of work. She said that I should focus more on the cultural significance of the traditions, rather than the historical context. She said while the historical context was important, it was more relevant why people were doing it the way they did it now, rather than how the tradition had originated. That was disappointing, but it was good to know that now instead of finding out when I got a bad grade. So I told her I'd fix it and asked if she minded if I kept on showing it to her.
She said that nobody ever visited on her office hours that wasn't an anthropology major, and that I was welcome anytime.
When I opened the door to our room, I saw Peggy was sitting at her desk wearing her little ear-speakers and I could see she was using her calculator, so I knew that she was doing her math, but what was really weird was that I could see her shoulders were bare and then I remembered that I had told her that math was easier naked and I wondered if she was actually trying it that way.
Since she hadn't noticed me, I pulled the door back shut quietly and went to Ruth's room and knocked on the door and when she answered I asked to borrow her lounging pants. She got a big smile on her face and pulled her drawer open and even helped me put them on and rolled up the cuffs so that I wouldn't trip on them.
I told her that I'd give them back after dinner, even though she said I could keep them for as long as I wanted. Then I went back to the room and got into my chair and had started setting out my homework before Peggy noticed that I was there.
She wasn't naked, but she was just wearing her bra and panties. And she saw that I was wearing lounging pants, and we both started giggling about how we were trying something new in the hopes that it would make our work easier.
I worked on my essay until dinnertime: I was going to have to check out those books again, and maybe some more, because I hadn't taken good enough notes. But now I knew what I didn't know, and that was important.
And I didn't feel any smarter wearing lounging pants, and Peggy said that all she'd learned from doing math mostly naked was that it's chilly sitting around in underwear. So I guess our experiment was a failure.
She got dressed and I got undressed and then we went to dinner together. They had pizza again. Christine said that she thought it was probably because they'd run short on money and couldn't afford to cook real food. Sean said that he didn't care, this was infinitely better than their buffalo wing soup and she agreed that was a good point.
One thing that they never seemed to run out of was salads, and I liked that. They weren't creative and didn't involve much preparation beyond cutting up the vegetables, but there were lots of choices and nothing ever seemed to be out of season. I thought that if my tablemates liked salads better, they'd find that they were never lacking a good meal.
I checked out the books I'd had before at the library. Their computer was smart enough to remember what I'd had, although I didn't know that until after I'd read off the book titles from my bibliography for the library page.
I spent the rest of the evening working on my essay, until it was time to go to Durach. Aric came by to pick me up, and we wound up getting there first. He bought a bunch of chocolate-covered espresso seeds and offered me one. After I ate it, he offered me another, but I said if I did I wouldn't be able to sleep all night.
He said that being a theatre major had spoiled him, and ate a handful. Then when people started showing up, he poured them out on the table and everyone grabbed for them until they were all gone.
The one I ate must have helped me out, because I did really well at every game. I even went out of cards first once.
Don't worry Meghan, Skydiving is perfectly safe; if else fail, Silver will just do a sonic silverboom and catch you before it is too late.
And I bet that she would then proceed to punch Sean in the shoulder.
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Skydiving: Good to the last drop!"
or
"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving probably just isn't for you."
Skydiving, because you hit the ground at only 120mph.
Skydiving, because the Shuttle drops faster.
Skydiving, because sometimes you just Have to get away from the guy in the next seat.
I remember using IFS generation C code in the 80s, starting with teh array to give the image, but dont know when they came up with the inverse.
She should've said it, Christine really would have laughed at that... and probably the rest of the table too.
What you have to do Silver, is ask if Aric can join them as well. Make it a true social occasion. Then you and Christine can have great fun comparing and contrasting. You know if it's going well if one of the guys says "No homo..."
Au contraire, Silver! You obtained a result, so your experiment was a success. Your hypothesis was disproved.
For Aric to give to Silver, the song "Sealed With A Kiss". (The old one by Bobby Vinton, not the modern one with the same name)
Also, they had a list of Cheesy One Hit Wonders of the 1980s. How they could leave "Afternoon Delight" & the Piña Colada song off that list is beyond me. (Unless my memory is wrong about when they were released)
So Silver and Meghan are getting semi-lovey-dovey. Didn't we already go down this route where Silver learned that double dipping with Aric and Meghan is not socially acceptable without discussing it with Aric? Or did I miss a really important conversation?
Regardless is seems that Silver and Meghan are slowly slipping into a relationship.
The regular dose of morning-cute.
Why tire out your own wings? Fly Pegasus Airlines!
(Wait, is Silver violating the FAA rules by taking on passengers?)
Aric and Meghan and Peggy can come too!
... they're going to need a bigger shower.
Damn, Silver's a player.
It's good to know that Nightmare Moon hasn't showed up on Earth.
On the other hoof, I wonder if Silver Glow's noticed any differences in her dreams now that Princess Luna isn't here to watch over them?
There's just one problem with college shower parties in the U.S.
Silver: "What are you all doing?!" "That's not how you get clean!"
Everyone else: "You held a shower party to get clean?"
the other had olives and onions and broccoli. Broccoli isn't as good as a lot of flowers, and they hadn't done it any favors by overcooking it.
Is this a thing? Broccoli on a pizza?
I'm growing broccoli in my garden, so you know I like broccoli, and I understand that the part we eat is a flower bud, but ...on a pizza? You might as well put winter squash on a pizza. <That's terrifying...)
"Shower Party!"
7415950 if chopped into small enough chunks broccoli works decently on a pizza, it goes well with spinich with a cream sauce instead of a tomatoe one.
7415950 uhhhh. You might wanna start googling "butternut squash pizza" and "acorn squash pizza." There are, in fact, a LOT of recipes.
In regards to Bosnia. We Americans tend to take the attitude that if the rest of the world was important it would be in the USA & if it was really important it would be in our home town. The typical American couldn't name any foreign leaders except maybe Kim hoozit from North Korea.
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Say what?! Are you sure you aren't living in Ankh-Morpork? Oh, wait - the act passed. Nevermind.
7417123 okay explained that way it's slightly more understandable.
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Robyn Asimov went on record saying her dad would have enjoyed the movie.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/ASIMOV-LEGACY-IS-SAFE-2739073.php
If you've ever read Asimov's 2 joke books where he tells and analyzes many jokes (the 2nd book is better, since he didn't sanitize the raunchier ones to placate the publisher) she shows up in many hilarious anecdotes.
https://www.amazon.com/Asimov-Laughs-Again-Limericks-Anecdotes/dp/0060924489
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With hair!? I gotta see that. If it was the 80s, I hope it was one of those glam rocker-dos that looks like a huge, turtle-waxed dandelion-tuft. ♫Keep on manning that ship and I'll follow! Keep on fighting the Borgs, I'll be there!♫
Older movies are fun, though, The Sting being a favorite of mine. Hey, there's something they could watch during a movie-night.
I haven't seen the remake of True Grit where The Dude is the badass gunfighter, but I heard some praise about the realistic depiction of horses in it, in that they can be pushed to run until they cripple themselves. Judging from Silver's reaction to blood splattering the horsies in that really old book she's reading, that might be a movie they perhaps shouldn't watch during movie-nights
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Aric told her he wasn't going to tell her how to define what "friend" means or force human morals on her.
Of course that was more to do with bathing and sleeping with friends than anything, but at least from Silver''s POV it's potentially a green light for much more, but I doubt Aric would care too much.
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I wonder what a sonic silverboom would even look like?
Probably.
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I've been on flights like that.
I don't know, either.
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She should have. Shower parties are fun.
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Something too many people don't seem to understand about science: an experiment that doesn't end the way you hoped isn't a failure, it's another data point. Although from what we've seen on the show with Twilight's experimentation, ponies haven't fully grasped the scientific method.
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Just looked them up; if you're thinking the same songs I'm thinking, 1976 and 1979 respectively.
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They did discuss it, and Aric said it was okay--at least, based on what Silver told him they'd done so far. And it hasn't come up since then.
Slowly but surely.
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Technically, birds don't count as passengers. So she's okay there.
Also, FWIW, red-winged blackbirds aren't against hitching a ride IRL.*
news.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/rights-exempt/fair-use-screenshots/bird-riding-bird.jpg
The one in the basement of Hoben is plenty big enough.
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*Technically, the blackbird was probably harassing the hawk, and the photographer managed to get a picture right when it was 'riding' on the back of the hawk (probably in preparation to peck on it).
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That's a good question. Speaking outside of the story, I am torn on how to deal with Luna's dreamwalking ability. That's the kind of thing that may be commonplace and ordinary to the ponies, but potentially horrifying to humans . . . the thought of somepony getting into, and influencing, your dreams.
I think Silver Glow's mostly had happy dreams here on Earth. After all, she's been able to spend most of the last quarter sleeping with friends.
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Sure, why not?
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Cottage Inn sometimes sort of burns the broccoli 'cause they don't cut it into small chunks (they're the one who offer the pizza in the picture above).
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I never thought of putting butternut squash on a pizza, but that actually sounds pretty good.
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Shower parties are fun, even if not everyone gets naked.
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Sad but true. I can confirm that a lot of the locals think that way. I mentioned Brexit at work, and nobody else even knew what that was.
7416810 The fact that something exists, makes it no less terrifying...
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No matter what your political ideology, everyone knows that rivers shouldn't catch fire. And just recently, Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario started to take the issues of phosphorous runoff into Lake Erie more seriously, because in 2014 there was a brief tapwater ban in Toledo due to it.
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I might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been expecting it to be based on the book. But I went into it with that expectation, and was sadly disappointed.
I haven't. Never heard of them until just now. I ought to see if I can find a copy.
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Granted, it was mostly on his face. I think you have to go back a couple more decades for him to have a full head of hair. (Couldn't find a good pic on the interwebs.)
That's a good movie. And it's sort of about horses, so Silver Glow might enjoy it.
Also worth watching is the original Twelve Angry Men.
She's probably not going to be too happy about watching a movie where horses get hurt or killed.
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One of those discussions that probably should have had very specific definitions in it.
That having been said, some guys don't mind if their girlfriend is casually lesbian on the side.
7417608 man, pizza is little more than crust with STUFF on it. Broaden your horizons, things don't always have to be made the same way :P
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Where goverments fear to tread, men and dogs in sheds go forth.
Operational Jet powered Concorde Models. with wind noise.
7417632 Silver Glow should see what I humbly suggest is the ultimate horse movie: The Man from Snowy River.
It would be fun to see that from an equine point of view. <They ...jumped off of a cliff?!)
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maybe. My school has 21,000 students.
yeah, maintenance can be an issue. Although I think that with maintenance, mechanical stuff might last a bit longer. I'm specializing in mechatronics (robotics) so I get to work with both.
I was actually comparing it to SIlver's anthropology essay. It's easier for a few reasons. It's not the main focus of the assignment and they also tend to be done by groups (it turns out that a 30 page paper is easier with six people working on it). The big thing is that it's not directly based on research. Silver has to go read books, take notes on them, organize her notes and then write the essay. Engineering reports are based on work you've personally done so you typically know all the information inside and out. Although this means that you typically have to turn raw data into a nice chart which can be annoying (we actually have a large portion of a class dedicated to it).
7417718 Eh, I can't afford to buy pizza anyway. I lost my job when the recession hit the electronics service industry. I'm too proud to apply for gov't assistance, so I'm mowing lawns and pulling weeds for rent money, and raising vegetables for my table. That includes winter squash, since no other plant that'll grow here can produce as much nutrition from a small patch of soil.
...And that's the last I'll post for this particular comment thread. We're supposed to be talking about Silver Glow, the bada$$ fish-eating party pony scholar, soldier, and SAR flier.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like birds...
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Haha, I used to write words the British way. It's due to this book series called 'Warriors' that I read near-exclusively from 5th grade all the way up to high school...I'm actually about to pick the series back up; it's still releasing titles. It's written by some brits and once I had a teacher mark off points for misspelling words. I had to show her that I was just spelling them the British way. I also used to play Neopets as a child and that was a British-made site as well!
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Reminds me of an interview I saw with him when he told about how a friend of his held him down, tore off his toupee, shaved off what little hair he had left, and told him to 'stop hiding'. And that pretty much led to him getting the role of Picard. Naaw
*Hums 'The Entertainer'* Haven't seen Twelve Angry Men, though.
Would Silver be less distraught when watching movies where humans are horribly killed? If so, I hope it's because horses are animals without a say in the matter, and not because it's more okay when humans die en masse, because they're not really real people or something.
7417982 [Damn I'm lagging behind in reading this fic.]
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Nothing you have said can be parsed in any meaningful way in response to what I said. So my opinion was that people who are doing activist things and are doing unlawful shit while attending college during that time, like either harassing people, trying to instigate a fight, throwing things, etc, should be expelled. I believe that college should be about bettering yourself for a career or learning things from other people you might not have heard about (though you can do those 2 with just the internet and skip college altogether if you're a real self-motivator), not trying to become a political activist. Activism should come afterwards, especially when trying to rouse people into activism after your day job, not while trying to juggle that, a shit ton of homework, classes, and possibly a job all at the same time. (Unless you're a trust fund baby.)
And somehow, you parsed that out to mean I somehow want to regress humanity before the bronze age and universal civil rights and that all activists and activism is evil. Are you drunk? Is it 4am where you live? Please say yes, so you can at least have an excuse on why you wrote this.
Also, there is a good evidence that the Suffragettes were not noble activists either and their campaigns were not for universal civil rights.
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It's in central Africa near the Congo.
I meant the book about WWI.
7417166 not even Putin? Merkel? Teresa May? Trudeau?
Isn't this "a couple days' ride"?
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Yes, it is (I think). Correction made; we'll see if any English Majors want to uncorrect it
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Back when my brother was into RC planes, I saw some really big ones in his magazines. Does that model Concord go supersonic?
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Based off the Banjo Paterson poem . . . hmm. I wonder if I can get my hands on a copy?
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Yeah, if it's a well-made machine, you can generally maintain and repair parts fairly easily, while with a lot of electronics, I think that obsolescence does them in. It's a lot easier to have a new gear made than a new computer chip. Although I think that probably a lot of the older electrical things were more repairable; apparently, some railroads used to re-wind traction motors in-house, rather than replace them.
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Red-winged blackbirds don't give a fk.
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If you like SoL, do eet. Very well-written, and well-acted.
I don't think she'd like it when humans die horribly, either. I think it would depend to an extent on how the film portrayed it: for example, she might like 300 because it's very clearly about the Spartans bravely defending their home, whereas something like Natural Born Killers would horrify her.
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And she still hasn't gotten to it It's taking longer to get through the Bible than I'd planned for it to. Mostly because I'm reading it along with Silver Glow.
If SB thought everyone disagreeing about one fact was weird, does that mean she was used to thinking the same as her Equestrian friends? No wonder the Equestrians are still in the steam era.
Yum! Chocolate-covered coffee beans!
Our lecturer brought a packet in to computer science one day.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lyrics+blood+on+the+risers&&view=detail&mid=B7BB908C5D12719C3416B7BB908C5D12719C3416&&FORM=VRDGAR
But accidents are rarer than you'd think. Everyone packs their own chute, so mistakes are rare.
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Well, Putin has been parodied recently on Saturday Night Live for his relation to Trump. Same with Merkel. Garry Trudeau writes Doonesbury. Didn't know that he was a foreigner. Never heard of the other one.
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Yes, but they do happen every now and then.
Different Trudeau (not sure if the cartoonist is American or other, TBH). Justin(?) Trudeau is the prime minister of Canada. Theresa May is prime minister of the UK.
The start of things in the next chapter did start to make things a bit confusing with how Silver and Meghan are acting. It's this weird borderline between just as cuddly friends, and actually being more into each other. Mostly felt odd given how they never really talked about more and at the time felt more in the 'sticking as just friends till Meghan realizes pony can't take the hint and gets more direct'. The open kissing and all that. Just, came across as rather abrupt. Not that I mind it, these two are adorable together.
Do love just how relatable a lot of how Silver things is,even with all the differences, like the whole, not wanting to make plans because it would make it feel like the end of the school year is coming faster that way.
I need to question just how and why Comcast and Discover knew to mail her stuff. It's not like she has many records they could access to know who to address it to. Also curious what would happen if she tried to apply for the card. But it's sweet of her to give them 'no thank you' replies. They have to be used to that, sure to be plenty of people that have done it. Still sweet, even if that wouldn't stop them.
Not enough places having balconies for easy take off and landing from. #Pegaproblems
Silver so should of started talking in Equestrian during the Japanese v Klingon debate.
Going through a town in the middle of the night.. yeah really does have a different feel.... and is so freaking creepy.
Hoooold on.. teased him with my wing too much' 'when he recovered'.... Silver, did you just give him a wing job?
Also, I see she has gotten over her irrational hatred of hash browns.
Interesting little spat between the two, also shows how not very serious this is given any sort of long term planning ever came up, even about something a few weeks from now. Glad they worked it out without a lot of drama.
Pony pics with planes. Please tell me somewhere out there is a picture of Spitfire with a Spitfire!
Getting free entry into aircraft museums, due to counting as an aircraft. #Pegaperks That was sweet of her, all must adore the ponies, their mere presence is payment enough. (Literally in some cases just from either PR, or people coming in to see the pony) Also not just an aircraft, but a seaplane technically. Pity no "Silver being a duck" bit.
RD so wants to race a SR-71, doesn't she?
Being to short to ride because you walk on all fours, while being large enough if you stood upright. #ponyproblems.
Still so 'wtf' about that astronaut Ice Cream, how have I never heard of this? Then again, it does sound familiar, so maybe I did as a really little kid and just don't recall. Also, someone should give her some Tang and call it Astronaut Juice.
And yes random guy, watching ponies being ponies is a wonderful thing to see.
Big painted 'P's on designated pegasus landing points are going to become a thing eventually, aren't they?
Making Pony watch a subtitled film, bleh. I'm a dirty, no good, poor taste, horrible, filthy Dubber all the way.
Geee, a little authorial speak slipping through? But damn if it isn't spot on.....
Given her epiphany while flying, makes sense, it's something she enjoys doing, and is a low stress physical activity, mening promoted dopamine production. As well as being something she can just do on auto pilot (did not intend the pun) allowing her to let her thoughts drift. Much same reason people get ideas in the shower.
Then back to the lovely text of wanton bloodshed. Sounds like George RR Martin might of written a few of those books.
Then mo shear d'awwww of her and Meghan. Reading this, might have had an idea why her and Meghan feel so much better together then he and Aric, feel like they have more to it, beyond them simply doing more together that isn't sex. It is all the sex. More to the point, it's that when she's with Meghan, we get details, they aren't having sex so we see all the tender little things they do, all the actions, the tiny things that really show how sweet they are to each other. We actually get to SEE them being intimate. But with Aric, because it's mostly sex we don't see the detail, just vague allusions. We are told they are being intimate, but not really seeing the connection like with Meghan. With Aric, we hear that she's being phycially intimate, and we know she is, but with Meghan, we get to see it and it helps build up a greater sense of closeness and intimacy to see these little gestures, like holding her to keep away nightmares.
Then Silver goes and further shows that yes, Ponies are part cat.
Also that she makes a good bird taxi.
The start of the group shower, all because one guy forgot who he was talking to, and just how utterly lacking in inhibition she is, combined with seeing nothing at all anything but normal about communal bathing.
The Pony's cravings for flesh are still growing, WE ALL ARE DOOMED! Quick, distract her with raw broccoli! She can have it, I only like it really really well boiled.
Yes Silver, the whole 'bathing together is wrong' is more a Western thing, plenty of places where it's common to bathe together. It's part of the whole hang up with nudity thing.
I can totally buy the teacher just randomly dropping stuff she knows will set off debate just to make sure everyone is paying attention.
And again, Silver showing that while not dumb, she does have her own limits and mental hang ups, especially about thinking there has to be a 'right' answer to everything unless it's like poetry and made to be open to many meanings. She does very, very bad at dealing with ambiguity.
When just saying how great being naked is doens't work,talk them into believing it will make math easier. one way or the other, convert the heathens to the way of the naked pone!
Aaaaand my ;decent but not exceptional or stand out' view on Aric drops a bit. Chocolate covered coffee beans..... EW! And that is not just me, I can prove those things are vile. I was in the Navy when 9/11 happened, the base went on pretty much lockdown for weeks, meaning non of the vending machines got filled. The whole time there was ONE row of items that no one would by, even as the rest of the machine was empty. Those damn things.
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That's actually a fair reading--Meghan comes to realize that Silver isn't likely to act on her own, and in order for Meghan to get what she wants, she's going to have to be the one to make the moves.
Just general bulk mailings to every student, rather than to Silver Glow in particular.
I know, right? Silver would have loved the hotel room I had at EFNW: 11th floor, corner room with a balcony on two sides, a view of SeaTac airport (including the runways), and a Taco Bell in easy gliding distance.
She should have. That was a missed opportunity.
I used to wander the streets of Kalamazoo at night a fair bit. K-College was right next to a couple of major intersections--West Main and Stadium Drive. It was four lanes on one road and five on the other, IIRC. Anyway, there was one night that I was at the street corner and there were no cars as far as the eye could see. It felt like a moment in one of those post-apocalyptic movies.
Inadvertently, yes.
To an extent. As with many foods, there is a difference in how they're prepared and what type they are.
Yeah, in that respect they're both rather irresponsible college students. Of course, we already know that Silver isn't so good at talking about stuff she should; why would Aric be any better?
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and
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to pick just two.
That's probably not an actual rule at the Air Zoo, but I do think that in her case, they'd make it a rule.
And that's something that can open doors for her, especially since ponies are still fairly novel, and pegasi are very rare on Earth. She could probably get lots of stuff for free if she really wanted to (and you'd better believe that Mr. Salvatore gets her some of her equipment that way).
I mean, she'd lose in a heartbeat, but yeah, she totally would try and race one.
Yeah, which makes you wonder how amusement parks in Equestria do it. (you must be this tall at the withers while standing flat on all four hooves)
Every kid who's had a proper childhood has had the stuff.
I'm pretty sure you can get it on Amazon, too. The 'traditional' flavor is Neapolitan, although of course others are available.
It is.
It would certainly be something that pegasus-friendly businesses might consider in the future.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages. I watched some of Hero dubbed with subtitles, and the translations weren't always the same. And in City of Lost Children, there was a scene where the angry old guy (can't remember the character's name) was telling all the clones what to do, and in French those are all one-word things ending in -ez, while the dub was longer, and kind of broke the flow of that scene.
There's more than one spot in this story (and others of mine) where the author slips in a little bit. Usually intentionally.
That's pretty much it. It's so instinctive for her, just cruising along in clear skies is much like taking a walk through the woods--minimal mental engagement, and a chance to let the brain sort of go to idle and then reset itself.
Man, Martin's got nothing on the Bible. The Old Testament is full of bloodshed, wars, and retribution.
I think in some ways it might be fair to describe her and Aric as benefits with friends, whereas in Meghan's case it's the exact opposite.
That's a true fact.
Another true fact. And it's canon! Fluttershy's had birds on her before.
Sometimes that's the advantage of her missing the weird subtexts and taboos in human culture, because she sees it more as an opening--that he's receptive to the idea--rather than just him bragging about how he and Christine shower together sometimes. And of course we know that if she can convince Christine, Sean's going to have to, whether he wants to or not.
That's it exactly. And that's a completely learned behavior. I know when I was a kid, I sometimes got bathed with a similarly-aged female cousin, presumably because it was convenient for our parents (I think that there's at least one picture of that in my baby photo album).
Sometimes that's what the best college professors do. My sociology class got into some really heated arguments, as I recall.
Her own cultural hangups--if an authority figure (like Princess Celestia) says it, it must be right--she wouldn't say it if it wasn't true, after all.
One of Silver and Peggy's more silly experiments. I haven't tried doing math naked, but I don't think it would turn out to be any easier.
I can confirm as a college student, those things were the st. The part about putting them on the table and everyone grabbing them comes from IRL experience. Having said that, I don'g think I've ever had them since then, and there were a number of other things I did at that tender age that I wouldn't any more . . . like drink Jolt Cola.
Does a shower party involve John Belushi starting a chant of 'SHOW-ER! SHOW-ER! SHOW-ER!'?
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Hopefully not, to be honest.
What a polite little gentlebirb.