July 24 [Lafayette]
July 24
I slept in later than usual, 'cause Aric had kept me up so late last night, but I still woke up before him.
I had to wait to use the bathroom until Autumn was done taking a shower, and then I went back to his bed and rested my head on his chest until he woke up.
Well, he was feeling pretty frisky, and I let him play with me a little bit before I pushed his hand away and said that I wanted to make sure that he understood that me and Meghan had had sex a couple of times already.
He sighed and ran his hand through his hair and said that he couldn't be mad because he'd already said that I could and that part of him had hoped that I wouldn't, that I would just sit up in Kalamazoo eagerly waiting for him to come back which was incredibly selfish of him. He said that it wasn't like either of us could have expected this to be a forever thing, because at the end of the year I was going to go back to Equestria anyways, and even if we got visas and visited, it wouldn't be for all that long.
That was kind of sad to think about, but it was true.
Aric said that it was a little bit difficult to get past his human expectations, but at the same time he could only imagine how much culture shock I had every single day I was on Earth, and that he'd be the worst boyfriend ever if he added to it, and he said that he thought that the most important thing was that I had come to see him, which meant that I still liked him, and I said that that was true.
So he told me that we ought to make the most of our time together, and if when he got back to Kalamazoo I came to his house some nights and I went to Meghan's some other nights that he understood because he wanted me to be happy most of all.
I thought that was really sweet of him, so I kissed him and then I got on top of him and kissed my way down his chest, and he said that I didn't have to, but I wanted to.
We couldn't laze around all morning, 'cause it was Sunday and that meant a matinee performance.
We took a shower together, and then we had cereal for breakfast. The only cereal he had was Frosted Flakes, which were way too sugary for breakfast food, so I had some more carrots instead.
He said that after the play he was going to have to strike some equipment, although he didn't have to take all the lights down like he had had to do at college, and he said that if I wanted, I could fly around a bit and just come back to the house when I got tired. That way I'd get my exercise in.
That sounded like a good idea, and it would give me a chance to explore. He said that there was an airport near town, so I would have to be careful if I was flying.
We had to get out a map to find it; it was southwest of the theatre, so I thought as long as I kept low and on this side of the river, I'd be okay, but I still would want to tell the local airplane directors, 'cause of how close it was.
Since it was Sunday, everyone was pretty relaxed and after we'd finished breakfast we went into the living room and watched Richard and Chris and Autumn play a game on TV called Mario Party where their characters would compete with each other. It looked kind of like fun, and they said that they could start over if I wanted to play, but I didn't want to be a bother. I did play a couple of rounds as Chris, and I wasn't very good at it, so after that I just watched them out of the corner of my eye.
Felicity was in a big cushy chair reading a book, and me and Aric sat on the couch until it was time to go to the theatre.
This time, there wasn't anything broken when he did his test, so we just sat and chatted until James showed up (on time), and I watched the play a second time through and I still didn't completely understand everything that happened, but I did like the songs.
Plays ought to all have songs.
Once it was done, I kissed Aric and headed back out of the theatre. We'd left all my flight gear in Winston, so I got it out and put it on and then called the airplane directors and told them that I wanted to fly over the city, and it took a little while before they let me, and I had to stay under a thousand feet.
I thought I'd stay a little lower, just to be safe, and I hadn't gotten very high before I could see the airport and it was even closer than it had looked on the map.
The city was very strange. Besides the Caterpillar building, I saw another couple of really big buildings called Alro and Wabash Trailer, and they looked kind of like factories, but they were on the same street as lots of stores, so I wasn't completely sure about that. Then when I went further out of town, I saw a big parking lot next to a railroad yard that was completely full of trailers, although I couldn't see a purpose for them all being there. And I went a little bit further down the railroad tracks, and there was a huge building that was surrounded by the biggest parking lots I'd ever seen, and they were filled with cars, most of which were identical except for their color. One side of the parking lot had railroad tracks in it and big silver-roofed railroad cars and there were ramp into the railroad cars, and as I watched, I saw a couple of cars be driven into the railroad cars.
So maybe this was like a ferry terminal, like the one for the Badger, but instead of a boat, the cars went by train.
After that, it was just farmland all around, so I flew back to the 65 Highway and followed that north through town, and off to my side I spotted another runway but I don't think that anybody was using it for airplanes any more, since there were trailers parked on it.
When I got back to Aric's house, he was there and he asked how my flight had been, and when I told him what I'd seen, he said that the really big factory built Subarus, which were a kind of car.
Autumn said that she'd like to see me fly, and then Chris said he thought it would be interesting, too, so we decided that we'd go out somewhere far away from the airport where I could really show off, so we drove a little bit south of town with me and Aric in the front of Winston and everyone else in the back.
He stopped at an intersection that had nothing around it but fields, and I called the airplane directors and told them that I was taking off again, and that I was at E 600 S and S 450 E, which was what the road signs said the roads were called, and I got permission to fly up and around.
Well, I started off with a good routine, keeping kind of low so that they could see me better, and I did some loops and wing-rolls and a dive over the cornfield, which I hadn't been doing much of lately since I'd been working on endurance. Some ponies think that we're just playing when we do aerobatics, and we are, but it's also good 'cause you get experience in recovering from upsets while you're in a storm, which happens a lot.
There were some scattered clouds around, and they were almost close enough to get. I probably shouldn't have, but I looked all the way around and made sure that there weren't any airplanes anywhere near where I was, and then I flew up a few thousand feet higher so that I could catch one.
I was definitely out of practice at it, and the cloud put up a good fight, but I finally got it to cooperate. Of course, the wind had blown us a ways away from where I'd lifted off, and I hadn't gotten as good a look at the ground as I should have. At least I could see Lafayette off in the distance, so that helped orient me, but I was still kinda guessing until I got low enough that I could see Winston on the side of the road.
I brought the cloud all the way down with me and landed on a big lawn with it, and I told them that they could look at it but not to touch it, and Chris said it almost looked like it would fit into the back of Winston.
I told Chris that even if it did fit, I'd have to be back there to keep it together and nobody else could be and what would be the point of taking it home anyway? Sooner or later it would just break up unless I kept giving it attention.
Well, while we were talking about the cloud and looking at it, an Indiana State Police car came up and a man got out of the car and came over and asked just what in the Sam Hill was going on here, so I told him that I'd caught a cloud and brought it down so my friends could see it and that I was going to let it go when they were done looking at it.
He said that he didn't think it was right to take clouds out of the sky, and I told him that it was just an ordinary altocumulus cloud and there were lots more of them up there, and he could look at it if he wanted to.
He said that he'd rather I put it back and that we got on our way, so I went and pushed it back up in the sky. The policeman was making me kind of nervous—when I looked down, he was still there, with his lights still flashing—so I didn't take it all the way back up, but let it go at a few thousand feet up, even though I knew it wouldn't last too long at that height. The air was too dry, and it would all evaporate.
Then I dove back down and we all got back in Winston and drove back to Lafayette, and he followed us for a little while and then when we got to Sagamore Parkway, we turned north and he went south.
When we got home, everyone was hungry for dinner, and so people started making meals for themselves. I guess each person had their own food and nobody really shared, which was kind of a pity: it felt like if they'd all worked together they could have had a better meal than everyone working separately. But I didn't say anything, 'cause I guess that was the way that humans liked to eat in their own homes.
Chris didn’t eat, because he had to leave to go to work—he worked delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John’s, and he said that he thought that they ought to hire a pegasus to do it, ‘cause I wouldn’t have to obey traffic lights and Aric said that a pegasus delivering Jimmy John’s was a great idea.
When we were done with dinner, we drove to a park called Murdock park and walked on the trail through the woods. It wasn't much of a trail, since the park was so small, but it was still nice, and if you ignored all the city-noises, when you were in it it was almost like being up north again.
Then we drove down to the river, and he parked by the train station and we got out and walked to a people-bridge across the railroad tracks and that was neat because you could watch trains go by below you.
He said that I could make a bet on which way the first train would come from, and I asked him what I'd win, and he said that he hadn't thought that far ahead yet. So I looked down the tracks and I couldn't see all that far down them because they curved to follow the river, and I got up on my hind hooves and that didn't help me see any farther, so I was looking up at the structure of the bridge, and Aric reached down and told me that flying up to look was cheating.
And then he said that we could get ice cream across the river, and if I won the bet he'd buy it for me but if I lost I would have to buy it for him.
I told him that I'd left my money back at his apartment, and then I heard a train horn and I cocked my ear and it was coming from the south. I didn't think that he'd heard it; it was pretty faint. So I said that I'd pay him back when we got home if I lost, and I was betting that the next train would come from the south.
The train had gotten a bit closer when Aric finally heard it, but he couldn't tell which direction it was coming from until it was pretty close, and I could faintly hear its engines when it wasn't blowing its horn. And we watched as it came around the bend in the track—it had bright yellow locomotives with gray roofs and a big American flag on the side.
It roared under us in a blast of heat and stinky exhaust, then car after car of stacked boxes went by. I'd seen those before—they were called containers, and they could also be carried on truck trailers and on boats—but I hadn't known that the bottom of the railcar was mostly open until one passed that was empty. I was curious about why some of the cars were empty, and Aric said that he didn't know. He thought it was odd, too, and the only thing he could think was that the train had stopped somewhere and some of the boxes had been unloaded.
After we'd bought our ice cream, I admitted that I'd cheated, and heard the train before I called the direction, and he said that he wasn't mad at me; he'd been planning to buy ice cream anyway.
We watched on the bridge as a train went by the other way, and that one had empty coal cars. Aric said it was probably going to Wyoming to get more coal.
We went to bed early, 'cause my train left in the morning at 7:30. I told Aric that he didn't have to worry about breakfast; I'd get it on the train. And I said that if he didn't want to, he didn't have to take me to the station, either, but he did want to.
I'd said my goodbyes to everyone already, since I knew we were leaving really early.
I helped him get undressed, and we took our time in bed, both trying to make it last as long as we could, and then he curled up with his arms around me and said that he was really happy I'd come, and when things had settled down at the theatre a little bit he'd make time to come back to Kalamazoo at least once before the summer was over.
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Expect tomorrow's update to be an evening post rather than a morning one. I spent most of today catching up on sleep.
Good news all around. Pretty mature of Aric.
This was just what I needed.
An early resolution.
Thanks for the update!
"Chris didn’t eat, because he had to leave to go to work—he worked delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John’s, and he said that he thought that they ought to hire a pegasus to do it, ‘cause I wouldn’t have to obey traffic lights and Aric said that a pegasus delivering Jimmy John’s was a great idea."
Are you referencing another fic? I seem to recall one with Rainbow Dash studying at Purdue, and working at Jimmy John's.
something wrong here
You know, back in High school I had a friend whose girlfriend was living in Mexico (and him in Montréal). They are still together these days as far as I know.
And one of my collegue is still with the same girlfriend for the last couple of year, she's in Germany...
So if they really wan't to make it work, it could.
And also that she and Silver Glow did the sex to each other.
So, Aric only gets one night out of all the rest of the nights. Clearly, lesbians is bestians.
7595213 Yeah, sounds familiar.
What's UP doing in Indiana?
Edit: If that's the Big Four Junction, it's running on CSX or NS tracks, no less.
I normally let spelling mistakes and what not go because this is supposed to be her journal and all but I don't think she'd make a mistake like this
Probably meant to have "me and Meghan had had" or something along those lines.
I'd love to see something written down but
crossed outscratched out, like you'd see in a real life journal if you were writing it in ink.And Kate is so jealous.
Cheated the whole time, sucker punches, all of them below the belt.
They are already freaky fast, this would just make them faster.
Picture it, Rainbow Dash, Jimmy John’s delivery pegasus. Getting your meal in ten seconds fast.
Which is slower than the guy in the commercials. Herum... .
I have done the "just for a while" relationship thing. Never again. I mean, the logic is sound--better to have loved and lost, and all that--but the looming deadline colors the entire relationship, and the inevitable wrenching heartbreak at the end...
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I remembered the writer was someone with "Brony" in his screen name. (That's not a very helpful detail to remember.)
7595300 https://www.derpibooru.org/182988
Aric is best human.
AFAIK, it's not against the law to take clouds. That cop was abusing his authority. Still, it's good that they didn't argue. One of the reasons I've lived to be this old is that I have firm rules
1 Never argue with people with guns
2 On the Highway of Life, crazy people have the right of way.
I would like to see the public reaction to someone getting arrested for stealing a cloud. The cops superiors would probably make his life Hell.
Nice chapter... And poor police dude.
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Aye, he's a keeper.
And pegasi flying deliveries is a much better idea than drones. I'm not about to trust those any time soon.
Silver Glow is not one to rock to boat but that police officer needs to have a write-up or whatever police get for illegally harassing a guest of the United States. Hopefully Aric will inform Silver's handlers.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" - Thomas Jefferson
Aric took the news of Silver and Meghan sleeping together fairly maturely or at least he did from Silver's perspective as she's writing this.
Silver: That way they're more like real life... oh wait you don't have that here do you?
Wait until your job gets replaced by a drone, well they might at least make the drone Pegasus shaped.
Aric confirmed for best human! I'm also quite certain that he's realized that with the SG, you really get what you see. I mean, she even admits to cheating for the ice cream bet, probably because she'd feel bad if she didn't. It's also great that their affair has turned out to be a learning experience for all three of them that goes far beyond 'having sex with an alien'.
Hmm... Aric might soon be the first human without direct exposure to Equestrian culture to start swearing by Celestia or Luna. I'm sure he's heard Silver doing that quite often by now (including obscene varieties, if the SG really swears as much as is hinted at)... and now I want that to happen. Badly. Nothing is as fun as spending a drunk evening translating swearwords after all.
And now I'm wondering what weird cultural tidbits the human exchange students will bring back with them upon returning to Earth.
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My favorites are "Man who wears a blue hat" and "Goldfish Poop Man."
Dear Mr Salvatore.
You wanted the suit.
You got the job.
Your music for today.
Indiana Calling.
The Movie, Legend Of Everfree was shown on TV in Brazil at the weekend , with an English audio option. It was grabbed.
I really, really hope that in the weekly episode, that Pinkie scene was a major shout to Pratchett, or Pratchett did Disney so well. Even had some Jerome as well.
Has Silver watched any Loony Toons yet?
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That's okay meatbag, we don't trust you either.
Vascore used to do this out at Downsview Airport (retired military base in Toronto) with vehicles waiting to be shipped places. All of the tarmac was used. Bombardier uses the runway for their aircraft production line. Build them, test them on the runway then fly them elsewhere.
Ever heard an airplane blow out its engine? I have, it's actually fairly close to what you'd hear in a cartoon... Ah the things you miss from shitty jobs.
That there is grand theft cumulus, Miss Glow! Some folk can't imagine anything without an owner, and nobody's got title, well, that's government property. Clearly the solution is the auctioning off of cloud ownership rights, less pegasi just keep stealin' them outta the sky, tragedy o' th' commons all over agin.
My dad worked on the extension of the rail lines out to the Wyoming coal seams when I was in junior high. I guess they ran spurs out to the open pits and just dumped direct into the cars? It's been thirty years since then. Equestria seems to use switchponies and manual gearing; automated switching systems would hardly be a thing. What's the equine version of "manual", anyways? Hooves-on is just awkward...
7595810 I always use 'ungual' for hooves, and 'cornual' for horns. Wing based manipulation would be 'pteroal' I think.
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Ah. Well, they have Double Dave's and Mellow Mushroom in San Antonio, too.
Arin's such a sweet and understanding guy. Silver sure got a good pick of the pile. I'm sure even some of the nicest guys or girls wouldn't have condoned Silver dating/having sex with someone else.
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just imagine that sweet sweet fallout when they take silver to prison for stealing clouds, the youtube celebrity...
could you imagine how fast that would sprial out of control ? farm ponys setting up a farm somewhere growing crops not in accordance with some healt authority, unicorns eat that to power some generators with magic and sell power back to their supplier ... and pegasi stealing clouds to water the crops when needed hahahaha
"help help these ponys making billions of dosh from literally nothing"
Well Silver's little chat with Aric went quite well. I like how understanding Aric is. Obviously part of the subject of their talk was quite bittersweet. As for that police officer, I think he could have eased up after he found out illegal substances were not being used.
S part
I can see it now. Just send money to an Internet address and earn a rich reward when Celestia gives them their grant
Admiral
I can accept talking Ponies but someone having an email account and NOT getting spam? Is there a human on the internet whose "suspension of disbelief" can extend to that?
Good to see Aric be understanding about the cultural differences. He was prepared for this, even if he didn't want to be.
Given Mario Party's ability to destroy friendships, I'm amazed the cartridges and disks don't emit lethal anti-pony radiation. Or maybe it only affects Twilight.
And yeah, add me to the pile of people displeased with that policeman. Just because it's weird doesn't make it illegal, officer. Especially not when the one doing it has years of experience in applied climatology. Please stand back, sir. Leave this to the professionals.
Silver Glow, Cloud Poacher
7595470 As much as we might question the police officer's actions, that cloud was public property and not a plaything for a visiting exchange student.
Do trees belong to nobody or everybody?
Had he made a report the FAA and the applicable Equestrian department might have frowned on SG exceeding 1000 agl without authorization.
Duuuuude, chill. It's just a localized bit of condensed water. You don't arrest people for stealing oxygen out of the air, do you?
Unless you order an anchovy-sunflower sandwich with extra alfalfa. Then it might mysteriously go missing while in transit.
Aric, you *are* aware that horse ears are practically fully rotating directional sound antennas?
The police officer may have been thinking that weird things by the side of the tend to distract drivers and cause accidents.
Though I'm kinda surprised we haven't come across any running gags involving ponies in popular culture.
For example: "Shut down ze beam. Put ze pony in ze detector. Let's win some Noble Prizes!"
Though I suppose everything is being filtered through Silver's perspective.
Which is a popular assumption on another forum I frequent about how CERN would react to ponies.
Hmm. Wonder if she'll let any of her friends write in her journal. Twilight did...
7596523 The cloud is something that really is to nobody. Until pegasuses came, it was an immaterial thing, going from an airspace to another before disapearing. It's an accumulation of moisture in the air.
It would be just like making it illegal to take water from a lake/see/river, to use air to inflate something... It is just there for all to use and enjoy. Silver just have a more direct and concrete way of doing it.
Damn, I was hoping for drama.
And the abuse of power was pretty bad. Can't believe that happens.
Judge: What are the charges?
Cop: Cloud theft, Your Honor.
Judge: (looks up) Where's the evidence?
Cop: Um... It evaporated.
Judge: (bangs gavel) Case dismissed.
Should be every single day?
Have just started reading through, looking forward to the rest!
At least ponies still understand the importance of play.
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You're welcome!
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Yup; totallynotabrony's The Roommate. Since Purdue is in Lafayette (technically, West Lafayette), I pretty much had to give it a nod.
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Fixed, thank you!
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My brother and his (now) wife kept dating even when work took them to two different countries.
The problem here is two different worlds, and thus far the only ways to visit are temporary, difficult-to-get visas, being an exchange student, or having a diplomatic job. In time, perhaps that will change, but for now that's the way it is.
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Yes, lesbians is bestians.
(Corrections made; thank you)
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I think they had some shared power agreement with NS. I don't know if they're still doing it, but I remember one day at work one of my friends (who lived somewhere between Lafayette and Attica) mentioning seeing yellow locomotives with big American flags on the side.
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In hindsight, I would use more crossovers than I have been (there are a few, especially in the beginning, but not so many now), and use underline, bold, and caps instead of italics.
Good thing that Silver Glow doesn't wear a belt
I totally stole that from totallynotabrony. It's an homage, though, so it's all good.
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I think it depends on what you're expecting going in. Because I've had relationships which have ended amicably, and others that have ended in crushing heartbreak or worse. . . .
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Well, technically it's probably not. At the same time, stealing clouds is potentially in the realm of 'mad scientist,' so the cop was at least right to be wary.
More to the point, they were parked on the side of the road and trespassing on someone's front lawn.
One thing about cops that I have also learned is that even when the cop is wrong, he's still got the authority to arrest you and otherwise make your life unpleasant, so it's best to just say 'yes, sir,' and comply.
Oh, man, that could potentially be a PR nightmare. If nothing else, it could potentially make the department look like bumbling idiots . . . but I suppose a lot of that would depend on the way that the story got spun.
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Can you imagine the radio call he got? "We've got a report of someone stealing a cloud, so could you swing by and see what's going on?"
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That would certainly be a potential niche market for them, after full integration of the two societies.
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Although to be fair, they were trespassing on someone's lawn. If he'd been a dick, he could have written them all up for that. Also, I'm not sure what Indiana's laws are on the matter, but in some states riding unbelted in the back of a pickup truck is also illegal.
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He's had almost a week to think about it, and of course Silver Glow can't know what he was thinking during that week.
You know, if a pony took my job I don't know if I would be mad.
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Ponies aren't very good at being deceptive, generally.
What better way to learn about how the humans do it than to try it? Which is why I think that from the pony perspective, there would be no issue with the ponies hooking up with humans (after all, there are so many sapient races in canon that it has to have come up before). I think that a lot of Earth cultures would very specifically tell their exchange students that they're not to fraternize with the ponies.
Ooh, that's a good idea. It might wind up being Meghan, though. But Aric could also pick up on some of her oaths, too.
Depending on their culture, they might be shocked by the lack of a nudity taboo, the excessive 'touchiness' of the ponies, the fact that they have to specifically ask not to have hay or flowers on their meal, that random monster attacks really are a thing, a habit of looking up for other ponies, new ways to pass the time that don't involve TV or the internet. . . .
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What language is that? I need to know, because I am a man, and I have lots of blue hats.
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No, she hasn't. I think she'd like the Roadrunner cartoons.
Related: my brother has pictures of a roadrunner sitting in the pilot's seat of a jet.
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I'm not actually sure what this one is used for. I think it's abandoned, based on what the runway looks like, but it's not near a plant or anything. It still shows on Google Maps as an airport.
That I haven't heard (although I'm sure my brother has). Here's a video of a locomotive blowing out its dynamic brake, though:
(the guy says it's the turbo, but when the locomotive gets close you can see it's one of the dynamic brake fans)
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I think that from what we've seen in canon, ponies have a very different idea of property rights.
Basically, I think that's what they do. They have 'flood loaders' and 'balloon tracks,' which basically means a big loop of tracks that dumps a full load of coal into each car without the train even stopping. I would assume that the flood loader is connected by a conveyor belt to the strip mine (actually running the train down into the pit is expensive, because of all the loops of track you need--a conveyor belt can climb a much steeper grade than a locomotive).
Ponies haven't developed CTC yet. Or a signal system, from what we've seen on the show. Then again, on short lines a signal system isn't important--where I used to live, if the train you sent north hadn't come back yet, you didn't send a second train out. Simple, and fairly foolproof.
Hooves-on is a bit awkward, but I don't know what phrase would be a good substitute, especially since they probably have different words based on the tribe of pony. What an earth pony does and what a unicorn does with the same piece of tech might be very different.
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That's clever!
When it come up, I just say things like 'hoof friendly.'
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Yeah, some people wouldn't be very understanding of that at all.
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She could get tips on prison life from Gusty.
I do think that back in the day, one of Equestria's negotiating tactics was literally stopping an enemy's weather (or giving them destructive weather). Stopping all rain at the border of the Griffon Empire would bring them back to the negotiating table pretty quick.
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I can say from personal experience that when you have an understanding going in, it makes a big difference later on when you have to have the talk. (Zyrian and I were actually talking about that at our last bar meetup a couple of nights ago.)
Well, he was nice enough not to bust them for trespassing, or (if he wanted to be a dick) obstructing traffic.
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Gmail is pretty good at filtering out the spam, I've noticed. Besides, how do you know that her handlers don't read each one of her e-mails before she gets them?
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While Peggy and Christine might not have given Silver Glow the best advice back when they had their little talk, they were right that it was better to be upfront about things, rather than to hope for forgiveness after the fact.
At least is wasn't Super Smash Brothers, or Mario Kart.
"What does the blue shell do?"
"Destroy friendships."
Look at it from the cop's view, though: here's a group of college students and a pegasus doing who knows what with a cloud on some guy's front lawn. If he's not at least curious about what's going on, he's not a very good cop.
I remember one time in high school we were all shooting off fireworks in a friend's driveway, and a cop stopped by and asked if we were done. Looking back on it, he'd probably gotten a complaint from one of the neighbors, but wasn't enough of a dick to want to bust us for having a little fun.
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When the cops finally figure out who it is, they raid her apartment and it's stuffed full of illegally collected clouds. . . .
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Some trees own themselves.
But you do raise an interesting point. How do you decide what belongs to everybody, and what are acceptable uses of those things?
Technically, I believe that when she's not in controlled airspace, she doesn't have to tell anyone that she's flying. A prudent pilot does, but I'm not sure that there's actually a requirement to do so.
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What Silver Glow didn't think about was that if the cloud was charged, she could have pushed it over his cruiser, bucked it to get lightning out of it, and all of the cop's radios would have turned into pumpkins.
(I can just imagine the Jimmy John's menu board in Equestria)
They are--and they move a lot.
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They do. When there was a big fire in Potterville, there were cars lined up for a mile on both sides of the highway, with people who'd gotten out to watch it.
You've got to imagine that every physicist everywhere has been frantically writing proposals for the last few years, trying to get a unicorn for an experiment. Somepony like Cayenne gets to pretty much pick and choose where she wants to go and what she wants to do.
Heck, just getting a research pony like Twilght to translate a spellbook for you might be worth a Nobel Prize.
No, probably not. This isn't a magical journal, just a plain, ordinary spiral-bound notebook.
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Taking water is illegal in some places; it basically is a question of how you're doing it. Damming or diverting a stream that runs across your property, for example, is generally illegal.
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I think it would only count as abuse of power if he actually arrested them. "Move along," is almost certainly legit.
As for the drama, Aric already gave her permission to pursue a relationship with Meghan (maybe not in so many words, but that's essentially what he said), so it would be pretty dickish of him to go back on that now.
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That would set an interesting legal precedent, that's for sure.
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Correction made; thank you!
Excellent! Welcome aboard!
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It makes me sad how many adults don't.
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Pony In A Particle Accelerator, you say?