September 17 [Happy Saturday]
September 17
I slept in a little bit, 'cause it was Saturday, and because I didn't want to leave Peggy behind so I waited until she woke up and got out of bed. It was raining outside, but it was a good, steady, soaking rain, not a storm, so I didn't think I really needed to watch it unless it took a turn for the worse.
Peggy had slept in her clothes and they were all pretty wrinkled up. And when she sat up in bed she rolled around her head and I could hear her neck cracking, then she stood up and went to the bathroom.
When she came back out, I was perched on the edge of the papasan thinking about whether or not my leg would be good for a landing, and she brushed my mane back over my ear and said we should go get some breakfast.
So I took the safe route and backed off the papasan, then flexed and tested my leg. It was still kind of sore and stiff from sleeping, too, but it felt a little bit better. I was sure it would be all right in a few more days.
Peggy put on her bra under her shirt and got her boots on, and then she sniffed at her shirt and decided it was clean enough to go to breakfast first and then shower and put on different clothes later. I said she was going to get a shower whether she wanted it or not, and she looked out the window and sighed, then said that she was glad she'd brought her jacket but it was unfortunate it was still in Cobalt.
I said that I could fly over her and block the rain and she said that would be really funny. She said if she held onto a hind leg I'd be kind of like an umbrella, and I thought it might be worth trying, but she said she didn't mind getting a little wet, and anyways she ought to move the car up to our parking lot.
There wasn't all that much rain, so she changed her mind and just got her jacket, and we walked up to the dining hall together. They opened late on Saturdays but that was okay because we had both gotten up late. And there weren't a lot of people in there, either, so they didn't have very much different food out yet. They did have some cream-filled chocolate eclairs, which were really good and I had two of them even though I shouldn't have.
We were just finishing up when Christine and Sean arrived. Christine had an umbrella and was still wearing her sleeping clothes, but Sean had put on the same clothes he wore last night. Even though we were done eating, we stayed for a little bit longer so that they wouldn't be lonely. I thought about going and getting another chocolate eclair, and Peggy did go and get a bagel to nibble on while we sat there.
Sean asked if I wanted to go over the math homework with him when I was done, and I said that I was already done with it, which he thought was unfair. I told him that all the problems were really easy to solve, especially when you had a weather wheel, 'cause instead of pushing all those tiny little buttons all you had to do was turn a dial and read a scale. So he decided that he really wanted to see that work. I wasn't looking forward to that, 'cause I hadn't really used it much for the math. So I had to tell him that I didn't really use it to solve the problems, I had just had the afternoon free and that had been enough time.
He still wanted to see me working it, though, and said that maybe I could figure out the kind of problems which it was best at solving, write them down in our notation, and then demonstrate it for Professor Pampena. He said I might even get some extra credit for that, and if I did he wanted me to share it because it was his idea.
When we were back at our room and Peggy was finding clean clothes for after her shower, I turned on my computer and went to the Weather Service maps to see if it was going to get worse. And that distracted her for a little bit, and she looked over my shoulder as I checked a couple of the maps and wrote down a couple of notes. I was going to have to start getting back in the habit of figuring weather because it wasn't going to be all that long before I was back in Equestria.
I didn't think that the weather was going to do anything more than rain and I could have flown in it, but if a storm did come up, I didn't want to have worn myself out with morning flying, so I decided that I'd read the Bible instead.
Micah also got a vision and was supposed to warn the people of Jerusalem and Samaria that God was mad, and he was smart and didn't try to run off and get swallowed by a fish. He said that God was going to destroy the horses, though, and I didn't like that. What had they done to Him to make Him mad? They were probably just obeying their humans 'cause they didn't know any better.
Peggy was a little bit surprised when I was still in the room when she came back and she said that she thought I was going to go flying and I told her that I was going to wait, and she asked if that was the case if I wanted to help her with laundry once she got dressed, and I said that I would.
She put on lounging clothes and then got all her clothes together into a basket, and then I thought that I ought to wash my blankets, too, so I put away my Bible and started pulling my blankets off the bed and I'd kind of forgotten that my toy was in my pillowcase and it fell out and bounced across the floor.
Peggy just started laughing when she saw it, and then she asked if that was what a real stallion in Equestria looked like, and I said that it was, so she crouched down so that she could study it more closely.
She wanted to know if I'd brought it from Equestria and I said that I had got it here and there was a company that made them and this one was modeled after a real stallion, although I didn't know who it was.
So I picked it up off the floor and put it in my dresser and I think it was kind of lonely 'cause there wasn't anything else in there. And I guess Peggy thought so too because she gave me a sock that I could put it in.
I piled my blankets up on top of her basket, and she got her jug of soap and we went downstairs to do our laundry. I should have done it as soon as I had got back, and maybe not on a Saturday, either, 'cause there was only one washing machine that was available although the other one was almost done.
I put my blankets on top of the one that was being used so Peggy could put her clothes in the open washing machine, and then once she had it running I moved them over, and then sat down on top of them to wait for the other one to be emptied.
Nobody showed up when the washing machine had finished and Peggy said that we ought to take the clothes out and put them on the table, so we made a neat little stack of them and then put my blankets in, and then I sat on top of the washing machines and she sat on the clothes-folding table and we just talked until the washing machines were finished.
We had to take someone's clothes out of the dryer, too—people just leave them behind a lot, I guess. Whoever it was really liked Abercrombie and Fitch, 'cause that's what all the shirts said on them. So Peggy put them in a neat pile then asked if I wanted to go to a late lunch.
I said that I didn't need to; I had hay in the room if I wanted a snack, so she ought to decide.
She said that she could wait until dinner but it was strange how when you weren't doing anything you kept thinking about how hungry you were and when you were doing something really fun you'd forget to eat.
Since it would take a while for our laundry to dry, we went back upstairs to our room and Peggy used her Facebook while I read Nahum, which was only three chapters and was another prophecy against Nineveh. Which I knew that God had forgiven, because they'd changed their ways after Jonah had told them that God was mad at them. So then I also read Habakkuk, who complained to God that he was calling for help but God wasn't giving him any, and God told him all the things that He had done, and at the end, Habakkuk was amazed and wrote a prayer of praise.
I thought about reading more, but I needed to write in my journal, too, so I did that until Peggy was sure that our laundry was dry, and she went downstairs to get it.
She changed into clean clothes, because she said that they felt the best when they'd come right out of the dryer, and I made my bed, and the sheets were nice when they were clean.
We left for dinner a little bit earlier than usual since we were both hungry, and we got there while they were still setting out the food, so a lot of the buffets only had hot water in them. They had the salads out, though, so that's what I got and Peggy said that she'd wait until they were done actually putting the food out before she chose, because she didn't know what they were going to have and maybe I was going to be sorry I'd filled up on salad.
I didn't think I would be sorry, though. But I waited to eat it until Peggy got her food—not because I thought I'd find something that I wanted more, but because it would be rude to eat when she didn't have anything of her own.
After she looked around, she was kinda disappointed with what they had to offer, and she came back with a hamburger and a salad. And she told me that I hadn't missed anything after all.
When Sean came in he said that it looked like the kitchen was already giving up for the year, because the only thing that made this dinner interesting was how plain and boring it was, and he said that they'd even managed to burn one of the pizzas and he wasn't sure how you could even do that because pizzas went on a little conveyor through the oven just like the bread did to toast it.
Christine was the only one who was happy about dinner, because they had perogies which she really liked. Those were kind of like raviolis, except they were half-circles instead of square. Sean said that the cooks had probably found a way to mess them up, but when Christine tried one she said it was good.
I was curious if they tasted the same as the raviolis, so I asked her if I could have one, and she picked one up and set it on my salad plate. It was pretty good—it had cheese inside it, and it did taste a lot like a ravioli.
Peggy asked if I was regretting having all that salad now, but I wasn't.
Sean said that he still hadn't done his math homework but he would do it tomorrow and then we could go over our answers together, and I said to stop by in the afternoon 'cause I planned to fly in the morning.
When we got back to our dorm room, I asked Peggy if she'd be lonely if I spent the night with Meghan and she said it was okay. I was hoping that maybe Amy would be away with her boyfriend 'cause sometimes she was on the weekends. And it was early in the year and so she probably didn't have much homework and maybe I'd get lucky.
So I went down the hall to her room and knocked on the door and she opened it up and I pounced on her and gave her a big hug and she invited me in and then noticed that my leg had the stretchy-bandage on it, and she asked me what had happened so I told her that I'd taken a hard hit in fighting practice but it was getting better.
She said that I should soak it in hot water and that would probably help, and it had in the shower until I got out, but she had a bathtub, so I asked if I could use it and she said that I could but she wouldn't let me use it alone.
Meghan had to ask Lisa and Becky if they needed to use the bathroom before we filled up the bathtub, and she put some soap in it so it would make bubbles then unwrapped my leg, and it felt weird because it had been wrapped up for so long. I asked Meghan if her feet felt funny when she took off her socks at the end of the day and she said that sometimes they did.
She let me get in the tub first, while she was getting undressed, and I stood at the end by the faucet so that she could get in and slide her legs around me, then I kind of stretched out on her chest and I could leave my hurt leg all the way in the water.
I had to move once so that she could turn off the water before the bathtub overflowed, and then we just relaxed until the water started to get cold, and then she drained some out and topped it off with warm water again.
Calculating how long it took the water in the bathtub to get cold would have been a fun thermodynamics problem. It lost heat to the walls of the bathtub and the air in the room and then I suppose everything in the bathroom got a little bit warmer, but that would be a lot of variables. So if I just figured the tub itself and me and her all heating up and the water losing its heat that way, it would be a solvable problem. I would also need to know our volumes but we could approximate that with displacement. If I had a marker which would draw on the bathtub, and a thermometer, I could figure it all out and that would be a lot of fun.
Meghan interrupted me and said that I had my thinking face on, so I told her what I was thinking about and she said that was a strange thing to be thinking about when I was in a bathtub with her. I said that I thought she'd told me she was interested in experimenting, and she said that she hadn't meant it like that.
When the water started getting cold again we got out, and my leg did feel a lot better. She dried off and then put on her robe and I stayed in the tub when the water drained out and when it was down to my fetlocks I pulled the curtain shut so that I could shake myself off.
She helped me dry off and then said that she didn't feel like getting dressed again, and I said that I didn't either and stuck my tongue out at her. And since Amy was gone for the weekend, she didn't have to.
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7734974 Doesn't really make sense with all we've seen ponies lift and grab in Equestria though.:\
Eh?
Yeah, trying to do laundry on the weekend is 1 of the many disadvantages of living in a dorm. That's why I always did mine at 3 AM. Another disadvantage is listening to people bitch at you for doing your laundry at 3 AM & playing your radio (if God didn't want me to play my radio then why is the station still broadcasting? Decent people are in bed asleep? Fine example you're setting for them)
Also, leaving your clothes unattended is a good way to have the choice bits stolen.
Still, hanging out with the weekend college crowd at 3 AM will lead you to understand the Doctrine of Infant Damnation
In more then one way...
I had perogies for dinner tonight with some haluski and sausage. It's some fine eating.
I don't know why but for some reason chocolate eclairs give me stomach cramps. The cramps last as long as it remained in my stomach until it was digested. Really weird. Maybe I'm allergic.
Glad to see her leg is on the mend!
Fun Saturday indeed.
"...so I told her what I was thinking about and she said that was a strange thing to be thinking about when I was in a bathtub with her. I said that I thought she'd told me she was interested in experimenting, and she said that she hadn't meant it like that."
Once again it is proven--communication occurs only by accident.
The advantage of being a herbivore is that salads actually make filling meals.
First of all, thanks for taking the time to reply to all these comments. That's pretty amazing, considering the amount of comments the story generates. Today was almost an hour worth of reading - and then there's even a new chapter as a little bonus.
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Now i suddenly want to write a crossover with Plague Inc: evolved.
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And that one too. High Peak & Coast Guard: Royal Navy SAR.
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Very true. But she has some real friends to stand up for her. Very FIM, actually.
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Or a pony working part time as a barista having the Starbucks logo appear on her flank
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Found the book again. The author's a journalist who actually accompanied these people all over the world. It's not the best writing (but it's decent) but the tales sometimes are nothing short of incredible. Like, buying a dilapidated Antonov on the grey market, deliver some goods to the middle of nowhere in Afghanistan and just let it sit there afterwards since there's no way to get it off the ground again under local circumstances. The price tag for the mission covered the plane and the acquisition of the next one (plus extra risk pay for SAMs and the runway being a few hundred yards of dirt road in a mountain valley. That's some business model.
Yaay, Weekend. wait, where did it go?
The short story I heard about the priest must be a modern version of Habakkuk, though Id much prefer a modern version of Habbakuk.
A trick to consider in simplified or even complex thermodynamics, is to rewrite the problem as an electrical circuit, then load it nto the mainframes SPICE program and solve for your millions of interacting componanrts, not only for static, DC, but also for the whole range of dynamic variations, AC.
Now I want you to realise that you can do the same for Traffic flow. except you need to add the function for macroquantum particulates, that is, vehicles and pedestrians. Trouble is, noone ever makes a fluidic equivalent with macroparticles. Then they would get Silo blocking for traffic jams.
7734908 If you interested in purchasing a gun sometime id pass on the weed. It is still illegal federally and you will fail a background check if they know about it.
Never miss a chance for cake, that's Celestia's motto.
I knew this would happen.
Don't forget the toy!
"Imagine a spherical pony..."
"HEY! I didn't eat that many eclairs."
7735899 That's exactly it - an instinctive response to external stimuli. Or something.
If you've ever been in something like Disney's Star Tours or Soarin', they're designed to trigger that kind of reaction as a part of the immersion.
Which reminds me: Silver's been on Earth for a while, but hasn't been to a theme park, yet... Maybe she should.
prophecy. Prophesy is the verb form.
7735859 That's not a checklist. That's an instruction manual.
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That would fall under "Best day ever" territory.
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"Princess Twilight. This is what we call an 'e-reader'. It contains copies of several thousand of the books here. You can take it with you and read it at home. We've also included a solar charger, so you can keep it charged. And if you run out, we can easily supply extra memory cards with more books on in the future."
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Twilight could very well be the first to actually wear out a Kindle.
That's the quirk. AMTRAK wasn't really set up as publicly-funded transportation. The federal government took over in 1971, essentially saying "We can run this at a profit, but first we'll subsidize it for a few years while we fix all of the problems caused by those private companies that used to run it." The punchline for the joke is that the subsidies have continued, and show no sign of ending.
A bit late to mention this, but several letters brought it to mind. The only known water critter big enough to swallow Jonah in one bite & likely to do so would be a Sperm Whale. Yes, technically whales are not fish, they are mammals but they are often thought of as fish.
Aristotle was the 1st scientist to point this out. Aristotle wrote a lot about a wide variety of scientific subjects. For nearly 2,000 years he was considered the definitive word on a wide variety of subjects.
Life's Ironies Department:
Nearly all his scientific theories were incorrect & a part of Science History is the struggle to get the correct theory accepted when it contradicted his theory. "Whales are mammals" is one of the few things he got right & one of his few ideas that was rejected.
As to Viet Nam being more familiar & a bigger deal than warranted. Pretty much all us Baby Boomers either served in Viet Nam or had friends who did while we worried about the draft. It would be the last "everybody's involved" war the USA fought.. The draft ended in 1973 or 74 & since then everybody in the Armed Forces is there because they volunteered.
"Objectively, how bad was it?"
AFAIK, the combined total of US killed from 1955 to 1975 was less than the number of automobile casualties in any one of those years. Or, less than 1/2 the number killed by cigarettes in any of those years.
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Should take her a month or two at least, so she can still spend most of her time at home.
And keeping a steady supply of Kindles is more than worth having her favourably disposed towards humanity when it comes to time for diplomatic negotiations... one just has to be careful about which books one puts on the reader.
I'm never gonna navigate the sea of comments here, so none of mine will be original. I saw this fic on the front page a few days ago and have pretty much been reading it non stop since then. I caught up sometime yesterday afternoon I think. There's a lot for me to like about it - the voice Silver Glow uses to describe what she's seeing as an exchange student very much reminds me of how an ex would talk about her experiences studying abroad, the story very well captures what would be challenging or interesting for an Equestrian in our world (their feelings on horses in particular are very believable, all the problems with flying are neat), it manages to have more interesting human characters than I can count, the main character herself is interesting, and it reminds me of the time in my own life when things were (supposed to be) college-centric. I'm gonna be gutted when this is over (but the author probably is pretty ready for it, considering the pace they've apparently been keeping up for almost a YEAR)
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Top bird
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When Meghan asked Silver how she got injured I was half expecting her answer to be, "I took a glaive to the knee." Then I remembered that Silver hasn't had much video game or internet experience.
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my high school only had ceramics and woodshop. It's my college (that's very hands on and encourages student projects) where you see the crazy stuff. There's an ROV that's being built on campus with a $10,000 budget from Northrop Grumman.
I wen't to a Japanese place once that had Teriyaki chicken with red wine sauce and mashed potatoes. I was not impressed.
I think it'd be fairly obvious if there was something affecting the airflow. It'd essentially look like a giant sphere around the pegasus (or something like the cone that forms around rainbow dash when she does a sonic rainboom). A loadcell wouldn't be able to measure the weight in flight, but pegasi might be able to trigger the effect without actually flying. My bet would be kinetic experiments based on conservation of momentum or energy. if you have a Pegasus fly into something (like a cart), you could determine the mass of the Pegasus based on how fast the object goes after it's hit. mp*Vp=(mp+mo)*Vo. Pegasus velocity is known, objects velocity after impact is known, and the mass of the object is know. the mass of the pegasus is the only unknown.
on a related note, I really dislike anthro/Equestria Girls.
the first arc is the best, it kind of goes downhill after that in my opinion.
well, the big take away is that a 1:1 ratio is very within the realm of possibility
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I see. :V
Meghan in the Quad, running after Action Shot: "I NEED YOUR HOT STALLION DICK, ACTION SHOT!"
Maybe that's why she's so "reserved" when Silver Glow arrives. Meghan's horri-embarrassed.
TVTroping needs dedication, mang.
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Yeah. =o
Her filibusters involves talking about cute innocent things and the other members of congress going "D'awwww".
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She may also be the first person to marry a kindle.
Um, Twilight you know there are certain things that a real live spouse can do that a book like thing can't?
Of course, there are so many books on that subject!
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Technically, yes, a gravity meter would work in a wind tunnel. The problem is, they're not very portable, and they're very finicky about orientation with respect to the ground; they have to be kept perfectly level in order to function correctly. (I used to work for a company that made these.) There are gravity meters designed for use aboard ships and airplanes, which have a self-leveling mechanism controlled by the above-mentioned accelerometers and gyroscopes (fiber-optic gyroscopes, yet!), but they're definitely not something Silver Glow could just strap onto her back; they're a little over 2ft x 2ft x 3ft in size, weigh about 250lbs, and require about 300 watts of power. So, they're pretty much the opposite of portable.
7736686 - on the topic of pegasus magic requiring flight.
I did some rough numbers based on muscle limits, and biological limits on flight in general.
You can - sort-of get a pegasus that works biologically.
It's not going to look like a show pegasus - more like an overgrown goose with a pair of front almost vestigal legs. The wings are _massive_.
(I was assuming a mass of 100kg or so)
It's probably going to need to eat meat, in order to get the energy.
It will need to take off into the wind - or at least at a gallop (probably two legged, wing assisted), and hovering is not happening other than perhaps for one or two flaps on landing.
Flight will be very much soaring, with limited flapping.
wow ok I may be in a bit of a mood or lacking cafen or just plan tired not really sure but my mind just went to odd places with this chapter witch is a vary good chapter.
hum ok pony umbrella I would be falling over every thing as I would be looking up at the underside of sad pony enjoying the view way to much.
yep it is going to be one of those days.
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Although it's plausible that things in Equestria are somehow made 'hoof friendly,' while things on Earth generally are not.
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Oops, slight editing error there.
That's certainly her hope.
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Most of the dorms at K, the laundry room was off in the basement, not too close to other rooms. Whether that was so people wouldn't be bothered by the washing machines, or that was the only logical place to put them in 150-year-old buildings, I don't know. But at one point I lived in the dorm room that was nearest the laundry room, and I don't recall ever being annoyed by people doing their laundry.
Oddly, that rarely happened at K. Or else I just had clothes that nobody else wanted.
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I haven't had anything homecooked for a while, sadly. Minor kitchen renovations combined with a complete lack of free time and a refrigerator that's in a death-spiral . . . .
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Huh, that's kind of odd. I'll be happy to eat your share.
Also, speaking of odd allergies, I'm allergic to new leather, and only figured that out when I bought a watch with a leather wristband.
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As the song goes, you can't keep a good pegasus down.
Seriously, though, knee-bashes can suck. I had one that took over a year to heal all the way.
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The best Saturday!
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Isn't that the truth? But it pays off when you get it right.
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And there's always something at the salad bar, too. One thing that's really nice for her at K, that wouldn't be the case at some colleges where they have commercial fast-food restaurants in lieu of a proper dining hall.
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I think part of the reason that it generates so many is because we're all having a conversation and worldbuilding here, and I've got to keep up with my end of the bargain. If I ever do go pro, it's going to be really weird to not have a commenting system, y'know?
Do it! Or one where a food inspector goes through Sugarcube Corner.
I've added a story about pegasus S&R to my story ideas queue. Obviously, I have a few stories I need to finish before I get there, but the good news is that I'm rarely in danger of running out of ideas.
And we already know that Peggy is willing to rip dicks off, if needed, and Mister Salvatore loves getting physical when the situation calls for it.
That would be awesome. I could see it happening in a crossover universe, too. Especially if there's been contact for a while. And then the inevitable lawsuit when the pony in question opens her own coffee shop but still has Starbuck's logo on her flanks.
Thank you! I put an order in to Amazon. I'm a sucker for those kinds of stories. There are a couple of books like that that I read when i was a kid and I really wish I knew what they were, because I would buy them in a heartbeat.
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This is, of course, assuming that I could draw an electrical circuit more complicated than a battery, switch, and light bulb.
Hey, that was all I needed when I was a theatre master electrician. The light worked or it didn't, and if it didn't, it was either the bulb, wires, or dimmer pack. If it was anything else, I needed to call a real electrician.
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So the best thing to do is not tell them
Anyhow, I almost got deported from Canada. No sane person is going to let me have a gun.
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True fact, the chocolate eclairs they had were the very best thing that they served. On days when they put them out, my breakfast might be nothing but chocolate eclairs.
There is a video I desperately want to post but it undoubtedly violates site rules. But it involves falling and bouncing, um, toys.
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That would so backfire with a theatre full of pegasi. And it would be so adorably disastrous.
The drawback is they probably won't let her ride any of the fun rides, because there's no way of knowing if the safety equipment would actually work on her, and no theme park would want to take the risk. On the other hand, there are probably some that don't involve roller coasters.
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It was kind of a little bit of both. It was sort of a flowchart, in the way that it branched out and changed, but it also included who had to do what and verify what and how it had to be verified. And it was something like twenty feet long.
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I've gotten to the point where I half-expect to see Aquamarine when I'm in Lansing, and one of my friends who walked around Kalamazoo College to get a feel for it after reading this story said he kept almost expecting to see Silver Glow.
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They may have said that to sell the deal to the public, but unless they're idiots (which, given politicians, is a very real possibility), they would know that it's nearly impossible for public transit--especially rail transit--to show a profit. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any public transportation system which runs on a profit and gets no funding from a government entity.
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Although he's unlikely to have survived three days inside.
In a lot of ways, though, he didn't really have that much other science to help him. Even now, though, it seems that a lot of science kind of gets bogged down in what people used to think.
The war was over before I was born, but my dad was drafted. He lucked out and didn't actually have to go, because he was in the hospital with a broken thighbone that took a long time to heal.
It's kind of funny how we keep track of some things and not others, isn't it? There's no US Highway System memorial wall (if there was, it would be a long, long wall).
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I'm just imagining Twilight's library with Kindles neatly filed on the shelves, arranged by the subject matter contained on them.
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At this point, the comments alone are another whole book, and that's no joke. And they cover a remarkable range of subject matter as well. I'm having a hard time keeping up (as you can tell by the delay in the reply).
I'm going to miss it when it's over--it's going to be bittersweet, that's for sure.
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Those old prop planes had a level of style that the new ones just can't match, didn't they?
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Somebody else should have made that comment, since SIlver Glow didn't.
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I've watched a couple of episodes of that restaurant rescue show with Gordon Ramsey, and he gets pretty upset when they have some kind of weird fusion dish like that on the menu. It's pretty funny.
It might depend on how the spell works, though. A sphere would be obvious; extra downforce on her wings might not be. Now that I think about it, I wonder how many different kinds of birds have been in wind tunnels? Thinking of her from an airplane perspective would probably lead the scientists to a lot of wrong conclusions.
Hmm, that could potentially work. There's be some work involved to make sure that she transfers all her momentum, but probably with some trials you could get reasonable numbers out of it.
I don't mind EqG so much (although there's a lot of bad stuff out there). I've never written anything with the anthro tag, although I've got a half-finished anthro fic that I poke at every now and then.
It can't be ruled out, for sure. My gut says it's still more mare-centric, but that could be bias from running the numbers back in Season 3.
In some ways, that's one of the biggest challenges, because they keep changing what's in canon, and a writer has to decide whether to keep it or reject it. One of my stories actually wasn't finished for two years because the second episode with Trixie totally jossed it. And in OPP, there's a Starlight who is now confused with Starlight Glimmer by new readers. Sigh.
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Are you implying that you want to see a story where Meghan hooks up with an actual horse?
That would be embarrassing, especially since Action Shot's a mare.
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So I need to find a loyal reader who loves TVTropes enough to do
meone of my stories. Seriously, that's one of only three things left on my FimFic bucket list.OMG, I know who would be perfect.
Noi.
She could go on for hours, with a rambling, shaggy-dog story and every single person there would be hanging on every word.
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I will be very disappointed if there isn't already a story on FimFic like that.
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Cool!
If her gravity-reduction extended a ways around her, it might work (any change in local gravity would be a significant result, even if you couldn't measure it 'at the source.' And maybe if you got a result, you could then have her fly inside an airplane carrying the gravity-meter and see if it got slightly lighter. Or have the whole tornado team carry it; that might give a result as well.
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Even with my limited knowledge of aerodynamics, there's no way they could fly with wings as small as they have relative to body size, unless they weigh almost nothing. So there pretty much has to be magic involved, or the pegasi are much smaller and have much larger wings relative to their body size.
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Meghan would have jumped at the chance to have a pegasus-umbrella. And Silver hasn't really noticed, but there are lots of guys on campus getting a free look whenever they can.
Who is "she"?
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7735451 I've had some filling salads. Admittedly, they came in sizable portions with chicken and cheese and a liberal helping of ranch.
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She's got to watch her weight, or else she'll get too heavy to fly. (Like an airplane, Silver Glow also has a maximum takeoff weight.)
Christine--that wasn't very clear in the text, though, so I fixed it.
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I like to think of it as both have he same underlying physics, it's just thanks to magic, Ponies get to bend, twist, and just in general treat the 'laws' of physics, more like strongly worded suggestions.
In Ponies case "Oh, it's magic." Cue collective breakdown of half the scientist on Earth.
Much like how the Enterprise never discharged primary Ion Exchanger resin to the outside atmosphere, even as it filled up an engine room with it while having the unfiltered exhaust ventilation going full blast.
It is never to early to be awake for Pony Sex!
And we see more of the odd way Pegasi brains work, having trouble deciding if a long flight or sex was better.
Less fun to sneak seeds out when your no dodge socks
All the things she could have done, going to get noms really was the most important of them.
Yay inertia, keep things nice and not changing so Pony no get confused.
You are crazy for taking those classes together, at least given you're not a STEM major. Though, would weather work be considered a STEM course in Equestria?
True, it's real schools that are hard to tell apart from prisons half the time. Charter schools are more like the cushy, minimum security ones.
Bros know when to mess around, and when to not, one of the most vital parts of the Bro Code. You give your buddy all the shit you want, but when it's something important, you shut up and just be there for him.
So, can they let the Pony be the DD? I'm sure she would be willing to try. Sure she crashed the flight simulator a lot, but this has only 2/3 the dimensions to worry about.
Silly ponies, breaking all those 'laws' and 'rules' because they prefer having days cycles that make sense and are nice and ordered.Though the idea Discord broke it and this is them patching it.. interesting, but doesn't quite work out with them doing it long before Discord came around.
Well either you all had to invent it sooner, or you all are just huge nerds. Or, given the whole falling apple thing leading to gravity, pegasi just naturally got a head start on 'why do I fall down?'
Magic, are there no scientific theories you can't kick in the nuts?
Relative Velocity is a bitch to wrap you head around at first.
Need the Twitch stream "Silver catches Pokemon"
Yay hay snacks!
Silly overly serious and way to worried about being a good pony pony, there was no 'should have' read more, this is just something to do if and because you want to.
And of course, Pony doing something odd gets her a whole herd of followers eager to see why Pony is trotting through the campus with a weapon. Also, more evidence for Agent Silver on just how easy it will be for Ponies to take charge given how easy Humans are to sway.
Limping away from a few to spot on hits. The sign of a really good sparring session.
Given what we have seen ponies make it through, the shear force needed to actually injure them is rather impressive.
And yup, it is nice to be so in tune with someone, that, just being the same room doing your own things is enough.
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Reminds me of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion for Airdales. "Hot rock make ship go"
Silver wakes to an Owie, but she's a tough pony who wants to just let it work itself out, even if she doens't quite realize she's only one call away from having the best equine orthopedic doctor's in the country rushed in to check her out and being given every possible way of getting it healed faster, and getting around till it does.
Also, yay redundancy on limbs!
Ohhh yeah, high tension lines will fuck you UP!, especially the arresting wire, that thing snaps, unless you are a jump rope all-star.
And you can tell how much her knee hurts, taking the anxiety box up just to avoid the stairs. Also, wing baps to anyone near you in an elevator. #pegaproblems.
And Peggy for best Pony Roommate yet again, getting some Ace Bandages to help with the knee. Still letting Silver deal with it on her own, but showing her a few human goodies to help out.
Silly humans, not just caving to Pony's obsession with Taco Bell.
Being left out of all the 'hand rules' shorcuts, #ponyproblems.
Lots of fun homework..... you are nuts Silver.
And pony just loves to be helpful, even if it's getting someone else what they want instead of her.
Smart Pone, but, I think the bribe rhymes with 'Trap-Con'
Eating out of those little salad containers while someone holds it..... SO CUUUUTTTEE!
Go on Peggy, have a drink, let the pony drive home, what could go wrong?
Yeah, fight prevention is a big thing. Granted not quite as needed as for Soccer games.
Just, love her take on the game, so, happy and simple, and yet not wrong at all.
Bet you really enjoyed a good look at that sack...
Pony Cheerleader, best pep booster ever!
Peggy makes a great big sis."Everyone piss now."
Yes, that is right, you no move comfy pony.
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Bulk Biceps. Magic says 'FU Physics"
The first time they show it to a visiting group of Wonderbolts, half the janitorial staff either quits, or ends up in the hospital due to feather allergy reaction.
I was a Nuc, but I was a mechanic, Electrical Theory for Mechanical Operators is basicly 'Zap Zap bad, no touch.' And if any twidgets or twitchers were around add 'See spark, apply PKP' just to see them freak the hell out on you for saying that. (Purple Potassium Powder was one of the firefighting agents on ship, it's intended for use on class B fires, but can be used on class C ones as well, with the down/upside of being HIGHLY corrosive to electrical equipment.)
Ohhh damn that would be.....epicly bad.
D'awwwww even Peggy can't resist being cute with the pony and being all brushie brushie and adorable.
Silly humans, being all worried about getting wet in the rain.
Pega-Umbrella, DO EEET! Why you no do it!?
Caring pony is friendly and always wanting to make others happy, even if it's just sitting around after she's done eating to keep them company.
Behold Pony Superiority! Everything seems easy to them, if not, then it's humans fault for making it too complicated!
Now God is moving onto Equinocide, yeah, really losing Silver on thinking there's a reason people follow him beyond "He'll murder your whole family if you don't"
So, it was in her pillowcase, was she sleeping on it the whole time?
Of course Peggy is curious about the toy and how 'realistic' it is. I'm sure Silver would let you take it for a test dive if you wanted to.
And then, sock on the lonely dildo..... okay then.
Greedy pony taking both washing machines, even if that has to be a fun perch.
Se more proof Celestia is the better deity, no wondering or having to hope he answers you, just to get him tossing shade at how pathetic and worthless you are compared to him. Got an issue with her decision? Just pop into Day Court and ask her and get her to calmly and polity explain her reasoning.
Salad is good pony food, #ponyperks
burnt Pizza is amateur hour for cafeterias. Spend a week eating on ship and see how bad they fuck it up. They fucked up canned ravioli's.
I'm with Christine, Perogies are freaking awesome! Though not sure how she thinks it's like a ravioli... oh right she's only had cheese ones, no meat.
Surprise pony hug pounce attack! It's super effective!
Any excuse to be naked with pony, eh Meghan?
I'd call her a massive nerd for this whole thing but...damn it.. that does sound interesting to try and figure out....
Also, well, Meghan, not much more 'experimenting' you can really do, unless Silver can find a stallion for you.
Also WHOOOOO Room to themselves for super special snuggle time!
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There are, of course, all sorts of problems with this from a ‘things science knows’ perspective (like, enough that as soon as the first unicorn does a spell, hundreds of PhD dissertations suddenly become worth only the paper they’re printed on). But, we’ve got to handwave somewhere, and this is as good a place as any. Maybe because Discord broke everything.
Although, if it can be measured and quantified--say, in a wind tunnel or something--it’s something scientists can work with and maybe even replicate in the future. Those that recover from their breakdowns, anyway.
One of those “nobody saw a thing” moment?
Agreed!
I’ve heard that exercise is like sex, so . . .
I know, right? Aric isn’t playing the game the right way.
Noms are important.
Inertia: so important it’s a law.
Weather work in general, no. But to be on the supervisor end of things, probably yes.
Depends on the charter school, though. I’ve heard that at some, people have to wear uniforms, and that’s like a prison outfit.
That is essential, and it’s something that I honestly think women don’t always understand. Likewise, things like the urinal game. Any guy will get about 100%; nearly all women fail it miserably.
I think that there are potentially all sorts of problems with letting the pony drive the car (while the GoKart rental place might let her drive one with her pilot’s license, Officer Friendly won’t be so understanding). Still, I think she’d do an okay job of it.
We don’t know for sure if things worked more normally before Discord broke it (well, maybe we do and I’m willfully ignoring contrary proof
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Pegasi would totally get a head start on that. Of course, given flight and likely innate magic, they might have gotten it wrong a lot at the beginning. “See, ponies can stand on clouds . . . oh, well, I guess you can’t. Write that down--only ponies with wings can stand on clouds.”
Basically, no.
Honestly, never seemed that hard to me, but maybe that had more to do with my upbringing and experience on boats from a rather young age.
That would net views in the billions. No matter how good or bad she was at it.
But it must be important because many of the philosophers talked about God and this is His biography.
You know damn well you’d follow a pony with a pike, just to see what she was going to do with it.
She probably learned that back in flight camp, too--if you’re not sore, you’re not learning.
I personally tend to draw the line at some of the cartoon physics. Like, Silver isn’t going to be able to punch through a row of trees or survive a piano dropped on her.
That’s really the best kind of relationship.
That really covers it, doesn’t it?
That’s a mindset I’m very familiar with . . . go see a doctor if it doesn’t work right in a couple of days; otherwise, it’ll probably work itself out.
Doesn’t help that the few times I’ve gone recently, the doctor basically said “nothing we can do; it’ll heal on its own.”
Being quadrupedal--with wings--means it takes a lot to immobilize her.
Ropes and cables breaking under tension are just scary. Not much stops them. Hell, I found out from XKCD that more people are injured or killed in tug of war than you’d ever imagine.
Pony stairs, she’d probably do it anyway, but human stairs are really steep for a quadruped (why many indoor animals will go up stairs but can’t get back down, in fact). And yeah, being in an elevator with a pegasus is probably bad news.
Let’s just be honest here, Peggy is best roommate. No question.
If Silver ever decides to forgo her dream of being a weather supervisor, she can instead have the first cloud Taco Bell franchise. All the pegasi would love it.
I know, right? That’s discriminating.
I bet pegasi have ‘wing rules’ shortcuts.
This is why ponies will make such great overlords.
I . . . honestly can’t figure this out. And if you explain it, I’ll feel dumb. . . .
Human foods aren’t always served conveniently for ponies.
I know, right? Cobalt has airbags.
Very true. Although having lived near MSU, riots are always a problem. One of my co-workers had a car with minor riot damage, in fact.
Cedric has the best sack.
You know it.
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She’s the responsible one, that’s for sure.
Pony nest is where pony says it is.
I bet you can overload him, too.
It would be worth it, though.
Okay, got to know (and I’m too lazy to google it) what are twidgets and twitchers?
My favorite bit of trolling I’ve heard of ever is when the Goodyear Blimp has airplane pilots riding in it, the flight crew does a ‘proper’ take-off roll (I’m sure with callouts and everything), brings the nose up, applies a bit of power . . . and then they cut the engines and watch the airplane pilots freak out.
I’m trying to nudge one of my friends into writing a story where a food inspector coming into an earth pony kitchen is a plot point. “You can’t stir the soup with a spoon in your mouth!”
“Oh, okay.” Puts hoof in soup instead.
Nobody can resist.
I bet ponies--especially pegasi--shed water better than humans.
They should have.
Once again, ponies will be the best overlords.
Well, yes, you do make a good point, especially when it comes to killing horses.
Yup. It was on the bottom, of course. No big lumps for Silver; she’s too smart for that.
Yes, but . . .
I feel that there might be some hygiene issues there. I suppose they can be cleaned--not an expert. Not sure I’d ever want to use someone else’s sex toy, though. Regardless of how clean it was.
It keeps it safe and warm. Whats’ wrong with putting a sock on the dildo?
I’m sure if Peggy had really wanted to sit on one, Silver would have scooted over so she could.
That was something I talked to my dad about a while back, when I was thinking about writing a story involving a missionary in Equestria. A lot of things that we have faith in, Celestia could just explain and ponies would believe it (even if she’s lying, honestly). Questions like ‘what happens when we die?’ If Celestia says ‘good ponies go to the Elysium Fields; bad ponies go to Tartarus,’ well, that’s the answer. Nopony would question it.
And for that matter, so are lawns when they’re in season and not chemically treated.
I started a fire boiling water once.
I’ve got to figure that cheesy ravioli and cheesy perogies are basically the same thing, just shaped differently.
Yes, it is. Thus the conquest continues.
Do you blame her? I don’t blame her.
See, and that’s where Meghan is missing out. Bath-time would be considerably extended if Silver Glow only had a thermometer, dry-erase markers, and her weather wheel.
Well, maybe. There are surely things that they haven’t done yet; possibly things they haven’t even though of yet.
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Celestia and Luna moving the heavenly bodies was before they faced Discord, and before that it was Starswirl and six different unicorns every day.
Maybe Discord was active elsewhere simultaneously.
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I’m not totally up on the episodes (I’m somewhere in season 6, and have seen a few more recent ones); I haven’t seen that one in particular.
My own headcanon, dating from season 3, was that the unicorns controlled the sun (and moon) until Celestia and Luna wrested control away from them, right around the time of the Windegos.
Discord, I think, was probably in the picture from close to the very beginning of Equestria. How much power he had and when the Princesses (or any other pony) confronted him, I don’t know. I think--but I could be wrong on this--that when Celestia and Luna stoned him, that was the first time they’d directly confronted him, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t around doing stuff before then.