September 29 [Anna and Reese]
September 29
I don't know how long we were asleep, but Mel called me on the radio and said that there was another cloud coming, so I carefully climbed off Aric, trying not to wake him up, but I did anyway.
I stretched out in the parking lot then told the airplane directors that I was going up again.
I took off and waved to Aric, who was watching me through the windshield, and then climbed back up into the sky. I could hear occasional distant crashes of thunder but I didn't see any lightning. Sometimes it stays way up in the cloud and it's high enough that you might not see it, even at night.
But I could feel it; my coat was bristling and I got up and closer to the clouds. They wanted to be proper thunderclouds but were a little too weary—either they'd formed recently and were still picking up energy, or else they'd tired themselves out on the way here.
So I flew around the bottom of them, getting a feel for them and decided that they were mature clouds, and had just worn out already, which was good for Kalamazoo.
But the clouds weren't all one mass, and the next one felt a lot more prickly as I got to its edges, and that one was dumping out rain like crazy. It had more electricity in it, too, but it wasn't strong enough to get to the ground, so it was just flickering inside the cloud as it tried to find a way out.
I told Mel what I was seeing and feeling, and he said that it looked a little bit calmer after that one had passed, but I stayed up anyways for a little while so I could get a feel for the next cluster of clouds.
Nothing about them felt dangerous, so I glided back down to the parking lot and sparked off on a light post then shook off as well as I could in the rain. I went back to Mel's truck long enough to get a look at the maps on his folding computer, then walked back to Winston.
I should have thought to bring towels, 'cause I was still pretty wet and when I got back to Winston, Aric was still sitting up and opened the door for me.
He'd turned on Winston so it would make heat, and he kissed me after the door was closed. Then he said that he'd seen the spark from my hooves when I got close to the lamppost and so I started explaining how the air was charged, but I kind of cut my explanation a little short 'cause he was yawning—not from being bored, but just from being tired and up in the middle of the night.
He told me he couldn't lie down right away because Winston didn't have a parking brake and might roll away while it was running in neutral, and that I should stretch out on the seat and let the heat dry me off. So I put my tail towards the door and rested my chin on his thigh and closed my eyes.
The radio was on softly, but it wasn't playing any music, just soft static, and between that and the heat and the purring vibrations in the seat, I fell asleep pretty quickly.
I got woken up again by my radio, and Aric was still sitting in the same place but Winston was off and the windows were all covered in fog. He said that he had been napping, until my radio woke him up.
So I told him I was sorry and he said that it was okay.
I went up one more time and patrolled another cluster of almost-thunderclouds, and then Mel said that the weather map looked clear now, so I came back down and looked at the computer with him and we both agreed that the storm was finished but it would still be raining for a while.
The roads were slick and shiny from the water and even Winston looked glossier because of it. I stayed awake while Aric drove us home and he asked if I wanted to take a shower to warm up, but I didn't like going to bed wet, and the heat had mostly dried me off.
When we got out of the truck Aric stretched and said that he was too old for this shit, and I said that I thought humans lived eighty to a hundred years and I didn't think he was all that old and he laughed and said it was a figure of speech.
We went upstairs and he got some towels out of the bathroom and helped me dry off, and we hung my camelback and flight vest on the back of his chair 'cause they were still soaked, too, and then we climbed into bed together. And I felt kind of bad that we were both too tired to have sex, because he'd probably been looking forward to his turn all day.
Aric set an alarm for eleven so that we would have time to get up and eat something before class, and then he curled up next to me and put his arm around my barrel.
I didn't sleep all that well and neither did he because our bodies were confused by being in bed when we should have been awake. And we both woke up before the alarm went off, and he started stroking my belly and I could feel him pressing up against my rump.
His alarm went off while he was on top of me and he couldn't reach it without getting off my back, so we just ignored it and eventually his portable telephone gave up.
And when we finally got out of bed, I said that we could take a shower together, and he asked me to look down the hallway and see if there was anyone in it because he didn't feel like getting dressed.
There wasn't anybody in the hall or the bathroom, so he scurried down towards the open door and I thought about blocking him but that would be mean. It was kind of strange that he'd be worried about one of his housemates seeing him naked when he was comfortable going to Sunny Haven and being naked with a bunch of strangers. I thought that if I wore clothes I wouldn’t mind not wearing them around my friends, like how Meghan didn't mind being nude around me even before we started having sex.
I guess humans have lots of weird rules about that.
Aric didn't have enough shampoo for me to wash my whole coat, so he had to wash most of my body with a bar of soap, which wasn't as good but it was better than nothing. And he still had trouble with my wings, just 'cause he'd never got much practice. Which was something that we'd have to work on together.
And he insisted on washing himself, too, 'cause he didn't think I should have to try and hold a bar of soap in my mouth. It wasn't my favorite taste—human soap tastes really bitter—but I would have done it anyway.
And since he'd had to do all the work in the shower, and stayed with me all night last night and not complained that he'd had to spend most of the night in Winston by himself while I was off flying, I thought he deserved more attention, so after we'd rinsed all the soap off ourselves I asked him if he wanted to get right out of the shower or if he wanted to have a little more fun first, and he did.
I was lucky that Aric had a brush, 'cause my mane and tail were a mess. It wasn't hoof-friendly, so he had to brush my mane but he didn't mind, and when he was done I got on his bed and preened my wings, and he didn't put on his clothes until I was almost done, and we walked to Nina's for lunch.
I hadn't realized how hungry I was until we walked in and I smelled the food and I ordered a big omelet, and some extra toast, and I probably shouldn't have but I was eating breakfast and lunch together.
When we were walking back to Aric's house, I remembered I was gonna sit with Leon and Cedric and Trevor and read poetry and I'd completely forgotten. Leon probably wouldn't be sad that he didn't have to read poetry but I hoped that they weren't worried about me.
We were running out of time, so I packed everything in my saddlebags while Aric got his back for class, and then we got in Winston and he drove us to campus. He had to drop me off at my dorm, because I didn't have my books for astronomy, and I kissed him goodbye and then trotted up to my room, dumped out my flight gear and packed in my astronomy things, and flew to class.
Professor Miller taught us about orbits and the center of mass, which was a place that didn't move, and the star and planet would always be on opposite sides, and it was pretty simple when there was only one planet and one star but when there were a lot it got more complex and the star got more wiggly. And she told us that was how Neptune got discovered, because scientists saw Uranus wiggling and figure out that Neptune must be what was causing it and where it must be and then astronomers found it.
She showed us pictures of one star and how the observations lined up with the predictions on the graph, and when one planet didn't fit then they added in another and another until they decided that it had three planets going around it.
And hot Jupiters were the easiest thing to find, and the first one was found by the Swiss, but the Americans had all the data already but they weren't looking at the right thing and she said they felt really dumb when they found out that they'd already had the data but hadn't thought to look for big planets with short periods.
She told us about how scientists had thought of other theories to explain them, like binary star systems or pulsating stars or edge-on orbits, but as more and more hot Jupiters were found it became less and less likely that that would explain all of them, or more than a few, and then she showed us spectrums, which is where the scientists turned starlight into rainbows and that was how they knew if the light was red-shifted or blue-shifted, and how they were able to test that it wasn't pulsation.
The list of problems that Professor Miller gave us for homework looked like it was going to be pretty easy, which was nice. So I flew back to my room and worked on them until I'd solved them all and then went back through and checked my work again. It was a little strange to be switching back to numbers where close approximations were good enough, but that was something that the weather wheel was really good at, so long as I remembered to convert the numbers correctly. And a couple of the problems I could do in my head, too. It was still a bit confusing using radians instead of degrees, especially since that was one measurement that coincidentally was the same for us and humans.
When I got finished with that I got out my Bible and read some more of Matthew. He said how Jesus found some fishermen to come with him, Simon and Peter, and he filled their nets with fish; and then he also found James and John who were mending nets, which was something that ponies were always doing. Matthew said that Jesus went around healing the sick, and then also he gave sermons of his wisdom and some of it was really smart, like how you weren't supposed to stay mad at your brother, and that people who looked for things found them. And it was a little odd when he asked why people worried about clothing, because I thought maybe he was saying that they shouldn't wear it any more but people still did.
And it had the Lord's Prayer in it, too, which we had said at Easter.
I wanted to read more, but I needed to go have dinner before my meeting with Pastor Liz, and I told myself that I was going to finish Matthew by the next time we met and maybe the next book, too.
The first thing I did when I went to dinner was look for Leon and Cedric and Trevor, to apologize for not being at lunch, but they weren't there yet so I went to our usual table, and much to my surprise Anna and Reese were there. He said that Christine had invited them to our table because he also played Dungeons and Dragons, which was like LARPing but you didn't have to wear a costume unless you wanted to and you sat at a table.
I was pretty happy that there were new friends to eat with and also that I wasn't going to have to eat alone just 'cause I'd come early.
She said that she was going to study art and biology, and that she wanted to be a paleontologist working at a museum putting together monster bones and figuring out what the monster had looked like when it was still alive. And Reese wanted to design role-playing games, so he was studying English because you had to write all the rules, and also history and language because he said that he thought that would make his game more interesting.
So I told them what I was studying, and they thought that that was pretty amazing. That was one thing that felt good being on Earth, 'cause in Equestria when you said that you worked in the weather, a lot of groundponies didn't know anything about it and assumed that everypony just pushed rainclouds around and that was all there was to do in the sky. And since we had to work a lot at night, like I had done last night, lots of pegasuses took naps in the day and then they thought we were lazy, too.
I was just finishing up my meal when Peggy and Christine and Sean arrived, and I apologized for being gone all day but there was a rainstorm last night and Peggy said that she'd wondered if I'd been up in it.
I did find Cedric and Leon on the way out but Trevor hadn't arrived yet. And I told them that I was sorry for missing lunch and they said that was okay, and Cedric asked if I was coming to their game tomorrow night and I wanted to, but I couldn't because we were going to Indianapolis to see the air show, and I said that Aquamarine was going to be there, and Cedric said that they were going, too. And Leon asked if he got any choice in the matter, and Cedric said that it would be good for him to see how the working class lived. Leon said that didn't make any sense, and Cedric said that was why he needed to go.
So I was really happy that they'd be there and I bet Aquamarine was going to be happy, too. And surprised.
I went back to my room and got my glaive and went to talk to Pastor Liz. She was happy that I was keeping up with my reading, but I felt bad that I hadn't gotten more done.
We talked about Jesus and she told me that Mary had been faithful to Joseph, and it was God who made her pregnant and it was a bit confusing but she eventually got me to understand that nobody had actually had sex with Mary; God had just put the baby inside her which for humans was a miracle.
She told me to pay attention because Jesus liked to tell parables, which were stories that sounded like they were about one thing but were really about something else, 'cause I asked her about the clothing, and she said that that meant to not worry about material things like what kind of clothes you wore because just having better clothes didn't make you a better person.
And she said that the Simon and Peter weren't supposed to actually throw nets over people and catch them; that they were meant to be fishers of men in a metaphorical sense.
After we were done talking, I flew down the hill and saw that Winston was parked there along with all the other cars, and Aric was putting on his armor and so was Keith and Seth and Kennith and I'd kind of forgotten that they fought, too, because they had been gone all summer. And so Karla had everybody do practice drills for the first half and then after that she said that we were going to do an actual exercise and she went to her car and got out some flags and put them in the ground and that was the 'bridge' that one team was supposed to defend and the other team was supposed to capture.
She divided up everyone and said that we had five minutes to plan our strategy and that the bridge crossed over a bottomless chasm so we couldn't climb under it. Well, that wasn't a problem for me, and since my team was supposed to take the bridge, they should distract everyone and then I'd fly around and get people from behind and it took us all of five minutes to discuss that.
Seth thought it would work, and he said that I should wait until everyone was engaged and then they might not notice me flying around. So when Karla said it was time to begin, everyone came together and I stayed in the back, jabbing with my padded glaive, until everyone was pretty involved and then I took off and flew over the imaginary chasm, and I went along the bridge and got Keith in the back, and then I killed Aric, too, and the bridge was ours.
They thought it wasn't fair that I could fly, because they couldn't, and Karla said it was good to keep them on their toes and maybe next time they'd think to look behind them. And we did the exercise again and this time we switched who was attacking and who was defending and being able to fly didn't help me that much, until I realized that I could fly off the 'bridge' and around to the side and maybe flank them but they were expecting it and I got hit and killed by Keith, 'cause he had been watching me and he was ready.
I kind of wanted to debate my death, 'cause a hit on the rump shouldn't have killed me, but the rules were that any clean hit on the body was fatal.
We lined up after and Karla told us what she'd seen that was effective and what wasn't. And she said it was clever of me to fly off the bridge for an attack, but that I should not have left my backside open, and I agreed with her. I was a little bit sore where his sword had got me, 'cause I think he hit me harder than he needed to, 'cause he was still a little mad that I'd killed him in the last fight.
At least I'd remembered not to buck him, 'cause my hooves weren't padded at all.
Everyone got undressed and I nuzzled Aric and asked him if he was going to be coming to the rest of the practices and he said that as long as plays didn't interfere he would.
I was starting to feel pretty tired by the time I landed back at the dorm and got up to our room, and I thought that I might not get all that much sleep over the weekend, so I decided that I would go to bed really early and try to sleep a little bit late.
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I bet a lot of people do. I've heard that the Grim Reaper tends not to lose arguments, however.
I must be reading too many clopfics these days, because every time I see Silver writing about "sparking off," I think she's using a euphemism for unicorn orgasms.
Silver thought they were literally fishing for men?
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Actually, since the Fairness in Death Act of 1374, the Grim Reaper is required to give anyone who requests it a second chance in the form of a game of chess. He's good, but not unbeatable.
Astronomy is like that. Baron Xaver Von Zach organized a group of astronomers to look for asteroids & while he was getting ready, some Italian found the 1st one by accident. I've also read that some professor say a meteor fall (1795? ICR) & Thomas Jefferson (among others) called the report a lie because he said something to the effect that he'd "rather believe a professor lied than believe rocks could fall from the sky". This would be about 5-6 years before the 1st asteroid was found. IDK if Jefferson had the decency to apologize.
Also, late 19th century, there were perturbances in the orbit of Mercury. At that time, that meant there had to be a planet inside Mercury's orbit. They named this theoretical planet Vulcan (After the Roman god of the forge). Several astronomers reported sighting it (mistook a sun spot for the planet's shadow). Actually, as Einstein figured out, it was because energy = mass & enough of it has gravity.
Well, there's another form of "death" but you can only get it with Eric or Meghan.
And now I can't wait to see my OTP meet up at the air show.
I'm going to ask because while I've been following this story I have fallen way, way behind. But I know from my own college experience that one of the almost requirements of going to college is watching The Princess Bride. So, has Silver.seen it yet, or can we expect to read about her watching it at some point?
¡A male is never too tired for sex! ¡Males rise to the occasion! This brings up an interesting point:
A real man man-up and has sex no matter how tired or sick he is. As a man, I want daily sex, but when I am in relationships, I am lucky I I have sex weekly. ¿Why do not wemen woman-up and put out? It is even easier for them than for me:
When I am tired, I have to get an erection to rise to the occasion, but women have artificial personal lubricants; so now, womaning up is easier for them because of the use of modern technology than manning up is for men.
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Welp. That is huge.
7764135
You never realise how much you need a waffle maker until you're living without one.
Does this mean that for ponies it's not? Can they reproduce via pathanogenesis? (It might explain the higher number of females, depending on how their sex determination system works)
Ah, that takes me back to me LARPing days.
This to.
And of course Cedric wants to come now he knows Aquamarine is going to be there, I wonder if they'll be any poetry 'Ode to my Equine lady by Cedric'
They wanted to be proper thunderclouds but were a little too wear—
Wear? Do you mean weary?
Can't waot for the airshow.
7764361 true
7764302 if he was unbeatable then the great chess masters of old would have never died... Also a computer should effectively be immortal.
7764302
I thought he played Battleship?
7764498 "Weak," I'm pretty sure.
If the xx and xy sex chromosomes work backwards for Equestrians, then females would outnumber males 3 to one.
(xx, xy, yx, yy)
I'm surprised no one signaled this one yet.
I or we?
Well, that was one long and exhausting day!
And the best part, she did found two new friends, just as predicted!
7764302 http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000955
Sudoku would be acceptable too.
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The Reaper is a master himself. Just because it's possible for him to lose doesn't mean he always would either. And aren't computers already immortal in that they're not really a live and can't die in the first place?
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Also, Twister and Electric Football. Chess is just the standard, but you're allowed to ask for a substitution game.
I actually made a short comic about that topic years ago. Someone dies and asks for a second chance. Death (played by Mr. T) offers a chess game, but the character doesn't know how to play, so they play checkers instead and Death wins in a comically one sided manner.
7764127
Good lord. That's not a horse, that's a bear with hooves!
7764717
Obviously, we know different reapers.
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Except it doesn't work like that, because the "YX" and "YY" pairings aren't possible. Females only have two "X" chromosomes, so it's not possible for them to pass a "Y" to their offspring; only the male (with the "XY" pair) can do that. So "XX" (female) or "XY" (male) are the only possible combinations(*), so even if you reversed their actions for Equestrians ("XY" being female and "XX" being male), the only change would be that the sex of the foal would be determined by which gene it inherited from the mare, rather than from the stallion.
(* yes, there are medical conditions where someone ends up with an extra chromosome in the form of "XXY" or "XYY", but those are genetic anomalies and not relevant for our purposes here.)
Silver was feeling a little washed out there. Which you can occasionally get away with then playing planetary billiards, just blame the graphs.
Back to playing Larpyloo, first rule, the average person almost never looks up.
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"Excellent!" EXACTLY what popped in my mind when I read the OP.
Have to say, Aric is a very patient person. More patient than many people I've ever known. I know Aquamarine will like to see Cedric when they show up to the air show tomorrow.
I wonder how long ponies live in this setting, by the way. Definitely longer than Earth horses (modern healthcare , conscious , and whatever magic allowing RD to heal a broken wing in a few days), but is it as long as humans? Longer?
What, they also use 360ths of a circle? That is one weird coincidence.
Yes, I see the thing that you did there.
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Also, women have a double standard:
On the Day "Scheduled Sex" —— everyday should be the Day "Scheduled Sex") if the day is tired and has trouble rising to the occasion (I always manage to rise to the occasion, no matter how tired I am), the woman berates the man.
If the woman is tired, that is fine and the man gets no sex. If the man berates her or suggest that he lube himself and her with personal lubricant and have sex anyway, not only do they not have sex, but ¡the woman makes the man sleep on the couch!
7765497 The way I read it was that radians were the same for ponies and humans, which makes perfect sense since a radian is the arc subtended by a radius measured around the circumference of a circle. It comes to roughly 57.3 degrees, and will be exactly the same for humans, ponies and furry green things from Alpha Centuri, since the geometry of a circle is the same in all three places.
Though I could see ponies using a 360 degree angular measurement too, as it's one of the easiest to divide into whole numbers. Divides by every number from 1 to 12 except 7 and 11. We know canon cartoon ponies use base 10, from the count in the Iron Pony Competition. I'd have expected base 4 or base 8, as that would be easier to count with hooves.
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Yeah, radians are definitely a less arbitrary unit, but if Equestria used it, I don't think she'd be confused when having to switch from degrees to radians...
The radio was on softly, but it wasn't playing any music, just soft static
To us Ham Radio types, that static is the sound of the world. Those "crashes of static" are lightning--God's own spark-gap transmitter. When they grow loud, all sensible people disconnect their antennas from their radios, and ...wait a while.
Truly, I have seen sparks jumping between the center wire and the shield of a coaxial antenna cable. This is not what anyone wants going on inside of their (expensive!) radio equipment.
7764437
You so need to write this, Admiral.
7764187
It's true, he generally doesn't. Although, consider this: One Heck of a Case
7764276
Yeah, you're reading too many clopfics.
Well, it's a reasonably way to get them, isn't it? Drop a net over them, and then they have to listen to what you have to say.
7764302
And if you lose, according to the Fairness in Hell Act of 2275, you can challenge the robot devil to a fiddle contest.
7764317
I've heard it said about astronomy where it's one of the few fields where a complete amateur can still make significant discoveries, using a reasonably-affordable kit.
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That's only a little death, though. (and more to the point, who would want to argue about it?)
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Silver has not seen it yet, but somebody will be sure to fix that before the end of the year.
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And you live your life hoping that he never realizes that if he doesn't want to pull things anymore, all he's got to do is step on you.
7764437
I think that it's reasonable to assume that they reproduce the normal way; however, it's also very likely that there is at least one unicorn artificial-insemination spell. Probably in the banned section, I would think.
Yeah, I've taken a few revenge-hits in fencing, and also made the mistake of fencing without gloves on once.
That would be an interesting poem.
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Clearly, you're a better man than me.
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7764498
Yes, I did. Thank you!
7764618
Although computers have lost chess games. . . . also, I have it on good authority that the robot devil has a fiddle contest, not a chess match.
7764641
How about Minesweeper?
7764653
It could work that way . . . or only YY is a male, and the other three options produce a female.
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In humans, sure, it can't work that way, but there's no reason it couldn't in ponies. They're already got at least three tribes (four if you count zebras, five if you count batponies, six if you count seaponies . . . ); we don't know if they can all have sex with each other and get foals, but it seems likely--Cadance and Shining Armor did. Maybe alicorns are different in that they can get pregnant from any of the three tribes, but I doubt it.
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Heh, oops. Also, she forgot her towel! She's not properly prepared.
We; thank you!
Silver Glow always goes above and beyond
That seems more like a solo sport, although I'm sure that there are sudoku competitions.
7764717
Playing Twister with Death would be an interesting game.
Mister T, checkers grandmaster. Yeah, I could believe that.
In one of Piers Anthony's short stories, a character challenges another one to a duel and the weapon is hunger.
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Isn't it amazing?
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7764945
It's all about the zeros. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of zeros.
It's true! That's something that a human in Equestria would have to get used to.
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You have to be patient when your girlfriend is a magic flying horse.
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♫I'm not telling♫
360 is a highly composite number, so why not?
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Nope, degrees. 360 is highly composite, so odds are that a number like that would be an obvious choice for them. I mean yes, it's completely arbitrary, but you've got to figure that every now and then in completely different cultures you'll get something like that which coincidentally lines up.
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She'd probably try and revive the cult. "Clothes keep you down! Take them off and embrace true freedom!"
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It's rare that you hear them frequently on FM radio, but I remember one thunderstorm where I did.
Oh, yeah, when you're starting to see sparks like that it's probably a good idea to disconnect your equipment before the lightning really does a number on it.
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Hmm. Let's see what I can come up with.
does pony soap not? Soap is bitter because of the chemical treatments it goes through to make it soap. I'm not sure if a non bitter soap is possible, unless you put sugar or something in it.
yep approximations are nice. They definitely make things easier, or even solvable in some cases.
wait, do ponies use radians or degrees. That's kind of confusing.
There was a fic I read (The Chase? i'm not sure) that had pegasi burn an incredible amount of Calories doing weather work and that's why they nap a lot. The author had Rainbow Dash burn something like 10,000 Calories in a shift because she was doing several extreme high altitude climbs to make sure clouds were set up right.
To bad, the entire goal of strategy and weapons tech is to make the battle as one sided as possible
Even if it's not fatal, it's still incapacitating. We had the same rules when I did Milsim airsoft. A shot to the arm isn't fatal, but it still effectively removes you from the fight.
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Ooh, I like it!
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Generally somewhere in the low to low-mid 200's is average age for a Vulcan. But as to the 'Only get some every 7 years' that's not quite right. They can fuck whenever they want, it's just that they are biologically driven to do so AT LEAST once every 7 years.
Fave story off the top of my head is the Hagia Sofia. Justinian pretty much said "Fuck it, I'm awesome, and to show off how awesome I am, I'm going to build the biggest cathedral in the world and do it really quick!" Then the dome collapsed because they rushed building it so much the cement and mortar in it hadn't fully dried. They fixed that, then it collapsed in an Earthquake because they had made the dome to heavy yet shallow to support it's own weight under stress, they rebuilt the dome with a wider curve, then it fell again a few decades later, and they just kept working till it stayed up.
Yeah, feathers are pretty much like hair or fingernails, only hurts if you screw with the root.
Hehe, snippy snippy little pony biter. Might be herbivore teeth, but can still mess you up.
D'awww, why is her standing up to get some maybe even cuter then flying to it?
Yeah, Chemistry is a lot like potions, just maybe a bit simpler since only have to worry about physics, not magic at work.
Her very simple pony outlook, it's simply the way things are, not because anyone said so, but, simply how things are, so it's not really right or wrong, it just is.
Pony Hugs are a very major threat in this group.
Okay, she needs a piece of bread... no no, she needs to have a waffle dangling from her mouth as she runs to not be late for class.
D'awww yes, having a pony sit next to them makes everyone happy.
So, do the pegasi get dips on any planet around star Pegasus 51? Or, is it just another sign of Ponies cat like need to claim all things as theirs?
And, yeah, can't argue with Silver seeing Meghan as more skittish, she really is, took longer to coax out of her shell, more sensitive, but at the same time, more dedicated to this and with a better connection to you, so, the one it would be harder to drive off without, well totally changing who you are. But a nice sign of how much she cares and notices about her.
The ultimate deterrent to guys asking questions. "Girls stuff." Woman could hide ANYTHING from a guy, just put it in the bottom of a bag marked 'Feminine hygiene products' and he will never find it.
I should have had a 'best human' counter for Peggy.... Because damn.... Noting Silver being down, knowing why, offering to give her the room to try and spend time alone with meghan, just, damn, she is all kinds of awesome.
Yeah, no one buys 'watch movies'. Maybe 'make movies' but don't think Meghan is quite to that point yet, even if showing that around Equestria might get her in a bit faster.
Also, teasy little pony! But yay! Toy not go to waste!
So what if Peggy walks in, not like it would surprise her, and Meghan, we know by the end of your trip to Equestria, your inhibitions will be so shattered you and Cayenne will be best buddies.
You make a good point Silver, but seeing you with that in your mouth like that is still a weird image.
You already are a 'Hot Silver Glow'.
Pffft, I like Sean's thinking, also, you can imagine it quite well, you've seen them taking a shower together before after all.
And a thousand advertising company execs all looked up at once as they felt a tingle run through the air at the thought of a pony marketing their goods and being willing to say anything for enough bits.
And yeah, sorry Aric, but Silver can't not go fly in a storm.
Yeah, screw normal. Anyone who claims to be Normal, are the ones that are the most abnormal.
"The more variable a function has the fun it was."
NEEEEERRRRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!!!
Yeah, Ponies are hard to offend about stuff like that, you pretty much have to be TRYING to piss them of to do so.
Yup, another oddity for the ATC's to get used to, recording pega-flights of just heading down the street length.
And we see her being, yet again, best storm watcher and giving them way more detail then they've ever had about storms.
"But I could feel it"
Her Pega-senses were tingling.. no wait, that's the lightning bolt heading her way.
In which Aric learns the real danger of a pegasus isn't a bite or two, it's coming pre-loaded with tasers.
And again, I don't dislike Aric, and he is fairly cool, and clearly willing to work around what Silver wants, he's a great guy just, him and Silver simply, feel so bland together compared to her and Meghan.
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I just had the image of Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes meeting the Reaper....and challenging him to a game of Calvinball.
Come now, if nothing else, this fandom has proven just how insanely creative you can be with ways to, ahem, 'procreate'. Screw it, not just this fandom, but humanity in general. you can find a way!
Oh yeah so many odd rule, and most arne't even rules but just, guidlines that not everyone follows, and the everyone has their own way of taking things.. it's just a mess.
So, 1. What does pony soap taste like? 2. See very caring overlords that want to tend to their pets.
Yeah, gotta be fun having one class where you need to be super exact, and another where "Eh close enough' works.
Yeah, we all saw Pony liking Jesus coming up, dude was cool.
HERESY! DnD is not like LARPing, DnD nerds would pelt you with dice for saying that. Nerd heirachy Silver, learn it, DnD nerds are well above LARPers.
And YAY! New pony friends!
Silly non-birdy pones getting all upset over napping birdy-pones. Flying takes a lot of energy.
No Leon, you have no choice, must go to the Pony Waifu!
Hmmm, I've read waaaay to many M rated stories when my first thought on Silver getting the whole "God put the baby in her" line, was how often Celestia's done that.
She also is getting to know her Pony, and how you need to explicitly state something as being symbolic, or she'll take it as literal.
Sneaky ninja pony is sneaky ninja!
Oh, getting beat lie that by sneaky pony is no fair? Tough.
MAXIM:10 Failure isn't an option, it is mandatory. The question is if you will let failure be the last thing you do.
But still... NOOOOOO No kill pony!
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Probably beating a dead horse, but in ST canon, can Vulcans get pregnant more often than that, or is that also a rare thing?
On a more nautical theme, I seem to recall that the Hunley sank twice in testing, and killed its whole crew. On the third try, it floated long enough to sink a Union ship, before it sank again . . . killing its whole crew.
Honestly, I might be a little more worried about herbivore teeth. Meat--especially cooked--is kinda soft and tender. Try gnawing off leaves and stems for a snack and see how your teeth like it.
I’m willing to bet that potions have similar rules, though, just a lot of odder ingredients and results. “Professor Brown, there’s nothing in our book about mixing liquid rainbow in a potion.”
Well, as I’ve heard it said, nature doesn’t care about right or wrong. I’m sure monsters generally don’t, either, and I know for damn sure that storms don’t.
The best kind of threat, really.
Yes, she does.
Well, of course it does. Don’t tell me that you wouldn’t have wanted to sit next to a pony in school.
I would say so, yeah. The star’s named for them, therefore, it’s theirs. Simple logic.
Yeah, she’s a bit hesitant to claim what she wants, but now that she’s got it, she’s going to fight tooth and nail to keep it. And they’re not wrong that it would hurt Meghan a lot more to break up with her than it would hurt Aric to break up with him.
I just saw a thing on facebook that went like this: “Ladies: what’s your makeup routine? I’m looking for a new foundation, preferably liquid but still matte and now that the men have stopped reading we riot at midnight.” Any conversation started with “girl stuff,” and 95% of men will automatically stop listening.
Peggy is best roommate.
Well, yeah, but you’ve got to say it because that’s how it is in human land.
No reason to not use it.
Peggy of course knows, but doesn’t really want to see (and let’s be honest, I never wanted to see any of my roommates hooking up, y’know?). Meghan probably won’t ever get to Cayenne levels of minxness, but in Equestria she would certainly be far less constrained than she is on Earth.
wobble wobble wobble
She is.
Yes, he has seen it, but they weren’t washing each other and being casual lesbians in the shower.
I have a feeling that that might backfire on them, someway, somehow.
Yeah, you hook up with Silver Glow, you’d better be expecting her to go flying off in any storm and being gone for however long it takes. She has to do that.
Also they tend to be very boring. I still sometimes run down hallways with my arms out making airplane noises, and it’s still as fun as it was when I was a kid.
Heck, just taking off from places that aren’t airports or helipads. Now they’ve got to have a street map in the control tower, too.
Nobody does it like a pegasus brought up fighting feral storms.
Hey, she’s probably been hit by cloud-to-cloud lightning plenty of times.
Yeah, that’s very much a potential downside. Don’t hug your pegasus marefriend before she’s had a chance to spark off.
Death would be so confused
I mean, I think that at least artificial insemination is an option for a lesbian couple, and it might be possible to make fake sperm using the other partner’s eggs (not entirely sure if that’s been done). Guys, there are fewer options at this point.
Hopefully not all nasty like human soap. Although I’m not a soap connoisseur; I haven’t intentionally tasted any recently. From what I hear, Tide Pods are pretty yummy, though.
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While I’m not that great at math, I took enough of it that things like “Let’s say pi is three...” bother me. Even though for astronomy distances, that’s plenty accurate enough.
Jesus was way cool.
Well, yeah, it’s not the same, but it’s not exactly different, either.
I know, right?
Of course Leon’s going with Cedric. Even if Cedric doesn’t need his wingman, the two of them are still also bros.
For all the fanfics on the site that are about that (I’m sure it’s a lot; I’ll only confess to having read one), I really don’t see Princess Celestia going around getting mares pregnant one way or another. Just doesn’t seem like her style.
Which, in the case of Simon and Peter is especially important to clarify, since they very much could have caught lots of people with nets.
Medieval battle tactics also don’t tend to look up.
Sneaky pegasi win the war. That’s a fact.
This is of course what the Cuddlequest is banking on--no human will be able to offer actual effective resistance.
It’s also why Sweetie Belle is forbidden by treaties, too.
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And then Flim&Flam start sobbing because they found their niche.
Infomercial guys.
And then Aqua wows everybody by mentioning that Ponyville is basically held hostage and the reason it's so backwards is because the town matron is over 200 years old and hates change and insists on TRADITION.
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And let’s face it, they’d be amazing at it. They’ve got the song and dance routine down, they’ve got the shady marketing down, and they’ve got little to no compunctions about basically robbing gullible suckers. Also, they’re ponies.
I personally don’t think that Granny Smith is over 200, although I’m not totally opposed to that idea--as one of my readers famously said, ‘earth ponies go hard.’
As for tradition, well . . .