October 7 [Olivet]
October 7
As soon as I got up, I ate a little bit of hay for energy and then put on my flight gear. It was a beautiful clear day outside, and I was ready to go flying.
I went down to the boardwalk and called the airplane directors to get permission, then I took off and did a wing roll right after I cleared the railing, which actually wasn't that smart, 'cause I lost almost all of my altitude, since I hardly had any airspeed. Probably if anybody saw they wouldn't have known what a proper wing roll looked like anyway so they wouldn't know I'd almost crashed.
I did like starting flying at the top of the hill, because it made for really easy, lazy takeoffs. Any pegasus would rather jump from a cloud than fly from the ground.
When I got down to Hoben, I banked and turned along the front of the dorm, then followed the road out to Academy Street, and picked up altitude as I continued down the hill.
And once I got to Main Street, I was flying about six stories up, which kept me clear of the wires. There were a few people out on the sidewalks, and lots of cars on their way to work. I considered racing them,but I didn't want to use up all my energy right away, so I let them pass under me unchallenged.
I flew all the way down to the end of Kalamazoo, and then followed the road as it curved under the railroad bridge, then I followed the tracks east. I thought that I'd have enough time to get to Galesburg and back again, but I was gonna check my watch to be sure—I didn't want to have to miss breakfast or a shower because I'd flown too far.
I had to pay attention when I got to where the big electricity wires from the dam crossed over the tracks, because they were above me, and I thought about flying up and over them but decided that I'd rather keep my altitude on the way out, then on the way back I could do a long, slow climb so that would put me almost straight back at the bell tower.
I probably should have gone west first, 'cause the wind was on my tail. It was always smartest to fly into the wind first, 'cause otherwise you'd have to fight it on the way back when you were tired.
Off in the distance, I heard a train horn, and I turned my ear back towards it. The second time it sounded, I knew that it was behind me, so after I made sure that there weren't any wires in front of me, I turned my head back to look but I didn't see it. And I was sure that I was high enough to be above it, since I'd flown above a bunch of wires that all went above the track, and they' wouldn't be there if trains could hit them.
The train horn was getting louder and more frequent, and I was passing a park on my right side when it went under me, and a moment later I got a hot smokey updraft from its exhaust stacks. I should have been expecting it, but I wasn't, and I didn't realize until I breathed in. And then the smell lingered in the air and in my nostrils, too, even though I tried a couple of times to blow them clear.
It was always neat seeing down into the open cars. There were a bunch with the stacked boxes on them, but some of them were empty, and they just had little support beams on the bottom, so you could see the track underneath them. And there were also some empty gondolas, and I wondered what it would be like to land inside one and ride the train. You'd never be sure where you were going or when you'd get there, but it might be fun to try after school some day, 'cause I could always have Aric come and get me when the train got where it was going.
Once the last car finally passed, I slowed back down, 'cause I'd unintentionally sped up as it went under. And then I looked at my watch, and thought that it would be smarter to turn around and go back now, rather than go all the way to Galesburg. I'd rather spend a little bit more time at breakfast than get to class late.
So I looped around over a park, and then started flying back towards the college. When I got the the dam wires, I had to decide whether to go over or under, 'cause in between probably wasn't smart, so I picked up a little bit more altitude and went over the top of them.
That meant I didn't have to do too much more climbing, so I stayed fairly level over Sprinkle Road, and along over town. And instead of following the tracks all the way in, I started angling for campus once I crossed the river, which put me really close to the hotel, and I got hit by a gust of wind as I went by, 'cause it was blowing around the building. If somebody was looking out their window, they might have seen me go a little bit sideways as I passed.
I landed on the boardwalk and went inside, and put my flight gear back in our room before I went to the bathroom for my shower. I was almost out of shampoo and conditioner, so maybe tomorrow I could get some more.
I had gotten back a little bit earlier than I'd intended, and so I completely missed Kat. Peggy was getting out of bed and so I told her, then sat on the bed and started preening my wings. I had some secondaries that were starting to feel loose, and I'd probably lose them in the next week or so.
Peggy left for her shower while I was still preening, and I was all packed for class and ready to go and I thought about getting out some clothes for her but she hadn't asked me to. Sometimes people don't like it when you try to help them but they don't want help. So I just looked out the window instead and thought some more about putting a bird feeder in the tree outside. I wasn't sure that the birds would find it in there, but I think they would.
After she'd gotten dressed, we went to breakfast together and the waffle-maker was still working, which was pretty surprising. So I had a plain waffle and some eggs, too, and we talked about the football game and after I'd eaten I went and looked for Leon or Cedric to find out if Aquamarine was going to be there, but neither of them were at breakfast.
Professor Brown told us that our midterm would be on Wednesday next week, and he gave us all a handout to remind us what we'd learned so far and he said that everything would be on the test. And some people were pretty unhappy that we'd be having it, and he said he'd set fire to something in the lab on Tuesday to cheer people up.
Then he told us more about how entropy varied in different processes, and the formulas we'd need to figure it out. And he reminded us how so far we'd been just assigning our own zero point but for entropy it was different, and we could calculate it, and he showed us how. And the formula got kind of long and he filled up the whole markerboard with it, and then he drew it all out in a graph, which kind of had little steps in it as the substance went from a solid at zero Kelvin, and a gas at some point, and we knew how to calculate everything except for the first part.
But Professor Brown said that Planck had already figured it out, and at zero Kelvin its entropy was also zero, if it was a pure crystal in perfect form.
He also told us that it was possible to get almost to absolute zero, and told us that scientists had discovered that a lot of materials had strange properties when they were really close, and that they'd also verified what Planck had thought.
After class, me and Lisa sat in the lounge and went over the calculations I'd done, and she did some of the calculations on her portable telephone, just to make sure that I'd gotten them right. And then when we were both satisfied with it, she took my answers so that she could write up the final report for class, and she said that we'd go over it on Monday, just to make sure that we were both happy with how it had turned out.
I didn't want to go back to my room, 'cause it was nice out, so I sat on the quad under a tree and did my homework there. And a dumb squirrel I guess thought that I might have treats for him, so he started coming over and chattering at me, and then he looked like he was going to try and get into my saddlebags so I yelled at him and he scampered off to a tree, but he kept looking for his opportunity.
He tried a couple more times, and I figured out that just stretching out my wings scared him off, at least for a little while.
When I got done, I just put my books back in my bag and I was gonna doze a little bit but probably when I did the dumb squirrel would take my homework to line his nest with, since there wasn't any food in there for him, so I got up and took my things back to my room, then I flew back out and found a nice crotch in a tree and took a little nap.
Before I left for lunch, I had to go back to our room and pack my bags for math, then I glided to the dining hall and before I got my food I went looking for Cedric and Leon, and when I found them I told them again that I was sorry for not sitting with them yesterday. Cedric said I didn't have to apologize, but I still felt bad. I should be remembering a routine, not forgetting it.
He said that Aquamarine and Jenny were coming to the game, and I promised that we'd all cheer them on. I wasn't sure where we'd meet but I could always fly over the crowd until I found her.
I went and got some food, then sat down at our table and Meghan asked if she could ride with us to the football game, because she'd asked her roommates and they weren't too interested in seeing the game. And Peggy said that was okay but we'd be a little bit crowded in Cobalt and Christine said that I'd probably have to ride in the trunk.
I had my magnetic snowboard boots, and I could ride on the trunk, like Peggy had threatened me with, and Christine said that would be really funny to see, and I thought that maybe it would be fun to try, too. Peggy said it would probably scratch up the paint on the car, which was probably true. But I did kinda want to try.
After lunch, me and Sean walked to math together, and when he reviewed the chain rule for us, I realized that it was the same chain rule in thermodynamics, which meant that everything else would also apply. So when Professor Pampena was telling us about gradients, I started thinking of other things I could use them for. Probably smart people had figured it out already, but I still felt pretty clever for thinking of it.
He told us about gradient vectors, and how we could use them to find the tangent plane to anything, and showed us how, and he had a picture of a hourglass-shaped figure called a hyperboloid that had a flat plane stuck through it. And he gave us two different formulas to figure it out.
Then he taught us directional derivatives, and how to draw them on contour plots, and when he was done someone asked if that would also be on the mid-term, and he wrote EVERYTHING in big letters on the markerboard again.
We went back to Sean's room to do homework, and I concentrated a lot better than I had on Wednesday, 'cause I wasn't thinking about an upcoming storm. And so I got done with my homework faster than Sean did, and I had time to check back over it and then work out part of a problem in Equestrian before he'd finished, then we sat side-by-side at his desk and went over the problems together.
He asked if I wanted to watch the Star Trek movie before dinner, but I said it would be more fun to do with more people, and I wanted to get some beer to share anyway, and it would take me a couple of trips.
He offered to go with me, so we went back to my room first so that I could unpack my saddlebags, and then walked to Tiffany's. It felt like a lot further when I was walking, 'cause that was slower than flying. But it meant we only had to make one trip, because after I filled up my saddlebags he could carry more and so we got enough for both of us in only one trip.
We took it back to my room, 'cause it was closer, and then we sat down and talked to Peggy, and since the door was open, Ruth stopped by, too, and we decided that we should play a game of euchre, since we hadn't played in a while.
Peggy asked me who I wanted to be on a team with, and I thought I could play with Sean, so we moved around so that we were sitting across from each other, and we won by five points. Peggy thought that we had an unfair advantage since we were good at math, and Sean said that we didn't because he hadn't taken any statistics or probability classes.
We were a little late to dinner, 'cause we thought we had time for a second game but we really hadn't, and when we got there Peggy told Christine that we'd borrowed her boyfriend for the afternoon, and she wanted a refund. And he said that he wasn't gonna give her any beer, and she said that she shouldn't have any anyways because she was driving, or maybe only one, and Christine said that since I was the responsible one, I should make sure that Peggy didn't have too much to drink, and I promised that I would.
We went right from dinner to Cobalt, and it was crowded in back but I didn't mind, 'cause I got to sit between Christine and Meghan, and since I was in the middle I could see out the windshield, too, and I could read on the radio where it said who was singing. And when Renegades came on, I started singing along with it. And then everyone else joined in, too.
Peggy's GPS knew right where the football field was, but we all thought it was wrong when it told us, because there wasn't anything but fields, and then we came up on an intersection that had a car repair shop on one side and a gas station diagonally across, and then on the other side was the football field.
So we parked and went in, and it didn't take us too long to find Jenny and Aquamarine, and we went down and sat next to them, and me and Aquamarine nuzzled, then she hugged everyone else and I hugged Jenny.
Christine had thought to bring a blanket, which was good, 'cause it started to get kind of chilly. Jenny kind of bundled herself up in her clothes, until Sean let Christine sit on his lap, to give Jenny enough room to also be under the blanket. And me and Aquamarine stayed out, 'cause we were both warm enough without it, and didn't want to crowd anyone too much.
We shared our beer—Jenny didn't want one, 'cause she was driving and she said she wasn't old enough anyway.
Kalamazoo didn't score any points in the first half, but they were pretty close a couple of times, and we were up and cheering a lot, and me and Aquamarine were stomping our hooves on the bleachers. Aquamarine got a lot of noise out of them, 'cause of her shoes, until we realized that she was denting them, and then she tried to be a little bit quieter.
Cedric had a good sack early in the third quarter, and they got the ball after that, and Leon made a good catch that got them a touchdown, and I thought that we might catch up, but we never did, and at the end we lost by 29 points.
It was disappointing to lose, but Aquamarine was really happy that she got to see Cedric play, 'cause it was her first time, and we all went down to the edge of the field to congratulate them after the game was over. Cedric picked up Aquamarine for a big hug, and Leon gave me a hoof-bump, and gave her one too.
We talked a little while in the parking lot, until people started to get cold, and then we got back in our cars and drove home, and instead of going back to our dorm, we went to Christine's room instead and finished all the beers that we had plus some that she had, too. And someone put on a movie but I don't really remember what it was, 'cause I was curled up in the papasan with Meghan, and I was kind of tired, and having a little bit of trouble focusing because I'd had too much beer.
Meghan finally said that we ought to go back to her room, and I thought that was a good idea, so we walked together for a little bit but I wasn't liking walking so much 'cause my hooves felt clumsy, so then I flew up the hill just a little bit above the ground, and when I got to the dorm I couldn't make my card work to let me in.
After a little while, though, someone who was coming out to smoke offered to let me in, but by then I'd remembered that I was supposed to be with Meghan, and I'd kind of lost her. And I was wondering what it might be like to smoke a cigarette when Meghan got to the door and I said that I was sorry for flying off like I had, but I'd forgotten that she couldn't fly with me.
She said I shouldn't have had as many beers as I'd had, and she was probably right.
So we went up to her room together, and I had to pee again so I went in her bathroom, and when I came out she was almost all the way undressed, so I helped her by taking her panties off and then jumped into bed, and as soon as she got in I put my head on her breast and stretched my wing across her stomach and fell asleep.
Stats
Page generated in 0.079 seconds
Total duration
1,017 users online
259,584 hits today, 2,054,621 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Sheesh, Silver Glow. Just how much did you drink?
After all this time and Silver Glow has yet to play Cards Against Humanity. Hopefully she can play it once before she leaves with all of her friends. She has had plenty of fun recently now time to get her nose to the grindstone and study for her midterms!
Thinking about it, a Pegasus can probably fluff up their feathers like a bird. Also, most fics assume they are more cold resistant than other ponies because even in hot weather it is a LOT colder at high altitude.
Back during the 1960s it was folklore that LSD users sometimes had the delusion that they could fly & jumped to their death. I remember that before I 1st used it I decided I would try to fly UP to something, not across or down. I believed I might fly great, but I'd probably suck at landing. I survived -proof that Darwin was right.
IIRC, a couple of episodes implied that Ponies can vomit, but Earth horses can't. It's one reason horses can die from colic. At college, if you can remember the night before you didn't over indulge. Lite beer probably has less alcohol than hard cider but some malt liquors are probably stronger. We mostly stuck to wine for the higher alcohol content except we'd buy by the keg for parties. Mogen David = Mad Dog & was popular because it was the hardest of the cheap wines. Wine coolers hadn't come to the USA yet (early 1970s) nor malt liquors (well I expect they were around but IIRC the cheap ones hadn't hit small towns yet) & nobody drank lite beer, what was the point?
This probably isn't the song you meant, but the image of Silver Glow headbanging to a Styx song from 1978 pleases me nonetheless.
There goes Silver with her tree-crotch obsession again.
But what did Aquamarine think of his sack?
i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/430/609/3d9.png
And I was wondering what it might be like to smoke a cigarette
Wow, that's really bad for ponies. And Silver is really drunk.
7783962 That was the song I imagined, for what it's worth.
Car surfing, drinking and smoking...
She is getting used to college I think...
Was she denting her shoes or denting the bleachers?
7779777 An easy fix for this would be to release a new chapter for 'The Adventuring Type' (please, we've been waiting forever...)
To make sure Silver stays away from the wires, someone find images of balloons and power lines. Stays with you when its burnt in.
If Everything will be on the paper, does that mean youll get full marks by throwing ink at random then demonstrating its maximum entropy so by definition all the answers are there?
Will he be doingn the, magnesium alloys are very popular, but can be very combustive when combined with electrical arc experiment, demonstration?
Silver needs to make sure she is carrying her GoPro as she flies around. Mr Salvatore could get The Kid to stitch her together a personal 3D map of Kalamazoo to use in offline Flight Simulator on her tablet when she goes back?
Go drunk home, youre Silver.
I just heard them play it live like 2 weeks ago, stop with the coincidences!
Her shoes or the bleachers?
You'd be surprised how often I've seen this... Usually with hotels.
why did she thinks of aric getting her out of there? and not about the chewing out that Mr Salvadore is going to do with her ??!
another million views on y-tube
the videos keep making themself ...
someone is printing money by now with all the ad money that Silver is getting from you-t
haha drunken Silver ^^
7784556
Hm.
Actually, I was meaning to update that comment. I've since learned tgat students here are getting through with 20% in Maths.
7784587
Should be careful she doesn't get too heavy to fly.
One of these days I want to actually draw a picture of Silver
7784562
Gah. I guess it was worth a try...
7784626
Calculators are tools. They're defimitely useful for accuracy abd working things out quickly, but when you're learning you should be expected to know 7x4 (28) without too much difficulty.
'course, part of it is they also formulate the exam questions so you don't get any nasty fractions, which would require a calculator. So, if you do find yourself wondering what 33.7*4y - √21.89x is, then you know you're off track.
7784562
Fifths and sevenths do not terminate in base 4 or 12.
There's a simple rule to see whether or not a rational number will terminate in base X. First, you write the number as a fraction (a/b where a and b are integers). Then, you simplify as far as possible (so a and b have no common factors). Then you find the prime factors of b. If b has any prime factors that are not also prime factors of X, then b will not terminate in base X; if b has only prime factors that are also in X, then b will terminate in base X.
So:
1/6 will not terminate; 6 has a factor of 3 and 3 is not a factor of 10.
3/6 will terminate; it simplifies to 1/2, and 2 has no prime factors not also in 10.
1/25 will terminate; 25's prime factors are 5 and 5, where 5 is a prime factor of 10. (It doesn't matter that 10 includes only one 5)
1/49 will not terminate; 7 is not a factor of 10. 1/49 will, however, terminate in base 7.
1/6 will not terminate in base 3, because 2 is a factor of 6 but not of 3. 2/6 will terminate in base 3, because that simplifies to 1/3.
Any irrational number will remain irrational in any rational base. (I'm not quite sure what happens if the base is irrational, but as a guess I'd say that pi is probably 1 in base pi).
7784830
That was the intent of the last part - to mitigate that - would need better worded though.
Making them all ambassadors (in effect) would be another way round indeed.
'All american girl' did this interestingly - though from a rather different starting point, as in that case, the pony in question that lead to the amendment was a pony raised from infancy on earth, so was completely acculturated.
Yeah, you're not quite at that stage of the relationship.
...yet (*shipping horse noises*)
Definitely not a good way to transport a claustrophobic pegasus.
Aquamarine: "Man, tell me about it."
7785194
I guess once they found one Hot Jupiter, they knew to look for others.
7785200
"And you are sure you can't find your papers anywhere, Miss... er... Miss Horsey McNotahuman?"
"Why hello there, fellow equine! What a fine day it is to stretch my completely natural hooves I was born with! No, I am afraid I have lost my passport. What a silly pony I am! Whinny!"
"... did you just literally say 'whinny'?"
7785194
Pretty much. It's a logarithmic scale, so -1.5 is really quite a lot stronger than -1 (~32 Molar vs. 10 Molar), so you can push a bit past -1 with relatively little difficulty with a pretty soluble acid, but most things will hit their solubility limits before -1.5.
It's always fun to see someone enjoying life, especially if they act a little bit silly doing it.
...Like yesterday, I saw some guy in a pickup truck enjoying the first snow of the season in a nice large parking lot.
7783962 Probably the recent Shallow Side cover, in which case she'd be singing the same lyrics.
7783962
7784124
Earlier she mentioned "renegades" which would be by X-Ambassadors, I figured the lack of an S here is a typo.
7784508 Steel shoes, aluminum bleachers. The bleachers were losing the fight.
7783815
More than she should have. She drank her share and Peggy's share, too.
7783872
Oh, man, that would be an eye-opener for her. Her mind just isn't wired that way.
Also, fun fact: I once played it with a bunch of theatre kids, of mixed gender, and as young as 13, and that was all kinds of awkward.
7783910
I'm not sure if they could--I know birds can fluff up the feathers on their breast but I don't know if they can do it on their wings. I'll have to research that a bit, unless someone knows for sure. We've seen them move their feathers in ways that a real bird couldn't in canon, so I suppose it would be open to the author, but I am kind of curious.
I've always wanted to try it myself, but only with a sober person I trust absolutely.
That's true! We haven't seen a vomiting pony in canon (obviously), but we've seen at least one with her head down in a bucket and it's pretty obvious why.
I can attest to this. I have a few blank spots in my memory of college.
When I was in high school, Boone's Farm was somewhat popular, as was bad lite beer. In college, my roommate and I wanted to have a bad beer night, where we'd get a couple of bottles of the really cheap stuff, but we could never bring ourselves to actually do it. I did buy a bottle of Thunderbird once just to try it and I had one sip and then threw it away.
7783962
No, it wasn't. I meant Renegades, by X Ambassadors. But I'm cool with the idea of her liking Styx, too.
7784024
She loved it, of course!
7784028
Is it worse for ponies than it is for humans?
7784124
Not the one I intended, but that's okay. I like that song, too.
7784253
I never tried the car surfing in college, which is probably just as well.
t with my car, though.
I did a lot of other crazy s
7784316
The bleachers. Her shoes aren't going to dent; they're steel. The bleachers are aluminum.
7784402
She already got to see the exploding hot dog experiment; that's a required film for all pegasi to watch before they go to Earth.
Probably not, unfortunately.
That would be pretty sweet! He could even upload it into an Oculus Rift, although that might have bad consequences for her.
7784508
She's denting the bleachers. Steel shoes on an earth pony vs. aluminum bleachers built by the lowest bidder. . . .
I'm not surprised at all. Even sober, hotel keycards give me trouble.
7784529
She's thinking of Aric because he has a car, and Mister Salvatore never told her not to jump freight trains. He probably should have, but he never did.
Wouldn't that be an awesome ride? I almost want to make magnetic boots and try it myself, but I've seen enough videos on YouTube to know that it'll end badly somehow.
That would probably be Meghan, since she's uploading the videos to her channel.
7784618
Luckily, that hasn't happened yet.
Do eet!
Technically, it wouldn't be irrational in base pi or base 2pi, etc. But in any whole-number base, it would be.
That served me well in high school, because one of our math problems ended up with a very odd, ugly fraction at the end. It was something like the square root of 19 over 23, or something like that. The kind of answer you don't expect, and so I spent a lot of time making sure I'd gotten it right, which I had.
And then the next day before class, a girl asked me what I'd gotten as an answer for that problem, and I immediately gave it to her without looking at my homework and she thought I was some kind of a genius.
7784796
Huh, that's good to know. Makes sense.
I would assume in base pi, pi would be rational, but every other number would be really, really weird. I don't know if they'd be irrational or not, but I would think that they would be; using your above rule, I suspect that only multiples of pi would be evenly divisible. And I can't think of any advantage for doing that. LIke how would you even count ordinary things? A dozen eggs would be 3.819831... eggs.
7785011
That would certainly work for the exchange students, and may in fact be what they've done. Not a good solution to people who get Visas; on the other hand, you can yank those pretty quick if you need to.
That's a fic that's been on my RiL forever.
Seems like you can have time for reading or writing, but not both.
7785104
Probably about the worst way to transport a claustrophobic pegasus. On the other hand, you'd answer the question of whether or not a pegasus can kick through the trunk of a car.
There was a batpony at Bronycon last year that might have been able to pull it off. Okay, probably not, but he/she (I honestly don't know) had a perfect pony persona, and squeaked whenever you gave a hoof-bump.
7785206
Yeah, once they'd figured out that the first wasn't a mistake, it was probably really easy to find a bunch of other ones.
7785353
If ponies don't do logarithms, then the tornado ponies are going to be in for a shock. "We've fought EF-3 tornadoes and this is only an EF-5, so how much worse can it be?"
7786897
Yeah, what's the point of life if you're not going to have fun with it?
I'm kind of sad that I don't currently have any roadworthy rear wheel drive cars. Well, I've got my Grand Marquis, but it has no brakes, so it's probably a bad choice for driving.
7787011
The song I was thinking of was actually Renegades, by X Ambassadors.
7791307
Yes, it was.
They are. And in the future, somebody's going to wonder why one of them is all dented and scratched up and think it was vandals and not just an enthusiastic earth pony.
Which actually makes me think that Equestrian bleachers would have to be designed with that thought in mind.
7803780
A comedian once made a joke like "Do you think the executives at the Thunderbird Wine Company ever wonder why all their revenue is in the form of spare change?"
This is one of my favorite things to do in Grand Theft Auto V. There's a place in the mountains where you have to parachute into the empty car of a train, and I like to stay in there afterwards and cause havoc from the safety of the train car. It's not easy to hit anything from a moving train, but if you do, you're practically invincible from the reprisals. You're protected along the sides from police, as the sides of the car are just the right height for cover, and the adjacent boxcars on either end prevent helicopters from getting a clear shot unless they get REALLY lucky.
You know, with as much money as universities charge these days, you'd think they'd be able to afford a better waffle maker.
This is why you don't give a pegasus some birdseed; they start attracting squirrels, and nobody wants that.
This chapter had a number of unassociated character references that were hard to follow until you read further. Like when Silver and Sean get back from Tiffany's, Silver mentions "the three of them sitting down and chatting." It's not until after Ruth shows up that we find out that Peggy was in the room when they got back.
There's another one later at the football game where Silver, Aquamarine, Cedric, and Leon are all interacting, and the paragraph ends with an unassociated "her." With a little thought, we can figure Silver meant Aquamarine, since she's the only other one with hooves, but you have to stop to do that.
7803873
They've got to know. There are some products where even the company knows that their product is crap, and marketed to the cheapest consumer.
7805422
I've seen that they have the train in GTA-V (there are some YouTube videos of people doing crazy things with it). A gondola would be a good fortification; the sides are reasonably bulletproof, and if the train doesn't stop, it's going to be hard to get to you. Of course, IRL the train would stop eventually, when someone figured out to call the railroad.
The dining hall at K was remarkable cheap. The certainly could have afforded to buy a quality commercial unit, but they didn't.
7896604
That's very true. First you get sparrows, then pegasi, then squirrels. It's a vicious cycle.
Fixed; thank you!
Just a thought I had: are they any sounds in English that a pony's mouth can't make, or sounds in Equestrian that a human can't make?
9718817
For the sake of this story, no. Although there are surely sounds which are difficult.
I did mention in OPP that human voice is lower in pitch than pony voice.
Realistically, there would be sounds that would be impossible for ponies to make (or humans, going the other way), just due to the different physiology of the mouth, vocal cords, and so on.
So practical.
11359635
I know, right?
Maybe if all the tornado pegasi get sets of them, they could lift Cobalt over traffic jams.