October 15
It was kinda hot sleeping between Aric and Meghan. And I couldn't push any of the covers off me, 'cause then one of them would get cold, but I did push myself up in bed a little bit so that more of me was outside the covers until I'd cooled down some, and then I wiggled back down a little.
Meghan woke up first, and I nuzzled her neck and she turned to look at me but she had to be careful not to fall out because the bed was narrow. And she kissed me on the nose then got up to use the bathroom and I got out of bed, too, and I was a little bit unsteady on my hooves because I'd had more to drink than I should have.
So when she came back in the room I took my turn in the bathroom and when I got back she was sitting on the side of the bed, looking out the window at the birds crowding around the feeder. And I stood next to her and looked, too, and I guess us not being in bed woke up Aric, cause he sat up in bed and then came over to see what was going on outside, before going off to the bathroom himself.
Meghan said that now was the perfect time to steal his spot, and got back in bed, with her back against the wall, and I decided that since I was still a little bit tired, too, I'd get some more sleep, so I snuggled in next to her, and she put her arms around me and pulled me in a little bit closer, so that Aric would have room.
I hoped he wasn't going to be mad that we'd taken his space, and he wasn't. He just sat down on the edge of bed and got back in and laid down on his back. And I put my foreleg over his chest, and stretched out enough to nuzzle his cheek, and he turned and kissed me and rested his hand on my pastern, and before too long, we were all drifting back off to sleep.
It was pretty late when we finally got up. Aric had turned on his side and I'd rolled on my belly, and me and Meghan had woken up first but we didn't want to disturb him too much, so we were whispering to each other, and she said that she was a little bit too hot, too, so she had pushed down the covers and pulled up her shirt to just below her bra to let herself cool off some. And I guess Aric had forgotten how close he was to the edge, 'cause he opened his eyes and went to roll over and fell right out of bed, which was really funny.
Meghan used her fingers to comb her hair and then she untangled my mane and tail, too, and Aric went to the bathroom to change his clothes. Meghan didn't have any new clothes with her, so she said that she wasn't going to bother to shower until later, when she got ready for the dance. And she put on her socks and shoes and then when Aric came back we all went downstairs.
David and Angela were in the kitchen, drinking coffee, and they had made a whole pot so there was enough for us, too. David said that we'd just missed Sean and Christine; they'd left about a half hour ago.
Their table didn't have enough room for all of us to sit, so Aric leaned against the counter and drank his coffee and asked what we wanted to do for breakfast. David wanted to go to Blake's, which was downtown, and he said it was really good, and Aric agreed, and he said that I'd like it, but he wouldn't tell me why. Meghan didn't know, because she hadn't been there before.
So we all got in Angela's Alero, and we drove downtown and had to look around a little bit for a place to park, and we didn't find one until about a block away.
But walking was a good way to wake up, and so we went around the block and as soon as we got in, I saw what Aric thought I'd like: there were pictures of airplanes all over the walls and models of airplanes hanging from the ceiling.
I got an omelet and hash browns and rye toast, and it was really good. We were a little bit crowded in our booth, 'cause it was only meant for four, and Meghan told Aric to be careful and not fall out of the booth. He said that if he felt himself slipping, he could grab for the table and he'd be all right.
Angela dropped me and Meghan off on campus, and Aric said that he'd meet us at the dance.
Peggy and Jenny were both in my room, and they said that they hadn't seen Aquamarine yet, and Peggy said that she had called Mister Salvatore and told him what had happened last night, and that I should probably tell him my side of the story when I got a chance, just in case the jerk said that it was our fault. She said that sometimes that happened.
I thought there wasn't too much to say; he'd been mean and he'd tried to grab at Aquamarine and he'd gotten exactly what he'd deserved. But humans have strange rules about things sometimes, so I wrote a computer letter to Mister Salvatore, and I saw that Cyndi had written me one back, and so I told her everything about where we met to watch storms and how much before and I also gave her my portable telephone number because I couldn't remember if I had before or not.
It was pretty quiet on campus, because I think that everybody had been partying after the football game and mid-terms, and I didn't mind.
Peggy said that the shower was going to be in high demand before the dance, so maybe it would be smart to use it now if I was planning on taking one, and I thought I'd fly around a little bit first and then use it to relax.
So I got out my flight gear and went out to the boardwalk, and I got permission from the grumpy airplane director. And so I took my usual route out to the Nature Center, but since I was out there so late, there were no deer, and there were lots of people walking around which I hadn't expected.
I decided that I'd put on a bit of a show for them, so I flew over the pasture and did a wing-roll, then dove down and came up on the path kind of fast, and I flared at the last second to lose my lift but still hit a little bit faster than I'd planned and stumbled a bit on the trail before I got my legs sorted out, and then I was off cantering down the trail.
I slowed down to a trot as I went around the corner, and then I picked up a canter again down the whole length of the trail that ran parallel to the river. And once I got to the top, I did the same thing again, although I had to slow down to get around a group of people who were taking up the whole width of the path and didn't seem to have noticed me.
When I got back up to the top of the hill, I took off and flew back towards campus, and I couldn't resist doing one more wing roll once I was high enough to clear the trees.
There wasn't anyone in the bathroom, so I took my time in the shower, and then I sat on my bed and groomed myself. Peggy had left a note saying that she was giving Jenny a tour of campus, and that they would meet me for dinner, if they weren't back before then. I thought about flying around until I found them, but I decided that I'd relax and read my Bible instead.
So I opened it up to John, and started reading. It was mostly the same as the other three books, but it mentioned some things in specific detail and left others out, and it also mentioned that Pilate and Herod hadn’t found Jesus guilty of any crime, but the people wanted him executed to prove their loyalty to Caesar. And the way it was written felt a little bit different than any of the other books.
And I thought that the last verse was kind of funny, because there was a whole lot more of the New Testament I hadn’t read yet, but maybe John hadn’t known that was going to be there. Or maybe he had, and it wasn’t about Jesus.
So now I'd read the story that was told four different ways, and had different details, which kind of reminded me of how whenever there was a bit of good gossip, everypony would want to share it, but after a while in all the different tellings some of the details got a little bit mixed up or exaggerated. And sea stories did, too, and so did weather stories. And I'd heard that there were ponies who liked to collect the stories and see what was different about them or write them down so that other ponies could read them later.
But I wondered if sometimes it didn't really matter if the details changed a little bit. Everypony knew that the fish was never as big or the storm wasn't as bad in all those stories. And you knew what the worst storms had been, 'cause nopony really talked about them in any detail, at least not to anypony else.
That made me think about the football game last night, and I wondered what the talk in the locker room had been like, and if Cedric or Leon said any of the things they might have said in there to Aquamarine.
When I went to the dining hall for dinner, since I was going by myself, I flew most of the way, and I landed on the sidewalk next to a man who had a badge that said 'Thomas Davis 99.' He said that I was the first pony he'd seen up close, and asked me how I liked it so far, and I said that it was really pretty and almost everyone there was nice, and he said that he'd been worried after he left because there had been a couple of incidents and he thought that maybe the college was changing for the worst, but it sounded like they'd gotten past it.
Then he said that somewhere on campus, there was still a copy of the novel he'd written as his senior project, and he'd always wondered if anybody else had ever read it.
I asked him if he was going to go to the dining hall, and he said that he didn't want to relive that experience of his youth, and then he asked if people still called it Saga. And I said that I'd heard people calling it that, and he smiled and said that was good.
And then he walked off across campus.
When I was getting my food, I saw Aquamarine and I waved to her, and her and Cedric waved back at me, then Leon noticed me and waved, too. And so I went over and we talked for a couple of minutes, and Aquamarine said that she'd be coming over to my room after dinner to get ready for the dance, and Cedric turned to her and Leon just shook his head and that was a little strange.
Everyone was looking forward to the dance, and Anna said that last night they’d seen a bunch of streakers, and she told Reese to go join them but he wouldn’t. Reese said that was because he didn’t want to embarrass them, because he had a lot to be proud of, and she held up her fingers about an inch apart.
I got Aquamarine on our way out, and we went back to my room, which was a little bit crowded with four of us getting ready for the dance together. Peggy couldn't decide between two of her dresses, because she said that she wanted one that would get attention but not be trashy and she finally picked a really pretty blue one that showed a lot of her boobs but not too much. Jenny had a nice red skirt that went all the way to the floor and a silk blouse to go with it.
Aquamarine had a really beautiful dress with lots of ruffles and a nice saddle on the back, and it had a bunch of gems sewn in the trim to highlight the gold embroidery. Mine was a little more subdued; it was a light blue that matched my coat, and I had a breastpiece with my cutie mark on it, which I'd gotten for my cute-cenera.
Everyone had to do their hair, too, and so Peggy put my mane back in a bun because she said that my dress make me look kind of like a naughty librarian, and then Jenny braided Aquamarine's mane but left some hanging down, and she had a curling iron in her suitcase, which she used to make the loose parts of Aquamarine's mane curly, and then she used it on the ends of her own hair, too.
And everyone except me had to put on makeup, and then Aquamarine had a set of formal hoof-boots that fit over her shoes, and she put those on as well, which made her even taller than me.
If I had some silver dust, I'd have sprinkled a little bit on my wings, but I didn't. I hadn't brought any makeup with me.
Peggy said that maybe I could use a little bit of glitter, and said that Rebekka had some because she'd heard Kat complain about it before. So I went down to their room and Rebekka put some in, and when I looked at myself in the mirror, I thought I looked really good.
Jenny and Peggy had to take lots of pictures of us all dressed up, and they also took a couple of selfies and then she decided that we were ready to go.
I wanted to go down to see if Meghan was still in her room and if she was ready to go to the dance, so even though it was a little bit out of our way, we walked down the hall to her room. She had a green dress that came down to her knees, and heeled shoes that matched it.
The dance was across from the dining hall, in a big ballroom called Old Welles. And it was all decorated with garlands and flowers and it was really pretty.
It was kind of odd seeing all the people that I knew wearing fancy clothes, and I guess they thought the same about me and Aquamarine, 'cause there were a lot of people looking at us as we walked in.
We found Cedric and Leon right away, and Aquamarine trotted to him and gave him a big hug. He looked kind of uncomfortable in his suit, and it looked like it was just a little bit too small for him, but it did look nice. But Leon—his suit fit him perfectly, and he looked really good in it. And he looked comfortable, too, like he was used to wearing them.
They had a couple of tables with snacks on them, and a few seats around the edge for people who wanted to sit down, and there was a man on a little podium who made the music, and you could ask him to play a song for you.
I wanted him to play Renegades, but I didn't know how to do a human dance, and it wouldn't be fair for me to ask for a song when I didn't know how to dance to it, I thought, so I wanted to watch and see how other people did it.
Meghan had a different idea, though, and she just sort of pulled me into the crowd and said that if I didn't know any actual dances I could just move my hooves and nod my head, and I said that I knew lots of dances but they were all pony dances and a bunch of them were pegasus dances.
She asked how pegasus dances were different than other pony dances, and I held out my wings. And then she said that she was an idiot for not thinking about dancing in three dimensions.
I kind of got the hang of it after a little while, and I don't know when Aric showed up, but he wanted to dance with me, too. He looked pretty nice—he had pants that he called Dockers and the ugliest tie I'd ever seen but I didn't want to say that and insult him because maybe it looked good to humans.
When we got a little bit tired, we went over to the snack table and had some punch. Aric said he was surprised that it wasn't spiked yet, and if he'd known he would have brought a bottle.
I'd just finished up a couple of really flakey cookies when Leon came over and bowed to me and asked if he could have the honor of a dance. And I didn't really know what to say, so I went out on the floor with him and he took my fore pasterns and had me stand on my hind legs with my forehooves around his waist and on his shoulder, and he put his hands on me and told me to just follow along with what he did.
He bowed to me when the song was over, and he thanked me again, so I nuzzled his chin and he got a kind of silly smile.
Aric got a bunch of people together and said that they were going to dance a SCA dance, and they found a clear spot so that they had enough room. He picked Angela as his partner and then when the song started, and there was some really complicated foot movements which were called the grapevine and then everyone marched forward and turned around and came back, and the girls got to spin which looked like a lot of fun.
Then he asked if I wanted to try it but I didn't think I could do the spins. I couldn't do the grapevine either, it turned out, and if he hadn't been holding on to my fetlocks I would have fallen down.
Meghan was a lot better at it than I was, and she got it right on the second try, and then she kicked off her shoes so she could do the spins right, because she said if she tried to do them in heels, she'd break her ankles.
The dance went until ten, and people stayed a little bit after it was over. My hips were kind of sore from trying to do too many dances on my hind hooves, and Meghan said that her heels were killing her, so when we finally left the dance hall, she kicked them off and walked back to the dorm without them.
We went back to her room and she went into the bathroom to change out of her dress, while Aric helped me with mine. I had to give him instructions on how to unfasten it, 'cause he didn't know. And he was still struggling with it a bit when she came back out of the bathroom in sleeping clothes and she shook her head, and Aric said it was really complicated.
I said that Aquamarine had put it on me and she didn't even have fingers, and Meghan said it was because boys didn't know anything about clothes, and helped me get the rest of the way undressed. And she got my hair out of the bun and put the scrunchie around my foreleg like a bracelet.
He took off his shirt and tie and put them on her desk chair, and I folded up my dress and put it on top.
She had a bottle of wine, and we all sat on her bed and shared it and talked about the night, and she'd gotten pictures of all of us in our fancy clothes, and a really nice picture of me dancing with Leon, too.
I kind of didn't want the night to end, but I knew that I was going to have to get up tomorrow and fly in the storm and I didn't want to disappoint Cyndi, so I'd need to be rested and alert and also we were out of wine.
Meghan told Aric he could stay because it was only fair and he said that he didn't have anything to sleep in because he didn't want to sleep in his pants, and she said if he wanted to he could sleep in his underwear because there was going to be a chastity pony between him and her, and I said that I didn't know much about chastity, which she thought was really funny.
She got in bed next to the wall and had me get in next, and then Aric squeezed in on the outside, and he said that he was really going to be pissed if he fell out of her bed, too. She said that she could use his tie to tie him to the bed, and he said that he didn't think we were at the experimentation stage yet, and she told me to bump him out of bed, but I didn't.
I don't know. That Thomas Davis guy sounds like someone who would write himself into a story on FIMFiction.
Having not ever attended a dance I may be wrong, but human dresses do not tend to be encrusted in gold and gems.
Yeah, Meghan. You really should have figured that out by now.
Silver Glow is the best pony sandwich.
Admiral Biscuit, is that you?
Two dick jokes in two days, she's on a roll.
Silver Glow, the most non-innocent innocent and chaste pony of Kalamazoo, MI.
Meghan I swear to god, you're in denial about not being interested in Aric. You give enough mixed signals that I'd almost catch on in real life.
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Just like she was in denial of not wanting to sleep with Silver Glow?
Round and round and round she goes, which beds she ends up in pretty much everyone knows. Then Mr Salvatory and freinds nod to each other, and get the coloured markers. Which slime are they mopping up with paperwork today.
These dance things are really weird, as isnt the definition of celebrity, nobility, and monarchy or despotism depending on how teh two ends glare at each other?
Best place for Agent L to be is embedded in the group. He makes that suit look real good.
After the high, the low, and given the weather report, it might be even lower than hoped.
You know it Silver... Oh wait you're talking about the actual temperature.
Nice self insert, I wonder if there's anyone who goes to the college now on Fimfiction who could tell you how different the place is now.
I did think that one of the few social events Silver hadn't been to was a dance, I'm still waiting for her to go clubbing at some point. Well that and what she's going to do for Halloween.
Silver and Aqua could have given a demo of pony dancing.
I hate ignorant people who do that, but you have to be a special kind of oblivious to ignore rapidly approaching hoofbeats coming up behind you.
I could make some argument about how this ties into the various flight experiments pegusai on earth have cooperated in. But - a parrot with LASER goggles.
You have a few idiots that go out with headphones on. One ear covered is OK, but with both ears covered you could get run over because you didn't hear the pony coming.
7802525 Or because you simply don't recognise it as a noise to move for.
Silver is very, very much lighter than your average pony - I don't recall if her weight has been given explicitly - but she's been sitting in peoples laps at times.
Your average shetland pony weighs perhaps 250kg - 500lb, and - well - no.
Assuming perhaps 150lb, that would put her at a very different sound - perhaps more like a deer than any sort of riding animal for other than small children.
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Story prompt: Aquamarine Gets Some.
Some what?
I don't know, Pinkie. Just. Some.
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Not yet! But it's giving me lots of nice worldbuilding.
Now if only I had a place to put it. :V
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Evolutionarily speaking or if I literally went out and started chewing on my lawn?
It might be bigger in herbivores.
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Oh dear. Taylor series.
They look horrible but I remember them being less bad when you actually know the theorem behind them.
7802324 Everybody hates people who fill the entire sidewalk and fail to notice anyone else, even people walking the other direction..!
I've occasionally just stood there to see if they'd walk into me. Usually, they don't, but they can get really irritated about it.
Where did Silver get the dress from? Did I miss something?
And now for something entirely different:
Alarming things SG might discover on Earth:
1) Lutefisk or Surströmming
2) Downward-running escalators
3) The use of roller-skates as landing gear
4) Tattoo parlors (Try to explain that when you get home!)
5) Laser pointers as night-time navigational aids.
6) The roaring sound you get when you stretch a really BIG rubber band between your front hooves and go into a dive.
7) Spray-can silly-string
8) Authentic Mexican street food from a taco truck.
9) Deely-bobbers/boppers as head-wear for ponies.
10) Firearms. (Most outdoor firing range targets aren't set up for strafing attacks, but in this case...)
ROGUE PUNCTUATION!
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Do I need to get my punctuation-wrangling suit?
Hmmm, that guy seems VERY familiar...
You don't say.
You could sneak out from between them and see if they accidentally start cuddling with each other.
And probably smirking like crazy at the three of them.
Wait a second.
Don't dance like a human, dance like a pony!
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Meghan, um... you've given this some thought, haven't you?
'Shakes fist in the air' Biscuit!
Don't know about at Kalamazoo, but the beds at my scum were pretty small (although they were extra long). No way 2 people and a pony would fit.
Is she sure it isn't gold?
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¿What is wrong with those seeing the blue and black dress as white and gold?:
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Well, that's very true, but in Equestria they're almost as common as dirt, so. . . .
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Well, she's kind of a chastity pony. Okay, not really. But she's not Cayenne, so that's something.
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She is, isn't she?
In a manner of speaking. And I do wonder if my senior project is still at K, and if people read it.
She's the only pony currently in Kalamazoo, so she sets the bar.
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Yes, pretty much.
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I think so, yes.
Leon knows how to rock a suit, and that's a fact.
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Innuendo is often lost on the SG.
I don't know. Given the small size of the campus, there's not a huge chance that there are any active students (although someone else who was a former student or at least familiar with campus did send me a PM a while back), and by now I'd think that if there were any current students, they would have noticed the story by the cover art and commented.
There weren't a whole lot of them at K, at least as far as I remember.
As long as they're better at it than Twilight Sparkle. Wouldn't want anyone calling the paramedics, thinking that the ponies were having a seizure.
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If she was bigger and heavier, the ground shaking under her hooves would be a dead giveaway.
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Science!
That's wicked awesome!
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Or even something as large as a train, which has happened.
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She hasn't ever said in the story, but based on the weight calculations I did way back when,* Silver Glow probably weighs about 80 pounds without any of her flight gear on. She's not a very heavy pony.
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*I determined that earth pony mares probably weighed between 100 and 150 pounds (roughly), and I assume that pegasi are the lightest of the three tribes.
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Well, that's a start anyway.
Yeah, it probably is. I do wonder if you ate enough grass if you could sort of digest it. Probably not, but you never know. . . .
Fortunately, I've already forgotten what they are.
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I generally just walk through people who are smaller than me. Which is most people, so it works pretty well.
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It's the one article of clothing she brought from Equestria, and I thought that she'd mentioned it before but maybe she didn't.
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She would have seen escalators before, but she probably flies right over them rather than ride them.
That would be awesome.
Cayenne's probably gotten a tattoo while drunk already.
Or from some asswipe who thinks it's funny to try and blind a pegasus.
And you could stretch it more or less to change the pitch. That might be a musical instrument that pegasi use, to be honest.
As long as she doesn't try to eat it . . .
I don't think there are any of those in Kalamazoo, which is a pity.
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Ponies and guns don't mix.
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Maybe. . . .
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That would have been adorably funny.
Oh yeah, probably.
Ssh, it's a secret.
And then explain to the paramedics that that's how ponies dance, and you're not having a stroke.
Isn't that what neckties are for?
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I think we had the same size (XL Twin), and you can fit three in them if you're creative and friendly. Two's no problem.
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I see it as white and gold.
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Hm... Could probably start by eating wheatgrass. I think we can digest that.
It would be an interesting study to see if we do actually use it when eating those types of things. Most of what we eat is already cooked/semi-digested as is.
Since I made that comment, I think I've forgotten them too. :derpytongue:
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The next pony student: "What do you mean I have to sleep with three humans to beat Silver Glow? Who's Silver Glow? "
(Cayenne still have everyone beat, though. Girl probably had a different boy every day.)
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⸘You do‽ The dress is black and blue. Even with my blue-blocking polarized 100%-UV-blocking sunglasses (one only gets 2 eyeballs per life, so one should purchase and use appropriate protective equipment), I see the dress as cyan and black.
Oooh! I get ya
"I mean, he's lucky we did not feed him to some monster..."
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I wonder how Miss Silver Glow sees the dress, with her alien eyes and brain. I request this:
Pretty please with sugar and a big cherry on top have Miss Silver Glow see and describe the dress.
Goddamnit, Biscuit.
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID
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It'd probably take a few generations before it became useful again, but who knows? People have interesting genetic mutations all the time, so maybe there are people where it would start working.
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I don't think they'd have that kind of competition. Probably. Maybe the rules even prohibit keeping score.
Or girl, or whatever. Cayenne is . . . adventuresome. She has set a pretty high bar, that's for sure.
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I'm well aware of what color it actually is, but I do perceive it as white and gold, and no matter how much I look at it, that's how I see it. Whether that's my eyeballs or how I process colors in my brain, I don't know.
That's such an old thing (by internet standards) I'm not sure there's much chance of it coming up in the story.
I do want to write one with the ponies having dichromatic vision, though. I just haven't done it yet.
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Comic canon is that being eaten by a monster is sometimes a good way for a villain to get his comeuppance.
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> "I'm well aware of what color it actually is, but I do perceive it as white and gold, and no matter how much I look at it, that's how I see it. Whether that's my eyeballs or how I process colors in my brain, I don't know."This response got me thinking. I remembered that my telephone has a feature where it projects less blue light at night so that its users should sleep better called "Night Shift". I turned it up to 11. This is my report:
Without the blueblocking sunglasses, the dress appears greyish blue and black with a golden cast (golden light reflecting off of it). with blueblocking sunglasses, it is dingy grey and black with golden cast very apparent. ¿Do you see the intrinsic color of the black parts of the dress as black with a golden cast? or ¿as golden? It sure would be nice to have alien eyes attached to an alien brain from an alien culture to take a look.
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No; I see the 'gold' as a very pure gold color. Perhaps a little bit dark, and if I unfocus my eyes slightly, I can see it get darker, but it doesn't go to black for me. As for the 'white,' that looks like a very blueish white.
I haven't looked at it on a large number of different devices, but on my computer monitor (an ACER LED) and my cell phone (HTC M7) it looks about the same.
It's possible that it's 'stuck,' because of the way that I perceived it once--I've noticed that in some optical illusions, once you see them one way it's hard to see them the other (i.e., the spinning ballerina, eggs/cups, etc.).
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So, the material is golden colored —— ¡not another color with golden light reflecting off of it! That is interesting. ¿Do you sometimes see objects as intrinsically 1 color, but with light of another color reflecting off of it? or ¿do you see objects as the color of the light reflecting off of them (If enough green light reflects from the skin of an human, you see the human as having innately green skin, like an orion-slave-girl)?
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Yup, unmistakably gold to me.
I used to do theatre lighting, so I'm generally pretty good and knowing what the light's doing and what the true color is, and I also know about color values and how they can mess you up (under arc-sodium lighting, the red oxide primer and copper paint on my old truck looked the same color, for example). And I think that if I had multiple pictures of The Dress, or saw it in real life, I wouldn't misjudge the color. With only one shot, being examined through a computer monitor, I'm at the mercy of how the camera recorded it and how my monitor interprets it, and then how I see it after that.
Glitter? Feathers? I can see it now. This night shall be rued forever!
And ye, Silver did descend from on high, and strode boldly forth and decreed:
"Suck it, bitches, all y'all are gonna' sparkle for a week!"
So she extendeth her wing and made it so; half of their number began to sparkle whether they wanted to or not.
Speaking of glitterbombing your best friends; no shower either, or anything.
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Eh, I'd risk it. Even knowing that I'd still be finding glitter everywhere a month later.
They'll be fine. It'll wash out, eventually. Oh, and this is related:
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Of course, Saturdays got taken over as "Pony" day, when all can bask in the presence of Pony if they are lucky, or just spending time wishing they could bask in the presence of Pony.
Tough pony is tough, dealing with those honorable combat wounds like a champ.
Yes, you are way too cheerful way to early in the morning to be healthy.
Hmmm, gotta be really chilly.... Caleb must really like when they come by to say hi in the morning.
YES!!! Pony Show and Tell! DO EEET!!!!
Peggy, you know Pony will take anything you say as a joke seriously.
Well, yay, stadium close enough to drunk at.
So Silver, must get all friends to become friends with all other friends!
See, everypony needs a wing preener, so easy and helpful. Multipurpse too, can also be used as ear scritcher and belly wubber.
Fun..... because you got multiple boards of equations....... again...... NEEEERRRRRDDDDDD!!!!
Video of pony flying in the storm... ALL THE RATING!!!!
So... someone has to have made bingo cards for the alumni class years.
Yeah, there really is music everywhere, and it just, kind of blends into the background... unless you work at a store whose music system is messed up and constantly crackles and has static issues.
Pony so cute when she's so eager to meet ponyfriend again.
Gotta share the haybale.... just, two of them, standing together nomming it...... SO CUTE!
Ponies are very easy to please and make feel 'honored', even getting used as a test subject makes them happy.
So, why was Jenny uncomfortable about the modeling, or was it very, VERY detailed anatomy?
Hehe, see when it comes to other ponies, Silver is on point with reading subtle body language and social queues. Humans need to learn to have more of those pony can read,.
Yay real ice cream sundaes!
Beer Pony, easy beer transport.
Yes, must see pony riding pony... take lots of videos.!
Good try! Pony so happy and cute and sweet, just being happy people have fun, not caring about competition.
But, still sweet, might have lost, but Cedric got to show off a bit. So woot!
Suuuuure Silver, it's all the hurt wing, nothing else. "Ma'am, can you fly down this straight line?"
Yeah, that asshole does not know what level of hell he's unleashed on himself by fucking with ponies. Even without them doing a thing, moment Peggy got her phone out... you just became the personal plaything of a very dedicated federal agent with a LOT of connections, and a very personal stake in not letting people fuck with his pony.
But, then there is also the... don't fuck with a pony because they will END YOU! issue as well. WHOOO Go Aqua! Should have aimed a bit better, really taught him a lesson.
Also, don't fuck with Pony, because there is one thing, above all others, ponies are really really good at. Making friends. Including very large friends that do not like people messing with their buddies.
In short.... don't fuck with ponies, it will not end well for you on any level.
Ahem, Silver, on the "Apologize to him" front, I get your reasoning, and it's sweet but, to borrow a pony term... Eenope.
He is a bigger idio then you already think Silver, becuase you are way o nice to think he's as stupid as he is.
When you are so drunk, even making out with another dude seems like a good idea.
So.. Sean CAN kiss other women, he just can't enjoy it?
Yeah, Silver, you really are missing the point to those two deciding who sleeps where. You are proposing the one situation they are trying to avoid above any other.
Yay Pony sandwich! See, it's okay if there is a pony around. They aren't snuggling in bed with each other, they are each, seperatly, snuggling the same pony. Who is very, very, very happy right now.
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Want a fun one? Lactose Tolerance. Yes the ability to digest milk is a mutation. It's even a special type called a Founder Mutation, where the mutation can be traced back to a specific region in which it first developed then spread.
Yes, yes it is hot sleeping between them, in more ways then you mean.
Meghan has her Teddy pony, and she must snuggle close at all times.
I was terrified of falling out of bed after I moved a few months ago, go from sleeping on the floor, to a rather high up bed...
Pony is always so happy and looking at the best, nearest parking space is way away from where you want to go? Walking is fun and helps you wake up and work up an appetite.
Aric my not get Slver as well as Meghan, but some likes are just obvious. If it goes up in the air, she's going to be interested.
Yeah, Pony has very simple world view, very uncomplicated. He was an ass, he got kicked, what more needs to be said?
Show off pony is being a sow off, flying all fancy and having fun.
Yeah, all sorts of fields where taking down the same stories from different regions to see how they change is applicable.
Yeah, same with Sea Stories Silver, you can talk up and exaggerate something that went wrong, but when it's something that went SERIOUSLY wrong, and some really bad shit.... no, you treat it serious.
Dude has a bit of PTSD from the cafeteria?
Leon knows females, even pony ones, way better then Cedric, and Cedric know this. Just, love the dynamic between these two over all this. Leon will give him shit, but dude really does have his back.
Slutty, but not too slutty, eh Peggy? So "Will fuck, but only one of you" look?
Naughty librarian pony. Sexy.
She will be flaking glitter out of her wings even back in equestria.
Fancy ponies being all fancy and adorable. Getting the center of attention.
Yeah, I don't doubt Leon can rock a suit.
Silly pony being all kind and feeling bad about asking for songs she likes without dancing.
Yeah..... that was a kind of dumb question. Pretty much any version of "How do Pegasi X differ" involves adding on a Z axis.
I doubt the tie looked any better to humans Silver.
Leon...dude.... you are smoooooth. Just.... damn.
Good to see Meghan having some fun too.
It is sad when the pony has an easier time with clothing then you Aric... hate to say it.
The phrases 'need to be rested and alert' and 'we were out of wine' do not go together!
"Chastity Pony." Just..... just.... ALL THE YES.... even if there are few terms that work less for her.
Okay, you BOTH passed 'experimental stage' a looong time ago.
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I think that that’s a very good thing to do on a Saturday. Or any day.
“Where’d you get all those bruises?”
“Defending a bridge.”
You’re sounding like one of those lazy unicorns.
Of course Caleb does.
Wouldn’t that be amazing? “I brought my friend Silver Glow who’s a weather watcher and has a pilot’s licence and an award for flying in a wind tunnel.”
Should really be a requirement of all college stadiums, IMHO.
Kalamazoo College’s tennis courts were closer than their football field, since the college took tennis more seriously than football. Anyway, I can’t help but wonder if there was tailgating before tennis matches.
Well, of course! That’s the transitive property of pony friendships.
They do! Well, maybe not everypony needs a wing preener, since only one of the tribes has wings to preen, but ear scritches and belly wubs make up for that.
What can kick your ass defending a bridge and kick your ass in math? Silver Glow!
The Nielsen rating is ‘Everyone.’
As far as I know, nobody has, but then I never really got that into homecoming.
It is kind of weird to think about, though. Like, practically anywhere you go there’s music playing, whether it be yours or someone else’s. Even if there isn’t music, there’s the opportunity for it to be playing, and that wasn’t always the case. Go back a couple hundred years, and if you wanted background music you had to hire an orchestra.
Two ponies snacking on a haybale, gets a billion views on YouTube.
They are! I wonder if Aquamarine got an award for being a live model?
Well, picture how you’d feel to have your friend/roommate standing on a platform naked while other students examined him or her in detail. And then add on the weirdness to that not seeming strange to your friend/roommate.
If only humans would grow tails and movable ears, ponies could figure out their emotions and feelings easily.
One of the real advantages to trying to impress people returning for homecoming.
Beer pony is best pony. The right kind of pannier, and she could probably carry around two pony kegs.
The fun has been doubled!
As a lifetime Detroit Lions fan, I can get behind the having fun vs. actually winning the game. Among things I’ve seen in games: the kicker making a tackle, and the quarterback throwing an interception and then tackling the guy who caught the ball. A good football team would never be in a position where either of those things could happen.
I bet if they’d had Aquamarine at the end zone cheering him on, they could have given Cedric the ball and he would have run the entire football field with it just to show off.
Who could say it wasn’t her wing causing her to not be able to fly in a straight line? Would Officer Friendly be willing to risk that?
Oooh, yeah, even though the guy got his instant karma at the business end of Aquamarine, you can bet that he’s now also on Mr. Salvatore’s radar screen, and that’s not a place to be.
If he’d stayed up after the first hit, he probably would have learned an entire new world of pain that he had never known could exist. All said, he’s lucky that she dropped him with the first buck (and even more lucky that she didn’t do any permanent damage to him). She totally could have gelded him if she’d had a mind to.
And that’s another blessing he doesn’t even realize he got. If the ponies and their friends had been particularly vengeful, there’s really no limit to what they could have done. Cedric could easily throw him through a wall, and Aquamarine could buck him back through the other way for round two.
No, it really doesn’t.
“I guess we’re kind of sorry that we thought you were enough of a threat to break you.”
Well, he was drunk stupid. That’s sort of forgivable.
Yeah, you’ve got to do what the bottle says. That’s the rules.
Exactly! That’s fair, isn’t it?
Or is that the situation they really both want but neither of them wants to admit it? In the wise words of Nowacking, “Just bang already!”
Exactly! That’s a totally legit solution.
And from what I’ve seen on maps, it tends to be based on how much sun the people in question get. The more sun, the less lactose tolerance. Which, in a nutshell, is why you can lure white people with cheese.
Totally true. Never don’t snuggle the pony.
It’s a reasonable fear; my bother broke his wrist falling out of a bunk bed.
Their motto is “always look on the bright side of life.”
That one is super obvious.
She’s not wrong in that simplicity, either. He tried to grab Aquamarine, and like a sensible pony, she didn’t let him. End of story.
Can you blame her?
There’s a lot of that in regional history, versions of myths and so on. And I suppose some of it even applies to the modern world; for example, there are fast food joints that we just don’t have in Michigan, so our culture is Chick-Fil-A-less, for the most part. But we’ve got Vernors and Faygo, and we’ve still got Big Boy, too.
You know it was bad when nobody talks about it, or only talks about it briefly. I’m just imagining a bar full of pegasi, and somepony says something like ‘remember that Nor-easter in ‘88?’ and all the ponies nod their heads and it goes quit for a moment before the subject changes to something more pleasant.
I actually got to hear some of that stuff firsthand in one of my history classes--it was history of WWII, and the professor got some local WWII vets to come into class, and one of them told the story of watching the Leopoldville sink, and there was a lot of that story that I could tell was being left out.
Can you blame him?
Leon knows damn well when it’s time to be smooth and cultured and if he’s got to smack that into Cedric, so be it. You know damn well that Leon also taught Cedric to dance like he threatened (he probably also dressed Cedric for the occasion).
Yeah, basically.
It was worth it.
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The only thing better than a pony is a pony in a gala dress. That’s a true fact.
You’re damn right he can.
That’s basically it. It’s all the same stuff that the other ponies do, but in three dimensions instead of two. (Which makes you wonder if pegasi sometimes play boring (to them) games like 2D chess or 2D tag).
Of course it didn’t. Aric knows how to pick an ugly tie.
He really is. For as much as he pretends to not be, Leon knows fancy.
She’s dressed like a princess at a ball with her pony--of course she’s having fun.
Let’s be honest, though, how many guys have the slightest understand of how a ball dress works? I sure don’t.
They can, as long as you don’t add the phrase “let’s get more wine.”
To quote Maurice Williamson: “We’ll go with celibacy . . . I haven’t done it, so I don’t know what it’s about.”
Well, yeah, that’s fair.
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Ssh, pretend you didn’t see that or this one here.
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