December 8
I woke up to the sound of birds at my feeder, and so I stuck my head up and watched them until Meghan woke up, and we cuddled for a little bit and then decided that we were going to wake up Aric the fun way, and so she used her fingers to count down and then straddled him and I think he faked being asleep a little bit because he might have thought she was gonna stop if she saw he'd woken up. But I teased him enough with my tail that he couldn't resist and he grabbed my rump and pulled me down.
Afterwards, he snuggled up against us and me and Meghan were pretty awake but I guess we'd tired him out, 'cause he fell back asleep pretty quick, and so me and Meghan snuggled with each other and watched the day break through my big balcony windows.
Lots of birds had discovered my birdfeeder, and they were all lining up on my balcony and the trees a little bit further back waiting for their turn. It was about half empty, so either there were a lot of early risers, or else they'd been busy yesterday and I'd just been too tired from moving the cloud around to notice.
Meghan asked me what I thought the birds would think about us, and I said that probably since they lived in the city they were used to humans, and they might not even be able to see through the glass all that well, anyway. As long as we moved slow we were probably far enough away that the birds didn't really think about us at all, but I said that maybe if she went right up to the window they'd be able to see her better and some of the more skittish birds would fly off and wait to see if she went outside and tried to eat one of the bold birds. If she didn't, they'd probably come back.
So she moved right up to the glass kind of slowly and it didn't seem to bother the birds at all. And then I crept up next to her, and we watched them for a couple of minutes before deciding to go into the kitchen to make breakfast.
I'd never really had to think about budgeting for food, so I was already running low after only a couple of days. We had enough eggs left over for one more omelet but I was out of waffle batter, and we never had stopped by Meijer yesterday to get ingredients for a quiche, so we couldn't have that.
I did have some shredded wheat because I liked that and I also had oatmeal and maple syrup to put in it, plus I had the hay I could eat, too, although Meghan and Aric couldn't. I had seen Meghan nibble at a piece a couple of times, though.
So I made scrambled eggs and I was gonna make oatmeal but Meghan wanted to 'cause she said that it was kind of awkward to just be standing in the kitchen watching me even though I was cute and she said that it was also warmer near the stove.
Aric woke up again before we were done cooking and he came into the kitchen to see what we were doing, and when he saw that we didn't need any help he went back out and got his portable telephone and then leaned up against the counter and started looking at it. Meghan asked him what he was doing and he said that he'd been thinking and maybe we could rent a television so that we could marathon Lord of the Rings at my apartment instead of his house.
Meghan thought that was kind of silly and he said that we'd be able to get a much bigger one than he had, and she said that boys were always thinking about size. Then she asked me if stallions were worried about their size, and I said that I'd never heard one wishing it was bigger, but they sometimes said that it was longer than it really was, as if I couldn't see with my own eyes.
Then Aric said if it wasn't worth paying for a few extra inches, it might be worth it 'cause we wouldn't have to wear clothes to watch it. And that did sound appealing, so I asked him how much a television would cost and he said it would only be sixty dollars and we could have it for a whole month. He said that they didn't do weekly rentals, but monthly was fine and they'd even deliver it to us and pick it up later so we wouldn't have to do anything.
So we decided that was a good deal, and he ordered it and then asked what time we would want it and I thought the afternoon, 'cause we could do fun stuff in the morning and then come back for lunch and relax and be home when the television arrived.
While we were talking, I'd stopped paying attention to the scrambled eggs and shouldn't have, 'cause I burned them a little bit.
We ate breakfast in the living room, watching the birds. It had started snowing again but they didn't seem to mind the snow too much. I think they were happy to get good sunflower seeds, 'cause there weren't any sunflower plants they could get them from in the winter.
Then we talked a little bit and decided that we could go to the Nature Center and play around there for the morning. I bet the deer wondered where I'd gone, although they probably didn't actually care that I hadn't been there in a while. And they were probably done with their morning grazing anyway.
Aric said that we could take a shower first or later, and me and Meghan both though that later was better, to warm up after playing outside. So they got dressed and I didn't think I'd need my flight gear, so I didn't put it on.
And then on the way out of the apartment we came across Chad, who apparently also lived in the apartment building. I was gonna wave at him, but he had a kind of mean look on his face and so I didn't.
When we were in Winston, Aric said that he didn't like him, and he was the only person working in the theatre who he didn't like. He told me that Chad was kind of person who just seemed to exude slime, and if you shook his hand you wanted to wash it off afterwards, but he couldn't think of a specific reason why.
Meghan said she felt that way about him, too, and maybe he just needed to get laid. And that made Aric snap his head around and she shrugged and I said that it was true. Sometimes that made a pony grumpy.
Since we went in in Winston, we had to stop at the little kiosk and pay. I probably should have told them how many times I'd just flown in and back out but I didn't and when I asked Aric about it he said that when I flew in I counted as wildlife but when I rode in I was a person and that was very confusing. Humans have strange rules.
People had been doing a pretty good job at keeping the snow off the parking lots and sidewalks but they hadn't done much on the trails. There were lines of sticks that marked where they were, though, so you wouldn't get lost. They should have put them there before the first snow fell, but I guess they must have forgotten about it. Maybe they hadn't been expecting it.
We went around my favorite trail first, and the deer weren't there but when I flew up, I could see lots of hoofprints where they usually grazed, and some of the snow was disturbed from them sticking their noses down to get at the plants. And when we got to the downhill side, Aric said that he wished he'd brought a sled, and Meghan suggested that he could go down on his butt.
So he sort of got a running start and then dropped to his butt and he slid for maybe ten meters before he came to a stop and when he got back up he had to brush off a lot of snow and he said that that had been a really stupid idea and Meghan said that she hadn't thought he was dumb enough to try it.
I didn't try—I'd probably have hurt my tail if I did—but I did get a short gallop and then I flew off the top of the hill and started to fly around, doing little rolls and looping up when I got close to the trees, and just having fun while Meghan and Aric watched me. And I zoomed in just over their heads and then Aric wanted to hold up his hand so I could give him a high-five as I went overhead, which is where two humans smack their palms together. So he held up his hand and I zoomed over low and brushed against him with my hoof and then flew back around and Meghan held up her hand so I did the same thing a second time.
I left my leg relaxed, 'cause hooves weren't soft like hands, and I didn't want to hurt them.
I got a bunch of snow on me from flying and when I landed Meghan brushed it off my back even though it wasn't bothering me at all. I didn't like it when I got enough on my mane that it melted and dripped down into my eyes but otherwise I didn't mind having snow on my coat.
We went around the trail by the railroad tracks and when we got done we went down the other path that went back into the woods, and walked along that through the trees.
Most of the animals were in their nests and burrows 'cause of the snow, but there were a few chickadees and sparrows who were fat with seeds flying around and chirping at us. I asked if the nature center fed them and Aric didn't know—he hadn't seen any birdfeeder, but they could have scattered seeds on the ground, too, or else there could be someone nearby who put out food for them.
Plus there were lots of winter berries that birds liked even though most of them were poison to ponies.
We were still on the side that was by the river and the railroad tracks when we heard a train coming, so we picked our way through the woods to get a bit closer to the tracks so that we could see it better. Aric got to the edge of the trees and looked both ways 'cause his ears weren't as good at telling where sound came from. I was already looking north.
He figured it out before the train got close enough to do more than see its headlight and it honked at us and Aric waved and so I did, too, and then it honked one more time as it rushed past. And we got a big blast of snow that it pushed aside, and for a moment when all the railcars were sort of obscured and shadowy in the snow I felt an urge to move forward and touch them and then the feeling passed.
There was one car that was rocking a little bit and banging really loudly as it went by, and Aric said that was because it had a flat wheel. Sometimes they slid on the rails and that was how it happened, and they didn't always notice, 'cause the trains went through the railyards so slowly that it was hard to see it there.
Then after the last car had passed and it got quieter he said that Meghan should have flashed the locomotive and she said next time she'd do it if he did. So he looked up and down the tracks but there weren't any more trains coming.
We went the rest of the way around the path and then we went along the one that went across the street, and I didn't feel as uncomfortable in the tunnel with both of them there with me. Although since I was walking, it was kind of strange how my hoofsteps echoed up and down it, and when we got out the other side Meghan said that my ears had been really twitchy in the tunnel, 'cause I kept hearing my own hoofsteps.
We passed by a woman who was skiing, and she waved at us as she went by. Walking skis are a little bit longer and narrower than downhill skis, and you need to use the poles more. They didn't seem all that practical, but Meghan said that was because I hadn't thought about how difficult it would be to get through really deep snow. I said that I'd just fly over it and stuck my tongue out at her.
And on the way back, I did fly over the road, just 'cause I didn't want to go through the tunnel again. And I thought about making an ambush at the other end, since there was a lot of snow, but before I could do anything with it, Aric and Meghan came out of the tunnel.
When we got back to Winston, Aric had to scrape off the windshield, 'cause it had been warm when he'd stopped and so the snow had melted and then re-frozen as more came down. And then we had to wait a little bit until it got warm enough to drive.
We went to Meijer to get some more food, so that Meghan could teach me how to make a quiche, and she decided on getting pre-made crusts which were really clever, 'cause they came in a pan already so all you had to do was put filling in them and then cook them in the oven. She said that they weren't as good as home-made but they were a lot cheaper and easier especially if you weren't going to be making too many pies or quiches.
She had to look at her portable telephone to remember what else she might need to put in the quiche, and she also decided that we could get extra crusts and make a pie, too, but then we got into a bit of an argument about what kind of pie to make. Aric wanted blueberry, which sounded good, but Meghan said fruit pies needed a top crust and so they weren't as good an idea, and she said that we could make a pecan pie but I wasn't as enthusiastic about that, and so we finally decided that we'd make a pumpkin pie even though it was after Thanksgiving.
They had pumpkin pie fillings in cans, which was clever of them. They had a lot of other fruits, too, and even lemon which I thought was an odd flavor to put in a pie. She said that if I tried a proper lemon meringue pie I might change my mind, so then I wanted to get that but she told me that you couldn't make a proper lemon meringue pie with canned filling.
Aric said that we ought to have something simple for lunch, so he got some Boca Burgers, which were patties made out of vegetables, and they had lots of flavors. He said that you could cook them in a microwave, and you could put everything on them that you'd put on a normal hamburger, so then we had to go get buns for them and he wanted some cheese, too and then we went back to get some fake bacon for them as well. And then he decided that we might as well have an American picnic theme, so he also got some potato salad and pickles and potato chips, and he got popcorn for tomorrow.
Then we went back home and even though we were all hungry we decided to take a shower first so that we'd be clean when we ate lunch.
We took our time in the shower, 'cause it was pretty easy to forget about being hungry when you were in a shower with your friends, but once we'd gotten clean and were drying off I started to get hungry again and Meghan said it was a good thing that the food he'd gotten didn't take too long to prepare.
So Aric went into the kitchen after he'd put on his pants, and he started making lunch, and me and Meghan groomed each other while he was preparing our food.
It didn't take him too long to make it, and then he brought everything into the living room so we could eat it and look at the Christmas tree. He said that the food would taste better if we imagined that the tree was not decorated for Christmas and that we were in a grassy field on a sunny day, which was hard to imagine 'cause whenever I looked out the window I could see snow drifting down outside.
The potato chips were too salty and too oily so I didn't have very many of them. Humans love them, though and maybe I could have gotten used to them if I'd eaten enough of them. The potato salad was pretty good, and so were the burgers, and he'd also gotten cans of Barq's, which is a kind of root beer that was really sweet and had lots of bubbles in it that tickled my nose and made me burp. Meghan showed me how I could tap the can to get some of the bubbles out of it and it was better that way.
We didn't have much to do in the afternoon while we were waiting for the television to arrive, so we just relaxed. Meghan got out her computer and started putting my movies on YouTube, and Aric used my computer to look for theatre jobs that might be available in the summer, 'cause he said now was the time to think about it. I wrote in my journal, until we finally got a knock on the door and it was the television deliverymen.
They brought it right in and we didn't have a table to put it on, so they set it on the floor by the Christmas tree and then Aric had to sign a piece of paper promising to return it or pay for it if he didn't, and then they left.
We couldn't watch anything on it, 'cause it wasn't hooked up to anything, and Aric said that he'd have to go get his Blue Ray player, and I said that I'd come along, too. Meghan couldn't because she was in the middle of loading a movie, and we promised that we'd wait but she said it was okay, she had a lot of work to do and she might as well get it done, and we were coming back before too long anyway.
When we got to Aric's house, David was a little bit disappointed that Aric wanted to take the Blue Ray player because he said that now he wouldn't be able to watch anything at all, and Aric said that he could hook up his computer to the television and see anything that his computer could show, and he said that it was important, too, because I hadn't seen Lord of the Rings and he'd rented a giant television for my apartment for that very purpose, and then David nodded and helped Aric unhook his Blue Ray player.
Once we'd gotten that put in Winston, David showed us his nativity scene. He'd used dolls that he had—which he called action figures—and made new clothes for them out of paper. And then he wanted us to guess who was what, and once Aric had named a couple of them and I knew that it was a scene from the Bible, I knew what was going on. R2D2 was baby Jesus, and Spock and Data were wise men (the third was Doctor Who, Aric told me) and there was a weeping angel that was the angel.
Aric had to pick up Mary and Joseph and then he figured out that they were Scully and Mulder from X-Files. And instead of barnyard animals, David had used an AT-AT and an AT-ST and a Lego Jeep, and he also had a cutout of a dog in a coat and hat that he said was McGruff the crime dog. I thought it was really creative, and Aric said that he should take pictures of it and put them on the internet and maybe they'd go viral and David said he had and they did.
When we got back to the apartment, Meghan was still working and I decided that I ought to write a computer letter to Aquamarine, 'cause today was her last day of school and I remembered how I'd felt as all my friends left. I was sure that Cedric was going to be there for her, but she could probably still use some encouragement, and while I was writing it I thought that she wasn't that far away and we could have gone to see her.
Maybe she'd be happier just spending the time with her friends, though. We could still visit each other when we were back in Equestria, after all. And I guess it wouldn't be too long before I saw her, 'cause we were all going together to Florida soon.
I wrote it out on normal paper in Equestrian and it was only when I was done that I remembered that Peggy had been the one who could put it in the computer and send it to her, and I was thinking that I'd have to start over and use English, but then Aric helped me out by taking a picture with his portable telephone and he put that in my computer and got it to attach to my computer letter.
Me and Meghan made dinner together, and it was pretty simple, 'cause we didn't feel like putting much effort into it, but she said that it was important to have a proper home-cooked meal tonight because tomorrow we'd be watching Lord of the Rings all day and Aric would want to be lazy and would only order food that could be delivered. He said that it was convenient and said that he had a bunch of apps on his portable telephone that let him order food with only a couple of button-pushes.
After we'd eaten dinner, Aric wanted to try out the television to make sure that it was working for tomorrow, and he'd also brought How to Train Your Dragon with him which I had already seen but it was still lots of fun to try again, and I kept telling myself to be careful when there were flying scenes in the movie 'cause I wasn't really flying and I ought to keep my wings in but even so, I forgot anyway and wound up hitting both of them the first time that Hiccup tried to fly Toothless.
And we were all lying on the mattress and pretty comfortable and both Meghan and Aric had already gotten undressed when somebody knocked on my door and that perked my ears right up, 'cause it was Mister Salvatore and he asked if I was okay, which was a strange thing to ask.
I didn't know what was going on and Meghan and Aric were both scrambling for their clothes, and Aric stopped long enough to pick up my portable telephone and there was a telegram from him saying that he was coming over and don't answer the door for anyone else, and that was kind of scary. And so Meghan ran off to the bathroom with her clothes and Aric put his pants back on and was trying to find his shirt and I didn't know if I should open the door or not but I didn't think that Mister Salvatore would come over if there wasn't a good reason for it, so I went over and opened the door for him.
He was in his suit and had his embroidered vest on, and Miss Cherilyn was in her sleeping clothes but also had a vest on like his and she came in but he stayed outside and I had no idea what was happening at all, until Miss Cherilyn said that a Western Michigan student had just been murdered at his apartment and the suspects were still at large and it probably didn't have anything to do with me but they weren't taking any chances, and Mister Salvatore was going to stay in the hallway all night until the bad men were caught and she could stay in my apartment if I wanted or else she could wait out in the hallway, too.
I thought it would be kind of rude to make her have to wait in the hallway, and I said that Mister Salvatore ought to come in, too, but she said that he'd be happy out there hoping that the bad guy might show up here and he was probably already thinking of what he was going to do if it happened, and I kind of felt sorry for anyone who was dumb enough to try and get by Mister Salvatore.
That sort of ruined our plans for the evening, though, and instead of getting into bed and having fun, we stayed alert until late and when it was finally time to sleep Aric got a pillow and one of the blankets and went over to a corner and curled up there and I could tell that Miss Cherilyn knew that we were having sex and she was sort of pretending not to know, 'cause she said that she was sorry but my safety came first.
Me and Meghan offered her the futon to sit on, or sleep on if she wanted, but she said that she was happy in my chair, and she wasn't going to sleep anyways. And she said that maybe we'd like to move the bed to one of the bedrooms and that wasn't really a suggestion, so we did and then we woke up Aric and he went into the other bedroom and I would have liked to find a way for me and Meghan to sneak over with him, but we couldn't think of any clever way to do it.
Meghan kept most of her clothes on; she only took off her bra so that she would be more comfortable. And I curled up on her chest and I did fall asleep, but it wasn't a very good sleep.
Good thing Silver Glow was friends with the football team, not the basketball team.
A link to the event mentioned at the end of today's chapter please.
A quick Google isn't in that city on that date.
Also...
The big TV can also be used as a computer monitor.
Also...
Does the apartment building permit bird feeders?
Is there something like a HOA?
... Why would Aric have to go to the other bedroom? That's not really Cherilyn's decision... also she didn't say to :P
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell
The reason why?
I can not tell.
It's not sight or sound
Or even smell
But, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell!
HUMAN MACHINES ARE STRANGE
My human friends showed me how to use my microwave to make stale bread seem fresh. My hay was getting kind of damp and musty. So, I put some in the microwave. It was pretty damp, so I set it for 10 minutes and the next thing I knew, the apartment was on fire! I just don't know WHAT went wrong, officer! Maybe an evil wizard cursed the microwave! You should check on that
1 thing I do not get is why some women get mad if I fall asleep after fun. If a man falls asleep, that means that he is totally satisfied. It is a complement for the woman.
Happy, happy, happy.
Aaaaand there goes that feeling.
I do like how they feel like such a family together, it's really heartwarming.
"Damn Eric got all the chicks again. *Frowny face*"
The Blue-ray player is for a noble cause, David.
Aaaand there goes the night.
Word must have gotten around that Silver rules her bird feeder with a harsh, but fair, hoof.
See David understands how dire Silver's situation is.
The nativity scene was fun, although I do wonder which Dr Who it is, I'm going to guess Tennent.
Oddly the idea of contraception in the Silver herd came to me. There was no issue when it was Aric and Silver or Meghan and Silver but now Aric and Meghan are having fun I assume she's on the pill given she's surprising him of the morning or they're being stupid and an accidents waiting to happen.
With going round watching the animals in a nature reserve with the onset of disruptive snow, you could say its So Fari, So Good?
That TV better be an Imax one to reent for a quarter on sale 4k price per month, then again explains why they want the BD version instead of H265.
If you have a guard outside the door in a totally Edward Scissorhands apartment, isnt that like saluting a superior officer on the front line. What you want to do when you want them to be prefered sniper target?
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WMU student shot in apartment
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there are no words...
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Terrible indeed.
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Agreed. They are giving off that family feeling aren't they? Explains in my headcanon why Aric and Meghan didn't feel the need to go be with their respective families. They've pretty much started their own right there in little old Kalamazoo. That and they're all trying to spend as much time together before Silver's return to Equestria.
7937089 That's how rental furniture and appliance outlets work; if you rent-to-own you end up paying almost five times the original list price of the item. It's worse than payday loans.
7934106 Celestia is more equestra's mom then divine being at this point but I do like the divine take on her. It's just not supposed by the show in later seasons.
7937456 Well... They could see about moving back with her. Aric still needs to learn the language but his skills would probably be in demand in theatres, Megs already seems to have a plan. Silver doesn't even have to worry.
But lets face it, this is university. They'll probably all move on with their lives and Aric will brag for a couple years about how he banged an equestrian before it was cool.
7938477 I learned something. All I can compare it to is when I worked with cattle. They have more substantial tails, but do not enjoy having them grabbed.
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I definitely think Meghan will go to Equestria; assuming her papers go through. I had been thinking Aric might have prior obligations that would keep him on Earth but he's looking for summer jobs now so; maybe the thought hasn't occurred to him yet? Or he'd go after finishing school?
However, you are correct. They all are still young with their lives still ahead of them but Aric doesn't come off as the bragging kind to me.
Wait, doesn't that mean she could've eaten the grass and the fish without getting in trouble?
Anatomical euphemism there?
Hurry up and get Equestrian into the Unicode character set.
I remember reading about this and wondering if it would come up in the story.
Cross-country skiing might be problematic for quadrupeds, now that I think about it...
'Course, Silver Glow is a pegasus, so she could drive herself across the snow with her wings. That would be fun to watch.
I bet Aric just made that up on the spot
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It could be, yes. Although they won't have it long enough for that to really be practical.
Probably not, to be honest. But Silver Glow never read the rules, and if the landlord complained to Mister Salvatore, he would have gotten an earful.
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He doesn't have to, but he'd be a little uneasy about revealing his relationship with Silver Glow in front of the FBI. Even if it isn't technically illegal. (And they probably already know, anyways.)
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That's very true. Although different university, so she probably wouldn't have known him personally.
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So satisfied that he doesn't really care how his partner feels.
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Real life has a way of rearing back and kicking you right in the nuts, doesn't it?
They really do, don't they?
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Chad's just a Debby Downer. If he can't have something (even if he doesn't want it), he doesn't want anyone else to have it.
It is. There are times that you need to sacrifice something for the greater good.
Real life has a terrible way of rearing its head at the wrong times.
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She does indeed. And of course she takes a tribute from the feeder sometimes. Although usually Aric's, because what fun is raiding her own feeder?
Any true geek would.
Yeah, Tennent.
She is. It never came up in the story, but she started taking it right after their little talk at Waldo's. That's also why she's never gone off estrus (as Silver would say) since the three of them consummated their threesome.
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Oh, no, when you actually figure out what you're paying at a rent-to-own store, you're getting screwed. If it's something that you're going to have for a week and then return, it's not a bad deal, but if you take the whole contract, you're paying about four times what the thing is actually worth, maybe more than that.
Let's just say that Mister Salvatore is kind of faintly hoping that someone will come along and 'make his day.'
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One of the sad realities of living in modern America.
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Silver Glow wasn't wrong about humans being monsters sometimes.
Yeah, if she was staying on Earth, they would probably wind up getting an apartment together and then a house and while a polygamous marriage is probably out of the question, they'd most likely 'live in sin' as the saying goes.
Unfortunately for the Christmas plans, neither Aric nor Meghan can really bail on their families, so the three of them don't get to spend actual Christmas Day together.
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They buy-here pay-here car dealerships have a similar markup. Low, low payments for a long, long time.
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I don't think of her as divine as in the Biblical sense, more of the Greek gods and goddesses sense. I mean, by any human measure, she at least meets the standard for a Greek goddess.
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Oh, Meghan has plans and backup plans. Meghan is going, one way or another. No matter what she has to do.
My brother, who got his pilot's licence before his driver's license, invited all the military recruiters over to talk to him about what he wanted to do after high school, and he asked them one question: 'can I get flight training?' And all of them said no, because of his vision, and then he showed them the door. Like Meghan, he had one goal, and if joining the military would help him achieve it, he'd do it. Otherwise he had no interest whatsoever.
Aric will, yes. He's not the type to leave his life on Earth to go to Equestria. He'll be sad, of course, but he'll also be able to look back at their time together fondly.
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As did I!
That's the one thing I love so much about this site--stories and comments where you learn things.
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If they don't, she'll still find a way, Even if it's emigrating to a different country with different requirements.
It's not as likely to appeal to Aric as it is to Meghan. He might visit, but he wouldn't want to live there.
Yeah, he probably wouldn't brag, but he wouldn't deny it if he was asked, either.
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Silver Glow's still not all that good at knowing when somebody's BSing her.
No, her literal, actual tail. Imagine getting her tail-hairs snagged when she's sliding, or just the friction against the underside of her dock.
Sadly, yes.
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Yeah. The motions, and ski length would both be problems. They could have the bindings at the back of the fore-skis and the front of the hind-skis, but it still doesn't seem like it would work out all that well.
That's very true. That would actually be a really cool technique.
Did we ever see that one Our Town pony doing anything other than downhill skiing?
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Yes, he did.
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The name is The Doctor. Doctor Who is a running joke and the name of the show:
Random Character:
"¿Who are you?"
The Doctor:
"I am the Doctor."
Random Character:
"¿Doctor Who?
The Doctor:
"No, just the Doctor."
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She should feel good:
I take turns:
Initially, she gets to be on top and do what feels good until she orgasms; then, we switch places and I do what feels good for me on top until I orgasm. Alternatively, we could have oral sex.
If you want more details, you shall have to PM me. This really does not not belong in the comments. The point is that is it not my fault that orgasm is like a surgical anesthetic for men but not for women.
I get the impression Aric is a bad influence on Meghan. There are so many questionable things she would never do if Aric didn't do them first. Like flashing a train. (I know they didn't actually, but they totally would have, and we know it.)
Silver. Such a not-rebel. Paying after the fact for your tresspasses...
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He probably is a bit of a bad influence on Meghan, although at the same time, she kind of needs someone to push her a little bit. I think at the end, the two of them balance each other out fairly well--he can sometimes goad her into doing things that she might not consider doing on her own, but she's also probably reining in some of his wilder impulses, whether she means to or not.
She's not very good at breaking the rules, and when she does, she feels bad about it. Even if the nature center probably doesn't actually care that she flies in and trots on their paths.
Small "h" in "They"
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Pretty much. She's a small 'g' 'goddess'. The type that, like the Greek ones, are basically just regular people with a fuck ton of power.
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She ends up using a fake ID to take the place of one of the guards at the portal site, then Metal Gear Solid's her way through when no one is looking, using her vast knowledge of ponies to avoid detection at the other end, and just slinks off into the city, never to be seen by humans again.
They will jump at anyone saying 'talk to me about joining'. Or go out of their way to talk you into doing so.... they can't outright lie, but they are very good at not telling you what you are getting into. It's how I got talked into it. Science teacher had a buddy of his come in, who was a nuc, to do a talk about nuclear power in the Navy. I made the mistake of paying attention in class that day, which meant I was answering questions before he even finished answering them. (I've had nearly every teacher at some point actually tell me to STOP paying attention and just go back to reading my book. Except for one math teacher who hated when I read in class, but didn't mind if I just passed out.) That afternoon, guy asked if he could come over my house and talk to me.
"Hanging birdfeeders is a deep, integral part of her cultural identity!"
Aric passes out after fun, while Meghan and Silver be all cute together just snuggling and enjoying being there with each other doing something as simple as watching the sunrise. This relationship in a nutshell.
Heh, "I'll see if the odd, giant blue bird thing eats the idiots that go first."
Still nibbling at hay. Sorry to say Meghan, but even if you learn to tolerate eating it, you can't really digest it. Being as pony as you can be only goes so far.
That said, Aric does have his uses when anything technical related comes up.
More #ponyproblems, lot harder to talk up how 'well endowed' you are, when all it takes is a momentary slip to prove how wrong you are.
Anything becomes better for pony with "You can do it naked' added onto it.
This is the main reason I suck at cooking. I am WAY to easy to distract.
Wondering of the deer missed her.. soooo... cuuuuttteee!
Chad no gets pony waves, truly that shall haunt him for all of his days.
Well... if Silver outright admits there really are times somepony just needs to get laid is a thing.... this really, really explains a lot about Limestone Pie.
D'awwww silly Silver, all worried about not having paid to use the nature center, because they didn't have toll gates at where she entered for her to know. It's okay, no one would charge pony.
Yes, many strange rules, and even more and stranger ways around those rules. Should have just said the fee was just for using the parking lot or something to keep it simple.
Tough snow pony no mind snow covering her, long as it's not all melty.
Actually, human ears are really, really damn good at detecting where sound is in relation to your head. At least along a single plane, so good at left -right, in front-behind. Rather crap at above or below. (Though technically its less the ears, and more the part of the brain that interprets the signals from your ears into sound. It can differentiate between signals fractions of a millisecond apart to tell which ear the sound is closer to. Fun fact, many types of owls actually have their ears lopsided, one near the top of the skull, one nearer the bottom on the other side, to help detect sounds in three dimensions through the same process.)
Pony is hypnotized by the snowy train passing.
D'awww, pony feel safe in tunnel with her friends.
But, even then, sky-pone gone be angsty, and of course Meghan picks up on the small hints only ponies would be used to.
Pumpkin, the old fall back for when you want to make a pie, but don't want to put in a lot of work.
Picky, picky pony. "This food's too sweet, this food is to oily, this food is too used to belong to an animal I feel a close kinship with"
Cute pony burps! Give her more!
All agree, pony seeing LOTR is very important!
Okay, till this point.. I've kind of like Aric, but just found him kind of.. bland and dull. Good as a friend but just...... eh don't care much, as a boyfriend for her, and I still kind of think it would have been more fun and would have liked to see where things went if her Silver and him just parted ways and she stayed hooked up with Meghan. But, I didn't dislike him either. He wasn't bad, just.. well again, dull and rather meh. But now? NOW!? He's gone too far and must SUFFER! This... this there can be no forgiveness for, he is a horrible monster. His name is "The Doctor' NOT DOCTOR WHO! The ONLY time you can EVER call him that, is if he's being played by Peter Loring! And we don't speak of that dark time.
That said..... Best. Nativity Scene. EVAR! Also, not wholly inacurate, since The Doctor was actually there. Kind of. Not as one of the Wise Men, he just happened to be the guy who grabbed the last available room at the inn.
D'awwww, send letter to tell possibly sad pony things are okay. Such a caring pony.
See, keep the dude around for the tech stuff, don't need him for anything else.
Hey, movie day is a good time for ordering food!
By now, these two know to watch out when ever flying is on screen.
"Scatter! it's the cops! I can't get busted for doing the pone!"
Yes, yes. Likely overkill, but protect the pony! Now is a good time to wish you had time and the ability to set it up, so he could just push a button and steel shutters slam down across every window.
And d'awwww, pony knows how good a job he does keeping her safe, and fels perfectly safe with him around.
Yes, she knows you two would likely be fucking if she hadn't come in. And is also likely just thanking every deity she can think of that you are not Cayaenne, who would likely not have let that stop her.
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That might actually work. And who would look for her in a backwater town on the coast of Equestria?
That was the one place where my brother had an advantage--he was only interested in flight training, and with his eyesight, they had to tell him that that wasn’t an option, at which point he had no interest.
We didn’t have any recruiters or military people show up at my high school, at least as far as I can remember. Maybe I was reading a book when the recruiter was talking; that’s very much a possibility.
Mr. Salvatore would have so much fun chewing out a landlord. He’d find a way to justify anything that she did, just for the lulz.
Well, I’ve heard that guys tend to fall asleep after sex.
This is pretty much the bird experience. The smart birds hang back and wait to see if it’s safe, then go in and take the food.
It’s probably a good source of fiber, though. And if she’s going to be in Equestria, she might as well get used to the taste, ‘cause there will surely be lots of hay-based dishes on the menu.
He does. His special talents are driving people around, getting Silver Glow to fight with medieval weapons, fixing mechanical things, and having a penis.
I have to assume that they don’t lie about that all that much. And there is a length difference between just dropping and being erect, at least in IRL equines (and presumably in ponies, too).
Let’s be honest, that’s pretty much everything in Equestria, except for a few jobs that are potentially hazardous (in which case, ‘you can wear clothes’ makes it better).
Yeah, me too. I once started a fire in the kitchen trying to boil water. That’s my low point so far when it comes to cooking, honestly.
Honestly, it probably won’t. Chad’s a dick.
Even if she was, she wouldn’t enjoy it.
[There’s a related Derpibooru image, which I can’t link (and obviously, it’s NSFW); if you’re curious, the image # is 1010196.]
One of the many places where she can play the pony side. “I get in for free ‘cause I’m wildlife.”
But then Aric’s not trolling her and badly explaining human rules (like saying that it’s okay to pee on trees).
Honestly, that’s how IRL horses work, and ponies should be no different.
We’re decent at telling elevation, too--if our ears don’t have play-dough in them.
For some reason, trains sometimes make you want to move into them--I don’t know why, but I have that feeling every now and then.
Scary things are safer with friends. Plus, it’s a short enough tunnel that she can see both ends, and there isn’t a whole mountain on top of it, which helps.
Well, yeah; a pegasus’ main method of escape is to fly away, and when that’s blocked, they’re automatically nervous.
Plus the filling comes in cans, which is nice. I suppose you could make it out of a real pumpkin, too, but I bet that is a lot of work.
Figure that back in Chonamare, a large part of her diet is various pasture grasses and whatever fish other ponies catch, she’s not used to a lot of diversity, nor is she used to how American food--especially processed American food--tastes.
Yes, very much so.
Now probably wouldn’t be a good time to admit that I’ve never seen the show, would it? Not one single episode.
Geek Nativity scenes are the best ever, and that’s a fact. Also, interesting that the Doctor was in Bethlehem . . . given his time-traveling proclivities, there are probably a lot of questions that he could answer, reasonably easily.
Silver Glow knows what’s important.
Well, he’s got one thing that neither of them have. Granted, they’ve got toys, but that’s not quite the same.
It is--a proper movie day involves no food that you make yourself, except perhaps popcorn (and I guess hot chocolate would be acceptable, too).
Yeah--and that’s something that people would have to learn when around pegasi. Probably they do it in Equestrian movie theatres, too (and possibly watching the Wonderbolts, as well). I wonder if unicorns might light their horns at tense moments in a movie with glowy magic like Harry Potter?
Technically, they could be arrested for it in Michigan. Not Silver Glow, though; there are no laws in Michigan that I am aware of that prohibit an animal from hooking up with a human. [Granted, if they were arrested, they’d probably win the case, since she wouldn’t be considered an animal legally.]
I feel that Mr. Salvatore would like that idea for when he wasn’t there . . . when he was, he’d much prefer the idea of somebody actually trying something.
How could she not feel safe with him around? The few times situations have been in danger of going south, he’s fixed them right away, like the creepy guy in Meijer, or when she got locked in a squad car after the fire. He’d be the one to fight off a pack of Timeberwolves, guns blazing . . . and then he’d probably punch the last few into oblivion, just for the fun of it.
Mr. Salvatore doesn’t want to know (although he probably does); Miss Cherilyn probably has a more realistic approach to it, and probably wouldn’t have been offended if they’d all gone into the same bedroom--so long as they weren’t loud enough for her to hear. I think that’s where she’d draw the line. As for Cayenne, yeah, not only would that not stop her, she’d probably try to add the agent to the mix. She’s probably already tried that, honestly.
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I recommend Who, for the record.
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This is one of those crazy intrusive thoughts like "What if I just jumped?" Or "What if I just tried and grabbed that cop's gun?"
Stupid brain.
Pumpkin pie is good autumn through winter.
December 8th sucks. John Lennon, Dimebag Darrell...
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Yeah, pretty much exactly that. I think there’s a French term for it, or just the more mundane “call of the void.”
Lies, it’s good year round. As long as you don’t have too much of it.
Also Slim PIckins and John Glenn (on the Dec. 8 in the story, no less)
With my dad, we would always get pumpkin pie at Christmas, even if my sister had to make it (which she loved doing).
David nodded, clasped Aric on the arm and said, "You have my sword."
Silver replied, "We just need the Blue Player box thing."
Wisest men of them all. I hope it was Eleven wearing his fez.
I would watch all sorts of movie with a pegasus despite this. Except Rainbow Dash. She'd probably be the worst offender of all, and you just know that she's gon bruise you with those wings of hers.
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That's a good tradition! I don't think we have any current Thanksgiving traditions, but my father and I get home-made pie for our birthdays . . . neither of us particularly like cake.
David is the kind of guy who would have a sword, too.
Does this story pre-date eleven? I'd have to look it up
I feel like Rainbow would also keep asking how the movie was going to end. I still think it'd be worth it.