March 3 [full day]
March 3
Today turned out to be a rather full day, and in a good way!
I got off to a bit of a late start, but finished my morning exercises in time to beat Brianna to the shower. I didn't take too long, because I knew she'd be there before too long—it's funny how I've gotten used to other people's morning routines like that.
Sure enough, I heard the bathroom door opening when I was just finishing up, and was out of the shower just in time for her to use it. She gave me a friendly smile as she went in. I really ought to go to her room and talk to her sometime; on Tuesdays and Thursdays we often enough meet up in the bathroom, but that's about all I ever wind up seeing of her.
She told me that it was World Wildlife Day, so after breakfast when I saw a fat squirrel running around, I told him, but he wasn't impressed. Then I gave him a piece of toast, and he ran off with it.
I was kinda nervous at the beginning of poetry class, 'cause I knew that Conrad was going to read my poem, and I wasn't sure what other people would think of it. Maybe they all liked Nietzsche, and would think that I was mean.
He kept me waiting. He started off with a poem called Cadenza, and I couldn't help but think of Princess Cadence, which I'm sure the poem wasn't meant to be about.
I hadn't really thought of it before, but I can't be thinking of the same things that my classmates do. The world that these poets have seen is different than the world I know. And it's funny, because the evidence of it is right in front of my muzzle every single day, but I guess I never really thought of it like that until just today.
We read a longer poem called North Atlantic next. There's something about an ocean that's just different and hard to explain to a pony who's never seen one. It's always mysterious and no matter how much you think you know it, it always surprises you. Even the sailorponies thought that, and they all had their superstitions for a safe voyage.
It takes a special kind of pony to sail a ship across the uncertain sea. Sometimes ships would come into port with damaged masts and hulls, and sometimes they'd never arrive, and nopony knew where they'd gone. Pegasus patrols could only go out so far, and it was rare that they'd ever find anything.
Every now and then on the beach, we'd spot boards that had come from a ship, and we'd always spend the rest of the day speculating what ship it had come from and if it had made it back to port, or if it had been lost. There was no way of knowing.
Conrad waited until the very end of class to read my poem, and there were a few snickers at the last line.
I decided to eat lunch with Trevor and his friends again. Cedric and Leon said that I needed a nickname, because everyone who's anyone has a nickname. I said that sometimes my friends just called me Silver, but Cedric said that wasn't good enough, and the two of them debated a little bit before settling on SG.
I told them that I'd watched the first Harry Potter movie, and that as long as we could come up with something for a Golden Snitch, pegasuses could play it. That made Cedric really happy, and he said that he was going to have to find something for me to autograph, so that when ESPN was showing coverage of Equestrian Quidditch games, he could point to it and say that he knew the original Quidditch pony.
I spent the early part of the afternoon finishing up on the New Atlantis map. I'd been right about Goldopolis; it was completely in the rain shadow of the mountains. Nopony sensible would build a town there, unless there were some natural resource that wasn't available anywhere else.
Places like that were special weather zones. It was a lot of work to drag the clouds over mountains, although there were some places where there were convenient lakes that could be used to get water up to a weather factory. It was kind of a joke in school that the real failures would be sent to an arid place, because there wasn't anything they could mess up, but the truth was that such areas were generally a destination for experienced pegasi, because every drop of water counted, and you didn't want some idiot to mess things up.
I'd just finished up when Peggy came back from class, and after she'd relaxed for a little bit and checked her computer mail, we went back to the makerspace to see what they'd come up with.
We tested their simple solution first. They had taken a set of hoof boots and modified them so that they had attachment points on the tread for snowboard brackets, or magnets. So we tried the magnets first, and that was really weird. When I set my hooves on the board, they stuck down, and it was really hard to angle them enough to get them to unattach, but I could kind of slide them, if somebody held the board.
I could fly and it would stay on. To test how magnet-y it was, Karen and a boy named Brandon wrapped their arms around my barrel, while another one called Kurt sat on the board. Karen and Brandon pulled on me until my hooves came free of the metal plates that were screwed to the snowboard.
It worked all right—Peggy said that it was important that I could break free if there was too much force, because otherwise I might break a leg.
Then Kurt showed me one of his projects while Karen and Brandon put the other fasteners on the hoof boots and snowboard. Those, they told me, would work just the same as they did with a human, but they weren't sure how strong my leg bones were, so it might not be as good a choice.
They didn't want to try and pry me off the board this time, but they did let me clip myself in and fly around the makerspace with the snowboard attached. It was weird; I couldn't use my legs like I normally would when I was flying, and I thought that might give me some problems, but I was sure by the end of the week I'd be used to it.
I paid them for all the stuff they'd bought, and they insisted that I had to report back on how well the equipment had worked.
When we were driving back, I told Peggy that the hoof boots were going to be inconvenient; they were designed for human horses who couldn't put on their own boots, so the fasteners on them were going to be difficult or impossible for me to use. She said that she didn't mind having to tie my boots for me.
After dinner, I sent a computer letter to Gates, to see if I could borrow his GoPro for the weekend. I thought that once I figured out how to properly use the snowboard, I could probably do some tricks on it that might look good on the camera. Then I collected everything I thought I might need for the weekend (which wasn’t much) and Peggy and I loaded it into the car. We’d be staying at a hotel for the weekend, so I needed to have my shower stuff with me.
Right before I went to bed, I got a reply back that I could; he'd meet me in the morning with it.
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I foresee the next number one YouTube clip coming up!
North Atlantic
Never seen it, but I've heard stories. The Pacific is really more my jam, anyway. I've written a few times about how it looks on a good day without ever managing to properly describe the incredible color of the water.
Unrelated, is Aric ever going to teach her to drive?
7167679 Yeah, have it start as a normal snowboarding video, with a fairly short person doing the videoing, and then a couple minutes in BOOM! She goes off a jump and doesn't come back down. Just have to make sure the shadow doesn't give it away.
So Goldopolis is basically Spain in term of climate.
7167682 Automatic or standard transmission? And wouldn't Silver be a wee bit short?
7167940 I think Silver Glow would have reported any problems with size when she talked about her time with Aric (i.e. dolphin style). That suggests a pony balancing on her hind hooves is comparable in height to a human.
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She's big enough, but it would be awkward and uncomfortable enough to not be safe or possible.
Also, she can probably fly anywhere in her flight range faster than a car can hope to get there, simply due to being able to travel there in an almost straight line.
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Aric's a Car Guy and may very well want to teach her to drive regardless of practicality. Silver may think showing an interest in his hobbies would bring them closer together.
7167971 I'll accept that.
7167983 I'll accept that too.
7167988 Bonding might make worthwhile. But still it'd be a useless skill in Equestria. Then again how many could say they actually learned. Bragging rights.
Silver's got to be absolutely adorable while clomping around in pony-booties.
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Unfortunately, just before Silver's new video was posted, her earth pony friend was filmed burrowing around inside a large snowbank and then bursting forth in a pony-shaped ball of fur and snow fluff. Looking like a living snow pony and grinning sheepishly up at the camera while sprawled out on the ground was just too much, and she remained at #1 for a week and a half.
No, I just think she doesn't really understand philosophy or Nietzsche very well. But it's okay because she is a cute poni, and that when studying philosophy you need to be prepared for disagreement.
7168024 This. This is best thing.
I hope that things tough, cause I can see it getting quite battered if things go wrong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oss7KmiHLmA
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True, but she had to learn how to treat a servant like a servant somewhere, and I have a hard time thinking it was from Celestia, or that her parents didn't care to correct her treatment of "us little ponies" if they belonged to a lower class and they felt she was picking up bad habits from hanging around the castle.
7168679 Spike is kind of weird. I can see ponies not knowing how quickly dragons are supposed to grow up, Spike himself being desperate to establish some sort of identity, and the two combining to let Spike grab more responsibility than he really should have.
Silver Glow would forever go down in sports history as not just the first Quidditch pony, but the first Quidditch pony to accuse unicorns of enchanting the Bludgers to focus on her excessively.
This.
Nah, it just takes a few underpaid Filipinos to move a freighter so big only a freak wave will take it out. Oh, wait. Sailing ships. Are they already building windjammers or are they still using their versions of schooners, brigs and the like? There are not enough stories about pony merchant captains.
Yo. This is going to be a beautiful, slightly surreal friendship. Gold.
I'm still wondering if SG (that really sounds good) just had some gold bits exchanged for their metal value. Or is SG (yeah) on a stipend and gets dollars and never brought any precious metal to earth? That whole currency business is tricky. That might be another reason to severely limit tourist visas - you don't want to have shopping sprees by Canterlot nobles who end up crashing the gold price.
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He's not weird, he's basically a page boy (if not for her special bond with Twilight), which, again, is a thing that nobles had.
7167105 You know what, I've got a free hour or so.
Let's break down the 11 principles of a Reagan Conservative, which, since you linked it, I assume you hold them as important.
1. Freedom. What's not to like? The blind promotion of freedom is an intoxicating and easy choice. What possible harm could come from something as cherished as freedom?
In the same way that one person's freedom to move their fist around stops when it would strike another's face, so to should one's economic freedom end when it strike's another's livelihood. That's not to argue that state ordained and organised economies are the solution, but ignoring the problems caused by a perfectly free market is foolish and self-destructive. This is also not to argue that cars should've been suppressed because it would put horse buggy manufacturers out of business. Allowing for protections for exploited classes and preventing grey-area financial schemes are good things!
This thought process is heavily slanted by my definition of government, which is to promote the common good, and might fall apart if you would define it differently.
2. Faith. Since you seem to already understand the problems associated with coupling faith and morality, I won't spend much time here.
What's wrong with the strip? Seems a lot more fun than mainstream depictions of heaven. As long as everyone is enjoying themselves and knows what they're signing up for, who cares?
3. Family. I'm uncertain as to why this is considered a conservative selling point, when leftists also love their children and seek what is best for them.
The difference between the left and right on this issue is that the right tends to believe that "we got it right the first time, no need to muddle with what works," while the left tends to believe that we can always try to improve. I also have yet to see any reputable study find children are harmed by having two fathers, or two mothers. Having a single parent, however, does lower expected outcomes for kids, and is something that both sides should (and do) rail against.
4. Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life. Whose freedom matters more, the woman who is pregnant or the growing zygote/embryo/fetus/child within her? Is the mother's dignity impugned when fertilisation occurred during a rape? The answers to these questions rely entirely on the definitions of the terms involved.
5. American Exceptionalism. Absolute hogwash, and flies in the face of the idea that all men are equal. Why is America so great? It likely has something to do with being able to expand into essentially empty land for 100+ years (Sorry, Native Americans) and being the only major economy to be both able to loan to nations embroiled in the entirety of WW1 and not be bombed into oblivion in WW2.
6. The Founder's wisdom and vision. An extension of the previous point, and an appeal to the past is not a logical foundation to build towards the future. Such an assumption requires environments not to change. Just because something was the best idea centuries ago doesn't mean we can't come up with better ideas. Holding the views and opinions of the founding fathers as sacrosanct essentially holds you to the view that America has been in a state of decline ever since they stopped leading the country.
7. Lower Taxes.
I don't understand the logic here. Wouldn't hitting the top bracket mean you were no longer disincentivised to continue increasing you income, as you have reached the maximum rate of taxation? I can see the argument being made that a progressive tax rate combined with a robust welfare system would dis-encourage people from ever leaving the lowest tax bracket, even if I disagree.
8. Limited Government. No one is deterred from "financial independence and prosperity" by food stamp programs and child welfare checks. Nobody likes being poor. Government programs remove the dependence on charity and make living in poverty tolerable, not enjoyable. Far more relevant to the welfare trap is the byzantine laws surrounding taxable income and benefits when at or near the poverty line, which should be simplified and improved, no arguments there. Principle 7 has more weight here, close to poverty, than anywhere else, counter to what was defined previously.
9 & 10. Peace through Strength & Anti-Communism. I don't think these can be unlinked when talking about Reagan and the philosophy(doctrine?) that has followed him. In his time the only real war he cared about was the Cold one. Peace through strength makes sense in isolation: make the opportunity cost to attack so high that no rational actor could justify it. Through the lens of history, this supposition falls apart. Spending billions on arming resistance to the soviets in Afghanistan has reduced world peace, as I'm sure 99% of people would agree, and non-state actors (or covert false-flag action) being the primary attackers of note in the world of today has neutered conventional arms as a deterrent. In addition, investments in arms manufacturing has incentivised arms manufacturers to ensure that such investment continues unabated, and given them the means to do so. Costly ground wars in the Middle East have not made the world a safer place, but have made the people who make war machines quite rich, and has deepened the gulf between the west and the Arabic world. Increasing your number of tanks and aircraft carriers is a fine way to prevent a nation from declaring war on you, but a new method of thinking is required to combat individuals or small groups from doing so.
11. Belief in the Individual.
I sure wish such thinking was more common among self-described conservatives, as the cries of "welfare queens" and the deconstruction of social programs indicates the opposite thought. Why is it that an individual would be considered a burden on the state when the state's entire purpose is to cater to that individual, to provide to him or her the necessary tools to live, succeed, and better the world he or she was born into? Every individual does hold promise, and should be welcomed, and it is the state's role to allow that promise to be fulfilled and to welcome that person. The other half of this principle I just don't get. People aren't eternal, but ideas and philosophies can be, thus making governments more eternal than the individual. Pretty sure that's just religious rhetoric.
This was enjoyable. Could you point out which of these principles you do support?
7168642 While I'm sure that was cathartic, that doesn't really prove anything, nor was it really all that humorous.
Maybe getting a working snitch and bludgers will help her reconcile with the unicorn branch of her family tree.
... oh, but wouldn't it be some irony if a human fantasy novelist invented the most popular Pegasus sport!
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Yes, she is an exceptional pony. She's also an aristocrat. She lives in the pony capital, she had a princess as her babysitter (before she was ever discovered to be a prodigy), and her brother had the opportunity to rise to the top of the military and marry said princess. She lived her entire life expecting to, or preparing to, enter Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns... because she has ample social opportunity to. Everything we've seen regarding Twilight shows that she's financially well taken care of.
By contrast, her 5 exceptional friends are 2 farmers, 1 artisan, 1 shepherd, and 1
parksky warden. If any of them found out about about the prophesy of NMM, they'd have to report up the chain of bureaucracy.Despite how much I hate what Josh Haber has done to Starlight Glimmer, her canon backstory implies that entrance into the school doesn't depend solely on ability. Starlight's an incredible prodigy and she never got to go, despite every motivation to.
You're confusing "privileged" with what you think qualifies as privileged, vs what a socially disenfranchised individual would consider as privileged. This happens IRL as well.
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He must be yelling at imaginary ghosts, and the voices screaming in the background interrupting throughout the event must be nothing but expanding swamp gas.
But the senseless SJWs in that video aside, Protip:
Check out when Milo Yiannopoulos is scheduled to speak at a University near you. He is on his US nation wide tour so chances is he will be near you at one time or the other.
Then attend one and watch the people (outside and inside) that are protesting, and tell me again that SJWs are something dreamed up by the patriarchy or the Conservative Agenda or whatever moonbat theory you hold. It sure made them real enough for me.
http://www.breitbart.com/education/2016/02/10/fake-blood-and-war-chants-milo-yiannopoulos-event-at-rutgers-disrupted-by-feminists-black-lives-matter-activists/
And here is the speech in all its glory. Take an hour and learn something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EdHTm2fORU
Do they call themselves SJWs? Of course not. Its a term coined to insult them. Its is a catch-all term for third wave feminists, regressive leftists, and BLM. Claiming they do not exist is like claiming the world is flat or that Hillary is an honest person.
Why are they so unhinged you ask? Arent SJWs the good guys? Surely conservatives are the evil ones?
Nope. SJWs spend most of their time trying to destroy the freedoms their liberal parents and grandparents fought so hard to get.
Being conservative is the new liberal. Wrap that crazy concept around your head. Thats the strange new world we now live in.
7169338 I linked them to demonstrate how different it was against liberal values, not that I hold them as something I believe. Still, it's interesting to dive into them and see how different they are. And why I don't like some of the things it espouses.
1. Freedom. (Economic)
My thoughts exactly. A very free and unregulated market would certainly lead to Corporatism and be almost as bad as a Leninist society where one unelected group would have free power over everyone and control much of the productive power. (Makes me think of the later half of the Industrial Revolution before the world wars and some of the horror stories that came from that era.) Nothing about it would be for the good of a society, good for the planet, or good for government.
That link made me wonder a little more about Reagan, so had to do some searching about his economic policies, and he deregulated a hell of a lot of things in his first tenure in response to a recession among other things. (Would also explain the existence of My Little Pony since it was illegal to make shows that were just advertisements to children until that time.) He also beat inflation, but unemployment ran up to 10%, the highest its been till the 2008 recession and cut $39 billion in domestic programs just to beef up the military with the Cold War attitude of "Peace through Strength". I'm sure I'm missing more of the picture, but I wouldn't want him as an economic adviser right now. There are other ideas based around fiscal conservatism besides Reaganomics, but I'm going to skip ahead for now.
As for the others, personal freedom is a good thing up until it violates the human rights of another human being. It's a constant balancing act.
2. Faith
One's hell, is anothers heaven.
3. Family.
I'm unsure, but I think what he's trying to say is the traditional nuclear family, the type of family that has survived since before the bronze age or possibly the stone age. The male provider and fatherly authority figure, the female nurturer and motherly social worker, and the offspring who are a part of their legacy and additional work power. I've heard some MRA's and Feminists call it Traditionalism. It is a proven workable solution when you're in a world where it's survival of the fittest and you're a sexually dimorphic species. The flaw in that is it does put a heavy emphasis and expectation on another person because of their sex, which is why I've seen it argued in both MRA and Feminist circles. (I've heard an MRA argue that it places all the responsibility on a man to sacrifice his mind, body, and time for the good of a family that can statistically be broken easily on a whim these days. And Feminists railing against it because it shackles a woman into being the roll of the house wife or servant to the man.)
I think people on the Right don't want to screw with a formula that has worked for so long, where as people on the Left seem to experiment more with what a marriage should be. I've also seen statistics about how having homosexual parents is a little worse off then heterosexual parents, especially under lesbian parents since lesbians tend to have more incidents of domestic violence than any other group. Single parents are still the worst out of everything. I need to find them and research more since I haven't been interested in parents or parental rights.
4. Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life.
Oh dear god, this is a philosophical question that has no end in sight. The biggest question and the one that stops people the most is the idea of whether or not the tiny bundle of cells can even be considered a living Human person with the same human civil rights. The philosophical debate depends so heavily on the parents involved, the situation, their ideas, where they are, and their own legal rights. There is no true answer for that. My opinion for this... The mother, and hopefully father, should have the freedom to decide, abortion should be the last option to go to, and it should be legal. Being legal will allow the mother to get rid of it without doing anything like going to a back alley "doctor" to risk fatal infection, injuring herself, or overdosing on drugs. Making abortion illegal produces an untold amount of mentally retarded and physically impaired children from mothers that wanted to abort them and couldn't. So it's either a life of severe handicaps and a drain on everyone else or a non-life. Damn, this is getting depressing.
5. American Exceptionalism.
The only thing that went through my mind was jingoism or chauvinistic nationalism after reading the top section and several other search links.
You know I've heard this once or twice, but I've never looked up what it was. And uhhhh... What the fuck am I reading here?
I didn't know this wasn't a parody.
6. The Founder's wisdom and vision.
Yes, listen and believe the quotes of people from the distant past because they have the best wisdom. Like take the Bible for example, I'm sure there's lots of good stuff here to be a part of modern society.
Seems legit.
7. Lower Taxes.
I had to look that over several times and you're right, it doesn't make any sense, but from another perspective. He's hit the highest taxing cap that he could because he's successful and could make more money than even the taxes would take away, but looks over at the people trying to make him successful and sees that they're getting screwed over as well, for some reason. I'm failing to get the logic train behind his thought process there.
As for the other, it's still unclear as to why a certain tax system is derided based on the Communist Manifesto. It would be easier to understand without the "it's from a commie!" rhetoric. (Maybe he's wanting a flat tax?) And I think there's reason to have a taxing system based on a person's income. Barely or not taxing the poor allows more purchasing power, which feeds back into the economy, and the person has better overall survivability. And the richer a person is, the more they can pay into taxes without it being burdened on their life style.
8. Limited Government.
But then there is a small class of citizen that doesn't want to go into employment and just uses those benefits in order to keep themselves afloat in idle comfort. I've known people who still were on food stamps even while working minimum wage jobs (the amount was very low, about $20-30 per month) and people who didn't have jobs (~$100-150 per month). The office would send the jobless people a letter saying they had to attend job seeking classes and show they were looking for jobs. Nobody likes homelessness or eating dumpster food in order to live, but you still want somebody that's productive unless they are physically or mentally unable to take care of themselves. It's still government sponsored charity, but they will kick someone's ass if they do see someone abusing the benefits.
I think for this Conservative principle, there's some truth to it and a idea to keep government out of helping people all the time for their mistakes or bad luck. The people have to pull themselves up in personal actuation and protect themselves financially in order to not be a burden and make a government have more power over the personal lives of their citizens. For example, there was "Obamacare" that came out several years ago and it's been hit and miss. A hit because now people can have cancer treatments, operations, and therapies subsidized and can get relatively low priced health insurance. (They'd still have to pay up to $6,000 in hospital bills, depending on the type of insurance plan, but not any crazy $10,000+ bills that would take years to pay off.) A miss because it says that everybody, with some exceptions, has to get health insurance or pay upwards of hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars in a fine when taxes are due. So because of the mistakes or bad luck of others and being about feelings, the rest of the population have to pay for the problems of a few.
9 & 10. Peace through Strength & Anti-Communism.
These I think can be separated. Communism hasn't been shown to work, at least without going into full totalitarianism. It's a failed concept in every form, from its utopian idea and the others that have been enacted into power. It seems like the average life span for a real socialist state is 50 years and the ones that still have it are either tiny sovereign bodies, or oppressive hell holes. Anti-Communism was something that people were for when we were children, but it's not a system we need to worry about anymore.
Peace through Strength doesn't work sometimes when military might doesn't solve ideological warfare like we're having today. It only worked when there was a nation to fight. It's ineffective now when up against anti-Western ideologies spread out far in the middle east or the radical Islamists on the streets of London.
Put "Arming the Taliban" in the book of America's biggest fuck ups.
11. Belief in the individual
I'm a little perturbed he's coming at this from a very religious stand point when it would be more important to compare the rights of the individual versus collectivism. But damn if that wasn't inspirational. I've got nothing to add with ya.
That was fun. So, Conservative Principles I believe in. Hmm, the only one I'm really for is the belief in the individual and smaller government principle. The rest seem either outdated, misguided, or downright stupid.
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Silver Glow, snowboarder!
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He might, or someone else might. She could hardly get the full Earth experience without driving a car or truck.
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A helmet-cam off a jump would be pretty awesome. Fairly standard approach, then she goes off the end and just keeps going higher and higher. . . .
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More of American Southwest, or thereabouts.
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Probably automatic would be easier for her--only two pedals, and the car does the shifting for her. With the seat all the way forward, it ought to work, although it wouldn't be terribly comfortable for her.
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Yes, pretty close. That's the scale I prefer to use.
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Awkward and uncomfortable, yes, but it's definitely possible. Safe, probably not. But she's a college kid--safe doesn't always enter the equation, even when it should.
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What are you talking about? She's adorable all the time.
Well, at least she wasn't upstaged by a unicorn. . . .
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She really doesn't. She doesn't understand any modern philosopher all that well.
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This is what GoPros are designed for. When it's in its case, it's nearly impervious--any accident that broke the GoPro would probably kill Silver Glow.
For example:
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Which would be pretty funny if there was an investigation and it turned out to be true.
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Good old-fashioned sailing ships.
I know it. I've been toying around the idea of writing one.
Silver Glow makes the best friends.
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I'm thinking she's on some kind of stipend; basically the college is giving her a full-ride plus perks, and the exchange student on the other end is getting the same thing.
I had the same thought about how much economic damage a few visitors could do. Imagine Rarity coming to NYC to go shopping like this:
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She could probably go back to Equestria as the proud owner of the Empire State Building, and still have plenty of gems left over for small purchases.
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Maybe--sports can both divide and unite people (and ponies).
The pegasi would probably hate that, deep down, but they'd play the game anyway.
She is the first SG, so she is SG-1
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Also, her call-sign is Pegasus-1, but she's actually from the Milky Way galaxy.
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That would be pretty hilarious if someone convinved her to change her callsign to SG-1.
I hope someone introduces her to the show at some point.
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I giggled at "human horses". It just sounds so awkward.
Reminds me of a line from Invader ZIM: "GIR! You must behave like a HUMAN dog monster!"
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Is that a reference? It feels like it is but I don't know to what.
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I'd better get watching it, oughtn't I?
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Has there been a story yet where Atlantis wound up in Equestria?
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Still Stargate - the Pegasus galaxy is the one that they explore in Stargate: Atlantis.
(It's also the name of a real galaxy - two, in fact - both roughly in the direction of the constellation Pegasus.)
I prefer Silvy.
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Glowie or bust!
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I did know that there really was a Pegasus galaxy; in fact, in CSI/OPP, that's where the ponies come from.
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That sounds like a nickname for a pony with a bright yellow coat.
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You don't say? I never would have guessed that from the title.
It will just be so much more convenient when she finally brings them over to the pony idea of communal bathing....
Silver.. you are just so adorable and friendly and... just such a good Pony. Wanting to get to meet and know everyone like this.
You REALLY need more context for these things. It's adorable how nervous you are but.... this is Nietzsche, the only ones that actually 'like him' are the types you really don't want to give a crap about in the first place.
Mi Amore?
Didn't think so, but still fun idea.
You just realized this?
Still it's about time and maybe now you can be a bit more open about sharing your rather unique point of view, I'm sure people would appreciate it. Still, fun fun times. And let's see what she does with this revelation.
It is not all it's cracked up to be........
Wings? Pegapony? Fluffy? Pony McPonyperson? Hay eater? Cloudy? I can keep going....
... All the pony related options you have, you go with that? Lame....
Or just ignore it.......
Maybe a well trained bird?
P-ESPN? Still, yeah pony sports would be awesome to see.
Even better if ponies start getting into human ones.. let's see a linebacker take down a galloping Big Mac sized stallion.
Fatal error there... assuming people are 'sensible' about these things.
Hmmmm very interesting way of looking at things.
They just wanted an excuse to hug the pony, didn't they?
At a guess, well could be stronger or weaker...... get more use, so more developed.. if she was an EP definitely stronger but, pegasi might have slightly lighter bones...... likely fairly close to each other in any case.
A snowboard the stays attacked.. and wings... holy fuck she is going ot be pulling off some WICKED moves with this.
This is what friends are for.
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I know, right? No more competition for the shower. Plus, people can help each other bathe. A much more sensible system.
Silver Glow is the best pony.
She's only got a way with birds. Not so much with tree rats.
Yeah, I don't think that anyone would get upset about making fun of Nietzsche. Possibly not even Nietzsche, if he were still alive.
I notice that I didn't put links to the poems in the story (which was bad of me). So here it is: Cadenza, by Carl Sandburg
Well, it's more of the understanding of the world than the looks of the world.
Although, sometimes I think it would be like trying to explain color to somebody who's been blind since birth . . . you can't really 'see' what other people see, after all. That having been said, that's no reason not to try, I think.
Especially back in the days before radio, and how you knew a ship had sank was because it never arrived in port.
"The SG" has a lot of street cred, though, and that's important. Fluffy, not so much.
You can bet that there are TV exces trying very hard to get a contract.
Man, that would be a whole different strategy. Four legs + low center of gravity would make it nearly impossible to take down a pony, plus their hooves are weapons in their own right, moreso if they wear caulks for traction.
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The number of towns in the US that are built in floodplains. . . .
It's the sensible way of looking at it.
Of course they did--who wouldn't?
They're probably weaker than an earth pony's, but still pretty strong. Especially with the shorter and bulkier legs that ponies have.
Really, once she gets used to it, any stunt is pretty easily doable.
Exactly!
I'm guessing - gold?
This is a silly mental image
Welp... hardware acquired!
More hardware acquired!
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You would be correct. And then the town got abandoned once the mines played out. That one's from an Uncle Scrooge comic.
Well, you've got to make sure that the pony stays stuck to the board, and what better way to test it?
Silver Glow's snowboard.
Sooner or later, if she's not careful, she's going to wind up with so much equipment that flying will be a challenge.
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I see Silver began to use pegasi.
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Legit, one of my other stories has that problem; there’s a major character named “Starlight” who predates Starlight Glimmer, and newer readers make wrong assumptions.
If she did, it’s probably a mistake, to be honest.
Silver is so adorable.
This friendship is one of my favorites. Cedric, Leon, Trevor and Silver are an awesome crew.
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She is. It's a shame that the squirrel doesn't recognize it.
They are so fantastic together, and they have so much in common even if it doesn't seem like they would, and the dynamic between them is one of my favorites.