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Tabitha and Coco I am wondering wear this is going? after all Tabitha has both parts now.
Coco is starting to talk about the play in Season 5.
It's continuity before continuity!
They didn't mention I was a pegasus? - The salespony just said that they did specifically mention that she was a pegasus. Should it be centaur, instead?
The fact that Tabitha was not really a pegasus seemed to mean little to her. - but she is, at least in part, isn't she?
Coco already got - Coco had already got
He's not bother me - He's not bothering me
you got you camera - you got your camera
produced that camera - produced the camera
I liked you before than - I liked you before that
*****
A bit more of a calm day now that things between Spring and Tabitha are a little more settled.
There's good evidence that Spring was speaking the truth about the pheromones that Tabitha is putting out. It's giving her a + when interacting with ponies but is not robbing them of their will. That and her honest attitude should keep her out of too much trouble, as long as she doesn't cross paths with anyone too depraved.
7488450 Sorry, your earlier reply didn't state it was intentional & I didn't catch on.
7488491 The typos were thick today! I even ended up finding some on my own as I reread the mess, ugh!
She doesn't see herself as a pegasus, even with wings fluffed up at her sides. This is a mental issue, not a physical one. Physically she's a fine example of pegasus engineering ready to work.
But she has a camera and a friend! Maybe more than one?
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Quite possibly any pony that she bats her eyelashes at, if she's not careful. But we've already seen that she's being careful, now that she knows that the effect is there.
edited to remove a sneaky typo that reversed the meaning of my comment.
7488491 A pegasus I thought didn't relate to specific equine type be it centaur, horse, pony, donkey, zebra. This discussion between salesmare & Tabs had me confused too. She also seems to be fixating on the pheromone thing, but that should only be a problem during estrus (or heat) for equines.
7488516 If that is a significant thing, that would determine when a female puts out her own pheromones. It would not affect when others may be receptive to it in most cases. This also presumes magic isn't involved at all.
Good thing we avoided that, right?
7488537 Thank heavens for small mercies. Otherwise us poor blokes would be following our noses after women single or married everywhere, utter disaster.
Poor Coco she was so abused by Suri. She is getting great friendship lessons from Tabitha plus what constitutes a proper professional and adult relationship.
7488473 And all the points are moot because Coco Pommel. It turns out it was all just hypothetical speculation and nobody won any of the things. I accept my co-defeat graciously.
7488571 It was always hypothetical, always speculative. I don't think that "winning" or "defeat" were ever a part of it.
7488591 What did you think of this new chapter? :D
7488648 This chapter was a nice down-to-earth moment across several respects, as it focused on a fairly ordinary activity (buying a camera) with a mostly-ordinary conversation (talking about pictures, and personal boundaries) with the most ordinary of Tabitha's tenants (Coco).
In fact, this chapter made me consider how Coco seems to be alone among the building's tenants in her lack of anything unusual about her (which, ironically, might be a notable point unto itself). Given that the building is currently housing a yeti-like creature, an elf, a siren, and a pony-centaur, I can only imagine some shell-shocked would-be tenant spotting Coco and muttering "and what's your deal?" Even Razz, for how he's just a pegasus, is a closet pervert for two-legs (and Bubbles is a thug, which is quite unusual in Equestria). All of which is to say, I feel like there's something notable in this (that is, Coco's normality), but I don't know what it is. While it's easy enough to write this off as being in service to the narrative - e.g. Tabitha needs an ordinary friend to help keep her sane and grounded - I have to wonder if the building is influencing this somehow.
I also have to give major props for the bit with Tabitha explicitly noting that she's not sure if it's a "thing" to pet ponies or not, but that Coco doesn't seem to mind, even if Tabitha had never seen anyone else doing that. That (and the later insinuation that this might be due to her pheromones) was a very nice way to lampshade a particular peculiarity.
Beyond that, I liked that the story gave so much focus on the camera (pun intended). That ponies are still using old-fashioned camera compared to what we've come to think of as standard (what with digital technology) helps to drive home the different world that Tabitha is living in in a way that feels eminently relatable. I kept expecting to become bored with that sequence, but to my surprise I never did; quite the contrary, I found myself enjoying the little insights that Tabitha kept having, particularly with regard to the fact that the ponies who work in that store were far and away more cognizant of her status as a "high roller" than to her unusual body.
The one flaw there was when that other clerk struck up a conversation with her. At that point, the story really should have dropped a name for him. Characters that seem like they're going to be recurring need to be named, as referring to them purely by descriptions rapidly becomes cumbersome for the readers.
There was also some nice call-outs to the Midsummer Theatre Revival from Made in Manehattan, although at this point that's still something of a ways off in season five (I mention this last point purely as a note of caution against developing this plot thread too soon, lest it muck up the story's internal timeline). But what was more notable was Tabitha's being forward about her (apparently undetectable) scent and its effect on those around her. That was quite brave of her, and she and Coco both handled that very maturely, particularly Tabitha, with her rightly telling Coco that she had every right to set personal boundaries, and that she wouldn't be kicked out if she enforced them.
The irony here, of course, is that the whole issue with pheromones is that they work to seduce the other person, and so the issue is less one of Coco being afraid to say when a line has been crossed so much as it's her being amenable (if not amorous) towards Tabitha when she otherwise wouldn't be. Still, informing her that that could happen at all is probably the best that Tabitha can do anyway, since I doubt she's otherwise aware of what she's doing, so in that regard she's fulfilled her personal responsibilities (at least towards Coco; other ponies that she gets close to would need to be similarly informed).
Of course, this begs the question as to exactly how Tabitha's pheromones even work, since we don't actually know the details beyond that they're there. Do they work as an aphrodisiac, creating sexual desire? Or are they a more general intoxicant, creating a subtle sense of euphoria that's not necessarily linked to arousal? Given that none of the ponies we've seen Tabitha interact with so far have been particularly amorous, I have to wonder if it's the latter. ("Hey, do I smell like LSD to you?")
Overall, this chapter was quite nice for how much it didn't feel the need to hurry things along. Downtime served the story well here.
7488797 Even Silver managed to not live every moment in EXCITEMENT! Tabitha's life hasn't become nothing but a whirlwhind yet, so she certainly gets time to hang out with friends, spend some bits, and just get out. It's nice to know she isn't being harassed for being what she is, even if her form surprises those that expect a pegasus.
Fortunately, she made good impressions before and she's still a nice person now.
With a good photo processing lab, its amazing how good photos you can take with a dollar store fixed focus fixed exposure plastic lens camera.
Wish I could remember what the specifications were, so I could then demand a working setting on my next digital camera, non of this rediculous time wasting so called dynamic auto focusing etc. If I want fuzzy pictures, I have photoshop or some such data destructor.
There is no digital camera, there is only Spool.
We like how you incorporate canon events, it's really cool to have some explanation for some of the seemingly random happenings the show writers toss at us...
Silly Tabitha, it's not like your drugging ponies with your presence! Just that you don't need to wear perfume ever again!
Keep going! ;)