Girls, I know it's unusual coming from me, but I have something important to say.
I won't pretend it's been easy, but we've had a long discussion with my sis and I'll be moving her to stay with Jade's parents in the Crystal Empire. Hopefully she'll still get to visit, but her life will be there now. I've already spoken with the school and with Luna to get her paperwork started.
It's sad this should happen in the middle of the school year, but I can't in all good conscience let her go back here. Lying to me, skipping classes, other issues... Before you all charge at me, I'm not blaming her. Short and I had a long talk and we believe this is for the best.
Sorry I had to bring such news.
MixaMax
@MixaMax: What the hay?!? Max, tell me this some prank or something!
RRBB
@RRBB: Hey, it's okay. It's for the best. I'll still be online. And it's not like it'll happen right away. Teach said it'll be weeks at least until everything is set up.
Short&Hoofy
@Short&Hoofy: We must talk. When are you coming back to school?
RRBB
@RRBB: Please no. My ears are still ringing after my last talk. Let's just try to have a nice month before I go. Please?
Short&Hoofy
My parents and I will be taking good care of her so don't worry, girls. Best we could do is move on to other things. I might disappear for a few days (catching up on my lost week of school) but I'll be making the necessary arrangements.
Thanks for you understanding, all.
Jade
@Short&Hoofy: I'll make time to show you the city when you arrive. Chin up, sweetie, it'll be alright :)
InItForTheShipping
In other news, Simile and EndlessHearts have updated great chapters. Only bad thing, both chapters are on the sad side. More betrayal going on in in Daggers, and School Days really had a depressing scene with that confrontation.
I'm impressed you girls can put out such content so fast. Are you published?
PaintDrop
@PaintDrop: Seriously? :/
RRBB
@RRBB: Yes, seriously. I suggest you read the stories.
PaintDrop
What's going on? I was only gone a few days and this happens? :( Buck it up a tree!
@MixaMax: I'm going to your house right now to learn more of this!
Brush
@Brush: You won't find anypony there. I'm at work.
MixaMax
Buck you, Max!
Brush
@Brush: couldn't resist. :) Sure, come over. I've had a long talk with Lyra about this.
@PaintDrop: Yeah, they are pretty good. Better than the series even.
Starting rant.
Seriously? The Director is Danny? What were they thinking?! I get the whole reality split thing, but things are getting absurd. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if the Everprince is actually the grand 9 who are his aspects split into realities then merged into one! (See, I can think up crazy stuff too. I wanna be a writer.)
Also, I'm having second thoughts on that dream thing. If Poseidon has been sending the dreams all along, why were they so inefficient? There have been several chapters in which the dreams helped Danny and co defeat rogue followers of Poseidon. Yes, I know there could be some deep, dark plan, but come on! We're going from one cliche to another.
I'm starting to like Icelos, though. I went back to the original series and he was quite well written. (You were right, Tech, there were some good scenes. Not chapters, though :P)
Back to School Days, maybe it's because of present circumstances, but it gives me the feels. I can't stop reading it, but I also want to throw it away and never look at it ever again! You really can tug the heartstrings, Endless. :)
MixaMax
@MixaMax: Guess I have competition.
Joking. @EndlessHearts is good. I think we would make a great match if we combine our writing styles. Where do you live, if it's okay asking? I'd love to meet you.
Simile
@Simile: Crystal Empire. I'm not there now.
EndlessHearts
Collaborations... that reminds me of the project @Brush, @Bob, and I were supposed to start. What happened with that, eh? :/
What about we get together and actually write the *yay* thing?
RRBB
@Brush: You're back! Now get writing! :P
@RRBB: Yeah, you should get to that. Also, why did you stop the Danny Saga? :(
@Short&Hoofy: Always here if you need me.
LyraHands
@Short&Hoofy: Noooooo! :( *hugs* Why, Short? :((( Please don't go. Just saying that makes me miss you. Isn't there anything I can do to make you stay? *tight hugs*
SweetStuff
@SweetStuff: Wow. Sweet, I never knew you saw Short like that. Show some self control, will you? Sheesh! What will Rumble think?
RRBB
@RRBB: You kidding? Hot U-U action? He'll probably be watching. :P
YouKnowWho
That moment when you're no longer sure what part of the posts are real and what are fantasy... Love it! :)
Feather
@RRBB, @YouKnowWho: You're horrible! :(((
SweetStuff
@RRBB: And back to being a jerk... :/
PaintDrop
@PaintDrop: What did I do? :/
RRBB
I think we're veering dangerous towards the area that we shouldn't. I can hear Tech trying his best not to come in here and clobber us all with his hoof of justice.
We better stop.
LyraHands
Guess I picked a bad time to join.
Hi, everybody. I'm Sgt Pepper and I'd like to say I'm a huge fan of this site and the series. (I actually saw some of you when you came to Canterlot for your convention :))
Well, that's about it. Can't wait for next week's chapter and the calumniation of the first arc. :)
Sgt Pepper
@Sgt Pepper: Hello, hello. :) Welcome to our growing corner of the aethernet :D We're always glad to have new members. And don't be scared of the craziness. Everypony's just goofing around :)
LyraHands
@Sgt Pepper: Sergeant? Does that mean you're a stallion?
Brush
@Brush: Yes, but I'm just a common guard. :) That was my nickname when I was a colt (I'd love to eat peppers.)
Sgt Pepper
@Sgt Pepper: Oooh, bby! Come 'ere and I'll give you some peppers. :D
Brush
I've seen enough Brush posts to know where this is going.
This thread has been preemptively locked!LyraHands
Lightning tongue Lyra with that preemptive licking.
And poor, poor Dinky. Just when it seemed like the world might throw Diamond a bone, the admirer she never knew she had is getting sent halfway across the continent.
8071696 I wonder whether RRBB's recent drama has something to do with Shorty deciding to leave. Cruel irony that, just as RRBB is opening up to the idea that there might be another filly out there for her, Shorty decides that RRBB will never stop pining for YouKnowWho, and tries to cut her losses.
Lyra really knows how to use that tongue
Also, poor shorty! Poor RRBB! Come on, shorty! Say something! Do something!
Paintdrop, get them together!
If only RRBB wasn't so *yay*ing blind!
All this drama is just too much!
8072101 Paint is not coming to the rescue. RRBB doesn't know it, but she's completely talked Paint out of even trying to do matchmaking (last chapter). Paint probably hates it, and she clearly doesn't want to even talk about it.
Shorty is being practical, and listening to the reasonable adults in her life. RRBB is being impetuous and not listening to anypony. To get to anything but a sad ending the practical filly has to become more impetuous and the impetuous filly has to be more practical. Beginning writers pay attention, you are now being schooled. This is how you write a tragedy. Good one, Lise.
8068770 Are you kidding me? How many different forms of mind control magic have we seen in MLP?
- Luna getting brainwashed/reformed by the EoH in the season opener.
-Discord discording ponies
-Twilight forcing memories into ponies brains to un-discord them
-Twilight's old' reliable Want-It Need-It (implying that she has used it multiple times before)
-Chrysalis on Shining Armor
-Cadance making couples fall back in love
-Sombra mind controlling an entire army
-Twilight's reforming spells (which were easily available in a public library, so not exactly a "last resort")
-Starlight Glimmer's combination of apparently well-known mind control spells, also easily available in the public library.
-Starlight Glimmer's brainwashing hut back in Our Town (though I now suspect she would just sneak out in the middle of the night and cast mind control magic on the ponies locked up in the brainwashing hut).
-Sunset Shimmer
-The Dazzlings
-Luna using mind magic to change your nightmares into pleasant dreams
-Fluttershy's use of The Stare
So of the many, many mind control spells, it's important to note that good ponies as well as bad ponies use it, thought they like to use pleasant terms like "reforming" spells. The difference between a "reforming" spell and a brainwashing spell is the same as the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist. If you can find a reforming spell in your local libary, I see no reason you can't buy a reforming potion if you aren't a unicorn, and I could see bad parents trying something like that on their kids.
8073026 Aww shoot, I read that right after I posted my list. Well, lets assume that here ponies are a lot more enlightened, even the stuffy backwards parents. Otherwise Lyra would probably be glassy-eyed, drooling and married to a noble stallion right now.
Doesn't she mean, "licked"?
Prediction: Sgt Pepper will make the Midnight Castle equivalent to the Infamous "Cupcakes"
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You're seriously worried about this, eh? I'm just not sure who you're sad about: RRBB, Short, Paint, or YouKnowWho (imagine it from her perspective)
I can only say, life is complicated and sometimes those who have it all and those who gave (relatively) nothing could be just as sad.
8073133 pfft! This has almost become a meme :)
8073684 That's a scary thought :)
Okay, normally, I have this rule that I live by, one that states that I will NOT hit a woman. Call it old fashioned or whatever... but that is how I was raised.
Mix has done fucked the cunted fuck up so friggin hard, I wanna repeatedly knock her teeth down her throat until there is nothing left resembling a face. That is how seriously she pissed me off.
8072710
Reasonable adult... Max is more impetuous than RRBB, and in this case is being a manipulating twatwaffle. Instead of dealing with the issue at hand, she is shipping Dinks off to the Crystal Empire, away from all her friends who support her, and denying her the chance to even admit her feelings for RRBB. So, those feelings will remain unrequited, and resentment will build inside of her. Not only that, but Diamond will suffer as well, because the one filly who loves her like she desires to be loved (and could finally relieve her of her need to continue chasing after Scoots) is being sent away.
And Dinky most likely was not listening to the "advice" of her "reasonable adult" (bullfuckingshit) sister, but was heavily pressured into "accepting" being sent away.
As of right now, if Brush put Max in intensive care, I would be showing up to bail her out of jail!
It needs to be spelled out: a princess just offered to show some random-if-you-didn't-know-about-this-aethernet-site filly around the Crystal Empire.
I love this setting.