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You know I was initially not going to read this story as I don't really like story's that take place before the MLP series, but this has VERY quickly become my favourite story on this site. 11/10 will continue reading.
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Awesome capture as always! Love to see the slice of life in your story and can't wait to see more in the near future!
Brilliant chapter!
"You have two ten butts."
Kind, generous, loyal, honest, and laughing would be better. (Also magical.)
wuhoo this was a awesome and fun chapter
and im so glad you made chapters instead of just scrapping stuff
its all part or can be part of the world you build
Isn’t the store in Cloudsdale?
Another great chapter. Keep up the great work.
Absolute danger
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Not me!
That was cool, like really cool
Wow this chapter was grate except that 1 stupid pony craft pony grump who tills cure to get out the cures day was fantastic annoying First Lieutenant Gliding spear and other things
You always put so much depth in the story every chapter that you put out marks a impact that is you have a gift of writing and it shows on every chapter thank you and every 1 that helps u produce such a story with this much with love and care I'm looking forward for the next chapter and every other 1 you put up
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Cool chapter, and thanks for letting us know.
I bet that dance improved the Bluebloods' opinion of Cure, so maybe any plotting won't come from their direction, now that they know he does more all day than heal and come up with scary biology powers
Awesome as always keep up the amazing work
It's little details like this. Descriptions of the unique tools used by ponies, such as this little horn training thing, that always impress me the most. I remember a few chapters ago there was a detailed description of a pony typewriter, and the creativity of it was impressive to me.
Yup. She’s counting the days till he’s an adult.
I didn’t expect Lt. Spear to be married, but now I’m interested in meeting her family -especially that character of a husband. “Military family checkup day” may be quite fun.
Meat plants incoming: haybacon soon to come!! The griffon lands will love a visit from Serpentus. I’m sure the embassy is sure to hear rumors about a mysterious hypogriff eating the menu at the restaurant nearby and come up with some theories.
Did the hipogriff with the horn at the hospital get any help with that offscreen?
I know Cure is paranoid but woof! … I kind of think something / someling might try to contact him before he starts at CSGU with all the publicity he’s getting.
16K words... 16K... i had to take a break in the middle of reading it all
as usual loved the chapter and more of Cures shenanigans, but this time it was more. while i love his time with Celestia it was fun having him a day off with Spear in town.. and what a day it was, from a rude seller to eating meat and then for the finale a dance.
this chapter also showed us how gender-fluid Cure is, or more precisely, species-fluid cure is, i'm not sure if he has gender-swapped before (i do think he was Celestia at one point in time no?)
P.S...
you got your dates wrong for your hiatus, it's August right now not July
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Dang.. I didn't think that Cure can be an explanation for some canon oddness
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Cure didn't eat the menu or the cutlery, but he did clean the plates of everything on them. It's when he also ate the bones that he may have taken it too far...
I think you meant 8/21 and 8/28 in the authors note. Not a huge thing but just chuckled a bit at it.
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Wow. I can't begin to guess how I brain farted hard enough to pull that off. Fixed, thanks.
Edit: Cure did indeed disguise himself as a mare when he impersonated "Sunny" to bring Celestia breakfast. I did not specify how deep that disguise went, but there was a long inner monologue about genitalia, or lack thereof, when he showed off his suit for her, Cpt. Shield, and Lt. Spear during his first visit. Logic would dictate that if he was leery of giving himself a dong on that, he would be unlikely to include any sort of functional vagina on a Celestia disguise when he was, essentially, breaking into her room. If anything he would take the same approach.
As has been pointed out multiple times, I would like to propose an official change in currency from Celestial Bits, to Celestial Butts.
Ooooohhhhh! Is LFOD getting married???!!?!?! Big travel plans, huge life changes which may influence posting schedules… Wedding in Hawaii, honeymoon NYC or Disney World or Caribbean… (Pretty sure you’re East coast-ish, unless you’re up and online at my 5:00 AM left coast)
Just teasing! I know that’s a whole lotta ‘nunya’, (none of your) business, but the clues just seem to fit. CONGRATULATIONS!
There’s a “they’re” that should be a “their” in here somewhere, another one back in 73 that didn’t get picked up too… talking about other nations considering military upgrades as a threat “the dragons and they’re ego’s”. A hint for anyone writing their/there/they’re: tHEIR (a heir is a PERSON who’s inheriting something) tHERE (here is a PLACE) and they’re is just reread the sentence as “they are”, it’ll make sense or it won’t (try it above). Nothing against you specifically LFOD, but I see this so simply it jumps out to me EVERYWHERE!
Maybe ya ought ‘a bring everypony by and I can scan ‘em for they’re sizes and, who knows, maybe they can look forward to something special for Hearth’s Warming.”
That one should be a their
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Fixed both. Thanks! Typos like that are typically the result of me writing on my tablet instead of my computer. I'll punch in a few letters and go to hit the suggested word, not catching that the last letter I hit changed the suggestion I was picking. I sometimes use swipe and that can pick the wrong thing too. As is often the case with one's own work, my brain just goes right over the error. Homonyms, in particular, are hard to catch.
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Actually, the design for the pony typewriter is likely based off of an existing alternative keyboard called the Orbitouch keyless keyboard.
Awesome chapter, I much prefer seeing it than being told about it, if you get what I mean. Hope you have a safe trip
Cute trying to reinvent transport when ,bar teleportation, Equestria already has the best fastest and efficient transport available: the train
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You say this, and don't even mention how it's a HiE story... It's perhaps the most well done, HiE fix, where the dude actually knows about the show, on the ENTIRE site. Some are pretty decent where its just a guy doing things not knowing, but this one has it perfectly. Most of the time it's just like: "Whoa! Remember that episode where X happened??? Well here's an outline for the episode with very slightly different hijinks mixed in!"
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Bro... Agreed
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He’s a growing colt. He needs his calcium. 😉
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I imagine Cure sweet talks Celestia into redesigning the bit like this:
Celestia: “Let me get this straight, You want to replace my face on the bit with my cutie mark?”
Cure: “Yes.”
Celestia: “My face has been on the bit for over 900 years.”
Cure: “Exactly! And for all that time you’ve been the only ruler of Equestria.”
Celestia: “Are you saying you want to take up your royal responsibilities?”
Cure: “Keeping my royal self this adorable and humble is my responsibility, but I have a better idea. Since bits come in multiple dominations, but are fairly uniform in size, one way to differentiate them would be to put different cutie marks on them. One for each Alicorn Prince or Princess.”
Celestia: “Cure, bits come in dominations as small as one and as large as one thousand. There are only two—“
Cure: “Three. And I know—including yours truly—that grand total will be 6 in a little over 90 years.”
Celestia: “…you want to put Luna’s cutie mark on our currency.”
Cure: “I figured it would be a good way to help change everypony’s perception of her. What with having her cutie mark in everypony’s money pouch.”
Celestia: “I’ll… discuss this proposal with Director Green Back. It may take some time to hammer out the finer details, but this is a good idea.”
Cure: “Thank you, Boss.”
Celestia leaves to go fund the Equestria Mint director.
Spear: “She’s going to tan your hide once your little nickname for these new bits reaches her ears.”
Cure: “Probably.”
Yes. This exactly.
You could have just referenced this entire chapter, and made it two sentences (in bold.)
"So what did you do today?" asked Serpentus' personal maid.
"First I went to Tinkerer’s Treasure, but the pony there was hella rude to me so I'm never going there again and I'll make sure everyone knows it. Then Celestia made me dance in front of everyone."
"I heard about that. The few castle staff who got to see your dance said that it was breathtaking."
"You should have seen Celestia. She started acting like one of those insane fans lusting after their favorite celebrity. I had to beat her off of me with a stick!"
A side-long glance of of disbelief was his response.
"Fine! She applauded and said that she would want to see it again."
With a smile, the maid asked, "Could I see you dance sometime?"
But, no. We get a whole chapter! And we get world building on top of that!
Please don't ever feel like you need to cut slice-of-life stuff.
Keep up the great work. And take care of yourself during your "away mission."
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The Butt stops here!
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I suspected something like this...nevertheless, it still makes the story more interesting, even if not 100% original.
Great story so far! I'm just sad that I caught up now. 😥
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But which coin gets which cutie mark? Celestia on the 1000? (it’s da biggest) but nopony really uses those frequently. Put her on the 100? Probably the most common ’large’ denomination. The 100bit Celestia gets my vote. Especially to incorporate the joke to start calling them butts.
Would Luna then get the 50, 20, 500, or 1000? My vote would be for the 500 with Cure/Serpentus on the 1000. Use the bigger value coins for the scarcity of alicorns and Cure does love to toss around the 1K coins. Or perhaps keep Celestia’s bust on the 1000, Lunas mark on the 500, Cures mark on a 200(are there any?) or the 50.
Introduce collectors minting of 20s or 25’s like the American State quarter series with different historical figures; Commander Hurricane, Chancellor Puddinghead, Starswirl the bearded, Blueblood the 1st(? Or just make the Blueblood line 5 or 10) etc.
Here’s another idea, Celestia’s bust remains on the 1 and the 1000, then you have Big Celestias and Little Celestias and then the Butts with the 100. I’mma change my vote for this instead
I just have to disagree about the coin sizes however. I’ve always pictured the 1k’s about the size of a 1oz gold/silver. A bit thicker than regular coins, but still pocketable. Then pennies, nickels and quarters (dimes are a dumb size for equestria, I get that it was because of metal content originally, but not no more) so something in between for 10s, then half dollar and silver dollar for 100 and 500. You can still credit some intrinsic value to the metal content for the different sizes and metals that way too.
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I thought the pictures were based on importance and started with the lowest, most common denominations. So Celestia would be on the equivalent of Penny/Dollar, Luna on Nickle/Five, and so on. But also remember this is not a paper-based currency and somewhat difficult to just whip out commemorative coins and expect vendors out in the sticks to accept those "funny looking bits" that haven't changed in ten centuries.
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You gave me a better idea, reverse my previous suggestion; Celestia’s bust on the 100, cutie mark on the 1 and 1000. Now you have big and little Butts
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Hold up! You just went into dealing with very large dominations without considering the smaller ones.
As has been established, Cure makes obscene amounts of money. Generally speaking, what he makes in a week is more than most ponies entire annual salaries. So yes, Cure is tossing around 1,000 bit coins like they're 20 dollar bills... probably because he's the only ponies in Equestria who can.
Probably far more common are the following dominations:
In canon, and in this fic, we haven't seen any currency unit smaller than a Bit. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but so far every transaction in this story has been in whole numbers.
Now historically—and I am using the US as an example here—monetary notes in units of 500, 1000, 10,000, and 100,000 were used for very large cash transactions (the 500 and 1000) and for transactions between banks (10,000 and 100,000).
This story has established that 1000 bit coins exist. The fact that Cure needed 35 of them for 35,000 bits suggest that any denomination larger than that is not meant for public circulation.
So realistically there are currently 7 coins that are in circulation amongst the general public.
As for who gets on which number it's probably something like this:
"But wait! Where's Cure?" You're probably asking. The answer for that is simple. As part of the currency redesign, Cure introduces a new coin denomination.
That way Cure can butt into any conversation between Celestia and Luna by tossing in his two bits.
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Which is why the new Bits would need to be introduced over the course of a century.
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Kinda surprised the other Millionaires haven't contacted Cure yet with as much weight the little colt had been putting on the currency scene. Soaking up all that money from the local economy has to have some sorta effect? (Besides filling up banks)
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You have a good point. However, Canence, Twilight and Flurry Heart are a century away, give or take. The Mint can’t just comment/commit those denominations are reserved for future ascensions. Hence my “state quarter” series suggestion. Then it’s easier to introduce a new cutie mark when it’s time.
Contrasting the timelines between Ed’s passing and G5’s broadcast, it’s unlikely Ed would be aware of Opaline or any others if he’s even cognizant of the existence of a new show
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The bits should go in order maby Celeastea's & Luna's mom and dad same with cure's parents can be put on special bits as collectors same as cure's wife's Whelan he has his own herd like how quarter's have collectors even the 7 pillers, Prince Blueblood and so forth
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Your reply was downright rude! I didn't say i wanted any chapters faster, i was just asking not to leave it on a cliffhanger and leave for three weeks! I don't mind waiting on a chapter that was meant to be released if it means i won't be blind-sided by an unresolvable cliffhanger that i won't be able to do anything with for three weeks. There was no need to be so rude.
Cliffhangers, while annoying, serve their purposes when they're executed correctly and there's no interruption from week to week. But a cliffhanger with such a downtime looming in the horizon only serves to piss me off and make me want to disconnect with the story.
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No Your are 100% in the WRONG for asking sopping of any kind what r u paying theam a commission to do it your way no like the author sead you get what you get and be very happy about it rude ppl don't like Cliffhangers to bad for you it is not your story to dictate what to do
I was just thinking... granny Smith is likely alive right now, and most likely right around the same age as cure. I thought it would be cool for cure to meet her but then I realized that there is really no reason to besides "hey! Look! It's the young grandma!"
On another note. I love the interactions between characters in this story. I think celestia needs more hugs. The old mare probably doesn't get enough. It's probably been a long time since she was part of a snuggle pile. She would make an excellent pillow. Cure should recruit his friends and family and Platonic Pony Pile all over celestia after the coronation. I think it would be an adorable scene.
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Celestia: “I haven’t the slightest idea how that picture was taken. How is Cure taking it?”
Deed: “Well, he’s not thrilled that all of his friends as well as himself ended up on the front page of every newspaper in Equestria. The fact they were burying you in a pony snuggle pile is besides the point.”
Celestia: “Every guard and member of the staff are being interrogated as we speak. There will be no—“
Spear: “Pardon the interruption, your highness.”
Celestia: “Yes Lieutenant?”
Spear: “We found the culprit.”
Lieutenant Spear wheels out a very large bird cage, a camera, a small mountain of bits, and a pile of ashes.
Celestia: “…”
Deed: “…where’s the culprit, your majesty?”
Celestia glares at the pile of ashes.
Celestia: “…Philomena.”
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This raises a good point I have yet to see in the story.
Where is Philomena??
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Clearly she’s waiting for the perfect opportunity to start pulling pranks on the young colt.