All Pipp wants to do is sleep. It used to be that if somepony was making too much of a racket outside the castle to allow royal rest, the guards would (politely) take care of it. Now she's living in the Brighthouse, it was a long night, and Izzy is loudly failing to work on her contribution for the First Annual Unity Art Festival at the unholy hour of The Sun Is Actually Up. So maybe if Pipp can distract the unicorn with something a little quieter -- say, a game app -- it might be possible to actually go back to bed.
You can't really distract Izzy for very long. The most anypony can hope for is to give her a different idea.
But that's not always a bad thing.
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oh, that reminded me of this interesting fan-video:
I didn't think I'd be getting a 10k-word deep dive on Bingo Blitz tonight, but hey, I'd sooner take that over the ads I keep getting harassed with that feature not-Meghan Trainor.
Love the remuda spin, too. Using that word specifically as a Bingo replacement is incredibly fitting with the theme of the story.
Okay, this was an unexpected delight!
I love Izzy, generally like your take on G5, and think you are committed on giving Pipp all the depth the movie missed out on. And here they are, two (very different) creatives getting inspired by one another, and it's great. ("Remuda" is a great word choice!)
This...I felt this in so many ways, both the crafter/ideas angle and the identity/choice angle, and the way it was brought together at the end
Beautiful
Unexpected shot fired, but still funny.
Well, if the Zephyr made it this far...
Pipp having a whole drawer full of accidentally themed sock puppet accounts makes a lovely amount of sense. I'd never considered it, and now that I've heard it, I'm amazed I hadn't. The same goes for the existence of ZHMI6.
Ah, dramatic irony.
I'd say that Izzy could take screencaps of the game lobby to save avatars, but that would rely on her reliably inputting the right command without starting a factory reset.
Ah. Pipp is not a fan of Coraline.
Oh, I know that feeling...
Brilliant demonstration of the kind of creative magic an outside perspective can work on something familiar enough to be taken for granted by others. Thank you for a great read and a fun study of the most creative members of the new cast.
This may (or may not) be a typo of "stray"?
Even less sure that this is an error. If so, you probably meant "fit".
Definitely NOT an error IMHO, but for a moment I thought that, rather than ideas, she was talking about the leadership of the festival and she wanted to not delay her apology for not having an entry.
It makes complete sense for magic to work that way until someone points out how little sense it makes, which this does rather poetically.
It took me a few seconds active thought to get this one. Especially since I always assumed the original is a riff on the quarterback position in American football. Regardless of the case, I find this yet another clever bit of wordplay.
*Snerk*
Wow... she was probably only flying a few minutes... I guess she has a least a bit of thrust to assist sideways motions with the wires (you would require more wires, leading to multiple holes to apply significant horizontal force) but she never exercised her lift muscles as part of rehearsals?
Zipp, of course, probably bought, or had custom made, wing-exercise machines and used them regularly, claiming that it aided he illusion, both during performances, and in the actual fact of their use... unless Haven preferred it to seem effortless, in which case, the machines were either secret from the public* or did not exist in the first place.
*Unlike the fan-room with the Wonderbolt's poster and broken stain glass window, which was secret even from her mother.
Ah... That explains it!... Although wouldn't that be the primary cause? Or maybe he residual soreness is mostly acting as a multiplicative factor on the pain when she currently flies? As a
nerdcouch potato whose interests do not include sports medicine, I am unsure how that works.Surprisingly enough, most things that approximate that are free in my limited experience. Look up " Seventh Sanctum random generator", or its new site duplicate(s) (when they come into existence, which they might have already) for some examples.
In which story are we first introduced to Pipp's fear (hatred?) of buttons? My curiosity has been piqued.
Having accidentally glanced at the comments, I had been left with the impression this was simply another name for bingo, that prep existed this work and was somehow more culturally fitting for Ponies. I am glad I looked it up.
TIL
https://www.wordnik.com/words/remuda
I assume this is specific to your continuity, because AFAIK that only happened once, they were all involved in it to varying degrees (Pipp and perhaps Hitch the least), and the results were the best thing that happened in many years (and that is assuming a critical vaccine was only recently rediscovered which sharply reduced the number of densely packable* tomb stones with only one year on them.)
*If one wishes, infants do not require many square feet to bury. Note that this is frighteningly real history up to... I want to say less than a century ago?
Nice word choice.
Again, nice.
Hah... the Diarch's heavenly duties would probably not have been the sort of "royal regulation" she meant!
Ah! Ponified Coraline. That would explain it!
((No further comments likely as I hurt my back doing yard work and just want to chill.))
AND IT WAS THUS
that Izzy crafted the first database since the summer of 1977 when I robbed that dairy queen
So true, so very true ....
D'awww
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I'd never seen this fanimation before, so thanks for sharing it!
Also Estee, might I say, BRILLIANT! Bravisma! *whistles* I've long enjoyed your excellent G4 world building & how you've captured the essences (not the voice as you extend those voices to places we never even see the shows nor comics show them, but the very ESSENCE of what makes such a character work that the fanon seems by far more sensible than the canon explanations) but this is the first time I've gotten to see it for G5. It was BREATH-TAKING! As someone that was rather hopeful about the paths & ideas that G5 might explore, especially before it's unfortunate cancellation, this is a glass of water to someone dying of thirst in the desert! Then there's the layers of jokes within jokes within references to other jokes. Excellently done! I lurk here far more often, but post less often than I used to especially as day after day we get the same old tired fanfic tropes ad nauseum... but this... to have something so heartfelt, touching, slice of life, & relatable... by the Tetrarchy how long has it been?! Not to feel enraged nor morose nor horny nor silly as other fics try (& too often fail these days) to make me feel but just to feel... genuinely connected to my own feelings... thank you for writing this Estee! I've decided that for the first time in a long time, I need another new shelf in my virtual bookshelf, & I'll need to re-organize my library accordingly. Oh! Plus the meta-commentary on our community of people that know one another only through usernames & avatars was also a nice touch. I almost forgot to add that. Regardless, I hope you write more G5 as I just cannot see Izzy & Pipp in almost any other way now haha!
Lol, we all have an Avatar. A face we show to the world. Who ever actually thinks about it really?
You describe Izzy in such a charming way and I lover her (and you) for it.
Hand to God, Izzy is the BEST part of G4 lol.