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Good for a start, but use normal days of the week to avoid confusing everyone.
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This is always an interesting question: how far do you go in capturing the feel of your setting? If readers will accept "buck" and "Tartarus" as swear words, and any number of horse-related puns for names, what's the threshold? I've seen writers use kilotrots for distance and all kinds of weather-related idioms in pegasus speech. So, is it really so much of a stretch to use localized days of the week?
I did consider your point, but I decided that the odds of misunderstanding were low enough that the artistic flavor justified it.
2307468 I do accept buck and Tartarus, amidst other words, but only because they have a suitable reason for being altered from our human English. But what reason there is the names of the days of week would be altered?
Just to give a unique flair and to gt away from our normal Ehnglish/human conventions. Not necessary but some people really like it. Honestly it should not be that confusing because usually what day of the week is unnecessary from a plot point, and if it was important then you can describe in the sentence to dispel the illusion ("oh no Canterday that is only two days away!").
So Rainbow Dash used to date Applejack but it went a little too quickly for AJ. I wonder what Pinkie is up to...
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... because ponies didn't worship Tyr, Odin, Thor, Freya, or Saturn, whence we took the names of the days of the week? Meanwhile, they do have hooves, wings, horns, friends, and cantering.
Sunday and Moonday are fine as-is; we know those exist in Equestria.
I'm beginning to wonder just who the eight readers are who are obsessed enough to downvote every story ever posted with a Sex tag — because I swear to the Sisters that I've never seen a single clop story leave the front page with fewer downvotes than that, no matter the writing quality, no matter whether it even contains mature material yet or not.
As to the story itself: I'm cheating a little, because I know where it's going (and i think you'd do well to dangle some hints in the description, because that premise is a large part of what makes this stand out), but I'm really looking forward to seeing how it gets there.
Just want to drop in and say this is incredibly well-written. Eagerly awaiting more!
No idea how this got 10 downvotes; I'm rather enjoying it so far.
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Are we on track for the omniship? PLEASE SAY YES PLEASE SAY YES
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That would be telling, but I'll say this: even outside the official relationships, there will probably be some friendship benefits happening around....
Hmm.. Grassburger's syndrome. I may have to borrow that. I usually just chalk Twilight's personality up to mild OCD, but 'Grassburger's' would explain the social awkwardness and inability to connect to friends.
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I hope Pinkie gets her due. One thing that always makes me sad is when a author writes a story with 5 of the main 6 finding love and romance but Pinkie gets nothing since those authors think she is unable to have a romantic relationship. Obviously I think that is a load of crock but it sadly does come up. So oddly while Pinkie has not been featured yet I am reading just to find out if she will get her day and who it would be with.
I guess I shall see.
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Pinkie has not been forgotten, nor will she be left out. There are challenges for her, but that's true for all of them. One more part, and then we'll start to see her and the troubles she faces.
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Cool as I hoped. Challenges for her are to be expected. I only wondered since so far we have seen nothing of her and in the description it talked about her trying to make the others happy but nothing about romance for her so I was worried she might become the odd one out which would be sad. I will continue to watch for more chapters.
This portrayal of Flutters is really interesting; she seems to be always running to keep ahead of the breakdown that's trying to catch her from behind.
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So everyone is messed up in some way?
Flutters.... what type of candy/brownies are are we talking about here?
Is Spike the only one without issues?
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With the presumption that we're going with the semicanon / fanon "salt as pony recreational pharmaceutical" thing, I think we may be able to register a guess or two.
I really like the Pinkie content here, especially the short description of her room. Nicely done. Check typography:
"Becomes" presumably is "because"?
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Augh! That was the typo I missed. Thank you. And yes, in reference to her blondies and brownies from before, these are weapons-grade snacks for military-level anxiety.
why is big mac in the tags from what i read nothing with him happens
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His role is coming. He has a part to play in this as well.
Yo, buddy. You still alive?
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Am I alive, indeed.
Earth, Wind, and Fire is alive and well, still. I have neither forgotten about it, nor do I plan to do so. However, as happens to everypony at some time or another, my life has sort of fallen into strange configurations and is in the process of being rebuilt:
* Two months ago, I started the process of buying a house. This is its own fancy ball of stress, mostly positive, but still difficult. Paperwork to find, paperwork to scan and fax or mail, checks to write, inspections and appraisals and audits, all to see if you qualify to borrow more money than you can hold in your head at once.
* Six weeks ago, we discovered a bed bug infestation in the rental I share with four roommates. If you don't know bed bugs, the second-most-common thing they cause is paranoid parasitosis: the fear that you're being bitten. Seriously, not only are these things hard to get rid of, but the measures you have to take to clean your house to make treatment possible mean living out of airtight boxes and Ziploc bags for several weeks. Cleaning up in a timely fashion so the house could get sprayed led to some pretty knock-down drag-out fights with my wife, not to mention my other roommates.
* Two weeks ago, my boss none-too-subtly suggested to me that I should probably consider changing roles at work, if not careers. I probably shouldn't get into the details, but a pair of recent conversations with my manager have left me with a sense that I should probably consider bailing on my current employment as soon as I can find something better, and I haven't really slept well since that talk.
* Last week, some coworkers at a previous employer reached out to me and invited me to fill the gap on their current team.
On top of all of the above have been the holidays, starting with my annual Orphans' Thanksgiving, then my friend's Solstice celebration, and now New Year's. As a result, I've barely had time to rub two bits together, and when I have, I haven't had the focus to actually manage to write anything at all. It's been all I could do to stop from going all Lesson Zero/Party of One on people, to say nothing of actually being productive in my personal life.
On the plus side, I can see the lights at the ends of several tunnels. The job should pan out fairly quickly one way or another, the closing on the house is the end of this month, and tomorrow is the second bed bug treatment. The move's in another month or two -- depending on how long it takes to treat everything we own so we're not moving anything infested with bed bugs into the new house -- and then I think I'll probably be in better shape to start writing again.
... just in time for con season to start, since I'm staff on Everfree Northwest and RainFurrest both. I swear, I got a lot more writing done when I didn't have any friends. =>.>=
Sorry to hear about your recent worries, and glad to see you writing again! This chapter was just so beautifully atmospheric in so many ways. I still don't know what to think of the 'ship (and I'm fully aware that the narrative has not specifically taken a stand on it either) but this is a painfully real-seeming evening at the Acres.
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I hope to be complicating the story's view of the ship in the very near future. **grins** These things have a way of complicating themselves, or at least of looking very complicated from the outside. Thank you for the support; it really does mean a lot.
This was a fine reintroduction to the story. Indeed, it's great to see you writing again!
4017447 beat me to the "atmospheric, great slice of Applie Family life", so I'll go beyond and praise the lovely little details like the cellar casserole.
Call me an egghead too, but I've got to know what series "I should have picked Barrowwright and his Land of Discord series." references.
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I actually don't have it in my notes, but I believe I was riffing on "Land that Time Forgot," by Edgar Rice Burroughs.