October 18
I woke up Aric by climbing on top of him and he said that I was eager this morning, and I told him that I'd get off if he didn't want to, and he kissed my muzzle and said that he did. And I laid on top of him for a little while after we'd finished and he ran his fingers along my wings and kissed me, and asked if I was going to go flying, and I told him that I was but we could snuggle a little bit more because it was hardly even light out yet, since the days were getting shorter.
I got dressed and then kissed Aric one more time before I went out his window. Instead of going straight for the bird feeder, I went up and landed on the roof and I waited until I saw him stick his head out the window and look around to see where I'd gone, but he didn't think to look straight up. And then when he pulled his head back in, I dove off the roof and got to the bird feeder and was happily chewing on sunflower seeds when he realized, but he hadn't thought to grab a sock, and I was back in the air before he had any ammunition. He didn't bother to throw, 'cause he knew I could dodge it.
So I stuck my tongue out at him and flew over top of his house, and then called the airplane directors to let them know that I was in the air. I probably should have said so before I actually started flying, but I was pretty low to the trees and I didn't see any airplanes around.
The grumpy man said that I could fly to the Nature Center, but to keep low, and so I skimmed over the trees and I took a more westerly course, and circled around one of the dirt mines, because their bucket tractor was driving around making a dirt pile and that was kind of fun to watch, even if I didn't know the purpose of it.
I waved at the tractor before I flew off, and then I continued on my way.
I landed next to the pond, 'cause it was pretty easy to find now that I knew where it was, and I didn't have to worry about scaring the deer off. I did make a bunch of frogs jump in, 'cause they're not so smart and think that anything that's bigger than them is a threat. They're too slimy and too quick to catch, anyway, although I've heard that some Prench ponies think they're a delicacy.
The duckweed on the pond was kinda tasty, and if it hadn't been against the rules I might have landed and had a little bit of it, but I guess that was another thing that the deer got to eat that I didn't.
I did one whole lap of the trail at a trot, then I picked up speed and cantered for a little bit. When I got close to the pond, I could hear lots of splashes as frogs jumped in, and I thought about slowing down and waiting once I got past the pond until I heard them croaking again and then galloping at them to flush them back into the water, but that would be kind of mean, so I didn't.
I slowed down when I got close to the tunnel, and this time instead of flying through it, I trotted through, and my hooves made weird echoes up and down the tunnel.
When I was on the other side, I went up to a short gallop, and when I got to the junction near my normal trail, I lifted off and climbed up to the tops of the trees, then went over them and flew above the railroad tracks.
A couple of the deer looked up at me, then they put their heads back down to their breakfast, and I turned my attention back forward, and followed the tracks until I was close to the 131 Bus Highway, and then I flew a direct route back to campus.
I landed on the boardwalk and went upstairs to my room and got undressed and made sure Peggy was awake, then I went off to the shower, and when I was done, I first took my flight vest downstairs to put it in the washing machine, because nobody got up early to do laundry.
I went back up to my room and preened my wings, and then scratched a couple of loose downy feathers off from the underside of my wings, along my barrel. Those ones were the most annoying when they grew back in, 'cause they'd kind of poke at me and I had to sort of push them back when I tucked my wings in.
Then I got my lab coat on and struggled with the buttons until Peggy finally decided to help me. And I'd almost had it, but it kept slipping out of my mouth at the very last second.
She also put my mane in a ponytail for me, and then I put my lab goggles and notebook and textbook into my saddlebags while she got the rest of the way dressed.
We went to breakfast together and the waffle-maker was still broken and there were no omelets, either, so I got some scrambled eggs and a bagel to share with Anna. Sean wasn't at the breakfast table, and Christine said that he was sleeping in. I offered to go to his room and knock on the window on my way to lab, but she said that now wasn't the right time and asked me if I knew what a Super Soaker was. I didn't, but I kind of got the idea from the name.
Christine said it wasn't as mean as putting his hand in a bowl of warm water so he'd pee the bed, and Peggy asked her if that actually worked. She said that there was only one way to find out.
Meghan said that when she was at Camp Kinawind, one of the girls in her cabin said she'd done it to a cabinmate the year before and it worked, but she'd never tried it herself. And Reese said he knew a guy who was in Boy Scouts who swore it worked, and pranked all the Tenderfeet like that at every summer camp.
I didn't think it would work on ponies, 'cause I couldn't imagine how getting my hoof wet would make me want to pee, and Peggy and Christine looked at each other and I could guess what they were planning on trying.
Since my flight vest was in the washing machine, I had to leave breakfast a little bit early so I could get it and I could have taken it back up to my room to air-dry, but I was feeling a little bit lazy, so I just put it in the dryer, and it would either be there when I got back or else somebody else who needed the dryer would put it on the table for me.
I went out the front door, 'cause that was closer to Dow, and I went down to the lab and set out my notebook and put my goggles on my forehead, then waited for Lisa to show up.
Our lab was about Gibbs Free Energy, and we had to do alchemy in a little calorimeter, and Lisa did a lot of the work because Professor Brown didn't think it would be safe for me to handle chemicals by mouth, which was disappointing. I didn't even get to stir our solutions, but I did get to record all the data.
After the lab was over, I went back to the dorm and got my flight vest out of the dryer, and then I had to walk up all the flights of stairs 'cause I couldn't fly with my lab coat on.
I don't know why but it was easier to get the buttons undone than it was to fasten them. Maybe it was because I'd only really practiced taking off Meghan and Aric's clothes and not putting them on. But it was a lot more fun to take them off.
Once I'd put away my clothes, I decided that I probably ought to wash my blanket, too, 'cause I hadn't done that in a while, so I took them all off the bed and went back down to the laundry room and luckily there was still an empty washing machine, so I put them in and tried not to get any laundry soap in my mouth when I added it in. And then I went back upstairs and started doing the lab calculations, and I'd finished most of them by lunchtime.
I flew down to the ground, and went in the back entrance which was kind of annoying because I had to use my plastic card to get in. And there weren't any dryers that were free anymore, but one of them had stopped so I took all the clothes out of it and piled them on the table, then put my blankets in, and I thought about trying to fold everything up but I wasn't very good at folding clothes and I'd probably do it wrong and ruin them.
Whoever owned them really liked Victoria's Secret, 'cause all the underwear and some of the shirts and pants said that on them. I didn't think it was much of a secret if you printed it on your clothes.
I trotted over to the dining hall and looked around to see what they'd had, but the bounty from the weekend had run out and nothing smelled all that appetizing. They had some more of the square fish, but I really didn't want to try them, so I just got a salad and thought about how next time I went to Meijer I was going to get a lot more anchovies, and I hoped that they'd have something better for dinner, and then I carried my tray over to Cedric and Leon and Trevor's table.
I told Leon that he was a really good dancer, and I hadn't expected that he would be. And he bowed his head and said that he'd taken dance lessons for years, and he even knew how to do ballet dancing. I thought Cedric was going to say something mean about that, but he just shrugged and said that you couldn't tackle a ballerina. Leon said that was true, that they were just like Weebles, and he thought it was part of the reason why he was so good as a wide receiver. He said that several football players had taken ballet to make them better, and he said that Cedric would benefit from it, too.
Cedric said the reason he didn't was that they didn't make ballet clothes in his size, and Leon told him that leotards were very stretchy, and once he tried one he'd want to wear it all the time.
Trevor found a poem for us, which was called Peter Simson's Farm, and he said that it reminded him of Aquamarine, and maybe Cedric could quote some of it to her next time he wrote her a letter. And so Cedric took the book and started reading the poem to us, and then he said it was kind of sad and melancholy in the end, and I thought no earth pony would stand for her farm to be destroyed by a bunch of pests. Not even a monster.
Before I went to Astronomy, I went back to the dorm and got my sheets, and I took them upstairs and made my bed.
Professor Miller started to teach us about relativity, which had both a special kind and a general kind. Special was for motion and general was for gravity. And in special relativity there was a special factor called gamma, and she gave us a formula for it, and it showed how you couldn't accelerate faster than the speed of light.
And she explained how when you stopped a photon of light, it disappeared because it didn't have any rest mass, and how when you went faster and faster, time slowed down but you had to go really, really fast for it to be noticeable.
So what it meant was that time and length didn't always stay the same, which some people had trouble believing, but it made sense to me. And someone asked her why the speed of light was what it was, and she said that was where physics turned into theology, because humans knew how it worked but not why it worked the way that it did.
There was magic that we didn't fully understand, so I didn't think humans should feel bad about not knowing everything.
At the end of class, she told us that she would be driving a van to the Nature Center tomorrow night so that we could look through the telescope and she said that it wasn't required but it was encouraged, and I really wanted to go so I hoped that Aric wouldn't be mad if I did, because it would probably mean I couldn't spend the night with him.
It was a really warm day, and when me and Anna walked across campus she noticed how many people were sitting out on the quad. She said that nice days in October were kind of rare, which I'd thought too, and she said that we ought to make the best of it, so she found a tree that hadn't been taken yet and got out her sketchbook, and I had to go to my room to get my Bible but I promised her that I'd be back.
And when I landed back next to her, she was really focused on her drawing, and I didn't think that she'd noticed me, but when she got done making a couple of lines, she reached out her hand and petted my mane a couple of times before she went back to her art.
I learned that Saul, who had been bad, got blinded by Jesus then healed by Him, and turned into a disciple, and Peter went and raised a woman from the dead, and then a centurion looked for him, and Peter baptized him. That made the other apostles angry, but Peter said that it was what God wanted, and then they understood.
Herod put Peter in prison, but an angel got Peter out of prison and then struck Herod and he fell down and got eaten by worms.
And the whole rest of Acts was mostly about all the places that Paul and his friends went and how more and more people were following them but also other people were angry with them and tried to get them in trouble, and it was kind of like an adventure story. So it turned out that I was the one who got lost in my work, 'cause when I'd finished up Acts, I closed my Bible and was surprised to see that she'd finished her drawing and started on another one.
When it was dinnertime, she showed me her drawings before she put them away—one of them was a dragon, and it looked pretty fierce, and the other one I didn't know and she said it was a Nixie, which is a human breezie. And since she had room, she said that she could carry my Bible for me, too, so I wouldn't have to take it back to my room.
I looked around, but there wasn't any good fish for dinner, either. So I decided to get pizza instead because they had some that smelled really good. And while I was getting a slice, Sean saw the pizzas and took four pieces for himself. And then he said that he was sad that I hadn't seen Star Trek yet, and my ears fell and I told him that I was sorry but I just couldn't seem to find the time.
So Sean mentioned it when we got to the table, and Christine said that we could watch it in her room sometime, but I didn't know when. I didn't like watching movies when it was still light outside. Maybe if we got back from our astronomy field trip early enough, I could watch it tomorrow night.
After dinner, I flew over to Aric's house so that I could tell him that I wasn't coming over Wednesday night because of the field trip but because I didn't have any classes on Friday I could come over on Thursday night and I asked him if he minded if Meghan came too, if she wanted to. And he said that would be all right.
I said that I was going to spend the night with her, and he told me to have fun, then we kissed and when I went to the front door he told me I wasn't going to fool him again by hiding on the roof to get sunflower seeds. I said we'd find out, and took off back for campus.
I flew up to Meghan's window and peeked inside, and she was sitting on her bed reading a book, so I knocked on the window and she turned around and saw me and opened the window and asked what I was doing outside and I said that I'd come in, so I flew around to the boardwalk and landed and went down the hallway to her room.
Since I'd gotten all my homework done, I could afford to be lazy, but she hadn't gotten hers done yet and she said that maybe she could do it in the morning after I went out flying, and I told her it was bad to wait until the last minute, and insisted that she keep reading her book until she was done, and I'd just stretch out on the bed next to her.
And she held her book with one hand and ran her other through my mane and along my back and it felt really good and I must have dozed off, because all of a sudden I felt her really shift around on the bed and I stuck my head back up and it was dark outside.
She said that she was done with her homework now and ready for bed, so she went to the bathroom and put on her sleeping clothes, and Amy turned on the bendy light on her desk and turned off the lights in the room.
Meghan got in bed next to the wall and I snuggled up next to her, and when she was sure that I was between her and Amy, and that the covers were over both of us, she pulled her shirt most of the way up, and I put my wing across her bare stomach, and rested my chin on her shoulder.
Steve McLendon does ballet to help him in football, and I'm sure he's not the only one.
Sorry not to have mentioned it during the appropriate chapter but Aquamarine's minder should have said something to her to the effect that being on Earth is a privilege and a responsibility and that had she killed that jerk the president and the princesses would hear about it.
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One way or the other.
Now she has two ponytails, one on either end.
make me want to?
7808570 It worked for Dwayne Johnson's character in The Game Plan.
I can just see them trying to dip silvers hoof into a bowl of water, only for her to turn it into a small could while she sleeps.
Also Aric should get a Super Soaker, I hear they're useful for targeting wildlife that steals sunflower seeds.
I can just see it now, Aric shoots Silver with a water gun and she pretends to fall and lies 'dead' on the ground. She's probably to nice to give poor Aric a heart attack though...
I remember how the grades confused me in Harry Potter, so for non USA readers here's how it worked at my college (Edinboro, Pa. back in the 1970s)
90% = A = 4.0
80% = B = 3.0
70% = C = 2.0
60% = D = 1.0 Technically, this is a passing grade if you need the class as a prerequisite for something
-60% =F = 0 This is multiplied by the number of semester hours or credits the course has. Most gym classes were 1 credit, Health & some of the gym classes were 2 credits & most of the academic classes were 3. If your average fell below 2.0, for more than 1 semester you were expelled. To live in the dorm you had to be carrying 9 or 12 hours (ICR which). As a scholarship student, Silver is probably expected to have a much higher average. They used to have what they called "a gentleman's C", the idea being that it was low class to study too hard.. Of course, that was then. Nowadays it is my understanding that anything below an A counts against you big time.
Leon & Cedric are on the (American) football team & so are on scholarship. To take part in extra curricular activities like sports you have to have a 2.3 grade average. It is customary for jocks (USA slang for athletes) to take easy courses because they have to spend a LOT of time practicing & don't have much time for studying. They also probably have a tutor. Folklore states that teachers grade athletes a lot easier but IDK that for a fact..
Abrams made Stino (tar Trek In Only) and Swino (Star Wars In Name Only). My friends wanted to know Whether Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is Swino or the Real Deal. I checked it out. It has some canonical problems, but is roconsilable with canon , if one makes a few assumptions aboutwhat is unscene. Here is my analysis about the Canonicity and Continuity of it:
The Canonicity and Continuity of Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Looks like Silver has a new favourite quick morning run if she dont want to think about it too much?
Generally working with chemicals by mouth is a very bad idea. you know those fancy shiny copper pans and utensils? Bad idea, copper is toxic, If its shiney it doesnt have the protective oxide coating to prevent you absorbing it.
One way of lookng at photons is that they dont exist because they are zero time, theyre just a mathematical solution for having two points on opposite sides of the universe being in the same place at the same time.
Certain parts of the universe just are the way they are, base settings from which the rest of reality logically descends. The fine structure constant, the Planck constant, the speed of light in vacuum, and so forth. They're settings on God's control panel. Pray He doesn't tweak them.
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Eh, even on Earth, you have the right to self-defense when you're, y'know, assaulted in the street.
Since the ponies' minders do not appear to be recruited from the Federal Asshat Reserve, and given the known strength of earth ponies, the only thing that Aquamarine "should" be receiving is a polite note of thanks for exercising the restraint necessary to not kick that idiot's ribs out by way of his spine.
Something in another fic had me wondering, is it only males that have coat patterns? If so, that is an interesting bit of dimorphism in Equestrian ponies.
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Indeed. The physical conditioning many kinds of dancing takes is crazy.
Michael Flatley is finally retiring, but he made headlines for taking out a £40 million insurance policy on his legs.
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xkcd has mentioned the Universe Control Console a few times.
https://xkcd.com/1763/
In regards to bird feeders... I've had to wash out half-rotted, half-sprouted ex-birdseed from feeders before. Every time SG steals sunflower seeds from that bird feeder, I have to suppress that unwholesome memory. The "cute" is strong enough to compensate for the "squick" though, so all is well.
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Sorry about taking so long to respond. I passed Ryuu your questions. He replied, yes, we're using the stecker board that lies between the I/O and the rotors, and the one made for our story is a modified four-wheel version, which actually allows for the 4th wheel to advance!
He also said that, no, we are just using the standard 2-port cables, so it won't allow for letters to be self-encrypted. However, long ago he figured out how to fix that: use cables that would gang 3 or more ports of the stecker board together--which would've worked even on the original WWII models. The Germans knew about that, too, but they chose not to, because they thought self-encrypted letters were a vulnerability. The incident with an Italian company in which someone kept hitting the same key for hours-on-end and allowed the Brits to map out the wiring of their rotors had simply never occurred to the Germans.
Ryuu did most of the work. He found an Enigma emulator in C++ and converted it to vBasic. Unfortunately, he ran into a small problem that he said nearly burned out his brain, and he needed to take a break after that last chapter, which is what's taking us so long with our next. It's going to be very heavy explaining how Trevar set up the griffon's encryptors. We wrote it so that Trevar is intentionally giving them an encryptor with vulnerabilities so as to not make it TOO hard on the princesses to decode the messages
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I told Leon that he was a really good dancer, and I hadn't expected that. Say what? You giving me the double talk?
Also didn't an NFL team's coach make his team learn ballet?
I would like to remind everyone that a couple chapters back Peggy(?) told Silver to assume any term she hadn't learned by now was related to sex..
7809838 Sunburst's mom has a pattern
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We only really see two ponies with a pattern, so we can't really draw conclusions.
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Although to be fair, he was coming at her, presumably with bad intentions, and she acted in self-defense. While that obviously doesn't justify killing him (had that happened), one could argue that she acted with reasonable force, and when he was no longer a threat, she stopped. But you can be sure that her handlers had a little discussion with her, and also with him, assuming that they were able to find him again.
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Corrections made; thank you!
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She also put my mane in a ponytail for me
Now she has two ponytails, one on either end.
She does! Also ponies with ponytails are relentlessly cute.
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Yes, thank you!
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Heck, the way Barry Sanders moved the ball downfield, he was dancing. If the Lions had had any other plays besides "give Barry the ball," I think they could have made the Super Bowl when they had him.
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That would be a really amusing way for the prank to backfire. "Um, okay, now what do we do? That cloud looks angry . . . it's making little lightning bolts . . . ."
Also Aric should get a Super Soaker, I hear they're useful for targeting wildlife that steals sunflower seeds.
If she wants to retaliate and brings in a proper raincloud though, he's in for a bad time.
Especially because when that happened, he'd probably forget that sometimes when she flies in rainstorms, it's more swimming than flying. Yeah, he'd panic, the poor bastard.
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Depending on the school, though, they might not give them that good of a scholarship. K isn't known for their football program, after all. So I would guess that they attract people who are really smart and also play football, rather than idiots that they can slap in classes where they'll get easy As and stay on the team. Plus, the quarter system is really set up well for extra-curricular activities, because there's a lot of time that you're not in class.
Also, I got through one quarter at K with a 1.3 GPA, and they let me stay, luckily. I did improve substantially after that, although I also had to change majors.
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Good think that none of my pans are fancy copper ones. I've just got the kind that have (well, in my case, usually had) Teflon on them.
Photons are strange things. Although not as strange as neutrinos.
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And we go on our neverending quest to figure out what those setting are, and if we can somehow manipulate them ourselves. And who knows, perhaps one day we will be able to. Or more likely we'll discover that the rabbit hole is even deeper than we thought.
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I'm not sure which specific agency the FAR is. In the US, at least, the agents who watch over the ponies are specially chosen to make sure that they'll get along with whatever shenanigans the ponies manage. They probably won't award Aquamarine any medals; on the other hand, she's also not in trouble for defending herself.
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Ooh, that's a good question. Luna's got her butt-splash, which may or may not have been there before she went nightmare-y. But I can't think of another example of a mare that has more than one coat color. What's even odder is that multiple colors in the mane/tail are pretty commonplace on mares, and also IIRC not unknown on stallions.
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And the other thing that makes sports like that the most amazing is that when you're doing it right, you make it look like you're putting no effort in it at all. Nobody wants to see a ballerina grunting with exertion. . . . Watching some of the acrobats in Cirque Du Soleil, it's like they can just turn off gravity at will.
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That hasn't been a problem with mine. The birds can empty it of sunflower seeds in two days. Like, completely empty.
Actually, funny story time: when I lived in Kalamazoo, we had a hamster, and hamster food is a bunch of seeds and stuff. Then we got a slug, and we put some hamster food in its tank and lots of water, so it wasn't too long before the hamster food started to sprout, and that's what the slug got to eat.
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Enigma machines are really cool, especially since they're mechanical. Obviously, computers these days can encrypt things to degrees only dreamed of by the enigma's engineers, but for the time it was an amazing system, and very difficult to break.
I did have griffons using code in OPP, although it was a simpler code, and had been broken by the ponies (of course, they didn't tell the griffons that they had).
A real Enigma machine is probably uncrackable to the ponies, unless they can use magic to aid their math, or some clever way to put a magical tracer on the machine (which would actually be a really interesting plot twist).
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She means that she hadn't expected him to be a really good dancer. I clarified somewhat.
I don't know if a coach did, but there are certainly some players who do.
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Yes, that did happen. And when you really think about it, a super-soaker is kind of phallic, and . . . well, I'll stop there.
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Trouble Shoes has a white stripe on his muzzle, too, IIRC.
In Sunburst's flashback, maybe his mom had stepped in white paint just before he got his cutie mark
Aric needs a wrist slingshot for those sock balls.
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Well, he's not actually trying to hurt her or deter her. Wouldn't you want to date a girl that goes out in the backyard naked and eats out of the birdfeeder?
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Not to hurt her, no! Just so she'll have to work harder to dodge them!
"...I watched Aric the whole time as I circled the air above the feeder. I zipped in when he looked down. He raised his hands again, and I didn't see him throw, but suddenly there was a sock in my face! ..."
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She does dodge them a couple of times, and also uses the bird feeder for cover after his aim starts to improve.
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I'd rather cook with mildly toxic metal than toxic-flake producing and possibly carcinogenic fume producing teflon.
Luckily, I have the completely nontoxic options of ceramic coated or cast iron. Both work just fine!
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Those things are the way they are because they are the required settings for our sort of universe/existence to arise out of primordial chaos. The idea that our atoms would fly apart if one of them was tweaked slightly just means that all those particular shades of chaos never realized existence as we know it...though it may very well be that those settings give rise to some other form of existence we can't comprehend because it's just not how our existence works.
This is kind of like the debate about whether life exists on Earth because everything necessary for our kind of life to spontaneously arise existed on Earth, or whether everything necessary for our kind of life was put there by God so we could exist, just on a cosmically bigger scale. :D
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Teflon (Tetrafluoroethylene) is nontoxic. One need not fear eating flakes of it. Above 500 Kelvin, Teflon starts to pyrolyze. The resulting fumes can kill avians and cause flulike symptoms in humans. A rule of thumb is to reduce the temperature if oil starts to smoke.
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Odds are with all the chemicals I'm exposed to at work, a little bit of teflon in my food isn't gonna be what gets me. Although perhaps it is time for some new pans. . . .
IMHO, just based on the different places on Earth that life manages to thrive, that there will probably be life found on other planets, even if they're not like on Earth. Something might have adapted to live in liquid carbon dioxide, or boiling sulfur, or whatever else. (Recognizing that it's life might be a challenge, though.)
As for the debate, I guess it could be either, and there's really no way of ever knowing, is there?
Silly Silver, so many lessons and you still don't know? Entropy!
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Snuggle pile! Silver seems to be having an affect on the people around her.
A few words out of place here, Professor Admiral Sir.
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Of course she is! I bet you'd snuggle her if she asked.
Correction made; thank you!
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I'd snuggle most pones if they asked!
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People always told me the bible was gorey. Never really considered how much so.
Hm...................................................................
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There's the guy who got murdered by a tent-peg to the skull, the children that got torn apart by a bear . . .
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Weren't they teens/young adults?
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They might have been, I don't remember. NIV says "boys."
Bad Storm, being early and making pony late.
Awwww, see at first I thought this meant Peggy didn't have 'fun'. But finding out later she did, just, leads to believe it wasn't all that great if she's already back in her own room.
Storm Pony Emergency! STAND CLEAR! Just the mantel image of Silver with all that gear in her mouth rushing through the halls like there's a fire... good thing everyone is likely still sleeping off the dance.
Aric so should have kept the truck rolling, and had Silver just land in the back as he peeled out.
"Sorry nice weather lady, I need to get up there right NOW!" Does show just how serious she takes this at least.
The mk I Pony Eyeball knows a really bad storm when it sees it.
Was still kind of hoping that at some point, a tornado would form while she was doing this Storm Watcher thing, and she'd get to fight it, or at least make a real difference in saving people thanks to her being able to call it out so well.
.. And even in the middle of a storm, she's gotta be poetic about how it feels and looks.
Needs a bigger map, but not enough foreleg space. Note for Pegasus 2.0 cyber-upgrade. Built in HUDs.
Damn, so much lighting you radio shorts out jsut from the interference.... She picked a good storm to show off in.
Pony thought is very simple, "Pony want do it" trumps 'Maybe pony shouldn't do it' like use a lamp post as a shock absorber.
Hope they got that spark on camera.
She is just so... ready to trust the 'experts' in anything she doesn't know about. Like camera work.
Well, all ponies are born to be awesome, but is awesome seeing the way humans just, have such a hard time wrapping their head around something that to her is so simple "Storm=Must fly" it's something so basic and so care to who she is, she can't really explain it better then it just being what she has to do.
Pony is in Ultra Nom Mode. Just push the food near her and keep any peices you don't want bitten off back,
Silly humans doing all these wiered cloth things, even when it doesn't work, like thin t shirt in a hot tub.
See, now she's talking about making sure all pegasi have recording devices on them at all times. She's a Trans-Ponyist who is all about cyber-conversion!
Also very true, any pony PoV stuff would get so many views.
YAY! Pony TV series exploring Equestria! Assuming the film crew doesn't get eaten or anything.
Yeah, wearing pants commando feels so odd.
... She's so awake... becuase she flew in a storm... that would tire her out and use up energy.... Ponies.... don't even try to logic.
YAY! Maybe more Pony Play and Pony Friend Time!
Do it! Let the Pony be the designated Driver!
Both pleasure slaves in the same room sleeping more! Happy Pony Time!
Of course Cyndi said nice things about you, you are awesome and deserve ALL the nice things said about you!
Little Pony take on Big Storm! So much ratings.
Yup, double snuggles! SUPER happy pony time!
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Ummm, wow. So, is that where the phrase 'bought the farm' as a euphemism for dying comes from?
Modesty Pony FTW!
Walking into a pony sex shop has got to be all kinds of weird for a person. Not just for realizing those exist. Also, fun trivia, Lauren Faust originally intended for Rarity to have a... let's say 'Rarity's Secret' section of her boutique on display.
Joke time! Sure you'll love this one.
Guy's car is making this weird, loud rattling noise constantly, so he takes it into the mechanic to have it looked at. Mechanic pops the hood, turns on the car, spends like a minute looking it over before going to get a hammer. He taps the engine once and the rattling stops. When the guy gets his bill he gets upset "$220 just to tap it with a hammer!?" Mechanic shakes his head and replies. "No, that's $20 for the tap, $200 for knowing where to tap it."
Not being able to move due to double snuggles, not a bad position to be trapped in.
hehe, nice save Silver, cover for silly still feels odd about being naked around other humans human.
Silly cute pone wondering if Meghan's ever seen a dick before. Though can understand her thought process, still so adorably silly.
No, no the nuzzling really isn't helping in this situation.
And here we see Peghan's budding nudist side coming through with getting less and less concerned about being fully covered.
Brave Pony go through the scary little tunnel!
Pony Loopholes. "Don't walk off the path? Didn't say anything about not flying off it."
Awwwww no be sad hard on herself pony for not waking up Peggy for trotting. Peggy really doesn't mind and is mostly just going along for you.
She definitely found the best table for breakfast. Napkin mountain goat on Froot Loop Mountain!
Let pony be cheerleader! Can't be tougher then fighting a hurricane. Plus we've seen how single minded pony can be about doing what she wants.
Yeaaah, kind of the same thing with not being able to drink salt water, but more complicated then that.
Yeah.. Peggy's right, just assume anything you don't get is sex related. Especially if anyone giggles or smirks at it.
Giving Pony ideas on other times she can use her pleasure slave. Now, was the note a "Go for it" note or a "If I walk in on your two fucking, I will toss you out the window" note?
Also, smart pony, relating the lessons to her real work, and even noticing points that could be useful in it he didn't elaborate on to get more info.
Once again, music being it's own language... such a poetic pony.
Well, though it was just Silver getting the wording odd but, yeah guess Bible really does say that.
Even uber-nerd pony loves a three day weekend!
Yeah... there is Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING!
Well, also seems like Silver is not likely to have much of a food play fetish at all.
Yeah, Peggy knows she needs to specify "Not around me" on that little bit of experimentation.
See, being a pleasure slave to a pony isn't bad. Sure you must please them at all times, but they make sure pleasure slave get's to enjoy themselves too.
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Stellar Flare. And Luna's thing bounces back and forth on if it's a part of her coat or CM. in Season 4 it was part of the coat, in A Royal Problem, it went with the Cutie Mark, though that was more a requirement of the circumstance, as without the black spot, Celestia would just have a white moon on a white flank for a mark.
She has to give a death scene that would make Gusty jealous.
Like Aric would say no to Pony fun time.
Sneaky pegasus ninja being sneaky, and showing her training as Cuddlequest infiltrator.
Frogs... yuck. Unless they are Froppy, Froppy is awesome.
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Stupid Deer, getting all the good noms....
Just try waking up pony with a super soaker. She'll just come over to your room after her shower and shake.
We must test the hoof wetting.. FOR SCIENCE!
Ummmm, I get being safe about letting pony deal with chemicals but.... non-unicorns routinely change DIAPERS with their mouths. They know what they are doing. and/or magic.
Pony Logic is sound. It is more fun to take off clothes then put them on. Though, have heard ideas about pony 'strip clubs' having the mare walk out naked, and slowly put on clothes before leaving.
Well, you likely would do a bad job folding. Even some humans suck at that. (In Boot Camp, I sucked so hard, while doing it exactly how I was supposed to. All the right steps, just came out looking like crap. On one inspection got the verdict 'Well, it's ugly, but it's right.') But you won't ruin the clothes.
Pony Wisdom, not a secret if you use your name as branding.
True, ballaerina's are really hard to pin down. Also true, it does help develop coordination and agility.
Yeah, Earth Pony would just look at the monster, and buck them back into their cave.
Smart Pony, some things, people and ponies just don't uderstand yet.
Meghan's pony petting instincts are well honed at this point.
Nixie... human breezie.... okay then. Not really, Nixie's are water sprites, not air sprites, those are Slyph's.
See, Meghan is well trained, she knows to look at the window when pony knocks.
Why is pony outside window? Why no be inside window where slave can please mistress?
See, Pony takes care of her slave and makes sure that she does all her homework. Good Pony!
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Feral storms come when they will.
She probably didn’t want to spend the night with the guy she hooked up with so came back to her room afterward.
Can you imagine seeing that first thing in the morning? It’d be so confusing.
That’s something that they totally should have practiced, just for awesome points.
While I don’t know about normal TV personalities, some of the hosts I’ve seen on proper reality shows do get it, and don’t get mad when the people they’re interviewing go off and do their job rather than stand around and talk while there’s work to be done.
The mk I eyeball is a great piece of equipment.
That would have blown Cyndi’s mind.
Well, of course she does. Ponies are all poet-philosophers.
Doable, although it would have to be severe weather capable.
Related, my brother told me about a rescue helicopter that was flying a mission so low in such severe weather that they kept losing the autopilot when the helicopter got hit by waves.
I hadn’t thought of it before now, but it would be reasonable for pony towns to have basically pegasus lightning rods stuck up near common landing areas.
You know they did. A good camerman keeps the camera pointed on the action no matter what (seriously, in one video I saw a TV crew hastily evacuating from under a rogue barge and the cameraman mostly kept the camera pointed at the host.
Cyndi probably almost st herself when that spark came off Silver Glow.
Let’s be honest, more of us should trust the experts (just look at some of the anti-experts out there on the Internet--Flat Earthers and their ilk). Silver doesn’t know much of anything about cameras, and correctly reasons that the guy filming her knows what he’s doing or else that wouldn’t be his job.
Humans aren’t so trusting of what their cutie mark is telling them. Or, for that matter, what almost all the pegasi in her village do for a living. And it’s really so basic--they fly in the storms so the ponies on the ground are safe. What more is there to say than that?
Pretty much.
I know, right? What’s the point of wearing the shirt if it’s not keeping Meghan dry nor hiding anything from view?
Let’s be honest, if they could figure out a way to do that, and then to make highlight videos and documentary videos and all that, then put them on YouTube, they’d all make a fortune. And further the cuddlequest as well.
I wouldn’t say any; gotta figure that a pony plowing her field would get boring pretty quickly. But yeah, there’s certainly lots of stuff that would be totally worth watching . . . and from my experiences watching videos of expert craftsmen doing what they do, a series of videos of pony craftsmares just doing their jobs would sell like hotcakes.
Once the TV crew realizes when everypony starts galloping away as fast as they can that they, too, ought to be running, they’ll probably be fine.
And yet, it also sometimes feels so right. So there’s that.
Yes, but consider all the adrenaline and such from doing it.
What could possibly go wrong?
Silver’s in pony heaven.
Like, after seeing what Cyndi just saw, how could she not? Like, she might have had a vague inkling of what Silver does from their earlier interview, but to see Silver in full gear take off into the face of the storm and then just disappear in it, hear her radio sometimes just turn into static, and eventually once the storm has passed come gliding back down, spark off on a light post, and then land completely drenched and obviously physically exhausted but still in high spirits how could she not?
I don’t know all the processes for sharing that footage to other TV stations, but Cyndi’s basically sitting on a gold pile right now.
I don’t think so, but it could be. One online source says that it dates to aviation and not before.
Especially if they also typically offer equipment to help different species hook up. Also, while I don’t have a lot of experience in such places, I feel like a lot of the stuff is still kind of hidden or not super obvious what it is without looking closely at the package, whereas the ponies might just have rows of dildos out on display or something like that (heck, the sign in front of the shop might just have a painting of a dick or something like that). And I can’t help but wonder at some of the conversations in a store like that, especially since ponies would probably go in groups to a place like that, too. “Ooh, you should totally try one of those. I bought one and it was the most fun I’ve ever had without a stallion, let me tell you.”
Just look at what some of her ponykins are wearing. Rarity totally has a special section of her boutique, and it’s hardly hidden.
There’s a lot of truth to that. Sometimes wiring repairs and the like the real skill is knowing how to identify what’s failed. It’s easy for a layman to say “oh, how hard could it be to replace a relay?” and the answer is that replacing the relay wasn’t hard at all, it was knowing that it was that relay that caused the problem that is what you’re paying for.
Best place to be trapped in.
Let’s be honest, we don’t know for sure if she has. Well, a human one, anyway; she presumably saw plenty of some of the stallions at the Red Bull Air Races.
The one time when nuzzling maybe isn’t the right thing to do.
Although if you ask her, it’s more getting used to it for Equestria, rather than for Earth. Like, if there’d been a dozen ponies in that room and the only way that humans were allowed in was if they were naked, Meghan would strip in a heartbeat.
Seriously, though, for her tunnels are way scarier than big storm clouds.
If you weren’t supposed to fly off the path, the rules would have said so.
It’s totally true. Peggy doesn’t mind the exercise nor the bonding time, but Peggy is not going to be heartbroken to sleep a little bit later and not get all sweaty exercising before class.
The right kind of people attract more of the right kind of people. That’s a fact.
Oh, yeah, totally, and she’s certainly got the skills to do really impressive tricks after being tossed up in the air.
I can’t remember the exact explanation, but the video I watched for research made it perfectly clear why saltwater fish don’t work in fresh water and vice-versa.
Plus, it’s college, which increases the odds even more that basically anything is innuendo.
Probably a little bit of both--”Here’s my class schedule; do what you will when I’m not in the room, but I don’t want to walk in on it.”
This is totally the kind of thing she needs to know as a proper weather manager in Equestria. Instincts and experience are good and can’t be understated especially in the near term, but for a broader understanding, the math and science of how it works on a larger level are what she really needs to know to advance her career.
And she’s not wrong at all.
Yup, and it doesn’t say exactly how that happened, either.
More time for fun with friends.
There is. There’s a picture I’ve seen of a Jiffy Lube offering a pumpkin spice oil change. (Speaking of which, I’ve been re-labeling our bottles of power steering fluid with funny things, I ought to make one ‘pumpkin spice.’)
Probably not--sex is for fun and food is for eating.
And in some cases she might be wise to not only specify ‘not around me,’ but also ‘and don’t tell me about it if you try it.’
Well, yeah, because they’re not greedy. They want everyone involved to have a good time.
Stellar Flare didn’t exist when I wrote this Or did she? Was she in Glim Glam’s flashback about Sunburst or whatever his name was getting his cutie mark? I can’t remember, and I’m like three seasons behind on the show.
My headcanon is that the black stuff around Luna’s cutie mark is a leftover from the Nighmare; it wasn’t there before she got corrupted. And for Princess Celestia, her coat’s a light pink, so I’d say that she theoretically could have had a bluish or yellowish moon on her pink-white coat and it would have shown up, sort of.
That’d actually be hard to do, especially considering what play Gusty’s doing next.
Of course he wouldn’t.
I don’t know who that is, but she does look pretty awesome. And more human than frog, if you want my opinion.
Like the ones in my backyard eating all my shrubs. Grr.
Yeah, getting in a water-themed fight with a weather pegasus is a bad idea. Coming to your room and shaking after a shower is if she’s feeling nice. If she’s feeling mean, you get a personal stormcloud in your dorm room.
No way it would work on a pegasus. Ground pony, maybe.
Well, yes, but diapers are a different order of horrible than something like sulfuric acid.
Yup.
I’ve heard that, too. I think just socks and bridles and saddles and stuff.
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I’m also terrible at folding things. I would have never made it through boot camp. And I probably would have been the one to break my uniform by just folding it.
She’s not wrong about that.
Oh yeah, totally. Ballerinas kick ass in so many ways, especially since they generally make whatever they’re doing look easy. And it is true (I looked it up) that some football players do take ballet for training.
“Not today, motherfker.”
Like magnets. How do they work?
She will fit right in in Equestria.
Maybe that’s a question on one of the forms to get permission to go to Equestria. I could see there being questions about that.
Yes, although they are sometimes drawn with dragonfly wings, which would be why Silver Glow would think of a breezie. Also worth mention, in D&D (and possibly other lore), Sylphs lay eggs.
She’s learned to understand that some of her friends knock at the door and other friends knock at the window.
Well, she was just flying by and wanted to check and see if Meghan was home before landing and going inside the building.
“homework first, then cuddles and pleasure.”
Another running gag that never fails to delight me even on second reading,
This seems a little dicey to me. I know that pegasi eat fish, but frogs seem a step beyond the pale for ponies to be eating. Then again, that would be an interesting subject to delve into.
Leon is awesome. Oscar Levant that said ballet was the fairies' baseball, but maybe its the fairies' football, like Robin Williams joked.
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Pegasi and bird feeders, man. It never gets old.
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On the one hand, it could be based on if they considered them 'fish' or not. Or for that matter, it could also be a rumor. Like, I think that their dietary rules might be not eating anything that's sapient (obviously) or maybe to be sure, anything that lives on land or is a bird. Or maybe they just keep that rule for herbivores, and it's okay to eat a carnivore if you can catch one. (Or it could also be based on their opinion of whether an animal is 'smart' or not; how AJ treats the cows and sheep suggests that even though they can speak, they're considered less than ponies.)
I've never heard 'fairies' football,' I really like that. Leon has certainly learned formal dancing, one of his many skills that he often tries to hide.
I bet there's at least one person who's taken a Biblical road trip based on Acts.
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Maybe it's like Lent rules, where if it regularly touches water, then it's seafood, like moose, and otter.
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Yeah, I don't get those rules.
Of course, a lot of them were written back when taxonomic classifications weren't what we have now.
I remember reading an annotated Bible that discussed some of the dietary prohibitions in the Old Testament. I think they said that there were eight kinds of locusts you can't eat. According to known science, there aren't--and never have been--eight different kinds of locusts. Presumably, they considered something else to be locusts . . . maybe grasshoppers, or who knows?