October 10
I woke up and nuzzled Meghan, and when she opened her eyes and looked at me and asked what time it was, and I said that I didn't know, but the sun wasn't quite up yet, and I thought that I could go flying and then come back and take a shower with her. Which was a new idea, but I thought that it might work.
And she thought so, too, so we kissed and then I left her room and went down the hall to my room. I had to be really quiet so I wouldn't wake up Peggy, and it was a little hard to see, because the lights in the hallway had taken away all my night vision.
I stuffed everything in my saddlebags, 'cause I was gonna go to Meijer and get my shampoo and conditioner, and then I went out in the hallway to get dressed.
Dori gave me permission to fly to Meijer, as long as I stayed under a thousand feet until I got to the 131 Highway, and I said that I would. And then I took off and flew kinda low until I’d passed Jeff’s house—I think I was a little bit too early to see Caleb and Lindy and Trinity.
Since I was already flying low, I went over Aric’s house, too, but there weren’t any lights on. Then I climbed up and flew parallel to Main Street until I crossed over Drake, and then I angled across the road, ‘cause Meijer would be on the north side.
There wasn’t any point in climbing higher, since it wasn’t even a mile past the 131 Highway, so I stayed at about 500 feet until I got close enough to see their parking lot, and came in for a landing on one of the little parking lot islands.
It was still pretty early, so there weren’t a lot of people there, which was nice.
I thought about getting a new kind of shampoo, because there were so many different smells and colors of it, but then I decided that I liked the kind I’d been using, and it was on the very bottom shelf which was convenient.
So I got as many bottles as I thought would fit in my saddlebags, and carried the basket up front. There were little kiosks at both ends that let you tally up your purchases by yourself, but I didn’t know how to use them, and I had to look until I found a normal sales stand that was open.
I put my bottles right in my saddlebags and he took the basket from me and wiped off the handle, and then I went back outside and looked for cars, and since there weren’t any, I flew off right from the entrance.
I landed back on the boardwalk and went upstairs to my dorm room first, because Peggy kind of depended on me to wake her up in the morning. And then I remembered that I was supposed to have woken her up sooner so we could go trotting together, and I felt bad about that.
So I took off my flight gear and then I nuzzled her back and I said that it was time to get up for the shower, and I told her I was sorry I'd forgotten that we were supposed to go trotting this morning.
And she said that was okay, but she'd been a little bit worried about me when I'd disappeared all weekend, and I put my ears down and said that I was really sorry and I should have stopped by and checked in with her, and she said just a telephone telegram would have been fine; I didn't have to come all the way back and tell her face-to-face.
I said I'd try to do better, and she asked if I'd had a fun weekend, and I nodded and said that I'd tell her about it later, because I was supposed to go to Meghan's room for a shower, and she was probably waiting for me, and that meant that I was giving up my turn in the bathroom.
When I got to Meghan's, I knocked really quietly on the door so that I wouldn't wake Amy up if she was still asleep, and Meghan was kind of surprised by how much lather I had on me, and I said that I'd kind of hurried, so I wouldn't be late for the shower, 'cause I didn't know what her morning routine was.
She said that Amy went to her first class a little bit late, which was why she stayed up late studying a lot of the time. So it was free now, and she'd already picked out her clothes, so we went into the bathroom and she turned on the shower and I hopped in before it had even started to warm up, so that I could cool off a little bit and rinse some of the lather off.
Meghan said that she didn't think that our plan of relaxing after mid-terms at the hotel was going to work out after all, because the trip to Indianapolis had cost more than she'd expected, and it turned out that the hotel in town was more expensive than she'd thought, and she was a bit reluctant to put more on her credit card. And I said that was okay; I thought that she'd kind of gotten her weekend with the weather ponies, and she said that she sort of had. It hadn't been a full day, but we would probably have gotten bored in a hotel room anyways.
And I thought that we could do something else fun instead, and she thought so, too.
I helped her dry off and she put on her robe, and we went back to her room to finish getting ready, in case anyone else wanted to use the bathroom. Then we groomed each other and went off to breakfast.
I said that was a pretty good way to start the morning, and she thought so too. I wish I'd thought of it sooner.
Somebody had broken the waffle-maker over the weekend, but I was still in a pretty cheery mood. And me and Meghan told everyone about everything we'd seen at ArtPrize, and Meghan could show some of the art on her portable telephone, even though she hadn't taken pictures of it.
I hadn't remembered to put my physics things in my saddlebags, or even have them with me, so I had to leave breakfast a little bit early and go back to my room and get them. And Peggy went with me, 'cause she said she'd forgotten something in her bag, too, but it turned out that wasn't true, and she'd just wanted to ask me more questions about the weekend.
So I told her some of the stuff I hadn't said at breakfast, and she kind of darted around for a bit before finally asking if the three of us had all had sex together, and I said that we hadn't and I didn't know if we would or not because I still wasn't sure how everyone felt about it, but I thought that Aric and Meghan had had a lot of fun together, and I'd had fun, too, except when they'd both picked on me.
I wasn't sure if it was faster to go out the back and fly off the boardwalk, or out the front and fly from there, so I went out the front and took off and flew over Dewing, and then dove down to land on the sidewalk behind a cluster of students, and I was so late that people were already going into class when I got there.
Professor Brown started teaching us how to figure out spontaneous change, which was something that I knew about from weather work. If you calculated really badly, you could push out clouds and then just watch them vanish into thin air. It was pretty rare for that to happen, because the tables were really good, but sometimes a new supervisor who thought she knew everything wouldn't check the tables before calculating a weather order.
It was more common with feral weather, and sometimes we got coastal clouds like that, but we didn't worry too much about them because they mostly stayed out over the ocean, in the marine layer, or if they came inland they didn't go too far.
So we had to learn the equilibrium state first, before we could learn whether it would change, and he gave us the formulas for that. And he told us that the equilibrium point was where the entropy was the highest, which made sense.
And he went through all the equations, and and it was kinda like rolling a cart down between a pair of hills, 'cause it wanted to eventually stop at the lowest point, since that's where it had the least potential energy. So if any of our ideal gasses were at a place where they could get more entropy, they wanted to, but once they got there, they'd stay there and be stable.
After class, I met with Lisa and we went over the lab work one more time, just to make sure that there weren't any mistakes on it. And that didn't take too long, since we'd already discussed it before, so all we had to do was make sure that she hadn't accidentally typed a wrong thing.
And I didn't have any homework, which was nice, but that was because of the mid-term, which I hadn't studied for at all.
I thought it was a pretty nice day outside, so I found a tree and flew up into its branches and then got my book out and I thought I'd start by just looking through it at the headings of each section, and seeing if I could remember the formulas, because that would be a quick way to figure out what I needed to study more and what I already knew.
It didn't take too long before I needed a little break, so I looked away from the book and studied the leaves on the tree. I knew that on Earth the leaves fell off on their own, but I wondered if maybe I could help. They weren't ready yet—the trees had started turning, and a few leaves were already falling, but it looked to me like it would be a few more weeks before they were actually ready to fall. If Aquamarine was here, I bet she could tell me exactly.
I stayed up in the tree until lunch, and I was pretty confident that I knew most of what I'd have to for the mid-term, and also that I needed to be really careful with my formulas. There were almost always little letters or words on top or bottom, and those were very important, and I'd forgotten about them a couple of times.
It always seemed to be a little bit harder to get out of a tree than it was to get in it, and I had to wiggle around a little bit to get in a good position where I could drop out from the branches, then I flew to our dorm room and put away my physics stuff and got my things for math class.
I had a salad for lunch and I wanted some fish but they didn’t have any at all. And Reese said that he had a test in the afternoon and so we all wished him good luck. Anna said that she had one too, but she thought it would be pretty easy, because it was in her first-year seminar. Everyone else agreed that those were kind of easy classes, and Peggy asked what it was about, and she said it was about monsters. Reese said he’d wanted to get in that class, too, but all the slots had been filled.
I would have liked to take it, but I couldn’t because it was for freshmen.
Professor Pampena was gonna teach us about minimum and maximum when the variables weren't independent, which were called Lagrange multipliers, and that applied to thermodynamics as well, which was nice. And he showed us a picture of a hyperbola that was on a circular contour plot that looked kind of like a record, and what we were trying to figure out was where the circle only touched the hyperbola at two points.
We had to add a third variable to make it work, and then we had to put it in a matrix, and lambda could equal positive or negative two, so we had to solve for both, and only one would give us a proper answer. And we also wouldn't know if it was a minimum or maximum, just that it was a critical point; we had to do more math to find out. We couldn't use a second derivative test.
Then he gave us a problem where we had to figure out a golden pyramid where we knew the size of the base and the volume but we had to figure out how to have the minimum surface area. And it turned out that the best solution was to have all three sides the same, which I'd kind of thought from the beginning, but it was really neat to see how his complicated equation with lots of points and lines and variables and square roots all simplified so nicely at the end.
He didn’t give us any homework, either, but we still went back to Sean’s room so that we could study, and we spent all afternoon quizzing each other on all the different formulas and, then Sean found a place on the internet that had sample questions that you could figure out, so that was good practice. You had to go to a different page to get the answers, to keep us from cheating.
It was a little bit different than having Professor Pampena grade it, though, because when you got an answer wrong the computer didn’t know and so it couldn’t tell you what mistake you’d made. So there were a couple of problems that we had to review carefully to see what had gone wrong.
By the time we were done, I was feeling pretty good about the math test at least, as long as I didn’t get confused about how to make my matrixes.
So I flew back to my room, and I practiced drawing some of the math alphabet a little bit, because my mouthwriting wasn’t that good, and then I had time to write in my journal before dinner, too.
They didn’t have a very good dinner, and Christine said that they probably wouldn’t have good food until Friday, ‘cause it was Homecoming, and sometimes alumnis liked to eat at the dining hall. Sean thought that if they wanted the real experience, they ought to have leftovers.
Reese said that his high school had had a big parade for Homecoming, and he asked if Kalamazoo College had one, too. Peggy said that they didn’t but a lot of people went streaking, and sometimes some of the alumnis would, too. She said that supposedly two years ago the CEO of Stryker had streaked the quad.
Me and Peggy went back to our dorm room together, and I got out my thermodynamics notes and studied until it was time to leave for Durak, then I put my flight gear in my saddlebags and nuzzled Peggy and told her that I was going to spend the night at Aric's house.
She asked me when the last time I'd stayed at the dorm on a Monday night, and I couldn't remember. But I’d wanted to be sure she knew so she wouldn’t worry.
So I went down to the boardwalk and flew across the quad, and instead of following the street, I climbed high enough to go over Hoben, and stayed above the trees all the way to Westnedge.
I dropped in behind Fourth Coast, and I went in the side door instead of the front. And I got my drink and went upstairs, and I was a little bit early. Maybe I shouldn't have taken a shortcut.
Since no one else was there, I pushed our two tables together, then sat down at the end next to the wall where I could see who was coming upstairs. And I kind of felt like a princess, with the long table stretching out in front of me.
Kennith and Seth arrived first, and they sat midways down the table, across from each other. And then Aric arrived and he sat next to me, and a whole cluster of people came after him, so we started to play.
I did well all night long, and so did Aric. Alex had a really bad night; he ended one game with what looked like half of the cards still in his hand, and I thought that Keith was kind of mean to be smiling so much as he put the last cards in his hand on the table one at a time.
We stopped a little bit earlier than we normally did, because almost everyone had big tests. Aric didn't, because theatre classes don't have mid-terms.
Anna and Reese wanted to ride back to college in Winston, so we all crowded together in the cab and he dropped them off at their dorm, and when we got to the corner of Dartmouth street I slid over to his side before he even said that I could drive.
I was getting pretty good at driving Winston. I got all the correct gears with the shifter and only slipped off the stick once, and if I thought I could reach the control pedals I would see if I could drive it all by myself.
After I'd guided Winston into the driveway, he shut it off and I got out his side so I didn't have to slide across, and we went in through the kitchen door.
David and Angela were in the living room, watching a movie, and we waved at them, and Aric said that I would probably enjoy the movie they were watching which was called Labyrinth, but I said that I had lab in the morning and wanted to fly and also had to study some more tomorrow, and maybe we could watch it later. Plus they'd already watched part of it and it wouldn't be polite to ask them to start again, or wait until we got caught up.
I think that Aric was kind of eager to go upstairs too because he hadn't gotten any sex all weekend long and was feeling kind of lonely. So as soon as he'd closed the door in his room, I hopped up on the bed and flicked my tail off to the side, and it didn't take him very long to get undressed and get in bed with me.
Good movie. I saw it going on 40 years ago. Back then, Dungeons and Dragons was cutting edge & David Bowie was a glamorous rock star.
Pedal extentions for cars do exist, so it is certainly possible to get Silver Glow a driver's license. Especially since she already has a pilot's licence. (After all, You can't get the true Earth experience until you are screaming profanity at the idiotic driver in front of you for almost killing you.)
http://www.ergomobility.co.uk/driving-controls/pedal-adaptions/
...Momentarily startling a student who had recently vacationed in Australia.
Alumnus is singular and alumni is plural. In Friendship Games, we learn that Shining Armor is plural because he is an alumni.
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Aghh! Drop bear! Drop bear!
Oh wait, it's only a Pegasus, that's a relief!
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Yeah, I noticed that too. As a dean, Cadance should have known better.
And the singular "Alum" is more common now, since it's gender-neutral.
7790774 Labyrinth (also, note the spelling, Admiral Biscuit) is only 30 years old. This year is the anniversary, actually.
Cinch has definitely been on the Alum.
So early in the morning, anyone would think her family had some thestral in them. At least once.
Spontaneous Change? Its all around you. Best example is when your thesis, which youve been working all weekend to get fhinished, suddenly becomes an advert for catfood before turning into blue smoke and floating gently out the window.
There are no unwanted solutions, only people who dont want th hassle of having a unified theory because it involves space needing imaginary values.
Is the second derivative restriction forced artificial, or at that point the function is of a form that either hasnt currently been able to be simplified for solutiuon, or has been shown it cant be solved?
Pity about missing Labyrinth, I hope Silver gets to watch it before going back, just so Pinkie can ask her to do the voodoo she do so well.
Bridge?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
Give me Forbidden Desert any time. I might die Every Single Time, but at least I know Why.
Double negative, the plan is thus going to work...
7791307 I was nitpicking, she's an earth pony, the bleachers would be denting even without shoes.
And she isn't a freshmare, she's a sophomare. I guess?
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You have to really beware of the Equestrian Dropmare.
Especially if you're unlucky enough to have anchovies on your person.
Eh. Maybe it's because I never saw it until I was almost 30, or maybe because I've never experienced being a girl facing the angst and confusion of puberty and David Bowie's package, but I'm not a fan of Labyrinth.
The Dark Crystal is Jim Henson's finest achievement. Or maybe second finest after Fraggle Rock.
(Also, Gerry Anderson could totally kick Jim Henson's ass, but that's neither here nor there. They're both towering figures of puppet mastery)
Is this a typo or is there film that is really called "Labrynth"?
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It's a typo and it's fixed now.
7790798 I have a feeling that driving as a pony would be hazardous. Every other driver would do a double take as they passed you, taking their eyes off the road and no doubt causing accidents.
7790940 To be more specific, alumnus is masculine single, alumni is masculine plural, alumna is feminine single, and alumnae is feminine plural.
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You're not alone – I've never been a big fan of Labyrinth either, really. Visually, yes, it's an impressive bit of work – but IMO, it's a tedious time-waster that's less than the sum of its ill-fitting parts. The story never really goes anywhere; it's mostly just a bunch of random encounters with random creatures in an illogical dream-world where the rules change whenever the plot requires them to, a heroine who mostly just reacts to things rather than driving the plot forward by her own actions, and a villain who has no apparent motivation beyond "being evil for the lulz." The Sarah character isn't strong enough, or frankly even interesting enough, to overcome the weak plot, the plot isn't strong enough or interesting enough (or even coherent enough!) to overcome the weak main character, it's never really explained what (if anything) the villain is getting out of this (why does he even want a human infant hanging around his castle, anyway?), and a lot of what happens to Sarah in the labyrinth are just weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird set pieces that don't actually serve to advance the plot in any significant manner... and then, of course, it turns out that the whole thing was a dream anyway, so there was never really anything at stake to begin with.
(Although, to be fair, this sort of "D&D Random Monster Encounter Table" school of scriptwriting was a common failing of a lot of "fantasy" movies in the 80s, really, which is why most of them haven't aged well and don't stand up to repeat viewings.)
The Dark Crystal was, and is, a much superior film in all respects.
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Can't say I've ever heard of either one.
Besides, the idea of a classic-rock-headbanging pony is funnier anyway.
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Ah, constrained optimization. I remember using that on a pet project of mine. It got real messy really fast.
My school doesn't have a homecoming. Closest is WOW (week of welcome) for freshman which ends in a soccer game. We also have a game with our sports rivals around when school starts.
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David Bowie was always a glamorous rock star.
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Seriously, I would have gone gay for Bowie
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They do, and I've seen them before. Also, I bought a truck once where the previous owner was really, really short and his pedal extensions were 4x4 wood blocks screwed to all the pedals.
She's probably not going to wind up getting one, though, just because she doesn't want it badly enough to put in the effort to actually get one. But driving an actual car at a race track or something, where she doesn't need a license, that's certainly a possibility.
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When you're in Australia, you learn pretty quick to be wary of drop bears.
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That's true, but Silver Glow is unlikely to know that.
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Unless he had sunflower seeds, then she would have stolen them from him and flown back to her tree.
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Well, Equestrian Girls aren't exactly human, so maybe they don't exactly have Latin, either.
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Spelling corrected; thank you!
Hmm, I'd better watch it again, then, just for good measure.
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Yeah, that does explain her kind of sour look.
No reason why space can't have imaginary values, is there? Maybe the imaginary value is magic, and we're just to dumb to see it.
Pinkie Pie would do quite well in the labyrinth, I think. She'd drive the Goblin King crazy.
As long as we avoid the swamps of sadness.
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Heh, oops.
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They probably would be. Earth pony hooves will wreck your shit.
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The equivalent of a junior, actually. Although that doesn't lend itself so nicely to a pun.
Or sunflower seeds, Taco Bell, or White Russians.
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It's likely she's caused a fender-bender or two with her low passes over the highway, but she hasn't noticed it because cool ponies don't look back.
But you're right; driving would certainly cause other drivers to pay more attention to her than to the road.
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It might be one of those movies that you need to see when you're younger to really get the full effect, y'know? There are a lot of movies I enjoyed as a teen that I would hate now, such as every Steven Seagal movie.
The Dark Crystal was good, but I saw it many years after Labyrinth, and so for me I thought that Labyrinth was the better of the two movies.
It's funny, too, how dated some of the special effects are now, and the movies lose a little bit when you re-watch them twenty or thirty years on, y'know? You just can't quite get the old magic back.
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As a frequent D&D player back in the day (less frequent now, but still on occasion when we can scrape together enough people to play), having a villain who is 'evil for the lulz' is a common enough theme that we just handwave it away. I'd like to say that Hollywood is better than that but of course they're not.
As I recall, in European mythology, the fey--specifically, the bad ones--liked to take human infants because reasons. So that was one thing in the movie that I never really questioned.
Inception begs to differ about what might be at stake in the dream-world.
There, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I enjoyed the movie when I watched it, but it's been close to 20 years since I last saw it, so I can't say if it's aged well. And at the time I saw it, I wasn't looking for plot holes, either. I think it's a fun movie, and I think Silver Glow would enjoy it, but I don't think it's a cinematic masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination.
I really need to watch that one again, too, don't I? I caught up to most of those 80s films in the late 90s (Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and a couple of other ones I'm forgetting right now) but haven't watched any of them since.
Although you're right; headbanging pony would be best pony.
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I suspect it's one of those tools that you want to use sometimes and not other times, although I'm certainly not good enough at math to know that for sure.
As I recall, it wasn't a very big deal at K, although I might have just not cared enough to pay attention to all the activities. I do know that they didn't have a parade.
I would've thought Meghan would know what an SMS is.
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She does, but Silver Glow often autotranslates.
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One of my favorite Ray Stevens songs of all times.
"Ah was just over the the pole beans when Ah seen him coming through the tomatoes..."
Actually, also a good primer for southern dialect.
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Ohhh yeah, and after between 48-72 hours without sleep, you can be considered temporarily insane.
One day a hole just opens up in the middle of Ponyville and Meghan climbs out with a shovel. "Made it!" Nopony even bothers to question how she did that, not after decades of all the odd shit that goes on there.
I'm the two pile type. Whenever the clean pile gets to small, I just dump the dirty pile in the wash.
Cute Teddy Pone all snuggled between Meghan and the couch.
Pony likes having familiar sniffy sniffs, no need for washing... at least till it starts standing up on it's own.
Meghan just loves waking up near Pony, doesn't matter what time it is.
Well, practical reason to go back to the dorms with Meghan, pony does use a LOT of shampoo.
Yeah, Pony always prefers showering with a buddy,
Penalty Flags..... SIlverisms are so adorable.
"Pamper me servant! Preen your Goddess!"
Pegasi... where else can "I didn't want to take and elevator, so I jumped off the edge" actually not sound really dark.
Gun Penis..... real subtle...
Pfffft yes Silver, you know many tricks... names do not need to be so litteral.
Nah, ponies are too chill to get offended by stuff like that. Granted there will be whole hordes of Tumblr users eager to get offended on their behalf.
See, Silver agrees, the names are just an endearing silly part of Earth.
Pony might get used to being pampered and treat so special all the time. Like free food, just for being Pony.
Naughty rule breaking pony, drinking breakfast beer at lunch, how scandalous.
"Hope is the thing with feathers" Sonambula?
Silly pone, see now she's epxecting free food just for being pony and pony named places. Too bad she needed horseshoes.
WHOOOOO Waffle Fries! On a Sunday no less, that is hard to find.
"Plant Bot-plants that Drive" How is this not a B-Movie/Sci-fi made for TV movie?
Well..... the pile might just be left over construction material.... you never can tell with this stuff.
Silver can confirm, now,these interchanges do not make sense from above either.
D'awwww even half asleep, Meaghan must snuggle pony.
Pony lays claim to all she wants. "Give me your shampoo servant!"
Awww and ending on a sad not of pony remembering how little time she has left with them.....8475752
Pony Auto-Translate.... when can we get this ap?
Whose the most adorable little traffic hazard?
I hate you so much for that.....
Also, on all the "Drop Pegasus", Drop Bears are just a fun prank, but you still need to always look up and be careful under trees. This is Australia, it don't need no Drop Bear to kill you, the trees are known to just drop whole main branches down without warning to crush you.
Bad lights, stealing all the Pony's night vision. See this is why you use red lights for night, can still see and doesn't fuck up night vision as much,
Soon, all major shopping centers and public areas will have designated Pegasus landing zones.
The age old dilemma, try something new you might like or might hate, or stick with what you know you like.
Eh, can't really blame the dude or go all 'Anti-Pony hater!' for wiping off a handle she just had in her mouth.
Peggy is good test human, see how quickly she becomes dependent upon her Pony Alarm Clock. The best way to conquer, simply move in and make yourselves indispensable.
D'awwww Peggy all worried and concerned, and Silver feeling all bad for being a bad no talky pony. But in her defense, she's still not quite used to being able to tell you stuff from anywhere at anytime.
Yeah, weekend surrounded by Birdy-Pones is worth the bank account hit.
Yeah, Peggy knows she's gotta be very direct with her questions at this point, and realized just how oblivious Silver can be to social minefields she wanders into.
Noooooooo, super bad pony, so late.. the class was actively filling up and people taking their seats!
Study tree! Surely the sight will provide great inspiration to others.
Even the trees want to keep Pony and not let her leave!
Yeah, give them the crap they ate 90% of the time to really bring back the nostalgia.
And now Pony will be extra sure to not worry Peggy, cause Pony cares about her friends being happy and not worrying about her. So sweet.
See, the latent Incipient Overlord traits keep popping up, look at her sitting at the head of the table, acting all royal. All hail Princess Silver Glow, first of her name!
And now already moving in to take over driving, because she wants to. Pony gets what Pony wants!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Story! bad! No deprive Pony of seeing Labyrinth!
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I have luckily never hit that point, but I have had chronic sleep deprivation a couple of times because reasons.
Honestly, Meghan popping out of a hole in Ponyville might be the least weird Tuesday they’ve had.
I am at least a little bit better organized than that. In part, I’d say, because as a theatre person, I’ve got lots and lots of clothes.
About the most comfortable place for a pony. It’s almost like a cloud-nest.
Exactly!
She does. She probably doesn’t mind waking up in the middle of the night if Silver Glow’s there, too.
She does. You’ve got to figure that shampoo (or coat wash, I suppose) comes in much bigger bottles in Equestria than it does on Earth.
It’s always best to shower with a buddy if you can.
She’s not wrong. . . .
Really, the definition of a symbiotic relationship.
True fact, my very first story on Fimfic was about Derpy and at the end she jumped off a cloud and some people actually thought that it was a dark ending to the story.
That was a real piece of art submitted to Art Prize 2016.
Rarity’s a one trick pony, though.
(headphone warning)
Yeah, ponies wouldn’t really care. And they’d probably be really confused about all the White Knights on Tumblr.
Exactly!
Gotta wonder if the reverse is happening in Equestria. Somehow, i don’t think so.
It says on the bottle it’s for breakfast. Because there’s nothing like starting your day with a beer.
Maybe? (I haven’t seen that episode yet.) It’s actually a reference to a Dickens poem she learned in Conrad’s class.
I bet if she’s worn horseshoes, they would’ve given her free food. Still, #pegaperk not having to wear them.
Do they not serve waffle fries on Sundays in your part of the world? ‘Cause I’m pretty sure I can get them here any day of the week.
I don’t know, honestly. I mean, that’s the one limiting factor to a lot of plant-based horror movies--they don’t really get around that well on their own. But give a whomping willow a car, and watch out. Or those pyromaniac eucalyptus trees they have in Australia.
It very much could be.
It’s not the weirdest one that I know of, but it is an odd interchange. Part of it’s from straightening out the S-curve.
Of course she must! It’s basically an instinct.
And we both know that Meghan will not hesitate.
All good things must come to an end, unfortunately.
I feel that it might wind up being disappointing. Or not, if people really want to know how much Silver swears.
Ooh, I know this one!
Another bit of paperwork that Mr. Salvatore no doubt has to deal with.
Sorry.
Or start fires. Heck, even the birds start fires in Australia.
Not so many rules for that in civilian life, but I bet in the military there were some very specific rules about what kinds of lights could be used.
They’ve already got the little islands (well, many of them do), so all they’ve got to do is paint a giant “P” on it so pegasuses know to land there.
That’s always a challenge, it’s true.
They probably wipe down the handles after people have held them, too. Some stores even have wipes available near the carts and baskets for germaphobes.
Once people know how useful a pony is to have around, they’ll want them around all the time, and that’s how the Cuddlequest was won.
Yeah, some ponies don’t get the utility of a portable telephone or the expectation most people have these days of always getting a response. Heck, when I was in college, if a roommate called me, it was probably because he needed me to bail him out of jail.
It totally is. Especially for Meghan--she probably didn’t really question the cost at all, honestly.
To be fair, it’s not a social minefield to Silver. She’s just happily walking along, setting them off and not caring at all.
Good ponies get to class before all the other students.
All college campuses need a thinking tree. One with a nice branch for a pegasus to sit in.
Trees: easy to get into, not so easy to get back out of. Just ask cats about that.
“We found this pie that’s been sitting in the freezer since you graduated!”
Mr. Salvatore is lucky she hasn’t asked him for a car yet. Because if she did, he might get her one.
I’m pretty sure at some point she does get to watch it.
I'm listening to Yob's Beauty In Falling Leaves right now.
Silver Glow may not know this but the plural of matrix is matrices.
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Ooh, that’s pretty! I’ve got a new band to listen to now, thank you!
Silver Glow does not know this. I did know this.
Poli sci, huh?
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I don't remember if the actual class ever got mentioned in the notes, but you can be sure that it was one that Kalamazoo was offering. Some of Silver's classes were invented for story purposes, but most everyone else's classes are/were real classes K offered.