Signal Boost: Severe Weather Appreciation Week · 12:52am Jan 24th, 2018
This was what I was made for; this was what I loved. The wind was gusting around and rain was spitting down on me and off in the distance the clouds looked nasty and that was just the kind of thing that our weather team lived for. If the other mares had been with me, we would have flown out there and knocked down the storm, but they weren't. It was just me and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
--Silver Glow
I could tell you about driving at night when the lightning's almost constant overhead, making the radio burst with static. I could tell you about driving in fog so thick that I could barely see past the hood of my truck. I could tell you about watching a storm come in so fast that the leading edge of the clouds was rolling back over itself, or about driving a wrecker through piling snow. I could tell you about standing outside Tuscarora Plastics and watching a nascent tornado rip shingles off the roof of the Michigan Bean Company elevator, about how that feels to see nature in her full wrath, and if that's the kind of thing you'd like to read . . .
I could remind you of Cloud Climber thinking that the supercell is the king of clouds, or of Silver Glow worrying that pegasi had somehow lost their sense of wonder when they tamed the weather for the ground ponies. And maybe they did.
Or maybe they haven't forgotten, not completely.
“What’s that like?” Blossomforth asked. Her voice was a low mumble, drifting in time with her thoughts. “A storm that covers half the world. To fly in one? To make one? It must be like… like creating a god.”
This one probably doesn't need a signal boost; it's in the feature box already (as it should be). But in case you were on the fence, and you liked pegasuses and wild weather, go give Severe Weather Appreciation Week a read. Right now. It's by Cold in Gardez, who's a way better writer than I am.
I'm not tagging Silver Glow's Journal lightly here; if she soared into stormy skies in your mind, you're gonna want to read this story.
Hey, thanks man :) I wasn't sure how this story would do here, as it kinda slips between the Comedy and Slice of Life genres without really being either.
It's great to see people enjoying it for what I tried to make: a story about passion.
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Those tag are basically why I haven't got to read it yet.
That and the length. Might be better to save it for tomorrow morning, when I'll have more free time before heading to class.
I have to say that I was already thinking about Silver Glow while I was reading it.
I was thinking of Silver Glow, flying into all those thunderstorms and feeling so alive while doing it. What I wouldn't give for just one day of being a Pegasus.
What I wouldn't give to feel that kind of passion again.
Oh, give yourself some credit... in my mind, you two are equals.
I was thinking Silver Glow before I even noticed the mention.
Ohh, that's one beautiful SG. And yeah, that story is phenomenal.
The line you quote about creating a hurricane gave me chills, it's just so good. It all is.
But apart from that, don't belittle your own writing ability - your styles are hardly comparable and you're one of the best writers on the site. Or, if you don't like the word 'best', then you'll have to take 'most engaging' instead. ;)
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I think that you can publish things here that don't really fit any particular genre. Heaven knows a bunch of my stuff isn't easily catagorizable.
Interestingly, I didn't bother reading the tags, and I wouldn't have guessed it's got a comedy tag on it.
And I'd say you hit the ball out of the park on that.
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Me, too.
I know a lot of people like all the cool stuff unicorns can do with their magic (and I guess that would be pretty cool), but I think that flying would be ever so much better.
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Thanks!
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I'll be honest, reading through the story, I was thinking of it from her point of view, too.
I think she'd be more familiar with the downsides to severe weather than RD, given that she has to deal with feral weather on a regular basis . . . but I also think that that doesn't stop her from enjoying it.
I also think that Cold in Gardez's story plays into how Lisa thought that maybe by taming the weather in Equestria, the ponies had given up something important.
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Ohh, that's one beautiful SG. And yeah, that story is phenomenal.
Isn't it (both things, really)? I found that somewhat recently on Deviantart, and was just waiting for the right opportunity to share the image.
That line about the hurricane is the best.
I'm more than happy to settle for most engaging. Or--as Super Trampoline called me in a video review--the king of Slice of Life.
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Well, he's not wrong.
But I'm only 17% of the way through Silver Glow's Journal. My "Read It Later" queue has been clogged and it may be all your fault.
Less related, I'm fairly certain that I'm not following you, and I think it's time to change that.
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He's really not.
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That's something I'm willing to accept blame for.
Yay!