There is no way Bon-Bon is letting me keep that in the house. Hmm…. Maybe Krastos would want it… Thanks, though!
Merry Chr-… Wait what? Happy Hearth’s Warming!
Thanks, Rainbow! Unfortunately, I’m not getting to spend today with anypony. Bon-Bon went to do Hearth’s Warming with her cousin because I got Tootsie sick. She called a few hours ago to let me know she and Tootsie’s parents are all sick now too. And Sweetie’s with her family.
It’s just me and the dog here. I opened up some awesome presents, though. Can’t wait to get better and get everypony else some good stuff!
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Anonymous asked: Even though it's the last day for Hearth Warming shopping, Krastos just posted a list of board games he would like. I thought you would like to know just in case of the likely probability you haven't gotten him anything yet.
I appreciate the help, but I don’t know how else to tell you folks this.
I wasn’t sick and then got pink eye. I was sick and got pink eye. I’m still sick. I’ve been all but trapped in my bed for the last week and a half. My symptoms keep changing and I don’t even know what I’ve got anymore. If this is just a cold, it’s the worst, longest, multi-staged cold in the history of ever. It’s definitely not any kind of upper repository infection I’ve ever had. I keep having to stop this very recording just to cough.
What I’m saying is anypony, or bear, that I hadn’t already got a present for is going to have to wait until I’m better. At this point I’m facing the possibility of not even being able to go with Krastos on the trip we had planned around New Years.
1) Plenty, I imagine. But they’d inevitably dig too deep and wind up in royal hot water.
2) West end of what?
3) Yes, I’ve heard the song before. Luna forbid I not be intricately aware of the lyrics of every song ever produced on command.
4) Seriously, even if it’s just the episode it came from, that one scene from the original Dragon Ball where Oolong yells at Goku for asking him if he likes bacon. I’ve wanted to use that scene like a hundred times at this point.
5) Whatever. I hold no responsibility for your actions.
6) All conflicts are just comprised of two sides fighting each other. History is determined by the victor. Don’t believe me? What do you think your world’s various settlers did to the natives of the American continent? How do you think history would have viewed their genocide if the natives won?
7) I’m not your onee-sama, buddy.
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Hang in there Lyra! BTW: Source.
Thanks, E!
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So, it spread to my other eye and Bon-Bon called it “a cold in my eye” and took me to the doctor and I have pink eye from the infection I’ve been fighting. She’s going to go back out to pick up some prescription eye drops once she finishes eating.
Aw… That was really sweet. Thank you!
I’ll try to get back into things soon. Just hard to do much with my eyes in the shape they’re in right now.
Anonymous asked: Well it IS pretty sucky.
When it rains, it pours.
Anonymous asked: Whenever I feel my life sucks, I can just look at your blog and think "Wow, at least it doesn't suck as hers". Seriously, it's embarrassing how much your life sucks.
Oh shut the [omitted] up.
Least I can see out of it again.
So, I have a paper towel covering my eye and a bunch of bandaids keeping it attached to my face.
I’d love to know how I strained my left eye playing a video game while my right is totally unaffected. I mean, I figured I just had something in my eye, but I couldn’t look in a mirror because Bon-Bon had just sprayed in the bathrooms because a roach fell on her back when she walked into one.
I look ridiculous. And this on top of still being sick.
This sucks.
1) Tomorrow, I believe. I’ll be too sick for it, though.
2) Probably either an RPG or a strategy game. Though it could have been Armored Core 2. I don’t think The Sims was out yet.
3) That is the question, isn’t it?
4) What truth about Canterlot? Since you seem to know so much, exactly what is the truth?
5) No. We’re a fairytale couple and we’ve never done anything to upset the other, ever.
The good outweighs the bad. That’s all anypony should ask for.
6) See, I never understood why assault-style weapons were legal anywhere. If personal firearms are for self-defense, when are you going to need that much stopping power?
1) I mean, I can dance. But it’s nothin’ world-saving.
2) My bearfriend, preceded by “I’m going to.”
3) Not recently, no. Still pretty sick. Actually sicker today than I was yesterday. Still hoping for a turnaround tomorrow morning so I can get one more work day in before next year.
Here’s a tip, don’t play an action PVP game that you haven’t played in months, while sick. My heart was going nuts and I’m still shaky.
4) The overgeneralization that victims of sexual abuse either wind up obsessing over intercourse or loathing it, overgeneralized into what you said.
5) I’m sorry. I’m a little deaf in one ear. You’ll have to speak a little louder next time.
6) To be honest, I preferred the R.A.D version of controlling giant robots. You know, from outside of the thing.
Well, there’s a long answer and a short answer. The short answer is because, that’s what Griffons called us. As for the long answer, well…
Worlds with multiple sentient species don’t just become intellectually advanced all at once. I don’t know that your world keeps track of this sort of thing, because you’re the only ones, but the process in our world is called ascension. It’s not the most popular subject among ponykind because we weren’t the first to ascend. We weren’t even the second.
To be considered an ascended species requires several things. You have to be capable of organized thought exchange, both verbally and in writing, amongst yourselves and other ascended species. You have to be capable of sustaining yourself in an isolated environment indefinitely (a nomadic lifestyle must be a choice, not a requirement). You have to be capable of creating shelter from raw materials and defend yourself from harsh environmental conditions. And I’m sure I’m missing some, but the most difficult is that you must be able to prove that you, or a community of your peers, can protect themselves against a staged attack by a malicious entity.
It’s debated pretty fiercely between dragons and griffons which ascended first, but we definitely came after both. There will always be those that argue, but there’s pretty definitive evidence. As we were hunted by them, griffons also studied us. When pegasus and unicorns first appeared, they observed pegasus manipulating rainfall to yield more substantial wild growth, and reported mild, though varied magical ability in us long before our recorded history began.
Griffons named us unicorns, which in their language at the time (they’ve gone through a few) meant one-horned, and pegasus were called pterippus- which I’m fortunate enough to be able to manually type out, because I can’t even pronounce that. After our ascension began we kept our name, but the pegasus didn’t.
The story goes that a “hero” by the name of Pegasus united or conquered, depending on interpretation, every major pterippus community and changed the entire species’ name to his own. He did some other stuff but I’m not all that into specifics. To that end, pegasus were the first pony species considered to be ascended, though at that time the term had yet to be defined.
Our hornless, terrestrial cousins have an interesting story. Pony roughly means small horse. Earth ponies were so named once unicorns and pegasus started appearing, as a way of further defining them, because we’re all ponies. But when our ascension began, one group of grounded ponies relied on hard work and close ties to the earth. They became what we recognize today as earth ponies.
Meanwhile the other group, fascinated with magic and the desire to harness it, called themselves crystal ponies. They somehow found that crystals were easier to store magic in and harness magic out of than anything else in the world. They even somehow used magic infused into crystals to create the artifact known as the Crystal Heart. When earth, unicorn, and pegasus ponies had to unite in order to survive, timelines show that crystal ponies had no need for outside help. Though the other three had lost contact with them, crystal ponies were already decades ahead of their time through magically-aided technological advancement. At least, so the story goes.
While on the subject, the last species to be considered ascended were cattle. Both goats and sheep are in the process of ascension.
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Everypony needs this in their lives.
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