1) B: Lyra isn’t here right now. But when she gets back Sunday evening, I’ll be sure to let her know that somepony asked her a question to which the answer could be readily found in a matter of seconds by looking at the author’s notes on the right side of her blog page.
B: I’ll even give you a link to follow.
2) B: I don’t know what this is. Lyra said if I got a message that looked like gibberish, it was probably a youtube link, but it’s not doing anything when I try tacking it on to the back of the url.
1) B: Slim, though the possibility does exist. As early as in a year or so, in fact. Somewhat recently a chief justice was married and subsequently asked why she took her husband’s last name. Her reply was very interesting, to the many present who were not aware. As a filly she was emancipated from her abusive parents and she choose to drop her last name to distance herself from them. Under current law, she had no alternative but to take her husband’s last name in order to marry. And to quote her, “Were my husband and I to have both retracted our surnames, marriage between us would have become a legal impossibility.” If you watch and listen to the video of the interview, you can easily hear somepony in the background quietly remark, “Well, that’s stupid.”
B: Every fire starts with a spark.
B: However, none of this is information Lyra doesn’t possess herself. But for her to accept this knowledge and willingly relay it to others would be accepting the possible repercussions it may one day carry. Our Lyra has never faired very well with the concept of hope. I assume I need not explain why.
2) B: Let’s see now… I believe it was: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and then Lyra would likely not finish the quote and offer some wholly unnecessary remark about sexism.
B: Ordinarily if an intelligent being comes to Equestria seeking citizenship, they’d go through immigration. Pretty simple process. Barred from holding any government sanctioned position for a year, and within that year they must prove they’ve integrated into Equestrian society and are able to pay the tax. After that they’re an Equestrian citizen, free to bask in all the rights and protections that offers until such time that they are either unable to continue or prove themselves unfit as a citizen.
B: However, due to the changlings’ unique talent, things become much more complicated. Being unable to tell who may or may not have been involved in an attack against our nation, all changlings would have to be considered ex-criminals. They would be assigned a probation officer and a rehabilitation/reintegration councilor. The process of rehabilitation and reeducation would last as long as necessary- possibly a year, possibly more. After proving they’re able to behave within Equestrian borders, the process to become a citizen could begin.
B: Of course, you don’t have to live in Equestria as a citizen. There’s nothing illegal about being unregistered and without a temporary visa. However, you’re prohibited from engaging in any government related activities, like voting or receiving a permit, and are not protected under Equestrian law. If you’re not a citizen and you get mugged in broad daylight with a hundred witnesses, you do not possess the right to press charges. Somepony else would have to do it for you.
Okay, these are the last ones from me for a few days. While I’m with Boscov this weekend, I figured it might do us some good if I left tumblr behind until we get back.
But don’t worry! I’ll have a friend answering questions in my absence. He’ll be the one answering that changling question for me. I would ask that you treat him with the same level of respect that you give me, but that would be stupid. So how about treating him with more respect than you give me?
See you ponies in a few days!
1) All I can think of is Grand Theft Carriage. I prefer games where you either help ponies, or you’re at least given a choice.
In City of Ponies, I have about as many hero/vigilantes as I do villain/rogues.
2) I wouldn’t consider myself a member of any fandoms, no. I like things like Deus Ex and Stable M.D., before it ended. But I don’t obsess over them and don’t really associate with others that do based solely on the fact that they’re fans.
3) Welcome to Moonside.
Wel come to moo nsi ns dem oons ide.
How about I sharpen you?
I just love sharpening.
You don’t want me to sharpen?
Sidem oonsi demoon. Welc welc omewelc omeome.
4) That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
5) Nah, but you go ahead.
I left one of the asks out of this rotation because I wouldn’t be able to adequately answer it. But I know somepony who can. So the changling question will be answered tomorrow.
1) Push comes to shove, I can scare one of those primal bears away by amplifying a loud sound.
2) I’ve heard it’s fantastic, but no, not yet. Will probably wait until it comes on television.
3) If you had to send me a good question, what would it be?
4) I must have missed something. I saw the preview of the movie where the zebra was dressed up like that, but evidently it went viral without me knowing. I’ve seen tumblr after tumblr reference it.
1) Oh, you did not just poor, unfortunate soul me!
Put (on) your… Old Gray Bonnet with the Blue Robbin on it…
2) Know who puts the U in ugly?
U
3) Have I ever slashed the wheels made of wood or metal? Can’t say the thought ever crossed my mind.
4) Okay. Go ahead.
5) You don’t just get hired for intelligence work. You have to serve for a long time so you can be trusted.
6) If that’s true then you’re going to have to invent a new word for what I did less than a week ago. Here’s what I learned: don’t drink and exercise out in the sun on an empty stomach.
7) Emotions. Fear is real. Sadness is real. Hate, jealousy, guilt… Happyness, accomplishment, Love. Even if what causes the emotion isn’t real, the feeling you felt certainly was. That’s what sticks with you. Even when the memory is blurry or gone, you remember the warmth of an embrace.
8) If you wanted to try camping out, I’ve slept on worse than dirt. But I can’t deny I’d rather have sturdy walls around me with a modern bathroom. Offer a little bit of privacy and protection. Wouldn’t the cabin cost a lot more, though?
9) That’s right, that whole magic sustenance thing. Sort of have plans this weekend. You’re free to hang out with me today.
10) Not if I can help it. I’m just a little adverse to the idea. But I can get used to a lot of things.
1) Can you stop asking after I say no for the third time?
2) I understand what you’re saying, but generally I’ve always seen responses like that used as a way to make the situation more lighthearted and less serious. That’s why you have Spiderman defying gravity or standing under a bunch of crates raining from the sky.
3) … What the [omitted] are you talking about? Granted, I don’t read much and I rarely watch dramas, but I have a great interest in both music and magic, which are both vast subjects. I don’t claim to know everything about either, but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested.
I’m sorry I don’t read monga or watch the anime’s you like. But I do read the newspaper.
4) There’s no such things as curses.
5) I’ve watched a few scenes, but no, I’ve never seen the whole thing. I don’t think I’d be able to sit through it.
6) Greasel. Of course, I’d rather have a gray as a friend, if it was an option.
7) I’ve answered this more than once. I was never paid.
8) You’re ponying up the wrong smurf. I don’t have the pony to smurf how ponies smurf.
9) Then it doesn’t matter if you’re a changling or not.
1) No, I don’t still do it.
2) Well, I had a job that I thought was a call response team that the employer lied about and turned out to really be door-to-door selling a security system. Nothing after I quit but a few substitute aid positions.
Not that I find myself above going door-to-door, I’m just not the kind of pony you’d want to buy something from. Especially in Canterlot.
I’ll work the last four days of Manehatten’s school system. They start and end a little later in the year than most schools.
Other than that, I’m still helping out Boscov now and again.
3) I’d like to see that scientific report. With its sources. Particularly it’s method of measuring selfishness.
4) He’ll tell me about a book and I may comment upon it, but that’s about the extent of it. I just don’t read books for leisure.
5) No. Can’t say I’d ever want to either.
6) That may be how you grieve. Not everypony cries over losing somepony.
Make sure you keep eating, though. And rest. I’m here if you want to talk about anything.
7) It’s either black or white with you folks, isn’t it?
8) No offense to our friend Twilight, but I’ve had a little more experience than her. It’s a little bit easier to take other pony’s feelings into consideration when you’ve dealt with them more.
9) As funny as a funeral. Literally.
1) You do realize it hasn’t even been a year, right?
I guess because we give each other space. It’s good to spend time with the special somepony you love, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. And gives the nerves time to relax.
2) I would think so.
3) Everything’s fine and it’s none of your business.
4) I understand what you’re trying to say, but just because a unicorn could potentially do something better than an earth or pegasus pony doesn’t mean they’ll be able to do it as efficiently. Even if an extremely powerful unicorn could levitate, they’d never be able to fly as well as your average pegasus. Same thing with an earth pony’s incredible endurance.
Even then, we’re talking cases of very powerful unicorns. Most unicorns just aren’t capable of the sort of things you might expect because of somepony like Twilight Sparkle. Even a unicorn like Rarity is above average.
The only reason the big-wigs in Canterlot are able to sit around and manage others, is because other ponies are willing to work for them. Willing; not forced. Yes, they started life off with unfair advantages, but they used those advantages. It’s not like they get unlimited chances. Failure is always a possibility.
All I’m trying to say is, don’t hate unicorns. If you have to hate somepony, hate ponies who are selfish. And that’s not a racial feature.
1) Think of a good question and ask it. If it really is a good question, I would consider that stylish.
2) Me too.
3) Was legal? You’re asking me to imagine up a world where something that’s illegal used to be legal, but is no longer? Benedict, explain why this would be a pointless exercise.
4) If you say so, sure! With any luck we’ll be at least a half a kilometer away from anypony, if you’re diggin’ what I’m layin’ down.
5) I’m so sorry, Strawberry. But no, there’s nothing wrong with you. There are a number of possibilities for why you aren’t mourning. It’s possible you haven’t fully grasped what’s taken place yet. You may not have known them well enough, or maybe it’s been so long since you’ve seen them that it feels like nothing changed.
I had a close friend when I was younger who I hadn’t seen in a long time. When I found out she was shoved out of a moving carriage by her “coltfriend” and died on the scene, I never really mourned. Mentally, I recognize that I’ll never see her again, but psychologically it doesn’t feel any different. Like it’s just been a long time since I’ve seen her, but she’s still out there somewhere. Her absence hasn’t created a gap because it’d been so long since she had any direct impact on my life.
I don’t know if any of that helps at all. Again, I’m sorry.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say. It may not have worked out but it was good to try new things. I think it still sounds great!
it sounds like the underwater level in SM64 and i really like it because i love both of these things
Yep. I found out about a new spot recently, and it looks like a beautiful place in the pamphlet. Plus, it isn’t too far away.
Nope. Wound up being too long. Answers after the break.
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Why would I need any of that when Tetsujin-28 can get the job done clean and simple? youtube.com/watch?v…
1) I was phone.
2) Interesting… You know a good spot, I take it?
3) All kinds. Soccer is a big one.
4) Well, I gotta admit. That thing did just take like three missiles to the stomach and walk away unscathed.
You can feel your face heat up and you physically shake your head “No!” to yourself. Being the present center-of-attention, your friends witness this in confusion. You try to brush it off as a nervous twitch, but your increasingly nosy friends can’t help but notice your face is red as well.
You laugh anxiously and remark that it must be the heat in here. It’s so humid! Amy strongly disagrees, saying it’s much more comfortable in here than the frigid temperatures outside.
In an effort to change the subject, you duck down a little and glance around. You ask if the others know whether or not anypony else is in here with them. As you figured, they too drop down lower and glance around silently.
The four of you are still at the T-intersection of this hallway that likely circles around, lined on either side with doorways. The center path would take you back to the entrance, where there are two more paths and the door is still left ajar.