Ask Lyra

Jan 14

colorsymphony:

[redacted] around with the highlight tool in photoshop.

More like, being awesome with the highlighting tool. Am I right?

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everpresentshades-blog asked: TONIGHT ON ONE LYRA TO LIVE: LYRA AND BOSCOV TEACH A GENETICS CLASS FOR ANONS MR AND MRS CAKE GO ON MAURY TO PROVE THE CHILDREN ARE MR CAKE'S, SPIKE COMES ON THE SAME EPISODE AS AN OUT OF CONTROL TEEN, SWEETIE BELLE AND APPLEBLOOM FORM THE RAP GROUP BLOOM MEETS BELLE, SCOOTALOO STARTS A WEST COAST BEEF WITH NOTORIOUS B.O.N.B.O.N, THE GHOST OF MICHAEL CERA INHABITS TWILIGHT, THE PUNISHER MEETS ANGEL BUNNY AND FLUTTERSHY JOINS GWAR!

I wouldn’t wish that on Twilight or anypony.

He always plays the same character in every movie!

Edit: The rest of those sound pretty cool! Good episode!

Anonymous asked: You wind up passing gas all day.

You poor, unfortunate- Nah, I use that too much.

I’ll keep that in mind, thanks for the heads up.

And sorry that happened to you.

1) Yeah. I mean, I guess so.

I was never substituting in a classroom when they were talking about genetics. But we learned about it in Canterlot.

2) Go nuts.

The trash was picked up yesterday.

3) It’s not like you were posting a billion things flooding my dash, or reblogging porn or gore.

I thought about it once, but I decided against it.

4) I’ve never done that before. Are the consequences heinous?

1) She is not! And you’re a horrible little monster for spreading rumors!

2) I didn’t have a reason to stop.

3) I guess they don’t like us together.

4) …

I’d like to just give a joke answer, but I know if I try it’ll just get turned around on me.

5) Of course he was nervous! He’d been up for thirty hours worrying about the possibility of complications!

I assume you’d be surprised to know that most earth ponies have recessive unicorn and/or pegasus genes by this point. Equestria was founded over a thousand years ago!

1) Good morning! Or what’s left of it anyway.

2) Well… I don’t want to tattle on her, but evidently at some point she had placed both of your children under an overturned playpen and even tapped it down. Your son was able to generate enough lift to pick the playpen up off the ground, tape and all.

Also, he accidentally slapped your bath faucet and broke it clean off. Gonna wanna watch out for that right hook.

3) Stupid adverts are getting more evasive everyday.

4) Excuse me?! What are you accusing Mrs. Cake of?!

5) For the love of- [Sigh] Hasn’t somepony already given a genetics course on tumblr? It’s just as reasonable to believe those two foals are in fact his. When one recessive trait comes up, life just has a way of rolling a few more. You may also note that the foals share neither of their parent’s eye colors.

6) Tempting, but I’ll have to decline.

I’ll be sure to watch over Spike from now on. Been shut up in this house too long anyway.

7) No.

Granted it is pretty rude for ponies to constantly bring up and mock you for how you choose to type, but you’re kinda mean.

Foals

I overheard Pinkie talking about her experiences foal-sitting in the market place, so I decided it might be a good idea if I explained a few things that might seem odd.

It’s not strange for a baby pegasus to fly or a baby unicorn to use magic. At that size a pegasus doesn’t have to generate as much lift to get off the ground. As the pegasus grows it will gain weight and in most cases lose that ability for a while until its wings catch up. Likewise, a baby unicorn can inadvertently cast all manner of spells. Yes, there’s even been reported cases of self levitation and phase walking, which are ordinarily very advanced and very difficult spells to maintain. But they’ll also grow into a stage where they lose that ability. I can’t explain exactly how that works, because how a unicorn uses magic isn’t deemed fit as common knowledge for everypony to know.

In short, there’s nothing strange about a foal flying or tossing around objects with magic. It’s uncommon, but not strange.

1) Start your day the indecent way with Molasti-Os.

…

I’m sorry. That was awful.

2) One or the other. I’m not dealing with you both.

Find a way to resolve this.

3) You know, I think it’s less that Sweetie Belle is a dictionary and more that Scootaloo just calls everypony who says something she doesn’t know a dictionary.

Sounds to me like you’re just going to have to take this as one of those life lessons and not drink a bunch of coffee again.

4) You’re welcome to it. Starcatcher will be hanging around for a while too.

5) There isn’t really always room for jello; that was just an add campaign.

And if there isn’t always room for jello, there definitely isn’t always room for fajitas.

Jan 13

theblackstrawberry asked: Lyra, getting better?

It’ll take weeks before my sinuses are back to producing mucus at a normal rate.

Let’s just say for all intended purposes that I’m completely better.

Anonymous asked: So how are things tonight? Want some fajitas?

No, I had baked spaghetti.

Thanks for the offer, though!

Edit: And things are great! Thanks!

askebonydarknessdementiaravenwa asked: LYRI WUT B UP WHOSE

Butt Doctor. I’m sorry. You can come back now.

Comic Book or anime book but it really depends what its about on the book

1) Do I like you placing the words ‘gropes you’ in between asterisks?

Not really fond of it, no.

2) Wrap up all planning for this book and start writing.

3) Already been asked, and it still hasn’t happened yet.

I’ll let you know when it does. I promise.

4) You can turn right around and leave again. S/he was never funny either.

Can’t you anons think up a good character?

5) A delightful idea. Unfortunately I can’t draw for beans and couldn’t guarantee a salary to hire anypony to do it for me. That’s sort of the reason I gave the two choices I did, otherwise children’s book would have been on the table too.

There’s only one story inSkeleton Crew that take place on another planet.

To clarify, I’m writing a story, not buying one.

I’m asking for your opinion on what to write.

Okay! Thanks!

Now that said, if it was a long story, what if it were just a lead off to a longer series. Each with their own completed story arcs, of course (no pony likes a cliffhanger).

And if it were a series of short stories, what if they all took place in the same world so you wouldn’t feel so much like you were shifting gears and you might see a character you liked more than once?

If anypony would like to help me for a few moments.

If you were going to buy a book, what kind of book would it be? A single long story or a collection of short stories?