Ask Lyra

Oct 25

soundoflonesomeness asked: By the way I'm not trying to be critical, I'm only telling you for consistency's sake. Question, what's wrong with referring to a "curse" by it's first letter? In example, the z-word. (I don't think there's a z-word curse, just giving an example you won't have to censor again)

The point is to leave no trace of the base word. If you don’t know it well enough to pick it out from context-clues, you don’t need to know what it is. It’s unnecessary.

Plus, while you might only be thinking of more standard swears, there are other ones. Some of which I consider far worse.

Ones that make me want to smash somepony’s face in…

I should probably stop drinking for the night.

Anonymous asked: Look at you you're as happy as a song about to sing

You're real and I

Look at you is that sunlight in your eyes about to shine

Let it shine on me

If these are song lyrics, I can’t find the source, and I don’t recognize it.

Anonymous asked: A little drunk, huh? That means you probably wouldn't anything that would happen right now, would you?

I said tipsy, not smashed.

Anonymous asked: I think it might be time to add another link to the sidebar with something like "No. Just... No."

Maybe when I have a few more.

I only have like, what, three or four right now?

I… Really don’t want to make a list.
Ugh…
Spoonman, definitely.
We Who Are About To Die.
So I Thought.
Something by Blue Öyster Cult, but I can’t pick a specific piece right now.
Kings and Queens (listening to that right now).
And the entire Four...

I… Really don’t want to make a list.

Ugh…

Spoonman, definitely.

We Who Are About To Die.

So I Thought.

Something by Blue Öyster Cult, but I can’t pick a specific piece right now.

Kings and Queens (listening to that right now).

And the entire Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

That enough?

ibsosorry-deactivated20121118 asked: Why are you so cynical?

If you mean more so than usual, probably because I’m a little tipsy.

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soundoflonesomeness replied to your post: Question is, does your mint taste like horn?
Lyra you linked to a video with [redacted] in it but you censored me once for using it.

Edited just for you.

Anonymous asked: Question is, does your mint taste like horn?

I couldn’t decide which one to use.

You get both.

Edit: Parental advisory for the first link you guys!

askbitterchill-blog asked: If you take the first 2 lines of Jonathon Coulton's "The Future Soon" and replace Laura with Lyra you get the story of about 60% of your blog.

Does that somehow cheapen the experience?

My life isn’t exactly unique to the letter. I can’t think of a single event that somepony else hasn’t lived through.

patchoulol asked: ... How do you know your horn doesn't taste like mint?

No.

I could fill a trilogy-sized book with just song names/artists.

I could fill a trilogy-sized book with just song names/artists.

Anonymous asked: Does your horn taste like mint?

No.

thegreengoo-blog-blog-blog asked: whats going on Lyra?

Working on a longer answer to a question.

velociraptorchap-deactivated201 asked: I must ask, Miss Lyra, what was the biggest social gathering you have ever made music for?

I don’t play live very often.

I preformed lyre in a large symphony with somewhere around one hundred musicians once. Pretty much every musician you’d ordinarily think of from Canterlot was there.

I was completely muffled behind talented musicians, though. I don’t think you could even hear my mistakes, let alone anything else.

Anonymous asked: Fresh blood, a sanguinary feast
Is all he's living for
And he craves it more and more
Showgirls, businessmen in suits in the midnight rain
If they walk alone are never seen again

I like the sound between the lyrics, but the vocalists delivery sounds bored and uninspired.

How about this? Does the vocalist’s singing sync up better with their selected piece?

Plus the solo kicks your behind.

Probably not a popular opinion, but whatever.