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1) Depending on the grade it can be hard to tell sometimes what subject the concept is being dragged into. Kindergartner social studies is a mess. And yeah, considering my cutie mark I’ve spent most of my life watching others excel when I couldn’t. You’d think I’d be used to it by now.
2) Well heck, I still hate reading books. I wanted to do it, and once I got there it really wasn’t all that. But that doesn’t mean I don’t read. I read all day! But most of what I read concerns my personal interests. Dialogs, interactions- sociology. It’s not so much the books that are important, just the action of reading and any road that leads to it.
3) Lyra: I am not Bubble Mare.
Bon-Bon: Quiet down, Sickly Sue. The adults are talking.
Lyra: I’m barely even sick anymore!
Bon-Bon: I haven’t read Harry Potter, but I understand the concept. As for the book I was reading, they tried to pull this “Oh! It was all right there from the start!” kind of thing. Only none of it was ever mentioned! It was all there in the world, I guess, but there’s no way the reader would know about it! So while the characters were like “How could we have not seen this coming?!” I’m sitting there going “How could I have possibly seen this coming?! This is all out of left field!”
Lyra: So five-out-of-five?
Bon-Bon: Morbid curiosity wasn’t enough to get me to finish reading that wreckage.
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What? What?! How can that possibly be?! Do they not remember? Could they be too young to know? How could that show have possibly not had even a slight impact on their lives? It was huge to me!
This may come as a shock, but I had a hard time learning how to read and write. By second grade my reading and writing was still kindergarten level. I could recognize the letters, but little else.
And it was frustrating! I hated it! I hated being sat down in a group, constantly struggling as the other students got better and were moved to other groups with similar skill levels! It got so bad they eventually started moving me to a special ed classroom during reading and writing because they could not provide me with the individualized attention I needed.
But I wanted to read. Not because I was supposed to. It was resources like Reading Rainbow that made want to read; that showed me the stories I couldn’t read on my own. Then I could look at the book they showed and at least understood what was happening. I’d become invested. And that’s the most important part of learning something. Being interested in your work gives you drive.
And there was no click. I didn’t just get it. I was always a year or two behind. I struggled on through junior high, high school, college- I still can’t read advanced terminology out-loud. I learned through memorization. Stuff like medical journals? You could give me a solid minute and I’d still never figure out how to pronounce that stuff. But I can deconstruct the word and approximate the meaning. If I see it again, I’ll can separate it from similar words.
I can read. And write? From tenth on through college I got straight As in Composition, even as I struggled in other classes. I didn’t get corrections from teachers on my papers, I got notes in the margins. “I love this part!” “This is a great line!” But it wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t have something to get me started. Reading Rainbow was that something. And I’m not special. If it was that something to me, it was the same to others- can be the same to many more!
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1) Before I found out, I thought it was Johto. Not because it was amazing or anything, but because after you beat the league there, you go to Kanto too.
2) Usually saying you’re sick makes ponies want to stay away from you.
3) Ominous, but thanks!
4) B: Let’s just say I’m more than familiar with Ponyville. Perhaps I prefer the hustle of the city, or maybe the grass is just always greener. It’s hard to tell.
5) B: You can bark up this tree all day.
So I’m sick (yes, again).
Slow updates might get slower for a bit.
1) Thank.
2) Verbal irony, or brogre master race? You decide!
3) Well, I never got to visit Hoenn, so I’m at least interested. I’ve heard more than once that it’s the fan favorite area from the series. Pokemon Art Academy looks nice. More of something I’d expect to see online for free, though.
4) I know! And how about the thing just transporting itself to some random place in Ponyville and sprouting up! It’s like the thing is sentient! I’d honestly be afraid to live there.
5) B: For clarity’s sake, a theoretical puppet master organization wouldn’t be the one doing the cohesion in our example. It’s you. Right now.
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1) Bon-Bon: Aw. You’re just the sweetest thing! I’m waiting for my favorite author to release another novel, so for now I’m reading a book called The Third Eye Alumni. Its draw seems to be that the story is told through the villains’ perspective, which are a group of psychics that use their powers to predict and manipulate events. It sounds smart, but its execution is pretty stupid. I might not finish it.
2) I try to. I don’t always remember though. Back in R/B/Y I had to go all the way back through the Unknown Dungeon because of that.
3) B: If you think one of the most well-trained guards in Equ-
Ex. Ex-Guard.
B: … One of the formerly most well-trained guards in Equestria can be coerced into revealing information against his will, then you’re not qualified to operate a push mower.
4) Oh, well I’m glad you’re not upset! I just wanted to make sure you knew for the future.
1) Oh no! I don’t think you had to do that! Unless they removed the function in X and Y, any legendary you beat on accident will respawn after you defeat the Elite Four and Champion again!
I’m so sorry! I’d have told you if I knew you had a problem!
2) B: I didn’t say the talent got little attention, I said the mark did. You might not understand the meaning behind the mark. You’re looking for a picture.
B: And… I don’t know if I will or not. I shouldn’t, but I might.
3) I don’t know! I’d like to hope we’d have a library somewhere in town. But for all we know Prin… Twilight might convert part of her castle into a public library. I could see her doing that.
4) B: And you would spread unrest under covert military conditions where every minor outburst must be treated as though an insurmountable front could result from inaction.
5) Lyra: Sure! I’ll try to get a picture later of him. All the ones we have are pretty old.
Bon-Bon: Oh, I’ll live. But hey! Thanks for thinking of me! And the store is fine. Just in that gentle lull between major sale periods. Gives me more time to read.
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1) Ma~ybe. I’ll have to find out sometime soon!
2) B: I find your frank, but genuine concern… strange. Very well. The cutie mark is well known, but few pay any attention to it.
3) B: That wouldn’t help anyway. I use illusionary magic to mask my identity. You’re looking for somepony else who has my cutie mark. You’ll never find me.
4) Me too. Not that destroying half of a forested biome, along with hundreds of books is a minor incident.
5) B: Thug? I believe I’ve already given you more answers then you deserve.
B: Serve your country by spreading peace. Fail to do that and you only prove you can’t be trusted.
Oh my Celestia! Thank you, Tote! Now I have a little me!