4) I don’t know! I had to work! I miss like every social event now!
5) Luigi Death Stare. Hooves down. That is still hilarious, with accompanying music!
1) Mostly because fictional implies not real.
2) B: Your “house” was a deathtrap of wards and enchantments designed to capture and harm intruders while practicing dangerous experiments, possibly on dangerous animals- I never asked because I didn’t want to know. I specifically warned you not to reactivate any of those traps after I left, but knowing your adventurous, defiant ways, there’s no way you complied. So if I told you where you live, instead of being stabbed you’d be dead. You’re welcome.
3) Only in that it’s original connotation referred to those who had lost their virginity before marriage as without purpose in formal romantic affairs, regardless of how it happened. But this was also before the full physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual damage of rape was known. That the phrase’s use today is often associated with other, less horrific things is the result of melodrama and the dulling of society into a numb and uncaring state.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY [redacted] GOD I DON’T THINK YOU REALISE JUST HOW [redacted] IMPORTANT THIS IS HOLY [redacted] HOLY [redacted] (please remember)
I can honestly say “fear of reindeer” is a phobia I never thought I’d develop.
Lyra: U-uh… Um…
B: You don’t have to answer that.
Lyra: I can take care of myself. It’s a… very complicated question. I’m not sure what I’d do unless I was there. I mean, there’s a lot of subtitles that could change everything- things I wouldn’t even know to ask about.
Lyra: … I don’t think I like this question very much…
1) Lyra: I can’t really take credit for that.
Bon-Bon: Well thank you for the compliment! It’s nice to be appreciated!
Lyra: Bon-Bon, look at the name.
Bon-Bon: … Well that’s mean.
2) That is a good point you bring up. I mean, especially after Twilight went to the- Wait how is that second part more important?
4) Lyra: You’re close. Ahem. Flapjack! Hey Flapjack! Come with me, we’ll go and see, a place called Candied Island!
Bon-Bon: Who needs Candied Island? It’s safer at the docks.
Lyra: But there ain’t no streams of sodie pop, ta go tricklin’ down the ro~cks!
Bon-Bon: It’s dangerous and risky!
Lyra: But adventurous and free!
Tootsie: Adventure that’s the life for me!
Lyra: There’s lollipop trees and a lemonade sea!
Bon-Bon: Doesn’t sound very good to me…
5) Excuse you, I do study literature. Is every song not a poem?
It’s like looking through a window into my mind.
Oh I am so tired of this “natural” argument. It’s natural! It can’t be wrong because it’s na~tural!
But hey, you want to talk about what’s natural? Let’s talk about what’s natural. So let’s see here. First of all, murder. And I don’t mean for protection. I don’t mean hunting for food either, we’ll get to that later, I mean senseless slaughter. The chasing down and killing of another just because it was there.
Rape? The fate worse than death? Wouldn’t you know it that’s not only natural but it’s backed by who knows how many thousands of years of evolution! Female ducks have literally evolved specific ways to avoid pregnancy from unwanted male advances. I’m not even posting a link to this one. Too many pictures and videos.
“But Lyra” you might say, “You’re talking about specific species. We’re talking about eating meat. That’s something many animals do.” You’re absolutely right. Many animals eat meat. They even do it two different ways. They either hunt for meat, or scavenge for meat. Humans don’t have the digestive tract to scavenge, so clearly they must be hunters. Please describe to me then how going to a supermarket and picking up a pound of ground beef falls into anything describing a hunter? Sounds kind of unnatural to me.
Speaking of unnatural. Wanna know what’s unnatural? Environmental awareness. Massive farms used to produce lots of food in a small space, so as to disrupt as little of the neighboring ecosystem as possible. Charity for those less fortunate. Contraception. The purchasing of goods or services through an object or concept that may be amassed in such a way that is completely divorced from whatever it may be used to acquire, creating a society of efficiency through specialization in given areas we call jobs.
Civilization is not natural. Trusting that this tiny little coin can be used to feed me or assure my continued ownership over this territory I call a house is not natural.We. Are not. Natural. We often actively avoid things that are natural!
No matter how you feel about something society does, never argue that it’s right or wrong because it’s natural.
4) You were stabbed?! You were stabbed in Ponyville?! How did this happen?! There’s a shelter in Ponyville!
I… [sigh] I can’t visit you now. I have to get up for work in six hours and I can’t cancel. I shouldn’t even be awake right now. Just… hold on. I’ll be there tomorrow to see you.
I’m not sure if it’s just miscommunication or you’re thinking of something terrible!
Dude, what did you think I meant? Show her how to have a brain hemorrhage? That’s the only thing terrible I can think of.
1) Can’t you… fly?
2) I suppose that’s a difficult question. Ponies are vegetarians, not vegans. We eat and use milk and eggs in our cooking. But the milk is given voluntarily (though some would argue against that) and the eggs are unfertilized. “Nothing living harmed, and nothing harmed living” or at least nothing consumed has ever been alive by any stretch of the definition.
In Vitro meat can’t boast the same. It’s not real meat, but it still involves the use of slaughterhouses to collect the blood used in its production. You might consider it to be more humane (which is itself a silly word), but it’s not solving the problem. Just reducing it.
3) Bon-Bon: Of course I don’t. But it’d be nice.
4) Bon-Bon: Hmph!
5) I suppose it was wrong of me to think, even subconsciously, that I was more attractive than Bon-Bon. I guess that’s not a healthy way of categorizing things.
Bon-Bon: No! You know what? Not done!
Lyra: Bon-Bon, I’m really sorry. I didn’t mean-
Bon-Bon: You see these curls? Ponies love these curls! Ponies adore these curls! Ponies will lose their train of thought and just stare at these curls!
Lyra: They’re very nice and I-
Bon-Bon: You see these baby blues? Ponies get lost in these baby blues! When I bat these eyelashes, ponies melt to the floor!
Lyra: Yes, I’ve always liked your eyes and-
Bon-Bon: You see these hips?
Lyra: Um.
Bon-Bon: Ponies love these hips! These are strong, sturdy hips! You think I got these hips from sitting on my flank all day eating candy? I don’t think so! I sway these hips from left to right and I could bust a door down! Doorbusters! That’s what they call these hips!
Lyra: I um-
Bon-Bon: You see these legs? Do they look wimpy and flabby to you? These legs come from standing all day. Running around. Bending over. Lifting, pulling- working! These are tone, shaped legs! These are the kind of legs mares wish they had!
Lyra: I-
Bon-Bon: So don’t you dare, Lyra! Don’t you dare think I’m not attractive! I am drop-dead gorgeous and don’t you forget it!