Lyra: Anti-Skub, of course. Skub is dangerous.

Bon-Bon: Dangerous? Skub is too valuable to ignore.

Lyra: What? I can’t believe I’m hearing this. You’re Pro-Skub?

Bon-Bon: It’s only logical. Skub leads to increased productivity.

Lyra: But at what cost? Skub is damaging to both our economy and environment!

Bon-Bon: It’s industry. It’s necessity. It’s the only real option. Nothing else comes close.

Lyra: And what about the side effects? It’s going to destroy the very fabric of our society!

Bon-Bon: If it does, then a new society will be built in its place. One that understands the true value of Skub.

Tootsie: I’m confused. What’s Skub?

Lyra: Filth scrapped from the bowels of Tartarus!

Bon-Bon: The future, sweetheart. The future of Ponykind.

Lyra: Don’t feed her such vile lies!

Bon-Bon: She needs to learn the truth now! Skub is everything!

Lyra: Everything wrong with the world!

Tootsie: This is an internet joke, isn’t it?

Bon-Bon: In a couple of years ponies will wonder how they ever lived without Skub!

Tootsie: You’re both weird…

Lyra: There won’t be anypony left in a couple of years if Skub isn’t stopped!

1) Oh heavens no! That wasn’t even her fault! And I’m way past the point of caring about those fillies. They’d probably be embarrassed about it if I ever ran into them and brought it up.

2) More complicated than anything else, I guess.

3) Sure! I mean, I don’t remember much of it. But I remember that spoon thing from the sound episode!

4) And to you! Although I’m not sure which Independence Day you mean.

5) Lyra: That already short list has become a lot shorter over the last year.

Tootsie: I get to hang out with my friends! And go swimming! And we play tag-!

Bon-Bon: And how is your summer reading going?

Tootsie: A~w…

Tootsie: [Audible Yawn]

Bon-Bon: When you said you were planning a picnic, this isn’t what I had in mind.

Lyra: Hey! You were the one that said you didn’t like me going out late by myself. Now I’m not alone!

Bon-Bon: Tootsie, let’s go home.

Tootsie: No. I… [Audiable Yawn] I wanna catch the badguy too.

Lyra: You hear that? So heroic and brave! And not covert and secret-keeping…

Bon-Bon: Okay fine! I’m the crazy pony here!

Lyra: As long as you know!

Bon-Bon: This is so stupid… If somepony’s breaking into the castle, they aren’t going to be so easy to find. Are you expecting them to just walk out the front-… Lyra. Lyra! Up! Up! The window!

Lyra: Holy crap! That’s not Twilight!

Tootsie: Oh my gosh! That’s them!

Lyra: Shh! Quiet! Twilight doesn’t want them to know we know anything!

Bon-Bon: So what do we do?

Lyra: I’m… I’m trying to make out who it is.

Bon-Bon: They’re already flying away.

Lyra: Shoot! But we know it’s a pegasus. Which gives me a pretty good idea of who it might be…

Bon-Bon: We have, yes. We don’t talk much, though. B is one of Lyra’s friends. I think.

Bon-Bon: [Sigh] B is very strange. He does… something… When you look at him, you see a pony. It doesn’t look remarkable. Nothing about it stands out. And when you look away, you won’t remember what the pony looked like. 

Bon-Bon: I’ve tested it before. I’ve wrote down a characteristic about him, like “long mane”, then held it up next to him. And periodically it’ll make sense. But then it… won’t? I’ve even tried writing down something while looking at him, but I could never even finish a word before I disagreed with what I was writing. Same thing with his voice.

Bon-Bon: He’s very serious. Not that he looks very serious, but…

Bon-Bon: I don’t really like him. I’ve tried to talk to him, but he’s just this… intimidating… thing… I don’t think anypony should have the kind of power he has. I don’t even like him being in the house. But let’s face it, there’s nothing I could do to stop him. At least this way I can see him. Sometimes… Even if I don’t know what I’m looking at…

1) Bon-Bon: Fine! Everything is fine! Why wouldn’t it be?

Lyra: I think the state of Michigan is winking about something else.

Bon-Bon: Oh. Nevermind then.

Lyra: I’m flirty, okay? It’s just my nature! That doesn’t mean anything!

2) Why sure! Anything for you! While I’m at it, how about I put on some papier-mâché wings and sing a song about trying hard and never giving up?

3) Google is giving me a lot of hits back. So I know this is a thing. Not really sure what to say in reply, though. I mean, I couldn’t think of anything. So I’m willing to admit I wasn’t very smart. But I went out and found a mare that’s so much wiser. And she taught me the way to win your heart. She said- I already told David Seville, go ask him.

1) It was a delightful ceremony, though admittedly I was a little preoccupied. Had some things to think about.

2) Lyra: Oh, you got me. All these years I’ve just been joshing you folks. I’m actually more than a little gay.

Bon-Bon: Lyra.

Lyra: I’m actually Super Gay! And that’s not just a status, but my superhero secret identity!

Bon-Bon: Lyra.

Lyra: No no. This is what they want. I am so~ gay, that if I walked into a room being monitored by a gay-ometer, the display would cycle thrice and then read TILT.

Bon-Bon: … Got it out of your system?

Lyra: For the moment.

3) I think the thing that upsets me the most about that game is that any other company could have made the exact same game. And I mean the exact. Same. Game. And nopony would have cared. But because Neightendo made it, everypony ignores that a full priced game launched with as much, if not less content than a free-to-play title still in beta. And isn’t that just a little sad.

4) I’d be surprised if this Killer Queen didn’t also have a laser beam of some kind.

How about… a wendigo… with the power to… possess objects and… reveal identities. I dunno. I’m just tossing stuff together here.

Edit: Oh, and my stand could be called Everlong.

Lyra: It’s not like I haven’t been to Rainbow Falls four times before.

Bon-Bon: I’ve been seven, but never outside of a public event.

Lyra: Seven?

Bon-Bon: Well, I try to go every year, but it doesn’t always work out.

Lyra: I guess it might be nice to visit during a lull.

Bon-Bon: And travel shouldn’t be too expensive off-season! Oh, I can’t remember the last time I went camping!

Lyra: Alright! I’ll put that down as maybe!

1) Is this something from Portal 2, or something? Because I’m not following…

… Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3? Huh. I only played Red Alert 1 and 2, though. That series is pretty dang hard.

2) Lyra: You want to field this one, Bon-Bon?

Bon-Bon: To be honest, even I find that one insulting. I am gay, but I would never go beyond a hug and a hoofshake without dating somepony.

3) I wouldn’t necessarily consider their motivations to be dumb, just the execution. You can’t leave societies to their own devices and only come around every so often expecting to gain full control of the situation. You need representation to regulate. That’s, like, the most basic requirement for control.

Had another dream. This one was about going out to catch-and-release rabbits. I was really young, but Bon-Bon wasn’t? Anyway, we would grab the rabbits, they weren’t very fast for some reason, and feed them carrots. Then we’d let them go. I don’t remember there being anything else to it. Maybe they were sick and we were trying to help them?

But then I saw a pony acting like a rabbit. So I caught the pony and fed them carrots, and then they stopped acting like a rabbit. They said they were a nun and they lived out in the forest. When I tried to tell Bon-Bon, she wanted nothing to do with them. So I head into the forest with the pony and we find an old, abandoned church, and she’s all like: “What happened here?“ And it never got that far, but the dream seemed to be implying that she was from the past or something. And that Bon-Bon knew the church was abandoned and that’s why she didn’t want to get involved.

There also seemed to have been some side thing going on where I was turned into a colt and some other colt was trying to teach me how to pee accurately. Something about contracting muscles to narrow the stream for more control? Anyway, when I woke up I had to pee. But is that a… is that a thing?

1) Well, I’m glad you like the place. We went there together once! We have not decided where to go yet, no. Knowing how our plans usually go, the whole thing will probably fall in on itself and we’ll go nowhere.

2) You’re not about to make an inappropriate peer-to-teen choice behavior, are you?

3) Bon-Bon: I think you have the wrong address. But why is this so common?

4) Thanks! I appreciate it! Always nice to hear from a fan!

5) Yes! As was mentioned in a previous post. I say Substance specifically because most of what I did were the VR missions.

1) Would you believe there are ponies who have memorized that bit of sentence vomit?

Incidentally I own Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, but I only ever did the section on the ship and the VR missions. I already knew how most of the story went and I really didn’t care.

2) Tootsie: What’s a flask?

Lyra: It’s… uhm… One of those little glass science-things, right?

Bon-Bon: It’s just a container for holding liquid.

3) Well, I guess I celebrated by starting to play The Secret World. More of a coincidence than celebration, though.

4) Okay. That would have deflated by now, right?

5) Well, I don’t really like Silver. At all.

What about ShadowxEspio?

1) Oh yeah? Well…

2) Bon-Bon: No! She’s good! I don’t want her to think she’s bad! She knew a lot before she ever even came to me! But, if something does go wrong, it’s my business. Besides, that’s a lot of pressure to put on a young filly.

3) Well, most unicorns do at least some kind of magic. If you really want to travel down this road, I think the key might be to start looking through arcane textbooks and try to find out what the symbols that make up your cutie mark literally translate to.

4) I have no idea. Hanging out with other cultures?

1) Did I say I hate adventurers? I don’t remember saying that. Strawberry is, or was, an adventurer and I don’t hate him.

B: I hate adventurers-

He loathes adventurers. But he’s not my roommate.

B: Allegedly.

Allegedly.

2) Lyra: An entire police force? I wouldn’t be cut out to be that either. What about making candy?

Bon-Bon: One apprentice is enough, thank you.

Lyra: Oh. What about gardening or farming? A name like Black Strawberry sort of sounds like a pony that deals with produce.

3) Bon-Bon: I can’t stay away from the shop that long. It has to be something short and to the point. There and back. A weekend. A few of days max.

Lyra: Apprentice not ready to run the shop yet?

Bon-Bon: She could sell things in my absence, but I wouldn’t trust her with my supplies to make more candy. At least, not yet.

1) Like… Like a bad trip or something? I don’t do drugs.

2) I was hoping for something a little more… you know… exciting.

3) Bon-Bon: And I was hoping for something where we could keep the house!

Lyra: I don’t know. Maybe it’s not that expensive?

Bon-Bon: Lyra…

Lyra: Okay okay. We’ll keep thinking about it.