1) It could. The only reason I stopped was from inactivity. Things were about to get more complicated (psychologically), so I waited for more messages. Only ever got a second one four months later. Took that as a sign there wasn’t enough activity to continue, and no pony would want to go back and read through all the updates. I could write a summery, but there would be a lot of subtle nuances left out that would impact things later on.

But yeah, I could pick it back up again, if I had a reason to believe anypony would care.

2) Huh? Why would you have been talking about me?

… Meta powers says, “No apology necessary.”

3) Playing by ear is a really hard skill. It’s not as common as some think. But I do several recordings of parts or sections, timing and counting out beats if it’s really hard, then overlay them. Factor in my field of magic and in theory, I could record just about anything as long as I had the sheets for it. Takes a lo~ng time, though. Lot of prep work.

4) I can understand that position; I’ve thought it myself for others before. Trouble is, I can just play simple things on my lyre and enjoy it. But the stuff I upload is work. I don’t enjoy doing them. I can enjoy the finished product. I can enjoy others enjoying it! But it’s work. Work is work. It’s exacerbating and exhausting and if nopony is going to listen to it, I’d rather just screw around and enjoy myself.

5) Bon-Bon: Goodness, you ask a lot at once! Well, I like Big Bang Theory and-

Lyra: That show sucks.

Bon-Bon: Hush. I watch Equestria’s Got Talent and Equestrian Idol. There’s all sorts of really great home decorating shows. Cooking shows like Bizarre Foods and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I’ve watched a few cooking competition shows too. A few other shows here and there but nothing you’d recognize.

Lyra: We used to watch Stable MD together before it ended. A few CSI-style shows too.

Bon-Bon: I work professionally on candy; like I said I own my own business. But I find it’s helpful to the creative process to experiment with all types of food. The Cakes and I collaborate a little. Share a few secrets, combine a few things; you know.

1) The grass will always be greener. It gets to me sometimes, sure, but I try to let it go. It’s not healthy and it doesn’t change anything.

2) The schools of magic aren’t divided by color in this world. For that matter learning more complex magic, especially things not related to your cutie mark, isn’t really common and not something most are taught in school. Most of the magic I learned was taught outside of an academic setting.

I like support. That’s usually what I go for in a game. But in reality most of my magic, if applied toward self-defensive purposes, would be best utilized in self-modification/damage dealing applications.

3) I didn’t! That’s fantastic! But are you sure? I see he worked in a lot of Armored Core games, but I can’t find a connection between him and Seamar- men.

4) I beg your pardon?

5) Would you believe I’ve been asked before (#8)?

6) Yeah. You humans really need to get on top of controlling the weather. That’d be a huge step toward a more harmonious world. A weathermare is somepony who controls the weather, not makes vague, often inaccurate predictions.

If you’d told me two years ago that Twilight Sparkle was going to become an alicorn, and somehow convinced me you were telling the truth, I’d have been irate. The notion that somepony born into a well-off family, with all the opportunity in the world and little hardship, would be rewarded with such a prestigious gift would have left me frothing at the mouth like a rabid animal.

I’ve watched Twilight for quite some time, wishing I had her life. That I could have been born with such potential. That surely I wouldn’t squander it with pointless study in mundane arts like turning an apple into an orange or growing facial hair.

But after all that I’ve witnessed, I’ve begun to understand that I’m not meant to hold such power. For all the magic at her disposal, Twilight has a level of restraint that can only be matched by an alicorn.  Were it me, I would have used it to right every wrong I’d ever witnessed. And I don’t think that would have ended too well.

Information on alicorns are a secret even I’ve never had access to. Maybe nothing’s really changed. Maybe Twilight always had the characteristics of an alicorn, just not the appearance. Maybe the spell she completed was the very spell that transformed her, and required a very specific series of circumstances and relationships. Maybe this isn’t the first time it’s happened, just the first time it’s happened this way.

I’ve digressed a bit, but what I’m trying to get to is that I’m happy for her. I still wish it were me; that I could have been given such a reward for the ordeals I overcame. I can’t help that. But she lived the majority of her life in near isolation and learned more about the magic of friendship in a very brief period of time, than anypony else has in their entire life. And that’s a trial I wouldn’t want to undertake.

So here’s to you, Princess Twilight! You deserve everything you’ve achieved and I can only look forward to what you’ll accomplish next!

Just don’t expect me to call you Princess very often.

1) Possibly. Smooth Criminal might have had a similar affect.

2) Kids Gone Bad? Kick Gum Back? Kiss Green Bats?

3) I have no idea. Not something I make a calculated effort to discover.

4) Wasn’t that the thing I wasn’t supposed to answer for some reason? I can’t remember.

5) We are young. Heartache to heartache we stand.

… Shoot, already used that one.

6) Vega…?

…

Vega…

7) Oh. It’s an old post that I only just tagged, but my meta powers weren’t always around. They aren’t going to know anything from a time before they existed.

1) Salu~t! How are you?

2) Step 1: Enter bathroom. Step 2: Use bathroom. Step 3: Exit bathroom.

3) I don’t know; I’ve never boxed professionally. I don’t want to get my face torn up. But compared to a human I’ve got a very short reach, so I’d probably never get a single hit in on either.

4) A~nd end scene!

5) I… I mean, that’s not how it… Or… Maybe?

…

What would I ask?

6) Told you I could be scary! In your face, anon who insisted I couldn’t!

It would probably be ridiculous.

Can I stalk you, too?

1) Don’t be dumb.

2) Bee is still refusing to play along.

3) I wish I knew… I’ve got 12 questions after these 7! Not all anon, but still.

4) Good luck with your movie. You wish them luck too, right meta powers?

5) What a nice fellow.

6) Nine, but only because I’ve never heard of anypony actually losing control of their bowels out of fear alone. I think that’s more of a symptom of shock.

7) I stand corrected.

8) Yeah! Ha ha. Ridiculous…

9) Well that would certainly be interesting.

Well well. Still didn’t have the courage to use a known account when asking, huh? For shame…

To review, the sensation you feel in your horn would be wholly different from anything erotic you’d be able to compare it to. But, if stimulated it would cause something called Magic Feedback. It’s where magical energy just keeps building ontop of itself in a loop. It’s not charging because you can’t control it and can’t do anything with it. It’s like you’re casting a spell on top of a spell on top of a spell, and so on and so forth. The final result is that the magic has nowhere else to go and you experience a benign Magic Overload and a forced and very extreme case of Overcast. Overcast being a state of magic exhaustion.

The feeling of the entire event has analogs with intercourse; a great build up and an intense release. The key difference is that, as I’ve said, it all takes place on another level. That is, one is not mutually exclusive with the other. You can experience both in tandem.

All that said, my personal experience with Magic Feedback? It’s awful! After only a few seconds you become almost completely paralyzed! As in, can’t move! All I could ever do was focus on breathing so I wouldn’t pass out! The following exhaustion felt like I was on the verge of death! I swear every single time was worse than the one before!

Some unicorns seem to enjoy it, but I will never, ever ever experience that again.

1) Uh. Thanks. I don’t use blow dryers, though. They damage your hair.

2) Not a problem. We use bottled water.

3) Ugh… And I’m sure your intention in asking is completely pure…

Yeah, but not how you’re thinking. It’s difficult for non-unicorns to understand.

Think of any sensation you feel, but applied to another level of your nervous system. Like how you feel something touching your foreleg or the temperature around you, but while this is happening you also feel something else. That’s what it’s like. And while I know more in depth how it works, I’m not permitted to explain exactly what that something else is. Princess Celestia considers any information about how unicorns use magic to be very hush-hush. There’s always the risk that certain parties, even other unicorns, might try and use that knowledge to produce a negative outcome.

When I chipped my horn as a filly? I still remember that was the most mind-numbingly horrifying pain I’ve ever experienced. And I’ve been through some [omitted], let me tell ya.

…

Anyway, if you want to ask a more specific question, like the one you actually intended, go ahead.

4) About the same way you would if I told you your life was indirectly influenced by some filly in Manehatten.

5) Nope.

6) I wish.

Most of the sheet music I use when playing the lyre was created for piano. Metal doesn’t translate too well to the piano by itself.

7) Absolutely!

I’d follow the Persona one, but I’ve never played a Persona game. I only played Nocturne, and mostly because it was like Pokemon/Jade Cocoon on extreme mode.

8) Been a while since I’ve got one of these.

Thanks.

1) And so it came to pass.

2) Well, I see invisibility one of three ways, either it’s imperfect and you can still be seen if somepony looks hard enough, it’s time sensitive in some way so you can’t use it exactly when you want for as long as you want, or it’s constant and you’re invisible forever.

But my standby will always be total density manipulation. That gives you:

a) Flight (or rather control over lift and descent, you’d still need some outside means to propel yourself)

b) Super Strength (because your denser muscles would perceive no change when becoming super dense)

c) And can make you Practically Invulnerable (you could catch a dragon’s swipe with ease, but you’d still catch on fire normally, or at least I’d assume so, let me know if I’m wrong)

Of course, you couldn’t have all three at once. But I suppose the main restriction would be that it would take a few seconds to transition from one extreme to the other. You can’t suddenly become super dense to stop a bullet or catch a wrecking ball, you’d have to already be prepared.

That said, I can use minor density manipulation. It’s how I can amplify my strength and punch a hole in a wall. You need a denser body to throw a real punch without shattering bones or ripping your skin off, that’s why I can’t maintain it very long. It’s not just one power, it’s really a collection of spells. And as much as I’ve practiced using them, I’m not very magically inclined.

Also, when I say total manipulation, I’m talking total control over your whole body. That would also entail enough control over your body’s cells to not drift apart when becoming lighter than air.

Thermal manipulation is a close second, since that would also give you not only resistance to extreme temperatures, but also flight and let you become more solid. But that solidity would also be brittle. If an impacted force is too great or you become too cold, you’d shatter. It would just require much more care than I’d like to risk.

I… What?

I’ve got a few questions like this before and I never know what to do with them. This isn’t some D&D tabletop campaign. This is my life. This is, more or less, how I really act in the world I really live in.

I’m roommates with Bon-Bon; we live in her home. Tootsie, her niece, stays with us Sunday night through Friday morning and lives with her parents on the weekends. Sweetie Belle moved in some time ago, with her parent’s permission of course. My boyfriend is a chemical glue-making bear named Krastos. I call him Boscov.

I spent a lot of my time growing up in the darker side of Canterlot. I had to do a lot of things I’m not proud of to survive. Things are better there than they used to be.

Celestia raises the sun to the east and sets it to the west. Birds fly, fish swim. I don’t know what else to tell you.

This isn’t fantasy. I live in the real world. Sometimes things might seem darker than they should be, but my experiences have left me a little jaded about life. I don’t necessarily take things at face value like everypony else does.

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Meta powers says “It’s realistically gray,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.

I’m afraid not, no.

I’m not much of a spell teacher. I’m really not even that magical. I’ve just practiced so much with amplification and manipulation that it comes much easier to me than it would to most.

Somepony like Twilight could easily do better than I with a fraction of the experience.

Not really, no. Compared to somepony like Twilight or Trixie, I’m downright pitiful.

I know quite a bit about it, though. Maybe more than Twilight in some areas.

Hypothetically speaking?

My study of amplification magic doesn’t stop with sound.

I can literally break your neck with my bare hooves.

Statutory is no joke. You stay away from that child, and this house.

Amplification for balance on my hind-legs is good for a few laughs.

Crunch!

I’ve addressed it before in passing, but my actual field of magic study is in amplification/manipulation, particularly with sound.