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(from ~2015)
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[anon prompt]
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>You hear a light knock at your door. Right on schedule.
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>However, instead of that yellow birdhorse with boundary issues you see that orange apple horse.
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Hey apple horse how are you this morning?
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>"Neigh neigh."
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Where's creepy yellow?
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>She pulls a drawing from under her hat. It shows the yellow horse with a thermometer in her mouth and a hot water bag on her head.
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Oh she's sick and you're the one who gets to check up on me today?
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>"Neigh neigh."
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Want some coffee?
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>*Excited whinnying*
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Alright, come on in.
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>You spend the rest of the morning sipping coffee and scratching the orange horse behind the ears.
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[response]
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>Day 840 in Equestria
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>You've managed to settle into a pretty decent life here
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>Pones are pretty accepting creatures after all
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>You are able to find "work" here and there, mostly carrying things
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>The most annoying thing is communication
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>All you hear is horse noises and clearly they can't understand you either
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>You are able to communicate to some extent, just as 2 humans with completely separate languages can
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>Some things can be communicated through drawing, so that helps
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>Still, not having any intelligent conversations in over 2 years is stifling
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>And it is annoying almost daily how simple things are made so complicated by no efficient communication
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>But hey, still beats your old life on Earth
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>Twilight being who she is made a legit effort to try to bridge the language gap
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>You aren't exactly a linguist but you were all for helping with this experiment
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>She used all her electronic analogs on you while talking to you and while you talked
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>No results
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>You tried to break the language barrier same as you would back home
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>Point to objects and say your words for them, she would do the same
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>But you could not replicate what she was saying
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>Besides every "word" sounded pretty much the same
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>You just couldn't tease a vocal pattern to their language
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>It seemed pretty clear from Twi's frustration that the same went for her
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>You figure that language must involve magic in this crazy pastel horse world
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>Just like their improbable flying and earth pony growing skills
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>Not to mention their outright ridiculous hoof grasping ability
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>Took over a year before both Twi and you gave up on the language experiments
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>But hey, you could still get through everyday life just fine
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>You wonder if yellow's continued courting attempts are the result of you being unable to clearly tell her no
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>or if your actions somehow suggest you are interested in candy horse language
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>It's tolerable tho, since she never gets aggressive
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>You mostly feel bad for her, that you are somehow leading her on
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>You got REAL excited the first time you saw a difference species in town
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>A griffin in the market, seemingly talking to a pone
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>You booted it over there to listen in
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>There is griffin, squawking away, and the pone responding in neighs
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>They understand each other just fine
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>That all but confirmed your "language is magic" theory
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>Some minotaur came to town one day, putting on what sounded like a sales pitch to a big crowd of pones
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>cow sounds, as you predicted
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>You noticed yellow there
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>She got extra weird for a couple days after that
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>Then went back to "normal"
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>Life went on, your hopes once again dashed
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>So along comes aforementioned day 840
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>Bump into that adorable mailmare with the wonky eyes
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>Well, she bumps into you
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>Pretty hard
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>Her mailbag was open on one side, letters go flying everywhere
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>You can't into pony body language much, but it is pretty obvious she is feeling pretty apologetic and embarrassed
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>Give her a pet and a smile to show her it is no problem
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>Even high speed marshmallow collisions aren't exactly taxing on you
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>What with your natural picker uppers, you start helping her collect envelopes from the ground
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>Actually pay attention to one
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Sugar Cube Corner
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33 Mane St
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Ponyville
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>...
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>......
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What the fuck?
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>WHAT THE FLYING FUCK?
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>Look at another envelope
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>You can read the addresses just fine
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>HOW DID YOU NEVER NOTICE THIS BEFORE?
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>Freak out a bit, stuff the envelopes into her bags and hurry home
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>Calm down on the couch and think
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>Pones are so old fashioned, especially in Ponyville, that they tend not to write things
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>Stores just use pictorials for their signage
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>Shelves in stores aren't labelled either
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>Prices usually aren't marked
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>Pones just assume the price is reasonable and fair, because it always is
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>You never even considered looking at any books in the library
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>You are a pretty polite guy so you never leaned over to see what Twilight was writing during your language study attempts
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>Seemed like a futile idea anyway
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>Maybe you're seeing things
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>It was kind of a hot day
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>Figure you'll have a drink, maybe a light snack, sleep on it
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>Have some water, but the curiosity gets the better of you
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>You abandon your nap plans and make your way to the treebrary
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>God you hope that Twilight is home
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>Knock on door
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>Hear high pitched rumbles from inside
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>That's Spike (you know the names from the precognitive show)
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>He lets you in
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>Good, purple is there
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>Go over to her and grab quill out her magic
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>She looks at you a bit odd
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>You look about as frazzled as she sometimes does, so you can't blame her for the face
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>Take a quick glance at what she was writing
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>Something about how magic flow is affected by the amount of friendship felt between two adjacent pones
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>You can read it perfectly
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>With excitement and nerves so strong your handwriting is shite (but still just barely legible) you write on another blank scroll lying on the table
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"Can you read this?"
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>You show it to twi
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>Her eyes grow huge
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>"Neigh!"
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>fuck
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>She quickly shakes the shock off and grabs the quill back from you
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>Writes "Yes!"
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>Day 1093
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>3 year celebration of your arrival in Equestria
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>Of course Pinkie is throwing a party for the occasion
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>Big ol' banner with the occasion spelled out clearly in big letters
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>You have an enchanted little chalkboard that writes whatever anyone talking to you says
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>You learn to write tolerably quickly in response
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>Life in Equestria isn't just decent anymore
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>It's pretty damn good
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-fin-
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captcha: magic heemept
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