heh Edit: Apart from the kinky humour I've got to say its very nice to see Twilights big brain power used to good effect. She deducted the hell out of the evidence presented and arrived at correct(ish) and useful conclusions. Its something even the show often forgets she's capable of and is almost non existent in fanfic.
I thought that particular Noodle Incident could not possibly be made any noodlier. And here you not only pulled it off, you made it plot-relevant¹ too! I bow before your superior skill. ¹ In both senses of the word
That would be pretty weird, since it doesn't match that story at all (Twilight is off to Ponyville with Spike at this point), but ties perfectly into this one with Twilight correctly deducing that Agatha is used to non-pony physiology from her stories without having even met her yet.
Well, I hope Spike's impressionable little mind hasn't been warped by this. Fluttershy's likely has been.
I'm writing Twilight with the fact that she's the go-to pony Celestia has called upon to organize important tasks. Twilight's very capable when it comes to analysis and crisis situations. She has the odd oops moment--like the parasprite appetite redirection incident--but handles matters well. Frankly, if plopped into Stargate she'd make a capable SG team member with a wardrobe alteration and some training. It's socially that she has a blind spot the size of Jupiter.
I'm not sure which if funnier. Twilight so completely missing the point, or that while missing it so badly she A) deduced how the noddle implements were meant to be used (something Agatha hasn't), and B) worked out the requirements for a Pony equivalent. If Agatha does transcribe 'The Sprocket Wrench of Prague', I suspect Twilight will leave it in general, or even foal book, circulation.
It was schematics and drawings only! No attempts were made to physically recreate it. That's not to say one of them might try it later with somepony else...
In Stare Master, when Fluttershy notices the CMC are missing, she sees horseshoe tracks following the chicken tracks into the Everfree Forest.
I... Broken... Everyone around me wouldn't understand why I would be laughing. Quit doing that Samarkand...
IMHO, if they were humans, it would be just as likely that the person writing smut were simply a 14 yo virgin on ff.net who hasn't a clue of what they are writing about, hence the impossible positions. Apparently, bad smut doesn't exist in Equestria, yay!!!
And the hoof prints the CMC put on their card for Cheerilee looked more like the product of horseshoes than bare hoves and the carriage Cadance and Shining Armor rode off in had horseshoes tied to the back.
Well... This is Twilight Sparkle. She probably just doesn't read it. Also, without the internet, it probably costs enough to mass distribute things that editors actually go over everything that makes it into print. Which would be overly idealistic for Earth, but Equestria is a fairly idyllic place when one ignores all the madponies and monster attacks.
The part that worries me most is that apparently, the only thing keeping Twilight from doing something that's functionally identical to rape is the fact that it feels like cheating.
It does fit in with the whole “Ponyville is Celestia's asylum for latent madponies” idea (see also “All the ponies in this town are CRAZY!”).
Oh. Oh crap. A whole town of Sparks. With natural magical powers and weather control at their disposal. Where is that bunker everyone seems so fond of when Harry Leferts has one of his smart ideas? I bring the food, but please, pretty please let me enter before closing the doors!
Indeed. I also find it... curious that Celestia isn't even surprised (or worried/outraged) about Twilight's first course of action when it comes to dating / mating being magical ind-control.
"Straight to the bedroom" -A Chronicle of the misspent youth of our dear Princess Celestia, subtitle of chapter 6/24 'Hormonal Discoveries'
They're not bloody Sparks... If anything they're a little sparkier than most ponies, but that's merely their natural talents coming to the fore. Since they are the EoH and all that. They're about as sparky as the Mechanicsburgers. They display the tendencies, but none of the whole 'take physics and make it cry in a corner' inventions. They're crazy, but in very specific and particular ways. Besides, the narrator was hardly one to judge crazy (being ordered by the monarch specifically to actually socialize...) So they acted with a bit too much enthusiasm for the new pony in town. That's not particularly surprising in a smaller town. (*Shivers, remembering the casseroles*)
