My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 12: Six seasons and a movie

[Freyera]

Sureeeee it did.

Anyways, going to go and beat the dragon so you have something new to watch next stream.

Okie!

I'm waiting for the thread to die down before I vanish to the store for an hour

[Flutterguy]

Sureeeee it did.

Anyways, going to go and beat the dragon so you have something new to watch next stream.

Giggity! So much giggity!

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Okie!

I'm waiting for the thread to die down before I vanish to the store for an hour

Frey, why would you be at the store for an hour?

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Cheers again for the responses, surprised how many have seen it actually.

Oh. I guess you wouldn't have any pets or minions worthy of being photographed with you anyway...

Btw are you watching dubbed or subbed?

I recall sending you something along those lines yesterday.

Subbed, would prefer not to be shunned by everyone.

It's a good show. Just don't expect to be doing much else for a while after you start it. Shit is long.

Well, I plan to watch one long series, so it's either fairy tail or ghost in the shell.

[Freyera]

Giggity! So much giggity!

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Frey, why would you be at the store for an hour?

Cause it's a 20 minute drive both ways =/

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Far longer than any anime I have watched so far. Then again, I haven't seen too many of the more famous ones.

One Piece ;__;
583 and only geographically about half-way there...

[Flutterguy]

Cause it's a 20 minute drive both ways =/

Jebus Frey! You need better travel accomodations. I recommend a carriage.

[Freyera]

Jebus Frey! You need better travel accomodations. I recommend a carriage.

Nah, just placement from my apartment is really odd. Usually I can make it a 45 minute affair though. I just don't want to leave the thread

[Dontrike]

One Piece ;__;
583 and only geographically about half-way there...

And I hope it goes for another 1000.

[Flutterguy]

Nah, just placement from my apartment is really odd. Usually I can make it a 45 minute affair though. I just don't want to leave the thread

The threat will be here when you get back, Frey.

[Rokom]

I don't blame them, but...I mean, most people have heard of that term and know it's something ominous, but they don't know what it means, exactly. My mom was among them up until I explained it to her. Maybe I'm the rare breed that likes to look up words they don't know/understand, like bivouac.

This reminded me of this video and another too, also involving Neil deGrasse Tyson, but my internet currently being slow is making it hard to find it.

edit: I couldn't find the video, but I found the quote that sums up the point it was making.
edit(2): found it!

You're the first person to tell me that, and if I start writing again tomorrow I'll let you know it's all your fault. :P

Heh, glad I could be of service :P. I look forward to seeing more, whenever in the future that may be.

It's funny you mention character interactions. Most of them seem pretty tame after Whimsy (I mean, spaghetti dragons--!). It's something I spent a lot of time thinking about; when you talk to a person, what do you do? How do you talk to them? Where do you look? All of this is important, and in my experience, while you may be accounting for their body language, you typically don't consciously register it unless it's really bizarre/threatening, and most of your own body language isn't a conscious choice, so while you may be reeling or crossing your arms, maybe you don't think about it (and since it's first person, I can't mention Zeph doing it). What I can do is have another character reference it, or maybe pull a Great Gatsby and have their body language collide with environment (forget the guy's name, but he was getting bigheaded so he was lifting his chin and knocked a clock off a fireplace mantel).

Well, I suppose that's one advantage of having the main character constantly carefully observing her surroundings, you can slip in mentions of the body language of others without it seeming strange.

What you do pay attention to most commonly is, in my experience, four things, assuming it's not aggressive conversation; their gestures, how they're talking, what they're saying, and where they're looking. The really tricky part is creating interaction between characters who know each other really well; they make references, leaps of logic and crack inside jokes that don't immediately make sense to the reader. It's something I tentatively labeled "atmospheric communication"; they just know what the other party is thinking and can react accordingly, but the reader usually doesn't know what either party is thinking and has to connect the dots themselves. Thus the author has to add in enough hints for the reader to guess accurately from, but not enough that the interaction seems broken or out of place. I tried to craft most of Zeph and Whimsy's interactions in that way, where you can guess what they're thinking, but it's obvious they're on the same wavelength and understand each other. Those are the trickiest types of character interactions, as far as I'm concerned.

(In essence, atmospheric communication is like when you're sitting in a room with a bunch of people and something weird happens, like a door is kicked down, and you by chance make eye contact with someone else, and with no other communication both of you instantly know exactly what the other one is thinking.)

Makes sense, since that way you need to find an indirect way of communicating the thought to the reader. It's needed though since having two characters who are really close explain every thought and feeling to each other would feel unnatural. I suppose it's easier to do with being inside one of the character, since you can at least explain her thoughts more subtly, than if you had to do the interaction from a third person point of view.

A'ight. Thanks again, man, much appreciated.

No problem.

[Freyera]

The threat will be here when you get back, Frey.

But some of you will have left for other things by then!

[Thoroar]

Oh Thor! Only you.

Yes, I am on my own!

Okay

*Pat pat*
Is okay.

[Flutterguy]

But some of you will have left for other things by then!

But we will return!

[Freyera]

Yes, I am on my own!

*Pat pat*
Is okay.

When you work?

But we will return!

I will still miss you!

[Flutterguy]

When you work?

I will still miss you!

Poor Frey!

[Freyera]

Poor Frey!

Cleaning the kitty boxes first. Then I guess I need to go D:

[Flutterguy]

Cleaning the kitty boxes first. Then I guess I need to go D:

Get things done Frey, then you can come back. :3

[Freyera]

Get things done Frey, then you can come back. :3

I will see you in 45ish minutes Mr. FG.

Bai =(

[Dontrike]

I think I might set up an appointment with a psychic. I don't normally believe them, but the last time I was part of a psychic reading the person was quite right about a few things, although I can't remember since it was about 8 years ago.

[Rokom]

I think I might set up an appointment with a psychic. I don't normally believe them, but the last time I was part of a psychic reading the person was quite right about a few things, although I can't remember since it was about 8 years ago.

It's a waste of money. Psychics just play off the fact that you'll remember the things that they were right about, and forget the things they were wrong about.