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IVY COVERED HALLS : A Grumpy Goat *tail* : Part 3 of 6 : MLP Fan Fiction

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IVY COVERED HALLS : A Grumpy Goat *tail*

Part 3 of 6

by

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

6639 words

© 2020 by Glen Ten-Eyck

All rights reserved. This document may not be copied or distributed on or to any medium or placed in any mass storage system except by the express written consent of the author.

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Users of Tumblr.com are specifically granted the following rights. They may reblog the story. They may use the characters or original characters in my settings for fan fiction, fan art works, cosplay, or fan musical compositions, provided that such things are done without charge. I will allow those who do commission art works to charge for their images.

All sorts of fan activity is actively encouraged!

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The still struggling Hortimer only managed a, “MUMPH!”  Tired of listening to his garbage stream, I’d slapped Muzzle Tie on him as well as the Tanglefoot.

I observed, “I did not know that Hortimer’s face could turn that shade of purple!”

Reverend Smallflower gave me a disapproving look and said gently, “Mister Goat, would you please release Hortimer?  This is a solemn occasion and besides, the constables are here to take him away.”

I cheerfully did the simple gestures and a few words whispered under my breath that were needed to release Hortimer.

He rose to his feet and declared, “I shall pronounce the Anathema of Celestia upon you all! The sign of it shall be an overcast sky, denying her blessing upon you!”

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If you want to stand up for transgender Canadians, then there's a petition to ask the federal government to repeal the acts signed into law that restrict transgender medical care for transgender youth:

Petition e-7027 - Petitions
ourcommons.ca

You need only be a resident of Canada, not a citizen to sign. Please help us give transgender youth a fighting chance. Their medical care decisions should be between the handling physician and family only. This isn't a matter for politicians to decide.

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hey, so I would he grateful if people living in Canada could sign this and if non-Canadians could signal boost, please.

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The petition will be closed for signatures on February 16, 2026.

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This needs to be boosted.

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hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

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It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

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also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD

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Congress is now considering the appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, whose funding runs out at the end of January. Call your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on any bill that increases ICE's funding. Please demand that the DHS appropriations bill prohibit ICE and Border Patrol agents from carrying guns and that it unambiguously declare that agents do not have absolute immunity under the law if they harm civilians. Also tell them that any bill must restrict ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent. And the bill must clarify that ICE agents are liable under civil and criminal law if they harm civilians. Do this as soon as you can. To reach your representative or senator, call the U.S. Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Tell them the state and city where you live. They will connect you to any member’s office.

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ICE has profiled and detained at least 5 Native people in Minneapolis in the past 2 weeks. One man has been identified and released, but the other four were unhoused and have yet to be located.

Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians
Homeless people who have been trying to survive the winter in tents said that ICE apparently detained four Oglala Sioux men without looking
Sahan Journal

there is an initiative to ensure tribal members have ID:

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Anonymous asked:

KTVH?

thejakeformerlyknownasprince answered:

KTVH = “keep the visser happy,” in other words: do anything it takes to avoid upsetting one’s stab-happy manager, up to and including lying, cheating, stealing, or carrying out counterproductive plans.  It’s human-controller slang I invented for the purpose of my fic Ghost in the Shell.  

More generally it refers to the controllers’ hilarious canonical tendency to withhold information, avoid criticism, let major design flaws slide, and generally obfuscate rather than tell senior leadership things that senior leadership doesn’t want to know.  I am 95% sure that K.A. Applegate is making a tongue-in-cheek comment on the fact that, when it comes to efficiency in leadership, it is definitely better to be loved than to be feared.  It’s perfectly understandable that no self-respecting yeerk would ever want to give a visser bad news, since Vissers Three, One, Four, Seventeen*, and Fifty-One are all shown executing subordinates any time they feel like it, but it also results in some ridiculously inefficient boondoggles that almost certainly contribute to the downfall of the Empire, since no one ever tells anyone anything in the yeerk army.  Case in point:

“A tiger, here? With no one knowing it’s escaped? It must be one of the Andalite bandits in a morph.”We knew the police force had been partly infiltrated by the Yeerks. Still, it was a shock hearing them talk about Andalites.“You may be right, but there’s nothing we can do about it. None of the other cops here are our people.”“Visser Three won’t take that attitude,” the first cop said, shivering despite the fact that it was not cold. “He’ll think we should have found a way to kill it.”“Then maybe Visser Three doesn’t need to hear about this.”“Yeah. No need to bother him with every minor thing that goes on. Yeah. We keep our mouths shut.“ 

—The Solution

“I wanted to tell him. I wanted to say, Look, it can’t be done. You don’t understand! There’s no such thing as a human being without a free will. It’s … it’s … idiotic! But he’s no scientist, much less a philosopher. You can’t separate a sentient creature from free will. They are free willed. Yeerk, Hork-Bajir, human, it doesn’t matter. A sentient species has free will like an object has mass. You can’t separate them! But Visser Three doesn’t listen.” Marco said drily.

—The Experiment

 Visser Three smiled an Andalite smile. “Yes. Well, about those Andalite bandits,” I said, “since we’re past all this unpleasantness between us, I guess I could tell you…”“Oh, nothing. Nothing at all, Visser. Not a thing.”

—Visser

“We have witnesses talking about monsters made of dust, not tornadoes.”“It’s the same at the newspaper,” the man said. “So far, this story is under control. People believe the tornado nonsense. But you have to tell Visser Three to—”Chapman had stopped, jerked around, and grabbed the man’s arm. Chapman had his face an inch from the man’s face.“Tell Visser Three? Tell Visser Three? No one tells Visser Three. People who tell the Visser something he doesn’t want to hear end up cut off from Kandrona rays, slowly starving, dying inside their hosts… Now, if you want to go tell the Visser not to use his Veleek, you go right ahead.”

—The Andalite’s Gift

It made Visser Three very dangerous. Odret 177 was worried. And Odret was confused. He did not understand why Visser One opposed using greater force against the humans.That was not his concern, he told himself. His concern was to stay alive. To do so he — I — had to obey Visser Three while pretending to obey the Council of Thirteen and avoid so angering Visser Three that his life would end in hideous torture.

—Back to Before

The woman’s jaw twitched again, but she stayed in control. “What do you think a bullet would do to that crystal?”“But the odds that a bullet would hit the crystal … It’s not going to happen.”The woman smiled grimly. “That crystal is worth more than the mothership and everything in it,” she said. Then she started yelling. “You want to shoot? Go ahead, fool! If you hit the crystal, you can explain it to Visser Three.”She got a grip on herself while the guy who had spoken out decided he was not interested in explaining anything to Visser Three.

—The Android

“I only read two complex life-forms,” the guard said. “I’m showing several insect readings, but only two complex life-forms: yours, sir, and the driver’s. The prisoner is not registering as a Iife-form”…Tom said, "You can count to three, right?”“Yes, sir.”“Do you know what that prisoner is? That’s an Animorph. You think maybe Visser One would like to see her just as soon as possible?”“Yes, sir!”

—The Answer

“I don’t understand,” one of them said breathlessly. “It is impossible for it not to be working. Impossible.” He ran toward me. Stood on tiptoes to peer at me in my cube. I was still a hawk. I had not demorphed. For the very excellent reason that I was not morphed to begin with. “It must work!”“Visser… it must work. It does work!”“It works, Visser, it… somehow …”Taylor rolled her eyes and sighed.Visser Three stood completely immobile. A stillness filled the room.

—The Illusion

So on and so forth.  We get the feeling that there’s a reason that Visser Three has thousands of human minds to use at his disposal but still doesn’t know that grape juice does nothing for skunk smell, that it’s pronounced “eeney meeney miney moe,” or that deer are native to most American forests. Although in theory the Yeerk Empire is giving all its soldiers a huge incentive not to screw up by not tolerating failure, in practice the whole power structure is built on principles of CYA and sycophancy.  

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And honestly this is part of why fascism in general is so utterly garbage at everything. You're not going to tell your boss that the trains derailed or that you don't have enough operators because they tend to put people who give bad news in front of firing squads. So instead you smile, bury important but negative news, and tell the viseer that the trains are totally running on time.

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at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

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at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

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at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

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Come inside my mausoleum

(I recommend reading this to "Fleshless" from Enderal OST, since it was my go-to music track while working. Ib OST works too, it's got that spooky-ish melancholic nostalgia vibe)

((If it's not obvious enough, this is set pre-canon! With Inspekta being fresh out of the god oven. Thought I should mention it to avoid confusion))

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GRAB YOUR MEGAPHONE, POKEY! 💥📢

Thinking about this game again. It rules and y’all should play it. Anyway I gotta get back to concocting my scheme for getting my friends to group cosplay the Bizzyboys with me

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I cannot believe I slept on Super Mario War for nearly 20 years.

...

Anyway, here's two IDW Sonic characters I modded into the game, fighting their clones for 60 seconds.

You're welcome, two other people out there who wanted to see this, specifically.

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btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

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If anything they'll be grateful because taking 5 minutes to walk you through this beats out spending an hour trying to fix it later.

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