Went to Target, bought my first (which will not be the last) pack of MLP trading cards and I got a foil Fluttershy!

I'm happy inside.

Oh, yeah. Discworld. Awesome series. Though, my local library has most of the books except for Guards! Guards!.

-.-

My first page topper!

A lame page topper...

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:29:17 PM by Rainbowraptor

The only Discworld book I've read was Colour of Magic.

also, seconding Ace's recommendation of The Wizzard and the pony. Binky Pie is also a very good discworld crossover.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:36:16 PM by Blissey1

See, here is something that confused me about that episode. The Brothers won the rights to the making of apple cider in Ponyville, but ownership of the farm was never on the table. Heck, as far as I can tell, the Apple family could have simply said "You have exclusive rights to make cider, but you don't have the rights to a single one of our trees. Find yer apples elsewhere."

I wonder how long the Brothers would have stayed if they had to import their goods, while the Apples looked for alternative revenue sources (like, any other apple product than cider), after getting the bill for damages to the farm's trees?

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:38:17 PM by Enlong

@Enlong

Flim and Flam said that they had other sources of apples that they could get if need be. Also, the Cider sales are what kept them afloat through the winter, so without them the farm was as good as gone anyway.

Doesn't mean they had any obligation to sell a single apple, or a single acre of land, to the brothers.

In that position, I can only imagine them selling it all to anyone else, just to spite the brothers.

On the subject of the cider sales, couldn't they use the surplus of apples they'd otherwise use to make cider on some other product? It might not sell as much as the cider, but still...

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:42:45 PM by Enlong

It's an escalation con, iirc.

Now I want a S4 follow-through where the Flim-Flams get into legal bother because the Oranges found out what happened.

The QWOP and Apologetic Tripsie

Glanco humanizes the Milkshake Scene :3

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:45:40 PM by AceOfScarabs

I've been trying to get into Discworld for a while now. Only books I've gotten ahold of are Men At Arms and The Fifth Elephant. Definitely enjoyable.

Who in Ponyville is going to buy an apple farm? And it's not like they held all that much ill will towards Flim and Flam so much as they were disappointed in themselves. It would be extremely out of character for anyone in that family outside of Apple Bloom to do anything out of spite like that.

Perhaps making cider is the best way to make a profit. Maybe it's cheap to make. Its apparently so delicious ponies would eat dirt soaked with the cider.

I guess they could do what they do in my hometown, Ellijay, GA and make apple slurpees, apple fritters, apple pies, sell the apples as...you know, apples.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:49:05 PM by Rainbowraptor

I'm reasonably sure that if worse comes to worst, the other five would have dipped into their savings and stuff (especially Rarity) to keep he farm afloat until they could come up with something to sustain it on its own again.

That, or get the brothers tossed out of town. It had to happen sooner or later.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:49:18 PM by KylerThatch

Glanco has been busy

Insert mental picture of Twi using her previously-untapped political and economic power against the Flim-Flams

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:49:58 PM by AceOfScarabs

The land could be sold and converted into whatever the person buying the land would want.

Other members of the family, settlers who don't want to live in Appaloosa anymore, aspiring homeowners who want a big spot of land to build a new home, and etc. The Brothers are certainly not the only ones who'd want to buy the land.

And considering the brothers' approach to sales when the other party is under duress, it'd be dumb to sell it to them.

Given the exhorbatent prices Cider Makers here in Quebec get away with, I'm gonna say that it's way more cost efffective to sell cider than apples. Indeed, I'm guessing they actually hold onto apples they would otherwise sell to make all the cider they can, which is why they rely on the sales - because they delivberately cut down on other sales.

I bet Filthy Rich would be willing to buy it.

Now I just imagined Twi cracking open her mostly-untouched stockpile of bits and helping AJ with her upper-middle-class savings.

Yeah, I could definitely see the rest of the cast pitching in to buy the place. Although I can only imagine the effect it might have on Applejack to rely so heavily on her friends.

Well, they want her around :3

CMC dress..up...?

Twilight:1 Invader:0

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:53:51 PM by AceOfScarabs

Twilight has cash money.

Apple Bloom: "This is all the money I had in my piggy bank."
Applejack: "Holy horseapples, this is enough to buy the whole farm! Where did you get all these bits?"
Apple Bloom: "It was a very big piggy bank."

Moved to tears, I imagine.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:55:07 PM by KylerThatch

Slenderspy

Know the difference.

And oh yeah, Twi's magic was retconned into magenta-ish.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:55:27 PM by edvedd

"Apple Bloom, where the hay did you get all this money!?"

"I've just been doin' odd jobs for ponies around town. You know, patchin' roofs and whatnot."

@Kyler: I was thinking more along the lines of feeling like she was imposing on them. I mean, she'd be grateful, obviously, but think about the ramifications it might have. She places a lot of importance on her family and the idea that she failed them and had to be bailed out might make her feel horrible. Not to mention that she'd feel like she's now in debt to all her friends.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:59:39 PM by JapaneseTeeth

And then Apple Bloom gets a picture of a hammer on her flank.

edited 3rd Dec '12 6:58:41 PM by KylerThatch

Run, Featherweight!

No, DT, buff Snails from Slice of Life is your soulmate!