## [RT][FF] Shears, Chapter 5 (r!MLP)

* Author: u/Calamitizer  *Shears**
* URL: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/300693/5/shears/bridges-5
* Score: 10

* Created: 2015-11-25T14:49:35

### Post:

[Link to content](http://www.fimfiction.net/story/300693/5/shears/bridges-5)

### Comments:

> **u/Calamitizer** [+3]  *Shears* (a minute later)
> 
> The story begins [here](http://www.fimfiction.net/story/300693/1/shears/bridges-1).
> 
> Basic info is [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3te0fy/rtff_shears_chapter_1_rmlp/cx5d65r).
> 
> Thanks for reading! Hope you like small horses, because there are plenty incoming.

>> **u/Transfuturist** [+1]  *Carthago delenda est.* (5 hours later)
>> 
>> Small, autistic horses.

> **u/Gurkenglas** [+3]  (an hour later)
> 
> Suspension is one-time-only? Then how does she have a gem that reflects mana? Does she infuse it anew each time? But then why would she need to restore it daily? (Oh, I guess degradation extends beyond mana in either case.)
> 
> Superposition sounds like it could make for mana-cheap explosions or, if correctly controlled, projectile firing/telekinesis. Can you superpose magical materials with nonmagical ones, or nonmagical ones with each other? Maybe this gets around the no-nonmagical-abjuration rule. Probably not.

> **u/rhaps0dy4** [+1]  (2 hours later)
> 
> You do updates every two days?
> 
> I didn't want to read it because ponies but that frequency is a compelling reason for reading it.

>> **u/FaceDeer** [+11]  (11 hours later)
>> 
>> Just pretend they're a bunch of naked Harry Potters crawling around on all fours and perhaps that will overcome the reflexive negative reaction?
>> 
>> [](/twismug "Naked Hermiones too")

>>> **u/gbear605** [+3]  *history’s greatest story* (a day later)
>>> 
>>> [](/twismug "I see what you did there")

>>>> **u/rhaps0dy4** [+2]  (a day later)
>>>> 
>>>> An empty comment? :|

>>>>> **u/FaceDeer** [+5]  (a day later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Must be speechless at the mental imagery.
>>>>> 
>>>>> [](/rdannoyed "I warned him that those who couldn't see the ponies wouldn't understand. Only those who can see the ponies understand.")

>>>>>> **u/gbear605** [+2]  *history’s greatest story* (a day later)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There's a plugin that allows pony emotes to be used throughout the internet, not just on the pony subreddits. My post was one of those, along with a some text. It was invisible because your computer knows not to show it because it's an emote, but doesn't know what it is an emote of.

>>>>>>> **u/FaceDeer** [+2]  (a day later)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You broke the code of silence! Nooooo!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Oh well. I guess now that it's all over I might as well [link to the extension's homepage](https://ponymotes.net/bpm/).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [](/notangry "Now speechless with betrayal.")

>>>>> **u/gbear605** [+1]  *history’s greatest story* (a day later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> There's a plugin that allows pony emotes to be used throughout the internet, not just on the pony subreddits. My post was one of those, along with a some text. It was invisible because your computer knows not to show it because it's an emote, but doesn't know what it is an emote of.

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