/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>372061
>New video on us!
Fasces kicking the polacks to the curb had the effect of denying ammo to the video creator. Then Buttercup Dew took most of that slanderous hit piece. I'm sending Butter an email right away.

>>372061
I love how having the same political views as most people 25 years ago makes us alt right LOL yesterday's regular guy is today's alt right extremist

>>372062
The funniest part in this instance is that, when saying as such, he showed the page about Aryanne on the Know Your Meme page. Thing is, if you go there, this is written out in plain text under the "Origin" section:
>The first image of Aryanne[4] to be uploaded to MLP image hosting site Derpibooru was submitted on February 14th, 2014, created by the artist randy.
Mind you, the page hasn't been updated in over 4 years, so it's not like it was edited in the making of the video or something.
My guess is that the creator got this claim from Turkey Tom's video, of which he is clearly aware of, as he uses a clip from it.

fresh content

>>373392
Nice work

>>373392
Damn, you're good at drawing!

A star is born.

>>372302
they are pretty skinnyphobic kicking him out of the group

Stole vid1 from vid2 and https://ponerpics.org/images/6942111

>>372201
Fucking lmao

>>373409
>There is no political solution.
Then why did you tell people to vote for Jill Stein?

>>373408
>It is 2016 all over again.
When you say it that way, it sounds great. 2016 was a good time.
I don't think it'll be that great this time.
>They "oppose" him at every front.
This is on a whole different level from back then.
>They make it so obvious he's the "anti-establishment" candidate.
Nah, Trump basically is the Republican party at this point. He's far from anti-establishment by now.
>And then, they make the only alternative so much worse. It was Hillary back then, now it is Biden.
Fair point, although it's worth noting that Biden is the incumbent.
If they wanted Trump to win, why would they have put Biden in?
>How are you going to ensure they won't steal this election like they did in 2020?
Not much I can do, personally.
>You keep shilling this guy.
I'm not "shilling" him. I'm just saying I'm going to vote for him anyway.
>Surely you have a plan that goes beyond participating in ZOG's "democracy"
I'll be real with you, I don't have a plan. I'm only one guy.
But since you bought it up, what's your plan? What are you going to do?
Pardon me if I come off as abrasive, but people always tell me that voting does nothing, and then proceed to do nothing themselves. Why is me voting somehow worse than doing nothing? What is it that you do that's more productive than me?
>And expecting an outcome other than what the Jews have already predetermined, right?
Jews win no matter who wins. I don't believe the outcome is exactly predetermined, because for Jews it doesn't need to be: the Jews play both sides, so it doesn't really matter who wins for them. Trump is a Zionist, Biden is a Zionist. Zionists win no matter what, but their other policies still differ enough for me to give a fuck.
For me, however, I have to pay grocery bills, drive to work, and support a family. I do care about things impacted by policy, and even if I don't have any control over the system I do participate in it and remain aware of what goes on in it, because it directly impacts my life.

>>373424
>When you say it that way, it sounds great. 2016 was a good time.
I'm writing this portion in retrospective after I've finished writing the rest of the post.
Since you are a man of economics, seemingly above all else. I can see why you would think that. The economy was a lot better before covid. Although, it should be noted, for as short-lived as it was. Trump didn't exactly handled the pandemic much better than Biden did.
>Nah, Trump basically is the Republican party at this point. He's far from anti-establishment by now.
Hence the quotation marks. On the other hand, you previously said:
<"It''s very clear who the establishment wants to win the election."
So, which one is it?
>Fair point, although it's worth noting that Biden is the incumbent.
>If they wanted Trump to win, why would they have put Biden in?
I think you're overlooking the main purpose of ZOG's democracy, which is to maintain stability. Trump got into office at a time where conservatives needed respite from Obama. Biden was necessary to appease deranged leftists who were clearly losing it under Trump. And now, the cycle has begun anew.
>Not much I can do, personally.
If you can't win a rigged game, don't play it. Focus yourself in another (actually legitimate) theater.
>I'm not "shilling" him. I'm just saying I'm going to vote for him anyway.
Fair enough. But since you decided to post about it multiple times online. It's only natural and fair you'll get challenged by those who think otherwise.
>what's your plan? What are you going to do?
Organize locally, like I've had been doing for the last eight years.
>Why is me voting somehow worse than doing nothing?
It's neither a good or a bad thing unless you think you're making a meaningful difference by doing so. It gives you a false sense of security and encourages inaction outside of Jewish controlled boundaries. But you said you're in only for economic reasons. So I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Regardless, no one can stop you from shilling...I mean, blog-posting about who you're voting for. Likewise, and like I said before, you should expect some feedback from those who think otherwise.
>For me, however, I have to pay grocery bills, drive to work, and support a family.
I have a family too, Anon. Which is exactly why such a half-assed approach, such as trying to vote my way out is not enough for me. I know one thing for sure. If raising a family was going to serve as an excuse for inaction. I would have never gone through with it.

>>373423
I didn't tell anyone to vote.

>>373432
You did in the other thread.

>>373435
No, I asked if she was the only anti-zionist candidate.

>>373400
When an individual continues to suck off the (((authority))) that seeks to oppress said individual, regardless of their knowledge, that is the definition of insanity. Remain enslaved, shabbest goy.

>>373425
Why are you saging the literature thread?
Do you not know what sage is for?

>>373426
If you don't understand lurk more.

>>373425
lol wtf are you even jabbering about? What authority am I sucking off? Nietzsche? Take your meds, retard.

>>373428
I wish i was that buttplug

>>373428
It was a rhetorical question.
Some idiots seem to think sage is a downvote for individual posters.

>>373395
Jill Stein has a 0% chance of winning. There is no point in voting for her.
I encourage my liberal associates to vote for her in protest, because I want Orange Man to win. I liked the economy better under Orange Man, so I want him back.

>>373402
There were several posts from a SA flag in a short period of time, encouraging anons to either not vote or in this case vote for an irrelevant third party candidate. Interesting you would bring up Trump as I didn't even mention him. One might almost think you have an agenda.

>>373406
Orange man is a cringe faggot and did nothing for Whites, in fact he actively harmed us, by lulling us into a false sense of security, and making his retarded base think they were winning bigly when he sold them out to kikes. and people saying oh he was obstructed! he could have just used an Executive order to get what he wanted done, i'm not saying vote for stein but trump was far worse than bidup.

>>373417
>lulling us into a false sense of security
Are you implying that whites would have woken up and overthrown ZOG in the four years that Hillary Clinton was president? I have my doubts.
>trump was far worse than bidup
I disagree.
I have a family to take care of, and Biden has made food and gas unaffordable with his gay economic policies. This wasn't the case with Trump.

>>373418
>Are you implying that whites would have woken up and overthrown ZOG in the four years that Hillary Clinton was president? I have my doubts.
Not the point. ZOG would have gone back to sleep thinking their propaganda was effective enough to quell the masses.

>>373431
>ZOG would have gone back to sleep
What is that supposed to mean?

>>373331
Great stream last night, thanks to John elway and flappy pterodactyl, Land of Mine was depressing, the saga of tanya the evil was great, lucky pony slutto as excellent as always and i especially enjoyed the episodes of Mr Mercedes

are we on for tonight?

>>373416
Yes. Movie schedule will be up momentarily. I'm not sure where Flappy is, but I'm assuming he'll have his thing going in a bit as well.

>>373419
I'm here, just got distracted a bit while gathering images for the post.

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We're moving through May and getting some of that authentic Spring weather. Remember, there's value in having a hat and sunglasses.

The theme night worked out so well last week that I figured we could have it on again. I found a PMV channel of the name LUMO_Xu, and put their stuff in the lineup. It's a nice sized package of content from someone who's been only occasionally making PMVs over what seems to be the last 3 years. In between the rest of the music is Man Versus Ponies 6 (MLP in real life) by StormXF3, some bumpers spaced out as usual, and an older Silver Quill video “After the Fact: Studying Starlight”.
Other highlights include a video discussing Equestria At War, a Hearts Of Iron 4 mod, a video about the Canada Mass Grave hoax, and an epic video of a fish refusing to give up. The wrap-up before we get to the Tanya The Evil episodes for the night will be Steel Wings, a song by BGM with PrinceWhatever [Yes, the video is currently misspelled as that].

As alluded to by earlier posts, we ended up starting The Saga of Tanya the Evil last week. We will continue onwards.

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The Saga of Tanya the Evil

Episode 03 - Deus Vult
After recovering from her injuries, Tanya is assigned to the Tactical Instructor Squad away from the front, to her great relief. She tests a new type of computation jewel (a device necessary for mages to perform magic), the Elenium Type-95, but this proves to be as dangerous as fighting on the frontlines due to the extreme instability of the Type-95. Chief Development Engineer Adelheid von Schugel pushes her to her limits, but is unable to make the Type-95 sufficiently stable. After criticizing the technology, she requests a transfer which is approved, and the project is frozen. That night, Being X animates a nutcracker doll and accuses Tanya of not having developed any faith or insight, but Tanya disagrees with Being X and destroys the toy. She wakes up the next day and assumes it was a dream, but sees a paper with Deus lo vult (God wills it) written on her bedside. Tanya participates in one more experiment and just as the Type-95 is about to explode, Being X performs a miracle and stabilizes the jewel to prove His power to Tanya. As a result, the Type-95 is now usable only to Tanya, and greatly amplifies her power when used, on the condition that she prays to Being X. She views this as a curse. The next year, Tanya is again sent to the front, eventually leading to the events of Episode 1. Headquarters decides to send her to officer training and she recommends Viktoriya for officer training as well. They both prepare to return to Berun for officer training. Meanwhile, Headquarters realises the necessity of a rapid response unit in the Imperial Army.

Episode 04 - Campus Life
Six months after leaving the frontlines, Tanya is still training to be an officer at a military academy and is doing well at her studies. She meets General Zettour in the academy's library and he asks for her opinion on the war. She predicts that it will become a world war and outlines a strategy for the Empire, using the firepower and agility of mages to minimise military losses. He is impressed by her battle knowledge and ideas and asks for a report, which she sees as an opportunity for career advancement. Later, Tanya meets Captain Uger, one of her academy rivals, in a café. Uger reveals to Tanya that he is more concerned about his family than the war and of the future impact the war will have on his daughter, who he fears may one day be forced to fight. Tanya is able to emotionally manipulate him to drop out of academy in exchange for a safer line of work, securing her position as one of the elite students at the academy. Zettour passes Tanya's plan to General Kurt von Rudersdorf. At a conference held at the Imperial Strategic Headquarters, Zettour tables Tanya's plan for a rapid-response mage battalion, which is accepted. At the Western Theater Garrison, Rerugen is furious when he learns that Tanya's plan has been implemented with her in command of the rapid reaction force. Tanya is invited to dinner with the Colonel, where she is put in charge of a new 48-strong rapid-response mage battalion and will be promoted to the rank of Captain. Much to her horror, this will actually be more dangerous than fighting on the front lines. She tries to find ways to delay the implementation of the battalion, especially after a large number of applications for the battalion are received, but a newly-promoted Viktoriya is assigned to assist her, thus preventing Tanya from further delaying the formation of the battalion.

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Silver Quill and two of LUMO_Xu's PMVs have ol' GlimGlam in the thumbnail, so she'll be the Pony Of The Week.

The room is ready, and music will play as arrivals happen.

https://cytu.be/r/FlappyPterodactyl
https://cytu.be/r/FlappyPterodactyl
https://cytu.be/r/FlappyPterodactyl

What up, chumps and chumpettes? Here is tonight's movie schedule:

Merrie Melodies: Tom Thumb in Trouble
Wodehouse Playhouse: The Rise of Minna Nordstrom

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Prequel to Robin Hood II: Archduke of Embezzlers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfmsqMw8Bo

Hroser:
S1e06: The Boast Busters
G1: The Ghost of Paradise Estates Pts 1 and 2

Gagaoles:
S2 eps 24 and 25

>>373410
Friendship has been declared by Jesus The Son, soaked with blood and deeds.
He wants to be side by side in all endeavors. A depth of experiencing inside and out to be with (You) in every way that God conceives of. That's a deeper relationship than many realize.
Friendship is also between at least two people both desiring to be friends. And that's it.
Being friends means believing that friendship to be true. As in it is factually true two parties are friends.
The quality and all the other important factors are not considered right now it's the cementing of what defines the basest of friendship and its mutual agreement.
That's the core is both parties agreeing to be friends, doesn't have to verbal.
It can be a vastly unequal friendship and some would argue that is suspect if it's actually friendship.
By the minimum standard it is friendship irregardless of the qualities of that friendship.
Being who God is He is ready and willing to go the distance and farther.
If anyone truthfully desire separation He'll does it.
If anyone honestly desires Him to correct them using some means He'll do it.
Except God can do it without complications, it just so happens people keep asking for those complications to be added in to His solution.
I can personally testify to that, because I asked. In trying to shoehorn in a complication with reason and feelings He did it, and I know the complication I asked for didn't and doesn't solve the problem God did.
Can God do it with complications? Sure.
I learned that I shouldn't tie complications to solutions God can do.
It's like asking for unsteady boxes instead of a stepstool or having God get it He's holding on, and that could be a fun thing.
In the middle of standing on unsteady boxes it's trying to grab the attention away from God.

>>371590
>did you want to order something from my 'secret menu'?
Yes, ma'am, do you guys still have the McRib?

>In a heavy stereotypical Asian accent of unknown origin.
Lucky Pony Slutto!
START!
Fili-second!

Whoops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXAVyD9JmQ

>>373100
>>373177
Thanks, glad to have you aboard.

>>373291

>“Some ponies don’t think she has a clue what her job is. Heck, some ponies don’t think she even knows herself. And some ponies have to wonder why Blackjack’s so insistent on coming to this game. Maybe to keep tabs on all of us?” Rivets asked as she nodded to the equipment around us. “After all, with all the interference, I doubt you can track us by our PipBucks.”
>The foreleg-mounted minicomputers were marvels of arcane technology; even if I didn’t understand the first thing about how they worked, I had to admit that they were useful. One of the functions most used by security was the ability to, if you had the correct address tag, track any other PipBuck. All I had to do was put in their name and I could find their location almost anywhere in the stable. Down here, though, it was another story. Probably why the missing male had gone to ground down here.
This is actually a pretty good example of how to feed essential information to the reader without deluging them with a massive infodump. The original FoE essentially opened with an entire tech manual about how the PipBucks work; this one mentions early on that the devices exist, but doesn't go into detail about any of its functions until said function becomes relevant. I believe I actually suggested using this method as opposed to kkat's in my review of the original story. Maybe Somber traveled forward in time and read my advice before he started writing.

Anyway, speaking of the future, the situation in the maintenance room is getting tense alright, that pun was terrible. It appears that, at best, the maintenance ponies are suspicious of Blackjack and suspect that the Overfilly sent her to spy on them. At worst, there is also a subtle implication that they are planning some kind of coup, and they are giving her sort of an "us or them" ultimatum here: either she can stay and join the rebellion, or she can gtfo. She opts for the latter.

Page break. She leaves the card game in a state of unease, hoping that she can talk to her mother later and relieve the tension without the need for anyone to get disciplined and/or killed. Since she's already down in the maintenance levels, she decides she might as well look around for that escaped stud and see if she can apprehend him. I'm sure her sexual frustration from earlier is in no way shape or form affecting her judgement here.

>Well, with the game a complete fiasco, Midnight continuing her cold shoulder, and me with six hours left in my shift, I might as well actually do some security work. Mostly the ten or so of us on C shift patrolled and wrote up any mare violating curfew. Down here, I might find more interesting violations, but it was rare that I’d ever run into anything major. I snapped on another function of the PipBuck: the Eyes Forward Sparkle.
>Instantly, a number of yellow bars filled my vision as the arcane device detected the number of ponies within a few hundred feet. It also had a few red bars, likely a few hungry radroaches looking to take a bite out of me. The E.F.S. was a function few ponies used regularly. After all, it only gave direction and hostility, and the indicator didn’t even tell you how far above or below you the bar was. For all I knew, that yellow bar was around the corner or a floor up. I entered in the P-21’s PipBuck address, but the little icon twitched around spasmodically. Likely he was down here… somewhere.
Incidentally, this is another good example of how to slowly reveal information through the narrative, rather than relying on infodumps. Here, the author also makes use of the good old-fashioned "show, don't tell" method.

>It wasn’t often that we had a stallion who tried to hide from retirement. Most just reported to security or medical to get their shot and that was that. Occasionally there’d be a crying or screaming fit in the atrium. Rarely, they’d suicide… ugh, please don’t let me find him hanging or poisoned down here.
I'd assumed that "retirement" meant that stallions are put to death once they are no longer useful as breeding stock, but this seems to imply that it's a form of chemical castration. The text hasn't clarified exactly what happens to these guys, but committing suicide in retaliation to being handed a death sentence seems like kind of a futile gesture. So, I'm currently assuming that the ominous euphemism of "retirement" just means spending the rest of your life not getting laid, which presumably some guys can't handle.

Anyway, she follows the blip on her radar-thingy, and tracks down what she thinks is the errant male. However, it turns out to just be a lost filly.

BJ asks the filly what she is doing down here and where her mother is, only to learn immediately that this is Scotch Tape, the daughter of the recently-recycled mare Duct Tape, whose job she is now performing. Open mouth, insert hoof.

>I couldn’t help but reach out and touch the steel walls of the stable. Somepony had daubed ‘Fuck the Overmare’ on the gray metal in flaking white paint. A shout of rebellion from the Incident almost a century ago, the last time the stable had torn itself apart. Back then, it’d been stallions challenging the Overmare and the rules imposed by Stable-Tec when the stable had been established. Today, it was Rivets against the Overmare.
Once again, the author displays some competence when it comes to revealing information. This place obviously has an interesting backstory, but he hasn't laid it out for us yet. Drop vague hints to make the reader curious (oh noes, "the incidents"), reinforce them through repetition so they stay in the reader's mind, and gradually hand out slices of information while simultaneously dropping new hints to ensure that curiosity remains piqued; that's how you do this. It's far too early to judge the book as a whole yet, but so far this guy is getting decent marks on storytelling.

Anyway, at this point Blackjack slips and falls face first into a puddle of shit that leaked out of one of the "recycling" pipes.

>>373293

She spends some time lamenting her state of affairs, but as she's getting cleaned up, she notices another blip on her Eyes Forward Sparkle. Once again, she assumes it's the missing dudebro, and once again she strikes out. The interloper turns out to be just a mare, who is in the (suspiciously unlocked) emergency supply room for...some reason. However, it turns out everything is in order; she's just in here "getting something" for Rivets.

The mare tells her that she is on Shift C (the current shift), but she's not tremendously convincing. Blackjack demands that she show ID, and she turns and bolts for the door. It is at this point that BJ begins to suspect that something is awry.

She chases her down and kneecaps her with her baton. Once caught, the mare reluctantly agrees to show ID, and at this point BJ makes an interesting discovery: the "mare" is actually the missing stallion in disguise.

>Like all stallions, his cutie mark was a white male symbol with dots underneath it; his had two rows of ten white dots. Below that would go one more dot… though I was never sure why, since after that he'd be heading straight to retirement.
This is kind of an interesting detail. I'm assuming the dots are for tracking age: presumably once a male reaches a certain age they are put into breeding, and then taken out when they reach another. However, earlier we were told that a male was retired as soon as a younger one came of age, so...I'm actually not sure what the dots represent. Maybe we'll find out.

Anyway, it looks like I'm not the only one who's a little confused about what "retirement" means. The stallion seems to also be under the impression that he was being put to death, thus his decision to run. Apparently his plan was to hide out down here and steal food from the supply closets.

BJ does her duty and informs him, in the best security-mare voice she can muster, that he his under arrest. He is clearly angry, and for a moment she is worried that this will turn into an altercation, but he ultimately accedes to her request. However, he does make a rather cryptic remark:

>“Like you retired him,” he replied softly, his storm blue eyes darkening as he stared at me.
It's not entirely clear who "he" is, but presumably we're meant to wonder for now.

The stallion then accuses BJ, and by extension the rest of the security team and presumably the Stable management as a whole, of being murderers. BJ takes mild offense to this, but otherwise doesn't react. She escorts him out of the storage room and back towards the stairs, when suddenly another security mare appears and busts his leg with a baton.

It turns out the newcomers (there's actually two of them) are Daisy and Marmalade, the two security mares from before, who put the hoofcuffs on Blackjack. We learn that they have been down here for the last several hours, apparently tasked with finding the missing stallion. Though it's been hinted that these two have a history of bullying Blackjack and are not the nicest ponies in the world, at this point we learn that their sadism goes beyond just pulling mean-spirited pranks.

They pretty much jump right into "crooked cops from a 90s hood film" mode: they claim the suspect is resisting arrest, and proceed to savagely beat the shit out of him, with the clear intent of killing him. Once again, the issue of what, exactly, "retirement" means becomes muddy: their justification is that they are just doing what Medical was going to do anyway.

Blackjack now has a moral choice presented to her, within the context of her job as a security mare. On the one hoof, she can stand idly by and let these two lunatics beat this poor faggot to death, or alternatively she can step in and defend him. It's a common setup, where the protagonist has to make a choice between doing what's expected of her vs. doing what she thinks is right. However, in this case there's an extra dimension, as it's entirely not clear what is expected of her in terms of her job function. You could take the side of Marmalade and Daisy, and argue that since this guy is going to die anyway they're not doing anything wrong, and since BJ is security she should side with her fellow security mares and look the other way. You could also argue that these two are way out of line, and that she has both a professional and a moral responsibility to step in and use corrective force against her teammates.

This choice actually seems to allude to something that was brought up earlier:

> If I was lucky, I could get through this shift without any more disasters and, if I was really lucky, talk to Mom and not the head security mare about the rising tension.
She specifically draws a contrast between "Mom" and the "head security mare," indicating that they are two different roles for the same character. The function of both roles is similar: they are both essentially supervisory and intended to provide instruction and guidance. However, one relationship is personal and the other professional.

From this, we can probably guess at how BJ is thinking about this choice. The head security mare might advise her to maintain solidarity with her teammates, and to carry out her duty, which in this case means apprehending this escaped male, presumably so he can be killed. If he just happens to die on the way to being killed anyway, it's probably not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. However, "Mom" might have a different take: it's wrong to savagely beat a guy to death, even if he is going to be killed anyway, and you should do what's morally right, even if it means going against your teammates.

There's also another way you could frame this decision. During the card game, Rivets essentially gave BJ another choice: either you're one of us or one of them, as in rank-and-file vs. management/leadership. The choice here is similar: either she sides with management and looks the other way while this guy gets beaten, or she defies management and steps in.

>>373300

Anyway, tl;dr she decides to step in. She attacks her two fellow security mares, much to their surprise:

>Daisy’s shock transformed into rage much faster. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing? He’s a fucking worthless male! He’s disposable!”
Daisy is apparently this stable's answer to Carl the Cuck.

>And one more thing I could do with telekinesis: with another thought, I triggered my PipBuck’s ‘Stable-Tec Assisted Targeting System’. The S.A.T.S. was a magical spell that momentarily slowed time almost to a stop and let me line up my attacks perfectly. Each attack cost some spell charge that had to build back up over time, but right now I wasn’t going to waste any of it. Three baton strikes to the head. The spell even gave me the probability of each strike landing!
Oh, goody. It's our old friend S.A.T.S. Can't wait until Blackjack starts using it to effortlessly auto-headshot entire gangs of raiders.

Anyway, tl;dr Blackjack successfully prevents the severe beating of a high school Spanish teacher. Daisy and Marmalade both survive, though they seem hurt and confused by BJ's sudden attack. In any case, the conflict is suddenly brought to a halt when a message comes through on their PipBucks: all security personnel are to report back to the security briefing hall.

Daisy and Marmalade exit the scene, letting BJ know that they will inform Gin Rummy that she has apprehended the errant male and is bringing him in. Presumably they won't say anything to her about BJ's attack on them, but it sounds like this fight isn't over yet.

Meanwhile, the FUCKING WHITE MALE is in pretty bad shape. Scotch Tape, the filly from earlier, witnessed the altercation. BJ sends her off to find a first aid kit. The male is introduced as P-21 (we actually knew this already, though here we get confirmation that he has no other name). We also get a bit of an explanation as to how the naming convention works:

>“Oh…” Males in 99 lived in medical and were identified on their breeding roster by their designations. P for earth ponies, U for unicorns. Don’t ask me why the former wasn’t E; I’d never gotten a straight answer. Maybe the Overmare who set up the system was a lot like the current one. 1 would be the newest stallion on the breeding roster, 20 the oldest. Being 21 would mean that a male was to be retired.
I'm not sure why 'P' would designate an earth pony either; pegasus would be what you'd logically expect. Though if I remember correctly, in this setting the pegasi are all part of the Enclave ugh, I'm already getting war flashbacks to reading kkat's pile of shit.

Anyway, the filly returns with a first aid kit. Seeing as how BP and presumably the filly have no medical training, I'm a little curious how they will manage to fix a broken leg and God only knows how many internal injuries this guy currently has...oh, wait. We're in the FoE universe. That means that medicine is absolute bullshit:

>There were two healing potions, small bottles of rich purple fluid capped in plastic. All a pony had to do was to bite hard on the end, crack the seal, and suck down the magical healing contents.
Again, I can't really fault Somber for this since he inherited the rules of kkat's universe.

But, and thank God for small miracles, it looks like he at least makes a few concessions to plausibility:

>As he gulped down the contents of the bottle, the bruises immediately began to disappear. His leg, however… “I’m going to have to set this,” I said as I looked at the limb.
>“You know how to do that?” the olive filly asked. P-21 just groaned as he clenched his eyes shut.
>“Nope,” I replied and took out the syringe of Med-X painkiller.
She attempts to set the leg, it's unclear whether or not she's actually successful. In yet another concession to plausibility, she attempts to use the second healing potion, but it doesn't seem to have much effect. There seems to be at least some reasonable limitation on what healing potions can do.

Anyway, tl;dr she gets his leg set and into a brace that she found in the first aid kit. There is also a drug called Buck in there, which she gives him. I remember that one from the first FoE, though I don't remember what it does exactly. Apparently it's contraband around here, though.

Page break. BJ brings the injured stallion up to the security level. There are ten security mares total on BJ's shift. The remaining seven plus the two that BJ beat up are gathered in the security room, as per the alert that went out earlier. They all stop talking as soon as BJ enters the room, so presumably Daisy and Marmalade have told them all what happened.

She puts P-21 into a nearby jail cell and confiscates his PipBuck. Then, the Overfilly enters the room:

>Some ponies liked to say she looked like my little sister, though never in earshot of Mom, of course. The Overmare’s white hide was a little more dingy than mine, and her eyes were a lighter pinkish color. Her mom had once styled her mane in elaborate curls and dressed her up in fancy outfits, but, since her death a year ago, the Overmare had chopped her dove gray mane short and worn nothing save her PipBuck, almost flaunting her Stable-Tec logo cutie mark.
I'm not sure if we're supposed to assume that BJ and the Overfilly are related somehow. They have different mothers, obviously, but they might be cousins or something.

Things then take an unexpected twist:

>When she saw P-21 and me, her smile only widened. “Oh… you found my trick pony!” she said, clapping her hooves together in glee. Her trick pony? P-21 stared straight ahead, his eyes unfocused pinpricks as she walked up to the bars. “Oh we’re going to have so much fun. Oh yes we are. Yes we are. You’re going to be mine forever. Yes you are.”
Looks like the "retired" stallion has a new job: sexually servicing post-apocalyptic Cozy Glow. Oh well, beats being euthanized I guess. All things considered it's probably good BJ stopped him from being beaten to death.

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Anyway, the Overfilly has a little more to say, but she's pretty much what you'd expect: a spoiled, impulsive child who clearly has too much power and too little supervision.

Slightly more interesting is P-21. As the Overfilly is going on about stuff and whatever, he signals to BJ that she should copy the data stored in his PipBuck. She tries, but unfortunately the Overfilly takes it away from her before it finishes the transfer. In yet another surprise twist, she then orders BJ locked in the jail cell alongside P-21.

The reason for this is unclear. The most logical explanation is that it's punishment for what she did to Daisy and Marmalade earlier; however, I'm not 100% certain the Overfilly knows about that incident yet. Moreover, there's the reason the Overfilly ordered the security personnel to assemble: she is planning some kind of violent crackdown on the Maintenance rebellion, and she needs all hands hooves, whatever on deck. In this situation, it would stand to reason that any disciplinary proceedings would be put on hold until the immediate crisis has been dealt with. It appears that the reason for locking BJ up has to do with her friendship with Rivets and the other Maintenance ponies.

Anyway, BJ gets locked up, and the Overfilly takes the remainder of the security force and goes to deal with the Maintenance uprising. Daisy, meanwhile, gives BJ a rather nasty look on the way out. The Overfilly is clearly paranoid about loyalty, and is suspicious of BJ already. Since Daisy is clearly higher in her favor, and now has a bone to pick, it's likely that BJ's situation has become considerably more precarious.

Page break. P-21 does not seem to be in the mood to talk, and BJ has nothing else to do, so she decides to go through some of the files she copied from his PipBuck. Since the transfer didn't complete, there are a lot of corrupt and incomplete files, but it looks like she did manage to save a few of them.

She discovers an audio recording of a scene from the Overfilly's office. P-21 is in the process of fixing the Overfilly's sink and by fixing her sink I mean having sex with her, and by having sex with her I mean fixing her sink. Then, Duct Tape (the mare who died; mother of Scotch Tape) enters the room. The Overfilly has some kind of special project for her, as she is the only Maintenance pony she trusts. There is a heavy implication that the project involves sabotaging something on the Maintenance levels. The Overfilly assures Scotch Tape that if she does a good job, she will send P-21 over to fix her sink.

The file cuts out, but we get the general idea. The Overfilly is planning to do something horrible to the Maintenance ponies because she suspects them of treason (or whatever it's called down here). To some extent this suspicion is justified, since we saw earlier that the Maintenance ponies appear to be planning some kind of coup. Any conflict is likely to jeopardize the overall survival of the Stable, since the Maintenance ponies are the ones who understand how everything works.

BJ tries to press P-21 for information, but P-21 isn't having it. The Stable is run by a wacky matriarchy that used him for sex his whole life and now plans to discard him (although it's looking more and more like the Overfilly plans to keep him around as some kind of private cabana-boy off the books). So, he is understandably indifferent to the Stable's fate. However, he has a proposition for BJ:

>He clenched his eyes shut. “If I help you… you have to help me.” He looked at me again with a ferocious glare. “You have to let me leave this place,” he said in slow, even tones of carefully measured control. “Even if I die outside in ten seconds, at least it will be ten seconds free.” What, he wanted to die outside rather than be retired? Ooookay…
I can't tell if the author is being intentionally vague to build mystery, or if this is just another communication problem due to bad writing.

I'm still not 100% clear on what "retirement" means for the males. At first I assumed it meant death, then it was starting to look like some form of chemical castration, now it's sounding like it actually does mean death. In addition to this confusion, there's the confusion of what the Overfilly has planned for this guy. The paragraph I quoted above, combined with the audio recording we just heard, strongly implies that the Overfilly plans to keep him alive as some kind of personal sex slave. However, BJ's narration keeps talking about him like he's still going to be retired. Which could still mean either castration or death. The author could be a little bit clearer about what all of this is supposed to mean.

Anyway, they reach an agreement: BJ will help him escape, and in return he will help save the stable. As soon as he has her guarantee, he pulls a screwdriver and bobby pin out of his ass (literally) and gets to work on the lock. Meanwhile, he tells BJ to listen to the last recording he made with Duct Tape.

As you might expect, this recording is also >lewd. However, we get a little more of an insight into Duct Tape's character. While the Overfilly's interest in P-21 is obviously mostly physical, Duct Tape seems to actually be in love with him. The Overfilly appears to have bribed her by promising her the chance to "marry" him when her task is complete.

This, however, seems to be the salient point of the conversation:

>Duct Tape cussed softly under her breath and then sighed. “Well… I guess you won’t tell anypony.” She gave a little giggle, but P-21 remained silent as Duct Tape went on. “The Overmare has gotten in contact with Stable-Tec! The outside is safe and clean and we’re all going to be able to leave the stable soon!” She gave another joyous giggle. “In fact, she’s getting a broadcast from Stable-Tec right now!”

As the conversation progresses, we learn that DT's task actually involved unsealing the door so it can be opened. The plot seems to be thickening.

Great to have you back, Glim. I look forward to sharing more autistic Fallout knowledge when necessary and seeing your insights.