Author's Note

The Spy of the Tiger would stab the monitor to hear a JPEG, too.

Octavia discovered the secret to listening to JPEGs?

Vinyl Scratch peeked into the room.

Octavia didn't notice the intrusion; her eyes still shut as she rhythmically nodded her head to... something. To what in particular, Vinyl still wasn't sure.

She traced the cable of the headphones she'd gifted her marefriend last Hearth's Warming down to the floor... across to the desk against the wall... past the keyboard...

Past even the Walkmare they shared?

...And straight into the middle of a now mildly-impaled computer monitor.

"Vinyl!" Octavia opened her eyes. She pulled Vinyl into a tight hug. "I've been trying to figure out what to get you for Hearts and Hooves day! I never knew that electronic music would be so... electrifying."

Vinyl Scratch coughed. Partly from the sudden hug. And partly because she was also now feeling the buzz of electricity from the monitor flowing through her body.

~~woah I think this is the first time I actually attempted writing casual romance and not had it end up as a cringe disaster in my own eyes~~