Legend:
Technology!mechanics∃there existsSceneryAbility♪I heard… Magic.
Chiropteral notes (lit. hand-wing) or other anthropomorphismAnimation oddments,visual interest Interaction with later. ❧uncategorized.

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Legend:
Technology!mechanics ∃there exists Scenery Ability♪I heard… Magic.
Chiropteral notes (lit. hand-wing) or other anthropomorphismAnimation oddments,visual interest
Interaction with later.❧uncategorized. I've gone mad with power.

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In learning about attachment, in cultivating and exploring its properties, in investing herself in magic to the extent that it harms others, she has permanently attached herself to the world.

Chrysalis, meanwhile, eschews attachment, using it for her own ends. (Not that she's at all Buddhist: violent, selfish, cares not for other species…)

The Sith Code:
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.

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I watched it so I could post intelligently, but I'm wanting to get my thoughts down before I have to actually try reading my scrawlings to know them. So I'm stealing a march and beating Oliver to the punch, though he's got his own entry for s1e9 now. Discussion will probably be more active there.

I'm bringing the biggun out front:
❧"They're [Zebras] not ponies," says Twilight.

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The Spellbook Problem is a subset of the magic-schooling problem. If unicorns are specialists first and foremost¹…how can spellbooks(/teachers) have a language and technique set that is meaningfully enactable by those specialists in not understanding magic?

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For villains other than Nightmare Moon to win in alternate timelines sans the Mane 6 being Elemental Harmonizers…

The idea of millions of possibilities, though? That requires Butterfly (Fluttershy?) Effect results from this being sufficient to divert away from all of the known powerful threats.

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❧Pinkie creates a lot of business for the Cakes. Early on, at least, many parties were just plain at Sugarcube Corner.
❧Pinkie creates a lot of advertisement and networking for the Cakes. (Rarity aspires to be the pony everypony should know. Pinkie…knows everypony in Ponyville. I expect everyone is on a first-name basis with Pinkie, too, and that's a big influence for business.)

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To branch off a musing on Lavender Unicorn Syndrome,

Another solution is conlang, inventing pronouns per race-sex combo. I haven't seen it, but with the historic and present xenophobia in ponies, along with the way it's built into the language (nopony, anypony, somepony) it doesn't feel unthinkable… just hard to read.

Dhe/dhim/dhis/dhis

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I had an inkling of why, perhaps, the naming is uneven between the Two Sisters, which I believe I shall use henceforth.

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Thou shalt familiarize thyself with the forms of thy singular second-person pronoun, and then mastery shall be thine, and the Heavens smile upon thee.

I have, thou hast, he/she it hath, we/you/they have
I do, thou dost, he/she/it doth, we/you/they do (with didst as the second-person singular past)

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