How does pony civilization get along without hands, anyhow? Some people find this question easy to brush off. It's a children's cartoon. It's magic. Don't worry about it.

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So, there's a new alicorn coming, and we haven't (yet) gotten any explanation. The news came out today that Lauren Faust was very involved in creating the storyline with Princess Cadance, but did not plan for her to be an alicorn. My theory is that this was something handed down from the toy department. They are finally bowing to the many requests for white Celestia toys, but they've probably got fifty bazillion pink alicorn toys already stacked up in a warehouse somewhere. Now they can be

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I just stumbled across this today and couldn't resist posting a link here because it's so brilliant:

There is a Horse in the Apple Store

So... I haven't signed the Save Derpy petition, although I've been tempted to. I certainly share the sentiment and want to see Derpy stay with us. However... The big problem with this whole petition movement is that we don't actually know what's up with Hasbro, or what their reasoning is for what they're doing -- or even exactly what they are doing.

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I wasn't sure if I'd ever post a blog here, but this last episode got me worked up over the subject of Equestrian History. I was worried that this episode would shoot down some of my own pet theories, and I'm rather pleased that it did not.

For those of you convinced that Celestia and Luna are eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-sexy goddesses who existed from the beginning of time, and possibly even created life on Earth, you can go cry your little eyes out now. I'll wait.

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