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Daedalus Aegle


Black Lives Matter. Good things are good, actually. I write about wizards and wizards' apprentices. 90% of prophecy is just pattern recognition.

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  • 1 week
    Time ghost

    MLP:FiM came out 14 years ago.

    I first used the internet in 1996.

    I don't know exactly when, but sometime soon we will hit the point where MLP has been part of the internet for literally half the time it's existed in my life.

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  • 2 weeks
    Just putting this out there

    Do cutie marks fade away when a pony dies, and their magic returns to the aether?

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  • 3 weeks
    I doodled a Star Swirl

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  • 4 weeks
    Across the generations

    Something happened earlier this week that got me thinking.

    Even though I have all of G4 on my computer and can watch any part of it any time I wish, back on monday on a whim I clicked on the official MLP stream on youtube. I found myself dropped into the middle of Magical Mystery Cure, just before A True True Friend started playing, and I watched through to the end of the episode.

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  • 12 weeks
    Pony meme watch: celebrating love

    So in case you don't know I just thought I'd mention that over on tumblr there is an MLP art meme going viral, based on this photo:

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Apr
28th
2023

"Merlyn" · 11:36pm Apr 28th, 2023

I was today years old when I learned that the Welsh word for "pony" - or at least one Welsh word for pony - is "Merlyn". And you know, as a pony wizard aficionado, I feel like someone really should have mentioned this before? At some point in the last dozen or so years? But better late than never.

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Speaking of Welsh, if there are any Welsh-speakers in the audience, or know of any in the field to ask for some translation pointers, do let me know. Google translate is fallible.

Welsh is a very interesting language for an English speaker with some exposure to Welsh culture. At one level, the sounds and structure are exotic and foreign, but when you go into the details, you find things that feel familiar and comfortable. I have a vague memory that someone told me this once and I went down this rabbit hole. Can't remember what I found. No dragons or bags of gold anyway.

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Rabbit holes do be like that.

Oh, neat.

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