Is this anything?

"Oh yeah, in ancient Equestria ponies believed in the classical six elements of friendship, but now we've discovered there are actually over a hundred elements organized into the Periodic Table of Friendship. The most recent addition was element 101: Holding-your-friend's-mane-while-she-pukes, aka Bon-Bonium."

Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

The trick, of course, is making a necklace out of something with a half-life of twenty minutes.

[Daedalus Aegle]

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Some kinds of friendship have to be transported in thick lead containers and can only be safely studied in high-security laboratories.

(I'm looking at you, Starlight and Trixie.)

[Shrink Laureate]

Some exotic elements, like caring-about-your-friend's-fanfiction-ium, live for only milliseconds.

[iisaw]

What's the one where you get a drunken call at 3am, and sigh deeply while you're getting dressed to drive 100 miles to bail someone out?

[Daedalus Aegle]

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I believe that was element 69, Rainbow-Dash's-Eighteenth-Birthdayium. There was bitter competition for that particular spot.

[Mitch H]

So there's that theory that are stable friendship elements within the hypothetical Island of Discord?

[Seraphem]

I hear there are even higher ranked, but only theoretical Elements that have yet to be proven to be actually possible, such as Completly-platonic-freindship-between-male-protagonist-and-main-female-lead-in-an-anime-ium

[FanOfMostEverything]

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Nonsense! I've maintained a healthy supply for years. And that includes the times an RL friend's asked me to proofread something.

[Rao the Red Sun]

Excellent is what it is. I'd like to see the completed table.

[Pineta]

This new theory raises further questions. Do the elements come in many different isotopes with different weights and lifetimes? Will unstable elements like Bon-Bonium lead to a chain of decays before reaching a stable end-point? Can we trigger the fission of heavy elements with the addition of a little laughter or kindness? Or fuse lighter elements?

[Daedalus Aegle]

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I have no doubt that friendship can do all these things and more! "unstable elements like Bon-Bonium lead to a chain of decays before reaching a stable end-point" just sounds like a funny story to tell the grandfoals about how the two of you met and started dating. It's just a matter of mapping out which intervening elements they passed through on the way. Does Bon-Bonium turn into element 89, Help-hide-a-body-in-the-woods? Or maybe element 93, Tell-them-not-to-invest-in-an-MLM?