Aug
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2015
Peach Spark is open for questions! · 10:53pm Aug 6th, 2015
If you're reading my current story, "The Pony Who Lived Upstairs", I recommend that you check its comment thread. Peach herself is ready to take your questions and comments! She thinks the comment section for the story about her is actually the comment section of her blog, PeachOnEarth. Don't disappoint her! 
Edit: I've been told to use a blog post for this, so if you have questions for Peach, please ask them here!
Since this is related to the story, can you ask questions here too? :p
You can, but no guarantee Peach will see them!
Er... I don't want to party poop, because this seems cute and fun, but please be careful with this. This technically counts as RP and RP isn't allowed on the site, especially when it involves creating alt accounts. Meeester, the guy who actually moderates the site, is in the IRC chan fairly often, so I know that he bans RP accounts.
It's disallowed because of the potential to become super long threads that lag the server whenever someone accesses them. I don't think this'll be a problem for you, but because it has been a problem in the past, it's one of those things the mods have very small tolerance for.
3301307 Uh oh! I didn't know that. I looked at a rules file and didn't see anything about it, but didn't look really thoroughly. Lemme see what I can find.
All right. The above poster told me that I have to do this here instead using my own account. I'll go ahead and copy over the responses Peach already gave...
Hi folks! I'm going to be taking questions from my readers this week. I bet lots of you have stuff you'd like to ask me about life on Earth or about myself. Maybe my human readers have questions about life back in Equestria! Or maybe there's some topic you'd like me to make a blog post on. Let me know!
And thanks for following PeachOnEarth!
>>Shachza Okay, well. I'll give you 'brain-child', even though it sounds a little too much like giving birth. As I've written about before, the language people use for our relationship is messy. Some people say FiMland was created by humans; most say our world just happens to match their imaginations but we've always existed. From my point of view, it's the same thing, since after all, we have our past and our memories. Who's to say if they were instantly created somehow? What's the difference between a real past and one that was 'created'? It's not here now either way. But then again, some people say it makes all the difference whether we were 'created' by humans or not and they say we have to figure it out, which I think is totally missing the point.
That said, wow. I had no idea this peach story craze was a thing. There's a whole archive of stories about Twilight eating peaches. You know I'm going to have to read a bunch of them.
Okay, I'm back. First off, it looks like it wasn't so much Admiral Biscuit who started it all off as it a system administrator talking about the story tag system on their site. They chose a fake story name with "Peaches" in the title and it took off. Does that have anything to do with me? It's true, sometimes I wonder--if Twilight and her gang were conceived in the mind of a young Lauren Faust, does that mean ordinary ponies like me were conceived in the minds of ordinary pony fans? Maybe it's a one-to-one kind of thing? I dunno, that seems kind of fishy for the same reasons reincarnation seems fishy. I think there are probably just a lot of ponies named Peach because peaches are delicious and nutritious. And I don't even have a peach-based cutie mark, so if we're being honest, there are a lot more hard-pit peachers out there than me.
Second, most of those stories were really stupid! Just sayin'.
But I gotta give credit--some of them did seem to get what peaches are all about. And that's being a perfect transcendent food that makes you think totally about the moment when you bite into them. That reminds me--a little over a month ago I rode by a peach orchard on a bus. Now that it's July, they should be open! I've gotta get Pepper to go back there with me.
Last--if there is some brony out there who came up with the idea for me, what would I say to them? I guess I'd ask what they figured my purpose was. What am I supposed to do? I've got my own theories about my cutie mark and what a 'peach spark' is, but are they right? And then I guess I'd ask how they got so cool that they can just spout awesome ideas like me.
Thanks for your question!
>> Lightning Bearer Getting around the metro area was really tough at first. I come from a pretty small town and before taking the plunge, I never spent more than a few days at a time in any city. I went to Manehattan as practice for the Tri-State Area, but it missed the mark in so many ways I never thought of, and one big difference is it's easier to get directions in Manehattan. I mean, sure, the ponies might shout at you, but at least they know where everything is. I felt like there was a half chance of finding someone friendly or someone mean, and I figured, well, then you just try two people and you're set, right? But it wasn't like that. The people here aren't usually mean, just distant. They don't shout at you much, but it's hard finding someone to help. So I got lost a lot in my first week. Taking the subway for the first time was a disaster, too. I paid like twice as much as I should have and went way too far. Plus, the maps here aren't as pretty as Equestrian maps. So yeah, navigation was the number one problem.
As for your second question, I'm not sure what you mean! We call it Year Eight of the Reunited Sisters. Is that what you were looking for?
A'ight, I'll bite. Since you and Ron've been dating a while have there been arguments?
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Thanks a bunch! I'm still swimming in it. Pepper's been moving loads of stuff into my place, but we're taking our time with it so he can tell me about each little thing he has and what it means to him. It makes it a lot easier to figure out where to put stuff and it's so much fun besides!
Ponies are monogamous like humans are. You totally cast us in your own image there, or maybe just didn't want to get out of your comfort zone! But there's a lot more kinds of FiMlanders than just ponies. A lot of hooved folks, like sheep, goats and buffalo, fight at certain times of year for the right to boink the best girl, or in some cases the best guy. Zebras are a little different--in some cultures they clump into harems, where one stallion has half a dozen mares or vice versa. So is that what you're talking about? Maybe you're talking about arrangements where every single person in the group is in love with every other person in the group, and I think it's pretty much only the Breezies that do that, and they only do it sometimes and I might be remembering wrong anyway.
As for how we approach relationships, I think ponies tend to be a little more open about it and we don't make things as complicated. But I can't generalize any more than that, since last week my friend George took me to a nifty exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art about Love through the Ages, and if there's one thing I learned, it's that human cultures handle love and romance very differently from each other. Some of it was kind of amazing. Sometimes a kid's parents tell them who they're going to marry. Sometimes the girls can't start anything at all but just have to show themselves and hope the guys are into them. Sometimes you have to wait until after you're married for sex, and sometimes cheating on your wife is the normal thing to do. Maybe it's cultural bias, but I think we ponies handle romance a lot simpler. We do a lot of things simpler, really.
Thanks for the great question and I hope you have a great day too! Because I totally did.
oh my gosh i've been putting off reading the new chapters... actually I've been putting of reading many stories that update since I've gotten into my own writing project for the PaP verse.
um.. since I'm behind in the story and don't want to be spoiled.
Peach, are you completely vegetarian? I know some farmers, ranchers, horse breeders on earth will feed their horses, fish or fish oil. there are also accounts of horses eating small animals and or insects. birds, chickens, bees, beetles, squirrels. I even heard about a farmer once, who found a stomped to death wolf that was partially eaten in his horse pasture.
sorry if this makes you grossed out a bit, but you claim we base you off of our selves, ideals, and what we know in our world. so since you say we based you off our horses, wouldn't that mean you are not actually a vegetarian species?
Also, have you ever thought that maybe it was the ponies who created us instead of us creating you?
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I don't really do roleplaying either, but I think it's a neat idea. Pepper and I are starting to experiment a little, so he can get an idea what it's like to be a unicorn... but that's for another post.
Low grade mind control? Not sure what you're talking about. I don't have any mind control. My friend Second Sight has some mind perceiving abilities, but I don't think she can control other people's minds at all. Unless maybe you're talking about when Pepper tells me to do something with my magic and I do it, so he can feel like he's controlling a unicorn's magic. But minds and magic really aren't the same thing.
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We haven't done a lot of fighting. Like I said in the post about him, we get along really well. There was one point when he'd loaned me some money for my entertainment system, and I was a little slow about paying it back because I bought some clothes and an ottoman. So things got a little tense about that. But it wasn't much of an argument, and we weren't really dating back then either.
Or maybe we were! We agreed to go out and do things together on such and such a day, and that's basically what a date is, right? But we weren't a couple. Now we're a couple, but we don't have to agree to meet up on any particular day because we see each other every night. So if we want to go out and get a bite to eat or walk through a park or whatever, we can just do it. Our first real date as a couple wont be 'til we hit the Millennium on Friday. (If you're in the Newark area, drop by and say hi!) So maybe for us, things got serious when we stopped dating. Kind of weird, right?
There was really just one real argument between us, and that was when we went out to see Cadance at Radio City. That was just before things got real. I think it was one of those dealies where there's a wall between two people and it takes a big fight to break it down so they can see how much they really love each other. I honestly don't even remember what the fight was about, though.
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I didn't really expect any other kind of answer and I understand that you don't want to spoil the future events of the story, but this kind of thing is why I really see no point in this kind of "character Q&A" thing. Having to make the character play dumb when I ask any question I'd actually like answered makes it just annoying, rather than an interesting bit of reader interaction.
Also, way too much information. Ew.
3303148 I'll see if Boom wants to go.
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Wow! I had no idea. The rancher at the ranch I visited didn't say anything about feeding her horses fish parts. So this does gross me out a little. But that's okay, 'cause I'm learning!
The fact is, we don't eat meat at all. And that includes fish oil. We eat eggs, which come from animals, and we eat dairy, but nothing that's actually part of an animal. And personally, there are times when I can't eat eggs because my stomach's feeling upset. I like all sorts of other foods, though! The scientists have shown that pony nutrition is pretty different than horse nutrition. Ponies are really a hybrid of humans and horses, and this is just another example of that.
As for ponies creating humans? I'm not really sure what sense that makes. If I squint and think about the God-tremor incident just right, I can almost imagine that our mages managed to create your world when they cast their epic spell. It didn't seem like it was there before, and it was there afterward! But that's really just the same way you 'create' the whole world when you take a foal outside for the first time, or like explorers 'create' the lands they discover. It doesn't really make sense. Or is there something I'm missing?
((I'm assuming that we're talking to her on her blog or something. Maybe it's canon or not canon, but I'm assuming we don't have all the information from the fic proper.
Also, thanks for sending me that message! For some reason the story didn't pop up in my favorites. :/))
So... Um...
Peach Spark. Where do babies come from in Equestria?
You don't have to go into detail or anything - I'm just curious, because Equestria seems to be a 'child-friendly' place, and here on Earth peope don't usually talk about sex to seven year olds. It seems entirely plausible that storks actually do fly in and drop foals on your laps. Or backs, since I doubt you'd actually catch a foal on your lap.
On a slightly more awkward and overly personal note: how do you feel being in a romance with a human. I understand that ponies and humans are both sapient and race shouldn't deny love, but does it feel strange? More importantly, what of Pepper? Unlike you guys, there had been no other sapient species on Earth until recently, and you guys are basically physical horses. How does he prevent associating this relationship with bestiality? Does he?
Moving way from incredibly awkward territory, have you explored human fiction? Stuff like Sophie's choice, 1984, Ender's Game, and Candide are, in my opinion and among others, some of Humanity's more important works that showcase much of our fears and attempts to explore ethics, emotions and morality. This doesn't even touch on into more modern fare and fanfiction. How does it compare to pony fiction? I'm somewhat aware that the fantasy genre doesn't really exist in Equestria beyond horror, but what other differences and similarities are there? What is fiction in Equestria like? Why do ponies write it?
If I may ask one more question: How big are you? I get different read on you ponies size.
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That stork thing is too funny. Nope, we have babies the normal way--we cook 'em up in our personal ovens! As if we'd trust birds with something so precious. Birds are too silly for that. I think I do want to have a kid or two someday, but there's a whole lot of stuff to work out first.
So, second question. Does it feel strange being with Pepper? Yeah. But it's felt strange being here on Earth this whole time, and the strangeness has been fading away bit by bit, and what's probably more important, this is a good kind of strange. Walking downtown and passing three consecutive stores that all sell shoes with no chance of fitting my feet? That's strange in a bad way. But actual fingertips that can find all those perfect little places? That's strange in a good way. I think strange gets a bad rap.
Okay, so bestiality is sex with animals, right? And since I'm a pony, that's similar to Earth horses, and that makes it kind of like bestiality that he likes me? I dunno, I'm not quite buying it. Humans are similar to gorillas, which are animals too, right? So if that's all it takes, why aren't all human relationships associated with bestiality? That said, Pepper did say he had trouble feeling attracted physically to me until recently when we had a great day and all the walls went down. Now he's into me for my body and not just my mind. That seems like the reverse of how it usually goes, but I guess it just comes back to the whole 'good strange' thing.
Okay, last question. I've been going to the library now and then and getting whatever books look interesting and paging through them whenever I get the urge. But I haven't been looking for great literature. Maybe I should! I like your suggestions. I read Candide after you mentioned it because it was free on the interwubs and pretty short. It was... kind of everywhere! I mean, this guy Pangloss had this bizarre idea about his world being the best world, but I guess he never came to Equestria! (jk) I figured he'd unpack it and we'd find out what made such a weird guy tick, but instead he gets hanged almost at the start and Candide and his girl go and have all these crazy disjointed adventures and keep getting robbed and almost eaten and everything, and what's the point of it all? By the end, Candide's convinced his world isn't the best of all possible worlds, but why wasn't that obvious from the start? Is it about the journey of a innocent person to one who thinks for himself? Normally, I don't think things have to get so far wrong before you start growing up. But maybe that's my ethnocentricism talking.
What is pony fiction like? Wow that's a big question. That's kind of like asking, "What does food taste like?" There are so many different kinds. There's historical novels, romance novels, historical romance novels, slice of life stories, travelogue stories, stories and legends about famous figures (like Luna and the Trolls), adventure stories, Everfree stories, cutie mark stories, foals' stories, mysteries, Breezy tales, dragon tales, city stories, country stories, folk tales, spellcaster stories, psychological thrillers... the list goes on. Why do ponies write it? Probably the same reason anyone writes fiction. We only get to live one life apiece and experience bits and pieces from the relatively small number of lives around us. Stories give us extra lives to live! Even if it's only at a distance and only for a while. Does that answer all your questions?
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Big enough for our hooves to reach the ground!! No, but seriously. I'm a bit over two feet tall at the withers, just over a yard tall to the top of my head. For what it's worth, the weight range for humans and ponies was found to be identical. What are the odds, huh?
3308649 Just over two feet? Huh, Boom tower you at 4'11 feet. Then again, she's half Fetlock. Cute size though. Ron's lucky.
3308626 Ah, so you produce foals in kitchen appliances! How interesting! What are the ingredients?
(I'm joking, by the way. I'm almost certain you're using a euphamism)
In regards to your thoughts on bestiality: while it's a very interesting viewpoint, I don't think it's particularly valid. Humanity is not exactly a rational species - the most rational species produced on Earth, maybe, but still not rational. Interracial marriage and sex was once (and for some, probably still is) a very weird thing. A black man and a white woman in bed together? Eeew!
I haven't studied this extensively, but I'm betting that humans have an idea of the 'other'. That's why people used to treat black people as less than human. That's why the jews were so easily ostracized in Germany during the war. We categorize sets of people as being part of our group or as not.
Horses, gorrilas and other animals have been part of this 'other' group since the dawn of time. Sex (or romance in general) with critters was really messed up. It can be construed as abuse, since they are incapable of giving informed consent. Not to mention, they don't actually care about humans (I'm almost certain of this), don't view sex as romantic, and are kinda... stupid.
You guys coming in is a new thing, and I expect that for the general populace, it'll take quite a while for interspecies relationships to become well accepted. I mean, maybe on the internet or on a global level it'd be accepted quickly, since nobody actually sees it going on. Ten bucks says, however, that most humans that see you guys on the street will steer away from you, because right now? In the collective human consciousness, horses are animals. You guys are physically horses. I think it's almost impossible, this early on, to disassociate romance with you guys from bestiality.
I hope I'm projecting.
tldr; I disagree with what you said.
In regards to fiction: read to your heart's content! Don't forget to check out Dickens and Dahl! Especially Dahl - even though he almost solely wrote for children, I still consider him one of my favorite authors! I recommend looking at other forms of media, too, like movies, television, and video games.
I know you're not exactly the best source on this, but you're one of the few ponies open to questions that I know of, so I'll ask anyway: how far are you guys scientifically in comparison with humanity? I know it's a bit difficult to gauge, since there isn't exactly an endpoint, but how far do you think you guys have come in learning about how your world works in comparison to us?
That's what science is, btw. Learning through observation about how the world works. Just wanna clear up the misconception that magic and science are mutually incompatable counterparts - if it exists and has an effect on the world, it falls under the purview of science.
EDIT: Forgot to ask: how do duet heartsongs work? In the royal wedding episodes, Cadance and Chrysalis performed something of a duet. Are they aware of the duet happening?
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Is Boom a pony friend of yours? She sounds pretty ginormous! I don't know what you meant by capitalizing 'Fetlock', as if that's a breed. It's a body part! It's this joint right here. If you said she was half pastern or half cannon that might make some sense as hyperbole, but it's not like you can have a long fetlock. So I don't know what to make of that!
3311329 Fetlock's outside Trottingham. There is a high concentration of magic there so the ponies grow pretty big. Her actual name is Sonic Frequency but I call her Boom since the music she plays "booms" out of her earphones.
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Yep, I was euphing a mism. We use our wombs, like any mammals! Hey, don't tl;dr me! I appreciate your mini-essay on 'the other' and human sexual norms and stuff. It's true that Pepper and I aren't totally open about things in public yet. I mean, the most he'll do on the sidewalk is give me a scritch behind the ear or like that. Kind of weird that races here are defined by being different colors, but I get more or less how racism works.
I'm taking your suggestion about Roald Dahl and reading James and the Giant Peach. I'm a sucker for stories about peaches, which you know if you saw my reply to Shachza above! So far it's really weird and fun, aside from how badly James got treated by his aunts. It's making me think about bugs a lot more than I usually do. I almost asked if Roald Dahl's cutie mark was a bug, but then I remembered he was a human being and not a pony at all! He probably could've been a pretty good pony though.
I think science is all tied up with technology, so it's pretty clear humans are ahead of us. I think they say it's by about eighty years on average? But it's not like everything needs to be invented in exactly the same order, so it's fuzzy. And the fact that we've got magic and you supposedly don't makes it even more complicated. We've got a science called thaumaturgy that's the study of magic, and we do magic on science too. So does that mean we're ahead of you? Not really, since if you had magic you'd have probably scienced it up too. I honestly think humans have come further in understanding your world because you've needed to. There are more unhappy humans than unhappy ponies, and that makes you desperate for new ideas, I guess. But I'm just totally speculating here.
I dunno what exactly a heartsong is, unless you mean a Hearth's Warming carol, since those are sometimes called "heart carols" for short. Oh, unless you just mean any song that comes to you and belongs to somepony. Yeah, duets are common, crowd songs are common, songs for more than two or three individual parts are less common, but they happen. Duets where you can't see or hear the other pony singing? Those are really rare. I think how it works is you get a feeling that something else important is happening somewhere else, and you should wait before you start singing again, and then you start up again when the feeling tickles you just right. And then maybe if you're lucky you learn the rest of the duet someday, and then you can learn the other ponies' parts, but they don't stick with you like your own part does. But I'm not sure about that, since I never even met anyone who had a split duet like that. If you'd asked me before I went to see Cadance, maybe I could have asked her!
3311466 I really would expect you guys to be further than us in the science field, since you guys have magic to help out. If nothing else, you could perform tests that are impractical or impossible without it. It's a very large misconception that technology and science are one and the same - the former is the application of the latter. We learn about the laws that govern the world, then exploit them like there's no tomorrow.
I wonder if human tech works in Equestria. If it doesn't, that indicates that the very laws of physics work differently in Equestria than on Earth, which makes me wonder how we interact at all.
Enough science, though.
What I'm really curious about is what you think of the whole 'fictional, nonfictional' thing. Some people say that it doesn't matter whether you guys were fictional beings come to life or we wrote about beings another dimension, but I think very much to the contrary. If we created you, does that mean lovecraft accidentally created Yog Sothoth? Are we eventually going to have to destroy entire universes lest our own be destroyed, a la Bokurano? Is there a world where C.J. rampaged throughout San Andreas, stabbing old ladies to death for teh lulz, and it's all my fault?
On the flipside, does that mean we can create a fictional world where, say, alzheimers is curable? And then we could make contact with that world and have it cure our problems? Does it mean we can create a utopia? It sounds very questionably ethical and exploitative, but it's worth considering. Gah, I started rambling. :/
The reason why I bring this up, and am biased towards us accidentally creating you, is that there are some clear signs of our involvement in your universe. Magical Mystery Cure, for example, is clearly rushed. The Cadance episodes were made in order to exploit the market for princesses. Pinkie Pie is very inconsistently characterized - something which can be attributed to the writers' difficulty in writing her. While it's possible these things happened completely independently of our influence, Occam's Razor states that whatever's simpler is more likely to be true. There's an entire episode that's a nod to the fandom - not to mention myriad other nods throughout the series as a whole. Like Derpy/Ditzy/Muffin. Huh. I'll have to look up her real name sometime.
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I actually think this post is pretty funny. "Magical Mystery Cure" is clearly rushed? I wasn't in Ponyville for it, of course--I've never been to Ponyville, and I wasn't at Twilight's coronation either--but that actually made me laugh. I bet there were some wars and important things in Terran history that were "clearly rushed" too! I heard you had a Six Day War once. Obviously some writers were forced to squeeze a season's worth of wars into just one episode, right?
As for Pinkie Pie being inconsistently characterized? That's a great insult. I should start calling people "inconsistently characterized" when they bug me. It's actually politer than the alternatives! No, Pinkie Pie is just crazy. But yeah, I can see why writers might have trouble writing someone like her.
And when I went to see Cadance on Saturday, she told us that they way she sees it, the Hasbro executive team in charge of FiM was inspired to 'create' a brother for Twilight Sparkle and a royal niece for Celestia, because those were two major ponies in Twilight's life who'd been inexplicably missing from the show so far!
See here's the thing. We have to assume that there are all sorts of universes out there that we might or not not find any way to magically connect to. It's not like what you have to watch out for is 'creating' a bad universe by writing a scary book. What you have to watch out for is connecting to it. And you can't do that without magic. Likewise, if you want to connect to a good world, you don't have to worry about creating it--either it's out there now or it's not, it doesn't matter one whit until you connect to it somehow. So it's the spell or whatever that connects worlds up that you need to worry about ethically--creating has nothing to do with it.
My friend Second Sight says that at her lab, they're working on whether the laws of of physics are different in FiMland and Earth. Or more to the point, they know that they're different, but the question is, are they different on a fundamental level, or just on a higher up level? Human tech works fine back home. That's why we've got color TV and ham radios now! I think we're not that far along with science because science just isn't that strong a value for us. There are some ponies that are really into science, but it's not considered a pillarstone of society--it's more like just another thing to be into, like kite flying or opera or crocheting. But yeah, now that humans are involved, I think that's starting to change.
Hi Peach! Love your blog posts! What do you think of the cheeses humans make? Do you have favorites? Are there similarities to cheeses you have in Equestria?
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Hi! Because you said 'you have', I'm guessing you're a human even though you call yourself Random Somepony. That's cute! Everypony is somepony and from some point of view we're all random, too.
I love cheese! So, obviously, the big difference between cheese here and cheese in Equestria is that back home it's the milk producers, meaning cows, nannies and ewes, who control the process. Here you've got human farmers trying to make their cows make milk a certain way, by feeding them stuff and seeing what comes out. Not surprisingly, the cheese here isn't as good. Not so far, anyway. I haven't had the really expensive stuff either here or at home.
So what Terran cheeses do I like so far? Well, I like Blue Cheese. That's one we don't have. It's like a twist on regular cheese--it makes you go 'uhhhnh?" I also really like Velveeta. It's so smooth it's like eating an emotion. I'm just not sure which emotion. Indulgence, maybe. I'm not so fond of Swiss cheese, but I hear it's better in Swissland. I had a block of cheese with cranberries in it while I was on Staten Island with Kellydell, and it was pretty amazing.
So those are some cheeses we don't have. On the other hoof, our--well, okay, I'll put it in poem form for you.
Poem of the Day: Cheese, Please
Our gouda is more gooda
Our feta is just better.
Our cottages churn out richer cheese
But none of it puts me more at ease
Than a Long Hedge yellow cheddar.
But when you squeeze out all your cheese from cows without first asking 'please',
I guess that's what you getta.
Heya Peach! Really lovin' your blog, good stuff! Puts a lot of things into perspective.
More than ask something I wanted to share my thoughts about how FIMland came to be, since I find the common theories so… fatalistic. Maybe they're right—they do explain some things pretty well—but I'm just too much in love with free will to just accept this, I guess.
My view of what happened is more along the lines of our two worlds coming to resonate in harmony. My hypothesis is that all existing—possibly infinitely many—worlds resonate in their own certain frequencies. As long as frequencies differ substancially enough between worlds, they stay entirely separated. But the more their frequencies sync up, for whatever reason, the more connection is possible between those worlds (I hesitate to use the term "universes"), and the easier it is for stuff to slip through between them.
I think that FIMland and Earth started to sync up a few years before the Princesses finally created the portal. Back then, ideas occasionally started to slip through, and observant people, like, say, Lauren Faust, might just have gotten glimpses into that other world. Maybe they themselves were more in tune with the other world's harmonics, or maybe they're just more perceptible for this kind of thing. It might be interesting to find out if there were FIMlanders having the same experience, just without the happy coincidence of being a creator with a world wide audience.
Anyways, what I think happened is that as our two worlds started to sync up, and more humans started to "tune in" to the resonance of the opposing world after they were introduced to the ideas brought forth by Mrs. Faust, they gradually became able to hear the main themes being played in FIMland's symphony (to metaphorize it), which happened to be the adventures centered around a certain group of ponies who were deeply involved in FIMlands history at that point.
I guess that's also the reason the portal was created exactly between these two worlds.
Imagine a table full of magnets. When you want to connect two of them, and thus 'turn up' the magnetic strength of your own (let's say it's an electro magnet so we can do this), then the one that's closest to you will be the one that will snap to your magnet first. This just happened to be Earth, since it was already so much in tune with FIMland.
As long as the portal is open and sustained, I suppose it keeps the two worlds in sync, in harmony, I suspect this "bringing them in complete harmony" is exactly what the portal spell does in the first place (although my understanding of high level magic like that is more than sketchy).
Why did I write this here? Well, you seem to not be very fond of the idea of being "created" by the humans, Peach. I think, however, it might not necessarily be true in the first place, like I wrote above. Maybe this can give you at least some little consolation, or if not, at least something to think about!
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Hi Runoratsu! I like your picture. You've got big ears! Are you half donkey? I think donkey ears have a nice shape,
I think your description of the relationship between the worlds is pretty much the accepted theory. I mean, I don't know the technical details either, which are all about magic, and I'm a unicorn! I never took anything past the intro course in magic theory, I just dabble in it. But what I do know is interesting! You're right that they talk about 'harmony', or more accurately 'the harmonies' between FiMland and Earth. The harmonies are being maintained now, but at any given time some are breaking and others are forming. I don't think think there's much danger the portal will stop working if we drift too far apart, but I'm not sure.
There's a branch of magic called conjuring magic, or conjuration, and in that, there's a relationship between creator and creation. Those are the technical terms. That's the main pith of the relationship between here and back home, and in that formal relationship, Earth is the 'creator' and FiMland is the 'creation'. What makes the spell really unusual is that it was created and cast by people in the 'creation' side. That's not how it usually works, and it's why it was really hard for Twilight and her friends to find the spell in the first place. Usually it's more like a magician waves their horn or their wand or whatever and says, "I want to summon a green dove that can recite Millne." And a green dove flies out of their hat and starts spouting poetry! Can you imagine if a green dove who loves Millne suddenly showed up with a magic wand and said, "Hi! I cast a spell to find someone who wanted something like me to show up--is that you?"
That kind of thing is possible , but it's a rare kind of magic called 'reverse conjuration'. There's also this weird theoretical category called 'autoconjuration' where you conjure yourself because you yourself are what you want, or would have wanted if you existed! It's never been observed happening, but Meadowbrook believed it was how the world created itself in the first place, a million million years ago. (Starswirl belonged to a different school of thought--he believed the world always was interesting, but over time the creatures in it started to care about how interesting it had always been, and that's where wonder came from.)
So, when people talk about ponies being creations of humanity, they're kind of muddling up the magical concepts with ordinary everyday concepts. I don't think it makes sense to talk about our world being created by their world either, but it's not wrong--there's no way to prove it one way or the other since whether we were created with all our memories or whether we were just found this way, in harmony with Earth, are indistinguishable ideas. You can't test the difference because there is no practical difference. So it's just about interpretation. (Although I should add that some experts think there are testable differences because the level of harmonies we've got would be different for a world that created itself through reverse conjuration and for one that got linked up magically though the same spell. But if there is a difference, it's not easy enough to measure to be conclusive yet!) So hopefully you're getting a sense of how tricky it all is.
Thanks for the whole electromagnet metaphor, by the way. I'll tell that to Second Sight. She loves magnets, so I think she'll like it.