Dear Diary,
Today I found a place where I belong. A great place where all sorts of ponies and other things can live together and have fun for all to see. Our World.
Okay, so it’s not actually a real place. At least not in Equestria, but it will be to me and my friends. It was all Blankety’s idea. He came up with the idea of drawing a world of our own that we could put whatever we want into. It was meant to be a sort of ‘before going back to school’ thing that we could remember forever and keep us all together even though we weren’t. And after all the excitement we’d had over vacation we needed something to distract us. Especially to distract from the fact we knew new ponies had moved right near us and we’d all been told to not disturb them. Our interest was too great to ignore them; the project would help us focus on something else. We hoped.
It was a lot of fun putting all of the stuff together. We all liked different things and so everything was all different. We agreed that the place outside the Everfree where we went camping would be the Capital of the world we created. Every one of us loved that place so much. Even Galloway didn’t mind taking time out of training if we were going there for a short trip. So it was decided quickly that this would be the main hub of the new place.
Each one of us added a different thing. As it was all Blankety’s idea he got to choose first, and so he drew some oxen in tutus dancing everywhere. I knew he’d liked the ballet we’d gone to see, even if he didn’t want to admit it to the others because he thought he’d seem really wussy. Good for him being truthful. To be honest I hadn’t minded it either; I especially loved the music. It was pretty, and good to shuffle too (I’m a great dancer).
Miamore wanted ponies to be able to walk on walls and things so we all agreed to that. Gallophad decided it’d be good if nopony had to control the sun and moon. If nopony had to control them then they could spend all of their time playing and having fun instead of being bored all the time. I agreed with this; being bored was no fun. That goes double when you’re spending that time being bored with an extremely boring pony. Loony clapped about Gallophad’s idea and gurgled happily. The moon and the sun would come and go as they wanted; one second it could be dark and the next it could be light. That way nopony would ever lose interest because it would always be something different and new. Awesome right? I know.
Galloway wanted all of the dirt roads to turn into soap. That way he could have a bath whilst walking to his training session, so no time wasted having to wait for water to boil and stuff. Plus you could get anywhere much faster by skating along it as if you were on ice. I’ve always wanted to try ice-skating. Daddy could never do it himself so we never went. But riding on soap sounded like fun too. I bet I could be amazing at soap-sliding. Better than anypony probably. Everypony would watch me sailing past and they’d say, “Wow, look at that. Isn’t he amazing? Who is he?” And then my friends would be all like, “oh that’s Diddy Lion, he’s my friend.” They’d be really proud for everypony to know that they were friends with me. I’d love that; to be admired and remembered. Sounds cool.
We were talking about what the houses could be like when Loony tipped over and stood on her head. That’s when we had the idea of putting some of the houses upside down. That way when you walked on the floor you’d really be walking on the roof. Everything would be all weird and strange that you’d never not find something to laugh at.
I added my candyfloss clouds that rained chocolate milk. Everypony else laughed because of how many times I’d told them I’d wanted them. Now I got my chance. Miamore chuckled and said we might as well have popcorn everywhere to give some different kind of food as well. He might have meant it as a joke but we added it anyway.
Tia’s was the best idea of all of them. The whole ground of the Capital and beyond would be patterned like a chess board but in different pretty colours. Imagine playing a game of chess over a massive hill and with real black and white ponies. It sounds amazing. Tia’s as good at the game as I am, but I bet I could beat her at a life size version. Easy peasy, milk and cheesy.
There’s plenty more that we put on there like cardboard cut-out houses that were easy to move and stuff, but none as good as the rest of our ideas. We’d add more as we came up with it we decided. Now all it needed was a name. By High Tea we still hadn’t come up with anything so went off to eat and hoped an idea would come to us.
Little did we know that my Mommy would give us the answer to our problem.
“Hello troublemakers,” she’d greeted us at the tea table. “How’s our little chaos makers today? That’s what we need around here at the minute isn’t it? A little bit of nice chaos to make everypony feel more happy.”
“How would chaos help?” I’d asked. Mummy grinned at me and rubbed my head. I like it when she does that, it’s soothing. Mother never used to do that with me ever back at my old home.
“You should know little Diddy, you’re pretty much the lord of chaos around here.”
Then she left. But after that we knew what our land was all about. A land built on chaos—happy, joyful, funny chaos—that would make everypony smile, and never be dull. And Blankety (since he was the one who came up with the idea) was King of the whole Kingdom.
But I got the greatest job of all, as—
Diddy Lion, the great Lord of Chaos.
That’s me. And I’m going to do everything to protect it and carry on making my friends smile.