I’m not sure why exactly, but the words “best princess” are much more often applied to Luna than Celestia, so I’ll go with that. This is not a statement of preference for either princess, but another long-winded research post, and Luna is just the subject of said research.

And the question I am aiming to answer today is:

Why, exactly, was Luna, apparently, forgotten entirely, and Nightmare Moon was an “old ponies’ tale?”

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Discord’s alleged rule of Equestria has been an oft-repeated notion in horse writing, and there is much praise to be said for some of the depictions, just as there are those of them which didn’t turn out so well. However, the subject of today’s musing is…

…When did it happen? What was it like? And, did it even really happen?

As usual, a question more complicated than it appears.

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In an earlier post in this series, I have studied the canon regarding the features of Equestrian celestial mechanics, and concluded that Equestria has to be a ridiculously small, spherical planet in a geocentric system with an artificial, manually controlled sun and moon.

Now riddle me this: Why do ponies think of other planets at all?

Let’s do some more canon welding.

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In fandom, most commonly, Equestria is called a diarchy. Because it is ruled by two princesses, and one would make it a monarchy. Which gets muddled when two princesses become three, then Crystal Empire turns up, and then Twilight grows wings and gets to be a princess too, so we go from stereo-archy all the way to quadraphonic.

Sometimes, it’s a principality, for the same reason. Occasionally, it’s a feudal… something. More often than not, it’s an empire.

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Hey everyone!

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My regular Random Thoughts About Canon series is back with a somewhat controversial statement:

Ponies have arrived to Equestria no earlier than about 1200 years ago.

I’ve been trying to twist it every which way, and can’t make a plausible chronology that fits all statements that is much longer than that. You can make it longer only if you discount something.

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So I’ve been reading things.

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What is a research topic? It is the subject or issues that a researcher is interested in when conducting research. Selecting a relevant and researchable research topic could be challenging. The process could be exhausting – never-ending research, making mistakes, struggles in formulating a research question. It entails;

Best Topic Selection Tips

1. Brainstorm for Ideas

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An idea just came to me: The Cake is a Pie.

No, literally, this is, like, the entire thing. It explains a lot, though.

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So I got stuck writing the last chapter due to wanting to show more scenes of Shiny and Cadance on a normal date but with the complications presented by her being a now well known member of royalty being followed around by Ponyrazzi. Let's see which pieces of research have inspired me the most the past few weeks....

'The Royal We' By Heather Cook

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Time for another thought experiment in pegasus flight. They’re pretty complicated creatures, these pegasi, aren’t they?

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So I had a question I can’t substantiate a good answer for. Let’s try posing it to a wider audience.

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"New evidence confirms what gun rights advocates have said for a long time about crime" from Washington Post:

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Market Analysis

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This had to happen sooner or later.

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Actually, I researched most of this well over a year ago and dismissed the topic as not particularly interesting to anyone. It’d be a nice sociology paper, printed, read by all of four people, and subsequently forgotten forever, but I’m not doing that sort of thing academically anymore.

Recently, however, I had the occasion to publicly refer to this conclusion again, so why not.

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I’ve written a huge number of those Points of Canon posts. Someone might actually use them as a reference.¹

Which means that it might be helpful to define certain recurring terms that are not always defined in the posts themselves, which became sort of a shorthand.

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I have been thinking about Twilight’s Kingdom – it’s actually the longest Points of Canon series post in terms of word count – rather a lot. Probably too much, seeing how that post ended up comparatively unread. Anyway, here, I’m about to offer some answers to the questions I posed in there…

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I presented this idea while taking apart Discordant Harmony, and I think it’s actually original, unlike the idea on Star Swirl’s origins, which was first publicly put forward by Dr. Wolf. Time to write this out in detail.

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