I dont know about you, but I feel so proud and so privileged to have been part of this phenomenon - to be part of the herd. To have let horse magic into my heart, and to have contributed in some small way to what the show became; (the writers' and animators' little nods to brony culture were constant).
To see princesses in the Sun and the Moon. To believe that friendship is magic.
The fandom may change over the years to come, but we'll be around for quite a long time.
Excuse me while I nerd out about that Italian nursery rhyme from Chapter Nine.
Cavallino arri, arrò,
prendi la biada che ti do,
prendi i ferri che ti metto
per andare a San Francesco.
A San Francesco c’è una via
che ti porta a casa mia.
A casa mia c’è un altare
con tre monache a lavorare,
una cuce, una taglia,
una fa cappelli di paglia;
la più piccola e vecchietta
Santa Barbara benedetta.
I had never given fanfiction much thought before I was on the brony scene, and what thoughts I could spare on the subject were typically not very kind.
On the Aging and Development of Equus Sapiens
or, "Why pony ages are nonsense"
Spoilers for "Where the Apple Lies"
With the airing of "Where the Apple Lies", and thus the revelation of more Apple family history, I have concluded that pony ages are pretty odd. I'm going to focus on cutie marks as a marker of development, since they have been implied to occur at similar ages in most ponies, roughly coincident with the beginning of adolescence.
So, here I am, and there are all these crossovers and arguments and scenarios where Celestia gets, for the lack of a better word, completely owned.
So I wonder: How powerful is Celestia, actually?
We never really saw her fight, and aside from the fact that she can move Sun and Moon and is probably very skilled when it comes to magic in general, we don't know much to help put into perspective how powerful she is.
So I went and crunched some numbers.
Here's the idea:
For as long as this fandom has existed, arguments have raged on about the ratio of genders in Equestria; ponies have been counted on screenshots, numbers have been extrapolated, real-world equine populations have been used for comparison.
Alas, none of that will happen here. I'm too lazy for that sort and I simply do this of mathematical curiosity; and work with the tools of mathematics and probabilities I will.
HEADCANNON WARNING
ITS CANNON! Magic taking a strain on unicorns (even freaking alicorns) is now cannon. An argument could be made that this was already proven during "Boast Busters"... but hey telekinesis doesn't follow the same rules as magic, mainly because it is something that unicorns are born with, not learn.
I've thought about Equestria, its cosmology and calendar and tried to reach some conclusions from what's given us by the show.
First, I would like to postulate that Equestria is indeed placed upon a spherical body, a planet. This is supported by the existence of an "arctic north" (see S03E01) (the curvature of the planet's surface causing two "poles" with arctic climate) and a transition during the "smile song" (see S02E18).
My Little Pony fan fiction relatively often compares characters like Celestia, Luna, Cadance or Discord to gods.
I personally think that while this is a curious notion, it is not unjustified.
First, we have to ask one thing:
What is a god?
Surprise, surprise, there isn't a clear and simple answer. Hence I will now try and categorize the most common types of god.
Tier I:
Villains are amazing. They create conflict and tension in a story and often thereby make it one. They can also be interesting characters. Sadly, because villains usually arrive only one at a time, we fans can only speculate how they would interact.
This is what this is: Speculation on what would happen were one to pit the major villains of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic against each other. And by 'major', I mean 'warranting a two-part episode'.
According to the Tale of Hearth's Warming Eve, Star Swirl the Bearded was the mentor of Clover the Clever, who helped found Equestria. This means that Star Swirl was already a renowned conjurer before Equestria was founded, which happened "long before the peaceful rule of Celestia". (see S02E11)
This has been on my mind for awhile now so I'm just going to put it out here. I've heard many that state the show confirmed that the four seasons happen all in a year. So like any logical person I looked at the sources and read the transcript to see where it was spoken. What I found were pretty vague quotes.
As follows is a list of what I personally consider to be plausible pony pairings - that is to say, plausible future relationships (or in some cases, present relationships) between the major characters of the series. I mostly considered only the main cast, though I threw in a few side characters for one-off pairings for fun.
/u/Wallacoloo over on Reddit has also done his own Fimfiction data analysis, and he's taken it to places I haven't thought of or delved into before.
The Elements of Harmony are a very peculiar set of artefacts. Six gemstones that only work when wielded together by a group of bearers that represent their spirits and are connected to them. It is, however, possible for a single pony to do that on its own, Celestia is living proof.
In "The Return of Harmony" Princess Celestia tells us something very important: She and her sister are no longer connected to the Elements, only the Mane 6 can use them now.
This implies two things:
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