It's been a while. Chapter 19 of Moondust is trucking along. No set date, as usual, but it'll definitely be out before Christmas, and it'll be the largest chapter by far, so hopefully it'll be worth the wait!

For now, here's some worldbuilding talk. I want to explain a concept that I won't have the chance to properly explore until Golden Ghost Library: Thau-nuclear Force, or "TNF". Colloquially known as magic.

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Thestralia, the homeland and Kingdom of the Thestrals. The planet's equivalent to Earth's Australia.
Based on Thestrals (Bat Ponies) and Australia.

Kiwaniland, home of the Kiwis. The planet's equivalent to Earth's New Zealand.

Based on Kiwis (the bird, fruit and its people) and the Kiwano (a horned melon grown in New Zealand).

Only a part of it I used for inspiration. The rest of it is inspired by greek/roman tragic myths.

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...Okay, it's time to break character here. I'm not gonna even pretend like I've been Discorded by the Discord you guys have been reading about in The Elements of Friendship. I have no excuse for my silence the past several weeks; I've just been terribly prioritizing basic mundane things over writing for you guys. As a way of apologizing for that, please accept the following.

Time for a little history lesson in the world of The Elements of Friendship:

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I touched upon this a little bit in my Barcast interview (it's somewhere amongst all the various technical difficulties).

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So I was writing OtIoPW... and I encountered a small problem: For the tone of the story to hold, I need to write the wand purchase scene... from Ollivander's perspective. And for that, I needed to have an appreciation for just how much strain thirteen thousand students would put on his shop.

So I estimated...

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CAUTION: Extreme Math Ahead!

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Introduction:

Unless Equestria is destroyed fairly soon, it will have a future, and the future is an interesting place in which to set stories. The question is, what sort of future?

I. Distance

The first question is, how far in the future are we? Borrowing from science fiction, we can distinguish some categories: I'll divide them into five here.

A. Very Near

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Because I just got back from Hawaii and I'm inspired.

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On Hunting Season, Scourge of Lightning asked a couple of questions about burliness that have branched off into some worldbuildy aspects, and more importantly, is getting really long. I'm also copying the conversation about Bigness just to make it easier to reference at the bottom. If you're really interested in the silly world in my head, there's some aspects here, though the post gets long for archival reasons. I'll

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So, especially including the archive of the questions Scourge asked, that last one got long. If you've got questions about the Hyperverse, even just including what people are doing or look like, as long as they aren't too spoilery, feel free to ask them here.

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Obligatory clickbait opening image that vaguely relates to the theme:

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Now with 100% less name!
Seriously, at this point, just call it a general assortment of theories, conclusions, and common sense, thought up by Giginss.

Before I get to the actual worldbuilding, I'd like to leave the name of a few who have had the greatest impact on my ideas and theories.
alarajrogers
Brandon Sanderson
DannyJ
Carabas
FanOfMostEverything

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In our previous blog, we talked about the harness. The next part is the wagon, right?

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Actually, no. Before we get to the wagon, we've got several other important pieces of the hitch to cover.

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Hey, I'm finally returning to FiMFiction after so long! I'm currently hashing out the details of the next chapter of My Little Queen: Friendship is Salvation, so I figured I'd give you all a bit of worldbuilding on how changeling society works in this universe. Specifically, the thirteen legions.

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Worldbuilding: Harnesses, pt 4

Alright, we covered a lot in the last three blogs, and y'all are probably a bit confused. I know I am!

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Harnesses.

They come in many shapes.

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Uh . . . let's start over, shall we?

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Now that the fields are plowed, it's time to plant them.

There are broadly two different ways to accomplish this. Either you put the seeds underground, or you sow them on top of the ground.

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Political system in Equestria can be most succintly described as "constitutional oligarchy". While nominally, the minutae government have had been largely delegated to elected representatives, major decisions are universally deferred to alicorns.

1) Legislative.

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I was gonna write another blog post about mechanicing, because people like those, but then I decided to change subjects slightly, due to one of our customers today.

And this actually is a nice lead-in to another blog post that I was going to write eventually, so win/win, I guess?

So, this guy:

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