Ok, it’s Number 5 on Reddit. I trust you can guess the pattern. Since I’m reposting this in 2022, this is all about Equestria before its first unification. Notably, this scenario couldn’t work for the pre-history of ANG, as it requires flying pegasi. I also felt like I did more copyediting of this post than earlier entries in the series. My apologies that it’s a wall of text essay instead of being broken up with headers. The original on Reddit had ponymotes to add visual cues.

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Given that Season 9's upon us, an antagonist from G1 has finally returned, and the periphery demographic is still out there, I can't help but feel that this song from Red Vs. Blue is strangely appropriate. 😄

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As always, I'll probably entirely rewrite the preface to my original Reddit post and replace it with 2022 commentary. In this case, I encourage you all to open up a discussion on unicorn vs. alicorn magic that I shouted out back in 2017 with an easily-buried link in a new tab as

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So, how did I spend my week? Did I write several thousand words? Did I move bookshelves so the library could be repainted? Did I finish sewing a dress and begin an embroidered Gorgoneion?

Well, yes, I did do all of those. But I also went through this remarkably obsessive list of every pony who appears in every episode of FiM, and analyzed the data I collected from that.

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