I've come to the conclusion that there is no way that the Ponies are genus Equus (the one including our world's extant horses, donkeys and zebras, and numerous extinct varieties). My reason for this conclusion are the existence of gross anatomical differences, even between the Earth Ponies and real horses. (I mention the Earth Ponies because they are the Pony race which is physically most like actual horses).

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Just put up chapter 2, "Fledging," of my Luna-centered fic All the Way Back. In this chapter, Luna makes a major step toward her physical and psychological recovery. I also get to show her utterly lost when dealing with normal, softer emotions, and utterly in her element as she prepares for the possibility of bloody internecine war.

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Princess Luna doesn't fit very well into modern Equestria. Here's the reason why.

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Happy New Year, anyone who's actually following this blog!

I've started, and have posted the first chapter of my new story All the Way Back, about the recovery of Princess Luna from the residual effects of her long enthrallment by Nightmare, and her meeting with the strange new Equestria her sister has created. It's going to be coterminous with the first three seasons, roughly.

I hope people like it.

Wow ... I'm gratified that my guess that the Mane Six will repair the old castle turns out to be true. I wonder if this was their own idea, or if Celestia asked them to do this? I also wonder if it will ultimately wind up becoming their shared home base?

It has a huge old library. And there are probably all kinds of secrets beneath the place. Possibly connected to the Tree of Harmony, or the very early history of Equestria.

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(Wherein, having tackled Sex, I will now discuss something much less controversial) ;-)

So I was thinking about the issue of religion in Equestria, and beyond it on the whole planet.

There is a concept in TV Tropes called the "Flat Earth Atheist," whose article points out:

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I have managed to put up all first four chapters of Nightmares Are Tragic, which gives me some satisfaction as it looks as if I am actually following through on my intent to write a long and complex story. I hope I'm doing narrative justice to Lauren Faust's script and DHX's choreography!

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I would start from the assumption that most ponies are straight, or at least bi, since they seem to have a human-like family structure with the major exception that ponies seem to leave home for good younger than is common in 21st-century America (but not younger than was common in the America or Britain of 1850-1900, which had a comparable technology to Equestria). In general, the Ponies seem to fall in love and get married (generally to members of the opposite sex, though there is at

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For such a non-girly mare, Rainbow Dash can be incredibly cute when she's in full-on fangirl mode. I think it's because she lets her guard down then, and one can see the full shining beauty of her valiant soul.

The thing she does with her cheeks doesn't hurt either :)

I am curious to know if anyone else sees what I see when they look at this scene from "Castle-Mania." It's at 14:53. There are two tapestries in the throne room, one over Luna's and one over Celestia's throne, and obviously symbolizing the two sisters. Celestia's is a fairly normal solar symbology depicting the Sun nurturing the Earth's life. Luna's, on the other hand ...

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