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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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. I’m about to engage in the third one.

That is, I remembered about the Great FimFiction Dump and decided to finally do something interesting with it.

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This is not so much an idea as it is a conversation piece.

The idea of Celestia meeting herself is not unknown in canon – the entire Reflections storyline in the comics is kind of about Celestia meeting a mirror universe (in the Star Trek sense) version of herself.

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Moar pone! This episode is written by two ladies who wrote both Rarity Investigates – a very nice episode of relatively low world-building impact, and The Hooffields & McColts, a rather mediocre episode which likewise, didn’t tell us a whole lot about the world.

But now they’re talking about Spike and dragons, and most importantly dragon culture.

Well, it josses a bloody lot.

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And here’s the second comic issue of the two.

Spoilers follow.

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Today, a couple new comic issues crossed my horizon, so we’re back to our regularly scheduled canonical statement investigations! First up is My Little Pony #41…

Spoilers inevitably follow.

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Since even Bad Horse says I’ve out-nerded him, I might as well explain how I did it in great, excruciating detail. Because I’ve finally published the results as fit for human/pony consumption.

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Continuing my points-of-canon series once again. This particular dose of pony is brought to us by Dave Polsky, the gentleman responsible for “Over a Barrel,” i.e. the source of some of the most egregious canon problems.

I was expecting something outrageously difficult, but surprisingly, I had to really fish for any world building elements in this one at all.

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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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So I wanted to use something else for scene breaks other than the boring-looking [hr]...

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