So this is what's up: Equestria Daily Summer Fanfic Competition 2014.

Prompt: Write a story about ponies... from a non-pony's point of view.

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Just something I came up in work.

Bow at the rain
for the speed of a train
offers no game
for a pony whose very name
is far from tame
whose dashing essence
is the plain opposite of lame
snow or sun, it's all the same
for the mare at the end of the rain.

At least it rhymes...

About six months ago, because of no particularly exciting reasons, I put up a thread in the Writer’s Group. In it I asked whether other ponies fancied using ponified phrases such as “everypony”, “somepony,” “nopony” etc. in their real life interactions, and to be more precise, in “non-brony” contexts. Whether this would be a school, a workplace, or a discussion with a non-brony was not specified – I was simply curious if anypony did this. As an example, I mentioned that I had used the Finnish

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Ever since finding this group, I've tried to keep alive an essay series called "Essays Are Magic" (such nifty, very generic). Consisting of whole two essays, the project can only barely run away with the label "series", but the point is that it's something I've gradually grown fond of. And it's about time that I begun considering getting a third branch for my pet tree. On some level, I'm sure that analogy makes sense.

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Just spreading the word. For no reason.

Here is the poll for Everfree Northwest community voting, where you can make the difference. If you don't know what this is all about, head here.

Oh, and my fic is there among the contestants. Just saying.

That is all.

Essays Are Magic II: The Problem Called Siblinghood, the Solution Called Friendship

In many cases the machine philosophique, at least in its Western configuration and tradition, operates on the basis of problematizing the ordinary. “What is true, what is beautiful, what is justice?” These questions are prime examples of the classic Socratic/Platonic thought, and funny as it is, we still find them troubling us, even after 2500 years.

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“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

—J.R.R Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”

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That. Was. Brilliant.

That made me scream out aloud. But enough of the hype; what did we actually get to learn about the world and its characters?

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By the Love of Celestia I will get this one story published on Equestria Daily.

The thing about philosophy is... That it is really not about anything or, in the words of Anton Chigurh: "The point is there ain't no point." (From the Coen brothers movie No Land for Old Men). Of course this opinion in itself, then, is not about anything, either.

So what happens, then, when one talks about something with a language of nothing?

Everything.

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