Normalize pony speak, and pretending that you don't understand earth vernacular.

ME: "I'm sorry what? Every...Everyb..."

THEM: "Uh...Everybody."

ME: "Huh? Oh, you mean everyPONY. Cute. Clever."

THEM: "Sir, this is a Wendy's."

-Sprocket

For years, I have been using Hurricane Fluttershy's use of "wing power" as a metaphor for pitching in. Everypony contributes for the common good.

It's a major theme of the episode, and of the show in general.

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...and there was much rejoicing.

-Sprocket

Hearth's Warming Tail is, of course, a retelling of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, and Starlight Glimmer is a perfect choice to parallel Scrooge. Apart from being a reformed villainess, she is also the only main character to have plausible reasons for holiday indifference.

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Last night, I finished watching "The End in Friend". This was the Season 8 episode when Rarity and Rainbow Dash discovered that they had nothing in common, and fought bitterly (and publically) about it, setting a bad example for the Young Six, who were supposed to be learning about friendship.

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Millions of workers don't get to spend Thanksgiving with their families. It's a miserable night to be on the job.

This Thanksgiving, you can make a difference in a stranger's life. All you have to do is buy a box of cookies or chocolates, swing by a business that's open, and give it away.

This small act of kindness and solidarity can make somebody feel cared about, and get them through a rough night.

It's easy and 💯% worth doing.

Discuss.
-Sprocket

Can we talk for a minute about this picture on the wall, the monumental symbolism the filmmakers managed to instill in it, and how soul-crushingly devastating it is when Sunny comes home after having failed her mission, and DOESN'T straighten it out?

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Reblog from 2016

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Chapter 54 drops this Friday, just in time for Nightmare Night weekend.

How do unicorns know what sardines are if Bridlewood is landlocked? Why do ponies have sardines at all? Are they omnivores now?

Something's fishy here.