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[Ochita]

Its okay... I will never become a pony. Ever. I will still post awesome art when I find it though.

[Fayrik]

Every week I see at least one more pony avatar on this forum.

This is the power of...
The Herd.

My brain is full of rainbows.

So. Just Rainbow Dash then? (It's always the ponies.)

Its okay... I will never become a pony. Ever. I will still post awesome art when I find it though.

Pfff, that's fine. Just get used to being 20% less awesome than everyone else.

[dragonshardz]

Seriously, some of the stuff new TwitterPonies come up with boggle my mind, especially when it comes to things that are insanely anachronistic.

In addition to Dr. Whooves, we have an extradimensional unicorn and now an extradimensional "nano-composite android sent through a trans-dimensional rift by accident, landing in Equestria, Outer Ponyville."

[Fayrik]

When I started reading it was just normal life in Ponyville.
Then things started going mad.
Then things got really mad.
Now they've leveled out at around mad-ish.

And yet still weird stuff is ahoof!

[Armok]

I... I did crossover fanart

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(yes, I know about the spelling error)

If I don't come to my senses, this might be part of a set of 12; corresponding the the virtues of Rationality rather than Friendship. Form http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues .

[Solifuge]

Nice, Armok. I must say your choice of things to do crossover with is unique.

Spoiler: Also, Princess Derpy (click to show/hide)

[Darvi]

She's cross-eyed <_>

[Sowelu]

Well, it makes sense that there are more ponies at the princesses' power levels around somewhere.  I mean Celestia does have a nephew, on her mother's side.

Which is interesting, cosmologically.  We know the sisters are well over a thousand years old.  One might assume, given their whole sun/moon thing, that they are always-was/always-will-be deities.  But they did have a mother, and from Lauren Faust's phrasing, one can assume they had a father.

I wonder if they were young before the world was created, that they in some way took up their sun/moon roles at the same time as the world really started being a thing that exists?  Did they take over from their parents?  Is the world screwed because Celestia doesn't have children...or does she have some after all?  Maybe it's not an inherited position, but rather an earned or accepted one.  Is Twilight being trained to take on sky-goddess duties someday?  She does have a time-of-day based name, so it's possible.  Could she be distantly related to the royal family?  She lived in Canterlot, she might be.

I keep wondering about the Elements of Harmony back in the good old days.  In modern times they have to be wielded by personifications of the elements.  Was that true a thousand years ago?  If so, surely Celestia and Luna were two of the elements.  I'm guessing Celestia was probably magic, but what was Luna?  Kindness maybe, or laughter...  Now I want to see more of the historic ponies.


...Luna's ruined castle was in the Everfree Forest.  I wonder if it was quite so Everfree before her exile.

[Silfurdreki]

Oooh, pony metaphysics, I like.

Maybe Celestia and Luna's parents were the personifications ponyfications/caretakers of some other part of nature? The sky and the earth, for example.

It's entirely possible that Celestia intends to somehow pass along the sky-godess duties to Twilight at some point, and since there's a (distant) nephew of Celstia's in Canterlot it's also fully possible that Twilight is distantly related to the royal family. It might even be that all unicorn ponies are ultimately related to the royal family in some fashion, and that their innate magic is some kind of trace of the power Celastia and Luna (and presumably their parents) have.

About the Elements: I understood it as that they didn't need to be wielded by personifications of the elements, but rather by someone associated with each element. Twilight's narration when they use the elements in the pilot is "[one of the ponies] [brief summary of their actions] represents the spirit of [element]!", after all. It's not too far a stretch to imagine that either Celestia has a high enough power level of her own to represent all of the elements at the same time, or that she gathered up a pony gang of her own.

[Fayrik]

I was happily pondering over this topic after reading these posts. Happily thinking up something smart to say in response, to further the interesting discussion.
Then it hit me:
We know so little about Celestia's actual powers.

Though, it has just struck me:

It's not too far a stretch to imagine that either Celestia has a high enough power level of her own to represent all of the elements at the same time, or that she gathered up a pony gang of her own.

How would somepony represent Loyalty when there's only one pony in the group?
My natural assumption would be that Celestia had help.

[Sowelu]

Loyalty to ones' subjects, of course.  Feudalism goes both ways, to some extent at least.

...And yeah.  Not knowing much about her actual powers is kind of scary.  Although, just the ability to live for thousands of years might be the only important innate part of being a pegacorn.  Unicorn ponies seem to accumulate power as time goes by, as long as they have the talent and drive.  Hell the Great and Powerful Trixie seemed kind of young, honestly; imagine what she would turn into with wings and a few hundred years under her belt.  Note that I didn't say 'who' but 'what'.

Rarity's flutterwings seriously went to her head...I mean some of that is just that they were pretty and she was Rarity.  But yeah, god complex much?

I wonder if we'll see flutter ponies.  Or sea ponies, agh.  :<

Still though.  I would really love to see flashbacks to Celestia's adventuring days.  Did she have children, does she lack them because of her duties...or is she still in mourning for love lost, after losing her stallion in one of Equestria's ancient, brutal wars?  (Maybe that's where the flutterponies and sea ponies went.  Wiped out, genocided ages ago by ponykind's ancient enemies.  The older TV series were kind of hardcore that way.  Plus you could kind of kill a flutterpony with nothing but a jar of maple syrup...)

[Fayrik]

Loyalty to ones' subjects, of course.  Feudalism goes both ways, to some extent at least.

Hmmm. I suppose it could even be to all of the subjects, but even so, seems weird when she's on her own.

Note that I didn't say 'who' but 'what'.

Noted... In all honesty, the thought of a super powerful Trixie scares me a bit.

Still though.  I would really love to see flashbacks to Celestia's adventuring days.  Did she have children, does she lack them because of her duties...or is she still in mourning for love lost, after losing her stallion in one of Equestria's ancient, brutal wars?  (Maybe that's where the flutterponies and sea ponies went.  Wiped out, genocided ages ago by ponykind's ancient enemies.  The older TV series were kind of hardcore that way.  Plus you could kind of kill a flutterpony with nothing but a jar of maple syrup...)

I'd love to see that t-

-in one of Equestria's ancient, brutal wars?

The older TV series were kind of hardcore that way.

What in the name of Celestia...

[Silfurdreki]

We know so little about Celestia's actual powers.

What powers do we actually know about?

Most obvious is her power over the sun and moon, but we also know (or legend has it) that she is capable of imprisoning someone of equal god-pony status in the moon, although not permanently. Also, this was one thousand years ago, presumably she has become more powerful and knowledgeable since then. We also now that she can somehow transport herself using light (she does this in ep. two when Twilight and co. had defeated Nightmare Moon). She is apparently also knowledgeable enough to anticipate the return of Nightmare Moon and predict that put into motion the gambit where Twilight and co. ends up defeating her. Additionally, she has a phoenix as a pet, a phoenix is presumably a very rare creature, since neither Fluttershy nor Twilight recognized it for what it was. Finally, she can send mail via Spike's belches, seemingly without him knowing about it beforehand, which is kind of an odd power, but none the less.

I wonder what causes Celestia and Luna's longevity. Were they born this way? Did they somehow inherit it from their parents? Maybe they somehow attained it during a normal pony lifetime?

I wonder if we'll see flutter ponies.  Or sea ponies, agh.  :<

Sea ponies? Would they be some pony version of mermaids, based on seahorses?

-in one of Equestria's ancient, brutal wars?

The older TV series were kind of hardcore that way.

What in the name of Celestia...

Wars? in my My Little Pony? Impossible! Improbable!

[Sowelu]

Yes, they are based on seahorses, and the sea pony song was the point where that series jumped the shark.

And wars, oh yes there were wars.  I'll have to dig up some links.

Yeah, it turns out that FIM is a gateway drug.  You end up looking up other pony series.

[GlyphGryph]

I liked the war against the Ooze. The Ooze was adorable. As was the giant spider. Ah, memories of childhood...