Hoo boy, 37 is gonna be a challenge. Still, 29 was supposed to be stupidly long and I managed to survive that, but Iunno.

Chapter 35 is the Arbu thing, right? That's gonna be fun.

The fic or the liveblog?

edited 27th Nov '12 2:20:39 PM by Pannic

The fic read like an LP to me.

35 is where I quit. What was coming became rather obvious, so the lack of suspense combined with my distaste for the setting did it in for me.

This Saturday is Trixie time.

To try and jump in with what was being said earlier about written languages, I think that Equestria might follow the old medieval style of different languages being used at different levels, only at a written level rather than speach. To use post-1066 Britain as an example, the old Anglo-Saxon dialect was used as the language of the commoners...Norman French was the language of business and law (and the every day language of the nobles)...and Latin was the language of the church (serimons and religious documents were always done in Latin).

So, business might be written down in an EP script (I think they are the traders), Pegasus script might be used in military matters, and all 'magic' in written down in Unicorn script.

Or...y'know, something like that.

My own hypothesis is that Earth Pony script is the main print language in present day Equestria.

Unicorn script is the standard for academic works and higher maths, and also serves as the main script for poetry.

edited 27th Nov '12 2:41:47 PM by AceOfScarabs

Another title card.

The Phantom Zone is really made of paper.

Makes sense, considering the glyphs are from books (magic and prophesy), the one that we can actually read is what Spike writes in (formal/business), and then there's the script that the Foal Free Press used (common). The only outlier is the Talent Show flier that used the Glyphs.

edited 27th Nov '12 2:44:44 PM by PerpetualLurker

They might use it for the arts as well, since the glyphs are fancier than the Earth Pony phonetics-based lettering.

@Sereg: Regarding the "creating life" thing. 1. There's no indication that she actually made the spiders become real, as opposed to just using a spell to puppet them. 2. Even assuming that the whole "portfolio" thing is true, Luna and Celestia still have standard unicorn powers in addition to their sun/moon abilities. Animating a few dolls might not even be that tough by unicorn standards.

Such is alternate universes.

And another title card.

edited 27th Nov '12 2:55:42 PM by TheFreeman

@last page: How can Cadence be that old if she was a teenager when she was looking after Twilight?

HOLY SHIT GUYS THE WHITE RIDER UPDATED!!

@ AHR: Simple, by all indications Alicorns look older when they gain power. Luna looked her oldest as Nightmare Moon when she was most powerful, she looked older in Luna Eclipsed when she was more powerful than just after she was defeated. Ergo, Cadance existed for an indeterminate amount of time before Twilight's flashback, gained some power and thus looked older for A Canterlot Wedding.

Remember we were talking about Fluttershy's beauty? She might be something like this girl in appearance. Maybe.

It's not just war though. Trade is just as effective at rapidly changing a language (look at how many loanwords English has, even not counting the Norman stuff.)

Nah!

I think it's the later, especially since it's something Twilights already been established as being capable of, so it's known magic.

Not enough swearing, or constantly thanking the viewers/talking about view statistics.

Now this is a really sweet pic.

http://miokomata.deviantart.com/art/Dont-cry-293203474

Why would RD be crying?

And now, Something Completely Different

I like this design for Firecracker Burst.

I love the scorched tips.

And now for something else completely different: I got around to reviewing "One Bad Seed". Whoohoo

Yay!

I'll read that when I get a chance.