Goof morning everypony.. ohhh getting lost ummm, yeah never really happened to me.

...no, derpy, you're doing it wrong... (nsfw)

I had to walk 3 miles in the afternoon desert sun once.

I dunno, I think that for transmogrification spells in general, permanent effects would be the default. You know, because the spell wouldn't need to hold any data for the target's original form.

Crikey Yeller! At least it isn't tundra.

Anywho, I'm awake, and had to smile at a few pictures. Never thought a cat form of Pinkie'd be so fitting. Also, the combs are back in action. -pulls out seventeen combs- (Please don't ask how I manage to hold them all.

I also had something of an unusual dream involving Lyra.

I don't know if it would be the default; it would probably take a lot more magic to get something like that to work.

I guess it depends on how you assume the spell operates.

Like, I'm thinking it's like reshaping a lump of, say, play-doh. So when the spell ends, the sculpture of a pegasus that you turned into a tree doesn't automatically go back to looking like a pegasus. Not until you cast another spell to do just that (or the spell is specifically designed to remember the original shape and put it back as its effect ends).

The other way it would work might be more like stretching a rubber band. In which case, it only stays taut as long as the spell is still in effect. When the spell ends, the rubber band snaps back to its original shape.

edited 16th Apr '13 7:54:16 AM by KylerThatch

I had a dream involving Scootaloo this morning. Surprsingly, she had a mother.

A sort of Shapeshifting vs. Glamour issue, perhaps?

Of course she had a mother. It's not like Scootaloo spontaneously materialized out of the aether.

Or maybe she did... and came out a little wrong which is why she can't fly...

Not exactly. I mean, glamour would be more akin to illusion rather than transformation, right?

edited 16th Apr '13 7:58:41 AM by KylerThatch

No I mean a mother that actually appeared.

Anyway, I just came across this video. It's pretty cool.

Yeah, but glamour as a rule is really good illusion. Like, it covers tactile, scent, visual, auditory. When you can fool a person in every way possible, the difference becomes negligible.

Also, we've all seen Hercules. Pegasi don't have parents, they're spontaneously generated cloudforms.

edited 16th Apr '13 8:07:45 AM by kegisak

I thought they were created at a Temple by spending Food and Favor?

If you mean Disney's Hercules, it's been a while since I've last seen it, and I didn't pay that much attention in any case.

If you mean the original legend/story/whatever... I have absolutely no idea.

I thought pegasi were born whenever you beheaded a gorgon.

Scootaloo is a machine sent from the future to terminate specific targets.

edited 16th Apr '13 8:10:09 AM by TheFreeman

@Kyler: he is referring to Disney's Hercules. i remember the scene in question.

Does this mean that Zeus is canon?

Suddenly I want to see a fic where somepony (probably Sweetie Belle) finds out that they're not an organic meatbag, that they're really a robot designed to imitate a real pony.

Then it turns out that they're all robots, and they all thought they were the only ones.

That's too easy. If anypony is a robot, it's Scootaloo. It would explain her lack of family, and why she can't fly: she's too heavy, being built out of metal.

edited 16th Apr '13 8:17:36 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Like invasion of the body snatchers, where everyone is the fifth pillar. And they realize it like thirty minutes in, and the rest of the movie is a romantic comedy.

Now that'd be a heluva fic.

Idea: Everypony is a robot. Their rite of passage involves first realizing that they are a robot, then realizing that everypony else is also a robot.

Well... no.

edited 16th Apr '13 8:24:05 AM by KylerThatch

You mean Friendship is Witchcraft?

This is what happens when Sweetie Belle learns how to sing a lullaby.