For a second I was like "wait, I don't remember posting that." That's really cute.

With regards to the cutie marks, would they really need to change? Honestly, only the younger ponies really seem to care about them. The older ponies only talk about them when talking to the CM Cs. A no longer relevant cutie mark could just be a reminder of an earlier point in their lives. Like an embarrasing old tattoo.

I was doing the same thing yesterday when we were both using this one:

Speaking of Marks, I need some for my anti Mane case in my Bizzaro world story.

I'm surprised noone's tried to take Bloomberg.

Anyway, the cutie marks are kind of vague anyway, so I don't think it would be much of a problem to switch to something else.

Also, what's CMFIS?

I can't take it I'm broowing this compputer.

Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome

*whoosh*

edited 22nd Jul '11 3:21:45 PM by EgregiousEric

I just caill it Cutty mark Crash

^^It was posited a few pages ago that being unable to fulfil one's calling (as indicated by their cutie mark) can cause a pony to snap temporarily. For the two most, well, visible examples: Fluttershy can't befriend the animals in the Palace Gardens, and gets angry, while Pinkie gets depressed when she thinks people don't like her parties anymore.

edited 22nd Jul '11 3:25:22 PM by RedSavant

I just relised some Fridge Horror in my Corrover Role playing. If Fluttershy goes into Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome amd scares Raven it could lead to very bad things.

edited 22nd Jul '11 3:39:08 PM by RandomChaos

Would you guys say that while Twilight is STRONGER than Trixie, Trixie seems to be more CREATIVE? That appeared to be what was implied in Boast Busters. Twilight was using canned spells to defeat the Ursa Minor, while Trixie seemed to be performing relatively impressive magic, seemingly off the cuff in response to new "Challenges" she was facing.

Nope. Twilight thought of using spells to rather uniquely deal with a problem.

Trixie's weren't really much in the way of innovation.

Creative is the wrong word. I meant that Twilight was using spells that were taught to her in a book, and used them in different ways. Trixie seemed to improvise and INVENT the spells she used (since they served such a specific purpose)

I don't know if there's any evidence of that. The point of the episode was that they had similar magical abilities, they were just different about showing them off, wasn't it?

Nope, can't say that, given what spells were used by Trixie. Hair-dying is just as likely a spell as mustache creation.

I would vote for more creative

I think in cases like this, you try to spite all the fans and do something completely out of left field. I mean come on, the most sinister pony of all turns into the most moe pony of all? There's got to be more to it than that. I wonder if "repentant Luna" could be just as much of a mask as Nightmare Moon.

There's also the fact that Apple-Bloom is a whole new character. It might have been a mistake for me to watch the G3.5 cartoons, because now it makes the new Sweetie-Belle and Scootaloo feel a little strange to watch. Does Scootaloo even say "Cool beans!" anymore? That was their best catchphrase.

Heh, it took me until seeing the head-protector thing before I realized who Hinata was. At first I thought "Hey, another humanized Twilight Sparkle, with her own pony toy! ...What?"

Hehe, at first I took this as a response to Random Chaos and thought you meant that Bizarro Applejack's cutie mark should be Bloomberg. But hey, having an entire apple tree as a mark would be one way to show she has grander ambitions than the normal Applejack.

Right. Remember that the marks are only symbols, and so finding one's calling in life doesn't just produce the mark, but also an understanding of what the mark means. If there is such a thing as Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome, it may be resolved by coming to a new understanding of what direction in life the symbol indicates.

(Even still, I like to think that ponies often change their names to better reflect their cutie marks, owing to all those ponies whose marks are clearly simply pictorial representations of their names. This would all be less troublesome if Hasbro had established where the hip marks came from in the beginning, not almost three decades into the franchise.)

I was merely musing, that is what we're here for is it not? It wasn't outright stated in the ep, it was just something I thought I noticed.

Plus, I bitterly disliked the fact that Twilight was better in EVERY possible way. It was never even doubted, like at all. They KNEW she was better than Trixie from the very beginning

Who?

It wasn't just dye, it physically turned the hair into plantlife. No purpose for that spell at all

edited 22nd Jul '11 4:52:35 PM by gingerninja666

Trixie has honed her magic to humiliate hecklers in every field!

I could see that. Trixie was pretty good at countering her hecklers. Twilight is powerful, but she doesn't seem to be good at responding to unexpected problems. Her spell for the parasprites backfired, and her response to the hydra was to charge at it.

Well, no, it put sticks and some worms in it, which isn't turning it into a plant. Maybe I'd say putting mold or moss in it instead of dyeing but still, not beyond conceivable as an established prank.

And well, the snake trick is common with ropes already, and it's not like somebody couldn't invent the Excellent Prismatic Wraparound.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:00:52 PM by blueharp

I assumed that the spells were invented wholesale by Trixie off the top of her head because none of them served any real purpose. All of Twilight's came from a book and had a specific purpose, she just resuited said purpose. Also, I assumed that the twigs and worms were added to illustrate that her hair had been turned into plantlife, why would you first assume that it was just dyed, THEN those things were added?

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Trixie the only unicorn seen in the show that can create her own wheather?

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:06:03 PM by gingerninja666

We don't know if it's even possible to create new spells on the fly like that. Largely because it's handled in a way similar to Sabrina the Teenage Witch; all spells are cast the same way, just point your magic digit at something and let the special effects department take over, and yet characters are still seen researching their spells. It makes the whole process confusing, which I might say is good for a magic system if it didn't obfuscate the Magic A is Magic A issue.

Also, as a D&D player I have to say I find your claim that those spells are useless dubious at best. Every arcane caster worth his salt takes Prestidigitation.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:04:55 PM by TurnwaysFlip

Turning HAIR into plants though, the spell seemed oddly specific

Moving ropes around for Applejack's is hardly out of the bounds of any other telekinetic manipulation, I could say the same what was done to Rainbow Dash, it's not like Rainbows actually work like that anyway, and because that's how I've seen such things done before, with similar pranks, even in the real world. Dump a bucket of slime, sticks and mold on somebody, and it's an ick-gross kind of thing.

Makes a lot more sense than turning it into a plant. If the artists had wanted to give that impression they should have made it look like leaves, added a few flowers or something, not just turned it green and put some gross stuff in it.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:08:02 PM by blueharp

Could be a specific application of a more general transmutation spell. Hair is dead tissue, so a spell that transmutes nonliving organic matter into other types of nonliving organic matter could replace her hair with dead plants. In fact I think you could actually do that with Prestidigitation.

Again, assuming that's what actually happened. Me, I actually thought it had done the equivalent of dunking her head in a lakebed, getting it covered with algae and mud and stuff.

Or it could've been an illusion.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:10:21 PM by TurnwaysFlip