That Coraline picture with Apple Bloom reminded me of the cover to
Pinkie Pie's Spooky Dream
.
...Oh yeah, now I remember why I brought up "luck manipulation" over thirty pages ago, before I left for work! You see, since Twilight Sparkle's investigation of Pinkie Sense failed, there have been a few theories about how Pinkie Sense "really" works, like that it's not perception of the future at all, but Pinkie's subconscious being
"hyper-aware" enough to predict what's likely to happen based on the minutiae it's gathered. Well, my idea was that if earth ponies have magical power over probability, then what Pinkie Pie might be doing is involuntarily casting
bad luck spells all over the place, with the magic manifesting as body twitches as it leaves her. This even helps The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well make more sense, where Pinkie was paying more attention to her twitches that week, making the Pinkie Sense go off more, turning all of Ponyville more accident-prone until she was unmasked and forgot about Pinkie Sense again. And so she explicitly doesn't use Pinkie Sense in her fortune-telling business, since that would mainly result in giving ponies
bad fortunes. If I really want to stretch it, I could argue that the reason farming is dominated by Earth ponies is that they can infuse their crops with enough good luck to survive freak accidents and grow properly.
Has anyone had tiramisu?
For tea?