What's the deal with Cadence, by the way? She's supposed to be a princess too, but as far as I can tell her special power is slipping magical roofies.

That's hardly on the same level of moving the sun or the moon.

Wait, they move the sun and the moon, not the planet? Well, if there's more planets in this universe, that only confirms that Celestia is not only a terrible ruler, but also destroyer of planets.

Actually her power just amplifies love that already exists.

edited 1st May '12 2:21:04 PM by HekirekiNoMakai

Isn't Equestria flat anyway? At least, that's what I sort of remember from the first episode of the first season.

Personally, I suspect that MLP is set in the Orion's Arm universe, and all of its cosmos is inside a virchspace (a virtual reality, basically) of some part of Utopia Sphere.

EDIT:

Alternatively, Celestia is Galactus

I'm not sure if I get the difference. It's still unfair to "amplify" one's love for somebody else without explicit consent.

edited 1st May '12 2:47:29 PM by Carciofus

As for that, my theory as said before: Cadence is not a Princess in the same way as Celestia and Luna. It's a problem of the English (and Italian, too) language. Celestia is a Princess as a ruler of a Principality. So was Luna, who gets to keep her title despite not being a ruler anymore out of courtesy. In Equestria, princely rulers have supermagical powers apparently. Meanwhile, Cadence is merely a Princess by being member of a royal family.

Since you are in the Netherlands: Vorst and Prins, respectively ;) (though I don't know the female forms).

edited 1st May '12 3:28:08 PM by Octo

Cadence has the power of emotional manipulation.

The Dementation discipline in Vampire The Masquerade has the power

Clearly, Cadence is a Malkavian.

That is now my headcannon.

Same reason any other smart ruler would do that. Make sure everypony in the room hears the villain give a brief but detailed summary of their motives, plans, methods, and source of power. That way if your sledgehammer approach falls through due to the villain having sapped a bit more power than you expected (or apparently than Chrysalis expected — she herself seemed a bit surprised that she overpowered Celestia), you're not the only one with enough information to try a Hail Mary.

And I greatly enjoy the theory that Luna was absent because she was playing sentry at the tower when the shield broke, then moved right in the thick of Canterlot tearing the shit out of half the changeling army. If the camera panned 90 degrees further right during the fight sequence, you would've seen Michael Bay style explosions.

Cadence is visibly much, much younger, and Luna's spent a thousand years absent and the most recent year playing catch-up (and possibly therapy).

You can move the sun and the moon, but ultimately it's love that makes the world go round.

...sorry, I had to do that.

edited 1st May '12 4:33:14 PM by Pykrete

All you need is love.

Especially if you're a changeling.

I like to think that somewhere in the world there's a rogue changeling that's living happily with a pony that accepts him for who he is.

I'm inclined to think that at this moment there must be dozens of "Not that evil" or "misunderstood" changeling OC's. Or, there will be more.

I'm writing a story like that.

Or, well, that's how the story ends, anyway. There's a lot of rejection on the way there.

edited 1st May '12 6:55:45 PM by KylerThatch

Haha. Funny thing is, I kinda had the same thought while watching the episode. How cute would a changeling be who is fueled by love directed at him/herself?

The changelings will become the master race of equestria once they discover narcissism.

Narcissism isn't quite self-love: narcissim is an attitude relative to others. Self-love: Übermensch, John Galt

Well, those, then.

Well, you know how the song goes. Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

For some reason, Fluttershy is always the most accurate shooter in my latest X-Com sessions. First in UFO, before she was succeeded by Captain Gilgamesh, and most recently in TFTD.

You'd think she'd be the squad's medic, given her role in Pony Fortress 2.

the real reason the CMC don't have their cutie marks is because you don't actually have it until you lose your virginity

Just kidding, but it would explain why everyonare fun of Applebloom is taunted by her classmates like it's a choice in Call of the Cutie.

>implying that the rest of the class had it done while in elementary school

I know, that's why I was kidding.

@Adannor: Valid point.

Someone on /oat/ implied that G3 Pinkie is superior to G4 Pinkie.

My reaction: THOSE WORDS ARE BLASPHEMY!

Have a creepy.

Went to a thread on /oat/.

I post that awesome X-Com/Pony crossover pic I saw on a Drawfriend.

Somepony accuses me of treason.

A response to that response mentioned The Spoony Experiment.

...

What the hell the just happened?

Also, new pony pun thread has appeared.

Powering up thread derail cannons.

edited 2nd May '12 10:36:17 AM by DemoralizedAnt

I notice that when a Ponychan thread derails, it usually becomes a Megaman thread.

Megaman is the most common derail I've seen so far.