I just relised that I read somepony insted someone.

WELCOME TO THE HERD. Here's your cute.~

edited 7th May '11 9:16:48 AM by inane242

If you read "Someone" as "Somepony", you might be a Bronie.

If you think about putting a ponies cutie mark on the gas tank cover of your car because it's color matched that of one of the characters, you might be a Bronie.

If you've ever considered the biological implications of two particular ponies of two different types breeding and what their kids might come out like...you might be a Bronie.

edited 7th May '11 9:29:55 AM by SpaceJawa

I'm Brony for almost two monts :{P

I just saying this show mesing in my head even more.

What if I feel really, really tempted to start an email to my supervisor (a report of my latest findings about the magic of abstract logic) with "Dear Princess Celestia"?

edited 7th May '11 10:17:11 AM by Carciofus

I think I read a posting somewhere of someone of claiming to have signed off as "Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle" in an email to their teacher or someone in a position of authority. And they actually got back an email which started off with "My faithful student"

Has anyone ever watched an episode on Youtube and seen someone write a letter to Princess Celestia, except twist it in a way that makes the episode seem bad? I remember in "Over the Barrel" someone had written "Dear Princess Celestia, it has occurred to me that our show is kinda racist. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

I read somewhere about a college student who accidentally started his essay with "Dear Princess Celestia" and his professor responded with "My Faithful Student".

@Sand That must have been what I read about.

That is amazing XD

Heh, that's funny. But I do not think that my supervisor would get the reference, sadly, and it would weird him out quite a bit...

If I were to guess, I'd say that the "type" is not really a matter of genetics at all: rather, it depends on environmental factors, a bit like for the case of many eusocial insects.

Perhaps, again as for the case of ants or bees, it depends on nutrition during the larval stage?*

^{Well, gestation, probably. But we never saw a pregnant pony, in effect...}

Or on caste-regulating pheromones, as in termites?*

^{That could mean, for example, that Princess Celestia secretes a pheromone which prevents other ponies from growing into full alicorns...}

It also fits nicely with the "reigning caste"*

^{Ok, there are two "queens", but that's actually commonplace in many species of termite.}

having wings and horns, and the other, more recent specimen being smaller and somewhat "defective" compared to it.

This is definitely not what would happen if they were variants of a base species: if that were the case, the genetic advantages would spread quickly to the whole population, at least if cross-fertilization is still possible.

Instead, here we seem to have two older, fully developed individuals, and then three castes of smaller, presumably shorter lived, more specialized ones — again, precisely as in the case of social insects.

Plus, it would also explain why male ponies appear to be less common, on average, and also quite a bit more oafish than female ones. If the ponies' gender selection was based on haplodiploidism, like that of ants and bees, it would stand to reason that males would be more prone to genetic defects than females...

Confound these ponies, the drive me to overthink!

edited 7th May '11 11:29:06 AM by Carciofus

Genetic defects, you say?◊

Hmm, impressive. I had not noticed that.

Now that's quality 0o

Wow. I just rewatched that scene and I'm wondering how they missed that one.

Wow.

To their credit, that's like...a single quick error over the course of the entire season? I'd say they've still got a pretty remarkable record, all things considered. Especially with all the little details that usually get snuck in you wouldn't expect.

As weird as it is, I'm willing to give them a pass on this. I'd say they've earned it.

edited 7th May '11 11:53:21 AM by SpaceJawa

Goddamn, that's an interesting error.

You think they'll ever bother fixing some of these? They're kind of fun, but there's a bit of cannot unsee that gets distracting.

201 ponies have been uploaded!

I'm so proud! *sniff*

If anypony wants one, post your request in the avatars thread!

....

You know, my car is the approximate color of Rainbow Dash...

Hmmmm.....

My car, too. Which is exactly why it crossed my mind. Not to mention that the gas tank cover is approximately in the right area for that sort of thing...

edited 7th May '11 3:41:57 PM by SpaceJawa

HELP ME

SOMEBODY HELP ME

I CANT

STOP

WATCHING

Don't worry, it'll all be fine soon enough.

I should know. I used to be in your shoes.

edited 7th May '11 4:10:03 PM by SpaceJawa

Fix'd

...you might be a bronie.