>>12206 Twilight Sparkle's Cutie Mark Story >Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes Twilight Sparkle's story I probably could find a lot to comment on, and I did! I like the Summer Sun Celebration and... whatever that happens with Celestia. Looks like a flag or a code of arms. A cool one! It projects power. I don't know if it was intended to resemble a flag or if it was just something born out of the limitation of their medium/chosen art style(let's make Celestia be in a silhouette! Solid flat color with no shading or gradient that gives shape to her). Anyways, it gives an important moment, both in Twilight's love/reverence for Celestia and mgaic itself. Cool moment. Now onto the entrance exam! Spike's egg. This has been theorized to death but I'll leave my too bits here. Baring weird implications from dragon's being a sentient race, if a hatching a dragon egg is a requirement to enter the School for Gifted Unicorns, why aren't their more baby dragons like Spike running around? (cool alt universe fanfic idea: ponies raise dragon's because they are too greedy and selfish to raise their own as adults. Conflict for Spike. Fits into ponies being stewards of world better. OH, WHY ISN'T THAT CANON!?) Does this go into the theory that Twilight brought Spike to life and the hatching test is supposed to fail or not go that exact way? Heh, maybe a point for Twilight being Spike's mother afterall, though still mostly hinging on a question that we don't have much information on right now and pure crazy speculation.
You have a very special gift. I don't think I've ever come across a unicorn with your raw abilities. Even in the limited context of the show we have at this point. This is a very big compliment from Celestia, a being who is at least 1000 years old and runs a school for gifted unicorns. I enjoy how Twilight awkwardly realizes she got more than a little carried away at her reminiscing, too.
Pinkie Pie's story >I'd never felt joy like that before! It felt so good I just wanted to keep smiling forever! And I wanted everyone I knew to smile too, but rainbows don't come along that often. I wondered, how else could I create some smiles? Pinkie Pie, I liked seeing all the details of her life. More than the others: her parents AND siblings, their occupation and living conditions. I do like Pinkie Pie this odd happy pony and them accepting her. That reaction to her party though seems suggestive that smiles are seldom and almost hard to process. Rock farm. Never decided if I wanted to to accept it as some sort of mining or rationalize it as earth pony magic working the ground. Though lately I've also had sympathy to just saying: "Hey, this is a whimsical kid's show, who cares?" but I still enjoy trying to make it work. I guess because I did a lot of fanfic writing in the past, and, as I've stated before, I think this is both fun and people can be overly dismissive on certain implications and logic.
Speaking of logic, >And that's how Equestria was made. It is Pinkie Pie after all.
