Dear Princess Sunbutt

by 2Merr

Letter 26.1

Celestia,

I don’t know what happened, but Twi’s gone full catatonic. Spike said she was reading a philosophy book when she snapped and started writing equations everywhere. Now she’s staring into a corner mumbling about how she’ll never get her right hoof back. I may or may not be freaking the fuck out right now.

Please fix her.

Love, Anon

P.S. - If she dies, do I get Spike?

Author's Note:

Celestia’s reply

Comments

[PinkiePieFox]

[Venerable Ro]

That's got to be one of the best Twi-reactions I've ever seen, right behind the time that Discord proved that math can be inherently chaotic.

[FTR2017]

Gotta love that postscript.

[Snow]

"All will be well"

[Amethyst_Dawn]

Borderline lovecraftian

[WorldWalker128]

I'd love to see Twilight try to find the end-sequence to Pi.

[A Wild Magikarp]

I find this and the sister chapter amusing, but I am still somewhat confused. Is there context I am missing, or is this just as random as it sounds?

[vinyldash23]

This is fucking CONFUSING. First off, what the hell does Anon want with Spike? Second, is she gonna time travel and stop herself from doing the hokey-pokey, only to interrupted by her past self? Third, where IS her hoof?

[No I Will Not]

P.S. - If she dies, do I get Spike?

Just looking after his own interests. Bros gotta stick together.

[Bronzer]

9920251
He has his priorities straight, right, and proper.

[Coretz]

9859912
Sauce?

9860944
The last digit of pi is "1", I swear.

Prove me wrong.

[Venerable Ro]

10222975

That would be this story right there.

TThe Fugitive Draconequus

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Adventure
• Comedy

Discord is brought to Ponyville to be reformed. As a safety precaution, he is deprived of his magic before his release. Naturally, he is upset by this, but... No one thought that the powerless spirit of chaos would actually run away!

• Twilight
• Celestia
• Discord
• Main 6

Ironskull · 129k words  ·  560  11 · 8.6k views

The specific chapter would be The Ways of Chaos, and while the entire discussion is excellent, the specific passage would be this one. It starts with Discord speaking.

"Alright then. Consider a Mandeltrot fractal. I assume you know what that is, right?"

"It pretty much looks like circles with smaller circles sticking out of them, and smaller circles sticking out of those circles, and so on forever," says Twilight.

"So, let's say you start at the right side of the fractal and go counterclockwise some irrational percentage of the way around the perimeter of the fractal. So, for example, half of the square root of two. What is the slope of the line at that exact spot?"

I go silent and watch Twilight furrow her brow as she starts thinking.

It takes her about thirty seconds to say anything.

"I... I can't figure that out!"

She sounds utterly horrified.

[Jrarulez]

Yes, Anon, you do get Spike if she dies.