I have a bad feeling about this one.

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The leaks continue: It appears that the Italian channel Cartoonio which airs the Italian dub also has a streaming service, on which the episodes go live immediately after airing – and in addition to the Italian dub, it also allows access to the original English to certain subscribers. So in fact, episodes up to 13 included are already available.

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People say this one’s actually good, so let’s see.

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As far as I could determine, Josh Haber is responsible for most of the mess therein.

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We return today with our regular dose of canon combing, investigating notable worldbuilding statements in “No Second Prances.” Which is an episode featuring Trixie, who has quite a bit of secondary canon to joss…

Good thing it’s mostly the bits of secondary canon I don’t like.

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Ok, moving on…

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Celestia moves the sun. This much is not only stated ceaselessly throughout the pony lore, but is actually demonstrated empirically: When Celestia is not available, the sun does not move. If nothing else, this is proof positive that anything that can restrain Celestia can at least also stop the sun.

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My previous argument regarding the nobility of Equestria leaves one interesting issue unresolved. It so happens that this issue is both very minor, and at the same time, has some rather far-reaching consequences for the interpretation of the rest of the canon.

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When writing this chapter of Aporia, which drags Shining Armor into the narrative and primes a lot of what this esteemed stallion will be doing for the rest of the story, this question came up repeatedly: Just what is the Royal Guard and what does it actually do?

Because I have to decide just what exactly it is that Shining Armor is a captain of, if only to mention it. This is more complicated than it sounds.

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Minor canon research tidbit follows.

Those cute pony-isms get used in primary canon constantly – “everypony,” “somepony.” Around fandom, you can also see “everygriff” and even “everyling,” to name but a few – though I’ve yet to see “everytaur.”

Now riddle me this: How often do these non-pony versions of pony-isms actually show up in canon?

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Getting back to recycling my old opinions for whoever reads this blog. This time from this thread: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/50/the-writers-group/thread/432218/flexible-history-plus-or-minus

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There’s a common, though not dominant, fan theory floating around, that ponies use octal, rather than decimal.

It’s clever. It would make sense. That’s why it’s probably wrong. :)

So let me dig into canon sources and try to weasel out if they say anything about what ponies use for calculations and how do they measure their time when they aren’t using the deliberately ambiguous moons.

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I’m not sure why exactly, but the words “best princess” are much more often applied to Luna than Celestia, so I’ll go with that. This is not a statement of preference for either princess, but another long-winded research post, and Luna is just the subject of said research.

And the question I am aiming to answer today is:

Why, exactly, was Luna, apparently, forgotten entirely, and Nightmare Moon was an “old ponies’ tale?”

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So a while back, around chapter 21 I believe, folk found themselves caught a bit off guard when I started introducing aspects of MLP fan canon, having originally believed that the events on that side are meant to line up perfectly with what's happening on the show. Truthfully I've tried to have that be the case for as long as possible but as series six proceeds and naturally introduces new stuff that I can either ignore or try to make use of in addition to my favored bits from what fans have

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If you’ve been reading my posts regularly, you’ll know my special hate for the word “moon” as a measure of time.

So I dedicate this post to one of the biggest unanswered questions of chromatic hippology: how long a moon actually is? Because it’s clearly not a synonym for a month.

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This post is not as much of a good investigation as usual, in that it does not present a solid conclusion. We have bloody little to go on. It is, nevertheless, the most detailed collation of data I could make and an invitation to discussion.

(Lad|Fill)ies and gentle(colts|men), I present to you the Other Sith Problem:

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If twitter discussions with show staff are to be believed, all comics are supposed to be canon. Of course, saying that simply means they don’t understand the question, because occasionally, irreconcilable differences arise.

In expanded universes like that, we generally consider one of the mediums the primary source, while everything else is secondary, and in case of contradictions, the primary source takes precedence.

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…Apparently does not exist.

No, seriously.

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This is not my usual fully researched and cited post, but just an observation. Potentially an important one though.

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First, let me delineate for the purposes of this post and all the subsequent ones in that vein…

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