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Inspiration Manifestation (April 26th 2014 22 minutes)

Ponyville Foal and Filly Fair. Sounds like a festival specific to Ponyville. In RL, 'foal' maps to the human term 'child' as in all stages of life prior to puberty. We've not really run into what the ponies call the stage of life between puberty and full adulthood (what would map to human teenagers), and there isn't a horse term equivalent. Colt and Filly as terms apply to horses of the appropriate gender pre-adulthood, so includes the 'teenage' years, but there isn't a gender-neutral term. Heck, we've not actually been able to definitely identify any 'teenage' ponies in the show yet. For all we know there really isn't a pony life stage between the CMC and the Mane 6.

No, the puppeteer is correct. Rarity needs to pay more attention to functionality with her projects.

Cartons of... ice cream? They *look* like cartons of ice cream. Sorbets have existed since about 200 B.C., but 'ice cream' as most would recognize the term dates from the early 1700's, first sold commercially in 1851, but first appeared in modern cartons in 1926.

More grimoires hidden behind secret doors in libraries.

Woah. Spike has a far more dangerous fire than we've previously seen. There was no effort behind melting that lock off.

And I quote: 'Who *builds* things like this?'

I've never really identified those green protrusions on Spike's back as actual 'spikes'. More like plates. But he thinks of them as spikes it seems.

Load bearing book. That's different. It's usually a load bearing villain.

Yep. Ice cream. Vanilla Oat Swirl... That actually doesn't sound that bad. Bit odd, but then putting oats into sausage may sound odd to others, but that's a standard Scottish thing (that's pretty much what haggis is. Sausage that includes oatmeal. If you think any of the other ingredients to Haggis sound awful, remember that a sausage tube is actually intestine.)

Green magic. Why is green magic always depicted as evil in this show? Is that actually indicative of something? I'm not sure.

Classic temptation story. Interesting to see it from a second-party point of view.

Interesting, the tree in the background of the children's party has flowers of multiple colors. I'm not aware of any flowering tree in RL that has multiple different color flowers on the same tree.

Uhm. She changed ponies into *other* ponies. That's... nasty. Was it a physical location swap, did they just gain the appearances of those other ponies, or... Yeah, let's not get into the ors, as they get progressively more unpleasant.

The mayor is coming to Princess Twilight for help. Not that this is much different from what happened before, but now it's not Twilight's help being forced on the mayor. Definitely a societal shift in behavior.

Why didn't Spike fire-teleport the book to Celestia? Probably didn't think of it, or perhaps he thinks magical items don't mix with his fire-teleport. Have we had any instance of him teleporting magic items.

Where did the green magic go? Probably wherever Spike's comic book went as well. Somewhere in Equestria there's a store of 'bad magic things Spike's responsible for' repository.

Ah, and it was very deliberate. Dark magic is actually green. At least every instance of labeled dark magic we've seen is 'green'.