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Winter Wrap Up


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Winter Wrap Up (December 24th 2010, 22 minutes)

 

Summary: Twilight learns how to deal with spring the Earth Pony way.

 

Twilight has redecorated slightly. I think that's different furniture in the sleeping loft than was there during the sleepover episode.

 

Right. Okay. I'm going to deal with this one. The fuzzy saddle Twilight is putting on. Why would they have such a clothing item when it 'obviously' is a saddle, and there isn't a need for anyone to be riding the ponies? Beyond your dirty minds. ;) Clothing isn't always obvious. Take the tie. Basically it's the remains of a neck cloth, a easily removable and cleanable cloth separate from the shirt that reduces the need to wash the shirt as often. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the idea anyway. This 'saddle' appears to be a similar remains of a functional item, perhaps the foundation for a more complex outer garment that required something more structural underneath. The outer garment isn't fashionable anymore, but the saddle support piece is still worn all on it's own. As a foundation garment that no longer serves it's original function and is now worn as a piece of clothing of it's own, it would fall into the same category as a Basque, which at different times was a jacket, an undercoat, and lingerie. Like a corset it is now sometimes worn as an outer garment though it's risqué... which doesn't really help the kinky problem, but I'm not a miracle worker.

 

It appears that Twilight is unfamiliar with how to wear said saddle. It's obviously not a 'normal' piece of gear, and someone has told her it's traditional for the Winter Wrap up situation. Why do I have a feeling this is a Rainbow Dash prank?

 

Hundreds of years of Ponyville's Winter Wrap Up festival.

 

Saddle is gone now. And nobody else is wearing one. So yeah, I'm going for prank.

 

Finally the mayor doing mayor-stuff.

 

Doctor Whooves! Yay! Sorry.

 

Okay, why do the pegasi get to use their special abilities, but unicorn magic is banned?

 

Winter Wrap Up is very definitely an early-year Fertility Festival, with the preparing and planting. Given Spike's reaction, it sounds like celebrating this event isn't as prevalent in Canterlot, which is interesting. Combined with the actual labor of planting going on, it's possible that the urban areas have transitioned to a different spring festival as they have little to no interest in the passing of the season and are focusing on an artificial calendar-driven event instead. I can guess which one, and I'll leave that for the future episode I'm thinking of.

 

And so ends the song that is one of the myriad reasons I joined this fandom. I'm not a musician, so I'm not qualified to criticize the music in any way, but blast it, that song was fun.

 

Twilight is not crafty.

 

Quite a few lakes in Ponyville. That makes sense given the general terrain.

 

Those look like oversized hedgehogs, but next we have porcupines. Hrmmm. Currently hedgehogs are mostly from Eurasian continent, as all the hedgehog-types in North America died out at the end of the Miocene period. So those animals are probably something else, even if they look like hedgehogs to me.

 

Twilight is basically just not an outdoor pony.

 

Been there, done that with the tomato soup trying to clean out skunk smell.

 

Reference to Ditzy Do.

 

Twilight really doesn't like snakes. Not just when she's surprised, but in general.

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