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It's About Time (March 10th 2012, 22 minutes)

Summary: Twilight comes from the Future to warn of impending Doom^tm!

Arbor Day. Started in 1872 in Nebraska, it's a holiday where everyone is encouraged to plant a tree to combat deforestation. This is now an international 'holiday', but it doesn't have a set date. Each nation, and usually each state/province has it on a different day, so the calendar reference of the 4th of whatever doesn't help us. In any case, this is rarely 'celebrated' as a festival or anything similar, and unless we actually see the ponies celebrate it for real I'm not sure where to place this one.

A meeting with the Ponyville Hay Board... What the heck is Twilight's *job*? Put this into the bucket for questions about local government in Ponyville.

Twilight cosplaying as Snake Plissken.

Again with the Groucho Marx glasses.

Fillydelphia to Los Pegasis. Giving the impression that these are at two extremes of the map.

Cerberus, the hellhound that guards Hades. Normally depicted with three heads, a mane of snakes. and a snake's tail. However, the number of heads vary from one all the way up to 50 in some places. Here we've lost all the snakiness (which Cerberus got from it's mother Echidna, mother of all monsters, who is normally depicted as a kind of elder Gorgon.)

Tartarus, although Twilight is pronouncing it Tar-tauros, which is actually correct as I understand it. However, mythologically Tartarus is a separate place from Hades, where Cerberus is supposed to be. Interesting. Tartarus (the place, as Tartarus is also the name of the primordial Greek deity that rules that land, much like Hades rules Hades) is the prison of the worst of the worst, although exactly who is in Tartarus varies constantly. Twilight refers to 'ancient evils', which is likely the pony equivalent of the Titans. Which is fascinating when you think that Discord and Nightmare Moon were *not* sent to Tartarus, but to their own prisons. Makes you wonder what exactly might be in Tartarus.

Never, ever question Pinkie. It's not worth it.

Baltimare.

Crystal Balls as divination tools goes back to at least the 1500's. Prior to that the primary 'gazing' divination was with pools or bowls of water with appropriate ingredients added.

Okay, when *Pinkie* questions Pinkie, it's *really* not worth it.

Mad is the correct word, used incorrectly.

So this is upstairs? I thought Twilight's lab was in the basement. This makes more sense, somehow.

So the Starswirl wing of the Canterlot Archives is secure, meaning that stuff there is considered dangerous in some way. This includes time travel spells... which Twilight only knows about because she told herself they were there. Given that Twilight knows as much as she can about Starswirl, this either means that that stuff was kept secret by Celestia, or the Starswirl wing includes all the dangerous stuff regardless of whether it has anything to do with Starswirl himself.

(I still think there's something fishy about Starswirl, given that in prior generations Star Swirl was a mare. And 'Bearded' is old LGBT slang for someone going to extremes pretending to be a different orientation. It's unlikely the writers are going to go that way, but it would be funny to me.)

Night guards, but not batponies. Oh well.

I have plans for that hourglass. Oh, do I have plans.

Yeah, 'secure'.

She just glanced at that scroll, and was able to cast the spell easily. Twilight really is OP.