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Um, that awesome website thing in OP's OP mine would probably look a lot like Spider's Claw's not sure if mare or colt tho

I'd be scared to do it. I still don't pony offline. If I did though, I'd obviously go as Twi

Seb, are you sure that Rarity's and Dash's "careers" demonstrate a disconnect with their cutie mark? I mean... I thought the gems meant that Rarity's special design element---what she'll be known for---was gems. I also see a cloud in Dash's cutie mark, which could mean weather, although it does indeed seem like "going fast" is what triggered it. Every other pony seems to definitely have tight career connections. This, of course, ignores the realities of any job market.

That's true of people, but that's because cutie marks are not built into our culture. I think a career choice for people these days takes the route of either 1) most practical OVERALL given the economic situation, or 2) the most practical OF the things I already like. But ponies live their whole lives waiting for their cutie mark. The CMC search for their cutie marks. They don't think about what they naturally like or are good at. This is the same with all the others. The mane 6 discover their cutie marks. They don't self-reflect and plan. The real question is whether or not anypony ever got a cutie mark and was disappointed. Seems like an oxymoron...

inb4 god/free will debate It is clearly more than their own "decision," since 1) nopony ever really KNOWS when they're going to get their cutie mark until after the fact, and 2) the cutie marks of the mane 6 have already been shown to be linked by some underlying narrative possibly even having to do with their relationship to the elements. 2b) it might also be the case that, because of how the Sonic Rainboom is such a large-scale atmospheric event, Dash probably influenced many other ponies' cutie marks at the same time and that the mane 6 just happen to be in that much larger set of ponies influenced by Dash---thereby dispelling the "mystical connection" that Twilight daydreams about at the end of TCMC

They couldn't "fire" the elements of harmony anymore than the grey-ed main six could.

Actually, I just realized one of the worst things about the earlier stuff was that they had human kids as the sort-of main characters. http://mlpforums.com/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.png

I like it OP, and I can't think of any devastating counterexamples off hand, but the fact that Pinkie Pie is definitely much more emotional (Slendermane) and Dash more physical -- as can be seen by her frequent associations with AJ -- might upset your theory a bit. But in regards to this kind of thinking in general. I think it's definitely NOT reading too much into it to infer these kinds of categories, since FiM is fundamentally a show about ethics as most shows intended for younger children are. Furthermore, it's a particular brand of ethics: one associated with virtue and harmony. This might seem like a truism, but what if MLP didn't highlight virtues but instead something else like, I dunno, utilitarianism. Would every episode then be a kind of economics lesson? Think about how different that would be? Supposedly in a different kind of society, that is how MLP would be like... ... thank Celestia? In short, I think there is definitely something uniquely Aristotelian about MLP that you have latched onto.

As for #3 I think the MLP name did have a big impact on why I started watching it. I didn't know Faust was involved until several episodes in having never devoted much time to her previous work. But I think the fact that it is MLP and MLP is such a recognizable name and so strongly associated with little children that which makes it almost a kind of guilty pleasure, but the guilt (or irony) is always part of the pleasure in any guilty pleasure. I do think I love the show for what it is -- that is, as a show and as the product of Faust -- but in falling in love with the show in the first place the irony played a huge factor. The irony is still a huge factor, since there's still a lot of stigma on and off line.

First post... I can understand where the thought that Pinkie Pie is the youngest is coming from; she's really silly, and kids are typically sillier than adults, I guess. But she's also "wise" in her own way. She has songs for everything, and she's very confident in everything she does, but not to the point of brashness. Everything she does ends up as a success. She has a lot of knowledge the others don't about worldly things like Parasprites. Think then about Rainbow Dash's confidence and how often it either fails in the crucial moments (e.g. before the BYF competition) or ends up in disaster (e.g. the countless times she crashes into things). She mostly succeeds by accident rather than by knowledge, and this is not the case with more mature individuals in general like Rarity or Fluttershy. So, by all that, I think Rainbow is at least younger than Pinkie Pie.