Night Sky

Join me this June for a field trip back to the Von Braun. Suit up carefully, ponies...and above all, don't accept any welcome hugs from The Many or believe a word SHODAN tries to tell you. They're no good as friends, trust me I know whereof I speak.

Boy, lot of very kick @55 killer klassiks on offer in this thread, I've been perusing, and it's reminded me of many good times. Since someone already beat me to SkeletonWitch, I'll offer a slightly different take on them. I scored one of my videos with one of my favorite tracks of theirs. Enjoy;

A random fact: A drinking cup actually has zero volume, topologically speaking, of course. What seems obvious to you is not obvious to the math, and vice versa.

Today was largely spent making goofy fan art and animated Giffy's!!! Fun times!

I am happy that I heard back from a job prospect and will be advancing to the next step of the process. Send good vibes please!

Once again, I am feeling good, stressors and problems notwithstanding, I am on something of a...non depressioners streak here.

I'm thinking all kinds of things, though not to any purpose. Sitting here at the keyboard and chit chatting on forum threads is a perfectly legitimate way to will away spare time. But it is not, in my case anyways, associated with any blinding bursts of insight. ...therefore I am just percussively typing, if we were together in person I would be babbling, and the longer I go on, the more nonsensical and inane it will get. Something this purposeless is going to degenerate into mammalian play behavior sooner or later. Entirely harmless, of course, but I wouldn't charge pocket lint for whatever I am THINKING about right now...

Omi and Oui, a now obscure, bygone Viennese spin on German terms of endearment for one's grandparents, blessed be their memory.

Today I made myself laugh. I do that all the time, though I note that not every other pony always joins in for whatever reason. And today it wasn't so much something I said or did as some fan art I made, those have really made me laugh!

Our ancestors all over the world used to call it Magic. Thor and his Asgardians call it Technology. Nowadays, most modern folks call it Untreated Mental illness. I call it Princess Power, and if you're reading this, I'm here to say that it's got something for you too. There are some trips that only the Princesses can take you on. And if you just chill out, sit back with your favorite mellow music playing, and gaze into either of these two images, they're gonna take you places.

- Human greed is extraordinarily deadly. For us all. That so few people could get away with doing so much damage to others and to the planet, says as much about the rest of us as it does about the 1% of the 1%. Maybe we're all greedy, and they're just the best or the most successful at it. I personally don't consider that a political statement. To my mind anyway, that's not a statement about politics, it's a statement about Values. FIM is a show that has and is about values. That should be obvious if you watch it. But if it isn't, one of the voice actresses states this important point explicitly in the special features of the Gen 4 film. I think a lot of people who scream about other people's greed still feel that, somewhere in shuffle, there is space and resources for them to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need. As you said, the change would need to be drastic, and everyone would have to embrace it together. That's not a statement about politics, it's a statement about Harmony. - Ha. Now that I'm on Tumblr I'm seeing those criticisms of the fact that the Kingdom of Equestria is a monarchy. That makes me laugh. I'm probably drifting close to the danger zone here so I'll stop. However, a lot of people have no sense of irony, at all. That in and of it self is not a political statement, it is a statement about Humor. Anyone can PM me for clarification if you don't get the joke.

Precisely, we cannot be Ponies in the human world, we have to go to Equestria to be ponies. But we can come back with the heart of a pony within us, and this world will be the better for it.

Pony Consciousness is Compassionate Consciousness. Because the Ponies are not estranged from Nature the way we are, they have over the Eons developed a potent magic that allows them to interface with their biosphere in much more subtle, and powerful ways than we can. The Alicorn Princesses are one of very most potent manifestations of this relationship. They appear according to laws and timing that we wouldn't understand. There's an element of Will and Choice to it, but I suspect Instinct plays an important role as well. So, Alicorn Princesses can regulate the temperature of the Sun, or keep the Moon properly calibrated. And that keeps the tolerances tighter on how nuts ponies can get. Here on the human Earth, we've had some problems with that. But the Alicorn Princesses of Equestria can also divert asteroids and comets to prevent catastrophic, world ending impacts. Those really are very rare though. More often, they just keep the weather patterns predictable, within reason, to see to it that crops don't fail or that animal populations don't decline. The biodiversity is maintained, though not in a greedy way. So, the ponies are very close to nature and they can work with it more effectively and proactively than we can. But they have humility and thus a sense of belonging and surrender that we lack. They are not magical overlords who dominate their environment. Rather, the ponies really are in Harmony with their surroundings, and I suspect that, even though the Elements of Harmony represent the aspects of Friendship, that they are somehow based upon the foundation of this wonderous and gentle relationship the ponies have to their world. This, all of this has deeply informed pony culture, norms, customs and rituals. Of course, the ponies are still in the material creation. Life is not perfect in Equestria. I feel that they too are an intermediate category world. But that is a wide section of bandwidth and they are still quite comfortably ahead of us. Thus, if we can cultivate Pony Consciousness in ourselves, both our culture and our environment will benefit and heal massively from their most excellent example.

Been wondering this myself lately.

I've gotten Night Sky set up on Tumblr and DeviantArt! https://www.tumblr.com/nightskyofequestria https://www.deviantart.com/nightskyeup Hoof to Hoof, a herd undivided.