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Mature in age, or mature in outlook? Either way, my favourite is probably Duster from the game Mother 3. He's led a crummy, isolated life and it would be understandable if he was bitter — but he's not. He just genuinely wants the whole world to be alright. Whenever there's danger, Duster worries about the other party members first. He even asks people to overlook his limp and just let him help. I think that sort of selflessness and determination is very mature.

Gelatin comes from the skin and bones of animals, so unlike milk and eggs, the producing animal had to die. Actually, by that criteria, most sugar isn't strictly vegetarian, either. The refining process uses charcoal made from animal bone. At any rate, Z Star, it sounds like you're in this for the right reasons. Good luck with your diet change!

I lost my copy of Explorers of Sky, and I wasn't even very far into the game. Sad stuff. But I was a Totodile, with Jangle the Meowth as my partner. We were Team Facepunch!

I'm currently staring at my huge To Be Read pile, trying to choose! I think it'll be either The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, or Tinker's Plague by Stephen B. Pearl. Depends on whether I'm feeling more fantasy or sci-fi. I'm also picking at a fantasy short story collection, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo. She's a pretty awesome writer. While we're on the subject of books, is anyone else impatiently waiting for the next book in the Temeraire series? It's an alternate history where the Napoleonic wars were fought with dragons. Great series if you think everything is better with dragons!

Twilight seems to approach magic like we approach science, with rational rules. So I'm thinking that all magic is a more or less neutral presence that ponies have just formed opinions about. Dark magic is easier to use for destructive purposes, but that's not necessarily the only way to use it. Like how nuclear reactions are dangerous and we associate nuclear weapons with war, but nuclear reactions themselves aren't evil -- and they can also be used for good purposes like generating power.

It's a common misconception that humans need a lot of meat to be healthy. Many people around the world are vegetarian and they're perfectly fine -- heck, they're usually healthier than the folks who eat greasy burgers all the time. The problem is that if you just remove all the meat from your diet and eat nothing but French fries and lettuce salad ... Um, yeah, of course you'll get sick. There's no nutritional density there. A balanced vegetarian diet has stuff like beans, lentils, soy, whole grains, nuts and seeds to provide protein and vitamins. Milk and eggs are optional. And it's important to get lots of colourful fruit and vegetables (red, orange, yellow and dark green). Even the much-maligned potato is healthy as long as you eat the skin and, y'know, don't drown it in butter and grease. Heh, I'm actually not a vegetarian myself. Animals are too delicious. But I use vegetarian ideas to help me cook healthier and keep my meals interesting. Sometimes I'll cook, say, a big pot of barley, kale and sweet potato with just a little bit of bacon for flavour. I'd suggest researching world cuisines, though. Indian food, for example, has lots of vegetarian dishes with flavourful curry-type sauces. It's probably easier to find an Indian take-out restaurant than to find a hamburger joint with a decent veggie burger!

I do like me some Star Trek! I like the way it's popular media with a brain. Star Trek science doesn't hold up very well to scrutiny (engineers might as well be magicians), but all of the Trek incarnations use thought-provoking ideas. Getting along with very different people from ourselves, what it means to be responsible, what is the measure of a person -- stuff like that. So I guess Star Trek and MLP aren't as different as one would think! I think The Next Generation was the best, most solid Trek, but Voyager is my personal favourite despite its flaws. DS9 bores me to tears. And I don't like classic Trek one bit; it has that retro feel where the "future" isn't really any different from the 1960's, which bugs the heck out of me.

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Rarity How did you find MLP Forums?: Random Googling! How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Everyone on the Internet was talking about it, so I just had to have a look! I came for the art style, and stayed because a lot of thought clearly went into these magic ponies and their world. Well, hello there! I'm Pyra and I'm a Canadian chick. After I graduated chef training, I decided to be a waitress instead. I like video games, animals of all varieties, and cooking dinner at 4 AM. Stories, man. I just like stories. You might have read my fanfiction before, although I haven't written anything about ponies (yet). Nice to meet everypony, at any rate!