Do you think Twilight's castle is the town social center?

[Senko 459]

Just rewatching season 6's Hearth's warming tale and the way the whole town is in Twilight's castle celebrating got me wondering has her castle become a new social center where ponies can have parties, meetings, use the library or just as in this case get the whole town indoors in one spot to celebrate a holiday?

[Kadeda 178]

Nope... it looks to me that she just invited people on the holiday like what people do in real life.

[Unity 332]

Most definitely not.

That is no different than someone throwing s house party honestly, it is her home, and she threw a party.

[Kevin Tang 2,431]

It's her "private" home and the thing you stated... She's just throwing a party at her own house but in a larger scale than most ponies do.

I don't think that her place is open to public. Remembering the fact that nopony seems to borrow some books from there.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Kevin Tang

[Senko 459]

7 minutes ago, Kevin Tang said:

It's her "private" home and the thing you stated... She's just throwing a party at her own house but in a larger scale than most ponies do.

I don't think that her place is open to public. Remembering the fact that nopony seems to borrow some books from there.

True but aside from her friends and their family nopony ever seemed to show up at the actual library aside from parties either. There's also the times visiting dignitaries and the like have wandered through at least so there's at least some formal castling going on there even if we don't normally see it.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Senko

[Kevin Tang 2,431]

1 minute ago, Senko said:

True but aside from her friends and their family nopony ever seemed to show up at the actual library aside from parties either. There's also the times visiting dignitaries and the like have wandered through at least so there's at least some formal castling going on there even if we don't normally see it.

You might be right from the fact that barely anypony went to the golden oak library too.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Kevin Tang

[cuteycindyhoney 13,336]

A small community like Ponyville would naturally use their castle as a gathering place and community center. Take the library. Even though it's rarely shown, doesn't mean that nopony used the Golden Oaks library, or the new library in Castle Friendship. We know that the ponies have a market place, with vendors selling from carts and stalls, even though it's only shown in one. episode. "Putting Your Hoof Down".

 

[SharpWit 2,858]

I'm sure ponies go up to visit and ask for help if they need any and since the town's library hasn't been shown to have been replaced, I think twilight still serves as the defacto Ponyville librarian but that little time is spent on said task. Otherwise it acts as a tourist destination and before the school was built their were open grassy areas ideal for picnics but as a place for large groups to gather it's not ideal unless you sought permission.