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#TVnight is going to start. First off, a #numberphile #video about #pancake #numbers followed by a couple videos of people who run cat rescues interacting with their cats (#LionWhisperer with his lions and #BCD's wife with a tiger cub that's the size of a medium-large dog).

Next will probably be the #MLP finale.

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They used the storybook illustration for the first time in a very long while. I like that alternate art style.

#MLP #TVnight

(Following toots shall go unlisted so I don’t clog the TL more)

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Hello, @Celestia! You seem to be having court with your sister and #Twilight made the time to visit you.
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Twilight is **way** too excited, as always!

I think they may be referencing episodes I missed here. Might need to catch up somehow (they’re not in my sync folder)

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I really like the Foley of the hooves walking
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Starlight has illegible writing, as does Starswirl the Bearded
Oct 29, 2017 at 2:45amWeb
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Was that transition a time-travel spell back in time or a cut forward in time?
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#AJ still grabs #RD by the #tail.

#MLP #TVnight

O shit ghost ponies!

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Holy fuck a #hexagon

#MLP #TVnight

Male ponies: a #mane6 of #stallions

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#TwilightSparkle has fully adapted to being a winged pony: she flies around when she’s very excited, just like a #pegasus
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This Pony of Shadows story so far sounds a lot like the #NightmareMoon story but with #stallions (or maybe a few #geldings as well)
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HOLD THE PHONE: I’m bumping this one to public!!!

The plot of this episode just took a turn extremely close to a happier version the #fanfic I’ve had in my head for the past five years and never seen to have the #NaNoWriMo time to make a fixed work to get it out of my system. Namely: #Twilight going on a #journey to discover exactly where #Starswirl went.

Since it’s an actual #MLP episode, it’ll have a much happier ending than my fic.

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Two sentences later, and this is confirmed as the happy-ending Hasbro-approved version of the fic I want to write. I’ve already had large enough sections of it contradicted by episodes that came out after I made the basic plot, so I’d still keep the same disclaimer: the major arc was made in June 2012, so canonical events after MLP season 2 and Doctor Who series 6 are only suggestions for this story.
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This Harry Potter collection mission is a major deviation from my original plan for my fic, but it’s actually a bit more sensible than most of my plans for that section of the story. That part was conceived when I was mostly reading silly adventure stories, so it’s not as thematically coherent as the second half.
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Spike’s diplomacy skills: 2
Athleticism: 3
Luck: 10
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These ponies are at least making an attempt at #continuity. Still hate that #DaringDo is real in-Universe. I’m glad that the #mane6 aren’t the only modern heroes of #Equestria, but #MLP has an extremely poor record of letting fictional events stay fiction. I think the comic episode is the only one where all the in-Universe fictional characters have stayed fiction.

#TVnigjt

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It’s the return of the #Hexagon and #Starlight seems to be the mare of sanity to balance the boundless excitement of #Twilight and #Sunburst
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After the recap, part 2 opens with a #music inspired by O Fortuna but different enough not to get Youtube #copyright strikes.
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RD is just as much of a braggart as ever. At least she acknowledged that her ego is the size of a whale 🐳
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I’ve always been big into #continuity and #world-building—(does a #hyphen bread a #hashtag?)—, that time I watched #TheWire really solidified those views of mine. I’m enjoying many of the callbacks in this episode.
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I still prefer the Elements of Harmony as a primordial force of #Equestria, but being created by real ponies also makes sense (and is satisfactory as an explanation of their origin)
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#RainbowDash totally got #covered by that #centurion stallion
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Good observation, Rainbow Dash. That map has been a villain tracker for the past three seasons.
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Starlight is having a **major** memento mori moment because she easily could have ended up blasted with rainbow friendship magic.
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Equestrian history seems to suffer from severe time dilation: it seems that everything either happened shortly before the NMM incident or after Luna’s return. There is still an indeterminate amount of time between the founding of Equestria (Hearthswarming Eve story) and Starswirl’s time, though.
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Cue ominous music
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Not mad that the climax was a repeat of the season 5 finale. Also that giant shovel horse required two Pegasi to lift him.
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It’s very nice that the show openly acknowledges that most of its story arcs have come full circle.
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The biggest thing I want to re-work in my story is to incorporate characters that were introduced after I established the original plot. I stopped giving a shit about Doctor Who after Series 7 (there was some contract dispute that kicked BBC shows off Amazon Prime for a year and I never got back on that train), so maybe I can use Starlight to excise the remaining Doctor Who crossover parts.
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MLP having attempts at continuity in its seasons after I made my initial outline have made me question all kinds of stuff about characterization and plot. I want to take later-season recurring characters and then have them act in my alternate timeline (imagine a darker version of this episode but it takes place after MLP season 2/Dr. Who series 6)
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Even the Pony of Shadows is a better-planned version of the OC I needed to make to serve as the mystery antagonist for the first half. This is a tad bit surreal.
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Apparently there are some #mares in Star-swirl’s posse. Not all #stallions