1) Science book I had growing up said a huge portion of the world beneath the surface was made up of cavities. Maybe things are different for you. For now.

This isn’t Minecraft. The mine-able world is finite and you can’t just start over.

… What are fossil fuels?

2) Ah… I’m not following. What…? Oh! That’s right! You humans can’t control weather!

Hmm… But, wouldn’t that make your world like… the Everfree Forest?

3) … Okay… You bronies remember I used to go to 4chan, right? I used to hang out on /f/. I know about the Cory in the House trolls.

4) No. You’re gonna click this link and you’re gonna watch baby Finn gettin’ down while you listen to the song-clip.

5) Try not to keep saying the would-be recipient’s name so much. Once is enough. Kinda makes it obvious it’s a joke.

Also, not cool. At an absolute maximum Spike’s mental age would be somewhere in the mid to early teens. And he’d probably be measured closer to like… 10. Either way that’s statutory, yo.

6) No, the only question would be how long it takes before we get sued cross-dimensionally.

Besides, I don’t think I could roll with a rap group. I’m about as sharp and edgy as one of those rubber baby spoons.

I see no reason to believe anything will change, especially not immediately.

I’ve yet to see any indication that she’s become anymore powerful than she already was. Not that flight is any small feat, but she could already self-levitate. Everypony in Ponyville already knew she was Princess Celestia’s student. If ever she called out, everypony in town already listened and was ready to act when necessary. It might seem different, but ask yourself what’s really changed.

The biggest adjustment for anypony to make will be for Twilight herself. Her personal identity has been altered. We’ve always known who Twilight was, even if only subconsciously. She’s the one that’ll need to come to terms with who and what she really is.

If you’d told me two years ago that Twilight Sparkle was going to become an alicorn, and somehow convinced me you were telling the truth, I’d have been irate. The notion that somepony born into a well-off family, with all the opportunity in the world and little hardship, would be rewarded with such a prestigious gift would have left me frothing at the mouth like a rabid animal.

I’ve watched Twilight for quite some time, wishing I had her life. That I could have been born with such potential. That surely I wouldn’t squander it with pointless study in mundane arts like turning an apple into an orange or growing facial hair.

But after all that I’ve witnessed, I’ve begun to understand that I’m not meant to hold such power. For all the magic at her disposal, Twilight has a level of restraint that can only be matched by an alicorn.  Were it me, I would have used it to right every wrong I’d ever witnessed. And I don’t think that would have ended too well.

Information on alicorns are a secret even I’ve never had access to. Maybe nothing’s really changed. Maybe Twilight always had the characteristics of an alicorn, just not the appearance. Maybe the spell she completed was the very spell that transformed her, and required a very specific series of circumstances and relationships. Maybe this isn’t the first time it’s happened, just the first time it’s happened this way.

I’ve digressed a bit, but what I’m trying to get to is that I’m happy for her. I still wish it were me; that I could have been given such a reward for the ordeals I overcame. I can’t help that. But she lived the majority of her life in near isolation and learned more about the magic of friendship in a very brief period of time, than anypony else has in their entire life. And that’s a trial I wouldn’t want to undertake.

So here’s to you, Princess Twilight! You deserve everything you’ve achieved and I can only look forward to what you’ll accomplish next!

Just don’t expect me to call you Princess very often.

1) Well, yes. The real world does tend to be real.

2) Every now and again, certainly!

3) Stupid, huh? Charming.

Maybe I don’t want to follow around some windbag as she spouts existential jargon. Maybe I wanted to play at the concert level. But you know how good you have to be to do that professionally? You think I’m the only one with a special talent for playing the lyre? Special talents aren’t all created equal. You know how infrequently lyres are used in contemporary performances? The few spots available are taken by ponies that are just better than I am.

4) I don’t want to leave Equestria. As for where ponies came to Equestria from, historically those willing to put aside their differences followed our ancestors here. Those that couldn’t let go of their hate, stayed behind and perished.

I don’t really want to talk about marriage anymore…

5) I go by Lyra but my legal name, the stuff I fill out on official papers, is Liora, surname: not available. I could tell Jane McRandom that my surname is Freechmen if I felt like it, but it wouldn’t make it true.

6) I direct you here. Here. Here. And initial here.

That’s a pretty complicated question. As I’ve mentioned before, I only understand feminism as it exists in the human world.

See, just as women traditionally only held jobs like nurses and teachers in the past, stallions traditionally only worked as things like soldiers or laborers. They would risk life and limb with no hope of branching out into a safer or less physically extensive field. And of course, just like in the human world, mares have always been free to carry whatever job they want, even if mare soldiers were ridiculed the same way human male nurses are.

These divides still exist. They’re more subtle now, but you can look around any given town and see it; most of the ponies walking around are fillies because the most of the colts joined the military. And since mares don’t really get sick during pregnancy, this whole stay-at-home-mother thing never happened in our world.

In that way, I can sympathize with feminism the same way I sympathize with colt rights movements. It’s not fair for one sex to have an advantage and something needs to be done. What I can’t do is say I can relate to either, or that I fully understand it. I’ve felt out-of-place and rejected, sure, but never for being a filly.

Stallions may be physically stronger than mares, but a kick from an out-of-shape unicorn mare is still going to do some real damage. Even after everything that’s happened to me, I’m not afraid to go out alone at night. I might have some mental scars or knee-jerk reactions, but I don’t even think about it unless it’s brought up. I think we ponies have an easier time in that regard because of our physiology, and that in turn gives us a psychological advantage.

There’s a lot more I could say, but this is already getting pretty long.

I support equality.

Delightful, considering I used to be forced into theft.

Dragons stay at bay because of our magically capable numbers, but back before the formation of Equestria even pegasus and earth ponies were capable of deterring dragons.

And the only strength leaders possess is what their followers give them. Griffon history is the perfect example of what happens when leaders take advantage of their subjects. Riddled with assassinations, rebellions, and governments overthrown overnight. Why? Because their leaders don’t respect the power their followers possess, which is far greater than their own. And those followers remove them.

Even Princess Celestia only rules over us because we allow her to do so. Even with her being immortal to anything we’re capable of, she and Princess Luna could still be removed from power. Our numbers and individual strength are far too great to defend against.

Leadership is only a byproduct of society, and society is formed around ponies working together to specialize in their craft, field, or talent. Unity is our strength.

1) Remember that button you pressed to get to the page that lets you ask me questions? Go back and read what that button says. Evidently you skipped over it.

2) And what would there be to celebrate if your human America never existed? Would there even be a human “internet” to have this conversation on? America, as a “superpower” has pushed and forced advancement in the rest of your world since its inception. Even things they had no direct tie to only came about because of their rapid progression and global saturation of technology.

I’m not saying it should be a different day or that you shouldn’t celebrate. I’m just saying it would be better to celebrate what your country has done with its freedom, not the simple position of it. From what I understand, a human can get on a tugboat and drift along in international waters and have freedom, but there’s not much you can do with it out there (at least, not without being hunted down).

3) I don’t think so. Probably an alternate dimension-type thing. Generally wards like that have been shutdown due to things like neglect and under-trained staff. The mentally ill usually live in dedicated wings of hospitals, if not with family.

4) I’m not.

5) I’m a former thief and current caregiver to a foal.; that’s a difficult question. I think I would rather be informed of wrongdoing by a whistle-blower now. There’s more at stake these days than my own life.

6) Is this more commentary, a joke, or are you somehow serious?

7) Totally legit.

1) Nope. When Equestria was founded by the new-found peace of pegasus, earth, and unicorn ponies it was a land without society. The only species that inhabited it were globally considered either animals or monsters in that they possessed no societarian structure.

2) Tried is a good word for it, considering the only reason America won was due to Britain being forced to focus completely on the French Revolution happening right next door.

No, the mere act and date of your country winning its freedom holds no real significance. It’s what the nation has done in the centuries following that mattered.

3) It was no coincidence. I moved to Ponyville on the day before the Summer Sun Celebration, because of the Summer Sun Celebration. That marked the end of my temporary position as an ambient musician in Canterlot. Everything had already been prearranged. I had no idea Twilight was moving here too, and neither did she, until after the Nightmare Moon incident.

4) That name sounds suspicious.

5) If this is a reference, I’m not following.

6) You’re a hateful creature for sending something like this.

7) Never heard of the genre. I’ve seen metafictional elements used time after time in other works, but never one dedicated to it.

Unless you count Mystery Science Theater 3000.

1) I… I look, alright. I look really hard. Some kind of… Explanation, a form of balance, a rational reason. But I can’t find it, or I haven’t yet. Humans have come so far without magic, without individualized flight, but all I can come up with is unpredictable luck. Nothing more. Your advancement isn’t based upon a group’s collective persistence over centuries so much as just one or two people working out of desperation and getting lucky. And if those people failed, it just sits until the next person possibly gets lucky. That’s… That’s not even a community. That’s just a bunch of ponies walking in different directions until one of them either finds something or gives up.

If there’s an explanation- if there is some kind of reason… It’s the hand. It can’t be anything else. It just has to be. The question is, why?

2) You’re welcome to come over, but I think I’m having dinner with Boscov again. I’m not sure. He said something about getting me some fresh kiwi, but I’m not sure when.

3) You’ve misunderstood a lot of things. We don’t have just one religion. We have just as little understanding of how we were created as humans do and there’s countless conflicting theories. We just don’t take it as a reason to fight.

Princesses Celestia and Luna are gods, but they didn’t create us. When some of us say gods, we aren’t talking about deities. It’s based upon an old measure of an entities strength; specifically their potential to threaten a society. The sisters are gods because they possess that much magical ability. Discord is a god because he can alter reality on a whim. Princess Cadance is just a measure below a god because, while she can manipulate the thoughts of others, she can only do so in one specific way.

But the oldest records of history talk about a time long before Equestria or any kingdoms where ponies fought for survival in an untamed land, just like any other beast. Any predator large enough saw us as pray. But over time, culminating in Equestria’s formation, we learned that if we prepare we don’t always have to fight. Amongst each other, we never have to. There will always be conflict, but that’s why we organize, plan, make efficient use of the soil and weather. And if humans weren’t so busy making bombs powerful enough to wipe out a city, maybe they could formulate a means to control weather too.