So, I was gonna do this thing where I didn’t post for a while, then ponies would reread the last post and see the last answer and then they’d be all “Oh no! You weren’t serious, were you Lyra? Please come back! We love you!”

Only that didn’t happen… I update everyday, but I didn’t make a post for just shy of three days and nopony said anything about it…

I’m cry.

But you didn’t see me cry.

1) New Horseleans? Please be joking. That can’t exist. A good and just Celestia wouldn’t allow it.

2) A couple of years ago when I was with my last coltfriend. I didn’t trust him.

He was clean, though. ‘Bout the only positive thing about the guy…

3) Would probably get a less bias opinion from bear-bear.

4) Yay! What do I win?!

5) As long as you don’t call me Johnson.

6) Because we don’t want to execute them. We just want them to leave us alone.

7) I don’t think you do. I think it’s a want; not a need.

1) That’s just more reason to do it! I’ll have somepony to watch over me while I act a fool!

2) Given what took place today, that’s a lot more unsettling than it would have been before.

3) I’ve heard all the ones from 2 too much. I’m gonna pick Gemini Mare. Spark Mare as a close second. Honorable mention to Dust Mare for not sounding like a regular stage. It sounds like a fortress/late game level.

4) Love you, baby! /Mung Daal

5) Good thing I have a knack for fighting destiny, huh?

6) Not watching it.

7) They aren’t just skimming some sort of excess love off the surface, if there even is such a thing. They take love. And they take a lot of love. It drains their prey of that which gives us purpose. Even in the most sinister of souls, love is what gives us a natural reason to go on. Even if it’s a love of something wicked.

If you’re asking why they don’t show some sort of restraint and only take a little, I have a theory but no real evidence. The single study I’ve seen defines concentrated love as a substance that throws the subject into a sort of euphoric state. They feel elevated beyond anything they’ve previously experienced and they want more.

1) Everypony’s gotta front now and again. But you gotta lot of nerve playin’ that in my hood. You’d best step off, sucka.

2) Quite a range. I don’t claim to like everything, and I know better than to say “everything but blank, blank, and blank,” but quite a range.

Before you or anypony else starts, dubstep is not among that range.

3) Wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I don’t care if your people are going through a drought, famine, pushed off your own land, there is no excuse for it. Ever. If you have a problem, you communicate it. That includes war declarations.

I’ve been watching ponies get hurt and worse for most of my life and I’m sick of it. Ponies that never wanted to fight. What I saw that day was a military force attacking civilians. Nothing you, or anypony else says will ever, ever justify it.

And don’t even try pushing some “ponies attacked first” crap, because I have access to 200 years of military documents that say otherwise.

But hey, if you want to try and convince me, you’re welcome to it.

4) Against, personally.

5) Is a statement. What were you wanting me to say in response? I saw that you hugged another one recently.

6) I’m not that fluffy!

7) Hey kiddo!

1) Please no. Nopony knows where that blood has been.

2) New like as soles? New-like as soles? New-like, such as soles? Souls maybe? What I’m basically saying here is, “Huh?”

3) Left or right side?

4) I’d be delighted, but shouldn’t I do something for you? I mean, I know you’re not really a father but… I don’t exactly know how this works.

5) Huh, I guess that thing makes a lot more sense in your world where it would just appear to be a crossover. Here it’s just Sci-fi, apocalyptic ponyland based upon a video game that takes place in Sci-fi, apocalyptic ponyland.

6) In essence the concept of commitment, in all aspects of life, shows respect toward all parties involved. I suppose the greatness of commitment would come from receiving that respect back from others in turn.

7) Most ponies feel about the same way I do; we were attacked, unprovoked, not by a diverse army, but by a single species that saw no problem in wiping our kind off the face of the planet for their own selfish end. A number were hurt and most of us have lost our sense of security, assuming we still possessed it.

We don’t want to kill changlings; that’s not our way. But we’re anxious and uneasy and however unfair it may be, you can’t rationally blame us for feeling this way. Micro evolution designed your species to all look the same specifically so other animals couldn’t tell two changlings apart. If we stumble upon a changling, we would have no way of knowing whether or not they were in the very force that attacked us.

B: Ordinarily if an intelligent being comes to Equestria seeking citizenship, they’d go through immigration. Pretty simple process. Barred from holding any government sanctioned position for a year, and within that year they must prove they’ve integrated into Equestrian society and are able to pay the tax. After that they’re an Equestrian citizen, free to bask in all the rights and protections that offers until such time that they are either unable to continue or prove themselves unfit as a citizen.

B: However, due to the changlings’ unique talent, things become much more complicated. Being unable to tell who may or may not have been involved in an attack against our nation, all changlings would have to be considered ex-criminals. They would be assigned a probation officer and a rehabilitation/reintegration councilor. The process of rehabilitation and reeducation would last as long as necessary- possibly a year, possibly more. After proving they’re able to behave within Equestrian borders, the process to become a citizen could begin.

B: Of course, you don’t have to live in Equestria as a citizen. There’s nothing illegal about being unregistered and without a temporary visa. However, you’re prohibited from engaging in any government related activities, like voting or receiving a permit, and are not protected under Equestrian law. If you’re not a citizen and you get mugged in broad daylight with a hundred witnesses, you do not possess the right to press charges. Somepony else would have to do it for you.

1) Look again. Your question is now diamonds.

2) What a slippery slope we descend…

Pegasus have to train to fly. Unicorns have to train to cast. For the most part we use it responsibly. Or even in the darkest of views, we use it to alter our environment, but our environment alone.

Shapeshifting at its core is about deception. Ideally it would only be used to defend oneself from attack. And if that’s all it was being used for, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But that’s not what shapeshifters do. Nearly all shapeshifting creatures are predictors that use their power to manipulate their pray in order to destroy them from the inside out. There may be upstanding individual shapeshifters, but no species of shapeshifter has a positive reputation.

You want to call me a bigot, fine, but history doesn’t lie. At best, as individual species, they’re mischievous, manipulative opportunists. At worst, they attack a nation unprovoked and attempt genocide.

3) Well, you can’t do that on somepony else’s property, that’s trespassing.

I think the reason you don’t see ponies do that is mostly a modesty thing. If somepony cut the grass, dried it and served it I’m sure no pony would be able to tell the difference, other than size. So, no. No fine if it’s your own property. Might be negatively viewed from a social standpoint. Unless I’ve missed my mark, be about like a human grabbing a walnut off the ground, smashing it open and eating it.

4) Sort of got to this late. Sorry about that. How about tomorrow?

1) Shapeshifters aren’t a race; they’re a loose collection of unclassifiable ani-… Can’t even call them animals because some share characteristics closer to other kingdoms or even domains.

It’s not about a species, it’s about power. Shapeshifters don’t have to work for their power; they’re born with it. It’s easy to them. Even Twilight Sparkle or Rainbow Dash had to train for years to reach where they are now, and they’re far from peaked. Shapeshifters just can. Little to learn; requires no more training than walking. There’s nothing to harness, no muscle to build, and once they’ve got it, that’s it. Nothing more to learn, nothing to train, no reason to even practice.

And with this easily gained, already questionable ability… When you have to work for power, there’s at least a chance you might recognize what it was like before hoof and use it responsibly. Shapeshifters have no reason to care. Shifting isn’t even second nature to them. It is their nature. It’s too much power given too fast and too freely.

2) Of course not! What a silly thing to ask!

3) He didn’t shapeshift; he transformed with his reality altering “magic.” Magic in quotations because it isn’t technically magic, the same way five out of the six Elements of Harmony aren’t technically magic.

Shapeshifters are so called because they shift their genetic makeup to an approximation. They don’t literally become what they shift to; if they did they couldn’t turn back. Transforming is literally becoming something else. Unless you’re using time-limited magic or in possession of nigh-unlimited power, it’s permanent. Of course, these are just technical terms.

I don’t even know if Draconequus as a species had as much of, or any of the powers Discord has. They aren’t around anymore, if there ever even was more than one. Lots of rumors surround that.

4) Quick! Everypony become paranoid for the rest of eternity!

Is it any wonder why the public didn’t know about Changlings?

5) Sounds like you’re more of a fan of me than the music.

Don’t have many free days anymore. More of free evenings. Of which I am free this evening.