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When your main inhabitants aren't human, speculation abounds. If you have other guesses then:
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== Pony Customs ==
== Ponies in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
As a result of there being less males to go around.
* Real horses are the same way, stallions can't stand competition so they drive most of the mature males out of the herd.
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** This is not a waltz. It's in 4/4 time, not 3/4 time.
== We won't see '''even one''' blacksmith before the last season of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
In a land of horses, we haven't seen one yet, even in the western town of Appleloosa. They know what anvils are (we've seen two, so far), and they know how to play a game of horseshoes, but not one character actually '''wears''' horseshoes (we have seen boots and shoes that fit over hooves, but that's it).
* Look at the tracks that the Cutie-Mark Crusaders leave in "Stare Master" that Fluttershy follows into the Everfree Forest: the Crusaders are clearly wearing horseshoes.
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Equestria is a [[Lady Land]] society not run by males, but by females. All of the political leaders are not female because a princess is glamorous, but because a conservative Pony belief is that the females are more suited for leadership roles. That's why the show focuses on a strong female cast of characters- within the realms of their society, they would function as a male roles. In a similar vein to the novel, Egalia's Daughters, the men become "masculists," as opposed to real-life feminism. They've worked their way up into equal standing with the females, but some conservative ways are still around, such as the sparkley atmosphere.
== Equestrian society is inspired from [[Brave New World (
In Equestrian society happiness is of the utmost importance. After the terrible chaos and suffering of Discord's rule, everypony wanted stability instead of the anarchy of previous years. After defeating Discord the two Royal sisters began to implement these ideas; however they came to blows over the exact implementation of these ideas. Equestrian society today is ruled as a soft-version of Brave New World. Our Mane Cast are Alpha and Beta, which explains why they are assigned leader roles and why they are friends with each other. Background ponies are often seen repeated many times in the background; this is because they are genetically identical, bred under identical conditions. This means there are hundreds of Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bons, for instance. Derpy (with cross eyes) is simply a mistake - she is too intelligent for her assigned caste, she has to act slow to fit in. Family relations are discouraged which explains the lack of parental influence; but as Celestia is benovelent she lets traditional farming families like the Pie's and the Apple's stay.
* Methinks [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== Libraries in Equestria, including the one in Ponyville, are not organized alphabetically. ==
== Wizard hats were made with unicorns in mind. ==
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== The Idea of an Alicorn precedes Celestia and Luna. ==
As we saw at the end of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== Economically, politically, technological, but mostly socially, Equestria is in the Age of Enlightenment/Industrial Revolution ==
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With Unicorn magic increasing the spread of technology (magically making something work is a very helpful trait for ingenuity and ivention) one has to wonder how quickly they will get to the modern era.
* Building off of this, Equestria may undergo democratic reforms (or going into full [[Crack Fic]] mode, a ''revolution'') at some point.
== In Equestria, "I Spy" was made as a sight-seeing game. ==
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== Pegasi do not form traditional families in the way that unicorns and earth ponies do. ==
Think about it: we've never seen any relatives on any pegasus character. We've seen Twilight's parents, Rarity's parents and little sister, Applejack's extended family, and Pinkie's parents and sisters, but we've never seen, nor heard any reference to Rainbow's family, nor Fluttershy's, nor Scootaloo's. And if you think about it, this makes sense: we know from "Hearthswarming Eve" that the pegasi were originally a heavily militaristic society, so it would make sense if they had a Spartan notion that children should be raised in common as part of their early military training.
== Mixed-type marriages are not widespread nor socially accepted ==
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== Pony society is atheistic -- and not just the [[Flat Earth Atheist|Flat Earth]] type either. ==
[[Brutal Honesty|Yes, this]] ''[[Brutal Honesty|is]]'' [[Brutal Honesty|in part a]] [[Take That|jab]] [[Brutal Honesty|at the whole pervasive "Celestia ZOMG goddess!" meme]]. But consider that religion isn't actually ever brought up in the show, and then look at the world from the ponies' perspective: Day and night are managed by their very own royalty, magic as practiced by unicorns is essentially just another science with practical applications, and they ''know'' who's in charge of the weather, who [[Painting the Frost
== It's only night time nudity that is embarassing to ponies ==
When Fluttershy covers herself in shame in front of Rainbow Dash at the beginning of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Then why did she cover where they aren't? Did she get to talking with Lyra at the spa?
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The only potential wrench in this are the Cakes. It possible that both were born with the name Cake. Thus it possible they were both distant(or rather squicky, not so distant) relatives. Thus both their children of both genders are named Cake.
It also possible that they were a slightly more liberal family and one spouse changed his/her name.
Also the collective family name is passed along matrilineal lines.
EG Granny smith's family is called the Smith family, however since her son is the father to the Apples, the subsequent generation is referred to as the Apple clan.
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Somepony, probably a literary great, made a pun and the term "cutie mark" stuck.
== Ponies call their heaven "Elysium". ==
We now know that Tartarus is pony hell. Since Tartarus is hell in Greek mythology, and Elysium is heaven, calling their heaven Elysium would make sense.
* Aside from how calling Tartarus "hell" and Elysium "heaven" is a gross oversimplification Twilight only stated that there were monsters imprisoned in Tartarus.
** In [
*** The Greeks didn't have a concept of sin, just pissing off the [[Jerkass Gods]].
* Tartarus is Hell at least [[Hell|according to Neil Gaiman]]. (see page quote)
== 'Tartarus' is used as a curse word in Equestrian language. ==
Whether it be hell or not, it's very clear that all manner of bad things are in that place, so saying something like "Go to Tartarus!" would be quite harsh.
== In the same vein, so is "[[Young Frankenstein
Even if it ''isn't'' actually the German word for "glue", it's mere mention will make any equine rear in terror.
* This troper is now curious as to what curse word "blucher" would replace...
== Similar to the above, "feather" is a lighter versions of a [[Precision F-Strike]]. ==
And since some bronies say "buck" to replace the f-word, perhaps "feather-bucking" or something could be legitimate curse. If "feather" is equivalent to a lighter curse word though, that makes Rainbow Dash calling Ditzy Doo a "featherbrain" quite harsh.
And now I think an entire dictionary of Equestrian swear words should be made.
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** ''Stallion with a winged skull cutie mark and a high-peaked combination cap:'' We shall purge the Universe of the Foul Forces of [[Care Bears|Care-a-Lot]]! Glory to the First Stallion to Die! FOR THE PRINCESS!
** Or, going with the [[After the End]] theory, the last surviving pockets of humans are putting up a resistance and need to be exterminated.
** Also, it makes a [
** So what's Big Mac's excuse, discharge due to injury?
*** Exception due to being the sole male provider within the immediate family?
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