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  1. Story: The Gift That Keeps On Giving: [Slice of Life]Author: PascoiteDescription: The Princesses' birthday celebration is here again, and Mayor Mare needs a scapegoat—er, trusted citizen—to handle Ponyville's gift. Certainly, deciding what to get for an ancient ruler who's seen everything will be a piece of cake. Hm, cake. Maybe that's not such a bad idea…Additional Tags: The simplest answer's the best >http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/03/story-gift-that-keeps-on-giving.html http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/703199

    Sunday, 09-Mar-14 18:11:33 UTC from Sethisto
    • Trixie Performs for the Cult of Owls: Viva IMATOONLINK.You should know that that means by now.  Get it below. >http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/03/trixie-performs-for-cult-of-owls.html http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/703001

      Sunday, 09-Mar-14 16:31:33 UTC from Sethisto
      • Adopting "everypony", "mare", and "stallion" into one's vocabulary, circa 2012, could be considered as part of the informal initiation into bronydom. If we look at it with embarrassment now, we might say that these words seem silly or pointless outside the fandom. Bronydom, as a social group, has always been inclusive. But these little initiations, like adopting vocabulary or admitting to your friends that you like MLP, is a uniting experience for many bronies. Without these initiations, the outlines of the group become blurry until it becomes difficult to tell who is in and who is out, and it makes it feel much less special to be in the group.

        Thursday, 19-Mar-15 19:27:50 UTC from web
        • Today I learned that sleep is really good.

          Thursday, 19-Mar-15 18:49:45 UTC from web
        • Just got numix-theme, yaaaay! http://rainbowdash.net/url/817897

          Tuesday, 10-Feb-15 17:53:37 UTC from web
          • Continuing http://rainbowdash.net/url/817049 ... "Is it better for the mysterious to remain mysterious?" In the case of spoilers, it is. What about a situation where I want to know the jist of a story, but I don't want to read it? Is it better for someone to summarize it for me, or should they encourage me to read it by withholding spoilers?

            Thursday, 29-Jan-15 17:20:27 UTC from web
            • Do ponies pray to the princesses?

              Saturday, 17-Jan-15 08:00:52 UTC from web
            • In an online game where players can die and respawn with no penalty, defending another player is a social action rather than a practical action. If total strangers are to defend each other in the game world without necessarily wanting to be friends, then dying and respawning needs a penalty.

              Friday, 02-Jan-15 07:57:04 UTC from web
            • The essay “In Praise of Shadows” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is relevant to my post yesterday about “mystery”. This essay describes aesthetic virtues of concealment and darkness. Dark nooks are all over the place at nighttime. But this mysterious darkness is there without being set up for aesthetic effect. That is, it is not a human's artwork. So why should we set up our own mysteries when Nature is already bursting with them?

              Wednesday, 31-Dec-14 05:57:26 UTC from web
            • Is it better for the mysterious to remain mysterious? If I write 月の馬 to a friend who does not know Japanese, is it better for them to learn what it means, or for them to relish the mystery? Twilight Sparkle charges into mysteries like a sword, and she loves finding answers. Is it ever friendly to withhold solutions to mysteries? When I look at the Cyrillic alphabet, it looks like wizard runes. But some of my family can actually read it. Which is more valuable: mystery or understanding?

              Tuesday, 30-Dec-14 09:00:58 UTC from web
            • Love Letter teaches card-counting, action videogames teach reaction time, and tennis teaches hand-eye coordination. But I don't know of a game that teaches kindness. What skills are better learned from games, and what skills are better learned from real life?

              Friday, 26-Dec-14 21:48:10 UTC from web
            • The poster that you stick on the wall, if it is designed on the computer, is in an odd situation. The creases that let it fold are not used to artistic effect, and probably the artist will be unaware of the texture and size of the printed medium. Even if she prints the poster out at intervals to examine the feel and quality of the paper, it is not as convenient as being able to feel at any time. Maybe this is a consequence of the poster's “reproducibility”. It is designed to be copied indefinitely, starting from digital file and ending as a poster on the wall. How about this: if the artist wants to be able to feel the texture at any time and use the creases for an artistic effect, she can draw it on the very same kind of creased paper that she intends to print on. But then, the artist wouldn't be doing digital painting anymore, which ruins the whole idea!

              Sunday, 07-Dec-14 21:20:55 UTC from web
              • WEE-WOO WEE-WOO I'M A BIG BAD IMPORTANT USER WHO DON'T NEED NO RULES #

                Tuesday, 23-Sep-14 14:24:12 UTC from ban me pls
              • I don't want to tear myself away from reading fanfiction but apparently I have to write fanfiction.

                (And also revise.)

                ((Oh, and eat breakfast, I guess.))

                Tuesday, 16-Sep-14 07:51:03 UTC from web