@Background Pony #3D8F
I still wanna be a cute foal, sometimes.

@Zaknel
difficult responsibilities
WHEN YOU ACCEPT AN APPOINTMENT FROM HIS MAJESTYYY

@Beau Skunky  
How about a Glimmerdoption and a Trixiedoption?

@Beau Skunky
 
Never considered that.
 
what about Cheerilee adopting Scootaloo?

What about Trixiedoption?
 
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@Eroraf86  
You’ll just have to make do with Rebuilding for now, I guess.

Fanfic version when?!

I’ve said it before. But, God, I love this comic!

@genervt  
why would one want to?

There is NO escape.

@AzriBoss  
We need more Glimmerdoption.
 

Twilight is a new mommy now

@Cirrus Light  

 
That’s pretty much how I feel.

@Beau Skunky  
Sombra and maybe one other are like exceptions to the rule. If it were more like our world, body counts would be very high.
 
They’re herbivores, so no difficulty or existential “others must die so I can have a juicy steak and bacon” dread.
 
But overall, the show is just optimistic. It’s a world where the good guys always win in the end, friendships stay together or at least come back together in the end, and things just generally work out in a good way.
 
Sweetie Belle fixed Rarity’s headdress in time, the CMCs got marks that let them stay together and doing what they love, Diamond Tiara came around (still waiting on a new episode with her!), Starlight wasn’t assassinated, executed, sent to Guantanomo Bay or even imprisoned and she got to have a shot at getting her friendship back together with Sunburst. Sunburst got a job as Crystaller despite his difficulty in college, Moondancer got back to friendship before she killed herself, the Diamond Dogs didn’t rape and/or murder Rarity, nopony died in the Ursa attack, Spike wasn’t majorly punished or locked away or killed as a danger to society after Secret of my Excess despite almost roasting the Wonderbolts alive, Rarity won the fashion show despite Suri stealing her fabric, and her friends didn’t leave and they got to see Hinny in the Hills, Pinkie doesn’t have crippling depression as far as we know, nopony died in the Changeling Invasion, not even the mane 6 or Shining Armor, Twilight has yet to really fail at her studies and dreams - heck, everpony achieved theirs or has a clear one in mind, even if it’s just doing what they already do, etc etc etc.
 
Also they seem to have a lot of leisure time.
 
You can interpret it in various ways, but the big difference is it’s basically a very lucky world, where if something goes wrong it’s usually not that big of a deal and it turns out okay in the end.
 
AJ’s parents are like the one glaring exception. But they’re just that - an exception. And none of the mane 6 have had the life or dream-crushing experience of reality, nor have any of them really felt lost before.
 
And yeah, much of that is due to the rating, but nonetheless that is canon to that world. None of the mane 6 are dead despite the crap they pull all the time. Or any of the CMC, for that matter. I mean, would responsible parents in our world just let 8-year olds loose around town? Of course not. Not even in a very nice town. Especially if they pull the kinda crap the CMC do. But none of them are dead, still. Despite even going through the darn Everfree Forest from time to time on their own (like AB going to Zecora’s).
 
Whatever the reason, even if it’s just rating, that’s their world. When the Hooffields and McColts fight it’s cartoon and not bloody. Scootaloo catapults herself in the sky and pops in a cloud without breaking her neck. Plunderseed vines didn’t kill anypony. I could go on and on with all the stuff that would’ve turned very grimdark in our world but didn’t in theirs.
 
Nopony drowned in PPoV when the boat sank. Scootaloo fell in a river at night and went over a waterfall and was okay in Sleepless in Ponyville. Applejack survived the Timberwolves in Spike at Your Service (to say nothing of all the mane 6’s escapades in their main adventures AND lack of resulting PTSD, to boot). Babs not only wasn’t killed or majorly hurt in the float going off a cliff and diving into a river, but she came around to be friends and heaven’s knows the CMC might’ve ended up in juvinille detention IRL.
 
Just a cursory glance through the bad end tag will reveal many more.
 
To say nothing of all the situations that ended perfectly, like Luna on Nightmare Night, AJ and RD in Fall Weather Friends, Pinkie, AJ and Rarity in PPoV. Starlight and the mane 6 in Every Little Thing She Does. Spike and AJ in Spike at Your Service.
 
Just about every - if not simply every episode is like this.
 
It’s one thing if it’s more slice of life, but enough episodes have some intense stuff that would have terrible IRL consequences that don’t happen in the show, that regardless of if it’s just because of the rating, fact remains that it paints a very nice picture of the world.
 
How accurate that picture is and how much the mane 6 and CMC are just lucky, that’s headcanon. But if you take it at face value, being the main character in any TV-Y show is going to make you very lucky.
 

 
To say nothing of the world just looking cute and being a barrage of friendly and bright color. If humans were that cute that’d be real nice, heh.
 

 
All that being said, I think most bronies would go through heavy internet and smartphone withdrawal and find the lack of air conditioning unbearable, heh. Though I dunno if they have A/C, just that it doesn’t look it. Rarity might, lol. You can just imagine she’s one of the few ponies in town with a super expensive commercial technology for her boutique because she can’t stand sweating in the summer…
 
But I dunno, if I didn’t stay up to 3am on my phone and laptop that’d sure be super nice :P
 
But I wouldn’t be able to write, we would’ve be able to talk, and I wouldn’t be able to Google and Wikipedia stuff.
 
Man, I might actually get outside and talk to people in town or something, jeez.

@Cirrus Light  
Considering Sombra enslaved an entire race of ponies, (a character killed off on-screen, I might add) and how ruthless some beings are, it’s a bit naive to assume there’s no such thing as “murder,” or “genocide.” The reason those things are never addressed in the show, and why some characters are easily redeemed is simply ‘cause it’s a family show.
 
Doesn’t mean Equestria would be a better world then our’s. I think fans are kinda looking at it through rose-tinted brony goggles.

@Beau Skunky  
It’s not. But it’s also not a world that you’d find murder and genocide in, and things always end well, even if they’re attacked by Tirek. And even being a world-ending Nightmare Moon is forgivable and redeemable. IRL you’d see a lot more prison sentences and possibly even executions to characters than what we see.

@Cirrus Light  

 
Um, isn’t some of that stuff implied to exist in Equestria too? (Especially, war & tyranny which has been shown.) Let’s not forget about the occasional random monster attacks, or eldritch abominations that exist there too.
 
I never got why some fans assume Equestria is a “perfect peaceful cutesy utopia.” Even a few of the ponies have been shown to be jerks, or unfriendly. (Remember the ones in “Putting Your Hoof Down?”)

@Cirrus Light
 
A friend of mine once visited with his four young daughters. One of them, who was six at the time, declared as they were loading up the van to head home that she was very glad to be six, because she didn’t have to pay for anything or drive the car, and she could just sleep on the way home. That was the moment that I realized that this was a scarily intelligent and perceptive little girl.
 
She’s now 10. She’s only gotten smarter.

@Cirrus Light
 
Well, having that loving family to go with being a child would be key, wouldn’t it? I have a feeling Twilight would be the best mom for Starlight, mainly because she already acts like she’s Starlight’s mom.
 
Also, bonus points to be awarded if Trixie wound up as her sister.

@A Non Man  
Who wouldn’t want the constant love and affection of childhood mixed with the adorable lovableness of being a filly in Equestria in lieu of a real world with murder and war and politics and genocide and tyranny and fear and the adult life of crushing and unavoidable and difficult responsibilities?
 
We tend to easily forget the lack of control we had over our lives as children, though. Sleeping, eating, playing, working, and living entirely on other’s schedules in a way exactly decided by them. It’s a bit like slavery, lol, but loving instead of trying to squeeze value out of you.
 
At least ideally it’s loving.
 
“We can’t buy that”, “don’t do that”, “we’re going to go here today”, “have fun at school!”, “it’s bed time!”.
 
…crap, that doesn’t actually sound all that bad, lolol.

@Beau Skunky
 
Any story of actual age regression for Starlight should just end in a Glimmerdoption. I think it would solve all her problems.

@A Non Man  
You mean “Glimmerdoption?”
 

@Beau Skunky  

 
This is assuming she gets a do-over with Twilight.

@A Non Man  
I don’t, she had a terrible childhood.