Crazy Headcanons

Derpy is a cheerful pony who has strabismus and is a bit inarticulate and clumsy, but she isn’t actually dumb.

@Background Pony #2031  
The strabismus was caused by a flying accident as a foal and grew steadily worse over time. Surgery failed to correct the issue. The accident was a result of her ADD.

@Pulse Wave  

 
Interesting

@Background Pony #2031  
THIS.

In Equestria magic is relatively limited. Magic can do some amazing things but those feats require a lot of magical power and there’s never enough for everyone who would like to use it.
 
That is why some unicorns have teleportation, but moving goods and services to market, and ordinary travel, require railroads and even pony-drawn carts on dirt roads. There are magical healing spells and potions, but they are rare and there are things magic just can’t do. Equestria has hospitals, doctors, nurses, dentists, whose jobs are very much like they are in our world, because magic can’t do everything for everyone. There’s just not enough magic to go around, even in a land where magic raises the sun and moon every day.

@Background Pony #2031  
By that token, stronger magical spells require licensing and taxation.

An ancient traditional pegasus mating ritual is to ask for assistance preening. It’s so old that modern pegasi have largely forgotten it–but alicorns remember.
 
Pegasus anatomy is a bit odd in that their preening oil glands are located just behind the main wing joints on either side of the barrel rather than a single one on their butts, where birds have theirs. Their preening oil is semisolid, like that of waterfowl, and gives their feathers highly water resistant properties so long as they apply it regularly during the preening process. If they don’t, their feathers become disorderly and dull-looking, and can even become brittle and fall out, just as happens to most species of birds. Some pegasi claim that their preening oil, when applied to their coats, makes them better insulators and makes them more resistant to cold, but scientific research suggests it’s more a matter of the preening oil making the topmost layer of their coats water resistant and keeping the coat nearer their skin dry in cold wet weather.
 

@Communist Starlight  

 
You don’t say.

@Background Pony #2031  
In “Read it and Weep”, Rainbow Dash’s X-ray showed the bone broken completely in two. In real life that sort of injury usually takes about 6-8 weeks to fully heal. Yet Rainbow Dash was in the hospital for only “a few days”, and instructed to refrain from flying for “a few days” after that (for a total recovery time of what had to be less than two weeks).
 
So it would appear that healing magic at least is readily available - it just doesn’t offer instant gratification like what you see in games.

@DoctorWTF  
I attribute both fast healing and a lack of healing magic to ponies’ innate passive magic.

@Background Pony #2031
 

@Communist Starlight  

 
Then again, Spike was able to purchase a comic book enchanted to draw the reader into its universe - considering that he thought it was an ordinary comic, it couldn’t have cost much more than an ordinary comic.

@DoctorWTF  
Ugh - don’t remind me. A perfect Discord episode, wasted…

@DoctorWTF  
Wizards: making hideously dangerous magical artifacts and just leaving them lying around, since the Second Age.
 

@Background Pony #04F7  
That is so true, and that put me down a train of thought that you had no business putting me down.

@Background Pony #04F7  

 
Well, we don’t rightly know that they were in any real danger. Perhaps losing to the villain still would have simply meant getting kicked back out of the comic, but with the knowledge that you lost.
 
Though you’re totally right with respect to the Alicorn Amulet. The asshole who sold it to Trixie is the real villain of “Magic Duel”.

My new headcanon, a teenage princess Flurry Heart was Luster Dawn’s babysitter. ;-)

My new headcanon, the guy Spike bought the magic comic from cursed it because Spike kept whining about the uselessness of Humdrum.

Snips made a ton of money off the buckball stuff both in the last two buckball episodes.

@Brass Beau  

 
Hey, if I got my hands on what is essentially Matrix-level virtual reality, only to be thrust into the game as essentially a passive observer, I’d also be sorely disappointed.
 
Though one would think Spike wouldn’t be as useless as he thought he was. His knowledge of the comic universe in question should include the villain’s abilities, fighting style, and methods by which the heroes previously defeated her. He could have been a valuable source of tactical advice.

@DoctorWTF  
And were he not throwing himself a pity party he likely would have. He proved himself useful anyway and if he ever had an adventure in a comic book again he may do just that. It was an interesting concept.

@Brass Beau  
Well, it was basically stated that there’s at least one store in Canterlot which specializes in selling comics of that nature. I wonder if the actual MLP comic will ever go there?

@DoctorWTF  
Doubtful but it’s definitely something worth revisiting.

If nothing else, it sounds like there could be some decent fanfic potential there.

The party: do you sell magic items?  
The magic comic book store: oh boy, do I