Crazy Headcanons

@Scrounge  
And if she can’t stop it from happening just on contact, just think of what that means for hugs. Especially group hugs.

Spike got a month-long ban from the library’s manga section after he tried to feed Rarity a sandwich made with his own tail.

@SwordKing  
Is that a reference to some manga I’ve never heard of?

@Wiimeiser  
Probably Kobyashi’s dragon maid.
 
The titular maid keeps trying to get the lead to eat part of her tail.

@SwordKing  
He can borrow some manga from Fluttershy, since there is a headcanon that she’s an otaku thanks to one episode.

Yak’s can’t swim.

@Ping_chan
 
It’s all down to the hair, really – all that shag sucks up water like a sponge. It’s like trying to swim while carrying half a dozen sopping wet shag carpets.

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
I wonder what a Yak would look like with a really close hair cut. :p

@Ping_chan
 
Probably like an oddly-shaped bull.

@Nyperold  
This is especially problematic when dealing with Pinkie. Not only is her brain particularly disorienting to see into, but she just loves to give out surprise hugs.

@Scrounge
 
Pinkie suffered an euphoric ADHD, which explains her personality

@RhodieNite  
Yes she does and no it doesn’t. ;)

Celestia would be comfortable with dying, as long as Equestria was not in a crisis she couldn’t see through to the end.

@PonyPon
 
She is a truly benevolent ruler in that she would greatly prefer her lands be ruled well, rather than ruled by her specifically.

@YetAnotherBrony
 
Which is in sharp and mirrored contrast to how Nightmare Moon operates:
 
Being Nightmare Moon essentially born out of feelings of intense jealousy and desire for attention and appreciation left to fester and turn foul, she is obsessed with being fawned over and admired. This greatly affects how she rules: in her mind, Equestria and its ponies are there to admire her or to serve her or both, and she isn’t terribly concerned with how these affects them. In her view, she is owed their admiration, she is owed their service, she is owed… well, everything, without question. This, for instance, is why she forbid anyone but herself from learning powerful magic (such as time magic) in her timeline in “The Cutie Re-Mark” – ponies knowing impressive magic would mean that a) people besides herself would be admired, and b) on a personal level she wouldn’t be the most absolutely awe-inspiring and powerful creature she would know of anymore, and she refuses to have that. Same with the eternal night thing – if ponies won’t love her and fawn over what she does, she’ll damn well force them to! It’s very much a rulership born out of selfishness – she would rule Equestria as her own personal ego project.
 
So, for instance, if a pony in her realm began to acquire fame as a hero – wandering the land, helping strangers, righting wrongs, fighting monsters, saving towns, all that good stuff – she would take steps to stop and discredit this pony, because only she can be Equestria’s idol. This, of course, endangers her nation, since it means she is the only person who can have any ability to deal with outside threats and, if she falls in battle, Equestria would be completely without anyone able to defend it and horribly, horribly screwed. This suits her just fine – being Equestria’s only line of defense adds to her image and makes her feel better about herself, and is she falls, so what? Equestria’s not any use to her after she’s dead, so she doesn’t particularly care what happens to it afterwards.
 
Whereas in Celestia’s case, she understands her position less in terms of rights and things owed and more in terms of tasks and obligations. As she sees it, she has a job – to ensure that Equestria prospers, that it is safe and that its people are happy and well-off. This, to her, takes precedence over her own actual personal rulership: if, for instance, she was faced with a situation where she would be required to abandon her throne and status to ensure Equestria’s long-term safety and happiness… she would do it. She’s in this for Equestria, not herself.
 
Or, to put it a lot more succinctly: in NMM’s mind, Equestria and its people exist to serve her own purposes, and she rules based on that, whereas Celestia understands herself as being where she is to serve Equestria’s purposes, and rules based on that.
 
(And for completeness’ sake, Daybreaker is another beast entirely. She is is so assured in her own greatness and confidence and bloated ego that she wouldn’t care in any way what Equestria does as long as she’s acknowledged as its ruler. She’s simply so self-assured that she’s the most powerful and awesome pony to ever live that she would have no real need for ego-stroking. The issue here would mostly be one of neglect and misrule, since she would mostly choose to ignore the tedium of necessary day-to-day administration, law enforcement, pubic works and so on and let Equestria go hang, except for crushing revolts against herself with staggering levels of violence. Imagine an entire nation of Klugetowns and you’ve got a decent idea of what her Equestria would end up looking like.)
 

 

Quibble Pants runs a taxi service, and if you’ve got the bits, he can get you to and from anywhere, no matter what obstacles, monsters, or bounty hunters life throws at him along the way. He’s actually the one responsible for picking up Nightmare Moon and bringing her back to Equestria once she was free from her lunar prison. Don’t judge, it was a paying gig and he has expensive hobbies, plus there was prophecy-type stuff involved so somepony had to do it, right? But the practical upshoot of this is that Quibble can legitimately claim to be a space cabbie.
 
I may enjoy voice actor jokes more than I should

Mistmane could be on par with Starswirl if she wanted to, but she’s more focused on helping people than wanting to become the strongest sorcerer in the land.

Fizzlepop Berry Twist and Derpy will form the Twilight Guard, the entire Twilight guard.

@Scrounge  

 
His taxi fleets are a bunch of modified Esperantos

@FrustrationInExcelsis
 

 
Very late addition based on something I found on Deviantart this week: *hydrangeas.
 

 
Very popular among certain gardening enthusiasts, although they’re not recommended for people with pets or small foals.
 
Not to be confused with the closely related snapdragons.

@RhodieNite  
I feel dumb, but I don’t get it.

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
Oohhh! Oohhh! Snapdragons! Like in Coraline?!

Princess Cadance is also Queen of the Sirens.

Flurry is the final boss.

@Shepherd  
However, it was then revealed not to be Flurry, but some magical being controlling her body. After you defeat Flurry, the real final boss begins, and in the struggle, Flurry helps.