Crazy Headcanons

@Frustration in Excelsis  

It’s funny, it actually reminded me of another conversation over in the Biology and Dietary Headcanons thread about love magic, life and the undead. I also have to agree that the mental health part intrigues me, so long as we ignore a lot of that other stuff that seems kind of tacked on.

@PonyPon
 
I disliked it at “herds”. Honestly I can’t stand that stupid trope. The implication though that ponies are basically mindless idiots until they mate is just sad though.

@MadVillan  
That might explain Puppysmiles and Scotch Tape, though… What?

@Frustration in Excelsis  
The last few posts in that thread seem to redefine it so that “love” is not limited to the romantic; most importantly, the “loses the love of everyone she cares for” clearly refers to Celestia and the other members of the Mane 6. We’ve seen it again and again: Twilight is at her worst any time she feels like the other five aren’t with her or when she’s scared of falling out of favor with Celestia. And we see how badly this can spiral out of control as far back as Winter Wrap Up, as Twilight’s growing worries about not being able to take part in her friends’ tradition leads to bigger and bigger disasters as the episode goes on, up to the point where she’s so desperate to contribute that she overdoes it in a way that nearly winds up ruining the whole thing.
 
In the human world, this still seems to generally hold true; those without someone to lean on are in very real danger of coming unhinged. This applies not only to pony immigrants (when everyone’s positive memories of her were erased, Sunset was basically on the verge of a temper tantrum until bonding with Trixie helped her get a grip), but for native humans as well (Gloriosa seems like she was coming unhinged from trying to do everything herself long before there were magic gems throwing gas on that particular fire). It also clearly influences magical transformations, with the risk of negative emotion turning you into a literal monster. (Though come to think of it, that’s not exactly unheard of in Equestria, either.)

@Scrounge
 
Absolutely – that bit does fit in well with various parts of canon. That was the part I was on board for.

When she’s going somewhere, Princess Luna can take shortcuts through the dream realm. Embarrassingly enough, the idea never actually occurred to her until she saw a character in “Trot Pilgrim Vs. Equestria” do something similar.
 
@Frustration in Excelsis  
So what stops you from just keeping that part and discarding all the tacked-om extras?

@Scrounge
 
Absolutely nothing!

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Exactly.

Chancellor Neighsay and Zesty Gourmand are in fact brother and sister.

This isn’t exactly “crazy”, but if you ever want to know what Cadance sounded like as a foal/young filly [ _{and can stomach the most watered-down, disgustedly saccharine show of the 2000’s that was a complete bastardization and insult to the legacy of one of the most iconic & influential cartoon series of the 20th century and had the audacity to premiere a year after the death of Chuck Jones, even further proving just how disrespectful its mere existence was…but I digress} ]; watch Baby Looney Tunes. A much younger [11-year old] Britt McKillip voices Baby Lola in that show, and it does sound like a MUCH MUCH younger Cadance.

EqG Trixie got arrested a a protest once. The cops were initially just going to take her prints and let her off with a warning, but she wound up in jail overnight because she kept taking her cuffs off and shouting “Ta-da!”

Grandpa Gruff’s left eye was blinded in an incident involving a can of peas, a very angry vole and altogether too much butter. He doesn’t like to talk about it.

Pinkie Pie is an all-star billiard champion

Changelings first came to be when an ancient pony wizard first developed the teleportation spell. Unfortunately it wasn’t yet well enough refined and a fly landed on her before she cast it.

The reason hippogriffs are so big is that their ancestry is not simply ponies plus griffins. The equine side of their gene pool came from a larger horse species, about the size of the Saddle Arabians, while the gryffonic side of their heritage came from hybridized griffins whose feline half wasn’t lion so much as liger.

Scootaloo is still trying to fly, but only because she thinks it’s the only way to make everypony shut up about it.

Even though Starlight makes up for her past, her sense of emotions are still unstable. By pursuing a relationship with Sunburst , it helps her to cure her instability and soften her heart.
 
Their relationship is said to be emotionally strong, warm, and heartfelt

MUD BRIAR IS SUDOWOODO!!!!!!!!!

Any headcanons why pony technology looks so human? They have door knobs, feather quills and even eating utensils but the creatures that use them mainly don’t have fingers or hands. Even with unicorns with telekinesis, their tools would be fashioned much differently. Horn writing for example. What’s it called for earth ponies? Mouth writing? Did humans used to be on Equestria? What if S9 introduces those 3 dumb kids in G1 that were friends with the ponies?

@hironakamura  
It’s stolen from the EqG world.

Apple Bloom suspects that Zecora may be the only zebra in existence, and convincing her not to ask about it was one of the most awkward conversations of Applejack’s life.

@hironakamura  
Their not dumb!

@hironakamura  
It’s a post-human world, which is why they know about Romeo, Fu Manchu, Hawaiian shirts, Swiss cheese, French haute couture. They’re just not innovative enough to adapt most things for their use, as long as it’s not strictly necessary to do so.
 
I don’t account that to being connected to the human world because that’s clearly a different human world. Each human who has a pony counterpart shares that name with it, and the rest mostly have names that follow the same pattern: English word, possibly followed by another English word. And most of those aren’t English words we use for names.

Twiggle’s dad is actually a human from the human world. Technically Twiggles is half-human :D

Sonic and Rainbow Dash tried to date, but had to mutually break it off because they were too similar.