Mass Ponification! (RAR!)

[hongi]

Also, thank you guys for giving me images that will newer allow me to sleep ever again. And now, would someone pass the brain bleach or vodka what ever is closer/more convenient?

I could stand to hear a little more. /that guy from Firefly (sue me, I've only watched the movie).

[Bedlam]

Well, I'm not sure how mastibation would work with hooves but I'm sure some highly motivated individuals would figure it out fairly quickly.

[Lord of the Abyss]

Well, I'm not sure how mastibation would work with hooves but I'm sure some highly motivated individuals would figure it out fairly quickly.

Flexible spines. Long muzzles. Put it together...

[lordofchange13]

For the people being turned into pony's, do they retain the same sexual preferences as when their human?

Or do they reverse and now get turned on by humans? That would be kind of ironic.

Also, thank you guys for giving me images that will newer allow me to sleep ever again.

Just doing my duty for queen and country!

[Batman]

Well, I'm not sure how mastibation would work with hooves but I'm sure some highly motivated individuals would figure it out fairly quickly.

Flexible spines. Long muzzles. Put it together...

Never seen the series but ordinary pony spines aren't actually all that flexible, so geometry likely says no giving themselves blowjobs.

[lordofchange13]

Well, I'm not sure how mastibation would work with hooves but I'm sure some highly motivated individuals would figure it out fairly quickly.

Flexible spines. Long muzzles. Put it together...

Never seen the series but ordinary pony spines aren't actually all that flexible, so geometry likely says no giving themselves blowjobs.

Do ponies even have a large sexual drive like humans, if there even slightly similar to horses in that sense then how to masturbate will not be a rampant problem.

[Purple]

What I would want to know is what happens to world leaders? I mean, do they get turned into uberponies like Celestia? If so, we might be in for a problem. And by problem I mean the light of day becoming a tug of war kind of problem. Also, how would that power be distributed? Would bigger and stronger nations get more powerful leaders? And what about democracies? Would these be excluded or would the power perhaps become like a thing that is automatically passed on to the next president? And I thought we had problems with them going power mad now.

I can just imagine a certain Kim Ill Pony getting no sun, never again.

[lordofchange13]

What I would want to know is what happens to world leaders? I mean, do they get turned into uberponies like Celestia? If so, we might be in for a problem. And by problem I mean the light of day becoming a tug of war kind of problem. Also, how would that power be distributed? Would bigger and stronger nations get more powerful leaders? And what about democracies? Would these be excluded or would the power perhaps become like a thing that is automatically passed on to the next president? And I thought we had problems with them going power mad now.

I can just imagine a certain Kim Ill Pony getting no sun, never again.

It has all ready ben decided by other posters that no one will become Alicorns(Celestia and Luna) during the mass ponification. If we did get them shit would fly, Celestia has the power to turn the planet ~90ish degrees in a few seconds imagine all that energy used as a weapon of war!

[Rossum]

Regarding cutie marks, I tend to think of them like dragonmarked feats in the Dungeons and Dragons Eberron setting or like similar feats on DnD characters. Each cutie mark provides they pony with some kind of skill bonus related to their 'special talent'. Learning magic spells could be naturally difficult for unicorns and most of the ones who have magic beyond simple telekinesis do so because their cutie mark gave them a skill bonus to the 'learn magic spell' check as long as its related to their special talent.

A pony earns their cutie mark when they subconsciously decide on what they want their special talent to be (or something like that... I'm envisioning it like choosing feats at character creation but with the Fourth Wall firmly in place). Unicorns like Twilight or Rarity tend to get cutie marks related to their job or how they want to use their magic. However, the Apple family all have their cutie marks apple related because it helps them do their job, run their farm, and otherwise help out the Apple family business. But they aren't just limited to apples, since Applejack was allowed to go visit Aunt and Uncle Orange in Manehattan to learn to become a socialite or city pony or whatever. I'm guessing that if Applejack had decided to stay in Manehattan then she would have gotten an orange for a cutie mark, changed her name and moved up in the world or whatever.

I guess my fan-theory is that Pegasus ponies get wings, Unicorns get magic, and Earth ponies don't really get a special power... but they make up for it by forming family bonds and building business conglomerates or whatever. The Apple family, Aunt and Uncle Orange, and all the other earth ponies probably keep in close touch to help eachother out to make money. Their kids tend to have thematically appropriate cutie marks that tie them in both with what they want to do in life, helping out the business, and helping eachother out. For example an apple pie cutie mark gives a bonus to baking pies, growing apples, cooking apples into whatever is needed, running Sweet Apple Acres, and maybe gives bonuses on dealing with other members of the Apple family.

Then there are Earth ponies like Hoity Toity, Sapphire Shores, Silver Spoon, Diamond Tiara, and Photo Finish who don't look like they would have any use for a 'makes plants grow better' power but could make good use of connections (family or otherwise). While unicorns and pegasai might have powers that make them more than a match for any individual earth pony (if things ever came to blows) the earth pony would tend to have a whole bunch of friends and family who would back them up in a fight or swear to get even on whoever hurt them. Plus, they seem to reproduce a bit more.

Of course, unicorns and pegasai could probably form huge extended families if they set their minds to it... but imagine trying to raise a family of kids in which all the children have magical powers. Twilight seems to be an only child, Sweety Belle is being raised by her sister (and Rarity is constantly exasperated when she gets into her sewing supplies) and Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Scootaloo don't have on-screen relatives. Heck, Twilight turned her own parents into potted plants by accident once (though she is exceptionally powerful). I'm pretty sure stuff like that would make raising children a difficult task.



Soo... as for the original question. I'm guessing there would be initial panics and social upheaval until everyone calmed down. While about half of the population would now be lacking opposable thumbs there would be plenty of humans left to handle things. A ponified person who's job revolved around using their hands could probably get a human to act as their hands (be it typing or working on machinery or whatnot) until easier tools could be distributed or things change. Equestrian ponies seem capable of moving a high speeds and even hauling trains around so they might be able to replace cars in some cases (heck, with half the population now with four legs and no arms I'm sure driving would be a hassle for them compared to just walking/trotting or moving closer to wherever they need to work). Pegasai could just fly though I'm sure people would need to work out things like flying licenses, no-fly zones, and ways to keep pegasai from crashing through peoples roofs or peeing on people below them.


At first things could be hectic and there are some parts of the world were the ponified people might be enslaved, rounded up, butchered, or killed to get at their magical parts (poachers going for unicorn horns?). But there would be others where they would be treated with respect or at least treated like really intelligent beasts of burden. Oppressive nations might find their pegasus populations fleeing the country into more favorable ones. Eventually (ten years at most) the various human and pony races will start caring less about skin color and more about hands, hooves, wings and horns.

Pegasai alone would be a huge change on how people move around... I mean one eighth of the human population can suddenly fly now! Sure they lack hands but they can still pick up big rocks and drop them on you or fly past most obstacles. Things like radar and guns could certainly protect military bases and the like but with 750 million intelligent flying ponies worldwide I'm guessing that it would change how we think of national borders. Plus, the mere existence of cloud cities and weather control means they can't be ignored. Nations who treat their pegasai properly get weather control, military installations in the sky, and somebody who can track down other pegasai who decide to hop, skip, and jump across your borders. Those who treat them bad see them fly into the next country over and work for those who treat them right.

Unicorns would probably get jobs doing whatever their particular magic is good at, though they would be easier to contain then pegasai and easier to distrust (seriously, there have been plenty of people persecuted in history because it was rumored they could do magic. Unicorns can perform telekineses and other stuff, you could blame all sorts of crimes on them and say "Well, he used magic to do it and his telekineses doesn't leave fingerprints!"). Expect unicorns with criminal records to have their horns damaged to keep them from casting death spells or whatever.

Earth ponies at worst are intelligent beasts of burden and at best are humans with a good reason to use whatever resources they have to keep other people from messing with them. Anyone who starts oppressing earth ponies will probably get a WTH look from everyone else and have alot of other earth ponies and humans take them down a notch. Human children all over the world will want to ride the ponies around and this will result in all sorts of arguments about pony rights and dignity.


I'm sure the existence of Equestrian ponies and regular horses would make for some strange situations. Though horses would kind of be like apes are to humans... big and not nearly as intelligent. Expect alot of slang terms being thrown around camparing E-ponies to horses and humans to monkeys.

[The Yosemite Bear]

so what do Mongolian Steppe Ponies, and Scottish Shetland ponies get?
the ability to play the conan theme music?

[Bright]

It has all ready ben decided by other posters that no one will become Alicorns(Celestia and Luna) during the mass ponification. If we did get them shit would fly, Celestia has the power to turn the planet ~90ish degrees in a few seconds imagine all that energy used as a weapon of war!

I've always been under the impression that both the moon and the sun are orbiting satellites that Celestia and Luna simply spin around the planet. This is supported by Sonic Rainboom, where the sun is close enough to melt Rarity's wings when she rises high enough. (On the other hand, in another episode, Dash clearly states that it gets colder at higher altitudes as it does in real life, so there's no real consistency with this.)

[lordofchange13]

It has all ready ben decided by other posters that no one will become Alicorns(Celestia and Luna) during the mass ponification. If we did get them shit would fly, Celestia has the power to turn the planet ~90ish degrees in a few seconds imagine all that energy used as a weapon of war!

I've always been under the impression that both the moon and the sun are orbiting satellites that Celestia and Luna simply spin around the planet. This is supported by Sonic Rainboom, where the sun is close enough to melt Rarity's wings when she rises high enough. (On the other hand, in another episode, Dash clearly states that it gets colder at higher altitudes as it does in real life, so there's no real consistency with this.)

I wanted to be conservative in the power Celestia has, turning the planet would be a lot simpler and easy then moving the sun. Yes, most would say that the sun does not orbit planets as it is super massive in comparison to Equestria.

[Bright]

Is it? How do we know? Are there any shots showing them properly in comparison? There's really no reason to assume things work the same as in our world in magical pony land.

[lordofchange13]

Is it? How do we know? Are there any shots showing them properly in comparison? There's really no reason to assume things work the same as in our world in magical pony land.

there is also no evidence to the contrary, when some one watches a fantasy/scifi show and some piece of physics is not made completely obvious it works under different principles is prudent to assume that they world under real world laws. Don't know about you but I find it far more likely that Celestia can simply rotate Equestria, then having a stationary planet were the sun is really close to the surface and revolves around said planet. And from what i have seen on this forum this idea is the general consensus of SDN.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Ok people people...

I think a lot of us are lossing sight of somethign fundimental when trying to examine things here. We have to keep in mind that the cartoon show we are trying to use as a source, is a CARTOON show. There are a great many things where we may have to simply throw out due to it being based in a Cartoon world.

If we want to really get "serious" about this, we should start applying Occums Razor to a great many things. For instance:

If Ponies are made manifest, would they Really be small compact creatures with MASSIVE eyes, oversized heads, and a bizzare skelatal structure? Or, would they simply be normal shaped equine ponies?

Like wise saying something like "Equestrias' sun must be very close to the planet because Rarity flew high and her wings melted." Well, I chalk that up to cartoon physics.

In the same vein, let us consider Celestia's power. Unless we have evidance of a Discworld like sun, saying she is REALLY moving the sun, vs simply rotating the planet. Well again Occums Razor people.

[Molyneux]

If Ponies are made manifest, would they Really be small compact creatures with MASSIVE eyes, oversized heads, and a bizarre skeletal structure? Or, would they simply be normal shaped equine ponies?

Unless you know of very many real-world horses with wings or horns, yes, we are assuming that they keep the abilities/skeletal structure/overall characteristics of the ponies from the show.

As for me? Pray I'm a pegasus. If not...well...unicorn or earth pony would be OK (I never did figure out how Applejack can tie a lasso with no fingers), but...come on! Pegasus! FLIGHT! Cloud walking! How could you NOT want to be one of them?

[lordofchange13]

If Ponies are made manifest, would they Really be small compact creatures with MASSIVE eyes, oversized heads, and a bizarre skeletal structure? Or, would they simply be normal shaped equine ponies?

Unless you know of very many real-world horses with wings or horns, yes, we are assuming that they keep the abilities/skeletal structure/overall characteristics of the ponies from the show.

As for me? Pray I'm a pegasus. If not...well...unicorn or earth pony would be OK (I never did figure out how Applejack can tie a lasso with no fingers), but...come on! Pegasus! FLIGHT! Cloud walking! How could you NOT want to be one of them?

I agree, baseline Pegasus' are the most badass of any pony bread! I think to handle the Alicorn problem, everyone with pink socks on becomes on. *puts on pinke socks*

[Zixinus]

Just a thought on Rarity's wing shenanigans: it is possible that it wasn't just the sun's intensity that made the wings evaporate. It could have easily been Rarity's abuse: she has put them in the sun all the time she's been in Cloudsdalye (sp?). Even her own body temperature may affect them, she was shown sweating when did her finale. If the previous episode's note of "the higher you go the colder it gets" stands, you could have gotten a situation where the air was chilling the wings while Rarity's body was radiating heat. The two facts combined probably pushed the wings beyond braking point. If you assume that the "gossamer" is flammable like kindling and that the sunlight was concentrated somewhat, it might even explain why it burned to crisp suddenly too, as whatever film protecting them broke under pressure.
That, and the damn thing is magic. For all we know, it broke because Rarity was being an asshole.

Unless you know of very many real-world horses with wings or horns, yes, we are assuming that they keep the abilities/skeletal structure/overall characteristics of the ponies from the show.
I agree, baseline Pegasus' are the most badass of any pony bread! I think to handle the Alicorn problem, everyone with pink socks on becomes on. *puts on pinke socks*

You do realise that then you will have a very large population of winged unicorns made out of 3 to 8 year old girls, right?

It would be less of a problem if you assume that just being a winged unicorn doesn't make you uber-powerful. But so far, we don't see how that can be.

[zipster]

Ok,

Why in the world do so many people know so much about My Little Ponies!?!?!

[Samuel]

Ok,

Why in the world do so many people know so much about My Little Ponies!?!?!

There was a new series made by Lauren Faust which dragged people in. Either the memes got there vengence on nerds for discovering them, or the show is decent resulting in a large number of people watching the new series.

Also fans started making stuff like this
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/ ... 4374xi.png

[Crossroads Inc.]

Ok,

Why in the world do so many people know so much about My Little Ponies!?!?!

This is the world of SD.net my good sir...

Given quantifiable data and canon citations, we will over anyalise the CRAP out of something no matter how silly that may be.

[lordofchange13]

Unless you know of very many real-world horses with wings or horns, yes, we are assuming that they keep the abilities/skeletal structure/overall characteristics of the ponies from the show.
I agree, baseline Pegasus' are the most badass of any pony bread! I think to handle the Alicorn problem, everyone with pink socks on becomes on. *puts on pinke socks*

You do realise that then you will have a very large population of winged unicorns made out of 3 to 8 year old girls, right?

It would be less of a problem if you assume that just being a winged unicorn doesn't make you uber-powerful. But so far, we don't see how that can be.

3 to 8 year old girls are stupid i would destroy them quickly, and giving simple children uber-powers would be entertaining. But truthfully no one should become an Alicorn under any circumstantial.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I just figured that like icarus they had a high wax content...

[Rossum]

Regarding Raritys wings, I figured they were made of some temporary magic spell effect thing that atually had "morning dew" or water in its structure. While in Cloudsdale, she was constantly surrounded by clouds (full of moisture) and there was enough shade to keep them from drying out. When she flew up high then the wings lost their moisture due to the high altitude, sun exposure (she was exposed enough to filter light through to shine over the stadium), and lack of nearby clouds.

As for them catching on fire... I really can't say. I just figured they dried out or the spell effect that made the wings failed or something.

[Purple]

And with all the makeup she had (IIRC) could there have been a chemical reaction too?