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[cr. 2026-10-08T22:08:20H]
ideas for "episode" titles
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[cr. 2026-09-15T05:29:45H, 2026-10-08T23:13:48H]
"The Nightmare Within"
a young Twilight accidentally observes a weird foreign pony known as Starlight Glimmer conspiring with Princess Luna to banish Celestia. realizing this is her time to prove herself, Twilight resolves to stop the plot, and tracks down Starlight, figuring that without any friends at the ready it will be easier to talk to Starlight than to try to face Luna. with a bit of doing, Twilight ends up blackmailing Starlight into being her friend, having convinced Starlight that she will be in a world of trouble if Celestia actually finds out that Starlight tried to get rid of her, but as long as she becomes friends with Twilight her secret will be safe.
Luna realizes that the plot failed and gets angry at Twilight because one unicorn in this world being crafty enough to hatch a scheme was one thing, but a complete nobody stopping it is just insulting; she can't believe that conflicts between ordinary ponies have become more important than difficult royal matters neither of the ordinary ponies are supposed to be ready to understand.
Twilight and Starlight end up having to fight Nightmare Moon with nothing but their knowledge and abilities. the fight is grueling. in the end, Celestia sees that they have won and congratulates them as heroes, appearing completely unaware of Starlight's secret. Twilight presents Starlight with pride, but after Celestia leaves, she narrows her eyes at Starlight, making sure Starlight remembers who is in charge and who is guilty and still needs to prove herself.
Twilight and Starlight's relationship is set down as unsteady and fraught, with Twilight on one hand forgiving and mentoring Starlight and standing by her in tough times and on the other feeding into her pre-existing problems with hope and self-acceptance that will come to light later.
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[cr. 2026-10-08T23:13:48H]
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Twilight and Starlight have met Applejack. Applejack figures out that Starlight is hiding something and becomes determined to figure out what that could be, while Twilight is still determined to keep Starlight's secret hidden. while bringing up her past, Starlight accidentally lets slip that 'the SSSR has no need for princesses', leading Applejack to figure out that she is anti-Celestia and anti- Celestia directly training further students. things get awkward.
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[cr. 2026-10-08T22:08:20H]
"The Spike and Revolution"
dragons attempt to become anarchists in order to stop being a destructive empire, but they keep failing because every time a few dragons suggest that all the other dragons just need to be taught the correct ideals one by one and everything will be fine, the end result is just that they never actually win and a bunch of other dragons in constant rivalry all come beat them up
spike and rarity are there and are trying to fix this somehow.
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[cr. 2026-10-08T22:42:17H]
"Memory Hole"
Autumn Blaze presents a stage play on the history of the SSSR, and the disappearance of the legendary founding figure Leaf Trotsoff.
after this Autumn admits that no one remembers any actual material evidence of "anyone named Leaf Trotsoff" despite him being very prominent in legend. the Equestria four and the Stellar four set out to discover where exactly these legends came from and who the real Leaf Trotsoff might have been.
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[cr. 2026-10-08T22:08:20H]
"Childhood's End" [reference to Arthur C. Clarke book]
Solstice Leaves is becoming a complete entity for the first time and comes to the realization with the aid of their own mind that the journals and the input of "love" has forged them into a new functional 'adult'. a strange fantastical coming of age story ensues for the world's first democracy and its smaller components
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[cr. 2026-10-08T22:33:16H]
> Act 1, Scene 2 of Julius Caesar
> Cassius says to Brutus: Men at some time were masters of their fates, / The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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:: cr. 2026-10-08T22:08:20H
