MD: Ugh, traffic was brutal. What I get for trying to do something different, I guess. Sorry to make you all wait.
Twilight Sparkle: Nothing to apologize for. We got a good conversation out of it.
MD: Oh, goody! Ready to get back into it, then?
Twilight Sparkle: I suppose, ready as we’ll ever be.
MD: Excellent. So, what do you want to do first?
Twilight Sparkle: Twilight’s going to run in the Fall Formal.
PP: Had her fill out a form and everything!
The last frame looks like she's giving herself a silent pep talk. I'm guessing this is one of those generate-50-new-pages-of-notes-on-the-spot surprises :p
New DM focused on recreating a story she helped main GM work on. In this case Sunset shimmer being the person to pull the elements of harmony together even if she has to play the main character herself.
I was mostly making a joke about how without planning, players find fantastic and exciting new ways to derail the GM's thought process. Give them time to plan something? You have no hope.
This ties into one of my headcanons for Equestria - their writing systems.
We've seen the ponies use three types of writing. First is the fancy unicorns and horseshoes and stars - they dropped that after a couple episodes. Second is the almost-but-not-quite-English block printing, with big wide strokes. Third is... whatever Twily has got going on there.
BUT! They're all three in use by the ponies, with each pony tribe making their own!
The Unicorns, with their access to fine motor control via magic, created a writing system that used complex glyphs. Think Mayan writing, with each word being a little picture, but we just don't see the writing up close to see the little detail bits.
The Earth ponies went for something practical and sturdy. A nice alphabet with broad heavy strokes, based on spreading pigment with a hoof.
The Pegasi don't have as much interest in writing things down, but they DO have the advantage of long lines of sight while flying. Being able to communicate over long distances is very good when you're coordinating large weather patterns and the like. So their writing system is a cursive, for use with their flight contrails!
So Twily's signature - which would normally just be a quick doodle of her cutie mark - is the cursive form of 'Twilight Sparkle', which she doesn't write often, and certainly not with the weird finger-things.
It seems like I've heard something akin to this before. only violation I can think of was in season 1 when they had full English in swarm of the century.
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Oh do we ever. In the 5e homebrew campaign I'm in, half the party is actively trying to figure out how to get the crown prince of the empire to hook up with his foxfolk head guard.
I might be wrong, but I read this as a case of "You were supposed to encourage one of THEM to take the initiative, not take over as the main character!"
I mean, to be fair, they did take initiative. It just so happens that that initiative was nominating Twilight to be the focal point of their hair-brained scheme.
My DM once left us alone for 2 hours because of a minor emergency, and out group got increasingly unhinged, talking about some plan to take over the world by abusing the "Chicken Infested" curse. By the time he came back we were laughing too hard and could barely explain why.
Guest Author's Note: "This situation is why I try to minimize leaving the players alone when my groups take breaks.
They plan things."