Amelia's board-to-board with EmeraldBlitz

Much appreciated. By the way, do you think you’re going to revert to the Twilight logo for the site?

I'm not sure if it's saved, I'm afraid. I knowit had 9 chronological years, so from that I can probably trace my steps. I'll try to get it finished today.

Good to see you back! By the by, I seem to recall there being a timeline-I believe it was created by you-that calculated roughly how much time you thought had passed in the series, based on the number of Hearth's Warmings that had occurred between the show and comics. Was that indeed yours, and if so, do you still have it saved somewhere? I searched for it but couldn't find it anywhere.

Sounds good; life gets in the way sometimes.

It's been a bit slower then I planned, since some things in my personal life have been popping up and the like, but it should be done either this month or early next month. Aside from images, I'm more or less at the point where I can start importing pages manually instead of en masse like i've been doing before. AFAIK the only major sections of the site that hasn't been properly imported are cultural articles, some obscure staff members and media (the latter of which I'm planning on not importing right away since a lot of media articles were sloppy and need to be rewritten to begin with).

But all that said, it shouldn't affect creating new articles. Worse case scenario, we end up merging articles that you or someone else creates with old articles, [ I already did a test, and importing an article from the old site to here if it already exists here causes no issues or reversions.

How's the importing coming along? I'd love to create some more articles but want to make sure I don't preempt anything that's getting moved over from the old site.

Actually, you do make a fair point about that Reflections connection. It's not that I think Celestia is perfect; it's just the idea of her deliberately unleashing a menace seemed a bit much.

I think you've got the right idea about referencing it in behind the scenes. It is essentially a creator stating their opinion about something after the fact; nothing in the show itself indicated that Celestia was responsible during or after Faust's run.

Ahh, I getcha. I really have to stop assuming stuff like this, my apologies.

Personally, I could honestly go either way on it. I think it's more dramatic if it was unavoidable, but I think it's more thematic if Celestia did it herself. You could spin the angle of bringing back a menace to be a character flaw on Celestia's part, foolishly risking her kingdom for the sake of a loved one in a moment of weakness, which would be consistent with her portrayal in Reflections, but that's going in to fanfic territory.

Either way, I'm not really sure how to go about it on the wiki since, like you said, it doesn't really fit in with what the franchise has become after Faust left, like I alluded to in my post, her version of the series and what it became are completely different from one another. I guess we could still write it into Celestia and Luna's histories with a section in their Behind the scenes section writing about how it's potentially inconsistent with what came later.

It's not really clunkiness, I would say; it makes sense that Celestia would have raised and lowered the moon as well as the sun during Luna's exile. I just find it a bit off that Celestia would deliberately bring a known menace back into Equestria, even if she knew that the Mane 6 could potentially unlock the Elements of Harmony and redeem Luna. I mean, the impression I get from watching the premiere is that Nightmare Moon's return was unavoidable, and Celestia sending Twilight to Ponyville was her only answer to it. The idea that Celestia CAUSED that return and then just disappeared, leaving Twilight and the others to face it, seems fairly jacked up even if she did have confidence in their ability to succeed.

It also doesn't seem to fit with certain media that came later in the series, or at the very least to cast it in a rather bizarre light. It makes you wonder what happened in the Lunaverse timeline even more; did Celestia do the same thing in that timeline only to have whatever version of the Mane 6 may have existed in that reality fail? It also doesn't fit in with Deviations, although I suppose that could be explained away as whoever wrote that comic being unfamiliar with Faust's plans.

Off how? I think it fits with Lauren's vision of the show, which is significantly different from what the show became after subsequent writers. It is a bit clunky in the current "incarnation" of the show since the show has since established Celestia has power over the sun, rather than the moon.

I think it's likely Celestia had power over stars in early stages of the shows development, given that unicorns were described as capable of moving stars in My Little Pony Adventures, but this ability was probably dropped early in the development. So, I think it's possible Faust is describing her original thinking process rather than anything that would fit in the current lore...

Or perhaps Faust hasn't worked on the show in nearly a decade and gave a rushed answer to finally settle a question she has presumably been asked for for yeaaaaaars, lol.

...that seems...off, if I'm honest.

Hey Emerald! Glad to see you back.

Here's a screencap. Basically, Celestia used her powers of the stars and moon to free Luna herself.

So I saw the news item about Lauren Faust saying how Nightmare Moon got off the moon. I don't go onto Twitter; got any specifics?