The Twilight Realms

Pointless trivia time about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Before they settled on Twilight Sparkle's name, she was originally going to be just named Twilight. However, considering there was already a book and movie series by that name, it had to be changed. Twilight Twinkle was also considered. When asked about the name, all Lauren Faust said was "It passed legal." The Season One episode "Applebuck Season" has Applejack, sleep-deprived and exhausted from trying to clear all the apples from Sweet Apple Acres herself, acting in increasingly bizarre, ditzy and klutzy ways. This was actually a nod to G1 Applejack, whose defining trait was her klutziness. In the episode "Too Many Pinkie Pies", at one point, one of the Pinkie Pie clones adopts the face of G3 Pinkie Pie, prompting a horrified reaction from the other ponies. Pinkie herself is more of a take on G1's Surprise, with some elements of G3 Pinkie Pie thrown in. The episode "Dra...

As many of you don't know, I speak reasonably good (read: really bad) Finnish. It has a reputation for being unlike any other language - a reputation that is quite well-founded. However, there are a few words in Finnish that, while they may look and/or sound similar to English words, mean something completely different. Here are just a few of them. Note that these words are not pronounced the same as the English words they resemble. In most cases, Finnish pronunciation is entirely phonetic. I'll try to give a "pronunciation guide" as best as I can. Tie - Road (TEE-eh) Vain - Only (Pronounced like "vine") Korea - Pretty/Beautiful (KOR-ay-a) (Can also mean the country) (Note: Most Finns would say kaunis to mean beautiful) Ale - Sale (AH-leh) Home (HOM-eh) - Mould/fungus No - An interjection. With a question mark, it means "Really?", without a question mark, it means "Well..." (as a hesitation for starting a sentence). It's pron...