Previous thread: >>43533696/moon/day Thread OP template: https://ponepaste.org/10858/moon/day Story Archive: https://ponepaste.org/10731Lunar Tunes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPZFLrezW19x4msWO-HIuHvjwdWSfiVdcEquestria Project (meditation/lucid dreaming guide): https://pastebin.com/3mQfmH24 (embed) (embed)Old /moon/day story archive: https://poneb.in/He5X50m6Obligatory: https://youtu.be/-BjO2pXcqJI?is=OHly-IzG9X9mZYNB [Embed] [Embed]Humanizations of Princess Luna and others have a dedicated thread - post them there. Keep it pony (aside from inclusions of Anonymous in pics).Ongoing Stories:"Demons & Nightmares", by Durr0694: https://ponepaste.org/11243"Moonlight, Veiled - Book 3", by horsa: https://ponepaste.org/11561"Our Kingdom", by O.K: https://ponepaste.org/11360Stories On Hiatus:"Ghost in the Shadows" by ReggieSomething: https://ponepaste.org/7522"Assistant to the Night Court", by LmonE6: https://ponepaste.org/121"Lunar Entanglement, Act I", by ReggieSomething: https://ponepaste.org/1113Dead (Until proven otherwise) Stories:"Embracing the Night, Part 5", by AutoPony: https://ponepaste.org/3605"A Heart Longs for Another", by AnthonyC4: https://ponepaste.org/873"Our Thirty Years War", by TheGhostlydude: https://ponepaste.org/6795"A Bond Through the Ages", by Ar-Adunakhor: https://ponepaste.org/6722"MoonyCYOA", by Krivvy: https://ponepaste.org/4290"A Nightmare, No More", by Starla: https://ponepaste.org/5708"I Am Become Moon", by Prince_Polaris: https://ponepaste.org/11789Upcoming moon phases:New Moon: October 10thFirst Quarter: October 18thFull Moon: October 26thThird Quarter: November 1st
MOOOOOOOOOOOON
helloshe is here to fight your nightmareswhoa... she's pretty!
i forgot to make the fuckin thread at midnight like i said i would because i was being incestualdamn it just dont tell /sun/
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>>43562430bro your are not gonna believe this shit...>>43562433
>>43562452oh no
>Cause it's a long way to the top if you wanna wock and woll
>>43562415My wife is gorgeous!
>>43562415STAND UP ALL THE NIGHT AND CALL THE FIGHTLET YOUR MIND GO WILD BEFORE THE LIGHTHERE WE ARE THE ARMY OF THE NIGHTMAAATAAA LUUUNIIIAAA
ILOVEMYMOONWIFE!
she approaches
>>43563026I kneel.
>>43563026>>43563051I DON'T
This is HER month
I love mondays
Can't wait to stay up late celebrating the anni with mooney marewife
Aah, once more I recline with my Mooney and drift off to sleep with her. Truly, she makes my world go round.
>>43565120I should sleep with my moonwife more often. Problem's that her wings tend to poke alot.
(You) startled her and made her lose her game!
>>43565948she will get her revenge
I wish I dreamed of her more often.
>>43566531I've dreamed of Twilight, of Trixie, of Starlight, of Spitfire, of Celestia, of Applejack, but never Luna. It's never Luna!
>>43566641I’ve dreamed of Pinkie, Twilight, Rainbow, and a yellow random. Luna might be too busy with her duties to enter our dreams. She worked so hard for ponies that didn’t appreciate her and ironically humans that do can’t always chat with her in dreams.
>>43565948>lose the game!fuck u
>>43566671
an important surgery i s underway
>>43567081I have enlisted the aid of the machine
>>43567081I hope she's okay...
>>43567420marechine*
Mind if I share a small, inconsequential theory with you moonfriends?I have a theory that Nightmare Night came to be when a folkloric interpretation of Nightmare Moon was syncretized with an older, pre-diarchal tradition that had Wendigos as its central figure rather than Nightmare Moon.I think this because:1. (Assuming Nightmare Night occurs around the same time our Halloween does, mid-to-late autumn) The time of year it takes place in is seemingly arbitrary for a holiday that has Luna as its point of origin. What would make more sense would be if it was either celebrated during the night of the Summer Sun Celebration so that it better parallels the myth; OR during Equestria's winter solstice, the time of year where the night's the longest, which would put it decently close to Hearth's Warming Day. It makes more sense that, like our Halloween, Nightmare Night began as a harvest festival and the reason why it takes place when it does is that it's the time of year immediately prior to winter.2. Nightmare Moon's role in Nightmare Night itself. Where she serves as a sort of judge/apex predator. Offer her your candy or she eats you. Unless Nightmare moon just straight-up ate a pony during her rebellion this is a WILD characterization to give her. Much less so for Wendigo. And while they also don't literally eat ponies the blizzards they conjure could be metaphorically described as "swallowing" ponies in the whiteout. That, and the most common time for ponies to disappear would be during winter, when they have the least amount of contact with eachother. Once again, making it easier to circulate stories that they were "eaten" by the wendigo. The second part of this is the offerings. The harvest, or in the modern days, candy. While nightmare moon craves reverence and offering a portion of your harvest is very reverent it's also very non-descript and rings heavily of appeasement when what nightmare moon wants is probably closer to idolatry. If you want to keep Nightmare Moon pleased why offer food when burning an effigy of Celestia would probably net much better results? It makes more sense if food offerings are a hold-over from an earlier Wendigo tradition. Winter is a natural time for famine and famine is a natural time for conflict. Likely giving Wendigo a very strong cultural connection with hunger like they have in our world. It would make sense to offer them food in that context and the appeasement may even work considering that willfully destroying part of the food supply would only accelerate pony society towards a state of famine/conflict thus inadvertently pleasing them. And unlike Nightmare Moon Wendigo care very little about being seen as ultimately malevolent entities that need to be appeased.
>>43567476she is better!though, I may have overestimated how big the mane and tail should be...
Hunting the other Old Ones with Princess Moon Presence!
she is the valiant protector of my van
>>43567970That makes a lot of sense, anon.>>43568130Big mane ^:-)
>>43568680more coming with her mane.....
>>43568778I almost forgot part of her mane, that just wouldn't do...
and now it's time to sleep...
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>>43569105Egad, Anon! Such a bold move to perform during their period of slumber!
>>43569105Now he is even booping helpless, sleeping mares! Somebody stop this anon!
>>43567081*beep* *BEEEEEP*she's dead...
My wife is a great cook!
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>>43567970This theory has a lot of strong bones but I'd quibble with some of the specifics. Somethings to note also are that the Nightmare Night we see is specifically in a mostly earth pony village, and that when Luna shows up she's being a good princess so the way she arrived is the way she was making contact with these kinds of villages 1000 years ago.>It would make sense to offer them food in that context and the appeasement may even work considering that willfully destroying part of the food supply would only accelerate pony society towards a state of famine/conflict thus inadvertently pleasing them.Nothing really gives the impression that Windigos operate on this level of negotiation. They seem to just keep pushing whenever they're able and retreat when conflict stops. Exacerbating conflict would make the Windigo problem worse, not better. Instead, it might be metaphorical trading relations that became literalized during unification while under Windigo attack. I'd suggest that it was an earth pony harvest festival that was originally about sending food to the other tribes before relations became strained, so something like:>Pre-UnificationEarth ponies give up part of their harvest to the other tribes, driving away the storms (pegasi) and darkness (unicorns) and probably also protecting themselves from monsters. Could also be an origin for costumes as a way to make differences in tribal appearance less of a shock - if this is the only day that hornheads and birdbrains are in the village, everypony would be less tense if the first thing you notice when looking at a pony is not their race.>Windigo AttackGiving up their meager supply of food is part of what literally drives away the Windigos by ending the conflict between tribes. Depending on the role of the sisters during unification, Luna may also have been literally have been the one collecting the harvest.>Before Nightmare MoonAll three tribes are definitely being ruled by the alicorns at this point. Luna showing up (the skies literally darkening when she does) and then giving up your harvest to her and the skies clearing is most likely something that happened at least once anyway, but there's no reason something extremely similar to modern Nightmare Night couldn't already be happening as a follow through from the above.It'd be really funny and cute if Nightmare Moon was named after Nightmare Night/was Luna's Nightmare Night costume before it became her evilsona. That feels really in character for the kinds of jokes she makes too.>After Nightmare MoonThe harvest festival is obviously still going to happen, so there's little reason not to reference a figure that was beloved but is now associated with fear during the spooky celebration. Over 1000 years ponies forget that she was a real pony and not just part of the celebration, which parallels Windigos that are a real thing that most ponies forgot were literally real but they still reference in Hearthswarming.
>>43569105it's too late! she was booped extensively during the surgery! and even KISSED
>>43569946>Nightmare Moon is Luna's meticulously crafted evil-sonaFirst of all. Adorable.Second of all. It WOULD be really interesting if Nightmare Moon was conceptualized long before Luna ever became corrupted because it would imply that the alicorn actually gets some say in how their nightmare form manifests.Hell, it would even give an actual, in-universe explanation for why Daybreaker looks like THAT (Nightmare Moon but on fire.) As her conception is rooted in the fears that Celestia would betray Luna or Twilight in the same way she perceived Luna betraying her. (If we ignore that Daybreaker only ever appeared in STARLIGHT'S nightmare). Whereas an older design like Nightmare Star is based in a different conception Celestia has of herself and her failings.tldr:>Celestia based her evil-sona off of Luna's evil-sona.
>>43567970I believe it was syncretized with older cultural practices, but never the ones about Windigos.>equinoxes vs solsticesCelestia and Luna are, first and foremost, the bringers or day and night. The entire day is Celestia's domain, but ask any filly what makes Celestia special? "She raises the sun!" Noon is of secondary importance. Same with Luna: her main thing happens in evenings and then she mostly just hangs around until dawn. So it's more fitting for them to have ancient personal days on equinoxes than on solstices, to be at the points of moving away from the perfect balance rather than on the apex. It also lets ponies AVOID mixing up their cults with mid-winter Windigo-themed celebrations.>Offer her your candy or she eats you.Isn't it just a prey animal thing? They would make up stories about you eating foals too if you looked scary enough.>Wendigo care very little about being seen as ultimately malevolent entities that need to be appeasedTrue, but it also doesn't seem like they can be appeased. Settlements that tried it likely got their Darwin awards and that was it.Before Windigos: four generic agricultural quarter days.After Windigos: three generic agricultural quarter days, winter taken up by celebrations of unity. (Alternatively, the events of the play weren't the first encounter and winter celebrations were about Windigo as far as history can see; every time ponies ceased to treat this myth seriously, they were attacked and the cycle started anew.)Two sisters: spring is Celestia's and autumn is Luna's, both mixed up with older agricultural stuff. Winter is still anti-Windigo. Summer is either still generic or vacant.One sister: summer is the new Celestia's day as she tries to counteract the entirety of cold and death on her own. Old spring celebration is carefully phased out and turned into the purely secular Winter Wrap Up as we know it. Old autumn celebration is left unattended because Celestia couldn't bring herself to do anything about it and slowly morphs into a parody of itself. Winter is, naturally, still winter.
She's kissing her favourite colt
>>43571001this is fake news pipsqueak is our adopted son
>>43571003Ooohhh that makes it kinkier and hotter
>Pedoniggery in my moonwife thread
>>43572080This is my first time experiencing myself posting an artist's stuff only to immediately find out they're an immense faggot.
>>43572118Good grief, Lunafags do nothing but complain and grumble about everything, the only ones who actually care about the artists are those looking for excuses to get angry.
>>43572133>He actually wants a "Trixie is trans" artist's trash on the boardGrim!
the anni (with moonwife) has begun
>>43572160I didn't even know the artist liked that, you know why? Because I don't give a shit who draws what, if it's nice, I save it, if it's not, I don't. That's all that matters to me.
MOONWIFE SPOTTED ON THE ANNI
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>>43572384careful, that's how you lose a finger.
I love watching the Anni with Moonwife!
>>43572590Good!
pov: asking your moonwife if she still has one of those shadowbolt uniforms that she had her guards wearing during s1e2https://i.imgur.com/BCQS4kq.jpeg
>>43572590can't lose a hoof hopefully
She so pretty even when she's hungry.
>>43575337This is why she's my wife!
>>43575337In an era of cell phones Luna would insist on using a rotary phone.
>>43576166I love my autistic Moonwife!
would you smoke a fat bowl with Luna?
>>43578137Blueblood told you guys the alien would've been a terrible influence for Luna, but you just didn't listen.
SEASON TWO INBOUND. MOONBROS, THIS IS OUR SEASON!
>>43578502MY BODY IS READY
!!!ROUGHLY ONE HOUR UNTIL LUNAR IMPACT!!!
>>43578934Wonder if I should take the moonwife out in the van again to watch her episode...Was fun yesterday!
BEST MARE INCOMING
>>43578502 I'm terribly sorry Luna but I can't stay awake anymore
>>43579179Do it for her, moonfren
>>43579185Fine, I'll try to hold out for another 30 minutes.
>>43579150YES
I love her so much....
I hope annibros enjoyed Luna Eclipsed! I was and still am way too beat to bother this year.
>>43580585Hope you get better soon, moonfren
Woke up from a dream bump.
I keep forgetting how little screentime moonmare actually has in the series
>>43584786Could be a good thing. Let's us fill in the gaps with lore and headcanon of our own.
More Moonwife content coming up in the next episode!
>>43587496Best episode of S3, though I might be biased.
Any a version with the gorgeous Luna's fluffiness?
More moon!
>>43588833Seconding this. Also nice digits, moonfren.
>pic relatedA cutie who designed a whole castle of traps, secret doors, and hidden passageways just for shenanigans and hijinks
>>43591924i love her!
Would (You) bite off your toe for Luna?
>>43592467I think Luna would want my body wholly intact so she could be the one to bite things off
>>43592467>>43592484Oh sweet fucking Jesus I just saw the anni thread, now I get it, what the fuck
>>43592467I don't think Luna would want that.
For what reason? I wouldn't bite off my hoof for anything.
I need more luna videos...I'm trying to flesh out Wife Tape II but because I only missed three episodes, I can't remake the original tape (goes above 2 hours) but I'm also struggling to find enough wife centric content (video content specifically) to fill this one (at least on my PC itself)
>>43593201do you accept videos where LUNA appears or it must be videos of just LUNA and about the great Moon wife?
>>43593437they can involve other ponies but I kinda want them to be about luna or moony
>>43593437I love it when Luna seems like the only sane one in any room, especially when her sister's batshit crazy in some way.
>>43579282>>43578978>>43572168>>43568836>>43568835>>43568565>>43568130>>43567081PRINCESS POLARIS BATTER UP. IT'S TIME TO PLAY MARE BALL SON. PUT THE SEWING KIT AWAY IT'S BOTTOM OF THE NINTH AND WE NEED YOU
>>43594007HUH?
>>43594074this republic garbage makes no sense, it's a monarchy with luna as the ruler.
>monarchyI think I prefer diarchy.
My moon wife is totally radical!
Goodnight moonfrens.
>>43596269Sleep well, anon.
Moonbros represent!
>>43598935AWOOOOOOOGA SEX WITH PRINCESS LUNA UNF UNF UNF PLAP PLAP PLAP!!!
>>43598957Awooga indeed.
Me on the right
My wife is so talented!
I HAVE MORE NEWS
>That Luna statue>Those glasses>Those pillowsIncredible that the chinese have such great taste, and that Hasbro lets them get away with it on official merch.
>>43601715perhaps one of the cutest snoots I've seen
>>43601105The wives have been doubled! but seriously, why are there two of them?
>>43605321
>>43605321The ones in the foreground are dream entities.
>>43603515Why the fuck don't you see this kind of shit here in the states? Is it just because the Chinese part of the fandom is blooming?
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