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Can’t remember who pointed out that scene to me, but they said that the adorability excused any continuity error or whatever.
It might have been the late(1), great(2) Reality Check (AKA Ralph Haynes Junior) who introduced me to the idea of calling such things “capilurgy”, which is what lead me to to come up with the idea I posted below.
(1) Yes, he died recently.
(2) I shall… agree to disagree with many people on this point. I liked his work.
My headcanon:
Rope-dancing is the opposite of lasso-twirling or ribbon-dancing in that the rope spends as much time as possible in contact with the athlete’s body as possible, rather than airborn. This is not to say it is static at all, with every inch usually being in motion. It is an exercise in full-body tactile telekinesis. Most students of the art take months to learn how to extend their tactikinesis a few inches up their fetlocks, and years before they can reliably perform grabs with their rump.
Applejack never realized until decades later she had done anything extraordinary when she adhered her bindle-stick to her shoulder when travelling to her Aunt and Uncle Orange’s house in Manehattan. Now she competes every year. She considers Pinkie Pie to be her true rival in this art. Despite this Pinkie Pie has never won even a small local competition, as, although actually requiring incredible skill, her routines mostly resemble a kitten entangling itself with a length of yarn, rather than the powerful dance-like motions that the judges look for.
Can’t remember who pointed out that scene to me, but they said that the adorability excused any continuity error or whatever.
(1) Yes, he died recently.
(2) I shall… agree to disagree with many people on this point. I liked his work.
I hadn’t noticed that with the bindle stick; good idea
Rope-dancing is the opposite of lasso-twirling or ribbon-dancing in that the rope spends as much time as possible in contact with the athlete’s body as possible, rather than airborn. This is not to say it is static at all, with every inch usually being in motion. It is an exercise in full-body tactile telekinesis. Most students of the art take months to learn how to extend their tactikinesis a few inches up their fetlocks, and years before they can reliably perform grabs with their rump.