My Thoughts on The Canterlot Royal Wedding

I apologize for my lack of updates of late, as I have been busy "studying".

Well, it's finally come to the conclusion of Season 2 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and might I say: I was not disappointed.  If you have not already watched it, I strongly recommend you do so before continuing reading this rant.

First of all, let me say from experience as the youngest of four, this is not how the sibling dynamic works.  I no longer feel pain in most of my body as the result of my childhood experiences; I don't have a clue from where this "we never had a fight" nonsense comes.  But this song will be stuck in my head forever... forever.

 Now, it's been about twelve hours since I saw the episode, and I have yet to see Shining Armor or Cadence shipped with anyone, meaning the show may have created its first-ever closed-circuit ship.  Now, for those of you not particularly familiar with the show, I should explain why this is surprising: there are ships for Tom, a literal chunk of rock introduced in the first episode of the season.  Ships, plural.  There are people who think of the relationships of a rock.

And I'm one of them.  TomXBloomburg OTP!

Personally, I will not allow this to stand.  Why not Shining ArmorXBig Macintosh, on the foundation that they are both large-bodied older brothers with visible hooves?  It's not unreasonable.  LyraXBon Bon is almost unanimous, and their link is that they sometimes stand close together.

Alternatively, if you, as I do, demand that the role of "princess" be returned to its original meaning of "sexual bartering chip used to negotiate political influence", then you could consider shipping CadenceXChrysalis or CadenceXDiscord; CadenceXBlue Blood would consolidate power within the family in case Equestria has no need for political connections.  Hey, his blood had to get blue somehow.  This would not be breaking new ground.

As for the story itself: I couldn't help but notice this was the first episode in which the Mane Six display actual combat skills (and I say that because while they have been in fights before, they were always resolved otherwise; namely the manticore and the red dragon).  Twilight Sparkle and Celestia, apparently, have both had massive destructive laser powers this entire time.  Kids' show?

I couldn't be the only person to suspect the Changeling Queen was responsible for Nightmare Moon.  The same voice, the same appearance, the fact that Lauren Faust has said there was "another entity" responsible for her transformation...

And now we wait five months for Season 3.  Buck.  At least we have YouTube.

My Shirt Is Too Long

My shirt is too long.  It goes a little less than halfway down my thighs, making it seem more like a short dress than a shirt.  As I am unlikely to gain several inches in any reasonable timeframe without some surgeries I neither want nor can afford, it is useless to me.  In addition, it is a very slim-cut shirt, meaning everyone I know who is tall enough to wear it is also too large.  It might work decently well as a dress, though unfortunately it is indisputably a man's shirt, meaning any woman wearing it must needs be shooting for the "perpetual walk of shame" look, and since I do not attend Arizona State, I cannot think of anyone to whom to give it.

Hypothetically I could cut it shorter, but that would require skills and materials I do not own, particularly considering that I would then need to re-sew the hem unless I want it to look like a half-shirt from the 1980s.  I do not, especially since cutting it to standard shirt length would mean that it would just make it look like my half-shirt is too long, which does nothing to alleviate the problem.

Being broke, I have to conserve every penny, which means (among other things) laundry days are as far apart as I can manage.  Thus every shirt I own is just one more day I don't have to do laundry.  However, I own one shirt that is just simply too long.  This makes it very frustrating, as I am running very low on clean shirts and having it makes it seem like it is mocking me.  You think you're so good, shirt?  You think you're better than me?

This is not made any better because it is a good-looking shirt.  It's sort of like a polo shirt, with blue and light blue stripes running across it horizontally.  It looks great from the waist up.  It only becomes a problem when it makes me look really, really girly on the full body shot, certainly not helped by the fact that I like skinny jeans and they end up, by comparison, looking like leggings.  Admittedly, my wardrobe is not my manliest aspect to begin with.

In the meantime, I'm stumped.  My best idea so far is to use it as a backup towel, since it has a pocket that could be very useful for holding my wallet (and thus my room key) while I shower, but while it is too large to be a shirt it is too small to be an adequate towel.  I'm frustrated.