Applejack should be proud!

And we all love you for that.  
Trixie, skipping friendship lessons since 2010.

@Background Pony #6FE7  
It could just be a seam or something, I can’t tell.
 
 
@Background Pony #266E  
I think she already knew how to do that second one.

Except how to teleport and transmogrify items!
 
Oh, and how to piss off ponies you haven’t even met!
 
Also, likely stopped a few human hearts during that whole “Praise me Starlight” bit at the beginning.

Don’t she has a cameltoe?

@Scrounge  
Yeah.

@MezzoDragon  
You mean aside from the hats?
 
 
@Background Pony #F35F  
In all fairness, magic is basically what unicorns know how to do. You know those people who always try to help even if they have no damn clue what they’re doing? I think ponies might be especially prone to that.
 
And a joking tone doesn’t always come across via text, plus sometimes the internet is Poe’s Law incarnate. Pretty sure I’ve had things taken seriously that I didn’t think could be taken seriously.

@Scrounge  
No it wouldn’t, just making a silly observation at how silly it is that in universe all the unicorns, and non unicorns sometimes to, all immediately jump to magic to solve a major problem crisis when its been shown to backfire like ninety percent of the time, or at least the first solution does. And how they keep doing it so it becomes a noticeable pattern.
 
It was a joke.

@Background Pony #F35F  
If they just fixed everything with one spell, particularly a spell cast early in the episode, I don’t think it’d be a great decision in terms of storytelling.

@Scrounge  
well i mean yeah, that was the moral of the episode really. Im just saying that everytime anyone uses magic to solve a problem it tends to blow up so much more dramatically then it might have otherwise. I was being a bit sarcastic i will admit, but its fairly true for how powerful unicorns deal with, and fail at dealing with, their problems.
 
 
@MezzoDragon  
It’s okay, a lot of people can be. You just have to keep in mind context and tone of voice when its being said. That being the case i was saying that what trixie said, could have been interpreted as sarcasm, and given that shes shown to use it in the past then i would say its fairly likely that trixie was being sarcastic.

@Background Pony #229D  
What I’m saying is that using magic isn’t the problem so much as how the magic was used. And in this case, what Starlight did was basically just a metaphor for repressing your feelings (anger, in this case), meaning she could have done the non-magical equivalent and it still would have gone poorly, albeit in a more mundane way.

@Background Pony #F35F  
If she was being sarcastic, it went over my head. I’m bad with sarcasm.

@MezzoDragon  
i mean its not like starlight disagrees with her. Nor does anyone else ever actually put the “maybe using magic to solve our problems is a bad idea when it backfires 90% of the time” thought into practice. Also what trixie said their can be possibly/probably interpreted as sarcastic. Not like the pieces wont fall that way later anyways, but trixie does seem the type for excessive sarcasm (i relate so much to that…)

Trixie knows solving problems with magic can lead to bad outcomes, but does it anyway as she wants to have fun. As she stated at the end of the episode.

@Scrounge  
Well I mean she was using magic to solve the problem of not having to solve her problem. And tbf to trixie even if she hasn’t technically learned a lesson in the episodes she’s been in almost all of them she gets a reality check of some kind about her behaviour. So in a way she is learning lessons, just not in the typical format. Atleast in second prances and all bottled up she has.
 
But yeah they tend to just ignore that every time they use magic to solve a problem it had usually backfired horribly. Granted magic has also on many of those occasions also fixed the problem but still.

And that’s unusual for you how, exactly?
 
 
@Background Pony #F35F  

 
Not learning a lesson is one thing. Consciously choosing to ignore it is another.
 
And let’s be fair, using magic to solve your problems isn’t always bad. The trap Starlight fell into is using magic as a way of not dealing with your problems.

@Background Pony #F35F  
To be fair though, if they gave some rules to the magic in the show it’d be less of a cop-out. They gave themselves a valuable bit of a rule-set by implying errant thoughts and emotions can greatly affect a spell’s outcome. It’s a common rule that’s been heavily implied in the show, but outright stating it both confirmed it and set it in stone. This is valuable because it adds limitations to the magic being cast, and in so doing gives an idea of how difficult the magic is. It’s also vague enough that it can be ignored without issue in most scenarios.

@Background Pony #AD49  
idk man, it just feels like twilight almost learns the lesson a lot, then doesnt put it in practice or something later down the line and has to learn it again. I mean i feel starlight will probably go through the same motions but i can dream dammit!

@Background Pony #F35F  
What do you mean? S07E01 was all about Twilight talking about her current problem with Celestia and Spike. I don’t think she has a notable tendency to bottle things in.

@MezzoDragon  
now she has something in commen with all of the mane six. And tbf, trixie did get a reality check about her lack of social grace, something she admits she needed. Starlight learned about how not talking about problems and pretending everything is fine when it isn’t can cause more problems then it solves, something i dont think twilight has necessarily learned herself.
 
However, neither starlight or trixie learned that using magic to solve your problems is in fact a terrible idea. Nobody has learned this lesson.

That’s not true…
 
You learned how to perform transmutation as well as how to teleport objects (though not perfectly in the latter case).

Trixie and Applejack now have something in common.