Queen Celestia Age Chart

Cutie marks don't make a whole lot of sense, do they? I mean, Celestia's special talent is raising the sun, and Luna's is raising the moon, but during Luna's 1,000 year banishment Celestia oversaw the movements of both the sun and moon, so how does that work? You might say "Oh, well her cutie mark doesn't necessarily advertise her ability to only influence the sun, maybe she can move any celestial body, hence her name." So... Luna's existence is completely superfluous then? Ouch. Maybe this is the real reason she went mad with jealousy, she had one job and one night Celestia just trots up to her and goes "Hey sis, look what I can do!"

"But Luna helps ponies sort through their emotional baggage via dreams, and oversees the running of Equestria during the night." You might also say. Well, what exactly is there to run? Everyone's asleep. Unless a significant swathe of Canterlot's population are batponies, in which case why doesn't Luna just found a sovereign batpony nation locked in a state of eternal night rather then perpetuate this weird two-monarch system where one princess rules some of the population at night and the other princess rules the other half during the day? That sounds needlessly complicated. It's just asking for problems. Having a separate U.S. president to oversee the night owls or manage midnight tea parties and greet half-asleep heads of state would be a little... pointless.

As funny as it would be to watch a groggy Putin faceplant in his mashed potatoes, nothing's going to happen in the 8 or so hours when Trump is in bed that we'd need a second president to handle it, surely. If things in Equestria get really dicey, you just wake Celestia up, or dump it on Twilight, that seems to work. But the dreams thing kinda makes sense. Luna, Princess of Dreams... it has a nice ring to it!

Okay, but someone still needs to explain to me how Rarity apparently has three separate talents: finding gems, drawing, and tailoring. Then there was that weird spell she cast on that sea serpent where she fused her tail with his mustache, what was that? No, she didn't twist it. Twist a lock of your hair into a separate lock, now go about your day and see how long it holds. She seems to be able to use her magic for a number of things, not simply things relating to her special talent. Didn't Twilight say that was an unusual trait in the pony world? So far I've only seen Trixie, Starlight, Sunset and Twilight herself cast a variety of spells. Huh...

If Rarity had been interested in magic instead clothes, who knows? Maybe she would've been the one wearing the wings.