She’ll touch you with her noodly appendage. As a divine being she can claim direct descent from the Flying Spaghatti Monster, so she can do that.

my new headcanon is that pony skeletons are made mostly of cartilage, like a shark’s skeleton. perhaps there is some calcium in it to give it some added rigidity, but for the most part they flex instead of breaking unless pressed at a very obtuse angle.

Seriously, guys? You’re arguing about logic and bones in a cartoon? What has our race become…

@Barhandar
 
It’s pretty clear the bones are normal, just regular bones. There’s no reason to assume otherwise.

@Background Pony #E897  
You’re trying to argue that they have bones that can break when others are arguing that they don’t know what the bones are made of. It could be strontium for all we know.

@SFaccountant
 
All the thing you said can be explained by “they’re like real ponies, but with magic”
 
We KNOW Pegasi can only fly and stand on clouds because they have pegasus magic, which is why the other races can’t. Cutie marks are magical, period. And there’s no reason to think their fur isn’t derived from ancient ponies tapping into magic, too.
 
As for Pinkie Pie, she only breaks rules of physics for comedic purposes, that’s why she can only do it when it’s funny. It’s pretty clear the ponies have to move like flesh and bone creatures would, generally.
 
And we saw an x-ray. We SAW RD’s bones were broken.
 

@Background Pony #E897  
Pony bodies often don’t follow basic physical laws, actually. Especially pegasi. Being less dense than clouds and all, yet still maintaining solid form. All ponies’ fur pigment is apparently related to their harmony-based magic, and they spontaneously generate a colored mark over their fur based on some intangible skill. And then, of course, there’s Pinkie Pie. Those seem like decent reasons to consider that they are not ordinary life forms “but with magic”.  
The fact that Dash broke her wing and ponies get scars just means that whatever they’re made of (I’m betting its magic) can break and be damaged. That doesn’t mean anything. LOTS of things can break and be damaged. And they do indeed move like real ponies with normal equine bone structure would… except when they don’t. Case in point above.
 
So I think MrXemnas has a case with his noodle hypothesis.

@Gundlach
 
Someone on the ’Booru may be pleased to see you typed a laughing response a bit differently this time.

@Lupin Quill
 
We know they are flesh and bone horses because
 
a) There’s no reason to assume otherwise  
b) RD broke her wing, they get scars and such  
c) they move as such

@Background Pony #E897  
I’m not saying they’re unreal in their universe, but we hardly know anything about their universe. We don’t even know if they are carbon based lifeforms.  
Noodle-based organisms make as much sense there as magic and Pinkie physics. Sure, they use the same terminology to describe things, but maybe that’s lost in translation or has different meaning to them.
 
|| FYI I don’t believe in this any of this I’m just keeping an open mind to my ramblings ||

Hahahaha! XD

@Lupin Quill
 
For the love of…
 
The whole point of animating these creatures is so that they feel like real beings in that universe. The fact that a fantasy element exists doesn’t change that.
 
So if you animate a dragon, you make it generally behave and move like a huge lizard-like creature would. It can’t be realistic because dragons don’t exist here to compare, but it CAN feel believable as if you could buy that it’s a real thing in that world.

@Background Pony #E897  
The fact that they aren’t real beings of flesh means that you can’t claim that they are.
 
Schrödinger’s cat.

@Lupin Quill
 
Believability =/= realism.
 
The fact that the horses are magical and have horns or even wings in no way means they can’t feel believable as real beings of flesh.

@Background Pony #E897
 
@Background Pony #E897  

 
@Background Pony #E897  

 
I agree. I’ve always praised this magical world full of magical talking pastel coloured ponies, some of whom have wings and/or horns, for it’s realism and sound logic.

@MrXemnas1992
 
That’s a nonsensical headcanon to explain a simple animation quirk

It’s suffering from rubber pencilism!

Chibi Celly.

@MrXemnas1992  
*FROM noodles. Damn typos…

Headcanon: Pony leg bones are made the noodles.

It’s an optical illusion.  
Haven’t you ever waved a pencil like that and made it look like it’s bending?

That’s the power of