@Background Pony #59BB  
So… haven’t seen the Season Premiere yet, then?

i rpedint this is a potential future episode when Starlight accidently goes in a place lost centuries ago and she needs to find how to return back

Foal metal Alchemist!

@cdpaliden  

@TexasUberAlles  
To be fair, it was one of the earlier ones to make it to modern popular culture in the West that wasn’t censored, unlike the magic circles that incorporated pentagrams or hexagrams in video games from the ’80s and part of the ‘90s.
 
Also, she’s actually drawing the circle rather than it appearing below her, so more people are probably going to go for a Fullmetal Alchemist reference rather than a JRPG reference. Having said that, yes, of course, alchemists and magic circles predate quite a few things to say the least.

@Mr grump  
This may shock you:
 
…Alchemists. A long-ass time ago. And magic circles in general are pre-Old Testament stuff.

@TexasUberAlles  
Who did invent the concept of magic glowing circles and pentagrams with gibberish scribbled on them oh venerable wise one?

The sheer number of scrubs who actually think that FMA invented transmutation circles, ah swear ta gawd.

This meme is going to cost you an arm and a leg.

@Chilly Pepper  
im probably not the first but screw it im gonna take credit anyway!

Thank you, whoever else first made this connection.

Alchemy: The Science of Understanding, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Matter. However, it is not an all-powerful art. It is impossible to create something out of nothing. If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be given. This is the Law of Equivalent Exchange, the basis of all alchemy. In accordance to this law, there is a taboo among alchemists: pony Transmutation is strictly forbidden. For what could equal the value of a pony soul?

Ponykind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.
 
To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.
 
That is Harmony’s First Law of Equivalent Exchange.
 
In those days, we really believed that to be the world’s one and only truth…

yeah this did not take long