Tulpamancy and Waifus

[Gentian]

I would be an unreal stand-in for a pony significant other, exactly the kind of thing humans would refer to with the term waifu, and so Twilight thinks it's funny to call me a waifu because she appreciates ironic humor.

So, take what the word, waifu means. Pull away all the bad meaning behind it, such as stand-in, fake, etc. and have it use as a cute and harmless phase for you and Twilight to say to each other. Is that right, Gentian?

That's exactly right.

that term doesn't really apply to ponies, because their minds and personalities are too different from human's

That’s very interesting. Ponies there aren’t expose to what we have here, so they don’t think like most people in this planet do. Is that where you getting at, Gentian?

Partially. More importantly, ponies aren't human. Their instincts are different. They don't share our unfortunate penchant for violence, or ridiculous primate games over status and whatnot. This means their base culture is different, which means the things they are exposed to are different. Each thing feeds on the other to yield mindsets which diverge significantly from a typical human's, but the root of it is that they simply aren't human.