My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 12: Six seasons and a movie

[Freyera]

I recommend getting I.V. Access and using a solution of pure moonshine while snorting salt water. That'll kill ya!

* Adorably innocent wall eyed pony said he was going to bed 2 hours ago!

This does not sound healthy

[Hetalia]

Well, when you live around a 1000 dangerous animals, remembering to drink water is an easy task

No it's not, I've gone a couple of days without drinking before because I forgot. It was a mistake, but I've survived it.

Holy shit Cuba.

I heard they were very elitist with their education, but that is waaaaaay to high.

They have high standards, evidently.

That's not a measure of intelligence.

Good education helps the average intelligence of a coutntry.

[Daginni]

The Galaxy Tab 2 is 200$'s.

The Ipad Mini is 350$-400$'s for the basic model and is not as good as the Galaxy Tab...

* I am Wall Eyed Pony is confused.

I think people are paying 150$'s over for a image of a Apple...

[Dontrike]

[Flutterguy]

No it's not, I've gone a couple of days without drinking before because I forgot. It was a mistake, but I've survived it.



They have high standards, evidently.



Good education helps the average intelligence of a coutntry.

It's not a measure of intelligence though. Intelligence is your potential for learning, not how much you actually know.

[Deleted]

I have this issue but with doujinshi, sometimes I just read really bad stuff just because it is related to something I like. Main reason why I prefer original content.

You mean the porn ones or the nonporn ones? Porn has a special license to be bad in most situations.

Nonporn ones tend to be pretty rare but they're usually nice but forgettable.

[Pendulous]

Possible continuity issue.

In Suited for Success, Rarity is wallowing because she was embarrassed by having to show her terrible designs. She says in her wallowing "I used to be respected".

Fast forward to Green Isn't Your Color. Random Ponyvillians enter into her shop, looking for Fluttershy. When Rarity tells them who she is (because they asked), they say something like "never heard of you".

For one, Rarity ought to be well-known among all the residents of Ponyville. And two, if she was "respected" before a famous fashion designer saw her and promoted her product, then she ought to be even more so now, not less.

[Freyera]

No it's not, I've gone a couple of days without drinking before because I forgot. It was a mistake, but I've survived it.

They have high standards, evidently.

Good education helps the average intelligence of a coutntry.

TIL Hetalia is a badass

The Galaxy Tab 2 is 200$'s.

The Ipad Mini is 350$-400$'s for the basic model and is not as good as the Galaxy Tab...

* I am Wall Eyed Pony is confused.

I think people are paying 150$'s over for a image of a Apple...

My opinion on most things apple these days

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No. That is all.

[Hetalia]

It's not a measure of intelligence though. Intelligence is your potential for learning, not how much you actually know.

I'm pretty sure to be intelligent you need to know lots.

[Coffer]

I'm seriously struggling to understand why people like Ilya so much

She's childish in every wrong way imaginable

[Freyera]

Possible continuity issue.

In Suited for Success, Rarity is wallowing because she was embarrassed by having to show her terrible designs. She says in her wallowing "I used to be respected".

Fast forward to Green Isn't Your Color. Random Ponyvillians enter into her shop, looking for Fluttershy. When Rarity tells them who she is (because they asked), they say something like "never heard of you".

For one, Rarity ought to be well-known among all the residents of Ponyville. And two, if she was "respected" before a famous fashion designer saw her and promoted her product, then she ought to be even more so now, not less.

Sounds like Power Rangers continuity

[Hetalia]

TIL Hetalia is a badass

Not a badass, I just happen to survive well. Which reminds me, I'm sweating like a motherfucker, so I might get another frozen drink.

[Flutterguy]

I'm pretty sure to be intelligent you need to know lots.

No, you don't. That's the standard for being educated or knowledgeable. It has nothing to do with your intelligence which is merely a measurement of your capacity for learning.

[Deleted]

I'm seriously struggling to understand why people like Ilya so much

She's childish in every wrong way imaginable

You don't even like Tenshi, the reasoning would be lost on you

[Dontrike]

[Freyera]

Not a badass, I just happen to survive well. Which reminds me, I'm sweating like a motherfucker, so I might get another frozen drink.

Well, I'm going to believe you're a badass

[Hetalia]

Well, I'm going to believe you're a badass

I felt like I was having a heart attack after walking about 1km yesterday. That is not badass. That is unfit.

[Coffer]

You don't even like Tenshi, the reasoning would be lost on you

Tenshi is actually worse.

[Bluesparkks]

If I could write for an hour I'd be up to chapter 2 by now >.> Heh. But yeah non pony stuff can be a blast to write. I ACTUALLY started in the Sonicverse with my first fic o.o Still, RPing with my ex doesn't help my motivation at all. When I see the difference between me and her it's just..fuck. there goes all my confidence entirely forever.

Heh, I know that feeling. Not much you can do but get past it, sadly.

I can understand not wanting to abandon something you're still writing and thinking about, but the other things you mentioned sound more like negatives to me. The "ponyverse" is more like a restriction than a benefit since you're forced to write about cartoon horses but any more complex mechanics like magic are 99% made up. I'd rather go the whole way and make the whole universe myself, or just use a universe with the rules already written for me.

Creating a solid, believable, coherent universe from scratch is a LOT of work, and I mean a LOT. Really the central theme could be adapted to any existing universe and it benefits greatly from doing so, rather than being placed in a completely original universe. The actual mechanics of Equestria aren't that well-fleshed out in the show--we know there's guards and two princesses that cycle day and night, but really we don't know much beyond that, particularly what goes on outside of Equestria and how all of that works. We know that magic takes energy and that only unicorns can use it, but we really don't know much past that (what are its limits, etc.) because the showwriters keep using it as plot spackle. That's not so much a restriction as it is an empty canvas--I can make up almost any rules I want about magic and it won't break canon.

I don't really see any of it as restrictions, I guess. Also, mildly major thematic spoilers because relevant: The central theme, to be concise, is "What happens after the end?", the end meaning the end of any story in any medium ever. I don't mean what happens in-universe after the story ends, I mean what happens [I]to the story[/I]. Therefore my story benefits a lot by being loosely based on a story that already exists and is fairly well-known, because 'the end' has already happened, so to speak, and I'm exploring what happens to the story after that. Putting it in an original universe would negate a lot of that.

I'm not really super-hardcore adhering to how most think of Equestria, either, if that helps. I'm bending a lot of canon and being pretty liberal with interpretation, and there's a lot in there that is mostly original and has basically no basis in canon. (To name a few: Elemental dragons (i.e. a dragon breathing lightning/water), single-form animal shapeshifters, magic drawn from the void of space, ancient artifacts that enable Earth ponies to create solid constructs.) The story itself doesn't take place in Equestria either, so I throw a lot of those rules out the window, too.

Again I'm not trying to be deliberately offensive, but the only real reason I can see for using ponies is that they're a free popularity boost. People read and view utter shit as long as it's somehow connected to ponies. I'm not saying you need it, quite the opposite. I don't think a good writer or artist needs the crutch, instead it becomes more of a cage. You're limited in what you can do and you're limited in who you can reach. No matter how "good" any pony fanfiction is, there's no way in hell I'm reading it.

I'm not offended, I totally get where you're coming from. I just don't necessarily agree; there's a lot of reasons I'm still using ponies and it's not because it's a free popularity boost (although admittedly I would probably get a readerbase the size of a dime if I didn't make it related to ponies.)

If you're really invested in the pony stuff purely because you love it so much, I suppose I can't argue against that, but I can't understand it either. I suppose that's the whole point, though.

Not...really. I mean I love ponies, and I love my story, but my story isn't exclusive to ponies, it could fairly easily be made to be about humans or talking animals or some shit. But again, purely from a thematic standpoint, it benefits a lot by being based on an already-established story, and the theme is of particular relevance to the fandom.

[Hetalia]

No, you don't. That's the standard for being educated or knowledgeable. It has nothing to do with your intelligence which is merely a measurement of your capacity for learning.

I can find nothing that supports that definition, can I please have sources?