A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
All of the usual forum rules
apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
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Just because they've heard of it doesn't mean they've tried watching it. I didn't bother reading Homestuck until a couple months ago despite its fame, and that was mainly just because everyone else here was reading it.
Posted by storyyeller on Mon, 10th Dec '12 10:53:08 AM - Post #314758 in the old thread
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And we'll do it a third time until somebody comes up with a new conversation. We gotta have something to say once in a while!
Like, um, Starlight! Is she still controversial?
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It was thanks to this very wiki, actually. :)
I heard it first from my brother who heard about it on 4chan. But I didn't think much about it until my girlfriend showed me a few episodes several years later. Then I got hooked.
I saw it popping up a lot on Deviant Art and went "Huh, I"m seeing a lot of this around, is it really that good?" and then I started the first two episodes, and the rest is history.
I was browsing through the site and came across the Bait-and-Switch Comparison page. Read the entry: "It might seem like a stretch to link My Little Pony to Hellblazer, given that one is a strange, often horrifying look at a world of constant betrayal, strange magic and a world constantly teetering on the brink of annihilation, while the other is about John Constantine, but I stand by it." Followed it to this page
where someone answers the question, "Which DC characters would best exemplify the traits required to wield each of the Elements of Harmony from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?" It was entertaining, and clear there was something to this show. This was back in Season 1. I remember watching the most recent episode at the time, "Feeling Pinkie Keen." I enjoyed it enough to start from the beginning. I remember thinking that an episode of the show was going to be fifteen minutes long, and was surprised to learn that every episode was half an hour long, then even more surprised when I watched the first episode and found it was a two-parter. I knew to expect Slice of Life stuff, but did not expect anything more than that.
Edited by WillKeaton on Feb 5th 2022 at 5:14:45 AM
I was a member of a Twilight hatesite (The book series, not the character.) and people started changing their avatars to FiM characters. Eventually I asked what show the avatars were from since it seemed pretty popular on the site and that's how I found out about the show and that the first season finale had recently aired.
For me it's hard to say exactly when I first learned of FiM, it felt like it just popped up in the internet spheres I was in around May/June 2011 or so. I have a very "Green Eggs and Ham" approach to media, i.e. I'm very picky when it comes to getting into new things. And just like that story, I tried it out and really enjoyed it.
It's so interesting finding out the people who became fans long after I did, because that means I experienced so many fandom moments first-hand in a way so many later ones didn't. That's not meant to make me sound superior or anything, it's just funny how where you happened to jump into a fandom will, without you even knowing it, means you'll "be there" when these huge moments for the fandom happen, and you can be the one to explain things like, say, Las Pegasus Unicon.
I can't recall a specific date, but the show started to come to my attention when I first started using this site in 2015. I remember being surprised at seeing how much attention this children's show was getting here, and especially at how many of its characters had ended up in the trope pantheon. I avoided it for a while, but eventually decided I might as well just see what all the fuss was about and decided to watch in on Netflix. I think it was around the third or fourth episode where it occurred to me that I was actually enjoying the experience in and of itself.
Also, it so happened that I finished binging the first four seasons just in time to learn that the first half of Season 5 had mostly aired, which made me very happy indeed.
I think the very first time I heard about the show was when someone linked me to the article analyzing the political economy of MLP:FIM
, but, I didn't think anything of it at the time other than "haha, people are overanalyzing a kid's show".
However, I saw it mentioned more and more in March and early April 2011. Probably one of the major events that led to me checking it out was when the Skyrim PMV trailer was shown at my school's video game club, but it was also due to just hearing lots of people talking about it IRL and online at the time as well.
Ironically, the first time I tried checking out FIM to see what the fuss was about, I accidentally watched a G3.5 episode instead, since I didn't know the difference. It's a good thing I gave it a second try later.
Edited by storyyeller on Feb 6th 2022 at 2:55:09 PM
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI've always loved animation so I don't remember when exactly I heard of fim, but as a kid I watched tales (which is still my preferred gen) so I gave fim a try. I actually don't like season 1 or 2 much but I think the show hit it's stride season 4 - 6 and find myself going back to the episode and songs from that era quite a bit.
see my completed Tangled (Varian) fanfic collection! https://archiveofourown.org/works/24467056/chapters/59049532My Little Pony Generations finished it's run, bringing an end to G4 comics/content for the foreseeable future. Some things I have to ask.
- It Jossed the fanon that prior generations were set in G4's past (validating official statement that G5 is the first one set in a prior universe), instead being alternate universes. Thoughts on that? Since Jossed no longer allows examples anywhere/thing this can go under?
- I found a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Comics
thread, it's been inactive since November 2020. Any ideas why? (It was during the first part of Season 10 before the part I believe would explain the loss of interest.)
- Relating. I've ask if Season 10 falls under Fanon Discontinuity but got no answer. Do we just not care enough about it to pretend the part we don't like exist? Is there a reason for the implosion of interest as opposed to backlash other comics got?
Re first MLP: I checked my diary, and I first watched FIM on April 17th, 2011. Unsurprisingly, that's the first actual mention of MLP, even though I first heard about the show probably back in March, and there was the time I tried to watch it and accidentally watched 3.5 instead.
Yeah, I don't see any reason to lock a thread just because it's inactive. It's not like there's any harm in keeping it open, right? You never know when new people will come along.
Edited by storyyeller on Feb 11th 2022 at 10:31:56 AM
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I was inspired by this passage from an Exalted novel, especially since a brief Google search suggested a limp tail is a sign of spinal injury.
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