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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.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#25701: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:00:12 AM

Multiverse scans detect new pony race!

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#25702: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:06:36 AM

@Mio: Or that the unicorns were land-owners for the other tribes. IT wouldn't surprise me if that's how the unicorns justified their levy, by claiming they owned the land the earth ponies farmed.

IT also wouldn't surprise me if they tried to have some degree of control over pegasi structure. That said, the presence of a council of tribe leaders does make control unlikely, but unicorn landowners would still make a degree of sense.

Still, there'd have to be SOME unicorn servants, like Clover the Clever.

Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#25703: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:11:40 AM

Babs the Rapper

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
edvedd Darling. from At the boutique, dear. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#25705: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:12:43 AM

[up][up][up]I find that really unlikely if we are too assume that the tribes were as separated as they are portrayed to be. It's also unlikely in that of all of the leverage the three tribes supposedly had over each other, the Unicorn's is probably the weakest. I know controlling day and night sounds like a bigger deal then the rest, but they really seem to have nothing to fall back on when their resources run dry, where as the Earth Ponies can just go somewhere else to grow food, and the Pegasi can just raid for supplies if need be.

edited 6th Dec '13 6:12:50 AM by Mio

kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#25706: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:18:21 AM

Well, if anything that's all the more reason for them to try and claim ownership of the land, to give themselves more bargaining power, at least in theory. The Earth Ponies could leave, but by claiming all the immediate territory it makes it easy to justify taxing them until they basdically skip the country, which would be inconvenient for an entire race to do as one.

Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#25707: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:18:47 AM

@Mio: The Earth ponies could control the food and subsist on foodstuffs too foul or coarse for the other ponies to stomach. Pegasi could find inaccessible places beyond everypony to grow high-altitude lichens.

My fanon has it that Earth Ponies were the first to discover metalworking and gunpowder, the Pegasi were the first to tame steam and electricity, and Unicorns discovered the secrets of semiconductor quartz in their research into crystals as magic hardware.

@Kegi: I can imagine the Earth Ponies trying to rebel by deliberately growing delicious-looking crops that taste foul or have the side effect of giving really bad cases of the runs.

edited 6th Dec '13 6:19:51 AM by AceOfScarabs

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#25709: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:25:25 AM

[up][up][up]Well that is more reason for them to do so, but I actually don't think they would be capable of enforcing it themselves, if they did or allied with the Pegasi as is often assumed in this pseudo-caste structure, the Earth Ponies would not be acting as independent as they are.

edited 6th Dec '13 6:25:36 AM by Mio

IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Exists for some reason
#25710: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:27:15 AM

Fancy Luna: https://derpibooru.org/184175

Also- last day of open enrollment at my job. It's gonna be a rough day. Wish me luck, everyone.

edited 6th Dec '13 6:52:11 AM by IkeAndMike

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AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
I am now a shiny stone~
#25711: Dec 6th 2013 at 6:54:47 AM

Good luck.

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!
marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#25713: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:13:59 AM

I think some cities have an elite dominated by one race, and Cantlerlot just happens to have a unicorn aristocracy. We haven't really seen that anywhere else.

Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#25714: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:18:47 AM

[up]There does seem to be at least some well to do Earth Ponies living there as well. From what little we saw of Manehatten, it's probably the same but with the ratios reversed.

Upper class Pegasi however seem to be much rarer though.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#25715: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:31:46 AM

They probably stick to pegasi exclusive sky cities.

Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#25716: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:42:38 AM

@Marcen Hey Marcen.

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#25717: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:47:57 AM

"A zombie plague"? First a road trip in the desert involving Sombra and now this....and I'm gonna hinder a guess and say ya not kidding with this one either right...?

And believe it or not, I actually had nothing to do with it.

marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#25719: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:56:53 AM

@Irish Zombie Very ironic considering your technically are a zombie.

@Marcen I'm doing alright. You?

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marcen12 Sigh from Under The Floorboards (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Rainbow Pomeranian Lover from Central Illinois (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Pomeranian Lover
#25721: Dec 6th 2013 at 7:58:24 AM

I didn't remember the Oranges' having unicorn servants but I would have to go back to that episode to look for them. My comment was more aimed at the people who think that because Rarity likes being fancy and Twilight is the princess's student, added to Applejack being a farmer, that all unicorns are upperclass snobs who oppress the poor Earth pony laborers, and forget that when the ponies did have that kind of segregation and prejudice, the same story that showed that past was making the point that "This is how bad it used to be but we've changed and learned and aren't like that anymore" and I was citing specific examples from the show that contradict that stereotype. Not to mention whoever thinks that kind of thing probably is unaware that Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Hoity Toity and Photo Finish are all Earth ponies. (mainly some of the stuff on the Alternate Character Interpretation page where people assume that because there are pony "races," they must be in a similar structure to human racial segregation and prejudice. For me, having the society that we see in the show's current day, where the three groups co-exist very nicely and none of the three pony types rules over the others, is one of the things I like about the show because I like seeing a portrayal of a more egalitarian society than real life unfortunately has.

edited 6th Dec '13 7:59:14 AM by Rainbow

IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#25722: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:03:01 AM

Very ironic considering your technically are a zombie

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#25723: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:06:41 AM

@Irish Zombie (Sighs)

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Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#25724: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:09:05 AM

@Rainbow: Well, apparently there was racial segregation in the past, but that was more of an issue of three separate nations competing and begrudgingly cooperating with each other rather then one nation with racial stratification like is often assumed.

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