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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

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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

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#25726: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:10:40 AM

There's probably been a lot of intermarriage over the years too.

Sometimes I wonder if there's like Unicorn supremacist or whatever groups. Probably too dark for the show though.

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#25727: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:12:59 AM

@Marcen What's with that guy anyway? All that jittering around on stage and screaming at the top of his lungs it's even a wonder how people think he's funny.

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#25728: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:19:37 AM

@Star I think he's ok. He can be funny sometimes. His stand up is repetitive at times but he's ok.

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#25729: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:27:53 AM

@Marcen He's just unfunny in my eyes.

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#25730: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:29:16 AM

@Mio: Yes, so even the segregation shown in the Hearth's Warming Eve time period wasn't necessarily the same as human racial caste systems.

And if there are unicorn supremacy groups, they are probably a very small minority that would get looked down on by most unicorns, and since unicorns AREN'T necessarily the dominant pony type that rules over all the others, if such a thing even existed in Equestria, pegasi and Earth ponies would probably also have their extremists who thought that their type of pony should rule over the others. Thankfully, ponies seem to be much less racist than humans. (at least going by races within their species and even then other similar animals like donkeys seem to be pretty well-accepted)

I understand that most of the people on this particular thread aren't the type of bronies who think that way, but it annoys me when I read things where some pony fans seem to want to impose human racism onto pony society.

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#25731: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:29:36 AM

@Star Well...yeah, he's kind of a love him/hate him guy. I'm just indifferent.

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#25732: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:32:55 AM

@Rainbow And why would ya want to do that? It's a horrible thing to do! That's like making an animated movie about Saddam Hussain and make him a likeable guy and pretend none of his acts ever happened in real life! It's just wrong on so many levels...

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#25734: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:39:21 AM

@Starscream: I'm confused. What is it that you are comparing to white-washing Saddam Hussein? Are you saying that there is intra-pony racism in the show that I'm ignoring (either sarcastically or sincerely), or are you agreeing with me that it's misrepresenting pony society to assume that they have the same kind of racism humans do?

I looked up a screenshot gallery of the Cutie Mark Chronicles and while I didn't see any unicorn servants (who may simply not have been in any of the screenshots), I did notice that their drinks all have straws in them. Which would be a way for non-unicorns to work around not having hands or telekinesis so that they don't have to necessarily drink by picking up the cup with their teeth. I liked noticing that because that would help me if I ever wrote pony fanfics.

edited 6th Dec '13 8:42:26 AM by Rainbow

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#25736: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:41:28 AM

@Rainbow It's an analogy for people who thinking that putting human racism in Ponyville is a good idea. In other words, I'm agreeing with ya on that.

edited 6th Dec '13 8:42:10 AM by Starscream759

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#25737: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:41:56 AM

@Ed Today on The Business, the business gets serious. And when the serious business turns serious, it gets so serious that the seriousness of the business goes seriously business meaning that...(throws up in a garbage can)

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#25738: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:47:50 AM

Hm, was hoping to find some more Frozen crossover pony art, but no dice.

edited 6th Dec '13 8:48:23 AM by edvedd

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#25739: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:48:46 AM

@Starscream: Sorry, I got confused because the way you worded it, I thought you were saying that I was doing something wrong. I thought the "why would ya want to do that?" part was aimed at me, not at the people who were assuming ponies were racist.

On a different topic, we know that Rainbow Dash and Twilight enjoy the Daring Do stories, but what would the others think of the series? I could imagine Rarity liking to read about the jewels and treasures that Daring Do finds, although I have no idea if she has a problem with reading stories about others getting dirty and stuff. Fluttershy would probably focus on the parts that have lots of animals in them, but she might be too easily scared by adventure stories that have lots of danger in them. I can't really imagine Applejack being as interested in reading about adventure, simply because she seems like the type who would rather do it herself instead of just reading about it, but she might surprise us all and become a fan too. Pinkie I have no idea about, I could see reasons for both her liking it and her being completely bored by simply reading a book rather than interacting with other ponies.

edited 6th Dec '13 8:52:30 AM by Rainbow

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#25740: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:51:19 AM

@Rainbow Aheh, sorry about that, it's kind of my thing analogies so bear with me.

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#25741: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:51:23 AM

@Rainbow: I tend to like having there be cultural differences between the three kinds of ponies, though I think having been together in a unified nation for more then a millenia makes racism a rather unlikely thing at this point.

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#25742: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:54:11 AM

@Mio: Kind of like how the Winter-Wrap Up had a tradition of not using unicorn spells because Ponyville was founded by Earth ponies. That makes sense that they might have some older traditions, especially if they live in more segregated communities like Cloudsdale that only pegasi can even live in because other ponies would fall through the clouds.

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#25743: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:55:25 AM

That's like making an animated movie about Saddam Hussain

Well there was the South Park movie.

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#25744: Dec 6th 2013 at 8:57:26 AM

@Story I mean if the movie was about Saddam Hussein and was not like South Park I mean like based on the actual events of Saddam Hussein.

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#25745: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:01:13 AM

@Rainbow: I sometimes wonder if all of them at one time or another had their own languages and how the current one came about.

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#25746: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:13:55 AM

@Marcen So anyways I'm nearly done with the first issue of the comic book series of MLP and I gotta say it's a great read.

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#25747: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:19:08 AM

Puyo Puyo

human!Fluttershy

Atryl's practicing humanized

edited 6th Dec '13 9:21:26 AM by AceOfScarabs

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#25748: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:20:35 AM

I wonder what stopped the other tribes simply forcing the Earths into direct slavery. They could easily do it. They have powers and the earths don't.

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#25749: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:22:52 AM

@Star Groovy! Haven't read any of the comics...though.

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#25750: Dec 6th 2013 at 9:23:42 AM

@Marcen Speaking of which, I'll probably read a bit more of that along with playing a bit more of Mirror's Edge methinks.

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