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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

Turtlebutter Element of Misery from A Marshy Pond Since: Mar, 2012
Element of Misery
#26551: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:10:07 PM

I love that they are touching on Mayincatec stuff. Hardly anyone pays attention to that mythology. I have always been fascinated by the Mayans especially since they were one of the only new world cultures that managed to produce a written language.

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OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Constellation
#26552: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:10:41 PM

Wow, never knew Daring Do and AK Yearling were the same pony.

Maybe I should continue reading the Daring Do books. I've stopped after the Trials of Unity.

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kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#26553: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:15:39 PM

The thing about A. K. Yearling being the pseudonym, though, is that that would mean Daring Do managed to have her entire life fabricated to the degree where Twilight wouldn't be able to figure it out - her address is listed as Yearling, and Twilight knows 'where she was born and studied literature' - there would have to be university records of an A. K. Yearling studying literature somewhere or that'd get called for bullshit pretty quick. The fact that Twilight enjoys those books - she seems like kind of a heady reader to me - means that Daring Do probably did actually study literature at that. Given how unique names tend to be in this setting, somepony having the same name as a famous book character, even retroactively, would raise some eyebrows.

Of course as a flipside, Ahuizotl does know Daring Do as Daring Do. It's not impossible to imagine a scenario in which Yearling would have to lie about her name to Ahuizotl on their first meeting, but frankly you'd have to stretch a bit.

It's interesting to think, though: How did Daring Do and Ahuizotl first meet? Like, is Daring an Archeologist who happens to make an extra buck on the side with a writing gig? Or was she a writer who got dragged into something way bigger than her? Fanfiction, hooooooo!

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#26554: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:15:51 PM

  • Wait, Fluttershy is teaching the birds how to fly? Are their parents deadbeats or something? They're not even sitting on a nearby branch.
  • You know, I'm starting to think that Rainbow Dash is the most adorable out of the mane six. Except for Twilight's bookgasm last week. When her eyes go all huge and excited though... hnnng!
  • That body language! [lol] I love how Fluttershy is becoming such a smartass this season.
  • Umm, what did Daring Do just do with her tail and those arrows? That move strikes me as nothing more or less than the premise for the worlds goriest clopfic.
  • Ahouizotal's name sound's retarded when spoken out loud.
  • Aww, the birdies learned how to fly! waii Awesome sight gag by the way.
  • And opening credits. Kind of surprised that made it past Youtube's autofilter.

Turtlebutter Element of Misery from A Marshy Pond Since: Mar, 2012
Element of Misery
#26555: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:17:01 PM

I'd like to think of her as a writer who got drug into something bigger while researching material for a book

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Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#26556: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:18:07 PM

You know, I'm starting to think that Rainbow Dash is the most adorable out of the mane six.

Finally someone agrees. smile

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#26557: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:18:25 PM

I wonder then if fanon wil mash various early South American cultures into the Coltecs? If so I hope they keep the advanced mathmatical astronomy of the Maians, it's fascinating what they accomplished with primitive techniques and a ton of patience, rivaling the best European and islamic astrologers for centuries.

Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#26558: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:20:46 PM

@kegi: Wouldn't it be more likely the other way around? That A.K. Yearling is her real name and Daring Do is the one she adopted?

[up]I would think that Incas or other Andean people would be represnted as Lamas and Alpacas.

edited 7th Dec '13 3:22:11 PM by Mio

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#26559: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:21:16 PM

@Orion I sooooo want those books....I'll give you them back....

edited 7th Dec '13 3:21:39 PM by Starscream759

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OrionAurora Constellation from Andromeda Galaxy Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Constellation
#26560: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:22:47 PM

@Starscream: Depends, can you read pony manuscript?tongue

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Powah Since: Oct, 2013
#26561: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:23:16 PM

I hope a better video of it gets put up tomorrow. The only one there is badly out of sync.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#26562: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:25:03 PM

@Orion Do you have any uh whatever it is you speak to english dictionaries?

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jdj42 Since: Oct, 2012
#26563: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:25:13 PM

Recap Season 4, Episode 4 (Intitial Title: Harassing Time with Rainbow and Twilight) (Revised Title: Bystander Syndrome) Part 1 When we last left our heroes, they were all doing their own thing, in the castle in the Everfree Forest. By character, TS was looking for information on the Tree Co. crate, and the 6 keys needed to unlock it, Spike was doing stuff that TS told him to, RD and AJ were competing to see who was the biggest badass in Ponyville, Rarity was greyhawking everything, FS was helping Rarity, and PP was being PP. In this episode they find out things that are incredibly obvious before the episode is released, stop an evil bastards, and create the worst Daring Do book ever.

As the episode starts, Rainbow Dash is fangirling to Fluttershy about the new Daring Do book being released in exactly 4 months, and she speculates about what will happen in it (If the book will be released in 4 months, and there is no information about it, then you are doing advertising wrong. Just sayin’).

Me: [Instantly changes Mutants And Masterminds stats for Daring Do] (Yes, I have them)

Friends………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4 Days Later

RD arrives at the National Random Holiday Party Day party(Stop flanderizing Pinkie) to find out that the book has been delayed for TWO WHOLE MONTHS(DUN DUN DUN).

RD: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…

Me: Oh God, it’s the 3-Year Summer all over again.

A little later.

Rainbow Dash: Don't you get it? The new book is obviously delayed because she needs help dealing with whatever everyday nonsense is distracting her from spending her every living breathing second writing! So I– I mean, fans like me, can get to read the new book ASAP! Think about it! We could help her with her laundry, buy her groceries, cooking her meals, whatever! Now, who wouldn't appreciate that?

Actual Dialogue Above.

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kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#26564: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:27:29 PM

@Mio: Well yeah, that's my point: I figure Yearling is most likely her real name.

@Turtlebutter: I can see that. Tagging along with some dudes for a book, and the group manages to run afoul of some mystic artifacts... maybe even freeing Ahuizotl or something. He still looks pretty dang ancient, and if he's planning something to last for 800 years he's probably got some kinda sense of perspective...

[up]I guess you didn't care for the episode?

edited 7th Dec '13 3:29:12 PM by kegisak

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#26565: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:27:45 PM

[up][up] Wait you think Pinkie was being Flanderized? Now that I think about it...

Anyway can you continue?

edited 7th Dec '13 3:27:56 PM by MorningStar1337

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#26566: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:28:59 PM

  • Another two months!? Dash is going to die of coronary.
  • Twilight scrunchy faced while RD spat punch on her.
  • Fluttershy is smartestass. You know, this new attitude strikes me. She and RD's roles in the group dynamic have significantly shifted, and it's all from character development too.
  • Ooh, Twilight's a huge fan too. I'm kinda surprised her tastes actually run that way, to be honest. I thought she was just good at picking books her friends would like.
  • Twilight is a fucking stalker. And here I expected that role would go to RD this episode.
  • Ohp, RD's inner stalker is coming out now too. Glad to know I wasn't too far off the mark.
  • Ooh. I just realized. Twilight is a princess, and a stalker. That's not a good combination. That address won't be hard to get.
  • I love how nobody's commenting on Pinkie Pie's red line.
  • Aww. Twilight's inner responsibility is overcoming her stalker tendencies. Go on, Twilight. We all know you want to.
  • Ouch. It's gonna take a few bits to fix up that cottage again.
  • Love how Yearling doesn't give a flying fuck about the alicorn princess in her cottage. She's a cool cucumber, that one.
  • RD, watching you try to talk to Yearling is actually painful.
  • Whoah, Yearling! Don't go showing your combination to ponies you think ransacked your house!

jdj42 Since: Oct, 2012
#26567: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:30:25 PM

She decides to go to Daring Do’s house and harass her into rushing the book, thus making it suck. It turns out to be half the country away, but the party travels by map so it doesn’t matter. When they arrive there, it looks like the place was grewhawked. And then Daring Do arrives. But then the misunderstanding is cleared up in like 30 seconds. Luckily, the One Ring wasn’t greyhawked. Twilight then pulls the gang outside to scold RD.

Twilight: Rainbow, you can’t expect to get the book out earlier by harassing Daring Do. I mean J.K. Rowling. I mean A.K. Yearling.

They spot a trio of bandits in Daring Do’s house. Then, Daring Do reveals to the party that she is Daring Do.

75% of the bronies: Called it!

Me: Wait, I thought this was confirmed before the episode.

Somehow, Daring gets her ass kicked by 3 npc’s.

EVERYONE WHO EVER WATCHED THIS EPISODE EVER: HELP HER YOU BLOODY IDIOTS!

Me: The same thing with more rpg jokes.

The bandits greyhawk the one thing that they originally intended to greyhawk. They give it to their leader, the Dragon, Dr. Caballeron, who plans to sell it to Ahuizotl.

Daring: It belongs in a museum.

Daring sets out to stop the evil bastards from doing stuff with the One Ring. The Barbarian and the Wizard have a fangirl contest, and RD wins. The below is a dramatization.

Rainbow Dash: We've gotta go help!

Twilight Sparkle: You heard her! She says she works alone!

Rainbow Dash: How can we just stand by and do nothing? You know what's at stake here! Ahuizotl has sought control of the Tenochtitlan Basin since book three!

Twilight Sparkle: Objection! True, but in book four, she defeated Ahuizotl and secured control of the Amulet of Atonement, dispelling the dark magic of the Quetzalcóatl Empress, and thus protecting the basin with the Radiant Shield of Rasdon!

Rainbow Dash: Hold It! But the Radiant Shield of Rasdon is vulnerable to the dark enchantment of the Rings of Scorcherro!

Twilight Sparkle: Take That! But are you forgetting that the Rings were scattered to the four corners of Tenochtitlan, thus rendering the dark enchantment powerless?

Rainbow Dash: Not So Fast! Only if you assume that the Rings have yet to be retrieved, and the ring Caballeron just stole isn't the last to completely restore the dark tower and its cruel hold on Tenochtitlan! Did you ever think of that?!

They decide to help Daring, and RD leeroys ahead of the team. Unfortunately, RD’s Fangirl tendencies only annoy Daring Do.

DD: I work alone.

RD: I thought you were an Indiana Jones parody, not a Batman Parody.

edited 7th Dec '13 3:31:54 PM by jdj42

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MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#26568: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:34:15 PM

[up]

Unfortunately, RD’s Fangirl tendencies only serve to get Daring Do captured.

fixed.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#26569: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:35:59 PM

I wonder if Daring purposely goes out looking for an adventure for book inspiration when she's running low on bits and needs to pay the bills?

Well, crap, the rent isn't going to pay itself. Time to go kick some flank.

wild mass guess Daring met A during Ahuizotl dig sponsored by her university. While there she found him enacting an evil plan, foiled him, stole the local artifact, and got an A+ when she returned. And figured hey, adventuring has it's advantages.wild mass guess

Turtlebutter Element of Misery from A Marshy Pond Since: Mar, 2012
Element of Misery
#26570: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:37:55 PM

English/Literature major who took a summer semester Abroad at a dig site for elective credit. Wakes up Ahuizotl but nobody believes her. Now spends her life foiling his plots out of a feeling of responsibility and duty, writes books to cover travel expenses and bills.

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jdj42 Since: Oct, 2012
#26571: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:39:07 PM

Anyways, Batmare uses her 0 Disguise ranks to buy the ring back. Somehow, this plan almost works, if it weren’t for Ahuizotl suddenly appearing. Bloody GM, railroading the bloody plot. Ahuizotl sics monsters on Daring. RD does nothing.

EVERYONE WHO EVER WATCHED THIS EPISODE EVER: HELP HER YOU BLOODY IDIOT!

Me: The same thing with more rpg jokes.

RD distracts Daring Do, and makes her lose the fight.

The rest of the party catches up to find RD BSO Ding over getting Daring captured.

TS: Don’t feel bad Rainbow, you were just useless, not detrimental to DD. The party then saves Daring Do, and I’m not recapping this because action scenes are nearly impossible to recap.

3 Years Later

RD: Yay, I got the new book 1 week early!

Cut to Daring Do tvtropes forum page.

Worst Daring Do ever, I will only read it 3 more times…Today.

Every new character sucked.

No, guys, don’t you get it? RD is a Decon-Recon Switch of Ascended Fangirl.

Daring Do Recap: Everything sucked pretty badly.

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Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#26572: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:41:45 PM

Wait you think Pinkie was being Flanderized? Now that I think about it...

I found Pinkie much more tolerable this episode than any other so far for Season 4.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#26573: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:46:32 PM

Whew, just got back from the Putname. I was pretty optimistic after the first half, but problem 1 on the second half was really demoralizing. Oh well, time for ponies.

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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#26574: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:46:44 PM

Thought so too. It helps she only has a few lines and is relatively unobtrusive.

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#26575: Dec 7th 2013 at 3:57:19 PM

Finaly! Got back my I Tunes card. I'll be uploading the soundtrack to 4shared in a bit, so if anyone wants it, let me know.


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