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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

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#35451: Jan 5th 2014 at 8:16:19 AM

Shipping her with ANYONE is crack, she only appeared for like five minutes in the episode.

You haven't been in the fandom long enough, have you? These ships can multiply even with one shot background characters in 10 seconds flat!

So, how is everyone today, if you don't mind me asking?

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#35452: Jan 5th 2014 at 8:16:44 AM

doesn't have the ring of say Apple Pie

Pinkie Pie does tend to have the best pormanteau ship names. I especially like Twinkie though.

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#35453: Jan 5th 2014 at 8:34:38 AM

Mane-ia is still my best episode. That episode made me cackle.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#35454: Jan 5th 2014 at 8:39:07 AM

So, how is everyone today, if you don't mind me asking?

I just got done Archive Binging the Fanfiction Red Flags thread. It's mostly people saying the same few things over and over, but I suppose that's reassuring.

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#35455: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:15:26 AM

-sigh- Well, my grandpa managed to get someone to get a few things off of my computer. Unfortunately my two pretty long Warhammer 40K fics, as well as my King Arthur one, are gone. Oh well. I can start the King Arthur one over.

Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
Codafett Knows-Many-Things Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
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#35458: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:29:39 AM

Well personally, when Rarity said she had to stay in Manehattan I was scared out of my mind. I hate new characters, so naturally I breathed a sigh of relief when she pawned off her work to someone else.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#35459: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:31:24 AM

[up]

._.

Really?

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#35460: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:33:40 AM

Ugh, I'm getting annoyed at how people keep complaining about how Twilight's royal status doesn't pop up very often in episodes ever since the S4 premier. What, do they want ponies to constantly bow down to Twilight every time she shows up somewhere public? Cause that would get pretty old after a while.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#35461: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:35:17 AM

First they're mad that she's becoming a Princess, now they're saying she's not being princessy enough.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#35462: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:35:56 AM

I'd me more annoyed if it did pop up, given what we've seen of the setting and characters.

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marston Since: Sep, 2011
#35463: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:37:43 AM

[up][up]Unpleasable Fanbase at it's "Best", I suppose.

edited 5th Jan '14 10:38:49 AM by marston

KylerThatch literary masochist Since: Jan, 2001
literary masochist
#35464: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:39:27 AM

It's probably not the same subset of people.

You guys remember that fanbases aren't a monolithic entity, right?

This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#35465: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:41:54 AM

[up][up] I think its because the show does not seems to acknowledged twilight being a princess apart from her wings and the premier. I'm a little miffed at that, but I think this is justified. For all we know, Celestia would have just asked the population to treat Twilight like your average pony. (It helps that Twilight doesn't have a dominion to rule over yet. Celestia and Lune rule over Equestria and can control the Sun and Moon, While Cadence rules the Crystal Empire)

[up] Hence Unpleasable Fanbase, Broken Base, Hypocritical Fandom and Fandom Rivalry. Unless he base is composed a Jekyll & Hyde, their opinions only speak for part of the base, not the whole

edited 5th Jan '14 10:45:29 AM by MorningStar1337

Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
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#35467: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:47:31 AM

Besides, it's not like she's actually ruling anything. Celestia and Luna get respect fom being 1000+ year old god queens, not just because they have a fancy title.

Twilight's done impressive stuff too, but noone knows that.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#35468: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:50:19 AM

Yeah. No-one except anyone who has heard of Luna's return, or Discord's awakening, or the fact that the Crystal Empire has returned...

I'd complain abou Sweet and Elie, but it actually sort of makes sense for thoe upper-class twits to be that self-absorbed.

edited 5th Jan '14 10:50:56 AM by Enlong

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#35469: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:50:58 AM

Unless he base is composed a Jekyll & Hyde

So this happens every time there is an argument?

darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#35470: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:57:02 AM

It's amusing I saw a romance fic with coco marshmallow posted in it's own fimfic group last night.

Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#35471: Jan 5th 2014 at 10:57:25 AM

First they're mad that she's becoming a Princess, now they're saying she's not being princessy enough.

That's not nearly as strange as you would think.

The idea is that some people may not have liked the idea of her being Princess, but now that she is one they would expect it to have some effect on things in the show. The fact that it for the most part hasn't outside of the primer has some people miffed in the "why make her a Princess if it's not actually going to mean anything?!" way.

edited 5th Jan '14 11:16:03 AM by Mio

Bluespade from Fort Worth, Texas Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
#35472: Jan 5th 2014 at 11:00:52 AM

I think she ought to actually be doing some princessing at some point. I liked in the opener how she had to take charge when Luna and Celestia went missing, but there's been nothing since.

However this is completely understandable as all of the episodes since have revolved around a different protagonist. But whenever they get around to doing another Twilight episode, I think it should definitely get some focus.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#35473: Jan 5th 2014 at 11:05:53 AM

Yeah, I think Mio captured the drive of a lot of complaints; if they're going to change the character, you might as well do something with the change. But then again, it's not like there's no precedence for this. The Mane Cast have saved Equestria multiple times and no one recognizes them, so I tend to write off the lack of fame as something inherent to the setting.

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Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
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#35474: Jan 5th 2014 at 11:13:56 AM

Yeah. No-one except anyone who has heard of Luna's return, or Discord's awakening, or the fact that the Crystal Empire has returned...

which is all still nothing compared to the amount of history that Luna and Tia have behind them.

Ponies just have ultra high standards, I guess.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#35475: Jan 5th 2014 at 11:16:25 AM

It's amusing I saw a romance fic with coco marshmallow posted in it's own fimfic group last night.

What's the significance of this? How do fimfic groups work?

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