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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

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#47726: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:38:06 PM

[up]That's true, but even then I still don't see it as being racist per se. He's complimenting her on something that Earth Ponies are proud of. It is a stereotype, but it's one that earth ponies themselves perpetuate. The offensiveness isn't that he admires their ethic, it's that the only way he knows how to praise Applejack is by appealing to a generalization.

I don't think it's on the level of the "Jews are good with money" stereotype mentioned above because as far as I know, there's no Jewish holiday celebrating financial ability. I can't really think of any good real world examples; the main difference is that while there are' cultural festivals today, most of them aim to celebrate the culture as a whole'' rather than focusing on specific aspects of it like WWU does.

The closest example I can think of would be say, hitting on a Japanese girl by saying that you've always admired Japanese Spirit. It's a pretty lousy way to hit on someone, but at the same time, you aren't really treating their cultural in a negative fashion outside of simply being ignorant.

edited 9th Feb '14 7:43:04 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#47727: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:42:15 PM

Huh, so individual seeds will grow trees whose apples are quite different? Or, at least, will have some form of microevolutionary drift?

...so, growing a tree from cuttings basically means cloning the apples?

edited 9th Feb '14 7:42:59 PM by Enlong

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#47728: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:42:55 PM

Come to think of it, the Big City good guys are getting more nuanced now, too. Fancypants was some kind of paragon of kindness and class. Coco Pommel was a good pony who allowed evil to triumph until Rarity showed her the alternative. Harshwhinny and the organizer of that Manehattan fashion contest were stern-but-fair ponies with prickly personalities.

Aaaaaaand now I'm not sure where Photo Finish fits into this.

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#47729: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:43:22 PM

She is DE MAGICS.

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#47730: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:44:06 PM

Photo Finish is almost sort of a Blue-and-Orange Morality thing. You could say that she was wrong to force Fluttershy into modelling, but on the flipside Fluttershy was actively hiding her dislike for it, so you can't blame PF for that.

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#47731: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:45:24 PM

The question is; was she trying to scare Fluttershy with the "why should you be nervous? It's just hundreds of influential ponies scrutinizing your ever act." bit?

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#47732: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:46:30 PM

Huh, so individual seeds will grow totally random trees?

...so, growing a tree from cuttings basically means cloning the apples?

You know how, when animals reproduce sexually, their offspring are a random recombination of genes from the parents? Seeds produced by plants are the same (with the caveat that some plants can fertilize themselves, but that still leads to the genes from the one parent getting randomly recombined).

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#47733: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:49:16 PM

Blue-and-Orange Morality is actually a pretty good description of her. She's just so different you can't help but judge her by another yardstick. I wonder if it would be awesome or aggravating to know someone like her in real life.

edited 9th Feb '14 7:49:32 PM by CDRW

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#47734: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:51:28 PM

She is DE MAGICS.
She isn't a pony. She's a force of nature in equine form. So you can't judge her by pony morality; all you can do is repair the damage after she's swept through.

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#47735: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:51:45 PM

[up][up][up] Yup, I gathered that, which is why I compared using cuttings to cloning.

edited 9th Feb '14 7:51:59 PM by Enlong

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#47736: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:52:42 PM

Oh god, I just saw the new episode! I can't stop laughing, oh my god!

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#47737: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:54:13 PM

Hey Mousa. So what were your favorite parts of the episode?

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#47738: Feb 9th 2014 at 7:58:01 PM

AJ mocking Rarity. Rarity jumping in mud and effectively losing her mind. Rarity trying so hard to be "country." There are no parts, just the whole thing.

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#47739: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:00:38 PM

Yeah, Rarity going nuts was pretty great. Especially with the accents.

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#47740: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:01:10 PM

I thought it was awesome how well AJ cleaned up, and a great, subtle callback to her time in manehatten.

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#47741: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:03:55 PM

AJ trolling Rarity was just about the best thing ever of the week. I also liked Rarity's Helga Pataki shrine.

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#47743: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:06:22 PM

Yeah, I like how AJ does actually know more about high society than Rariy does about country life.

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#47744: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:09:09 PM

You know, I had this nagging in the back of my head, wondering if what Rarity was doing was technically cultural appropriation. not that I'm adding this to the anti-Rarity arsenal or anything.

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#47745: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:12:10 PM

It was more like a desperate bid to make herself more appealing, with a side-order of mocking Applejack specifically.

I really don't think anyone in the episode was being racist.

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#47746: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:13:14 PM

Anyway, I'm heading off home. Maybe I'll try to do some drawing before bed.

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#47747: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:19:46 PM

Yeah the ep was hilarious, and AJ freaking won this ep. So did Tabitha

Just wish the 'why' things happened wasn't so freaking ridiculously stupid.

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#47748: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:20:40 PM

Curses! I must find other ways to fill the quiver, the Manehatten episode has done her too much good *twirls villainous mustache*

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#47749: Feb 9th 2014 at 8:32:21 PM

It wasn't so much "cultural appropriation" so much as "imitating Applejack specifically".

EDIT: I'm heading for bed now.

edited 9th Feb '14 9:03:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#47750: Feb 9th 2014 at 9:04:36 PM

She isn't a pony. She's a force of nature in equine form. So you can't judge her by pony morality; all you can do is repair the damage after she's swept through.

You know, if most people saw that out of context, they'd assume you were talking about Pinkie.

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