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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.

     Original OP text 
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

Sydxelia Are you into... Vinyl? from Cranberry World Since: Nov, 2010
Are you into... Vinyl?
#48626: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:47:22 AM

Link.

I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!
IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#48628: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:47:54 AM

All right then... think it's time I try to avoid the spoilers once more... -looks about, before bolting off in a hurry-

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#48629: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:49:01 AM

@NES And where do you think you are going?

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
Blissey1 insert title here from a random Pokècenter Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I know
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#48630: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:50:41 AM

ok, the preview clips from the first EQG movies were pretty meh inducing for me.

but this... omg. I actually want to see this one.

edited 13th Feb '14 9:50:46 AM by Blissey1

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#48631: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:56:48 AM

Huh. That... doesn't look so bad. But how are they even going to have a story? Are they going to bring in that universe's Twilight?

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
#48633: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:57:09 AM

I still don't get why people feel the need to have a seperate thread for every little thing.

Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#48634: Feb 13th 2014 at 9:59:56 AM

@Marcen Hey, apart from getting gifts for you know who and getting myself a Wreck-It-Ralph figurine for Disney Infinity, I'm doing fine.

"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus Prime
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#48635: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:06:05 AM

@Blissey: Yeah, it looks interesting.

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#48636: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:06:14 AM

So, discussing Big M's sexuality way back when, lemme reiterate my headcanon: Almost all ponies are bi, and they have little understanding of gender preferences.

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#48637: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:06:33 AM

@Star Groovy! I already got my Valentine's planned out. 2 full bottles of fruit punch, a laptop full of fanfictions and several podcast episodes of Radiodrome and The Ongoing History of New Music with Alan Cross. And, obviously, you know who.

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#48638: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:07:26 AM

@Go A

Unless stallions also give birth, I don't think having little understanding of gender preferences is possible.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#48639: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:12:53 AM

[up]I think what he means is that while ponies would recognize that it takes both sexes to produce children, they don't have very strict classifications of sexual orientations. I.e. pretty much everyone is attracted to both mares and stallions, and those who are exclusively attracted to one or the other are the minority.

Personally, I tend to assume that the demographics in terms of sexuality are roughly the same as they are in reality, with the main difference being that sexualities don't carry any additional cultural baggage; e.g. "lesbian" means only "mare who's exclusively interested in mares" and "gay" means happy "stallions who are exclusively interested in stallions". So basically no concept of Camp Gay, Butch Lesbian, etc. Stuff like mannerisms and appearance exist independently of sexual orientation.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:13:26 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#48640: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:13:25 AM

New headcanon, stallions can have babies.

But seriously, an understanding on where babies comes from might color their preference a little, but I don't see it overall.

But that's because fanfiction has tainted me. Canon doesn't support this at all and most evidence points towards heteronormity in Equestria.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#48641: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:15:58 AM

[up]My main reason for it is that I tend to assume Like Reality, Unless Noted in regard to how they work on a social level.

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CDRW Since: May, 2016
#48642: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:16:38 AM

Yeah, I'm all for progressive attitudes and such, but I find the idea of a society where everyone is bi fairly untenable. Assuming monogamy is the norm, which I think is fairly reasonable give what we've seen in the show, it would automatically destabilize itself within one generation. Babies are kind of important to society after all.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:17:35 AM by CDRW

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#48643: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:20:00 AM

If we're talking about bisexuals, I am one. I am extremely shy around women but also, with my BFF I can't even look him in the eyes because he's so adorkable! But I believe that everyone is bisexual.

https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615q
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#48644: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:20:59 AM

[up][up]That and some people just... aren't bi. I mean, if you are, that's great, but I always find it sort of weird when people hold up bisexuality as some sort of ideal.

[up]I wouldn't say so. I think that more people have bisexual urges than they'd want to admit, but saying that everyone does is an overstatement.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:23:08 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#48645: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:25:01 AM

Plus, hearts and hooves day has shown us both the vast majority of relationships, and assumed default, is heterosexual. None of the CMC bothered to consider that Cheerilee or Big Mac wouldn't be interested in Mares or Stallions(Which granted, if everypony were bi would admittedly be a non-issue), all of the ponies suggested for Cheerilee were Stallions, and all of the couples we saw, with the exception of a few crowd scenes, were heterosexual.

Now, granted, we can say this is just what we saw for the sake of clearing things with the network, which like it or not would have to deal with a lot of crap for showing openly gay couples in a children's show, but the fact is we can only realistically judge based on what we've seen, and what we've seen is heterosexuality. A good deal more of it than in actual horse populations, in fact(Which by their nature - packs of females with one male and small, bachelor herds of exclusively males) tend more towards homosexual than heterosexual activities. To say nothing of the fact that monogomy isn't at all on the table. Fact of the matter is, we really have to judge them based on human social norms.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#48646: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:26:39 AM

Yeah, ponies clearly don't operate according to regular Equine sexuality. If it did, we'd have an interesting show, but it most certainly wouldn't be for kids.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:28:21 AM by JapaneseTeeth

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#48647: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:27:17 AM

@Kegi Then, again, the CMC are fillies. They might not even know the concept of different gender preferences yet.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:27:37 AM by Luminosity

God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#48648: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:27:57 AM

Well, if I get deeper into how I think it all works, it's gonna weird fast.

But mostly, this is for my N Hi E fanfic, where one of the visiting humans is a professor of culture, learning all about the differences between their races.

kegisak Element of Class Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Element of Class
#48649: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:29:37 AM

@Lum: Which is actually all the more telling of ponies' natural biology/sociology. If they default to assuming she'd want a male partner without any conception of gender preferences, then either their ingrained instincts say that heterosexuality is the way to go, or they've learned it from media/their families, suggesting if nothing else that it's the more widely accepted norm.

Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.
CDRW Since: May, 2016
#48650: Feb 13th 2014 at 10:29:43 AM

[up][up][up] If that were the case you would expect to see them recommend ponies without regard for whether they were male of female.

edited 13th Feb '14 10:29:52 AM by CDRW


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