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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

Swasfewses Hermit from New York Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
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#53251: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:00:11 PM

Nothing in Heavenly Nostrils would ever not be safe.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#53252: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:00:58 PM

What is twerking, anyway?

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#53253: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:03:21 PM

Shaking your ass, basically.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#53254: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:03:42 PM

Oh

Well they've done that in the show

edited 27th Feb '14 5:03:54 PM by storyyeller

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IkeAndMike Exists for some reason from Earth Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#53255: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:05:27 PM

I think they shouldn't have.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#53256: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:05:33 PM

I will destroy you and steal your fiancee, booty-booty-booty-booty rocking everywhere!

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#53257: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:14:22 PM

Did somebody mention twerking?

So I'm going through some of my old files looking for inspiration, and check out this section from an old college paper:

One of the best examples of this change in attitudes is “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854, “Charge” is a fifty-five-line poem detailing a heroic cavalry charge of Russian cannon batteries. Six hundred mounted soldiers take part in the charge which leaves many of the six hundred dead, and does seemingly very little damage to the Russians, since the cannons the cavalry went to attack are still firing on them during the retreat. The poem is written in a way so as to be superficially glorifying the charge, thereby parodying older works that glorified war in earnest. However, the glory of the charge is purely superficial, and the reader is meant to realize that the charging cavalry accomplished nothing but to get themselves killed, since the cannons are still firing as the Light Brigade retreated.

Oh, younger me, how naive you were. XD

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#53258: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:17:54 PM

[up]No. Get that out of here now.

edited 27th Feb '14 5:18:10 PM by KingKix

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#53259: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:18:11 PM

That's right, don't fuck with our cannon batteries. Or our anything, for that matter.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#53260: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:21:53 PM

^^ The EQG!Rarity twerk, or the gross misinterpretation of Charge of the Light Brigade?

edited 27th Feb '14 5:22:01 PM by Wryte

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#53262: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:24:37 PM

[up][up]Rarity Twerk? Why didn't you say so?! waiiwaiiwaii

edited 27th Feb '14 5:24:59 PM by KingKix

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#53263: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:26:13 PM

one again, heavenly Nostrils is just so damn amazing

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#53264: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:43:53 PM

I will destroy you and steal your fiancee, booty-booty-booty-booty rocking everywhere!

Don't forget Filli Vanilli.

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#53266: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:56:01 PM

^^ That's not booty, that's chikorita.

edited 27th Feb '14 5:57:14 PM by Wryte

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#53267: Feb 27th 2014 at 5:58:28 PM

Oh, younger me, how naive you were

How so?

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#53269: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:05:58 PM

^^ Because it turns out that no, Tennyson was playing the glory of war trope completely straight in that poem. When I read it at the time I thought that the act he described was so blatantly stupid and futile that all the glory and praise he was heaping upon it could only be sarcastic, because no one could possibly find getting upwards of 600 of your own people killed for nothing to be praise-worthy. Turned out I was wrong; some people really are that stupid.

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#53270: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:10:29 PM

I always ran into the opposite problem. Most poetry and lit crit in general seemed to be to be stuff that was way overthinking it and almost certainly not what the author intended. I quickly discovered that passing poetry is all about making up crap according to a formula and writing an essay of nonsense to support it regardless of what you actually beleive.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#53271: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:13:49 PM

Same thing about literature. All you need on a literature essay is to spout some pretentious preferably patriotic nonsense about the work, and the braindead empty shell of a teacher will give you an A(5, which is our equivalent of an A. We use a numbered system), with a plus if it doesn't actually cover any of the work's themes.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#53272: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:14:27 PM

Ironically, that was basically the approach I took to most of my poetry writing classes: turn in something that sounded halfway good, and then wait for someone else in the class to suggest a deeper meaning I liked the sound of and be all, "yeah, that's right, you got it." :P

Speaking of which, I ended up going with an old poem I wrote about a flag burning I attended as a teenager for my group tonight, because I didn't manage to write anything new. I'm giving myself a pass on it tonight because I busted my hump so hard last week to make the contest deadline, but if I don't make up for it next week by having a full chapter of my book done, I'm dropping WoW again.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#53273: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:22:17 PM

Yeah my English classes were a pain because, I wouldn't do that. I'd sit and argue right back at the teacher about it was a loud of bullshit, and all that mattered was the story.

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#53274: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:33:06 PM

All you need on a literature essay is to spout some pretentious preferably patriotic nonsense about the work, and the braindead empty shell of a teacher will give you an A(5, which is our equivalent of an A. We use a numbered system), with a plus if it doesn't actually cover any of the work's themes.

I'm still mad that one of my classmates got a better grade on his The Poisonwood Bible essay than me despite not even reading the book.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#53275: Feb 27th 2014 at 6:34:50 PM

@Story Sounds about right. Reading the book would develop understanding, opinions, and thoughts, and down that path lies evil.


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