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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
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55601: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:09:14 PM

@CDRW: That's awesome. Glad to hear he's doing better.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55602: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:12:16 PM

YES! It is complete! The robin... she is rounded!

Now I assume I need to PM Meta with the final chapter. I can't wait to read whatever unholy abomination this ends up being!

MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#55603: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:13:51 PM

My g-d, what have I done?

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55604: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:22:01 PM

So, where are we planning on hosting this monstrosity? Are we making an account for it, or posting on an existing one?

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55605: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:23:49 PM

[up]Not sure. My first thought was that we'd create an account for it, but that brings up the question of what to call the account and who exactly is in control of it.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#55606: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:35:35 PM

How are people so good at drawing fast? This was somehow done in 45 minutes.

They got Fly this time around? Oh man.

The best part is that they spent 50 minutes in democracy just to teach Fly. It was a deliberate decision.

YES! It is complete! The robin... she is rounded!

Excellent

Also what do you think of my chpater titles? I guess this is the time to settle on a title and description too.

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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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#55607: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:37:33 PM

They taught if fly on purpose? PFFFFT. These guys are crazy.

http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/
IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55608: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:40:33 PM

Also what do you think of my chpater titles? I guess this is the time to settle on a title and description too.

What chapter titles? I just figured we'd either name them Chapter 1, 2, etc. or use some kind of random phrase generator.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#55609: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:43:10 PM

They taught if fly on purpose? PFFFFT. These guys are crazy.

To be fair things were getting pretty dull, even with the more balanced party. And the mandatory democracy means that it isn't nearly as much of a problem as it would have been in Gen 1, though they've already flown back to New Bark Town at least 3 times.

What chapter titles? I just figured we'd either name them Chapter 1, 2, etc. or use some kind of random phrase generator.

A while back I suggested some chapter titles. Meta Four liked the idea but not my specific suggestions.

As far as title and description, I proposed that it should be called Derailed with the description "two strangers meet on a train, but only one will walk away".

edited 7th Mar '14 8:44:10 PM by storyyeller

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55610: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:49:20 PM

@Irish: The idea was that we give it ridiculous chapter titles that don't really have anything to do with the content of the chapters, just for the sake of making the whole thing even stupider.

@Story: The description on that picture says One Hour and forty five minutes.

edited 7th Mar '14 8:50:11 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#55611: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:49:45 PM

Here's the story as a single document, so all can appreciate the madness of Derailed:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gTR28Jd1DmM6ebJmMXt2VqS8Jh_lnBK-yIpjtBana3k/edit?usp=docslist_api

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55612: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:50:43 PM

Okay, I'm reading this. Doubt I'll finish it tonight, but we'll see.

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crowlover from a Jolly Caucus Race Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#55613: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:50:52 PM

Wait, the Round Robin's finally finished? YES!

"Don't worry, murder is a sign of affection." - An amalgamation of Dunsparce
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55614: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:54:56 PM

Okay, the first two chapters are relatively continuous, as I figured. Getting into the third now.

edited 7th Mar '14 8:55:27 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#55615: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:55:23 PM

My thinking is, even though it would be really funny to give it completely misleading chapter titles, it would be even funnier to present the whole story without chapter breaks. That way, the transitions between authors would be even more jarring.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#55616: Mar 7th 2014 at 8:57:11 PM

Good point. And also holy crap you guys weren't kidding about Spyro's section. It's like Half-Life: Full Life Consequences.

EDIT: Okay, I think my favorite part so far might be how Spyro's section ends with like half a page of empty space and a one-liner before it switches over to Kegisak's really florid and serious writing. The Mood Whiplash is great.

edited 7th Mar '14 9:01:25 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#55617: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:04:57 PM

Another idea I had for the description was "I suck at summaries", but I'm afraid that would turn people off from reading it in the first place.

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55618: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:06:44 PM

How about something like, "When Octavia stepped on the train that morning, she had no idea where the day would take her"?

Also, I'm up to Spyro's section. I started laughing before I even finished the first sentence. [lol]

edited 7th Mar '14 9:06:58 PM by IrishZombie

CDRW Since: May, 2016
#55619: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:06:48 PM

[up][up]Yeah, I'm afraid it would. You could always go the way of having a deceptively well-written summary. It would bring in readers, and help them clue in that it's parody instead of legitimately bad.

edited 7th Mar '14 9:06:58 PM by CDRW

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#55620: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:07:32 PM

Yeah, we don't want to make it too on the nose or Poe's Law will kick in and keep people from reading it at all because they won't recognize that it's supposed to be bad.

Also, I love how I apparently derailed the story into being about an alien invasion.

@Irish: The next scene transition is probably my favorite, because the tone and quality of writing does a complete 180.

Also, anybody think we should make a trope page for this?

edited 7th Mar '14 9:08:52 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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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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#55621: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:09:01 PM

I want to make a sequel. And I'm not even done reading.

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MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#55622: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:10:43 PM

One thing I particularly like is how the story completely skips over the accident that hospitalized Octavia, but Sereg's offhand Noodle Incidents make the crash sound impossibly, ludicrously epic.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#55623: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:12:54 PM

It's great how it spends like three chapters with Celestia and Octavia in the hospital, and then suddenly jumps to the Apple Family fighting an alien invasion.

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crowlover from a Jolly Caucus Race Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
#55624: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:15:22 PM

That was amazing.

I'm now more disappointed I ended up backing out of writing a chapter for this, but Spyro's chapter ended up making things better than it would have if I wrote it, probably, so yeah.

And I'd be up for a trope page.

edited 7th Mar '14 9:16:09 PM by crowlover

"Don't worry, murder is a sign of affection." - An amalgamation of Dunsparce
IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#55625: Mar 7th 2014 at 9:15:26 PM

Ah. So that's what the pendant was. I kind of assumed the previous chapter was actually talking about Celestia's torc.


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