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.
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Here's a classic Pony-related video since I'm feeling nostalgic.
The ironic part is that once you do get a job, you won't have time to play games.
Anyway, I come back from work after being out all day and there's only two new pages? I remember back in summer 2012 how I'd come back to 15 new pages every day and that was a shorter workday. Oh well, I suppose at least it doesn't take much time to keep up with the thread any more.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@Story: Yeah, but 10 of those pages would be Ginger going -_-.
EDIT: I need to sleep now.
edited 2nd Jun '14 8:26:02 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image Repositoryand, to round out the different types of images I've posted today, have something completely and utterly heartbreaking.
The thread would also swing wildly off-topic because everyone would be trying to suggest shows to watch.
Okay, I am back from watching the new X-Men movie. It was pretty cool. A bit darker than I thought, to be honest. But more importantly it's time to expand on the fan fic ideas I mentioned earlier.
The first one, featuring Chrysalis, begins with a Changeling scout finding a wrecked carriage. It turns out the passenger is princess Cadence, and she's mortally wounded. Chrysalis uses some mind reading spells to learn more about her, and decides to take her place. However, she decides to do it solo, abandoning her hive. The hive doesn't like this very much, and they follow her to Canterlot to kill her. How will Chrysalis survive, and how long can she keep pretending to be Cadence?
The second one is another AU, but this one goes a lot further back. During the fight between Celestia and Nightmare Moon, they both hit each other. NM is banished to the moon, but Celestia is wounded and dies a few months later. Fast forward a thousand years, and Twilight Sparkle is studying mythology at Canterlot Academy while training for a position in the celestial society. She reads a story about the two princesses, whose battle will be reenacted tomorrow. This year just happens to be the 1000th anniversary, and it is said that the mare in the moon will return on the 1000th year to plunge Equestria into eternal night. But it's just a silly old story, it can't be real... can it?
So, those are the starting points for the stories. Do either of them sound good?
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/^^^ Forget posting it, why are people making those?
^ I'll be honest; fics whose premises are all/prominently about a major canon character being killed off are generally ones I don't go past the summary for, and I say that having written such a fic myself, since the "killing off a character" angle is so often used just for the sake of making a story Darker and Edgier. Of the two, I think the Nightmare Moon one feels less like this.
The Chrysalis one also has the disadvantage of Die for Our Ship overtones to the premise, and you'd really have to work to make Chrysalis turning her back on the changelings not feel OOC, considering feeding her people was her entire motivation for invading Canterlot in the first place. It might work better if Chrys was planning to bring the changelings in on the deal once she'd gotten her fangs into Shining, but had a change of heart later as she spent more time with Cadance in her head.
edited 2nd Jun '14 9:23:01 PM by Wryte
It's not that bad. It's very, very far from the worst thing I've seen. At best it's only midly depressing.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWryte- thanks for the feedback. Personally I don't like grimdark fics, but the stories themselves won't be overly dark. The starting points are rather grim, but that's the extent of it. I was just trying to come up with something new for a story. Originality is difficult for me.
As for the OOC issue with the Chrysalis story... you actually have a point there. Maybe the Changelings think she betrayed them due to a Poor Communication Kills moment and attack while she's in disguise, so Chrysalis has to roll with it to avoid being found out. Would that work better?
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/@Wryte: maybe if it bites you, you'll get superpowers!

Looking at some fan art of my gal, LD. Safe in the knowledge I'm able to bounce back from a sad evening.
edited 2nd Jun '14 6:40:30 PM by Starscream759
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