A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Celestia's spirit animal is cake.
Shadow Alpaca. Sweet.
On a not-actually-related note:
For example, Applejack's parents are dead, or at least missing. We usually gloss over that, we don't question it. The family seems to be doing fine, all the chores are getting done, the business is holding up reasonably well, they have a matriarch in the form of Granny Smith. But the parents had to exist at some point, obviously. Which means that at some point, they had to have disappeared. The family may be relatively fine now, but there had to be a transition period at some point, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to imagine that there was a point when things were not okay. It may be even possible that off-camera, in the moments that we're not shown in any of the episodes, ghosts of the past come back to haunt certain members of the Apple family all these years later.
And yet, despite these moments, you don't deny that there are times that things are okay, when everything in their lives is going right. We know that side of the story exists because we see it, and just because a fic explores the darker side doesn't mean this side suddenly doesn't exist. In fact, a good fic will even come back home, so to speak, after venturing into the darkness. It reminds us that the night doesn't last forever.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...@spirit animal thing: I got "mist giraffe," which translates to "kiri no kirin" in Japanese. The pun lover in me is pleased.
That also sounds like a type of creature that would be in Equestria. Kind of like the "timber wolves" which are wolves made out of wood, it's a giraffe made out of mist and clouds that lives in places like Cloudsdale. They would interact with pegasi the most, since pegasi can actually touch them; other ponies' hooves go right through the bodies of the mist giraffes.
What is the point of hose stupid 'birthday "Why the fucking hell does anyone call it a game'? it's just someone using a RNG at best to slab some words together with no meaning. It's not like there is any choice, anything you can do, pick a number, nothing except look at some random list someone made up.
It's not like having the two charts means anything either. it's just a list of things RNG'd onto a date and... seriously why do people bother?
^^^ Sheesh, man, they're just dumb little amusements, not like anyone takes 'em seriously. No need to get bent out of shape. :/
I only posted that one because it popped up on my tumblr dashboard this morning and I was amused that I was only a day off from "moon horse," which immediately made me think of Luna.
edited 29th Jul '14 5:56:58 PM by Wryte
@Wryte: No no, Luna is Moon butt.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.@Kyler: My take on it is similar, but I'd wouldn't take it quite as far. Stuff like referencing AJ's parents isn't something I'd necessarily consider dark, because while the show never really directly references it, it's quite obviously something that did, in fact, happen. Death is a thing in this world, and the show acknowledges it (see: SB crashing a funeral). What I think pushes a fic or art into dark territory is when it starts explicitly dealing with elements that show never really acknowledges. I.e. a fic involving death wouldn't necessarily be dark if it was handled in a way consistent with the tone of the show. A fic involving crimes like murder or rape probably would, because the show has never even touched on those subjects or referenced them as occurring in-universe.
Grimdark only comes into play when you have that "complete loss of hope" mentioned earlier.
Granted, there are still some gray areas. War is a good example; wars are mentioned in the show, but at the same time, we've never actually heard of or seen a real war happening (the subject is only ever mentioned as a hypothetical; there's no historical reference that I can think of), and the closest thing to a traditional battle that we've seen (i.e. one that wasn't ended instantly via magical artifact) consisted of throwing pies. So in that case it would come down to the tone of the individual fic to decide whether "war" is a dark subject.
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"Flower Butterfly." Boring, but Practical, I suppose.