My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!

[Lix Lorn]

Aotrs, honey, I'm afraid tonberrian is MINE to be mean to.

[Aotrs Commander]

Does casting this spell involve you hitting me, possibly with an excessively large, heavy, and durable object?

Nope. Nothing so crude...



It does this by giving you a cast-iron stomach.

Literally.

Give that pony a soggy hay bale.


However, you now need to watch the pH of your diet, as your stomach has lost a significant portion of its resistance to corrosion.

Whoever said your new cast-iron stomach was hollow...?


Aotrs, honey, I'm afraid tonberrian is MINE to be mean to.

But Lix,

...

... Lix, I thought you were all about sharing...

I didn't have you pegged for the jealous type...

[Beacon of Chaos]

Leo gently puts a blanket over Midnight, and places a pillow under her head. He then lures Pinklestia into a trap by laying out a trail of candy leading to a box propped up by a stick. Once Pinklestia falls asleep (it's dark, so it must be nighttime), he tapes the box shut and gets the real Celestia to trap her on the moon. He also gets her to send a piece of paper that reads "To escape Moon, see other side" on both sides.

"Well, that should keep her busy for a while."
Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't do that anymore. I had to use the Elements of Harmony to send Nightmare Moon to the moon and they are no longer linked to me. Besides, don't you think that would be unnecessarily cruel?

I'm Princess Celestia! I love when you comb my hair! :D

...I'll send a letter to Twilight...


I think that's a bit too sweeping for personal use; I think it'd fit better as sort of army theme, something that plays as our carefully planned trap is revealed and all of the Aotrs vehicles and starship sweep into attack positions and our enemies brick themselves...

You listening, Hopereaver it needs to be like Pokemon or Naruto's action theme only cooler (I guess between 20 and 63.5%) and more Evil. Like an Evil version of the Touch or something! But with ominous chantning!

Yeah, yeah, I'lll get right on that.
Funny you should mention pokemon, because I was listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAu2aO5BrEM&feature=related) a while back, and I thought "this would make an awesome battle theme for a certain space lich". No seriously! I don't know why. But it sounds actiony and kinda evil. No ominous chanting however. I'll keep looking.

[tonberrian]

Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't do that anymore. I had to use the Elements of Harmony to send Nightmare Moon to the moon and they are no longer linked to me. Besides, don't you think that would be unnecessarily cruel?

I'm Princess Celestia! I love when you comb my hair! :D

...I'll send a letter to Twilight...

That's an impressive amount of effort for Celestia's dialogue. I salute you.

[Bayonet Priest]

And since my OC was spawned from a threesome where there was a lot of sex magic used (offscreen), I wouldn't have any room to talk about sexual stuff. :smallbiggrin:

Hmm, speaking of said threesome...

I've been wondering ever since Reaching Midnight what exactly Luna's relationship with Twilight and Trixie is now. They obviously accept her as Midnight's third mother but I wonder how they feel about her themselves. Was that night they spent together a just this once and never again thing or are they still more than just friends? I got the implication that it was just that once but I'm not sure so I wanted to clear it up.

Dang I'm trying to ask this without sounding weird or too interested in the love lives of fictional ponies (although being interested in the love lives of real ponies would likely be worse) but I really am curious. I like the Out in the Cold continuity and I like to learn more about it.

[tonberrian]

Nope. Nothing so crude...

Ah, hmm, ah, maybe next time, after I've invested more in Immunity WRITING ALL OF MY FANFIC IDEAS.

[Lix Lorn]

But Lix,

...

... Lix, I thought you were all about sharing...

I didn't have you pegged for the jealous type...
I am for black romance. :smalltongue:

[Vent Reynolt]

I can't believe that I haven't even posted in this thread yet!


Double Edit: So, anyone have any experience with YouTube in general? I have literally never signed in with an account, and Google's now making me sign in with my Google profile. Since I need to be signed into gmail and gchat at work, I apparently must also be signed into the youtubes when listening to my musics :smallannoyed: I think I'm most concerned about what data there is public or private/my pony video viewing history >_>

Darn you Google, and your habit of tracking everything that everyone does. If it wasn't for your search engines, I wouldn't even use you!


Oh, and heads up, my Goblin Pony now has an official, naughty evil pony-riffic name that makes it perfect for the Poniverse!

And that name is...

Pause for dramatic effect...

Pause a bit longer to annoy everypony...

Trixi Treats. ^^

I like it. Perfect for Halloween.


[RP] Blue Ponies Yay!

Well, I'm basically a city pony and I'm guessing you are as well. The 'family business' is an old tradition after all, and a lot of rural ponies in the old days probably didn't get out much. In these modern times there's a lot more travel and better communication. I understand that mixed type families were nearly unheard of just a couple of generations ago.

(Unspoilered because it's not that long and we've topic-drifted into Equestrian society in general, which might be interesting to others.)

Well, I'm not quite a city pony since I actually grew up in some of the suburbs near Fillydelphia. The time that I lived in Cloudsdale was actually the only time I've actually lived in a city. To be honest, I've never actually enjoyed the cities; it's always so busy there, and I'm not a very social pony, normally.


Look upon this woman's work, O Ponies, and despair. (http://babylondonstar.deviantart.com/#/d4bnknf)

Thank Celestia she didn't make an Octavia, or I would be undone.

You may not have heard it, but I made an audible squee when I saw that.


Can't get enough ships? How about 4851 of them, in one graph?

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/0/b/4851_ships_by_adcoon-d4c2yb7.png

Go here for the full 4600x4600px graph. (http://adcoon.deviantart.com/art/4851-Ships-262157875)

I don't know what motivated me to make this graph. Sooo many possibilities, though.

CockatricexApplebloom!

Edit: Looks like I scared all of the other posters into hiding.

Oh Vent, you're such a loudmouth. http://i.imgur.com/BsGGR.jpg

[Aotrs Commander]

Funny you should mention pokemon, because I was listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAu2aO5BrEM&feature=related) a while back, and I thought "this would make an awesome battle theme for a certain space lich". No seriously! I don't know why. But it sounds actiony and kinda evil. No ominous chanting however. I'll keep looking.

Beleive or not, I've not got that far in Black/White yet. (I think I've even got that track downloaded, but I'm waiting until I actually get to that stage in the game...)




I am for black romance. :smalltongue:

Spoilsport.

Looks like you get a pass, tonberrian, of only for alliance's sake - this time...



Oh, by-the-by, my net access may be sporadic over the next few days, as the dining room is being redone, and that is where the primary router (and the net-analogue grammerphone=>blueray device that uplinks to Bleak Despair) is located; so if it suddenly goes all quiet, you'll know why...

So I might be catching up on my Pokemon...!




Edit: Looks like I scared all of the other posters into hiding.

Oh Vent, you're such a loudmouth. http://i.imgur.com/BsGGR.jpg

Nah, they just heard me coming...

[Beeskee]

Leo gently puts a blanket over Midnight, and places a pillow under her head. He then lures Pinklestia into a trap by laying out a trail of candy leading to a box propped up by a stick. Once Pinklestia falls asleep (it's dark, so it must be nighttime), he tapes the box shut and gets the real Celestia to trap her on the moon. He also gets her to send a piece of paper that reads "To escape Moon, see other side" on both sides.

"Well, that should keep her busy for a while."

Pinkestia: "Ooh! A piece of candy!" She levitates the candy up to her mouth and nibbles delicately on it. "Ooh! A piece of candy!" ... Until she reaches the box. "Ooh! A box!!" She magics the box onto herself and plays Metal Gear Solid for a while, walking around while peeking out through one of the handle holes, but completely spoiling it by accidentally poking a hole in the top of the box with her horn and forgetting about her tail sticking out the back.

Oddly enough I couldn't find a picture of MGCelestia. Also I had some trouble finding the toy dialogue. It's smeared across a hundred youtube comments but I was trying to find someplace that had all Pinkestia's lines in one place.

Edit: Even more oddly, I thought up a huge background for Pinkestia. Is that weird?

[Capt. Ido Nos]

I like to imagine that on the other side of the ponyworld, there is the zebra kingdom, that is run by a gospel singing zebra alicorn named Soulestia.

[Gamerlord]

This is an explanation for Pinklestia that makes a disturbing amount of sense:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/35278723707ed086f3a71da6ab674e3d/45872%20-%20animated%20hasbroestia%20parody%20pinkie_pie%20 pinklestia%20pokemon%20toy.gif

[Kris Strife]

I have a harem forum. Who needs parties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf_-1WT4cd8


Pinkestia: "Ooh! A piece of candy!" She levitates the candy up to her mouth and nibbles delicately on it. "Ooh! A piece of candy!" ... Until she reaches the box. "Ooh! A box!!" She magics the box onto herself and plays Metal Gear Solid for a while, walking around while peeking out through one of the handle holes, but completely spoiling it by accidentally poking a hole in the top of the box with her horn and forgetting about her tail sticking out the back.

Oddly enough I couldn't find a picture of MGCelestia. Also I had some trouble finding the toy dialogue. It's smeared across a hundred youtube comments but I was trying to find someplace that had all Pinkestia's lines in one place.


Oh, I'm sorry, but I can't do that anymore. I had to use the Elements of Harmony to send Nightmare Moon to the moon and they are no longer linked to me. Besides, don't you think that would be unnecessarily cruel?

I'm Princess Celestia! I love when you comb my hair! :D

...I'll send a letter to Twilight...

Leo hadn't forgotten about her horn, but figured her horn would block any light from coming in that hole, considering it's conic. He uses a roll of duct tape to patch up the holes while they wait for Twilight and company to get here.


Edit: Even more oddly, I thought up a huge background for Pinkestia. Is that weird?

Considering the board's star OC pony has this for an origin:


And since my OC was spawned from a threesome where there was a lot of sex magic used (offscreen), I wouldn't have any room to talk about sexual stuff. :smallbiggrin:

I don't think weird is a concern. :smallwink:

"...Hey Midnight, can you ask your mom and her friends to hurry up? I think Pinklestia is like the mental equivalent of toxic waste..."

[MCerberus]

This is an explanation for Pinklestia that makes a disturbing amount of sense:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/35278723707ed086f3a71da6ab674e3d/45872%20-%20animated%20hasbroestia%20parody%20pinkie_pie%20 pinklestia%20pokemon%20toy.gif

Pinkamena learned Hyper Beam!

[Beeskee]

Leo hadn't forgotten about her horn, but figured her horn would block any light from coming in that hole, considering it's conic. He uses a roll of duct tape to patch up the holes while they wait for Twilight and company to get here.

Considering the board's star OC pony has this for an origin:

I don't think weird is a concern. :smallwink:

"...Hey Midnight, can you ask your mom and her friends to hurry up? I think Pinklestia is like the mental equivalent of toxic waste..."

Her horn is sticking out of the box. Imagine a cardboard box with a Celestia horn and tail poking out of it, like the "Twilight Bucket (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-H_rAqoD0I/To4vSwh-4bI/AAAAAAAANXI/fYTzouExYm0/s320/67590+-+artist+Mr-1+bucket+no+no_coffee+twilight_sparkle.png)" pic.

While Googling for images, I found that Pinklestia seems to be the name for Pinkie Pie x Celestia shipping. ... I'mma keep calling her Pinkestia. :smallbiggrin: I don't want anypony to get the wrong idea here. :smallwink:


Pinkestia: Still underneath the box, Pinkestia quietly sneaks up behind Kris while he's talking to Midnight... Unfortunately the eye holes are now covered in duct tape, so she ends up bumping into him. "Uh... Tag! You are it!"

[otakuryoga]

Her horn is sticking out of the box. Imagine a cardboard box with a Celestia horn and tail poking out of it, like the "Twilight Bucket (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y-H_rAqoD0I/To4vSwh-4bI/AAAAAAAANXI/fYTzouExYm0/s320/67590+-+artist+Mr-1+bucket+no+no_coffee+twilight_sparkle.png)" pic.

While Googling for images, I found that Pinklestia seems to be the name for Pinkie Pie x Celestia shipping. ... I'mma keep calling her Pinkestia. :smallbiggrin: I don't want anypony to get the wrong idea here. :smallwink:


Pinkestia: Still underneath the box, Pinkestia quietly sneaks up behind Kris while he's talking to Midnight... Unfortunately the eye holes are now covered in duct tape, so she ends up bumping into him. "Uh... Tag! You are it!"

i prefer calling it "That which should be cleansed with FIRE!"

[Beeskee]

i prefer calling it "That which should be cleansed with FIRE!"

Which one? Twilight Bucket, or Pinkie Pie and Celestia shipping?

[otakuryoga]

Which one? Twilight Bucket, or Pinkie Pie and Celestia shipping?

neither of those...the third choice is what i refer to

[Beeskee]

neither of those...the third choice is what i refer to

Pinkestia: "Well, if you don't like tag, you don't have to play."

[tonberrian]

Figures that my inspiration for ponymance comes way after Midnight's Guide to Dating.

Anyways, I'm trying to think up clever puns to name a pony couple so that their initials spell out PB & J without resorting to the obvious but still related to it. I like to think that ponies think that clever wordplay of names is a sign that their destinies are entwined.

[Kris Strife]

You know, I could see Pinkie and Celestia shipping work. Pinkie seems like she'd hook up with anyone once, just to try it/spread happiness/desperate for love and approval. And, just like Celestia, she'll be around forever! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRYccuXWNA)

Honestly, I could see Pinkie show up to her own funeral (basically a party, considering who it's for :smalltongue:) on the grounds that she'd never miss a party and that being dead was boring. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mG2I-o3yUA) :smallbiggrin:

She'd then continue to go about her life like nothing had happened, much to everyone's confusion. She wouldn't be a zombie or undead or anything.

Sorry for the somewhat morbid post, it was just a funny idea I had, of Pinkie watching her own funeral, Tom Sawyer style, but from outside the actual scene, sitting up there in the black bar area, then hopping down after a while. The Pinkie could be shipped universally part, and not destroy/ignore her character, came to mind from a combination of Party of One and a Q&A comic for Lackadaisy Cats.

[Eakin]

I do find it annoying that google links your info to YouTube, but you can always set up a second gmail account with a new username/password and have it forward to your real one. I think you can be logged into both at once without any read-down between the accounts

[Roninhirox]

You know, I could see Pinkie and Celestia shipping work. Pinkie seems like she'd hook up with anyone once, just to try it/spread happiness/desperate for love and approval. And, just like Celestia, she'll be around forever! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRYccuXWNA)

Honestly, I could see Pinkie show up to her own funeral (basically a party, considering who it's for :smalltongue:) on the grounds that she'd never miss a party and that being dead was boring. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mG2I-o3yUA) :smallbiggrin:

She'd then continue to go about her life like nothing had happened, much to everyone's confusion. She wouldn't be a zombie or undead or anything.


I like this idea. I like it possibly to much.

[erikun]

I don't know what motivated me to make this graph. Sooo many possibilities, though.
I don't see Trixie x herself x herself again, though.


TomxRocky OTP
I am glad I am not the only one who thought this anymore.

[Lix Lorn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf_-1WT4cd8
By which I mean I have parties there. Adult parties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcF1M-SmYHY&feature=related

[BlasTech]

Eeeyup, definitely sick.

At work anyway X___X

Ohnoes, get well soon!




You may not have heard it, but I made an audible squee when I saw that.



I heard it! ... and I'm in Australia :smalltongue:




Nah, they just heard me coming...

*Hides*


This is an explanation for Pinklestia that makes a disturbing amount of sense:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/35278723707ed086f3a71da6ab674e3d/45872%20-%20animated%20hasbroestia%20parody%20pinkie_pie%20 pinklestia%20pokemon%20toy.gif

Add to that the fact that, with all the sweets Pinkie eats, she must have found some Rare Candy by now ...

I think I'll head back to that bunker again...

[erikun]

Add to that the fact that, with all the sweets Pinkie eats, she must have found some Rare Candy by now ...

I think I'll head back to that bunker again...
Candy Stone, the newest evolution stone to the Pokemon series.

Just wait until you use it on Eevee to get a Pepperminteon.

[BlasTech]

Candy Stone, the newest evolution stone to the Pokemon series.

Just wait until you use it on Eevee to get a Pepperminteon.

As someone who only played Red and Blue ... I feel very out of date all of a sudden. :smallfrown:

[Vorpalbob]

TomxRocky OTP.

As soon as I read that, I had a vision of Tom with that character (http://www.rockymusic.org/img/rhpsphotoscolor/RHPS-CRH45-RockyDavidStatueL.jpg) I once played in a stage show...

It made me laugh.
Seriously, though. Doing that show was SO MUCH FUN.

[Beeskee]

Honestly, I could see Pinkie show up to her own funeral (basically a party, considering who it's for :smalltongue:) on the grounds that she'd never miss a party and that being dead was boring. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mG2I-o3yUA) :smallbiggrin:

That sounds exactly like something Pinkie Pie would do. And if it was a funeral for Pinkie Pie that's just what it would be, a great big party with people telling jokes and having a good time. Well, as good a time as they could have anyway. There was a funeral like that in Star Trek TNG too, since that's what the supposedly dead people wanted for a funeral. The crew members weren't actually dead, and they did end up showing up for it at the end.


While hunting for Pinkestia quotes I found this: Double Rainbow Pinkestia (http://khu.sh/usersong_4e73642031503)

[Shadowy]

Spontaneous RP:
Well, now I'm glad that you took my corporal form again. Forgot this! I'm coming on the airship trip! *Activates hidden rockets in the bunker* Ah-ha! It can now FLY! ....She's still on-board. I can work something out! *Activates maximum security mode* Think about it! Not even the lich can beat her, and his stuff makes even your best look like rocks! You're not safe either! I don't have a physical form anymore! Do you think that would stop her? .......

Run!
We could try and negotiate by Rescuing, and offering Berry-Ann. Make it quick! Let's get to wherever the heck that wizard pony is!

[Beacon of Chaos]

Figures that my inspiration for ponymance comes way after Midnight's Guide to Dating.

Anyways, I'm trying to think up clever puns to name a pony couple so that their initials spell out PB & J without resorting to the obvious but still related to it. I like to think that ponies think that clever wordplay of names is a sign that their destinies are entwined.
How about Peach Blossom and Jasmine?



Anyway, image dump GOOOOO!

The cutest ever battle for Equestria:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/5b8250a80ba254227a39eade316a324c/67926 - Discord Elements_of_Harmony applejack artist%3Aphantomdarklover blob chubby_ponies diabetes fat fluttershy mane_six pinkie_pie rainbow_dash rarity twilight_sparkle.png

80's Cheerilee Anthro:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/78a0f90ee583ecfb5c0372848ac64f7d/67963 - 80s 80s_cheerilee anthro artist%3AKabukiHomewood cheerilee furry.jpg

Are you ready for nostalgia IN YOUR FACE?
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/32f0128deb08f9f0541b90f3abd16068/67972 - Cutie_Mark_Crusaders Donald_Duck Jose_Carioca Panchito_Pistoles Panchito_Romero_Miguel_Junipero_Francisco_Quintero _Gonzalez Sweetie_Belle The_Three_Caballeros apple_bloom artist%3Awolfytails cmc parody scootaloo.png

Hah!
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/5e5b237f20ae895a17fa3488d2418e6c/67973 - poster tom.jpeg

[SiuiS]

I have a quick question for everyone. *Where do you think the name "Pinkamena" from Pinkamena Diane Pie came from? *Is it an obvious reference that I'm just not getting?

I don't think it's a reference. I just think they wanted Pinkie Pie to have a more mundane name, so Pinkie could be her nickname.


It's by an artist who calls himself Crooked Trees (http://crookedtrees.deviantart.com/), who also drew this:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/244/1/8/fluttershy___untitled_by_crookedtrees-d48ku3o.png

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/257/5/e/flawed_by_crookedtrees-d49syxb.png

He has another blog (named after a Venetian Snares album, appropriately enough) which is about forty percent pornographic digital paintings of ponies, forty percent starkly realistic digital paintings of ponies, and twenty percent starkly realistic pornographic digital paintings of ponies. It's actually very hard for me to tell if he's trying to parody that style or if he's genuinely in love with it and he just happens to really like drawing technicolor ponies. Either way, he's a fantastic artist.

That's some crazy stuff.


Anyway, pics.

Saucy Twilight ahoy! Drawn and coloured by a couple of friends of mine from Canterlot.
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/1eb53f157fd117ba275db110082fd8a0/67566%20-%20Will_you_be_my_study_buddy%20artist%3AKudalyn%2 0artist%3Abrianblackberry%20blushing%20cute%20hoov es%20plot%20socks%20twilight_sparkle.png

Badass Spike:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/e139e9847cae165aac904771b9ca0dfa/67086%20-%20artist%3Aequestria-prevails%20gun%20spike%20weapon.jpg

I've really got to check Canterlot out...
Oh well. Quoted so I can force my phone to load the Spike image.


Okay, well, anyway, I think I have about reached the limitations of what I can think of to try on you blind, so now I'll do some explaining and see if the arty among you can make some suggestions. (I might even take this to the arts & crafts thread eventually).

Now, usually alien robots races are all "male" (e.g. Daleks, Cybermen, old Cylons, the Cybertanks - even the Borg sound male - etc etc etc - the Movellians of Doctor Who are about the only exception). Anyway, this crowd, are for novety, supposed to be "female". So what I was really trying to aim for - and utterly failing! - was to try a model that in a non-cartoonish way. (I realise that I could just do anything and just say it's nominally female, but I wanted to see if I could be cleverer than that. Apparently not!)

So, armed with some context, does anybody have a clue how I could improve to try and make it more "feminine" - at least nominally in suggestion, given the rather steep size limitations?*

(I know this is a sodding hard thing to try to do, but I want to at least give it a shot before admitting defeat!)

See, here's your trouble.
You can't crusade against humanocetricism and evoke thoughts in humanocentric minds at the same time. They are, in the short-term, mutually exclusive goals.

Feminie designs would nominally include;
Sharp acute triangles
Visible "waists"
Tapered "torso"
Smaller eyes, triangular face, no pronounced brows
Long "hair"

Without watching it move, or hearing it, these are your standard go-to ideas. Because sex concepts are a little more hard-wired than soft. Certain things trigger them through association, and certain things trigger them Just Because.

No idea what that has to do with this. But it made some sense at the time.


Ugh, this is going to sound sexist no matter how I write it... Try smoother curves and a less phallic weapon.

Edit: See the "female" robots from WALL-E for reference.

This wouldn't work so well. Although I can't help but think, look to Metroid. They pulled off feminine alien stuff.


@SiuiS: *My reaction was actually impassive to that, as I had failed to set that thread on fire earlier. *As a result, I was as bad a the heresies I punished and was forced to turn in my official Fluttermancer Flamethrower.

Oh, well. No fun. Now who's going to defrost the thread?



*Sigh*
I actually really like to RP, but I feel nervous about joining something already established, the same about starting something new, so I'm forced into my one fall-back which is to RP against myself. *How did you even escape anyway? *My one excuse for this is that I came up with it first.

I see.
That reminds me! Have you been able to find a ship, yet? :smallbiggrin:


There's a joke here something like the Pony thread is an old girlfriend who I keep coming back to. I'm not going to make it, but there it is.

Fine, I'll stop. Way to put me in the awkward limelight :smalltongue:


From all the ranges we go to, from debating, to NSFW pony blogs, everything and everywhere it's been.....All through a common link of liking ponies.

Thank you all, and good night.

Eyup. Quite the range, we have. Never a dull moment!
Unless you hit that lull where nopony says anything for what seems like hours... But I guess that's worrying, not dull XD


I warned you about them ponies, dog.

YOUR WARNING
SHE DID NOTHING



You could always have the gun barrels hidden under a protective dome, only the tip sticking out. It keeps those pesky, super strong enemies from bending the barrel. :smallbiggrin:

what, seriously? Come on mate. We can do better than "add high caliber boobies" although now I want a tank which fires birds.



No comment on the contents possibly being gravy? :smalltongue:

Ew.



I agree with you on the cheese, but most beer tastes terrible anyways, so making it taste bacony might be an improvement.

Making beer taste at least 20% better doesn't count?


Percentages can be deceiving. 20% of 5 is 1, and 20% of 500 is 100.

I do not think it is a worthwhile trade to take a food a like, and soak it in a drink I don't. It can't make the drink taste good enough to drink (and seriously mate, bacon doesn't make everything better... There are hard, physical limits) and it makes the food too gross to eat as well. It's a net loss, because both items remain below my palatability standards.



I think it was more the fact that choosing to act differently can make it so those actions become genuine. Basically the actual scientific explanation for "going native" I guess?


I know. It just hit a button that final time for me to snap. Nothing personal :smallwink:


Are you saying you like seeing ponies cry?

Are you implying an emotional and conditional judgement will be made off a reference to prior experience spoken tongue-in-cheek and then taken out of context?

:smalltongue:

Yes, I like seeing crying ponies. I enjoy my full range of emotions, including being sad. Which allows me to indulge in media which evokes these emotions.



But yeah, I know how you feel. Every post I make, I get a "I bet I just crammed my foot so far in my mouth I can kick myself" feel. :smalltongue:

Not me! Not until far, far too late :smalleek:


I think it's a matter of going with the good and ignoring what doesn't appeal to you.

I concur.


The cupcakes thing was a reference to the cupcakes story. :smallbiggrin:

Aye, I know. Can't recall why I made the joke I did, actually.


Any taxpayers present will probably be pleased to hear that I wasn't actually on unemployment though. I just lived off my savings. Which was probably a bad idea, but oh well.

Small quibble, if I may; the money you get from UI is the money you've been forced to put into it (actually, that your employer has been forced to put into it). Doesn't cost tax pagers a cent. Except the money used to "run the program", which would still be given to gov't employees in any case.


Well, are you really surprised? My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic isn't that special. People will do whatever they want with whatever they want, and they'll show it to everyone else. It's like that for pokemon and kirby and sesame street and dora the freakin' explora.

I suppose I'm ok with this due to me being a christian, and coming into the fandom with the basic belief that humanity is basically screwed up. But still, I don't think there's any reason to think deep, dark thoughts about it.*

Of course, you can if you want to, which you might, and.....

Oh crap, I haven't offended you, have I? Sorry, sorry. I think your pretty cool, if that means anything.

Hm. I want to address this, start a dialogue maybe, without brushing up against forum rules. But common sense says if I'm worried about it, don't do it.

I shall have to ponder this for a spell.


At the risk of sounding pedantic, I'd like to chime in on the "cupcakes vs. muffins" issue.

Muffins and cupcakes are different. There's a fuzzy wuzzy line between them, to be sure, and suffice to say that there are things that could fall into either category. However, to characterize cupcakes as frosted muffins, or muffins as unfrosted cupcakes, is to disservice to both baked goods.

Muffins are denser and more breadlike. Cupcakes are lighter and more cakelike. They're cooked at different temperatures, have different degrees of flour used in them, and are generally different in texture.

I recall an interesting experiment conducted in which similar muffin and cupcake recipes were used to bake a batch of both. They were then given to testers, unlabeled, and the testers were then asked to decide which was a muffin and which was a cupcake.

In one group, both the muffins and the cupcakes were frosted and while the testers were able to determine a difference between the two baked goods, they were unable to determine which was a muffin and which was a cupcake.

In another, both muffins and cupcakes were unfrosted and the testers were able to tell right away which was a muffin and which a cupcake. The difference in textures gave it away right away.

Exactly! *brohoof*


Oh, I know there are, I like Guinness alright, but I live in America, so 95% of all available beers are crud. I don't really drink though.

aye, americans measure beer by price, not taste. It's a sad thing. I also suspect that I just dislike some of the prime ingredients and will thus never actually be able to enjoy a beer.

But! Dropped a quote, I'll ask anyway. Which beer did you say was so good? The one with a bit of sweetness?


Random thought brought on by that comic: when/why did the fandom decide that filly Celestia's hair was just plain pink instead of the four-color version she has now? Seems a strange thing to do, but it's very consistent across fan art from what I've seen.

Zevox

In the opening of episode 1, celestial and Luna are shown as exactly the same, only with different colors. Celestial has pink hair.

There are all sorts of hypotheses one could come up with, but the consensus is Celestial had pink hair until she used the Elements on Nightmare Moon.


SideNote: *Am I the only one who does not like Cruller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruller)shy Cruelershy? *On the one hand, this may be the same as with Twilight Sparkle, where a lot of others like her but aren't very vocal about it. *On the other hand, I'm only hearing about how people liked her meaner version. *Yes, it was certainly fitting for discorded Fluttershy, but the reason I liked it in the episode is the same reason I dislike the personality.

SideSideNote: *I'll keep using the cruller pun until I see a Cruelershy image with her hair done up like crullers. *It will happen someday!

Aye, I am rather sad at the propagation thereof. Mean Fluttershy is worst Fluttershy.


Thanks for the concern. To say things have been a bit stressful is a bit of an understatement. :\ *And in five weeks, the fun *really* starts. :smallsmile:


That's a good point! I keep forgetting what you've gotten yourself into :smalltongue:



As you are obviously well aware. But cross-species transmission is entirely plausible - the recent N1H1 swine flu outbreak virus was traced backwards from humans -> pigs -> birds -> pigs -> humans.*

I guess that it's possible that Equestria is operating on Cartoon Virology, as much as it appears to be operating on Cartoon Physics.

Truly? I thought "swine flu" was as accurate as "cold".
Though an animal can be a transmitter without itself getting sick, so I guess I'll have to investigate.



Am I that predictable? :smallsmile:
Anyway, thanks!


I actually jut figured, coming into it as late as I did, somepony else would have already asked you :smallbiggrin:
That you volunteered the name just cuts out the middle man.


Well, I'm not a fan of the pornographic and sexualised side of it. They're freaking ponies, you know? :smalltongue: But the thing is, you get it with almost every cartoon that has a strong fanbase, so it really doesn't surprise me. For me, it was more of a "Oh, for **** sake, this one too? Can I enjoy one cartoon without thinking about this stuff?" I want to watch this show and feel like a kid again for 20 minutes.

You can still enjoy it without thinking about it. I do all the time! Just don't let it get to you, mate.



Yes.
*strokes your cheek*


Oh! Um...

Hm.

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting an affirmative. Or any real response at all, really. I was just trying to set up a Zoidberg impression. Uh...

I'm flattered and all, but my girlfriend is like, Right. There. so...

Man, this is awkward. XD



I thought my hands were turning into hooves.
I've lost track of this conversation now. http://i.imgur.com/2c0gc.jpg
Who do you think I am? Hendrix Hooves? http://i.imgur.com/EAqtS.jpg


EXACTLY!


You want a pic of me... not playing a cello? http://i.imgur.com/4sZHM.jpg


Rass'n frass'n making me check my work...
Yes. I want conclusive photographic proof that shows that playing a cello with hooves is not possible.



Errr... I can do a butterfly not! http://i.imgur.com/EvxT1.jpg


Neat! But... I think you may have more fun over there, with the kaiser falcon and his knife wielding friends.


So what kind of fic would have the title "In-laws and Outlaws"?

Ol' south family feud story.
Alternately, cop pony is going to meet the folks of his fiancé pony and finds out grandpa has been eluding the law comically for years.


Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, since when I think of horns, I think of a Rhino's horns, which is more or less a giant fingernail growing off of its face. Unless, there's probably some nerves going through the middle of it, which would make breaking your horn off a VERY painful experience.

I always associated it with magic resonance. Though being a direct phallus is kinda tacky, methinks.


*sneezes on amish**

I'm helping http://i.imgur.com/LxdwA.jpg

eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww


No no, she's fine! She's in a stone dungeon, so she has plenty of air, and I even left her some food and water!

Well, apples and apple juice, but it's the same thing, right?

OH GODS I JUST GOT THIS
You left her with apple products, she probably started starving faster.


I have a harem forum. Who needs parties?

Hmm. Fair, I suppose.



Indeed. :smallmad:


Are you... Upset that I wrote something you like? XD


It's not the best option, but it's not terribad

Aye. Nowadays, it's not so bad. In my youth, all I could see was rotting flesh, and I had to think "gracious, even vampirism is better than that."



As punishment, have some candy and a videogame! MWAHAHA!


Nooooooo now I'll lose my teeth and never get a good education D:



Why are you disqualified?


Because he said humans don't have said feelings. I can't point to myself as an example human with said feelings, when I can't point to myself as an example human :P


It's really not. Both Kismesis and Auspistices are based on hatred, and I try to avoid that. Even my kismesis is only a joke.

I suppose I'm thinking of one of the others, then. I'm rather new at this homestuck thing.



You're looking at this from the wrong angle.

Enough Luna's that all of the theories and all of the ships are simultaneously true.
http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

Hm...

http://i.imgur.com/jaolo.jpg



Spontaneous RP
So, you think a bunker is enough to hide you away safely, hmmm? Surely you know NOTHING is a proof against ponies.


QUICK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO ESCAPE
HIRE A SHIP AND SET SAIL WITH ME
WE MAY BE ABLE TO CONVINCE HER NOT TO FOLLOW THOUGH I WOULDN'T HOLD MY BREATH



Dragonborn are justified, actually, cause they're basically just recolored from their original mammalian bodies.
In 3.5e, anyway.

I wasn't going to say it, but yeah. You can't get mad at dragonborn for having breasts when they are functionally humanoids with a holy skin condition.


But Lix,*

...*

... Lix, I thought you were all about sharing...*

I didn't have you pegged for the jealous type...

!!!!

Playing a dangerous game, Commodore. Good speed.


Hmm, speaking of said threesome...

*I've been wondering ever since Reaching Midnight what exactly Luna's relationship with Twilight and Trixie is now. They obviously accept her as Midnight's third mother but I wonder how they feel about her themselves. Was that night they spent together a just this once and never again thing or are they still more than just friends? I got the implication that it was just that once but I'm not sure so I wanted to clear it up.

Dang I'm trying to ask this without sounding weird or too interested in the love lives of fictional ponies (although being interested in the love lives of real ponies would likely be worse) but I really am curious. I like the Out in the Cold continuity and I like to learn more about it.

Don't feel weird about it. It's a valid consideration; hypothetical couple has child with third party; how do they themselves bond?

I'm interested in hearing theories.


I can't believe that I haven't even posted in this thread yet!


... Really?

[Kindablue]

A comic adaption of The Story of the Blanks (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573755):
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/277/8/5/sotb_pg1_by_template93-d4btowf.jpg

It's not done, but the rest of the beginning is here (http://template93.deviantart.com/gallery/).

[Nameless]

Rass'n frass'n making me check my work...
Yes. I want conclusive photographic proof that shows that playing a cello with hooves is not possible.


http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7690/fluttershydealwithit.png





Oh! Um...

Hm.

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting an affirmative. Or any real response at all, really. I was just trying to set up a Zoidberg impression. Uh...

I'm flattered and all, but my girlfriend is like, Right. There. so...

Man, this is awkward. XD


http://arch.413chan.net/fluttershy-is-sad-(n1299009571160).png

[Kindablue]

Tell him you're not a vegetarian.

[Mando Knight]

Feminie designs would nominally include;
Sharp acute triangles

Actually, soft curves are more effeminate than angles. I'd only characterize angles as feminine if they were used to form other, more feminine shapes. There is a stylistic balance between curves and angles that yields maximum femininity, though.

[Beeskee]

I still think making the gun look like something other than a you-know-what would help.


Edit:

A comic adaption of The Story of the Blanks (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573755)

Oh wow that was creepy. O.o;


I found a crank and a key at two different points, though I have no idea if they were actually used in-game. It could be that I found them before I found the object they were used on and so it never came up.



Another edit so I don't spam too much:


Hhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's Baaaaaaaaaack!

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/4/6/one_last_trick_part_1_by_mixermike622-d4c2fsw.png (http://mixermike622.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4c2fsw)

[Lix Lorn]

Spontaneous RP:
Well, now I'm glad that you took my corporal form again. Forgot this! I'm coming on the airship trip! *Activates hidden rockets in the bunker* Ah-ha! It can now FLY! ....She's still on-board. I can work something out! *Activates maximum security mode* Think about it! Not even the lich can beat her, and his stuff makes even your best look like rocks! You're not safe either! I don't have a physical form anymore! Do you think that would stop her? .......

Run!
We could try and negotiate by Rescuing, and offering Berry-Ann. Make it quick! Let's get to wherever the heck that wizard pony is!
RP
(chases)
You can't escaaaaape! (snuggleglomps)


Hmm. Fair, I suppose.
I thought so.



Are you... Upset that I wrote something you like? XD
Yes. :smallmad: No. xD


Aye. Nowadays, it's not so bad. In my youth, all I could see was rotting flesh, and I had to think "gracious, even vampirism is better than that."
Ick. Use magic to skip to the skeleton stage.


Nooooooo now I'll lose my teeth and never get a good education D:
You're a pony, sugar is good for you. And you're a pony, who needs an education?


Because he said humans don't have said feelings. I can't point to myself as an example human with said feelings, when I can't point to myself as an example human :P
Aaahhhh.


I suppose I'm thinking of one of the others, then. I'm rather new at this homestuck thing.
Reproductive Romances
Matesprit: Red Romance. Equivalent to human love.
Kismesis: Black Romance. PURE UNADULTERATED HATELOVE.
'Platonic' Romances
Moirail: The Pale Quadrant. Similar to a soulmate, but platonic.
Auspistice: The Ashen Quadrant. An Auspistice negotiates between two people who hate each other to stop them devolving into kismesissitude. Without Auspistices, there would be widespread black infidelity.


QUICK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO ESCAPE
HIRE A SHIP AND SET SAIL WITH ME
WE MAY BE ABLE TO CONVINCE HER NOT TO FOLLOW THOUGH I WOULDN'T HOLD MY BREATH
Trust the white text. It is wise. xD

[Thanqol]

"If you insist ma'am, however you shouldn't worry about this instability. I'm told I'm a well grounded individual, you might say it's my special talent!" He replied, with a little chuckle.

"Your special talent is lightning resistance?" Charger asked. Well, that'd be convenient if nothing else. Awfully specific, though.


Can't get enough ships? How about 4851 of them, in one graph?

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/0/b/4851_ships_by_adcoon-d4c2yb7.png

Go here for the full 4600x4600px graph. (http://adcoon.deviantart.com/art/4851-Ships-262157875)

I don't know what motivated me to make this graph. Sooo many possibilities, though.

All right, I'm prepared to call that 'enough' ships.


Figures that my inspiration for ponymance comes way after Midnight's Guide to Dating.

Anyways, I'm trying to think up clever puns to name a pony couple so that their initials spell out PB & J without resorting to the obvious but still related to it. I like to think that ponies think that clever wordplay of names is a sign that their destinies are entwined.

Adorable. Canon'd.

Which is why Rainbow Dash ships with everything. I mean, AppleDash, FlutterDash, RariDash, RockyDash, it just all sounds good.

[otakuryoga]

OK folks...i need a fact check on pony Canon.....

Has Fluttershy ever addressed Twilight as "Twi"?
i am pretty sure Dash and AJ have but has Fluttershy ever been so informal?






Aye, I am rather sad at the propagation thereof. Mean Fluttershy is worst Fluttershy.




awww, she is fun in small doses...especially since even DisQorded the worst she could manage was what?

play "Keep Away" with the book and trample Twilights flowers?

but normal Fluttershy is much better.

[OracleofWuffing]

Actually, soft curves are more effeminate than angles. I'd only characterize angles as feminine if they were used to form other, more feminine shapes. There is a stylistic balance between curves and angles that yields maximum femininity, though.
So, um, tangent story time!

Back in third or fourth grade, I remember having one of my teachers demonstrate that triangles were used to reflect "graceful womanly" bodies, while squares and circles were more representative of "solid man" bodies and gave us an art assignment to draw one of each kind of body. I didn't really understand why at the time, and really, it just felt like a forced explanation to me because you can make a square out of two triangles. So, uh, yeah, I ended up drawing a football player and a cheerleader, and basically lost points on that for using angles on the legs of the football player, and circles for the pom-poms.

So anyway, here I am today, with a BA in Art Theory, and to be frank, that whole concept of masculine versus feminine shapes never appeared in any of my upper classes! :smallbiggrin:

I mean, outside of what was needed for class, I can understand how, for example, your typical cartoon/comic/caricature of a girl uses two triangles a la an hourglass shape (Jane and Judy Jetson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetsons.jpg) came to mind immediately), but I still also can't help but go out of my way to see triangles in manly men, too!

...

Er.

I mean.

PONIES.

[Topaz]

I'd appreciate it if someponies checked the colors on these two and let me know which one you prefer. I have zero artistic skills, and have to check a color wheel just to know what matches.
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4692/beeskeeponybeeskeealtco.png
I prefer this one.

They both look like they came out too "blue" and not enough "slate" to me, so if anyone is particularly inspired and wants to try flood-filling them with better colors, go for it. It doesn't have to have a blue theme to it either, I just liked the way SlateBlue looks as a text color. I think on the pony though it makes it look like he's a Wonderbolt wannabe. :smallyuk:
One of the color sites I used when designing Topaz gives Slate Blue as #737CA1 and the complimentary color as #a19772. Redone in those colors bottom pony comes out like this:
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg62/HybridFeline/slatepony-1.png


So what kind of fic would have the title "In-laws and Outlaws"?
Apploosa was the first thing I though of as well.


[RP]Blue Ponies Yay!

Well, I'm not quite a city pony since I actually grew up in some of the suburbs near Fillydelphia. The time that I lived in Cloudsdale was actually the only time I've actually lived in a city. To be honest, I've never actually enjoyed the cities; it's always so busy there, and I'm not a very social pony, normally.
Ah. I should visit Fillydelphia; my sister Green Eyes lives near there and says it's nice.

It's funny, but when I was younger I wasn't very social. Then I finally realized that what I liked to do was help other ponies, and the more ponies, the more that need help, right? So I kind of went from being a suburban pony to an urban one.


Anyways, I'm trying to think up clever puns to name a pony couple so that their initials spell out PB & J without resorting to the obvious but still related to it. I like to think that ponies think that clever wordplay of names is a sign that their destinies are entwined.
I came up with Pear Blossom and Jewel, close but not quite the same as Diego Havoc's idea.


what, seriously? Come on mate. We can do better than "add high caliber boobies" although now I want a tank which fires birds.
Angry Birds?


QUICK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO ESCAPE
HIRE A SHIP AND SET SAIL WITH ME
WE MAY BE ABLE TO CONVINCE HER NOT TO FOLLOW THOUGH I WOULDN'T HOLD MY BREATH
A gathering of Ponies appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said
They said, "Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me..."

[Aotrs Commander]

See, here's your trouble.
You can't crusade against humanocetricism and evoke thoughts in humanocentric minds at the same time. They are, in the short-term, mutually exclusive goals.

I can totally try!

I break the laws of physics just by existing, I'm not going to be admit defeat to perception laws without at least a spirited attempt to break 'em!


Feminie designs would nominally include;
Smaller eyes, triangular face, no pronounced brows


Y'see, now I was going on bigger eyes (for the same reason as the ponies (in fact, I was trying with their angry eye shape, too, but that didn't work. *shrug* Gotta try... You've got to be a bit exaggerated on models to see the detail. One of the great ironies is that the skeletons I use as a close approximation of the Aotrs on the table top actually look more alive (because of the red glow in the eye sockets being more exaggeraed) than the living armies..!))


So, um, tangent story time!

Back in third or fourth grade, I remember having one of my teachers demonstrate that triangles were used to reflect "graceful womanly" bodies, while squares and circles were more representative of "solid man" bodies and gave us an art assignment to draw one of each kind of body. I didn't really understand why at the time, and really, it just felt like a forced explanation to me because you can make a square out of two triangles. So, uh, yeah, I ended up drawing a football player and a cheerleader, and basically lost points on that for using angles on the legs of the football player, and circles for the pom-poms.

So anyway, here I am today, with a BA in Art Theory, and to be frank, that whole concept of masculine versus feminine shapes never appeared in any of my upper classes! :smallbiggrin:

I mean, outside of what was needed for class, I can understand how, for example, your typical cartoon/comic/caricature of a girl uses two triangles a la an hourglass shape (Jane and Judy Jetson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetsons.jpg) came to mind immediately), but I still also can't help but go out of my way to see triangles in manly men, too!

...

Er.

I mean.

PONIES.

So, then, as you seem to have more of a clue than me, have you got any suggestions that I could try?

[RdMarquis]

I have to say, I'm pretty much with the lich on this one. I don't care what anypony else gets up to, as long as it's not hurting anypony else, and I expect the same courtesy.

Agreed. I really don't think it's right to judge another because of what they do for fun.


The cutest ever battle for Equestria:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/5b8250a80ba254227a39eade316a324c/67926 - Discord Elements_of_Harmony applejack artist%3Aphantomdarklover blob chubby_ponies diabetes fat fluttershy mane_six pinkie_pie rainbow_dash rarity twilight_sparkle.png

My gosh, is that ever cute. :smalleek:

If they ever make a shooter based on MLP, I know what Twilight's weapon of choice (and ammo) would be.
http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/68095

[Kris Strife]

By which I mean I have parties there. Adult parties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcF1M-SmYHY&feature=related

Yeah, but adult parties exclude some ponies, and just some ponies cup of tea.


I like this idea. I like it possibly to much.

Nonsense! :smalltongue:Honestly, I'm just delighted something I came up with on the fly is something people like!


what, seriously? Come on mate. We can do better than "add high caliber boobies" although now I want a tank which fires birds.

Well, I got you to say High Caliber Boobies, so that's good enough for me. :smalltongue:

Though I thought they were laser guns, do lasers actually have calibers? :smallconfused:


I do not think it is a worthwhile trade to take a food a like, and soak it in a drink I don't. It can't make the drink taste good enough to drink (and seriously mate, bacon doesn't make everything better... There are hard, physical limits) and it makes the food too gross to eat as well. It's a net loss, because both items remain below my palatability standards.

Yeah, but have you ever actually TRIED making beer bacon flavored? I mean, you wouldn't expect beer and fish to be a good mix, but beer battered fish and chips are amazing. :smalltongue:


I know. It just hit a button that final time for me to snap. Nothing personal :smallwink:

It's alright, just giving my thoughts on the matter. It's the point of the assignment. :smallwink:


Are you implying an emotional and conditional judgement will be made off a reference to prior experience spoken tongue-in-cheek and then taken out of context?

:smalltongue:

Yes, I like seeing crying ponies. I enjoy my full range of emotions, including being sad. Which allows me to indulge in media which evokes these emotions.

Were the sad ponies even being aimed at you? :smallconfused:

I honestly can't remember.


Not me! Not until far, far too late :smalleek:

Well, with me it's made 85452284572^283482 times worse when there isn't another post for ten minutes after mine... I've been the last to post in more than a few threads, which made me view myself as a thread killer. :smallfrown:

[SiuiS]

[FFRP] FINDING BERRY ANN

A green-garbed cream pony, mane of dark viridian, walks simultaneously into Bridle Shores, Ponyville, Ponythread and Pony noir. Finding a tavern, in, bar, public bulletin board, or pole of appropriate stoutness, this pony unrolls a suitably tattered, cartoon scroll, and hammers it onto the wall before fleeing (to avoid hassles about noise pollution and property damage).

Wall Scroll

ATTENTION EVERYPONY

Mysterious Wizard, Oneiric Captain & Archivist Extraordinaire
STARRY NOTIONS

Seeks a crew of ponies or other to sail the sea of dreams to find HRM Dream Submarines, to follow and interrogate in interests of rescuing a princess from fate most cruel

Applicants are expected to help sail the ship, stave off attack, avoid mutiny and keep ship in good repair.

BENEFITS include an equal share of treasure, food, lodging and board games on Wednesdays. Travel expenses as required, funerary expenses, dramatic monologues, resurrections or off-screen time for healing as appropriate to genre of applicant.

Applicants please see the attendant outside the dock you will mysteriously find yourself next to after setting out.

Bring your own hooch.



Beeskee: Beeskee nods, and trots off toward the shops. He returns shortly afterward, wearing two large saddlebags that look to be stuffed full of supplies. He also has what looks like a hundred balloons tied to himself, and with each step he floats for several seconds before coming back down to the ground. "All set!"

On the trot back, Starry grins fondly at the sight of the hopping pony.


Dreamscape? Do you need a navigator?.

Why, certainly! That was fast. Hm.
You're hired, provided you can stand here waiting for a ship to show up at this dock we are mysteriously standing next to, and screen the other applicants.

...

Dot I know you? Oh well time is a funny thing, really.



Beeskee: "I would say yes, but I don't even know what that is." He sorts through his bags, double-checking over the supplies.

Ah, good to see we already have a crew going. Hm. Where is that Shadowy with the ship? If he spent all of those bits on a kerosene lantern and some Fluttershy autographs again...




zomg he has ponies in there? What is this I don't even

I'd appreciate it if someponies checked the colors on these two and let me know which one you prefer. I have zero artistic skills, and have to check a color wheel just to know what matches.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2137/beeskeeponybeeskee.png

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4692/beeskeeponybeeskeealtco.png

They both look like they came out too "blue" and not enough "slate" to me, so if anyone is particularly inspired and wants to try flood-filling them with better colors, go for it. It doesn't have to have a blue theme to it either, I just liked the way SlateBlue looks as a text color. I think on the pony though it makes it look like he's a Wonderbolt wannabe. :smallyuk:*



The second one is neater. Try for a more greyish castthough; I'll see what I can come up with myself. Been quite busy.

[Roninhirox]

Oh just to let all you ponies know for the next like two weeks I am going to be hyper busy and prolly not posting or even just lurking anywhere near as much as I have been. I start a new job (yay) and have midterms and class projects due (boo) and get to go to NY Comic Con (yay) but its all going to deplete my free time in a way that I am not entirely used to. So do not be alarmed if my 1 to 2 posts a day decreases to 1 post every few days or even just once a week I am still here in spirit or at least cause i forgot to close my browser. You may now return to your irregularly scheduled posts.

[Kindablue]

Spoilered for size:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/8/1/mlp__tron__by_asieybarbie-d4c2mr0.jpg (http://asieybarbie.deviantart.com/art/MLP-Tron-262142892)


So what kind of fic would have the title "In-laws and Outlaws"?

A little of the old in-outlaws?

...

Uh, I mean. I didn't say anything.

[Aotrs Commander]

Right, I've got to shut the iron idiot down before I go meditate, so I'll be offline for a while...I'm hoping, all being well, I'll be able to get back on tomorrow afternoon evening (maybe, it'll be a right kicked if I have to spend all weekend off the computer, since pretty much all my stuff is computer based nowadays - an I can't get to my PS2 either...!) but if I'm ominously quiet for a bit, that'll be the reason.

Either that or I'll have planned some horrible scheme of terrible revenge that will come to fruition when you least expect it!

Muahahaha!

No, it's the first one.

[Topaz]

This just in! Coup d'état at Equestria Daily!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpFxuaomCUs/To93aEuaZbI/AAAAAAAANbE/4YAGSBQaFuw/s1600/FBILk.png
More on this story as it develops... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3623/applejackliar.png

[the_druid_droid]

Possibly dropped quotes? Dunno. Apologies if I should have responded to something else (particularly RP)...


So, um, I don't know if any of you guys listen to Super Ponybeat, but I made a quartet of covers for it, sent it to Eurobeat Brony, and lo and behold all four of them showed up on his latest songvideo. I am inordinately pleased.

Awesomesauce!

You rock. Woohoo.


RP:

The machine let out a crackle, sending another slight electrical shock through Charger. She shook her head to clear the tingling feeling from her brain. "No, thank you. It's rather unstable right now, you see, and if anypony has to carry it, it should be I."



"If you insist ma'am, however you shouldn't worry about this instability. I'm told I'm a well grounded individual, you might say it's my special talent!" He replied, with a little chuckle.


"Your special talent is lightning resistance?" Charger asked. Well, that'd be convenient if nothing else. Awfully specific, though.


RP:
"Hands? Oh, well they're...like hooves, I think...Dad came up with the name though, and he was always a little crazy."

Seeing the machine give Charger a jolt, Sek was about to offer assistance, when Iggy stepped forward to volunteer. Well, who am I to get in the way of somepony's special talent?

Finished with repairs, the clockwork pony stood up experimentally, stretching his legs, and the pair of wings bolted to his back. "Alright! To Canterlot we go then!"


So what kind of fic would have the title "In-laws and Outlaws"?

Definitely a Wild West romance kind of thing. Which sounds pretty cool, actually...


Can't get enough ships? How about 4851 of them, in one graph?

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/0/b/4851_ships_by_adcoon-d4c2yb7.png

Go here for the full 4600x4600px graph. (http://adcoon.deviantart.com/art/4851-Ships-262157875)

I don't know what motivated me to make this graph. Sooo many possibilities, though.

It's like Mandlebrot sets and ponies had an adorably mathy baby.


Yay. I share a name with a rock.

You aren't alone <.< >.>


I am for black romance. :smalltongue:

This seems like the only tack possible for blackrom, really.


Pinkamena learned Hyper Beam!

Oh god we're all dead now!

[Beeskee]

The cutest ever battle for Equestria:

Marshmallow ponies FTW.



One of the color sites I used when designing Topaz gives Slate Blue as #737CA1 and the complimentary color as #a19772. Redone in those colors bottom pony comes out like this:
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg62/HybridFeline/slatepony-1.png



Your color scheme is much better. That said, I'm not married to the blue/brown scheme. It was just an idea, but I'm not very artistic. So if anypony has any suggestions, I'm open to them.

Hrm. I should just show up all-white with some paint and let ponies paint me. :smallbiggrin:



[FFRP] FINDING BERRY ANN

A green-garbed cream pony, mane of dark viridian, walks simultaneously into Bridle Shores, Ponyville, Ponythread and Pony noir. Finding a tavern, in, bar, public bulletin board, or pole of appropriate stoutness, this pony unrolls a suitably tattered, cartoon scroll, and hammers it onto the wall before fleeing (to avoid hassles about noise pollution and property damage).

On the trot back, Starry grins fondly at the sight of the hopping pony.

Ah, good to see we already have a crew going. Hm. Where is that Shadowy with the ship? If he spent all of those bits on a kerosene lantern and some Fluttershy autographs again...

The second one is neater. Try for a more greyish castthough; I'll see what I can come up with myself. Been quite busy.


FFRP: Finding Berry Ann (What does FFRP stand for? Free Forum RP?)

Beeskee: Beeskee smiles at the sight of a group of ponies already forming. "I have a cart with more supplies on the way. It's just hard for me to get good traction like this." He demonstrates, pushing forward as if to give a tug on an imaginary cart, but the motion sends him floating up into the air for a few seconds instead. The earth pony does an epic leg wiggle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8Ik7fzMc) while waiting for his hooves to touch the ground again.



I appreciate it. I realize you're busy. If you have an idea for an entirely new color scheme, I'm open to that too.

[Lix Lorn]

This seems like the only tack possible for blackrom, really.
MY most hated loverival! :smallfurious:
:smallbiggrin:

[otakuryoga]

This just in! Coup d'état at Equestria Daily!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpFxuaomCUs/To93aEuaZbI/AAAAAAAANbE/4YAGSBQaFuw/s1600/FBILk.png
More on this story as it develops... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3623/applejackliar.png

is this why i havent been able to view EQD for the past 6 hours?

[Mando Knight]

(What does FFRP stand for? Free Forum RP?)

Free Form.

[Shadowy]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann/Spontaneous RP:
I've got the Ship, provided my own even, I've just encountered a slight.....problem. Which is why I had the spend all of the bits, on the one thing that might prove useful against the current intruder!

*Activates emergency teleporter*
Shipping god! Come and get me if you dare! For I know your weakness! I've have a room of your kryptonite!

Celibate. Charter. Accountants.
That's a bit harsh, even for you. I have a quest to partake!

[Lix Lorn]

RP
...why are they celibate? If it's moral reasons I'll disapprove but just chase you instead.

[tonberrian]

MY most hated loverival! :smallfurious:
:smallbiggrin:

Now aside from ticking off our resident space lich without repercussion, is there any other ways I can take advantage of this?

[Eakin]

Oh just to let all you ponies know for the next like two weeks I am going to be hyper busy and prolly not posting or even just lurking anywhere near as much as I have been. I start a new job (yay) and have midterms and class projects due (boo) and get to go to NY Comic Con (yay) but its all going to deplete my free time in a way that I am not entirely used to. So do not be alarmed if my 1 to 2 posts a day decreases to 1 post every few days or even just once a week I am still here in spirit or at least cause i forgot to close my browser. You may now return to your irregularly scheduled posts.

Good luck at the new job, and have a blast at Comic Con! I wish I could go but I have to work next weekend...

[Kris Strife]

Now aside from ticking off our resident space lich without repercussion, is there any other ways I can take advantage of this?

You need another perk? :smalltongue:

[Shadowy]

RP
...why are they celibate? If it's moral reasons I'll disapprove but just chase you instead.

RP:
To be honest, they were just the first ones to come up when I searched for "Ship-proof people willing to work in top-secret underground bunker being raided by vengeful god." To be honest, they were the only result. But they've managed to work through around 30% of the filing already!

[tonberrian]

You need another perk? :smalltongue:

I am nothing if not looking to scrounge every perk I can from every situation.

I mean, aside from ironic hipstertudening.

[the_druid_droid]

MY most hated loverival! :smallfurious:
:smallbiggrin:

:smallbiggrin:


Also, I remembered I was going to reply to SiuiS about beers! (Spoilered for non-pony):


Belgian beers (in particular abbey ales and lambics) are typically slightly sweet or lightly fruity. In terms of color, they tend to run from pale gold through amber and on toward brown; they also tend to have a high ABV for beers, but they’re made to be savored rather than chugged anyway.

Another option you might try is porters (or stouts). Most have flavors of coffee or toffee, and they tend to be milder and have less bitterness than lighter or hoppier beers; incidentally some of my favorite beers are porters and stouts, and many smaller breweries have excellent recipes for this family of beer.

If you’re looking for a company to try, give New Holland a shot. They’re small enough to have some good recipes without sacrificing flavor for mass production, but they’re large enough that you should be able to find some of their product most places in the US if you look hard enough.


Also, have some (related) pony:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/f363d6773a3d2276cc74760504c3b95b/65720%20-%20alcohol%20berry_punch%20organic%20poster.png
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/9a753f79f09b77e230449766e43cc601/63000%20-%20artist%3Ajohn_joseco%20berry_punch%20morning_po nies.png
(Also, I just like Berry Punch)

[Trixie]

@AotRS: Regrading feminine shapes, maybe try to model 'hair' similar to this cover (http://www.kingscomix.com/images/thumbnail.php?src=products/m/0/319m.jpg) of old CP2020 supplement? It was the most feminine robot art I remember?

...


RP:
To be honest, they were just the first ones to come up when I searched for "Ship-proof people willing to work in top-secret underground bunker being raided by vengeful god." To be honest, they were the only result. But they've managed to work through around 30% of the filing already!

RP:
*Appears behind Shadowy* That's the best you can think of? How about hiring the... copies of the only pony our so-called goddess never dared to ship successfully, or at all, even? And I have absolutely no ulterior motives here, dear, not at all!

...

*Shakes head and raises hoof in scenic gesture* Really, I have no idea what you ponies would have done without me~! *throws smoke bomb and exits leaving contract in blanco on the floor* http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

[Shadowy]

RP:
*Appears behind Shadowy* That's the best you can think of? How about hiring the... copies of the only pony our so-called goddess never dared to ship successfully, or at all, even? And I have absolutely no ulterior motives here, dear, not at all!

...

*Shakes head and raises hoof in scenic gesture* Really, I have no idea what you ponies would have done without me~! *throws smoke bomb and exits leaving contract in blanco on the floor* http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.jpg

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann
That security system was a complete waste of time wasn't it?
To shamelessly steal a line, Eeyup.

[Topaz]

Hrm. I should just show up all-white with some paint and let ponies paint me. :smallbiggrin:
Paging Inkwell, Inkwell please see the white courtesy pony.


FFRP: Finding Berry Ann (What does FFRP stand for? Free Forum RP?)
Beeskee: Beeskee smiles at the sight of a group of ponies already forming. "I have a cart with more supplies on the way. It's just hard for me to get good traction like this." He demonstrates, pushing forward as if to give a tug on an imaginary cart, but the motion sends him floating up into the air for a few seconds instead. The earth pony does an epic leg wiggle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8Ik7fzMc) while waiting for his hooves to touch the ground again.
Oh! My, but you're... buoyant. Are your saddlebags full of balloons? She looks out past the pier and waves a hoof. I think that might be the ship we're supposed to be taking, but I'm not sure.

is this why i havent been able to view EQD for the past 6 hours?
It's been working for me. Maybe try clearing your browser cache?

[the_druid_droid]

Random images, Lyra edition:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aMymHflAZVw/To93ZqcEBbI/AAAAAAAANbA/WlBpHQU_MfE/s1600/dance_like_nopony__s_watching_by_egophiliac-d47axhg.png
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nQXQLGa1-mQ/To93baiiw7I/AAAAAAAANbI/Tmo9D7Svfuo/s1600/good_morning_sea_pony_lyra_by_johnjoseco-d4c39ml.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JJ0qBba1vo4/To93eVeT-jI/AAAAAAAANbU/qZLA4PWENMs/s1600/lyra_best_werewolf_by_pinkpolkadotteddino-d4c3usl.jpg

[Beeskee]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann



FFRP: Finding Berry Ann/Spontaneous RP:
I've got the Ship, provided my own even.

Beeskee: "Thank you for providing the ship for the mission." The rest of what Shadowy says goes over his head. He never even considered how valuable an accountant might be on this trip!



Paging Inkwell, Inkwell please see the white courtesy pony.

Oh! My, but you're... buoyant. Are your saddlebags full of balloons? She looks out past the pier and waves a hoof. I think that might be the ship we're supposed to be taking, but I'm not sure.

Beeskee: The earth pony nods to Topaz, "Yes, I have a few bags of them, for emergencies. It's mainly these balloons causing it though." He looks back at the colorful array of inflated balloons tied to himself. They are carefully tied to his midsection via the saddlebag, which is fastened with double straps to hold it securely to the pony.

His ears perk up at the mention of the ship having arrived, and he takes a deliberate bounce, sending himself up a few feet and hanging there in midair, peering around to try and spot it in the thirty seconds before he descends.



(Supply run post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11983962&postcount=680))

(Edit: ICly, he figures she probably couldn't see them from the angle she was at, if she was just approaching.)



Blank pony

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7318/blankpony.png

[SiuiS]

Yes. :smallmad: No. xD


That doesn't ma--OOOOOH
clever devil, you are.

Do you not want to view blueblood sympathetically?
Which reminds me. Need to go check that space in Raz's post.



Ick. Use magic to skip to the skeleton stage.

well...

The thing is, that was technically impossible. Lichdom very specifically forced you into a half-rotten state, or something similar, as a consequence of having such a tenuous soul connection. According to all literature on the subject at the time; this is back when rather than being able to cast regenerate and then flay yourself to remove scars, you'd have to use a temporary and gruesome necromantic spell to graft new flesh for yourself.

The benefits of Lichdom (immortality, broad immunities, some undead powers - I'm told now that old liches didn't use up their spells when they cast them, but I've never read anything official on it) can come from so many other sources, and I didn't have any of the associated weaknesses. I value my flesh too much, in the end. Shooting towards modified outsider was my best bet in the end.



Reproductive Romances
Matesprit: Red Romance. Equivalent to human love.
Kismesis: Black Romance. PURE UNADULTERATED HATELOVE.
'Platonic' Romances
Moirail: The Pale Quadrant. Similar to a soulmate, but platonic.
Auspistice: The Ashen Quadrant. An Auspistice negotiates between two people who hate each other to stop them devolving into kismesissitude. Without Auspistices, there would be widespread black infidelity.

Ah, so I did have the right one in mind.
I kind of don't see how being a third party arbiter would upset you, so I guess I do need more research. Fine. I'll try and go through your MSPA...


OK folks...i need a fact check on pony Canon.....

Has Fluttershy ever addressed Twilight as "Twi"?
i am pretty sure Dash and AJ have but has Fluttershy ever been so informal?

Nope. She's always um, Twilight. I suspect um, is a term of respect or endearment, like sir or the Japanese suffixes.



awww, she is fun in small doses...especially since even DisQorded the worst she could manage was what?
*
play "Keep Away" with the book and trample Twilights flowers?

but normal Fluttershy is much better.

She also slammed a bucket on Twilight's head and whipped her in the face, jabbed Pinkie's emotional wounds and really, what really hurts about it is Fluttershy would probably rather just forget it, but it'a going to be immortalized in art. Eveypony is going to be all "hey Fluttershy, remember that time you turned into Gilda? That was hilarious!"

I am exaggerating though. Personally, cruelershy got old after her first scene for me. That's all.


So, um, tangent story time!

Back in third or fourth grade, I remember having one of my teachers demonstrate that triangles were used to reflect "graceful womanly" bodies, while squares and circles were more representative of "solid man" bodies and gave us an art assignment to draw one of each kind of body. *I didn't really understand why at the time, and really, it just felt like a forced explanation to me because you can make a square out of two triangles. *So, uh, yeah, I ended up drawing a football player and a cheerleader, and basically lost points on that for using angles on the legs of the football player, and circles for the pom-poms.

So anyway, here I am today, with a BA in Art Theory, and to be frank, that whole concept of masculine versus feminine shapes never appeared in any of my upper classes! :smallbiggrin:

I mean, outside of what was needed for class, I can understand how, for example, your typical cartoon/comic/caricature of a girl uses two triangles a la an hourglass shape (Jane and Judy Jetson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jetsons.jpg) came to mind immediately), but I still also can't help but go out of my way to see triangles in manly men, too!

...

Er.

I mean.

PONIES.

It's not just an art thing, though. S curves are feminine, but so are waspish figures. It comes about from all sorts of stuff, so I can't pin anything down for citation.


http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/c57f6c12.jpg

The heads are approximately the same size, but the bottom one looks smaller. I don't have the fine motor control to generate 'feminine' exactly, but it illustrates a point. Big eyes indicate feminine innocence, not feminine violence. The eyes should be more pronouncedly slanted but I fail at low-res finger painting.

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/a3246add.jpg

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/c83ccec6.jpg

These two are built on the same chassis, and would have approximately the same mass. The second one looks more feminine because the triangular forms create a sense of tapering, leading to "delicate joints" and "elfin features" so commonly associated by most folks as feminine. *Using the same size, but implied thinness, you can make something look petit when it's not.

It's not entirely art, it's obfuscation. If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's how to fake completion so I can skive off earlier than necessary. Faux depth in poetry, getting stuff across without really doing it, that sort of thing. Unlike Mask, I decided that I was somewhat morally opposed to it so I stopped.


I prefer this one.

One of the color sites I used when designing Topaz gives Slate Blue as #737CA1 and the complimentary color as #a19772. Redone in those colors bottom pony comes out like this:
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg62/HybridFeline/slatepony-1.png


This. This is perfect. Cut, print, I want forty on every shelf for miles.
also, I want this color site of yours.

:smallwink:



[RP]Blue Ponies Yay!

Ah. I should visit Fillydelphia; my sister Green Eyes lives near there and says it's nice.

It's funny, but when I was younger I wasn't very social. Then I finally realized that what I liked to do was help other ponies, and the more ponies, the more that need help, right? So I kind of went from being a suburban pony to an urban one.


I came up with Pear Blossom and Jewel, close but not quite the same as Diego Havoc's idea.


Angry Birds?


A gathering of Ponies appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said
They said, "Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me..."


I can totally try!

I break the laws of physics just by existing, I'm not going to be admit defeat to perception laws without at least a spirited attempt to break 'em!

Let's see.

AOTRS v/ Human Stupidity

...

AOTRS + Anything you could come up with < Human Stupidity

I'm sorry Bleakbane, but it's math. Math doesn't lie; you'll have to just wipe out the species at the appropriate time.


Well, I got you to say High Caliber Boobies, so that's good enough for me. :smalltongue:

Though I thought they were laser guns, do lasers actually have calibers? :smallconfused:


Dunno. They could, if only to reference barrel similarities, but then you have other issues of relying on it for power estimates.

And well played.


Yeah, but have you ever actually TRIED making beer bacon flavored? I mean, you wouldn't expect beer and fish to be a good mix, but beer battered fish and chips are amazing. :smalltongue:

beer battered stuff tastes more like slightly beer-y grease than it does the actual stuff :smalltongue:

But no, I have not tried it. My dislike of beer is high enough that it doesn't sound anywhere close to appealing, AND I don't want to bread my bacon. Perhaps, at this hypothetical meet-up when I win the lottery...



Were the sad ponies even being aimed at you? :smallconfused:

I honestly can't remember.

Don't think so, I was just advising on their usefulness.



Well, with me it's made 85452284572^283482 times worse when there isn't another post for ten minutes after mine... I've been the last to post in more than a few threads, which made me view myself as a thread killer. :smallfrown:

Yeah, that's never fun :smallfrown:


Oh just to let all you ponies know for the next like two weeks I am going to be hyper busy and prolly not posting or even just lurking anywhere near as much as I have been. *I start a new job (yay) and have midterms and class projects due (boo) and get to go to NY Comic Con (yay) but its all going to deplete my free time in a way that I am not entirely used to. So do not be alarmed if my 1 to 2 posts a day decreases to 1 post every few days or even just once a week I am still here in spirit or at least cause i forgot to close my browser. *You may now return to your irregularly scheduled posts.

Ok, I'll wait up for ya.


Right, I've got to shut the iron idiot down before I go meditate, so I'll be offline for a while...I'm hoping, all being well, I'll be able to get back on tomorrow afternoon evening (maybe, it'll be a right kicked if I have to spend all weekend off the computer, since pretty much all my stuff is computer based nowadays - an I can't get to my PS2 either...!) but if I'm ominously quiet for a bit, that'll be the reason.

Either that or I'll have planned some horrible scheme of terrible revenge that will come to fruition when you least expect it!*

Muahahaha!

No, it's the first one.

Hm. Careful mates, I think he's planning something.*



(What does FFRP stand for? Free Forum RP?)

Free form. As opposed to rules-based like most pen and paper games. You could declare yourself a half demon cracking allicorn and all we could do would be to try and lop off the parts that offended us :smallbiggrin:

Of course, free form usually has quite strict gentlecolt's agreements, so everypony can enjoy themselves. :smallwink:

In more seriousness, I add tags because, let's face it, looking at a quoted spoiler with a spoiler in response is... Frustrating. I am guilty of it often enough, but having a bit of a headline helps break up the monotony, and helps ponies like Soft Serve and others avoid things they don't want to see.

And more importantly, it let's someone not miss fun stuff! Before we started labeling spoilers, we had folks skip the thread entirely rather than dance around spoiler boxes.


is this why i havent been able to view EQD for the past 6 hours?

Yep.

Personally, I'm ok with whatever sort of relaxation Phoe happens to find. It's rare for the poor filly.

-

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann


Beeskee: Beeskee smiles at the sight of a group of ponies already forming. "I have a cart with more supplies on the way. It's just hard for me to get good traction like this." He demonstrates, pushing forward as if to give a tug on an imaginary cart, but the motion sends him floating up into the air for a few seconds instead. The earth pony does an epic leg wiggle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8Ik7fzMc) while waiting for his hooves to touch the ground again.



I... See. Starry ***** an eyebrow at the epic hoof wiggle, then laughs. Come aboard, come aboard. You remind me of a wee filly aquaintance of mine. Adorable thing, always ballooning about...

Anyway, I'll see if we can't get somepony to help with that cart, once I find a boat.


EDIT: you're kidding me. This is a forum that discusses guns on a relatively regular basis. I can load a pistol, aim a pistol, take off the safety, but I can't **** a pistol except in the past tense? Can I even use the past tense?

"he cocked his hat".

[Eakin]

She also slammed a bucket on Twilight's head and whipped her in the face, jabbed Pinkie's emotional wounds and really, what really hurts about it is Fluttershy would probably rather just forget it, but it'a going to be immortalized in art. Eveypony is going to be all "hey Fluttershy, remember that time you turned into Gilda? That was hilarious!"

I am exaggerating though. Personally, cruelershy got old after her first scene for me. That's all.

Maybe it got old, but I can't begrudge the scene that gave us this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKrQBWc2U4)

[BlasTech]

"Your special talent is lightning resistance?" Charger asked. Well, that'd be convenient if nothing else. Awfully specific, though.



Clockwork RP
"Well, it's not just lightning, works on magic too! (Which can be rather inconvenient if you're a unicorn like me, let me tell you)" Igneous replied. "Thankfully it's rather easy to start and stop, it might be easier if I demonstrated rather than trying to explain it."




RP:
"Hands? Oh, well they're...like hooves, I think...Dad came up with the name though, and he was always a little crazy."

Seeing the machine give Charger a jolt, Sek was about to offer assistance, when Iggy stepped forward to volunteer. Well, who am I to get in the way of somepony's special talent?

Finished with repairs, the clockwork pony stood up experimentally, stretching his legs, and the pair of wings bolted to his back. "Alright! To Canterlot we go then!"



"Very well then!" Igneous responded, still seemingly oblivious to the fact that the mechanical nature of his new companion. "To Canterlot!"

"Uh, just as soon as we decide what to do with this giant ... zappy ... thing?"



This just in! Coup d'état at Equestria Daily!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpFxuaomCUs/To93aEuaZbI/AAAAAAAANbE/4YAGSBQaFuw/s1600/FBILk.png
More on this story as it develops... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3623/applejackliar.png

Quick! To the coup-mobile!!

*Hops into pony-shaped tank with "Lunar Republic 4 Eva" on the side and roars off in a cloud of dust*

[Kindablue]

EDIT: you're kidding me. This is a forum that discusses guns on a relatively regular basis. I can load a pistol, aim a pistol, take off the safety, but I can't **** a pistol except in the past tense? Can I even use the past tense?

"he cocked his hat".

And don't even think about reciting a certain classic Scottish poem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caq63ZHO0Og) here.

[Eakin]

I can't believe I didn't see this before. I've been trying to think of an appropriate element for myself, cycling through Stabbity, Treachery, SCIENCE!, Questionable Advice, and others. But after reviewing my last several posts I think my true calling is posting amusing links in this thread.

Therefore I hereby lay claim to the Element of YouTube

[tonberrian]

Maybe it got old, but I can't begrudge the scene that gave us this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmKrQBWc2U4)

Man, it took me so long to place this. You thing after listening to it for an hour straight I'd remember it.

[Gamerlord]

Why does this seem so in character for Applebloom? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao474HxTveI)

[Kris Strife]

Why does this seem so in character for Applebloom? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao474HxTveI)

Because you usually played an evil character, so those encounters usually ended with fire and tree sap? :smalltongue:

[Eakin]

Why does this seem so in character for Applebloom? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao474HxTveI)

She's usually on the other side of the law... (http://twilightsparklesharem.tumblr.com/post/9891043314/fowlie-ponykoma-apple-acres-by-emlan)

[Thanqol]

RP:


"Hands? Oh, well they're...like hooves, I think...Dad came up with the name though, and he was always a little crazy."

Seeing the machine give Charger a jolt, Sek was about to offer assistance, when Iggy stepped forward to volunteer. Well, who am I to get in the way of somepony's special talent?

Finished with repairs, the clockwork pony stood up experimentally, stretching his legs, and the pair of wings bolted to his back. "Alright! To Canterlot we go then!"


"Well, it's not just lightning, works on magic too! (Which can be rather inconvenient if you're a unicorn like me, let me tell you)" Igneous replied. "Thankfully it's rather easy to start and stop, it might be easier if I demonstrated rather than trying to explain it, but we'd need another unicorn for that."

"Well, if it is a matter of efficiency rather than politeness..." Charger said, reaching behind her her to bite loose the clasp that held the pile of junk onto her back. With an unceremonious buck, she tossed the entire thing up into the air, and it hit the ground with a crash like an earthquake hitting a blacksmith's shop. Loose screws and bolts rolled away from the pile of junk.

"If it is not too forward of me," Charger said to Second Hand as she started walking, "What business does a - do you have in Canterlot?"

[Beeskee]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann




Free form. As opposed to rules-based like most pen and paper games. You could declare yourself a half demon cracking allicorn and all we could do would be to try and lop off the parts that offended us :smallbiggrin:

Of course, free form usually has quite strict gentlecolt's agreements, so everypony can enjoy themselves. :smallwink:

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann
I... See. Starry RAISES an eyebrow at the epic hoof wiggle, then laughs. Come aboard, come aboard. You remind me of a wee filly acquaintance of mine. Adorable thing, always ballooning about...

Anyway, I'll see if we can't get somepony to help with that cart, once I find a boat.

Eep! Hopefully you won't feel the need to cut anything off of Beeskee. He's just a simple earth pony. :smallsmile: The balloons were made by unicorn magic so they'll last longer than a few days, but blame the shopkeepers for that! :smallbiggrin: I've apparently had bad luck with characters recently, since I doubt my poor chubby chefpony survived the PonyFort massacre. :smalleek: *sniffle* :smallfrown:

Beeskee: The pony grins playfully and nods, following along behind Starry with almost-gravity-defying bounces, enjoying the feeling of being light on his hooves. He double-checks his supplies, since he's carrying a small sampling of everything being brought. "The cart is waiting at the shop, but I imagine somepony from there would be willing to drop it off if we don't have anypony available to fetch it. Or I could bring it, once I stow these balloons."

I don't like word filters on RP forums since they tend to do just that.

[Noctemwolf]

Why does this seem so in character for Applebloom? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao474HxTveI)
0_0* Awesome...


Full Scale Photo of My Avatar!

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr17/Noctemwolf/ponyWithBackground.png

[Tectonic Robot]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the super ponybeat! It's even better then Luna (Dream mode)...

C'mon guys, am I the only one obsessing over it? Your the pony thread! You type in fancy colors and roleplay losing your fingers! I mean, that doesn't necessarily imply anything about obsessing over a song, but still!

EDIT: HOLY CRAP I'M A DWAAAAAAAARF

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Is, uh, is there a list of all the ranks? I kind of want to know what they are...

[Noctemwolf]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the super ponybeat! It's even better then Luna (Dream mode)...

C'mon guys, am I the only one obsessing over it? Your the pony thread! You type in fancy colors and roleplay losing your fingers! I mean, that doesn't necessarily imply anything about obsessing over a song, but still!

EDIT: HOLY CRAP I'M A DWAAAAAAAARF

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Is, uh, is there a list of all the ranks? I kind of want to know what they are...

Hey! You a dwarf? Are you digging a hole, as well? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7EAdPUqvQ)

Which super pony beat? If it's the one about Discord Posted a little earlier, I've been listening to it all day. :smallbiggrin:

[Tectonic Robot]

Hey! You a dwarf? Are you digging a hole, as well? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7EAdPUqvQ)

Which super pony beat? If it's the one about Discord Posted a little earlier, I've been listening to it all day. :smallbiggrin:

Yeah! That's the one! Er, and no, I'm not digging any holes...

[Brazen Shield]

Guys! Look!
(spoiler for HUGE.... I think. Hard to tell on this phone >>)
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/4fea31a2.jpg

It's a pony! And it's mine no its mine Hey back off make me! I will punch you Try it filly *scuffles*

And it's all ours ^^
Also, right past her nose you can see the wound that used to be my wart! :D
This is the best version of a show accurate pony I have ever seen! And it's so well made!!

[kpenguin]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the super ponybeat! It's even better then Luna (Dream mode)...

C'mon guys, am I the only one obsessing over it? Your the pony thread! You type in fancy colors and roleplay losing your fingers! I mean, that doesn't necessarily imply anything about obsessing over a song, but still!

I mentioned a few pages back...


So, um, I don't know if any of you guys listen to Super Ponybeat, but I made a quartet of covers for it, sent it to Eurobeat Brony, and lo and behold all four of them showed up on his latest songvideo. I am inordinately pleased.

[Capt. Ido Nos]

I can't believe I didn't see this before. I've been trying to think of an appropriate element for myself, cycling through Stabbity, Treachery, SCIENCE!, Questionable Advice, and others. But after reviewing my last several posts I think my true calling is posting amusing links in this thread.

Therefore I hereby lay claim to the Element of YouTube
My old college roommate? Is that you? =0

*Capt. Ido has descended into a cold medicine fueled delirium and will be going to bed now*

[Eakin]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the super ponybeat! It's even better then Luna (Dream mode)...

C'mon guys, am I the only one obsessing over it? Your the pony thread! You type in fancy colors and roleplay losing your fingers! I mean, that doesn't necessarily imply anything about obsessing over a song, but still!

EDIT: HOLY CRAP I'M A DWAAAAAAAARF

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Is, uh, is there a list of all the ranks? I kind of want to know what they are...

Penguin mentioned it last night... Which is good because it's awesome, but bad because it was stuck in my head all day today.

For anyone NOT familiar with Eurobeat Brony, his original album is here (http://odysseymusic.bandcamp.com/album/super-ponybeat-vol-1)


My old college roommate? Is that you? =0

*Capt. Ido has descended into a cold medicine fueled delirium and will be going to bed now*

Not unless your name is Julian or Greg, and you went to a small college in Northfield, MN

[the_druid_droid]

Clockwork RP
"Well, it's not just lightning, works on magic too! (Which can be rather inconvenient if you're a unicorn like me, let me tell you)" Igneous replied. "Thankfully it's rather easy to start and stop, it might be easier if I demonstrated rather than trying to explain it."

"Very well then!" Igneous responded, still seemingly oblivious to the fact that the mechanical nature of his new companion. "To Canterlot!"

"Uh, just as soon as we decide what to do with this giant ... zappy ... thing?"



RP:

"Well, if it is a matter of efficiency rather than politeness..." Charger said, reaching behind her her to bite loose the clasp that held the pile of junk onto her back. With an unceremonious buck, she tossed the entire thing up into the air, and it hit the ground with a crash like an earthquake hitting a blacksmith's shop. Loose screws and bolts rolled away from the pile of junk.

"If it is not too forward of me," Charger said to Second Hand as she started walking, "What business does a - do you have in Canterlot?"

Clockwork:
The metallic pegasus cocked his head for a moment, as if thinking, idly rearranging his wings as he walked. "Well, I'm looking for a mechanic who lives there, an old friend of my Dad's. I'm hoping he can help me figure out..." Second Hand hesitated, "...uh, figure out some things..."

Yeah, like why you're such a screwy robot. The thought struck him with the force of a blow, and his eyes snapped back to the ground just in front of his hooves.


I'm suprised no one has mentioned the super ponybeat! It's even better then Luna (Dream mode)...

C'mon guys, am I the only one obsessing over it? Your the pony thread! You type in fancy colors and roleplay losing your fingers! I mean, that doesn't necessarily imply anything about obsessing over a song, but still!

EDIT: HOLY CRAP I'M A DWAAAAAAAARF

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Is, uh, is there a list of all the ranks? I kind of want to know what they are...

I think one of the posts about Forum rules and policies has a list; something Rich posted. I think the progression (as far as I've gotten) is Pixie -> Halfling -> Dwarf -> Orc -> Bugbear

EDIT: Oops, left out Barbarian! Also some of the higher levels are Ettin, Troll, Firebolg, and Titan.

EDIT EDIT: And to keep things mildly pony-related - pony tabletop games - what's the D&D/M&M/Exalted/CoC/etc. equivalent(s) in Equestria?

[SiuiS]

Actually, soft curves are more effeminate than angles. I'd only characterize angles as feminine if they were used to form other, more feminine shapes. There is a stylistic balance between curves and angles that yields maximum femininity, though.

True. What I meant was "if curves are out, then you will have to rely on acute angles". Right angles tend to be masculine in their rectangularity, when making building blocks for robots.


All right, I'm prepared to call that 'enough' ships.

I'm inclined to agree. This Masked being in a trench coat taught me everything I know about shipping.

You get your hooves off those credentials right now. I don't care who sent you to repossess them. I've got a pie, mate. I'll use it.



Which is why Rainbow Dash ships with everything. I mean, AppleDash, FlutterDash, RariDash, RockyDash, it just all sounds good.

Eyup! It's just as legitimate as numerology and astrology. I totally buy it.


:smallbiggrin:
Also, I remembered I was going to reply to SiuiS about beers! (Spoilered for non-pony):


Belgian beers (in particular abbey ales and lambics) are typically slightly sweet or lightly fruity. In terms of color, they tend to run from pale gold through amber and on toward brown; they also tend to have a high ABV for beers, but they’re made to be savored rather than chugged anyway.

Another option you might try is porters (or stouts). Most have flavors of coffee or toffee, and they tend to be milder and have less bitterness than lighter or hoppier beers; incidentally some of my favorite beers are porters and stouts, and many smaller breweries have excellent recipes for this family of beer.

If you’re looking for a company to try, give New Holland a shot. They’re small enough to have some good recipes without sacrificing flavor for mass production, but they’re large enough that you should be able to find some of their product most places in the US if you look hard enough.


I see. I've tried some of what you're talking about, but the coffee/toffee 'notes' always end up as just a different flavor of blegh. I've had a, what was it, Belgian white pale ale (?) that was almost palatable, in the sense that I could nurse it rather than throw it out. I'm a horrid wuss when it comes to beer though and I don't know why.

I'll see if some of the good ones are available locally. Thanks for the tip; I always feel so plebeian, being all "Ew beer lol".

-

Ok, so this is what I have so far. I had something come up and lost some of Shadowy's stuff, so if I'm missing anything, somepony gather it up for me sil vous plait? Thanks mates, that was the one I was missing.

FINDING BERRY ANN ARCHIVE

A green-garbed cream pony, mane of dark viridian, walks simultaneously into Bridle Shores, Ponyville, Ponythread and Pony noir. Finding a tavern, in, bar, public bulletin board, or pole of appropriate stoutness, this pony unrolls a suitably tattered, cartoon scroll, and hammers it onto the wall before fleeing (to avoid hassles about noise pollution and property damage).

Wall Scroll

ATTENTION EVERYPONY

Mysterious Wizard, Oneiric Captain & Archivist Extraordinaire
STARRY NOTIONS

Seeks a crew of ponies or other to sail the sea of dreams to find HRM Dream Submarines, to follow and interrogate in interests of rescuing a princess from fate most cruel

Applicants are expected to help sail the ship, stave off attack, avoid mutiny and keep ship in good repair.

BENEFITS include an equal share of treasure, food, lodging and board games on Wednesdays. Travel expenses as required, funerary expenses, dramatic monologues, resurrections or off-screen time for healing as appropriate to genre of applicant.

Applicants please see the attendant outside the dock you will mysteriously find yourself next to after setting out.

Bring your own hooch.



Beeskee: Beeskee nods, and trots off toward the shops. He returns shortly afterward, wearing two large saddlebags that look to be stuffed full of supplies. He also has what looks like a hundred balloons tied to himself, and with each step he floats for several seconds before coming back down to the ground. "All set!"

On the trot back, Starry grins fondly at the sight of the hopping pony.


Dreamscape? Do you need a navigator?.

Why, certainly! That was fast. Hm.
You're hired, provided you can stand here waiting for a ship to show up at this dock we are mysteriously standing next to, and screen the other applicants.

...

Don't I know you? Oh well time is a funny thing, really.



Beeskee: "I would say yes, but I don't even know what that is." He sorts through his bags, double-checking over the supplies.

Ah, good to see we already have a crew going. Hm. Where is that Shadowy with the ship? If he spent all of those bits on a kerosene lantern and some Fluttershy autographs again...


*~*~*
MEANWHILE
~*~*~



Well, now I'm glad that you took my corporal form again. *Forgot this! *I'm coming on the airship trip! **Activates hidden rockets in the bunker* *Ah-ha! *It can now FLY! *....She's still on-board. *I can work something out! *Activates maximum security mode* *Think about it! *Not even the lich can beat her, and his stuff makes even your best look like rocks! *You're not safe either! *I don't have a physical form anymore! *Do you think that would stop her? *.......

Run!
We could try and negotiate by Rescuing, and offering Berry-Ann. *Make it quick! *Let's get to wherever the heck that wizard pony is!


I've got the Ship, provided my own even, I've just encountered a slight.....problem. *Which is why I had the spend all of the bits, on the one thing that might prove useful against the current intruder!

*Activates emergency teleporter*
Shipping god! *Come and get me if you dare! *For I know your weakness! *I've have a room of your kryptonite!

Celibate. Charter. Accountants.
That's a bit harsh, even for you. *I have a quest to partake!



~*~*~
AT THE DOCKS
*~*~*



Oh! My, but you're... buoyant. Are your saddlebags full of balloons? She looks out past the pier and waves a hoof. I think that might be the ship we're supposed to be taking, but I'm not sure.


Beeskee: "Thank you for providing the ship for the mission." The rest of what Shadowy says goes over his head. He never even considered how valuable an accountant might be on this trip!

Beeskee: The earth pony nods to Topaz, "Yes, I have a few bags of them, for emergencies. It's mainly these balloons causing it though." He looks back at the colorful array of inflated balloons tied to himself. They are carefully tied to his midsection via the saddlebag, which is fastened with double straps to hold it securely to the pony.

His ears perk up at the mention of the ship having arrived, and he takes a deliberate bounce, sending himself up a few feet and hanging there in midair, peering around to try and spot it in the thirty seconds before he descends.



(Supply run post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11983962&postcount=680))

(Edit: ICly, he figures she probably couldn't see them from the angle she was at, if she was just approaching.)




Beeskee: Beeskee smiles at the sight of a group of ponies already forming. "I have a cart with more supplies on the way. It's just hard for me to get good traction like this." He demonstrates, pushing forward as if to give a tug on an imaginary cart, but the motion sends him floating up into the air for a few seconds instead. The earth pony does an epic leg wiggle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8Ik7fzMc) while waiting for his hooves to touch the ground again.



I... See. Starry raises an eyebrow at the epic hoof wiggle, then laughs. Come aboard, come aboard. You remind me of a wee filly aquaintance of mine. Adorable thing, always ballooning about...

Anyway, I'll see if we can't get somepony to help with that cart, once I find a boat.




Beeskee: The pony grins playfully and nods, following along behind Starry with almost-gravity-defying bounces, enjoying the feeling of being light on his hooves. He double-checks his supplies, since he's carrying a small sampling of everything being brought. "The cart is waiting at the shop, but I imagine somepony from there would be willing to drop it off if we don't have anypony available to fetch it. Or I could bring it, once I stow these balloons."






Oh! I can fetch the cart, if you tell me where to pick it up. I'm good for that sort of thing. Um, if that really is our ship. But I see Starry, so I guess it is. And I can explain about the Dreamscape when I get back.




Beeskee: "It should be parked next to the general store. They know that someone else other than me might be the one to pick it up, so there shouldn't be any problems."





So, we are going, based on a joke and a rumor, to sail a Rocket powered bunker of all things, into mindspace, to find a Scoltish submareine, chase it down, and use it to somehow find a trapped princess?

I am surprised nopony else is getting in on this.

[Kris Strife]

EDIT EDIT: And to keep things mildly pony-related - pony tabletop games - what's the D&D/M&M/Exalted/CoC/etc. equivalent(s) in Equestria?

Dungeons (in the place you are banished to) & Dragons, Moons and Mares and Call of the Cutie.

Exalted is probably still Exalted. :smalltongue:

[erikun]

EDIT: HOLY CRAP I'M A DWAAAAAAAARF

WOOOOOOOOOOO!

Is, uh, is there a list of all the ranks? I kind of want to know what they are...
Here you go. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45659) I don't even recall where I'm at by now; I guess I'll see out as soon as I post, though. :smalltongue:

[kpenguin]

The Modguin: And now that the appropriate announcement has been linked, I'm going to ask that discussion about user titles cease. Thank you.

[Kris Strife]

So, we are going, based on a joke and a rumor, to sail a Rocket powered bunker of all things, into mindspace, to find a Scoltish submareine, chase it down, and use it to somehow find a trapped princess?

I am surprised nopony else is getting in on this.


Well, I'd love to, but I think Leo is still talking with Midnight.

And I believe that the general consensus is that I should keep him out of action-adventure stuff as much as possible... :smallredface:

[Vent Reynolt]

... Really?


Yep, and this is my second post in this thread.

Well, it looks like my absence for almost half a thread was completely unnoticed...


[RP]Blue Ponies Yay!

Ah. I should visit Fillydelphia; my sister Green Eyes lives near there and says it's nice.

It's funny, but when I was younger I wasn't very social. Then I finally realized that what I liked to do was help other ponies, and the more ponies, the more that need help, right? So I kind of went from being a suburban pony to an urban one.


Oh, we're kinda opposites in this because I prefer to live in small towns. It gives me a bit more freedom with weather formations than the cities do, plus I always enjoy being near forests, probably because of those years I spent in Colt Scouts.


This just in! Coup d'état at Equestria Daily!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpFxuaomCUs/To93aEuaZbI/AAAAAAAANbE/4YAGSBQaFuw/s1600/FBILk.png
More on this story as it develops... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3623/applejackliar.png

But, Shimmer is supposed to be the one getting tied up; not the one to tie up other ponies! Everything is topsy-turvy! Nothing makes sense anymore! http://i.imgur.com/2c0gc.png


Anyway, because of all the talk of RPs earlier, I figure that I should mention a small update on the Pinkie Pie bard that I mentioned that earlier that I'd be playing in a Ravenloft Campaign. (I believe the campaign was supposed to be Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, but in the space of just three sessions, we have managed to derail enough of what was expected of us to get the DM to practically throw out the campaign. (I actually made the mistake of thinking that it is just a joke that an adventuring party's solution to a couple of hostile creatures in a forest or town is to burn down everything.))

Anyway, given the fact that a Pinkie Pie character fits in Ravenloft about as well as the square peg fits in the round hole, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the party didn't just leave her for dead along the side of a road or in the middle of the forest. (A part of this might be because of the fact that having Inspire courage at +4 at level 5 along with Dragonfire Inspiration (Silverbrow human) is nothing to scoff at.) However, what the other players didn't know, and what the DM only suspected (but didn't think that I'd actually pull off) is that I had planned for my character to have a
"Cupcakes" Pinkie split-personality. (Since I haven't actually read Cupcakes, I based her primarily on the ask Pinkamena Diane Pie Tumblr)

In the space of about half a session, I managed to get her a reputation as an axe-crazy (though she lacks an actual axe) psychopath, and it's to the point that not only does the rest of the party both look forward to and dread the Pinkamena personality appearing, but her mere presence seems to make everyone else in the party more evil as well.

And here's the kicker: By the end of the third session, not only do I have the absolute lowest body count of anyone in the party (1), but Pinkamena has yet to actually instigate any violence! All in all, I think it's going pretty well.


One more thing, The nomination thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216599) for the My Little Pony in the Playground competition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215004) is up. If you wanted to participate in the competition, then you are running out of time!

[the_druid_droid]

Dungeons (in the place you are banished to) & Dragons, Moons and Mares and Call of the Cutie.

Exalted is probably still Exalted. :smalltongue:

I like that one particularly :smallbiggrin:

[EsperDerek]

The Remote:

So, the remote....to put it simply to begin with, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

As it turns out, the remote I was assigned to was not, in fact, about the election. But they needed extra ponies on board for other remotes because of the election sucking talent away. *I* was assigned to the remote that was at the Air Canada Center, covering the season opener for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, the thing to keep in mind is if you set up a microwave transmitter wrong? You can blow out yours, and everyone elses signal. Heck, you could do serious damage to the microwave RECIEVER in the CN Tower. That's how potent this thing is.

Thankfully, because the damn thing is so potent, they were wise enough to make it relatively easy to handle. We were able to figure it out, especially since lesson one is 'Don't turn it on until told.' So we had it set up...and we had to wait for three hours. Thankfully the guy I was with-who I swear could have fit into a noir film-was a really cool guy, laid back, we cracked a lot of jokes, and he bought us pizza. Awesome guy. So, we have it set up, and eventually the talent, cameraman, and producer came in...and proceed to tell us we need to move the transmitter. We needed to be closer to the party thatwas happening in front of the ACC. Oops!

So, we move over. And it's just a party over there, because they had set things up so that ponies could watch the Leafs on the giant screen, there were bleachers and stands selling beer and everything. We do the hit at 6:30, and then...we wait. We think there's going to be another hit between then and 11:30, but goodness knows. But we got to watch the game on the giant screen! Funny thing is, at one point, they told us we weren't going to be needed until 11:30...then no more than five minutes later, they called us desperate for us to do a hit. We can move fast when need be.

The game ends eventually (Leafs won 2-0), and suddenly, we realize we're *surrounded* by drunken fans all thinking we're going to put them on television. That's when I realized part of my job was to play bodyguard, not just for the talent, but also the very fragile and expensive equipment. It got a little hair-raising when a fight nearly broke out, but damn, the cops moved fast to break it up. So, we basically faked interviewing these drunken fans, just to get them off our back. It worked, but man, we were *swarmed*.

Soon enough...the place turned into a ghost town, save us, the cops assigned to watch things...and the people starting to move the equipment now that the party is over. Who yelled at us to move (again), to get out of the way of the giant trucks that were coming to take things away. All the while, we're watching the election on a tiny TV as something to do, waiting to see if we'll be needed for 11:30, but the election was so close that we're starting to think we might not be...but we can't just leave. Not until we're told.

Here we are, the five of us, and we're just having a great time with each other. We're joking and laughing, and there's cops and workers who keep coming over to watch the election, and we're making non-serious bets on whether it's going to be a minority or majority electorate (I won, Minority!), when around 11 AM, one of the workers comes to us and goes "You have to move again." We get a little annoyed, until we realize...there are cars starting to stream around us. They had opened up the street they closed off for the party. Oh hell. Grab our stuff as quickly as we can, get onto the sidewalk! With expensive, expensive equipment on hand!

Once we're set up, we start waiting again. 11:30 rolls around, and at this point, we're making bets that we won't be called upon. The minority/majority is down to the wire, there's electrical problems where the elected Premier is supposed to give a speech, and sure enough, 12 AM and past rolls around...and we're not on. THEN, we get a phone call-keep in mind we've kept in touch with them constantly at this point to see if we can go or not- asking...why hadn't we left yet?

So we pack up, we dont' get back to the station till 1 AM, and I didn't get home till 3 AM. We had exactly two hits, and about three minutes of airtime. But with all the wild and wooly stuff that happened, and the company that I kept, and the spirits that we were in, as I said, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

Midnight is Learning:

"Before we do that-and indeed, teasing Blueblood would be a fine thing to do-would you like to meet...well, I suppose you could call her the 'other me'? She's not dangerous, even though she sometimes would like to pretend that she is still.

Trixie, Twilight, and Luna:

This...is sort of a tricky question. It sort of comes down to pragmatics. Y'see, in my head, I've always pictured the three as...well, being pretty close in that way. Like, a trio. But I've been aware that if I actually tried to display that in the stories, I'd probably drive ponies away from it, I already push that line pretty hard with the Midnight stories, what with the threesome that created Midnight, and the whole 'How can two/three mares have a foal' question, and the sex and bondage references I put in.

So as it is, read it as: "Three mothers, two of whom are married, and they both share a deep friendship forged by their shared history and future. And if that friendship includes occasional nightly visits from a Princess to the bedroom, well..."

A Gift I Got:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

[SiuiS]

My old college roommate? Is that you? =0

*Capt. Ido has descended into a cold medicine fueled delirium and will be going to bed now*

XD Hahaha. Get well soon, mate.


Dungeons (in the place you are banished to) & Dragons, Moons and Mares and Call of the Cutie.

Exalted is probably still Exalted. :smalltongue:

I may have to blow off my other obligations and run this.


Well, I'd love to, but I think Leo is still talking with Midnight.

And I believe that the general consensus is that I should keep him out of action-adventure stuff as much as possible... :smallredface:

Well, I got lost so bad that I'm concurrently talking to Soft Serve, lost in the woods, trying to find Midnight, talking to Topaz, and Both me and Topaz are also about to set sail to save Berry Ann. I suppose I get Topaz lost due to NightMare Meddling, and maybe Leo in the future decides to go looking for me? And you can't Charm your way out of this one, because you didn't combo perception/defense/defense :smallwink:

All I have to do is, eventually, find Midnight, clear up my Doppler clones, and resolve my recurring loose plot threads. Easy, right? Right. :smalleek:

[Eakin]

Yep, and this is my second post in this thread.

Well, it looks like my absence for almost half a thread was completely unnoticed...



Oh, we're kinda opposites in this because I prefer to live in small towns. It gives me a bit more freedom with weather formations than the cities do, plus I always enjoy being near forests, probably because of those years I spent in Colt Scouts.



But, Shimmer is supposed to be the one getting tied up; not the one to tie up other ponies! Everything is topsy-turvy! Nothing makes sense anymore! http://i.imgur.com/2c0gc.png


Anyway, because of all the talk of RPs earlier, I figure that I should mention a small update on the Pinkie Pie bard that I mentioned that earlier that I'd be playing in a Ravenloft Campaign. (I believe the campaign was supposed to be Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, but in the space of just three sessions, we have managed to derail enough of what was expected of us to get the DM to practically throw out the campaign. (I actually made the mistake of thinking that it is just a joke that an adventuring party's solution to a couple of hostile creatures in a forest or town is to burn down everything.))

Anyway, given the fact that a Pinkie Pie character fits in Ravenloft about as well as the square peg fits in the round hole, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the party didn't just leave her for dead along the side of a road or in the middle of the forest. (A part of this might be because of the fact that having Inspire courage at +4 at level 5 along with Dragonfire Inspiration (Silverbrow human) is nothing to scoff at.) However, what the other players didn't know, and what the DM only suspected (but didn't think that I'd actually pull off) is that I had planned for my character to have a
"Cupcakes" Pinkie split-personality. (Since I haven't actually read Cupcakes, I based her primarily on the ask Pinkamena Diane Pie Tumblr)

In the space of about half a session, I managed to get her a reputation as an axe-crazy (though she lacks an actual axe) psychopath, and it's to the point that not only does the rest of the party both look forward to and dread the Pinkamena personality appearing, but her mere presence seems to make everyone else in the party more evil as well.

And here's the kicker: By the end of the third session, not only do I have the absolute lowest body count of anyone in the party (1), but Pinkamena has yet to actually instigate any violence! All in all, I think it's going pretty well.


One more thing, The nomination thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216599) for the My Little Pony in the Playground competition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215004) is up. If you wanted to participate in the competition, then you are running out of time!

It's hard to notice when someone steps out of the thread for a while. Different ponies have different active posting times, and some tend to skip a couple pages here and there when we come back to find 8 or 9 pages of new posts to sift through

Your D&D tale is as awesome as it is terrifying.

Careful though, Ravenloft is a bad BAD place, the kind of place that might give your Pinkemina half more and more leverage over your Pinky half until she takes over completely...

[Beeskee]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann




Ok, so this is what I have so far. I had something come up and lost some of Shadowy's stuff, so if I'm missing anything, somepony gather it up for me sil vous plait?

I think you missed this one (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11987952&postcount=807).

Beeskee: "So, can somepony tell me what a 'Dreamscape' is?"

[SiuiS]

Yep, and this is my second post in this thread.

Well, it looks like my absence for almost half a thread was completely unnoticed...


But you weren't gone, silly. I've been reading your posts for the last week!

Of course, I'm trying to figure out how to go back and properly archive your RP with topaz, and whether or not it's worth it >>; it's like prepping for a game by reading D&D books in person and on the computer. Later, I can't be sure what I read on paper and what I read on the screen.

That's the trouble with my archivic tendencies. The last tree threads are all "current pony thread", the three before that are all "last thread" and everything else is "around thread 3 or so". Only one I can recall for sure is 8 (because I spent a solid week going through it for Orzel's pony RPG system, as well as the Ponyfy your Name bit) and thread 6 for making a bet with Phoe. And that last one I have to take her word on...



Oh, we're kinda opposites in this because I prefer to live in small towns. It gives me a bit more freedom with weather formations than the cities do, plus I always enjoy being near forests, probably because of those years I spent in Colt Scouts.


Archived maybe



But, Shimmer is supposed to be the one getting tied up; not the one to tie up other ponies! Everything is topsy-turvy! Nothing makes sense anymore! http://i.imgur.com/2c0gc.png


http://i.imgur.com/59s2M.png dddiiiiiiiiissssssQQQQQoooooorrrrdddd!


Anyway, because of all the talk of RPs earlier, I figure that I should mention a small update on the Pinkie Pie bard that I mentioned that earlier that I'd be playing in a Ravenloft Campaign. (I believe the campaign was supposed to be Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, but in the space of just three sessions, we have managed to derail enough of what was expected of us to get the DM to practically throw out the campaign. (I actually made the mistake of thinking that it is just a joke that an adventuring party's solution to a couple of hostile creatures in a forest or town is to burn down everything.))

Anyway, given the fact that a Pinkie Pie character fits in Ravenloft about as well as the square peg fits in the round hole, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the party didn't just leave her for dead along the side of a road or in the middle of the forest. (A part of this might be because of the fact that having Inspire courage at +4 at level 5 along with Dragonfire Inspiration (Silverbrow human) is nothing to scoff at.) However, what the other players didn't know, and what the DM only suspected (but didn't think that I'd actually pull off) is that I had planned for my character to have a
"Cupcakes" Pinkie split-personality. (Since I haven't actually read Cupcakes, I based her primarily on the ask Pinkamena Diane Pie Tumblr)

In the space of about half a session, I managed to get her a reputation as an axe-crazy (though she lacks an actual axe) psychopath, and it's to the point that not only does the rest of the party both look forward to and dread the Pinkamena personality appearing, but her mere presence seems to make everyone else in the party more evil as well.

And here's the kicker: By the end of the third session, not only do I have the absolute lowest body count of anyone in the party (1), but Pinkamena has yet to actually instigate any violence! All in all, I think it's going pretty well.

Sorry about that by the way. I really couldn't think of anything good for Pinkie. Two weeks after you were due to start, I figured you could spam bardic knowledge. "how did you know I was an elf?" "you were under eeeeee~!"




The Remote:

So, the remote....to put it simply to begin with, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

As it turns out, the remote I was assigned to was not, in fact, about the election. But they needed extra ponies on board for other remotes because of the election sucking talent away. *I* was assigned to the remote that was at the Air Canada Center, covering the season opener for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, the thing to keep in mind is if you set up a microwave transmitter wrong? You can blow out yours, and everyone elses signal. Heck, you could do serious damage to the microwave RECIEVER in the CN Tower. That's how potent this thing is.

Thankfully, because the damn thing is so potent, they were wise enough to make it relatively easy to handle. We were able to figure it out, especially since lesson one is 'Don't turn it on until told.' So we had it set up...and we had to wait for three hours. Thankfully the guy I was with-who I swear could have fit into a noir film-was a really cool guy, laid back, we cracked a lot of jokes, and he bought us pizza. Awesome guy. So, we have it set up, and eventually the talent, cameraman, and producer came in...and proceed to tell us we need to move the transmitter. We needed to be closer to the party thatwas happening in front of the ACC. Oops!

So, we move over. And it's just a party over there, because they had set things up so that ponies could watch the Leafs on the giant screen, there were bleachers and stands selling beer and everything. We do the hit at 6:30, and then...we wait. We think there's going to be another hit between then and 11:30, but goodness knows. But we got to watch the game on the giant screen! Funny thing is, at one point, they told us we weren't going to be needed until 11:30...then no more than five minutes later, they called us desperate for us to do a hit. We can move fast when need be.

The game ends eventually (Leafs won 2-0), and suddenly, we realize we're *surrounded* by drunken fans all thinking we're going to put them on television. That's when I realized part of my job was to play bodyguard, not just for the talent, but also the very fragile and expensive equipment. It got a little hair-raising when a fight nearly broke out, but damn, the cops moved fast to break it up. So, we basically faked interviewing these drunken fans, just to get them off our back. It worked, but man, we were *swarmed*.

Soon enough...the place turned into a ghost town, save us, the cops assigned to watch things...and the people starting to move the equipment now that the party is over. Who yelled at us to move (again), to get out of the way of the giant trucks that were coming to take things away. All the while, we're watching the election on a tiny TV as something to do, waiting to see if we'll be needed for 11:30, but the election was so close that we're starting to think we might not be...but we can't just leave. Not until we're told.

Here we are, the five of us, and we're just having a great time with each other. We're joking and laughing, and there's cops and workers who keep coming over to watch the election, and we're making non-serious bets on whether it's going to be a minority or majority electorate (I won, Minority!), when around 11 AM, one of the workers comes to us and goes "You have to move again." We get a little annoyed, until we realize...there are cars starting to stream around us. They had opened up the street they closed off for the party. Oh hell. Grab our stuff as quickly as we can, get onto the sidewalk! With expensive, expensive equipment on hand!

Once we're set up, we start waiting again. 11:30 rolls around, and at this point, we're making bets that we won't be called upon. The minority/majority is down to the wire, there's electrical problems where the elected Premier is supposed to give a speech, and sure enough, 12 AM and past rolls around...and we're not on. THEN, we get a phone call-keep in mind we've kept in touch with them constantly at this point to see if we can go or not- asking...why hadn't we left yet?

So we pack up, we dont' get back to the station till 1 AM, and I didn't get home till 3 AM. We had exactly two hits, and about three minutes of airtime. But with all the wild and wooly stuff that happened, and the company that I kept, and the spirits that we were in, as I said, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

Midnight is Learning:

"Before we do that-and indeed, teasing Blueblood would be a fine thing to do-would you like to meet...well, I suppose you could call her the 'other me'? She's not dangerous, even though she sometimes would like to pretend that she is still.

Trixie, Twilight, and Luna:

This...is sort of a tricky question. It sort of comes down to pragmatics. Y'see, in my head, I've always pictured the three as...well, being pretty close in that way. Like, a trio. But I've been aware that if I actually tried to display that in the stories, I'd probably drive ponies away from it, I already push that line pretty hard with the Midnight stories, what with the threesome that created Midnight, and the whole 'How can two/three mares have a foal' question, and the sex and bondage references I put in.

So as it is, read it as: "Three mothers, two of whom are married, and they both share a deep friendship forged by their shared history and future. And if that friendship includes occasional nightly visits from a Princess to the bedroom, well..."

A Gift I Got:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

Double sweet!
Sounds like you had a blast. And then, you had a blast again! I mean? Can you do that?
Blast twice like that?

Who cares! You did, and it sounds awesome. Keep up the good works, pony.

[Soras Teva Gee]

One more thing, The nomination thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216599) for the My Little Pony in the Playground competition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215004) is up. If you wanted to participate in the competition, then you are running out of time!

This made me realize just how few names I'd really been learning compared to the ponytars....

[Titanium Fox]

EDIT: OH DAMN IT THE ICONS ARE BROKEN. I really hope those are under 400x400, because I am WAY too tired to fix that tonight. Sorry everypony! :smallfrown:

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Well, winter has hot cocoa.
and ice skating!
and all the treats!
plus like 2 months everypony just seems to go from one party to another!

You know what? I change my answer to this. I forgot about the Ice Skating thing.


On the other hoof, poking ponies in their cutie marks to see if they say anything funny sounds like a good hobby.

Hrm... *grins evily and starts eyeing the other ponies present*

Orrrr... This could be construed as Sexual Harassment in the kingdom of Equestria.


I have a quick question for everyone. Where do you think the name "Pinkamena" from Pinkamena Diane Pie came from? Is it an obvious reference that I'm just not getting?

It's a play on the fact that Pinkie is obviously a nickname, so she has to have a full name. So they just extended it in a way that sounds good.


OH GOD!!!http://i.imgur.com/VYSqq.jpg Those poor poor kids that fall into the real demographic of the show. They should not have to see that. What if they read/view the one about fluttershy!? Checking the pony emotes, is there not a "The horror, the horror" one?

I REALLY HOPE THIS HASN'T HAPPENED. http://i.imgur.com/0yCfwb.jpg


Ugh, this is going to sound sexist no matter how I write it... Try smoother curves and a less phallic weapon.

But this is Ponythread! That's how we roll! Wait. Waaait. No, no we don't. 99.999% of our shipping is F/F. The lack of phallacy is an anomoly on the internet.

Wow, I guess this fandom really is Unique! http://i.imgur.com/9QvF1b.jpg


No, I was playing it up--they were all tongue in cheek. Searching Google images for <applebloom zecora> will give you that, what I posted, and the avatars of everyone who's ever posted in this thread.

Why does this not surprise me one bit?


Fun fact; drinking age is somewhat lax in the home. You can, for example, be given wine at Easter as early as 12, so long as you don't go running outside screaming to the world.

Then again, they have to care if they notice you, so maybe I only asked really cynical cops.

I think you just asked some really cynical cops. It's illegal by the letter of the law, no matter the situation if you're under 21. The only exception is religious purposes (AKA "drinking the blood of christ"), and there the actual number is a bit hazy.


They had ID cards back then, Gama Midni?

More quoting Midnight's post, but... Yeah. If you're 20 and you have a college graduation ring, they generally don't ask questions and just hand it to you. Which is nice.


You don't chug girly drinks? I thought being palatable enough to breathe in fish-style was what girly drinks were for.
Ugh, I should know this stuff! I am a relatively horrible Irishman. :smallfrown:

If it contains alcohol, I down it fast. It's just the way I drink. It has nothing to do with the way you're supposed to drink something. I drink them the way I enjoy drinking them, and that's that. http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEb.jpg


Hm. You're one of those. I suppose we'll have to set you up a meeting with the Allfeather. He's the falcon with a monocle and kaiser helm, who thwarts our outlandishly outrageous attempts at World Domination through bondage.

You know, this makes me miss the Pony Bondage when Phoe was around.

...Come to think, this makes me miss Phoe. http://i.imgur.com/BsGGRb.jpg


In your defense, it did look kind of like a ram.

...It kind of did, didn't it? Huh?


Eyup. I've been told recently that it's creepy that I'm being so nice sometimes. That it seems out of character.

New goal? Be so much nicer that it is my perceived character. I mean really, what would. Brave pony like Rainbow Dash do? CHARGE FORWARD, FULL STEAM!

This is a goal I can really get behind and endorse. If there's anything I can do to help or encourage man, you know where to find me. http://i.imgur.com/jaolob.jpg


... Are you coming on to me?

I think he is.


With your hooves. Duh~
or lips! Such soft, expressive lips ponies have. Very mobile.

You know, I've actually seen someone play the electric guitar with their face live in concert before. It was so awesome.


Pics or it isn't true.
(Jade! Get hard, hand-sized disks and put them in the socks so you have a single appendage with a hard hoof-y bottom)

That's actually an even better idea than the shoes. Don't worry, as soon as I find a Cello I will post a video of this. Because I am beyond convinced you can do this.

Also I love it that I'm now being called Jade as a nickname.


Wow, that's kind of neat. Does this mean your boss is a gamer geek? Will you have sessions of gaming with the boss?

My mind. She boggles.

I really hope I do! As of right now we both have campaigns on Wednesdays, so Thursday mornings absolutely nothing gets done as Dan and I geek out over our sessions the night prior.


Hirr Hirr Hirr.

Oh you SiuiS. Oh you.



Racially, you want Fluttershy to be as close to standard as possible. I would suggest either avariel (winged elf variant; use the low raptoran rules to reflect her reticence to fly) or a changeling who becomes a winged elf. As a changeling, you could even have the deep psychological exploration of how the kind, dainty elf is her facade, but still she has wings- what interplay requires a demure disguise that has a stand-out feature?

Classes. I wanted to say healer. Not combat effective, but able to soothe hurts outside of fights. Skills would be domestic; *profession (cook), heal (fun fact; healing checks can be used to enhance tissue healing by increasing the hp recovered per day. Massage is a viable technique for increasing tissue growth and promoting healthier scar tissue and avoiding reoccurring injury :smallbiggrin:), housekeeper, etc.

Bard works best, however, and I have to defer whether I like I or not. Make her a third level bard, and skip the NPC class. Give her bardic knack and jack of all trades feat - Fluttershy now has a rank and a half in every skill. She is capable of healing stuff, but is somewhat a novice (see a bird in the hoof). She is able to do performances but isn't exactly awesome (sonic rainboom). She's not a fashionista but can roll high on dressmaking.

Give her the obtain familiar feat, and her familiar is a bunny :3
Now here is the fun part- a familiar is technically an NPC. Which means they can have their own skills and feats, and are intelligent. Angel Bunny needs to be better than Fluttershy at 2 skills, Bluff and Sense Motive. Sense motive is because he knows Fluttershy better than she knows herself. Bluff...

Bluff is the skill tied to innuendo. This means Angel bunny can deliver messages without having to talk. And he has all of Fluttershy's skills, including - wait for it - perform (pantomime). So you have an intelligent white rabbit who mimes things and the party gets to roll sense motive against his bluff to see if they get the message. If they fail by enough, they get comically wrong ideas.

Sound familiar? :smallwink:

Also, DMG II pages 157-160 have unique traits to give NPCs. The first one of import is Naturebond. Free speak with animals forever, and character appropriate. The second is lifemate. I'll let you read up on that, or contact me for full details if needed.


I love all of these ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with avariel if I do Fluttershy. However. Psychoshutin and I were chatting in the car.

EsperDerek. I have a question for you. Would you mind if I recreated the Out in the Cold continuity in a D&D campaign? As much as I love TrixieShy, I like the story that much more.

You know what? Either way, this Fluttershy is being introduced in the campaign world. Too much work has been put into her character mechanics by you crazy ponies for me to not. :P


I'll be honest, as soon as I heard 'elf Fluttershy' I was waiting to hear what you'd come up with :smallsmile:
It's a beautiful name. Fitting, methinks.

Indeed. Like I said earlier in the thread, I am 100% using this.


It does now. Darn it Jade!

Hirr Hirr Hirr.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3XCjyz1tpfc/Tocm03G_8yI/AAAAAAAACCo/swufLOkUhC4/s1600/trixieandsethfull.png (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/10/tails-from-office.html?m=1)

Why do I feel like Sethisto probably commissioned this?


Noooooooooooo
Don't leeeeeeeaavee uuuuuuuusssssss T^T

Yes, it goes fast, it does, but we can make it work! tonberrian, come on, we can make it work. We can make it work!

I second this. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!


Gimme a window in GMT-8 and I'll see what I can do. I myself am now going to bed around 01:00 to 03:00, and am thread-viable from 19:00 to 21:30 for sure.

Umm... GMT-8 is on the same time as California and British Columbia, right? Hmm. Well, I get to work at 5 AM GMT-8, and I leave work at 2 PM GMT-8. So that's when I'm best available to back and forth chat.


That almost happened to me once. I started to catch up on like, page 11, and we were at 43 when I caught up.

Yeah this has happened to me too. The mega quote I did back when I went away for ten days? Yeah, we had moved twenty pages from when I started to when I caught up to myself. And then I had more to catch up on.


Commander. Commodore. Bleakbane.

Please attack someone at your table with a real-life bullet bill in the next few years.

I will do this. I will ask them what their AC is, throw the Bullet Bill, and if it hits, they get hit in game. And it will be glorious.


http://i.imgur.com/CXTge.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DrMmg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xNUoP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kdR94.jpg

With a reaction like this? I really have no interest in reading this Tumblr, and especially not in public like I am right now.


From all the ranges we go to, from debating, to NSFW pony blogs, everything and everywhere it's been.....All through a common link of liking ponies.

Thank you all, and good night.

Eeeeyup. http://i.imgur.com/gEfq6b.jpg


There's a joke here something like the Pony thread is an old girlfriend who I keep coming back to. I'm not going to make it, but there it is.

I think by proxy you just made it. http://i.imgur.com/EvxT1b.jpg


Tell me about it. Do you really type all that out on your phone?

This is why he is the master of quotes and I am only the apprentice. I refuse to sit down and do one of these with less than two monitors, for I deem it to be too much of a pain in the flank.


I watch ponies for the mufcake. And the applesauce.

That sounds SO DIRTY tonberrian. O_o


Noooooo.

Everyone in my office is sick. I was one of maybe five people to NOT get it. Now... I'm afraid my immune system is losing the good fight. :smallsigh:

Time to go to sleep and drink a gallon of OJ in the morning. We'll see how productive I end up being, whether or not Ido being sick means more or less pony while at work.

Oh, I drew a crappy discord over in my drawthread, if anyone's interested in taking a look. I'm literally too tired to post the link myself right now...

Night all.

Get some sleep man. Don't be like me if you do get sick. I can be throwing up in the shower in the morning at 7:45, and still be in class at 8 AM, regardless of if I should by any means be there or not. I have **** to do, and like hell anything is going to stop me.

...Wow, I legitimately typed class, not work. I need to get into the non-college mentality.

Now I'm depressed. I wanna be a college student again. http://i.imgur.com/LWZjab.jpg


I feel that way every single time I post. Every Single Time. Even now. Just relax and enjoy yourself. I also need to tell myself that more often.

Ya'll need to chill out and keep posting ponies. We're all friends here, and nopony intrudes when they post.


But but but...

I was saying that mufcake was plot, or something very similar. Also referencing a pic that SiuiS posted waaaaaaaay back like 10 threads ago.

...You know, this just made the connotation worse. Plot is to Flank as Mufcake is to... I don't feel comfortable continuing this line of conversation actually.




Yes, yes she is. She has recieved gift art from Lauren Faust. All hail, it is mandatory.

[QUOTE=MCerberus;11983734]Alright so I get back at what can be described as an intellectually draining 5 hour whiteboard session. Get into the computer chair...

HAHA! Time for...
zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Here, have a sweet little lullaby from a sweet little pony. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4Fn9bagjo)


No, I second all of them.

Especially now that you can watch EVERY EPISODE OF SEASON ONE AT ONCE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a25ERFjygOA)

Or just Sonic Rainboom. Or just Party of One. Or just Dragonshy. Or just Winter Wrap Up. Really, pick a pony, and go hit the episodes that center around them.

Watching this hurt my head, so much. Owwww...


Hugs all the ponies

Good night ponythread, I am up too late and have class in the morning.

Night! *Hugs*


So, um, I don't know if any of you guys listen to Super Ponybeat, but I made a quartet of covers for it, sent it to Eurobeat Brony, and lo and behold all four of them showed up on his latest songvideo. I am inordinately pleased.

That is incredible and congratulations and you must link us like yesterday.


Here you go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMGv3hNMes)

Oh. Oh, you did. So saved.


Hello folks. I haven't been here for a while, probably not since the season ended (thread 15 or so? Maybe?), and I'm afraid I don't have the time to keep up with you all anymore. So if someone could answer this question, I'd be much obliged: When does the new season start? Do we know?
Here's a picture just for funsies.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z270/coolcalbert/130075712672.png
Thanks!

Welcome back! It's always good to see an old face in here, even if it was one from just before my time. Or just after. I joined at thread 14 myself.

Hi, I'm Jade! Nice to meetcha!


Twilight is adorkable.
Rarity is elegant.
Rainbow Dash is athletically cute (and is potentially gorgeous, but doesn't care).
Applejack is classic girl-next-door pretty.
Fluttershy is moe as [REDACTED]. Totally believable as a top model.
Pinkie Pie -- has a nice personality.
Celestia is regal.
Octavia is beautiful.

I agree with all of those except Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie is curvy.


Well excellent! I know exactly what I'm doing when I finish my work. Looks like I'll be spending more time here soon then. Glad to be back.
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z270/coolcalbert/3077-rainbow_dash.jpg

YAY! You're staying, you're staying!


Hi, everpony.

Just got back from my very first TV Assisting a remote (gettin' paid for it too). A heck of a lot of fun, but also exhausting, I put in a twelve hour day plus transit time. About to drop off here, so no main details.

That's awesome! Congratulations! Although the bit about the twelve hour day sucks. How much of that was work vs. commute?


Random thought brought on by that comic: when/why did the fandom decide that filly Celestia's hair was just plain pink instead of the four-color version she has now? Seems a strange thing to do, but it's very consistent across fan art from what I've seen.

Zevox

I think it's for the thought that the tragedy that was the original nightmare moon incident caused it to change via the power of the elements of harmony; an everlasting reminder of the pain she had to bring in order to spare the pain of so many more.


Okay, first off, let's get this out of the way, so I can go back to being civil (for a measured version of "civil.")

Uh oh. rant incoming; brace yourselves everypony!


On the tumblr thingy-issue wostit Raz brought up earlier, all I have to say is this:

Let me for once be extremely an uncharacteristically serious, and direct this comment and following rant unilaterally to every single person in existance, past present and future.

You. Do. Not. Rag. On. Other People's. Hobbies.

EVER.

YOU DO NOT.

Unless such a thing is actually illegal and is causing harm to anyone else, you suck it the frak up and keep your mouth shut. NO-ONE has the right to decide what someone's interests and hobbies are, NO-ONE.

It doesn't matter how silly or stupid or pointless or squicky you think it is, you do NOT get to disapprove and tell them they can't (so long as they don't abuse the priviledge by making people who aren't interested uncomfortable; in which case they can go do it in private - but they don't have to stop doing it unless, as stated, it is illegal or harmful). Note that "the thought of it creeps me out" does not, in ANY WAY, give you ground to disapprove.

People get their jollies in all kinds of ways, and it's not our place to judge. There are people who get off on eating poo, fer cryin' out loud. I might find it grosse personally, but damn it, they have the right to do what they damn well please in the privacy of their own homes and it is neither your - nor my - place to judge them on it. I might not agree with it, but damn it, it I will defend their right to do it to the death (by which I mean, "the death of the people trying to take their right" not mine, obviously. "Death" if they are lucky. I do not tolerate bigotry in ANY stripe. AT ALL.)

So damn, if people get their jollies from pony - sexually or otherwise - they have the right. (They do not get to flaunt it at inappropriate places, granted, but in their own bit of the internet, they are quite entitled.)

The people who are made uncomfortable by adults just watching and liking a cartoon show need to get the FRAK over themselves, shut up and learn some tolerance; because if you're gonna be intolerant, than I'll be even more intolerant of you, and one of us has a rocket launcher, a star fleet and no qualms about the sanctity of life, if you catch my meaning.

That brand of bigoted arrogance - almost always from the "ohh, you can't do that!" crowd, the same sort that say computer games are behind violence, cartoons are only for children and roleplaying is pathetic and/or outright evil (or in really extreme cases, claim cinema and TV/Harry Potter/Pokemon is the actualwork of the devil) etc etc makes me really and geninuely furious.



I will say this again, because it bears repeating:

What one (or more) sentient/sapient creatures gets up to on their own time is nobody's business but their own, so long as it is legal and is not causing harm or damage to anyone else.



Right. Calm now. Rant over. You can come out of your bomb shelters now.

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/153/2/b/fluttershy_clap256x25_pixel_by_mihaaaa-d3hwkrx.gif


You mean real football right? Not the watered down version of rugby where they wear hard plastic armor and someone losing an ear delays the game for 30 minutes? :smallwink:

Thirty minutes? THIRTY MINUTES?! Fillies, all of them! Why, back in my day a ripped off ear only stopped the game long enough for the guy to pick it up and stickit in his pocket!


Eeeyup, definitely sick.

At work anyway X___X

I TOLD YOU NOT TO ACT LIKE M- Oh that's earlier in this post, isn't it. Eheheheheheee...


So what kind of fic would have the title "In-laws and Outlaws"?

...Why does this remind me of A Clockwork Orange? Oh Celestia I need sleep.


You know, I was just starting in on a quote-post at work, because generally if I don't I can barely keep up with you folks.

And then I remembered tomorrow is the beginning of the weekend, and that the CEO of my company is here.

I will see you all tonight my bronies.

And don't worry, I've read some of the responses to the Fluttershy idea, and I'm slowly formulating a character already. :P

Hey, I caught up to myself finally! Awesome! You only managed to produ- Oh Celestia, what have ponies done?! http://i.imgur.com/DrMmgb.jpg


I have to say, I'm pretty much with the lich on this one. I don't care what anypony else gets up to, as long as it's not hurting anypony else, and I expect the same courtesy.

And since my OC was spawned from a threesome where there was a lot of sex magic used (offscreen), I wouldn't have any room to talk about sexual stuff. :smallbiggrin:

(Plus the horn being sensitive has lead to some hilarious comics.)

I know I did the flutterclap to Aotrs's post, but I just need to state I completely agree. Everypony has something they enjoy that some people would find offensive or strange or be squicked by. You know what? So what? I'm a furry, I'm a brony, I'm dating a Transgirl. You have no idea how much **** I get for each and every single one of them. For what reason? Because you don't approve of my life decisions? Get over yourself.

There's no reason to judge or disapprove of anything that anypony else does. Absolutely. None.


Can't get enough ships? How about 4851 of them, in one graph?

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/0/b/4851_ships_by_adcoon-d4c2yb7.png

Go here for the full 4600x4600px graph. (http://adcoon.deviantart.com/art/4851-Ships-262157875)

I don't know what motivated me to make this graph. Sooo many possibilities, though.

You made me physically break at the college. Like to the point that my groans of "OH GOD. What the hell? What the hell?!" caught the attention of everyone in the room. Thankfully this is so insane that no one (other than PsychoShutin) had any idea what they were looking at.

Someone asked me if you coded a lineart fractal program, actually.


Hmm.

Lich - check!

Angry - check!

Will result in death - probably check!

Does casting this spell involve you hitting me, possibly with an excessively large, heavy, and durable object?

Isn't that the way it works every single time though?


Aotrs, honey, I'm afraid tonberrian is MINE to be mean to.

...I'm not sure if this is adorable or messed up or both?

Also, I love the new Avatar Lix.


This is an explanation for Pinklestia that makes a disturbing amount of sense:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/35278723707ed086f3a71da6ab674e3d/45872%20-%20animated%20hasbroestia%20parody%20pinkie_pie%20 pinklestia%20pokemon%20toy.gif

...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-


Honestly, I could see Pinkie show up to her own funeral (basically a party, considering who it's for :smalltongue:) on the grounds that she'd never miss a party and that being dead was boring. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mG2I-o3yUA) :smallbiggrin:

She'd then continue to go about her life like nothing had happened, much to everyone's confusion. She wouldn't be a zombie or undead or anything.

Sorry for the somewhat morbid post, it was just a funny idea I had, of Pinkie watching her own funeral, Tom Sawyer style, but from outside the actual scene, sitting up there in the black bar area, then hopping down after a while. The Pinkie could be shipped universally part, and not destroy/ignore her character, came to mind from a combination of Party of One and a Q&A comic for Lackadaisy Cats.

I could completely see this. You know what? This is now my personal fanon.


http://arch.413chan.net/fluttershy-is-sad-(n1299009571160).png

Awwwww. Poor Nameless...


Spoilered for size:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/8/1/mlp__tron__by_asieybarbie-d4c2mr0.jpg (http://asieybarbie.deviantart.com/art/MLP-Tron-262142892)



A little of the old in-outlaws?

...

Uh, I mean. I didn't say anything.

That tron picture is absolutely amazing. The new Tron is one of my favorite sequels in recent memory, actually. (Other than My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic... and that's more of a reboot anyways.)


This just in! Coup d'état at Equestria Daily!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpFxuaomCUs/To93aEuaZbI/AAAAAAAANbE/4YAGSBQaFuw/s1600/FBILk.png
More on this story as it develops... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3623/applejackliar.png

Oh, that's just shimmer being shimmer Darling. http://i.imgur.com/6ZURlb.jpg


I am nothing if not looking to scrounge every perk I can from every situation.

I mean, aside from ironic hipstertudening.

You know, you are the only awesome hipster I know. :P


Guys! Look!
(spoiler for HUGE.... I think. Hard to tell on this phone >>)
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/4fea31a2.jpg

It's a pony! And it's mine no its mine Hey back off make me! I will punch you Try it filly *scuffles*

And it's all ours ^^
Also, right past her nose you can see the wound that used to be my wart! :D
This is the best version of a show accurate pony I have ever seen! And it's so well made!!

That is so awesome! I want one soooooo much!


The Modguin: And now that the appropriate announcement has been linked, I'm going to ask that discussion about user titles cease. Thank you.

Wow, I completely missed this entire discussion (unless it was deleted, which explains how there were only 10 pages for me to catch up on).


The Remote:

So, the remote....to put it simply to begin with, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

As it turns out, the remote I was assigned to was not, in fact, about the election. But they needed extra ponies on board for other remotes because of the election sucking talent away. *I* was assigned to the remote that was at the Air Canada Center, covering the season opener for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, the thing to keep in mind is if you set up a microwave transmitter wrong? You can blow out yours, and everyone elses signal. Heck, you could do serious damage to the microwave RECIEVER in the CN Tower. That's how potent this thing is.

Thankfully, because the damn thing is so potent, they were wise enough to make it relatively easy to handle. We were able to figure it out, especially since lesson one is 'Don't turn it on until told.' So we had it set up...and we had to wait for three hours. Thankfully the guy I was with-who I swear could have fit into a noir film-was a really cool guy, laid back, we cracked a lot of jokes, and he bought us pizza. Awesome guy. So, we have it set up, and eventually the talent, cameraman, and producer came in...and proceed to tell us we need to move the transmitter. We needed to be closer to the party thatwas happening in front of the ACC. Oops!

So, we move over. And it's just a party over there, because they had set things up so that ponies could watch the Leafs on the giant screen, there were bleachers and stands selling beer and everything. We do the hit at 6:30, and then...we wait. We think there's going to be another hit between then and 11:30, but goodness knows. But we got to watch the game on the giant screen! Funny thing is, at one point, they told us we weren't going to be needed until 11:30...then no more than five minutes later, they called us desperate for us to do a hit. We can move fast when need be.

The game ends eventually (Leafs won 2-0), and suddenly, we realize we're *surrounded* by drunken fans all thinking we're going to put them on television. That's when I realized part of my job was to play bodyguard, not just for the talent, but also the very fragile and expensive equipment. It got a little hair-raising when a fight nearly broke out, but damn, the cops moved fast to break it up. So, we basically faked interviewing these drunken fans, just to get them off our back. It worked, but man, we were *swarmed*.

Soon enough...the place turned into a ghost town, save us, the cops assigned to watch things...and the people starting to move the equipment now that the party is over. Who yelled at us to move (again), to get out of the way of the giant trucks that were coming to take things away. All the while, we're watching the election on a tiny TV as something to do, waiting to see if we'll be needed for 11:30, but the election was so close that we're starting to think we might not be...but we can't just leave. Not until we're told.

Here we are, the five of us, and we're just having a great time with each other. We're joking and laughing, and there's cops and workers who keep coming over to watch the election, and we're making non-serious bets on whether it's going to be a minority or majority electorate (I won, Minority!), when around 11 AM, one of the workers comes to us and goes "You have to move again." We get a little annoyed, until we realize...there are cars starting to stream around us. They had opened up the street they closed off for the party. Oh hell. Grab our stuff as quickly as we can, get onto the sidewalk! With expensive, expensive equipment on hand!

Once we're set up, we start waiting again. 11:30 rolls around, and at this point, we're making bets that we won't be called upon. The minority/majority is down to the wire, there's electrical problems where the elected Premier is supposed to give a speech, and sure enough, 12 AM and past rolls around...and we're not on. THEN, we get a phone call-keep in mind we've kept in touch with them constantly at this point to see if we can go or not- asking...why hadn't we left yet?

So we pack up, we dont' get back to the station till 1 AM, and I didn't get home till 3 AM. We had exactly two hits, and about three minutes of airtime. But with all the wild and wooly stuff that happened, and the company that I kept, and the spirits that we were in, as I said, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

Midnight is Learning:

"Before we do that-and indeed, teasing Blueblood would be a fine thing to do-would you like to meet...well, I suppose you could call her the 'other me'? She's not dangerous, even though she sometimes would like to pretend that she is still.

Trixie, Twilight, and Luna:

This...is sort of a tricky question. It sort of comes down to pragmatics. Y'see, in my head, I've always pictured the three as...well, being pretty close in that way. Like, a trio. But I've been aware that if I actually tried to display that in the stories, I'd probably drive ponies away from it, I already push that line pretty hard with the Midnight stories, what with the threesome that created Midnight, and the whole 'How can two/three mares have a foal' question, and the sex and bondage references I put in.

So as it is, read it as: "Three mothers, two of whom are married, and they both share a deep friendship forged by their shared history and future. And if that friendship includes occasional nightly visits from a Princess to the bedroom, well..."

A Gift I Got:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

Okay, two things. First, the remote thing, wow. That sounds like one of those once in a lifetime incredible experiences. Congratulations, I wish I could have been involved in something so awesome during my internship last year.

Two, that picture of Midnight is absolutely gorgeous.

[BlasTech]

RP:

"Well, if it is a matter of efficiency rather than politeness..." Charger said, reaching behind her her to bite loose the clasp that held the pile of junk onto her back. With an unceremonious buck, she tossed the entire thing up into the air, and it hit the ground with a crash like an earthquake hitting a blacksmith's shop. Loose screws and bolts rolled away from the pile of junk.

"If it is not too forward of me," Charger said to Second Hand as she started walking, "What business does a - do you have in Canterlot?"

While Charger and Second Hand conversed, Igneous set about loading the machine onto his back.

Right, just a simple matter of levitation to get it in place ... wow, this thing is heavier than it looks, I wonder how that lady could carry it so far? He thought to himself, letting out a breath as the weight of the contraption settled on top of his saddlebags.

Okay, now. Just got to pull the strap ti-

-ZZZZAPPP-

"YEOUCH!!"

Second Hand and Charger jumped at the exclamation, and turned to see a rather sheepish Igneous doing a good impression of a fish underwater as he tried to cool his recently electrocuted tounge.

"Ish okay, I dot dis" he mumbled as he gave the carrying strap a good yank with his magic.

Next time, I'll just use magic to begin with. He groused, before igniting his horn once more. This time, when he finished, four golden rings surrounded his fetlocks to match the gold barding of his armour. The spell finished just as the machine gave off another discharge. However, instead of zapping the guardpony, the electricity arced around him, through the rings, and harmlessly into the ground.

"Hah, thuck on dat you thilly condrapdon!" He cheered, rearing up slightly as he did so and causing the machine to rattle and disgorge another handful of bolts.

"Oh blasth ith all" he mumbled, as he set his horn to the task of collecting the remainder of the bolts that had scattered around the clearing. When he was done, he walked over to the other two ponies.

"We reathy to go?".


The Remote:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

That's a nice picture! Congrats Esper :smallsmile:

[otakuryoga]

Fear the scorned Fanboys!!!
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/c/3/our_heroine_twilight_by_niban_destikim-d4c27op.jpg

and some Derpy D'awwwww
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/280/f/f/warm_by_onkelscrut-d4c3emd.jpg

[SiuiS]

Ugh. Reading that reminded me of soo many things I'd dropped from the quote set, but I'd though about so hard that I thought I posted them >.<
first off

HOPPING HEL WITH A HANDAXE
GAELBERT, ME BUCKO
I TOTALLY FORGOT TO SAY HI (TT_TT)

I was actually thinking of contacting you a couple weeks ago, but my inbox was full and I'm a packrat <<;

Have you had a chance to tube the you and see the premier yet? What dis you think?

-

Kindablue, yes. Typed up on me ol' 3GS.
Those posts, where I seem to have missed a whole page and a half? I had caugh up, and when I previewed, I see a messed up tag. Those take upwards of 15 minutes to correct apprpriately, more if I try to "save time" by gettin fancy with the nesting.
You would think I'd learn? Nope.

-

Lix, the ol' avvie, I only recently noticed the text. Kind of mocking for such a playful pose, don't you think?

-

Jade. There's some stuff I wanna respond to but I'm not scaling that mountain right now XD

You may experience moments of confusion as everypony seems to ignore you, despite you providing authoritative and awesome insights. You will then realize that, you typed it out, but nopony else has seen your wisdom yet.

This is normal. Or, normal for me. So if this happens to you, run. Get help. It's too late for me; save yourself.

And now, gummy worms and closing the store :smallsmile:

[Topaz]

This. This is perfect. Cut, print, I want forty on every shelf for miles.
also, I want this color site of yours.
*blush*
The color site is here (http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm).

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann
Oh! I can fetch the cart, if you tell me where to pick it up. I'm good for that sort of thing. Um, if that really is our ship. But I see Starry, so I guess it is. And I can explain about the Dreamscape when I get back.


A Gift I Got:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

Wow. That is amazing.

[Titanium Fox]

Jade. There's some stuff I wanna respond to but I'm not scaling that mountain right now XD

You may experience moments of confusion as everypony seems to ignore you, despite you providing authoritative and awesome insights. You will then realize that, you typed it out, but nopony else has seen your wisdom yet.

This is normal. Or, normal for me. So if this happens to you, run. Get help. It's too late for me; save yourself.

And now, gummy worms and closing the store :smallsmile:

Hehehehehehe.

You know, you call that a mountain, I feel like that was extremely short? XD

[tonberrian]

You know, you are the only awesome hipster I know. :P

This is because I'm a sort of ironic anti-hipster who starts doing things long after they're popular and claiming to have been following them all the time.

Unrelated:

Mufcakes! So sweet and tasty!

And on that incredibly disturbing note, I take my leave.

A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. i If I say it enough times I'll actually believe it. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin...

[Beeskee]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann


Oh! I can fetch the cart, if you tell me where to pick it up. I'm good for that sort of thing. Um, if that really is our ship. But I see Starry, so I guess it is. And I can explain about the Dreamscape when I get back.

Beeskee: "It should be parked next to the general store. They know that someone else other than me might be the one to pick it up, so there shouldn't be any problems."

[Kindablue]

This is because I'm a sort of ironic anti-hipster who starts doing things long after they're popular and claiming to have been following them all the time.

Is "ironic anti-hipster" a tautology or a double negative? I'm leaning toward the latter, as that was a pretty spot on description of the normal kind.

[Roninhirox]

So I am feeling kinda like a jerk tonight. One of my good friends (actually the guy who got me the job I am starting sunday) had an art show tonight that I promised I would show up at and I ended up not being able to get to. A combination of my ride bailing on me after the thing started and me being to poor for bus or cab and to sick to walk the five miles there prevented me from getting there. And while he will prolly shrug it off I still feel like I should have tried harder to get there, or something.


Good luck at the new job, and have a blast at Comic Con! I wish I could go but I have to work next weekend...

Thanks. Ya I am having to get a day off of my job and then leave around 3 or 4 Sunday to get on a bus and get back home in time to get ready for work that night. It will be brutal.

Thank you everyone else for the well wishes, now I am gonna go watch cartoons and try and write till I am to tired to be awake.

[Eakin]

So I am feeling kinda like a jerk tonight. One of my good friends (actually the guy who got me the job I am starting sunday) had an art show tonight that I promised I would show up at and I ended up not being able to get to. A combination of my ride bailing on me after the thing started and me being to poor for bus or cab and to sick to walk the five miles there prevented me from getting there. And while he will prolly shrug it off I still feel like I should have tried harder to get there, or something.



Thanks. Ya I am having to get a day off of my job and then leave around 3 or 4 Sunday to get on a bus and get back home in time to get ready for work that night. It will be brutal.

Thank you everyone else for the well wishes, now I am gonna go watch cartoons and try and write till I am to tired to be awake.

Write the guy an email, apologize for not being able to make it, explain what happened, ask him if he has any pictures of the stuff he had up there (he probably does), and offer to buy him a beer or lunch next time you see him.

FRIENDSHIP CRISIS RESOLVED.

Feel better, just remember this weekend what's really important if you're feeling too sick to go to a convention.

It's Comic-con. Comic-con is more important. Screw all that "physical health" crap

[Thanqol]

Glad you had what sounds like a great day, Esper. :smallsmile:


Clockwork:
The metallic pegasus cocked his head for a moment, as if thinking, idly rearranging his wings as he walked. "Well, I'm looking for a mechanic who lives there, an old friend of my Dad's. I'm hoping he can help me figure out..." Second Hand hesitated, "...uh, figure out some things..."

Yeah, like why you're such a screwy robot. The thought struck him with the force of a blow, and his eyes snapped back to the ground just in front of his hooves.


While Charger and Second Hand conversed, Igneous set about loading the machine onto his back.

Right, just a simple matter of levitation to get it in place ... wow, this thing is heavier than it looks, I wonder how that lady could carry it so far? He thought to himself, letting out a breath as the weight of the contraption settled on top of his saddlebags.

Okay, now. Just got to pull the strap ti-

-ZZZZAPPP-

"YEOUCH!!"

Second Hand and Charger jumped at the exclamation, and turned to see a rather sheepish Igneous doing a good impression of a fish underwater as he tried to cool his recently electrocuted tounge.

"Ish okay, I dot dis" he mumbled as he gave the carrying strap a good yank with his magic.

Next time, I'll just use magic to begin with. He groused, before igniting his horn once more. This time, when he finished, four golden rings surrounded his fetlocks to match the gold barding of his armour. The spell finished just as the machine gave off another discharge. However, instead of zapping the guardpony, the electricity arced around him, through the rings, and harmlessly into the ground.

"Hah, thuck on dat you thilly condrapdon!" He cheered, rearing up slightly as he did so and causing the machine to rattle and disgorge another handful of bolts.

"Oh blasth ith all" he mumbled, as he set his horn to the task of collecting the remainder of the bolts that had scattered around the clearing. When he was done, he walked over to the other two ponies.

"We reathy to go?".


"I shall not pry," said Charger to Second Hand, getting the feeling that he didn't want to talk about it. "For my part, I am simply returning home." She wanted to pry, actually, quite badly, but there was no polite way to do so.

"Yes, let us be on our way," she said to Ingenuous. "I apologise again for the device, but you seem to have it in hoof."

[SiuiS]

Fear the scorned Fanboys!!!
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/c/3/our_heroine_twilight_by_niban_destikim-d4c27op.jpg

and some Derpy D'awwwww
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/280/f/f/warm_by_onkelscrut-d4c3emd.jpg

The first one is horrible, the second made me tear up a bit.


*blush*
The color site is here (http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm).


Sweet. Thanks.


Hehehehehehe.

You know, you call that a mountain, I feel like that was extremely short? XD

I know what ya mean :3
No, I mean I just don't have the gusto to hunt through it right now. Too many background processes going on just the nonce.

And hey, click the Sethixie comic. Scroll through the comments.

I also feel the need to say, just in case this is kind o like forum telephone (though I suspect everypony is just using this as a way to get on the soapbox more than decrying anything in particular)

Nopony said anything about disliking the icky tastes of others. One guy believes he might not be measuring up to his own standards; that when he comes before a self panel for review, his marks will be lower than needed, because he got lax. He's now reviewing things to see what can be done, doin' some soul searching.

which is totally groovy, and I support it 100%. Well, roughly 63% (not a pun, for once!) due to lag and energy innefficiency of supporting somepony over the Internet.

[Roninhirox]

Write the guy an email, apologize for not being able to make it, explain what happened, ask him if he has any pictures of the stuff he had up there (he probably does), and offer to buy him a beer or lunch next time you see him.

FRIENDSHIP CRISIS RESOLVED.

Feel better, just remember this weekend what's really important if you're feeling too sick to go to a convention.

It's Comic-con. Comic-con is more important. Screw all that "physical health" crap

Thanks for the advice, I will do that. Ya I know I will be ragged when con happens but hopefully between the obscene amounts of vitamin c, and caffeine I have I will get through feeling mostly not dead. Also I just got word from the person making the hat for my cosplay that it is finished. I am going as Ox-King from Dragon Ball Z which other than the hat is an incredibly easy outfit to pull off if you don't mind wearing pink.

[otakuryoga]

Thanks for the advice, I will do that. Ya I know I will be ragged when con happens but hopefully between the obscene amounts of vitamin c, and caffeine I have I will get through feeling mostly not dead. Also I just got word from the person making the hat for my cosplay that it is finished. I am going as Ox-King from Dragon Ball Z which other than the hat is an incredibly easy outfit to pull off if you don't mind wearing pink.

http://i.imgur.com/JmPL5b.jpgHow could anyone possibly have a problem with pink?

[Thanqol]

http://i.imgur.com/JmPL5b.jpgHow could anyone possibly have a problem with pink?

Seriously. You and everyone else who is doing this with the ponymotes, stop. You click on the ponymote, it'll grey the screen and bring the picture up in the middle of the screen, then you right click *that* and click copy image location. Doing it off the grid results in this huge, hideous pixellated mess.

[Gadora]

...



Yes.

Yes, you should.

...

Hopereaver?

Rocket launcher.

*Starts running* Heh. He'll never think to look on the GitP Minecraft server.


All right, I'm prepared to call that 'enough' ships.


How can you call that enough shipping when it lacks my OTP? http://i.imgur.com/RZwfo.png Madame LeFleurxTom Fo evah!



Seriously. You and everyone else who is doing this with the ponymotes, stop. You click on the ponymote, it'll grey the screen and bring the picture up in the middle of the screen, then you right click *that* and click copy image location. Doing it off the grid results in this huge, hideous pixellated mess.

imgur just changed their interface so it doesn't quite work that way anymore. What you need to do is either right click and hit 'open image in new tab,' or click on an image and then copy the URL off of the little bar of icons at the bottom.

[Kindablue]

The first one is horrible, the second made me tear up a bit.

Derpy sleeping on the job? Yeah, it's pretty sad. She'll probably get fired if she keeps that up.

No, but seriously, I was looking through that guy's deviantart page (http://onkelscrut.deviantart.com/) just a few minutes ago, and he's very good.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/222/1/e/a_morning_without_tea_by_onkelscrut-d463h1b.jpg (http://onkelscrut.deviantart.com/art/a-morning-without-tea-252104447?q=gallery%3Aonkelscrut%2F7269400&qo=4)


With a reaction like this? I really have no interest in reading this Tumblr, and especially not in public like I am right now.

Have you ever seen a Herschell Gordon Lewis film? Well, I don't recommend it, honestly, but I also don't have a better reference point and Halloween is coming up soon, so try to check one out before the next sentence. Okay, it's basically that, fake ketchup blood and all, with horses. It's much more surreal than it's intended to be, I think, and not nearly as disturbing as it's given credit for.


Seriously. You and everyone else who is doing this with the ponymotes, stop. You click on the ponymote, it'll grey the screen and bring the picture up in the middle of the screen, then you right click *that* and click copy image location. Doing it off the grid results in this huge, hideous pixellated mess.

http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEs.jpg

[Kris Strife]

The Remote:

So, the remote....to put it simply to begin with, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

As it turns out, the remote I was assigned to was not, in fact, about the election. But they needed extra ponies on board for other remotes because of the election sucking talent away. *I* was assigned to the remote that was at the Air Canada Center, covering the season opener for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, the thing to keep in mind is if you set up a microwave transmitter wrong? You can blow out yours, and everyone elses signal. Heck, you could do serious damage to the microwave RECIEVER in the CN Tower. That's how potent this thing is.

Thankfully, because the damn thing is so potent, they were wise enough to make it relatively easy to handle. We were able to figure it out, especially since lesson one is 'Don't turn it on until told.' So we had it set up...and we had to wait for three hours. Thankfully the guy I was with-who I swear could have fit into a noir film-was a really cool guy, laid back, we cracked a lot of jokes, and he bought us pizza. Awesome guy. So, we have it set up, and eventually the talent, cameraman, and producer came in...and proceed to tell us we need to move the transmitter. We needed to be closer to the party thatwas happening in front of the ACC. Oops!

So, we move over. And it's just a party over there, because they had set things up so that ponies could watch the Leafs on the giant screen, there were bleachers and stands selling beer and everything. We do the hit at 6:30, and then...we wait. We think there's going to be another hit between then and 11:30, but goodness knows. But we got to watch the game on the giant screen! Funny thing is, at one point, they told us we weren't going to be needed until 11:30...then no more than five minutes later, they called us desperate for us to do a hit. We can move fast when need be.

The game ends eventually (Leafs won 2-0), and suddenly, we realize we're *surrounded* by drunken fans all thinking we're going to put them on television. That's when I realized part of my job was to play bodyguard, not just for the talent, but also the very fragile and expensive equipment. It got a little hair-raising when a fight nearly broke out, but damn, the cops moved fast to break it up. So, we basically faked interviewing these drunken fans, just to get them off our back. It worked, but man, we were *swarmed*.

Soon enough...the place turned into a ghost town, save us, the cops assigned to watch things...and the people starting to move the equipment now that the party is over. Who yelled at us to move (again), to get out of the way of the giant trucks that were coming to take things away. All the while, we're watching the election on a tiny TV as something to do, waiting to see if we'll be needed for 11:30, but the election was so close that we're starting to think we might not be...but we can't just leave. Not until we're told.

Here we are, the five of us, and we're just having a great time with each other. We're joking and laughing, and there's cops and workers who keep coming over to watch the election, and we're making non-serious bets on whether it's going to be a minority or majority electorate (I won, Minority!), when around 11 AM, one of the workers comes to us and goes "You have to move again." We get a little annoyed, until we realize...there are cars starting to stream around us. They had opened up the street they closed off for the party. Oh hell. Grab our stuff as quickly as we can, get onto the sidewalk! With expensive, expensive equipment on hand!

Once we're set up, we start waiting again. 11:30 rolls around, and at this point, we're making bets that we won't be called upon. The minority/majority is down to the wire, there's electrical problems where the elected Premier is supposed to give a speech, and sure enough, 12 AM and past rolls around...and we're not on. THEN, we get a phone call-keep in mind we've kept in touch with them constantly at this point to see if we can go or not- asking...why hadn't we left yet?

So we pack up, we dont' get back to the station till 1 AM, and I didn't get home till 3 AM. We had exactly two hits, and about three minutes of airtime. But with all the wild and wooly stuff that happened, and the company that I kept, and the spirits that we were in, as I said, I don't think I've had a more fun time being bored.

I'm glad you had a good day at work Esper. And that you seem to be a bit less exhausted by it than usual. :smallsmile:

I have a Midnight is Learning post in the works. :smalltongue:


I may have to blow off my other obligations and run this.



Leo in the future decides to go looking for me?

Run it PBP on the forum! That way I can join in too!

Eh, that doesn't work though. One of the few hard limits in Exalted is "No time travel." Also, as a Bob and George fan, I avoid time travel if I can help it. :smallwink:


And hey, click the Sethixie comic. Scroll through the comments.

I read that as SexLixie at first. That is all.


I am going as Ox-King from Dragon Ball Z which other than the hat is an incredibly easy outfit to pull off if you don't mind wearing pink.

Nice. I'd suggest going as DB Ox-King myself though. Or go with out a costume until the last day, then go as Bacterion. :smallwink:

I've been marathoning DB recently. Just finished The Roaming Lake.

[Thanqol]

imgur just changed their interface so it doesn't quite work that way anymore. What you need to do is either right click and hit 'open image in new tab,' or click on an image and then copy the URL off of the little bar of icons at the bottom.

Ah, then what he said.


http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEs.jpg

I WILL WEAR YOUR PANTS LIKE A HAT :smallfurious:



That threat didn't work out quite right, but I can't quite put my finger on why.


Eh, that doesn't work though. One of the few hard limits in Exalted is "No time travel." Also, as a Bob and George fan, I avoid time travel if I can help it. :smallwink:

I ran a time travel Exalted game. It was basically She Who Lives In Her Name's master plan to escape Hell. Step 1: Find and destroy the concept of linear time. Step 2: Stop anyone from rebuilding the concept of linear time before time drifts back before the start of the Primordial War.

It was excellent fun.

[Kris Strife]

I ran a time travel Exalted game. It was basically She Who Lives In Her Name's master plan to escape Hell. Step 1: Find and destroy the concept of linear time. Step 2: Stop anyone from rebuilding the concept of linear time before time drifts back before the start of the Primordial War.

It was excellent fun.

Wouldn't that sort of thing give SWLIHN Cutie Mark Denial Disorder?

And also turn Creation back into the Wyld?

[SiuiS]

Seriously. You and everyone else who is doing this with the ponymotes, stop. You click on the ponymote, it'll grey the screen and bring the picture up in the middle of the screen, then you right click *that* and click copy image location. Doing it off the grid results in this huge, hideous pixellated mess.

Actually, they is broke. It's quite the predicament, really. My joice was go without, or use a pixellated mess. Except for sweetie belle, because I associate her emote URL with Sweetie Welf saying hello in a unny, Yonny the Yanitor accent. "Jaolo!" http://i.imgur.com/jaolo.jpg



imgur just changed their interface so it doesn't quite work that way anymore. What you need to do is either right click and hit 'open image in new tab,' or click on an image and then copy the URL off of the little bar of icons at the bottom.

Which is as galling as all hay from Maine.
See, I've been thinking about adding all the emote URLs, along with pre-done image tags, to my copy/paste document. And it's never been worthwhile. Until, you know, a day ago >.<

Leo, I'm considering it.
And... What would following a fae creature through magic terrain while cursed do to an Exalt? You'd act as a singularity; meeting yourself is still impossible. Your timeline just gets curly.

[FFRP] Saving Berry Anngreat. Now I'm reading it as "saving private Ryan".



Beeskee: The pony grins playfully and nods, following along behind Starry with almost-gravity-defying bounces, enjoying the feeling of being light on his hooves. He double-checks his supplies, since he's carrying a small sampling of everything being brought. "The cart is waiting at the shop, but I imagine somepony from there would be willing to drop it off if we don't have anypony available to fetch it. Or I could bring it, once I stow these balloons."






Oh! I can fetch the cart, if you tell me where to pick it up. I'm good for that sort of thing. Um, if that really is our ship. But I see Starry, so I guess it is. And I can explain about the Dreamscape when I get back.




Beeskee: "It should be parked next to the general store. They know that someone else other than me might be the one to pick it up, so there shouldn't be any problems."


y'know, maybe you should go with Topaz, my balloony friend.

Starry sighs and looks over her shoulder at the... Ship. I suspect that once the door opens, there may be some sort of backflash, or... Really, I just want innocent ponies out of the metaphorical blast radius.

[Thanqol]

Wouldn't that sort of thing give SWLIHN Cutie Mark Denial Disorder?

And also turn Creation back into the Wyld?

It'd only turn Creation into the Wyld if she didn't get out to fix it in time, and since I can't imagine this plan possibly going wrong that's clearly not gonna happen.

And given SWLIHN's history of breaking metaphysical concepts out of spite, I reckon it's not something entirely beyond her. Plus if you break the concept of linear time then you can go back before linear time was broken and #concept missing#

[Grif]

I don't see why you can't click on the imgur image?

...
http://i.imgur.com/0bxcP.png

Damn, you need to click on the zoom button on the top right corner to get the transparent .png images now.http://i.imgur.com/DrMmg.png

But yes, those pixellated mess are ugly and I will pull The Lever on anyone who do that.

http://i.imgur.com/o7rww.png

[Gadora]

Which is as galling as all hay from Maine.
See, I've been thinking about adding all the emote URLs, along with pre-done image tags, to my copy/paste document. And it's never been worthwhile. Until, you know, a day ago >.<
Am I picking up that you're unable to access the imgur emoticons on your phone? If so, I can try throwing together a PM or two containing all of them.

It'd only turn Creation into the Wyld if she didn't get out to fix it in time, and since I can't imagine this plan possibly going wrong that's clearly not gonna happen.

And given SWLIHN's history of breaking metaphysical concepts out of spite, I reckon it's not something entirely beyond her. Plus if you break the concept of linear time then you can go back before linear time was broken and #concept missing#

This? This is a good example of why time travel gives me headaches.


I don't see why you can't click on the imgur image?

...
http://i.imgur.com/0bxcP.png

Damn, you need to click on the zoom button on the top right corner to get the transparent .png images now.http://i.imgur.com/DrMmg.png

But yes, those pixellated mess are ugly and I will pull The Lever on anyone who do that.

http://i.imgur.com/o7rww.png
You can actually bypass the zoom step by hitting "open in a new tab" instead of clicking on the grid image.

[SiuiS]

Am I picking up that you're unable to access the imgur emoticons on your phone? If so, I can try throwing together a PM or two containing all of them.


This? This is a good example of why time travel gives me headaches.

Hm. Maybe, and I appreciate the thought, like woah! But let me try Grif's suggestion first. Maybe I can slap it together myself, before you go through all that trouble.

And timetravel cannot lead to headaches. Seriously. If it's giving you a headache, you're tying to hard and you'd get a headache regardless of what you tried to focus on.

Frame of reference; if you travel back in time, energetic makes sense to you. There are infinite universes; consider "time travel" more jumping existence to existence, where stuff in the past happens to be different.

Be a singularity; you cannot "run into yourself" because there is only one yourself and you are him. So you can't go back and shake your own hand, but you can one day find a note in your beaureau with instructions, that you mentally note to go back in time later and give yourself.

Just be aware that once you hit time-hopping, you have to deal win equivalent hassles. It solves your weak, mortal problems by making youtoo busy with dynamic, immortal problems to care.

In thanqol's case, as far as SWLINHN (which I pronounce "Sue-Lynn" because welsh) is concerned, she's free. As far as the rest of Creation is concerned, she may not even be in this existence anymore and didn't actually screw anything up.

[Beeskee]

FFRP Saving Berry Ann




y'know, maybe you should go with Topaz, my balloony friend.

Starry sighs and looks over her shoulder at the... Ship. I suspect that once the door opens, there may be some sort of backflash, or... Really, I just want innocent ponies out of the metaphorical blast radius.

Beeskee: The pony nods as he thinks about it, realizing it may have inadvertently sounded like he was volunteering Topaz to haul a heavy cart. "Y-yeah, that's a good idea." He manages to loosen the straps on his pack, and slips it off himself, urgently grabbing hold of a strap with his mouth before it floats away. A few moments later and he has it tied to a nearby tree, the balloons bobbing merrily in the breeze.

[Beacon of Chaos]

(Pinkamena in Ravenloft stuff)Anyway, because of all the talk of RPs earlier, I figure that I should mention a small update on the Pinkie Pie bard that I mentioned that earlier that I'd be playing in a Ravenloft Campaign. (I believe the campaign was supposed to be Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, but in the space of just three sessions, we have managed to derail enough of what was expected of us to get the DM to practically throw out the campaign. (I actually made the mistake of thinking that it is just a joke that an adventuring party's solution to a couple of hostile creatures in a forest or town is to burn down everything.))

Anyway, given the fact that a Pinkie Pie character fits in Ravenloft about as well as the square peg fits in the round hole, I was actually pleasantly surprised that the party didn't just leave her for dead along the side of a road or in the middle of the forest. (A part of this might be because of the fact that having Inspire courage at +4 at level 5 along with Dragonfire Inspiration (Silverbrow human) is nothing to scoff at.) However, what the other players didn't know, and what the DM only suspected (but didn't think that I'd actually pull off) is that I had planned for my character to have a
"Cupcakes" Pinkie split-personality. (Since I haven't actually read Cupcakes, I based her primarily on the ask Pinkamena Diane Pie Tumblr)

In the space of about half a session, I managed to get her a reputation as an axe-crazy (though she lacks an actual axe) psychopath, and it's to the point that not only does the rest of the party both look forward to and dread the Pinkamena personality appearing, but her mere presence seems to make everyone else in the party more evil as well.

And here's the kicker: By the end of the third session, not only do I have the absolute lowest body count of anyone in the party (1), but Pinkamena has yet to actually instigate any violence! All in all, I think it's going pretty well.
Sounds amazing! Please keep us posted, I'd love to see how this turns out!


Eh, that doesn't work though. One of the few hard limits in Exalted is "No time travel." Also, as a Bob and George fan, I avoid time travel if I can help it. :smallwink:
Oh wow, someone else remembers Bob and George! Yay!

Though truthfully I stopped reading midway through. I think it was the 5th game re-enactment or so. Still, I have good memories of it.

EDIT: Cool Octavia pic:

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/5/c/out_of_chalk_by_kp_shadowsquirrel-d4c0qx2.jpg

[BlasTech]

"I shall not pry," said Charger to Second Hand, getting the feeling that he didn't want to talk about it. "For my part, I am simply returning home." She wanted to pry, actually, quite badly, but there was no polite way to do so.

"Yes, let us be on our way," she said to Ingenuous. "I apologise again for the device, but you seem to have it in hoof."


Clockwork RP
Igneous saluted, a feat made only slightly difficult by the load he now carried, and fell in behind Charger.

Unfortunately, Igneous lacked the mare's tact and began to shoot not-so-subtle glances at their clockwork companion. It wasn't long before Igneous' self restraint gave way to his curiosity and he asked the question that had been niggling in the back of his mind for some time.

"Umm ... Sek? Can I ask you a question?"

The clockwork pony nodded.

"Well, I think I noticed something when I first got here, but it didn't really occur to me until now to bring it up."

Charger's ears perked, as Igneous paused for a moment to marshal his thoughts.

"I guess in hindsight it was rather obvious, so I don't rightly know why I didn't bring it up sooner. I also understand if you don't want to answer me right away, but given that we'll be travelling together I just had to know ... is there a reason you're not wearing a hat?"

Momentum achieved, the rest of his words spilled out in a verbal avalanche.

"I mean, no offence to the Princess of course, but that sun has been glaring in my eyes for the last while. I can't rightly get my helmet to give me any shade, but you're not even trying! I even packed a nifty cap I found before I remembered that I'm not allowed to take off the ole headwear while on duty."

He reached into his saddlebag, avoiding another arc of electricity, before retreiving a kahki legionneighers' cap. Holding the hat in his teeth, he offered it to his travelling companion.

[Deadly]

You made me physically break at the college. Like to the point that my groans of "OH GOD. What the hell? What the hell?!" caught the attention of everyone in the room. Thankfully this is so insane that no one (other than PsychoShutin) had any idea what they were looking at.

Someone asked me if you coded a lineart fractal program, actually.

Heh

It lacks most of the characteristics of a true fractal. But it does look a bit like one. It was coded in Python using Pygraph and Graphviz. Not really all that complicated, although it took a while to compute. The 99 images were inserted manually, though.

[Thanqol]

Wouldn't that sort of thing give SWLIHN Cutie Mark Denial Disorder?

And also turn Creation back into the Wyld?


Clockwork RP
Igneous saluted, a feat made only slightly difficult by the load he now carried, and fell in behind Charger.

Unfortunately, Igneous lacked the mare's tact and began to shoot not-so-subtle glances at their clockwork companion. It wasn't long before Igneous' self restraint gave way to his curiosity and he asked the question that had been niggling in the back of his mind for some time.

"Umm ... Sek? Can I ask you a question?"

The clockwork pony nodded.

"Well, I think I noticed something when I first got here, but it didn't really occur to me until now to bring it up."

Charger's ears perked, as Igneous paused for a moment to marshal his thoughts.

"I guess in hindsight it was rather obvious, so I don't rightly know why I didn't bring it up sooner. I also understand if you don't want to answer me right away, but given that we'll be travelling together I just had to know ... is there a reason you're not wearing a hat?"

Momentum achieved, the rest of his words spilled out in a verbal avalanche.

"I mean, no offence to the Princess of course, but that sun has been glaring in my eyes for the last while. I can't rightly get my helmet to give me any shade, but you're not even trying! I even packed a nifty cap I found before I remembered that I'm not allowed to take off the ole headwear while on duty."

He reached into his saddlebag, avoiding another arc of electricity, before retreiving a kahki legionneighers' cap. Holding the hat in his teeth, he offered it to his travelling companion.

Charger was rapidly revising and re-revising her estimates downwards. But, blessedly, there was a chance to get a real question in edgeways. "I... yes. Forgive me for not offering a hat of my own, though my father makes them, I could provide one such once I am home -" She was aware just how tangential this was getting, but could hardly seem to stop herself. "- But," she said, pulling herself back on topic, "I confess I have never seen a metal pony before and do not know the appropriate etiquette."

Charger wasn't much better at communication than Igneous, when her roundabout way of speech got to her..

And r.e. ponythread:

how cooooould yooouu (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/f/6/flash___luna_in_a_box_by_lentoto-d4c56w9.swf)

[Tectonic Robot]

Er, fellows, is there a new episode on today?

[Thanqol]

Er, fellows, is there a new episode on today?

Next is the 15th I believe.

Also, more Easy as Lying is coming soonish, past few days haven't been conductive to writing.

[EsperDerek]

Double sweet!
Sounds like you had a blast. And then, you had a blast again! I mean? Can you do that?
Blast twice like that?

Who cares! You did, and it sounds awesome. Keep up the good works, pony.

It was amazing. This whole internship has really been amazing. Draining and tiring, oh yes, but so amazing. I know this is what I want to do, and I'm doing wonderfully at it. I know this is what I want.


More quoting Midnight's post, but... Yeah. If you're 20 and you have a college graduation ring, they generally don't ask questions and just hand it to you. Which is nice.

'tis the truth. They generally only card when they suspect something. Signs of age like that work in your favour.


You know, I've actually seen someone play the electric guitar with their face live in concert before. It was so awesome.

That...that just seems painful sounding to me.


I love all of these ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with avariel if I do Fluttershy. However. Psychoshutin and I were chatting in the car.

EsperDerek. I have a question for you. Would you mind if I recreated the Out in the Cold continuity in a D&D campaign? As much as I love TrixieShy, I like the story that much more.

You know what? Either way, this Fluttershy is being introduced in the campaign world. Too much work has been put into her character mechanics by you crazy ponies for me to not. :P

Please go ahead! Recreate away! If you do follow that path, though, please do keep me updated on how it all turns out, my curiosity demands it!


That's awesome! Congratulations! Although the bit about the twelve hour day sucks. How much of that was work vs. commute?

Was all work. Add another fourish hours on for commute, and you get about 16 hours, which sounds about right.


I know I did the flutterclap to Aotrs's post, but I just need to state I completely agree. Everypony has something they enjoy that some people would find offensive or strange or be squicked by. You know what? So what? I'm a furry, I'm a brony, I'm dating a Transgirl. You have no idea how much **** I get for each and every single one of them. For what reason? Because you don't approve of my life decisions? Get over yourself.

There's no reason to judge or disapprove of anything that anypony else does. Absolutely. None.

AOTRS and I are a little older than most of you ponies, we're now at the age (or, at least, maturity) where we've sort of realized that what anypony thinks of you really doesn't matter, and in turn, it kind of pisses us off where we see this sort of thing. Live and let live. If you're not hurting anypony, it's all good. Good for you, man.


Okay, two things. First, the remote thing, wow. That sounds like one of those once in a lifetime incredible experiences. Congratulations, I wish I could have been involved in something so awesome during my internship last year.


Glad you had what sounds like a great day, Esper. :smallsmile:

It really was an experience to remember. What really made it, though, was the company I kept. It could have been so boring and frustrating, but the ponies I was with, and the fun we had because of our situation, just made everything work.


Two, that picture of Midnight is absolutely gorgeous.


That's a nice picture! Congrats Esper :smallsmile:


Wow. That is amazing.

It really is an amazing picture. I got home from work to have that in my deviantart inbox, and jaw just sort of hit the floor. The color and shading is just tremendous.


I'm glad you had a good day at work Esper. And that you seem to be a bit less exhausted by it than usual. :smallsmile

Oh, I was exhausted, but I was also exhilarated, so it all worked out to balance things out. :smallwink:

[Shadowy]

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann:
*A quick crackling of static is heard, then a voice cuts in over it.*
Is this thing on? Good. If you can hear me, I'm currently trapped in the chartered accountancy department. There may or may not be vengeful gods aboard, so please take caution! I've managed to create a control panel out of clip-boards and paper-clips, so I can open up the doors, and give you a safe route inside!

And for the love of Celestia, Don't touch anything! I'm not entirely sure what rules of physics this bunker is running on, but it does not like the pony skeleton. Good luck!

*With that, the blast doors open, and a blinding light is coming from the hallway beyond.*

You're probably the worst host ever, you know that?
I'm kinda of busy here!

[tonberrian]

Is "ironic anti-hipster" a tautology or a double negative? I'm leaning toward the latter, as that was a pretty spot on description of the normal kind.

I guess I forgot the layer of irony where I'm totally honest about lying to your face. :smallsmile:

[Thanqol]

I guess I forgot the layer of irony where I'm totally honest about lying to your face. :smallsmile:

Mask: Oi! That's my thing!

[otakuryoga]

And r.e. ponythread:

how cooooould yooouu (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/f/6/flash___luna_in_a_box_by_lentoto-d4c56w9.swf)

BACK OFF, SHE IS MINE!!!!

[Gamerlord]

Blargh, so many posts.
@Esper: Good to hear the Internship is going well! And yeah that picture is amazing.

[Lix Lorn]

RP:
To be honest, they were just the first ones to come up when I searched for "Ship-proof people willing to work in top-secret underground bunker being raided by vengeful god." To be honest, they were the only result. But they've managed to work through around 30% of the filing already!
RP
HEY! YOU LOT! Why are you celibate?



I may have to blow off my other obligations and run this.
Doooo eeeeeet.

Princess Celestia: So, the main characters, who are called Moonlight, Skittershy, Surprise, Spectrum Storm, Applehoof and Elegance, have been banished to a dungeon on the moon by the evil princess trollestia!
Twilight: Um... Princess... are you trying to tell us something?
Princess Celestia: Let's just say I don't like people wandering off the rails. (Grins)


http://i.imgur.com/59s2M.png dddiiiiiiiiissssssQQQQQoooooorrrrdddd!
This is best theory.


But this is Ponythread! That's how we roll! Wait. Waaait. No, no we don't. 99.999% of our shipping is F/F. The lack of phallacy is an anomoly on the internet.
Big Mac and Braeburn have all of the fillies.
All of them.
And each other.


You know, this makes me miss the Pony Bondage when Phoe was around.

...Come to think, this makes me miss Phoe. http://i.imgur.com/BsGGRb.jpg
...me too.


...I'm not sure if this is adorable or messed up or both?
As a rule, if it's me, the answer is both. :smallwink:


Also, I love the new Avatar Lix.
Hee, thanks. It's really an old one, but with me adding words in paint. xD


[color="green"]Lix, the ol' avvie, I only recently noticed the text. Kind of mocking for such a playful pose, don't you think?
That's pretty much the point. xD It's in celebration of Eldritch Abomination week, and I didn't want to ask for a new avvie, so I just added mocking dark text to my favourite one. (Favourite non-pony one. End of the week will be the G&P again)


Mufcakes! So sweet and tasty!

And on that incredibly disturbing note, I take my leave.

A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. i If I say it enough times I'll actually believe it. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin...
Hee. Mufcakes.

[EsperDerek]

Mask: Oi! That's my thing!

So it's not your thing, then?

[Thanqol]

So it's not your thing, then?

Mask: "Ye - no! I mean, yes! Yes it's not! I confused myself and I want a biscuit."

[EsperDerek]

Mask: "Ye - no! I mean, yes! Yes it's not! I confused myself and I want a biscuit."

*Midnight giggles, and gives Mask biscuits and hot cocoa.

"Sorry, dear, I didn't mean to hurt your brain, but I couldn't resist. Have these in apology."

[Thanqol]

*Midnight giggles, and gives Mask biscuits and hot cocoa.

"Sorry, dear, I didn't mean to hurt your brain, but I couldn't resist. Have these in apology."

Mask: *Noms*

"If it was up to me, I'd hold a grudge. But Mr. Biscuit here is being all chocolate-ey and forgiviness-ey, so I suppose you're off the hook."

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8678/day144.jpg

[Welf]

Huh, I only missed 25 pages.

Well, I promised image dumps last week, but didn't deliver, so image dump finally edition. (includes Disqord)

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/272/5/a/oh__discord__you_so_crazy_by_ponygoggles-d4b96ae.png (http://ponygoggles.deviantart.com/art/Oh-Discord-You-so-crazy-260768534)
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/276/4/6/discord_the_bowler_by_piggybank12-d4bqzx1.png (http://piggybank12.deviantart.com/art/Discord-the-Bowler-261600085)
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/278/6/4/dislxia_by_ghost_peacock-d4byjgu.jpg (http://ghost-peacock.deviantart.com/art/DislXia-261952014)
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/279/6/8/princesses_of_equestria_by_johnjoseco-d4c1yr4.png (http://johnjoseco.deviantart.com/art/Princesses-of-Equestria-262111792)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/259/e/1/celestia_and_a_new_alicorn__by_johnjoseco-d4a1uyn.png (http://johnjoseco.deviantart.com/art/Celestia-and-a-new-Pegacorn-258747647)
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/277/7/a/prepare_your_anus_by_zuzzzz-d4bsjd1.png (http://zuzzzz.deviantart.com/art/Prepare-your-anus-261671941)

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/a/8/confidence_by_assiel-d4c379x.png (http://assiel.deviantart.com/art/Confidence-262169493)

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/279/4/f/the_sundering_by_dayslikejanuary-d4byqls.png (http://dayslikejanuary.deviantart.com/art/The-Sundering-261961264)

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/277/a/a/transformares_princess_luna_by_inspectornills-d4buaqi.jpg (http://inspectornills.deviantart.com/art/Transformares-Princess-Luna-261754074)
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/2/0/20dbff8e034236f3a39fac37935c663d-d4c348s.jpg (http://ask-molestia.deviantart.com/art/Moluna-strikes-262165564)
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/278/0/f/the_predator_strikes_by_flausch_katzerl-d4bxtrk.png (http://flausch-katzerl.deviantart.com/art/The-predator-strikes-261918704)

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/280/e/f/kamare_sutra_by_luna_roo-d4c52ny.png
(http://luna-roo.deviantart.com/art/Kamare-Sutra-262256830)

[Bayonet Priest]

So as it is, read it as: "Three mothers, two of whom are married, and they both share a deep friendship forged by their shared history and future. And if that friendship includes occasional nightly visits from a Princess to the bedroom, well..."



"well... even better" :smalltongue:

But really, thanks for clarifying this. It's just something I've been wondering ever since Reaching Midnight and the stories left it ambiguous. I can see why you didn't want shake the threesome stick at your readers more than you had to though as it would make some people uncomfortable.

I like the Midnight picture there too. It's always good to see Midnight getting some high quality fanart.

[tonberrian]

Mask: Oi! That's my thing!

I was stealing schticks before it was cool.

[Vent Reynolt]

Your D&D tale is as awesome as it is terrifying.

Careful though, Ravenloft is a bad BAD place, the kind of place that might give your Pinkemina half more and more leverage over your Pinky half until she takes over completely...

Well, if that happens, then I've got no reason to not get a protege, like Scootaloo.


Sorry about that by the way. I really couldn't think of anything good for Pinkie. Two weeks after you were due to start, I figured you could spam bardic knowledge. "how did you know I was an elf?" "you were under eeeeee~!"

Don't worry about that. I just did what made sense and focused on boosting Inspire Courage. I also refuse to completely lose the Pinkie personality until I get an excuse to sing "Giggle at the Ghosties!"

Although, I am thinking of using my sixth level feat to get Acquire Familiar for a toothless alligator Familiar.


I don't see why you can't click on the imgur image?

...
http://i.imgur.com/0bxcP.png

Damn, you need to click on the zoom button on the top right corner to get the transparent .png images now.http://i.imgur.com/DrMmg.png

But yes, those pixellated mess are ugly and I will pull The Lever on anyone who do that.

http://i.imgur.com/o7rww.png

...

http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEs.jpg



http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

On a more serious note, I actually had to go back earlier in the thread to find the pixellated version because nearly all of the ponymotes come up as the small version automatically for me.

And r.e. ponythread:

how cooooould yooouu (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/f/6/flash___luna_in_a_box_by_lentoto-d4c56w9.swf)

1) Find Luna in a box
2) STEAL THE HAY OUT OF IT HER!
3) Wait... we're not doing this anymore, are we?

Edit: Oh gosh! It sounded like I was planning to steal the box instead of Luna! Correcting that now!

[Kris Strife]

Oh wow, someone else remembers Bob and George! Yay!

Though truthfully I stopped reading midway through. I think it was the 5th game re-enactment or so. Still, I have good memories of it.

Well, you only have one more game to go before it gets into the ending arcs and the website is still working...


And... What would following a fae creature through magic terrain while cursed do to an Exalt? You'd act as a singularity; meeting yourself is still impossible. Your timeline just gets curly.


In Exalted? You've either got your shaping defenses up and/or are turning it into normal Creation, or you make a new character, because yours just turned into a pot of petunias. :smalltongue:

With how I imagine it working in this instance? The universe gets a Divide by 0 error.

Now, if you actually try to time travel in Exalted? Either it doesn't work, or your thread in the Loom breaks and you die/suffer sudden existence failure. :smalltongue:

[the_druid_droid]

I'll see if some of the good ones are available locally. Thanks for the tip; I always feel so plebeian, being all "Ew beer lol".


One final tip: try finding a brand you can at least tolerate, and have a bottle every day or two for a week. Then try a different style; with luck, your taste buds, accustomed to the old flavors, will experience the new ones more strongly and the subtler 'notes' will stand out and you'll realize "Holy crap! Beer has taste!" - at least, that's what happened to me...


The Remote:*TV stuff*

A Gift I Got:

So, much like how Phoe got that cute little Lyra figurine from an author she's helped, I came home today to a gift from an author (Sunset Rose, she wrote that side-story to Shades) I helped inspire to write. In my case, though, it was a piece of commissioned art, and oh my, is it amazing:

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png

http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876

Glad to hear you had such a good time! And that art is definitely cool! Sounds like it was an awesome day.


...Wow, I legitimately typed class, not work. I need to get into the non-college mentality.

Now I'm depressed. I wanna be a college student again.


...tell me about it... :smallfrown:


"I shall not pry," said Charger to Second Hand, getting the feeling that he didn't want to talk about it. "For my part, I am simply returning home." She wanted to pry, actually, quite badly, but there was no polite way to do so.

"Yes, let us be on our way," she said to Ingenuous. "I apologise again for the device, but you seem to have it in hoof."


Clockwork RP
Igneous saluted, a feat made only slightly difficult by the load he now carried, and fell in behind Charger.

Unfortunately, Igneous lacked the mare's tact and began to shoot not-so-subtle glances at their clockwork companion. It wasn't long before Igneous' self restraint gave way to his curiosity and he asked the question that had been niggling in the back of his mind for some time.

"Umm ... Sek? Can I ask you a question?"

The clockwork pony nodded.

"Well, I think I noticed something when I first got here, but it didn't really occur to me until now to bring it up."

Charger's ears perked, as Igneous paused for a moment to marshal his thoughts.

"I guess in hindsight it was rather obvious, so I don't rightly know why I didn't bring it up sooner. I also understand if you don't want to answer me right away, but given that we'll be travelling together I just had to know ... is there a reason you're not wearing a hat?"

Momentum achieved, the rest of his words spilled out in a verbal avalanche.

"I mean, no offence to the Princess of course, but that sun has been glaring in my eyes for the last while. I can't rightly get my helmet to give me any shade, but you're not even trying! I even packed a nifty cap I found before I remembered that I'm not allowed to take off the ole headwear while on duty."

He reached into his saddlebag, avoiding another arc of electricity, before retreiving a kahki legionneighers' cap. Holding the hat in his teeth, he offered it to his travelling companion.


Charger was rapidly revising and re-revising her estimates downwards. But, blessedly, there was a chance to get a real question in edgeways. "I... yes. Forgive me for not offering a hat of my own, though my father makes them, I could provide one such once I am home -" She was aware just how tangential this was getting, but could hardly seem to stop herself. "- But," she said, pulling herself back on topic, "I confess I have never seen a metal pony before and do not know the appropriate etiquette."

Charger wasn't much better at communication than Igneous, when her roundabout way of speech got to her..

And r.e. ponythread:

how cooooould yooouu (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/f/6/flash___luna_in_a_box_by_lentoto-d4c56w9.swf)

Clockwork:
For a moment, Sek was caught off-balance by the offered hat. He had been expecting a much different sort of question, the sort that Charger seemed to be hinting at. After a moment, the clockwork pony recovered, and gratefully donned the hat, before addressing his traveling companions.

"You know, you two have been really good about avoiding the obvious question here; most ponies tend to blurt it out as soon as they see me. Talking about it doesn't really bother me though, it just makes me feel...odd sometimes." The pegasus took a deep breath, or would have, if he'd needed to breathe.

"Like you can probably tell, I'm not a 'normal' pony; I'm mechanical, made out of bits of clockwork and scrap metal. The weird thing is, that instead of only doing one thing, like a sewing machine, or an oven, I can walk and talk and make my own decisions. I don't really know why, and neither did Dad; in fact, he confessed to me once that my original purpose was something along the lines of a wind-up toy..." The pony's irises contracted with a whirr, and for a moment he seemed almost wistful. "I'm headed to Canterlot to find this mechanic and see if he can figure out what's going on with me."


Sounds amazing! Please keep us posted, I'd love to see how this turns out!

Oh wow, someone else remembers Bob and George! Yay!

Though truthfully I stopped reading midway through. I think it was the 5th game re-enactment or so. Still, I have good memories of it.

EDIT: Cool Octavia pic:

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/5/c/out_of_chalk_by_kp_shadowsquirrel-d4c0qx2.jpg

I have to agree, that is a neat picture, though I wonder why they chose Octavia to go with the alicorn background?


Heh

It lacks most of the characteristics of a true fractal. But it does look a bit like one. It was coded in Python using Pygraph and Graphviz. Not really all that complicated, although it took a while to compute. The 99 images were inserted manually, though.

Clearly the only solution is to make a shipping fractal!

...It's ponies, all the way down!

Also, I have the strangest urge now to say something along the lines of: "I got 99 images, but a pony ain't one". I am a terrible person Inquisitor droid pony. I am a terrible.

[Topaz]

RP: Blue Ponies Yay!

Oh, we're kinda opposites in this because I prefer to live in small towns. It gives me a bit more freedom with weather formations than the cities do, plus I always enjoy being near forests, probably because of those years I spent in Colt Scouts.
Oh, you were a Colt Scout? That's sounds like fun. I was never a Filly Scout, which I guess is just as well because I would probably have been terrible at selling cookies. I was in school chorus instead, I'm not really that good at singing but I do love it. She stretches and looks around. Huh, we seem to be the only ones left at the Blue Pony Meetup. Ah, do you want to go get some dinner or something?

FFRP: Finding Berry Ann


Beeskee: "It should be parked next to the general store. They know that someone else other than me might be the one to pick it up, so there shouldn't be any problems."

y'know, maybe you should go with Topaz, my balloony friend.

Starry sighs and looks over her shoulder at the... Ship. I suspect that once the door opens, there may be some sort of backflash, or... Really, I just want innocent ponies out of the metaphorical blast radius.


Beeskee: The pony nods as he thinks about it, realizing it may have inadvertently sounded like he was volunteering Topaz to haul a heavy cart. "Y-yeah, that's a good idea." He manages to loosen the straps on his pack, and slips it off himself, urgently grabbing hold of a strap with his mouth before it floats away. A few moments later and he has it tied to a nearby tree, the balloons bobbing merrily in the breeze.

*A quick crackling of static is heard, then a voice cuts in over it.*
Is this thing on? Good. If you can hear me, I'm currently trapped in the chartered accountancy department. There may or may not be vengeful gods aboard, so please take caution! I've managed to create a control panel out of clip-boards and paper-clips, so I can open up the doors, and give you a safe route inside!

And for the love of Celestia, Don't touch anything! I'm not entirely sure what rules of physics this bunker is running on, but it does not like the pony skeleton. Good luck!

*With that, the blast doors open, and a blinding light is coming from the hallway beyond.*

You're probably the worst host ever, you know that?
I'm kinda of busy here!
Topaz' eyes widen. Ah. Right. Cart! Supplies! Come on, Beeskee, we'll get the cart!

Topaz' horn lights up as a circular platform appears. Beeskee also glows for a moment while being levitated onto the platform, as Topaz hops up as well, Once she does, a dome forms over the platform and it starts to fly away from the pier and towards the general store. It's no problem at all, Beeskee. I move cargo all the time, I'm used to it.

[Eakin]

Also, I have the strangest urge now to say something along the lines of: "I got 99 images, but a pony ain't one". I am a terrible person Inquisitor droid pony. I am a terrible.

Well considering how many F/F ships we have...

"I got 99 ponies but a colt ain't one?"

[Lix Lorn]

Mask: *Noms*

"If it was up to me, I'd hold a grudge. But Mr. Biscuit here is being all chocolate-ey and forgiviness-ey, so I suppose you're off the hook."

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8678/day144.jpg
OMG SO CUUUTE


I was stealing schticks before it was cool.
Stealing shticks is too mainstream. I invent my own


I have to agree, that is a neat picture, though I wonder why they chose Octavia to go with the alicorn background?
Because she is inexplicable beautiful.

[MCerberus]

I'm waiting for some hipster to admit to liking X before it was cool before it was cool.

Added hipster depth.

[Kris Strife]

I'm waiting for some hipster to admit to liking X before it was cool before it was cool.

Added hipster depth.

Hipception?

[Eakin]

I'm waiting for some hipster to admit to liking X before it was cool before it was cool.

Added hipster depth.

Pffft please Cerby, I liked admitting to liking things before they were cool before it was cool BEFORE it was cool

[Grif]

Well, if that happens, then I've got no reason to not get a protege, like Scootaloo.



Don't worry about that. I just did what made sense and focused on boosting Inspire Courage. I also refuse to completely lose the Pinkie personality until I get an excuse to sing "Giggle at the Ghosties!"

Although, I am thinking of using my sixth level feat to get Acquire Familiar for a toothless alligator Familiar.



...

http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEs.jpg



http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

On a more serious note, I actually had to go back earlier in the thread to find the pixellated version because nearly all of the ponymotes come up as the small version automatically for me.


1) Find Luna in a box
2) STEAL THE HAY OUT OF IT HER!
3) Wait... we're not doing this anymore, are we?

Edit: Oh gosh! It sounded like I was planning to steal the box instead of Luna! Correcting that now!

HNNGGHHH! Urge. To. Pull. Lever. Rising.

*pulls lever*

Release the magma! Muahahahaha!

Clearly, you've gone insane. Again. Moreso than usual. Quite a remarkable feat.

[Deadly]

Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png


Clearly the only solution is to make a shipping fractal!

...It's ponies, all the way down!

Also, I have the strangest urge now to say something along the lines of: "I got 99 images, but a pony ain't one". I am a terrible person Inquisitor droid pony. I am a terrible.

Oh I'd LOVE to make an actual shipping fractal. Only, I have no idea how :smallfrown:

[Beacon of Chaos]

I'm waiting for some hipster to admit to liking X before it was cool before it was cool.

Added hipster depth.
How did the hipster burn his mouth?

He ate his pizza before it was cool


Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png
I did one of those (not sure if it's the same one). I got about 70%, which was better than expected really.

EDIT: New avatar! Woo!

[Gamerlord]

Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png

I was half way through when the site went off line.
*Insert rage here*

[Deadly]

I was half way through when the site went off line.
*Insert rage here*

It did that for me too, it should remember your result, so just reload a little later

[Kris Strife]

Oh I'd LOVE to make an actual shipping fractal. Only, I have no idea how :smallfrown:

Stand in between Midnight and Lix?

[Eakin]

Everypony wish me luck! I'm off to catch a train to NYC to sleep there and take my CISSP certification exam tomorrow morning at 8:00. I'll check in by mobile but I doubt I'll be posting, as I'll be occupied by last minute cramming. Tomorrow I will either pass that test or DIE TRYING.
Although I won't know which until 4 weeks from now. Actual deadness may vary.

[Gamerlord]

Out of curiosity does anyone know if there has been a FIM/ Sid Meier's Alpha Centuari crossover?

[Roninhirox]

Nice. I'd suggest going as DB Ox-King myself though. Or go with out a costume until the last day, then go as Bacterion. :smallwink:

I've been marathoning DB recently. Just finished The Roaming Lake.

DBZ Ox-King is way easier also I already own slacks and suspenders and am a big guy, also i where glasses. Just needed the hat and the pink and yellow button up shirts. Also I can't do Bacterion based on my strict personal policy of being fully clothed in public at all time.


http://i.imgur.com/JmPL5b.jpgHow could anyone possibly have a problem with pink?

Not sure, pink is fun!

[Tectonic Robot]

How did the hipster burn his mouth?

He ate his pizza before it was cool


I did one of those (not sure if it's the same one). I got about 70%, which was better than expected really.

EDIT: New avatar! Woo!

Dude.

Your avatar is AWESOME.

'Grats.

Guys! I still can't believe the Midnight Crew have never been ponified! I gotta add this to my signature or something...

[Kris Strife]

DBZ Ox-King is way easier also I already own slacks and suspenders and am a big guy, also i where glasses. Just needed the hat and the pink and yellow button up shirts. Also I can't do Bacterion based on my strict personal policy of being fully clothed in public at all time.

Really? That's your only problem with dressing as Bacterion? :smalltongue:

[Roninhirox]

Really? That's your only problem with dressing as Bacterion? :smalltongue:

*Thinks about it for a moment* Also I guess my hair isn't really suited for it Also he is horrible

[Zevox]

Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png
Wow, that site is slow. And prone to crashing it seems.

I got 56%. Higher than I expected, given how many of the questions were about things I don't do, like writing fanfics, buying merchandise, and converting new bronies.

Zevox

[Gamerlord]

Poor Twilight:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/8/5/twilight_reads_cupcakes_by_musapan-d4c3yrc.png
Also, I got a 70% on that test. Higher then I expected.

[Deadly]

Wow, that site is slow. And prone to crashing it seems.

I got 56%. Higher than I expected, given how many of the questions were about things I don't do, like writing fanfics, buying merchandise, and converting new bronies.

Zevox

Yeah, I think the slowness may be because it was just featured on EqD. Lots of new visits all at once.

[MCerberus]

64% on the quiz. I think the gummy blog really shot it up though

[Soras Teva Gee]

I got a 66% on the Brony test but have to disagree on at least one question.

Applejack is clearly having trouble in Applebuck season because she's a silly pony. That answer should be worth triple points!

(To my shame some of the trivia I did not know though)


Wow, that site is slow. And prone to crashing it seems.


Because it was featured on ED and therefore suffering a massive avalanche of Brony?

[Mysterious Pony]

Esper Derek: Something just occurred to me. The arcane tome Princess Luna bestowed upon Trixie, leading to so many unpredicted consequences...was the title of it The Joy Of Hex by any chance? :smallbiggrin:

*waits for ponies to start throwing stuff at me*

[Beeskee]

Orrrr... This could be construed as Sexual Harassment in the kingdom of Equestria.

Aww. :smallsmile: What if everyone has a funny saying though? That can only be revealed by poking their cutie marks?



how cooooould yooouu (http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/280/f/6/flash___luna_in_a_box_by_lentoto-d4c56w9.swf)

I started clicking half a second after this loaded. Want. Waaaant.

http://fim.413chan.net/oatmeal/src/131345432082-131093726401.png


FFRP: Finding Berry Ann


Topaz' eyes widen. Ah. Right. Cart! Supplies! Come on, Beeskee, we'll get the cart!

Topaz' horn lights up as a circular platform appears. Beeskee also glows for a moment while being levitated onto the platform, as Topaz hops up as well, Once she does, a dome forms over the platform and it starts to fly away from the pier and towards the general store. It's no problem at all, Beeskee. I move cargo all the time, I'm used to it.

Beeskee: He eeps as he suddenly feels like he's attached to the balloons once more, finding himself floating and letting out a quiet laugh as he realizes what is actually happening. "Woah! Oh hay, cool!" He settles onto the platform carefully, and admires Topaz' hoofwork on the seemingly solid surface and dome. "Very nice! Are you able to use this to move heavier things?" He closes his eyes for a moment and enjoys the sensation of flying.




How did the hipster burn his mouth?

He ate his pizza before it was cool

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pony/src/131788315988.gif


Re: Other replies: I think I missed some responses, but now I can't find them. Sorry everypony. :smallfrown:

[OracleofWuffing]

So, then, as you seem to have more of a clue than me, have you got any suggestions that I could try?
Dude, if you're asking me for girl advice, you're totally asking the wrong guy! :smallbiggrin:

First thing's first, even some of the greatest artists ever struggled drawing the ladyfolk. You'll be surprised at the amount of critics who would explain Michelangelo's formula for painting women as "Draw man, draw boobs, collect money." So, totally, don't get discouraged.

Keep in mind that a number of languages and cultures exist with the concept that if a gender is expected, but uncertain, it is typically considered appropriate to assume man. Furthermore, one of the easiest ways to distinguish between boy and girl, is a direct comparison between two specimen of the same species and guessing from the differences. So, the task at hand is to give us a reason to believe these are girls... Without letting us know what a boy is.

I mean, it's as subtle as naming them Uterobots, but the first thing I'd do is seriously reconsider how your mouths are working there. The less like us these things look, the less likely we are going to identify with them. If they had a mouth that more closely resembled stereotypical lips, you might be on to something.

I would personally round out the face more. Girls usually have more fat on their faces than boys, this hides their bone structure and is one of the reasons why people say girls have a "softer" appearance. Besides that benefit, you'd remove the "fishy" shape that we're looking at here.

If that last comment isn't going to have people jump down my throat in anger, this one will. Your model lacks a hair analogue. While many present cultures are continually shattering gender barriers on the hairstyle front, it is still generally awkward for a girl to be bald. I know you're going to run into a lot of trouble trying to find a style that actually works with how the head and body rotate, but where the only thing humanoid is the head, we need a hint.

Now, uh, the last thing I'm going to say is probably going to make you want to stab me. :smalltongue: Stop examining these really close-up pictures. At 1 cm and 2.5 cm sizes, a whole lot of these suggestions are, flat out, going to be lost in your size reduction. Those eyes are going to be dots, and probably won't even have any topological difference. I know you don't want to be cartoony, but keep in mind that the roots of cartoon are in middle-age fresco painting, used to easily emphasize the strongest, most necessary details to a larger body of work.




http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/c57f6c12.jpg
I see a surprised Shredder, and then another Shredder that's planning his next scheme to get revenge on those blasted turtles. :smalltongue:

I was just sharing a tangent story there for the sake of sharing, though.:smallsmile: The way S curves compared to angles was explained to me was in relation to the Sublime versus the Beautiful (http://www.bartleby.com/24/2/), with such curves being used to define Beauty, and the general structure of a woman (thick head, thin neck, thick chest, thin belly, thick waist, thick hips, thin legs, thick ankles, thin feet) being used as an example of such. Thing is, I mean, this is personal observational anecdote here, but that's just generally how every skeleton works, counterantidisirregardless of gender. Yes, there are skeletal differences between male and female bone structures, but they still follow that same plan, and that's also setting aside cultures where fat bellies were "in".
Not to mention one of the manliest things drawn ever (http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/File:sbemail58picture2a.PNG) is based on two tapered S curves with a couple of consummate implied triangles.

Also, um, just calling 'em as I see 'em, but Edmund Burke is one of the most pretentious writers I've ever read.:smallyuk:

Then again, maybe my brain's just broken in regards to this sort of thing.

[BlasTech]

Grah! I spend 20 minutes getting a reply post together and browser goes and crashes when I hit "preview" ... :smallfurious:


Huh, I only missed 25 pages.


Sorry Sweetie, we'll try harder next time.




Clockwork:
For a moment, Sek was caught off-balance by the offered hat. He had been expecting a much different sort of question, the sort that Charger seemed to be hinting at. After a moment, the clockwork pony recovered, and gratefully donned the hat, before addressing his traveling companions.

"You know, you two have been really good about avoiding the obvious question here; most ponies tend to blurt it out as soon as they see me. Talking about it doesn't really bother me though, it just makes me feel...odd sometimes." The pegasus took a deep breath, or would have, if he'd needed to breathe.

"Like you can probably tell, I'm not a 'normal' pony; I'm mechanical, made out of bits of clockwork and scrap metal. The weird thing is, that instead of only doing one thing, like a sewing machine, or an oven, I can walk and talk and make my own decisions. I don't really know why, and neither did Dad; in fact, he confessed to me once that my original purpose was something along the lines of a wind-up toy..." The pony's irises contracted with a whirr, and for a moment he seemed almost wistful. "I'm headed to Canterlot to find this mechanic and see if he can figure out what's going on with me."


Clockwork RP:
"Get out of town! So you're mechanical and self aware?! That's so awesome." Wide eyed, Igneous was regarding Second Hand as if seeing him for the first time. "Its a pity about the wind up thing, it sounds like a bit of a headache. Although, it does kind of remind me of a friend of mine, except for him its coffee instead of a turning-key."

"Speaking of which, how often do you need to rewind anyway? And where do you put the key ... ew, actually, nevermind that question. More importantly, have you ever tried coffee before?"




Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png


I got 78%, however I'm not sure how many of my fic and drawing points actually count since the drawings are just badly-done doodles when I'm bored, and the fic may never get out of the pre-production phase at the rate I'm going. (*reminds self to buy cattle prod to "encourage" more time spent on writing*)


Everypony wish me luck! I'm off to catch a train to NYC to sleep there and take my CISSP certification exam tomorrow morning at 8:00. I'll check in by mobile but I doubt I'll be posting, as I'll be occupied by last minute cramming. Tomorrow I will either pass that test or DIE TRYING.
Although I won't know which until 4 weeks from now. Actual deadness may vary.

Good Luck!! :smallsmile:


Out of curiosity does anyone know if there has been a FIM/ Sid Meier's Alpha Centuari crossover?

Not that I know of, although the only fic site I frequent is ED, it might be hiding out on one of the other ones like Pony Draft (http://ponydraft.blogspot.com/)

That said, SMAC was a great game. I loved how they actually managed to give Civilisation, the ultimate sandbox game, an overarching plotline. (Not to mention the incredible amount of background and backstory they wrote for it!)


Poor Twilight:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/280/8/5/twilight_reads_cupcakes_by_musapan-d4c3yrc.png
Also, I got a 70% on that test. Higher then I expected.

Aww, Twi hiding with spike is almost as cute as bookfort Twi.

At least she's taking the story better than she did the first time (http://ask-twilightsparkle.tumblr.com/post/9685158365/this-is-part-1-here-is-part-2)she read it (http://ask-twilightsparkle.tumblr.com/post/9685329424/this-is-part-2-here-is-part-1).

[SiuiS]

going to try and keep up with the RP even while slowly compiling quotes. I also just realized my compulsive tagging has just payed dividends. I can catch up on past RPs by using search results for the ponythreads, [FFRP] and specific titles :smallbiggrin:

Sweet. So hey, does anypony want me to keep an archive of their RP as well? I need to catch up on my own stuff, but grabbing your guys' stuff shouldn't be a trouble.

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[FFRP] Saving Berry Ann



Beeskee: The pony nods as he thinks about it, realizing it may have inadvertently sounded like he was volunteering Topaz to haul a heavy cart. "Y-yeah, that's a good idea." He manages to loosen the straps on his pack, and slips it off himself, urgently grabbing hold of a strap with his mouth before it floats away. A few moments later and he has it tied to a nearby tree, the balloons bobbing merrily in the breeze.



*A quick crackling of static is heard, then a voice cuts in over it.*
Is this thing on? *Good. *If you can hear me, I'm currently trapped in the chartered accountancy department. *There may or may not be vengeful gods aboard, so please take caution! *I've managed to create a control panel out of clip-boards and paper-clips, so I can open up the doors, and give you a safe route inside!

And for the love of Celestia, Don't touch anything! *I'm not entirely sure what rules of physics this bunker is running on, but it does not like the pony skeleton. *Good luck!

*With that, the blast doors open, and a blinding light is coming from the hallway beyond.*

You're probably the worst host ever, you know that?
I'm kinda of busy here!


... Mm-Hm. So this is our, uh, "ship". Vengeful deities, odds of bursting into flames and landing in the trees in the top percentile... Oh adventure, you so silly.



Topaz' eyes widen. Ah. Right. Cart! Supplies! Come on, Beeskee, we'll get the cart!

Topaz' horn lights up as a circular platform appears. Beeskee also glows for a moment while being levitated onto the platform, as Topaz hops up as well, Once she does, a dome forms over the platform and it starts to fly away from the pier and towards the general store. It's no problem at all, Beeskee. I move cargo all the time, I'm used to it.




Beeskee: He eeps as he suddenly feels like he's attached to the balloons once more, finding himself floating and letting out a quiet laugh as he realizes what is actually happening. "Woah! Oh hay, cool!" He settles onto the platform carefully, and admires Topaz' hoofwork on the seemingly solid surface and dome. "Very nice! Are you able to use this to move heavier things?" He closes his eyes for a moment and enjoys the sensation of flying.


Starry watches the two fly away, still somewhat bemused by Topaz's platform. Well, good to know they are out of the blast zone... IM... *COULD YOU LAND? She shouts. I CAN'T GET UP THERE TO THE DOOR.

...

CAN YOU EVEN HEAR ME?

[Deadly]

Quick question: Can anyone tell me in which episode Twilight hugs Pinkie (not group hug)? I'm sure I saw a clip like that recently but now I can't remember where

[Roninhirox]

Woo 81% brony. Yay.
Ok now to go watch cartoons and make sure my suit is clean enough to wear out tonight.

[erikun]

Quick question: Can anyone tell me in which episode Twilight hugs Pinkie (not group hug)? I'm sure I saw a clip like that recently but now I can't remember where
It was towards the end of Feeling Pinkie Keen, right after they get away from the Hydra.

Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeTrZCOSmog&t=18m25s)

[EDIT] Here you go again.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnlzuwJDeW1qg2w84o1_500.png

[Deadly]

It was towards the end of Feeling Pinkie Keen, right after they get away from the Hydra.

Here you go. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeTrZCOSmog&t=18m25s)

[EDIT] Here you go again.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnlzuwJDeW1qg2w84o1_500.png

Oooh, thanks ^^ I knew I'd seen it

[Kindablue]

Applejack is clearly having trouble in Applebuck season because she's a silly pony. That answer should be worth triple points!

She definitely needs therapy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvIyme2MU4)

[Topaz]

And now, a special guest appearance from The Village Hidden In The Everfree Forest:
And not necessarily the one you were thinking of.
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/stryke81/chakra_control_is_magic__p_by_otakugal15-d3kpt33.png
FFRP: Finding Berry Ann

Beeskee: He eeps as he suddenly feels like he's attached to the balloons once more, finding himself floating and letting out a quiet laugh as he realizes what is actually happening. "Woah! Oh hay, cool!" He settles onto the platform carefully, and admires Topaz' hoofwork on the seemingly solid surface and dome. "Very nice! Are you able to use this to move heavier things?" He closes his eyes for a moment and enjoys the sensation of flying.

Topaz smiles briefly. Oh yes, I can handle six ponies or around a ton of cargo if it's balanced well and I only have to carry it across town. It's my signature magic, not counting my Element. She glances back at the pier. I certainly hope Starry can make some sense of whatever is going on back there. She steers the dome toward the store, looking for a good place to land.

You were asking about the Dreamscape. It's where dreams come from, of course, but more importantly it's the realm that underlies all the realities and even the unrealities; scientific types sometimes call it the Eleventh Dimension. It embodies Possibility in all its aspects, which can make it decidedly tricky to maneuver in.

[SiuiS]

81%, but skewed results. I counted forcing friends into amround-robin rendition of lyrics as making a remix, but said no to making a PMV, despite having one planned and lackin the tech.

Its also kinda bunkum. For example;
"how important is MLP: FiM to the world?"

The rigt answer is not make it mandatory viewing. Forcing pony on others isn't brony, it's beig an inconsiderate jerk. I refuse to believe I lost four points BECAUSE I took some of the morals to heart.

Any brony quiz Whig penalizes love and tolerance falls short of my mark. I think I will contact them and let them know. May as well, aye?

[Kindablue]

81%, but skewed results. I counted forcing friends into amround-robin rendition of lyrics as making a remix, but said no to making a PMV, despite having one planned and lackin the tech.

Its also kinda bunkum. For example;
"how important is MLP: FiM to the world?"

The rigt answer is not make it mandatory viewing. Forcing pony on others isn't brony, it's beig an inconsiderate jerk. I refuse to believe I lost four points BECAUSE I took some of the morals to heart.

Any brony quiz Whig penalizes love and tolerance falls short of my mark. I think I will contact them and let them know. May as well, aye?

I didn't take that to mean that the show should be administered to adults via the Ludovico technique, just that everyone should watch it. Maybe I'm misremembering how the option was phrased, though.

[Soras Teva Gee]

She definitely needs therapy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvIyme2MU4)

Nah just a little silly, bumping into posts and knocking over fences. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84PZbL_-jjU)

[Topaz]

I got 78% on the test.
But never mind that!
Friendship is Kitties!
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/e3/b0/e3b030762cd5c6fd63b1d2e10cd4fae6.png?1318025619

[Aotrs Commander]

Managed to grab a hour or so this late at night, before I have to disconnect it again tomorrow... Quick pony check (and look up where the hay I should be going in Star Ocean, First Departure, since I haven't played on my PSP in anger for nearly two years... Last save game data was 1/1/11 and that was only a quick burst of levelling! (Most of the time, my PSP is in semi-regular use as my MP3 player, most commonly during the holidays.))


It's not just an art thing, though. S curves are feminine, but so are waspish figures. It comes about from all sorts of stuff, so I can't pin anything down for citation.


http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/c57f6c12.jpg

The heads are approximately the same size, but the bottom one looks smaller. I don't have the fine motor control to generate 'feminine' exactly, but it illustrates a point. Big eyes indicate feminine innocence, not feminine violence. The eyes should be more pronouncedly slanted but I fail at low-res finger painting.

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/a3246add.jpg

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/c83ccec6.jpg

These two are built on the same chassis, and would have approximately the same mass. The second one looks more feminine because the triangular forms create a sense of tapering, leading to "delicate joints" and "elfin features" so commonly associated by most folks as feminine. *Using the same size, but implied thinness, you can make something look petit when it's not.

It's not entirely art, it's obfuscation. If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's how to fake completion so I can skive off earlier than necessary. Faux depth in poetry, getting stuff across without really doing it, that sort of thing. Unlike Mask, I decided that I was somewhat morally opposed to it so I stopped.
Let's see.


Dude, if you're asking me for girl advice, you're totally asking the wrong guy! :smallbiggrin:

First thing's first, even some of the greatest artists ever struggled drawing the ladyfolk. You'll be surprised at the amount of critics who would explain Michelangelo's formula for painting women as "Draw man, draw boobs, collect money." So, totally, don't get discouraged.

*snip*

Now, uh, the last thing I'm going to say is probably going to make you want to stab me. :smalltongue: Stop examining these really close-up pictures. At 1 cm and 2.5 cm sizes, a whole lot of these suggestions are, flat out, going to be lost in your size reduction. Those eyes are going to be dots, and probably won't even have any topological difference. I know you don't want to be cartoony, but keep in mind that the roots of cartoon are in middle-age fresco painting, used to easily emphasize the strongest, most necessary details to a larger body of work.

Noted and noted, thank you both. I knew it was a ridiculously hard thing I was trying, but I thought I might at least try and take a shot. I may well admit defeat in the end (at the end of the day, I'm a necromancer with an engineer's mindset, not an sculpter/artist!) But at least I will be able to say I gave it a good try!

With regard to the size, issue Oracle, I'm also well aware of that. (In fact, prior experimentation has said that 0.3mm is about the minimum comfortably visible size - normally I make the details on my models 0.3-0.5mm deep.) So, yeah, I know it'll just be a tiny blob! However, the model will also be scaled up to twice it's size for 25mm scale - and, probably more pertinently, it'll also serve as a template for other models, which will be the "vehicles" and thus quite a chunk bigger. (I find it easier to start from the smallest and work up, because it's easier to modify when you already know the material limits are met.)




AOTRS v/ Human Stupidity

...

AOTRS + Anything you could come up with < Human Stupidity

I'm sorry Bleakbane, but it's math. Math doesn't lie; you'll have to just wipe out the species at the appropriate time.

I know, but sometimes I just get the urge to at least try metaphorically stop the tide coming in...

After all, with sufficient magic/technology, you actually can, once you can move/blow-up/halt the moon (well, not your moon, obviously Luna!) That's still beyond my limits, of course. (Well, technically, most starships could destroy a planet with a sustained energy weapon attack that superheats the core over the course of several hours - though our own reliance on coldbeams and missiles means we'd struggle a bit more. But, of course, blowing up whole planets is kinda wasteful - and to be fair, even the Cybertanks, xenophobes they are, don't usually resort to that.)



Utterly unrelated note, Phineas and Ferb the movie was pretty darn good...

[Kindablue]

Drawfriends:
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/281/d/3/captain_gilda_by_equestria_prevails-d4c5uax.jpg (http://equestria-prevails.deviantart.com/art/Captain-Gilda-262292649)

http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/280/3/d/party_pony_by_iamthecowboysmuggler-d4c50fu.jpg (http://iamthecowboysmuggler.deviantart.com/art/Party-Pony-262253946)

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/281/f/b/fb574a14e70dd813d33a18a809fb15cf-d4c79gc.png (http://mn27.deviantart.com/art/How-about-a-Game-262358940)

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/280/7/6/commission___variables_by_tommy631-d4c4ipj.png (http://tommy631.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Variables-262230967)

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/281/3/c/discreep_by_rustedrabbit-d4c74ed.png (http://rustedrabbit.deviantart.com/art/DisCreep-262352389)

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/281/d/e/bronystate_banner_by_csimadmax-d4c71wm.png (http://csimadmax.deviantart.com/art/BronyState-banner-262349158)

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/280/3/f/midnight_at_dawn_by_bamboodog-d4c4gbo.png (http://bamboodog.deviantart.com/art/Midnight-At-Dawn-262227876)

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/280/6/1/earth_apple_by_fyrecalla-d4c4vco.jpg (http://fyrecalla.deviantart.com/art/Earth-Apple-262247352)

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/281/c/c/i_see_the_light_teaser_by_why485-d4c6zcm.png (http://why485.deviantart.com/#/d4c6zcm)

[Lix Lorn]

So I got a plotbunny...
Basically... make a story about this picture.
http://i54.tinypic.com/2u63dhf.jpg
(Does anyone happen to know the artist of it?)

[Kindablue]

So I got a plotbunny...
Basically... make a story about this picture.
http://i54.tinypic.com/2u63dhf.jpg
(Does anyone happen to know the artist of it?)

This guy: http://siansaar.deviantart.com/

He also did a comic version of it starting here (http://siansaar.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d42gqnq). Not that that should stop you.

[EsperDerek]

Mask: *Noms*

"If it was up to me, I'd hold a grudge. But Mr. Biscuit here is being all chocolate-ey and forgiviness-ey, so I suppose you're off the hook."

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8678/day144.jpg

Mr. Biscuit makes the best arguments for forgiveness. :smallsmile:


"well... even better" :smalltongue:

But really, thanks for clarifying this. It's just something I've been wondering ever since Reaching Midnight and the stories left it ambiguous. I can see why you didn't want shake the threesome stick at your readers more than you had to though as it would make some people uncomfortable.

I like the Midnight picture there too. It's always good to see Midnight getting some high quality fanart.

Yeah, I push the line, but I don't want to pitch myself completely over it, that turns ponies off. (Unless you're into that sort of thing. :smallwink: )


Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png

My only problem with things like this is, who are the test makers to decide how bronyish I am? :smalltongue:


Oh I'd LOVE to make an actual shipping fractal. Only, I have no idea how :smallfrown:


Stand in between Midnight and Lix?

Ooh, ohh! Please do! Teacher and I will definitely help you!


Esper Derek: Something just occurred to me. The arcane tome Princess Luna bestowed upon Trixie, leading to so many unpredicted consequences...was the title of it The Joy Of Hex by any chance? :smallbiggrin:

*waits for ponies to start throwing stuff at me*

...

*throws books at you*

Bad! No biscuit for you!


I got 78% on the test.
But never mind that!
Friendship is Kitties!
http://twentypercentcooler.net/data/e3/b0/e3b030762cd5c6fd63b1d2e10cd4fae6.png?1318025619

I approve of any drawings this artist makes now. :smallwink:

Also, the Midnight picture made drawfriend!

[Khosan]

Well hello again!

My Little Pony: Budding Friendships progress has slowed down a bit. Definitely so on my part. School came up, but I've still got stuff to do.

Jaguar tells me they need help coming up with a proper dialogue UI and I started figuring out a way to put it all together. The rest of them cobbled together a basic layout which I quite like, but I'm not exactly a huge fan of their relationship meter. This is kind of where I (and you) come in.

Now, I'm usually pretty good when it comes to coming up with tiny little UI things that communicate what's going on pretty well, but I'm having a bit of trouble finishing these up:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/Khosan/RelationshipMeterMarks.png

Now, I'm happy with Applejack for sure, Twilight could use a little more work on the first three, but I think it gets the point across. The other four I'm having some trouble with and I could use any input.

There's some serious rule of three going on in most cutie marks, so I kinda like following the pattern I set with AJ. You start off with one something, then two somethings, then three, then one by one they change into actual parts of their cutie mark.

Rarity and Fluttershy shouldn't be particularly hard, but I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly to put there that's appropriate, doesn't look too odd (I've thought about having a caterpillar/cocoon for Fluttershy's first 3, but that's on the weird side) and doesn't confuse people into thinking they suffered some kind of downgrade in their relationship (my first thought for Rarity was for them to start out as basic gemstones like the ones Spike dug up, but for some people that'd look like you were losing progress as you went from rubies to diamonds).

Pinkie Pie is a weird case. It's hard to transition into the balloon trio from something else that's immediately identifiable as Pinkie Pie without the transition being too strange.

Rainbow Dash I don't even really know. I feel like it should start out as the cloud alone, but that's 6 panels of transitioning from a boring old cloud to a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt coming out of it. I suppose I could have Rainbow be a bit unfriendly at the beginning (for some reason or another), have it start out as a thunderstorm type cloud, then go to a rain cloud, then go into a shorter transition from normal cloud to bolt, but that's kinda putting Rainbow in a bad light and I don't really want to do that.

Any ideas at all would be welcome

[SiuiS]

Wow, today mus be more aggravating than I thought; I almost input my color as blue.

Kindablue, it just says "How important do you think MLP:FiM is to the world?" and answer four is "it should be mandatory viewing material for everyone."
I know the SUPERMEGABRONY!!1!1 answer tends to be hyperbolic, but that one struck me as very distinctly wrong on an important level. I don't think my buying MLP stickers last night is as important a thingtk being 'brony' as noticing Generosity was under-represented because the closest they had to Rarity was her cutie mark. Similarly, wanting to share with others is dandy, but being willing to say "it's not your thin and that's cool" should rank higher than not. I honestly thought it was a trick question, aimed at folks who were picking the 'right' answers in order to be 'more' brony. I'm disappointed that it wasn't.

I'm seeing things in a negative light though, as my day has been primarily one of fixin others' problems while being actively derided ratherthan thanked or ignored. I may lighten up in a bit. Who knows? I'm relatively fickle/moody.

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Topaz, if I were going to read some conversion Beauruewleurueieu stuff (take that word I could spell six months ago!), any you would suggest?

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POISON JOKE.
It's a plant that plays a joke.
Maybe it's not like poison oak at all? Poison oak and the like secrete an oil which causes symptoms. Applebloom went through pretty much the same space of land as the other ponies (who came up right behind her yet mysteriously were in the flowerbed...) and didn't get hit by anything. She also didn't catch anything from her sister, who did everything but make sweet sweet love to the patch of 'joke before picking her up. Seriously, they were rolling in it for a spell there...

Poison joke is a semisentient plant whose flowers function as sensory organs. It is similar to fungi, In that a core colony (the actual poison joke plant) can sprout flowers anywhere within it's reach. It's curse effects are specifically tailored to the pony because it has been observing them. My initial thought was that "poison joke" was a manifestation of Everfree itself, Which gives the plant a much better idea of how to slap some hubris on each pony (since they adventured through it to thwart Nightmare Moon and all). These two ideas aren't mutually exclusive, but having it be a plant creature allows for finding it outside of the forest itself.

Poison joke is in itself an encounter, tailored to it's targets. It iscapablemof picking targets, as well- Applebloom and Zecora had a chance for at least secondary contact but got away Scott-free. It doesn't make sense as just a terrain effect, however.

[Kris Strife]

Have Rarity's start out as rocks.

[Khosan]

Have Rarity's start out as rocks.

I thought about that one too, but for the first three friendship levels, you wouldn't feel very good.

"Man, I've been giving Rarity all these gemstones and all I get is a ROCK?!"

It'd be a little discouraging until you got to the 4th level, at which point you'd get your first diamond and probably figure it out.

[Kris Strife]

I thought about that one too, but for the first three friendship levels, you wouldn't feel very good.

"Man, I've been giving Rarity all these gemstones and all I get is a ROCK?!"

It'd be a little discouraging until you got to the 4th level, at which point you'd get your first diamond and probably figure it out.

Well, it'd be a game mostly for bronies, so they'd probably get the reference. :smalltongue:

[SiuiS]

Well hello again!

My Little Pony: Budding Friendships progress has slowed down a bit. Definitely so on my part. School came up, but I've still got stuff to do.

Jaguar tells me they need help coming up with a proper dialogue UI and I started figuring out a way to put it all together. The rest of them cobbled together a basic layout which I quite like, but I'm not exactly a huge fan of their relationship meter. This is kind of where I (and you) come in.

Now, I'm usually pretty good when it comes to coming up with tiny little UI things that communicate what's going on pretty well, but I'm having a bit of trouble finishing these up:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/Khosan/RelationshipMeterMarks.png

Now, I'm happy with Applejack for sure, Twilight could use a little more work on the first three, but I think it gets the point across. The other four I'm having some trouble with and I could use any input.

There's some serious rule of three going on in most cutie marks, so I kinda like following the pattern I set with AJ. You start off with one something, then two somethings, then three, then one by one they change into actual parts of their cutie mark.

Rarity and Fluttershy shouldn't be particularly hard, but I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly to put there that's appropriate, doesn't look too odd (I've thought about having a caterpillar/cocoon for Fluttershy's first 3, but that's on the weird side) and doesn't confuse people into thinking they suffered some kind of downgrade in their relationship (my first thought for Rarity was for them to start out as basic gemstones like the ones Spike dug up, but for some people that'd look like you were losing progress as you went from rubies to diamonds).

Pinkie Pie is a weird case. It's hard to transition into the balloon trio from something else that's immediately identifiable as Pinkie Pie without the transition being too strange.

Rainbow Dash I don't even really know. I feel like it should start out as the cloud alone, but that's 6 panels of transitioning from a boring old cloud to a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt coming out of it. I suppose I could have Rainbow be a bit unfriendly at the beginning (for some reason or another), have it start out as a thunderstorm type cloud, then go to a rain cloud, then go into a shorter transition from normal cloud to bolt, but that's kinda putting Rainbow in a bad light and I don't really want to do that.

Any ideas at all would be welcome


I thought about that one too, but for the first three friendship levels, you wouldn't feel very good.

"Man, I've been giving Rarity all these gemstones and all I get is a ROCK?!"

It'd be a little discouraging until you got to the 4th level, at which point you'd get your first diamond and probably figure it out.

How detailed is the transition?
With Rarity, you can start with a cracked rock; when you earn three cracks, it splits open to reveal 1 gem, and then progress up to three. Don't know how effective that would be though.

I'd suggest considering either a 'blank' first rank or a 'gold' final rank. Applejack's 5th is 3 apples; her 6th is three apples lit from behind with a golden glow.

Rainbow I was going to suggest grey cloud, 2 lighter clouds, 3 white clouds, combine into 1 cloud with a yellow bolt, then one with a red/yellow bolt, then a full-sized cutiemark.

Twilight has 5 tiny motes around her mark, right? Level 1 has no motes, each level up adds another mote to your existing design.

Pinkie Pie could likewise be rocks, which transition into balloons, but that's clunky. Gain balloons, of a random color, up to level three? Then as you achieve levels 4 through 6, oneof each balloon gets bigger and develops- wait for it- STREAMERS!

Fluttershy... I guess happy caterpillars 1-3 that become happy butterflies 1-3. If anypony could make it work, it would be her. Especially if you give her a dialogue of caterpillars to butterflies metaphor stuff.

-

Dungeons (in the place you were banished to) & Dragons; would classes be necessary? If they are, I suppose level 1 is "pony" and you have to multiclass into a standard? I suppose it would require me to have a better idea of what I'd be going for though, wouldn't it? Hm.

[Kindablue]

Wow, today mus be more aggravating than I thought; I almost input my color as blue.
Truly the worst color of them all.


Kindablue, it just says "How important do you think MLP:FiM is to the world?" and answer four is "it should be mandatory viewing material for everyone."
I know the SUPERMEGABRONY!!1!1 answer tends to be hyperbolic, but that one struck me as very distinctly wrong on an important level. I don't think my buying MLP stickers last night is as important a thingtk being 'brony' as noticing Generosity was under-represented because the closest they had to Rarity was her cutie mark. Similarly, wanting to share with others is dandy, but being willing to say "it's not your thin and that's cool" should rank higher than not. I honestly thought it was a trick question, aimed at folks who were picking the 'right' answers in order to be 'more' brony. I'm disappointed that it wasn't.
Yeah, that makes sense. Got around a 75, I think. I hesitate to announce here that I picked "it's just a cartoon" for that one.


I'm seeing things in a negative light though, as my day has been primarily one of fixin others' problems while being actively derided ratherthan thanked or ignored. I may lighten up in a bit. Who knows? I'm relatively fickle/moody.
That sucks. Hope it turns around for you soon.


Beauruewleurueieu stuff

"Bureaucratic Underlings Rarely Ever Appreciate the Unorthodox".

[Lord Raziere]

Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png


:smalleek:

I got 53/100. I'm more bronyish than I thought.

I honestly thought it'd be more like 30% or 20%.....

and who is the heck is this Bon-Bon and Lyra people?

[Titanium Fox]

A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. i If I say it enough times I'll actually believe it. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin. A mufcake is nothing more than a cupcake crossed with a muffin...

I don't believe you. Not one bit. At all. Ever. However if we do go by your whitetext definition, my friend gave me one today.


Seriously. You and everyone else who is doing this with the ponymotes, stop. You click on the ponymote, it'll grey the screen and bring the picture up in the middle of the screen, then you right click *that* and click copy image location. Doing it off the grid results in this huge, hideous pixellated mess.

I'm seriously sorry. Imgur changed UIs on me and I was stuck on Internet Explorer at the time, so I couldn't "open in new tab" the pictures. Didn't notice the zoom sign either. Don't worry, it won't happen again.


Have you ever seen a Herschell Gordon Lewis film? Well, I don't recommend it, honestly, but I also don't have a better reference point and Halloween is coming up soon, so try to check one out before the next sentence. Okay, it's basically that, fake ketchup blood and all, with horses. It's much more surreal than it's intended to be, I think, and not nearly as disturbing as it's given credit for.



http://i.imgur.com/2lTPEs.jpg

I am extremely bad with horror films. Hell, I watched half of Marble Hornets and I couldn't sleep for a week.


I WILL WEAR YOUR PANTS LIKE A HAT :smallfurious:



That threat didn't work out quite right, but I can't quite put my finger on why.

I may or may not have been infected by Lix, because somehow that sounds Kinky.


I don't see why you can't click on the imgur image?

...
http://i.imgur.com/0bxcP.png

Damn, you need to click on the zoom button on the top right corner to get the transparent .png images now.http://i.imgur.com/DrMmg.png

But yes, those pixellated mess are ugly and I will pull The Lever on anyone who do that.

http://i.imgur.com/o7rww.png

Yeeeeeeah. XD. Now that I see it it won't be an issue again.


Heh

It lacks most of the characteristics of a true fractal. But it does look a bit like one. It was coded in Python using Pygraph and Graphviz. Not really all that complicated, although it took a while to compute. The 99 images were inserted manually, though.

Still, that is insane. SO MUCH SHIPPING. Offering to the shipping gods much? http://i.imgur.com/9QvF1.png


That...that just seems painful sounding to me.

He honestly didn't seem fazed by it. Then again, he probably does it every show.


Please go ahead! Recreate away! If you do follow that path, though, please do keep me updated on how it all turns out, my curiosity demands it!

Awesome! Thanks! Although the player playing Trixie is a changeling, so in this continuity Trixie may be the father. http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png


Was all work. Add another fourish hours on for commute, and you get about 16 hours, which sounds about right.

Jeez! Still, at least it was fun and worth it.


Big Mac and Braeburn have all of the fillies.
All of them.
And each other.

You know, Big Mac / Caramel is my favorite ship involving either of them. So I have 4 F/F OTPs, and a M/M OTP. Apparently I am incapable of straight ponies.


...me too.

Phoe, you need to post here more often again! http://i.imgur.com/RBgwp.png


HNNGGHHH! Urge. To. Pull. Lever. Rising.

*pulls lever*

Release the magma! Muahahahaha!

Clearly, you've gone insane. Again. Moreso than usual. Quite a remarkable feat.

Lyra? Go back to stalking Twilight. You're better at it than the Villain schtick.


How did the hipster burn his mouth?

He ate his pizza before it was cool

That is an absolutely terrible pun and I love it.


Stand in between Midnight and Lix?

Hurrrrrr.


Aww. :smallsmile: What if everyone has a funny saying though? That can only be revealed by poking their cutie marks?

Does a hoof to the back of the head count as a funny saying?


Quick question: Can anyone tell me in which episode Twilight hugs Pinkie (not group hug)? I'm sure I saw a clip like that recently but now I can't remember where

I think they hugged solo at the end of Episode 2.


So I got a plotbunny...
Basically... make a story about this picture.
http://i54.tinypic.com/2u63dhf.jpg
(Does anyone happen to know the artist of it?)

I would say as an alternate ending to Season 2 Episode 2, Discord pulls the elements of Discord from the elements of Harmony as a last ditch effort to spread chaos around the world; throwing equestria into war as the elements of Discord slowly amass an army of chaos.

[Anarion]

:smalleek:

and who is the heck is this Bon-Bon and Lyra people?

Oh no. No. Why did you...Do you have any idea what you may have just unleashed?!? Run while you still can.

Actual answer.
They're just background ponies. They were seen together a lot in early episodes and Lyra was caught sitting in an especially awkward position, although I forget the episode now. They have a fun color scheme, Phoe (of these boards and Equestria Daily) has a love affair with Lyra, and the fandom has somehow accepted them as a lesbian couple, even though I don't see how anyone could put up with Bon-Bon's voice as heard in ep. 12.

[Kindablue]

and who is the heck is this Bon-Bon and Lyra people?
Well, this is Lyra:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/a7f7b129b12043244f11b46a3e088cd9/48989%20-%20Flower_Wishes%20Lyra%20Sparkler%20animated%20da isy%20dizzy_twister%20flank%20irrational_exuberanc e%20jumping.gif

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/957ec88def733c3afab88a538c201d07/49005%20-%20Carrot_Top%20Lyra%20animated%20berry_punch%20ir rational_exuberance%20jumping%20rally_pony%20winte r_wrap_up.gif

I've never heard of Bon-Bon, though.

[the_druid_droid]

Clockwork RP:
"Get out of town! So you're mechanical and self aware?! That's so awesome." Wide eyed, Igneous was regarding Second Hand as if seeing him for the first time. "Its a pity about the wind up thing, it sounds like a bit of a headache. Although, it does kind of remind me of a friend of mine, except for him its coffee instead of a turning-key."

"Speaking of which, how often do you need to rewind anyway? And where do you put the key ... ew, actually, nevermind that question. More importantly, have you ever tried coffee before?"


Clockwork:
A strange look passes over the pegasus' face for a moment. "Oh, uh, that was more a metaphor really...Dad was clever enough to build me so that I wouldn't need winding up!"

After a moment, Second Hand broke the silence that had descended over the little group. "Well, now that I've shared, it's somepony else's turn; it's only fair that you two tell me a bit more about yourselves."


Yay ponies!
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/114dd4c221e0d4a211587218ce919b99/68622%20-%20artist%3Ajohn_joseco%20caralight%20caramel%20ki ssing%20shipping%20twilight_sparkle.png
Cutest ship evar!
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/5f5d7fce6f900f140acc56e91f5ff1a4/68620%20-%20artist%3Aenolianslave%20fluttershy.jpg
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/0adef7c6e5715236e10799970561463d/68614%20-%20Ditzy_Doo%20derpy_hooves%20muffin.png

[Khosan]

How detailed is the transition?

Just six panels. Not super thorough, but long enough to get the idea across.


With Rarity, you can start with a cracked rock; when you earn three cracks, it splits open to reveal 1 gem, and then progress up to three. Don't know how effective that would be though.

I'm not really sold on rocks. I know the big Rarity joke is "A ROCK?!" but still. It could start out as a rock for the first level, but it shouldn't be a rock for very long.


Rainbow I was going to suggest grey cloud, 2 lighter clouds, 3 white clouds, combine into 1 cloud with a yellow bolt, then one with a red/yellow bolt, then a full-sized cutiemark.

I'm still not entirely sure what to do with Rainbow, but you did trigger a train of thought for 3 of the 5 panels I need to cover. White cloud, then two white clouds, then cloud with rainbow between them. Maybe throw in a rain cloud at first (I can imagine Rainbow being a little harsh on Sunny to begin with), leaving one spot between the rainbow and the rainbow bolt.


Twilight has 5 tiny motes around her mark, right? Level 1 has no motes, each level up adds another mote to your existing design.

That doesn't feel like a lot of progress though. The difference between the 4th level (3 motes) and the 5th and 6th levels (4 and 5 motes) wouldn't be particularly big and those of us who can't quite remember the little details like that might miss the transitions between them.


Pinkie Pie could likewise be rocks, which transition into balloons, but that's clunky. Gain balloons, of a random color, up to level three? Then as you achieve levels 4 through 6, oneof each balloon gets bigger and develops- wait for it- STREAMERS!

You did give me a funny idea with this one. Start off with Rocky then add Madame LeFlour and Sir Lints-a-lot (with Party Hats), then have them one by one turn into balloons.

Like I said funny, but probably not a good idea.

EDIT: Hold on! An idea appears! We start with 1 balloon for level 1, level 2 is 1 balloon with some streamers and maybe a horn, level 3 is 2 balloons, no streamers. So essentially, every other level a 'party' is thrown and another balloon appears next level.


Fluttershy... I guess happy caterpillars 1-3 that become happy butterflies 1-3. If anypony could make it work, it would be her. Especially if you give her a dialogue of caterpillars to butterflies metaphor stuff.

I'll probably go with caterpillars like you said. Assuming I can pull off 'cute caterpillars' correctly.

[Kris Strife]

I'm not really sold on rocks. I know the big Rarity joke is "A ROCK?!" but still. It could start out as a rock for the first level, but it shouldn't be a rock for very long.

There's also Tom. :smalltongue:

You could have the rock break into pieces, one piece each level, then have each piece turn into a gem.

[Grif]

Oh no. No. Why did you...Do you have any idea what you may have just unleashed?!? Run while you still can.

Actual answer.
They're just background ponies. They were seen together a lot in early episodes and Lyra was caught sitting in an especially awkward position, although I forget the episode now. They have a fun color scheme, Phoe (of these boards and Equestria Daily) has a love affair with Lyra, and the fandom has somehow accepted them as a lesbian couple, even though I don't see how anyone could put up with Bon-Bon's voice as heard in ep. 12.

Somepony called for Seapony Lyra?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgarjWW0j1r2r7jpo1_500.png

[Titanium Fox]

Oh no. No. Why did you...Do you have any idea what you may have just unleashed?!? Run while you still can.

Actual answer.
They're just background ponies. They were seen together a lot in early episodes and Lyra was caught sitting in an especially awkward position, although I forget the episode now. They have a fun color scheme, Phoe (of these boards and Equestria Daily) has a love affair with Lyra, and the fandom has somehow accepted them as a lesbian couple, even though I don't see how anyone could put up with Bon-Bon's voice as heard in ep. 12.

Welcome to all of the fanon. You know all of those background ponies they randomly generated? Every single one? Yeah. We've created backstories and fanon for them. :P


Well, this is Lyra:
http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/a7f7b129b12043244f11b46a3e088cd9/48989%20-%20Flower_Wishes%20Lyra%20Sparkler%20animated%20da isy%20dizzy_twister%20flank%20irrational_exuberanc e%20jumping.gif

http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/957ec88def733c3afab88a538c201d07/49005%20-%20Carrot_Top%20Lyra%20animated%20berry_punch%20ir rational_exuberance%20jumping%20rally_pony%20winte r_wrap_up.gif

I've never heard of Bon-Bon, though.

Bonbon is the cream colored earth pony she's constantly with, and is assumed to be in a relationship with / married to.

[Kindablue]

Bonbon is the cream colored earth pony she's constantly with, and is assumed to be in a relationship with / married to.

Nope, still nothing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_NgkQRuco)

[Topaz]

Topaz, if I were going to read some conversion Beauruewleurueieu stuff (take that word I could spell six months ago!), any you would suggest?
Ooh. That's actually kind of complicated; I freely admit that I like the idea of The Conversion Bureau more than I like a lot of the actual fiction. http://i.imgur.com/JmPL5.png

For reference, I'll point you to the latest TCB thread on ponychan (http://www.ponychan.net/chan/fic/res/53616.html#53616), since it's the most up to date reference available. From there, I'd say...

Background (if you want to be a compleatist):
THE ORIGINAL: The Conversion Bureau (Blaze) -- This is what established the setting.

First Contact (Purple Prose) -- An alternate origin story that established a lot of spin-offs of its own.

Complete:
Midnight's Tale (Midnight Shadow) -- One of my favorites, and the story that probably got me started with Topaz.

A Twist In The Tail (Midnight) -- A sequel of sorts to Midnight's Tale. BTW, neither of these is related to Esper's Midnight; Midnight is apparently a very popular pony name.

A Mare’s Tail (HiddenBrony) -- More grimdark than I usually manage to get through, but I found myself really liking the characters, and it ends well (in a sense).

Incomplete:
Change of Life (FirstTimePonyWriter) -- This is one of the fics on my personal OhMyGodItUpdatedMustReadNow list. It ships Rainbow Dash with a human. And it works.

An Azure Future (Krass McWriter) -- Ponysanity, TCB style.

Ponies of a Rising Sun (Purple Prose) -- I have kind of given up on this ever updating, but I liked the beginning.

[Titanium Fox]

Nope, still nothing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_NgkQRuco)

...Oh. I'm slow tonight, apparently.

[Kurgan]

Lyra and Bon Bon? Those are these two ponies:


http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/c8bfd9b37eaebc1f08f93fe9f0bfd710/67013%20-%20Bonbon%20Lyra%20OTP%20adorable%20artist%3AEgoph iliac%20face_smoosh.png


http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/5f9c7eebdafd8fe6912f7a328d0b46e9/68054%20-%20Bonbon%20Lyra%20artist%3Athelivingmachine02%20d o_not_want%20humanized%20mermaid%20sea_pony.jpg

[Kindablue]

...Oh. I'm slow tonight, apparently.

It's alright. They have surgeries and medicine for it now--getting served doesn't have to be the end anymore.

[otakuryoga]

Nope, still nothing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_NgkQRuco)

i sooooo prefer that voice to the near screech she had in episode 12 when she talked to Applebloom

[Kris Strife]

i sooooo prefer that voice to the near screech she had in episode 12 when she talked to Applebloom

Let's not be too mean to Bon-Bon about that. She was just a little...

:smallcool:

Horse. YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH HH!!!

[Kindablue]

i sooooo prefer that voice to the near screech she had in episode 12 when she talked to Applebloom

I pretend that neither of those voices happened. She'll always be Peggy Bundy to me.

[Thanqol]

Clockwork:
For a moment, Sek was caught off-balance by the offered hat. He had been expecting a much different sort of question, the sort that Charger seemed to be hinting at. After a moment, the clockwork pony recovered, and gratefully donned the hat, before addressing his traveling companions.

"You know, you two have been really good about avoiding the obvious question here; most ponies tend to blurt it out as soon as they see me. Talking about it doesn't really bother me though, it just makes me feel...odd sometimes." The pegasus took a deep breath, or would have, if he'd needed to breathe.

"Like you can probably tell, I'm not a 'normal' pony; I'm mechanical, made out of bits of clockwork and scrap metal. The weird thing is, that instead of only doing one thing, like a sewing machine, or an oven, I can walk and talk and make my own decisions. I don't really know why, and neither did Dad; in fact, he confessed to me once that my original purpose was something along the lines of a wind-up toy..." The pony's irises contracted with a whirr, and for a moment he seemed almost wistful. "I'm headed to Canterlot to find this mechanic and see if he can figure out what's going on with me."


Clockwork RP:
"Get out of town! So you're mechanical and self aware?! That's so awesome." Wide eyed, Igneous was regarding Second Hand as if seeing him for the first time. "Its a pity about the wind up thing, it sounds like a bit of a headache. Although, it does kind of remind me of a friend of mine, except for him its coffee instead of a turning-key."

"Speaking of which, how often do you need to rewind anyway? And where do you put the key ... ew, actually, nevermind that question. More importantly, have you ever tried coffee before?"

"Ah, I see," Charger said. A number of questions had been answered, reasonable guesses could be made about further ones - or the clockwork pony's lack of knowledge as to their answers. She contented herself with that; to question further would be rude. Better to simply accept that this was a thing which happened and move on.

"This mechanic, do you know her name? Perhaps I am familiar with her."


Mr. Biscuit makes the best arguments for forgiveness. :smallsmile:

Mask: "One day, Mr. Biscuit, I shall learn your persuady techniques." *Noms*


OMG SO CUUUTE

Mask: "I am a big pony!"

[Titanium Fox]

So I am starting an eight player LAN game of Swords of the Stars. Anypony heard of it? Yeah, I'll be available for a while.

[Kris Strife]

Midnight is Learning:

"Before we do that-and indeed, teasing Blueblood would be a fine thing to do-would you like to meet...well, I suppose you could call her the 'other me'? She's not dangerous, even though she sometimes would like to pretend that she is still.



Midnight is Learning
Leo laughs a bit. "I have no objections to what I think you're offering, though to be honest, I've known a few other yous... We just had a Twilight Midnight show up a few years ago actually." He thinks for a moment, then looks up. "I know you don't approve of the Sol Society as a whole or think it's a respectable authority... But I do know how to get them off your back, if you will allow me to deliver a message to her, and she gives the response I need."

[otakuryoga]

I pretend that neither of those voices happened. She'll always be Peggy Bundy to me.

mmmmm...Peggy could get pretty whiny at times

however Gemma from Sons Of Anarchy works for me :smallbiggrin:

[Kindablue]

Art:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l9f2jwlLjug/TpDzOap835I/AAAAAAAANhE/fKSHKKzyCao/s1600/appppples_by_csimadmax-d4c8f9e.png

http://fim.413chan.net/art/src/131174857630-7035_-_Sweetie_Belle.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T9IDEx_-bWQ/TpAnCCL2qOI/AAAAAAAANd4/LgOe0lrJ864/s1600/Clipboard01.jpg

Spoiler for episode 4:
http://fim.413chan.net/art/src/131794238710-DerpyHalloween.png

[EsperDerek]

Complete:
Midnight's Tale (Midnight Shadow) -- One of my favorites, and the story that probably got me started with Topaz.

A Twist In The Tail (Midnight) -- A sequel of sorts to Midnight's Tale. BTW, neither of these is related to Esper's Midnight; Midnight is apparently a very popular pony name.

That's not too surprising, really. Midnight is a fairly simple name to come up with. I mean, hey, it's a time of day, after all. But it can also be used when you want your character to be dark and edgy. Not that I'm saying Midnight Shadow here is either of those things, I haven't read the story, but it's something I've encountered with other Midnight ponies.

I don't honestly even know if I was the first to use that name. I doubt it, honestly. I used Midnight for Trixie's mom because I thought it sort of fit well with what I was going for, considering how well 'Midnight' and 'Twilight' go together. Then it just fit for Midnight as a legacy name. A link from the past to the future.


Mask: "One day, Mr. Biscuit, I shall learn your persuady techniques." *Noms*

In this biscuit's case, I think it's the chocolate chips. :smallsmile:


Midnight is Learning
Leo laughs a bit. "I have no objections to what I think you're offering, though to be honest, I've known a few other yous... We just had a Twilight Midnight show up a few years ago actually." He thinks for a moment, then looks up. "I know you don't approve of the Sol Society as a whole or think it's a respectable authority... But I do know how to get them off your back, if you will allow me to deliver a message to her, and she gives the response I need."

Midnight is....
Midnight gawks slightly, looking at Leo.

"Another me is one of your organization?" She shakes her head, and brushes that forelock out of her eyes again. "Another discussion for another time. For now..." She pauses, having a brief internal conversation. She then closes her eyes, and then opens them, revealing brilliant green eyes, with catlike pupils. Her body grows slightly, more graceful and sleek, the Princess-like aspects already visible on her still-awkward young body coming to the forefront. Brilliant celestial wings emerge from her back, and her horn lengthens and sharpens.

Nightmare smiles playfully at Leo. She...doesn't give off the aura of menace that Nightmare Moon did.

"Oh? What message would you have to deliver to me, suncolt? While we both don't recognize the authority, we also recognize that it would be far less trouble in our lives if they kept off our flanks, too. And believe me, Midnight's life is complex enough. I should know!"

She giggles.

[Bayonet Priest]

So I am starting an eight player LAN game of Swords of the Stars. Anypony heard of it? Yeah, I'll be available for a while.

SotS is awesome. I wish I still had it, I lost my copy when I had to reformat my hard disk. That's ok though, SotSII is coming out this month and I can't wait. Hopefully I'll be able to scrounge the money for it because I've been looking forward to this ever since it was announced.

[Topaz]

That's not too surprising, really. Midnight is a fairly simple name to come up with. I mean, hey, it's a time of day, after all. But it can also be used when you want your character to be dark and edgy. Not that I'm saying Midnight Shadow here is either of those things, I haven't read the story, but it's something I've encountered with other Midnight ponies.
It's fair to say that neither Midnight Shadow nor Midnight Glen are "dark and edgy" (well, Midnight Shadow is literally dark). Poor Midnight Shadow is somewhat distressed to learn that everypony assumes that his is a filly's name...

I don't honestly even know if I was the first to use that name. I doubt it, honestly. I used Midnight for Trixie's mom because I thought it sort of fit well with what I was going for, considering how well 'Midnight' and 'Twilight' go together. Then it just fit for Midnight as a legacy name. A link from the past to the future.
I recall reading one pre-Cutie Mark Chronicles fic that used Midnight as Twilight Sparkle's father's name, but I don't remember if it predated OitC or not.

[EsperDerek]

It's fair to say that neither Midnight Shadow nor Midnight Glen are "dark and edgy" (well, Midnight Shadow is literally dark). Poor Midnight Shadow is somewhat distressed to learn that everypony assumes that his is a filly's name...

That was probably my fault, sorry! :smallwink:


I recall reading one pre-Cutie Mark Chronicles fic that used Midnight as Twilight Sparkle's father's name, but I don't remember if it predated OitC or not.

It would not surprise me if that was that was the case, as I said, Midnight isn't exactly a challenging name to come up with.

A good one, though, used properly.

[Titanium Fox]

SotS is awesome. I wish I still had it, I lost my copy when I had to reformat my hard disk. That's ok though, SotSII is coming out this month and I can't wait. Hopefully I'll be able to scrounge the money for it because I've been looking forward to this ever since it was announced.

Sword of the Stars... Two? OH GOD. I am so excited you can't even imagine. *Bouncebouncebounce*


I recall reading one pre-Cutie Mark Chronicles fic that used Midnight as Twilight Sparkle's father's name, but I don't remember if it predated OitC or not.

I think OitC was newer than Cutie Mark Chronicles, although don't quote me on that.

[Vent Reynolt]

HNNGGHHH! Urge. To. Pull. Lever. Rising.

*pulls lever*

Release the magma! Muahahahaha!

Clearly, you've gone insane. Again. Moreso than usual. Quite a remarkable feat.

But, Lyra! How could you... forget to come to the Blue Pony meetup?!

You really should have been there; I mean, unless you had something really important to do like stalking Twilight.

After all, if you had been there, you'd know how easily I can escape this lava by doing this! Raindrop's horn glows and one of the nearby clouds flies towards him. The cloud stops when it reaches Raindrop, and he hops on to it, floating safely above the lava.

Alternate response:
No, wait! That's the wrong lever! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuC8qivA2HU)

RP: Blue Ponies Yay!

Oh, you were a Colt Scout? That's sounds like fun. I was never a Filly Scout, which I guess is just as well because I would probably have been terrible at selling cookies. I was in school chorus instead, I'm not really that good at singing but I do love it. She stretches and looks around. Huh, we seem to be the only ones left at the Blue Pony Meetup. Ah, do you want to go get some dinner or something?

Oh, you're right! We're the only ones left. Um, sure I'd like to get some dinner. I know this place that's pretty good nearby. They specialize in food from Neighpon.

(Quickly somepony! I need a ponified restaurant name! Please?)


Everypony wish me luck! I'm off to catch a train to NYC to sleep there and take my CISSP certification exam tomorrow morning at 8:00. I'll check in by mobile but I doubt I'll be posting, as I'll be occupied by last minute cramming. Tomorrow I will either pass that test or DIE TRYING.
Although I won't know which until 4 weeks from now. Actual deadness may vary.

Good Luck!


Truly the worst color of them all.

http://i.imgur.com/EAqtS.png

[Bayonet Priest]

Sword of the Stars... Two? OH GOD. I am so excited you can't even imagine. *Bouncebouncebounce*


Yes and it looks to be truly glorious. Originally it was supposed to be out in August but it was pushed back to September and now October. I don't mind though, I'd prefer it be released when it's good and ready rather than get pushed out the door full of bugs.


To keep this pony related, have a comic.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/281/5/c/twixie_by_niban_destikim-d4c5mep.jpg

Anybody get the reference?

[the_druid_droid]

I am extremely bad with horror films. Hell, I watched half of Marble Hornets and I couldn't sleep for a week.


Weird coincidence time! Not too long after I read this, I went to check EqD, and scrolling through the fanfic update list, I saw Ever Watching (the Slenderman crossover). Being a bit slow on some Internet-y things, I finally got around to searching for the name Slenderman on Know Your Meme, read the article, and decided to start watching the videos, all the while thinking that Marble Hornets sounded really familiar, before it finally occurred to me why. So now I got sucked in and am watching them all at 11:37 PM local time...woohoo!

Cutie Mark Crusaders horror buddies is go!

[EsperDerek]

I think OitC was newer than Cutie Mark Chronicles, although don't quote me on that.

It is, in fact, older than CMC, actually. Because I remember being very surprised to learn that Twilight had parents, and very glad I was careful with not making a solid backstory for her apart from what we already knew. :smallwink:

[Kindablue]

http://i.imgur.com/EAqtS.png

Except for you, Dashie. You can pull it off.



Anybody get the reference?

I didn't think there was one when I first saw it. Is it Hey Arnold?


It is, in fact, older than CMC, actually. Because I remember being very surprised to learn that Twilight had parents, and very glad I was careful with not making a solid backstory for her apart from what we already knew. :smallwink:

You thought she was an orphan?

[SiuiS]

More curiosity about pony gaming.

Three ways to go. The two I linked whay back yonder (page ten- will link in future) or just D&D with ponies in it.

Of the options, just D&D feels wonky, but may be best. The simpler, D20 pony game has the advantage of I know the system, but lacks some of the necessary elements to feel like D&D. The complicated system sounds really, really cool, and totally fitting. It has the disadvantage of everypony needing to learn a new system in order to play, though, and of being something I do not grok as easily as d20.

I also have no idea how to run a PbP game, Which is why I didn't volunteer immediately. The playground seems to have it's own customs and mannerisms, and let's be honest; DMing, or GMing, or even STing for a new group can be intimidating as all get-out. Related, I'm askin this general statement1 here because I know you folks.

How I can worry make blueblood look good bu worry about judgement in gaming of all things is a touch of a mystery though...

Somewhat related, I enjoy making characters for fun, I enjoy pondering new systems as a leisure activity, and I like showing examples to try and get other ponies to do the same. So without further ado, character sheets!

-

STARRY NOTIONS (Rolplaying is Magic (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ShylNaVPRa7U8GmPayAtBhTOXZin07zkNVmvf6eSKks/mobilebasic?pli=1&hl=en_US))


Unicorn colt, cream body, dark green-black mane, silver eyes
Special talent: metamagic / manipulation of magic (usually enchantment)
Cutie mark: a sword over an open book,over a circle diagram
HEART: 2 BODY: 1 MIND: 3
3 health, 4 energy, 5 courage

Talents: Tireless, Willful
Job: Soldier/adventurer
Skills: enchantment, navigation, folklore, journeying
Element: Generosity

MAGIC
Tricks: metamagic (change + magic) alters effects of spells (standard), on the fly (hard), or even as the other pony uses them (legendary)
TK tactile feedback (change + know + magic) uses broad TK application to "feel out" surrounding environment. Learned in Whitetail Woods.

effects: change, know
Subjects: magic

STARRY NOTIONS (Pony Tales Role Playing System (http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/266/d/b/pony_tales__us_letter_by_catspaw_dtp_services-d49v97y.pdf))

Unicorn Pony Colt
APTITUDES
Muscle: 2 hardiness: 3
Speed: 2 Agility: 3
Smarts: 4 Learning: 2

TALENTS
Earth: none
Fire: Enchantment 1
Air: NA
Water: NA
Levitation: TK 2
Magic: Metamagic 3

WEAKNESS: Eccentric (easily flustered by ponies who where to a single worldview; random or chaotic)

DESCRIPTION: Starry notions, unicorn pony
Cream colored fur and dark green, almost black mane. Short, almost foalish size with a narrower, mare-like face and large silver eyes. Aside from his small size, Starry is a well-built if average pony, with a lean look from his travels.

Ever bright-eyed, he has a chipper voice and brogue-ish inflection, varying in tone from low, slow and soothing to deeper, shriller and louder when agitated. His saddlebags and work knife are concealed somewhat under a tattered-looking dull forest green cloak, and his face is often protected by a wide brimmed wizard's hat, complete with floppy point.

POSSESSIONS:
Cloak, hat, knife, embossed steel shield, griffonsteel ring

[Kurgan]

(Quickly somepony! I need a ponified restaurant name! Please?)



Don't a good number of restaurants have their names based off of a person's name or the name of the food? I mean, drive down the street, most any locally owned place will be _____'s.

Could go with: Lyra's
With some script on the sign saying: Experience the food of Roam!

You know, something like that. Maybe not Lyra, since she is obviously not Roamin (except between Ponyville and Canterlot).




To keep this pony related, have a comic.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/281/5/c/twixie_by_niban_destikim-d4c5mep.jpg

Anybody get the reference?

Its from Hey Arnold, a show on nickelodeon from about...10....15 years backish?

[BlasTech]

[

Also, the Midnight picture made drawfriend!

Saw that, went "Yay". I'm still finding it weird to see things here before they come out on ED. :smalltongue:




Any ideas at all would be welcome




EDIT: Hold on! An idea appears! We start with 1 balloon for level 1, level 2 is 1 balloon with some streamers and maybe a horn, level 3 is 2 balloons, no streamers. So essentially, every other level a 'party' is thrown and another balloon appears next level.

I'll probably go with caterpillars like you said. Assuming I can pull off 'cute caterpillars' correctly.

Hrm, for Pinkie Pie I was going to suggest empty baloon outlines, which first appear then fill with colour. But the party-every-level thing suits her personality more.

Fluttershy ... maybe some green cocoon/leaves that are replaced with Butterflies? Or some pink flower's that are replaced with Butterflies ... maybe if you can get the petals to resemble wings. (Just thinking back to the original Posey pony concept of Fluttershy)



Clockwork:
A strange look passes over the pegasus' face for a moment. "Oh, uh, that was more a metaphor really...Dad was clever enough to build me so that I wouldn't need winding up!"

After a moment, Second Hand broke the silence that had descended over the little group. "Well, now that I've shared, it's somepony else's turn; it's only fair that you two tell me a bit more about yourselves."




"Ah, I see," Charger said. A number of questions had been answered, reasonable guesses could be made about further ones - or the clockwork pony's lack of knowledge as to their answers. She contented herself with that; to question further would be rude. Better to simply accept that this was a thing which happened and move on.

"This mechanic, do you know her name? Perhaps I am familiar with her."



Clockwork RP

"Oh, well that's nifty" Igneous replied after Second Hand had finished explaining. "You'd be a natural for the Night Guard now that they're recruiting again, what with the not needing to sleep bit. One of my favourite instructors was the head of that division."

He tapped his chin with his hoof for a moment as he thought about how best to answer the clockwork pony's query.

"Oh, well I could probably talk your ear off all day. Umm, lets see, how far back should I begin? I left home a few years back in order to work on a cousin's farm for a while when they were short handed, but got bored of that rather quickly. Things picked up there though, and they eventually hired some more staff to take the slack, so I was freed up from that. Decided to come to Canterlot about a year ago to study, but ended up signing up (or rather being signed up) for the Guard following rather large accident in the thaumaturgical research department.

Finished basic only recently, which was a blast let me tell you. I think I did well, at least my instructor said I had potential. How did he put it ... erm "lots of room to improve" or something along those lines. Apart from a few minor postings, the sort of stuff they get you to do while nothing major is going on, haven't done much else until I got this special assignment."

He grinned at the memories.

"Ahh good times ..."

He would have continued, but Charger took that moment to ask her query and Igneous fell silent lest he interrupt.




Oh, you're right! We're the only ones left. Um, sure I'd like to get some dinner. I know this place that's pretty good nearby. They specialize in food from Neighpon.

(Quickly somepony! I need a ponified restaurant name! Please?)




EDIT:
Am assuming you're after japanese sounding ones?

How about;

- Kabucki
- Akineighya's
- Maresuya's

These are all plays on sushi places near where I work :smallbiggrin:

[Bayonet Priest]

It is, in fact, older than CMC, actually. Because I remember being very surprised to learn that Twilight had parents, and very glad I was careful with not making a solid backstory for her apart from what we already knew. :smallwink:

Yeah, I remember those days. Before that several fics went with the idea that Twilight was an orphan raised by Celestia. This reminds me, we haven't seen Twilight's folks in yet in the OitCverse. Might they show up at some point?



@Kindablue: Yeah, it has to be a Hey Arnold reference. I was getting Hey Arnold vibes from it even before Snails showed up and that hoof to the face sealed it.

[Titanium Fox]

Weird coincidence time! Not too long after I read this, I went to check EqD, and scrolling through the fanfic update list, I saw Ever Watching (the Slenderman crossover). Being a bit slow on some Internet-y things, I finally got around to searching for the name Slenderman on Know Your Meme, read the article, and decided to start watching the videos, all the while thinking that Marble Hornets sounded really familiar, before it finally occurred to me why. So now I got sucked in and am watching them all at 11:37 PM local time...woohoo!

Cutie Mark Crusaders horror buddies is go!

Yeeeeahhh... Yeah. I did the same thing. However like I said it apparently wouldn't have mattered, because it took me over a week to be able to fall asleep. And I'm narcoleptic. So yeah. That was an impressive amount of fear. XD


Yes and it looks to be truly glorious. Originally it was supposed to be out in August but it was pushed back to September and now October. I don't mind though, I'd prefer it be released when it's good and ready rather than get pushed out the door full of bugs.

Agreed. I hate it when people push games out to make a release. I'd rather wait for a polished, completed product than get a poorly made one quicker.


It is, in fact, older than CMC, actually. Because I remember being very surprised to learn that Twilight had parents, and very glad I was careful with not making a solid backstory for her apart from what we already knew. :smallwink:

Huh, well then. I stand corrected. I didn't think you'd been a Brony for that long for some reason. XD

Although I some level I do compare everypony else's timeline against my own, and I didn't become a Brony until the week after episode 26 came out.

[AlterForm]

To keep this pony related, have a comic.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/281/5/c/twixie_by_niban_destikim-d4c5mep.jpg

Anybody get the reference?

Twilight my love,
My sultry equine,
Why must I hold you
only whilt I dream?
Will I be forever enslaved by your spell?
Why must I worship you and never tell?
Twilight, you make my marehood tremble.
My senses all go un-fix'd-y.
Someday, I'll tell the world, my love...
I, the Great and Powerful Trixie!!!!

[EsperDerek]

Yeah, I remember those days. Before that several fics went with the idea that Twilight was an orphan raised by Celestia. This reminds me, we haven't seen Twilight's folks in yet in the OitCverse. Might they show up at some point?

There's always been a scene quietly sitting in my head once I learned that Twilight actually had parents, set around Reaching Midnight about Twilight sitting down with her parents and having the most awkward conversation ever, and then introducing the quite visibly pregnant Trixie for the most awkward introduction ever.

If I ever find a place to put it, that scene will be written. As is, Trixie has met Twilight's parents, and they are happy grandparents to Midnight, even if they are positively embarrassed whenever the subject comes up around their friends.

"Aww, it's so sweet that your daughter and her lover adopted that foal. I have to say, she looks so much like them, too!"
"Uhm, yes. Adopted..."


Huh, well then. I stand corrected. I didn't think you'd been a Brony for that long for some reason. XD

Although I some level I do compare everypony else's timeline against my own, and I didn't become a Brony until the week after episode 26 came out.

I became a brony the week Sonic Rainboom came out. In retrospect, that was pretty darn good timing.

[Kris Strife]

That's not too surprising, really. Midnight is a fairly simple name to come up with. I mean, hey, it's a time of day, after all. But it can also be used when you want your character to be dark and edgy. Not that I'm saying Midnight Shadow here is either of those things, I haven't read the story, but it's something I've encountered with other Midnight ponies.

I don't honestly even know if I was the first to use that name. I doubt it, honestly. I used Midnight for Trixie's mom because I thought it sort of fit well with what I was going for, considering how well 'Midnight' and 'Twilight' go together. Then it just fit for Midnight as a legacy name. A link from the past to the future.

I vote you name one of Midnight's foals 'Dawn' and one of her grandfoals 'Day.' :smallwink:


Midnight is....
Midnight gawks slightly, looking at Leo.

"Another me is one of your organization?" She shakes her head, and brushes that forelock out of her eyes again. "Another discussion for another time. For now..." She pauses, having a brief internal conversation. She then closes her eyes, and then opens them, revealing brilliant green eyes, with catlike pupils. Her body grows slightly, more graceful and sleek, the Princess-like aspects already visible on her still-awkward young body coming to the forefront. Brilliant celestial wings emerge from her back, and her horn lengthens and sharpens.

Nightmare smiles playfully at Leo. She...doesn't give off the aura of menace that Nightmare Moon did.

"Oh? What message would you have to deliver to me, suncolt? While we both don't recognize the authority, we also recognize that it would be far less trouble in our lives if they kept off our flanks, too. And believe me, Midnight's life is complex enough. I should know!"

She giggles.

Midnight is...
Leo clears his throat. "Please note this is all the official stuff, has to be done, or they'll send someone to investigate, and we don't want that. The entity once known as Nightmare Moon, you are hereby charged with two counts of disrupting the day/night cycle, one count of kidnapping a being responsible for the day/night cycle, one count of injuring a Manticore, one count of ruining a fabulous mustache, three counts of impersonation and multiple counts of Indecent Coverage. How do you plead?"

[the_druid_droid]

Somewhat related, I enjoy making characters for fun, I enjoy pondering new systems as a leisure activity, and I like showing examples to try and get other ponies to do the same. So without further ado, character sheets!

-

STARRY NOTIONS (Rolplaying is Magic)


Unicorn colt, cream body, dark green-black mane, silver eyes
Special talent: metamagic / manipulation of magic (usually enchantment)
Cutie mark: a sword over an open book,over a circle diagram
HEART: 2 BODY: 1 MIND: 3
3 health, 4 energy, 5 courage

Talents: Tireless, Willful
Job: Soldier/adventurer
Skills: enchantment, navigation, folklore, journeying
Element: Generosity

MAGIC
Tricks: metamagic (change + magic) alters effects of spells (standard), on the fly (hard), or even as the other pony uses them (legendary)
TK tactile feedback (change + know + magic) uses broad TK application to "feel out" surrounding environment. Learned in Whitetail Woods.

effects: change, know
Subjects: magic

STARRY NOTIONS (Pony Tales Role Playing System)

Unicorn Pony Colt
APTITUDES
Muscle: 2 hardiness: 3
Speed: 2 Agility: 3
Smarts: 4 Learning: 2

TALENTS
Earth: none
Fire: Enchantment 1
Air: NA
Water: NA
Levitation: TK 2
Magic: Metamagic 3

WEAKNESS: Eccentric (easily flustered by ponies who where to a single worldview; random or chaotic)

DESCRIPTION: Starry notions, unicorn pony
Cream colored fur and dark green, almost black mane. Short, almost foalish size with a narrower, mare-like face and large silver eyes. Aside from his small size, Starry is a well-built if average pony, with a lean look from his travels.

Ever bright-eyed, he has a chipper voice and brogue-ish inflection, varying in tone from low, slow and soothing to deeper, shriller and louder when agitated. His saddlebags and work knife are concealed somewhat under a tattered-looking dull forest green cloak, and his face is often protected by a wide brimmed wizard's hat, complete with floppy point.

POSSESSIONS:
Cloak, hat, knife, embossed steel shield, griffonsteel ring


Consider me inspired!

SECOND HAND (Pony Tales):
(Clockwork) Earth Pony Stallion

APTITUDES:
Muscle: 4
Hardiness: 5
Speed: 2
Agility: 2
Smarts: 3
Learning: 2

TALENTS:
Earth (Husbandry, P): 3
Fire (Clockwork Design, P): 3
Fire (Blacksmithing, S): 1
Spell (Repair): 2

WEAKNESS: Artificial (Being made of metal and clockwork means some ponies don’t respond well to you, and may even think you should be serving them)

DESCRIPTION: (See earlier backstory)

POSSESSIONS: Tools, Spare parts

SECOND HAND (RP is Magic):
(Clockwork) Earth Pony Stallion

Special talent: Building and maintaining clockwork tech
Cutie mark: A pocket watch, painted on a square of metal and bolted on

Body: 3
Mind: 1
Heart: 3

Health: 6
Energy: 4
Courage: 4

Talents: Tireless, Tough
Job: Mechanic
Skills: Animal Communication, Jury-rigging, Storytelling
Element: Loyalty


"Ah, I see," Charger said. A number of questions had been answered, reasonable guesses could be made about further ones - or the clockwork pony's lack of knowledge as to their answers. She contented herself with that; to question further would be rude. Better to simply accept that this was a thing which happened and move on.

"This mechanic, do you know her name? Perhaps I am familiar with her."



Clockwork RP

"Oh, well that's nifty" Igneous replied after Second Hand had finished explaining. "You'd be a natural for the Night Guard now that they're recruiting again, what with the not needing to sleep bit. One of my favourite instructors was the head of that division."

He tapped his chin with his hoof for a moment as he thought about how best to answer the clockwork pony's query.

"Oh, well I could probably talk your ear off all day. Umm, lets see, how far back should I begin? I left home a few years back in order to work on a cousin's farm for a while when they were short handed, but got bored of that rather quickly. Things picked up there though, and they eventually hired some more staff to take the slack, so I was freed up from that. Decided to come to Canterlot about a year ago to study, but ended up signing up (or rather being signed up) for the Guard following rather large accident in the thaumaturgical research department.

Finished basic only recently, which was a blast let me tell you. I think I did well, at least my instructor said I had potential. How did he put it ... erm "lots of room to improve" or something along those lines. Apart from a few minor postings, the sort of stuff they get you to do while nothing major is going on, haven't done much else until I got this special assignment."

He grinned at the memories.

"Ahh good times ..."

He would have continued, but Charger took that moment to ask her query and Igneous fell silent lest he interrupt.


Clockwork RP:
The metallic pegasus nodded as the guard pony spoke, before answering Charger. "She's a unicorn mare who calls herself Tinker. I only met her once, but I remember she had the brightest blue hair I'd ever seen." Second Hand scuffed at a small stone in the path with an iron forehoof, trying to work up the courage to ask what was on his mind.

"Uh, Charger? If you don't mind me asking, what is the machine you were carrying for? If it's not working properly, I-I could have a look at it...if you wouldn't mind...I'm pretty good with fixing machines."

[Beeskee]

And now, a special guest appearance from The Village Hidden In The Everfree Forest:
And not necessarily the one you were thinking of.
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo345/stryke81/chakra_control_is_magic__p_by_otakugal15-d3kpt33.png

Cool pic.

The game I thought you were referencing was really creepy, but I liked it. :smallsmile: NarutoPony would be.. weird, but interesting.


Another Lyra and BonBon pic, I didn't see this one posted here yet:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1786/10776bonbonlyratranspar.png



FFRP: Finding Berry Ann



Topaz smiles briefly. Oh yes, I can handle six ponies or around a ton of cargo if it's balanced well and I only have to carry it across town. It's my signature magic, not counting my Element. She glances back at the pier. I certainly hope Starry can make some sense of whatever is going on back there. She steers the dome toward the store, looking for a good place to land.

You were asking about the Dreamscape. It's where dreams come from, of course, but more importantly it's the realm that underlies all the realities and even the unrealities; scientific types sometimes call it the Eleventh Dimension. It embodies Possibility in all its aspects, which can make it decidedly tricky to maneuver in.


Beeskee: "Wow! That sounds really handy!" He nods, flinching slightly at the sounds of the various explosions and scary noises, not willing to risk a glance backward himself, just in case it is as bad as it sounds. Presumably Topaz will say something if their ride outright explodes. "That ship definitely sounds... complicated."

He listens carefully as she explains the dreamscape, one ear twitching a bit. Here he thought the ship was complex. "I.. uh.. don't know if I understood all that." He smiles, and says, "I do know I am glad that we have you along. Thank you." He thinks back, trying to remember if he properly introduced himself... Better safe than sorry. "If I forgot to mention before, my name is Beeskee." As they approach the store, he spots the cart, loaded and ready to go with a good variety of supplies, both of the 'survival' kind as well as more than a few party supplies, pointing it out to Topaz. There's a clear area nearby, on the street.

(OOC: I couldn't find if I had introduced myself ICly in any of the previous posts.)




Does a hoof to the back of the head count as a funny saying?

Eep! *hides from the violent pony* Hrm... Either that pony doesn't like being touched, or they say something really embarrassing when poked in the flank. I volunteer, uh, somepony else to find out which it is.

[Kindablue]

Background music:
A Major Problem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Q_3IENEDxAI) (Heh.)
Finding Ursa Major (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpsD-yfIqQ&feature=channel_video_title)
Gilda's Threat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96PtbyM44j4&feature=player_embedded) (You still looking for a badass theme song, Skullsy?)

[Titanium Fox]

Eep! *hides from the violent pony* Hrm... Either that pony doesn't like being touched, or they say something really embarrassing when poked in the flank. I volunteer, uh, somepony else to find out which it is.

Why would I mind being to- Erm... I mean yes! Yes, that is completely it, I hate being touched. How dare you even suggest touching my cutie mark? You pervert.

[SiuiS]

Ach. Dammit, Thanqol

I wake, up, sore. "should I bring any exercise stuff to work today? I feel like I've been applebucked. Oh hey, ethanol posted something..."

You can be more.

-_-



RP
HEY! YOU LOT! Why are you celibate?

One wonders if this is in the bunker I'm about to try and board.
One also wonders what a bunker looks like, on rockets.
I'm seeing this

http://www.bunkerpictures.nl/pictures/nederland/soesterberg/vliegbasis%20soesterberg/Airplane%20shelter%20f-03.JPG

With bigot mobile rockets at each corner, and a perfectly flat bottom with soil, roots and debris hanging from it.



Doooo eeeeeet.

Princess Celestia: So, the main characters, who are called Moonlight, Skittershy, Surprise, Spectrum Storm, Applehoof and Elegance, have been banished to a dungeon on the moon by the evil princess trollestia!
Twilight: Um... Princess... are you trying to tell us something?
Princess Celestia: Let's just say I don't like people wandering off the rails. (Grins)


Heavily considering it... read: working out mechanics & concept



Hee, thanks. It's really an old one, but with me adding words in paint. xD

Oh, that's why! And here I just thought I'd been too dumb in the past to read the words >>;



That's pretty much the point. xD It's in celebration of Eldritch Abomination week, and I didn't want to ask for a new avvie, so I just added mocking dark text to my favourite one. (Favourite non-pony one. End of the week will be the G&P again)


I see. Makes sense.
Ok, for eldritch abomination week, I'll use my Avatar as my original character, instead of the more mellow IC version.
Complete with mystic energies!


So it's not your thing, then?

GOODNIGHT EVERYPONY!


Mask: *Noms**

"If it was up to me, I'd hold a grudge. But Mr. Biscuit here is being all chocolate-ey and forgiviness-ey, so I suppose you're off the hook."

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8678/day144.jpg

Oh wow, cute~


Huh, I only missed 25 pages.

We're trying to keep it slow so everypony can catch up.



*snip'd*


Ooh, nice. Haven't seen some o those before.


Orrrr... This could be construed as Sexual Harassment in the kingdom of Equestria.*


Only if you find cutie marks sexual.

RANDOM RELATED TANGET ALERT

What if Nightmare moon's black is luna's original shade? Rather than developing auroric hair, Luna's benefit from using the elements was to be painted the friendlier, soothing purple of a stormy night at sea.
It took way to much effort for that not to be a stormy knight...



But this is Ponythread! That's how we roll! Wait. Waaait. No, no we don't. 99.999% of our shipping is F/F. The lack of phallacy is an anomoly on the internet.

Wow, I guess this fandom really is Unique! http://i.imgur.com/9QvF1b.jpg


That's not true!

We ship straight pairings
We ship
Um
We
We ship...

Caramel x Twilight! Yeah! And... And... FlutterMac! Ballin'! And Spike x Rarity (yes yes, commodore, "victory one pony at a time mwahaha" I was already on your side though) and... Um.

Oh! Tom x Rarity! And Rocky x Mdm. LeFleur!

I'm reaching! I'm reaching sooo hard but it's ok because I'm actually finding stuff!
But yeah, heteropony is oddly hard o_O"



I think you just asked some really cynical cops. It's illegal by the letter of the law, no matter the situation if you're under 21. The only exception is religious purposes (AKA "drinking the blood of christ"), and there the actual number is a bit hazy.


Makes sense, as both Easter and Christmas were big religious holidays in the area. I know for a while the laws on the books in SoCal were "you cannot buy, coerce someone to buy, or own a pack of cigarettes" while under 18, but technically smoking one was ok. In the same way the 'dirk and dagger law' says carrying a sword at your waist is ok, that is; word-correct, spirit-wrong.



You know, this makes me miss the Pony Bondage when Phoe was around.

...Come to think, this makes me miss Phoe. http://i.imgur.com/BsGGRb.jpg


Aye. She's all preoccupied and stuff nowadays, but it's always nice to see her post again.*


Also I love it that I'm now being called Jade as a nickname.*


Well, it's easier than T_Fox, or T_F,which each take around 6 buttons each, and I cant call you fox without worrying about confusing poor ol' Raz again - were you around when they thought Braz was a typo and I was creepy!flirting with Raz_Fox? - so next best thing?

"hey! He's a pony who doesn't seem to have gender preference. Jade it is."



I really hope I do! As of right now we both have campaigns on Wednesdays, so Thursday mornings absolutely nothing gets done as Dan and I geek out over our sessions the night prior.


sweet. Myself, I'm going to have to get my fix online until work settles or I get another job (note to self: GET ANOTHER JOB) so I'm living vicariously in all these discussions I find. XD



I love all of these ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with avariel if I do Fluttershy. However. Psychoshutin and I were chatting in the car.

EsperDerek. I have a question for you. Would you mind if I recreated the Out in the Cold continuity in a D&D campaign? As much as I love TrixieShy, I like the story that much more.

You know what? Either way, this Fluttershy is being introduced in the campaign world. Too much work has been put into her character mechanics by you crazy ponies for me to not. :P


It was actually fun, more than work. The only pony I can't immediately D&D-ify is Pinkie. It's also always fun to work things in subtly. She doesn't need super animal powers for her stuff; she has just enough skill to be an awesome homekeeper and a bunny who gets all the same stuff. Done as dinner!

I'd also suggest ranks in oratory for inspirational "yay~" :smallbiggrin:



Umm... GMT-8 is on the same time as California and British Columbia, right? Hmm. Well, I get to work at 5 AM GMT-8, and I leave work at 2 PM GMT-8. So that's when I'm best available to back and forth chat.


Do you mean during work is the best time? :smallconfused:
I find it odd because those are the hours I least see you around the thread.

I keep forgetting there is a whole playground out there though, so insert self-aware embarrassed chuckling here ^.^"



I will do this. I will ask them what their AC is, throw the Bullet Bill, and if it hits, they get hit in game. And it will be glorious.


I love those kinds of shenanigans.
"what's your AC?"
"56! *proud*"
*tosses the figurine* "he hit you."
"... Don't I get a reflex save?"
"Hm. Lemme see." *tosses again* "nope. He hit you"



This is why he is the master of quotes and I am only the apprentice. I refuse to sit down and do one of these with less than two monitors, for I deem it to be too much of a pain in the flank.

Oh look! An incidental segue into something I was just talking about and wondering if I could broach in thread! Why thank you, Jade! In return, if you join in the hunt for Berry Ann, I'll seat you somewhere far away from any air locks.

Anything I can't do is a weakness, to me. I value proficiency, which is why I have any health at all- natural, circumstantial muscle development. For example, it really grinds my gears that I can't drink anything cold. My body refuses, and if I want to chug something I have to leave it out, or in severe time constraints, microwave it. I know my eventual defeat at the hands of Doctor Nefarious will have something to do with this...

So hey, give it a go! It's like the first time you hit the character limit; an achievement. Do it once, and you'll be able to say "I can, but why would I?". That's my way of thinking on it at least.



Yes, yes she is. She has recieved gift art from Lauren Faust. All hail, it is mandatory.


Huh. It removed your broken quote tag as well. I'm honestly surprised at this. Did you edit the post when I weren't looking?



Watching this hurt my head, so much. Owwww...


Haven't had time for this particular headache yet, m'self.



I agree with all of those except Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie is curvy.


That's the one thing that really strikes me about having Pinkie Pie toys. She's pretty. She's gorgeous. Her hair... They don't do it justice in the show. And her eyes...

I mean, wow. Pinkie Pie honestly has the most beautiful eyes in Equestria.
Tempered with I don't like Pinkie that much.



Thirty minutes? THIRTY MINUTES?! Fillies, all of them! Why, back in my day a ripped off ear only stopped the game long enough for the guy to pick it up and stickit in his pocket!


Back in my day, you couldn't rip off an ear playing a "sport". We called that what it was; fighting, scuffling, horseplay.

Fencing is a sport. Getting your ear split open practicing one of the three longsword murder strikes with a shovel handle? Horseplay.



I know I did the flutterclap to Aotrs's post, but I just need to state I completely agree. Everypony has something they enjoy that some people would find offensive or strange or be squicked by. You know what? So what? I'm a furry, I'm a brony, I'm dating a Transgirl. You have no idea how much **** I get for each and every single one of them. For what reason? Because you don't approve of my life decisions? Get over yourself.

There's no reason to judge or disapprove of anything that anypony else does. Absolutely. None.


Neat.



That is so awesome! I want one soooooo much!


Go to K-mart! You can get one for the low, low price of...
Of...

Of...

Braz, honey? How much did we pay? I just remember screaming PURCHASE! at you until you hung up on me.



Wow, I completely missed this entire discussion (unless it was deleted, which explains how there were only 10 pages for me to catch up on).

there wasn't any discussion, really. No deletions either, just the question, some answers, and a mod-nod. It was kept short because Don't Talk About It is actually a straight-up rule, in the forum rules bit that's at the top of everypony's screen.


So I am feeling kinda like a jerk tonight. *One of my good friends (actually the guy who got me the job I am starting sunday) had an art show tonight that I promised I would show up at and I ended up not being able to get to. *A combination of my ride bailing on me after the thing started and me being to poor for bus or cab and to sick to walk the five miles there prevented me from getting there. *And while he will prolly shrug it off I still feel like I should have tried harder to get there, or something. *


Go for the sincere email appology.


Thank you everyone else for the well wishes, now I am gonna go watch cartoons and try and write till I am to tired to be awake.

While that's usually what I do each night, you may want to look into better time management XD


It was amazing. This whole internship has really been amazing. Draining and tiring, oh yes, but so amazing. I know this is what I want to do, and I'm doing wonderfully at it. I know this is what I want.


Good to hear :smallsmile:



Please go ahead! Recreate away! If you do follow that path, though, please do keep me updated on how it all turns out, my curiosity demands it!*


I request campaign transcripts during build-up and for a spell after resolution.

How would you set It up though? Have Trixie brag, while an NPC in town could whomp herthe whole time?
It's remarkably awesome, but I suspect the two moat likely outcomes are A) party follows Trixie, trying to get her to cheer up or B) party immediately smells DM/PC plot and begins to ignore it while doing their own thing.

So I'd love to see how you pull it off; it's something I've never quite mastered myself.



It really was an experience to remember. What really made it, though, was the company I kept. It could have been so boring and frustrating, but the ponies I was with, and the fun we had because of our situation, just made everything work.

Again, splendid! Always enjoy seeing something like this pan out.



It really is an amazing picture. I got home from work to have that in my deviantart inbox, and jaw just sort of hit the floor. The color and shading is just tremendous.


Isn't it? I find it really impressive myself. I also like that, near as I can tell, it's a subtly different tarot card. Though I only looked at the one she was holding, truth be told.


In Exalted? You've either got your shaping defenses up and/or are turning it into normal Creation, or you make a new character, because yours just turned into a pot of petunias. :smalltongue:

With how I imagine it working in this instance? The universe gets a Divide by 0 error.

Ah. One of those fun instances where a computer can't do it no matter the power, but a human can. Like dividing one by three, then multiplying by three.


Now, if you actually try to time travel in Exalted? Either it doesn't work, or your thread in the Loom breaks and you die/suffer sudden existence failure. :smalltongue:

Oh! No worries then. I probably don't exist and I'm just fine.


Hipception?

That's called "surgery". Granny Smith needs some, if'n I recall.
That is, putting a hip in her hip so she can have a hip to be hip with.


Don't know if this has been linked before, but I just took the How much of a brony are you? (http://iambrony.com/test) test. I got a nice 84% (418/500) "Mega-brony". http://i.imgur.com/6ZURl.png


Took it, fun thing. Forgot to look through the rest of the site though. I'll do that now.


Esper Derek: Something just occurred to me. The arcane tome Princess Luna bestowed upon Trixie, leading to so many unpredicted consequences...was the title of it The Joy Of Hex by any chance? :smallbiggrin:

*waits for ponies to start throwing stuff at me*

Fabulous.
Would you believe I had a Twilight Sparkle moment?
"what do vexes have to so with it? They aren't real? The joys of hex... The joys of... OOOOH"



Aww. :smallsmile: What if everyone has a funny saying though? That can only be revealed by poking their cutie marks?


Sounds like a simple flashgame to me. Like Mario is Missing. You poke ponies, and one of them will say something important. Then you have to find the next clue at a pony who used to just say sometime mundane. While avoiding the Ponyville police, and trying to earn your cutie mark!

Yes.

Hm. Planning stages.



Re: Other replies: I think I missed some responses, but now I can't find them. Sorry everypony. :smallfrown:

It happens to he best of us, mate :3


Dude, if you're asking me for girl advice, you're totally asking the wrong guy! :smallbiggrin:

First thing's first, even some of the greatest artists ever struggled drawing the ladyfolk. *You'll be surprised at the amount of critics who would explain Michelangelo's formula for painting women as "Draw man, draw boobs, collect money." *So, totally, don't get discouraged.

We have an advantage though: we aren't creating great art. So we can get away with short-cuts that would be critiqued all to hay if Michelangelo tried them :3*



I would personally round out the face more. *Girls usually have more fat on their faces than boys, this hides their bone structure and is one of the reasons why people say girls have a "softer" appearance. *Besides that benefit, you'd remove the "fishy" shape that we're looking at here.

If that last comment isn't going to have people jump down my throat in anger, this one will. *Your model lacks a hair analogue. *While many present cultures are continually shattering gender barriers on the hairstyle front, it is still generally awkward for a girl to be bald. *I know you're going to run into a lot of trouble trying to find a style that actually works with how the head and body rotate, but where the only thing humanoid is the head, we need a hint.

Eyup. Tracery for top lip and bigger bottom lip would work, as would pointier chin (to a point) to counter the usually masculine jaw line.

A question, commodore. These things would see themselves as female, correct? So they would have forms designed to be distinguished as female by the majority of galactic existence, yes? So they have a functional 'in universe' reason to go with standard human/mammal conceits, unless you want one of them to get grouchy when somepony calls them "it" or "he".

If I want to appear manly, I dress manly. If I want to appear Girly, I'll dress Girly. If The machine race wants to appear Girly, they need to put on their female chassis. Y'know?


I see a surprised Shredder, and then another Shredder that's planning his next scheme to get revenge on those blasted turtles. *:smalltongue:

Aye, that was less useful than I'd hoped. I don't have the slight frame needed to get the fine control to draw on this program that well.

It's irritating; I don't need a belt, my fingers aren't narrow enough... It's like a human adventurer being proud of his leanness and thinness, looking like a buffoon in a village of halfling bodybuilders. I know I'm not really 'failing' but the absurdity of the reference frames I have is maddening XD


I was just sharing a tangent story there for the sake of sharing, though.:smallsmile: *The way S curves compared to angles was explained to me was in relation to the Sublime versus the Beautiful (http://www.bartleby.com/24/2/), with such curves being used to define Beauty, and the general structure of a woman (thick head, thin neck, thick chest, thin belly, thick waist, thick hips, thin legs, thick ankles, thin feet) being used as an example of such. *Thing is, I mean, this is personal observational anecdote here, but that's just generally how every skeleton works, counterantidisirregardless of gender. *Yes, there are skeletal differences between male and female bone structures, but they still follow that same plan, and that's also setting aside cultures where fat bellies were "in".
Not to mention one of the manliest things drawn ever (http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/File:sbemail58picture2a.PNG) is based on two tapered S curves with a couple of consummate implied triangles.

Also, um, just calling 'em as I see 'em, but Edmund Burke is one of the most pretentious writers I've ever read.:smallyuk:

Then again, maybe my brain's just broken in regards to this sort of thing.

It's all good. I'm trying to save him time not by teaching him art (where depth allows curves to rule) I'm trying to teach him lazy American shortcuts. I personally love curves. They are fun as all get out to draw :3

In the end though, he specifically can't use curves. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying the tool isn't specific enough for this instance. Your way is, generally, the best for handling the situation.

Haven't clicked the link yet, but it looks like it'll be fun. Thanks!


I don't believe you. Not one bit. At all. Ever. However if we do go by your whitetext definition, my friend gave me one today.

Raritysurprised.jpg



I may or may not have been infected by Lix, because somehow that sounds Kinky.

Sun & Moon she's infectious?!?!


He honestly didn't seem fazed by it. Then again, he probably does it every show.




You know, Big Mac / Caramel is my favorite ship involving either of them. So I have 4 F/F OTPs, and a M/M OTP. Apparently I am incapable of straight ponies.

Big Mac / Caramel? Never seen it. Now BRAEBURN / Caramel, that I've seen. Too much of. My poor eyes, they shall never be pure again XD



I would say as an alternate ending to Season 2 Episode 2, Discord pulls the elements of Discord from the elements of Harmony as a last ditch effort to spread chaos around the world; throwing equestria into war as the elements of Discord slowly amass an army of chaos.

... *covertly scribbles down as a possible campaign seed*


Oh no. No. Why did you...Do you have any idea what you may have just unleashed?!? Run while you still can.

LYRA X BON-BON OTP 4 LIFE

http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee468/WizardPony/artist%20training%20grounds/21b7ce6d.jpg


Just six panels. *Not super thorough, but long enough to get the idea across.

Ah. My mistake, I meant;
When you go from level A to B, is there just a different logo next time you talk to that pony? Or is there like, a "Your friendship is evolving!" screen where you can have a short, explanatory animation?




I'm not really sold on rocks. *I know the big Rarity joke is "A ROCK?!" but still. *It could start out as a rock for the first level, but it shouldn't be a rock for very long.


I totally understand. I was thinking more a refinement thing. Like...

Rock > cracked rock > geode half > diamond > two diamonds > three diamonds



That doesn't feel like a lot of progress though. *The difference between the 4th level (3 motes) and the 5th and 6th levels (4 and 5 motes) wouldn't be particularly big and those of us who can't quite remember the little details like that might miss the transitions between them.


Well, what you already have for Twilight (four point star getting bigger, brighter and pointier) would remain; the addition of motes would just be an additional detail to add to what you already drew.



You did give me a funny idea with this one. *Start off with Rocky then add Madame LeFlour and Sir Lints-a-lot (with Party Hats), then have them one by one turn into balloons.

Like I said funny, but probably not a good idea.

EDIT: Hold on! *An idea appears! *We start with 1 balloon for level 1, level 2 is 1 balloon with some streamers and maybe a horn, level 3 is 2 balloons, no streamers. *So essentially, every other level a 'party' is thrown and another balloon appears next level.

Love it! Glad I could help, een if only a little.



I'll probably go with caterpillars like you said. *Assuming I can pull off 'cute caterpillars' correctly.

Green, no outline, yellow dots as feet, and a smiley face if possible. All ya need :smallsmile:


Somepony called for Seapony Lyra?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrgarjWW0j1r2r7jpo1_500.png

Not sure if disturbing.

That's um... One creepy grin, Sea Lyra. What's got you so happy?


Ooh. That's actually kind of complicated; I freely admit that I like the idea of The Conversion Bureau more than I like a lot of the actual fiction. http://i.imgur.com/JmPL5.png

Ah.


For reference, I'll point you to the latest TCB thread on ponychan (http://www.ponychan.net/chan/fic/res/53616.html#53616), since it's the most up to date reference available. From there, I'd say...

Background (if you want to be a compleatist):
THE ORIGINAL: The Conversion Bureau (Blaze) -- This is what established the setting.

First Contact (Purple Prose) -- An alternate origin story that established a lot of spin-offs of its own.

Complete:
Midnight's Tale (Midnight Shadow) -- One of my favorites, and the story that probably got me started with Topaz.

A Twist In The Tail (Midnight) -- A sequel of sorts to Midnight's Tale. BTW, neither of these is related to Esper's Midnight; Midnight is apparently a very popular pony name.

A Mare’s Tail (HiddenBrony) -- More grimdark than I usually manage to get through, but I found myself really liking the characters, and it ends well (in a sense).

Incomplete:
Change of Life (FirstTimePonyWriter) -- This is one of the fics on my personal OhMyGodItUpdatedMustReadNow list. It ships Rainbow Dash with a human. And it works.

An Azure Future (Krass McWriter) -- Ponysanity, TCB style.

Ponies of a Rising Sun (Purple Prose) -- I have kind of given up on this ever updating, but I liked the beginning.

'kay. Saw the Midnight Shadow ones, wasn't sure if they were a part of or a separate continuity. Okie doke!



Mask: "One day, Mr. Biscuit, I shall learn your persuady techniques." **Noms*


I don't know that you could make the sacrifices biscuit makes in the line of duty, young'n.


Mask: "I am a big pony!"

Oh so you did find the Giant Size formula? Drat!


So I am starting an eight player LAN game of Swords of the Stars. Anypony heard of it? Yeah, I'll be available for a while.

Will be or won't be available? Confused.


It's fair to say that neither Midnight Shadow nor Midnight Glen are "dark and edgy" (well, Midnight Shadow is literally dark). Poor Midnight Shadow is somewhat distressed to learn that everypony assumes that his is a filly's name...

I recall reading one pre-Cutie Mark Chronicles fic that used Midnight as Twilight Sparkle's father's name, but I don't remember if it predated OitC or not.

The Midnight who has batwings and sharp teeth and is partially demonic is though. There are enough ponies that it's hard to tell who does what throughout the entire fandom.

Personally, I think our Midnight is best Midnight. But I'm biased.



Oh, you're right! We're the only ones left. Um, sure I'd like to get some dinner. I know this place that's pretty good nearby. They specialize in food from Neighpon.

(Quickly somepony! I need a ponified restaurant name! Please?)


Okineighwa's
Yosheepnoiya
Um
That's it.


Yes and it looks to be truly glorious. Originally it was supposed to be out in August but it was pushed back to September and now October. I don't mind though, I'd prefer it be released when it's good and ready rather than get pushed out the door full of bugs.


To keep this pony related, have a comic.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/281/5/c/twixie_by_niban_destikim-d4c5mep.jpg

Anybody get the reference?

Haha. Hey Arnold!


Twilight my love,
My sultry equine,
Why must I hold you
only whilt I dream?
Will I be forever enslaved by your spell?
Why must I worship you and never tell?
Twilight, you make my marehood tremble.
My senses all go un-fix'd-y.
Someday, I'll tell the world, my love...
I, the Great and Powerful Trixie!!!!

This amazing me
You continue to do
You have not yet ceased
Why am I surprised?

[Vorpalbob]

...

Fellow Bronies in the Playground, I am frightened. Why, you may ask?

I just took the How much of a Brony Are You test.

Despite the fact that I have only seen each episode once, written only one fic, never drawn anything, own no merch, and that my only outward expression of Brony-ness is this (http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmde88Khee1qcs9iso1_500.jpg) as my desktop...
by the way I LOVE Deadpool
I scored 84% on the test.

On trivia alone.
Occasionally, my Autism can cause problems like this. :P

[Beeskee]

Why would I mind being to- Erm... I mean yes! Yes, that is completely it, I hate being touched. How dare you even suggest touching my cutie mark? You pervert.

Beeskee *thbbbts* at the other pony. "I'm not a pervert! Unless your cutie mark is something really weird. I bet you say something awesome and just don't want to admit it, but I'll let some other pony get hit."



Sounds like a simple flashgame to me. Like Mario is Missing. You poke ponies, and one of them will say something important. Then you have to find the next clue at a pony who used to just say sometime mundane. While avoiding the Ponyville police, and trying to earn your cutie mark!

It just needs a name. "Poking Ponies for ___ and Profit!"

'Fun and Profit' fits but isn't alliterative enough. I don't want to go with 'Pleasure and Profit' because SOMEPONY already thinks I'm a pervert.

*thbbbts* at Titanium Fox again. :smallwink:

Unless it went all out, in which case: "Perverted Poking of Ponies for Pleasure and Profit"

[Titanium Fox]

SiuiS, I'll dig through that mountain in a few minutes here. However to answer your question, yes I'll be available. The way this turn based game works, sometimes turns can be upwards of twenty five minutes waiting on a single player to finish (usually Hiver).


Beeskee *thbbbts* at the other pony. "I'm not a pervert! Unless your cutie mark is something really weird. I bet you say something awesome and just don't want to admit it, but I'll let some other pony get hit."

"Well, I wouldn't actually hit you... I really don't have it in me to hit anypony. But still!" She glances around nervously. "D-Don't want anypony to get the wrong idea that I'm violent or anything..."



[It just needs a name. "Poking Ponies for ___ and Profit!"

'Fun and Profit' fits but isn't alliterative enough. I don't want to go with 'Pleasure and Profit' because SOMEPONY already thinks I'm a pervert.

*thbbbts* at Titanium Fox again. :smallwink:

Unless it went all out, in which case: "Perverted Poking of Ponies for Pleasure and Profit"

Hey, you know I was joking, right? XP