My Little Pony XXXI: The Great and Powerful XXXie!

[Gadora]

Is there a TTGL/MLP crossover anywhere? Because I've been thinking of something along those lines. Celestia as Lordgenome, Luna as Nia, Discord as the Anti-Spiral, Hilda as Viral... Twilight would have to be Simon (Spike as Boota?), Applejack as Yoko (Big Mac as Dayakka, and the Apple Family in general as Littner residents), Rarity... eh, poor Rarity as Leeron, probably. Rainbow Dash as Kittan, Fluttershy as one of the Black Siblings, likely Kinon. From there, it gets kinda hazy. Pinkie could be Kamina simply for the pun (PinKamina?) and for being an earth pony with an incredible force of personality, crazy ideas that work and multiverse-breaking capabilities. Scootaloo works as Gimmy, but which of the remaining CMCs is Darry I can't decide. Ditzy Doo/Derpy Hooves as Attenborough (who else could miss so much?), but for other characters I've got no ideas.

If I can get a good enough idea assembled, it might even result in something. Any ideas?

Oh, and somewhat unrelated:

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Just a ponified Kamina. Must've been done a few hundred times by now, but I've decided I could try as well.

The logo in the back is somewhat sloppy... I gotta refine my coloring. Can't always draw sketches.

A re-post for you, from page 38 of thread one. (With a blank filled in)

Originally Posted by Gadora
Thank you so very much for this now being stuck in my head.

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My Little Lagann, My Little Lagann
Ah... My Little Lagann
I used to wonder what manliness could be
(My Little Lagann)
Until you all shared spiral power with me.

Big sunglasses
Tons of drills
A Courageous Bro
Faithful and strong
Combining Gunmen
It's an easy feat

And spirals make it all complete
On My Little Lagann
'Til you know you're all my very best bros

Seriously. That got stuck in my head for a while.

Yes, yes it does. Everypony come baaaaack!

Quick update: I'm not going to be as scarce as I'd expected, but any time I'm in chat, there's a very high chance that I'll have to disappear with no warning. I might not even have time to throw out a "Hold on, I need to take care of something," but I will try to do so. There's no way I'm going to even try to catch the episode when it airs...

Dude, it took me one night. One oh so glorious night of Pony. Right into surprise work at 8 AM the next day.

I do believe you had a wee bit less pony to go through, no?




Hey, a thread or three ago, I remember someone was posting a fic that involved Pinklestia and Blueblood. I seem to have lost track of it, and never did see how it finished. Anypony have a link? EDIT: I'm not going to have time to read it just now, but I remember it being a fun read, and would like it to be handy for when I do have time.

[Tectonic Robot]

...can someone else do this? Cause if they don't I'll have to, and that'll just result in it not getting done by me and everyone else going 'Oh that's Lixie's'.


Oooh, that could work...
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No.
Luna as Doc Scratch.
Nightmare Moon as Lord English.


...Yes.


OMIGOSH OMIGOSH OMIGOSH

...If you do it, I'll, uh... do something for you? Or something?

Luna/Nightmare Moon =Scratch/English is so perfect that it's just perfect.

...You didn't know about hoofstuck??? This must make me, like, in the top 8 or something now! Haha! But yeah, it updates sporadically so watch out for that.

Everything that Lixie quoted is amazing. In particular that Hoofstuck forum game. YES YES YES YES

What would be interesting for Doc Scratch/Lord English would be to invert things and have Nightmare Moon be Doc Scratch. After all, she's the suave, elegant one and she makes the first appearance (plus, weird time stuff means it really doesn't matter which came first anyway). Then Nightmare Moon gets "purified" but oops, it turns out that just made her more powerful and strengthened her vocal chords.

Lixie gets blamed for everything, even the things I'd rather be blamed for!

And also, Luna is way too nice to be anything like that English fellow! But we should probably stop talking about that because, you know, 'dem spoilers.

i've suggested a pony fansession but no one other then Lix seems interested



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...I'm interested! I'm just worried I'll, you know, fail. On so many levels. Like, you don't even want to know.

[Lix Lorn]

...If you do it, I'll, uh... do something for you? Or something?

Luna/Nightmare Moon =Scratch/English is so perfect that it's just perfect.

xD

...You didn't know about hoofstuck??? This must make me, like, in the top 8 or something now! Haha! But yeah, it updates sporadically so watch out for that.

The only thing I know about the list is that (only using this thread), SiuiS and Braz and Mids are top.

[Capt. Ido Nos]

i've suggested a pony fansession but no one other then Lix seems interested



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A pony session sounds like fun, if I had the time to spare I mayyyy be interested?

Oh gosh. Oh gosh her voice. Her voice is not allowed to be that cute. >:

[Fan]

A pony session sounds like fun, if I had the time to spare I mayyyy be interested?

Oh gosh. Oh gosh her voice. Her voice is not allowed to be that cute. >:

Gonna pitch in and post interest for the Pony Session as well. I even already have an avatar!



=p

[Capt. Ido Nos]

Now, a ponysession question confession: what poni would this actually entail? My brainparts are telling me there is the possibility of 1)Mane Six, 2)Homestuck Characters as Poni, or 3)OCs on a SBurb session? Which is it that folks are talking about?

SBurb... what's a good ponified name for that...

SBarn? SBale?

[Vent Reynolt]

Aw dang. Fine, you win this round. I can't figure how to spin this one back around.
Stop bein' such a gloomy Gus! You look fine, mate. And you even got the good frames instead of the oddly popular thick, "ironic" ones. You're doin' fine!

You're talking to the guy who (somehow) got third place for Fluttershy in the Pony in the Playground competition. I'd be a disgrace to the title (however undeserved it is) if I didn't have nearly crippling self-confidence issues and social anxiety.

And this extremely pathetic part of me wants to point out that you're the only one saying such kind things...

*Hides*

*Finds* Heart melts again.

Baron Awesome!

I miss bobcat.... aww...I made myself sad...

I miss bobcat too...

SO glad this isn't what I braced myself for.

You know, I was surprised myself when I found out that there was a bright, pink, and fun, Ask Pinkamena tumblr.

Even though I like the other ask Pinkamena tumblr, I wouldn't link it without a huge warning attached. Or I might not even link it at all.

Edit:

The only thing I know about the list is that (only using this thread), SiuiS and Braz and Mids are top.

That sounds kinda kinky...

[Lix Lorn]

A pony session sounds like fun, if I had the time to spare I mayyyy be interested?

Oh gosh. Oh gosh her voice. Her voice is not allowed to be that cute. >:

I knoooooow!
:33 'Extrwa fwuffy and comfortable, rrrrr...'

Gonna pitch in and post interest for the Pony Session as well. I even already have an avatar!



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Hallo Vriska. :3

That sounds kinda kinky...

...not what I meant, but with those three I won't complain. xD

[Fan]

I knoooooow!
:33 'Extrwa fwuffy and comfortable, rrrrr...'


Hallo Vriska. :3


...not what I meant, but with those three I won't complain. xD

Now everyone knows my sexy cosplay secrets. *SHAME*

[Anarion]

Now, a ponysession question confession: what poni would this actually entail? My brainparts are telling me there is the possibility of 1)Mane Six, 2)Homestuck Characters as Poni, or 3)OCs on a SBurb session? Which is it that folks are talking about?

SBurb... what's a good ponified name for that...

SBarn? SBale?

SBale was used by Hoofstuck, which Tectonic Robot originally linked (<3 for original credit even though I liked it via Lixie post quote).

I'd also be interested in some kind of pony fansession. I think using homestuck characters would be fun, and convenient since they all come with cutie marks already.

[Athaniar]

I would also likely be interested in a pony session. And I still think Discord would make a good Doc Scratch...

[Gaelbert]

HEY. What'd I tell you about usin' that kinda language around here?

I normally can't stand the overuse of the word "epic," but this time it actually seemed to fit the definition. The picture was grand, the stuff of legends. It just had that feel to it.

That was you?! Man, why didn't you ever finish? I remember the first chapter, and that was it. The one with Lovecraftian overtones, right?

A few reasons. First, as I said, I can't stand my own writing. It physically sickens me sometimes. Second, some things happened that drained my desire to write. Third, there are way too many dark ponyfics out right now. I'd prefer to write a happy, normal, cheerful one, but I'm not capable of doing that.
I've been thinking about restarting it, but right now I'm trying to retool it and use it as a libretto for my My Little Pony themed rap opera that I'm working on. I feel the material would better suit that medium. Unfortunately, I highly doubt the album will ever be completed (part of the problem of collaborating with rappers, they tend not to be the most reliable. That goes for a lot of musicians, though, not just rappers) so I might end up just finishing it as a fanfic.
And, uh, as crazy as it sounds, I was totally not thinking of Lovecraft when I was writing it. Not at all. I don't know how I could have missed that connection, though.

[Vorpalbob]

Vorpal still remains best pony, and possibly a sub-channel of Pinkie Pie's energy.

This is a thing I do quite regularly at the Vancouver Critical Mass.

The monthly bike ride, not the religious event.

What I need to do now is record myself playing Pinkie's songs while riding my bike across a bridge. Any requests?

FREE Raspberries! (ZOMG!)

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Beeskee adds two signs to the stand: (for events that happened in IRC)

Royalty has been served here!

and

These raspberries have defeated an ancient evil!
Caution: Statements have not been evaluated by the ERC.

Beeskee giggles and winks. "You asked for it." She presses her muzzle to Flashpoint's belly, and *BPBPBPBPBPBPBPBPs!* nicely, slipping in a sweet little nuzzle afterwards too. ^.^ D'awww. "Well? How d'you like those raspberries?"

FREE Raspberries!

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Flashpoint's eyes widen, and he begins giggling hysterically. He then turns over and falls off of the stand.

"Wow," He says, pulling himself up. "Never expected that from a little filly like you. Almost as good as back home!"

He re-adjusts his tie, and then produces a guitar from... where exactly you aren't sure. "Now, I know the sign says 'free', but I feel the need to repay you somehow. Any requests?"

I normally can't stand the overuse of the word "epic," but this time it actually seemed to fit the definition. The picture was grand, the stuff of legends. It just had that feel to it.

Oh believe me, I agree. That is one badass picture. I just love that webcomic and will take any opportunity to link to it.

I just realized something today. Tomorrow, I am hosting a random hang-out time, just gaming and such with my friends.

Two of the attendees, Worira and Dirtbag, are not only posters on this forum, but are also bronies.

I have organized a VANCOUVER BRONY MEETUP FOR TEH WIN!

[Lix Lorn]

Now everyone knows my sexy cosplay secrets. *SHAME*

Very sexy.
Very VERY sexy.
Very very very VERY sexy.

[Kindablue]

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[Fan]

Very sexy.
Very VERY sexy.
Very very very VERY sexy.

I do believe the correct response is..

Very very very very very very very VEEEEEEEERY sexy.

[Lix Lorn]

...you win. xD

[SiuiS]

The only thing I know about the list is that (only using this thread), SiuiS and Braz and Mids are top.

LIBEL! Midnight is obviously swing, at most.

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Damn you're fast, kindablue.

Boy, it's a good thing I told Braz about being on the IRC before that happened or I'd be hosed. XD

Had to edit my above joke though. Wouldn't look right to tease somepony and then get on somepony for teasing me. <<;

[Fan]

...you win. xD

When that much sexy is involved? Everyone wins.

[Lix Lorn]

I 8elieve I cann8 argue with that 8elief.

[Grif]

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SiuiS's phone has Trojan.Midnight virus.

[Beacon of Chaos]

Season 9 happened off-screen (allowing them to set up a better fresh start to the TV miniseries/movie they did called Back to Earth (funded mostly by the TV station Dave); which was well-recieved and pretty good - good enough that there is a season 10 in the works for about September next year.

(In case anypony had not heard that little titbit...)

There's gonna be new Red Dwarf!? Woo! I did not know that! Sweet.


Anyway, it seems Ditzy's special talent was actually revealed in the show:

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[Kindablue]

Damn you're fast, kindablue.

Boy, it's a good thing I told Braz about being on the IRC before that happened or I'd be hosed. XD

Had to edit my above joke though. Wouldn't look right to tease somepony and then get on somepony for teasing me. <<;

No, you misunderstand. I was trying to bring the pressing question of "what are mall waterfalls called?" to the thread proper. I felt it was an important topic, and one that was left painfully unresolved in the IRC. I had hoped that the collective intellect and knowledge of this thread could bring it to a fitting finish without much trouble.

[Tectonic Robot]

FFA FF RP: Free Raspberries! (Free-for-all Freeform RP)

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Beeskee sets up a small wooden stand in the market area in the middle of the town, with a sign that says "Free Raspberries!" in colorful writing. He stands behind it patiently, smiling. Oddly enough, there do not appear to be any raspberries on display. Or anything else, for that matter.

(Admiral Ackbar) It's a trap!

Roleplay, cuz why not.

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Candles peeks in. "Beeskee, what are you- oh, oh my... Hi, uh, guys..."

Starry, what do you mean by swing?

[Soras Teva Gee]

I just noticed something that's just a touch scary. We are at this moment on track to fit in two pony episodes in one thread. Poor ponythread.

[Strife Warzeal]

Why, to my knowledge, hasn't this been a crossover story yet.

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It seems too perfect to pass by. The picture also made my nostalgia go HNNNGG! It's been years since I watched Inspector Gadget, kinda wish I remembered it better.

[Geno9999]

Why, to my knowledge, hasn't this been a crossover story yet.

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It seems too perfect to pass by. The picture also made my nostalgia go HNNNGG! It's been years since I watched Inspector Gadget, kinda wish I remembered it better.

I can see the plot (No, get your mind out of the gutter, the seaponies swim there) now:
After a horrible dust explosion at the Sugarcube Corner left Pinkie Pie barely clinging on to life itself, Twilight uses her knowledge of science and magic to create Pinkie Pie a new body. Now armed head to hoof with new gadgets, Pinkie Pie now turns to the detective scene, foiling the schemes of the mysterious Dr. Claw!

[Gamerlord]

This image from the most recent drawfriend is so awesome it's a crime.

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[Gaelbert]

I just noticed something that's just a touch scary. We are at this moment on track to fit in two pony episodes in one thread. Poor ponythread.

I couldn't ask for a better opportunity.
Someponies have been worried that the IRC is killing off the ponythread, so I decided to do some data analysis. I measured the hours per ponythread for every single ponythread, graphed them out, and found the mean and standard deviation. Here's what I got:
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You'll note that we appear to go through cycles, and that the speed of the ponythread appears to be, if anything, inversely related(?!). But that's a very loose correlation at best.
Further, the threads we had going during the first season would routinely have 4 to 5 shows per thread. The first probably had 8 or so, it lasted over 2 months. I didn't include it because it was a massive outlier. I didn't use it for any of the calculations either, so the numbers are actually a bit low. If you want to see how much it throws off the data, see this graph.

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The mean of the data was 204.23 hours, and the standard deviation was 69.99 hours. Thread XXX was the only thread we had entirely with the IRC chat, and that lasted 235 hours. This places it firmly within one standard deviation, and thus likely nothing to be worried about. However, to be fair it appears that the distribution has a longer left tail. Still, nothing to worry about.
Obviously we don't have much to go on, outside of thread XXX, but I also worked out the speed of thread XIX post-IRC formation. Titanium Fox announced the creation of the IRC channel at 3:07 PM October 25. The next 20.33 (repeating) pages were finished in 77 hours. If we take that data and assume the speed would stay constant, this would put us at 189.344 hours per thread. Which is below the mean. Also note that based on my personal experience and anecdotal evidence, the IRC received a huge boom in the beginning, and then leveled off. The pace of the IRC has remained fairly constant over the last week or two since the beginning.

My thoughts: The ponythread moves at the pace people post in it, and people post when they have time. That means that summer is going to move rapidly, and then it levels off when school begins. Further, a number of prolific posters have been inundated with troubles recently. There may be some slowdown due to the IRC, we can't be certain because of the afore-mentioned confounding variables, but most of the slowdown should be attributed to the change in season. Posters were used to summer speeds that simply cannot be maintained indefinitely into the school year. You'll notice that late August marks a hundred hour/thread rise in time from our low of 109 hours/thread in late July/early August. This supports my point.

In conclusion, IRC is probably not slowing down the ponythread dramatically. I'll continue measuring and calculating when this thread is finished, but it is incredibly unlikely (and very nearly impossible) for the IRC to "kill" the ponythread. We haven't even been able to isolate any slowdown caused by the IRC at all from all the confounding variables.

Here's the data set if anypony's interested. I did the calculations by hand, so you might catch a mistake or two (or three or eight or twelve). It's in the spoiler:

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I 12/20 9:37 PM to 3/2 6:54 PM 1606 hours
II 3/2 6:52 PM to 3/21 8:03 AM 443 hours
III 3/21 8:01 AM to 4/1 12:09 PM 268 hours
IV 4/1 12:07 PM to 4/12 9:27 AM 261 hours
V 4/12 8:12 AM to 4/24 2:32 AM 282 hours
VI 4/24 2:29 AM to 5/7 6:33 PM 328 hours
VII 5/7 6:19 PM to 5/20 3:18 PM 309 hours
VIII 5/20 3:17 PM to 5/29 6:44 PM 219 hours
IX 5/29 4:22 PM to 6/8 2:03 PM 238 hours
X 6/8 2:01 PM TO 6/18 12:37 AM 226 hours
XI 6/18 12:36 AM to 6/25 2:21 PM 184 hours
XII 6/25 1:55 PM to 7/1 4:12 PM 147 hours
XIII 7/1 4:00 PM to 7/8 8:20 AM 160 hours
XIV 7/8 8:10 AM to 7/13 2:31 AM 134 hours
XV 7/13 2:29 AM to 7/19 8:25 AM 162 hours
XVI 7/19 8:18 AM to 7/25 4:00 AM 152 hours
XVII 7/25 3:58 AM to 7/31 1:02 PM 154 hours
XVIII 7/31 12:54 PM to 8/4 9:31 AM 109 hours
XIX 8/4 9:27 AM to 8/10 7:27 PM 166 hours
XX (1) 8/10 7:30 PM to 8/19 12:41 PM 219 hours
XX (2) 8/16 6:43 PM to 8/25 3:57 PM 213 hours
XXI 8/25 3:50 PM to 9/4 5:21 PM 218 hours
XXII 9/4 4:50 PM to 9/13 5:16 PM 216 hours
XXIII 9/13 5:11 PM to 9/19 6:47 PM 145 hours
XXIV 9/19 5:58 PM to 9/25 2:34 PM 141 hours
XXV 9/25 2:31 PM to 10/3 1:33 PM 191 hours
XXVI 10/3 1:30 PM to 10/11 10:21 AM 189 hours
XXVII 10/11 10:20 AM to 10/17 5:15 PM 151 hours
XXVIII 10/17 5:13 PM to 10/22 2:17 PM 117 hours
XXIX 10/22 2:16 PM to 10/28 8:05 PM 150 hours
XXX 10/28 5:20 PM to 11/7 12:48 PM 235 hours
XXXI 11/7 12:45 PM to ...?

Avg. 204.23 hours

Wow, I'm probably coming off as incredibly pretentious. Here are some pics to make up for it. There should be something for everypony in here (and by everypony, I mean everypony who likes shipping, Luna, or Derpy):

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[otakuryoga]

damn this crappy computer/syatem at work...not only does it hate to let me post pics...
but i get nothing but the small boxes with red x's in your imagedump gaelbert

sigh...guess i gotta wait til i get home