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2011-11-08, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXXI: The Great and Powerful XXXie!
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2011-11-08, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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@#%&*$£ dog got out. Again. Twice. And can apparently unblock the dogflap. So we're now having to keep him in with the bin during the night (not sure whether to leave it open overnight or not...*sigh*) - and of course Mum's now in Foreign Parts until next Tuesday. Grr.
That was an hour I didn't need to waste, hip deep as I am in trying to a) get an entire quest prepared for Saturday at the last minute (which I am about 67% of the way done with now) AND reflavour every single 5th level Cerlic spell for my character in case there aren't any problems before Saturday AND c) do a modification of one of my tanks for Dad...
I was actually hoping to get loads of other stuff done this week, but it rather doesn't look like it, does it?
I assume the former (as did dear old Bobcat.) Fun with random genetics! Huzzah!
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2011-11-08, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 07:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have a suggestion, actually. Perhaps instead of the dimension hopper ala Sliders, given that the pitch for the fic is just Rainbow Dash travelling to the bad fics...
How about you do it Quantum Leap style? She accidentally performs a Rainbow Leap and finds herself taking the place of her counterpart in the Bad Fanfictions and must do what she can to fix things in each one before moving on to the next and eventually maybe finally getting home.Last edited by Tiki Snakes; 2011-11-08 at 07:59 PM.
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2011-11-08, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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So I'm working on engineering HW right now, and all the powers that be are delighting in tormenting me. Typos flying every which way in my calculator, failures in transcription from the given data to the page, failures in transcription from notes to work, pretty much a Murphy's Law FUBAR. Everything that could possibly go wrong is in the process of going wrong as you read this. Of course, it doesn't help that I have to answer 8 three-to-four part questions on angular motion, mass moment of inertia, and torque, none of which I completely understand, by midnight (It's 7:56 my time right now, and I'm only on part two of question three. After two hours of work. You can understand why I'm stressing out right now).
tl;dr: I need cute ponies. Lots of them. Please?
Oh, and to make this post tangentially pony-related have an adorable Fluttershy:
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2011-11-08, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would really miss the thread RP. It's nice to have the chance to do FFRP that isn't all-the-crazy-piles-in-at-once or dominated by the God Squad.
It would also be nice to get a little more feedback on fanfic, though as terrible as I am about that it's kind of hypocritical to mention.
We do get some conversation going on general ponyness; it just depends on the timing.
Old thread drama, on the other hoof, is probably well done with.Blue Star Topaz is my name
Equestria's my station
The Elements define my creed
The Herd's my destination
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2011-11-08, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Pinball Witch (Inspired by Pinball Wizard, by The Who)
SpoilerEver since I was a young colt
I've played the silver ball
From Sohoof down to Foalsom
I must have played them all
But I ain't seen nothing like her
In any amusement hall
That derpy, cross-eyed mare
Sure plays a mean pinball
She stands, up on her hooves
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
She plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
That derpy, cross-eyed mare
Sure plays a mean pinball
She's a pinball wizard
Her apprentice is named Twist
A pinball wizard
She's got such a supple wrist
How do you think she does it?
(I don't know)
Muffins make her good?
Doesn't know distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells
Can't focus on lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never seen her fall
That derpy, cross-eyed mare
Sure plays a mean pinball
I thought I was
The Bally table queen
But I just handed
My pinball crown to her
Even on my favorite table
She can beat my best
Her sisters lead her in
And she just does the rest
She's got crazy habitrail hooves
Never seen him fall
That derpy, cross-eyed mare
Sure plays a mean pinball
I gotta roll out for a test, so that's what I've got.
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2011-11-08, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm tempted to have Dash interact with the narrator as she jumps between fics.
"Rainbow struggled to get off the ground, but felt a stabbing pain in her wing. It seemed-"
"Yeah, yeah, broken wing. Not interested. SKIP!"
"Pinkie had an unusual grin on her face, her eye twitching manically as she pulled out the egg beater."
"Psychopath Pinkie #28. Not what I want. SKIP!"
"Gilda flapped slowly forward, caressing Dash's wings, the fires of desire in her eyes...."
"Bleh, I'm not that kind of filly! NEXT!"
"Oh, c'mon! This one was getting good!"
"Not interested. SKIP!"
"... fine. AND THEN THEY BOTH F-"
"I SAID SKIP!"Avatar by Glasswhistle
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2011-11-08, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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...with all due respect, it sorta would. At LEAST half the fun of the thread was in the random stuff that just happened here. Now it doesn't. The IRCs fun and all, but it's taken that fun from the thread. (And concentrated it to a sorta ludicrous degree, which you can't catch up on like you could with the thread)
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2011-11-08, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'd drop the old thread drama. If it's old, it's probably over and done with anyway.
I again cite the issue of free time. If I had the time I had over the summer, I'd be reviewing fics right and left. As it stands, I've got school whupping me upside the head, and that's eating up most of my time. Heck, I'd be writing them myself if it wasn't for a host of issues keeping my writing pace slower than an iceburg.
And also, we had Inkwell drop off a bunch of pics earlier, Druid_Droid posts his art here too, we had a lot of conversation regarding Derpy recently, I'm looking through the recent posts and there's some good other pony discussion going on too, and a pony version of Pinball Wizard was posted in the time it took me to write this. I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that I personally think we're doing alright for ourselves.Last edited by TheAmishPirate; 2011-11-08 at 08:15 PM.
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2011-11-08, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Would work nicely in a dimension hopping setup. A Quantum Leap one would hinge on her NOT being able to skip out until she'd fixed things, (Ie, derailed the badfic to the point of it being a little less bad?).
EDIT - I am slow.
Clearly, she can leave the Fic once she has done what she can, and ensured that the fic is about 20% cooler.
Though either way, an interactable narrator I can get behind. I considered suggesting it being Pinkie, via fourth-wall-shattering, but I'm not sure how meta you'd be interested in going.Last edited by Tiki Snakes; 2011-11-08 at 08:18 PM.
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2011-11-08, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXXI: The Great and Powerful XXXie!
So... Random thought.
Somepony should really make a Rainbow Dash montage to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietziche
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2011-11-08, 08:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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FFA FF RP: FREE Raspberries! (Free For All, Free-Form Role Playing) For the randomness!
SpoilerBeeskee smiles at the blood-red pony, and swishes her tail lazily. "Yes, I'm giving away raspberries. What kind would you like? I have a number of different options available to the discerning raspberry connoisseur. Delivered by a filly or by a colt? Raspberries or EXTRA raspberries? And, with or without nuzzles?"
Oh I am SO going to. "Oh, I have plenty of raspberries to give, yes yes yes I do. What kind would you like? I have a number of different options available to the discerning raspberry connoisseur. Delivered by a filly or by a colt? Raspberries or EXTRA raspberries? And, with or without nuzzles?"
Beeskee grins at the other pony. "Selling? Who is selling? I am giving them away! Want some?"
Beeskee giggles. "You realize it's totally an excuse for me to blow raspberries on your belly, right?"
Your horror story was actually done very well. I liked it when I usually don't like horror. There's a difference between horror and gore/death for it's own sake too. I don't know about Cupcakes or Rainbow Factory but I haven't heard many good things about either.
Yay to the first one! The second one comes up broken.
Here's a working one:
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2011-11-08, 08:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nine Pages already. 0_0*
You guys are insatiable, aren't you? X)
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2011-11-08, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Why is it that we receive a penny for our thoughts, but have to put in our 2 cents?"
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I got an award!
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Fluttershy in the Playground - third place
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2011-11-08, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, so I was just watching Flutterwonder while getting my lazy flank to do some writing, and I noticed something...odd.
Pause it here, you'll see what I'm talking about.
Why does the flight school have hangars? Seriously, most of the pegasi can fly of their own power, and those are hardly great living quarters compared to Rainbow's cloud mansion over Ponyville. I could see maybe chariots being stored there, but would you really have newbie flyers pulling a big, hulking chariot that usually takes two guards in high physical condition to lift? And while we're on the subject, why runways? Most pegasi have been able to take off from a standing start so far, and the few times we've seen the chariot land it's landed and taken off with little to no distance traveled on the ground. I guess it could make a good training ground, like a football field for groups of new flyers, but it just seems really odd to have those there.
Unless the school is just a front for a massive Equestrian military installation, that is. Then it makes perfect sense.I'm developing a game. Let's see what happens! Complex.
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2011-11-08, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XXXI: The Great and Powerful XXXie!
I'd drop old thread drama myself, if only to avoid making any new thread drama...
Also, I don't think we're seeing the end of ponythread craziness; the last couple of days we've put up an impressive number of pages with arguably much more solid content than some past posting frenzies.
Also, if you do want to see a bit of a speed up and some more of the old randomness, it shouldn't be too hard to slowly reintroduce some RP stuff. I think most of our slowdown was the one-two punch of new IRC channel and RP/speed concerns for retaining posters.
I can see certain spells working in an 'irreversible' way - their effects are in place and can't be removed unless some resonance or other connection with the original caster intervenes, or the spell is entirely overpowered and shorted out.
This is the best thing!
Actually, since several posters are getting into practicing their art, it might indeed be fun to do some sort of ponythread write/drawfriend collaboration. We could build up a fic and provide illustrations. Heck, we could probably get it up on EqD considering the talent reserves we've got here.
This could be so much fun...
I think you hit the nail on the head thereThis Machine Surrounds Hate And Forces It To Surrender
Ponythread Learns to Draw!
SpoilerBleeeeh! Alfalfa Monster!
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2011-11-08, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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1. Possibly. My guess, not much more than hypothetical Unicorn that would live similar age, unless Celestia tried to actively expand her power.
2. No idea, but I tend to agree with above...
3. Well...
SpoilerMy guess is, she is singing to one of the Pegasi? I don't know the exact reason, but the producers will have a tough job making it worse than Twilight's episode while keeping it suitable for little kids.
As for Pinkie going to ward, she seems to annoying and air-headed 3/4 of the time for that, but I guess Pinkie that was shown to be caring (1/4 of the time, and apparently from this song) would do that.
Well, except the job is aready taken:P
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As for the picture, nice, but this thread still needs... 20% more Trixie :PCome one, come all! GitP MLP Steam Group is open!
Current location of the last MLP Thread OP, too.
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"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
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2011-11-08, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Don't worry - that's just your body trying to resist the ponysanity. Relax, embrace it, and soon you will be complaining that less than 8 pages a day is too slow.
I've seen a few people advance the theory that the father is Pokey Pierce.
[img[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110216030224/mlp/images/thumb/4/46/Pierce_id.png/150px-Pierce_id.png[/img]
Somepony had the theory that the safety pin cutie mark represented child care as a special talent - naturally, to be good at child care you need to start with a child...
Derpy Jones? (Davey Jones)
Long Jack Apple? (Long John Silver)
Pony pirates image dump!
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Thanqol, stop making the rest of us look bad!
... I wish I had somebrony I could to talk to face to face with about MLP. The internet is fine, but it's not quite the same.
In other news, I've started freeform RPing Honeysting in another forum (thankyouthankyouthankyou for the picture). It should prove interesting.
PONYNSATIABLE!
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2011-11-08, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm going to learn this song now. If all goes well, I should have a recording up by tomorrow evening. (no promises)
FREE Raspberries!
SpoilerThe red pony's left eyebrow raises. He studies the mare with an expression that reads "You... have got to be kidding me."
"Never one to shy away from a new experience." He glances around the stand at the growing number of potential customers.
"However, it looks like you may be falsely advertising, unless you've got a colt hidden under that little stand of yours."I have a band!
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2011-11-08, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks for the link, it looks interesting but I have no familiarity with the Exalted rules so may have to sit and watch this one.
Dump the old thread drama IMO.
I know what else we can talk about, how's the RiM planning going? Eh Eh Eh?
Free Raspberries:
SpoilerA charcoal grey unicorn guard appears behind the stand with a stern expression on his face.
"Do you have a permit to set up a Raspberries stand here ma'am?"
OM NOM NOM NOM
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I always had this idea in my head: just after the EoH team defeats Luna at the end of the 2nd episode, and just before Celestia Re-appears in the castle, she stops by this massive army of royal guards, tanks, artillery and fighter planes and says "Don't worry folks, Plan A worked!"
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2011-11-08, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-11-08, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's ok, the corner booth gets the best service! The usual server, Hénrí, loves his job, Nd his clients. And makes a mean AMF.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Hangon. Wait. I'm standing here, at midnight, in the rain, outside Parliament House, after pretending to be a wizard, talking with a guy in a lab coat about ponies. I could not make this up."
"Aren't you glad you decided to be my friend?"
The scrub store won't sell to me. I freak them out >>;
Brony zero! Typhoid Jahkaivah! Pony ftagn!
She's not bad. She tries a bit to hard for some of the notes, but I can't put a hooftip on it. I suspect she can't get her voice quite as high as Pinkie can. Still, the inflection is there for most of Pinkie's personality.
Is there a related Fluttershy link?
As ANOTHER note for BroNYcon. I am going to be doing a hotel room. I am paying the full price, Friday and Saturday night. And I am welcoming as many ponies as I can fit FOR FREE. Right now I have seven ponies in the room, and I can at least fit three more. So if rooming space is keeping you from coming in January, don’t let it. You are more than welcome to crash with me, even if it is floor space.
D:)
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January is so close Now! Aaaagh! I don't know if ... No, I'm sure I won't be able to go. Why capitalism! Why do you taunt me with your succulent riches and then steal them away with petty workplace politics!?
Ah well. If it comes up again in 2013, provided the world doesn't end first I'll make it a birthday gift to m'self.
Well Pinkie Pie moves so fast and uses raw, mundane energy to teleport of all things, so she needs that insane calorie intake just to keep up with her daily activities.
You haven't lived until you look at your sweaty out of breath friend on the twelth or thirteenth hour of some rigorous activity and ask why they're being such a party pooper!
Suddenly my bum knees make so much more sense. Stupid degenerative tissues.
"I wanted to, but he wouldn't let me! Some nonsense about 'public places', and 'investigations of gross incompetence' or something like that!"
That was a hard joke to make. Separating you into Jade and Titanium is counterintuitive.
...:<
I'm seriously considering it. I mean, I feel so much more comfortable online as a filly, and come to think of it I always have.
*Snrk* Pinkie PiuiS.
Which makes this old piece...
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Somewhat prophetic, non?
SHE'S STARING INTO MY SOUL
DISCLAIMER FROM THE BRONY COMMUNITY: Please do not actually name your daughter Scootaloo. Your precious little Scootaloo may bite your finger off in retribution.
Scootaloo, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle have not been evaluated by the FDA. Use at own risk.
I love you so much for reposting this every single time. I'm so busy lately I never catch page 1 anymore.
Oh well. Our loss! Though it means I'm not gonna be able to directly iterate with most of you guys unless I get a chance to change to a morning or day schedule.
Hm...
Oooooh that's what he meant. Sorry, I got my masks confused.
This is the one who resolves problems with biscuits, not the one who was banished to the moon until he made out with Natalie Portmare.
And I commented! I just don't have much to say except for drilling you on how you color things. Is it vectored? Do you use penstrokes for coloring, or a fill? Is shading a separate layer compressed downward, made transparent, or a direct color change to the original? How much of the work we see is post-production rather than preproduction or production?
GYAAAHHH!!! It buuurrrrns, it buuuuuurrrrrrrnnnssss. Sheesh! Owowowowow! That's what I get for sharing pictures! Evil ponies! Ow!
*flame-proof's the poor spider*
Giant boots you'll have to handle on your own. Or, wait, maybe not. *gives the spider bashing soak*
What, really?
I mean, I'm not surprised. *First you were dating him, then engaged, then married! Each time Braeburn was brought up you were farther along the path.
I guess, seeing it's been so long, I'm just surprised we aren't hearing about said foal moving back home and you helping them with their student loans.
CUUUUTE.
...also... did we ever work out who the other mother was? Or father. (Yeah, that's gonna happen)
I'm sure I was one of the candidates. xD
Welp the small text makes it seem serious.
*tackles you backward in time* Stop reading!
Aye. Just roll with it, though! If neither Lix norRazBraeburn have said anything before now, there's probably a reason. TIME ASSASSINS
I was gonna call Bull (because he loves making fun of some of our posts) but then I opened the spoiler.
Scootahugs are awesome.
Nice. Hey Braz. Hit me.
:? *shrug*
*punch*
Oki Doke! Now that that's outa the way...
That's an attractive Draconequus.
D:< *punch*
OW! Heeeey, why'dja do that for?! You already hit me!
That one didn't count.
I think I even vaguely remember allusions to having a foal, too. *shrug* my memory is weird.
Good Gracious, Your Ser-- Er, Midnight! Do you know what you've done? you said compete...
You didn't say work together in the social! Mask is probably forging adoption papers as we speak and plotting to take out all the other ponies so it's just her and Aurora in a climactic final round showdown!
You're a brilliantly awesome pony, no matter what. A very cute filly, too.
*Midnight whistles innocently.
This is relevant to my interests.
Or wear these fluffy shoulder pads and torso pillow!
Actually, that's a really cool tumblr. Thanks!
Yeah, it was like perfect poster synergy. We actually slowed down whenever we tried to be fast. But some of the natural pacing we set would blister your backside, gobbled or not!
Celestia is subtly beyond unicorn magic. I do believe she included herself in her statement to Twilight; Dame Sparkle has more raw talent than even Celestia herself.
That being said, experience and nuance count for a lot. Luna didn't use magic for her weather effects, they happened like facial muscles. Unconsciously. Celestia and Luna are less ponies, and more Equinomorphic representations of natural forces. There is no sun without Celestia, there is no moon without Luna. They are night and day, respectively. Like Amaterasu and Onotangu.
Fillyfooler only has the negative connotations given to it by the reader; I myself find it kinda cute. Same with coltcuddler.
I think the creation of new terms was specifically so as to avoid tying pony relationships to human ones. It's like saying hand; calling a pony a lesbian pulls the lens back, and makes you remember you are viewing something by degrees of separation.
And that settles it. Trixie has a ridiculous haircut.
I still insist that filly is a cognate for girl, and you only use it to mean girlchild when the context applies to it. Else how could we let full grown women use the girl's room?
No, but breaking a Savant's over-powered magical coercion across a group points towards skill precision, which is what we value. The wizard who solves his problems with bigger and more fireballs isn't as "powerful" as the one who can control the combustion of a field so that only, say, the dandelions go up in smoke and the rest is fine. Even if the firenukeball wizard generates more thermal energy.
I have to say though, knowing the setting, the implications of the openin story and fairytale land, how can you not view Celestia and Luna as functionally Kami or Langvaettr?
Blah. I can't ship Derpy. It feels... Weird to me. Wrong.
Time to overly examine my gut reactions again.
I kinda do too? I mean, I enjoy being able to look around the playground more now, but... It's not the rate of content. The quality of posts has minimally decreased; everypony just seems tired, stressed, rushed. The Idylwild feel is almost gone.
Though we seem to be on an upswing! That's always nice
Indeed. Equilibrium will assert itself. Dynamic balance is the best balance.
You weren't? I guess it was later on that your mustachioed mug became commonplace.
Actually, quite the opposite. I took leave day on Friday and meet a few friends and relatives over the weekend and was back on Sunday night. I just posted yesterday since when I tried to catch up the new thread just showed up. And so far this has been an acceptable busy week. Still don#t have time to catch up on the last thread past post 900.
And thanks for asking! And how's your live been the past weeks?
Though I plan on dragging some of the clutter with me, kicking and screaming. Like, did you know that Starry Notions has some hard-and-fast limits, that my anthropomorphic form doesn't? Like one is a self-incarnating entity, and the other is a standard(ish) mortal pony? Yeah, I forgot that until after I was killed by a chest burster. With no way to come back.
Oops.
Luckily, mad science! And Raz_Fox with a magic contract.
Aaand... My month has been weird. I've worked the last 35-38 days solid, anywhere from 8 to 14 hours a day. I'm starting to slip up on dumb things, like staying open an extra hour because I somehow got 23:00 into my head as 10:00 pm. That and a small crises of self, which I resolved in the usual manner of ignoring it until my background processes got to work on it.
Overall, not too bad! But not very pony. I'm running at like, between 50-70% capacity. 63.7% more pony that a non-Brony, but it could be better, Y'know?
Haha. I've gotten whiny and expositional in the last few days XD
Tempted. But then I'd have to get a YouTube account, and I think video or voice recordings are on the list of internet NoNos right now. Still... Only reason I didn't tackle Always a Filly is because I didn't know the tune.
Can't wait for the rest, mate!
Light seems to be less a spell and more a focused byproduct; mental flexing. I can use my arm and the bicep will stand out, or I can flex it specifically and it stands out a lot; the difference between standard illumination and specific light magic.
I think all unicorns have potential for magic. I think all ponies have potential for magic. I don't think they all have the aptitude, resources, or training. Rarity isnt a "spell caster" by definition, despite how she uses so many magical effects. Twilight on the other hoof, is. Trixie is intriguing, because I put her in the 'non-spellcaster' camp. She's a savant who didn't really apply herself, and lacks book learnin'.