My Little Pony LIII: Stashing Ponythreads Around in Case of Ponymergency!

[Luka]

I'll beat you both apart. I'll take you both together! Flutterdash, Twinkie, and RariPants forever!

Only true pairing there is is Soarindash!
Whatever beating you try to give out shall be returned via shieldsmacking

[Deadly]

1. Ouch. Sometimes, restarting works, but check that it's not just a internet browser thing.

It's been going on for some days, and it's not just the browser.

2. Wait, I actualy get one? Weeeee! Welp, in a way to make me feel more importent make the ongoing roleplay more relivent in a monument to my own OC I wish to request Boffenspark and Silent in a magical dual. Because it's about time that someone who can draw makes me feel more importent immortalise those two in picture form.

Yeash, requesting my own OC for a pony request. I feel selfish. And oddly motavated.

I did promise, so yes :) Got any references for those two, so I know what they look like? I am not terribly familiar with ponythread OCs, so anything I should know about them?

It may not be immediately, especially with my computer being this sluggish, but I'll try to get to it.

[SlyGuyMcFly]

I'll beat you both apart. I'll take you both together! Flutterdash, Twinkie, and RariPants forever!

OK, Twinkie just makes me go , but since I don't ship Pies or Twies, I don't really care. So..

Balmas, you have my sword.

And my hat!

[Pokonic]

It's been going on for some days, and it's not just the browser.



I did promise, so yes :) Got any references for those two, so I know what they look like? I am not terribly familiar with ponythread OCs, so anything I should know about them?

It may not be immediately, especially with my computer being this sluggish, but I'll try to get to it.

Well, Silent has always been the pony that been in use for my avatar.



On the other hand, here is his supposed "good" archnemisis.

[Deadly]

Well, Silent has always been the pony that been in use for my avatar.



On the other hand, here is his supposed "good" archnemisis.

I'll see what I can do

[Soras Teva Gee]

On the other hand, here is his supposed "good" archnemisis.

Ponythread's villains are more benign then its supposed heroes aren't they.

[Anarion]

Guys, hey guys! New Rainbow Dash Presents is out! Wherein they ruin the fanfiction of the series' creator forever and call it canon.

[otakuryoga]

This needs a followup revealing that shipping is actually a part of Equestrian culture.

already done
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1602...g-and-Handling

[asdflove]

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Stupid Skeleton! Uhhhhggg! http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...ykon-325366154
http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...loak-325351301 Redcloak
MITD-http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/M...fied-325332744
and The one and only Belkar Bitterleaf! http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...-WAR-325000257
Haley-http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/H...fied-324734385
Elan-http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...Elan-324688093
+-http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/E...ddle-324748159
And now V. But I'm not super happy with this one. Not androgynous enough.
http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...vius-324948639 Aaaand Roy's turn http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...-Roy-324959487
Durkon- http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...rkon-324984292
http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/Group-Shot-325193295 They be all together!
Nale:http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...Nale-325503348
Sabine- (That mane... never again) http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...bine-325531589

(Find the rest through here)


Thog. http://asdflove.deviantart.com/art/P...Thog-326115038

[RdMarquis]

I'll beat you both apart. I'll take you both together! Flutterdash, Twinkie, and RariPants forever!

You, uh, mean Rarity and Fancy Pants, rather than Smarty Pants, right?

already done
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1602...g-and-Handling

Yay.

[Soras Teva Gee]

You, uh, mean Rarity and Fancy Pants, rather than Smarty Pants, right?

Everyone knows cargo ships are the best ships, just ask the Lyra plushie.

[Anarion]

Today continues to be a day for awesome fan-made pony stuff.

First, there's a Twilight snowboarding flash game that's pretty well made. I've done 643 meters on it.

Second, Turnabout Storm part 3 Twilight came out today and it remains super high quality and amazing.

Pony is simply providing too many tempting procrastination means today.

[Forum Explorer]

1) ignoring the wishes of the deceased just because you're hungry? Why makes you so special? that's like stealing from mom's purse because you know he doesn't want you to, but she's at work and you want that new video game now.
2) permanent, irreversible nerve and brain damage you can only et from eating your own species, or eating a cow that has eaten other cows who have eaten other cows.


Any elaboration on 1 will edge into religion though, so I have to rely on Prion Disease scare tactics.

Because I'm alive and they aren't? My survival is more important then what they wanted. That simile also compleatly fails as she's alive and it's about a non necessary item.

That's not a guarantee so the risk is worth it if it means surviving to die from it.

how can Celestia be soooo wrong?

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I don't know I think she has a point.

I'll beat you both apart. I'll take you both together! Flutterdash, Twinkie, and RariPants forever!

Is it bad that I read that as RarityXSmarty Pants

Only true pairing there is is Soarindash!
Whatever beating you try to give out shall be returned via shieldsmacking

If Rainbow Dash isn't gay/bi then this would be a good ship. Otherwise not really.

[asdflove]

Second, Turnabout Storm part 3 Twilight came out today and it remains super high quality and amazing.

Anyone else watching this right now?

[Pokonic]

I'll see what I can do

IT BEGINS

Ponythread's villains are more benign then its supposed heroes aren't they.

Well, it depends on who you lump into the "hero" catagory. Realy, now, it's realy mostly villains who are attempting to fight each other for there own interests.

Anyone else watching this right now?

I am.

[Tiki Snakes]

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

[SiuiS]

From other thread:



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Quick, Thanqol/SiuiS/Deadly/anypony with art skills, we need a picture of Genghis Khan riding Rainbow Dash while doing a sonic rainboom, STAT!

On it.

Princess Cadence may have been down on her luck at the time, but she was still Princess Celestia's niece. There's a limit to how far she could fall down the Canterlot pecking order.

Princess Cadence is not Pricess Celestia's niece. That is fan supposition.

I feel like it's Draw Like A Third Grader Day and I'm participating, but I can't really make myself pay more attention to this at the moment. Rather quickly made, and very quickly colored sketch.

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I should point out that I cannot be considered even remotely "good" at drawing humans, and have only a cursory familiarity with how Genghis Khan actually looks.


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That is exactly, EXACTLY. What I had in mind except for three details.
Ghengis was holding a falchions in mine;
Looked less flustered;
And slightly more resembled the villain from Mulan.

I don't know if I can match this.

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That's a bad analogy because mothers come back from work more often than not. If no one owned the wallet, not just no one that I knew, but no one at all had a claim on it that superseded mine, I wouldn't have any moral problems against taking it.

It is a bad analogy. I even comeback to apologize for it because I thought it might upset Deadly. Instead he smacked me in the face with my own oversight. It wa poetic.

Research on kuru indicates that it's caused mostly by eating the brain of the deceased. There's a risk no matter what, but, detached from emotion, it makes a lot more sense to risk contracting a possibly fatal disease and dying months or years later in a comfortable hospital bed than to die right then and there in the cold wreckage.

You may wish to live as an immoral shell of a man who placated his conscience with tales of necessity, until the rationalization scars over the wound in your soul. I do not.

I see people who develop reputations of self control by being constantly about to fly of the handle but never doing so. And I laugh! That's not control. That's not will power. These people always buckle under stress, when willpower is needed most. I am willing to die for my moral convictions. I almost have on several occasions. Seeing people qualify moral stances with "so long as its comfortable and convenient" is silly.

To win this you have to back up another level. It's not about whether you are okay with an immoral act, it's about whether it's even immoral.

Best drawfriend ever. Thanqol, you even got some fan art for yours truly.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/0...ejack.html?m=1

Sorry for poor formatting. I have no idea how siuis manages on his phone.

iUnicorn. Or dogged persistence. Your choice~

My survival is more important then what they wanted.

What makes you so important?

[Anarion]

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

The Ponithid was our hero. RIP

[SiuiS]

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

And Ponyard Kipling; the pony who almost kept ponythread in line, twice, when he wasnt even there. That's a chuck Norris style feat, right there.

[Tiki Snakes]

To win this you have to back up another level. It's not about whether you are okay with an immoral act, it's about whether it's even immoral.

The simple fact of the matter is, when it comes down to it it doesn't matter if it's an immoral act. Situations like that strip away the pretentious layers of meaning that life accumulates and reduce it to truths.

Eat or Die.

That's all there is to it. No right, no wrong, no taboo, no last wishes, no what they would have wanted and no clever ways out. Just a question of siimple animal survival.

What difference does it make if it's an immoral act?

Hero List;
Ponithid doesn't count. High wisdom bystander or tragically naive moral crusader, perhaps. Nothing more.
Ponyard Kipling also doesn't count, (and neither does Chuck "Deadmeme" Norris) being an absent scapegoat is not an act of heroism.

[Forum Explorer]

What makes you so important?

Because the universe revolves around me. Duh.

More seriously:

I'm saying I'm more important then a corpse. Which I believe is a fair statement as a corpse pretty much is a useless piece of meat. My dogs are more important then a corpse and yes if it came down to it I would feed my dogs human flesh if it meant their survival.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Well, it depends on who you lump into the "hero" catagory. Realy, now, it's realy mostly villains who are attempting to fight each other for there own interests.

True a more relevant categories would probably be "uppity with delusions of grandeur" and "have grandeur but are secure enough to not be uppity"

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

I'd technically be a hero I guess, but I'm a punch clock one and the TSAB has judged ponythread harmless so I come here to relax. Consequently everypony here lacks even seeing me 'set up' or anything. Not like most of ponythread even understands that reference.

[Kd7sov]

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

What about Bleakbane?

The simple fact of the matter is, when it comes down to it it doesn't matter if it's an immoral act. Situations like that strip away the pretentious layers of meaning that life accumulates and reduce it to truths.

Eat or Die.

That's all there is to it. No right, no wrong, no taboo, no last wishes, no what they would have wanted and no clever ways out. Just a question of siimple animal survival.

What difference does it make if it's an immoral act?

If you believe in Ultimate Judgement, then morality makes a great deal of difference. I'm not familiar enough with other morality frameworks to answer for them, but if (for instance) you believe Ammit will eat your heart if you're bad... well, you might decide it's better to starve now and have a good afterlife.

Edit: To clarify, by "other morality frameworks" I mean "reasons people are moral that have nothing to do with higher powers". I know they exist, but I'm not very familiar with them.

[Tiki Snakes]

Bleakbane? Unrepentant Monster with delusions of being a Villain Protagonist. Doesn't even claim to be a Hero or anything of the sort.

Perhaps worth remembering, given the last person to confuse those two things died from it.
Ultimate Judgement is not something we can discuss.

[BlasTech]

Ponythread's list of Heroes?

Igneous is rather sad you guys didn't remember him, I mean the guy's a Royal Guard! I think you broke his heart by forgett---

"WOOOO POPCORN!"

Oh wait, he's fine.

[Pokonic]

True a more relevant categories would probably be "uppity with delusions of grandeur" and "have grandeur but are secure enough to not be uppity"

Or, "incompent with power fluxations" or "compent but less likely to act". Lets face it, if Ponythread ever ends up having a massive free-for-all battle royal, it would be Balkinspark to end up lighting the fire.

What about Bleakbane?

He's the final boss. Think about it. He keeps the threat of our deaths near us, and one day he might just follow up on his claims. Also, he killed the Ponythid.

One day, everyone here is going to try and take on the Commander and his fleet. And then we can reset the threadverse comicbook style.

[Kindablue]

You may wish to live as an immoral shell of a man who placated his conscience with tales of necessity, until the rationalization scars over the wound in your soul. I do not.

I see people who develop reputations of self control by being constantly about to fly of the handle but never doing so. And I laugh! That's not control. That's not will power. These people always buckle under stress, when willpower is needed most. I am willing to die for my moral convictions. I almost have on several occasions. Seeing people qualify moral stances with "so long as its comfortable and convenient" is silly.

To win this you have to back up another level. It's not about whether you are okay with an immoral act, it's about whether it's even immoral.

No one has a claim on the body except the family of the deceased, and in this convoluted scenario I am claiming my right to live supersedes their right to an open casket funeral. The wishes of the dead should only be obliged because the family wants them to be.

ETA: Wait.

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Okay, that's better.

[Anarion]

To win this you have to back up another level. It's not about whether you are okay with an immoral act, it's about whether it's even immoral.

Gonna throw my thoughts into the ring, but let's not go too deep down the rabbit hole this time, k?

Anyway, morality is determined by your belief system. Nopony is going to strike you with lightning if you eat a corpse. So you're asking whether something is immoral is, frankly, kind of a silly question. All I have to do is say I don't think it is and I'm done.

This is also a big problem for these sort of hypothetical questions. What you're really trying to get is agreement from a bunch of different ponies about the proper course of action in a certain situation. But while that's easy for something like theft (everypony agrees that stealing someone's wallet is a bad thing), when you ask a controversial question like weighing a belief in the sanctity of a dead body vs. the life of another person, you're not going to get a simple answer and, frankly, there's not a ton of discussion to be had either. I think life is more important than the sanctity of a dead body. But why? *shrug* I dunno, I just put a lot of value on a life relative to other things. Probably had to do with a whole bunch of stuff with how I was raised, not all of which I'm conscious of right now. I don't think the why of it matters much because we're already talking about values, which is at a fundamental level. It's like asking why I like the color blue better than the color red.

[Balmas]

Ponythread's list of heroes includes a ponified sciencey adventurer who I've never heard of, but whom dexam has a nifty avatar of and a compulsive liar in a magical mexican wrestling mask.

At last count, that's pretty much it.

I maintain my neutrality in all of this, while pursuing noble ends.

[Alabenson]

Ponythread's villains are more benign then its supposed heroes aren't they.

And just what are you insinuating?
To be fair, Boffinspark is more benign than the body snatching undead cult leader and the eldritch abomination. Marginally. On his better days.
On the other hoof, professor, you've never exactly been real "hero" material.
WHAT? How so?
Well, to start with there's your incessant need to keep bombarding everypony with OFC blasts.
...Phooey. Speaking of which,

i got this
*bamf*
sup boffinspark
*levitates all lab equipment a few inches, tilts past its center of gravity*
*releases*
*crash*

I'm the 'B' to the 'o' to the double 'f', 'i-n', 's-p-a-r-k'
And now you're gonna face
My OFC array
I'm Boff-alicious

*portals surround thubby*

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Princess Cadence is not Pricess Celestia's niece. That is fan supposition.

Huh, I thought we had some sort of official word on that. I stand corrected.

Or, "incompent with power fluxations" or "compent but less likely to act". Lets face it, if Ponythread ever ends up having a massive free-for-all battle royal, it would be Balkinspark to end up lighting the fire.



He's the final boss. Think about it. He keeps the threat of our deaths near us, and one day he might just follow up on his claims. Also, he killed the Ponythid.

One day, everyone here is going to try and take on the Commander and his fleet. And then we can reset the threadverse comicbook style.

The only problem with that eventuality is that it will invariably devolve into a series of complicated backstabbing maneuvers between Boffinspark and Silent Night.