Chapter 8 of II is finished. I think from now on I'll skip the ponythread prereading process and just publish the chapters when I'm done with them. Not that I don't appreciate the feedback when I get it, I just can't justify delaying each chapter like this. Better to just publish it and let everyone read and critique it.
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I'm not seeing how super successful author equal nobility. Or are you referring to something else?
Well, I suggested above that writing novels that appeal to Celestia would be a way to get into the nobility, and it's been my headcanon as well that Twilight is a noble.
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Sadly, accounting is one of those unfortuneate professions where "bucking the trend" is synomamous with "unemployed" .
One again, the terms "accounting" and "law" are interchangeable. Although I'm at least still a student, so we'll see, maybe I'll get a government job where they don't care about that sort of thing.
I'm telling you some brony out there put it together in the design office as a joke and to his/her utter dismay... it got mixed in with the real submissions and the execs just went with.
I'm telling you some brony out there put it together in the design office as a joke and to his/her utter dismay... it got mixed in with the real submissions and the execs just went with.
I figured it was a trademark issue. Didn't Hasbro lose a lot of the rights to older gen characters for basically neglecting to reapply for them? Walmart might have been trying to save on royalty payments and figured that the older gen was "just as good."
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And that why Twilight called it "Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Statue" instead, it's the original title from the manuscripts instead of the published title.
And I see that Twilight is from nobility is catching on.
I blame "Platinum Crown," myself. Shame that story is going a little bit off the rails as it goes on, but as an example of world building I think it's still pretty stellar
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I figured it was a trademark issue. Didn't Hasbro lose a lot of the rights to older gen characters for basically neglecting to reapply for them? Walmart might have been trying to save on royalty payments and figured that the older gen was "just as good."
I was thinking that too since it is Wal-Mart we're talking about.
Also, my local Wal-Mart, despite being of the "super" variety, carries very little MLP merch.
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Well flank is out of common parlance since about a year ago now...
Unless we're talking about steaks. :q
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No pretty sure he thinks he's Digo Dragon.
Custom Avatar by SnowHawk- My OC Pegasus, Ellie Sprocket.
It would have been an awesome hipster shirt if they had actually managed to get all the correct old-school ponies on it. As it is it's just half-assed.
Well, I suggested above that writing novels that appeal to Celestia would be a way to get into the nobility, and it's been my headcanon as well that Twilight is a noble.
Sure and I do find the idea of Celestia knighting ponies for random acts that she enjoys hilarious. (Bake a cake become a duke )
Still it doesn't seem like the idea has gotten any more support lately.
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I figured it was a trademark issue. Didn't Hasbro lose a lot of the rights to older gen characters for basically neglecting to reapply for them? Walmart might have been trying to save on royalty
The shirt has Applejack on it, which is one of the trademarks that Hasbro held onto, so that's not likely. I honestly think they just ran some focus groups with girls ages 5-40 and found a bunch of people that liked the older gen ponies and only had passing familiarity with the term "bronies."
Twilight's mom is the author of the Daring Do books?
silly...Fluttershy is the author....how else do you think she can afford to feed and doctor up all those animals(and offer 10 bits for a cherry)
because as we all know, THERE IS NO PEGASUS MAFIA
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And also, this picture is awesome and perfect for pony day.
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now comes the work of id'ing each of those ponies....
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Chapter 8 of II is finished. I think from now on I'll skip the ponythread prereading process and just publish the chapters when I'm done with them. Not that I don't appreciate the feedback when I get it, I just can't justify delaying each chapter like this. Better to just publish it and let everyone read and critique it.
I am sorry, I fell behind before and will not have time to catch up until December due to school.
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Darn it to heck.... I'm -struggling- to get my paper done so I can submit it tomorrow... and yet I can't focus because I've got this bloody song in my head! I ran into it last night, and have been listening to it since freaking midnight! It makes me sick, and yet I can't stop listening to it! I don't understand it!
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Do you mean order of episodes timeline? Because it definatly does not go in chronological order in the show. There isn't an official one but some fan ones seem pretty solid.
Hm... it seemed like some of the second ones came before the first season ended, actually...
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Luna arrived with an unplanned lightning storm and is yelling at everypony. They think she's angry at them and their scared of her wrath. After that their nervous about being around somepony with that much power and no idea of how she's like.
I don't see how they even have a holiday based around her at all... it just doesn't quite add up in my head. In the first episode, no one recognised her but Twilight, who had actually researched her. You'd think they would if there was a holiday based on not ticking off this person.
Additionally, Zecora seemed to be the local expert for this holiday, telling it to the little chillin'. Yet Zecora wasn't even really treated as a member of Ponyville for a while, with everyone as freaked out by her as they were by Luna.
The cogs are trying to turn, but so far it's just overheating...
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The statue doesn't look that much like Nightmare Moon and likely wouldn't be on ponies minds when being confronted by a strange alicorn and eternal night.
I'd be willing to argue that. If Frosty the Snowman came back from whatever evil snowhill he came from, I'd be sure to be ready and waiting for him, even if he looked a bit diffeent.
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Plus she wasn't acting like the 'Santa Claus' version of herself. She wasn't trying to eat anyone and was speaking perfectly normal.
... fudge, my brain keeps shutting down mid thouht when I get to this line. Is Luna the Santa Claus version, or Nightmare Moon?
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She's actually pretty aloof and shy in the episode. But she's too proud to admit it so she's acting in what she feels is a regal manner to make up for it.
Again, I understand the regalness. I don't understand her having a perfectly normal dialect with Celestia and in her return, then going Macbeth for the holiday. Heck, compare her dialog to that of her briefly ironic appearance in the final episode.
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Well school comes first as always. I know my own writing has been put on hold as I study.
I still haven't finished the work I was supposed to do yet... got a freaking earworm in my head, sapping my will to do anything but smile and feel happy...
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Like I said before I don't think your story sounded unoriginal. Give it a shot!
... do you mean trying to work more on the first one? Or trying to write some sort of blob to provide a taste of the second one? It's hard being so formal with these things... especially when I can see what types of things inspired the work, too...
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If you want to draw then go for it. But please tell me you weren't being literal when you said they broke your hands to stop you from drawing
It's not like I have to deal with those people anymore now, so it's not a problem or anything.
I'm just so out of practice, I don't even know where to begin... I've always prefered hand-drawing, too, which means I'll need to find something to enable me to draw it and then get the computer to accept it...
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Alright, ponythread.
I've decided that we ALL need some good old fashioned brain-bleach. Why? I dunno, but brain-bleach is always good!
Please enjoy the cute.
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Would you believe, at least in me, the song I'm listening to has been sturing up so many feelings of happyness and love, that I'm actually feeling desensitised to the otherwise ****ing adorableness of baby gilda?
Also, the pillow reminds me of a 'mon.
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Oh, man. Bwobs? It feels like it's been ages since we had Bwobs in the thread.
Have some Bwobs.
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I thought you said boobs. I was scared to click the link for a second....
Where on earth did Bwobs come from?
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Would you be able to spare a couple hundred bucks for a set of ties?
... I can only imagine someone going into a work place, serious, pointy haired and everything... with a tie like one of those. I wouldn't know how to respond to a boss like that...
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Wow. I've been in a terrible mood lately. It doesn't help I still don't have a job, and while my roommate isn't pressing the issue, I still feel guilty I'm not paying anything to be here. Even worse, I don't spend any time with him. To be fair, he does basically what I do all day. Browse the web, talk with online friends. He's in the Vector Club on Deviant Art too, so he spends a lot of time on that and updating his TWO Tumblrs. So, really, unless he has plans for us to do something together (and I'm broke so it would have to be free, usually it's chilling and watching something on NetFlix. Waiting for Archer Season 3 to pop up). Plus I'm already rather antisocial, but when I lived in Alabama, I spent most weekends with my friends (if I didn't have to work). We played Magic or D&D, or I watched em play video games (rarely got involved, not really a fan of most newer games, which could have killed my opportunity at a crappy part-time job at Gamestop). Anyway, I lost my train of thought. I think the point I was trying to make was:
I've been listening to MLP today mostly out of boredom (new NCIS episode was good though). The episode with Doodle just came and went. I remember this pony personality test I took. Not the one everyone has that only had the Mane 6, it was another that had other characters too. I don't remember which ones, but I ended up with Spike (and I can understand that to some points). I realized after the episode, that I am probably more like Cranky. At the end, Pinkie's letter mentions still being friends with someone even though you don't spend time with them. That's kind of how it is with me and my roommate I guess.
I hope your situation improves (mostly by you being able to at least find a job, which would be a very good break in this economy). But I have to note how conveniently timed things around one's life can be. Lessons from your favorite show, or messages from church, or the lecture for school... Fate's just odd like that.
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And, since this entire post isn't self-looking emo stuff, I looked up Cranky's voice actor, because I enjoyed his little nuances. Like Rarity, and I don't need to link the "why Tabitha is the best pony actress" again. Anyway, being obsessed with finding out who voiced who, I noticed Richard Newman, who voiced Cranky, also voiced Totosai in Inuyasha, and Captain Ginyu in one of the many incarnations of Dragon Ball z. Fun.
..... Cranky Doodle Dandi is the Illustrious Captain Ginyu!?! Can he do a pose, too?
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Maybe. Assuming seasons act the same way as they do in the real world, we can guess that a year had passed in season 1. Maybe more. Winter Wrap Up, then a few episodes later, Fall Weather Friends. This would assume that the Gala took place around late fall, maybe early winter. Then again, I believe the forests looked pretty green. Season 2 is harder because there's no real indicators there. Again, assuming their holidays fall on the same time period as ours, Luna Eclipsed and Hearth's Warming Eve tell us that fall and winter had passed. Most REAL shows don't even indicate time periods (How I Met Your Mother being a good exception, but in that case time is important). Most people just assume that each season is a year (in Scrubs, it's pretty much confirmed, because they mention at the beginning of most seasons about their "fourth year", or "fifth year", and they have a nice fourth wall breakage for this in season 8). So you can say two years. However, we also know that Spike has only had one birthday while in Ponyville, as we learned in Secret of My Excess. So...continuity problems? I mean, I can understand a bit in this show anyway, but they do a pretty good job of having everything pretty explainable.
I guess... what, the Mk3mantra, was it? I feel like it makes more sense for more time to have passed... long enough for only 1-2 birthdays, maybe off screen...
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Mwahaha.
Scariest. Avatar. Ever!!
Also, happy second ponyversary everyone!
Did you hand draw that? It's really good...
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Okay, now I'm picturing an episode where AJ gets drunk and throws a BETTER party than Pinkie Pie. Pinkie, not willing to accept second-best Pony position, plays "Keeping up with the Jones" and throws an even bigger party of Epic proportions.
Hilarity Ensues.
..... I wonder how many other epic fan ideas can be turned into an episode, especially one that comes with a built in lesson about being able to share the things you enjoy.
In anycase, I'd totally watch it.
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The more time you spend near me...
Lixie, you're like the Morrigan Aesland of this group. An elicit incarnation of lust shipping that corrupts the pure and innocent around you for fun.
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This cannot possibly come as a surprise to you at this point.
It's not... at least not the basic subject matter. Not to mention there's really not too much else you can make ... saucy, for lack of a better word, on a pony, so on a basic level, I completely understand...
It's just... dang, ya'll -really- like dat flank! I thought -I- liked my share of big butts...
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Well flank is out of common parlance since about a year ago now...
The thing is, I still hear about flanks, and flanking, and covering eachother's flanks, and flanking people... but before this group, that was all completely mature, strategic talk, involving attacking or defending from behind.
And now, I can't reread that paragraph withot thinking about pony butt.
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Unless we're talking about steaks. :q
Wait what?
... no, nevermind.
.... actually no, better I learn here where it's safe...
..... but I'm not sure if I'm ready to know yet....
...... DARN IT I DON'T KNOW!!!
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I think from now on I'll skip the ponythread prereading process and just publish the chapters when I'm done with them. Not that I don't appreciate the feedback when I get it, I just can't justify delaying each chapter like this. Better to just publish it and let everyone read and critique it.
I can barely write myself, let alone properly critique... I'm still reading through the Nightmare Sonata... though I have no idea who Lyra is. Or Octavia. Not to mention Bon Bon...
Still, sorry...
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now comes the work of id'ing each of those ponies....
Are those all from the show, or just pony versions of the actual cast and crew?
Still probably less silly an undertaking than this:
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I am sorry, I fell behind before and will not have time to catch up until December due to school.
Seems like a common problem of late. Hopefully things will pick up soon, I'm starving for feedback here. I need looooove and adoration
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I can barely write myself, let alone properly critique... I'm still reading through the Nightmare Sonata... though I have no idea who Lyra is. Or Octavia. Not to mention Bon Bon...
Still, sorry...
You don't need to give me a detailed critique or anything, just your completely subjective thoughts and reactions will be fine. I'm always happy to hear any feedback, even if it's just "I liked it"
As for the characters, all three are background ponies without a lot of speaking roles in the show. BonBon has had a few brief lines (all with different voices, which is becoming a bit of a running joke), Lyra only one and Octavia none so far.
Deadly, a delightfully daring drawer and drafter of dissertations. Defying the dictations of our disparate denizens, Deadly decides his direction with a dirth of dependence on the decisions of despotic desperados. Deadly detests dismissive derision, and will debate any dude or dame that dares to detest discussion.
Seems like a common problem of late. Hopefully things will pick up soon, I'm starving for feedback here. I need looooove and adoration
You need love and adoration? You should have been Fluttershy.
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You don't need to give me a detailed critique or anything, just your completely subjective thoughts and reactions will be fine. I'm always happy to hear any feedback, even if it's just "I liked it"
.... dear god that makes me so much happier; I can stop being scared of needing to write another essay, just to try to enjoy a work of art.
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As for the characters, all three are background ponies without a lot of speaking roles in the show. BonBon has had a few brief lines (all with different voices, which is becoming a bit of a running joke), Lyra only one and Octavia none so far.
Lyra (left) and BonBon (right)
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Octavia
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Ah, I see. You guys are almost as bad as the Touhou fanom when it comes to breathing life into every single possible being in existance. Shoulda seen this when I realised you ship even concepts...
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
So that's what onion skinning means.
*makes notes*
Well, to be more precise, in this context, onion skinning just means you have images of the previous frames partially visible beneath the frame you're currently drawing. Non-digital animators use tracing or transparent paper for that sort of thing. It's, like, onions come in layers, apparently, and you can peel the skin off and see more layers of onions, and that's where the term originates.
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Trauma Center. And the main character in that had magical powers so...
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This is even better when the most recent game in the series, Trauma Team, has several different main characters. I wonder what Pony-Eagle-Man would look like. Wait, no, check that. I don't want to know what Pony-Eagle-Man would look like.
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"Oh, hey, look! Blue Eyes Black Lotus!" "Wait what, do you sacrifice a mana to the... Does it like, summon a... What would that card even do!?" "Oh, it's got a four-energy attack. Completely unviable in actual play, so don't worry about it."
You need love and adoration? You should have been Fluttershy.
I'm more like a changeling, really ...
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.... dear god that makes me so much happier; I can stop being scared of needing to write another essay, just to try to enjoy a work of art.
It really means a lot to get a comment, even if it's just one or two lines. I wish people commented on stories more often.
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Ah, I see. You guys are almost as bad as the Touhou fanom when it comes to breathing life into every single possible being in existance. Shoulda seen this when I realised you ship even concepts...
Deadly, a delightfully daring drawer and drafter of dissertations. Defying the dictations of our disparate denizens, Deadly decides his direction with a dirth of dependence on the decisions of despotic desperados. Deadly detests dismissive derision, and will debate any dude or dame that dares to detest discussion.
If you're going to be so rude and insulting, then I curse thee. The hand of the shipping goddess shall never touch thee, until thine apologies find the heart of her prophet.
(Thunder rumbles menacingly)
(turns, flounces away)
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
If you're going to be so rude and insulting, then I curse thee. The hand of the shipping goddess shall never touch thee, until thine apologies find the heart of her prophet.
(Thunder rumbles menacingly)
(turns, flounces away)
D'aww, he didn't mean it, Lixie! C'mere~
*Beckons!*
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Signatures, man. @@
But, see, Fluttershy outfreaking adorables even the changelings. Even as an awkward teenager, she's the -best- filly, no question.*
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It really means a lot to get a comment, even if it's just one or two lines. I wish people commented on stories more often.
I'll try to finish it soon... I can read it in class tomorrow, since the professor already sent a copy of the notes.
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Idle minds, I suppose
Absorbed minds, more like it...
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If you're going to be so rude and insulting, then I curse thee. The hand of the shipping goddess shall never touch thee, until thine apologies find the heart of her prophet.
(Thunder rumbles menacingly)
(turns, flounces away)
...... First of all, tell me you're not actually insulted by being a Darkstalker. Or do you not know that particular video game mythos? I'd sell my soul the second I could to gain such a prestigious honor...
Second of all, when has the shipping goddess ever touched me period? There's only one girl I'm interested in now, anyway, so I suppose it's better that I'm not distracted.
Third of all, you have prophets? .... like, clergy prophets? Oh god...
And lastly, I appologise for offending.... darkstalker. :p
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D'aww, he didn't mean it, Lixie! C'mere~
*Beckons!*
I'm guessing you're one of her priests.
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Yes, I did just throw down the gauntlet.
.... actually, to be in the flavor of this thread,
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...... First of all, tell me you're not actually insulted by being a Darkstalker. Or do you not know that particular video game mythos? I'd sell my soul the second I could to gain such a prestigious honor...
I have no idea what a Darkstalker is even referencing. The implication I was insulted by was that I was evil and corrupting.
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Second of all, when has the shipping goddess ever touched me period? There's only one girl I'm interested in now, anyway, so I suppose it's better that I'm not distracted.
The touch of the shipping goddess would be shipping. Denying you her touch would be saying 'you never get shipped'.
AKA, no love for you.
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Third of all, you have prophets? .... like, clergy prophets? Oh god...
I am the prophet, not the goddess.
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And lastly, I appologise for offending.... darkstalker. :p
I can read white text. >_> Explain what a darkstalker is so I should know whether I should be annoyed or not.
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
I ship you/Anyone./Infernal Gardevoir from outside the playground, by Recaiden//ExtendedSig
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It's not normal, of course, and what's actually happening in Comet Kicker's brain is that she's using regular murder as therapy for worse murder. There's a breakdown in the works and all it needs is one good, hard kick.
... I can only imagine someone going into a work place, serious, pointy haired and everything... with a tie like one of those. I wouldn't know how to respond to a boss like that...
I can only imagine these things being aimed at young urban professionals, the hipsters who don't care. Besides, they're subtle enough that unless people started looking closely at the things on the pattern, they'd pass for regular ties.
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Ah, I see. You guys are almost as bad as the Touhou fanom when it comes to breathing life into every single possible being in existance. Shoulda seen this when I realised you ship even concepts...
Oh, you have no idea. Consider this (bloody huge screen-stretching) image:
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Count how many ponies there are. I guarantee you that the majority of them have had anywhere from two seconds to five minutes in actual show canon.
I also guarantee that each and every one has been named; each one has a story written about them. For each and every one, there is a headcanon.
Example time: Look to the far right, where there is a grey pony, playing cello while being harassed by a white unicorn with a blue mane. Between the two of them, they have perhaps a total of five minutes of canon screen time, including the show promo "Equestria Girls."
The fandom has decided that they are named, respectively, Octavia and Vinyl Scratch. They both live in Canterlot, working jobs as a cellist and DJ, respectively. (DJ-P0N3 is Vinyl's DJ tag, and is actually ascended fanon at this point.) Depending on whom you ask, they are good friends, roommates, or caustic lovers.
Like I said, you have no idea.
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