My Little Pony XXVI: Applebloom to Zecora!

[Trixie]

Trixie's Great and Powerful Guide v1.94p
A/Z Edition

Brief Introduction

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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a reboot of the MLP franchise by Powerpuff Girls artist Lauren Faust, currently viewed by (almost) the entire Internet, not only the intended audience. Here is a place where we discuss the joy of friendship.

> My Little Pony? Seriously?

It's a clever show. It has excellent writing, character dynamics, humor, animation, and generally treats kids seriously rather than condescending to them. It has every right to be a 20 minute corporate committee designed infomercial, but it's not.

> Isn't this a show for little girls?

Pixar technically makes shows for little boys, and produce some of the best animation in the world.

> Okay, fine. I'll give it a try. Where do I start?

No Brony could ask for more. I recommend watching the episodes in order. They're all up on Youtube. Unusually, Hasbro seems fine with having the entire series up in public because they've made no move to bring down any of the episodes. Search for "Friendship is Magic Episode 1" and you should find the series pretty easily... Or search for "Sharing is Magic" Google Doc. That is all.

> Okay, I'm going to watch it but this had better live up to the hype!

Whoa, calm down there. The show is light hearted, optimistic fun but it's not for everyone. It's good fun, the community is good fun, and everyone can do with a reminder that friendship is magic but if it doesn't gel for you we'll love and tolerate you anyway. Plus, you might hit the wrong episode. Ask first?

> Iron Hoof/Fan Theories/Shipping/Binding

All in good fun! If it's not your cup of tea, skim it, but this show has triggered a great creative outpouring from the Internet. Pony themed fan-art is abundant and often excellent. See below for some examples.

> Derpy Hooves/Doctor Whoof

Two minor background characters who were adopted as emblems of 4chan. Derpy Hooves is so named due to an animation error in the first episode that had her eyes facing in different directions; 4chan has assigned her the role of Ponyville's mailpony, and her only line so far has been "Muffins". The show's animators are aware of Derpy's popularity and she's shown up a few times recently with her eyes obviously derped. Currently made canon in Feeling Pinkie Keen and in Faust's picture showcased below, Derpy was deemed important enough to appear in storyboards for Season II.

Dr. Whoof is a pony with an hourglass cutie mark; he and his kin save time and space very quietly off camera.

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Ponytar Artists

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Alarra
Alterform
Crown of Thorns
Dirtytabs
Irbis
Kairaven
Khosan
...and a lot more, too many to keep track of, now.

If you do/don't want to be here, make a note in the thread.

Note that we're looking for more as the above are a bit swamped with requests currently.

New: Official PonyPic Request Thread!
Old Requests [Archived]

General Resources

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Fan Fiction and News: Equestria Daily
FF... Darkly: Equestria after Dark
Discussion Image Forum: Ponychan
Pony Emotes: FiM Emotes
More Emotes: MC's Emotes
Also Emotes: GD's Emotes
Pony Images: Ponibooru
More Images: 20% Cooler
Know Your Meme: Ponies!
Allspark MLP Discussion Thread

Art Resources

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OC Pony Creation Guide:

>How to make OC Pony<
>How to clothe a Pony<

Deviant Art Links:

Lauren Faust

14 Bis
ButterSS
Csimadmax
DonKoRR
Irving Zero
Johnjoseco
Kloudmutt
Palestorm
Shinepaw

>Awesome Great and Powerful Trixie<

Tutorials:

How to Draw Luna
MLP Art Guides
MLP Colour Guides

Kloud TV

Concepts:

On the Design of the Mane Cast

Concept art by L. Faust:

AJ/AJ
Pinkie/Surprise
Rarity/Sparkler
Twilight/Twinkle
Derpy/Ditzy

Group Shot

5 Best Pictures [IMHO]:

TG&P Trixie 1 2a 2b 3
Twilight Sparkle 1 2 3
Rainbow Dash 1 2 3 3.6
Fluttershy 1 2 3

Pony Games

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The most recent one.
Pacderpy
Two very similar dash based cloud gathering sidescrollers
Pony generator I
Pony generator II
Pony generator III

New: Pinkie licks cupcakes. And a playthrough for it, too.
Collect Cupcakes, Lick Ponies! 2.0

Nice Fanwork



Art Challenges

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MyLP Challenge:

Do you want to try your hand at something fun? Feeling need to draw fanart? How about trying MyLP Challenge?

What it is? Just click on the linked template.

How does that work? Don't be scared, just complete the template to the best of your ability. Have one two three four examples made by other ponies

Starting thread and more examples can be found here.

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ATTENTION EVERYPONY!!!

Great & Powerful Trixie made a bet. A bet I'll procure 12 pictures of Trixie - like the one in my sig, of similar quality - before next weekend. Trixie cosplaying, doing weird stuff, finding herself in unusual situations. So! I need ideas! Sketches of Unicorn ponies (I'm willing to vectorize them for free if they're good enough)! Moments from the show showing ponies with unusual poses and/or designs I could use to inspire myself! Finally, if someone would also like to draw something, I'd be glad to repay in some manner :P

Any takers?

Important GitP Links

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Thread I - Because Friendship Is Magic
Thread II - Now About 20% Cooler
Thread III - The Great & Powerful Thread
Thread IV - Friendship is Sufficiently Advanced Technology
Thread V - Art of the Thread
Thread VI - MUFFINS!
Thread VII - The Grand Galloping Thread
Thread VIII - Friendship is Music
Thread IX - The Best Thread Ever
Thread X - We Trot 'til We Drop
Thread XI - "Mmph!"
Thread XII - No One Can Groove Like the Girls with the Hooves
Thread XIII - Fast/Fine/Fierce Thread
Thread XIV - Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
Thread XV - The Greater and Powerful-er Thread
Thread XVI - There's a Pony for That!
Thread XVII - Call Upon the Thread Ponies!
Thread XVIII - Perfect Isn't Easy
Thread XIX - I Emptied Your Thread
Thread XX & Thread XX - Appletastic Treats
Thread XXI - A Very Minty Thread
Thread XXII - Surprise!
Thread XXIII - It. Is. ON!
Thread XXIV - Now About 200% Longer Than Firefly
Thread XXV - Au Contraire, Mon Ami!
Thread XXVI - Applebloom to Zecora!

Operation: Indiscriminate Friendship
Pony Week Discussion Thread
Pony Crime Pulp Fic/Game Thread

Want to RP? My Little Pony: FiM RP Recruitment Thread.
Want to join the list of GitP Bronies?

[BlasTech]

Yay, new ponythread! And cool opening pic! :D

[Welf]

Although I wanted to go sleep: ah, new thread smell

See you at page 50

[Strife Warzeal]

I would like to take this end of thread opportunity to say that I almost always misread "Strife Warzeal" as "Strife Weasel".

That is all.

You know I should probably take offense to that, but I am honestly at a loss of words on how to respond that. Oh and if you don't like the name, take it up with random name generator I used to name my first roleplay character.

[Beeskee]

Yay, ponies.

[Capt. Ido Nos]

Request: I didn't see it in the OP, but has anyone got the liar!applejack emote in any of the imgur emote repositories? I'm not obviously lying nearly enough!

Obligatory woo new thread!

Great choice of OP pic as always, Trix!

You know I should probably take offense to that, but I am honestly at a loss of words on how to respond that. Oh and if you don't like the name, take it up with random name generator I used to name my first roleplay character.

Oh, no offense meant! That is absolutely less a commentary on my opinion of your username, than it is a brief glimpse into the workings of my mind

[Kurgan]

You know I should probably take offense to that, but I am honestly at a loss of words on how to respond that. Oh and if you don't like the name, take it up with random name generator I used to name my first roleplay character.

That reminds me of way back in the day, where a friend of mine decided to run a one shot module with me and another friend. We didn't want to invest too much in these characters, and had both recently read 8-bit Theater, so we ended up rolling up a wizard named Black Pmage (or something like that, the "P" was silent) and a fighter named Fyetor.

[Shadowy]

I feel like I forgot to do something last thread....
Other then actually post something.


OH SWEET CELESTIA I FORGOT TO SET IT ON FIRE!

This shame cannot be erased!

[Trixie]

Yay, new ponythread! And cool opening pic! :D

...I only wonder what it is. Anyone knows what pony it might be?

And I decided on it because 'A to Z' has a sense of finality, like coming of the night. Though, sadly, I have to admit we never had Zecora in the OP, we'll need to fix that someday :(

[Kindablue]

For anyone who hasn't heard it, here's the theme song as sung by Shannon Chan-Kent (Pinkie Pie's singing VA; she also voiced Misa in the English dub of Death Note, apparently).

[Brazen Shield]

It just sounds like you're further to my dream house than I am.

If it makes you feel any better we live in an apartment. I'm no closer to having my dream house

[Nameless]

New Thread. NEW THREAD!



*sets fire to the old thread*

EDIT:

I feel like I forgot to do something last thread....
Other then actually post something.


OH SWEET CELESTIA I FORGOT TO SET IT ON FIRE!

This shame cannot be erased!

There there, nevermind. *takes out flamethrower*

[Kindablue]

I feel like I forgot to do something last thread....
Other then actually post something.


OH SWEET CELESTIA I FORGOT TO SET IT ON FIRE!

This shame cannot be erased!

Not even with more fire?

[erikun]

...I only wonder what it is. Anyone knows what pony it might be?

It is from the Discordantly comics, specifically the fifth one.

http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-1-259123093
http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-2-259288104
http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-3-259431933
http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-4-259589565
http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-5-259746198
http://crappyunicorn.deviantart.com/...ly-6-259881177

Request: I didn't see it in the OP, but has anyone got the liar!applejack emote in any of the imgur emote repositories? I'm not obviously lying nearly enough!

Here you go. I'm not sure why nobody has added it to any Imgur accounts, and I don't have one myself.

[Shadowy]

New Thread. NEW THREAD!



*sets fire to the old thread*

Not even with more fire?

*Sobbing frantically!

Just take it! Take all the fire! It's yours now!

I've got nothing left for me!

*Runs off sobbing frantically*

[TheAmishPirate]

A new thread, complete with that new thread smell.

Hmmmmmmm, boy. Smells like ponies.

Have a fluttershy comic:

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[Trixie]

It is from the Discordantly comics, specifically the fifth one.

...Thanks, haven't seen a few of these, but I kind of meant the pony's name there... :P

[Nameless]

*Sobbing frantically!

Just take it! Take all the fire! It's yours now!

I've got nothing left for me!

*Runs off sobbing frantically*

[Tectonic Robot]

Woo! New thread!

Hooray and such.

[Gamerlord]

...Thanks, haven't seen a few of these, but I kind of meant the pony's name there... :P

Pretty sure it is Luna.

[MBI]

Well, here we go again...

[Trixie]

Pretty sure it is Luna.

...Who?

Checked last 20 episodes, never saw this 'Luna'. Remind me? :P

[erikun]

...Who?

Checked last 20 episodes, never saw this 'Luna'. Remind me? :P

She is this background character that appeared for just a few seconds, and was never seen again. Probably an artist insert or something.

Also, have a Silver Spoon. For Silver Spoon actually doing well in the H/H and not dying immediately.

[Kindablue]

Shannon Chan-Kent also voices Silver Spoon.

[MCerberus]

Incoming programmer rant:

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End of program about to graduate class project.

Mondays are rather slow for me, so it's my day to keep tabs on a certain project.

I'm also part of the UI team.
Someone replaced the stable cloud files of it while I was unit testing some functionality.

With stuff that was not stable.
Despite the warnings in about 5 places not to replace ANYTHING. You're supposed to timestamp your most recent version then NOT LABEL IT STABLE. That's up to the project lead or the team lead (me in this case)

So I had to fire off an email with the subject 'Skype. Now.' trying to do damage control.

and now for relevance: PONIES

[SiuiS]

So far, I kind of prefer the first one too. I'm kind of imagining him tall as opposed to short, and with a simple sort of suit on.

I'm just trying to nail down positioning and such details right now. The first one became taller when I realized the arms on a diamond dog were so long, he'd be blocking his face with the cane if it were a full body picture. Which could work, but I had already messed up the proportions >>;

I'll try my hand again, see if I can't nail down a keeper.

No, I just walked into the middle of a conversation and made a one-liner that doesn't make any sense considering the beginning of said conversation, which I hadn't read.

And I'm exactly the ambiguous shade of color that I want to be, thank you very much.

That's true. I guess my bent on teasing back would only work if you'd been keeping up with the whole thing.

And I know, you've just got a really good name for deriving phrases and such from. I'm still partial to somewhatcerulean, but I've already used that one. I'll stop if you'd rather remain kindablue though

Yep, improvement's a great goal. Although, I halfway expected Braz to kill me for that.

You killed her first. I missed it in the crush, and she showed it to me via text alog with a *dies laughing*.

Twist the two of you, I'm on the ropes and all I can do is applaud while trying to make a decent come-back. So, good show.

(By the way, if anypony else is actually following this, (I know, it has been kinda exclusive) let me know what you think of my descriptions of weather magic. As far as I know, there isn't much, if any, actual fanon regarding this, but I'm sure that somepony else has already done this much better than I can.)

I was sorta kinda keeping up, but I haven't been able to properly archive all of 'em. I will give it another once over.

You pointing it out like that, now I realize why people gave them those names. And yes Blinkie and Inkie are the 'official' names.

Do we have any citations? I kinda don't want to shoot down the Octavia-Foto Finnish connection unless necessary.

Braz, did you see my response as to why I keep bringing up how many bladed weapons you and SuiuS keep concealed around your house? I had a 503 error at some point around there.

We saw. If it makes you feel better we only have a couple of 'em. I stopped collecting sword-shaped-objects when I realized I was more likely to hurt myself with one than an attacker. As retardedly paranoid as I am, I can't rely on anything that won't work against a viral zombie, voodoo zombie, ghost, demon or burglar.

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I feel this is so familiar, but I can't place it. Andross? Master Control Program? A Transformer? I really, seriously feel like I know what this is and just can't place it.

I can't believe I can't remember where that quote's from.

I know, right?

If I were SiuiS, the temptation to mess with you via editing and/or manipulating the video camera would be too terrible to resist. But I'm not, and I'm sure SiuiS would never, ever, do something like that.

I don't know what you're talking about <<;

(Hey, Lix. I'll give you a tenner if you hit him with a haremizer cannon instead of a gender-restore.)

outrageously!

(Done. )

Man. I know I probably make y'all want to mess with me, but simultaneously? I'll be honest. I was expecting the hijinks to be somewhat more temporally drawn out than this

Good heavens, I'm afraid to look in a mirror now. Let's see what we know. I'm still a magic pony, and I may represent a homonym for 'male'.

Not much to go on, folks

I do like the designs that are given to Inkie.

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Link in case image expires.


Link again.

Aye, though there is some obvious greyhound anatomy on there. It's interesting but kinda wiggy. Not quite as good as it could be. Still better than I could do though
I remember first finding that picture and thinking 'wow, that kinda looks like Pinkie's sister'. Haha.

The Penny Arcade, if I recall correctly.

I mainly just see Andros from Star Fox but anything rendered even remotely like that just looks like its from Star Fox to me.

Aye, it is a pretty classical example, Andross.

Although I wanted to go sleep: ah, new thread smell

See you at page 50

See you at 50! Bye

I feel like I forgot to do something last thread....
Other then actually post something.


OH SWEET CELESTIA I FORGOT TO SET IT ON FIRE!

This shame cannot be erased!

You're right. Too late now.

Here you go. I'm not sure why nobody has added it to any Imgur accounts, and I don't have one myself.

Not sure if lying or showing off emote...

MCerberus! can you slip the LiarJack into your imgur seekrit projekt? That will make distribution easier.

[otakuryoga]

I feel like I forgot to do something last thread....
Other then actually post something.


OH SWEET CELESTIA I FORGOT TO SET IT ON FIRE!

This shame cannot be erased!

just tell the CMC they can get archeologist cutie marks by digging around the old thread....it will be burnt to cinders in no time.

[Topaz]

Incoming programmer rant:

Hour by hour
One More Change!
I'm coding it together
take great pains...

Good heavens, I'm afraid to look in a mirror now. Let's see what we know. I'm still a magic pony, and I may represent a homonym for 'male'.

Not much to go on, folks

Maybe now you're a mail pony?

[Strife Warzeal]

Do we have any citations? I kinda don't want to shoot down the Octavia-Foto Finnish connection unless necessary.

1. Unless if they dye their skin/coats they aren't pinkie's sisters. Personally, I never really cared for the whole Octavia-Foto Finnish connection thing but that's my opinion.
2. By 'official' I meant one of three names the community agrees upon. http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ponies. I very much doubt that they are going to get a word of god on names unless if they appear in later episodes. They just don't have the popularity of other minor characters like DJ-p0n3 to get called out on names.

[SiuiS]

Oh
Oh man
oh man

Braz doesn't know the tetris theme. Couldn't identify it.

I don't. I just.

My relationship is based on lies

I think I need to lie down. Do an eqD binge...
Maybe I should Be making pudding at 4 am.....