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2011-07-12, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
... my theory posits an entire race full of this:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...=0&FORM=LKVR14Last edited by darthbobcat; 2011-07-12 at 08:25 PM.
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2011-07-12, 08:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
I am just using Bezier curve tool mostly with the Ellipse shape. I usually have a hand drawn line art in the background as a pseudo guild for line/curve placement. I also places different lines on different layers, with the back hooves on bottom layers, and usually Hair/mane up front. This particular draft of Lyra was kind of rough, I got lucky that the skirt lines didn't look too bad when colored over.
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2011-07-12, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
Speaking of Rarity's family, I wonder if her parents' absence is related to Applejack's parents' absence. I mean, it's only strange because Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are still school fillies, and I also find it strange that Granny Smith is still around, but not Applejack's parents.
I also have this thought about Sweetie Belle retorting back to Rarity "If mom was still alive she'd let me!" and it being all sad and heart-wrenching to Rarity and the audience.Thanks to zegma for my awesome avatar.
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2011-07-12, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
We have indirect evidence that Rarity's parents are still alive. Faust said that Sweetie normally stays with them, but she'll be at Rarity's sometimes when they're out of town, or some such.
Applejack's parents, on the other hand, are dead, IMO. It makes more sense.
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HEY ESPER. ADD RARITY AND SWEETIE'S ESTRANGED BROTHER BERNARD TO THE CHART, PLEASE. THANK YOU.Last edited by darthbobcat; 2011-07-12 at 08:41 PM.
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2011-07-12, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
Operation: Airship is Magic
Spoiler*The admiral jumps back aboard with the fair Monocle'd princess and the hanger on. What a weird sensation like he was fading away. likely nothing*
What the hay is going on. *everything appears to be going to pot* LIEUTENANT, you're demoted again. Prepare to jump us out of here! Where is he?!
Meanwhile, back on the other ship: "I'll do anything for you, Midnight honey."
It matters not, helmsman, get us out of here!
Yes I'm aware we're tangled
Yes I'm aware there's ships in jump range that will get pulled with us
Yes I'm aware that fire control has been taken over by pony-eating berries and ponies eating pony-eating berries
GO TO PLAID
*the engines of the Socks flare, preparing to bring the fair Monocle Luna to safety, and everything else back to the real world with her*Ask me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and PieSpoiler
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2011-07-12, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
ADVENTURE!!!!!
My current story ponies-Ponylagann in the Ponythread.
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2011-07-12, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
Poor Lyra. No pony ever thinks of her as important.
Well, no, but now I've got that runnin' through me noggin. Thanks.
I realize too late though that it's a rigged job; so let me try again.
Said commission for anyone who can figure out what the hay the poison joke did to SiuiS. That way it narrows it down from infinite possibilities to cause & effect.
Aww, beside curve tool? Isn't that the line with the other lines that bend the line when moved? I can't use it for beans. It's worse than that pen tool in Photoshop, that sort of does the same thing while also making lines by clicking where you want the start and end to be.
Did I mention how bad I am at digital art?
I thought the chart was just for Midnight's connections to everypony? Bernard isn't connected to Midnight. Except that he's the Tallinn to try and soothe our Hippogrif after she flees town, before eventually escorting her home when she's too dunk to really do what she says she wants to. He of course knows how to treat a lady.
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2011-07-12, 09:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks to Dirty Tabs for the Travis pony.
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Thanks to A Thousand Words for the My Little Simhata avatar, and thanks to Trixie for fixing the cropping.
Breakdown Twilight from Pony Halloween celebration, thanks to Thanqol.
Thanks to Akrim.Elf for the awesome Laharl pony.
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2011-07-12, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Shipping: It's not rocket surgery!
Story time:
SpoilerMy brother and I are both hanging out in his room with the door closed. I'm working on my story, he's working on pony art. He has a bunch of videos and pictures pulled up for reference. Our dad walks in, and my brother completely misses it because he's got his headphones on. He walks up to my brother, says goodnight, and leaves. All the while, Winter Wrap Up is proudly displayed on his big monitor.
And he does. Not. Notice.
*winning*Last edited by TheAmishPirate; 2011-07-12 at 09:13 PM.
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2011-07-12, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
I've said it before and I'll say it again: what is this "or"? In Ponythread, we have "and"!
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2011-07-12, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
So, I've heard having OCs in fanfiction, shipping or otherwise is bad. Is there a specific reason for this other than that OCs can tend to be Mary/Marty Stus?
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2011-07-12, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
That's pretty much the only real reason.
I mean, there's also a level that, as fanfiction writers, we're writing with someone else's characters and setting. You get too removed from that and there's not a lot of point in just writing your own original story.
And I have seen a couple OC/Canon shippings that looked interesting. It's just a matter of presentation.
The trick to a good OC is this:
1) They have to fit the tone of the original universe.
2) While they can resemble you in a few aspects, they should have a unique outlook on life that differs from your own in significant respects.
3) You need to hook the audience on them fast. You want them to care, and they'll resist it, so you have a page at most before most will decide to give up on it.
4) Special little snowflake syndrome. This relates to number 1, but your OC shouldn't be the greatest flyer in Equestria, the best orange bucker, the most sensitive poet. A mediocre talent can still be very interesting.Last edited by darthbobcat; 2011-07-12 at 09:24 PM.
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2011-07-12, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
I'm just going to say this about the chart, now that I have it, err, on paper, it's...there's...there is a lot of lines.
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2011-07-12, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
That's probably the main reason. Without having an established character to work with, it makes it that much harder to write them well. As a result, you get a lot of stories with OCs that are just downright awful.
There's nothing wrong with it, it's just a harder thing to write. I mean, just look at Moonlight over Midnight. 6 stars, and it's mostly about an OC.I'm developing a game. Let's see what happens! Complex.
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2011-07-12, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just use a white sheet of paper and put the word YES on it.
Marysuedom is probably the biggest problem. Another, opposite, point is that people in the fandom are familiar with existing ponies and so are more likely to read and like something about their favorites than a new unknown.
I've seen original characters pretty well received overall, at least with what I've read here and on EqD.
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2011-07-12, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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How many Pony-sues does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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2011-07-12, 09:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Kris Strife; 2011-07-12 at 09:43 PM.
Thanks to Dirty Tabs for the Travis pony.
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Thanks to A Thousand Words for the My Little Simhata avatar, and thanks to Trixie for fixing the cropping.
Breakdown Twilight from Pony Halloween celebration, thanks to Thanqol.
Thanks to Akrim.Elf for the awesome Laharl pony.
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2011-07-12, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-12, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wrong, it's a trick question.
The inability to change bulbs is all their one dark secret weakness.Ask me about our low price vacation plans in the Elemental Plane of Puppies and PieSpoiler
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2011-07-12, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think we can all agree;
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EDIT: it was topical when I started posting... Stupid universe not revolog around my whims.Last edited by SiuiS; 2011-07-12 at 09:52 PM.
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2011-07-12, 09:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
So. Random fic idea for Bernard, estranged brother of Rarity and Sweetie Belle. Bernard is a down to earth unicorn who likes to mine and get dirty, with a rock and a pickaxe as his cutie mark. He's also very inclined to ask Rarity for her help all the time, and is generally very annoying to her and takes advantage of her generosity, but Sweetie Belle really loves him because he's such a fun guy. He's blowing into Ponyville for some reason or another (original idea was him eloping with an Apple) and shenanigans ensue.
The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.
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2011-07-12, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top
Back when I was in high school and university, I was a part of a community that made MST 3ks of fanfics. (Or, rather, was really more of a hanger on.) The stories that I could tell you about the Mary Sues and self-inserts and what not that passed our way.
So, yeah. All about being super-special-awesome-make-cast-irrelevant. That's what is the biggest problem with OCs.
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2011-07-12, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think that the term "Mary Sue" needs a better diffinition.
The standards set for a character to be considered a Mary Sue fit most main characters in a canon story anyway.
Case in point: Twilight Sparkle.
Favorite student to her world's leader.
Incredibly powerful beyond what anyone has ever seen before dipsite being young and untrained.
Being well-liked despite being so socially awkward she doesn't even want to make friends in the first place.
Magical girl!pony episode one.
I do not consider her to be a Mary Sue, but do you see my point?