My Little Pony XIV: Boots on Hooves / Bikinis on Top

[Trixie]

Trixie's Great and Powerful Guide v1.94b
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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!

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
Pony Images: Ponibooru
Know Your Meme: Ponies!
Allspark MLP Discussion Thread

Art Resources

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OC Pony Creation Guide:

>useful link<

Deviant Art Links:

Lauren Faust

14 Bis
ButterSS
Csimadmax
DonKoRR
Irving Zero
Johnjoseco
Kloudmutt
Palestorm

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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Phoe In Ropes is now a thing. Wanna draw something? Tie me up. Have a story to write? Work it in as an easter egg. Want it to be the main focus? Wonderful! I want to see enough material by Thread XI for white pegasus ponies bound in ropes or shackles or what have you to make it the official theme of the thread. Got it? Good!

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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

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

Operation: Indiscriminate Friendship
My Little Pony: FiM RP Recruitment
Pony Week Discussion Thread
Pony Crime Pulp Fic/Game Thread

[Grif]

God, I approve of the OP's picture so very much.

Can I give Internets nao?

[Vent Reynolt]

Hooray, the first time I have actually been here for the opening of the new thread!

Anyway, I feel that this is appropriate to the discussion at the end of last thread:

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[Qaera]

Awesome picture~

~ ♅

[MCerberus]

Ponythread has been classified a Level 5 cuteness hazard. Read at own warning.

Many Moods of Ponythead: Repost

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More ponymotes:

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[Trixie]

God, I approve of the OP's picture so very much.

Can I give Internets nao?

Sure

Though, original pic is much larger, I had to cut it a bit.

Ok, have I forgot any important links? Anything to add?

Hmm, I have a feeling I forgot two from last thread, will add them later.

Are both OPs properly edited and working?

[MCerberus]

Anyway, continuing on from last thread:


In Soviet Equestria, weather control you!

[Grif]

Sure

Though, original pic is much larger, I had to cut it a bit.

Ok, have I forgot any important links? Anything to add?

Hmm, I have a feeling I forgot two from last thread, will add them later.

Are both OPs properly edited and working?

Esper's newest fic and my own.

OP seems to be working. The table was borked when I opened it earlier.

Oh, I found a new welcome picture:
EDIT: Darnit, dead link. I'll find another version.


EDIT2: Have humanised mane six instead.

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[Aotrs Commander]

But...this would mean that...

Twilight's library is full of books made of...dead...ponies...

Twice-dead ponies....

And houses...and the fires and the carts and... oh my Lichemaster.
...

...

The sheer enormity of the ramifications of this are just...



I'm never going to be able to meditate again...



(And I can count on the fingers of one claw attack how many times I've been driven to use emoticons...)

[Titanium Fox]

That... If that's the case then woah. My Little Pony just got a whole heck of a lot darker.

[Etcetera]

This again?

I hoped with the fact that there were no episodes until December would make it possible to actually follow this thread.

My bad.

[Trixie]

...That means Spike was afraid Twilight will throw him out...

...Not because he burned a book...

...But because he burned someone's grandma...

...Also, Buffaloes wanted a campaign of genocide...

Eat this haters, claiming it's just a show for little girls

[ScionoftheVoid]

This again?

I hoped with the fact that there were no episodes until December would make it possible to actually follow this thread.

My bad.

Hey, I manage to follow this thread. It may not be easy, but it's certainly worth it!

[Grif]

But...this would mean that...

Twilight's library is full of books made of...dead...ponies...

Twice-dead ponies....

And houses...and the fires and the carts and... oh my Lichemaster.
...

...

The sheer enormity of the ramifications of this are just...



I'm never going to be able to meditate again...



(And I can count on the fingers of one claw attack how many times I've been driven to use emoticons...)

...That means Spike was afraid Twilight will throw him out...

...Not because he burned a book...

...But because he burned someone's grandma...

...Also, Buffaloes wanted a campaign of genocide...

Eat this haters, claiming it's just a show for little girls

The Horror, The Horror!

[MCerberus]

This again?

I hoped with the fact that there were no episodes until December would make it possible to actually follow this thread.

My bad.

Join us in the loving embrace of Ponysanity. There's cupcakes.




Also, I'm putting out a full cuteness warning on any and all filly Octavia.

[Titanium Fox]

It makes sense too. Applejack has an absolutely massive extended family, and that is the largest grove of trees in all of Ponyville.

Well, other than the Everfree Forest, but I suspect there's something else up with that. Possibly the ponies who never returned in all of those stories? Then that leads up to some spooky thoughts... How did they all get there? Was the forest formed in the first place from the restless soul of a pony of old?

*Shudders* Okay, I need to stop this train of thought now.

[Etcetera]

Join us in the loving embrace of Ponysanity. There's cupcakes.




Also, I'm putting out a full cuteness warning on any and all filly Octavia.

I was following fine until XIII, then I didn't have the time so I put off reading the thread. Next thing I know, it's page fifty and everyone is talking about vellum or somesuch?

What are you guys, talking about, anyway? And did Irbis bring it up?

[MCerberus]

I was following fine until XIII, then I didn't have the time so I put off reading the thread. Next thing I know, it's page fifty and everyone is talking about vellum or somesuch?

What are you guys, talking about, anyway? And did Irbis bring it up?

Liking to be a tree and then having the pink one corrupt such thoughts.

[Qaera]

Hmm. I don't think the whole "using dead ponies for wood things" is that bad, I see it more as a deceased pony providing shelter (or food) for her family, or whatever.
Books, though. Hmm. Maybe they can only contain knowledge a dead pony from who's tree they came from knows.

[TheAmishPirate]

Oh hey, new thread. Yay! Love the picture.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled horrible realizations:

Twilight's house is inside a tree.

[PhoeKun]

*reads over the previous thread's final conversation/this thread's current one*

...You guys have way too much time on your hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ogle Lyra in that bikini.

[Titanium Fox]

Oh hey, new thread. Yay! Love the picture.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled horrible realizations:

Twilight's house is inside a tree.

...

[Trixie]

Fluttershy's is in one, too

[Aotrs Commander]

The parasprites...oh gods, the parasprites...

It...just keeps getting worse, doesn't it? Each new revalation is just more and more horrifying...

It even puts the whole ponies-eat-hot-dogs-and-keep-pigs thing in perspective. Heck, it puts Iron Hoof Celestia and the unicorn supremacy theory in perspective...

...

What madness have I wrought!?!?





(How many times have I told you, Bad Things Happen when I think!)

[Grif]

*reads over the previous thread's final conversation/this thread's current one*

...You guys have way too much time on your hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ogle Lyra in that bikini.

Is there a spot for me there?

Thread getting all.... creepy.

[Etcetera]

It makes sense too. Applejack has an absolutely massive extended family, and that is the largest grove of trees in all of Ponyville.

Well, other than the Everfree Forest, but I suspect there's something else up with that. Possibly the ponies who never returned in all of those stories? Then that leads up to some spooky thoughts... How did they all get there? Was the forest formed in the first place from the restless soul of a pony of old?

*Shudders* Okay, I need to stop this train of thought now.

So what, Ponies are like Eldar Farseers? Only with wood instead of crystal?

[Trixie]

So what, Ponies are like Eldar Farseers?

...Eldar make books out of Farseers?

EDIT: Come to think of it, all these crystals they wear must come from somewhere...

Ponies: We corrupt even Warhammer 40.000

[TheAmishPirate]

*reads over the previous thread's final conversation/this thread's current one*

...You guys have way too much time on your hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ogle Lyra in that bikini.

I think you mean...no wait, we're speculating on possible horrific realities in a world filled with ponies and unicorns. Yeah, we do have too much time on our hands. And it is glorious.

Carry on with your ogle-ing, sorry to distract.

*chucks over a pair of apology binoculars*

[MCerberus]

Alright, I have a counter theory. This may sound completely ponysane. Alright: Fluttershy, the pony who's obsessed with making sure everyone isn't disappointed by what she did said something to make Dash feel better.

Ponies are not made of wood. They're computers.

[Aotrs Commander]

What are you guys, talking about, anyway? And did Irbis bring it up?

No, this...this nightmare is...my fault.

It was just an innocent¹ start...

We already know what adult Spike will look like. Twilight made him temporarily grow to adult hood when she hatched him.

Nah, that is more likely what happens when the embodiment of Magic unleashes her power on an unsuspecting world.

Ponies turning into trees is a sign of that.

Exactly.

Unless...

When ponies grow old, they...turn...into...trees...

...

...

That is a thought both truly horrifying, and, at the same time, would disturbingly explain so much. Granny Smith is the only old pony we see. Maybe she's the exception (too ornery or just not quite ready to go yet). That thought raises new terrors about the origin of Sweet Apple Acres - and perhaps why Applejack was so attached to Bloomberg...

...

Well, I ain't meditating tonight.

It certainly makes Fluttershy's assertion that she would like to be a tree a heck of a lot darker and weirder.

Although...if ponies really do become trees when they grow old, that would explain part of the creepiness of the Everfree Forest. The trees there would basically be the pony equivalent of constructs/zombies/something creepy.

My fault!!!

*stares at claws in horror*

Something should not be thought, even by the most darkest and loathsome...



¹Comparitively, because, y'know, evil.