My Little Pony XLIIV: Season II Ruined My Fanon!

[Trixie]

Small image dump in hopes something of this is new: one, two, three.

[Sean Mirrsen]

This would explain Fluttershy's immense popularity as a model.

Actually, I wonder if this crosses into bronies, given how popular Rainbow Dash is in the shipping portion of the fandom.

And then there's the whole "Gilda is a catgirl" tangent...

[Pokonic]

watching the episodes again... It seems in all the canon background romance shipping The female is mostly pegasus.....


so... judging by the very small sample...and there are minor exceptions of course, but the conclusion is...

Unicorn females prefers to date other unicorns
All ponies prefer to date pegasus mares!!!
Poor earth pony mares are mostly too busy with careers to date.

For earth ponies: all those Mules have to come from somewhere, so perhapes there not as badly shafted in these matters as we think,

[Kairaven]

Other extrapolated (troublesome) theories:

Either:
a great disparity in the male:female number ratio of Pegasus. Causing excess female population to seek mate from other races

or

Pegasus males don't treat pegasus ladies right, due to miltarized cultural traditions. alienating many pegasisters.

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Unicorn race sufferes from many genetic issues due to heavy emphasis on genetic purity.

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of course it could also be that males are rare for all pony races, forcing many mares to seek mate where ever they can find one


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For earth ponies: all those Mules have to come from somewhere, so perhapes there not as badly shafted in these matters as we think,

numbers don't quite add up, as we've seen three mules (well one might be shown twice, so two mules) and two donkeys. unless there's a hidden donkey and mule village somewhere.

number are too few to extrapolate data for Griffin and zebra races.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Lyra and Bon Bon technically aren't lesbians since they're separate species. Right?

As pony types can interbreed I don't think separate species applies, they're breeds not species. And since homosexual doesn't refer to species anyways the term would still apply methinks.

[Kd7sov]

Other extrapolated (troublesome) theories:

Either:
a great disparity in the male:female number ratio of Pegasus. Causing excess female population to seek mate from other races

or

Pegasus males don't treat pegasus ladies right, due to miltarized cultural traditions. alienating many pegasisters.

I tend to think, based on what we see in the show, that the second of these is quite unlikely. As for the first... well...

of course it could also be that males are rare for all pony races, forcing many mares to seek mate where ever they can find one

If we take the apparent demographics as representative, females appear to outnumber males by a significant margin. One could debate the causes as much as one likes, but in the end it makes little difference.

There are basically two ways I could see a society with such an imbalance handling the issue: either several females attach themselves to each male (see: Big Mac Gets All The Mares), or many females don't try.

This latter option is not necessarily as unfortunate as it sounds. Consider the mane six. Apart from Rarity, do you think any of them would be specifically unhappy to live out their lives without marriage, or even perhaps any significant romantic relationships at all? I don't.

[Kairaven]

The counter to the first way is of course the not insignificant number of apparently single Stallions that are not quite "right"? The simple numbers would mean that these stallions would have a mate of some sort.

so that means many mares don't try to find a mate. or.....


*facehoof at the increased probability of Female x Female pairings.....

[RdMarquis]

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Yikes. Hope you feel better soon.

No, it would result in pure Friendship itself starting to grow and accumulate in parts of your body which aren't designed to house it, slowly forcing out and consuming your internal organs until there's nothing left but rainbows and skin.

And then you are dead.

...Thanks for the mental picture. Was I the only one who imagined a small, but brilliant Sonic Rainboomlike explosion at the end?

There are basically two ways I could see a society with such an imbalance handling the issue: either several females attach themselves to each male (see: Big Mac Gets All The Mares)

Well, that is how real horses work. Though we haven't seen any proof of that kind behavior on the show. Unless Doughnut Joe really is Con Mane.

[Capt. Ido Nos]

My personal take is that there *are* a good number of stallions to be had, we're just not seeing them. We are following the escapades of six young ladies, it stands to reason their peer group is more of the same.

[Trixie]

My personal take is that there *are* a good number of stallions to be had, we're just not seeing them. We are following the escapades of six young ladies, it stands to reason their peer group is more of the same.

Even counting every single social occasion we saw so far, from weddings to theatre performances, that seem to follow the same pattern?

[Pokonic]

My personal take is that there *are* a good number of stallions to be had, we're just not seeing them. We are following the escapades of six young ladies, it stands to reason their peer group is more of the same.

Presumably, places like urben Manehatten and such probably have a better ratio of males, as well as ever-industrial Cloudsdale and there rainbow factory providing jobs for young, eager to rise stallions fresh out of....whatever pegusi school is called. I mean, understandably, there would probably not be much traffic of young males to a little town next to a forest.

To young mares who would like to be within a days travel of Canterlot but cannot actualy afford to live there, its perfect. Well, besides the occasinal monster or ill-intentioned visiter, but hey, a cottage near the woods!

[Beacon of Chaos]

Amy Keating Rogers, writer of Bridle Gossip, has posted a new video!!

It's uh

Yes. It is, isn't it. :|

That was hysterical.

John de Lancie has been hanging out with Tara. Trolls of a feather flock together, as they say. Yes, they say that. Shut up.

In other news, I approve of this...

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As a wise scholar once said: "Cats are bastards."

Haha! Genius!

For ponythread's amusement

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And part 2

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Blast! I was gonna post that.

Small image dump in hopes something of this is new: one, two, three.

And that last one too. I'm being too slow D:

And now I already like ponies
Seems that I like Image dumps

Did somone say Image Dump!?

Warning: Ultracute detected. Prepare your body.

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Awesomeness (large image)

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Bathtime songs.

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Hearths Warming ponies

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Octavia and her refined taste in music.

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And finally, and oldie, but goodie. More cuteness, with some sadness too.

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[MCerberus]

Alternate ending to the Octavia comic above:

Friday by Rebecca Black.

[Pokonic]

Yes. It is, isn't it. :|


John de Lancie has been hanging out with Tara. Trolls of a feather flock together, as they say. Yes, they say that. Shut up.

Oh god, you can just invision the two of them skipping down a road, perhapes with some cheezy music in the backround, all while the universe is slowly falling apart around them.



.....Or something like that, anyway.

[thubby]

Alternate ending to the Octavia comic above:

Friday by Rebecca Black.

no.
and you're a terrible person for thinking that.

[Aotrs Commander]

As I've said on numerous occasions, I simply work on the basis that ponies have the same sort of demographics as real-world equines, which do have a skew in favour of females (because of the harem breeding pattern). One assumes such has almost certainly have fallen out of favour in modern (or even historical) Equestria, but it's there. (Though one would personally expect that ponies would be naturally more tolerant of what humans would consider unusual relationships anyway; of course, that might just be my natural equalism showing through (i.e. what two or more sentient/sapient adult creatures get up to in their own time...))

As I have observed, there are enough paralellels between pony and real-world equine behavior that it isn't a completely unreasonable assumption.

[PhantomFox]

Top 3 Nominations for Funnies Moment

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Must be Crackle's cousin...
Oh Come ON!
Pinkie - Weapon of Mass Annoyance

Top 3 Nominations for Best Twilight Moment

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Twilight & Future Twilight
This is MY BOOK! And I'm gonna READ IT!!
I'm going to do what I do best; Lecture her!

Top 3 Nominations for Most Dramatic Moment

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Cadence's reveal
Spike's Confession
Twilight giving up on her Discorded friends

Looks like nominations are finished for that category. So let's move onto another one...

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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[Pokonic]

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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.... Wait, Applejack had more than one good moment? Oh, wait, this is'nt season one!

My nomination for that is quite simply " I did'nt learn anything!".

[SlyGuyMcFly]

Looks like nominations are finished for that category. So let's move onto another one...

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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Well, this comes to mind...

[Maxtronaut]

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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Erp... I've had This Day Aria stuck in my head ALL BUCKING DAY. WHY WON'T IT STOP.

*Looks up*

Huh? Oh, I have to go with "I didn't learn anything!"

Or, "Twilight, get my rope."

[Gamerlord]

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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I'm going to go with "I didn't learn anything!"

[Alabenson]

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Must be Crackle's cousin...
Oh Come ON!
Pinkie - Weapon of Mass Annoyance

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Twilight & Future Twilight
This is MY BOOK! And I'm gonna READ IT!!
I'm going to do what I do best; Lecture her!

Top 3 Nominations for Most Dramatic Moment

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Cadence's reveal
Spike's Confession
Twilight giving up on her Discorded friends

Looks like nominations are finished for that category. So let's move onto another one...

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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And my nominations for Best Applejack moment are:

Ah didn't learn anything

And

Her performance as Smart Cookie in the Hearthwarming Eve pagent. Was it just me or did Applejack seem to really enjoy snarking Pinkie Pie?

[Athaniar]

Looks like nominations are finished for that category. So let's move onto another one...

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

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She hasn't had many moments, but I support "Ah didn't lean ANYTHING!"

[Tvtyrant]

I tend to think, based on what we see in the show, that the second of these is quite unlikely. As for the first... well...



If we take the apparent demographics as representative, females appear to outnumber males by a significant margin. One could debate the causes as much as one likes, but in the end it makes little difference.

There are basically two ways I could see a society with such an imbalance handling the issue: either several females attach themselves to each male (see: Big Mac Gets All The Mares), or many females don't try.

The Big Mac gets all the Mares situation is actually pretty true to horses in general, what with them having harems. Although from the relationships we have seen, this doesn't appear to be the case ("his girlfriend certainly thinks so").

[Merellis]

"Ah didn't learn anything! AH WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!"
Yeah, that has to be her best moment, and even the best letter of the season.

Smart Cookie

And when she's being all awesome in the cold open of The Last Roundup, because come on, she was just brimming with confidence and talent there!

[SiuiS]

[SPOILERS!] [Mass Effect 3]

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The kid has a narrative impact through the game, and in the case the indoctrination theory proves true even more, unlike in MW3 where a girl explodes cuz of nothing. And what if it's shock value or anything? the developers added it, whatever, it still proved effective.

It did not prove effective, that's the point. There was a kid. He got on a shuttle. The shuttle blew up.

So?

I've seen palaven burn. I've executed criminals and witnessed the fall of the great. I've seen the death of people who Actually Matter.

A five year old dying does not tug on my heart strings any more than a 15 year old,or a 50 year old. The alliance had YEARS to prepare for this. They didn't. That kid's death was a good thing, because him dying - along with everyone else who died - finally prompted some action.

This is wartime. First we win. Then we mourn.

More to the point though, after going through so much trouble I Mass Effect and it's sequel to create deep and lasting attachments, that the designers would use such short hand as "see a kid, see your character smile at the kid, see the kid die, you emotional yet?" is supremely Insulting.

I don't know much, I guess Krogan are mostly a bunch of Zerg-Rushing huge guys that got Genophage'd when they went mad, but they're huge, and huge is bad you know, Ergo, they eat shots like a wall in front of a stormtrooper.

I don't really know much bout Battlemasters, but they're still huge shotgun-snipable. But when do they explode stuff with their face????

You... You don't know?
Krogan are big, sure. They are also functionally immortal - we've never heard of a Krogan dying of old age. And Wrex is like, 2,500 years old. Wrex alone rmebers as much as all of civilized human history in the western world.

Krogan also regenerate quickly. You put a high-power blast of metal into his face? Congrats, he's in a rage, he's already healed most of the damage and you probably didn't get through his face plate. Also he is trying to eat you now.

Battlemasters are vanguards. Vanguards get biotic charge. In the span of a second, the Krogan slams into you with significant force from his homing blast, fully recharges his barriers and is in melee range. By the time you try to unload into his face, he's already wearing yours.

And Rainbow Dash could take him, hooves down.

And I haven't only got Shepard, I got Master Chief and Ramirez, and even worse, Gordon Freeman, and he's able to create explosions by simply shooting at stuff .

That's nice.
I've got Rainbow Dash; explosions from her face, and sonic speed.
Twilight Sparkle; teleported and logistical savant.
Pinkie Pie; did you say explosions? You meant Gordon Fremane makes cookies every time he shoots, because Pinkie accidentally swapped out his equipment with her party supplies.

NOTHING is better than Humanity, main reason why the reapers tried to make a human reaper

hahAhahaha.
No, silly you've got that backwards.

Humanity is second rate: the reapers are only making a human reaper because every other race in the galaxy fanged up on and neutered the Krogan; the Krogan race was their first choice. Humanity is backwater.

I kinda had Hype Backlash too to be honest, also that it had a childish theme and they tend to be the inverse of the "Manliness, Badassery and Explosions" that I'm actually used to and makes me like stuff

Also note for me Manliness means "high capability of pwning people", badassery means "extension of directed pwnage" and explosions "capability to use the pwnage for the production of the purest form of awesomeness that can exist on the universe", from that you get that I'm a fighter, not a lover

But still I don't even know, I could just try again cuz I was kinda raging at the moment and didn't see the entire episode . But yeah, I kinda like a part of it.

See, this baffles me.
Why is high chance of 'pwnage' considered manly? Are women unable to pwn? What do explosions have to do with pwnage? theyre wasteful. All that energy, which could be directed to some use, released as force, light and heat. Messy.

And why not be both? I'm a lover and a fighter. Don't limit yourself! Humanity is all about potential right? Don't stall based on labels!

Tality.*

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And now I'm just hearing

"Reapers are the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!"

In Tali's voice over and over...

HUZZAH!

Oh man it's contagious!

Humans are not more "special" than any other sentient species out there, except in their own minds. The more I read things like this, the more convinced I am that the modal distinguishing racial trait of humanity is actually just self-aggrandizement.

Well, duh.

But it's not self-aggrandizement til you beat them.

May I ask that all ME3 spoilers be kept to the ME thread, or spoilered appropriately? There are some of us (myself included) that still have not played it, and would like to see as little of the plot beforehand as possible.

Aye.
I'd like to point out that the spoilers portion of Luka's post was actually a mass effect 2 spoiler though, as ate most of my own. Except for the opening tirade...

Noted though. Sorry mate.

Her parents hired a princess as a babysitter. A princess. That's like the Mister Burns tier of stupidly rich.

Good point.

Makes all the sense in existance to me


.....But now that I remember, Reapers are nothing compared to the Shivans

That's right. Keep pulling our bigger and bigger villains. I've got my Ace in the Hole.

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The ace is ponies.
Right Commadore?

Indeed. Who knew Twilight is the result of a ancient breeding project issued by Celestia to create the most magical unicorn ever? "Raises hand."

Huh. Sounds like the Sun Runners and Stone Burners from those Melanie Rawn books with all the psuedoGoidelic terms she refuses to clarify pronunciation on.

FUND IT

I went with this interpretation for quite a while and would still be willing to go with it now. There are a couple things that imply greater power though. One being the fact that Celestia did nothing (except discreetly send the letters), which makes me think that if he wanted to, Discord could have just zapped her into dust.

Why?

What could Celestia do? IF she were in Twilight's group, what would she have contributed? Would she have any positive effect at all? Or would the bearer of Magic have deferred at every opportunity, forsaking every chance to enkindle Friendship once more?

And how do we know she wasn't directly vying against discord? He works via narrative. Celestia could have been challenging him at his own game - she would have to, since it's either his way or the highway.

She stepped aside because that's what good leaders do. Equestria didn't grind to a halt during the reign of chaos. She probably made sure everything else was working well.

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2nd is the way he picked up all the ponies at the end even with the elements of harmony on and they had to be saved by Twilight's bubble, which implies that if Discord felt like it he could have just taken control of them at any time (except for Twilight, who apparently vexes him).

He did take control of them - none of the effects of his 'tricks' Were tricksy at all. They were most likely ALL brainwashed. Because that's narrative control - sudden chick-flick style everyone separates and they have to be brought back together. If they had just blasted him immediately, would it have done anything? Could they have blasted him immediately? The elements have only ever fired after a quest.

I'm going to remember this one.

I'm glad I could help.
Though it made me run through a sequence of thoughts that leave me profoundly sad.

Sadly, if you take a look at much of history, it means exactly what you might think it means.

If being a white American male has ever meant anything, it means I can selectively rewrite history.

This too makes me wrap all the way around from 'joke' to 'profoundly sad'. Is it too much, do you think?

New headcanon. Aotrs is actually a pony princess. His special talent is being a lich. Discuss.

Not yet he's not. He's actively refused my binding his spirit into a pony frame several times - and bombed my workspace when I tried to do it in secret.

Oh? Interesting. I'd never thought of this before. Hmm.

There's actually two distinct things here. One is people, especially right after the show came out, who would respond with "why would anyone in their right minds ever want to watch this?" It became common to respond to those people by telling them that actually it was really good and they should check it out. A more recent phenomenon (and one that I haven't seen much outside this forum) is people actually saying that it's too popular and they're tired of ponies everywhere even though they don't really mind the show. I feel much more sympathy to that but it is kind of weird that people get more annoyed with ponies than with Star Wars references or Firefly references or [insert your favorite popular show here] references.

A good reference from a show wouldn't be recognized as such except by a fan. Like when Lix says she's sleep deprived and everything is shiny - thàt could be literal! Ir my usual use of 'you're kidding. You're kidding, right?'

A pink pony head with a meme attached sort of gives it away though.

Possible, but it does strike me as unlikely. Cadence and Shining armor looked surprised when their love magic worked. I don't think that was something ponies had drawn on previously, or if it was, it had been lost and forgotten. Now, in the wake of the wedding, perhaps there will be magical research into how to draw on the power of love. But that would be new for Equestria I think.

I don't recall how this comes out of my quote? That is, how this is a response to what I said? I'll go back down the green arrows and check.

In the interim, we've previously discussed the nuances between love and friendship, and the different kinds of each. I suspect that the love enhanced barrier is sufficiently similar to the burning heart wielded against the Windigos. The elements of harmony seem to be the Sufficiently Advanced version; a 2e wizard must find three hairs from a holy demon, a minotaurs promise and the sound of love to make an item; a 3e wizard must spend 1/2X gold and 1/25X experience, based on the presumed market value (X).

Ponies must either trundle along until they find the appropriate ritual, or bring together the EoH, which has done all the work already.

That makes four different terms that are used by the show or its creators (Pegasus unicorn, Unicorn, Pegacorn, Alicorn). I wonder if we'll ever get a clarification on whether those terms are interchangeable, or if some of them are just nicknames, or whatever...

I suspect that Pegasus unicorn, unicorn and pegacorn are all technically the same or variations thereof. So they win I guess.

Do Flutterponies and Seaponies even exist in G4?

They do in our hearts!

Hi hi. Just wanted to say I watched the first 14 episodes on Netflix today to see what all the fuss was about. It's a pretty good show and I enjoyed it. ^_^ Also there are a lot more ponies on this page of this thread than I've seen around and that I thought were. But yeah, good times!

Oooh, Gnomish! Hi, Gnomish~!
We tend to keep to here. We also have an IRC channel where the most crazy of us have decided to live (see my signature), so there are even more of usages than expected!

It's good to have you in, friend!

No, SIUIS did.

A mistake he shall come to rue.

I did?

And Boss, you don't even eat. Why would I roux? it's not like you'd appreciate the extra effort in your Mac 'n Cheese.

No, my weakness is my weakness.

Pfffft, I wish it were that simple.

I didn't want to post something unfinished, but I suddenly don't know whether it's a good idea to get this to completeness.

(crude and sketchy sketch)

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Magical Pony Lich Princess! Or is it Magical Lich Pony Princess? Magical Pony Princess Lich?

Drawn spur-of-the-moment without any reference for anything whatsoever, including Aotrs regalia... might want to look those up.

On another note, now I will have to look up proper equine anatomy and skeletal structure... at least the Dwarf Fortress community had me looking up pretty things, like mineral formations and geological distribution charts.

Ooh, neat!
Hmm. Would the wings function?

Herpderp face, but here:

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Saw it cheap so grabbed it while I could. A little small but it's awesome. :3

Nice~
Also Hi Castaras!

Having acid poured into your nose without anaesthetic isn't as bad as it sounds.

That's about all I'm willing to say in it's favour though.

Aside from wondering how they held you still for this, I'm not particularly phased by the revolation. At least not from you...

I am bedridden for the immediate future, hopefully The Internet will be able to cheer me up.

Och. Unfortunate. I hope the thread helped sufficiently?

I'll give you the rundown on that WoD thing I've been trying to bug you about then.

[tangent] [gaming]

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I wanna use nWoD rules to run a D&D game.

Yes, yes.
Are you done laughing or shaking your head yet?

I know it's silly. But its what I need; a chance to get better with the rules, a chance to introduce my meat space friends to nWoD without jumping in cold, and a chance to play out the style of game they've been angling to glean from D&D 3.5.

I could probably figure most of it out. My trouble is of course, magic.

I want to use Mage because magic being a dangerous thing with consequences is perfect. But everything easily done by some sort of magi could fall under Occult. I am trying to work out a way mitigate world smashing. Highly expensive first dot, sure.

But I don't have any of the books. Which makes figuring it all out kinda hard =þ

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I am intimately familiar with the taste of my own blood, and the firsthand knowledge of just how bad it feels to drink blood for extended periods of time is my number one reason why no one should ever become a vampire.

Huh. I'm surprised that's a problem for you? I suppose I've been irritated once I got to the half hour mark because I couldn't do anything but the taste was always more of a perk.

Too much of a good thing I suppose.

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Yeah, it's gotta suck being wanted only for your looks.

Out, I'm sorry you have to go through all that, Thanq :\

Hopefully to help out, here is an acid-related story I can share with you:

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So my friend back in middle/high school had a doctor who had made some strange and questionable calls in the past. My friend always got better, but his perscriptions were always these weird atypical things you wouldn't have expected. He'd get better in the end, but it was always a headscratcher as to what actually did the trick.

One week, my friend came down with strep throat, as you do. Goes to the doc, gets diagnosed, gets his medicine from the pharmacy. However, looking at the bottle of fluid they gave him, he sees that the major active ingredient, in fact one of the only ingredients, was hydrochloric acid, to be gargled and spat out a couple times a day.

What he did not see, was the instruction to dilute the acid in at least equal parts water, first.

And that's the story of how my friend burned his throat with hydrochloric acid!

Well. That's gotta suck especially hard.

No, it would result in pure Friendship itself starting to grow and accumulate in parts of your body which aren't designed to house it, slowly forcing out and consuming your internal organs until there's nothing left but rainbows and skin.

And then you are dead.

Well, that's terrifying. Thank you.

Luckily the GoC medical department specializes in the cosmetic removal of excess love! Clone replacements for the current 87% loss rate are also available.

Of course, not only would I not be presumptuous enough to declare dying via Friendship Cancer a problem per-say (especially given ponythreads high living-impaired population figures), I wouldn't think of claiming the OFC causes it either.

On account of I'm pretty sure that it's just a giant space lazer with a couple of coloured candy wrappers placed over the lenses.

Oh man
That would have been much cheaper.

Amish and I are going to be in a one-off D&D session, and it is very difficult to think up anything other than just rolling two bards and being Flim and Flam.

FLIM & FLAM

I've started trying to write out this post a dozen times and failed each time because my clumsy attempts at language cannot remotely encapsulate the glee of what I'm about to say.

iamnotacleverpony is coming back.

SWEET

I hope you lot are happy now. *I'm NEVER going to get Pinkie Pie's voice/squealing out of my head.

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Great writing though!

Well, I'm honestly surprised, thought I'd heard the last of you. Good to have you around!

I did think you'd like pinkie, though I worried her humor wouldn't be quite dry enough for you.

Huh, if a pony is a creature totaly consumed by friendship is a pony, than what exactly does that make a changeling.....

An entirely separate and discrete species. vampires!

Changlings are a pony offshoot that arose during the 'love wars', a dark time in Equestria history where ponies in an attempt to become more powerful were using artificial means such as the Want it Need it spell and Love Poison to harness the power of friendship. This fake friendship however backfired and turned the ponies into a new form, one that has an insatiable hunger for real love as well as the power they draw from it.

Possible.

Let's look at what we've got.
Skulking.
Fangs.
Parasitism.
Overinflated sense of self worth.
Infiltrate prey species.
Sexy for no reason.

Changelings are a twist of the vampire myth. Makes perfect sense to me.

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As a wise scholar once said: "Cats are bastards."

Ah, being a mastermind. Allstate the yarn in the world, for thirty times the cost of just buying it yourself, and about twice the satisfaction.

[Anarion]

Darn Thanqol, causing me to not post because I'm reading world of darkness rulebooks and scheming about how to run a changeling game mumble mumble mumble

Hey, anypony potentially interested in a changeling game that I'll probably get going in another week or so that Thanqol will be playing in?

well...

tonight's quick, random pony-surf has made me change my perception of Duel Of Fates forever.

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I hate you.

Classic art, ponified:

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Based on "The School of Athens" by Raphael.

That was spectacular. I like the choice of Celestia as Plato and Luna as Aristotle in particular. Can we adopt this as one of ponythread's representative images or something? It just seems appropriate after that extended loyalty discussion.

And now I already like ponies
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It starts.

Other extrapolated (troublesome) theories:

Either:
a great disparity in the male:female number ratio of Pegasus. Causing excess female population to seek mate from other races

or

Pegasus males don't treat pegasus ladies right, due to miltarized cultural traditions. alienating many pegasisters.

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Unicorn race sufferes from many genetic issues due to heavy emphasis on genetic purity.

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of course it could also be that males are rare for all pony races, forcing many mares to seek mate where ever they can find one


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numbers don't quite add up, as we've seen three mules (well one might be shown twice, so two mules) and two donkeys. unless there's a hidden donkey and mule village somewhere.

number are too few to extrapolate data for Griffin and zebra races.

This heavily implies the possibility of polygamy or some variation thereof amongst the ponies, especially if females are simply far more common among all different groups. Even if we do have 1 to 1 pairings, it may be the case that nearly all pegasus girls pair up, unicorn girls get other unicorns, and, as you noted, the earth pony girls are the desperate ones. Although one could probably substitute out desperate and instead say career-focused and effectively contributing to society if one were talking from their perspective.

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

BEGIN!

Twilight...get my rope.

[Kd7sov]

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

BEGIN!

Smart Cookie

Cookin' in Canterlot (which is to say, the culinary bits of the finale)

[Aotrs Commander]

That's right. Keep pulling our bigger and bigger villains. I've got my Ace in the Hole.

Spoiler

Show

The ace is ponies.
Right Commadore?

Yes.

Ponies have superpowers.

Superpowers.

Spoiler

Show

I did?

You did.

Oh boy... Here comes the rant.
Shortened version: He apparently doesn't like vampires in general

Believe us; we know, and we enjoy getting him going. There is a soothing cadence to his violent diatribe, like waves of a deep red sea slamming chopping over you while you lie have submerged.

With your poor word choice!

And Boss, you don't even eat. Why would I roux? it's not like you'd appreciate the extra effort in your Mac 'n Cheese.

...

You will ALL rue the day you slighted me.

Which one, they, like, slight you all the ti-*whump*

Everypony, in fact, will rue the day if you force me to enact my vengeance! Everypony!

Muahahaha!

[Kyouhen]

Season 2 Pony Awards!
Best AppleJack Moment!

BEGIN!

Let's go with...
"Ah didn't learn a thing!"
"Twilight, get my rope"
"Chocolate milk!"

I'd also vote for Applejack as Smart Cookie, but that's kind of a really long moment.

...

You will ALL rue the day you slighted me.

Which one, they, like, slight you all the ti-*whump*

Everypony, in fact, will rue the day if you force me to enact my vengeance! Everypony!

Muahahaha!

Y'know, I was going to show you guys a new spell I came up with, but I get the feeling this is a bad time.
...
...
Ah who am I kidding, I cast SLIGHT UNDEAD!