Trixie's Great and Powerful Guide v1.99f
LIVE 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.
Well, Deadly's here to help you get rid of them... with a vengeance! Create a new bookmark in your browser and copy the code below as the link/url of said bookmark. Name it something helpful, like "Spoilers B GONE!" or whatever. Then whenever you view a thread here on GitP you just hit the bookmark and BAM! no more spoilers.
You won't even see the boxes, just the bare innards in all their gory glory.
It also makes sure that no image is wider than 600px, to avoid stretching pages, and will attempt to "intelligently" remove repeated images except avatars. Neat, huh? Sadly that last part means stuff like pony emotes may get lost but the forum doesn't make it easy for me to single out images in quotes as I'd have liked... that's an open problem, I guess.
Tested in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Should work in any modern browser, but you never know with these things.
Code:
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If you don't mind repeated images, here's a version that leaves them be.
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javascript:(function() { var a = document.getElementsByTagName('div'); for (var i = 0 ; i < a.length ; i++) { if (a[i].className == 'spoiler') { a[i].style.display = 'block'; a[i].className = ''; } else if (a[i].className == 'pre-spoiler') { a[i].style.display = 'none'; }} a = document.getElementsByTagName('img'); for (i = 0 ; i < a.length ; i++) { a[i].style.maxWidth = '600px'; }})();
"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
Yay new thread. I'm gonna copy over my post from page 50 of the last thread.
Fun fact: Woody was originally written to be a huge jerk. Disney thought the movie wasn't dark and edgy enough (it was the early 90s, don't judge) and the Pixar guys responded to that by making Woody a total jerk. Then they showed the movie to test audiences and made children cry* and they realized how stupid they were being. This is all in the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, really interesting book.
*I don't know if anyone actually cried, it just went over terribly with test audiences.
Wait, so Twilight is like the portrayal of John Nash from A Beautiful Mind? I mean, what if her whole discovery of the elements of harmony was in part prompted by her hallucinations? All her paranoia, her time traveling, all the lessons in Ponyville, actually a product of interactions with just a few ponies and a constant string of persistent hallucinations growing worse and worse.
Woah, that's creepy.
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Lawyer Pony Avatar by Dirtytabs, exalted as an Eclipse by Elemental, now with a fancy robe.
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Originally Posted by The Giant
Anarion's right on the money here.
Quotes
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Originally Posted by Tiki Snakes
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Anarion Mori?
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Originally Posted by Tiki Snakes
You just highlandered an entire city block into a glass-filled storm by road-runnering down it in your underwear.
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.
Good day was good today. A toys R us opened around the corner from my house... and they had blind bags as well as the gen4 sets. So for 15 dollars i now have Twilight, Rainbow dash, Gilda, Lyra and Surprise! Now i just have to wait for the next gen to get Luna and Trixie.
-GASP- First page! good day gets better.
Also This master post helped me in picking out the ponies i wanted from the blind bags.
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ADVENTURE!!!!!
My current story ponies-Ponylagann in the Ponythread.
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NightScream
Ponyard
SkyRocket
Filly Pokey Pierce
Last edited by Rebelhero : 09-25-2012 at 03:36 PM.
I's in class now. Am I allowed to respond/bring up things from the last few pages from the previous thread? There was a few things I meant to respond to, but I was preoccupied.
Also, finally watched the last episode of the first season. So I've finally watched all of the first season. I'll probably stay up and watch the second season as well.
__________________ Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
He was, at first. A lot of the first story was in uncorrupting him as a cowboy sherrif, and heating him to learn to accept change. He got better by the end of the first movie, and kept that updated character for the other 2.
Kung Fu Panda was going to have Po written like origonal woody. Jack Black realised this, and demanded they make his character more sympothtic. Rather than a haughty ace who'se a knowitalljerk better than the other characters, we get the insecure heroic nerd looking for acceptance.
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Originally Posted by Balmas
InoKnowNames, good for you! Ponython for the win!
I did swear I'd watch all the episodes of at least the first season before I judge the series. I don't always take on a project but when I do, I commit to it until it gets run into the ground or takes off.
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Originally Posted by Trixie
Yeah, in fact, better not post in old one anymore.
Sweet. Drumming up a wall of post. Lucky this teacher sucks.
Last edited by INoKnowNames : 09-25-2012 at 03:52 PM.
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.
Don't laugh. It took twenty years to get those teeth fixed just right. Immortality sometimes needs preperations to use it effecently. Do you want to be the god-emperess with crooked teeth? I dont think so.
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Well, one time at Bard camp...
Former avatars & Quotes
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Former avatar, had it since I started realy posting here.
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Originally Posted by Tychris1
Pokonic look what you have done! You fool, you`ve doomed us all!
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Originally Posted by Doorhandle
Oh Pokonic, never change. And never become my D.M.
Hmm, we seem to have quite a few Celestia pictures in this thread.
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Originally Posted by Diego Havoc
Well, she lives long and is a pony. It's very appropriate.
Also...
EEEEEEEEEE! Celestia with braces!
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Good point, Diego. And that was essentially my reaction as well. In fact, this whets my appetite for fanfiction about when Celestia and Luna were younger. I recall seeing one on the Top Rated list on Fimfiction, perhaps I'll go track it down.
Don't laugh. It took twenty years to get those teeth fixed just right. Immortality sometimes needs preperations to use it effecently. Do you want to be the god-emperess with crooked teeth? I dont think so.
Because they did not embody any of the Elements themselves, Celestia and Luna had to purify themselves physically and spiritually in anticipation of their use. Braces were an inevitable and necessary step towards the first entombment of Discord and the establishment of the rule of harmony.
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Originally Posted by Anarion
And remember, whoever captures the fox and brings it under their control first gains ownership and accompanying property rights over the wild beast.
Don't laugh. It took twenty years to get those teeth fixed just right. Immortality sometimes needs preperations to use it effecently. Do you want to be the god-emperess with crooked teeth? I dont think so.
Laugh? I think perhaps you've misinterpreted my squeals of delight and adoration.
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Just call me Diego. Mr. Havoc was my father.
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Originally Posted by SiuiS
Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
Because they did not embody any of the Elements themselves, Celestia and Luna had to purify themselves physically and spiritually in anticipation of their use. Braces were an inevitable and necessary step towards the first entombment of Discord and the establishment of the rule of harmony.
Colgate: And that, children, is how dentistry saved Equestria!
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Well, one time at Bard camp...
Former avatars & Quotes
Spoiler
Former avatar, had it since I started realy posting here.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tychris1
Pokonic look what you have done! You fool, you`ve doomed us all!
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Originally Posted by Doorhandle
Oh Pokonic, never change. And never become my D.M.
You know, a "Toy Story" style fanfic would be interesting with MLP merch.
Fund it. Also, cute Chyrsalis plush is cute!
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Originally Posted by INoKnowNames
I told you guys, just as I first started trying this series, about how I accidentally ended up finding Cupcakes on TvTropes, and definitely should not have read it. It probably didn't help that I got linked to someone having -DRAWN- the thing, and I accidentally clicked it, and couldn't look away.
Someone said to note that there's an episode to which Cupcakes becomes somewhat of an ascended meme, where it -could- have happened, had she become more deranged.
And I ended up watching that episode (Party of One). And I remembered Cupcakes. As well as the animated version of it.
And it got in me. And it hurt.
Have some handy Cupcakes-related things then! (I promise, nothing mentally scarring)
I's in class now. Am I allowed to respond/bring up things from the last few pages from the previous thread? There was a few things I meant to respond to, but I was preoccupied.
Also, finally watched the last episode of the first season. So I've finally watched all of the first season. I'll probably stay up and watch the second season as well.
"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
or·tho·don·tics (ôrth-dntks)
n.
(used with a sing. verb) The dental specialty and practice of preventing and correcting irregularities of the teeth, as by the use of braces.
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Also, cute Chyrsalis plush is cute!
Cue indeed. Speaking of cute: I also finally saw Wave 5 BB ponies. At 4$ piece
"Well, the Great and Powerful Trixie can't actually transport you to Equestria... But!
The Great and Powerful Trixie can beat you over the head until you think that's what happened!"
Because they did not embody any of the Elements themselves, Celestia and Luna had to purify themselves physically and spiritually in anticipation of their use. Braces were an inevitable and necessary step towards the first entombment of Discord and the establishment of the rule of harmony.
Also, I hadn't seen the Luna Reads Cupcakes entry before now. Funny, it's considerably more serious than the others were.