https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FL3TVUe7UJ7t4DLBkpJF_GpVsX7RGYF7zwkTusGl1Dk/edit?tab=t.0https://jmassat.com/2024/08/05/every-cartoon-pitch-and-writers-bible-on-archive-org/5.4. Contrast and SafetyThe Safe Haven PrincipleSafety is only meaningful when danger exists nearby. Comfort is only precious when discomfort is possible. This principle, understood intuitively by Moominvalley and MLP G4, creates the foundation for effective worldbuilding.Marequest presents a pony that gathers all the other horses to a safe haven island to protect them from an orb of darkness the infects everyone and she has to gather 100 friends with 4 of them becoming alicorns to stop the orb of darkness from spreading like a cancer cell spreading and turning everyone into shadow horses.5. Thematic Foundation5.1. Cooperation as SurvivalIn this world, cooperation isn't just nice—it's necessary. Windigos or equivalent threats emerge when ponies fall into disharmony, bringing cold that kills crops and freezes towns. Shadow beast transformations happen to those who isolate themselves from community. This is natural selection made narrative.The Canon Foundation:By the laws of the MLP universe, if your society fails at harmony, you get punished by becoming grey, disfigured, and evil. If you keep failing (and you will because your situation worsens in a snowball effect), evil spirit forces form out of thin air and literally kill you. Equestria without harmony would be a frozen wasteland ravaged by Windigos. Griffons, dragons, and yaks live in harsh conditions because their societies lack harmony.If you're kind and neighborly, you become cute and colorful with actual magic powers. The kinder and more in tune with Friendship you are, the more powerful you become—to the point where you can turn the god of Chaos to stone with relatively little effort. Presumably, if you could reform Klugetown from top to bottom into being more Friendship-aligned, they'd metamorphose into more colorful creatures like the Changelings did with the Rainbow Roadtrip effect.Previous thread:>>42806684
Requires too much brain for this place unless you make a guideline/personality quiz or else you get the same OC abominations you usually get when you put someone who doesn't know basic color theory.
Damn, the last thread jobbed pretty quickly. Hopefully this one stays up for a bit longer.Anyways, a good starting point would be discussing the place in which the hypothetical series would take over. So far it has been suggested for it to be a town surrounded by everfree-like wilderness from all angles but it would be fun to see more suggestions or ideas that add to the previously proposed one
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Any of /mlp/'s faggots ever watched any of Hasbro's other shows like Transformers and Hanazuki? Hanazuki could also use a reboot. It has a good idea, but it's executed in a very unfinished manner.
>That hair colorWas Twilight originally supposed to look like Trixie? where the fuck is that color palette even used in?
See? this doc gets it.6.3. Music GuidelinesFolk Foundation is Non-NegotiablePop songs, Disney-style Broadway numbers, and hip-hop rhythms do not belong in this world. Music should feel old, traditional, and earned. Think lullabies, work songs, traveling minstrel ballads. Even upbeat songs should have folk instrumentation.Required Elements:Traditional instruments: flute, fiddle, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, hand drums, harpMemorable melodies: viewers should be able to hum the tune after one listenSentimentality over energy: even happy songs should have emotional depth, not just loud excitementLullaby quality: the best folk songs work as both celebration and comfortAbsolutely Avoid:"Ain't" in lyrics (grammatically lazy, breaks immersion)Excessive clapping (unless it's a work song where rhythm serves function)Bathroom echo (rarely helps, usually distracts)Party song atmosphere (country fair energy instead of country music energy)
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