Anything goes! (Some rules apply, see below)This thread is for anyone to drop in and post whatever's on your mind right now,Just about anything goes, so feel free to share your thoughts on an episode (or a tiny detail in one) or a character; share, review and discuss pieces of fan content you've seen, declare who the best pony is, describe what you've dreamt last night, and ask whatever you've been wondering about. Try to keep it pony related.All sorts of ideas, thoughts and questions are welcome, from the brief to the in-depth, especially ones that don't really fit elsewhere at the moment but also don't warrant their own thread either.Talk to each other! You'll find that sometimes asking further questions and bouncing ideas off one another can let a small thought blossom into something greater.However, please respect the following: Refrain from posting about drama (IRL and online), political shit, baiting and starting/participating in shitflinging/ angry shouting matches. Also try and keep it low on moral or legal arguments, they never go anywhere.Previous: https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/43262403/
Pinkie pie is best pony because I said so
>>43287474Jumbo Don
>>43287512Jumbo don gives me bad vibes
>>43287518bit rude, no? He is a very friendly pony once you get to meet him.
>>43287519Nah he probably rapes and murders fillies in his free time
>>43287523Impossible! Everypony in Equestria is peaceful and will do no harm onto others.
>>43287527Good point although jumbo don has a jumbo dong
>>43287495Fuck, that's not fair...
>>43287532All is fair In pony
Is it only me or the board is even more dead than usual?
>>43287539It feels like it's about where it's been, at least to me. I dunno for sure though.
>wingsAnd subconsciously primed the thread in SUB-OPTIMAL FOR WARMTH direction. TERRIBLE
>>43287552
>>43287552You subconsciously primed me for cold direction completely awful
>>43287539yes
Touch fluffy tail.
>>43287600this but with my hoof
>>43287539>Is it only me or the board is even more dead than usual?What do you mean? This is the actual /mlp/ board activity after the show ended and the dumpster fire that is G% making most of the board lose interest thanks to Hasbro's fuckups.
The background theme of the Nightmare Night episode's melody is a blatant copy of "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" from Nightmare Before Christmas. Listen to the very opening of the episode where they flash the title side by side with the song, and you can see it yourself. Can't believe Disney never caught that lmao
>>43287741Hey, if nobody catches you then that's a win.
>>43287474Twilight should have sex with Trixie
>>43287762Nnnno.
>>432877777777
>>43287762She's out of her league, digits confirmed.
>>43287780Just because it's fun to see Twilight be annoyed doesn't mean you should encourage that kind of behavior.
I can't accept that Nightmare Moon was banished 1,000 years ago. I can't accept that after Luna was banished, ponies were still able to dream. I can't accept that Celestia defeated her the same night she transformed. I can't accept that NMM is the result of an external force, the Nightmare Forces, rather than Luna using her powers with no inhibitions. I can't accept that she didn't rule for several years while Celestia did everything she could, even letting her subjects suffer months of night, to find a way to save Luna, and the tragedy is that all Celestia needed to do was apologize and empathize. I can't accept that Celestia used the Elements of Harmony instead of her own power to defeat NMM.I can't accept the entire foundational mythology of G4.
>>43287793So you're the type of person who read a bunch of fanfiction before watching the show?
>>43287780
>>43287793>I can't accept that Nightmare Moon was banished 1,000 years ago. I can't accept that after Luna was banished, ponies were still able to dream. I can't accept that Celestia defeated her the same night she transformed. I can't accept that NMM is the result of an external force, the Nightmare Forces, rather than Luna using her powers with no inhibitions. I can't accept that she didn't rule for several years while Celestia did everything she could, even letting her subjects suffer months of night, to find a way to save Luna, and the tragedy is that all Celestia needed to do was apologize and empathize. I can't accept that Celestia used the Elements of Harmony instead of her own power to defeat NMM.>I can't accept the entire foundational mythology of G4.I'm happy for you, or sorry that happened.I didn't actually read that.
>>43287796Not at all. It just doesn't make sense to me, but I've had this issue consistently. One of the reasons I can't take Japanese RPG stories seriously is because there is, invariably, something that happened 1,000 years ago. Chinese stories are even worse, with things happening millions of years ago resulting in blood feuds that exist in [present time] of the story. It's too ridiculous.
>>43287807You may need to accept that a world where myths are reality functions very differently than our own.
>>43287807I'm glad you admitted that you're the problem.>>43287801>>43287812Based
>All sorts of ideas, thoughts and questions are welcome, from the brief to the in-depth, especially ones that don't really fit elsewhere at the moment but also don't warrant their own thread either.Glad you all proved you're liars. Hope your pseudo-general dies another infant death like the last ones, you reprobates.
>>43287838Calm down.
>>43287838where's the lie?
I love Derpy!
>>43288176Understandable, she's a very good pony.
>>43288177
>>43287838Kek based
>>43288287>two thousand years ago anon gave pets to celestia
>>43288287>two thousand years ago humanity killed God..They killed Hitler, too... fat bunch of' good humanity's done us, huh...?
>>43288297Twilight's gonna tell Fluttershy about Hitler and she's gonna be so peeved at you for using her face for that post. She's gonna call you naughty and rude and not her friend and everything.
Alright, I did my part, and the frog is dead. I trust the rest of you to keep shit from getting fucked again while I pass out for a bit. Hope I dream of ponies (I won't, I never do.)
>>43287762Ew, no. She should have sex with me instead.>>43287793Just imagine up a better Equestria. It really isn't that hard, most of the hard work has been done for you. As a bonus, it will be tailored perfectly to your tastes.
>>43287762based
>frogshits didn't 404 thisDishonor to famiry
>>43289478You can't expect much from edgy teenage newfags
Shimmy is on my mind
>>43289523view of pony from below
>>43289523view of pony from above
>>43289523Why is there a computer cursor on her? Did you digitize her?
Colored pencil artist-type here, what should I draw?
>>43289996evil pinkie pie
>>43289996Don't draw for this stealth sharty hovel.
>>43290005Ignore this schizo
>>43290009Yeah ignore this faggot they call everyone 'schizo'.
>>43288170>>43288493These comics never fail to elicit a hearty kek
>>43289996Twilight from Backwards Through the Mirror https://www.fimfiction.net/story/2323/backwards-through-the-mirror
>>43290033Any idea who makes them? They are great.
>>43290061PonyQuarantine on Twitter, findable under the same tag on all your favorite boorus. He does a lot of stuff with various OCs which I'm less fond of than the stuff that feels more linked to the show.
>>43289523*boop*
>>43290520You wouldn't actually, would you?
>>43290528Of course I would! Dash would probably get flustered and call me a stupid dork, but it would be worth it.
Been able to finish another chapter and almost finish a 2nd one, but I am starting to wonder if I should change how my story is set up. At first I wanted to tell the story a non-chronological fasion with flash backs and such for a hook and to push through the more trite sections of the fanfic. But the more I write, the more I think that its these trite sections might make the latter half of the story more impactful. Maybe I just need to limit the flash backs. Maybe I should actually fucking finish putting everything in writing before I edit it. Things were much easier writing greens and short stories.What's worse is that I have become busy with other things that get in the way.
>>43289999Evil enough for ya?
>>43291060The battle between just writing everything down and being more efficient and editing as you go is a classic one. I wish you the best of luck in figuring out what's right for your story.
>>43291096I like it! Good work.
>>43290073I feel some sense of responsibility for this happening.
Egads! A mutated space Derpy!
>>43291966She's still beautiful.
>>43291966...And another one before bed. Critiques welcome, good or bad.
>>43287474Every so often, I find myself thinking back to Winter Wrap Up. I like WWU, though I think the episode has a flawed set-up? premise? From what I can tell, the tradition is just... racist against unicorns? It's odd, and something that I'm sure comes from MLP's early season weirdness. Primarily Earth Pony's magic, or lack thereof. If Earth Pony's don't have magic, then it's all fine. If they do, then it's *gulp* problematic. Pegasi get an exemption since they're needed to clear the weather, which requires magic. Unless they just don't need magic to fly? The Doylist perspective on why WWU has a no magic rule makes sense to me: Twilight needs to find a talent outside of her magic. In this case, her organization skills. But the Watsonian perspective is what I struggle with. The simplest explanation to me is that the tradition is racist against unicorns.I also think about this specific line, probably more than I should: "No Spike, Ponyville was started by Earth ponies, so for hundreds of years they've never used magic to clean up winter." Originally, I thought the they in "they've never used magic" was referring to Ponyville, and the writers contradicted themselves in Family Appreciation Day. But, not only does WWU and FAD share the same writer, they also don't contradict each other if Twilight was actually referring to Earth Ponies in general. Which... still has few problems? The statement strongly implies that Earth Ponies do not have magic and conflicts with later seasons. Funnily enough, I believe there's a scene of Applejack planting a seed that immediately sprouts in this episode that is used as evidence that they do have magic. Twilight specifically mentions hundreds of years, and it's an odd time-frame to choose. I would expect it to be at least a thousand years, at which point "over a thousand years" would be a more natural phrase to use. Maybe it's just me, when I hear "hundreds of years" I think of around 600-800 years being the timeframe. It also kind of implies that winter is a new phenomenon? Or at least the need to manually clean it up. WWU would probably be as old as pony civilization if winter was always around and always needed cleaning up. Actually, how did Unicorns and Earth Ponies clean up winter before they were allied with Pegasi? Can their world follow a more natural seasonal timeframe and they just choose not to?I should probably find something else to think about.>>43291974Huh, neat. The snouts seem flat and unaligned with the rest of the face.
>>43291996>The statement strongly implies that Earth Ponies do not have magic and conflicts with later seasons.I feel like the series was setting up for a great longterm arc for Twilight learning to actually explore the magic of pegasi and earth ponies and realizing that all ponies are magical in their own ways, thus upturning the previous understanding that unicorns are the 'magic ponies', but of course the show set up far more than it ever paid off.>It also kind of implies that winter is a new phenomenon?That's a really interesting idea, the idea that ponies used to not have seasons and introduced them due to realizing that nature functioned better with them. There's no other evidence to suggest that but it is at least cool to think about.
>cupcakes comic author is now making a straight up bdsm/sexual torture comic because it's his kinkSuch is life.
THE SMILE ON YOUR FACE LETS ME KNOW THAT YOU NEED METHERE'S A TRUTH IN YOUR EYES SAYIN' YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME
I want to touch mare. I want to feel her pony body.
>>43287793> ponies were still able to dreamOnly thing worthy any discussion about this.I know it was probably a retcon to have Luna do something instead of simply moving the moon at night, but was it ever explained how dreams worked for over 1000 years? Or even before Luna was born and learned to enter into dreams?Was she passively interacting within the dreams while she was trapped on the moon, like what good remained of her inside NMM was still there and keeping her eyes over the dreams/nightmares as a passive guardian spirit?
>>43292026About humans or ponies?
>>43292201>>43287793The way I saw is that she doesn't make dreams for ponies, she can just manipulate them. Ponies will still dream with or without her around, she can just enter and manipulate dreams when she is around. Like someone who can manipulate fire or something. Fire doesn't cease to exist when they aren't around, they can just do shit with it other people can't. Luna is basically in perma lucid dreaming mode and can affect other ponies dreams with it.
I just shift-click frognigger threads on sight now. I sure hope you do the same.
>>43292201>>43292211I imagine they just had their normal dreams, complete with sporadically occurring nightmares. But during that time they had to just suffer through the entirety of them until they were over, or they start awake. And also not even get one of Luna's nuggets of wisdom about their worries at the end.Just like in our world!
>>43292203Ponies, it's Twilight sexually torturing the M6. I have zero interest in reading it but I guess he's happy.
How long into the smut story when I should add tildes to every fucking line of dialogue from an every character currently banging?
>>43292460Never, ideally. If you feel like you need to add a marker to say 'this is horny' to every single line then you've probably not set the mood well enough.
>>43287474I read this in spikes voice and i really enjoyed that experience
