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: >>43328671
>>43344146Jumbo Don!
I watched it 404 like:
>>43344159I wasn't here when it 404'd, but I sure am here now to make a new thread.
>>43344189>Here to force another oneBless your heart.
>>43344197I just like the thread, people do low-stakes shitposting together.
>>43344146I love my Mooney Mindmare Talupa Grande!
>>43344146I try to see ponies in everything. Like, if something is purple, I will think of Twilight. Or, if a character in a movie I'm watching is smart, I will think of twilight
>>43344233I love my Moonie tulpa too! I love my tulpabros!
>>43344248This guy is based! She loves (You), Anon!
>>43344159>confuses archiving and 404retard
I love shitting up threads I personally don't like.
>>43344855I never want to shit up any threads and try to make all threads fun, even ones with subjects I personally don't care for.
>>43344857I used to think this way. But then the threads I liked got shit up. So why shouldn't it happen to them?
>>43344864That's an attitude that burns down the whole board in the end. And perhaps that sounds good to you, but I do still like this board.
>>43344866>That's an attitude that burns down the whole board in the endIt's not like there's anything worth saving. All the threads with real activity in them fucking suck, and everything else is a bumpfest.
>>43344879which threads have real activity in them?>everything else is a bumpfestnothing wrong with that
>>43344879>It's not like there's anything worth saving.I thought you said there were threads you liked?
>>43344885You have eyes. Check the catalog yourself.>>43344887Liked. Past tense.
>>43344895>Liked. Past tense.Fair enough! Sorry to hear Nonny.
skill issues above, the board is fine and there are threads I love.
>>43344911Agreed!
>>43344911>the board is fineNo. The board is dominated by dogshit threads.>there are threads I loveSuch as?
I'm in one of those>homesick for a place that doesn't existkind of moods. What kind of witchcraft was Mom practicing when she came up with this show? I've been a lorebeard for other franchises but no setting has ever had the staying power of Equestria for me. It's spooky.
>>43344993The combination of fantasy adventure, slice of life and 20th-century americana is a killer one. It's just similar enough to our world that you'd be able to live there without issue but different enough that it's exciting.
>>43344993>homesick for a place that doesn't existAh, I know that feeling very, very well. Hail, fellow longing-for-another-world-fag.
>>43344993>witchcraftFriendship, obviously!
>>43345002Also Ponyville is an idyllic village that lacks all the problems that real small towns have had both historically and in the present day. In a time where everyone's isolated and miserable, the idea of living in a place where you know and love all your cute pony neighbors sounds pretty great.
>>43344993I wish to immigrate to Equestria.
I wish to become pinkie pie
>>43345130But Pinkie Pie's already Pinkie Pie.
>>43345134Your right I'm already pinkie pie
>>43345141Hooves or gtfo
>>43345141Don't listen to the other anon post your cakes please! Or muffins or brownies!
>>43345130Omg Hi Pinkie Pie!!! Wow, that's a lot of pinkie pies... OMG!!! FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN!
>>43344895>Check the catalog yourself.so you have no answer
>>43345247I'm not spoonfeeding you information you can see for yourself.
How do (You) treat people that share your waifu? Bonus points if it's a Literally Who like a BGMare or a OC from a CYOA or something similar
>>43345320I'll tease them by proclaiming Luna is MY wife only, but that's about it. We're all moonbros, after all!
>>43345329Saying stay back to a pony seems like a bad idea. Very few ponies listen to such requests.
>>43345262Having a lot of replies and being at the top of the catalog could mean activity, or it could just as likely mean a long-running bump-fest.
>>43345320I know that no two anons with the same waifu end up in the same Equestria.That, or we'll all get changelings who imitate our waifus.
>>43345693>two anons with the same waifu end up in equestria>neither of them manage to make their waifu fall in love with them because they're too busy trying to win the competition
>>43344993This board is Eternity. You just don't realize it yet.
I wanted to proompt a flaremare story, but GLM wasn't smart enough to one-shot it and now I'm stuck with a raw idea without any of the details needed to make it work.
>>43345623You're paying attention to the wrong metric, retard-kun.
>>43345822Creation date?
>>43345824That's part of it.
>>43345805Well maybe you should just write yourself, you naughty boy!
>>43345829never
>>43345855But you could be having so much fun, Nonny...
>>43345693what about fags that want to fuck every amre in Equestria?
>>43346007They share an Equestria with every other anon who has the same fantasy. It's a full on battle royale.
did Rakan get properly permab& after shilling his new YouTube channel here?
>>43346030Lyra is so mad. She should go have sex with her girlfriend so she won't be mad.
>>43346007Those who only want to exploit mares get sent to an ironic hell. Usually either anthrofutaquestria or the feateureless one.
>Janitor acceptance emails will be sent out over the coming weeks. Make sure to check your spam folder!Messages telling you that you are a janitor end up in the same place as nonsensical garbage designed to exploit you.
>>43346069>ironic hell. Usually either anthrofutaquestria or the feateureless one.I'm pretty sure b&throfutaquestria is unironic hell while featurelessquestria isn't even ironic hell
>>43345824You can filter by posts per minute if you use 4chan X.
>>43344855Based
>>43344993I think on some interview with EQD she said she was binging TNG while developing the showalso she drew a lot of ideas from her own playworlds she came up with while playing with MLP toys as a kidalso I think she's a bit of a tomboy which is why she doesn't like that girls stuff is "lame", she's also old so she's in that tomboy phase where they've struggled to reconcile their -boyism with actually having grown up into a womancombination of autistic, childlike wonder in the worldbuilding + structure from one of the best TV shows ever made. sprinkle in a bit of idealistic feminism, you know the ones that somehow still believe it's actually about equality, and you've got a fun, girly show that is basically tailored for boys and tomboyish souls.now if only she'd have been allowed to establish a writers room like on TNG and the lore might even have been consistent.
Kek.
>>43346069I like to think the people who just want to fuck ponies have to have a long conversation with Celestia about why they feel the way they do until they admit they don't just want that, at which point they can go to an Equestria.
>>43346181>featurelessquestria isn't even ironic hellIt's ironic in that he's surrounded by the mares he wants to fuck, but they don't have pussies, and he doesn't even have a dick.
>>43347615>no dickI was going to say that's not so bad, but yeah no that's hell for them. Poor guys.
>>43347615>and he doesn't even have a dick.why would TV-Y Equestria modify Anon's genitalia but not his entire body? (i.e. anonstatllion /ptfg/)
>>43348522Well he'll look more cartoony, obviously.
>>43348526>implying a green faceless man in a business suit isn't cartoony enough
>>43348539I'm hoping ponies think the suit makes me look more sophisticated than I am.
>>43348540Only if you take good care of it.
>>43348522>anonstatllion /ptfg/He would be one of the locals. He would be featureless, too.
>>43348612I think that anon was bargaining, he was saying if he has to lose his dick he'd at least like to be a cute pony.
>>43348612>>43348617nah I meanwhy would I be transformed to Equestrian standards only partially for only one of my partsI'd rather stay featureless human than a pony tbdesu
>>43348625Well it's an ironic punishment, so if you'd rather be a human then you're probably a pony. This is why I'm a good boy, I'll get sent to an Equestria where I don't get any ironic punishments.
I installed 4chan-neXT and it has a flag preview that's bugged for /mlp/'s oddly-shaped flags (pic rel)I kinda like it that way. Looks like ponies peeking out before I pick themI rarely use flags, though
>>43348657>"I'm being stalked by tiny ponies! Why does nobody believe me!?""
Has your favorite pony changed as time went by? Have you considered your previous pony to be your waifu? Is she still?
>>43345320they have such a different conception of her that even if i were the type to get offended, it wouldn't really grate against me. plus i'm just happy there's other people who like her as much as i do. everything here feels so transient and like a training arc for when i really get to equestria. so why would i ever want to kick down the ladder for other people?
>>43349320My first ever favorite pony was and my waifu is Luna!
>>43349325>they have such a different conception of herIf I may ask, who is she?
>>43349320>Has your favorite pony changed as time went by? Have you considered your previous pony to be your waifu? Is she still?Well I started with picking my favorite pony among M6 (for obvious reasons), but later shifted to my mare of choice after liking her background appearancesseparately "waifu"d Lyra because of muh interspecies smut, but I'd really call it a proper waifuingt. OP of >>43340025
>>43349346
>>43349368Interestingwhat do you think Twilight *is* like? IMO her "true" character is defined by her soapboxing in Feeling Pinkie Keen
>>43349371i think i misspoke a little and may have suggested that i had a particularly unique view on her. i don't really, i just really, really like the S1 Student Unicorn Librarian Twilight Sparkle Extraordinaire.>>40211800>>41810137>>42050440these threads generally sort of delve into the stuff i admire about her, i think. she's very close to my heart, such that i can't really engage with a lot of the fandom since i have absolutely 0 interest in a lot of the post S1/S2 stuff i see. it might just be my personal experience, but most of the people i try to talk about ponypony with never seem to grasp that, and act as if posting enough twilicorn or rambling about enough S7 lore or whatever will spark some sort of interest in me. bweh!
>>43349382>and act as if posting enough twilicorn or rambling about enough S7 lore or whatever will spark some sort of interest in metbf there are someponies in late seasons that might are pretty darn interesting
>>43349392oh yeah, EVERYONE loves the kirin lol. i tried checking out the episodes that introduced other hotshot characters too - maud and the likes. honestly, i think i lucked out being a twifag of this sort. pinkie and flutterfags got it BAD
>>43349402>flutterfags got it BADThey don't even have their own general anymore, and it had more discussion than the Rarity thread!
>>43349409>They don't even have their own general anymoredesu they were just too weak to stand the >hello, Miss Discordbaitseriously, was it THAT difficult to counter-troll with Rakan or whatever?
>>43349412>Implying anyone can counter-troll RakanHe's simply too powerful.
>>43349417damn rightthat's they should've used him against the Discordposter, can't really defeat the Head of ISIS with a fucking Instant Messenger
>>43349422>that's theythat's why they
Tired of being in constant pain. Never thought this would be what my life would be like as an adult. And all because I had the audacity to try to turn my life around. I give it less than 6 months and then I'm applying for euthanasia. I'd say it's been fun, but it really, REALLY hasn't.
>>43349449im the tiny tick thats biting yo ass giving you constant pain
>>43349449Hope things get better.
Rainbow Dash has the best fanmade music of all the Mane 6 and it's not even close.
>>43349668What would fan music made by Dashie sound like?
>>43349676Basically any Garageband song you've ever heard, just mashing together the premade samples to make a song.
>>43349668Applejack wins out if you like country...
>>43349717I wish I could eat glue and crayons with my moonwife...
>>43349455I wonder, how does she finger notes?
>>43349449I've wanted to check out many times over the years, but I've come to the conclusion that killing myself is basically retarded. I could die in a car accident or get diagnosed with terminal cancer tomorrow. Life is short enough as it is, anon. You might as well just stick around and see what happens. Sometimes when you think your life is falling apart, it's actually falling into place.
Tried drawing mare sex for the first time. This shit is stressful, man
>>43349320Nope, Dash has been my favorite since the first g4 related media I ever consumed. She was favorite, then she was best, then she was waifu, then she was tulpa, then she was the pony expression of the self-evident beauty of life. >>43345320>>43349325You're the same as me; only I don't have the same gnostic worldview. The world is what brings us Equestria.>>43350112Ponies use the hard edge of their hooves like slides and play a lot of open tunings with minimal chordage. >>43350420Only stressful when you are thinking in terms of just one project. If it's not perfect that's it. But in reality you have a lifetime to work towards perfection.
>>43350363>You might as well just stick around and see what happens.You wouldn't be saying that when you can't even sit in a fucking chair because of the pain. I spend most of my time in bed now because literally standing or sitting down hurts too much. No, enough is enough. If this doesn't change I'm out of here.
>>43350436I do know how that feels. I’ve been dealing with undiagnosable chronic pain for the past few years and so far no treatment has been able to help very much. Regardless, I know that eventually something has to work. Statistically, something has to. I WILL get my life back or I will die trying. What’s the alternative? Why check out when there’s still a decent chance that you could succeed? What if you could have gotten better and you killed yourself for nothing? My pain may not have improved, but my life has improved in other ways I couldn’t even imagine. I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that both of us could be healed.
what are the odds of G^ using a BG pony of G4 for its variant of M6?Derpy is pretty popular for something like that
>>43350941Low.
>>43349409I didn't even see that /shy/ is dead.That's kind of sad.
>>43344146no
Actually made progress with the tulpa stuff but got so spooked I mentally shut down... The brain is a scary place
stop summoning demonseven if they look and act like cute ponies
>>43351183But I love her!
>>43349412they're not built for confrontation like that. they're too shy
>>43351369>tfw no dashfags protecting /shy/ from spam using retarded counter-shitposting>tfw no meta M6 LARP with M6 generals>tfw no face
Rakan should make the next Fluttershy gen thread, plain and simple.
>>43344146if you are reading this then you are gay for braeburn
>hey let's see what Rakan is do-https://youtu.be/T85c9DA87p4
>>43351452Oh no
>>43351439Nuh uh. We'd be cool buddies because he's a cool pony.
>>43349402Elaborate anon
>>43349668WHEN YOU'RE FLYIN UP THEREIN THE SKYRISING HIGHEVERY HUEITS LIKE A DREAMOUT OF THIS WORLDINTO A NEWWHEN YOU'RE SOARING UP THERE IN THE SKYSPREAD YOUR WINGSAND YOU WILL SEETHE CIRRUS SWIRL SHIMMERING DOWN BELOWAND RECOGNIZE THE GLOW OF A DOUBLE RAINBOOM
>Started watching during the golden era, 2011-2013>Loved the amazing art, memes, and music the fandom made>Was too young to go to cons or meetups>Lost interest around 2014>Recently started playing EAW and remembered how much I loved MLP>All the good memories came rushing back>Thought about maybe going to attend a con for the hell of it since there are a few in my region>Realize how dead the fandom is and how it's probably not worth my time>Besides, I don't have anyone to go with and I don't even know where bronies talk to each other these days besides here>Still have some sliver of hope that G6 will revive the fandom and I'll get to relive the glory days, but realistically I know it will probably be slop>Honestly have no idea why the fuck I'm even typing this right now(originally meant to post in this thread mods pls do not ban)
>>43352288It's nice to see you around lad, even if it's in the afterparty.
>>43351172What spooked you? I will guess two possibilities:1) imagination acting creatively on its own (in other words, just spooked by the power of your own natural creativity in itself)2) imagination acting on its own in an intrusive/unwanted way (spooked by the specific content of your natural creativity)Hang-up 1 is a cultural artifact. Modern culture rejects the imagination to the point of taboo, but it's very real, and it's a means of sensation, not just the tame little plaything we are taught to minimize it into. Before the modern materialist age, the vividness and power of imagination was simply a basic sensation of reality, and we experienced the world in terms of spirits and such things - the psyche's capacity to generate these experiences completely 'autonomously' never went away, we have just learned to ignore it. This hang-up is just something you'll work out with time, because the spontaneous nature of our creative capacity is fact; look to anthropology of primitive people, and to studies of imaginative/spiritual people of modern times, to get a perspective outside of the materialist cultural bias.Hang-up 2 is something of a skill issue. The spontaneous creative capacity of the mind does not naturally accede to the ego's boundaries, and it will create repulsive or painful images just as much as it creates joyous and transformatively beautiful ones. On one hand, your response to these images is under your control. On the other, you also have as much control over the outflow of imagination as you care to exert - this is why you happened to end up spooking yourself here, because you are learning to open that door (the one that our culture closed for us), in the process of learning to control it with precision. You (ego) control that outflow by giving it a form, or a frame of expectation. In tulpamancy, this is the tulpa's form+personality, their characteristics. In contrast, there are two kinds of undefined characteristic: blanks which you Expect to be filled, blanks with potential energy; and blanks which you simply aren't aware of or don't care about. Your tulpa's personality is the frame, your expectation for experience creates the 'space' or 'vacuum' inside the frame that pulls in spontaneous creativity, and spontaneous creative capacity fills it with life. Intrusive thoughts then are a result of a too-loose frame that you should tighten down on. Don't worry too much about the content of the intrusive thought, it is a distraction, just gently re-focus on what you were doing. That's all it takes.
>>43352288come to mare fair, or if you can't, make sure to visit all the /mlp/ online events like /mlp/con and the rewatch (esp. anniversary season coming up on 10/10)you will see there's still real spirit here
I think Rarity enjoys Red velvet cake on her birthday, and Fluttershy enjoys vanilla cake with strawberry on her birthday
>>43352314Applejack also enjoys vanilla cake with strawberries on her birthday, though she usually doesn't have that at her parties.
>>43351704replies to my post inferred it correctly. flutterfags have to deal with discord, pinkie fags got cheese pie or whatever. always forget his name. it'd probably be interesting to read up on their opinions regarding this, i never actually visit /shy/ or /pnk/ all that oftenmeanwhile, i'm pretty happy with twi. i don't know who flash sentry is + it never panned out + it was with alicorn twi, someone who i view as a different character entirely and haven't really let into my heart. the worst i really get is rolling my eyes at the jokes regarding her being a pedophile but that's all in good fun. i only get mildly annoyed seeing the wings on her but you can just shift+click threads and hide posts and use filters on boorus. and then you're goldenbtw i jerk off with both hands
>>43344146...
>>43344146not writing whats on my mind
>>43352348But... but...
I can't stop thinking of the Friendship Map leading the M6 to GTA5 and Twilight fixing Michael And Trevor's friendship and like Trevor bro-ing out with Applejack for Honestly and Rainbow for Loyalty and its just so funny in my head I can't stop thinking about GTA 5 and pony crossover crap, for like 2 weeks now it's been just eating every spare moment of daydreaming, I feel stupid I'm stuck in 2013 or some stupid bullcrap aHHHHHHhHHHHzhzhzh
https://youtu.be/MlAepTN_08k?si=E5WTyxz31i_idqUa&t=1120In the timestamped Youtube link, there is a musical motif of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' comp. Richard Strauss (https://youtu.be/IFPwm0e_K98?si=4t8IUicB-0UCHlGP). The song's namesake, the novel 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', written by Nietzsche, talks of the will to power, criticises religion, and the overman. Nietzsche's criticism of religion in this book states that religious morality, like Christianity, stagnates society, and holds humanity back from the potential to become the overman. Furthermore; in his wider work, he criticised Christianity as being a slave morality because it promotes qualities like meekness,humility, and empathy, as oppose to a morality based on the seeking of power, which would allow a human to reach its truest potential. He argues that ethics should be circumstantial, based off a person's own needs, goals, and power. Essentially, he absolute moral principles will only lead to a stagnation in power, and society by opposing rigid rules, so there must be a reevaluation of values, so humanity can replace religious morality with life-affirming values. The song itself uses rising notes, and feels powerful. Rising notes in this context can symbolise the overcoming of one's own mentality, morality, and overcoming oneself. This song was also featured in '2001: A Space Oddity' dir. Kubrick, which shares themes seen in Nietzsche's work. The song plays when a being, or a being related to man, has evolved to the next step of evolution, and risen completely beyond what it once was, reaching new heights (When apes discover technology and thus the means to kill, dominate, and evolve; And when Bowman evolves into a starchild-Overman). Quote, "Man is a rope, stretched between the animal and the Overman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting." This quote from Nietzsche holds much of the film's essence. So, I ask in earnest, what was 'My Little Pony', or the producers of the show, trying to comment about on Nietzschian philosophy in this scene, or the wider episode? What were they trying to convey, what message were they trying to tell us when they did this? I am genuinely at a loss as to what this could mean. Were they critiquing Nietzsche's philosophy, or reaffirming it?
>>43349402>>43349409>>43349412The loss in popularity over the years has really it Flutterfags and Ponkfags the worst. This was just being talked about in the aj general the other week. Flutters and Pinkie peaked super early in the shows lifetime, and have basically only had down to go ever since.
>>43353274>flutter/pinkiefags are more likely to be FOTM touristskek?
>talking about dead imagebump generals
>>43353181>and the overman>
>>43353181The schtick with the man as a precarious intermediary between an animal (sometimes clay) and something cooler date back at least to Plato (more likely to Pythagoras, and there's also an argument to be made that it's neurally hardwired). Orthodoxally, morals are attributed to the latter, cooler, side. Nietzsche's exploratory subversion as you describe it (I don't remember his writings well enough to tell if you misrepresent them) is clearly a derivative of the earlier branches of Christianity that sought salvation through sin (yes, yes, I know it's bullshit, but it would be boring if at least some of them weren't about as full of shit as slanderous mainline heresiologists). Therefore, Rarity's original design symbolizes sacred mathematicals, slithering rulefaggotry of M5's interpretations is the body of Yaldabaoth, and your timestamp shows us what uncreated light looks like (it's purple).
>>43353181But yes, Rarity overcame the cuckoldry of being bound by the Mane 6's restrictions and became an absolute Übermare after disregarding their nonsense and only focussing on her own superior taste in couture.
>>43353289I had meant to have typed "...talks of the will to power, the overman, and criticises religion"
I just want us all to make it. I really do.
>>43352318Applejack is a FRAUD! and a FILTHY FUCKING STRAWBERRY ENJOYER!!!!
>>43353279you're really gonna diss my bois flutter/pinkiefags like that
>>43353181>>43353293You're going deeper than necessary. Firstly, fashion shows are marketing. The musical motif from the original symphony is an intentional evocation of that same image >The song plays when a being, or a being related to man, has evolved to the next step of evolution, and risen completely beyond what it once was, reaching new heights...for the purpose of marketing. The idea is that it's playing in-world, since this is what fashion shows do, and Rarity picked this song and motif to market to Hoity Toity that her brand is transcendental. All this says about Nietzsche's philosophy (that is, all the music and its usage says) is that it's emotively powerful and transcendental, revelatory. This isn't a progression or a critique of it, just an echo. And the fact it's revelatory or transcendental doesn't mean it's good or healthy, for that matter.
>>43353181>>43353965
>>43353941
>>43352288>Going to conventionsYikes
I'm too hungry to sleep and too tired to eat...
>>43354455it's time to get up and have a little snack anon. your body can handle waking up for 15 minutes, being half-awake all night hurts it worse.
>>43344146Everyone for some reason thinks I'm autistic, so I guess I'm just like my favourite mare Twilight
>>43354627>you make it to equestria and twilight's just slightly more autistic than you are so you have the inexplicable need to hate her
I want to love and cherish and marry all the mares all the time. I think I might have a problem
>>43354778Well anon, it's okay to feel that way but they may not feel that way about you!
I AM THE ONE WHO POSTS MARES
>>43345320It won't matter, because if I can go to Equestria after I die, I don't think it'd be that hard for whatever cosmic deity that sent me there to send me to my very own Equestria. Without any other Anons. That share my waifu, at the very least.
Wow, he drew best filly!
>>43354791I know that they don’t feel that way about me. Or existThat just makes me feel worse.
>>43354810>Without any other Anonsdesu I wouldn't mind having my friends in Equestriawould be difficult to hang around with people like Josh, though
>>43354895Does that mean we are friends?
>>43354899maybewhat's you favorite pony?
>>43354906
>>43354908Wow that's very lazy cosplay. She should've put more work into it.
>>43354901>what's you favorite pony?What my favorite pony is is a pony.
What sort of thread should I make?
>>43354914gay
>>43354901Nightmare Moon
>>43354895>Anon and his friends in Equestria
>>43355015based
