bootleg ponies need some attention too.
Every pony thread deserves a reply!
She's doing her best. She deserves love!
>>43541524She's cute, she needs upsies.
>>43541524Are...are we back?
>>43541524I don't like seeing cute characters depressed :(
>>43541524I'm a newfag. Can someone explain to me what the bootleg pony threads were about?
I’ve always had a soft spot for this one.
>>43542609tl;dr, China and other third-world countries make cheap knockoffs of pony toys that resemble Hasbro's designs as closely as possible without violating copyrights. They're usually sold in the toy sections at gas stations, drug stores, etc next to the knockoff barbie dolls and off-brand lego-style blocks. It's the kind of stuff that you see for sale and wonder who actually buys it, or if anyone does. The thread concept is that these ponies just want to be taken home and loved like any other pony does.
dining
I never knew much about the bootleg ponies beyond Rare. It was all just one of those things that was happening in the background to me, but I'd like to know more. Besides the aforementioned story, what are some other key bootleg pony stuff?
>>43541524a friend is a friend
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>>43543261Not the other anons who posted so far, but I'm personally not sure myself. I only ever read that one.https://desuarchive.org/mlp/search/subject/%2Fbootleg%2F%20waifu/I should give the others a read some time.
>Everything /bootleg/>The FULL archive; pictures and many more shorts & stories go here https://ponepaste.org/5786Though this is years out of date.
Aw, that’s sweet.
Bootleg ponies are the true test of a man. Do you actually want to love the small horses, or do you just like to jack off to you are “waifu”?
>”Hello, human! I am quality pony of great significance. It is please to meet you!”>Oh.>This is not it.>This is NOT it…>Your excitement over finally having a pony to call your own is slowly crushed as what peeks its elongated head out of the cardboard box looks less like a pony and more like an oversized door snake given legs.>You had already lowered your expectations when you decided to cheap out and buy it second-hand, but this is outrageous.>The color on the fabric is already washed out, the mane is nothing more than five thin strands coming out of the back of its neck, and you swear the only thing keeping all that stitchwork together is a prayer.>Not to mention, this looks nothing like a pony.>You harken back to your last few days of happiness before this crushing blow.>Ever since you ordered it, you couldn’t stop gawking at the pictures of the alleged product.>Now, you face reality, comparing it to the images that are burnt into your mind.>It’s all wrong.>This sucks.>You’re so caught up in thinking of if and how you can return this thing that you don’t notice it leaning towards you.>It tips over its box and flops on the ground like a sack of flour.>The snake-pony lays there for a moment before letting out what you can only assume is a laugh.>”Weehhehhehhehh… By accident, this is a silly! Human, I spilled over!”>It rolls over on its back and extends its forelegs at you.>”Hold the one above!”>You guess that’s Bootleggish for “Pick me up.”>It keeps its hooves outstretched, looking up expectantly at you.>Taking this in… It’s a cheap bastardization of your waifu, but you can’t help but find it a little cute. >The least you can do is put it back in its box before you send it home to...>You look over the side of the box.>”From Hongu Kongu.”>Is that written in sharpie?>Anyways.>Looks like the brontopony stills insists on its request>You kneel down to pick it up and you have to double-take your senses when you raise it.>Holding it actually feels kind of nice.>You can feel stuffing beads inside giving it weight, and the fabric isn’t the smoothest, but it’s a lot softer than it looks.>It’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s charmingly rustic.>Huh.>”Immaculate choking!”>What?>As you try to figure out what gutting of the English language that sentence makes sense in, the longpony extends its neck towards you and nuzzles your cheek.>”Immaculate choking!”>Ahh…>Immaculate choking.>Of course.
>>43546467>You hope you interpreted those words correctly as you bring the longpony closer for a hug.>It responds by doing that maybe laugh again and wrapping its legs around you.>Not just its legs, but it also wraps its neck around yours like a neck pillow.>It’s quite snuggly.>You don’t hate this.>It squeezes around you a little tighter.>You respond with the same.>You close your eyes.>You realize now you are nowhere near as upset as you were just moments ago.>It’s far from what you were hoping for, but…>”Has a feeling so complicated.”>Alright, now what could THIS mean?>You take a guess.“Yeah, it does feel nice.”>It starts squirming in your grasp.>”There is an error! The joints are undone!”>It only now hits you that what you’re choking- or rather- hugging is starting to feel ever so thinner.>Oh shit.>You open your eyes and quickly pull the fakie away from you.>That only opens up the tear on its belly even more.>You watch in horror as even more beads spill to the floor.>OH SHIT.>DAMN THIS CHEAP-ASS STITCHWORK.>You pull her closer to your body again, this time in an underhand carry to keep her belly up.>The poor thing you just tore open looks down at the gash, then back up to you.>A mixture of fear and confusion in its printed eyes.>You look around your living room, hoping you had simply forgotten that you had sewing supplies at the ready.>For your dismay, you did not just suddenly pick up sewing and conveniently forgot about it.>Maybe you prefer sewing in the kitchen.>But no matter how much hope you have, you could not order sewing supplies in the time it took you to get to the kitchen.>You can feel the longpony try to wrap itself around your arm.>That makes it a little harder to keep more beads from spilling.>MORE HOPE.>Maybe you STORE sewing supplies in the kitchen.>Obviously.>One by one, you open up the cabinets>Cutlery.>Nope>Dish towels.>Nope.>Duct tape.>Nope.>Bleach.>Wait.>DUCT TAPE.>You retrieve your barely-used roll of Flex-Tape.>You can’t bring yourself to try and pull the longpony off the grip it has on your arm right now for fear of having only half a pony instead.>Your mouth works just fine for pulling out and cutting a piece of tape, though.>Concentrating on closing the tear has you realizing just how fast your heart is beating right now.>Carefully, you spread the tape over the gash.>And just as advertised, Flex-Tape fixes all damage.>You silently thank your past self for buying into that stupid meme so long ago.>You also make a mental note to some buy sewing supplies because that is NOT going to hold for long.>But she doesn’t need to know that right now.
>>43546470“There. All better now.”>She looks down at the literal band-aid solution keeping her guts from spilling out and smiles once more.>She extends her neck to nuzzle you on the cheek.>”Wehhehhehhehh… Thank you for caring, Human.”>Hey, that was actually a cohesive sentence.>”We provide festivities on occasion! Let’s festivities!”>Ah, there it is again.>Festivities…>Oh yeah, this was supposed to be Pinkie Pie.>More like a…>A Ponka Pie? Ponka Pee? Perky Pup? Panka Po?>Panka Po.>Sweet little Panka Po.>Panka Po climbs up your torso to wrap around your neck again.>”Let’s festivities, human!”>You consider her request for throwing a festivities for a moment until you look down at all the stuffing beads on the floor trailing from the living room to the kitchen.“Maybe later, Panka. I’m gonna sweep these up first.”>”Question?”>Uh…“Oh, I decided to call you Panka Po. Is that cool?”>”Winter is friendly. Thank you for name, human.”>She nuzzles your cheek again as you head back to the living room.>You try to set her on the couch so you can go get the broom, but she insists on immaculate choking you.>She’s not too heavy, so sweeping up the beads with her on you is not too bad.>Eventually, all the gathering of tiny little beads combined with the scare from earlier leaves you pooped.>You just plop down on the couch as soon as you think you’re done with sweeping.>Ponka has yet to let go of you.>”Conditioner for festivities?”“Sorry, but I’m kind of tired right now. Aren’t you?”>She started off to the side for a moment.>”Immaculate choking?”>You nod.>”Sure.”>You lean back on the couch.>As you do, Panka uncoils around your neck and lays on the couch with you. Head on your lap, immaculate choking your stomach.>You take the opportunity to stroke her mane as you doze off.>Those five, crappy little strands passing off as a mane.>You think back to earlier today.>How badly you wanted it to be something else to come out of that box.>But instead, you got her.>She doesn’t look like what you wanted.>She doesn’t feel like what you wanted.>She doesn’t even talk like what you wanted.>She is something special.>Something unique from all others.>Something more significant than the expected outcome.>You may have been swindled from the real deal, but now?>Now you couldn’t care less for the genuine article.>So hey.>This ain’t so bad.>This ain’t so bad…(The End)
>>43546467>"Immaculate choking?""Not yet.">"Question?""Making eggs.">...>"Immaculate choking?""Nope.">"Question?""Still making eggs.">...>"Immaculate choking?">>43544334Newfag here just now learning of /bootleg/. I love these.
>>43546472>Immaculate chokingBootlegs not knowing how to talk properly is always kino
Considering that "Luna" is already the spanish word for moon I kinda want to write a green about a mexican Luna bootleg that is also called Luna. Perhaps her sister could be called Día (Spanish word for "day")
>"Hear me, Aquaria! For I. am. Rare!">>43547641If the idea's hot in your head then just go for it. There's never enough greens around.>You knew exactly what you were getting into when nabbing a pony off such a bargain.>You can tell just from the price alone that this is most definitely one of those Chinese knock-offs you've been hearing so much about.>Among many other complaints; a big one for you is the fact that these things only knew either broken Engrish or didn't even try and just insisted on speaking Chinese.>Makes holding a proper conversation with them nigh on impossible, which is half the reason you wanted one in the first place.>You're ready, though.>Five years of studying Cantonese ensured that whatever comes out of that package, at the very least, will be a passable discussion pony you didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for.>Finally you'll fulfill your dreams of high-brow, intellectual talks with a pony.>You're unable to wipe the stupid grin off youe face as Luna steps out of her box.>You wave to her.>Here it comes...>"Saludos, mortal. ¿Te importaría decirme dónde guardas las piñas?">OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
>>43547758Kek
Midnighthttps://ponepaste.org/5610
>>43547758kekOn the upside, probably much easier to learn beaner since it's got close enough ties with english to pick up a chunk of the words.
>>43546472Cute story, plushies getting injured hits hard but glad she's mostly okay.
>>43542707I've always wanted to hunt down the manufacturer and get them to use this mold to create a bunch of recolors, or an anonfilly run.
>>43543469rare is making me SOB.
>>43550013sobbing on my cock you gay homo
>>43544334Lovely. Always loved the bootleg ponies.
>>43541524She deserves a reply and a hug.
Bump
>>43541524cute
Which bootleg pony do (You) like the most?
>>43547641you could alternatively put a russian spin on her by calling her Yelena, or the even shorter version, Lena.don't forget the obligatory CHEEKI BREEKI and SUKA.
>>43552723Honestly, Blondie's Prism. I don't know what gives her so much staying power in my heart.
>>43541524Is she an electrician?
>>43552977sure, why not
>>43552977She only knows how to work with Chinese grids and standards.
Bumpa
>pg 8
>>43554654Midnight's so pretty for an abomination.
My beloved home thread.
>>43552850Really? I don't recall anyone ever mentioning her like that. What stands out the most? She ended up isolating herself hard for a while once she learned she wasn't the de facto leader anymore. I'm still massively bothered I don't have a plush of her yet but things have been too extreme for me to spend that money. They need to be together.
Finally at my desk to read through more of the thread.>>43552186Two ways to get into Jacky since it is a long story and I've heard that some prefer reading Angel Cake's Quest first.>>43543261There's the stuff I've done which includes Jacky, Angel Cake, Twilit Starsky, Flutterlime, Princess, Missy Pie and more. There's Midnight, Patches, Radio, Tinny, Rosie Rock, Easel. There's a lot! The thing is that when NHNB popped up and the board got to be too active for the thread to handle, we more or less made NHNB home. Everything there has up to date links but it also has been a while sadly. A lot of /bootleg/ writers more or less finished or things came up and they were unable focus on their stories.https://nhnb.org/fim/res/17307.html#q17307If there are any questions, more than happy to point (You) in the right direction.>>43544947I love my mares. Not just the petty losers and lazy layabouts but the ones that have experienced far more trials than success. I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for /bootleg/. It may not have been the most popular thread but the amount of content it made by so few is beyond exceptional.
>>43541524
>>43555365Again, I don't know. I generally like characters who give their all in bad situations (and get genuinely confused when things improve) as much as the next guy, but it doesn't seem to cover it. All the tension in her story and its, relatively high incompleteness? Does it make sense? add to the mix, but there's plenty of tense and open-ended stories out there. No idea. Sorry for this non-feedback.>I don't recall anyone ever mentioning her like that.Only getting it off my chest years later is fitting, isn't it.
>>43555858>high incompletenessNo, I understand. She was so happy even if she was destroying every chance at happiness that didn't involve her. Now that things are good and she's the last one to rejoin... she has no purpose. She couldn't get Jacky to sneak away. She has no clue of where to go. Doing things her way led to the worst possible outcome. There isn't a lot of closure for someone like her. She's still Jacky's sister. She'll always be there. There's just that bitterness that comes from her learning that she isn't quite needed anymore.If you were to ever ask me, I'd say that for Jacky, her new life is heaven. For Shiner, her new life is purgatory in that she had to really, truly try to make it good. For Prism? It's hell. It's not fire and pitchforks. It's seeing that she's the least useful and that she really had no way to reclaim any of what once was. It's not up to me to say whether or not she deserves it.But I still love her. I hope she found her place in this new world and her new life. No matter what, she will always be there for Jacky. Maybe that can be enough.
>>43542609To me, the /bootleg/ pony threads were about misfits and mistakes. Mares and ponies that did not fit in with others or had some fault. Some have passing resemblances to familiar faces. Some don't resemble anyone. They're just there.During the great revive of 2019 to ~2024, most of the greens and art focused on imperfect ponies dealing with their lives. Sometimes with the help of an Anon. There was a large focus on emotional depth and discovery above all else. No easy cheesecake, no coomers. Lot of heavy feels and good times even during the worst of times.The great irony is that a ton of /bootleg/ mares would fit right at home with /neet/ because most of them didn't have jobs. Some got one, eventually. Many never worked at all. I don't know how well /neet/ would welcome them since they don't have the same aesthetic.
Bup
>>43552775>Hear rustling in the kitchen>Plate clatters>A paper towel roll is now in view as it continues to roll>quiet "blyat"
>>43549249How hard would that be to do? /mppp/ can make a model out of nothing. We already have a base picture.
>>43546482What is he wearing?
A classic
>>43557616F-Five bear! AUH! Sour Apple Kirin! Inverted kid! Magnium Mind!
>>43541524they're pretty cute
>>43558392I am going to sex the one on the right. Mane will go from white streaks to all white.
>>43542553We could be.
>>43559298Might not be
>>43558392Filly Funtasia!
>>43560382
>>43561003
>>43560382I love this album
>>43558386KEK
>>43562229>>43560382https://youtu.be/6jLZCH4YJBAAwye
>>43562790>>43564482Hurts.
>>43565550It's ok. I think she got what she wanted.
Even if /bootleg/ enters hibernation again, their stories will not be forgotten. These mares will be remembered.
>>43550647>>43562218Precious.She deserves all the comfort and happiness one can give.
