Hello and again welcome to your weekly dose of 'I really don't know what I'm doing with the alt text of the starting emotes to this post anymore': 'This Week on the Plounge' wherein I inform you, the fine folks of the mane sub, what's been going on at your favourite sister subreddit, the Plounge, this past week.
Wait, what is this Plounge you speak of?
The Plounge, or more formally the MLP Lounge is /r/mylittlepony's sister subreddit. Designed to be a place where you can free of the tyranny of rules 3 and 4. A chill place for bronies or anyone to talk in a SFW chat centric environment. It can be found over at /r/MLPLounge. (most of us browse by /new though). Oh and BPM is nice to have. Even if you're allergic to using emotes yourself you'll miss a lot of extra context without it.
What some casual conversation with a sprinkling of ponies? Come over to this introductions thread and meet some people. Don't worry there's also a topic so it ain't just "hi!" "hi" awkward silence.
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america changes the clocks on march 11, we europeans change it on march 25.
that means ponies will air an hour earlier than usual.
don't miss the mlp premiere.
have a countdown: https://ponyclock.com
This is the thread for discussing anything pertaining to Fanfiction in general. Like your ideas, thoughts, what you're reading, etc. This differs from my Fanfic Recommendation Link-Swap Thread, as that focuses primarily on recommendations. That will be posted in a few hours.
Although, if you like, you can talk about fics you don't necessarily recommend but found entertaining.
IMPORTANT NOTE. Thanks to /u/BookHorseBot (many thanks to their creator, /u/BitzLeon), you can now use the aforementioned bot to easily post the name, description, views, rating, tags, and a bunch of other information about a fic hosted on Fimfiction.net. All you need to do is include "{NAME OF STORY}" in your comment (without quotes), and the bot will look up the story and respond to your comment with the info. It makes sharing stories really convenient. You can even lookup multiple stories at once.
I'm an informatics media student currently doing a study on autistic peoples media preferences. Thus I have a few questions which I would appreciate greatly if you guys where willing to take the time to answer.
The questions:
-What drew you to the Brony community?
-What do you enjoy about the community?
-What did you appreciate about the show?
-Who is your favorite character and why?
-What character do you relate to the most and why?
-What character do you dislike the most and why?
-Do you find it easy to relate to other people in real life?
-Have you ever found it easier to connect to simple character archetypes instead of real people?
-Did you ever experience that the series gave you a break from the real world? If yes why did you feel the need to take that break.
-Where were you emotionally when you where the most invested in the series and fandom?
-Would you consider a big part of the Brony community autistic?
DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to insult anyone here with this study. I'm on the spectrum myself and used to be a Brony too, sadly I fell out with the series after s3 but I still have alot of respect for the show. My goal, is to get deeper into what autistic people look for in media and find the more varied and unique opinions and perhaps show people that autist don't all function the same. I choose to ask you guys because outsiders and some insiders frequently claim that most bronies are autistic.
As a community, especially those of us who read the fanfiction or the Fanart and whatnot, all have our favorite relationships to pair our favorite characters together in. However every so often one stumble upon either exceptionally rare or bizarre ships that intrigue you. With with in mind what are some such that you have encountered and what did you think about them?
I believe that two of the most bizzare and out there ships I have seen would be King Sombra X Gilda and Trixie X Cheese Cake. I have no explanation for either of them except while the latter was humorous, I think I'll share the fic where the thing occurs in the fanfic recommendation thread later on, the former I've seen once and to this day I cannot figure out just what inspired it.
