So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (September 20th, 2018) today, you know what that means...
It's time for the Weekly Fanfic Recommendation LINK-SWAP Game thread to continue!
Anyways, THE RULES (read 'em carefully):
Post a link to a fanfiction you like (can be your own as well - it's okay to self-promote), with or without a short blurb.
Important: Reply to someone else's post with a link to a fanfiction you think they might like, based on their choices.
Put each of your choices in a separate post if you want to make sure to get a recommendation based on each one. You may reply to someone else's reply, either to you or to someone else. Please make long discussion threads, they introduce a healthy bit of exploration and can help us find new interests! And that's it!
PLEASE COMPLETE BOTH STEPS 1 and 2. Don't just show up and ask for recommendations if you're not willing to provide any. I'll start the first few threads myself, and reply with a gentle reminder if you forget.
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.
Ready? Set? LET"S GO! Also, feel free to self-promote in here!
There are always things about the show I want to talk about, but I'd rather not always dedicate an entire full blown thread to it or it's never the right time to mention because no one would care. Maybe it's a thought that could be answered quickly enough to end discussion or something insignificant and stupid brewing in the back of your head for awhile! Anything you want to throw out to r/mylittlepony and say your piece!
Is there anything you've wanted to mention lately but never got around to it? Anything you want to speak up about for a bit? Any pony topic at all?
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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've taken to noticing that at times people seem to misunderstand the purpose or personality of a character here or there and will often find such characters either lackluster or just find themselves not liking a character for one reason or another. In this thread I would like to see a discussion where we each defend a character that y'all think is either misunderstood by the fandom at large or just wish to correct a perception.
In my case I would like to take this chance to defend King Sombra, the show version of him at least. King Sombra is often seen as a bit of a nothing character. Just some looming threat that had no real personality or threat to the main heroes. I would like to make the defense that we learn quite a bit about the Tyrannical Unicorn(Umbrum Pony) King in the background details of his two parter. When we first learn about him we are told that it took both Princess Luna and Celestia along with the Elements of Harmony to defeat him and despite this he managed to take his Empire with him in his banishment. We next see him find Shining Armor and the Mane 6, who didn't have the Elements with them for some reason I still don't quite understand, and after a chase lose them briefly.
King Sombra has yet to fully reform at this time mind. We learn that he has been singing the Crystal Empire for weeks now and that Princess Cadence and Shining Armor are dead exhausted with the effort of keeping him out and task Twilight and Friends to find some way to defeat him. They go around asking his former subjects what they know and they cannot speak of him, out of terror or a curse, only regaining hope when Twilight discovers the mention of a Crystal Fair and the Crystal Heart. To make a long story short, Sombra destroyed evidence of the Crystal Heart from the history pages and hid it away only accessible to those with himself keyed to Dark Magic, which Princess Celestia briefly taught Twilight. Not content with this he placed the Crystal Heart atop a long spire up two LONG chains of circular stairs and trapped the Crystal Heart behind a door that forces one to see and face their darkest fear, paralyzing the exhausted pony that made it that far. Through luck, Spike, Twilight managed to break the door's curse and almost grabbed the Heart when Cadence collapsed allowing King Sombra to surge forth into the Empire, his very presence corrupting the landscape and turning the skies a hellish orange. Twilight seeing this grabbed at heart only to be trapped in it's security system that blocked her magic and teleportation capabilities.
All would have been lost if not for this one THROWING his exhausted wife at Spike and the Crystal Heart that were plummeting towards the ground, King Sombra forcing a gigantic spire of Crystal out of the ground towards the falling drake and in these last moments FINALLY regained his physical form only for victory to be plucked from his hooves by a flying pretty pink princess being tossed off a balcony by her husband.
So what can we learn from this? King Sombra was immensely powerful, planned well ahead, cruel, devious, intelligent, and yet pragmatic. He did not kill the only pony that could have helped the heroes with the information on the Crystal Heart, the librarian of the archives, he also did not or could not destroy the Crystal Heart suggesting that he saw it as a weapon and or trophy. King Sombra was far from lacking a personality, just a voice to put words to him.
What do the rest of y'all think? Did I make any decent points? Do y'all have any characters that you'd like to defend in a similar way? Let us see in the discussion below.
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It had to happen someday, we're finally catching up on comics! we finally released Main Series #54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69 and 70 in our traditional formats (EPUB, PDF, CBZ)
We will post other series later during the following days!
Here come Tom the mirror list!
And if it fail, here some mirror we doesn't update ourselves (so it could be outdated!)
http://yp.twilightsparkle.xyz/
(Yes, that a lot of mirrors)
YayPonies
I was rewatching Fame and Misfortune the other day and the song 'Flawless' got me to thinking about how the shows ideas of the Mane 6's flaws and the fandoms idea don't always match up. For that matter, the idea of which characters are even flawed seems to vary from fan to fan, as there are many bronies that have their favorite and take their imperfections as part of what makes those characters 'flawless' and lovable to begin with.
So then this is very much a question of personal interpretation, but to you what would a 'Flawless' Mane 6 look like?
Hi there! It's Thursday again and that means another chance to talk about what's been happening around here and how you feel about it!
Same as every other time, feel free to discuss whatever it is you'd like regarding our little subreddit good or bad. If you're unhappy we'll try our best to fix whatever problem you're having!
If you want to talk about the MLP fandom in general, that's fine too!
But some people may not want to talk about comics or anything else that hasn't happened yet, so you should be nice and hide those conversations from those people by using the spoiler tag.
If you don't know how it's as easy as making an emote:
[It has ponies!](/spoiler)
Becomes: It has ponies!
And if you're not wanting to discuss the subreddit or community specifically you can also check out the weekly off-topic thread that will be up at noon Pacific time!!!!
