I'm probably overthinking, or there's a community-based ship I don't know about, and this might confirm it, but I was watching S8E12, and at the beggining, where Fluttershy and Discord are having a tea party, I noticed the Fluttershy/Discord pillow, and the Discord pillow. To me, that seems a bit over-the-top for just a tea party. I know, they're friends, as the show tells it, but it seems like there's more to them than just friends. What 'friend' has a pillow of "you and them" together, and a pillow of you? It's nice decoration, but really, who would have that for a friend. I would understand MAYBE a picture, but pillows? There's more to them than just friends. Oh, and I almost forgot. The weekly tea parties? They must see each other more than she sees her marefriends. Kinda strange for just mere friends, ain't it?
Hi there! In vet school I leanred that a horses age can be easily found by the galvayne's groove
But nothing I have ever found has explained why they have it or why its there? What is its normal function or purpose?
Im wondering if anybody here knows
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.
New to this sub, I do not own a horse but I wanted to see what equestrians have to say about this question, I couldn't find any info on google so I thought asking here would yield a bit more well informed answers :)
I want to see if there's any similarities in any of them and my lease horse!! :)
I consider myself to be a mix of Twilight Sparkle and Rarity
Hello my beautiful subjects! How are you doing today? /u/torvusil I love the Halloween costume! Not many people can pull of the authentic Pillar Men look.
Back to the business at hand, can you believe that it's Hiatus time again? My how time flies. And this might even be our last one! And with The Hiatus comes Weekly Themes!
For the uninitiated, each week during the Hiatus I like to post a theme for people to post or repost their favorite pony content, just to keep things lively. It usually runs from NPT to NPT (give or take a few days).
The theme for this week is Nostalgia! Post your favorite content from the early days of the show! As a general guideline let's say things from the first 3 Seasons, but if it comes later than that and still feels nostalgic to you then go for it. Artwork of unicorn Twilight, oldschool memes, your favorite Winter Wrapup remix, whatever suits your fancy!
Tag your submissions with [Nostalgia Week] to let us know you're participating, and as always have a safe and fun Hiatus!
As is usually this is not endorsed or enforced by the mod team. Purely me doing my thing.
So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (October 25th, 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!
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 here!!!!!
Chaosville is the canon name of that pocket dimension Discord lives in, and I just realize something about it. Celestia send a letter to Discord though the normal mail system of Equestria and a normal earth pony stallion deliver it, this means that Choasville has an address, a fix address, and that ponies can just walk right into it. I mean we seen this before in the show and comics with Discord creating pocket dimensions and ponies being able to just walk into, even showing what they look like from the outside. But this raises the questions of where in Equestria is this pocket dimensions, and what does it look like from the outside?
Cozy Glow is the latest MLP villain, one whose past and motives are both somewhat mysterious, but who we have gotten to know somewhat well over the course of season 8. On the surface Cozy seems kind and considerate, if a bit precocious, as well as very intelligent and observant. The kindness, we find out later, is an act and any consideration she had previously seemed to show another was just part of a plan to endear herself to another and manipulate them into seeing her in a positive light.
The intelligence, however, was not a show, and Cozy Glow seems to genuinely understand right and wrong and has come to know all about friendship... even so, she rejects the ideal of friendship as some sort of magical state to be strives for in and of itself and instead sees it as merely a means towards greater power.
This bothers fans considerably.
I've seen a general reaction among the fan base that seems to split between two general camps. One is the camp that can't believe that Cozy is anything other than misguided and shouldn't have been imprisoned in Tartarus and ought to be given a second chance and reformed. The other camp seems to be one that doesn't accept that Cozy is really a child, let alone a pony, and instead thinks she must be some kind of monster in disguise. Both perspectives are understandable though both are also flawed, and the show itself is responsible for the fandom having this divided approach to dealing with Cozy Glow based on prior experience.
But let's take a moment and consider this: Cozy Glow is not the first child villain on the show. That dubious honor belongs to the duo of Diamond Tiara and Solverspoon who were for many seasons the collective nemesis of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. While they never engaged in any activity remotely as destructive as Cozy, they also had a tendency to try to endear themselves to adults and their peers while privately not caring about them in the slightest so long as they got their way.
Eventually it would be revealed that Diamond Tiara had a rough home life and much of the flaws in her personality seem to come from her mother Spoiled Rich. Eventually Diamond Tiara is reformed (and it turns out Silverspoon wasn't that bad and was just following her bad influence). So it's reasonable to think that Cozy Glow might have some kind of history that explains both her behavior and obsession with power.
On the other hand, her vast intellegeance does seem to exceed her apparant age. In the past when we have seen a character who was so manipulative and dastardly they often turned out to be something far more heinous in disguise. The Changelings and even Discord have shown that trusting appearance in Equestria is something of a fools errand when magic can so readily generate near flawless illusions and transformations. With Cozy Glow behaving in such an intentionally cruel and callous way to all around her, shunning the very concept of friendship and plotting to harm all the inhabitants of Equestria fornher own selfish and personal gain it is easy to see where some suspect that there may be more to the little pony than meets the eye. We've come to expect monsterous behavior to be the first indication that someone actually is a monster.
But I think I fall into a third camp, and that has to do with the concept of the cruelty of children. Up to a certain age children can show a remarkable lack of empathy. It's impossible for them to put themselves mentally in another's position and more often than not the idea of something is 'right' or 'wrong' to do is less important than if they 'can' and if they can get away with it.
I suspect Cozy has always been smarter than those around her and found it effortless to manipulate those taken in by her cute looks and those who thought she was their friend. I suspect she has gone a long time without meeting anyone she considers her intellectual equal and that the closest she has come to that is Twilight (whom she does treat with respect up to a point) but even the Princess of Friendship isn't someone Cozy would consider to be as smart as she is.
I don't think this intellect is born of Cozy not being a pony, but I do think that her intellect is meant to be the origin of her cruelty. Cozy Glow is the epitome of selfishness, far more than any other character in the series save perhaps Discord before his reform. She doesn't care about anyone else and casually manipulated their feelings and fears not just for her own goals but also as entertainment.
It seems obvious she had no larger goal in trying to convince the student six in 'What Lies Beneath' that friendship was not in their nature aside from deriving pleasure from watching them squirm. Likewise it seems obvious now that she only failed her friendship exam in 'Marks for Effort' to see how the CMC and the teachers at Twilight's school would react. When things fidn't Go as she suspected (that the teachers would see the CMC as flawed and in need of instruction) she then took measures to manipulate the situation further to clear the CMC's name not by admitting her deceit to them or to Twilight, but rather by manipulating Starlight just to see if she could.
Ultimately we don't know what season 9 will hold for development for Cozy Glow. She may end up relatively forgotten like the Pony of Shadows, or she may have a recurring role like Queen Chrysalis. She could turn out to have a 'tragic pst' like Starlight and actually come around to wanting to be reformed or she could turn out to secretly be in league with some greater evil from another dimension and not even a real pony herself.
But as it stand s at the end of season 8, I think Cozy Glow is a child, but she is that rare kind of selfish child who is genuinely smart but has gone unchallenged for so long (intellectually and socially) that she has become the worst kind of raging narcissist who manipulated everyone around them for their own amusement. And honestly Tartarus is probably the safest place for her not just for everyone else but for herself too.
Do you wish there was a game of your beloved series well fear not for i have a link to a game https://theovermare.com/all info and whatnot can be found there but if your a fan of 2d games and your pc cant run really big games then heres another game https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/11/fallout-equestria-remains-version-6.html also fun fact i started reading fallout equestria with the mindset of "oh its just fallout 3 with ponies" forgetting about the whole its in equestria bit oh and if your new to the book or dont know what it is it can be found here https://www.fimfiction.net/group/240/fallout-equestria as well as many other things
Good news everyone! The prototype thread went over so well that I decided to make this a weekly, or biweekly, thing so with that said.
So I've been inspired these past few weeks to try out something new. Just as we have a dedicated Fanfiction Thread, Recommendation thread, Miscellaneous Thread, and other such threads I figured that something was missing and decided to see how popular this idea is.
So we have seen a LOT of fanart tossed around on this thread over the past near decade and though some have been lost to the sands of times others seem to stick in our minds and memories.
So With that said are there any pieces of Fanart that you personally love and appreciate? Why is that?Is it how the colors of the piece meld together to make the image so beautiful? Feel free to link the fanart you are discussing about in your comments below so as to give the example of what you are talking about.
Good morning Everycreature. Today we shall be discussing a branch not often discussed or thought of when one thinks of the Equestria Bureaucracy and Government forces. That of our Intelligence Agency who wield Spycraft for the State. Our Agents, like Ser Bon Bon here, are highly skilled and trained and are dispatched all across Equestria to keep an eye for threats to our Realm whether they be magical, beastial, tyrannical, or technilogical. This has positives and downsides that you students may be able to think of, but I ask of to try and figure out just what we teach our Agents to keep an eye out for and how to determine if something is a threat or has the capabilities of becoming a threat to Equestria? Of course our Agents are not merely scouts and spies. They are also trained to be hidden Bodyguards for notable creatures of interest that happen to be in or visiting our nation. We implant them into bureaucracy and nobility to seek out dissident groups and or those that seek to claim power in order to harm our citizens. That is not to say that we only throw our Agents into danger 24/7 of course not. Sometimes when one of our agents falls to deep into their role we will reorganize and let them live out their new lives how they wish. They are allowed access to their equipment and with our generous benefits are simply asked to keep an eye/ear out for trouble. That way we are not caught unawares. This has not always worked I am afraid. My little ponies are excitable creatures and are often distracted by celebrities or their own personal obsessions. . . .That notwithstanding I ask of you students to think on what I have said here today and to see if you could answer my questions I asked of you. What determines if something becomes a threat to Equestria? What would one of our agents be on the lookout for to determine if something or some new technology or somecreature or beast were to become a threat to Equestria? Remember. We are always recruiting, ranks now available to non-ponies for our new, Luna insisted, Foreign Affairs branch.
Hello my subjects! It's been a while. How are you all doing this fine NPT? /u/Lankygit did you change your hair? I think it looks great on you. Business up front, party in the back as they say?
As for the matter at hand, I was curious if people would be interested in my Royal Decrees starting up again. For those new during The Hiatus the sub tends to start slowing down a bit, and to combat this I would post weekly themes like this one to inspire people to post some of their favorite pony content.
It was a big success it's first year, but last Hiatus theme participation was down and people were still posting plenty of goodies to the sub so I stopped it early.
Who's up for doing this again?
