Hello and again welcome to your weekly dose of 'Pink Sunrise': '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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Every week there are up to two Plounge member of the 'day' AMAs! You can sign up here! AMAs since last week's TWOTP are...
Music Threads, from A through to Z. The plan is two a week but hey we'll see what happens. Hosted by Kody02, local music liker.
Sprankton is doing a classic Plounge thing, a Pokemon playthrough told via screenshots and captions. You can suggest nicknames for pokemans even, wow audience participation!
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The top 5 link and self posts, for your browsing content.
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Hello everycreature! I am new to this platform in general and instead of looking for actual services to help me with this question...I decided to ask you guys! So is this place like Facebook or is it similar to discord? Or wat? I'm quite new so if any of you can talk to me about it that would be great! Thanks!
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. Every week these two threads will be posted at alternate times.
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.
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?
The Mane Six and Spike have starred in eight seasons' worth of episodes by now, so what have been some of your favorite character showcases by now for each pony?
For example, my favorite Twilight episodes would be "Lesson Zero", Twilight's Kingdom", "Amending Fences" and "Once Upon A Zeppelin". "Lesson Zero" is completely hilarious, watching Twilight's exaggerated OCD cause her to have a meltdown, "Twilight's Kingdom" is one of Twilight's biggest challenges as the princess of friendship and shows how badly she wants to live up to her title, "Amending Fences" looks back on Twilight's antisocial behavior before the series and shows the consequences it had on others, and "Once Upon A Zeppelin" struck a chord with me, It's entirely in character for Twilight to overwork herself, trying to please everyone to the point where she neglects her own needs, but it sure is sad to watch.
I rewatched some clips of it on Youtube and saw a fair amount of comments calling it one of the weaker episodes of the show. I completely disagree. For me, it's actually the episode that turned me into a brony (I had seen several episodes before with my sister, but we didn't get to finish this one so I watched the rest on my own). I loved the idea of having an episode where Fluttershy learns the the right balance between kindness and assertiveness by having her fall too far on one end of the spectrum. Plus I understand dealing with anxiety and being kind of shy, holding in anger for awhile until it finally lashes out and you say things that you regret. It doesn't excuse what you did, but you make amends, forgive yourself, and learn from it. That's very powerful to me.
What do you think? What do you like/dislike about this episode? Comment and let me know and thanks for reading.
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!!!!!
So I realized that we will be in the middle of the Hiatus for a while and so a thought occurred to me. Some of the highlights of watching the episodes from Season 8 as they premiered was reacting and discussing the episodes with y'all in real time. We are starting on Season 2 today.
So following up on this yesterday's thread, is the Season 2 Episode 15 "Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 3000". So go watch via whatever means you can and come back to discuss this early episode below.
And here is a link to Season 2 Episode 14's discussion if y'all want to read it and discuss the precious episodes in case you missed the threads.
No really. Y'all are more then welcome to add/contribute to the previous discussions.
Welcome To Villain Talk, where we will talk about one G4 Villain from any branch of the media. We will talk about why we like them, why we don't like them,and any head canons we have about them. This week Juniper Montage.
Who They Are: First she wanted to blame a famous actress into trying to ruin a movie so she could replace, then she found a magic mirror that traps things in it and use it to trap the human 7 with it. She then got power from the mirror, grew bigger, and thought everyone trying too take her photos when they were trying tor run and hide. Starlight was able to talk her down and she turn back to normal.
What I think Of them: Out of all EQG villains I find this one to the most forgettable, I'm always mixing her transform state up with Daisy's and I found her goals to be dumb even by the low standers of EQG. There was no way she would have ever gotten the part in the first place no matter who her uncle was.
That what I think, what do you think?
So in this show we have had a great many great villains and antagonists however today I want to discuss just which of these great and terrible foes are the most dangerous and where one would rank them on a power scale.
Some seem to stand above the rest in sheer terms of power.
However we've seen that things are not always so clear thanks to the subterfuge and manipulative powers of those who rely on more then just sheer strength and magic.
So today I come to ask y'all just who do y'all think is the most dangerous villain in the show and where would you rank the others below your top pick? Why do you choose these rankings? And is it based off of head-canon or extrapolated from the show itself?
After seeing this post, and remembering the old fan theories on Discord being Starswirl the Bearded, I got to thinking: What other fan theories from back in the day has the show since debunked? And then the similar thought of fan-made content and the show itself importing the same outside concepts in totally different ways. For instance, I remember "Kirin" OCs from well before Season 8, taking the original mythology down a completely different path from what the show then ended up doing.
What do you guys think?
