Hello and again welcome to your weekly dose of 'What's that again?': '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.
News
Regulars
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!
Top Posts
The top 5 link and self posts, for your browsing content.
Self Posts
Links
Highlights
(manually selected rather than just by score)
So I have a friend who loves their horse so much they'd rather get a birthday present to do with their horse than for themselves. The problem is, I know nothing about horses so I don't know what to get her. Anyone know something I can get her? If not a horse product then a book about horses maybe? I don't know.
Though I don't keep up with these things as closely as I used to, there's been a lot of speculation on this sub that MLP: FiM is drawing to a close. To be honest, I understand why--I've been feeling for a while that Hasbro is getting close to painting themselves into a corner, at least in terms of story.
That said, every time I think about the idea of G5, it makes me sad. FiM has really meant a lot to me, especially the brony community, and I feel like it's going to be close to impossible for lightning to strike twice... especially if the people at the helm are following the dictates of the business, and not out of a genuine love for the property.
I don't really know what else to say. It's just, it sounds like the sky really is falling this time, after all these years... and, though it needs to fall eventually, I was hoping that it would stay up a little longer...
Stupid subject? Yes. Now get posting.
My favourite pun is still from season 1: Horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages.
So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (January 24th, 2019) 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?
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 finishing up Season 4 today.
So following up on this yesterday's thread, is season 4's finale "Twilight's Kingdom part 1 and 2". So go watch via whatever means you can and come back to discuss this early episode below.
And here is a link to Season 4 episode 24 's "Equestria Games". discussion from yesterday if you want to chime in and discuss the precious episodes in case you missed the previous threads.
No really. Y'all are more then welcome to add/contribute to the previous discussions.
I've never understood people who say the later episodes are the best. Yeah, there are some great episodes, and good ones too, but the number of episodes per season I consider bad or average has definitely increased for me. I think there's been more episodes with cringey-writing (predictable plots/middle act idiot plots/rushed resolutions). More bad morals. And in the last few seasons more forgettable music.
But more so, and (even) more subjectively, the flavor of MLP has changed over the years for me, from the strange attraction at the beginning, to my feeling that something's "off" once Twilight gets her castle. I feel like each of the first four seasons had their own "feel" to it, and than season 5-8 felt like . . . post-season 4? I can't even put my finger on my feelings, and I'm not even sure if it's just in my head and how I think about the show. Am I just judging the plots differently?
For the record, my mom also thinks the writing since season 5 has been poorer so it's not just me. But on this board a lot of people are like "seasons 6 and 7 have been FANTASTIC!"
Did I just approach the show differently after four seasons? Did the eleven month hiatus between seasons 4 and 5 leave me both like a grizzled veteran and a hyped up old fan with high expectations and rose colored glasses? Does Ponyville just feel different to me now that the treehouse is gone, even when the episode is set in Appleloosa? Or is there something genuinely different about season 5 onward that's bothering me? I feel like it's in the writing itself, the writers have been changed out over the seasons, but I can't put my finger on what I think is different about the show.
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!!!!
