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.
Hello and again welcome to your weekly dose of 'daisuki': '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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The vets asked if I would consider donating my horse to the college because he eventually needs to be put down ... He's in alot of pain in his legs. I'm going to miss him terribly.
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?
Today is the day, the day that we do this, the day we make it happen! it is the day of
What do we do? Post/Write a Fanfiction - be it just a scene, a short story, or an idea for one.
Worried about quality? Don't worry about quality, just type away, or post your link to the thing. Who knows? Maybe someone will respond to your fanfic idea with a short!
So hit that Comment / Reply button and get typing!
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!!<
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, because it's No-Pics Thursday (May 9th, 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!
Welcome to creatures of Equestria where we will talk about one of the magical creatures of Equestria. Today creature Tri-Horned Bunyip
Creatures: A friendly lake monster who loves cucumbers, it is base on a myth from Australia.
In the first installment this series I brought up how people sometimes bring up bronies that don't listen to the lessons of the show. This is usually in reference to the rare brony who is nasty or bigoted but I talked about the much more common brony who watches a show about friendship . . . and doesn't really try to make friends.
In this thread, I'd like to discuss a similar disconnect; the closet brony, as "be yourself" is a major theme of the show.
If I were to more accurately sum up the major theme(s) of this show, it would be learning to respect and appreciate, for lack of a better word, "humanity". Many of the show's lessons, at least early on, could be divided into either "seeing the best in others" or "seeing the best in oneself".
Often a combination of the two.
Continuing from last week, the next three episodes in this series about the morals of the show demonstrate this trend, particularly seeing the best in others. This is the moral for Boast Busters.
Boast Busters and the morals of self expression
*"I was so afraid of being thought of as a showoff that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents, and there are times when it's appropriate to show them off... Especially when you're standing up for your friends." *
How the lesson was learned: By a fear tested and not coming true.
This is something I've already written about this moral:
This is the first of the show's many "Don't be afraid to express yourself" morals.
I wonder about some of these morals, because the main character so often realizes them because when she expressed herself she found acceptance, and in real life that acceptance isn't guaranteed. There are episodes where that acceptance isn't universal, such as Call of the Cutie and Suite and Elite.
In both episodes the reveal happens in public, at a party, so you could interpret the lesson as "If you have a sensitive secret, do it in a large group of people. You'll find someone who's cool about it."
But I guess less literally the moral would be "There's always someone who'll be accepting, and those are the people that matter."
On further thought after writing that, and on the larger subject of closet bronies, I feel like this show is the social equivalent of a show about heroes overcoming more physically threatening conflicts. Just because someone likes a show about superheroes, doesn't make them brave or raring to face danger. Likewise, just because someone watches a cartoon where everything turns out alright socially, doesn't mean the audience sees themselves with such good odds.
In this episode, I think the conclusion is pretty reasonable; nobody's gonna call Twilight a show off for saving a town unless they're already an asshole with a vendetta against her.
Like the first episode, and many episodes of this show, the moral can be seen as summed up as "Trust your friends to not be shitty or useless."
But perhaps a more accurate description of the moral would be to give people the chance to not be shitty or useless. After all, the lesson of this episode is learned through an act that is both heroic in a traditional sense, and from Twilight's perspective, socially dangerous. The lesson was only learned because her fears were tested.
Maybe the message of the show is . . . Don't be afraid to learn.
A word about Trixie
Before I move on, since this is an episode-by-episode series on analyzing morals, I want to give my two cents on the episode's portrayal of Trixie as in the wrong. Fans have pointed out that Trixie was just being a showpony, and the mane 6 were being rude and heckling.
First, I'd like to point out the cultural difference. This wasn't like a magic show on earth where everybody understands the illusion of it all. She was misleading audience members with straight up lies (or maybe snips and snails were just dumb). This isn't even like Houdini, who promised amazing feats and than delivered. Magic is a common ability, and Twilight's friends just banished Nightmare Moon with magic a few days ago and the sun and moon are moved by magic every day, so Rarity and AJ are probably thinking "'Greatest feat of magic seen by pony eyes', may flank.
Also, they were talking among themselves when Trixie challenged them (Was she just standing silently on stage listening to them?). They weren't exactly booing directly at her and throwing tomatoes. Trixie challenged them, talking about how ignorant they were for not knowing she was the greatest unicorn in all Equestria, "Anything you can do, I can do better.", smugly egging Twilight on to a challenge ("Well, little hayseed?") with the expression of someone itching to show her up. Then she focused more on humiliating her challengers then outdoing them fair and square.
Unlike stage magicians and performers in our world, her show was not focused on entertaining the audience, but proving her own ego. She was not acting professional.
This show promotes valuing oneself, but not to the point of arrogance and bigheadedness. Trixie's boasting reached the point of putting everyone else down.
For the purposes of covering more than one episode per entry of this series, next episode is Dragonshy.
Dragonshy
"This adventure has taught me to never lose faith in your friends. They can be an amazing source of strength, and can help you overcome even your greatest fears."
This adventure taught Twilight to never lose faith in her friends? 'Cause she seemed to have faith in Fluttershy the entire time, having her dragged up the mountain despite all signs of her uselessness. If she had actually needed to learn this lesson in the episode, Fluttershy would've stayed home.
The beginning of this moral sounds like it's talking about the perspective of those observing Fluttershy (never lose faith in your friends, aka Flutters) and the end is about friends helping you overcome your greatest fears (What Fluttershy learned from her friends).
Anyway, the moral here seems to translate to "Take the trembling coward on scary adventures. Anybody can turn into a hero; you never know."
Or maybe it's "Don't listen to the person saying someone should be left behind for not being useful"? That moral isn't so bad . . .
This episode demonstrates the show's theme of having faith in others, whatever the circumstance.
So this was a fun little idea I had late last night when I was gazing at the multitudes of unfinished King Sombra X Twilight fanfics where he teaches her Dark magic and.. . Well you get the idea. The idea of Villains teaching normally heroic characters can be so much fun, especially once personality clashes are taken into account, and so I ask of you, What villain would you want to temporarily mentor a heroic character? If need be imagine it being something that Princess Celestia planned up for one of her enigmatic schemes.
For Sombra I can imagine Trixie, Starlight, and Twilight (Alicorn and Unicorn providing different dynamic) being possible students with amusing results and conversations. I can't help but imagine that they would all get on like Oil and fire.
Cozy Glow would be fun to see trying to corrupt other fillies and foals. The Anti-CMC if you will. So. . .perhaps mentoring either the CMC themselves or Diamond Tiara and Silverspoon?
Flim and Flam would HAVE to be the chosen mentors for Applejack for a week or two, provided that she does not have to participate in their scams, and it would be interesting to see how the three of them influence the others over a period of time.
So here's a thought. . . Ocellus fears of becoming just like Chrysalis. . .so why not have Chrysalis mentor her? It could help Ocellus get over her fears and hopefully remind Chrysalis of why she used to be Queen in the first place.
. . I'm not a villain buzz off.
I admit that my choices are rather threadbare and obvious for the most part, I am dreadfully tired, but I still think that this is a fun idea. What do the rest of y'all think? Do you have different interesting or fun mentoring ideas in mind?
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 starting Season 8 today.
So following up on this yesterday's thread, is the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Equestria Girls - Better Together shorts; "Too Hot to Handle,Unsolved Selfie Mysterys, and The Salty Sails" . So go watch via whatever means you can and come back to discuss this early episode below.
And here is a link to the Better Together shorts "X Marks The Spot", "Aww . . .Baby Turtles", and "Lost and Found'" from the last post 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. Really.
So I realize it's a bit late in the game to do so but I have compiled a few masterlists of all of the Unofficial Episode Discussion Threads we have discussed by each season we have watched them for easier access to comment on, read, look back on what we have said, and other such useful whatnots.
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 1
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 2
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 3
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 4
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 5
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 6
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 7
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Season 8
Unofficial Episode Discussion Masterlist: Equestria Girls
Unofficial Episode Discussion: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic- The Movie
So yeah we're going to be going through the shorts 3 at a time before hopping into "Spring Breakdown". So just click the hyperlinks to the shorts above, they lead directly to the short on youtube don't worry, and let's get this shindig started. Y'all go ahead and start without me, I have to be at work within the hour and I have an errand to run. So I'll give my own thoughts on this later tonight when I get home.
WE'RE BACK FOLKS!
