I watch this regularly so I know it had to have happened in the last couple days. I have a 280mb archive of it, but I just dedicated more archive space for pony and really want the highest quality available. Especially now that it's down...
If you live in another country and it works for you, please let me know which country.
So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (June 6th, 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!
Hello everyone!
It's been a really long time since I did my last pony drawing. I used to do comics (you may know me for the Maud and Trixie ones), but I can't find the time for them now.
I'll probably do drawings like this one or this one: black and white with just some colors in it.
I'm not saying I'll do all of your propositions, I'll take the ones that inspire me the most of course.
I hope I'll be able to please you! I'll come back later to read what you asked for :)
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?
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!!!!!
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.
We come once again, to another analysis of the lessons in My Little Pony. Today is a special day, for we'll be discussing perhaps the most controversial lesson in MLP in history.
But before we get to the meat, I'll be starting with a couple appetizers.
Fall Weather Friends
"It's important to remember that the friendship is always more important than the competition."
Hmm, I mean, I could say some friendships are shitty but that's nitpicking.
Instead . . .
I'd like to look at how the episode makes its argument. Why is friendship always more important than the competition? Sure, you lose the benefits of friendship for the sake of a status symbol, but the episode doesn't make that argument, taking it as almost self-evident given all the other episodes covering the value of friendship. They don't so much realize they lost something in how they valued winning over a personal bond as they realize that their behavior was terribly poor.
I think the episodes argument is in the fact that as hard as Rainbow Dash and Applejack tried to win; they lost. And so risking anything in order to win a game is a gamble.
Of course, losing the game was probably the only way Dash and Applejack's competition could've ended. Had they crossed the finish line in the same manner, beating each other up but finishing in a tie, the rivalry may have continued, now with the things Dash and Applejack did to each other to cheat adding fuel, and the friendship could've been replaced by rivalry.
Even as it is, Dash and Applejack could've simply blamed each other for cheating and continued their rivalry.
They learned because Twilight showed them up, and then pointed out their own behavior sabotaged their race. Applejack is, of course, first to acknowledge her awful behavior, being of the stronger moral upbringing, and Dash follows acknowledging her poor sportsmanship.
Next episode is frequently touted as the most relate-able episode for the fandom's artists! Suited For Success
"This week my very talented friend Rarity learned that if you try to please everypony, you oftentimes end up pleasing nopony, especially yourself. And I learned this: when somepony offers to do you a favor, like making you a beautiful dress, you shouldn't be overly critical of something generously given to you. In other words, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth."
That's what the mane 6 tried to do from the very beginning, but Rarity repeatedly insisted on satisfying their specifications.
The problem with both lessons in this episode is . . . the Mane 6 were pleased with how Rarity tailored their dresses. The problem was that it wasn't presentable at a fashion show. Something that "ends up pleasing no one" would be something that even the mane 6 didn't like.
The mane 6 loved the dresses. The problem only came when Spike ran in saying he'd invited Hoity Toity to the fashion show.
The right thing to do at that point would've been to tell somebody the truth. Either telling Hoity Toity that these particular dresses have been custom designed for her friends and way outside the normal tastes and conventions of fashion, or simply that her friends dresses aren't really what the fashion world looks for in a fashion show, and that she would display other, non-custom dresses.
Instead, Rarity sees a train wreck coming and plows right into it full speed.
Personally, I am very much in favor of looking a gift horse in the mouth. Or at least being honest about how you feel about a gift. Your feelings are going to become obvious eventually anyways. Either that, or you're continue to get gifts you don't like and a loved one will be wasting money, getting lied to that their dollars are making you happy when they aren't. It's like a scam where everyone's the loser.
As for trying to please everyone, Rarity wasn't really trying to please Hoity Toity. Like I said, she saw the train wreck coming and didn't steer away.
But in real art, while people don't try to please everyone, they do try to please the lowest common denominator. And thing is, if you know you're audience and try to please them, than that is absolutely doable.
So know your audience everyone, and be honest about who is and is not part of that audience.
NOW, drumroll please.
Feeling Pinkie Keen
"I am happy to report that I now realize there are wonderful things in this world you just can't explain, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less true. It just means you have to choose to believe in them. And sometimes it takes a friend to show you the way."
Except what we actually saw in the episode was Twilight infuriated that she thought something didn't make sense ("How could that NOT be the doozy?!"), and then suddenly slumping her shoulders and concluding it does make sense. And telling the audience "You just have to choose to believe." She concludes the Pinkie sense makes sense seconds after being angry it doesn't make sense. She just does a 180 for no reason. It looked a lot more like resignation into belief than actual learning, and is such a whiplash that it's like the writers just decided Twilight no longer cares what her thoughts and feelings are. I think that's the reason the episode went over badly.
Also the phrasing of the "you have to choose to believe" bit, implying belief is the choice you ought to make.
I've gone over this episode on Reddit before
This is the clip where she is apparently convinced of the Pinkie sense
After the Hydra attack, Pinkie's sense still goes off and she says that was not the doozy she predicted.
Twilight is miffed. How could that not be the doozy? She's mad because it doesn't make sense.
Then all of a sudden she sighs, slumps her shoulders, does a 180 and concludes it does make sense.
. . . How? Why?
She was ripe to be convinced when the hydra attacked, apparently confirming that the Pinkie sense was responding to a future event, but then it keeps going off after said event, seeming to have no correlation.
For all it appears to Twilight, this should look like a false positive. She should be smugly affirming she was right about the Pinkie sense not really matching up to future events if it keeps going like that.
But no, after being literally flaming angry that the Pinkie sense isn't making sense, she suddenly decides it makes sense. And the audience is told "When things don't make sense, you just have to choose to believe."
. . . What?
Lastly, what is this moral really applicable to? There are things in this world that have evidence behind them that we can't fully explain, I.E. we don't fully know how homing pigeons navigate but we know somehow they do. But the phrase "choose to believe" doesn't really apply since we know they find their home even without knowing how. This applies even to science people struggle to accept. Skeptics of evolution don't need to choose to believe it, they just need to look at the evidence and stop being so stuck in the mud about it.
Then there are phenomena we honestly just can't explain at this time. The less scientific stuff. But I don't think there's any reason you ought to choose to believe such things as opposed to simply accepting you don't know.
The moral could apply to some things like if a friend says they have depression or other experience you don't understand, but you take their word for it as a friend, but I feel like the episode is clearly not about that kind of inter-personal trust.
It's probably just the bad wording. Either way, this episode is the most obvious proof that episodes that fail to support their own moral are not just relegated to later seasons (But we'll discuss season 7 another day).
After finding out the technical term for a guy who likes MLP? What made you become one? My 4 year old daughter had the show playing after school when I'd come home. I sat down and watched a few with her and really liked how they did G4 and the storylines. Kind of took off from there.
So let's talk about Applejack shall we? From the very beginning of the show we have always seen that Applejack has tended to be the most responsible and "adult" of her friends and group in how seriously she took her duties on the farm. Where as Pinkie or Rainbow Dash would create zanity or Rarity would fuss, Applejack would always strive to fix a problem as pragmatically as possible, though her hard headedness and stubbornness would continue to be a problem for years.
Honestly it seems that her only major flaw WAS her stubbornness and her feeling the need to take EVERYTHING on her shoulders regarding the farm. She hates asking for help, and her pride has caused her problems time and time again.
But lately I have noticed something. Over time as the series went on Applejack had began to loosen up regarding her issues. She grew less stubborn and opened her horizons thanks to her friendship with Rarity, she continued to be the emotional rock for Twilight, she gained a new extended family in Pinkie and the Pies, and Applebloom. Dear Sweet Applebloom and her crusades helped her reconnect with her little sister.
A lot of this can be tracked now that we have what is basically her entire backstory, with only a minor exception of WHEN her parents died/disappeared,: from the Great Seedling and giving up on childish things, to leaving the farm for the city, gaining her cutie mark and returning to the farm, becoming a liar, becoming honest and responsible, and then some time passes until the series itself starts.
From there she has remained the most static of the Mane 6 in terms of character development but she did still change. Her views softened regarding traditions of the Apple Family, she became great and close friends with those she likely never would have before,how to compromise, mothers over and letting Applebloom be her own pony, to rethink old habits and ways of doing things, and now remembering to be a kid again even despite being an adult. She has learned to not be serious and responsible ALL the time and has connected with her younger sister and filly self.
And I dare say that seeing the most responsible, "normal", and "adult" of the Mane 6 letting go for once and simply enjoying life and something silly after so long was SO refreshing. And I do believe that I am beginning to ramble.
So I have absolutely adored Applejack's development over the series. Though more subtle then others of her like it still did progress from beginning to the end of where we are at now. What did the rest of y'all think? Do y'all like how Applejack's character and personality has developed over the course of the show? Do y'all like that we have a pretty detailed timeline of how she came to be how she is all the way to Season 9?
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