Hello and again welcome to your weekly dose of 'uwu': '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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Today Violet jumped a 5ft tall gate and went on the lamb. The police were chasing her, she was finally caught 3 miles from home. Some road rash and stitches later, and she's resting peacefully in her stall. Oh and did I mention I haven't even owned her for a month yet?
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Spring is coming, so it's time to start giving my horse tick baths again. I do not like doing this because the tick shampoo is full of chemicals, and after I wash it off it winds up on the ground, but it's better than a tick infested horse. I don't know if anyone's going to be able to answer this, but is there a better, chemical free way of doing this?
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People like to pair random characters up in a relationship. Sometimes because they think it's cute and sometimes just to see what happens. But what about the opposite? Which characters would absolutely hate each-other if they met?
I think I know a couple candidates: Limestone already hates pretty much everybody, but I'm pretty sure Trixie is one pony she never wants to meet again. When two stubborn personalities clash, it's never pretty.
But if there's one pony Limestone would hate even more, it would be Zephyr Breeze. Imagine if he tried to work on the rock farm and she had to deal with his laziness. And just to make it even worse, Zephyr would probably interpret Limestone's behaviour as her being a "tsundere" and would be convinces she's into him. Which would piss her off even more... I kind of want to see that now.
Here's another: Starlight and Lyra. Starlight is all about minimizing chaos, even dabbling with mind-control and psychological torture if she deems it necessary. Though, she no longer does that, she still prefers to have control over everything.
And now enter Lyra, the gal busting with energy and a "do whatever the fuck I want" attitude. She practically seeks out chaos, just for her own amusement. She's even willing to pursue a career in an obscure science, just because she wants to. Starlight ain't telling her what to do and how to do it.
And more than just control vs chaos, keep in mind that Lyra went to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. She ain't a dimwit; she can probably match Starlight in brainpower as well. Their interactions wouldn't just be mutual annoyance, it would be a mental battlefield.
So there's that. What are some other "anti-shipping" pairs you can come up with?
The most common villains we see punished on the show are basically magical beings committing the equivalent of domestic terrorism, basically supervillains who are a threat to all Equestria. Discord is encased in stone because honestly that's the only way he could've been contained. Tirek and Cozy Glow are sent to prison in Tartarus. And Sombra is banished/shattered with a magical artifact who's purpose is more to restore love and unity than kill anyone.
The one criminal that isn't taken out by magic de-powering artifacts, Chrysalis, is basically just banished. Multiple times. When she's running away from the hive in To Where And Back Again after her second attack on Equestria Twilight is like "Let her go, she'll come around." And the first time they took out Chrysalis all they really did was throw her and her changelings far away.
In the Cutie Map Starlight escapes into a network of caves so she can't be caught but if they did catch her what would they have even done? Given her a lecture? Would she have actually been imprisoned?
Have we even seen any of the lesser baddies in the show even get punished, ever?
And what would they do with more realistic criminals who's crimes are both more small-scale and far more severe? There's murder, obviously.
An even thornier crime; how would Equestria respond to, say, a rape? Would the perpetrator just be run out of town a la Chrysalis? Go to Tartarus? Would it just start a dialogue about what lead the perpetrator to do such a thing, basically being treated as an extreme friendship problem? When Starlight mind controls her friends the mane six are basically just really mad at her, but then they get over it. Would rape even be as traumatizing to ponies as it is to humans, considering how they shake off mind control?
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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!
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