Has anyone had a horse step on their jolly ball and push half of it into itself? My mare stepped on hers and I've tried to get it back to a ball with no luck. Any suggestions? I don't want to buy a new one since I just got that one a month ago.
Dream episodes for season 8!?
But we're not even done with season 7!
This is what your brain is thinking, but your brain cannot be trusted!
No, for it all too often lacks the capacity to think fourth dimensionaly!
While season 7 may be only just now coming up on its hiatus, we can kind of guess at the overall arc for the season (Family and Friends). Taking that into account, and looking back on multiple seasons, what episodes do you want to see in season 8 that you are pretty sure won't come up in season 7?
Now you don't have to be too specific. It can be something as simple as 'the return of Tirek' or 'a Diamond Tiara episode'. However, the more specific (and the more detailed) the better!
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For us watching the Canadian releases, at least.
Yep, Hasbro has confirmed that Not Asking For Trouble is the mid-season finale, despite a likely much better and much more fitting mid-season finale just two episodes away. Why? I can only assume because this is the season of madness, everything is upside down, and nothing makes sense anymore. Hey, it's already that way in the real world, why not have it follow us into the land of ponies?
Let's just hope the folks at Hasbro gave Treehouse a good ol'-fashioned stern talking to and this bullshit won't follow us into 7B, eh?
Weekly Wrap Up is a weekly NPT feature that covers MLP and fandom-related news of note from the past week that you may have missed!
First up, The Top 10 Posts Of The Week.
Season 7 Episode 8, "Hard To Say Anything", officially airs in the US.
As previously mentioned, Not Asking For Trouble is the Season 7 mid-season finale, and the mid-season hiatus is expected to last all the way through July.
In brighter news, Mike Vogel, writer of such episodes as A Hearth's Warming Tail and Every Little Thing She Does, teases returning to the show in Season 8.
Two books based on the movie, "Friends And Foes" and "The Great Princess Caper", revealed.
Third Equestria Girls special, "Mirror Magic", airs in Poland, fan adds English subtitles.
EqG specials will officially be airing on Discovery Family later this month!
Vinyl Scratch And Octavia Day, May 29th .
It's Summer Vacation time, ladies and gentlemen! Man, I can't wait to celebrate with new episodes of my favorite TV show My Little Pony: Friendship Is...
Well folks, that's it for the Wrap Up. Good current time of day in your time zone, see you next week!
If you were an entertainment reporter and had to quickly come up with a funny headline for an article announcing that My Little Pony: The Movie won Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score and Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, what would you come up with?
So, interesting story yesterday. I was visiting a friend of mine who has three horses, and she was busy with something unexpected when I arrived with my daughter. So we decided to walk over to the neighboring property where they are sometimes kept, to hang out with the horses for a while until she was ready to join us.
We got there and just chilled with them for at least a half hour, probably more. I was exploring their personalities and nuances, getting accustomed to how each behaves. The mare has this characteristic "don't touch me" mentality. She pins ears, pulling her head away like she can't be bothered to have physical contact. The two geldings are friendly enough, especially the brumby, who follows you around like a big puppy.
Suddenly, all three horses perked up and started staring toward the house, which is exactly 200 meters away across an open field. It got me curious if they could tell their owner was coming. Because I sure couldn't. I looked where they were looking. It was toward the setting sun, so I couldn't see much, and I'm sure they couldn't either. There was no sound at all.
Then, probably 45 seconds to a minute later, I heard the telltale whistle she gives when she comes to see the horses. All three then immediately began walking out to greet her.
This was really cool because people know their horses can sense them coming, but it's rare to actually see it in action from an outside perspective.
Here's a google aerial photo showing the layout. It's pretty amazing they could tell someone was coming so early.
We haven't had one of these in a while. Now's as good a time as any!
In the large, large world of pony art there's a lot of talented artists who don't get the attention they deserve. Some are new, or haven't been discovered, or maybe just have a more niche style that not everyone appreciates.
Who's a lesser known artist that needs more love?
TLDR: A group of friends and myself approached Aurelleah a while ago concerning a pattern of tracing without credit in his early works. Upon seeing another post of his recently I'm making this public as I have discovered that some people are supporting this practice unknowingly on his Patreon.
I saw this gif yesterday, and damn it's cute. It hit my front page, but I recognized it from elsewhere. After a bit of searching I discovered an almost identical animation by Thesassyjessie a couple of years earlier. At first I thought that maybe Aurelleah asked permission, but Thesassyjessie's DeviantArt, derpibooru, and Tumblr have been inactive for months to years. In search of appropriate credit, I found that this link from reddit brings me to Aurelleah's DeviantArt page still with no credit given. Then the deviant art page lists his patreon page. He mentions "Chandler/Azure serenity" as sponsors to the animation, but no mention of Jessie. On Aurelleah's Patreon it shows him making over $500 a month to produce art and music. How is tracing and not crediting another artist's work an ethical practice, especially in our small community.
I contacted Aurelleah a while ago concerning this issue, but his practices have not seemed to change since then. As such, I feel that it is my responsibility to make this fact known to his supporters on Patreon as they may not know the amount of originality in the works they are supporting. I'm not arguing that tracing or using samples is wrong. Personally, I did the same thing when I was starting out. However, being paid and commissioning traced work, especially without credit, is not an acceptable practice. Tracing is a tool to learn, not a means to create finished, sellable pieces of art.
All of that said, I want to stress that this is not an attack on Aurelleah, but rather intends to bring to light an issue that affects both him and, more importantly, his supporters.
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So, because it's No-Pics Thursday (June 1st, 2017) 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. Ready? Set? LET"S GO! Also, feel free to self-promote in here!
I suggest you also check out the Random NPT Reading Activity thread vy /u/caligari87, if you want to read a fic that you typically wouldn't read.
Sixteenth release with 153547 stories.
Fimfarchive is a project which aims to release all stories available on Fimfiction, together with their metadata, as a single archive. The archive is organized by author and could be used for backup, offline reading, or data mining.
A new version will be released each season via BitTorrent, approximately once every three months. When suitable, an xdelta3 patch will also be provided for users who do not wish to redownload unchanged stories.
Note that the archive contains a large number of files. Unzipping it to your file system may not be necessary if the archive is to be used together with some application. If you are a developer, reading directly from the ZIP-file may be preferable.
The complete archive.
The xdelta3 patch.
Stories were downloaded between 2017-05-01 and 2017-05-26.
See the README file or my submission history for more information.
Now with a dedicated BitTorrent tracker for quicker announces!
Alternate Universe
Nightmare Moon is Prince Shining Armor's faithful student. She is a unicorn with a strange connection to the moon, nightmares and nighttime. Despite her intimidating name and appearance, she is a nice-enough pony. She and her faithful dragon assistant Torch (I know that Torch wasn't a villain, but I don't want to use Crackle) are sent to Ponyville to try and make friends.
Discord is a young draconequus (assume that he's not very powerful yet, incapable of the reality-warping shenanigans that Canon!Discord is).
Princess Chrysalis is multi-colored, shiny Changeling, and she is next in line to rule the nearby Changeling Hive.
Sombra is a unicorn with great magical prowess.
Tirek is a centaur who takes care of his adoptive younger brother, Scorpan.
Adagio Dazzle is a talented siren who has decided to live her life as a pony.
Together, they defeat villains like:
Midnight Sparkle - Imprisoned for a thousand years on the moon, along with her powerful and nasty servant, Spike the Inferno Dragon!
Evil!Pinkie (I can't think of good villain names for the rest) - An evil but funny entity imprisoned in stone for eons!
Evil!Applejack - An evil Changeling Queen who wants her family/hive to be able to devour all the love in Equestria!
Evil!Rarity - An evil sorceress who rules the Crystal Empire.
Evil!Rainbow Dash - A powerful, ancient warlord who escapes from Tartarus.
Evil!Fluttershy - An evil villainess that never raises her voice but is able to destroy with a single thought and gains more power the more ponies know about her. (Based on Shadowlock's ancestor from the comics, assuming that this villain ever shows up in the actual show)
How would the villains be like as heroes? How would you rewrite them to be the leads of a hypothetical alternate universe show?
Which villain-turned-hero would hold which Element (Magic, Laughter, Kindness, Loyalty, Generosity and Honest)?
What would the Mean Six be like?
I've been wondering whether interests in reading/animals are kinda portrayed poorly/stereo typically while the passions for parties/dresses are portrayed with more depths.
Twilight's love of reading and Fluttershy's love of animals seems to be portrayed the most shallow.
Maybe I'm the exception since I was never obsessed with my grades, but I loved reading about things I was interested in growing up, and for me reading was not just knowledge for knowledge's sake. The things I learned helped me build new worlds and ideas in my head. Where with Twilight, I don't really get the deeper sense of why she loves books-books-books so much.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy comes off like she just finds all animals everywhere cute/beautiful/amazing on a very surface level.
Do you think their interests are portrayed so shallow because the writers don't really understand why someone would be that into reading or animals?
Pinkie and Rarity's passions are the best portrayed in the series, with whole musicals dedicated to the emotions that drive them. Rules of Rarity and the episode Canterlot Boutique is all about why she loves making dresses, the creative spirit and what happens when that spirit is squashed.
Between the show and fanfiction, the portrayals of Rarity's love of fashion has made me, someone who's hated fashion his whole life, see the subject with a new outlook, how fashion can actually be about self-expression and individuality and bringing out what's special about oneself rather than conformity to what's considered popular or the need to be "pretty".
Pinkie's Lament and the Smile song hammer in the larger purpose of her love of parties; making ponies smile and the former song is one of my favorite songs in the show.
On the one hand I want to commend the show for these songs and its portrayal of Pinkie and Rarity's passions.
On the other hand, I feel like the other ponies' passions deserve the same depth and celebration.
Perhaps they haven't received it because the other ponies' interests are not as focused on making others' smile, and this is a show about friendship. The other passions are not as social and involve ponies enjoying something for its own sake within their own limited context; winning races, farm and family, reading books, and making animal friends. The social boundaries are kind of limited.
But I still think the others' deserve their Pinkie's Lament or Rules of Rarity.
Fluttershy's So Many Wonders is the closest we get after those two and to me it's kind of an underwhelming season 1 song, lacking the emotional exploration of later songs.
So I keep wanting to call Sugar Belle 'Shugah Belle' with a really exaggerated southern accent ever since she hooked up with Big Mac. And I'm not talking about an Applejack style accent either, but more like Rogue from the 90's X-men animated series.
That got me to thinking how cool it would be if Sugar Belle turned out to actually have had kind of a rough past that led her to seek out a community like Our Town to escape from... well, herself. It'd be really cool if such a past caught up to her and she had to break up with Big Mac for "his own good", only for him to end up chasing after her and right into the jaws of danger.
And I know I'm mixing up the backstory for Rogue and Gambit, but wouldn't it be awesome if there was like a clan of unicorns that was like the assasins guild and the thieves guild, and Sugar Belle had been with the thieves and she was supposed to marry the head of the assasins guild to bring peace between the two groups, but she hadn't loved him so she had run away instead? But now Sugar Belle has to marry him, or he'll kill Big Mac and wipe out the entire Apple clan, leaving Big Mac in the tough position where he not only has to fight a unicorn to get Sugar Belle back, but a master assassin!
That's how my mind works are 5am, and I fully realize it's unlikely anything like that would ever occur in the show, but man would it be fun.
In the Sombra timeline, Rainbow Dash joined the war effort and ended up getting her wing torn off and facing death every day on the war front.
In the Chrysalis timeline, Rainbow Dash was presumably captured or killed when Chrysalis invaded Ponyville and used her form to infiltrate Zecora's camp.
In the Nightmare Moon timeline, Rainbow Dash either willingly joined or was conscripted into serving the evil usurper of the throne.
Seeing as how BHH and WW clearly love RD and constantly tell her that she's the best, how did they react to Rainbow Dash's bad fates/choices in these alternate timelines?
I used to be huge into mlp but stopped watching and left the fandom about three years ago. im gonna go catch up on the latest seasons. just curious as to the current state of the fandom and any major things i need to be brought up to speed on. i missed this fandom alot but fear it may not be as active as it used to be.
If you've got things for sale, a personal blog, and other horse applicable stuff that will likely be taken as spam in the main forum - this is the safe place for it :)
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!
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