
Summer nights at the barn are the best
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Submitted June 07, 2018 at 11:30PM by sempre_equus
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A week ago I posted a thread speculating on the implications of an egg and dairy industry existing in Equestria, mainly to reason away that it did not necessarily mean Equestria had factory farms.
In contrast, I'm much more willing to believe other dark things implied like the show like the existence of violent criminals (the beat 'em up cutie marks of Caballeron's henchmen, the pony in Gift of Maud Pie who's looks like a mobster with a cutie mark for making people sleep with the fishes, the Breaking Bad pony from a few episodes ago, the jar of poison on the shelf in the shop in the opening of Magic Duel). Same with Slenderpony appearing in Pinkie Apple Pie. Dark pasts and dark possible futures like the Sombra war are also fine.
But the thought of an intensive egg and dairy industry made me write a post about how Equestria probably doesn't have it.
I think the line between what bad ponies you imagine in Equestria vs. what industries you imagine in Equestria is the difference between;
"Equestria has monsters" vs. "Equestria is monstrous."
We already know My Little Pony has monsters. It's been there since the beginning and is one of the things that makes it an interesting world. Adding dictators and criminals just adds more adult ponies.
But I think imagining that the entire pony population is aware of and supportive of something ugly for all the reasons we act that way in real life is a little beyond how I'd like to imagine the show.
Even something like Rainbow Factory is totally secret from the rest of the pony population, but even than, I find the hate and bigotry displayed by ponies in the story to be distasteful, and just prefer the songs with ambiguous lyrics about dark secrets or a dark past.
Edit to add: There's also the issue of how much like real life something is. Rainbow Factory is, frankly, ridiculous. Fallout: Equestria is speculative about a future that's yet to happen in both the show and real life. It's different than just imagining the same industry-related ethical messes we're aware of in our world existing exactly the same in Equestria.
What is your line for un-idyllic headcanon about Equestria?
How do you feel about the idea of factory farms in Equestria?
Heya guys, just letting anyone who winds up trying to ping me or get in touch via reddit, I've changed over to this reddit account (it was /u/Aurelleah before) Quick little verification https://i.imgur.com/N26HEOp.png
I used to get the original shoutout on occasion, so figured I'd let the community know I migrated over in case that winds up happening again
I've got some more pony music on the way eventually, but I recently got a job as a Millwright so I havn't had nearly as much time to work on music or art .-.
Here's a little thing I'm currently working on for fun to practice my mixing EDM-making abilities, if anyone wants to hear. It's pretty happy/exciting :D https://clyp.it/v5a4vk3l
Anyways, how's everyone doing today?
I'm glad they dropped that by the time The Best Night Ever aired, because that would've meant one of two things:
1: Luna has a son.
2: Celestia has another sibling we don't know about.
How would her frill translate into human hair?
It's that time of the week again!
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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!
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 here!!!!!
Kind of in line with a topic I tried to bring up earlier in the week, what form do you think each of the student six would take if they crossed through the Crystal Mirror into the human world?
Would Sandvar be the only human? How old would he appear?
Would Smolder turn into a dog the same way Spike did?
And what about the other creatures?
Would Ocellus and Silverstream retain their abilities to transform?
Would Gallus and Yona look really foreign, if human?
So it's interesting that pretty much everyone has decided that Cozy Glow is some kind of villain.
While opinions disagree on if she is mastermind or pawn, or even if she is truly who she appears to be, most fans have picked up on how manipulative and fake she was in the most recent episode.
While it's uncertain what her endgame might be at this stage of the season, it's clear that Cozy Glow is up to something. So what do you think it might be?
Is she a clever plant from the EEA?
Is she another well known villain in disguise?
Is she brand new villain, a devious mastermind who has her own plans?
Or do you think we've gotten her all wrong and she's really sweet and innocent after all?
Scenario
Twilight Sparkle discovers a way to connect to the Internet in our world from Equestria.
The Mane 7 learn that they are fictional in our world, so they decide to hold an AMA in this subreddit, or, rather, a series of AMAs.
Somehow, they provide proof of their reality, and then set up a schedule for the posts, spanning two weeks:
Monday - Twilight Sparkle
Tuesday - Pinkie Pie
Wednesday - Rainbow Dash
Thursday - Applejack
Friday - Starlight Glimmer
Saturday - Fluttershy
Sunday - Rarity
Monday - Spike and the CMC.
Tuesday - Celestia, Luna and Cadance.
Wednesday - Trixie, Maud and Sunburst
Thursday - The Student Six
Friday - Star Swirl and the Pillars
Saturday - Discord
Sunday - Thorax and Pharynx
Questions
What would you ask these characters? How do you think they'd respond?
Welcome To Villain Talk, where we will talk about one G4 Villain from any branch of the media. We will talk about why we like them, why we don't like them,and any head canons wehave about them. This week villain Nightmare Moon.
Who are they: The first villain from the series opener, Celestia younger ailcorn sister who wanted to cover the world in never ending night. Was blasted by the rainbow and was reform. Now going by her real name of Luna.
What I think: I always believe they could have done a better job about explaining why just blasting her with the elements reform her like that. After the only other villain that was reform like that was Sunset and at least they did later explain that was mostly because her transformation and actions after was the results of unstable magic, and you can even see her not enjoying the transformation why she was turning. Of course they could always still explain this in a new episode. Anyway despite this I do enjoy this villain.
What do you think?
I noticed there have been far less songs seasons in recent seasons of MLP. For instance, there have been just 5 songs in Season 7 and 3 songs about half-way through Season 8. (You can check out the list of songs from the MLP Wikia)
Perhaps, this trend might be due to recent EQG series as well as the MLP the Movie that include bunch of new songs sung by the main characters. Anyway, one of the reasons I got into the series was plenty of wonderful songs from Mane 6 and those solo Pinkie songs in Season 1 and 2. (Heck, I even liked those unique musical styles from the Flim Flam brothers.)
Discovery Family press release stated season eight will feature seven songs, meaning there will be four more songs remaining in this season. That is far less than the number of songs in early seasons, but at least that's a bit more than what we've got in Season 7. I'm actually hoping at least one of those would be performed by Student Six or perhaps other side characters that we haven't seen for a while. (I'm talking about you, Diamond Tiara!)
Anyway, that was just my thoughts on the songs in recent seasons. I hope I'm not the only one who loves the songs just as much as the characters in this series. :)