Thoughts Without Threads - August

[kefkafloyd]

Thoughts Without Threads - if you have an interesting tidbit from the show, post it here. Random thoughts and observations should go here. This is about ponies only, no off topic.

If you think something will go beyond a few posts, then don't post it in here, start a new thread instead. Anything that spawns something that the modteam would consider a worthy thread will get split out, but we hate doing extra work. Make it easy on us and start a new thread.

If your thought is not pony related or quite long consider posting it in the Multisentence Sharing thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1146

[BartonFink]

I know some people don't check "One Art, Please" regularly but I think this deserves a general link here for those who don't.

Click here to view video.

Very impressive animation.

[WylieCIDER CIDER CIDER]

I just caught this, and put it in the toy thread because this one was still locked in the dark between-months time:

Click here to view video.

Check out Twilight Sparkle at 0:18. This commercial is getting a lot of play during NBC's Olympic coverage.

[The DoctorTurner Of All Things Timey Wimey]

^
Saw that tonight and was going to post it.

[blasmeisterIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.]

I know some people don't check "One Art, Please" regularly but I think this deserves a general link here for those who don't.

Click here to view video.

Very impressive animation.

That video is pretty great, but man do those OCs stick out like sore thumbs.

[kidcoelacanthalicorn twilight is fucking garbage]

I know some people don't check "One Art, Please" regularly but I think this deserves a general link here for those who don't.

Click here to view video.

Very impressive animation.

Good god

[Grilox]

It really bugs me how there's a Jinn in "It's about time." The fact that the Time Spells are in the Starswirl the Bearding wing has a circular worldline. Twilight learns it from Future Twilight, and then Twilight tells Past Twilight about it.

[The DoctorTurner Of All Things Timey Wimey]

Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey

[KronosGiver of Zero Bucks]

That video is pretty great, but man do those OCs stick out like sore thumbs.

The only ones I can identify are Mandopony's OC (the yellow one singing with the guitar cutie mark) and Emerald May (the personal OC of the animator). Aside from the mohawk pony with the stars cutie mark, all the other ones look like they're from the show.

[Stuff]

One more month until September. September = season three poni?!

time flies.

[Mechanical ApeAnd I thought they smelled bad on the outside!]

Very impressive animation.

This animation looks like it could be straight from the show.

HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE.

We have passed the threshold, pony has learned to replicate itself with 100% accuracy.

[Wonkadoo]

Following the Changeling Invasion Celestia starts a nationwide investigation intending to root out any shapeshifters. Twilight is initially helpful, trusting her mentor completely. Over time though it becomes clear that the investigation is based on paranoia. When borders are crossed and Twilight's friends are faced with unfair judgement she openly defies Celestia, veering into an epic ten minute speech that will be remembered and applicable two decades from now.

But Celestia isn't allowed to be evil, so she'll turn out to be Chrysalis in disguise.

[BloodWulfeEverfree Eggnog™: Equestria's choice for over 1000 years]

But Celestia isn't allowed to be evil, so she'll turn out to be Chrysalis in disguise.

Well now you just ruined the surprise reveal.

[ROBOT B9I am just about to be BRILLIANT!]

So I was watching Cantlerlot Wedding again and I just found a reference that will blow everyone's mind.

Love is a burning thing and it made a firey ring.
Twilight fell for Crystalis just like a child...
She fell down and the fire went wild...

She fell into a burning ring of fire,
She fell down, down, down but the flames rose higher.
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire.

This makes even more sense when you realise Ring Of Fire is a love song with the lyrics "The taste of love is sweet". Leave it to the writers to sneak in a Man In Black reference like that.

[thatbastardkenWant it, Need it]

OK so some people think that Pinkie Pie is the most magical pony because she has the most friends and friendship=magic.

Wrong.

Twilight Sparkle has the most powerful magic. Not because her talent means she has lot of friends. But because her talent (magic) must therefore equal friendship.

Twilight is the best possible friend basically by default, she can't help it.

[Gruekinda magical]

One of my favorite webcomics, Unwinder's Tall Comics just did a comic that features MLP as a plot point. It still freaks me out when I see pony references in something totally unrelated.

[Crow.Why, of course!I'm clearly insane! .]

Every OC I've seen has ridiculous clashing colors.

Mod Edit: You can discuss the video here! viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1634

[brakelessA pegasus will fly long and hard for a bit of gilded brass.]

ground floor



or maybe creepy basement with things coming out of the walls

[ROBOT B9I am just about to be BRILLIANT!]

Gaaaaah its eyes are staring into my soul

[GrimI'M THE WORLD CHAMP BETCHA CAN'T BEAT MEBALL SO HARD LITTLE GIRLS WANT A PONY]

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

[BloodWulfeEverfree Eggnog™: Equestria's choice for over 1000 years]

If you block out the face it looks OK. It still looks like it's pointing at you ominously with it's hoof though.

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

I was thinking about Celestia, and why some people seem to either REALLY like her, or dislike her. (All that New Lunar Republic brouhaha.)

And, it dawned on me, that, Celestia is like...Jesus plus Mom. And it stands to reason that, maybe subconsciously, our love/disdain for either or both of those things may influence how we see the character in the show.

[thatbastardkenWant it, Need it]

Impossible, I'm an atheist who loves his mother, and I think Celestia is a goddess and I fear her terrible wrath.

[fensterawethome~!]

There are people who dislike Celestia?

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

There are people who dislike Celestia?

In that jokey "We need to overthrow her because she's a tyrant" way.
You know, morons.

[PloboWhat'cha want me to do with this? Go pranking?I threw it on the ground!]

I think Celestia is a pretty cool guy. Eh rules fairly and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Wayoshi]

Well the hell did that grotesque plushie come from?

[Dexanth]

In that jokey "We need to overthrow her because she's a tyrant" way.
You know, morons.

That's a good word for it! Those who dislike Celestia just don't understand that her way is the best way and if you disagree you are wrong

[MalleusMy name is Mike and I do not like ponies.]

Celestia is okay because I'd have a beer with her and if I'd have a beer with you that means you're okay.

Wait... can horsies drink beer?

[Mechanical ApeAnd I thought they smelled bad on the outside!]

I'm going to hypothesize that this is the same crowd that likes to claim Sauron was a misunderstood reformer and Gandalf was a vile manipulator and Princess Leia was a tool of an archaic aristocracy and Voldemort just needed a hug.

I can't prove anything, but I blame Wicked for all this.

[Headless Horse]

Nah, blame all those retellings of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view.

And horses love beer.

[AramekYour MRI results have shown total infection to now be approximately one fifth of the full mass of the tissue."So you're saying..."Your brain is about 20% tumor.]

Really, Horses love beer. A neighbor we had, had an old grey horse named "Smoke" that, at large BBQ gatherings, would just walk around the large yard mingle with the people, and, upon seeing an abandoned beer bottle on a table, would pick it up, and tip its head back. It was great.

[KronosGiver of Zero Bucks]

There should be an episode where Celestia goes undercover as a generic pony in Ponyville and pretend to be completely against her own rule simply to see the reactions of her subjects.

Nah, blame all those retellings of Beowulf from Grendel's point of view.

I had to read a book that essentially WAS Beowulf told from Grendel's PoV (mostly new prequel stuff since he dies kind of early in the actual Beowulf story).

Can't say I was blown away like it like my English teacher was, but I've got evidence that suggests she was slightly insane, too.

[Mechanical ApeAnd I thought they smelled bad on the outside!]

"Zecora was tellin' me that in other lands, ponies drink somethin' called 'alcohol'. They've got uses for cider and grape juice we can't even dream of!"
"We have parties all the time in Equestria. I wonder why there's never any alcohol?"

"I will tell you the story, young ones. Once upon a time, there were two regal sisters who ruled Equestria together. But as time went on, the elder sister became resentful. The ponies drank and partied through the night her younger sister brought forth, but slept hungover through her beautiful day. In bitterness, the elder sister banned alcohol throughout the realm, and instituted a 9:30 curfew so ponies wouldn't stay out too late. And when the younger sister ventured a calm and well-reasoned word in protest, the elder sister banished her to the moon for a thousand years because she's a big dumb meanie jerkface. The end."

"Wow! Thanks, Princess Luna! Now I know!"
"Oh, dearest sister. Are you filling the ponies' heads with more of your ridiculous tales?"
"Information wants to be free, Celestia! History will vindicate me! You can't hide forever from your decisions!"

...

Oh god, revisionist fanfic. I've become what I most despised.

[Wayoshi]

^ More like Scuderia post with pony politics. We need a new Scuderia Jr. after I became a full-on Scuderia in FFTs now.

[KronosGiver of Zero Bucks]

^^ Of course, once Luna came back, she demanded that SHE handle enforcing the curfew.

[PerrydottoHow is a pegasus like a writing desk?]

Personally, I think people just overdo the whole "poor mysterious brooding anti-hero" thing way too much. Oh nooo, Nightmare Moon didn't do anything wrong, how dare Celestia banish her own sister, I'm sure there were no justifiable reasons for this whatsoever, Luna is a perfect little angel, yadda yadda.

I always like referring to this little comic when it comes to this matter. Sure, it's passive agressive and over the top, but it still made me gigglesnort and nod in agreement.


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[KronosGiver of Zero Bucks]

I think a lot of the "Luna was innocent/Celestia was too cruel" mentality has to do with how Luna, who had been turned into Nightmare Moon namely because of her wanting more attention for what she did compared to her exalted sister, was punished in a way that actually deprived her of any attention that she had to the point nobody remembered there was a difference between Luna and NMM 1,000 years later (as expressed with the mane six when they express surprise to the fact Celestia has a sister, and later in Luna Eclipsed when everybody else thought she was still Nightmare Moon), although that follows the idea that had Luna gotten more attention, things would have worked out, and ignores the truth that NMM still essentially wanted to kill everything on the planet by removing the sun.

[MordjaLYRA is the cool pony who likes to hang out. You can find most of the cool ponies with her. LYRA can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the LYRA motto, for example, that's how laid back she is.]

Threads without thoughts.

[Crow.Why, of course!I'm clearly insane! .]

Threads without thoughts.

Imagine a forum like that? It'd be an awful something, alright.