What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thread)

[CannonFodder]

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I know, I already saw that picture. It's just hilariously fitting for the scenario.

I really don't get why everyone thinks that cider song is the best in the series, or even good for that matter. I mean, it wasn't bad, but it was nowhere near the best.

Cause the tune often gets stuck inside your head very easily.

[Shànwàng]

I really don't get why everyone thinks that cider song is the best in the series, or even good for that matter. I mean, it wasn't bad, but it was nowhere near the best.

I wasn't too big a fan either.

[Vukasin]

Godammit, I want Vukasin's pony in the damned show. Then I'd watch it!

It kind of is. It's a metalized sweetie belle.

[CannonFodder]

It kind of is. It's a metalized sweetie belle.

The irony of the talent show episode is that their voice actors can actually sing well.

[Ariosto]

I really don't get why everyone thinks that cider song is the best in the series, or even good for that matter. I mean, it wasn't bad, but it was nowhere near the best.

And I was never too big on Winter Wrap Up or any Pinkie song that wasn't Singing Telegram (hey, that almost looks like Latin), in fact, Flim and Flam's song was the first song in the series I actually listened to on a regular basis. The other song in the series I like is The perfect stallion. Also, it's odd that you say this, I had thought that song was relatively unpopular.

I like it because of its fun tune, alliterative appeal, the way the other chracters joins in various ways, the fact it doesn't remind me of a pop song in any sort of vague and uncomfortable way (unlike Winter Wrap Up and even Rarity's songs), that the singers are male and have deeper voices for a change (thank goodness!) and the rhyming. It's just a big, loud, fun, playful number, a show-off for two characters and also a very adequate introduction all things considered, kind of reminiscent of Disney's musicals.

[CannonFodder]

The only thing that bugs me about the finale is that I just hope they don't fall into the generic "here's a family member that you'll never see again". The cliche of never talking about other family members is so widespread that it's forgivable, but I just hope they do what they did with rarity's parents. By that I mean see them one episode and never see them again.

With Rarity's parents that's forgivable cause they don't do anything for the plot; but with two characters as important as a princess and captain of the royal guard nope.

[Unsilenced]

I may be late to the party with this, but the changling fight was pretty much the most badass thing ever.

[CannonFodder]

I may be late to the party with this, but the changling fight was pretty much the most badass thing ever.

It was more of a war than a "fight".

[Cain]

So someone explain to me, I've seen the names of these MLP fanfics a couple of times but never really took an interest in them: My Little Dashie, Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre. As I understand it, they're creepypasta?

[Ariosto]

So someone explain to me, I've seen the names of these MLP fanfics a couple of times but never really took an interest in them: My Little Dashie, Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre. As I understand it, they're creepypasta?

If you mean creppypasta in sense they try to make the reader feel like the described events actually happened, then Cupcakes doesn't fit that description, since it's just a fanfic, and neither does SAM.

My little Dashie, as far as I'm aware, is a cute tear-jerking fic, so no, not creepypasta either.

[CannonFodder]

So someone explain to me, I've seen the names of these MLP fanfics a couple of times but never really took an interest in them: My Little Dashie, Cupcakes and Sweet Apple Massacre. As I understand it, they're creepypasta?

Cupcakes and sweet apple massacre are basically poorly written fanfics meant for shock value and meant to be a gorefest.
Cupcakes has pinkie pie being a murderer who bakes ponies into cupcakes. Imagine soylent green, but with ponies.
Sweet apple massacre is that rainbow dash is losing her mind cause she's having nightmares and such that pinkie is killing her.
I wouldn't read them, because they're basically crap.



My little dashie on the other hand is a extremely extremely well written fanfic that is a outright tear-jerker. There's no gore, there's no death, etc. On the other hand the ending is extremely sad that you'll need a bit to compose yourself cause the whole time you know the ending is coming and you're just building yourself up to it and when it finally happens you go, "NOOOOOO! Why didn't you just give it a happy ending?"

[DevistatedDrone]

Sweet apple massacre is that rainbow dash is losing her mind cause she's having nightmares and such that pinkie is killing her.

Wait, isn't Sweet Apple Massacre when Big Mac does some fairly unfriendly things to the Crusaders?

[CannonFodder]

Wait, isn't Sweet Apple Massacre when Big Mac does some fairly unfriendly things to the Crusaders?

Wait my bad, I was thinking of rocket to insanity.
My point is most of the shock value fanfics aren't that good.

[Cain]

Mmh, I just read my little dashie, and although I wasn't bawling at the end, I did have to blink out several tears and sniffle a bit.
I think that's the first time i've cried in more than a year.
Great, now I'm going to dream about getting a filly rainbow dash and raising her and stop myself and think of the sad ending so many times over.
Goddamn.
Goddamn it.
Fuck you imagination.

[CannonFodder]

Mmh, I just read my little dashie, and although I wasn't bawling at the end, I did have to blink out several tears and sniffle a bit.
I think that's the first time i've cried in more than a year.
Great, now I'm going to dream about getting a filly rainbow dash and raising her and stop myself and think of the sad ending so many times over.
Goddamn.
Goddamn it.
Fuck you imagination.

Your brain just trolled itself.

[Mircea]

Mmh, I just read my little dashie, and although I wasn't bawling at the end, I did have to blink out several tears and sniffle a bit.
I think that's the first time i've cried in more than a year.
Great, now I'm going to dream about getting a filly rainbow dash and raising her and stop myself and think of the sad ending so many times over.
Goddamn.
Goddamn it.
Fuck you imagination.

I "seen" it too thanks to someone reading it in a Youtube video (making a voice version). It's weird it didn't make me cry... last story that managed this was the Fox And The Hound movie by Disney 3 years ago.

[Tybis]

most of the shock value fanfics aren't that good.

Have you personally read any that you enjoyed?
'Cause I'm searching for fics that are demented and shocking, in similar vein to such shock value fics, yet don't stray too far towards Sweet Apple Massacre's... typicality?
The plot itself didn't bother me, but it did not really seem well executed.

[Vukasin]

I wouldn't read them, because they're basically crap.

Cupcakes may not be the most well written story, but the whole Pinkamena fanon thing is really awesome. Probably my favourite thing the fandom has made.

The pictures and the music for it are really cool.

[CannonFodder]

Have you personally read any that you enjoyed?
'Cause I'm searching for fics that are demented and shocking, in similar vein to such shock value fics, yet don't stray too far towards Sweet Apple Massacre's... typicality?
The plot itself didn't bother me, but it did not really seem well executed.

Your best best would be grimdark then. There's a fair bit of good grimdark out there, but if you are looking for solely shock fics you're barking up the wrong tree.

[Mircea]

Cupcakes may not be the most well written story, but the whole Pinkamena fanon thing is really awesome. Probably my favourite thing the fandom has made.

The pictures and the music for it are really cool.

This.

[Tybis]

Your best best would be grimdark then. There's a fair bit of good grimdark out there, but if you are looking for solely shock fics you're barking up the wrong tree.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of "well-written, emotion-tearing tragedy that probably includes severe physical trauma" (ever read BUCK?)
I usually end up laughing at/shaking my head while reading pure shock fics, because they're just so... ohwhatisit. I can do without wonky rape scenes (although BUCK sort-of includes one :[ ).

[Ubek]

I never meant to imply that a god was infallible, but given that she was essentially the goddess of the sun, I expected much more from Celestia than that. The fact that Shining Armour could conjure a spell like that when Celestia or Luna apparently couldn't is further evidence that Alicorn does not auto trump unicorn.

The ep Hearthswarming Eve (I think) explained a bit of this history, that unicorns used to be the ones to raise the sun and moon. We still have nothing on the origins of Celestia and Luna, so we can't know how their power came to be. What we have seen however is that their bloodline is not exclusively alicorn (ie Blueblood) and they are not all necessarily immortal.

Cadence appearing as a filly in part of the ep suggests she is much younger. The lack of an ethereal mane indicates to me at least that she is not on par with Celestia and Luna for power (in that she is completely flesh and blood and not fluctuating between some form of energy being). And Seeing that Twilight's magic was more powerful than hers made me think that alicorns are probably just a rare fluke of birth rather than something exclusive to royalty. We just haven't seen any yet. Another theory I had was that the alicorns are an "artificial" product of some spell designed to elevate royalty above the rest. Unicorns formed the ruling class before, so this makes a degree of sense. Magic would probably also account for their greater stature than normal, as noticeable when Nightmare Moon was vanquished and Luna was reduced to essentially the same size as the other ponies.


I ramble.

[CannonFodder]

I never meant to imply that a god was infallible, but given that she was essentially the goddess of the sun, I expected much more from Celestia than that. The fact that Shining Armour could conjure a spell like that when Celestia or Luna apparently couldn't is further evidence that Alicorn does not auto trump unicorn.

The ep Hearthswarming Eve (I think) explained a bit of this history, that unicorns used to be the ones to raise the sun and moon. We still have nothing on the origins of Celestia and Luna, so we can't know how their power came to be. What we have seen however is that their bloodline is not exclusively alicorn (ie Blueblood) and they are not all necessarily immortal.

Cadence appearing as a filly in part of the ep suggests she is much younger. The lack of an ethereal mane indicates to me at least that she is not on par with Celestia and Luna for power (in that she is completely flesh and blood and not fluctuating between some form of energy being). And Seeing that Twilight's magic was more powerful than hers made me think that alicorns are probably just a rare fluke of birth rather than something exclusive to royalty. We just haven't seen any yet. Another theory I had was that the alicorns are an "artificial" product of some spell designed to elevate royalty above the rest. Unicorns formed the ruling class before, so this makes a degree of sense. Magic would probably also account for their greater stature than normal, as noticeable when Nightmare Moon was vanquished and Luna was reduced to essentially the same size as the other ponies.


I ramble.

I've been saying for a while that it may be a mix of rare recessive genetic mutation coupled with magic.

Well from what we've seen obviously celestia controls the sun, luna the moon & apparently cadence's power is love. Maybe alicorns have ONE ability that is either next to impossible to emulate or takes a massive number of unicorns to reach that level?

I'm thinking along the lines of X-men reallly, the x-gene gave them one superpower. The alicorn gene would give them one extremely powerful type of magic that ties in with their cutie mark....
I got it! Being a alicorn super charges their cutie mark talent.

[Ubek]

That's a possibility. But I still think alicorns have to be a created thing rather than a genetic thing. I'd bet all three of those princesses were born as unicorns.

[CannonFodder]

That's a possibility. But I still think alicorns have to be a created thing rather than a genetic thing. I'd bet all three of those princesses were born as unicorns.

It's possible that whatever causes them genetically to be alicorns is a rare recessive mutation that gets knocked out by everything else. We have yet to see any alicorns that are great descendants or great great great nephews or nieces of celestia and luna. What that probably means is that the genes are practically extinct cause they never went anywhere.

What I mean by that is in all chances if there is another alicorn it's going to either be celestia and luna's sibling or their parents or nieces and nephews and possibly kids.