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Wouldn't it be neat if they started publishing Daring Doo books as tie-ins?
They could do it like the Nancy Drew books and have them ghost-written under a mass pseudonym.
It would be pretty awesome.

TV Tropes should give you a head start.

@Twilight Velvet is Daring Do:

We are fast approaching the point at which anything that could possibly happen in pony has already been thought up by the fandom.

I don't know, the series went quickly downhill after the previous installment:

Summary of this episode

The second one was very faint but I still managed to pick it up. I still find it funny how so many sound technicians go out of their way to use it. But considering the amount of Indiana Jones references in this episode, I guess it was warranted.

Other things confirmed:
- Everything in Daring Do is canon (obviously)
- Headcanons destroyed worldwide
- Dashface returns
- Derpface on the final book cover
- DaringDash shipping
- Comic canon disregarded

GUYS. PONIES: THE ANTHOLOGY III. LOOK.

No one fandom should have all this win.

But I'm glad that it's us.

Holy crap, Rainbow, how on earth did you get such a damn nice house?

I mean, LOOK at that! She has lights and statues and everything…

Oh, and no, I don't have anything else to say.
Ignore me.

Stop looking at me.
Stop it.

I was actually pretty saddened that the comic canon ended up disregarded in this episode, especially because the comic writers usually interact with the show writers to make sure their stories make sense within the canon, don't they? Then again, this was a tiny background moment that most people don't notice unless it is pointed out to them, so I guess it doesn't matter all that much

@Stunt:
I assume Dash has such a nice house because she lives with her parents still. This would make sense since right now she has a job that would probably be considered a minimum wage/close to minimum wage job within this universe, seeing as weather control seems to be a job most if not all pegasi can do (and on some occasions seems to be done as volunteer work as seen in winter wrap up). Or maybe weather control actually pays really well and she does it full time. Or maybe houses are super cheap when they are made of clouds. Who knows?

I noticed that Daring Don't was written by Dave Polsky. Nice to see an episode by him given general approval from the fandom.

And with that * sigh * I'll go back to working on my finals projects.

@Pony Anthology 3
That was the hypest shit, I don't think I can say anything more than that.

I officially have next to no words on the subject matter of the episode now that I've seen it. (Even though it didn't show up here Like I expected it to.)

However, from a criticism perspective, dash's constant squeeing over Daring Doo for the most part triggered my "Pause the video and calm down" reflex. Specifically because its kinda hard to take seriously. Although whether I think that's a good thing or a bad thing I don't know, but I do know it felt embarrassing to see Dash do that. Though in terms of cute I suppose it was the good kind of embarrassment.

I think in the end what stuck out most out of place was that I would have expected Dash to go in and pound a few tigers herself instead of waiting for Daring Doo to need help, and it felt like afterwards Twilight was Lampshading the fact Dash was acting out of character there. So there's that.

All in all… It felt… Like it could be better. A lot better. So far the episode serves mostly as an exercise in world building. So…. Yeah.

@New episode captions: I'm ignoring you. I spend a whole hour watching this ↑↑↑ but I've yet to spend 22 min watching the new episode. lol.

@Anthology III: GAWD that was SO epic! At first it was kinda meh, but then it was full blown awesome. Better than 2 imo. This needs an award. Is there any way to get this to sundance?
My face right now.↓↓↓

Hey guys! How bout some brony youtubers rant?

This is probably a good rant with good reasons why he hate them more than bitching about them and i am agree him in most of parts. What do you think?

The comments are hilarious btw.. All those butthurts.

@Episode
I must say that it caused the first ever straining of my disbelief. Not only because of the clashing of the fantasy genre ponies is set in with the serial adventure genre of Daring Do, but also because the episode made no effort whatsoever to place the giant rainforest outside of Equestria, leading me to believe that not only do weather ponies dump billions of gallons of water over an uninhabited jungle as opposed to the western settlements that need it, but that there's a tropical rainforest in the Equestria equivlent to the US-Canada border.

Overall 6.3/10. They should have kept Daring Do fictional. I like the "Twilight's mom" headcanon far more than the real Mccoy. Episode review will be done tomorrow because the Wiki decided not to post any screencaps today.

@Alex Mercer
>2007excalibur2007
>splicing's not creative

You do realize how much of a pain in the ass splicing sound clips together to make coherent sentences is, right? I don't really give a shit about Youtube bronies, or any website famous bronies for that matter. Although my jimmies become jostled when artists want you to buy their music. If it's based on ponies, you shouldn't sell it. I don't see fanfic writers demanding money for their stories, so why should I see it from musicians? Now, of course, if it's unrelated to ponies than be my guest, but otherwise, I'm just going to use downloadhelper.

@Alex and that brony rant

10. jhaller2

Hmm, sounds like the problem is the lack of doing stuff. But not everything needs commentary right? If his goal is to just find things and present them, does he need to do much else? I agree he should not take fame away from others though if he's just a portal

9. acoustic brony

I can see where the guy is coming from. By slapping ponies on his music; Acoustic Brony really has run the risk of pigeonholing his work to one fandom and reducing his audience even though the content he creates isn't specific to it. However if Acoustic Brony really wants to name his instrumentals after his best pony, that's his right. I don't think that makes him one of the worst.

8. jaxblade07

Yea, I'd also cringe at guys who act like being a brony is the coolest shit ever

7. littleshyFiM

I dunno, I kinda like cinema sins and related stuff. I don't see the problem since it's not like CinemaSins will ever care that someone is making a spinoff of them for a kids show that CinemaSins will ever cover. And of course litteshy will do a lot of it because there's sins in every episode. I kinda read this as "Stop making content I don't like!!!".

6. bronycomms

Yea they sound pretty boring.

5. bronyvids

Someones ponifying shit again! Call the police! I hope this guys argument goes deeper than that

4. bronydanceparty

Meh, using ponycreator is bad, but not unforgivable if he's stopped using it. Doesn't seem that bad.

3. yaplap

Here I agree fully. I don't understand this Yaplap guy. Who the hell enjoys listening to wretched SCREAMING!? When we used to have synctube parties and watched ponyvids, every time someone sync a yaplap video I would leave immediately. I hated that irritating crap. I would have made him no.1

2. 2007excalibur2007

I sense a bit of bias here so I'm not sure how bad this guy really is. Then again, I take plagiarism pretty seriously, so if 2007 has been doing that, then he does deserve to be there without question

1. jacktheherbert

Dunno. I know a lot of people who really do enjoy watching how other people react to stuff. Especially after they've seen it themselves and can compare reactions. Sounds like another case of "Stop making content I don't like!!!". Also reminds me of pewdiepie for some reason

@Top 10 Worst: I think this guy is just a little butthurt. I mean yeah I agree some of these guys suck, but so much so you have to go out and create a video about it? I mean, yeah I could agree the quality of some of these you tubers is bad, but he has no idea what he is talking about half the time. Half of his jabs are at the YTers are personal preferences and not actual critiques of their content though. Of course he does state in the description that the video is a personal opinion, but it seems a little too personal if you ask me. Still…

My break down on his break down:

I don't know why I typed all that up. His video didn't deserve that much of a reaction, but I almost feel like creating a reaction video to his video. lol.

Edit: This is the advice I should've followed.

I don’t know why I typed all that up

Because somebody had to be the voice of reason and I couldn't be bothered picking apart the video in complete detail myself.

@New episode

Best pony turning the cute up to 11. Eat your heart out Fluttershy.

@Daring Do & Twilight's mom both being the writers

A ghostwriter is a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are often used for writing songs and lyrics. Screenplay authors can also use ghost writers to either edit or rewrite their scripts in order to improve them, increasing their chances to be optioned or produced. Also, ghost writers may work on accompanying documents, such as treatments for screenplays.

Daring has the adventures and writes them down in a journal. Twilight's mom polishes them and makes them not suck (and takes out all the gratuitous sex to make it PG)

Contradiction resolved.

@Dash's nice house

Well you know, Scootaloo isn't COMPLETELY useless…

She's really good at sucking! (u mad Deadparrot?)

In other news, it looks like the project Exudes and I have been working on for the better part of the year will FINALLY be finished today! I hope you guys will enjoy it.

@Worst Brony Youtubers. My time in this fandom has been very limited since the end of 2011 (that was during my OMG I AM FUCKING OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! phase) so I haven't been on top of the whole Brony Youtube channels thing. Except for a few like DustyKatt, Jaxblade and a few of those other guys (Don't know if Kyrospawn counts….). Although, I personally like this quote.

How did people find these videos entertaining? Oh that's right, it's MLP related and bronies fucking love everything that is.

Couldn't agree more with that honestly. I mean, who can disagree with that?

Sixths said

She’s really good at sucking! (u mad Deadparrot?)

I don't know about you, but I'm slightly irked by that.

One guy on tumblr brought up the thought that maybe Twilight Velvet wasn't necessarily the author of DD, but maybe that the award she won had to relate to it. Perhaps Velvet didn't write DD itself, but she just won an award from something like "The Daring Do Award for Excellent Writing" or something. Then again if that’s the case, since we learned in the episode that Daring Do is a real character who writes her own books, I can’t see if she’d have time to keep up an annual writing competition in addition to being, well, …Daring Do. (Then again, she might’ve given permission for the competition to someone else under the guise of A.K. Yearling.)

I thought it was another great episode! Really liked the character J.K Rowling- I mean A.K. Yearling.. I liked that she turned out to be the real Daring Do since it means that character now exists in that universe. Celestia has said that the Elements of Harmony are Equestria's strongest defense, she never said they were it's only defense. The whole Twilight's mum not writing Daring Do in the episode doesn't really bother me as far as I'm concerned the canon of the TV show always outweighs the canon of the comics, for some reason in my headcanon Twilight's mum is an alcoholic.. There was a reason behind that but I can't remember what it was anymore – besides Twilight's mum can still be a writer… Maybe she wrote a fan-fiction to the Daring Do series of a more mature nature called "50 Shades of Hay".
Also I came across this image that made me squeal a bit..

"Have I mentioned yet that I work alone?"
"Have I mentioned that you're lucky that I don't?"

Seriously, if you guys haven't watched Anthology III you're missing out on epic punz/lulz.
↓New canon for season 3 right here.↓

Objectively, this was another quality episode. Hasbro is bringing their A-game this season.

Personally, though, I didn't like it.

I'm biased, though. I don't tend to enjoy Rainbow Dash episodes, because I'm not a fan of Rainbow Dash.

Or Daring Do, for that matter. I didn't really like the last Daring Do episode, either.

But, yeah, opinions aside, it was a quality episode.

BalisticDerr said:

One guy on tumblr brought up the thought that maybe Twilight Velvet wasn’t necessarily the author of DD, but maybe that the award she won had to relate to it. Perhaps Velvet didn’t write DD itself, but she just won an award from something like “The Daring Do Award for Excellent Writing” or something. Then again if that’s the case, since we learned in the episode that Daring Do is a real character who writes her own books, I can’t see if she’d have time to keep up an annual writing competition in addition to being, well, …Daring Do. (Then again, she might’ve given permission for the competition to someone else under the guise of A.K. Yearling.)

I think Price just screwed up when he drew that. It's very seldom you can imply something so thoroughly that everybody (/mlp/, EQD, TV Tropes, etc) believes it. Now, handwaving and headcanon have to explain it away when he could have avoided all that by simply not using Daring Do. He knew Twilight Velvet wasn't the author since they have the S4 scripts, so I'm just baffled as to why he'd do that.

It doesn't make sense that it's a literary award. Awards are named after people (Pulitzer, Nobel, Newbery, etc), or nouns (Nebula, etc), not book series' (there's not a Harry Potter Award, or a Lord of the Rings Award). She could be a ghostwriter, but if she ghostwrote it, she wouldn't have gotten an award--Yearling would have.

The only guess I can think of is that Daring Do has a huge Expanded Universe, bigger than Star Wars', and the "Daring Do Award" is one given by the fandom to the best EU book writer.

On the topic of Daring Do, and if this hasn't been mentioned already (if it has, smite me down and throw me into a bowl of boiling snakes), let's talk about this mishap:

Your turn. Post smears and effects that did not go as planned.

@smear: I just ran across this:

The caption underneath:
"I bet you 5 bits this has been redrawn to look like a horse cock."
…well, at least that explains the "third leg."

Is that an animation error, or are you just happy to see me?

"Thanks for coming, I'll be here all week, try the veal, be sure to tip the waitress!"

You know, when I first saw that I didn't think it was an animation error. I just missed that one leg and just assumed that everyone went "Tee hee hee, look at her! She's kicking and it looks like a dick!" then I noticed they drew three legs and now I realize everyone is going "Tee hee hee, look at her! She has a dick!"

Guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise guise!

. . . . . . .

Penises exist.

You can all go home now.

@Fifths

@Twilight's Mom/Comic Canon
Yes, this is a clear case of the comic contradicting canon, but I think it might be understandable.
I saw a few interviews with the comic people and, if I recall correctly, they aren't actually given the scripts for the new season.
The way I heard it was that they essentially pitch a bunch of ideas for scripts that they want to try and Hasbro tells them whether they can do them or not.
In other words, they only know that an episode will be specifically about some subject if they happen to ask about doing a similar story.
They have no prior knowledge.
Even after initial approval, I'm pretty sure Hasbro's only really paying attention to potential contradictions in the script/story/lesson itself.
The Daring Do award thingy was obviously a little gag that Andy decided to throw into the background to fill out the scene so it wouldn't have likely appeared in anything other than the final product.
Now, obviously Hasbro must have looked it over before sending it to print, but at that point, I'm sure they were down to just looking for glaring errors, not tiny details like this.
It slipped through the net.

But that's part of the fun of this fandom.
Subtle or blatant contradictions of logic lead to some crazy jury-rigging of circumstances where these seemingly incongruous elements actually make perfect sense.
It's a fun exercise!

@Trading cards

Well, look at that.
Wild Fire likes to draw just like her mommy!

This is just perfect:

@Daring's Fifth Leg
From what I heard, it's not an animation error, but a "transition" frame of Daring Do moving from the standing position to the kicking one.

DeadParrot222

I saw a few interviews with the comic people and, if I recall correctly, they aren’t actually given the scripts for the new season.

Really? Because I distinctly remember one of the IDW editors saying they had the scripts when the Twilicorn Comic Jimmy Rustling occurred.

I also read through one of my favorite /mlp/ threads today. It started as a troll episode five leak thread, then turned into that "Kirby Crossover" leak that's already been debunked but just won't die, then finally got awesome when /mlp/ attempted to brute force Hubworld to get the leak.

By that I mean they know what the rough URL of episode five is. The problem is that the URL contains randomly generated numbers (ten of them to be precise). If you know can guess what those ten numbers are, you get to watch the Scootaloo Feels Episode. Originally, they thought they had six of them figured out based on a screenshot that had a similar URL and so started brute forcing the other four. Unfortunately, it turns out that wasn't the case and there was still ten numbers. Statistically, that's ten billion possible combinations--unpractical for brute forcing. Still, they have hope that Hasbro uses some kind of "pattern" that can be figured out.

@Dis pic

Now THIS is something I can get behind. Feel free to punch me for saying that.

@Dat pic

At first I thought the leg from the previous frame was supposed to be the phallic one. I spent ages trying to force my perspective before giving up, then I assumed you were all just crazy, then I figured it out, then I remembered I was still right. Every day's a school day.

@Everywhere a pic pic
(I don't want to overload this post with more than 4 untagged images, so I'll just say that I'm talking about The Stanley Parable pic).

Ah, yes, The Stanley Parable! A game of crazy lines, solve-the-soupcan puzzles and eternal entrapment in a serious room with the most serious table that can be found.

Click to enlarge!

@Extisgex
I'm sure there must be passcode cracking software that can just run the numbers for a while… though by the time you set it up to search URLs, run it and find the valid one, it may already be time for the episode to air.
BUT IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE SCOOTALOVE!

The post below gets a kiss from Derpy! If this is the last post on the page, we are all doomed to 10.000 years of muffin-based pain and suffering! HOORAY!

^Claiming the kiss

@Episode
I liked it, season 4 seems to be strong so far. Can't really say anything about it that hasn't been said already, but I enjoyed watching it.

@The Anthology III
It was the first one I've seen, but it had a lot of great stuff. Maybe a bit too much of the 'thanks M.A. Larson' stuff, though the M. Air. Larson one was pretty clever IMO.

Cute pone

I've seen this one before in the gallery, but who can get angry at those faces?

@xTSGx and the brute /mlp/ force:

Assume 10 billion possible combinations, five day limit, one automated guess per second, distributed brute force guessing would require at least 23,149 willing participants running computers non-stop to ensure success before airtime. Even distributed, non-stop stream of guesses will place perpetrators in sharp relief against backdrop of ordinary requests. Obfuscation of activity would require even more participants, a factor of 10 or more. Suggestion: quit while ahead. Patience is a virtue.

Interruption complete.
Resume joyous frivolity.

I had to do it

>Misshapen penis that kind of looks like a really long back leg

I like the part where it's fake.


Click image to go to action sequence.

It's an edited frame, and it's noticable once you take a look at it. Her right leg is too far off of the main body, and the way she is turned means there was never any reason for an animator to add that leg there. As for it being a "transition frame", the only motion in this segment is that single vector moving through the air – there is no body motion whatsoever.

It's an edit, and not even that good of one.

Now that I've officially become the party pooper for this conversation, allow me to take my leave.

Well, if you insist…..

@Crazy Moon

Aw. :(

So BSoD is a giant or he just likes Little Ponies? I'm sure that wasn't your intention but now this picture raises so many questions. How is BSoD that large? Was he born that way? Was it a curse put on him? Is it a super power? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS BLUE SCREEN!

Twilicepter will never die!

>firmly grasp it

Wink wink nudge nudge.

So, anyone else excited about The Hobbit coming out this Friday? It's not everyday that you get to see the enchanted kingdom of Elves and Dwarves (unless you're BSoD or Stunthead)

Obligatory pony

The Hobbit comes out this Friday?

I literally had no idea until just now.

Too much EXACTLY ENOUGH time spent with pone.

I'd better find time to go to that.

Fifths said:

So, anyone else excited about The Hobbit coming out this Friday?

Not really, I've never been a "high fantasy" fan.

@Kewlnoob

So BSoD is a giant or he just likes Little Ponies? I’m sure that wasn’t your intention but now this picture raises so many questions. How is BSoD that large? Was he born that way? Was it a curse put on him? Is it a super power? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS BLUE SCREEN!

I don't know! I just happen to randomly find myself sucking things and I don't remember how I get there.

And I'm normal sized. Daring Do is also normal sized. But she's behind me, in the background kicking an unrelated object off camera. And I'm in the foreground sucking on air.

@Hobbit

I already saw the Hobbit when I looked in the mirror this morning DOHOHOHO (I like this national stereotype much better than the last one.)

But seriously, I definitely will be going to see this movie. Absolutely without question.

I've already read the book, and all nerds are obligated to know LOTR lore under the nerd code of honor, so I have to do it.

Since it's a geek thing. It's no surprise that that fandom is following The Hobbit closely as well.

Ponifications inbound

Attention anime fans: lookit dis.

EDIT: Oh, wow, a page get. It's been, like, a year since I've gotten one of those. I don't come here often enough any more to ever get them :c