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•Not enough people like Twilight Sparkle.
•No, seriously. It would fix a lot of things.

Okay, just to be clear, is this a joke?
I'm just asking because I'm curious how liking Twilight more would help, I would've thought it would be someone like Rainbow or Applejack.

As far as that Tumblr Powerpoint goes I just want to get one thing straight, our porn is SCARING THE LITTLE GIRLS?!

Seriously though, they had some decent-ish points, but it was really pissing me off.
For one thing, all the reasons people already stated, but I also got the feeling that they wouldn't have been satisfied until everything remotely suggestive was buried far, far away in some dingy creepy closed-off site.and wouldn't accept ANYTHING less, even fairly reasonable measures.
Also, I will admit it's partially my anti-Homestuck bias, but I won't get into that here (if you really wish to know, ask me on my Wall or something like that).

I… Just noticed the full implications of a fact from a couple episodes back. (I'm getting through the latest episode about a minute at a time, don't judge me.)

Anyways… remember how Pinkie Pie has Prehensile hair?

Assuming that's a trait that extends across all ponies… Then it's technically possible for a pony with Rapunzel like hair to weave an outfit for themselves with their still fully alive and attached hair…

… So basically… Bayonetta Pony is feasibly plausible in canon with like… Zero effort.

Meanwhile… With what I'm getting out of the latest episode and everyone's reaction to it… One of my old enhanced fantasy fanfics (which I effectively dropped in favor of my MLP/Homestuck tumblr comic thing) has reached a critical canon failure for even AU status.

…Owing to the fact I reinterpreted the wonderbolts as a kind of Paladin like organization. Which in theory shouldn't be stooping to as underhanded tactics as what everyone sees them doing here.

So yeah… Looks like the new season is upending some old headcanons I held.

(For the record… I'm about 13 minutes in… Not sure if I'm ready to see the rest of Rainbow Dash seemingly pretending to be broken boned… It's kinda… One of those things that makes me cringe.)

I felt like doing an Octavia print to go with that Vinyl one I did. Octavia playing pizzicato on the bass, which is to say playing it Unbowed

It was supposed to be all grey except for the eyes and cutiemark, but for some reason the scanner redshifted the background. I don't think the change looks all that bad though.

@BSoD

You know that's just asking for an assgroping don't you?

Aww, come on now, Fifthsy-butt. There's plenty to live for! Like, like… playing trombone on Rock Band!

@Pony Porn Controversy:

Why can't we just leave each other alone for once?

@Jimmybutt

Aww, come on now, Fifthsy-butt.

Did I say you could steal my nicknaming method? No, I didn't.

@Porn

I've stopped caring about this side of the fandom, honestly. I joke about butts a lot (because butts are glorious) but other than that I don't really care about statistics or anything. I know it's a cliched answer, but as far as I can tell there are really only two things that hurts. The fandom's image (and who cares, we watch My Little Pony, it's not like we give a crap anyway) and the kids who come across the porn while unsupervised. The last one is sort of our problem, but it falls much more into the hands of the parents. Besides, what can I do about it? I'm just an idiot on the internet.
Butts.

Heheheh… yeah… butts…

Butts you say? I ought to call Backy.

@Pony Porn

I’ll admit it, I do look at that stuff. But it’s not like I go around showing people what I’m looking at. I certainly don’t want any kids to see what I see. In fact, I’m sure most bronies who like to clop just keep it to themselves. Cloppers exist, but they don’t force you to look at any clop art. If you find clop art and you didn’t want to see it, that’s you own fault.

Back to brony dating website

Okay, you are now officially our investigator on the field. Message some of those “women” and see what they do. I’ll be surprised if any reply at all, to be frank. Most of those were probably make for shits and giggles by other bored people.

Okay. I sent a few messages to see if I get anything. I avoided the obviously fake users (although the ones I messaged could be fakers too). A few hours later, I get this

First time I visit this thread in a long time out of couriosty? What's the current discussion?
Pony Porn

Some things never change…. Lol

Geez just imagine that showing up on your bank statement: "$48 to Bronymate.com"

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the next Great Shitstorm:

I knew it was inevitable once it was confirmed Hasbro was in the black for the movie. You don't become a multi-billion dollar company by letting opportunities go to waste.

I really, really , really hope they at least leave it in the EqG-verse. The amount of handwaving and asspulling that would be required to get Twilight back there would be too much for my Disbelief to handle.

Now, it's off to /mlp/ to have some fun.

The only thing about that movie that I really hated was that it is probably the reason why season 3 was half as long and kind of spotty compared to the ones before and after it.

There are only so many writers/actors/animators/etc to go around for a show like this, and you can only add so many extra people before you start diluting the core team and lowering the quality of the result. As a result, I'm pretty sure that, once all is said and done, season 3 is going to be retrospectively cast as the black sheep of the series, and it will largely be because of that movie.

What I want is for this movie, and any others that come out, to use as little of the show team as possible, so that the people who provide us with the show can focus on the actually important stuff and so keep the season at a normal length and quality. This will probably result in the movie not being very good – possibly worse than the first one – but I am perfectly fine with ignoring bad movies if there is a good TV show going on the air every week.

And that's really what my worry boils down to: that a regular movie series or spinoff will draw talent away from the thing I actually care about, dispersing it around this or that bit of pointless bullshit.

To be more specific, discussing shitstorms about pony porn.

Oh goodie, another Equestria Grisl movie. I guess Hasbro needed a second 70 minute commercial to sell those creepy dolls. Judging from the title, there's probably gonna be even more shitty pop music in this one than the last movie. But hey, some people actually liked the first movie and said it was "not bad". Perhaps there won't be a great shitstorm this time around. After all, this means we get DJ PON-3 RIDING A CAR WITH WINDSHIELD SUNGLASSES!!! JUST LIKE WE ALWAYS WANTED!!!

(In all seriousness, I don't care that they're making another movie, just as long as it doesn't affect the show.)

Uh-oh, someone's having an existential crisis!
I have just the solution!
Deploy silly hat!

…
Better?

Now, to the actual post in question…
Honestly, everyone has pretty much said what everyone always says whenever this same subject is brought up: Yep, there's porn out there. Yes, it should be tagged better so as to allow children and the uninterested to avoid it as much as possible (though I honestly think we're doing a pretty darn good job of that already). No, it is not the fandom's fault that parent's allow their children on the internet unsupervised.
Etc, etc.

I would like to add one point that I don't think I've ever seen discussed, though.
For all this talk about kids having the show 'ruined' for them by bronies because they Googled their favorite character and found one risque picture, why does no one ever mention the tremendous value that bronies can add to the enjoyment of the show for everyone, including the young girls?
Take that same Google search: If a little girl looks up Twilight Sparkle, before she gets to anything overly suggestive, she'll have scrolled past dozens of awesome, cute, funny, and completely SFW pieces by fantastic artists.
A little girl (or her parents) can find all manner of posters, shirts, plushies, dolls, toys, backpacks, ect. featuring the Purple Nerd that would never have been available without this fandom producing them.
That is something that very, very few children's shows ever get.

Odd that I'm bringing up EQLA twice in such quick succession, but even the brony conventions attract a number of younger viewers.
Seriously, if you were a 5 – 8 year old kid and you suddenly found out that your favorite TV show has this huge event dedicated to it where you could meet the characters, dress up as your favorites, and come home with all types of artwork and merchandise related to it, wouldn't you love it?
The kids at EQLA were treated exceptionally well for what I saw, often getting pictures with cosplayers and receiving free things from vendors as they went by.
They seemed to be having the times of their lives.

Hell, it's pretty likely that the show itself would have ended after season three if not for the unexpected popularity it managed to obtain outside of ts intended demographic.
While some people apparently consider that 'bronies stealing the show away,' I would be more inclined to consider that a hugely positive result of the fandom that added tremendous value (at least another two seasons that wouldn't have existed otherwise) for everyone, little girls included.

So yeah, my main point is 'Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.'
We are all aware of the problems that exist within this fandom and I think we all pretty much agree that working to improve in those areas is important, but I do get tired of this demonization of all brony activity when a vast majority of it is not only 'not negative' but demonstrably positive.

In conclusion:

DP is right. We're done with this shitstorm…

…NEXT!

Alright lets get started on this new shitstorm. This one sound like fun

So were looking at three things here.

1. Toys with interchangeable parts. Not too bad an idea. Kids love mix and match. Worked for the crash test dummies. Also gives people a chance to turn those pictures of "all in one" ponies into a reality

2. A new EqG movie comes out. Good for them. Apparently the last movie worked out in the end so they might as well go all the way. Also I hear Monster High is still kicking EqG's ass in the toy department so maybe that's why. I've seen EqG dolls in stores right next to Monster High dolls. I gotta say that the Monster High toys look majorly cooler. By comparison, the EqG dolls just look weird

But it sounds worth it just to see a car with Vinyl glasses. I don't really care what they do with the franchise. I just want to know what a car looks like with giant Vinyl Shades for a windshield

3. If I read this correctly, there will be new toy ranges based on the movie too. Kids get to push around toy versions of Vinyls car and wear it's windshield as sunglasses? Hahaha neat

I find it really awesome that something that's essentially brony influenced is becoming a serious kids toy. (Or brony toy if you want to look at it that way)

@Disturbed B

Who, whoa, whoa, whoa….you have to pay to view your correspondence?

I…I…

w…

chtff….pffft…

a… WHAT!? WHAAAAT!!!???? REALLY!?

REALLY!??? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING MFS*FYS(FIHSRW*I&Y*DFSHSUdszuif

Okay now this place has got to be some kind of scam. What kind of dating site charges you to contact people? That's like being forced to pay money to pick a free newsletter off the pamphlet rack. That's like paying for the 30 day trial version of the Adobe suite. That's like having to pay up front to test drive a car before you pay up front for the car.

The dating site I'm on only charges people for sending nude photo to each other. Emails are completely free and they should be. Restricting their use is counter intuitive for a website where the whole point is helping people reach each other. Facebook is a better dating site than thatAAAAGAWDISOMADRIGHTNOW. SO MAD THAT THE EMOTIONLESS POKERFACE I WEAR WHILE TYPING THIS ACTUALLY MADE A VERY SLIGHT FROWN

….okay…breath in, breathe out…maintaining composure…okay.

So go ahead and give the guy/girl/trap an email address. Whatever one you feel is safe if you aren't comfortable with giving out a main one. Definitely don't pay any money to that damn site.

@Unrelated

You know what's the funniest thing I find about being an MLP fan? The fact that all non-fans around me try to make me more of one

The only pony merch I've ever bought was the Doctor Whooves shirt. I don't really want anything else. And yet I've got stickers, socks, figurines, blindbags and just recently a calendar! Yes, I now have a new pony on my wall every month!

Who gets me this stuff? …EVERYONE I KNOW! And I'm the only pony fan here for literally miles. Society clearly wants me to stay on this ride

@porn
I don't even watch normal porn . Porn is more like a comedy/drama or that kind of thing for me. I don't watch it for fap if i do.
@disturbed
Wait how is that even legal? They should be sued by hasbro or something. This is totally scam.
But i am curious :other adult finders ask for premium membership? If they are, well it is kinda legit. For trustworthy at least. I dunno kinda awkward.
@butts

Hahahah classic!

@New EqG

Okay Hasbro, how does everyone ignoring your shitty high school tie-in the first time around result in you coming to the conclusion you need a second shitty tie-in?

Oh fuck it, I'm done trying to figure out Hasbro's not-logic. I'm just going to assume there's an entire story we're not getting which explains this shit, like maybe Hasbro is using the movies to transmit coded attack plans and manloaf recipes to the rest of the reptilians stranded on this planet with them.

Blue Screen said:

What kind of dating site charges you to contact people?

Evidently, eHarmony.

The dating site I’m on only charges people for sending nude photo to each other.

Do I want to know how you found this information out, or should I just let my Fimfiction Feature Box-filled imagination fill in the context?

So go ahead and give the guy/girl/trap an email address.

Mark my words: this is going to end badly, and when Chris Hanson is narrating this post on NBC and has to say the word "borkle," you'll all realize it.

@Shitstorm
What the hell's going on? EQD's losing their shit (850+ post article) and /mlp/ has nothing. No doom paul. No lying McCarthy. Nothing. They're actually taking this calmly and coolly. I think they're so far into denial, they've willed themselves into a mass delusion. It's actually kind of disturbing seeing /mlp/ react this way. It's like seeing that crazy hobo who usually mutters to himself about the reptile people suddenly having an in-depth conversation about the role communications play in defining and shaping society and culture.

Fifths said:

…result in you coming to the conclusion you need a second shitty tie-in?

But seriously, all indications are they made a pretty penny off of EqG, due to bronies hoovering up the shit (I blame each and every one who saw the thing in theaters). They wouldn't be dumping more money into it if they didn't make money off of the first one.

Meh, I only wanted to share those statistics in how we dominate in porn. I said it are worrying statisctics in some way, but that doesn't mean it really bothers me for the rest. Let people fap to their delight, their fetishes are their business.

The rest of the post didn't really interest me, I only linked it as a way to share the source, but people caught on a bit too much on the link.

The internet has safe search, and you won't find the porn on the websites kids mainly visit. If you let your 8 year old daughter browse the web freely and unauthorized, it's your own fault if she misclicks and ends up looking at porn of any character whatsoever.

And to point out one specific part in Deadparrot's post:

Take that same Google search: If a little girl looks up Twilight Sparkle, before she gets to anything overly suggestive, she’ll have scrolled past dozens of awesome, cute, funny, and completely SFW pieces by fantastic artists.

It's true. I tried it once by looking for the main 6 on Google images with safe search OFF, no porn.

So for the sake of a heads up, I did it again with "Rainbow Dash". Amongst the first hundreds of images I saw, this was the most disturbing one:

Not that disturbing. The rest was mostly cute stuff.

Talks about EQG part deux, complaints about it, and some stuff about the monies:

Remember how we all were into drama over the first film? Remember how it would "ruin the fandom"?

Then remember that pretty much everyone liked it?

Calm yo tits folks, you're being overdramatic.

Fifths wrote:

Okay Hasbro, how does everyone ignoring your shitty high school tie-in the first time around result in you coming to the conclusion you need a second shitty tie-in?

You're really livening up the party here lately huh?

@fifths

…result in you coming to the conclusion you need a second shitty tie-in?

I still say it's because Hasbro is still trying to smooch off Monster High turf. And they're doing that because of money as TSG pointed out above.

Remember the other MLP movies from the 80's and 90's? Of course you don't

Every human being on the planet completely ignored their passing and yet Hasbro kept churning out the movies for them anyway. If they have a motive for these films, then it isn't for attention.

@TSG

Evidently, eHarmony.

Well screw that noise. I ain't ever paying to send mail.

Do I want to know how you found this information out, or should I just let my Fimfiction Feature Box-filled imagination fill in the context?

Oh do please. Use that imagination to your fullest extent ;D

But seriously. I read it in the site terms and conditions (Yes, I actually do read those)

Mark my words: this is going to end badly, and when Chris Hanson is narrating this post on NBC and has to say the word “borkle,” you’ll all realize it.

But who knows, Disturbed B could also find a date! His very own knight in shining armor, complete with the fetish for Shining Armor. I can imagine the cute love scene of B hooking up with a Brony…B can wear the Bronys fedora while he gets carried away in his arms… Then the Brony lays B down on his twilight Sparkle bedsheets and whispers softly into B's ear "I want to cum inside Disturbed B" while B looks back lovingly and replies "Show me your Big Mac"

Just imagine the possibilities TSG… The possibilities!

I actually liked Equestria Girls, so I personally would enjoy spin-off media set in that universe, and I'll add that my 7 year old cousin loved the Equestria Girls movie, she thought it was fantastic.

…and there's my cue to run away in fear of the Equestria Girls hating pitch fork wielding Bronies.

@xTSGx, Blue

No, I get all that. What baffles me is how they're insisting on EqG specifically. I just can't understand the reasoning behind it. Surely if they wanted to milk the pony franchise for all it's worth, they would just release some legitimate movies about the ponies being ponies instead of this high school crap. If they wanted to start a franchise based around kids in high school, surely it would have been wiser to make it its own independent thing as opposed to this weird, furry tie-in.

I could accept the first movie as being kind of an anomaly that some executive somewhere thought up late one night while in the throws of a cocaine-fueled high, but two? I can't imagine the first movie was received well enough to warrant a sequel like that.

I'd really like to sit in on some of Hasbro's meetings at this point just to see how this all makes sense from their end.

Random said

You’re really living up the party here lately huh?

It's livening.

It's "throes."

And he's Dutch, he no spellum and speakum da english gud

…

I'm going to get my ass kicked for that.

Anyways…

Why do you let it bother you so much? Time and time again you've explained it, and I still cannot grasp why any of this brings so much rage to you. You're letting something completely trivial get to you and you're acting like it's the end of the universe.

@Dr. Whooves

Don't worry… I liked it too. It was hit and miss for me, but it had enough of the magic that makes the series great in it that I won't completely denounce it.

I'd have to agree with Fifths in that a sequel seems… unnecessary. I was expecting a series, but a sequel movie is just puzzling.

There's a "Those who live by the sword will die by the sword" joke in here somewhere, but I can't think of it for the life of me. Maybe I should draw a picture of one person murdering another person with a comma.

My failure at my own language aside, I think you're misunderstanding the subtle distinction in my various kinds of irritation. I was deeply upset by the porn discussion and the 27 page essay about the misogyny of the fandom because it served as demonstration of what a perverted and empty animal is the human being. The social justice warriors, the moralists, the free speech advocates: Lots of shouting, little reasoning, and not a drop of compassion to be found in the whole mess of them. I wish they'd all just shut the fuck up and find another stage to produce the empty dramas for their meaningless lives.

In comparison to all that, this is just another dumb movie. I'm not really bothered by that, the first one wasn't even that bad. I'm just kind of having fun letting myself be baffled by its existence. I suppose that's my own empty drama.

Fair enough.

I can understand your frustration. The loudest people are the ones with the least to say. It's just something that we've got to put up with. There isn't any plausible way to stop them short of violating their right to free speech, or (ha) making them see things from a different point of view.

Speaking of free speech, I find it irritating myself how people abuse this right.

@Blue Screen

So go ahead and give the guy/girl/trap an email address. Whatever one you feel is safe if you aren’t comfortable with giving out a main one.

Okay, I’ll do it. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn out to be the biggest mistake of my life.

Definitely don’t pay any money to that damn site.

Agreed. I wasn’t gonna recommend this website to find dates, now I definitely don’t recommend it.

But who knows, Disturbed B could also find a date! His very own knight in shining armor, complete with the fetish for Shining Armor. I can imagine the cute love scene of B hooking up with a Brony…B can wear the Bronys fedora while he gets carried away in his arms… Then the Brony lays B down on his twilight Sparkle bedsheets and whispers softly into B’s ear “I want to cum inside Disturbed B” while B looks back lovingly and replies “Show me your Big Mac”

Blue, I was just wondering, did you create your own bronymate account and try to contact me?

Exactly, it's obvious they cut Season 3 in half so they could give the movie more money to work with. People like to say it was because of the "64 episode rule" where cartoons immediately get canceled at 64 episodes just so they have enough episodes to syndicate the show on other networks. But honestly do you think The HUB would cancel it's biggest show just because it got to 64 episodes? Hell no, The Hub and Hasbro will milk this cashcow long until they run out of bronies to turn on their TV's every Saturday in the Millions.

That's kind of the reason why I laugh at those people who immediately stopped watching the show after season 3, they act like no other show in the history of TV has ever had a weak or bad season. Season 3 will go down as the weakest season until all the writers and show runners who made this show quit and we get the writers of Spongebob Squarepants from 2005+ on this show. I mean Season 4 isn't that bad, we've seen almost as many Season 4 episodes as there were Season 3 and season 4 has been a little more consistent in the quality of episodes compared to the consistency of Season 3 which was okay, okay, great, weak, okay, rushed as all hell, bad.

There's only one thing that really irked me about Equestria Girls that wasn't the whole "If it weren't for this movie Season 3 wouldn't have been some rushed season that felt more like a cash-in on the name than the movie itself" but honestly it was such a minor detail I only remembered what I hated about it when I was watching it. Since I don't want to watch it again anytime soon I won't remember what that is. So thank you ignorance you sure are bliss.

Anyways let's take a few minutes to stop talking about what we hate and instead bring up things that make us laugh, LOL Bronymeet.com.

But think: Vinyl might get a speaking role.

@Butts:

@EqG2:

I'm ready. I'm curious who would be in the band? Will there be an evil demon to does hardcore metal as the protagonist? Will we get a human discord? XD

So many GOOD things that could happen with this. I'm all in for universe expansion. Does Twilight get to meet non-pony Twilight? Will Flash Sentry x Twilight intensify? Will we get to see them off to college???

SO MANY QUESTIONS! DO WANT…i think…

Also, here's what I think the band list will be if based on the toys:

• Twilight – Lead Vocals
• RD – Lead Guitar
• Rarity – Keytar (would've put FS on keys personally)
• Pinkie – Drums
• AJ – Bass
• FS – Not Listed (Backup Vocals maybe?)

There's also a version of the girls with these weird headsets:

Inb4 the girls do a Girl's Generation thing!

@porn discussions. Porn discussions never change.

How is pinkie only 9th on that list? Fucking casuals.

@new EQG

>people on other sites implying there was absolutely nothing to like about the first EQG.

Anyways. Cool…ish I guess? I did find Equestria Girls to be kinda bleh in some areas but I liked it for the most part. I thought it was worth sitting through for things like Twilight derping and the cafaeria song and I'm sure there will be something worth giving it a semi – attentive watch for. Still don't see why they can't just make a movie with the ponies being ponies but I'm sure I share that frustration with a lot of people and that shouldn't keep us from giving it a fair shake imo.

Plus I'm just plain fucking tired of shitstorms.

In other news, new Bolton Mesh video!

I've managed to finally get through the last episode without my feels trying to eat me…

…And I'm detecting a pattern. Since both of these "Rainbow Eyed" episodes have tried to use the same approach to hit me in the feels.

The ponies are going all out to help their friends… Hit with moral crisis… Realize they were a jerk… Quick turnabout to do the right thing… Get what they were trying to get by being a jerk anyways, but only because they decided to do the right thing.

…Oh… And for Rainbow dash specifically, her attempt to fake being hurt is enough to drive me to frothing at the mouth for cringe inducing.

(Why is obvious and badly done deceit so cringe inducing for me?)

But… Now to speak of why the two episodes, and probably the ones to come, are trying to be so feels punching.

They're tempting the ponies towards fulfilling their highest dreams they have at the moment… Only to make them feel like they have to give up either their morals or their dreams.

…And then the weird part… Is that in giving up their dreams for their morals… They still get their dream anyways.

I… Don't know why… But that second part seems way too sad and fantastic an idea. It seems impossible form where I stand for anything to come without a price to personal feelings or personal gain.

For me personally… If I ever want to feel like I actually have any control over anything, or that my ideas and opinions matter… It seems like I have to do it myself… And yet I can't get anywhere on my own due to the fact every industry is run on teamwork.

The only rectification of all this… Also happens to be horrible… I.E. become a dictatorial jerk.

So it seems the only way for me to live where I both feel in control, and nobody else is inconvenienced… Is apparently the path that most involves dwelling in obscurity.

This is, at its core… A similar dilemma to what the Mane six are going through one by one… And yet they seem to be let off the hook by divine karma, which doesn't exactly happen in real life.

…I… Am… So conflicted about this…

I'll probably fall apart if I have to go through this exact same problem five or six times in a row.

…Wow… This is way too much mixed up in my own personal problems… I should just find a vaguely appropriate image to distract from all this.

Anyways… on to more important questions… Does the fact RD got a Wonderbolt Pin from Spitfire mean she's now a Wonderbolt?

And… Judging from Spitfire's reaction to RD's moral conscious moment… Rumors of her being a jerk are mildly exaggerated.

…Granted, Spitfire is still slightly a jerk, enough for me to drop the Paladin like image of her, but it's more pragmatic than maligned… If that makes sense.

She respects those with moral character… But isn't necessarily as bound to them herself, possibly implying that she doesn't see things as black or white, but more wildly varying shades of grey.

…which ironically gives me a new image of her for use in a story of heavier fantasy influence than already exists in canon… In that she'd probably fit more a roguish role than a noble warrior.

(Wait… Maybe it would have been easier for me to say if I wanted to make a spiritual successor to my old canceled fanfic… Urgh… Never mind.)

So I've decided to fuck around with a little traditional animation. Spent a couple hours today working on it, here's what I got

Did you see that?!? Glorious blinking!

What will happen if BSoD presses the button? Stay tuned to find out!

So begins the great muffin wars

@Fives

It's a muffin button

>inb4 Flash Sentry/Brad

@Fifths

If they wanted to start a franchise based around kids in high school, surely it would have been wiser to make it its own independent thing as opposed to this weird, furry tie-in.

You know, maybe EqG was the result of someone trying to hide their cocaine in the water cooler on the Hasbro front lobby. Considering everything else that goes on, I'm sure someone there is high on something

But if it's all one big fuckup, then maybe this is one of those cases where Hasbro is already balls deep with their whole new franchise and may as well continue playing it out. Heh.

Yea, I have no idea either.

@B

Blue, I was just wondering, did you create your own bronymate account and try to contact me?

Uh…..mmmm….nooouuuuuuuueeeeee?

Seriously, no. Whoever is on the other end is either a spambot or some dude from ponychan

Come to think of it, can you see who the premium members are that have paid for their account? I'm imagining they must be the most spaghetti filled Bronies this side of the tubes.

@Fifths

What will happen if BSoD presses the button?

I think I know

>People are bitching about a joke Tumblr blog
>People are bitching about bronies
>People are bitching about pony porn
>People on bitching on how they want to kill themselves because of it
>2014 starts off with the feminazis bashing bronies
>2014 starts with a storm of SJW and white knights on Tumblr
>2014 starts of with Tumblr slowing getting ruined, turned into a SJW fortress
>2014 starts of with creative and nice minds becoming brainwashed into thinking "HORSE WATCHER BAD"
>2014 will continue with feminazi's shouting "RAAPPEE"
>2014 will continue with creators getting their work removed to appeal to these people
>2014 and no fun will be allowed on the internet anymore
>All because of a single chick on Tumblr starting an army

@Blue

I was just joking. I know a real person messaged me, but I can't read the message unless I pay money to see it. You know what? I'm just gonna give up on the whole thing.

I signed up on Bronymate.com and I can't do anything on it. You can all go ahead and laugh now.

RandomMan said:

Then remember that pretty much everyone liked it?

I seem to recall the majority opinion being "it was meh" with pretty much everybody ecstatic that McCarthy was going to essentially ignore it in S4. Personally, I hate it with a passion only AM can understand.

Blue Screen said:

Just imagine the possibilities TSG… The possibilities!

Oh, I am. Especially with Fimfiction's meta ban being lifted… kinda, sorta, they haven't really said anything since the poll showed everyone wanted the ban gone.

Fifths said:

What baffles me is how they’re insisting on EqG specifically. I just can’t understand the reasoning behind it

This is their reasoning. Hasbro wants a slice of the pie that Mattel baked. Personally, I think its an incredibly stupid idea. Capturing market share is enormously difficult, and trying to do it the cheap way by piggy backing off of an existing IP doesn't help as their "target demo" (12+ year old girls) think ponies are for little girls and not worth their time.

In other words, EqG may be successful, but its doing shit all to Monster High's fat stacks and market share. From a business standpoint, it just doesn't make any sense when, as you suggested, they could dump that money into the actual ponies and make a lot more money considering the same girls that watch EqG are watching ponies.

But I guess toy companies aren't exactly known for their savvy business decisions

Iamslow said:

>people on other sites implying there was absolutely nothing to like about the first EQG.

>implying the only good part of the movie wasn't when they were ponies

Whether it was Sunset "mind control a few hundred high school students to take over a country in the millions that has a standing army" Shimmer or Vice Principle "I cannot determine that this image has literally been glued together like a first grade art project" Luna or the Mane "doesn't bother actually communicating with each other and solely relies on unverified text messages and emails" Five--IMO there really wasn't anything to like about it. A catchy song that S4 has five of and Twilight being cute (which S4 also has plenty of) just isn't enough.

Plus I’m just plain fucking tired of shitstorms.

The sooner you embrace and look forward to the shitstorms, the better off you'll be. Seriously, enjoying every one flip out is one of the best things in this fandom. We need to cherish our shitstorms, for not every fandom has them. The closest the Lion King fandom ever came was the "Artist of the Month" controversy, wherein twenty-five year olds became butthurt that a twelve year old won a monthy award on a fanart site. Accusations of Advance-style vote rigging ensued.

Lunar Protege said:

(Why is obvious and badly done deceit so cringe inducing for me?)

Because you know it's going to come crashing down on the character and there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's like watching a barefoot slowly descend onto a rusty nail. You know what's coming, but you're trapped watching it happen.

@Fifths Animation Studio
Excellent, soon you'll be making full length pony r34 that'll get C&D'd by Hasbro, triggering the next shitstorm to roll through.

Pinka said:

>inb4 Flash Sentry/Brad

…fuck. I didn't even think about that. The worst part is that it would be the perfect chance for McCarthy to pull out the Exact Words. Yeah, Flash isn't appearing in season four, but that doesn't mean a love letter from him won't.

Blue Screen said:

After watching that gif for several minutes, I am still unsure whether that's poop or not.

First thing's first, yes, indeed, butts. I just looked up the Backy tumblr and I'm watching the slow decent (or should I say ascent, OR SHOULD I SAY ASS ENT ) from a ninja pony to a butt pony. I think I've located the tipping point…

Anyway, backy to the real point I was trying to make, Vinyl Scratch… yeah, no, Jimmy. She isn't going to speak. Ever. Do you know how silly that would be? Do you really think that after the events of the last time a fan character spoke they would risk something like that happening again? What a rediculous, uninformed and baseless prediction to make. I don't care how much you like Vinyl. Sorry, butt It isn't going to happen. Ever.

Just so not everything here is behind a tag, have this image of Trixie.

This image conveys an emotion that I've never been able to fully describe with words. The closest I've come is "franticly expressing incomprehension".

But hey, look on the bright side. We get hoverboards next year.

@Stunt's Trixie Image: Hahaha that is the best possible thing. Somebody needs to make that with the "I CAN'T EVEN" caption.

Okay, since you admitted it, I will as well. Yeah, I look at it as well, but like you, I don't go around showing it to people and such, nor would I show it to minors as well, and yeah, because we exist, that doesn't mean we'll go and force it on people.

Which some people *cough*PinkiePony*cough* could see that.

Personally, the whole thing is batshit crazy, I've never seen anything like it.

@Jimmy Lethal: If I can't get a hover conversion done in my car, I'm going to be pissed.

@Trixie Flailing

…My arms actually do that when I get so excited no proper gesture will suffice to convey my emotion.

Like… Say… When I'm describing a new anime I'm watching that I can only describe while trying to sound sane as… "Crazy".

Describing them as anything more than that winds up with that Trixie Flailing there with I don't even know how many crazy things coming out of my mouth.

…So… I guess that's like Tuesday for me.

>2014 and no fun will be allowed on the internet anymore

If you can't have fun on the Internet without saucy blogs, then you're in a truly sad state.
 
My personal stance is more along the lines of live and let live, and don't go to someone's space to mess with them (the Internet doesn't belong to anyone.) And I'm thinking that if you can't or won't walk up to anyone and say something because you'd fear for your face, then you should probably shouldn't say it on the Internet.

And if you think that the Internet will be cleansed of Rule 34, then you're wrong on another front.

Unrelated so hard.

What article.

Fuck that, I want the self tying shoes before we get those hoverboards. I don't want those flying cars at all though, people drive like fucking idiots on land anyways…….trust me I know.

Didn't Nike put a legit patent of the self lacing shoes? Could've sworn I saw that somewhere.

@Verbose: I'd have to say it's more along the lines of more SJW's popping up, though I sure hope this turns out to be an isolated incident.