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Stop being xTSGx.

Do you guys know what tomorrow is? Tomorrow is MLP:FiM's third birthday! And you know what that calls for…

Bye Stunhead! You won't will be missed.

Wow, 3 years, ain't that something?

I hope we live enough to get a fourth or fifth birthday.

@Bruno

Any birthday spent with Egophilliac has to be a good one – more than enough to carry us to the next.

Happy Anniversary!

Can you believe it's been twenty years?

You see what you've done? You've doomed us all. Now that you've done this, we'll be trapped inside of TV Tropes forever! There's no escape. But wait! There might be a way. I have a plan. It's a longshot, but it could work. If we talk about all things pony, we can still win. Some of us won't make it, but I'm confident I will. After all, I am Genre Savvy.

Jimmy vocalized:

Stop being xTSGx.

Yeah! I've got a reputation to uphold.

WHAT HAVE I BEGUN?!

TOO MUCH LINKING!

@anniversary

Thanks for all the pone, fim.

@disturbed

Yay! It's the 3rd anniversary of MLP: FiM!

<img src = "http://pinkie.mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/img/mlfw1045_Pony_Conga_Line.gif">

One thing…

This banner was used on Equestria Daily… And I personally think that they got them round the wrong way. Mostly colorwise, but I personally find that personality wise they would balance out better if they were reversed.

Can't really argue type wise though, but… Eh…

(Great, the wait has got me complaining about pointless EQD banner stuff that occurs due to Pokemon stuff happening at the same time… Though I do wonder if Pokemon Crossovers are Imminent now.)

Hey, you! Extissgex! What have YOU done? You've pretty much done the same thing as me, only worse, because you've made every word in your post link to Tv tropes, which I would never do. Was doing that really worth it? Maybe it was you who was the unwitting pawn this whole time? Well that's just great! Now we're ALL doomed to browse for years, become zombies to our families and worst of all not be able to reach our fedoras.
…
Hang on a second… I'm alive! I guess all those blatantly obvious sure-fire ways of having me die didn't come true after all. Looks like the great and powerful Stunthead is back… and this time he's here to st- NECK SNAP!
…
Don't worry! I'm okay!
(Yes, I know this stopped being funny ages ago… shut up.)

You know why no one is posting here anymore? Because they're all stuck on TVtropes looking at how cliched their favorite movies and TV shows are.

But hay, it's the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic anniversary! One of the few shows where people actually act like the day the show aired is like a birthday! I mean fans of most shows obviously wouldn't give a shit about what day their favorite show aired but we do, and I blame that on the whole "The show aired on 10/10/10" thing so it's more recognizable than the show that started airing on 8/26/07. Here, I found the perfect picture to describe how Bronies are handling this day and how outsiders (Those filthy creatures) see it.

I bet you'll never guess who's supposed to represent the bronies in that picture It's the black guy

Also………LET'S GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUSSTLLLLEEEEEEEEE!!!

Man, if this doesn't get the Jimmies rustling I will have lost all faith in humanity…..

Attention all bronies!

You need not spend you life alone!

BronyMate has you covered!

It's Princess Cadence approved for quality!

…

In all seriousness, lol brony dating site

The Male to female ratio must be 500 to 10. Man, it must suck to be a girl on that website to be getting a million requests from the scary neckbeards of the fandom saying "Wow, I hope you're better than my fleshlight."

@Lunar

Actually I was planning on posting pokemon / pony crossovers tomorrow since I won't be here launch day or maybe days later buuut…

(and don't worry there's no x and y spoilers here)

@Owens

Unfortunately for all 10 of the ladies on there I'm already taken.

Thanks but no thanks, Owens. I've already got a girlfriend.

@Stunthead:

You really want to challenge me to a Trope-Off? Bring it on.

Alright people, that's enough linking to the tropes we need our people here on the thread and not checking out every cliche in the show Family Matters.

So here's a story. Me and my fiends got drunk one night and we went out and did what New Zealanders do when they're drunk: Buy pies. But my friend forgot her wallet and I had to buy one for her. In exchange for this act of generosity, she decided she wanted to go out and buy something for me of similar value. She eventually settled on a 6 dollar lump of plastic.

You can guess where this is going

So now we have a new member of our household. Say hello Lilac Links

Now does anyone know who this character is? I've never seen this one before in any episode. Also we are trying to guess what her special talent is. According to the card, she always carries good luck charms so she's apparently superstitious. But that's all we have to go on. Her cutie mark is a pair of horseshoes.

Maybe she's a courier, a runner, or an Irish pub bartender, or a gypsy? I have no idea

Also maybe you guys can help me decided where her home should be. She currently resides on the top of my PC case but I bet you guys can think of someplace better.

As you can see, she's wearing sticky-tac shoes so she can tuck herself into any flat surface. Give me ideas.

Wait wait wait wait wait wait -

Hold the phone here for just a minute.

You're from New Zealand?

AKA best Zealand?

Well that just flips everything up the fuck side down.

I need to think about this.

BRB.

@Platus

You’re from New Zealand?

You didn't know that? It's right there in my profile

@BSOD
Lilac Links


She's from the The Show Stoppers, and appears for maybe a second and a half around 5:37 as she walks toward Carousel Boutique. If I were to guess, I'd say she was probably like many other earth ponies and grows flowers. Or maybe she makes flowery perfumes.

That's not that interesting, though. Every pony should have an interesting story. We should make one up for her.

@Crazy

Every pony should have an interesting story. We should make one up for her.

All right, lets see what I can pull from my butt very quickly.

[headcanon]
Lilac Links grew up like most Earth ponies in her local area. But has done a lot of travelling as a Gypsie who goes from small town, to small town. She does business selling Gypsie curses to vengeful ponies and also good luck charms. She got her cutie mark from mastering the craft good luck charms as the dual linked horseshoes symbolises luck.

But she doesn't use her charms on herself because she knows the charms are a fraud and work purely on placebo. Oh yea that's another thing: the crossed horseshoes cutie mark also symbolises double crossing and being on the run. That's why she's always moving. Her Gypsie curses however are quite real and she uses them to have ponies tormented by baelrog for 7 days before being dragged to hell should they ever dare try and stop her…or if someone pays her to get revenge on a cheating souse

On top of that, she's a great botanist and makes a great selection of perfumes and bouquets
[/headcanon]

What do yo think? If anyone else has a cool headcanon for this pony, I'm willing to adopt

@New Zealand

…I suddenly for no specific reason just remembered that my parents are always saying they love going to new Zealand for a holiday.

…I still haven't been so I have no idea what it looks like there, despite it being… What…Directly East from here?

I always just assume its like Briton except tropical… A brief Google search makes me think that's probably a fair description, considering the first image that comes up literally reminds me of Briton.

…

For an equally non specific reason have an urge to talk about Sheep in MLP… Specifically that the ones in the Crystal Empire look… "Nicer"… Than the ones shown earlier in the series.

I suddenly feel this line of thought deserves for me to be kicked a few times in the head.

Wait…..there's a NEW Zealand? What happened to the old one?

………………..Well I thought it was a funny joke.

(User was banned for this post)

I would, but the other users are probably sick of that by now (though thanks for calling me awesome McCoolName.)

@Platus
I think Blue Screen was BORN in America but moved to Knuuzy Land afterwards. I was born and raised here, but you probably all knew that based on how I never stop talking about sheep. But don't worry, I won't talk about sheep here ever again.

@Sheep
My guess is that the tiny ewes are to the other sheep what crystal ponies are to regular ones. Though that does sheep the question on why the sheep were still sheep this when King sheepbra sheeped the sheep sheep, though sheep sheep sheepsheepsheepsheep-

@Kewl

Wait…..there’s a NEW Zealand? What happened to the old one?

Nothing! Old Zealand is just… living on a special farm! I certainly wasn't involved. Just ask any of the policemen I payed.
Related:

It's like the golden ages of the Internet, but with pones.
my name is GrayHoof.

Off topic

I had a dream that everyone in Pony General was pregnant except for me. I felt bad for being the only one who wasn't pregnant, but then I remembered that guys don't get pregnant and I woke up.

How did you dream that? 'Cause, apparently, you have seen the people that appear in your dream at least once in your life, even if they've only appeared somewhere in a large crow or so.

@Brony Dating site:

You know, I'd like to say that I'm surprised to see this, but I'm really not. In fact, I am surprised that it took so long for something like this to pop up! Not sure if I should find this hilarious or not…

It might not have been a literal "See that happen" thing. They may have dreamed that everyone was talking about it online. Or otherwise… They just stuck a face on them that matched the stereotype they expect of us, and the dream fills in the rest with vague feelings and recognitions to seal up the cracks in the dream's tale of events.

I do note though, whenever I dream I'm reading something, the writing isn't actually corporeal? Kinda like instead of actually piecing together the letters that are blurry or shifting in letter or position, you kinda get the meaning intended by the dream sort of "Dictated" to you by some vague feeling or narration.

For some reason the few times I specifically remember there being some form of "Narrator" in a dream, for some reason it's usually female.

I have a lot of weird dreams. It made more sense when I was sleeping.

So you woke up before the scene where everyone in Pony General tried to get you pregnant then huh? I could see it now: "Hey, how come disturbed's not pregnant but we all are?" "That's it everybody, let's all rape Disturbed until he gets pregnant!"

Only on KYM Pony General.

>tfw only person in thread that could actually get pregnant

@Disturbed

Oh no you don't, buddy. You can't "It was all a dream" your way outta this one. I have no idea how this little bastard is going to come out of my body but when it does I'm pretty sure your the one who's gonna be paying child support.

And for future reference

More pokemon

@New Zealand

Ah yes, New Zealand: Where the men are men and the sheep are…nervous ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

In other news, Deadparrot and I updated our tumblr again.

That marks the end of the prelude updates he and I wanted to do and we can now move on to actually answering your questions. I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys have submitted.

Off topic note here:
Applejack is best drink.

You think some of Pony General's OCs could show up throughout the blog? Maybe Blue tries to hack into the secret government files, for instance.

@New Zealand: Ah, yes, Australia's oft-forgotten little brother. Did you know that when I made Blue Screen in WWE '13, I billed him as being from Auckland?

@OC's showing up in Deadparrot's and Fifth's tumblr

I dunno man, I think you should wait until someone here makes a Tumblr actually involving all of our OC's. Just randomly shoving in BSoD, Ace etc. into Deadparrot's and Fifths's's's's's's's's's tumblr just doesn't seem right when it's just about two random guards.

@New Zealand, it's now my headcanon that BSoD's best friend is a hobbit…..Get it? Because…..New Zealand is where they shot the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies……get it?

@Sheep:

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Also, isn't it Welsh people who are stereotyped as sheep-fuckers? Not that I'm particularly bothered, to be honest, I find it highly dubious no matter who it's applied to, like most stereotypes if I'm honest.
Also, I find it funny that there were two consecutive Raindow Dash "wat" pics posted in two different contexts earlier this page.

Wait…..there’s a NEW Zealand? What happened to the old one?

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I think Blue Screen was BORN in America but moved to Knuuzy Land afterwards

Correct. I'm an immigrant. Stunt is the only true blooded Kiwi.

I had a dream that everyone in Pony General was pregnant except for me.

You are the father.

For accuracy, that should read "I love f**cking sheep up with powered butchery equipment and export the giblets to France to boost the national economy". But I guess that's too many words.

Seriously, thats only thing I've ever really done with sheep aside from eat them.

Besides, sheep aren't pastel colored. 0/10 would not bang

You think some of Pony General’s OCs could show up throughout the blog? Maybe Blue tries to hack into the secret government files, for instance.

Its up to them. But Blue can't be randomly thrown into the storyline. His character and backstory is specific enough that any intro of Blue would need a bit of a follow up and some context.

And furthermore it has to fit in the context of the theme and setting that Fifths and Deadparrot are trying to convey.

Blue is a physical embodiment of a Windows software error. He can't exist in a universe that doesn't have information technology. He fit inside Markhaox's fic because ponies had smartphones and computers in it and Microsoft actually had a branch in Canterlot. Guard Duty would need to show something similar to that first. But if theres no computers in Guard Duty, then it wont work.

BUT

He can appear as a simple background character with no relevance to the existing plot.

Blue Screen in WWE ’13, I billed him as being from Auckland?

Close enough

it’s now my headcanon that BSoD’s best friend is a hobbit…..Get it? Because…..New Zealand is where they shot the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies……get it?

I AM a hobbit.

Also, isn’t it Welsh people who are stereotyped as sheep-fuckers? Not that I’m particularly bothered, to be honest, I find it highly dubious no matter who it’s applied to, like most stereotypes if I’m honest.

Over in the UK, it's the Welsh and the Scots and the English and the Irish…in fact everybody over there is pointing fingers at each other and playing a game of stereotype hot-potato

But that's just for the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere doesn't care who shags the sheep in that part of the world.

In the southern hemisphere it's NZ and Australia that has the reputation. Especially NZ cuz "lots of sheep over there huehuehue". Most Kiwi's just own the stereotype and laugh with it nowadays. Pretty sure nobody actually shags sheep. Those things are absolutely disgusting and it's potentially dangerous too.

The statistics that NZ has more sheep than people is outdated. We've had more ladies than sheep since the 90's. And of course all stereotypes are factually bullshit

He can appear as a simple background character with no relevance to the existing plot.

That would be good, to have the PG OCs show up as background ponies, and maybe make a notable appearance every once in a while. What do you think, Stunt?

Correct. I’m an immigrant. Stunt is the only true blooded Kiwi.

Really? I didn't know you were originally American.

You are the father.

BSoD wrote:

I AM a hobbit

Sorry I can't hear you from up here? Your text becomes all small and unreadable as well.

I had a dream that everyone in Pony General was pregnant except for m

Dude what.

@BSOD: I tought you were the opposite, borned in New Zeland and went to USA.

Have you guys seen Jowybean's work? He made some pretty damn cool title cards to the episodes. Neat stuff, looks professional

@BSoD

Well, our unicorn guard does use his horn to access the internet

so I guess that you could make his brain crash if you tried.

But yeah, mindhacking aside, we might use blue as a BG pony if you're alright with it. He is fun to draw.

@Fifth

we might use blue as a BG pony if you’re alright with it.

That's okay by me.

You are the father.

Nah, I'm kidding. I'd be the best dad ever! I will name them all Johnny Depp.

@Jimmy

That would be good, to have the PG OCs show up as background ponies, and maybe make a notable appearance every once in a while. What do you think, Stunt?

Wait, what? Oh… uhhh, I dunno. I wasn't really expecting anyone to ask me.
I guess if they want to add a PG OC and they can find a reason to, they should go ahead. I mean, I would love to see my our OCs in a tumblr, but it's not really up to me. And like Blue said, to make a notable appearance they'll need at least some explaination to their character, so it would have to make sense within the context given. They're guards, so it would make sense to, say, have an OC who would try to sneak past them. Yknow, like an OC that's a stalker… perhaps even a sheep…

(Seriously though, it's down to what they want to do.)

Jimmy Lethal wrote:

You think some of Pony General’s OCs could show up throughout the blog? Maybe Blue tries to hack into the secret government files, for instance.

That would probably be okay if they were just making a tumblr for KYM members to look at, but I'm guessing they're wanting to reach a wider audience. Inside jokes and cameos might turn people away early on – and I've seen people complain about constant cameos/crossovers on some already popular pony tumblrs. After a while, and multiple cameos, it can start to look a little bit like circle jerking.

That's not to say they should avoid such a thing altogether (it is their tumblr after all), just that injecting ponysonas/OCs of friends would probably be best avoided until they're well established. The tumblr is about two royal guards, not KYMPG.

If you want that, it'd be better to just make a silly Ask Pony General tumblr. That way, if it dies off, nothing of value is lost.

@CrazyC

We haven't directly discussed it yet, but you hit my feelings on it pretty much on the head.
We do hope to attract some kind of broader audience and adding in OCs that no one outside of this particular site has any knowledge of doesn't really fit in with that very well, especially this early in the game.
I do see the semi-hypocrisy of the fact that our two characters are themselves OCs, but I hope you get the idea.
The KYM OCs inhabit our little world here and our tumblr inhabits another.
'Crossing the streams' feels like it would only distract from what we are trying to establish at this point by introducing more characters with stories that would need explaing and yadda,, yadda, yadda…
(I wouldn't be opposed to using OCs to fill out some crowd shots or something, but having them suddenly become significant players is not likely on the table.)
And anyway, if anypony's gonna be injected into this thing…

@Bruno
Oh yeah, those things are awesome!
They remind me of all the cartoons from the '90s and '00s that I used to watch where every title screen essentially functioned as both an introduction and teaser for the episode to come.

I mean, really, that one image tells you all you need to know about the events of The Return of Harmony without exposition or explanation.
It's a really cool exercise in design to come up with effective ways of conveying a whole episode in a frame and he does it really well.

@Kiwis
Are BSoD and Stunt the only Hobbits?
I could have sworn there was at least one other hanging around here somewhere…
Speaking entirely from my (frequently faulty) memory, wasn't burningphoenix from The Land Next To The Land Down Under, too?

@DP

Burning_phoneix used to be in Kiwistan but he has since returned to his home country.

I believe he was Arabian, so not a hobbit.