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My roommate tried to seduce me one time…

It didn't work at first, but then she tried something else… with socks…

EDIT: Page Get. I dedicate this page to Lyra and her teachings!

Can anyone else find images of her teachings in anthropology?

@Fifths from two days ago

@Teachings of anthropologist Lyra

After reading that I can't wait until I finish this story about my Mary Sue I can't WAIT to see the butthurt.

@OC family photo

YES I'M STILL WORKING ON THIS!

I just threw together Marks OC based on a drawing that he gave me. Hope this will suffice for now as I had to cut a few corners. With new work coming at me, I'm really running short of time

This is totally not a Twilight trace-over! HEY LOOK SHE HAS BURNING_PHONEIX ON HER BUTT!

Yea, pay attention to that and not my horrid lack of creativity.

Well in my defense, the sketch pretty much had that same posture anyway. Although Mark assures me it was drawn before Feeling Pinkie Keen

So there you go Mark, enjoy. Next on my drawing list is Twilitlord and then we can get this photo underway.

Markhaox wrote:

Can anyone else find images of her teachings in anthropology?

/topic

Checks original sketch on horrible photo

Sees BSoD's vector

Crumples sketch, throws into pit, lights on fire, and flushes ashes

begins trek across both oceans, punches shark on the way

grabs seal, finds BSoD, and drops seal obtained from ocean

SEAL OF APPROVAL!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
heads back home, leaving BSoD with a WTF expression
While the vector was a Twilight trace-over, the sketch was drawn and colored by me, and so was the shitty photograph.

@ RandomMan
I knew somebody was going to put that one up soon after the anthropology lessons began.

Let the class continue! Now, what do we call this, class?

Don't be shy… anybody?

markhaox14 Wrote:

Let the class continue! Now, what do we call this, class?

Don’t be shy… anybody?

The common ancestor of Man and Pony?

This is literally both the most sensible and least perverted answer I could come up with!

Did someone say "anthropology"?

@Platus
Ah, beat me to it.
Love that song!

Let the studies continue!

Take that, Fifths!


Fetish art attacks at the worst times.

Not really pony related, but it comes off of the topic at hand: What will anthropologists of the future think when they discover the remnants of your society.
What if the panoply of Grecco-Roman gods that we are all taught about were actually just the MLP of their time?
So much bad fanfiction ended up getting mixed in with the canon that ancient nerds would be having a fit.

"Wait, you guys think that Hercules was canon?! He was the illegitimate son of Zeus and the strongest man to ever walk the earth! Mary Sue much? I mean, come on! The real writers would never allow such a blatant wish-fulfillment character into the show! He's all fanon!"

@DeadParrot222

Dat miniscule text. I just hope nobody knows how to use copy/paste.

@Deadparrot

I'd actually call it an academic certainty that what we know of antiquity has been polluted with a substantial amount of silly nonsense. You recognize this guy?

That's Arimotherfuckingstotle, basically the main authority on all academic disciplines in the west until about 1400-1500. So, you're a medieval intellectual and you want to learn about astronomy? Here, check out Aristotle's On the Heavens. Biology? On the Generation of Animals. Ethics? Nichomachean Ethics. Want to learn how to argue? First you should check out Aristotle's work on logic organized in the organum and then you should pollish your argumentative style with Rhetoric. Want to be a writer? Poetics. The list goes on.

All those works I mentioned along with the rest of Aristotle's extent writings comprises about a fifth of the total Aristotellian canon, and probably the shittiest fifth. We don't actually have anything that Aristotle made to be read, we have either notes that he prepared himself to aid with his lectures or notes that his students compiled while listening to him lecture. Think of how much ridiculous shit has slipped into our canon about Aristotle because the ancient equivilant of some dipshit grad student misinterpreted what he was going on about.

As far as fanfiction is concerned, check this out.

The Iliad and the Odyssey were first written down at the command of the Athenian ruler Pisistratus, who feared they were being forgotten. He made a law: any singer or bard who came to Athens had to recite all they knew of Homer for the Athenian scribes, who recorded each version and collated them into what we now call the Iliad and Odyssey.

So yeah, the Iliad and Odyssey we have today is probably as close to Homer's original epics (assuming he and they even existed) as an anthology composed of stories from fimfiction.net would be to the actual show.

But hey, like fanfiction writers with the show, those bards must have been big fans of Homer. Certainly their versions of the Iliad and Odyssey stayed pretty close to the original right?

…And you guys look down on the Greeks and Romans because of all the sex and debauchery we read about them having.

She's kinda right, you know.

Related because Vinyl is sexy. (This is actually similar to my human appearance for her, except for the armbands and tattoo, and her hair is a different style.)

Oh shit! It's the Michelin tire thing!

@Fifths
Please, that's nothing. There's not even any foal rape in that clopfic. The featured box will only give you a brief glimpse of Fimfiction's true horrors.

That's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man you UNCULTURED PLEBIAN SWINE -- shit did I just say that out loud I mean yeah I can see the resemblance.

Meanwhile, this page needs more Guitarist!Lyra.

Urgh…

I was in the middle of writing the new chapter for my fic… and then I realized something…

All the scenes would work a lot better in chapters I'd already written…

Also… One or two of the chapters I've Written look like they're going to start cannibalizing each other any minute. since they involve semi overlapping events.

And so it turns out… While I set out to make a new chapter…I'm probably going to wind up with less chapters than when I Started…

Basically… My Fic has found a way to eat itself…

I am so ashamed…

Oh well… I always did complain my chapters are never long enough.

Haha, I was never a fan of the Ghostbusters, so I really didn't know.

They must be brothers or something.

I posted my third fanfic, but accidentally deleted my first two! Now I have to post them again to prevent confusion from the readers!

Well, I can at least see this as an opportunity to fix any mistakes from the first two… especially from the first one. Anybody else ever had that "OH SHIT, WHY DID I JUST DO THAT!?" moments?
And to keep from straying from the anthropology lessons, here's Lyra's take on horses and SWAG.

Reading the reactions to Faust visiting /mlp/ around the internet. Gives me both pleasure and pity from all the butthurt, makes me realize that the vocal minority is making everyone think Bronies are the crybabies of the internet…. juuuuuuust saying.

@Fifths

Because of your awesome post about Aristotle, the larval Classics nerd in me has to say something:

You think losing Aristotle, was bad, hoooooo boy. Let me tell you a thing or two about Sappho. Basically, she was the shit, ALL of the shit – one of the best poets of ancient Greece, with a collected works spanning nine fucking volumes. But some of that poetry was lost. How much? Well, I have a translated edition of basically all we have left and, even with a bunch of notes and explanatory stuff, it barely reaches 100 pages. I think there might be two or three complete poems in there – the rest are fragments. We basically LOST one of the greatest writers in human history. Most of the parts we do have came from, say, people referencing her work in letters that later survived: "so as Sappho said 'yaddayaddayadda' and I'm sure you know the rest," but we DON'T know the rest, because those might be the only two lines of that poem that have survived. And it gets even WORSE. Some of the poems only survived because they were ripped out of their books to use as packing material in the empty torsos of mummies. We literally found a lost Sappho poem in the gut of a motherfucking mummified crocodile!

So yah, people are really fucking bad at taking care of shit. Want another example? You know Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex," perhaps the most famous Greek tragedy of them all? Well, you might also know that those plays were written for a contest, where the great writers of the day would submit their plays for performance, and a jury would pick the best one. "Oedipus," when it was premiered, placed SECOND that year. The other play, the one that is apparently better than the best Greek tragedy, has barely survived – we only have one line from it, and it isn't even that interesting.

Last one – The Iliad and The Odyssey, basically the start of Western literature, were part of an epic CYCLE spanning NINE poems which covered the ENTIRE Trojan war. Seriously. The two poems attributed to Homer are the only ones we have.

(end rant.)

I've learned more about Greek literature by reading Fifth's and your post than the studies I received from my last two years of high school.

>Take weeks long break from my usual lurking due to going through mysterious door and winding up in Christmas Town Fire Emblem: Awakening
>Pone hand twitches, must return
>See all the cool things I missed

@Group photo
Dons Fluttervoice
Um…if you could stick my menacing, all-seeing, profile pic eye in the backgound of the photo, preferably so that it sort of looks like I'm ominously observing all of you in the thread, that would be really nice. I-I mean…if that's okay…

@Word of Faust Twilicorn
I told ye so! I told ye!

That's because you go to high school. If you want to learn stuff, skip class and read.

Also, also, if you like Classics stuff and you want to have a really bad day, read about the Library of Alexandria. Basically, the loss of that library is the reason why we don't have most of that awesome shit we talked about.

That, and, before Thomas Aquinas convinced everyone that Aristotle and Christianity were totally cool together if you squint your eyes and turn your head a bit, a lot of priests were torching ancient Greek and Roman literature for being "pagan." They did it to the art too – there is a statue in Rome of the (pagan) emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius which only survived the early middle ages because they thought it was of the (Christian) emperor Constantine. Ancient history really is a lot of bullshit.

Here's a pony:

Hey bro, hey bro. Check out my comment on that picture from all those months ago.

Fucking called it.

"It is done."

"Wait, we didn't think anything!"

"Um…"

"Ray…"

"I tried to think of the most harmless thing I could imagine…"

"What did you-"

"That's a big marshmallow…"

Kewln00b wrote:

Reading the reactions to Faust visiting /mlp/ around the internet. Gives me both pleasure and pity from all the butthurt, makes me realize that the vocal minority is making everyone think Bronies are the crybabies of the internet…. juuuuuuust saying.

Pretty much standard fare for any 'event' in the fandom.
Some great stuff comes out right alongside some of the worst.
Gotta take it all in stride.

There were a few funny items to emerge from Faust's little visit, though.

This seems quite accurate and hilarious.

Speaking of staff interacting with fans, good old Larson was playing around again today:


And of course, as the internet is wont to do in its occasional bouts of complete humorlessness, those tweets were passed around like that and criticized as if they were serious responses to his critics.
Context be damned!

So… let the anthropology lessons continue with this strange mascot!

markhaox14 said:

I posted my third fanfic, but accidentally deleted my first two! Now I have to post them again to prevent confusion from the readers!

Fimfiction.net's rules said:

Do not post:
The same story twice.

Rewrites of an old story posted as a new story. You are free to edit your existing story, but you may not post it as a new submission.

>yfw Knighty bans you (for 24 hours) for reposting a story. (Don't think he won't, he did it to Aegis Shield.)

@ xTSGx
Not Fimfiction… Fanfiction… why does everyone assume Fimfiction? Fanfiction is a bit less strict about rules, but can delete old documents saved to their site. Luckily, I typed on my laptop's writing journal before submitting my documents, so I just have to go over them and review them… it just sucks to have to do all that over again.

As a music and history geek, this made me laugh quite a bit…

@Platus

The thing we need to understand about the Greeks as well is that this was a barely literate culture. Writing was a newish advent and the oral tradition was held in much higher esteem. People didn't even know how to read silently back then, written manuscripts were just an aid to help you verbally pronounce a given work.

Keeping this in mind, realize that the ancient Greeks didn't read Homer, they listened to someone sing his epics while accompanying themselves on the lyre. Who can even guess what we're missing out on there.

The worst is Plato though. This is a man who, more than any other, is responsible for shaping our western worldview. As Alfred Whitehead famously said Western philosophy is Plato and a series of footnotes . His dialogues, some of the most beautiful philosophical writing in the western canon, is tarnished by the fact that we know Plato to have had disdain for the written word. The written word could not engage in dialectic with the reader, which Plato thought was most important to finding truth. It is for this reason, Plato tells us, that he never wrote down the most important parts of his philosophy. What we have of Plato is basically the populist fiction he wrote to get people to step into the academy so that the real learning could begin.

Oh, have a pony.

A Greek pony.

@Fifths

And so fell the Grecco-Pony Empire…

They listened to someone sing his epics while accompanying themselves on the lyre.

We need more Bard Lyra, regaling both royalty and commoners with her tales of wonder and adventure!

(I like how I technically started this conversation about lost history, yet I have nothing in the way of information to actually contribute. Keep it up, Fifths and Platus! This is fun!)

@ DeadParrot
Correct, DeadParrot! The Greco-Pony Empire fell, but who came next, class?
no one answers

No one knows? OK, then class, pay very close attention.
It was the time for the Imperial Japonies to rise!



Did any of you study about the Imperial Japonies before?

No, the Roman Empire was clearly the best.

level4outbreak Wrote:

No, the Roman Empire was clearly the best.

…Heh… Ceasar Couldn't even Invade Briton the first time round… And it took another three tries before they got a proper invasion together…

And then after beating the south, and barely managing to keep the Scotts at bay for a couple hundred years, since the scotts kept kicking them out of the north… They packed up and went back to Italy where their empire promptly collapsed in on itself as they fought each other…

…Yeah… The Romans having poor organization seems to be a thing…

Guess who the lucky guys the Romans let invade by leaving were?

THE VIKINGS!

…Well… them… And some other Barbarian Tribes… But The Vikings are the only ones we'll remember.

Interestingly… The Vikings had a few issues about Haircare… Specifically they had some strong customs about keeping it "Perfect".

Basically… Due to poor Organization… The Romans let one of their countries get taken over by Bloodthirsty Hipster Fashinistas.

…For like… No reason…

… Not that they didn't look cool doing it.

Now Before I forget… Anyone got some Scottish Pony?

They Seem to have everyone else beat, since they seem to be the ones that have almost no occasions of being successfully invaded.

…Which is a lot more of an accomplishment than an invasion is (Since those happen all the time).

@Pony empires

Okay, ya'll clearly don't know shit. Pax Equus Brittainica bitches.

Yay British ponies!

Lunar Protege said:

Now Before I forget… Anyone got some Scottish Pony?

They Seem to have everyone else beat, since they seem to be the ones that have almost no occasions of being successfully invaded.

Thank you for making the case for Scootaloo (Scotaloo?) as best pony!
Usually I have to do that!

And some bagpipes from Octavia's Scottish cousin, wait for it…
…
…
…
Loch-tavia!
I'm a comedic genius.

@Fifths
Does British Derpy like English muffins?

Wait wait wait… since when was this a Scottish Pony thread? I thought this was a Lyra thread.

@Jimmy Lethal
It is. I think. Anyway, have some Irish Lyra:

@ Fifths
That would be "Britannicus" with one "t," two "n's," and no "i" before the "n's."

@ Anthropology Class

Class! Settle down! You should know that your anthropologist has the most pictures of Lyra among you!

And those are just SOME of my favorited SFW images… don't get me started on the ones I posted or the NSFW ones…

Mi Pequeño Pony

@ Derpy Vazquez

@ Anthropology Class
Well, class, this session is over, and you are free to go! Go spread the good word of the hands to your fellow Equestrians!

@DeadParrot
the best marshmallow

markhaox14 said:

Not Fimfiction… Fanfiction… why does everyone assume Fimfiction? Fanfiction is a bit less strict about rules, but can delete old documents saved to their site.

>using Fanfiction.net
>not being able to use struck out text
>not being able to change font color
>not being able to use small caps
>not being able ot post links or images within stories

>not being able to quote text

Do you even fanfiction?

But seriously, I never realized just how restrictive FF is until I reposted my story there from Fimfiction. Plus, they don't have a rating system (which makes it an incredible pain trying to find the good stories) and only recently allowed cover images. I think that's primarily why most people assume Fimfiction. It's better than FF in almost every way.

@Best empire
Clearly the Austro-Hungarian Empire is best, and also stupidest.
>archduke gets assassinated
>sends Serbia ultimatum
>Serbia agrees to all concessions but one
>declares war anyway
>gets curbstomped by Russia
>dissolves

@History, writing, stuff, and things

Of course, Plato tended to hate a lot of cool things – he even said that, in his "perfect" ideal state, he would kick out all the poets. But when we're talking about literacy, the worst case by far is Socrates. Nietzsche called him "he who does not write" for a good reason – the man may actually have been illiterate. The only way we know about his philosophy is through what was written about him – mainly by Plato (who uses Socrates as a character in his dialogues), and to a lesser extent by other writers (the playwright Aristophanes, for example, even wrote a satire mocking Socrates in his play "The Birds"). Basically all of Socrates's philosophy was conducted on the street, with him just chatting away and debating people. Who knows how much important stuff he said that was never written down? Of course, when the middle ages re-discovered Classical philosophy, they got some stuff mixed up – like in this depiction of Plato and Socrates in an illuminated manuscript, which has them in the wrong kind of clothing, and depicts their speaker-writer relationship completely ass-backwards:

Also, MOAR GREEK PONIES!

Throughout history, Arabian horses spread around the world by both war and trade, used to improve other breeds by adding speed, refinement, endurance, and strong bone. Today, Arabian bloodlines are found in almost every modern breed of riding horse.

and obvious Chinese pony

China has a long history of horsemanship. As early as the Shang dynasty, around 1600 B.C. there is evidence of horses being used to pull chariots. In the early centuries A.D. during the Han dynasty, organized breeding programs for horses began, and good horses were celebrated in beautiful bronze statues. These statues suggest that the Chinese horses were related to some other Asian and central European breeds, being similar in appearance to today’s Andalusian and looking very similar to the horses of ancient Greece and Rome. Imports of western breeds (like the ancestors of the Arabian) continued and the fine horses we see in some of the most prized examples of Chinese art are the T’ang dynasty glazed horse sculptures.

So Arabian is best pony

Discus

OK, bronies. Since none of you will post, I'll give the Page Get to you guys. I'm trying to find a suitable candidate anyways… so just act normal everyone!