May 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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Analyzing “Dragonshy” and “Dragone Baby Gone”
Dragonshy is an excellent episode, and the turning point wherein the series hits a stride that would bring it the renown it now knows. It prominently features all of the mane six ponies and almost no one else, gives them a lot of fun dialog and animation moments, and has an adventurous feel with a big payoff. The pacing is air-tight, there’s a tiny musical number, and it expands on the lore in...
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Analyzing "Boast Busters" Some More
This is a good time to tell you all that I post all of these episodic analyses on my main site, and over there they generate great discussions and stuff, so I recommend reading on there instead of on here.
So this is a comment I made to extend my points on there.
No one was morally right in this episode, and I don’t talk about morals anyways (or at least I don’t mean to)—what I mean by being...
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Analyzing "Boast Busters"
Let’s be honest. This episode is fucking terrible. It is one of the worst episodes of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. It was written by Chris Savino, who’s only other episode was Stare Master (decent), and I think it’s pretty clear why. But this is still the Trixie episode, so I cracked open a bottle of hard cider, watched the piece of crap, and here’s some words about it.
I. LOVE. TRIXIE....
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Analyzing "Griffon the Brush Off"
Griffon the Brush Off is a fairly unpopular episode. Out of all the non-pony and one-off characters in the show, I’ve probably seen less fanart and love for Gilda than any other character, which is understandable because Gilda’s a total bitch. Griffons as a general race are more popular as an idea than Gilda, but even then, not so much that they feel like a big part of the pony world.
Besides the...
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Analyzing "Applebuck Season"
Dear Princess Celestia, where do I begin? Applebuck Season remains one of my favorite episodes of My Little Pony. As a person who really appreciates this show for the high density of things it has to offer, it would be correct to assume that the more I like an episode, the more things there are to say about it.
However, what makes this episode amazing is very straightforward. Whereas my enjoyment...
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Analyzing "The Ticket Master"
Before I start with this post, another shout-out to the excellent analysis of The Ticket Master by Misfortune-Dogged over on his own blog. In it, he compares the episode against a similar episode of My Little Pony Tales, and uses it to dissect what’s so interesting about the presentation of themes in Friendship is Magic. I won’t be restating much of what he said, so I recommend you read that post...
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Analyzing "Too Many Pinkie Pies"
This week’s MLP is among the funniest episodes of the show, and one of the tightest in terms of pacing and presentation, which makes it top tier for me. As much as I enjoyed the premiere, this episode is the more brilliant kick-off of the new season.
What makes it so tight? The concept is nothing new to cartoons—Pinkie Pie clones herself a bunch of times, quickly realizes why this was a bad idea,...
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Season 3 Premiere
God damn, I’ve finally got something to be excited about. I haven’t felt this fulfilled with a piece of media since I finished Mass Effect 2 six weeks ago. Just as in February, MLP has filled the hole left by my growing disenfranchisement with currently-running anime (except JoJo, which is fairly satisfying). It’s a shame I’ll only get one episode a week; I’ll have to continue marathoning all my...
June 2012
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Fandom Filtering
As my lack of updates may have indicated, I haven’t been spending much time in the My Little Pony fandom lately. I think that’s for the best. There’s a lot of stuff in this fandom—namely drama—that I’d rather not be involved in. Today, I’m going to talk about how to take a fandom you enjoy and filter the content that you receive down to what you like the best.
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April 2012
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Brony Media Overview
Over on my main blog, since I can’t do youtube embeds on tumblr. Go check it out! Warning, it has lots of embeds!
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Oh Man, It's Over! (For Now)
It’s sunk in that the amazing second season of MLP:FiM is over, and it’ll be months before the show is back on the air. It sucked going without ponies last week, much less going without them for an extended period.
To be fair, I’m hardly “without them.” There are 52 episodes to rewatch endlessly and a constant stream of Equestria Daily stuff to follow (though...
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Rationalizing Pinkie Pie's Mental Capacity
In my last post, I mused that Pinkie Pie must know over 3000 ponies, which according to Dunbar’s number is 2750 more than the number of people that a human can maintain social relationships with. The only requirements for inclusion among the 250 person limit in Dunbar’s number is that one knows “who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.” Here I...
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The Implication of Ponyville's Population
dziadek1990 has analyzed the hell out of some scenes and concluded with the possibility that Ponyville has between 3,100 and 4,300 citizens. That sounds like a whole lot of ponies, considering how big Ponyville appears in those far-away shots. However, because Ponyville is never shown in full—its size never really understood—and because of the inconsistencies in how many ponies exist on-screen at...
March 2012
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If Fluttershy Hadn't Found Stone!Twilight...
Twilight would’ve possibly been frozen in stone there, with no one the wiser, for days. After everypony realized she was gone, searched the village and asked around, Fluttershy would’ve realized that she’d heard Twilight mention the Everfree forest. So they’d find her there, but by then, the Cockatrice would possibly has left the area. Then they have to find every...
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Pony Education
How long do ponies go to school? Is school mandatory? These questions came to mind after my last post, and I think about it every time I see scenes from The Cutie Mark Chronicles because of the fact that filly Cheerilee is clearly seen performing in Rarity’s class play, meaning that Cheerilee is the same age as the mane six.
Ponies seem to customarily get their cutie marks some time during...
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Roughly Estimating Mane 6 Ages
I’ve been thinking about how old each of the mane six are relative to one-another. As far as I know, the only time age is definitively mentioned in the show is when Fluttershy says that she’s a year older than Pinkie Pie. If we take her to literally mean a full year, then I think it sets a decent spectrum for their ages.
I feel that way because in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Fluttershy...
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Analyzing "Friendship is Magic, Part 2 (Elements...
I haven’t much to say about this episode; it’s pretty straightforward. Probably the most plot-driven episode of the show, with the least extra stuff going on. I imagine that in this early stage of the show, drawing all those backgrounds and effects was enough to eat through the budget and time allotted to an ep.
Episode 2: Friendship is Magic, Part 2 (Elements of Harmony)
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Check Out My First MLP Fanfic!
I’ve started writing my first MLP:FiM fanfic over at FiMFiction! It’s called Pinkie Pie’s Toothache (of Destiny) and you can read the first chapter here.
Description: When Rarity notices the sorry state of Pinkie Pie’s teeth, she drags the pink pony kicking and screaming to see a dentist. During the check-up, a shocking discovery is made: Pinkie has developed an...
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Analyzing "Friendship is Magic, Part 1 (Mare in...
While writing my favorites-based ranking of MLP:FiM episodes, I found myself promising to analyze a bunch of them. Now, I’ve decided to pull all the stops and analyze them all. I’m skeptical about my ability to do this, since I’ve tried to do the same with a large number of anime shows over the past four years and never succeeded in finishing a show, but I think that my love of...
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WatchToday’s the last day of Winter. You know what that means!
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Pre-Re-Mare-a-Thon Episode Ranking
I consider myself a master of making favorites lists (if such a thing is to exist), so the idea of making a ranked list of my favorite MLP episodes seems natural to me. Also of interest is the disparity between how many times I’ve watched certain episodes versus others. I keep forgetting that there are nearly fifty episodes of this show, and that while it feels like I’ve watched them...
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Some of My Favorite MLP Dialog
When I watched season one of MLP:FiM, I found the episodes Feeling Pinkie Keen (15) and Over A Barrel (21) both awkward in the way that they presented their apparent moral messages. I was interested to learn that I wasn’t the only one who noticed the awkwardness—that both episodes were written by the same person, Dave Polsky—and that they were the only episodes which he wrote.
However, more...
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Parody song demo time!
This song is a parody of...
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Magic, Friendship, Etc.
Woke up and jumped out of bed this morning, worried that I might’ve overslept. It was only 9:30 AM. I brushed my teeth, showered, ate a full breakfast (none of which is my average Saturday), and then got all my morning stuff done (i.e. check google reader and catch up on Equestria Daily). Watched a little bit of online mare-a-thon livestreams and other videos, listened to some pony music,...
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Nimaru's "Luna's Studies"
Reading Nimaru’s “Luna’s Studies” series (here) has been very exciting. It features in-depth character analysis of the Mane Six, which is something I’ve hoped to find ever since I started with this fandom, and had thought I’d end up having to do myself (not that I won’t still do some of that here). Nimaru’s studies are brilliant, never compromising...
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February 2012
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Find The Good
I try to find the good in any situation, and the credo of My Little Pony fandom seems to be doing just that, which I find inspiring. I like to see us as the positive-thinking fandom that we call ourselves, even if I know we can’t be that through and through. After all, we’re just a fandom.
The Derpy situation doesn’t matter much to me, because I’ve seen enough stupid fan...
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(warning: first seconds are much quieter than rest...
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Smile. Smile, Smile. (From the Diary of Pinkie...
(This is a fanfic of sorts written in Pinkie Pie’s perspective. In which she just sounds like me.)
It’s an odd thing that I’m writing this. Explaining myself, as I plan to do, isn’t something I ever felt would be necessary. I’m not doing this for an audience—it’s just for me. Today, the feeling suddenly came over me that I’d like to talk about myself, to myself, and I thought it best...
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If You're A Brony Musician And Like Steely Dan And...
I’ve written a ponyfied parody of the song Dirty Work by Steely Dan, but I can’t find an instrumental version of the original song anywhere. I’m not capable of editing the vocals out myself, nor can I play any instruments, so I will need help to make this parody a reality.
I have a vocal-only demo of the song, uploaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?13vr2484l27ccw2
And here is...
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Immediate Reaction To "A Friend In Deed"
This episode had fanservice (in a purely innocent sense of the word) off the chain—the kind of fanservice where the creators of the show are a member of the fanbase, which just makes it all the more glorious. It’s a sensory overload of great things, and contextually works because it’s about Pinkie Pie trying to make a friend, and sensory overload is the core of her personality. This is...
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WatchAnd now, some Flutterguy Evil Enchantress karaoke just to flex range :p
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Brony Grief? I Came Prepared!
Some of my family and friends have been surprised by my sudden head-first dive into raving bronydom. Others recognized that nothing has really changed.
Dealing with the girliness of MLP hasn’t been a problem for me like it’s been for others because I already dealt with girliness years ago. This is a tail of my anime fandom.
Growing up, I was as much, if not even more, of a...
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Love Poison (A Ballad)
I’ve been writing a bunch of MLP songs lately, but I can’t play any instruments, so recording them is rather hopeless. I think this one’s pretty easy to follow on your own, though.
Love Poison
She’s a lonely, lovely filly He’s a helpful, handsome horse We thought we knew what we were doing When we put them on this course We thought potion-making easy, But turns out...
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