The Thread About Ponies, Logistics and General Weirdness (And Gilda)TV 

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What is Rainbow Dash aiming at in the air?

With an accurate range of almost 2 miles, the bullet has enough of an ark to require that kind of angle.


And she could be on the side of a hill.


Oh, and because
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Midnight ponies:

I always wanted this shop:
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The great and powerful loony:
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(*Eliminate shipping variables to reduce naughtiness*)

And this is some kind of interesting OC:
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That is all, until something.
 
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The whole time I was reading this, I was thinking Angel Bunny is best pet, but now.....
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....ED-209 is best pet.

Oh, and silly Scootaloo, chickens are pets.

And did anyone else read that "Shut up baby, I know it" in Benders voice?


Night everypony.
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So here is the situation, I study and study Celestia to the point in which I wasn't studying Celestia anymore(I actually end up reading two books, and studying a couple of post traumatic syndromes from a couple of air crashes, no laughing matter, I often let myself go with this sort of thing), I don't know if I should write that Celestia long post, my lack of organization skills let the main point stood aside, while the rest of off-topics took over and bloomed, and when all studies came together to cover Celestia, I found myself in a very uncomfortable situation about releasing this to the internets, apart from the problem of wrapping up all together nicely.

So, I don't known, I want to start this as a project here, in Ponychan and other sites around the net that might provide appropriate feedback, to create the ultimate MLP character consideration guide(I'm also aware that is a bit obnoxious for original writing), the objective is to provide a better insight for each character, something that writers might find useful at the time of creating characters and situations that might need canonical considerations, and something that ordinary people might find interesting.

I'm currently thinking about the pros and cons about this idea, so if you have some pro or con please share it here, maybe I can know if it is an smart idea, or a completely idiotic one(maybe it is indeed an idiotic idea, but lets see).

Well, I'm really tired of not-doing anything at all today, maybe I should take this project and think about it in my sleep.
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Goodnight everyone.
 
I'm talking "I'm pissed off" level of bad. I'm talking "Of Mares and Magic just lost its 20% Cooler Tag" annoyance. I'm talking "that ending just did the impossible and torpedoed Of Mares and Magic way out of my Top 5" feelings of contempt for what it ended up doing. Which is good news for Macintosh, I suppose; but it makes me feel absolutely terrible.

In the writer's defence, endings are horrifically difficult to write, because the audience will be both annoyed that no more will come afterwards, and expect a massive climax that grants them everything they want. I mean I tried my best in wrapping up I Won't See You Tonight in a happy, non-cliche manner that allowed Trixie to both make peace with Cassandra and live a happy life with another pony.

And then everyone told me it just wasn't quite right, or not good enough in various ways. Hence why I abandoned that fanon continuum altogether.

Get an anon (its usually an Anon, if I'm recalling my more heated responses on the TNTNE page correctly) to piss me off for clearly not reading any of the damn story before opening their stupid mouth.

If I get one, I'll let you know. Obviously this plan would require you to have also read the story, so it's flawed from the start I guess.

Not at all. Star Crossed Lovers if a perfectly valid way to end a story. Using Star Crossed Lovers to undermine 10 chapters of character building, some of the best character building I had ever seen in a fan fic, all so you can add a [Sad] tag, is not. Just don't do that.

Character building's easier than ending. I'll admit I was disappointed with the ending though, I saw it coming from chapter nine when Trixie told Twilight she didn't love her.

As far as my ending? Well, it's only an ending for Dash's thread, sadly:
Dash and her platoon are dropped onto a colony to help the evacuation while Celestia fights the covenant fleet in orbit. Pinkie is the current acting mayor after the military pulled out, (Luna jumped the gun on Celestia with this), and she helps organise the evac.

Her transport is shot down by a covenant ship hanging over the city, and Dash's platoon are close enough to the crash site to help the survivors. Dash saves Pinkie from a covenan squad picking off survivors, and carries her to the spaceport for safety. However a scarab attacks the perimeter and attempts to make it's way past the defences and into the hangars to kill off the civilian evac ships. Dash leaves Pinkie on the ship and goes with AJ to draw off the scarab. They then come up with a plan to kill both the scarab and the covenant ship with one stone, but Dash's wing is burned off in the process. She tells the evac ships to escape while they can, leaving the pair stranded as the covenant burn the planet, but saving a thousand refugees in the process.

Also I'm having a backstory with Dash and Pinkie leading up to this, where Dash left Pinkie to join the marines. Pinkie thinks she's abandoning her, but Dash actually joins to keep Pinkie safe, to help fight off terrorists so she can live happily and safely. I also want to give the impression of how galling that the very thing Pinkie loved in Dash, (her bravado), is the very thing that took her away from her.

Obviously alot of that is in the execution too, but it's a basic outline of the sort of ending I'm planning for Dash and AJ's story threads.

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Oh lawds is the internet quiet lately. Stupid sunny summer.
 
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In the writer's defence, endings are horrifically difficult to write, because the audience will be both annoyed that no more will come afterwards, and expect a massive climax that grants them everything they want. I mean I tried my best in wrapping up I Won't See You Tonight in a happy, non-cliche manner that allowed Trixie to both make peace with Cassandra and live a happy life with another pony.

And then everyone told me it just wasn't quite right, or not good enough in various ways. Hence why I abandoned that fanon continuum altogether
Character building's easier than ending. I'll admit I was disappointed with the ending though, I saw it coming from chapter nine when Trixie told Twilight she didn't love her.
I Won't See You Tonight didn't quite work because there wasn't quite enough setup. With a couple more buildup scenes it probably would have been fine, which considering it was launching a crack pairing, is saying something.

Of Mares and Magic already had all the pieces in place for a sad ending. It had all the pieces in place for a bittersweet. It had all the pieces in place for a happy ending. They just needed to be utilized properly. When I saw that [Sad] tag, before I even read the final chapter I stopped to take in everything so I would be prepared for all of the possible sad endings that I could think of.



GanonFLCL instead ignored all of those pieces, came up with an ending that directly contradicted almost all of them, and then unleashed the sad purely for the sake of sad. I can think of three other ways that the story could have been ended on a sad note that would not have completely undermined the entire point of the story like that one did, and they would have been easier to write, and one of them arguably would have been far sadder (Trixie never coming back).




Similarly, when he stops in as says this:

Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that when you write an Epilogue to your fanfic, submit it WITH the final chapter, so that everypony doesn't explode when you leave another cliffhanger ending.
Your faithful student,
GanonFLCL


Epilogue is on it's way guys! I still accept your hate because I deserve it, I ended Chapter 11 on a really really *really* sour note just to fire the Epilogue's Happy Ending Cannon at full burst! I won't submit them separately ever again!

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Because even if the Epilogue is the Super Happy Ending, its gonna take a hell of a lot of work justify the BS that happened for the last 3 pages of the final chapter, and he doesn't seem to realize that.
The problem isn't that it was sad, no matter how many moron Anons say that everyone is just mad because they wanted a happy ending. The problem is that it was an ending for a completely different story.



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Celly's voice is great in this.
 
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I Won't See You Tonight didn't quite work because there wasn't quite enough setup. With a couple more buildup scenes it probably would have been fine, which considering it was launching a crack pairing, is saying something.

I'll learn from my mistakes, hopefully it'll work out better. I have another fanfic I might write, as well as the Inmate 402 idea and Gods and Demons, (just submitted chapter four of that, practically writes itself, advantage of picking a crossover canon I pretty much worship.) However while Inmate 402 has the possibility of shipping, and G&D is also going to have a subplot or two, I doubt I'll make it central.

Similarly, when he stops in as says this:

He's doing what I considered doing for A Little Piece of Heaven. A "sorry I bucked up but it was obviously my plan all along." I'm still toying with the idea of writing the finale I had planned while writing Trashed and Scattered, but then ALPoH killed the continuum to the point that I doubt anyone'd even glance at a follow-up.

Celly's voice is great in this.

You could almost say it was...stellar.

*Yay.*

Epic Cupcakes Time is still probably my favourite dub vid. Just fits so well to the parody material.
 
I saw that this morning. A work of pure genius, that. I'm also amazed that there was a period of time in history where that wasn't considered to be porn music.
 
Oh god the comments. They're hilarious.

Also, I actually saw that yesterday.

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^ Yeah, after all that fanfiction, Trixie must be devastated.

Ok time for pics:

Speaking of...
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SweetieBelle vector(kinda):
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Luna you must obey:
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Terrible misunderstandings in MLP universe.

Speaking of...comic(that cheese tasting isn't quite right).

Also, the ponychan card-drinking game got more serious:

>Cards
>Recommendations(kinda)

That's all.
 
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*snicker*
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Anyway, I'll probably not be posting as much because I have an incredible headache right now. So I'll probably spend the rest of my day watching turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy-the-splosions type movies and almost nothing else.
 
Thread's quiet.

Have some Faust win:


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For the New Lunar Republic sounds awesome on my new in-ears. :3

For a brand I hadn't heard of 'til I started work at an Electrical Retailers, Sennheiser's in-ears are freaking sweet.

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Past Sins just updated with chapters 14 through 16. Am read now.
 
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"Trixie made more Trixie."

Considering I was already annoyed with how Chapter 13 played that scene, why do I have the sneaking suspicion that said changes are going to piss me off? Though apparently the Luna bridge drop was written into Chapter 12 Chapter 13.



Edit: Reading the Changelist, it looks like I'm gonna have to start from Chapter 9 again.
 
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As much as I loathe "FIRST!" comments, there is a bit of smug superiority to be had with having the first comment on something that will likely exceed 2000 before the hour is up.



Off to read Chapter 9. This is several hours of time that I didn't need to have taken up. Hopefully MaximilianVeers updates his eReader entry soon so I can PSP the thing.
 
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I'm starting from Chapter 9, because that is where they said they started making the heavy changes. I've already noticed a couple.



Edit: Yeah. Basically every scene with Celly in them so far are 20% better than they were originally. Even the ones that I had no problem with originally.


Edit: And it lugs the most major plothole I had seen in the story.
 
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Oh alright then. Seems fairly pointless to rewrite it. :S

Up to Chapter 16 atm, several very interesting events so far.

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I think chapters 11 onwards are 90% Nightmare talking to herself about how everyone expects her to act. It gets fairly repetitive by 16 IMO.
 
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Pic time:

Now with AppleBloom, no way:
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This is interesting:
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(And repost, maybe)

Don't think about it too much, my MRI shows a complete presence of Rarity:
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That's it, until I complete some things on the 360 (Playing Dirt3, is quite good).
 
Ah dammit, I'm bored, random pics:

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(*Continues spamming thread after running rally stage UK-6 in Collin McRae Rally 2005*)

Apart from that, plenty of the ponychan pics that I posted in the last 15-20 days have been taken down(remind you, my Engrish is rubbish), so, if you might need one of those, well, good luck with that, you probably cant find them here.
 
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