>>12690
>looking into how a character’s attributes that are generally presented as positive become negative when pushed to an extreme.
>it reads more like Twilight just having an OCD episode more than anything else
Very good point. For Twilight’s character overall having had a somewhat neurotic breakdowns based around the idea of her trying to take control (there maybe OCD, but to me this was also based on her leadership trait) versus Twilight in later seasons being more anxious and OCD. This arguably is the seed for it, even if I can write off most of it as her acting on her cutie mark/Princess fears ( Cough cough, Swarm of the Century and A Bird In The Hoof) were what we see is reasonably established if not taken a bit further.

>>12691
>Also, Twilight knows that Spike has a crush on Rarity, couldn’t she just turn that into a ‘friendship problem’?
>...it puzzles me that this option didn’t occur to her.
I would debate the merits at having an issue here. I could see her easily forgetting that as a fact of life, or finding such a topic not a friendship problem. Then again, she did go to extreme lengths.

>So unless Celestia later, off-screen instructed Twilight to solve a friendship problem every week
This is the part where I could understand people's problems with in the sense of it getting a little meta.

>were it not for the fact that Twilight does not acknowledge the fact that maybe this isn’t a good thing to do, she hardly seems to be aware of it at all.
I think the question of the ponies mental maturity is relevant here.

>>12692

>>12707
>All in all you miss a large chunk of her character in cutting out those episodes where she's not the focus, but you also can't tell guest writers to watch the entire show before getting to work.
I suppose with 200 episodes and a changing cast of writers you'd bound to have some flanderization. TBH, I can really see where you're coming from and I don't think you're being absurd in it.

>Celestia had reined over unparalleled peace and prosperity for 1000 years.
Out of universe, the show had tohave onscreen conflict and Celestia got worfed (being used to demonstrate how powerful a bad guy is by being incapacitated quickly). In universe you can get away with the elements of harmony's returning bringing new threats up to a point. IDK, it started to feel absurd to me in Season 7 but that is getting ahead of ourselves and I could see a plausable cause for much earlier. I still prefer a mysterious chess master Celestia to the simple minded (maybe not right words) memey Celestia we got later.

> It can get worse - finding the partially (even MOSTLY) finished review that you lost AFTER posting the new replacement one you wrote
Oh, trust me, I suspect I will. I had my computer have an issue again causing me to switch between a couple of backups. It's somewhere. Even if it is a USB drive that I'll find I tucked away years later, lol.

>Either way I found it very humorous. But don't worry, please, as screencaps are just one of those many totally optional components!
The Celestia leaping gif was one I found on the booru, rest are ones I did make! I had only put the animated gifs in my iso file I use a virtual machine for sites I consider slightly risky, Endchan being one of them, though the slight paranoid way I handle things is sometimes tedious.

> Interacting with magic that someone else has cast seems like it would take more skill and power, so, I find it impressive still!
Oh, I still did, I just considered to be possibly within Celestia's power. +Aura for her either way.
> it demonstrates that the writing is fresh and home-baked, not out of a sterile package from LLM-Mart!
>I'll confess I'm glad of it!

>>12709
*animated gifs and mp4s

>>12708
>I think the question of the ponies mental maturity is relevant here.
I would still argue that absent the matter of maturity, one thing that very strongly defines ponies is a moral sense of right and wrong. Pony villains even seem more acutely aware of the wrongness of what they're doing than other species. A lapse in judgement is certainly possible, but this would be a lapse in judgement affecting the most intelligent pony in ponyville, amongst the most mature of her peers, lasting over a course of many hours. And if we're not to take this as typical behaviour (which I don't think we possibly can given how well-ordered Equestrian society is, societies made up of people having meltdowns don't look like this), then we need some sort of explanation. Neuroticism and some kind of trauma involving Magic Kindergarten go some way towards this, but it all falls a little flat compared to Party of One, which much more naturally explains Pinkie's meltdown. Pinkie's more the type to be overly panicky, neurotic and so on I would say, and yet her actions during her meltdown are overwhelmingly less severe and harmful than Twilight's, a pony that we absolutely know for a fact knows better than Pinkie and is much more mature than Pinkie. It's not to say it can't happen but the justification is quite small and the consequences quite large.
>The protocol to please her teacher and her obsessive fear of pleasing Celestia being something far longer in her then her living in this newfangled moral universe of friends mattering.
Whilst true to an extent, even by her old set of values what Twilight chooses to do is extremely wrong, she's falsifying a report, and doing so in such a way that it directly contradicts the intended direction and impact of the assignment. That in itself I'd find a little hard to believe without it being established that she had previously lied to gain Celestia's approval. In fact, just saying that makes me think it might have worked better as a premise. Twilight becomes worried that certain recent events in Ponyville might end up uncovering in some way her past lie(s), and so she seeks to misdirect and cover her tracks, escalating further and further in her desperation to keep people from finding out about her dishonest, even unacademic cheating, ending up in much the same way with Celestia ultimately forgiving and imparting a lesson about how lies, even when seeming to have no downside, can eat away at you in a way that makes you act worse and worse the more you lie and the more you try to lie about lying (i.e covering up your lies).
>I don't what to turn this into Bridgefag's therapy hour but I know the feeling of knowing when something is wrong but having learned patters of behavior from years overriding it often without even thinking.
As do I, but even herein you touch upon my central issue:
>knowing when something is wrong but
Twilight isn't actually shown to know that what she's doing is wrong, except by the very end, by which point one could well think it's more about the disaster that ultimately resulted. When in situations like this, what has actually happened is that the stress or anxiety causes me to take an action that I know in advance is wrong, believing it's what desperation has driven me to. And that's exactly what I think is missing to fix the believability: (even if I think it would still be a little stretched) just a momentary hesitation or questioning herself, to show that desperation is making Twilight go someplace she knows she shouldn't. Even from a very, very early age I could tell right from wrong, even if I couldn't reason why, even if it was only right or wrong because I had been told that it was so by some authority figure. So I don't think either maturity or desperation is sufficient to explain Twilight's lack of moral foresight. To be perfectly honest I think even from a writing perspective it was simply overlooked. It would detract nothing and add so much vital depth, in my estimation.

>>12708
>I find it hilarious that we come at this episode somewhat differently yet still arrived at the same rating.
Much as I can go on and on about things which bother me, the degree to which I talk about them rarely has any relation to how large I think the given issue actually is. In this case in spite of all I've said about it I do still find Twilight's underlying motives to be a relatively minor issue to the episode overall.
>>12709
>Out of universe, the show had tohave onscreen conflict and Celestia got worfed (being used to demonstrate how powerful a bad guy is by being incapacitated quickly).
From what we begin knowing in Season One it can seem that way: we know that she sealed away Nightmare Moon and raised and lowered both major heavenly bodies for 1000 years whilst guarding over Equestria as ruler too, but even there we can extrapolate that Celestia seemed at least incapacitated by Nightmare Moon whilst the Mane Six ventured out to find the Elements, and from their finding the Elements it's not unreasonable to also extrapolate that Celestia might also have used them in sealing away Nightmare Moon to begin with. And, when it comes to the opening two-parter of this season, we find both ideas confirmed. Celestia is certainly powerful, but since she had the power of the Elements to deal with both Nightmare Moon (it's safe to assume), and Discord, I wouldn't say that we can even necessarily know for sure that she's more powerful even than say, Luna. She could potentially be weaker than Luna, bizarre as that might be to posit, but at the least I think it's safe to say that right from the start she's not as powerful as when the Mane Six use the Elements. Although, as the show goes on, it seems to transpire that virtually nothing can stand up to the Elements. Regarding the thousand year reign, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that these were in fact perfectly peaceful years. Nightmare Moon, Discord, and seemingly degrees of industrialisation and colonial pushes out into new territories are all occurring simultaneously. I'd argue that if the colonial and technological aspects of pony society that we're starting to see advancing more rapidly point to a boom in population (which seems likely to me), this could explain both Discord and the Changelings a little later on. Larger population means a larger amount of net disharmony, and also more sources upon which to feed.
>IDK, it started to feel absurd to me in Season 7
There I would agree with you, but at least at the moment I'd argue the perception of Celestia's power is perhaps exaggerated based on her image, when compared to what the show actually depicts.
>I just feel like this sense of dependency and everyone speaking with one creepy non-personal AI voice and as someone who feared cellphones back when my father got me one as a teen in 2010ish, I have a similar sense with LLMs
They certainly have their uses, but with writing in particular I find them extremely pointless on a fairly simple basis: you can pretty easily predict exactly what they'll say and how they're going to say it. To deliberately write like an LLM and to simply have an LLM generate some text would be essentially interchangeable, except the LLM might leave out some human error, which frankly I see as to the detriment of the LLM in the competition. To err is to be human, they say, and writing is essentially technological telepathy, the transmitting of one mind's thoughts to another. To invite a computer to the uniquely human exercise of sharing the single truly unique human experiences of thought and communication rolled all into one seems as pointless as it is unfair: for the poor computer, that is, that cannot truly take part either as participant or beneficiary!Ultimately one writes for oneself as much as for another, so I truthfully only express a partial, personal preference for not using an LLM, I have no strong objection. Nor indeed would it be my place to object! Also same with the cellphones, my dad had to force me to get one.

>>12567
The next 1800 words, right after the first half you've already read. Search for 'new student, pleasant' and it should jump right past the missed plot armor that nopony got but was promised a couple paragraphs above.

>>12592
>The camera was proffered to Chuck. "Get her, Snow Drift specifically, to help you, using this camera. Use whatever lies you want or need to. My colleague has put a tracking spell on it so we'll know to pick her up for … well, anyway."
Alright, here we have some more intrigue and clarification (sort of) on intent. Okay, seeing here:>>12571
>Fears over the mission or avoidance over her unicorn aunt? I also am guessing the aunt might be the unicorn from the royal guard who is crying about her niece being sent on a suicide mission... maybe? That is the only thing I am confused over and that could be easily fixed with context.
I had somehow (his brief appearance or my exhaustion induced) mistaken the gender of who I now know to be Snow Ski, (or is it Snow Sky?) Snow Drift's uncle. His concern wasn't fear of something bad happening to her but of her sheer existence and presence there. We also get some key information:
>Snow Drift suddenly appeared and this timing is significant to Snow Ski, presumably with her disappearance.
>Snow Drift had met Ground Chuck Snow Drift only just over three weeks ago, and she seemingly enrolled in the school within that time frame.
>Most significantly, Snow Drift having wings is new.
So, the mystery thickens.

I don't have much to say on the flow or critiques this time. Perhaps it would be nice to know more of what Ground Chuck thought of everything going on with Snow Drift. I initially found myself surprised that he was just going along with the royal guard wanting to question or detail his friend, but she is a new friend he hardly knows and seemingly a drifter. Considering the situation and added stress, that is a pretty human-er, pony-reaction. More context before I can fully judge this of course, but that is my take right now. All I will say on the griffon invasion cloud fort at the moment is that I like the concept and think it is something very in show canon even you're more of the type to be running with concepts and the world beyond the show.

One Grammar Note:
>The unicorn stallion pulled himself together, still weeping but making eye contact with his coworker. Berryfield shook the camera in her aura, and Snow needed several breaths to steady himself before he closed his eyes
I assume the proper spelling is Berry Field based on the conventions your other names have.Though as a mononym I don't think is bad if that is the proper spelling.

>missed plot armor that nopony got but was promised a couple paragraphs above.

>>12600
>plot armor denied

The two unicorn colleagues have been thrown off kilter by the sighting of Snow Drift, or Snow Ski would have had the presence of mind to add the shield to them both.

> >Most significantly, Snow Drift having wings is new.
Technically all that's been said, is that it's more likely to BE Snow Drift if the pink pterippus has wings.

Re-reading it reminds me of how cheesy of a feel I was going for, despite the drama going on. Ski's niece Drift is working with Draft while Chuck watches pony-chucking right after singing David Bowie's Heroes song in a world that probably doesn't have an equivalent, although I imagine the indigenous Buffalo of the David clan have hunting equipment called the David Bow.

/* /me takes a bow/ */

I keep telling ponies, once I unveil the rest of it you'll be mad at me for making you laugh.

>>12601
I maybe mad I maybe not: something that jumps genre abruptly might be interesting/fun in it's own weird way. The main time. My guess is that Snow Drift murdered somebody for her wings in a creepy and evil way.

>in a world that probably doesn't have an equivalent, although I imagine the indigenous Buffalo of the David clan have hunting equipment called the David Bow.
Let's not forget the Diamond Dogs!

>The two unicorn colleagues have been thrown off kilter by the sighting of Snow Drift,
I know you're not aiming for realism but we have plenty of real world examples of authorities being thrown off worse than that (or just being stupid without anything bad going on). I can believe it.

>>12613
...or maybe Wednesday is Inky?

>>12613
And thanks for the encouragement: rain, there is more than one building I have to deal with that has holes/damage and when it rains, it often rains inside too, I have to deal with, so that expression was very literal.

Rain is still a pain, and while trying to stop leaks in vain, maybe I can stay sane, but rain is my bane.

Sleep was not good last night
>stung by a wasp in bed
>Hometown was nuked vividly in a dream.That had other creepy elements I would rather not go into.
...but I am okay now.

>>10255
The problem is those who have porn brain pollute things to freakish fetish territory. Kind of the way fetishes work. Anons who have more tastefull and moderate taste don't have good tags. You can find some attempts "reasonably sized X," but still their needs to be tagging work.

>(Ignore the following if you want. Thread maybe going to get deleted: >>10196 - I didn't post any thing there; I'm this guy: >>10254.)
I am not 100% familiar with the cultural norms here, but while they cluster to single threads I don't think they would delete this, at least right away, while your still asking a question.

>>10261
Even if alone, it isn't completely undoable. Personal booru software and a some elbow grease you could amass a good collection of reasonable pony images. Keep a list and mass tag the shit when you get a good idea of what to look for.

Wasn't there a anon here who did talk about something like this once? I don't think it was fetish related though.

>>10261
>The trick isn't deciding what's wrong with the tags as-used-now, the trick is convincing the unwashed hordes it's worth going back to re-tag all the backlog of artwork so you can find what you want and exclude what you don't.
Behead those involved in horrible tagging systems and practices:
>>10453 (cross-thread)
>https://twibooru.org/tags/solo+female
>>"solo female" implies "solo"
>Dumbest thing ever. Feeling like tags on non-pony boorus are better.

>>10454
Solo_Female should, in my mind, imply solo.

Except I'd argue that isn't futa female but rule69, Bubble Berry; solo_male, which should also imply solo.
Also the shaft is reasonable, considering Bubble is a horse.

Your complaints have been summarily dismissed.

>>10455
>Also the shaft is reasonable, considering Bubble is a horse.
Horse penis is significant in size IRL. However, the proportions are off. It's unrealistically thick in terms of trying to be anatomically correct. Also that erect penis reaches to/past the forelegs. To be correct, it should reach around halfway to the forelegs. Reposting that pic here.

>>10261
Tags are available for everyone to make. The reason it hasn't been done is because nobody wants to do it, that simple. Maybe make a tag for a few images you really like and people might adopt it. Just don't expect it to be instant, if you have ever drawn yourself you'd know how annoying the process of tagging across multiple websites can be so it probably wont start actively tagged

>>12634
Er NOPE. Okay. For all I know there could be some setting or something I am misreading, lol, but I tried putting multiple rolls "dice 2d4 2d4 2d4" but that is just treated as an email address.

>>12633
I suppose one could set up a cyclic for dice rolls, but that maybe tedious, or use a simpler RP system. My potential issues with participation aside PM sent on that, I have no problem you trying an RP game on here if you decided against /mlpol/. If it was successful and you needed a lot of threads >>>/mlp/ might be a good idea. I own this board and had always wanted to clean it up and turn it into a wiki/repository/lists of things place but have never gotten around to it.

>>12635
>cyclic for dice rolls
That honestly would make the most sense.
That thread might have a player, but I think probably doesn't, just a tire-kicker.
Grab the sourcebooks before I yank the link, I guess.
Mega, slash folder slash r55EAapA#56e4eQ7cDStXpjmfBRIWoA

It looks like Thursday and Sunday are my weekend days, for at least a few weeks.

>>12636
General PoLS. I have some personal stuff going down right now that I am still trying to asses the impact of I detailed more of that on a PM.

250!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

USA USA USA Happy 4th to the Pacific Coast!

>>12653
Bathe in it all you want...because the sun is eternal

>>12655
I am working building some improvised structures in the summer heat so I sort of am!

This has Celestia kissing a filly Twilight Sparkle goodnight at night with Mare in the Moon in her full misery and blight in the background of Celestia's clear delight and yet I post this in /sun/ with mild fright at the taboo of sharing night in the thread of light which shines bright!

>>12657
Quite!

>>12681
...and it really is a delight!

>>12643
I fixed it. There is new anti spam moderation tools for unfamiliar IPs. These might be interesting but considering I imagine we use VPNs and a lot of our regulars here post every once and awhile I have it mostly turned off for now.

>>12644
I think part of the issue was I actually had the VPN turned off for once! Plus unfamiliar machine perhaps. Everything's gone topsy-turvy during moving house

>>12646
Similar story, albeit I have two machines I keep switching between for my sometimes highly specific set ups for chan based pony posting.

Point is though, it might be useful to set up better, but also a bit of a hindrance!

testy mc test to see if this will bump.

>>12649
Okay, I *think* I fixed it. Another problem is that there is a limit in place for bumping old threads, not a bad idea, but, the default was 1000 days ago,a lot of are still slow but activeish generals are 6+ years at this point. I think we are good now.