>>12732
>They would have designated changelings pretending to be ponies, and others would file to pretend to be pretending to be ponies and try to infiltrate the town of innocents.
That could be both needlessly convoluted or genius. There is a lot of potential there, say, ponies from the pony resistance infuriating or trying to travel through a town and have a physiological horror drama where you never quite know whom you can trust. They may have their own code words and crap, but it wouldn't matter at some point (I suppose that point even the Thing comes partly to mind). Did you have any characters or other AU elements in mind aside from the lose concept?

> Then go on the adventure of trying to sneak out the pony whose natural love could be detected through walls from fifty feet away.
Plenty of opportunity for both Stockholm syndrome and Reverse Stockholm syndrome (or is it Lima syndrome now?).

> And once again, despite having finished no projects to day, I am visited by a muse's whims.
I know this, lately my pony desires have centered on mystery. I want to make small mystery style stories but my craving is for larger ones. It's less defined that a specific AU idea but more of a desire of tone; some mix of haunting and /comfy/. It can be murder or whatever else. Now, less pony related, I have been tinkering with the idea of a horror game where your being hunted by creepy divergent humans, with the plot twist being that the majority of humanity went on a very strange transhuman path and what is creepy and divergent to the humans of this setting is normal(ish) humans from a lost colony who were none too pleased at new mainstream humanity's attempt at contacting and reincorporating them into galactic society. I only mention that as that is an almost an inverse of the Daybreakers plot.

>>12734
Ha! Fanfiction OF fanfiction.
I am impressed.

>>12712
>>12713
>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.
> 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.
Basically, it is small in yet big, in that a crack upon a glass that causes her freak out actions hear to be untenable to you from multiple angles. Twilight is too smart not realize this is wrong and yet Twilight doesn't seem to realize this is wrong. This may come up again a couple of more times this season I reckon. I think I will be referring back to here.

>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,
I've had this thought as well recently. Luna seems to have a lot exotic powers and feats that seem more widely varied in her magic. This most recent episode casual weather manipulation (which may not count for much but a flair for he dramatic and could be just illusion magic) and shapeshifting (that is stupidly useful). I want to keep track of demonstrations of both her and Celestia to see how they stack up. I don't want to judge it in typical power leveling scale but more so in the implications for the world and universe kind of thing. For example,as I have brought up in the past, we do see stars fly over to the moon and aid in Luna's escape; does Luna have command over stars and the night sky? What does that mean? Does she control other star systems? I go with the idea of classical stars (as in, the Sun not being thought of as the same thing as a star, the star being some point light in the sky). Or her patroling of the dream realm, does she rule this realm? Is she a goddess of sorts over it? That sort of thing.

>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.
I will note I was thinking more in the style of it having it point out and correct basic spelling and grammar errors over alternating and cleaning up large chucks of texts, but even here, I do have somewhat of an aversion to it of loss of humanity. It's not just the errors, but the outsourcing of some much of self that the self ceases to be.

>Also same with the cellphones, my dad had to force me to get one.
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I should probably preface this by explaining a bias of mine. I don’t think it overly affects my enjoyment of the episode, but I can’t say it has no effect. I have always hated halloween and I’ve never understood in even the slightest degree the impulse in others to willingly seek out being scared or frightened, from which somehow, by some arcane alchemy I can’t wrap my head around, they transmogrify into amusement and fun. I have a similar dearth of understanding regarding thrill-seeking, such as taking rides on rollercoasters, which I also cannot abide, and so I suspect (but still cannot fully comprehend) that it has something to do with people deriving pleasure from adrenaline. This probably means the ponies have a similar adrenaline response, since several characters in the episode express that they sometimes find it fun to be scared. Our episode opens with Spike, in his rather redundant dragon costume, telling Twilight they’ll be late for Nightmare Night and not recognising her Starswirl costume. As most people no doubt note here, not only does Spike or the rest of Ponyville not recognise this figure, but furthermore, Twilight mentions him as having a shelf at the Canterlot Library of Magic named after him, being the father of the amniomorphic spell, and being the most important conjurer of the pre-classical era… Not, notably, the mentor of Celestia and Luna, and also not even as the most important conjurer ever, much less most powerful unicorn ever, but merely the most important of his era. She mentions that he created over 200 spells, and again this mention is notably not “unicorn that created more spells than any other in history”. Even his name, Starswirl the Bearded, implies that there’s potentially at least as-well-known figures called Starswirl in history. At the very least he seems somewhat less significant than he might later seem to be.
The cold open presents Twilight frustrated at not having her costume recognised, and it's also from an older, more obscure time in Equestria's history. The cold open concludes on Spike jokingly calling her 'grandpa'. It's more subtle than a lot of the cold opens we've had, but it ties into the themes of Luna being behind the times and not recognised for who she actually is, or even was. Nightmare Night has made her into a very different figure in the minds of contemporary Equestria. Some of the houses as Spike and Twi walk through town look like they've had their roofs dressed up, like hats with bells and such. When it comes time for Rainbow Dash and Applejack to comment on Twilight's costume, Applejack thinks she's a country-music singer due to the long beard. I don't know much about really any music generally, but I was wondering if that was something like a ZZ Top reference? I've had people call me ZZ Top because of my long beard, so all I really know is they're a band of some sort famous for long beards.

A nice touch in this episode is that Zecora has become so accepted that now she's part of the official festival celebrations. It also serves to foreshadow the role Luna will learn to similarly fill: Zecora was once feared by the inhabitants of Ponyville, but now her scariness is a sort of accepted asset. Also, giving up some of your candy to Nightmare Moon is a pretty cunning way to avoid sugar rushes amongst the foals and fillies. Might come in handy for human halloween.

Princess Luna then descends in her unnecessarily gothic chariot and creepy grim reaper cloak. I've heard people call people who care about the Luna change unnecessarily autistic, but... This is fairly over the top, especially compared to what we've seen before. And what we've seen before, to be clear, whilst not a lot, is definitely not this stridently gothic figure, and furthermore we've seen her in daylight before pretty much all of Ponyville. Going with best faith interpretation, Luna's more demure demeanor prior and her differing appearance could perhaps, at a stretch, be due to her powers being drained by 1000 years of being Nightmare Moon, having just been blasted with the Elements and having been expelled to the moon for so long, and this could be a post-recovery Luna, so to speak. Really, the worst element here is the reaction of the residents of Ponyville. This does go on to be addressed in the episode, that people know she's reformed but are acting scared nonetheless, however, this is a little widespread and just feels off. Not a serious rewrite suggestion given budgetary considerations, but setting this as the Nightmare Night of a different town with which the Mane Six are helping out would aid the believability considerably. For Luna to come back to Ponyville SPECIFICALLY and garner this reaction is what's odd. Indeed poor Luna has quite logically made the most sensible decision possible for gaining acceptance and yet she gets this sort of reception.

Then we get Luna's Royal Canterlot Voice, and I can't really think of a best faith interpretation. Luna may well be busy with managing dreams, whatever her bat ponies are and getting back into her night-ruling job generally, but it has by now been at least a year, probably a little more since she returned. Has Celestia made no effort to reintroduce her to society in all that time? As a declarative voice it does it's job just fine, but she hasn't brought announcers? Celestia gets a ground retinue and trumpets and parades, and Luna has just her chariot and has to announce her arrival herself. And faced with total lack of respect, Luna resorts to having to declare a humiliating retreat without a "traditional royal farewell". A traditional royal farewell, I must note, that would seemingly lack any of the pomp and circumstance with which Celestia allows herself to be arrayed. I can accept the difficulties of a pre-industrial bureaucracy, but this is pathetic. I dislike this for how demeaning it is to Luna as a character, I dislike this for the absurdity of the situation and how bad it makes Celestia look, I even somewhat dislike the smearing of Mayor Mare, who may not be the most competent pony ever, but she does not even try to get herself together. In-universe, why did Celestia not present Luna back into society at the Grand Galloping Gala? It may even have come round again since the one we saw last season. That's the way to go about it, first have her re-enter Canterlot society, reach acceptance there, then do a proper introductory tour following on from there. You cannot tell me Celestia is too busy to do that but not too busy to greet guests at said Gala. At that stage, and between this episode and Sweet and Elite, the Unicorn aristocracy centred in Canterlot are more politically significant and powerful than the Princess of the Night, a situation which ought only to exist if Celestia actively cannot get rid of it, the implications of which I also dislike.

Accidentally got sucked down a moderately sized rabbit hole, may or may not result in some stuff here. Otherwise tired, worried for a family member but okay.

It's now the first day of fall/autumn. Probably the most popular season. Happy fall /endpone/!

>>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.

It's weird:
>try to go to sleep early
>actually get sleep
>wake up feeling often and foggy
but twice now I've had nights where I:
>didn't get to sleep at all, instead sleeping in mid morning to early afternoon on days with no obligation
Mind feels clearest in months when it has happened.

No interesting dreams to report.

More like: what do you want to share around here?

It looks like you have something more interesting to say than I ever could,you know?

>>12715
Howdy there stranger. What brings you to our humble bridge of a board?

> —at least try to do that for once.
Are you saying you don't want to drive anons away or that we are slow and not posting interesting topics?

>>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