>>12463
Yay, the art actually posted this time. LOL.

I hope everyone has a blessed and safe New Year don't get too drunk!

I guess goodluck to anybody out there who is having a long hnagover or is dealing with possibly ramifications of certain other events in the news. Funny thing, for most people I know, it's regualr life/one last weekend of fun before the life returns, but I was raised celebrating Christmas 12 days and thus it still feels like a holiday even if things have been a bit chaotic on my /end/.

Hopefully this place won't go under. 8kun had a rough transition back to their original URL/DNS-entry, so it would at times look like they were gone forever.

8chan moe decided /pone/ didn't have enough posters and locked the whole board. It's been unlocked but now the threads don't bump when you post.
As an admin I can look at posts by date, and bumplocked or saged they show up in order, but to visitors it would look like no one is showing up.

On mlpol I've been toying with joining a play-by-post DnD game but the rules are really vague and no one actually knows what race stats they're using, only that flying is pretty much disallowed.

So long story shorter, it feels like the internet is dead to me even though everyone else is having a loud, normal time.

>>12497
>As an admin I can look at posts by date, and bumplocked or saged they show up in order, but to visitors it would look like no one is showing up.
Bleh. That is annoying. Does this affect new threads?

>On mlpol I've been toying with joining a play-by-post DnD game but the rules are really vague and no one actually knows what race stats they're using, only that flying is pretty much disallowed.
I don't do a lot of RP, but I know this feeling of groups that are annoyingly vague. A lot of rules being unwritten and certain people either mesh well with them or not. I also have been dealing with minor disaster in a non-functional computer and the password booklet I used most having disappeared, can't test anything with my board vole position at the moment. I still have the password for here though.

>So long story shorter, it feels like the internet is dead to me even though everyone else is having a loud, normal time.
Similar feelings. I've been looking around at some other chan boards, forums and other places. Most are dead or feel dysfunctional with people I suspect I wouldn't get along with well. Social media I have done more limited scouting but I feel the same with it as I do with above. I suspect part of it for me is that I am not "wired" for this age well. It honestly almost feels like that my ideal space would have to be a place that is /built/ and that would require a lot more in the OC department. Maybe that can be done here, but I really need to make sure some bunker is established because everything feels rather fragile. I'll tell if you I find any spaces that are functional with decentish cultures.

>>12497
>8chan moe decided /pone/ didn't have enough posters and locked the whole board. It's been unlocked but now the threads don't bump when you post.
That is a point against them because a lot of places could use a bunker that is just on standby. Is there a particular post count required monthly or something?

>the internet is dead to me
I'm split between the idea that people are bad at expanding their horizons versus the truth that communities on Reddit and Discord are objectively downgraded and culturally similar even if some still have their own traditions otherwise. I imagine AI RPing has also hurt RP sessions across the board. I think a lot of chan culture and older forums are too puritan to some ideal of recapturing a golden age while newer online meeting places genuinely are downgrades in terms of culture and fun.

>>12498
> know this feeling of groups that are annoyingly vague. A lot of rules being unwritten
/endpone/ is this too. That isn't a bad thing. What is when things are being mismanaged or managed in a negative arbitrary way. /endpone/ being more SFW, loving generals, and being in-between peak /b/rony Ponychan and /mlp/ in terms of sincerity aren't spelled out rules but pretty quickly and easily picked up by anyone who lurks here and is pretty easy to understand*. An RP with unclear rules is one that can be arbitrarily run or a chaotic train-wreck. Now train-wrecks can sometimes be fun though if everyone is in on it or just trying to have a good time.

*/endpone/ I'll admit is weird to fully wrap your head around. It's like a mix of /b/ronies, /pone/, /flutter/, but has its own traits outside of those.

>>9627
It was a heavy weight and I think all things considered, she did win in the /end/.

Her majesty princess celestia the eternal and great ruler of Equus bestoyer upon this earth of a great many things, creator of suns galaxy wide and gifter to us of earth MLP g4 so some may have their equine soul reawakened, and others embrace equine nature, Hail to you! from my heart to your sun!

>>12387
Ironically this has reminded me I need to put something Nightmare Night related up.

>so some may have their equine soul reawakened, and others embrace equine nature
Conversion Bureau enters the chat.

This gave me a chuckle.

>>12384
Nope, I can't, have something a little more in season then.

On this Nightmare Night belated.

I am afraid for this night I have nothing horror related.

What I can produce, here right now, is words from a tired and incoherent mind.

Maybe they'll be something fine, even divine.

My rhyming is faint and unskilled.

Perhaps you could say as simple as Zecora, or maybe blue pilled.

Try as I might, a faint light I must delight in burning bright.

/endpone/, I hope you had a safe Nightmare Night.

A belated review, and replies askew, I own for more than a fortnight.

>>12401
LOL, the blue text 'blue-pilled' rhyming with unskilled, andGOODNIGHT on the bottom, are completely hidden by the nightmare night CSS. I still need to adjust the CSS some, lol. This CSS has a little history. Technically "stolen" from elsewhere and I just modified it. It really is more of a secret tribute than anything.

Anyways, goodnight /endpone/. Hope to be back in the saddle again soon.

No luck on seeing the any auroras down in my part of Texas. Might had the chance last night, but was unaware.

Otherwise, haunted, slightly. For a variety of reasons.

As far as dreams go, mostly boring and really mundane. Like it's been mostly just me going about my business but as a dream minus a handful that were odd and sometimes VERY creepy.

>>12383
That dream has still left an impact that has been slowly fading. Feeling better from it at least. My recent dreams have been far more fuzzier and mundane. I am not sure if my stress finally got too high that I burned out or recent stuff with my relatives has distracted me, lol. What else, whenever I open my mouth I try to have a specific point to a post but here... I think in general I just feel like posting and saying things.

Art, art, I've drawn and written little things all my life, but rarely shown anyone my full output or effort. Bleh, this is starting to feel too, something. I wanted to say /blog/, but in /endpone/ blogging is something of a tradition. I think I am just tired and rambling a bit.

Always have had a mix of mundane expectations and high ambitions for personal projects around here and everything always feels in limbo, minus the thread rewatch I ma getting to that review soon. Lot of half finished things that I would like to do a little better on, lol at least with /go/.

I guess for now, goodnight, /endpone/.

>>12467
Line doesn´t always go up. Well, in this case, tags often gradually go up. Very slowly but they get some progress by optimising old pictures from the archives, even ones that are deemed as miscellaneous content.


>Which surprises me slightly because I usually gravitate towards other ponies as seaponies over the race themselves.

I think that once you are used to seeing pictures of seaponified versions, the novelty eventually runs out. Their luster dilutes the more you are exposed to them and well...it pretty much relies on the content of the pictures themselves, no matter the species of origin behind it.

Save for exceptional features, the seapony body/structure is pretty much standardised in that regard.

Or maybe, tastes change and you just feel like leaning towards those pictures because of mere vibes/visual appeal and nothing else.

>>12468
>t pretty much relies on the content of the pictures themselves, no matter the species of origin behind it.
>Or maybe, tastes change and you
I disagree on novelty wearing off; those unique designs are still some of my favorites. Changing taste though, you might have a point. The movie /seapones/ have slowly grown on me, even if they still aren't personally a fave.

>>12471
>disagree on novelty wearing off; those unique designs are still some of my favorites.

both things don´t have to be mutually exclusive at all (that´s assuming we are talking about polar opposites in an extremely hypothetical scenario). Quite the opposite in fact.

Although one detail of most seaponified designs come to mind: many of the characters do NOT actually have an official design beyond the main characters of each gen (Ocellus and the CMC included). Beyond them, the rest are up to approximations from the fans and thus: they take certain freedoms in their bodies, rightfully so.

I mean, the fascination may come from the fascination of such transformation in itself anyway. However, some standouts that are brought up to qualify them as more special come from pictures of Luna, Celestia, Chrysalis or the one you´ve posted: Tempest.

However, I imagine that Gameloft will eventually release some vectors with the expanded cast so that we get "official" versions of them, just like nightmare, changeling, kirin or bat transformations have shown so far.

>>12471
> The movie /seapones/ have slowly grown on me, even if they still aren't personally a fave.
which is funny because the movie only showed like 10 minutes of them at most throughout its base material.

Like, the biggest arguments in their favour, as far as I am concerned, come from Surf and/or Turf and Set Your...


...wait a minute...


...oh...oh f*yay*k...


...I haven´t shared the Set Your Sail comics around here, have I?...

>>12474
>Beyond them, the rest are up to approximations from the fans and thus: they take certain freedoms in their bodies, rightfully so.
In that way, maybe they are a bit like bat ponies. Barely any appearances in any official media but just enough of a base to make it fun for designing things.
<Though, that being said, it seem like a lot of bat pony OCs are more conservative; I actually like this, as they aren't as often overdesigned like other OCs; though I am not sure I can fully hate maximalist OCs because we live in a world of dreary minimalism!

>>12475
>which is funny because the movie only showed like 10 minutes of them at most throughout its base material.
Considering that this is a fandom that memes background ponies, I say 10 minuets in actually a lot to work with.

> ...I haven´t shared the Set Your Sail comics around here, have I?...
That would make sense storytime, or at least post a review, I might as well.

>>12432
>I think in some cases that is taken too far. Overcompensation for shows talking down to us.
Even so, it's been true since before cartoons existed that children prefer to imitation to obedience, so where one can set an example it can sometimes achieve better results. I think that was more or less Mr Roger's modus operandi. Whether overreaction or not I don't know, the shows I grew up in the 2000s with certainly didn't tell me dos and do-nots the way some of the preachier 80s cartoons did (Captain Planet and the 'Sonic Sez' segments come to mind) - perhaps in response to a perceived 'overstep' in preceding decades.
>Pinkie being Pinkie, versus Pinkie being more than Pinkie? I think you probably could argue you it both ways, tbh.
I'm a bit of a literalist, so as mentioned in Fall Weather Friends, overly slapstick antics bother me. It directly challenges me whenever it arises in the show with the loud question of "what actually happened here that the animation is exaggerating?" - I'm not particularly interested in dismissing something as 'just a show' or 'just fiction' when it's presented with an otherwise internally consistent world that permits for immersion, 'just a show' and 'just fiction' properly belongs to experimental art and I'd invite people who are overly reductive of immersive art in that manner to go watch something realist or experimental instead if me getting invested in a story bothers them so much. That said, a frame I find useful in my admittedly somewhat extreme literalism is the idea of a non-existent 'source text'. So for instance, any inconsistencies in Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit can be chalked to up to a mere mis-translation of the Red Book of Westmarch, the tome that Bilbo and Frodo penned together from which both books supposedly derive, with Tolkien as their translator. This actually serves to explain why in the original edition of The Hobbit, Gollum amicably gifted Bilbo the Ring, in fact IIRC it's directly addressed somewhere in Lord of the Rings as a lie that Bilbo deliberately wrote in his part of the text. In a similar vein, Star Wars is supposedly adapted from the Journal of the Whills, dictated by R2-D2 to the Keeper of the Whills, a um... Microscopic entity that lives in harmony with the midichlorians, or something to that effect? It doesn't fix Star Wars by any means, but it lets me enjoy the Prequels just a little bit more as I can write off certain inconsistencies and leaps in logic as either exaggeration or situations where R2 was absent and thus cannot accurately report on what happened. MLP *possibly* could be said to have this framing device towards the later seasons, where the journal and letters to Celestia are reminisced on, and there's even a flashback with the last episode which might suggest that the show is the recounted memories of the Mane 6. On the one hand, that's overthinking it a lot, but on the other hand, it makes the part of the show where the letters are being written and then the journal considerably more 'accurate' since they have a written record in-universe.
>...and considering this thread is your idea, if you wanted to take the lead and post, whether new years or later, I would welcome in!
I'm perfectly happy to have you make the thread, I don't know what I'd put for the OP for my part. A hiatus might be a good idea, but I'm open to having it posted new year's day, as it would make it a neat clean starting-date for the thread, with season 2 finished ideally by the next new year's. Up to you!

As I said here:>>12470 might impact things, including reviews, will see if I get something out before the New Year.

>>12458
>A hiatus might be a good idea, but I'm open to having it posted new year's day, as it would make it a neat clean starting-date for the thread, with season 2 finished ideally by the next new year's. Up to you!
Depending on circumstances, I may or may not post the new thread on New Year's Day--with the obvious notation that we won't start just yet. If not a hiatus, no pressure when to kick off. Main thing I want the new thread to do is to explain what this thread is and how it operates for any potential new people.

Posting this here to use my 5050 tag - there's been a bit of a development. I had been using a new distro which I wasn't especially accustomed to on my main thinkpad, and through my own negligence/ignorance accidentally bricked it. Recovering my data isn't impossible, but it is very difficult, and I'd deleted the backup I'd had of the files on the thinkpad before this occurred. There isn't really anything on there that is irreplaceable as far as data goes, so far as I can recall - however, it does mean I can't get into my Twibooru account at the moment. You've got my email, so I can be reached on there still. Apologies for hijacking the thread for other posters.

>>12487
back into Twibooru now. probably just gonna install a new distro on the thinkpad.

>>12487
>>12488
Noted and noted!

I haven't been the most organized myself:>>12470 My father was all over the place on his plans and... heh, might explain in a PM. Doing better now, just trying to get in the swing of things.

I've done worse when it comes to distros and configs! and losing accounts!

>>7757
I don't remember hearing any reference to such a beast. The story bible floats around but I don't know what else you'd hope to find.

But I'm not the archivist of the board so maybe another answer will be forthcoming after a time.

>>7757
I imagine, back in the old days, somebody would have made a complication but at this point I don't think enough people have been keeping track. The word of faust tag on the boorus would be a good starting point though.
https://twibooru.org/search?q=word+of+faust