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

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

>>12505
Need to really unitize the formatting of endchan more for stories and crap. Mixing and matching different tags has high potential even if some of them are a little screwy.


Can I mix SRZ BIZNIZ with the single color tags?
orange
#blue/#
Or how about mixing Autism with a single color? That shouldn't work I wouldn't think:
#blue/#
pink

Let's try a triple mix with some italics added to the above:
YELLOW

>>12506
==/blue but the color tag inside SRZ BIZNIZ like in orange/#

Yeah, the austism tag wins out otherwise. Still cool with what I can do with it though.

Princess Luna gazed softly upon the moon. It looked back, unloving. unloving Luna thought to herself, a small smile formed on her lips, though it was a sad one. The moon, as much as it was connected to her, had been a harsh prison for one thousand years. It was hard for her to feel the love for it she once did; yet it was still there, persisting like a thorn in her heart. Her trauma couldn't take away the connection she held to Equestria's primary natural satellite in the sky, as much as she felt conflicted, there was conviction in duty and a faith, however fleeting, that she would heal.

>>12507
>forgot to close the tag
/blue but the color tag inside SRZ BIZNIZ like in orange/#

Princess Luna could feel the dreams of everypony calling her. It was in itself a burden, but one that came in a routine which she could bury herself in and avoid everypony. Not that she wanted to avoid everypony but she wanted to avoid most of the ponies that Celestia had to deal with. Snooty and prideful, her own hyper specific royal manners, well rehearsed and natural, were an impediment to socializing and wining and dining. She now could manage to be in the presence of this new and unfamiliar elite but it was an artificial facade that sometimes had cracks in the armor. Dreams were much more her element and in some cases, found true connection with ponies.

A recently found gem; Luna choosing darkness.

No non-YT presence and d/l directly from that site is increasingly difficult from the command-line.
Websites dedicated to the problem don't have that difficulty so here it is.

>>12524
>Luna choosing darkness.
No kidding! I am impressed with the lyrics.Like, 9/10 on that alone. Though I prefer the first minuet of the song over the more intense part even though that is the whole point. Still is a good song regardless. That is just a quirk with me and happens with a lot of songs.

I will now quote the YT description for a couple of observations:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c-ml_W_uiZg [Embed]
>Firstly, let me apologize for the length of this song.. I am not kidding when I say this is the 6th rewrite (on paper) of the lyrics.. Its probably more like the 10th but... Who's counting? *LOL*
I find his apologetic tone unnecessary for the length of his song. Maybe it's just me but he seems sincerely a bit insecure about that fact. Is there some zoomer faux pass that I am missing? Pic related as well.
...
>As always, the declaration that this is an AI assisted creation based on motifs and music that I originally recorded and uploaded for training and rendering of stems to be remixed. No cosine or sin waves were harmed in the creation of this song, although tangents were stressed occasionally *LOL*
I would not have guessed AI assistance until we really got into Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon's anger. I could tell then. This is also an example of art that blurs the line between the puritan crowds that are forming on either camp (people who hate artist vs artist who hate people using AI). This is an artist using AI to make better art. Funny enough, I am a distruster of AI myself, though I don't oppose things like this on a philosophical level. As long as their human input it is still art in the truest sense.

All and all, neat find!

As for any music I could share, uhhhhhhh, here is something long deleted from Youtube that I posted a long time ago:>>5139

>>12512
>The Grand Galloping Gala as a concept certainly is still referenced.
I wonder how significant exactly it actually is in-universe. It seems relatively analogous to the Royal Garden Parties that the Windsors hold irl, the purpose of which is to recognise and reward public service (which we see Celestia doing here herself) - and of course it is also a significant event for the debuts of debutantes, which is what is essentially happening with the Mane Six in the episode. The caveat would be that rather than being one of several parties organised by a nominal head of state through the Crown Estate, the Grand Galloping Gala is only once every year, and is held within the actual seat of government as a directly state-sponsored event. If anything, in fandom and fanfics and stuff even the event itself should be referenced more, I think.
>I also liked Princess Celestia here. Her distaste of the Grand Galloping Gala I feel like says a lot about her character and establish things that we could somewhat infer from previous episodes of her being someone who is really laid back and disliking of how fussy and strict everything is but is sort of boxed in by her role as princess.
After 1000 years of hosting this annual party, I'm not at all surprised that she's sick of it!
>Perfect in execution but uncertain in my enjoyment level. Which was high, but how high? I am going to be conservative right now and rate this an 8.5/10!
Very similar score to mine!

More replies on their way: for now I'm getting ready for work again. But once that's done, and once anybody else has chimed in if they wish to, that's more or less /thread, when we get to it. I'm strangely reluctant to finish things, now that it's in sight! But season 2 will be exciting to get to!

>>12513
>The animal caretaker who is supposed to understand creatures as timid and fickle as animals can be couldn't handle when animals rejected her, and during a busy event when wild animals would be understandably a bit more afraid to make themselves known.
Here, I think, is where an easy fix could have been made: Fluttershy underestimates the animals in the garden and ends up irritating them with her attempts to befriend them such that they are the ones who chase Fluttershy into the palace, rather than the other way around. It helps keep her more in character and achieves the same result.
>There is one saving grace that prevents her from looking completely bad: the idea that ponies go a bit crazy when they can't fulfill their cutie mark's purpose, which we have definitely seen with Pinkie Pie this season.
Even so, that occurs after remarkably little stress, relatively speaking. It took the better part of a day to break Pinkie, and that with the apparent rejection of her very best friends. Plus I had sort of figured that Pinkie had a more fragile ego. I don't think Fluttershy has much of an excuse at all, really.
>I am used to Fluttershy having a bit of a dark side as a partly show, partly fandom driven trait
I don't even feel that we've seen that dark side up until now in this season ('the stare' aside). If anything, I'm tempted to call this the inciting incident of her 'dark side', and it essentially stems from a weird writing quirk, something I'm even tempted to call a writing mistake. Either way, Fluttershy very strongly deserves her MUATGGG trophy!
>Would Princess Celestia be a contender if she knew/was hoping for some disaster to occur?
The way I figure it, she expected for something like a bit of disruption from the other five turning the dance hall into more of a rave, whilst having Twilight by her side would help her with the greeting process for all the attendees. I don't see how Celestia could have been aware of their individual ambitions for the night, except of course for Twilight's, so I take her initial predictions to be less chaotic, and I think I'd even read her saying that the commotion improved the evening as partly intended to soften the blow for the Mane 6.
>>12514
>I could say that Fluttershy's was out of character.
The only way I can possibly figure it would be to say that Fluttershy had to come through crowds of people to get to the gardens and that wore her down considerably, to the point where she was desperate for less threatening companionship. It isn't consistent with what we're shown in the episode, but essentially I think Fluttershy would have to already be on the verge of a nervous breakdown to even begin to justify her actions. I'm tempted to go so far as to say that if this reaction was a cutie-mark thing or spurred on by wanting animals to like her, she ought to have snapped a least a little bit like this at Angel Bunny in a few scenes.

>>12515
>I guess to give it a little more movement, but it does look slightly weird.
I kind of see what you mean. It's tricky when you've got both the walking motion and the neck moving the head as well, I guess it's just a quick trick to convey that for a few seconds. I think there's a similar shot in Best Friends Until The End of Time where the Mane Six walk towards the camera, by then they have a proper model for that rather than what they're doing here with the head seemingly separate.
>Is the groundskeeper pony a blank flank? Also, I am not sure if this is his first appearance. Wanna say I saw him somewhere else. I am mixed on checking Wikis for little factoids like this just because I don't want to spoil myself on stuff for the upcoming season (at least what I don't remember).
I checked the wiki, he is a blank flank and he does show up before this episode, so you're right on both counts!
>>12516
>Among the painted windows when Pinkie Pie hops into the main ballroom are painted glass windows of what appear to be several planets with rings. Considering the usage of other painted glass windows in the palace later on to commemorate specific events. I wonder if these are more than just decoration?
It lines up with Twilight's line about comets in the Owlowicious episode to suggest that space is very similar if not identical to our universe (which might tie into the Equestria-as-future-Earth theories!)
> They do exist in the narrative but some are harder to reconcile than others with a hardline version of that view. They don't bug me, but when I am trying to think of canon, that is what I get hung up on more than slapstick personally.
Since I already mentioned Best Friends Until The End of Time, that one also has aspects of the scenery not being real, but the song itself be real and occurring in-universe. My answer would be that I think the scenery in this song too is also at least partly imagination, expressing the inner feelings of the Mane Six, but that they do literally sing it. Perhaps it's even taking part in the crowd singing it as part of an annual tradition where ponies sing that song on the way to the GGG. All in all though, I think only Tolkien's elves rival ponies for a penchant to break out into song literally in the middle of things.
>Goodbye Season 1!
Agreed, it was a fun ride! I'd be curious to see how the data of our scores adds up and compares. I'll have to collect up my scores from the thread - I had them all listed neatly at the beginning of my document where I wrote all my posts down, but as I've mentioned to you, I've lost that. It's a fond farewell to season 1, and I imagine it will be for season 2 as well - in a way it feels exciting to still have a lot of good stuff ahead of us. Season 3's farewell, far in the future as it is, if we ever get there, will be more bittersweet, but definitely worth revisiting if and when we get there.

I threw the scores I gave each episode into a line graph generator. I should have been less lazy and made one myself properly, but this works well enough. My top episode is of course Winter Wrap-Up at 10, and the lowest is Over a Barrel at 4.6, which would give a mid-range of 7.3, and that sounds about right. As a whole though, taken together, I think season 1 manages to be more than the sum of it's parts, the average of the episodes it's made up of. I'm curious as to whether I'll find any 10/10s in season 2, it's possible that out of the whole rest of the show I find Winter Wrap-Up to be the only one I consider perfect, but regardless of that I think it's fair to say that no other season will manage to be as cohesive as season 1 is. I can't quite settle on 9 or 10 - 9 would be because I don't consider season 1 perfect, but 10 would be because I think it's probably the high point of the show. So if I had to give it an overall score, I think I'd rank season 1 as a 9.5. That's my opinion as it stands! And I'm looking forward to seeing how season 2 holds up for me, for Bridge, and for any other anons who wish to join in

>>12525
I need to sit down and do this!

Had a rough few days/weeks. Trying to get geared fro the new thread. I know I am over thinking it, but I want to make sure that I make a draft with as clear a mind as possible.

Who told anyone that January in hiatus period would be boring?

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2026/01/official-reformed-chrysalis-revealed.html?m=1

Not the comics,not the shows...but a pay to win mobile game settles down the official designs,given the lack of any other official sources to make them canon.

>>12498
POLS
<also have been dealing with minor disaster in a non-functional computer
Computer might live!

>>12501
>>12502
This is one of the gameloft designs that looks a little crappy in the default state but has a pretty good potential.

>but a pay to win mobile game settles down the official designs,given the lack of any other official sources to make them canon.
I wonder if this will become the main standard? The gameloft game has some weight with some of the designs it produces ``but reformed Chrysalis did have a fair bit of fan art
before.`` We shall see if it crystalizes.

...It probably will, Chrysalis' redeemed/reformed state didn't have much coherence and a fair bit of the art was subpar. Not all, just a fair bit, from a brief search I did.

>>12500
>/endpone/ is this too. That isn't a bad thing.

Polar vortex making its way to Texas and where I live is one the places affected! Let's see how Texas does this time. It's not as bad as 2021 and supposedly things have been improved but I am ready for the power to go out for a while. Just in case.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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