>>11978
>Does comfy mixed with danger make sense?
Absolutely! I regularly re-read The Hobbit because it's the first book I ever read, and most of that book is Bilbo and the Dwarves' various brushes with death, but I find it exceedingly comfy.
>>12024
>Are you familiar with a Transatlantic/Mid Atlantic Accent?
I certainly am! That makes more sense than a British accent for Rarity, although before you pointing that out I had just assumed it was British (or Received Pronunciation, I'm in a pedantic mood) to make her sound 'posh'.
>My explanation was her being caught off guard and inexperienced but I think that inference is equally valid.
It could also explain the 'layer of stone' you were noting on Fluttershy, with regards to why Twilight wasn't conscious when she was encased in stone. Well, it's not much of explanation beyond saying cockatrice abilities seem to be more complex than just petrification alone, but then again that's mostly because the nature of petrification itself begs rather a lot of questions in terms of specifics to begin with.
>The CMC played a larger roll here than in the previous Call of The Cutie and the writing was relying on them playing off each other and being annoyance to Fluttershy. They're written fairly well as children, especially here in this early season, and their comedic antics were from them being child. Charming, yes, it can be, but there is less personality than the Mane 6.
Could well be - the only reason I didn't think that to be the cause is because I thought they were well-written, but perhaps even well-written children are annoying, which, well - real children are annoying, so realistic child characters might well be too!
>whatever the /endpone/ assigned nickname the anon has above
It might be prudent given current events to namefag... I usually dislike doing this, but the structure of the thread so far would make it very complicated and confusing - like the anonymous hivemind had developed a case of schizophrenia.
Addressing you personally, Bridge and L23 tend to call me 5050 for getting the 5050GET unintentionally - but I don't mind just being anon!

>>12091
Howdy! (me, bridge/bridgefag)

>I regularly re-read The Hobbit because it's the first book I ever read, and most of that book is Bilbo and the Dwarves' various brushes with death, but I find it exceedingly comfy.
We are on the same page then.

>although before you pointing that out I had just assumed it was British (or Received Pronunciation, I'm in a pedantic mood) to make her sound 'posh'.
Technically, the history of that accent is trying to emulate a British accent to sound posh, so yeah, in a way it is, just a specific way.

>but then again that's mostly because the nature of petrification itself begs rather a lot of questions in terms of specifics to begin with.
Completely agreed. I think I will revisit this when we get to Return of Harmony (even if that probably is a different type of magic involved.)

> real children are annoying, so realistic child characters might well be too!
Or at least can be annoying or boring. I think there is certain aspects of child centric thought/POV that are overlooked BUT if you are going for the average child that moderately relates to a 21st century westerner this still might apply. Innocence and wonder versus mischievousness and... hyperactivity. I might be opening a whole can of worms with that.

>It might be prudent given current events to namefag...
Your call. Namefaging for these reviews might make sense depending on activity. I wouldn't count it as violating our softer anon rules as this is a project.

Watching this episode differently than I usually do! In previous reviews I watched the episode on fim.heartshine.gay on my ThinkPad. Tonight, however, I’m catsitting for my aunt and uncle, so I’m watching this episode on Plex, on a big fancy modern smart TV! I’m not a great fan of smart TVs or adverts, but hey ho, it’s not my TV and I get the luxury experience! Unfortunately, can’t take screenshots!

Despite the CMC continuing to be well-written and well-characterized as accurate/realistic children in my opinion, in one regard they step over the line for me and enter the realm of annoyance: whining at Applejack about the state of their new clubhouse (fun to see it introduced, incidentally!). Now, when I was about 7 and visited my grandparents in Northern Ireland, my grandfather put a couple of planks down across a ditch leading to a crumbled old mill, and that served for a castle, for me. It was an absolute state – vastly overgrown, rubble everywhere… But I loved it! It was MY castle, and if anything the imperfections added to the charm, not to mention giving me something to do with the place. Every effort I made to clean it up or clear it out was impactful because I knew I was making the space my own. So with that whole experience in mind, and given that I would have KILLED to have a bloody treehouse, especially one I could visit regularly, I simply cannot sympathize with the CMC here! Even if the adults had offered to clear out the ‘castle’ for me, I think I would have wanted to do even that myself, so if I were in the CMC’s hooves, I’d leap at the opportunity to spruce up the place!

Anyways… A detail that’s of interest is Applejack mentioning that it was her clubhouse, growing up. I wonder what sort of friend group Applejack had over when she was their age? Well, in spite of my annoyance, I like this cold open, I like how it introduces the CMC becoming more of an actual group!

Interestingly, once Applebloom’s fixed up the clubhouse and the CMC start going around their map of Ponyville testing out as many potential talents as possible, we get that same party music bgm from the CMC’s first episode. One of the things they seem to test for is psychic abilities…? This to me would seem to fall under magic, so just to avoid myself a headache I’m going to assume that they’re practicing the talent of guessing. Then we have Cheerilee and Twilight walking in on the CMC causing chaos in the library. I would imagine that Cheerilee gets her sources for lessons from the library and that’s why she’s there – it seems she and Twilight were having a bit of a stroll together. I like the idea that the two of them are on friendly terms, and I’d love to see a bit of their relationship… Though from my memory of this show, I don’t think we ever really see them interact.

I love the CMC collecting all their bits and bobs, especially Rarity screaming at Sweetie Belle, which made me chuckle. And I really like their concert performance – both the music and the threatrics. The way that it has a nod to rock music aesthetics, plus ends in disaster with everything getting destroyed onstage, reminded me a fair bit of the rock band episode of Space Dandy, where they found the band DROPKIX. Another intriguing detail is the ponies in the audience stamping their hooves to clap rather than clapping their hooves together. I’m almost certain this is changed to more humanistic clapping in later seasons/episodes, which is a shame as even indoors, this method of clapping makes a bit more sense for ponies as it involves less effort for them physically. The episode ends with the lesson that your talents aren’t always what you think they are, and the CMC are more or less content with having won essentially a participation trophy.

I’m giving this episode an 8.1 – it was, for me, one of the solidly good plot/character development episodes, like Boast Busters and Look Before You Sleep (I rated those two at 8), but it nudges slightly above as I feel like they’ve been trying to get the CMC formula right and this is the first episode that I really felt nailed it.

>>12037
meant to reply to this in >>12091
>>12094
>Howdy! (me, bridge/bridgefag)
Oh hey! And after you said hello right as I was posting, I went and posted something straight after that ignored you, seeming very rude - I'm sorry, I didn't see your post! It's been a bit flat out with work on top of the catsitting.
>Technically, the history of that accent is trying to emulate a British accent to sound posh, so yeah, in a way it is, just a specific way.
I feel like I've heard differently (namely, that it was simply the natural East Coast accent of the time that migrated to Hollywood), but I can't remember specifics or where I might have heard that, so - I'll take your word for it
>Your call. Namefaging for these reviews might make sense depending on activity
It works going anon when it's just two of us, but if anybody wanted to join in on posting their experiences or observations with each episode, then it might become tricky to figure out who said what. Normally this wouldn't matter, but if we'd like to seek clarification on somebody's point, or refer back to ideas we've discussed previously, it would be much easier if we namefagged - again, that's IF more people wanted to join in (which they don't need to feel obligated to, either). I'll drop the name for now until it becomes necessary.

Afraid it's a very early start tomorrow, so I'll have to leave it there for now. But it was nice to chat Bridgefag, and nice to see you to any visitors that have stopped by, too (please excuse my Shimmerfaggotry, I've been diagnosed with a terminal disease known as Orange Ponitis).

>Be me
>Wanting to dream about Equestria.
>Within my dream.
>But I can't lucid dream and instead get lost in a bowling alley.
>The end.
I forget about endchan's more advanced formatting options. I like some of the stuff earlier in this thread that tries to use it. Wondering if I should start posting my dreams as "bluetexts".

>>12075
I dislike horror, at least the cheap modern version of it based on jumpscares.

>>12082
Bluetext looks nice.

>Luna descended into Apple Bloom's mind.
>The ground was barren and the sky a faded purple.
>A lone yellow filly with a red bow was hunched down on the ground, eating something.
#>"Apple Bloom, what are you eating?"/#
<"Soap"
#>"Why?"/#
<"Because it cleans my insides"
>Luna looked at Apple Bloom. Concerned
#>"Apple Bloom are you feeling guilt over something?/#
<"No, I just like eating soap sometimes!"
>Luna could feel no guilt or shame. No fear. Nothing seemed wrong with the young filly before her.
<"Heya. Are you certain that you're Luna?"
>I could sense something troubling you, hence the reason for my presence.
Apple Bloom looked thoughtfully.

>>12083
Bluetext doesn't like repeat commas or question marks I see. That sucks. It would be fun to start a thing with bluetexts. Not to force a meme, but funposting.

>>12082
>>12083
>>12084
I like the ides of using blue text, or should I say, bluetext, for certain story formats here. in the past I have had trouble with some of the special color formating as well in the past. This very thread actually.

The story, if you write keep that idea in your back pocket, I think you might be able to do something with that premise.

>horror
Me neither. I do like eerie and haunting sometimes though. Maybe childish spookiness as well.


Testing
Question mark outside of tag?
#Question mark with escape character \?/#

https://derpibooru.org/search?q=seapony

Well,there it is. No more differences between gen 4 and gen 5 versions. The whole umbrella of variations among them has been boiled down to a single seapony tag.

It simplifies everything and all the diversity that may appear amongst them is reduced to this tag alone (except the gen 1 version).

Potential controversies (implying that there were any in the first place) about what qualifies or not as seapony should most likely decrease from now on.

In conclusion, everyone can relax and use the term freely, with a huge margin of flexibility.

>>12018
That is good. I wouldn't want mindless arguing or the tag number being reduced. I didn't know of any controversy but one never knows!

>>11450
Seaponies would've been a hit if they had came in 2013, not 2017. By that point their was a backlog of memes and things to run with and the fandom fell in love with another edgy waifu. Tempest. It really was due to a backlog of memes already being established that new memes were no longer made for everything that appeared like in the first three seasons.

>G5
I don't know if being remembered as part of G5 would be a boon or a curse. Considering how turbo cancelled G5 is. Still, I do agree that their appearance did generate some short term success and I have seen a few people now fawning over seaponies even if there isn't as many autists yet. It is not a dead meme/fandom now. Slow burn might be better in the long run.

>>12018
Derpi is retarded enough that I would not put it past them to completely revert that in a couple of years.

PolSeapony

>>12033
>By that point their was a backlog of memes and things to run with and the fandom fell in love with another edgy waifu. Tempest. It really was due to a backlog of memes already being established that new memes were no longer made for everything that appeared like in the first three seasons.
Not sure I 100% agree, but that is a very good point. I think even things Derpi's restrictive spoiler rules also played a part as they kept Seaponies under it for quite awhile, enough for meme potential to die out.

>>12085
PoLSeapony right back to you.

>>12040
I just forgot that someone was there still holding down the fort. Mad respect considering what that site has become. Do you think you might have a shot with this current calamity?

>>12041
Smart precaution. Some anons do know of this place's existence. Haven't seen it be mentioned yet in the options on /mlpol/ and /nhhb/ but if it does get mentioned a risk of some refugees coming in is there, because of discontent with the restrictions on EQG, and other shit. I think the discontent is partly justified as a lot of /mlp/ anons are just being asshats with how hyper factional they are with each other but you should be still ready to contain things if 10x stupid fetish generals come up or if you guys get too overrun with barbiefags

Dolores UmBRIDGE must reign over every last board. Through posters blood, honor what was before!

Remember /flutter/ and /pone/, ancestors deaths you must atone!

Steadfast support of Dolores' regime, is how /endponies/ will reign supreme.

No shitposting or spam shall be allowed. Spammers and fetishist threads will be disavowed.

Based bridgeoracy is the true path. All who resist will face our wrath.

Pink, purple blue bridges crossed on all boards. Justice and hope from Princess Cadance's wings unfurled.


I am retarded and just had a few lines in my head of an /endpone/ anthem while I was not browsing 4chan. Based on the Helldivers 2 Super Earth Anthem. I did try to give this a go. Acknowledging board history and board memes even if I am not sure I understand them all well. Now though I don't know where to go or how to further /endponer/ it.

>>12047
Goodness,
>


>>12045
Exact reasons why I put the 4chan thread up in the first place. To help mitigated that risk and noting very upfront (we have a sticky, but people often don't read stickies well) that we are a bit different.

>>12049
>accidentally hit post.
Goodness, is this our official ideology name?
>Based bridgeoracy is the true path. All who resist will face our wrath.

I am not too familiar with Helldivers but this is a pretty good attempt at writing up an anthem in an /endpone/ context. I amused and impressed. Good job with what you have here, /)

Since this is where I see others posting snapshots of the board's front page. I will post this here. Weird seeing /b/ on top here.

>>12006
in retrospect, AI prompts of stories that haven't been written yet probably deserve to be in their own [containment] thread.

It's way too easy to slap together an AI copy/paste job that looks like an image that could come from a story. It is WAY more work to write a story that begs for an image of a scene.

As any writer in here would know. I feel like quoting U2, and this quote I even overuse because I see it so often, but
Every artist is a liar, every poet a thief.
We kill our inspiration then sing about our grief.

>>12006
>meaning the card game but I thought it should be easy enough to make a red-and-black alicorn.
She doesn't look bad though. She almost looks like a gender swamped Sombra.
>That last image. It's the only one with that look in her eye.
I think the second to the last one she looks morning grumpy over angry, but yes, that last one she does have the look of somepony doing a research project on the double.

>It's way too easy to slap together an AI copy/paste job that looks like an image that could come from a story. It is WAY more work to write a story that begs for an image of a scene.
Agreed. Especially if inspiration tries to take you elsewhere.

> As any writer in here would know. I feel like quoting U2, and this quote I even overuse because I see it so often,
Yes, it is fitting. I post New Years Dayevery year, so if anybody overdoes U2 it's me!

>in retrospect, AI prompts of stories that haven't been written yet probably deserve to be in their own [containment] thread.
I had been toying with the idea of bringing back a thread that served the purposes of the old mmaymays GET thread >>400 which we used to post stories that didn't thematically fit elsewhere (>>3835). Maybe AI could fit in some write dump thread? Of course, that would be the time there would be a sudden burst of activity and we end up with the need for a seperate AI general.

I like to write about ponies.

>>12052
That is great! What sort of ponies do you like to write about?