>>10656
>In our discussions it's serving as a sort of nexus of all sort of more abstract feelings,
I like that wording, and yes I agree. I have often debated myself why I liked it and got so sucked in/still drawn to even the simpler stuff and I don't have one answer. I think a feeling of haunting inspired by some of the fanfiction and fan works played a part in getting me into it for example but... I don't know. community there is a slight brotherhood but also a feeling that I always was a bit of an outsider/minatory among there. How good is the show and why does it have it's effect? Taking off nostalgia and trying to be objective I do think this show has some areas where it does standout but quality itself I don't think is the only factor. Abstract nexus of emotions it is. my own somewhat sucky teen years?

As for other franchises/things. This is in its own category but I am not sure if it is fair/easy to compare. Closest is probably Bionicle where I feel something sort of special like that, but even then, that is also different and abstract. Feels like a lot of it is Apples and Oranges and I don't know if I should be factoring in bananas!

>why it's a joy to read the perspective of someone who is gifted in that regard!
Gifted is a strong word. I might even be stupid! My eyes though, always, since I was pretty young, would pay attention to background ideas in various things. Gradually developed an eye for it I suppose. My knowledge of flash is itself rudimentary. I have done some animation, mostly handdrawn when I was young, some experiments with ponies. I don't consider it the best but that also does play apart in me paying attention.

>>10657
>The fact that it's children's media exacerbates this response, naturally, but "don't think deeply into it" is the phrase that really angers me as it crops up all over the place, this pervasive idea that really, keeping your nose in the grime and muck is what matters, as if the grime and muck itself could not convince you of it's own meaninglessness and worthlessness.
Allegory and meta can have meaning and transcendence, if not for the fact often poisoned by cynicism and over seriousness. Actually, partial rain check, next episode review this may fit considering that is supposed to be an allegory for a real world thing.

>To my mind it takes a special type of soulless person to not need even a modicum of transcendence beyond the mere material reality in their life to make things worthwhile.
I more often see people thinking darkness is depth and that kid's shows can't have depth like that because of being unserious, (Tolkien is for babies because his world was idealistic and thus simple). I would make exceptions because I think several different groups have made I think some of that pushback can be exhaustion from battles of overly serious nerds and the artificalness of modern megacorps (Marvel content for content sake) I wouldn't call soulless in that way even if I have seen that attitude unfortunately come up sometimes in that sort of discourse. Still, yes, get that frustration.

>>10708 (ran out just barely!)
I think our views are functionally pretty similar. Which is neat as I usually see the spectrum of opinion that I already described above.

>I almost always feel compelled to take a screenshot where it's wide and shows off a lot of the environments and background. Taking little snapshots with the world itself as the focus helps make me feel like it's real, like Ponyville is out there, almost like I'm some sort of conspiracy-anorak collecting photographs in the rain, glimpses of other worlds that appear in quiet moments.
I get this, and have done so. This shot didn't trigger it but... well actually:>>10705 Rarity and AJ looking at Golden Oaks was for vary similar reasons.

>The Bionicle track you linked there reminded me of Dark Ambient - but then, lots of tracks I like in a similar vein would so the same, but for the fact that they hold special significance for me, so I imagine to you it wouldn't sound quite like Dark Ambient.
I'll check out Dark Ambient out of curiosity though.

Alright, muscle relaxers hitting me and im about to passout. I do have more to say, here, and an upcoming PM.

Next Episode should be soonish, I don't mind you getting to it first btw, as I said, not strict on pace!

>>10708
>I more often see people thinking darkness is depth and that kid's shows can't have depth like that because of being unserious,
Clarification, I more often now see that attitude, which I feel is related but somewhat different. Or at least something that can often be separated though also obliviously can be the root of such a dismissive attitude. Someone who still thinks and sees depth with some things but has a cultured superiority as to what that is.

Wow, that was wordy, hope my clarification actually clarifies. My brain has been pretty foggy sometimes on muscle relaxers, lol!

>I love to imagine the old days of the steppe, with nothing but open blue sky stretching before you, able to go anywhere with nobody around for miles and miles. There's nowhere like that in Britain,
more on this in a little while.

>>10709
>>10713
>more soon
I think I juuust missed you, I was doing something else before checking here. came in about 15 minutes ago and started reading.

>>10714
Howdy, 5050! I was still posting elsewhere on the board, albeit this was a early morning sweep of posts, 3 AM, for me at this moment, so I wouldn't have had the most time right now.

PM also sent.

>>9700
I had a dream also vaguely involving Applejack. She was a minor presence on these Apple themed greeting cards and in the background while my grandmother was trying to get us passports to go to Hawaii, don't ask me about geopolitical situation...

>some american tough-guy cartoon figure, who was being projected onto a shelf, so it was approximately like when Twilight was a wind-up ballerina figurine in Dolores's room, only it was this guy. Whose image I can't find but anyway.
I legit laughed for some reason at this one.

>(or had already drawn it as I saw AJ; not sure now) and upon realizing I was being set up for an accidental death,
I know that dreams are vague but do you recall who or what force? I mean, it seems that Applejack was only one on your side here.

>>9716
>Sorry for the EQG pic if that isn't allowed here. Just posting a arm reaching out.
It is fine. EQG ain't banned, I just the the board has been neutral indifference for the most part. Or at least that is how I would describe my relationship with EQD anyway.

>As summarized better by bridgefag (?)
Yes, you are correct, that is me.

Still dreaming more normal and IRL stuff. A couple of anons here have even popped up more than once, usually in vague background rolls. My dreams used to be far more surreal and only in the last two to three years have they taken a somewhat "realistic" turn. Despite strong stresses having been a feature for a great deal of my life. I wonder what has brought on this turn. Now, granted, there can still be some pretty surreal things in them, but it hasn't been bizarre viruses spread by song and random elements thrown together as much.

One notable exception: had two rare instance of a lucid dream recently. There was someone that looked grotesque and creepy. I realized I was dreaming. I started to laugh at him and attack him over just switching the scenario to something I wanted. Another time, I don't remember much. Flying in the clouds (?) and I realized it was dreaming and fought hard to not wake up yet.

The medication I'm on hasn't made much of an effect on my dreams thus far... and I prefer it that way.

Let's see. I had this one dream where an anon from here sent a message that manifested into fluttershy before it disappeared into space. That was weird but brief. Otherwise., vague unsettling or weird fuzziness. I was having this sense my strange medical issues started, so I think it is just stress related.

>>10456
>Nibbling on one of his gems, Sharp Wit asked ”Pony can fly? Where are wings, pony?” At which point Flarestar’s coat began to glow a gentle red, and when she reared up... she kept going. Flying quickly above everyone’s head she zoomed past Sharp Wit’s ear, and landed exactly
where she had started.
Pony levitation was intended as a power for Twilight Sparkle if I recall, before she got her wings, right. Well, Dolores Umbridge used it but I surprisingly don't see it in fan fiction much.

>comments
B- Liked it well enough but needs a bit more for me to chew on before I can get a feel if I would like it or not.

>>10530
>Sufficiently detailed to my liking with lots of little word building and extra descriptiveness. I think perhaps I focus too much on these technical details but they sometimes make or break stories for me. Characters have their own voices and personalities.
I tend to care less on writing, too big and wordy gets in the way, too small and terse breaks immersion, anything in-between that I'm good. So I can't comment on the technical details other than it didn't annoy me to stop reading.

>>10535
How much of this was based on the characters and how much of this was based on the people who played the characters? Old DnD, the line is there, but I know for under 20 (30s) something self insert properties play a big roll than just a blurry line sometimes.

>>10687
*Sorry for mangling this. Been up since 3 AM.

Oh and one other thing. This fic exists:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/358972/canterlot-highs-dd-club
>400K words
>Still being updated regularly.
I don't like Equestria Girls at all but fics like this, if even half decent, I feel drawn to and repelled by their length. Like, I want to read it to study it, to understand it, and maybe enjoy it. Yet it feels like too much of a commitment. And if it sucks but still draws you in then it is the worst of both words.

Anyone (or on here, I guess you guys still say sometimes) anypony relate?

>>10687
>>10688
>Pony levitation was intended as a power for Twilight Sparkle if I recall, before she got her wings, right. Well, Dolores Umbridge used it but I surprisingly don't see it in fan fiction much.
I've had similar thoughts, albeit I am not the most well kept up with fanfiction past 2014, lol! My guess is that unicorns are rarely "needed" -as in character roles or plotwise-for that sort of role when you have pegasi and alicorns, not to mention griffons, hipogriffs and the like, to fulfill various roles. Thinking of in terms of an RPG, unicorns not levitating or it being a bit taxing/unused on them means you need a flying character (or two!) and thus more interesting party overall/not one OP being able to dominate too much. I barely have done any RPing though. Just to note.

>B-
Is that the rating of the fic for you I assume?

>Liked it well enough but needs a bit more for me to chew on before I can get a feel if I would like it or not.
<Liked it well enough
>I can get a feel if I would like it or not.
Don't worry, I get what you were trying to say, you found the fic "okay" but you weren't sure you'd say you enjoyed it. You haven't gotten to know the characters and setting enough. I can still enjoy such things in mid phases sometimes but I have been in that boat too. I still found this little error humorous.

> *Sorry for mangling this. Been up since 3 A
Look at some of the other posts here, especially mine, probably find examples worse. No worries.

>Oh and one other thing. This fic exists:

>>10687
>Pony levitation was intended as a power [unique to] Twilight Sparkle

The way that RP system handled it, you didn't need to be a particular tribe to do magic, thus the jennet levitating large objects, and also a PC could cast, and I think it was literally called this, "falling with style"
Like feather fall but with just a bit more oomph. So Flarestar would use a weightlessness spell to catapult herself into the air, then switch to falling with style and glide around playfully as she slowly drifted back to the ground.
She wasn't actually 'flying' the way Glim-Glam was when she visited Cloudsdale; just floating around from 50' up so she could enjoy the view.

>B-
Meh. It is pretty old now, and it felt at the time as if it was not my writing, because I wouldn't have created those characters. But I've enjoyed re-reading it quite a bit, so there's that.

>>10693
> "falling with style"
I like this name.

But a walk, tremble?
<1 2 3 4 5
Controlled, fall is it not?
<1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The fall might be flight.
<1 2 3 4 5

Wow, this inspired a Haiku if my medication deluded and already tired brain got this right. It is a poor haiku that could have better wording. The meaning being:
>So Flarestar would use a weightlessness spell to catapult herself into the air, then switch to falling with style and glide around playfully as she slowly drifted back to the ground.
If walking is a controlled fall, this is flight in my book.

>Meh. It is pretty old now,
How old, if you mind my curiosity?

>>10631
I thought it was somewhat meaningful to engage in a debate on this one shitty media. About "Debunking THE WORST Review Of The Boys Season 4" at
https://web.archive.org/web/20240708030202/https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=KE9ycGU0ACY ->
(1.) The Critical Drinker said general ideas and didn't give specific examples to support them therefore his arguments were invalid.
(1a.) The point of that video was to be an overview, not a long well-defined argument. Also I thought specific supporting arguments were obvious. Without supporting points it doesn't mean his arguments were invalid. Also, the reviewer of the review didn't give specific counter-points either, so that's hypocritical. And a long drawn-out review where every detail is explained doesn't make it necessarily good, just long; sometimes viewers just want short-and-sweet (<10 minutes). An argument being "hollow" doesn't mean it's untrue. This criticism is probably more virtue signaling from this guy. If the point of the video is to be an overview, then this antithesis falls flat. If the point of the video is to be a well-defined argument, then that antithesis is valid. It's like saying vanilla ice cream is bad because it doesn't taste chocolately. They serve different purposes and are valid in their own right. His criticism is like: I'm butthurt and am going to pretend that the in-depth details on your points just don't exist and/or are invalid because you didn't specify them. A stronger argument would be to say that he's wrong about these general ideas, not to criticize him for lack of supporting claims. With arguments, it's better to address the core idea and not fairly unimportant stuff like the medium or form in which the argument is delivered.
(2.) Says some dumb crap [not worth addressing]. Says that some users "reviewbomb because they only care about politics in storytelling" are braindead.
(2a.) Dumb take. There's different stories: stories with no politics, stories with politics that aren't super-arguing for a certain viewpoint, stories where the focus is politics, and stories which pretend to be stories but are actually just political propaganda. Of those 4, the last one (the pretending one) is the most dishonest brainwashing crap.
(3.) Says more dumb crap, not focused on the main content of the video [not worth addressing]. The season criticizes both left and right.
(3a.) Nope. Like 99% of it is caricaturizing or criticizing the right. It somewhat criticises the left, but not in any meaningful way.
(4.) Some people don't like it so ignoring them is fine.
(4a.) Wrong. If you want a show to be good, it has to be well-liked by many. "Good" here means popular and having a high score with the audience. Just because you can't control how everyone will react to it doesn't mean you should completely ignore all viewer criticism and try not to make it better-received. Storytelling is a social activity, so being antisocial and self-centered doesn't help.
(5.) The political stuff in the season is used to tell the story, so it's fine.
(5a.) No. Sure, the politics-in-your-face is used to tell a story, but the story it tells is a shitty one. This aspect detracts from other positive aspects that season 4 might have.

1/2

>>10632
(6.) More about how he didn't go into detail.
(6a.) Here's a detail for you: the story is contrived. Not so much the case with prior seasons.
(7.) Says taking extremes of different sides is fine.
(7a.) However, it's a misrepresentation of reality. If the show really wants to make an argument, then it's showing some cartoony straw-man Marxist projection of the right-wing. And what does that say about the political beliefs of the creator? Satire works based on the level of seriousness. The show tries to be serious, but presents this nonsense. If the show was wacky nonsense+comedy then such a dumb cartoony representation could be seen as valid. Otherwise, it's stupid postmodern crap.
(8.) Says absolutes = wrong.
(8a.) Nitpick, corner cases.
(9.) Season 4 is just like the previous seasons in terms of it's focus.
(9a.) Wrong. Before then the main focus was the story, and a side-focus was politics. With season 4 the politics is about as important or the focus compared to the story, and it fails when doing that.
(10.) Something about it being on-the-nose or not.
(10a.) There was like one scene where the right was criticized that I thought was kinda funny/interesting, other than that, fail.
(11.) Blatant political messaging and lecturing is dumb (it's not entertaining), but that doesn't apply to this show.
(11a.) Wrong.

2/2

This pfp shows up under this comment:

How do hooves work? "tentacles", seems to be this artist's answer.

Time to make sex with horses legal in more jurisdictions.

Ignore - YT video I didn't watch:
>https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=rQ1GuzyuCUM
>title=Junior Asparagus and sweetie belle / if you wanna be my lover
>video ID ends in "CUM"

>>9793
PoLS acknowledged. Dolores' bridges not only continue to stay crossed but now have a full underwater addition as well!

>>10133
The Seaponies coming back before other G4 keystones wasn't on my bingo card either, but hey, I can't complain!


Certain other races might though... they are a bit too land bound.

Drove down to the edge of town which, despite the lack of elevation, offered a view of several near-professional displays, you could just see the professional ones behind some trees, and the locals were gathered at the same wide spot setting off all their stuff.

I don't actually like the noise but the lights, enthusiasm, it's come be a major encouragement as the woke-crowd fights against everything American, and we Americans politely proceed to ignore the everloving crap out of them.

Also I can't remember how the tune to Yankie Doodle went, thought now is the time to remind you he rode to town on a little pony

>>10612
>offered a view of several near-professional displays, you could just see the professional ones behind some trees, and the locals were gathered at the same wide spot setting off all their stuff.
Neat! Sometimes growing up we'd luck out and see stuff at the military base right near where I lived, albeit this no longer happens now.

>we Americans politely proceed to ignore the everloving crap out of them.
I'd make an argument that the woke have somewhat fractured and some people with those traits weirdly take up some of this, but that is probably too political for right now. At least too long winded for my mind, lol

>but the lights, enthusiasm
Same, I think, noise is a bit much but I do dig the spirit of it all.

>>10612
..and stuck a feather in his cap and called macaroni!

>>10609
Cat has been found!

Goodnight, /endpone/!