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C'mon, this is ponychan, let's talk about ponies.
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Does anyone wanna chat about MLP? Gen 5 appears to be on its way out. Maybe this is a good time to talk about what made Gen 4 so hugely better than the other generations of MLP, with an eye toward helping to bring an equally great G6 into being. Here are two major factors:
1. Poetic but hard-nosed and consistent world-building for a world of horses from Faust and the other early showrunners. No sticky hooves. No electricity. No motors. Trains pulled by ponies. Mouthtools. Typewriters with only two keys. A richly fantastic world, but one that incorporates madness, disease, war, blood, bodily functions, birth, and death. The pure initial world picture tended to get messed up as the show wore on and things like go-carts and pianos crept in, but it started out clean and beautiful.
2. Archetypes. Two semi-divine beings, larger than other ponies: a goddess of sunlight and a goddess of darkness and dreams. Three races, corresponding to the three castes of Indian society and Indo-European myth: magical shamans, warriors, peasants. Archetypal characters representing the shy willowy female, the bold androgyne, the mad trickster god, the amorous, male-manipulating vamp, and so on. Extensive and explicit incorporation of mythologies from all over the world.
What else?
1. Poetic but hard-nosed and consistent world-building for a world of horses from Faust and the other early showrunners. No sticky hooves. No electricity. No motors. Trains pulled by ponies. Mouthtools. Typewriters with only two keys. A richly fantastic world, but one that incorporates madness, disease, war, blood, bodily functions, birth, and death. The pure initial world picture tended to get messed up as the show wore on and things like go-carts and pianos crept in, but it started out clean and beautiful.
2. Archetypes. Two semi-divine beings, larger than other ponies: a goddess of sunlight and a goddess of darkness and dreams. Three races, corresponding to the three castes of Indian society and Indo-European myth: magical shamans, warriors, peasants. Archetypal characters representing the shy willowy female, the bold androgyne, the mad trickster god, the amorous, male-manipulating vamp, and so on. Extensive and explicit incorporation of mythologies from all over the world.
What else?
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Shipping Discord x Fluttershy
Trixie x Starlight
I need more of these two pairings
Trixie x Starlight
I need more of these two pairings
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I miss mlp (for real)
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I hated the finale I don't like how twilight looks
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Postem pôneis, kek.
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FiM canon At what season of FiM do you stop considering it "canon?"
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I watched Equestria Die...
I miss my friends. :(
I miss my friends. :(
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Stored pix How many pony-related memes and graphics have you accumulated on your computers and drives? I have 1,339.
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Artistry and passion Perhaps the most remarkable thing about MLP:FIM (G4) was the intensely serious and passionate artistry that it inspired in so many of its adult fans. Check out, or revisit, the pony products of DuoCartoonist on YouTube, or "Lullaby for a Princess" (Lullaby for a Princess Animation). These works, and countless other fan-produced works of graphic art, music, and animation, hugely surpass the show itself in intensity and adult emotionality. G5 doesn't compare.
Why? What did G4 do that none of its predecessors or successors did to inspire this outpouring of artistry?
Why? What did G4 do that none of its predecessors or successors did to inspire this outpouring of artistry?
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GlimGlam is best pony glad that's been settled!
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Why the short face? Why do all My Little Ponies of latter generations (G2-G5) have such short, catlike snouts? The conventional cartoonists' wisdom, that a babylike short face makes a character cute and attractive, is clearly wrong. A character with a long, horsy face can be perfectly adorable.