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Please check the MLP:FiM Thread Locator and
Archive before going out and about and starting
a new thread. /co/ doesn't mind if we stay in
a general thread, but the biggest complaint I
see from them is that there are multiple threads.

A new general should not be made until the official
general is on the brink of autosaging into 404 hell,
or is at the image limit (150 pics). Once a new one
is established, it should be posted at the end of the
old general and everyone needs to herd themselves to
the next.

Obviously trolls & haters cannot be helped.

New System: When the old general thread dies, the
general thread image is to be deleted and placed
onto the new one. Old general will be archived.
New system thanks to Archive!noTe.poNY.

We already have a thread.

THere's a drawfag and everything. It's weeaboo though.

>>22668894
LOL Y U MAD THO?

applejack

>>22668906
Then we shall have TWO threads.

Shirt mockup general?

Everypony, get in here.

>>22669056
of course it's super small. even when i saved it big. mother fucker. i need this posted again so i can save it the RIGHT way. cause i am an idiot

>>22669056
>thumnbail

>>22669041
wat

For the dude that wanted it, here

>>22669086
i know

can the drawfag who did the Francis/Gilda pic post again. i'm a fucktard who doesn't know how to save pictures cause i only saved the fucking thumbnail like a retard.

>>22669115
It's in the old thread bro

All that talk about secret butts in the last thread reminded me of an old Youtube Poop I've seen a while ago.

Took my some time to find it back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJyx28n8-I

pensiveLacuna [PL] began pestering precociousCharisma [PC]

PL: Ok, i fOund my quest stable
PC: <O> Excellent. I'll be right with you shortly.
PL: it's all stOne, lOOks sOrt Of unCOmfOrtable
PL: mOrbiD, even
PL: mOre like a tOmb
PC: <O> You need to reach your God Tier, Luna. I can't handle everything by myself.
PL: i DiDn't say i wOuldn't DO it!
PL: i'm just wOrrieD
PL: hOw lOng DOes it take?
PL: what if sOmeOne attaCks me?
PC: <O> Luna.
PC: <O> I'll be right there beside you when you go to sleep.
PC: <O> I'll take care of everything.
PL: i guess yOu're right
PL: Ok then

>>22669011

YOU DARE SUMMON ME? ME?!

>>22669134
i'm searching them now

guys guys guys
i need a phrase
can only be 16 characters
GOGOGO

>can't find my picture in the old threads
>mfw

>>22669307
>>22669297
:þ

>>22669323
well shit.

Is this the general/

...general?


ponies. Unsure of how to do Lyra's hair, because the sealant I used is not waterproof. learned the hard way with Caramel. Unsure.

>>22669299
All butts are shitty
....

>>22669299
My Little Pony

So I was reading this article
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/16/fan-made-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-hd-remake-trailer-runs-loose/#contin
ued
And one of the comments is "It looks like every cartoon made in Flash that I've ever seen. It may be in HD, but it's lacking a soul. "
Does MLP have a soul?

>>22669334
FUUUUUUUCK YESSSSSS

I am envious of your talent.

>>22669357
Yes, it's called "Lauren Faust".

>>22669357
it has the soul of friendship BITCH

>>22669401
that's what i was thinking
she really has poured her soul into this thing

>>22669334

Lyra's coming along pretty awesomely

>>22669396
>this thread has the general image
OFFICIAL THREAD HERE!

>>22669450
I'm somewhat glad Hasbro went with a slice of life show, though. The show feels like one of /tg/'s world building exercises, which I find to be one of the best threads. IMO, better than Sailor Moon with ponies.

>>22669522
The only problem is that, right now, the troll thread is much more interesting than this one. We'll come back here once the other thread dies or gets deleted.

>>22669552

Troll thread?

>>22669552
aw fuck

>>22669538
>slice of life
I am raging hard right now. This is me, raging.
Slice of life is not a genre, and MLP is not the equivalent of what's refered as "slice of life" by anime fans. Episodes don't focus on boring, day-to-day activities, and they don't focus on soap-opera-like relationships either.

It's an adventure-comedy show. It's really much easier to say adventure-comedy than "slice of life", and it's really much more descriptive.

Yes, I mad.

Say, someone so as to draw this ( thank you so much btw) I was wondering if someone wanted to do the same for >>22669092

>>22669570
Either a troll or a very misguided drawfag.
>>22668913

>>22669626
You know, you can disagree with people and not be a troll. There are a few trolls in it - such as the nazi guy claiming all MLPers are of said political party - however the drawfag himself has doen very little trolling.

Hey guys, I asked for the shoes link in the last thread and got it, among general clothing and apparel request. But I didn't like the fact that they only came in low tops, so I am designing high-tops in Fluttershy's style.

If the original creator is here (probably not but still couldn't hurt to ask), can I have the images you used for the design on Zazzle? Or convert them into high-tops yourself? I've done the tongue, and I'm wondering if you used customly drawn butterflies or an image of her cutie mark directly.

>>22669334
Hngggh'd at Caramel.

>>22669597

>Slice of life is not a genre, and MLP is not the equivalent of what's refered as "slice of life" by anime fans.
>anime fans

>The term slice of life is actually a dead metaphor: it often seems as if the author had taken a knife and "cut out" a slice of the lives of some characters, without concern for narrative form. It is sometimes called tranche de vie, from the French.

>Another common trait in slice of life is emphasis on seasonality or procedures

>Emphasis on seasonality or procedures

Requesting the pic wich pinkie pie and the caption says "Why the fuck not?"

>>22669707
>without concern for narrative form

This is the important part that everybody seems to miss. Every episode has, brace for it:
VERY.
STRONG.
NARRATIVE.
There is always a very strong plot going through the episodes. It's not "slice of life" in the theatrical sense, and it's not "slice of life" in the anime sense. It's just not. If anything depicting people's (or ponies') ordinary lives is "slice of life", then all the following shows are slice of life:
Beavis and Butthead. Spongebob Squarepants, Animaniacs, Dexter's Lab.
Yes I mad.

>>22669597
Take the lives of ponies.. Right? You're still following, I hope. Now, proverbially take a part of that life and 'slice' it... Still here? Now that you've got that slice, present it as a singular episode. Got it?

You've just made a slice of life episode. It is literally a slice of their lives.

>herp derp other people use this term so it must only apply to the things they talk about!!

Craig McCracken's last name also describes his work, but you can't really say the same about Lauren. There's nothing particularly Faustian about her output.

>>22669850
i don't even

Reposted from last night conversation: The Orange family, which is another farming clan and they keep a friendly rivality with the Sweet Apples clan.
The Orange Clan isn't so popular as the Apple Clan (You know, real life horses LOVE apples) but they still enjoy of a high level of respect among Equestrians because of their invaluable contribution against scurvy and skin diseases. In fact, The Orange family are the exclusive suppliers of dried up oranges and Grog for SeaPonies, as their wonderful oranges and limes can stay fresh for a long time and so, protect them from scurvy during their long sea trips.

The clan is formed by: Triple Sec, Orange Meringe, Crepes Suzette, Orange Marmalade, Little Leng, Candied Orange, Frosted Mandarin, Red Moro, Golden Moro, Orange Delight, Orange Shortcake, Golden Glaze, Orange Chantily, Caramel Glazed Oranges...

*inhale*

Big Washington, Clementine Bloom and Grandpa Thompson .

Triple Sec is Applejack's self-appointed rival and among other things, she mocks her for having a fur coat colored like oranges instead of apples. Apple and Clementine Bloom sigh and wish their big sisters would stop being idiots, meanwhile Big Macintosh and Big Washington fought each other once because of a stupid misunderstanding, but once they realized what was going on, they quickly apologized and have been bros since then, sharing long conversations through the fence dividing their farms, all while they sip juice and exchange "Yup" and "Mmm-Hmm" interjections.
Big Thompson wears a leather harness (He pulls the biggest cart of the farm) while his sister Triple sec wears a worn out straw hat and Clementine Bloom wears a green bandana tied around her neck.
Grandpa Washington smokes a corncob pipe, where he burns a mixture of herbs that keep horseflies at a distance.

>>22669822

>without concern

does not say

>lacking, devoid of

The series fits the definition of slice of life to a tee. From the focus on seasonality and procedure in winter wrap up, to twilight writing her letter to celestia at the end of every episode, to applebloom trying to get her cutie mark. every story has been exactly slice of life.

>>22669334
Oh, wow. Those look fantastic!
I lurk around a lot in these threads and have been admiring the photos. I gotta' ask, though, if you can give some insight on your process (especially how you change the hair).

>>22669707
for anyone still wondering, Cromartie would be an example of Slice of Life. Nothing makes sense, there is hardly any explanation of the characters, their lives, how they came to be there, etc. It just begins and ends having explained nothing, and each episode is just a couple hours in the lives of the characters.

Napoleon Dynamite also fits the description

>>22669825
in that case anything and everything can be considered slice of life.

Die Hard? Hell, that's just a slice out of the life of John McClane!

>>22669939
Now you're getting it! You now understand why a term as vague and nondescript as "slice of life" cannot be nailed down to a single genre!

Good for you.

Can you make me a Luna doll I will pay $120 plus send you picture of my dick

>>22669866
>they sip juice and exchange "Yup" and "Mmm-Hmm" interjections
I found the mental image of that scene to be hilarious.

Sup bronies. I wasn't on for most of the weekend. Is there some doomsday scenario going on that I don't know about but OP referred to?

>>22669874
Now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. "Procedure" doesn't mean a procedural show, or a show that has a set opening and ending. Procedure means the actual nitty-gritty details of a specific task, like washing the floor or scraping barnacles off a boat (to use that very poorly-sourced Wikipedia page), expanded to an entire chapter. Dubliners is slice-of-life because there is very little narrative and barely any conflict.

Winter Wrap Up has very little procedure - we don't get into the details of bringing the birds from the south - how could we? There are ten different things happening in that episode, among them:
Drama - Twilight Sparkle wants to use magic but can't, she wants to fit in but can't
Conflict - she screws things up with magic and gets chastised
Narrative - loads and loads of narrative about how being a friend means using your special skill to help everyone else

It's not slice of life. Not even remotely. Everything fits "slice of life" if you ignore all the specifics that differentiate slice of life from everything else.

>>22669822
>>22669825
>>22669874
>>22669881
>>22669939
>>22669965

So what, exactly, did we get out of all of this?

Personally, I learned that "slice of life" is a stupid term that probably shouldn't describe anything.

>>22669965
you are truly hopeless.

if that's the case, why describe ANYTHING as slice-of-life? it becomes the epitome of an empty term because you use it to apply to anything.

why bother referring to MLP as slice-of-life if you just admitted it MEANS NOTHING because EVERY SINGLE WORK OF FICTION (or hell, even non-fiction) is slice-of-life in some way?

>>22669727
does it exist?

>>22670026

Yes, it is. You are just trying to argue semantics. I meant procedure exactly how it was stated. As in the vest and team assigments in winter wrap up, the daily letter to Celestia, applebucking, etc. Not the shows intro. Its not my problem that a butthurt anime fan has a problem with the term not being defined by his weaboo moeshit as he apparently thought it was.

>>22670048 you are truly hoofeless.

Fixed.

>>22670021
"It's over, [proper noun] is finished." is a meme. OP is making a joke about ponies overtaking 4chan.

>>22670005
>>22670005
Why.pny

So this is the new general?

>>22669092

That story almost made me cry...

Tf2 x MLP please.

>>22669825
That description is way too general.

By that logic, Dragon Ball Z is a slice of life show. Take the life of a Saiyan martial artist with the strength to punch a planet to dust. Now show us a slice of it. Boom! Slice of life show!

Other slice of life series: Batman, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros, Hamlet, everything else ever.

Why u do this things party clown

I mean hell, most of the winter wrap up song was about

HOW THE PONIES CLEAN UP WINTER IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL

hows that for procedure?

slice of life:
according to the dictionary:
>of, pertaining to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life
according to wikipedia:
>"the realistic description or representation of events and situations in everyday life in literature, film, journalism, etc.

are magical ponies in a land inhabited by dragons and parasprites a realistic or natural depiction of anything? unless you're living in a different reality than the rest of us: no, it's not.

Terminator is a slice of life film. They just happened to choose two of the most chaotic days of Sarah Connor's life to slice for us.

>>22670104
The Celestia letter isn't procedure so much as it's part of the show's formula. Almost every show, regardless of genre, has a formula.

>>22670210

if we went by your logic then no fiction could be slice of life because none of the characters are or ever were real, nor do they live in the real world.

realism is a relative term in fiction

you got to see this
>>22670134
>>22670134
>>22670134

>>22670199
>>22670199
Why do the stupid ponies care so much about cleaning winter aj says they are running out of food but in the next scene she is planting flowers and fuck appleseeds that won't grow for years

>>22670104
>You are just trying to argue semantics
Whaaaaaaaaaaat.
Precisely the opposite. You're bending the word "procedure" to mean a repetitive, established behavior, when in the sentence you quote it means the minute details of every action. You just don't understand the terms you're using.

Writing a daily letter is A procedure, but in the sentence "emphasis on seasonality or procedures" the word "seasonality" does NOT refer to actual seasons and the word "procedure" does NOT refer to the general sense. I'm sorry, you just read a couple of words, used their most general sense, and decided that everything that has A procedure in it is "slice of life".

Re-read my posts, it'll sink in eventually.

>>22670230
You know what other currently-airing show does sappy voice-over lessons at the end of every episode? Modern Family. And that shit just won like 30 fuckin Emmys.

>>22670266

well, ponies can eat the flowers so maybe they consider them part of the food crop as well. Twilight ordered a flower sandwhich in ticket master

It's funny how you guys can still fall into infighting even with no trolls in the thread.
Fuck off furfags.

>>22670248
it's a REPRESENTATION of real life. It doesn't have to actually be real life. Stop grasping at straws.

You're trying to turn the term into something that means absolutely nothing, like the word "epic, hipster" or even "literally".

It's not "my definition". It's THE definition. You want to complain about what words mean? Bitch to the people that define them, and if you have an issue with it maybe just stop speaking the language.

Original Slice of Life poster here. I apologize for the storm.

What I meant is that I enjoy how the show focuses on a few characters every episode, and helps expand the setting that way. Maybe I should compare it to FRIENDS or Full House, since everyone says to skip the first two episodes anyway.

Pic related, another good slice of life show, So Ra No Wo To.

>>22669694

Oh you guys can help me tool; does anybody have a close-up image of Fluttershy's Cutie Mark? I'd make one but I am working on perfecting the tongue design and you'd really make my job a bit more streamlined and easier. :D

Well this is just hilarious.

The ponyfags are actually fighting themselves. Civil war.

Dearest Princess Celestia,

Today I learned that Slice of Life is a stupid term to use to describe any media because, despite amounting to saying that something is just "a story about stuff" there will still be people who argue that you can't use that term to describe things for arbitrary reasons.

I've learned that the best way to categorize a show or book is by it's content, and not by some nondescript label.

Your Faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle

>>22670199
...Jesus Christ.
CSI is about the procedure of crime scene investigation. That does not make it slice of life. You're confusing two meanings of the word procedure.

One, an action carried out in an official or rigidly-ordered fashion
Two, the actual minute details of an action

Slice of life deals with small, naturalistic, narrative-free details. Since CSI has a very rigid narrative, it is not slice-of-life.

Since MLP:FiM has very rigid narrative, it's not slice-of-life. It doesn't deal with the tiny, mundane details of every action.

>>22670333

>>22670270

I did read your posts, and laughed, because everything you said is wrong. The things you say "don't" mean that, mean exactly that. The cited article uses summer as an example of seasonality, the ponies use winter. Your post is great because you keep doing exactly what you claim others are.

>>22670266
Flowers are food for them you dumbass autistic retard asspie

>>22670373
are you honestly under the impression that a show can only be considered slice of life if it deals with... seasons?

>>22670342

thats what happens when /a/ bleeds into /co/

>>22670362

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I am sorta new to liking MLP and I find it silly you guys fight over a kid's (read:girl's) show too by the way. It's just charming, do we need to fight over how butch Rainbow Dash is and how retarded Derpy is and the like?

>>22670314 it's THE definition

The holy word gods have bestowed this flawless piece of infallible wisdom upon us, and only a HERETIC would question them!

>>22670408
>first person to mention /a/ in this thread
>graspingatstraws.jpg

>>22670301
>calling us furfags.
umad

How the fuck do pony run out of food when they eat grass and hay the easiest shit to grow on the planet

>slice of life
>a show about talking horses who can fly, use magic, and change the seasons manually
>slice of life

>>22670418

Let me guess. You're also the kind of guy who calls superheroines you don't like 'Mary Sues'.

I'll be in the MLPorn thread if you need me

>>22670435
They didn't run out of food. But they would if winter went on forever.

Also, these ponies seem to eat a variety of foods, including sandwiches, candy, cakes, flowers, smoothies, pies, etc, on top of grass and hay.

>>22670444


Uh...yeah.

Slice of life.

You didn't prove it otherwise.

>>22670417
>do we need to fight over how butch Rainbow Dash is and how retarded Derpy is and the like?

Sadly, people fight over that too.

You should stick around for the night threads, they're better and more fun.

Hogans's heroes was a "slice of life" show.

>>22670444
no, see, each episode deals with their lives as characters, so it's a slice of life!

Just like Star Wars, or My Immortal, or Flapjack, or even a show that was just a single shot of a stove for 22 minutes! It's a slice of the stove's life, so it's slice-of-life!

Everything is slice-of-life when you ignore the fact that it's not!

Hey guys. Do you know a good example of a "Slice of life" series?

Friends.

That was a show about nothing, purposely written like that. It gave you some basic setting to define the characters, and the rest was just stuff happening and with a few exceptions, nothing ever was going anywhere.

>>22670474
>>22670435

SOMEPONY lost the grass seeds

>>22670461
What? Dude, if you want superhero discussion you're in the wrong thread. Try to keep up with the rest of the class, okay?

>mfw this thread

...although I will admit that I did not see this particular shit storm coming...i find it rather amusing as I have nothing to add to the conversation and really just want more ponies...and the ability to draw a decent fucking picture...

>>22670373
...
I'm getting the idea that English isn't your native tongue.

Seasonality CAN mean the change of seasons, but in the sense it is used in that sentence, and in the sense that seasonality is used in slice of life, it means the FEELING of change.

Winter Wrap Up isn't about how the ponies feel with regard to fleeting time or the changing colors of the leaves or anything MINUTE and LACKING IN NARRATIVE.

If Winter Wrap Up was a bunch of scenes where Twilight Sparkle looks at snow melt and sip warm cocoa, or a lot of scenes involving every tiny step of strapping on a snow-plow and walking through the snow, or something in that line, it would be slice of life.

However, there's narrative. There are adventures. There is conflict, drama, a climax. It is very clear-cut an adventure story, with some drama and some comedy.

>>22670483

Hopefully my shoes will be done by then and I will post them up for everybody to look at. I might design a shirt and stuff to match them, and if I can a scarf. Because I like scarves.

>>22670488
Actually, Friends was only like that in the first couple of seasons. Then the writers basically turned it into "The Chronicle of Ross and Rachel's Incredibly Stupid Relationship." It had a plot, even if that plot was just to keep throwing obstacles in their path so they could delay their actually getting together until the final episode.

Now Seinfeld, that's the original show about nothing. Even when it had plotlines, it would just ditch them at a moment's notice, pick them up again years later, and then ditch them again.

>>22670488
>all about nothing
That's Seinfeld. Friends was all about being friends and getting laid.

>>22670507
It's dangerous to go alone!
Take this!

>>22670507
here you go

>>22670571
>and getting laid

all except Chandler

>My face when people thinks this discussion matters or that others actually care what the definition of "slice of life" is.
>Who's Derpy now?

>>22670488
No, sitcoms aren't slice of life either.

God damn it Patrick.

It's like someone read "an electron is an elementary particle with a charge of negative one" and decided that ANYTHING with a charge of negative one is an electron because "it fits the definition."

No, it doesn't fit the definition. You're overlooking the very important aspect of slice-of-life which is little to no narrative, dwelling on the small details, and realism.

Please: less arguing over categorization of shows and the definitions of the categorizations, and more ponies.

Hiding "slice of life" in 4chan filter...

On the last piece of Pony Piece....

I was about to buy Luna shoe but decided to wait since I'm gonna get $100 worth of mcdonalds pinkies but they are next on my list

"Where's that cotton-pickin' stripey-maned pegasus?? Ah thought there was supposed to be a rainstorm scheduled t'day! Mah crops need waterin'!" Applejack stormed down the street in town, stopping each pony she passed. "Y'all seen Rainbow Dash? How 'bout you over there? You three? No?" She stamped her hoof, moving over toward the Library. "Twilight! Spike? Either o' y'all home?"

The door openned and the purple unicorn stepped out. "Applejack? What's up?"

"You seen Rainbow Dash? It was supposed to rain t'day, and ah ain't seen a drop."

Twilight sighed, shaking her head. "...I haven't seen her since... you know. She seemed a bit distracted." Applejack's expression softened. "I'll go talk to Fluttershy. She can go check on Rainbow Dash. It'll give her something to do. She was pretty broken up, but is taking it well. I guess her time with animals has shown her how to deal with such things..."

Applejack nodded. "Thanks, sugarcube. Listen... ah... gotta go back to the farm. Ah've got lots o' waterin' to do. Ah'll see ya around, right?" Twilight nodded, waving a hoof as Applejack wandered off. The farm pony paused to look at Mr. and Mrs. Cake's bakery, black ribbon hanging across the door. With a sigh, Applejack shook her head and continued home.

Guys, guys guys

Zelda is an RPG

>>22670646

>>22670665

>>22670665

>>22670657
"You've been workin' awful hard the past few days, AJ. Shouldn't you take it a bit easier?" asked Big Mac, switching the piece of hay he was chewing on to the other side of his mouth. "Won't do anyone no good to burn yourself out."

"Who asked you, anyways??" snapped Applejack. "Ah'm just fine! Now where's that waterin' can? Ah've got work t'do! Get outta mah way!" She stomped off, barely missing bumping into Apple Bloom. "Somebody's got to make sure this farm keeps goin'!"

"Big Mac? What's wrong with sis? She's yellin' all the time these days..."

He gently patted the young filly's head with one of his hooves. "Nothin' to worry yer little head about. She's just got a lot on her mind. Now why don't you go play with yer friends a while?"

>>22670596

...side views just ain't doin' it for the bronies anymore Pacce...ya got have actual skill and be able to draw them in different positions and poses in different scenarios...hell, if you're good enough, even humanized versions...the demand for higher quality pics and fics is rising...especially with the episode "drought"...thank you for the image though...and stay awesome...

I'm just gunna blame this shitstorm on the fact that there won't be a new episode for a while.

We're falling apart. Going through pony withdrawals

>>22670665
Are you... crazy?

>>22670686
/r/ing Applejack "NOT PONY", with her neck in place of the body. I has no skills, plz deliver. kthxi<3u

>>22670657
>continuing on the diabeetus story.
please do. this is interesting and sad.

>>22670665

>>22670691
>>22670657

>>22670541
This.

A key component of slice-of-life is that there are VERY FEW TIME CUTS. That's why it's like life; because in life, if you're going to do something routine, like, say, get dressed and drive to work, you can't just skip past that and jump right to the scene where you arrive at work. You live through all of that procedure, because that's life.

SoL shows focus on those little procedures. MLP does not. If MLP were a Slice of Life show, the entire half hour of Winter Wrap Up would have been taken up just by ONE activity: Most likely Twilight sitting down to organize everything. Instead, we never even SEE her organizing things, we just see the RESULTS of her organization.

And we see it in a montage that compresses and entire day of work into three minutes. That's pretty much the opposite of Slice of Life.

>>22670705
You say we're falling apart.
I say that acquaintances agree and friends argue.

Wait wait, was there a new episode? I missed it!

>>22670665
This really does remind me of the "every game is an RPG" nonsense. "Well, it's a game, and you play a role, hence it's a role-playing game."

/discussion? Please? Pretty please?

ok guys, stop calling this a shitstorm, it's more of a debate if anything.


instead lets talk about other interests apart from ponies!
Music, films, vidya, books ect ect...

>>22670596
Just wanted to give my thanks to whoever made this picture originally. I drew my first pony last night with it and I'm pretty proud of her. I drew another with a unique hairstyle and plan to draw some more this afternoon. It really is a good starting guide.

>See you faggots arguing over slice of life.
Slice of Life describes when you're getting random tidbits of life that is NORMAL for them and most of the citizenry.
By the standards of Equestria the show is almost completely about the day to day lives of a group of friends. Slices out of their lives (excepting the pilot, which had more of an action feel).
Movies like Die Hard are not remotely slice of life because they highlight unusual moments and pinnacles in the person's life. John McClane does not take town huge terrorist groups every day. Most of the time he makes smaller arrests and maybe drinks a beer sitting on his couch at the weekend. Maybe he goes to his daughter's birthday party. Maybe he celebrates his anniversary with his wife.
If we saw those moments it'd be slice of life.

>>22670655
What the fuck are you gonna do with 80 pinkies if you can even find that many to buy

>>22670751

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME SAD

>>22670789
so it's every day that they have to deal with dragons threatening to destroy their ecosystem, think that they have curses placed on them by a zebra, have to manually change seasons, and have their entire city devoured by tiny creatures?

that's an everyday thing for them, then?

gotcha, makes sense to me.

>>22670705
Sounds about right. I might also place some of the blame on the fact that some of the newer bronies haven't checked their angry, cynical, 4chan tough guy attitudes at the door. Everything has to be an internet argument with them. You can't just let it go or ignore it. Someone is WRONG on the internet and you must punish them with your astounding debate skills!

Either way.. Few weeks without ponies and we're still doing pretty good. The Homestuck crowd lost their minds and spiraled into downright chaos when they went without an update for 5 days.

>>22670789
>day to day lives of a group of friends
BUT
THAT'S
NOT
WHAT
SLICE OF LIFE
MEANS
...and besides it's not about their fucking day-to-day lives. They vanquish the moon, for fuck's sake. They evict a dragon... It's anything BUT day-to-day lives, but even if it WERE, that's STILL NOT WHAT SLICE OF LIFE MEANS.

>>22670840
because everyone needs a good sad story once in a while.

>>22670840

About what?
I just cap the stories, not right them.

>>22670866
For Equestrians, getting rid of dragons and all of that seems to be fairly normal.
As I said, the first two episodes are the exception, with the group adventure and defeating a powerful foe with a unique power and all of that.

>>22670895
>right
Derp, I meant write.

Oh hey, guy making shoes here, one last question for anybody with experience or knowledge on using Zazzle: when I view my shoe design, it has some huge button covering the design on the outside quarter, and I can't seem to get rid of it myself. Is there an option I've missed, or will it disappear upon saving it for display and ordering? I don't want to place the Cutie Mark only to be covered by some ugly button and when I tear it off upon receiving them, an incomplete Cutie Mark design.

And no, Zazzle won't make scarves either. So I shall find another site for it or just buy a regular cream scarf. Anybody /fa/ enough to suggest what the scarf should be colored to match? I think solid buttercream, maybe with the prism pink (same pink as on shoes) used on the edges? No clue where I'd find it like that though.

>>22670751
Do more with each character. I command you. Work your way up to Rainbow Dash and then have Pinkie Pie's ghost follow her around for a bit to get everyone to stop being depressed.

>>22670751
>>22670840

Could someone explain to me why this is sad?

>>22670866
>implying I don't wanquish evil universe destroyers every weekend as a hobby

you poor poor thing

>>22670866
>>22670789
>>22670776
>>22670763
etc...

Pic is definitely related.
Really. We don't care if it's slice of life or not. It's poni and that's all that matters.
Good day.

>>22670947
Look at the pic the first part is linking. Read it. Then read this.

drawponyan here

>>22670947
do you not know what the story is about?

>>22670971
I did but I don't get why the AJ part is sad

>>22670973
Draw Derpy and Pinkie Pie playing a video game, one-on-one.

writefag reporting in

>>22670928
yeah, fairly normal, which is why they were all shocked to hear that there was a dragon nearby at all, and didn't know that they sleep for 100 years.

I'm sure stuff like that happens all the time.

>>22670973
draw applejack looking for applebloom in the setting of one of the Silent Hill games.

>>22670858
Even if it were their everyday actions, it's still not "slice of life". Slice of life doesn't mean anything that's "a slice of someone's life" just like roleplaying game doesn't mean "every game where you play a role."

It just doesn't. RPGs have certain elements, and the more of them they have, the more RPGish they are. Slice of life also has certain elements that differentiate it from other fiction: focus on the passage of time, focus on minute details, focus on realism, focus on quietness or stillness, and more. The more of these details a show has, the more slice-of-life it is. For example, Friends is very much A slice of the lives of its characters but it's not:
- realistic
- dwelling on the small details of their actions
- sparse on narrative
- focused on the passage of time

It's not slice-of-life, even though it's about "slices of people's lives," just like Super Mario Galaxy is not an RPG even though you play the role of a fat Italian plumber.

>>22670983
It's a sequel, like what happens to each character after Pinkie's funeral and how they're still feeling the loss. AJ drowns herself in work and shuts herself off from her loved ones.

Fag reporting in.

>>22670973
Draw Rainbow Dash, Optimus Prime, and Snake-Eyes playing a game of poker

>>22671014
You like ponies, don't you Squidward?

>>22670983
neither do i now that you mention it.

>>22670991
A.J.! Write...uhhh...Have you written a Pinkie Pie/Rarity story yet? Do that. Or a story involving TS going through her first heartbreak.

>>22670973
Either one of two things?
Either Derpy using a wii and antics ensuing, or Twilight Sparkle doing the whole "It's Magic. I don't have to explain shit." thing.

What I want to know is this:

If due to some fiddly aspects of a phrase's definition MLP's typical episode are not slice of life. Then what are they?

Writing is a flexible artform , if you require something to abide by every term of a label's definination your will contantly come across small exceptions to the rules causing tonnes of things to be undefinable for silly reasons.

This is why the foes in modern Zombie films aren't strictly "zombies" but we still describe them as zombie films as it gets the general idea across.

Describing My Little Pony episodes as Slice of Life gets across the idea that the show isn't some epic plot but rather just these Ponies everyday lives, and for that the term has served it's purpose.

>>22670952
>wanquish

>It isn't what it is because I define that as bad and this as good.

It's about ponies dealing with events in their peaceful lives. Anyone who gets snarly over this just has a grudge.

>>22671027
I wasn't the only one who thought about this

HERE IS THE RESOLUTION:

-Terms like "Slice of Life" exist to make things easier for us to categorize fictional works.

-However, the term has led to a huge argument. Thus it has made things harder for us, not easier.

-Therefore, it is worthless as a term. And thus not worth discussing at all.

THE END

>>22670991
Hey A.J. I've been sick the last week. Did you finish part 3 of this Applebloom fic while I was out?

If the Iliad was a cartoon, it would be slice of life all about the Greeks at war

"Porcelain Secrets"

Applebloom discovers Spike going through Rarity's things and confronts him, but ends up getting them both into even more trouble! The drama! The intrigue! The ponies!

Presenting Part 1 and now beginning work on Part 2

Feedback always appreciated.

Now and forever sex free ;_;, Nathaniel Shepard.

>>22671077

Amusingly we could use that same logic to ban My Little Pony from /co/.

>>22671077

>>22671038
it's EPISODIC.

that's what it is. If you described it as a slice of life show to someone and then they watched it and they're seeing dragons, living constellations, magic, and flowers that pull pranks on you, do you think THAT is what they expect when you say "slice of life"?

No. It's an episodic fantasy series. People seem to be under the impression that if there's not some overarching plot, then it's slice of life. No, that just means it's episodic and is made up of self-contained stories.

>>22670657
>>22670691
>>22670751
>>22670735
>>22670840
>>22670876
>>22670895

Thinking about making the fourth Rarity-focused, maybe. Bargaining.

Whoever did the second one, thanks! Inspired me to do a bit more.

>>22668957
Why.. Why am I aroused...

>>22671126
Ban anything from /co/ that can cause an argument?

Let's drop that suggestion to moot, see what he thinks.

>>22669538
You. You did this to us. Whyyyyyy?

>>22671136
NOW I GET IT! stages of denial. derp.

>>22671126

The fuck are you..? I.. Screw this.
>hidden.

>>22671099
>>22671132
Of course it "seems" meaningless if you're willfully ignorant of its meaning.

>>22671033

I could do a Pinkie Pie/Rarity...as for the TS heartbreak thing...someone wrote something like that...I know I have it saved around here somewhere...it turns out it was all Spike's fault...

>>22671093

...I posted the 3rd part to that January 6th...but i'll repost it again if you wish....

>>22671126
Well, the same logic could be used to ban anything off of anywhere on 4chan since we're a bunch of argumentative little fuckers.

FANFICS FOR PEACE!

.

>>22671163

It ain't his fault. It's >>22669597 that started shit by getting all butthurt over terminology.

>>22671197
I can get behind that!

>>22671132
First post with any lick of sense in this shitty argument.

Now would y'all kindly stfu and discuss ponies proper like.

>>22671038
>Describing My Little Pony episodes as Slice of Life gets across the idea

The entire point of this argument/discussion is that it doesn't. If MLP is slice of life, and Friends is slice of life, and Beavis and Butthead is slice of life, and Spongebob Squarepants is slice of life, then slice of life isn't descriptive at all.

You're basically saying "it has slices of life, hence it's a slice of life show", but that's wrong. It's an adventure show. It's about a third adventure, a third comedy, and a third drama (as dramatic as a kids' show can get, anyway). There is little to no dwelling on the small details of the ponies lives. There is a lot of narrative, every episode is pretty much fixed to a narrative.

The way slice of life gets thrown around is bad. It's bad for the show, that has almost nothing to do with slice of life, and it's bad for the term, which becomes more and more meaningless.

I wanna see that Severing of Friendship fanfic.
Anyone got a link or copy?

>>22671191
>>22671126
Eh, not really. MLP has value as a show and there are plenty of things to discuss about it.

Slice of life only has value as a convenient term and since it has failed to be convenient, it can go die in a hole.

>>22671227
You certainly can't.

But that's what to expect from militant ignorance.

>>22671221
Every time I read this phrase I can't take it seriously
it's like SECRET BUT FUN

Was asked to do this for a drawfag thread a few weeks back, updated the picture.

>>22671227
I agree.

>>22671241
Right away. Would that be the actual fanfic or the fanfic of the fanfic?

>>22671271
The original. I've seen the fanfic of it.

File "slice of life" next to "black humanized twilight" for mlp derail material

>>22671163
I apologized here
>>22670331

How about calling it an episodic show about talking ponies?

>>22671271
how bout both?

>>22671271
The musical broadway adaption, please.

Nathan Lane plays Spike!

>>22671331
I want Morgan Freeman to play Spike and/or Big Mac and/or EVERYPONY

>>22671305
That fucking pic is exploding with awesome.

>>22671304
Certainly

>>22671327
>>22671331
I swear once the fanfic of the fanfic is finished, either I or somebody else should do a fanfic of THAT fanfic.

We need to go deeper!

Did someone say Slice of Life?

>>22671362
the voice would give me an eargasm

>>22671383

>fanfic of a fanfic's fanfic

...oh god why?!

>>22671383
Also, fare warning to the uninitiated. These fanfics have the potential to break your soul in twain. At least two users have said that the fanfic "ruined the series for them forever"

>>22671305

I am sure it already has been

>>22671230
Projecting your ignorance on the obvious doesn't make it go away.

The term has a meaning. The meaning fits. You barking about how you personally have redefined it to something useless doesn't change this.

By your logic, everything is horror because everything involves risk. By your logic, everything is fantasy because everything involves something other than reality. By your logic, everything is adventure because...

The term has not become meaningless except to those willing to shut down their brains to make it so.

>There is little to no dwelling on the small details of the ponies lives.
This is where you slipped up. Most of the show is about "small" details of the ponies' lives. Call of the Cutie is about a young pony dealing with what happens to ponies when they grow up. Griffon the Brush Off is about an old friend returning and causing problems with Rainbow Dash's new friends. Applebuck Season is about a pony working too hard on her job.

If these don't count, nothing does, and you're claiming the term is meaningless just because you say so.

>>22671132

Saying it's episodic just means it it's divided into episodes.

If I had no idea what MLP was about and you told me it was "Episodic" it would help me less than if I was told it was "Slice of Life" which atleast tells me there wont be an overarching dramatic plot.

I'm not going to expect no magic and dragons and shit because it's My Little Pony.

I know I'm prolonging this conversation but the best way to ensure it never happens again is to find the term which does mean a focus on the everyday lives of the characters involved.

>>22671318
I get it.

>>22671393
inb4 Dexter pony

>>22671410

>>22671402
Shit's and giggles. Give the haters something to frown at and wonder "Why?"

>>22671188
Post it!
POST IT!
I'm pretty sure I somehow missed it the first time around.

>>22671383
does that mean we have to do a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic of a fanfic?

>>22671434

>>22671453
Final part

>>22671447
Might be fun, but that's pushing it a bit I think. Fanfic limbo would be a terrible place to end up.

>>22671444

part 3 of my Spike and Apple Bloom fic

>>22671447

...I think my brain lost function for a moment there...

>>22671447

>>22671447

Sounds confusing

>>22671478
yea 50 years of a fanfic that should only last like 10 minutes would suck ass.

>>22671447
No, thats retarded

So... is Fluttershy good enough with animals to tame a creeper?

>>22671481
Awwwwww, I did indeed miss that.
T'was cute. Poor dumb emotionally undeveloped Spike.

>>22671421
>Saying it's episodic just means it it's divided into episodes

which seems to be the issue here. people think that because "oh, there's no overarching plot" it means that it's slice of life.

slice of life does NOT describe this show.

>I'm not going to expect no magic and dragons and shit because it's My Little Pony.

You only say that because you have prior knowledge of the show itself. Slice of life is not going to define the show well for anyone because that's just not what it is.

It's episodic. Each episode has a self-contained story that can be watched out-of-sequence and nothing at all changes. But something not having an overarching plot and epic storyline does not mean it's slice of life.

Batman: The Animated Series didn't have an overarching plot either. Does that mean it defaults to slice of life? Sure, if you don't know what the word means.

>>22671419
>If these don't count
You. Do. Not. Know. What. Slice. Of. Life. Means.

Let it go.

Call of The Cutie has a main conflict, a very rigid narrative, and little to no dwelling on small details. There just isn't. A coming-of-age story isn't "small details." Spending 30 minutes describing what you had for breakfast is SMALL DETAILS. Coming-of-age is not slice of life.

You're still clinging to "if it shows a slice of someone's life, it's a slice of life."

NO. THAT'S WRONG. YOU ARE WRONG. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. I AM NOT REDEFINING THE TERM. YOU SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT.

I already gave this example, but what the fuck, here it is again: not every game where you play a role is a role playing game, and not every show where a slice of a character's life is presented is a slice of life show.

GET IT INTO YOUR HEAD.

>>22671481

...good god, my writing seriously suffers when I see someone else's writing blow me away...it happened then with Jimbo and it's happening now with Butterscotch Sundae...

>>22671587

Of course Batman was slice of life, it was all about Batman's life in Gotham

>>22671577
the most autistic post to ever appear on 4chan.org

>>22670657 >>22670691
>>22671136
> mfw the story I ripped off a Scrubs episode continues to be reposted and make people sad, and has inspired even more fanfic
Feels damn good.

>>22671587
>>22671592
you two. shut the fuck up.

Someone requested Robocop pony yesterday, grab it while it's hot

>>22671587
>people think that because "oh, there's no overarching plot" it means that it's slice of life.
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.

>slice of life does NOT describe this show.
Your definition doesn't. The definition people who actually use the term use does.

We've gotten a lot of new tripfags and namefags lately.

>>22671421
Every TV show by nature has to be broken up into episodes, so what the term means is that there is no continuing main story line. Family Guy or Simpsons is episodic since each 30 minute show is self-contained and independent of the others. That's specifically what Hasbro asked for in the case of MLP so the episodes could be viewed in any order. Something like General Hospital is not episodic because if you miss one episode you've missed out on critical plot information and may be lost when you try to watch newer episodes.

>>22671624
how? no. you know what. that word is becoming as meaningless as the word hipster.

And another Viet pic.

>>22671624

"Slice of Life" is the new "Mary Sue" misused dead metaphor now.
Also, I just had sex with Fluttershy.

>>22671668
>dem muscles
holy shit man.

>>22671592
>You're still clinging to "if it shows a slice of someone's life, it's a slice of life."
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.

>I AM NOT REDEFINING THE TERM.
Yes you are. I gave you examples of what it means and you snarled "THAT'S NOT SMALL ENOUGH".

>>22671648
>The definition people who actually use the term use does.
Let's see how they use "slice of life", shall we.
>a young [person] dealing with what happens to [people] when they grow up
HOLY SHIT EVERY COMING OF AGE STORY EVER IS SLICE OF LIFE
>an old friend returning and causing problems
HOLY SHIT EVERY FRIEND-RELATED DRAMA EVER IS SLICE OF LIFE
>a [person] working too hard on her job
ETC

See this? This is moronic. Slice of life doesn't mean what you think it means. You are wrong.

Are there any tutorials for drawing pony eyes? I'm trying to draw poni now and the eyes are always the hardest part since they capture the whole spirit and personality of the character. If the eyes are wrong the whole thing is wrong.

>>22671648
did you even read what I was replying to? strawman my ass, that's what he SAID.

>slice of life tells me there won't be an overarching plot

what am I setting up to be knocked down? Nothing, that's what he SAID.

And it's not my definition, it's the actual definition. Slice of life isn't a blanket term that covers anything that's not some long epic adventure.

The other current MLP thread is a lot more successful than this one.

Why are people still here?

>>22671706
Let's apply your logic to horror.
HOLY SHIT EVERYTHING THAT HAS A CHARACTER WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IS HORROR.

You're not arguing against the use of the term, you're arguing against the concept of a genre.

>>22671505
>>22671478
How would an MLP/Inception crossover work... Dash and Applejack as Arthur and Eames? Fluttershy as Fisher Jr.?

>>22671197

>shitstorm over 'slice of life'

>>22671727

>mfw he hasn't tried legs in unconventional positions other than sitting, standing or fully stretched.
>laughingponies.jpg

Fuck this. More FANFICS FOR PEACE.

This one is about the truth behind the winter wrap-up and its no-magic policy.

IRL Pinky Pie

>>22671697
>THAT'S NOT SMALL ENOUGH
Seriously. Let's read the Wikipedia page. I swear I didn't edit it, it's the same page you quoted earlier.

>Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō spends significant time depicting in detail the process of brewing coffee
BREWING COFFEE VS COMING OF AGE

FOR FUCK'S SAKE MAN
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT SLICE OF LIFE MEANS

>>22671668
Dash! You look like hammered shit!

>>22671743
just try not to go into pinkies subconscious. you do not know what you will find in her mind.

>>22671731
>Slice of life isn't a blanket term that covers anything that's not some long epic adventure.
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.
>Slice of life isn't a blanket term that covers anything that's not some long epic adventure.
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.
>Slice of life isn't a blanket term that covers anything that's not some long epic adventure.
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.
>Slice of life isn't a blanket term that covers anything that's not some long epic adventure.
See this? This is what is know as a "strawman argument". He isn't listening to anyone who disagrees with him. He's just repeating his own easily-countered imaginary opponent's argument to himself so he can look like he's winning.

While also ignoring every aspect of anyone's statements that CAN'T be interpreted as being in his tiny strawman, then pretending that's all there is.