>>33962191
I was a casual mlp fan, then I just stopped watching.

sorry bud

>>33962286

i understand

sometimes i have to slog thru an episode just to see something mildly cute.

>people that get bored with most of the episodes

why would you even watch a show you're that bored with?

I'm surprised by how well put together the musical numbers are, and it can be surprisingly adorable. It's kind of like moe done right in my eyes. Still, it's not my cup of tea.

I like discussing the shows but can do without the fanfics and other crap. I haven't discovered a real good place on the net to discuss the shows yet. Here is too busy, equestria daily isn't structured as a msgboard, ponysquare tilts too young, other places aren't busy enough etc. Ponychan is ok but i'm not a big fan of the chan format.

I don't understand why the ponies wear clothes sometimes. Like why did Rainbow Dash have to wear a hospital gown? Doesn't make sense at all to me.

>Can we get a thread with just MLP casuals in here?

No we can't. Get the fuck back to the general with the horsefuckers.

>>33962191
Being from the early 80s, to me MLP is and will always be a show for kiddies. G4 art style is good, but the show itself is a bit bland: nothing more than a kiddies' show.

BUT........
On the other hand, the fandom is quite intriguing: you all know about the infamous "bottom of the barrel", don't you? Well, watching the fandom is like seeing this bottom transcending to mystical depths.

>>33962473

Try Ponygoons, the SA spinoff. Usually if someone posts something too out there they'll get banned immediately.

I like the show, but the fandom is the most fucking annoying thing ever

>>33962356

same reason why people watch 100 crappy youtube videos to find that one hilarious one.

I haven't watched the new season, besides the first two. I like the adventure updates more than the regular updates. Stopped participating in pony threads when they started getting faggy around the one where the drinking game peaked and died.

Good show. Best episode of S2 is the cider one.

Freaky fanbase.

SHED.mov was horrible.

>>33962856
I found it boring and uninteresting (and horrible in that regard) rather than actually unpleasant.

>>33962685
>MLP is and will always be a show for kiddies

So's half of the other things that get discussed on this board but you're wording this criticism as if it only applies to MLP.

I find the fandom fascinating insofar as it is the only fandom I've ever found with a dedicated section making fan music. I've not seen that before. Does anybody know of any other fandom that has something like that?

>>33962856

I the like .mov series. Kinda wish that guy would be director for season 3.

Glad to see S2 is starting to pick up steam.

>>33962905

It was nothing but gore, shock humor, and inappropriate language.

The first two had swearing too, but at least they remembered to be funny.

Face it:
>The show is great.
>The fanbase sucks.

It's established that ponies wear clothes for purposes of identification (winter wrap-up) or fashion (best night ever et al). Maybe they wear hospital gowns for warmth or to prevent the spread of diseases/unwanted fluids.

I really want to know why people fap to the main characters of this show. They're not anthropomorphic so doesn't make those people worse than furries? I mean not all bronies do this, but it's still quite disturbing and I want to know why.

i find i'm a pretty casual fan of this show
>i like the voice acting and characters the best
>has some pretty nice lessons to teach kids
>and Pinkie Pie is one of the first "lol look at how hyper i am" characters that i actually like

Probably just for the sole fact their girlish. Fuck if I know.

>>33962856

I liked the way the Fat Albert theme was used. Really though, Carrie prom scene parodies are extremely overdone.

>>33962765

Ponygoons looks promising, thx.

>>33962994
>The show is pretty good
>The fans are alright
>The bronies suck harder than a cheap prostitute at a Hoover convention

>>33963144

Yeah, this.

Anybody know of a channel that has more than one episode uploaded at a time up? They seem to be a dying breed, at least in HD.

No, we can't
Please take it to the General
I'm asking nicely with no prejudice

>>33963144

When does a "fan" become a "brony"?

>>33963047
>anthropomorphic

I know what you mean by this, but the ponies are anthropomorphized.

>>33963257
Obsession is the key word here.

>>33963077
You can stand Pinkie? She's the only character I actually hate.

I'm sorta sub-casual fan. I've got a friend who thinks it's good and a bunch of us'll have a movie night where he'll put on a few episodes. It's not a bad show but I don't understand why it gets all the attention it gets because it's not a GREAT show.

Sometimes I wonder what all the creative energy put into pony fanfiction and fanart would have ended up in had this show never existed.

>>33963257

When they wear it with pride.

>>33963257
The extent to which ponies have taken over someone's life.

A fan watches the show, maybe chats a bit online and then carries on with their daily buisness.

A brony watches the show twice, debates for hours over the names of the background characters, writes an in-depth analysis on Ponies for their English class, does pony presentations at school, writes fanfic, draws fanart and otherwise builds their lives around ponies

The sub-brony does all of the above in addition to jacking it to horses

I think most fans can't be honest about when they see an episode they didn't like.

They always try to explain their way out of it somehow.

It's ok to say you didn't like an episode.

I fucking love The Wire, but I really didn't like some of the episodes in Season 2 because the port just didn't catch my attention.

>>33963257


When they bust into pizza hut singing winter wrap up.

But fuck that lets talk about this show. Anyone else see the animation or at least expression improving?

i watched a couple of episodes and is not different from any other cartoon iv seen and i like that but i cant enjoy it witout thinking of the fanbase

>>33962931
>So's half of the other things that get discussed on this board

Nope, it's different.
Let me explain: when i was a kid there were 2 kinds of tv shows, for kids and for teens and MLP was definitely of the 1st kind. No amount of edgier themes, catchier theme songs, or even cultural references, can change that fact.

I'm not criticizing the show for being childish, i'm simply stating that it's not anything special. Good art style, but that's pretty much all.

And, last but not least, i'm not forgetting that it was something that my female classmates watched, when i was 8 (while we watched Saint Seiya)

It was about a year ago actually that the fandom went to absolute shit. Before that, it was one of the nicest ones I was a part of. I still watch the show, fuck, I even customize the dolls, but nowadays if someone told me they were a Brony I would do everything in my power to never associate with them ever again.

I like this show. I watch it every once in a while.

But god damn, the fanbase.

But hey, at least it ain't homestuck.

To be honest, the show just makes the fandom more disturbing for me. When I realize that they make thousands of pieces of fanart for characters that have no speaking lines and appear for all of three seconds, it's fucking insane.

>>33963649
I can understand this. Heck, the first week I was around as a fan, the board seemed nicer somehow. I received actual help from people on boards like /g/ and /v/. /v/, of all places! Very positive feelings for the first week. This was back in February, though, right while everything was going to shit. I think I hit that last bit of good nature in the fanbase. Nowadays you can't find a normal helpful person if your life depended on it.

i am totally aware that as a twenty-something male i am entirely outside of the show's target audience

so hey if i do watch it, whatever, cartoons are fun + suppresing your power level and all

but forming a little clique around it and letting it fester until you're pestering the fucking show's creator with your inane 'wat if ponis could fuck humans lol don't hate!!' shit, hell no

how can bronies not realise the value of the prime directive: look, don't touch, enjoy what you are given

>>33963257
Difference between bronies and ponyfags are that ponyfags know how to hide their power level

>>33963605

True, there have been tons of cartoon over the years that were aimed at kids but have elements adults can appreciate, back to Bugs Bunny in the 1930s really.

One attraction of MLP to men may be that in the Main 6 are characters onto which men project their ideal mate. You want brainy, there's Twilight Sparkle. You want sophisticated, there's Rarity. And so on. These kind of men are generally socially awkward IRL, so the show works as a sort of release in a way that oh, Spongebob Squarepants doesn't.

MFW I watched my first episode and enjoyed it. I turned off the TV, looked at myself in the mirror and asked myself, "What kind of monster have I become?"

>show is good
>3/4 of the fanbase is dildos, especially the ones from round these parts

>>33963261
Well yeah, I meant they're actual horses as opposed to humans with pony heads. But really, how sick do you have to be to fap to talking colored horses?

>>33963758
corollary: shout outs are cool, waving to the fans is always a good thing

but that vid where the voice actor for one of the ponies runs from the bronies had me *eating my fist* in cringe-sympathy - and now this hysteria over the clumsy fanbase character!

I don't enjoy watching the show but I do think they are sexy, although I haven't fapped to them. What does that make me?

I've encountered quotes from Bronies who literally think the show should just be made for middle-aged white guys and they need to ditch the target audience entirely.

Fuck. That. Shit.

Bronies deserve to be attacked for their sexist, priveleged views. This is a show for little girls. Let them have it. If you enjoy it, too, that's fine, but *you are ancillary*.

It's one of the few properties on TV aimed entirely at women that isn't focused on relationship dramas and is even rarer in providing good social lessons for young girls, who are very under represented in children's media. And male nerds still want it to be about them, to the detriment of an audience with almost nothing to call its own. It's a pretty perfect confluence of all the things wrong with the online "nerd" community as it exists.

>>33963758

Fucking this.

Honestly I hope the next Season is as short as rumoured, just to somewhat kill off a good portion of it's creepy following and let it just be what it is. An above average reincarnation of a shitty girly franchise that was a cult classic.

>>33963893
Worse than me.

>>33963920
post screen caps of dumb brony comments

I feel the need to >why all over the place

>>33963990
I just hope they don't drag it out longer than it should. A good show needs a solid ending, not being run into the ground or left hanging for eternity.

>>33963649
This, a thousand times.
Used to hang with the /co/ pony crowd a year ago and they were all pretty cool guys. Now the lunatics are running the asylum.

>>33962191
that's backwards, casuals hang out in pony threads, save fanart, and like the characters. The only thing they don't do is watch the show.

>>33964008
bronysay.tumblr.com

plug into your rss reader, enjoy

>>33964025

Thankfully the show is still geared towards selling toys, so I can't imagine Hasbro keeping G4 around much longer than 4 years.

>>33964025
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends lasted roughly five years, ditto for powerpuff girls, both of which had Lauren Faust attached to them. We're about a year and a half into MLP:FiM, I don't think we have much to worry about.

>>33964008
http://bronysay.tumblr.com/
For all your stupid brony comment needs

Ya the cider episdoe sucked.

>Flim Flam brothers.

I know it's a kids show but really? You can't think of anything original besides that.

Todays episdoe was pretty ok though.

>>33964143
OH MY GOD I WAS JUST READING THAT EXACT POST

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

THAT SAME POST

OH MY GOD

>>33963298

Probably nowhere. It's not like a finite resource that gets spent; people generally don't write anything unless something inspires them.

>>33964144

back into the mlp general with you, fella

>>33964008
oops kept my name from another thread

I'm not actually this thread's op

>carry on

>>33964144
Complaining about the names is like complaining about Applejack not having anything to do about apples.

>>33963846
You're not a monster. You enjoy a show.
When you start shipping ponies, thinking of them as their waifu, fapping to them and generally let it control your life, then you have become a monster.

Go play in your general.

reported.

>>33964211
>waifu
>not "imaginary equine wife"

>>33964025

i disagree: sometimes endings can be bittersweet when things are left hanging, or 'back into the old routine we go oh look a poignant sunset'

but that's for another thread

(someone make that thread)

>>33964143
It's shit like this that makes me think that Lauren Faust sold her soul to Mephistopheles for the show to be a success and have a huge fanbase. The Devil just laughed and gave her exactly what she asked for...

>>33964211
I'm slightly in the clear. I watch it in the mornings when I'm bored as fuck and all they ever air are infomercials in my time zone.

>>33964143
>>MFW

>>33964296
Of course she did. It's right there in her name. Didn't you find it suspicious that she doesn't have the same last name as her husband? This is why.

>>33964144
Huh, i'm of the opposite opinion. I found today's episode to be predictable and a bit boring, although I enjoyed all the new expressions they're using, like RD's snoring. I feel like they're trying to push themselves with all the new faces and movements, which is good.

The Flim Flam brother's song reminded me a lot of Winter Wrap Up, given how large scale it was with the ensemble and all that. Never mind it was essentially a show tune, so you're never going to get it out of your head. The music in MLP is probably one of my favorite parts, although from what i've seen I might be one of the few people who thinks so.

>>33964398
Kids, this is why you should all learn to play the fiddle before you think about making a deal with the Satan.

>>33964403
I actually really liked their song, and the music of the series in general - so I wouldn't say you're the only one.

......uh, this thread made me remember something uncomfortable: i DID fapped to this show, but when it was on its 1st incarnation during the 80s........
god, i feel dirty.

There are two MLP threads on the front page. Yes I know the supposed point of this thread is to avoid those clearly inferior other pony fans, but come on. Homestuck fags can keep it to one thread, pony threads usually manage to keep it to one these days, can't you just use the other thread so /co/ doesn't have a reasonable excuse to complain about you spamming your threads everywhere? If the last thread is so bad, ignore bad posts and reply to good ones. Trying to make a 'good' pony thread and a 'bad' pony thread isn't going to fix anything.

>>33964454
You did what?

>>33964403
You're kidding right? The music numbers are one of the highlights of the show that everyone likes. Why do you think there are so many remixes of stuff on Youtube

>that feel when you enjoy the show but stop watching because the fanbase is the worst ever

>>33964518
>Why do you think there are so many remixes of stuff on Youtube

autism

checkmate

>MLP

>>33964494
This is only going to get worse, I'd imagine. These kind of threads are starting to become more prevalent for a reason. The Generals are a whole new, special level of awful.

I'm impressed with the fandom. They reached a level of faggotry in one year that furfags, weeaboos and sonicfags took decades to achieve.

>>33964580
Remember, the worst of the fandom is comprised of those furries, sonicfags, and weaboos. That's the problem with a widely liked thing.

MLP isn't entertaining, or acutally alot cartoons nowadays aren't. You guys only watch because of the furry boner it generates, so quit pretendinhg to be a casual who likes this show because of the plot, intelligent characterization or how the it's pure comredy gold, the show is nothing like that...

Look, two pony threads in the front page isn't good thing.
And if you achived, the fags at MLPG will just here
Polite sage

I wish we had more threads for the casuals. I don't mind the shippers and fanartists. But I find myself hardly ever contributing to those threads because I don't draw ponies anymore since it first started airing, and I've never written a fanfic from any show. though, i wouldn't mind trying it at least once to see what's so (fun?) about it. Not including MLP

I really enjoyed this newer episode. Though the Indiana Jones story felt really rushed. But I suppose that's a given due to the air time limit.
So far my fav eps for this season was the two-parter and the one where they explain how Ponyville was founded. I really like the episodes that dwell more into the lore behind Equestria.

>>33964580
This might be because a large portion of the people making it terrible are also furfags, weeaboos and sonicfags.

It's time to move to the final solution. remember what happened to /fur/

>>33964580

i'm the sad depressed abandoned t-rex toy discarded over there

>>33964569
I don't care how awful the generals are. I don't care if every second post is talking about pony diarrhea, or porn, or bitching about tripfags, or whatever. Everyone else manages to keep their discussion of a show to one thread. Peoples inability to do this with MLP caused it to be the one and only /co/ related thing that was completely banned from /co/, even temporarily, because of the constant, unrelenting spam.
If the MLP generals are so bad, either try and make it better or go to one of the many websites specifically aimed at discussing this 5 year old girls show, we don't want your crappy threads cluttering up the frontpage.

>>33964711
You think this is bad just wait until Korra finally hits the air.

Oh, hi.

I haven't watched any of season 2 beyond the first two episodes.

I liked the fantasy/adventure aspects and I liked John de Lancie (Star Trek's Q).

I won't bother with the rest because I just know that it'll be back to that boring ol' slice-of-life amerimoe.

Oh well.

>>33964711
There's often as many as three or four Batman threads on the front page. And two of any given thread is not rare.

>>33964747
Yeah I know, I've been here for the Avatar spam. And that's not much of a defence, two wrongs don't make a right.

Also, Legend of Korra isn't about pink ponies learning shallow and obvious lessons about friendship animated in flash.

>>33964770
And I thought I was the only one who enjoyed the 2 part season 1/2 openers more than the rest of the show.

>>33964503
It was only once! I was a kid! And.....

Oh, who am i kidding? I'm a terrible person........
Well, sucks to be me, Time to go back to loli scat porn.

>>33964668
>Look, two pony threads in the front page isn't good thing

i like how we can sometimes almost have a decent thread until people come in going WAAAAH SAGE YOU GUYS

because then everyone starts arguing over who should ignore whom

>>33964818
True enough.

One thread, horsefuckers.

>>33964792
And yet you don't see /co/ bitching about how Batman threads are spamming everything up and they can't get away with them. Batman was never completely banned from the board, and as far as I know, other boards haven't had their threads derailed by people roleplaying Batman characters and posting thousands of pictures of Batman.
You're comparing apples to oranges. Actually, you're comparing apples to oranges that do nothing but spam shitty threads and whine about being persecuted against when people tell them to shut up.

>>33964915
>spam shitty threads and whine

OH THE IRONY

>>33964678
I really wish they would concentrate more on the lore too. THAT'S the stuff that's fun to speculate about, not which pony is the biggest slut.

>>33964897

>>33964931
Yes, I'm saging your thread and telling you to use the other thread that is already discussing your show. Clearly I am as bad/worse than you, who insists on having two seperate threads because you can't deal with people shitposting, and think making the rest of /co/ endure twice as many of your threads is going to fix anything.

>>33964897
Oh dear, that's horrible.

>>33964915
You're the one persecuting and pushing the discussion to the top of the board.

This thread would have died quickly and quietly if you hadn't started sagebombing. Now it's going to be 443 posts and 50 images. Click Reply to view.

>>33964981
>can't deal with people shitposting

OH THE IRONY

>>33962685
>Child in the early 80s
>Late 30s at least

What are you even doing on 4chan?

>>33965009
Nope. The thread was you people jerking each other off and assuring each other that being obsessed with a show for little girls was perfectly healthy and natural, as long as you weren't as bad as the people in MLP general before I showed up.

>>33962856
>Cider was the best

That's not how you spell Lesson Zero

>Freaky fanbase

Can't disagree with you there

>Shed.mov was horrible

Your opinion is uncultured and incorrect.

>>33965027
I'm bored

Considering this is a rational thread it'll be dead by dawn.

Shitty generals live on.

MLPG is the only "authorized" place to discuss ponies on 4chan bro. Stop whining and get with the program.

>>33965062

GUYS STOP IT AND GO PLAY WITH THE RETARDED KIDS

...

GOD WHY ARE YOU ALL RETARDED KIDS, MODS??? MODS????

Say, I have a question for the casual ponyfans here; about how long did it take for you to start watching the show and realize the fandom was bananas?

I just watched some MLP last night. I thought it was okay. I don't understand how it got such a rabid following though.

MLPG here, don't touch me filthy casuals

Oh look, a second thread.
How quaint. Haven't seen one since february 2011.

>Grrr, arrg, I'm mad about there being two MLP threads.

>I'd better show everyone exactly how mad I am by posting in the second MLP thread, thereby adding to the available topics of discussion!

>>33965133
Shortly after the first series ended and the fandom went to ponyhell in a bucket

captcha:horses eysteit

>>33965137

/b/ got a hold of it and spammed it to hell and back

>>33965106
>/a/
Looks like MLP is not moe enough for /a/'s taste

>>33965106
But no, Anon! Didn't you hear them? They are so much more sophisticated and mature than the freaks who manage to stick to their own thread. You can't possibly expect them to use the same thread as those degenerates!

>>33963257
The same difference between the guy who watched Cowboy Beebop and liked it, and the guy who walks into a Subway, wearing a Naruto headband, a bag with hentai doshinji in hand and shouts broken Japanese at the cashier.

>>33965133
Fourth episode or so.

>>33964569
The generals are just excuses for cross-board invasions from /b/

>>33965071
I actually didn't like Lesson Zero, I felt it was getting a bit too self referential for my tastes.
Well, then they had that episode with Derpy, which just screamed of pandering, so I guess I can't complain about that.
May the Best Pet Win was the first episode I had to force myself to finish.

>>33965133
Fandom wasn't bananas when I started watching. Decided to stop lying to myself and admit I enjoyed a show for three year olds when Applebuck Season came out. Around february last year was when MLPG began it's slow but steady descent into banana-dom.

>>33965133
When I saw drawfriends ignoring humanized porn requests, and when I saw drawfags fulfilling bona fide ponified porn requests, I knew that it was time for me to leave the fandom.

>>33965137
Fags seeking attention
Its.....nice. But it dosn't seem to deserve the attention.

>>33963238
The general is all furries and tripfag circle jerking. No one who actually wants to talk about the show hangs out there.

This thread's a really good idea, but it lacks direction, don't you think? Maybe we should try making different threads for different characters and ships, that'd keep everything more organised!

GUYS, USE THE GENERALS TO TALK PONIES AAARGH MODS????

>mlp general are talking about how fat/underweight they are

>>33965256
Trying to subdivide the fandom into clusters of feigned elitism surely won't end in disaster.

I like the way you think, anon.

>Decide to take a shower and see if anyone had anything worth discussing while gone.

Well so much for the casual discussion thread. I'm out. Keep it tight anons. Keep it tight.

>>33965106
Well you were posting offtopic on /a/ so you deserved the b& but why is MLP the only show that has "authorized threads"?

>>33965220
I really enjoyed both those episodes but I do agree with you, the Derpy bit was like watching a car crash.

>>33965257
General might have a lot of non-pone in it but it's usually an assortment of random conversations, some even show related.

>>33965256
That's what people against generals suggest. Considering the butthurt ITT, this should be proof enough of why the general system is a good thing.

>>33965133
Basically, what this guy said >>33965235
Although I enjoyed it from the opener (kinda disappointed that the whole thing wasn't epic pony adventure after that, I have to say).

The point of this thread?

If you're a brony, don't even bother with /co/, most /co/lts are long gone to ponychan anyway.

>>33965300
So what's this thread doing, then, if it isn't elitism?

>>33963297
doesn't "fan" also imply some level of obsession by itself
I mean, it's as in "fanatic"

>>33965328

Then she spoke... man it was so awful, they should of just kept her in the background never to speak, because no matter would she would have sounded awful and or retarded

>>33965358

you would have thought that the general would let the mods prune out the truly dreadful shit (tripfags and their own fanclubs, you-will-never shit etc)

but ha ha nope. can't do that. got to play with the retarded kids and get called retarded by association. such is the life of a /co/mrade.

I fit all that criteria except for the part about not fapping to ponies. Does this mean I'm not casual?

>>33965434
Yes. You're a clopper. Now get the hell out of my /co/.

>>33965422
Oh wow.
You really have no idea son.
The mods did try pruning out the generals. Mass bans, tripfags getting banned on sight for no reason etc.
Didn't work in the slightest.

>>33965434
Humanised or full pone?

>>33965312
Don't you remember the massive shitstorm a year ago?

Ponies were used to troll virtually every board on /b/. They were the ultimate derail. It caused a lot of shit, moot dropped the banhammer on pony threads, but then he took steps to allow the "normal" fans their thread while trying to prevent derails on other boards. /b/ was especially hit hard by pony derails. Most boards had it at some point.

The MLPG is an attempt to keep ponyfags in one place, where they could do as they pleased without affecting anyone else.

>>33965382
/co/lts are not gone they just changed into something we call a bronie and or just never really talk anymore in the MLPG.

I been watching the show for a long time, i just stay out of the MLPG since they really don't talk about anything worth while.

just sageing for off topic

MLPG mainstay reporting for duty.

I don't write fanfiction, I don't draw, I don't own any merch, I don't evangelize the show like it's a fucking religion, and I don't jerk off to the porn. That said, I'm willing to admit that I'm more or less obsessed with the show itself. I really wish I wasn't.

Regarding MLPG: I basically hang out there because I'm completely addicted to it, and I feel like I'll miss out on something if I don't participate in at least one or two threads per day. Which is stupid, because I never actually miss out on anything. It really is just the same stupid shit over and over again with a heaping side of attention whoring.

The really sad thing is, MLPG is actually the best place to talk about the actual show, especially on days when new episodes air. Some of the other regulars and tripfags are pretty cool. And the alternatives to MLPG aren't appealing in the least - Ponychan is way too strictly moderated, the Reddit forum totally sucks, FiMchan is a ghost town...

And now people are posting pictures of themselves in there. Yeesh.

Not even Homestuck fags have their own specific lingo. You don't see them proudly talking about clopping to hooffic or whatever you freaks call erotica.

I have to wonder, how many of your parents know about your obsession with this show? And how many of your fathers are dissapoint? Seriously, it's like you set out to be parodies of that weeaboo kid in that comic.

>>33965464
Not going anywhere newfriend. Maybe you should go back to SA?

>>33965495
It almost sounds like you guys are afraid of them.

>>33965495
Amusingly enough, ponies didn't actually derail the threads in general, but pony haters did. At least on boards I go to.

>>33965464
>your /co/

>>>33965520
>Not even Homestuck fags have their own specific lingo.

You've never been in a Homestuck thread, have you anon?

>>33965380

>18 images
>168 posts

Apparently to avoid the image limit for as long as possible.

I made it through the first season, then I took notice of how fucked up and mentally insane the fandom was.

I kind of gave up after that. Haven't watched an episode in ages. Those pony thread simulators are incredibly truthful

>>33964143
>Racist bronies

Oh god wow.

>>33965545
Also most of the derails were legitimate trolls who had found the newest derailing toy when doubles didn't do the job anymore.

I hate how the fandom's got so defensive and lost it's sense of fun nowdays.
Everyone's got so damned serious about the ponies. It's just a silly show, and it is silly for adults to enjoy it. Enjoy the silliness for once and stop trying to justify everything!

>>33965520

>complaining about specific lingo about subjects like masturbation and erotica
>on 4chan

Gee, I'm sure your parents are so proud of you for browsing all the upstanding, well to do parts of 4chan right?

>>33965562
I have. Aside from stupid troll romance terms (something which appears in the comic itself) they don't have their own dumb language.

>>33965583
The show is still really good. Season 2 is arguably better than season 1.

>>33965545
You are correct sir, it was a case of trolls trolling trolls, but suffice to say it caused a big hullaballoo which meant mods had to step in and attempt to regain some control.

>>33965520
Homestuck is even worse when it comes to communicating in incomprehensible bullshit.

And every thread is titled with some variation of "Hamsteak Gonorrheal" because they absolutely INSIST upon bypassing our wordfilters.

>>33965483
>Didn't work in the slightest.

I don't care, and saying 'but all the loonies are in one place now, problem solved' is silly.

The first half of this thread was great, and proves there are a few half-sane people capable of talking about ponies.

The general means we can't do that any more: create a separate thread and get people running in screaming SAGE and MODS??, post pony in the general and get shouted out by some tripfag and pony porn.

>ITT people who have never even been in the general talking about the show/fandom
Jesus christ how do you form an opinion when you know absolutely nothing about the matter at hand?

>>33965537
They almost are, to an extent.
Like I said, if you're a brony, stick with EQdaily or ponychan.
/co/lts, as I as well said before, are practically gone.

>>33965593
Well I mostly go to /tg/, where nobody has ever used dubs successfully, and where sergals are used to derail threads. So maybe my experience is unusual, but in my experience it went like this: Somebody would use a pony reaction image or make a thread about something pony-related but on topic, then anti-pony people would come in, sage and report, and the Janitor would kill the thread.

>>33965514
Sounds like me with hs, I've been reading since the beginning and visiting MSPA threads on /co/ since problem sleuth but at some point they just stopped being about the comic and became just turrible, so I stopped reading that shit mostly.
>>33965520
>Not even Homestuck fags have their own specific lingo
get a load of this hornses ass

>>33965137

/co/ liked it at first, and things were good, /b/ found out about it, and everything went to shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnAkHA3IgE

>>33965616
But that's wrong you fucking retard.

>>33965636
>mods had to step in and attempt to regain some control.
They didn't have to. They could have left it be.

>>33965418
>Calling her Derpy
>Giving her a voice
>Crashing into everything like a buttmonkey

>>33965583
>letting a fandom affect your private enjoyment of a show

You sound like the type to be brainwashed easily.

I bet you watch Fox.

>>33965674
>get a load of this hornses ass
That's Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, not Homestuck. The fanbases overlap a bit but are ultimately fairly different.

>>33965674
The problem is, other than new episode days and days when a big piece of news drops (such as the synopsis for an upcoming episode), there really isn't a ton to talk about. But I go back there anyway, because I'm a fucking faggot who can't handle staying away for more than 12 hours.

Maybe I should just read more.

>>33965710
They didn't have to, they never have to with ANYTHING. So why do they?

I remember there used to be 5 threads complaining about ponies for every 1 actual pony thread back in the heyday.

>>33965617

Something missing from the formula in season two, that is the grand galloping gala, by that i mean some build up to something later in the season.

There is nothing like that in season 2 as it stands, kinda gave me something to look forward to aside from just some new episode.

If you like MLP, and don't like MLPG, ignore the threads
You don't need a thread to enjoy a show, especially since theres' a fuk-ton of places on the internet to talk about it

>>33965418
That horse was meant to be a representation of the fanbase outside the target demographic. However awful or mentally-challenged the horse seemed; that's exactly how Hasbro sees bronies

>>33965741
The people who make the show specifically cater to this fanbase, though.

>>33965784
I miss that, too. Apparently there's some wedding episode coming up at the end of S2 but there's been no in-show indication of that at all.

>>33965736

>>33965786
>fuk-ton of places on the internet to talk about it

see

>>33965514
>the alternatives to MLPG aren't appealing in the least - Ponychan is way too strictly moderated, the Reddit forum totally sucks, FiMchan is a ghost town...

>>33965781
Those were the days. The collective MLP hate reminded me of the Avatar days, but I doubt anything could ever top those.

>>33965778
Because they're fags.

>>33965495
>/b/ acted like the fucktards they are
>babbies on /co/ got butthurt that other /co/mrades were discussing a cartoon.
>mods throw everyone in one thread
>thread turns into a unmoderated shitfest
>Attracts /b/tards

Stay classy, mods.

I just want to watch MLP and discuss the show. Why does there always have to get porn and "fluffy pones" and tripfags involved.

WHY.jpg

>>33965736

The show didn't name her that fans did after they noticed her eyes early in the season and then the show made it canon, much like the DJ pony.
Also they really need to stop pandering to fans so much.

>>33965830
>/b/ is a circlejerker's haven so massive it's created a circlejerk singularity

>>33965852

because UGH KEEP IT IN THE GENERAL AUTIST, SAAAAGE
>creates six threads telling you how stupid you are

>>33965483
Bullshit, if you're talking about the September bannings, shit got better by a magnitude of ten.

>>33965784
Agree, it was a nice way of tying otherwise unrelated things together and giving a sense of continuity to the show

>>33965852
It's fucking 4chan man, it's like that with fucking EVERYTHING.

Get the fuck over yourself.

>>33965520
>Not even Homestuck fags have their own specific lingo

Except when they do.

>How many of your parents

Do you tell your parents that you browse /co/?

>>33965821

Weird, wonder how that is going to affect any of the main cast, by that i mean who's relative its going to be...

Also from season one the gala was my favorite episode since it had to do with everyone in the main cast not just one of them like every episodes been aside from the first 2 at the start of a season.

>>33965784
>grand galloping gala

that wasn't much of a release, though (double entendre not intended, of course)

it was all 'and then they had a party' and that was it for the season

>balloon_deflating.wav

>>33965673

Sounds about right.

People on this site are fucking stupid.

>>33965871
No they shouldn't.

>>33965657

The same way American media communicates stupid ideas to the public.

You make shit up as you go along.

>>33966081
Yes they should. Get out of our casual thread, tripfag. You clearly don't belong here.

>>33966052
People on average are pretty stupid.
4chan just happens to mostly consist of the bitter and malevolent kind of stupidity while other sites consists of the more naive and clueless kind of stupid.

Sage for meta.

>>33965931
sure 4chan is an ocean of piss, but "generals" have spawned their own super-incestuous festering cesspool pockets
at least piss is sterile
I forget where I was going with this

>>33966005
The wedding involves a new Alicorn called Cadence (there is a huge uproar about this at the moment) becoming wed with a unicorn stallion called Shining Armor, so none of the main cast are getting married.

There is currently speculation as to what this wedding role actually plays, is Cadence a new addition to the show's character lineup, or is she part of a fairy-tale that's told?

No one knows, but the fans who hate the idea of 3 Alicorns have steadfastly held onto the theory that it's a fairytale.

I will laugh maniacally if it's untrue, the butthurt shitstorm will be delicious.

>>33966148

where is all this talk coming from, anyway

because that sounds like the shit i'd make up just to rustle a few jimmies

(unlike that leaked (?) pinkie pie song that's yet to appear in an episode)

>>33965778

Because, like everyone else on this site (except for the truly retarded), they love to fuck with people.

>>33966254
Rhetorical question.

>>33966148
That sounds pretty awesome, I cant wait to see what
happens if it's real, in the sense of it being not a fairy tale.

Wierd though wonder what the main cast has to with it, guess we'll see.

Also why would the fans be so angry... think they would be happy or interested to see how this turns out.

>>33965852
KEEP IT IN THE GENERAL FAGLORD AUTIST
OH MY GOD CARTOON HORSES MAKE ME SO MAD FUCK GO FUCK A HORSE LIKE I KNOW YOU LIKE TO DO FAGGOT

SAGE SAGE SAGE REPORT REPORT REPORT

>>33966224
EqD is good for rumours, plus there's discussions about it on MLPG quite often.

Protip: To derail an MLPG thread, post a picture of Cadence and mention your excessive excitement for the upcoming episode featuring her.

Hey /co/mrades who still seem to have buttfrustrations over MLP: FiM; just wanted to let you know /v/ and /tg/ which were once bastions of butfaggotry have now matured and mellowed out about the subject.

You'd do good to follow suit.

>>33966326
well today's episode had the vast majority devoted to an entirely different show (well, book, but you get the point)

maybe the writers are moving away from the 'friendship' theme and just want to tell different stories?

>>33966369
>EqD
ew
>MLPG
ewww

But still, that's the first place I'd go to stir up some bloody-minded trouble. Unless there's any screencaps or VA work leaked, but even those can be faked - it's not like the show's visual style is un-reproducible

>>33966326
A lot of the fans have their own "headcanon or "fanon". Some of the more autistic fans go by every word uttered by Lauren Faust (the show's creator) and treat it as gospel.

Lauren Faust has no part in the show anymore, yet a fan decided to ask her about Cadence. Lauren said if it were up to her, Celestia and Luna would be the only Alicorns, there would be no more. So, naturally, the fans who want to plant their seed in Faust hold onto the belief that Cadence is a fairy-tale metaphor told to child-ponies. They just cannot accept the possibility that the show does not belong to them, so they search for ways to mentally block anything their assburgers cannot handle.

>>33966369
>>33966467
Try Derpyhoovesnews, it's probably the only decent fan site for the show.

>>33966467
>EqD
>ew
>MLPG
>ewww

What the fuck do you want from me? You asked a question. I answered it.

>>33966384

/v/ and /tg/ aren't still spammed with 40 threads a day about it. Your comparison is flawed.

>>33966507
DHN is great. Most MLPGers prefer it to EqD since it's not full of >fanfiction.

>>33966507
That's subjective, it's still replete with bronies which makes it objectively a shit site, and quite often dph has people from eqd posting there, and vice versa.

>>33966286

Don't care.

>>33966476
It's funny how people who prefer consistency over useless characters getting forced into the show for the sake of selling toys are somehow considered "autistic".

>>33966520
>Spammed

JUST LIKE /co/ GETS SPAMMED WITH BATMAN THREADS, SHARE THREADS AND DRAW THREADS

RIGHT?

It's not like people want to discuss a cartoon on a cartoon board. That'd be absurd.

>>33966520
So, these single threads that ponyfags stay in (MLPG) that they don't post pony stuff outside of count as spamming /co/?

>>33966520
/co/ is the CARTOON board, and MLP is a CARTOON.

What the fuck do you expect?

>>33966520

Don't overreact, its 40 Generals a day which still means only one thread visible at page 0. Yet despite this faggots are still feeling like MLPG took their anal virginity.

>>33966562
>Reading comments

In that case, every youtube video ever is total shit for having idiotic comments.

OK so what's everyone's favorite episode?

>>33966519
>>33966467

There's also http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/

(spoilers, just in case you're that worried about your 0-8 child cartoon canon)

>>33966582
Really now? The show is made specifically for that very purpose. MLP: FiM is a weekly advert for toys.

If you cannot overlook that one simple fact, you have something wrong with your brain.

>>33966647
There hasn't been an episode that could beat Suited for Success.
Best Rarity and overall episode by far in my humble opinion.

>>33966624
I agree with you.

>>33963920
>I've encountered quotes from Bronies who literally think the show should just be made for middle-aged white guys and they need to ditch the target audience entirely.

>>33966582
>It's funny how people who prefer consistency over useless characters getting forced into the show for the sake of selling toys are somehow considered "autistic".

CALL THE WARDEN, IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN

>>33966636
Which brings me to the logical fallacy inherent in your thought processes, because EqD is not a bad site if you ignore the comments and use it in No Fanfic mode.

>>33966647
Green Isn't Your Color

>>33966531
They put a No Fanfiction tag/button that filters out the posts with fanfics

>>33966724
It's still pretty bad even with that filter on. Most posts are about fanshit of one kind or another.

>>33966467
Yeah today's episode wasn't what i was expecting but
seeing dash stealing and sneaking around in that
hoody,ninja wait no... what ever it was, was pretty funny

>>33966476
Gee I bet she wouldn't want anyone jacking off and or drawing them doing awful things to the horses either.

To bad the fanatics don't see it that way, but haven forbid they add a new horse to the mix.

>>33966647
Lesson Zero.

Those facial animations. Twilight going full friendship. My god, it was glorious.

>>33966669
Except that the main characters as they are now were created before they were turned into toys, where as Candace was ordered by Hasbro so they could sell more alicorn toys.

Pic related.

>this thread is better than the vast majority of MLPGs

that seals it

i need to stop going there

after tomorrow

>>33966743
That's why it's a good site though, because some people like that stuff. Some of the fan-made music is very good (PinkiePieSwear, Eurobeat guy), there are a few decent abridged youtube series that they post, and they post rumours and news a lot too.

>>33966724

I'd love a news site that was literally 'episode_name is coming up, here's the description, 'rumor of the week,' and 'here's an email one of the cast was kind enough to send us'

if we've learnt anything from the generals, it's that 24/7 pony does no-one any good; just a weekly round-up or something would be nice

>>33966743
Eh, your mileage may vary. Occasionally good fanmade media is posted like music and remixes

>>33966647
Season 1 - Suited for Success

Season 2 - Lesson Zero

>>33966582
I love the shit out of this cartoon, and people like you are total dumbasses. It's a 22 minute toy commercial - sure it's funny and looks nice and everything - but that's what Hasbro set out to make, a toy commercial for little children.

I'm sure the writers can handle whatever Hasbro wants put into the show without compromising the so-called "integrity" of the program - they've done pretty well so far.

This thread was going so well before the meta bullshit.

How about this.
The awful tripfags and >Rape people stick to MLPG as usual and the normal people make a rational thread (say about a new episode) every now and again which would only really be on Saturdays during season anyway.

>>33962473
I'm going to get flamed for this but you might want to try /r/mylittlepony on Reddit. The threads can get extremely circlejerky but the episode discussion (when it happens) is pretty good, and the format of the Reddit comments system makes everything easy to follow. Plus 20,000 people are subscribed to it, and it's relatively active.

I miss when FiM was another show that the dorks of /co/ kind of creepily obsessed over and shot the shit about a bit, like Ruby Gloom or My Life As a Teenage Robot.

The fandom has become too big to be fun anymore. So many idiots and too many people gettin mad over fucking whatever.

>>33966647
Sad to say it was part of the CMC but.

"The Cutie Mark Chronicles"

It made the main cast seem linked beyond just being friends (magic)

Also it made dash a bad ass everyone was trying to talk to threw out the show.

That and you got to see the main cast when they where kids.

>>33966787
Most of the characters were created by Faust who was given a lot of creative freedom in therms of characterisation, yes, but she still had to create the characters specifically so that toys would sell.

For example, we have Rarity's carousel boutique, Twilight's library house, Pinkie Pie's balloon, etc, they were featured in episodes and the related toys were released not long after the episode aired.

Hasbro gave Faust creative freedom with the episodes, but they still worked closely with her in order to make the whole thing work.

Lauren's got a lot of experience with toy-production and marketing, she has the Galaxy Girl's toy line, so Lauren knows a thing or two about marketing to girls.

>>33966925
We did that back when Lesson Zero aired (was September really that long ago? Shiiiit), it got spammed with scat pictures IIRC.

>>33966964
That's a great episode.

>>33966877
It is better than that.

All the latest ACTUAL news are posted there first. Lauren said smth on her DA page? A crew member doing an interview? Updates on DVD's?

EQD

>>33966787

I'll only be disappointed by this Cadence business if she becomes a recurring character.

At least royal weddings are uncommon and their significance is self-explanatory. That's preferable to Grand Galloping Gala Part 2 being all "oh, you must understand, this previously unmentioned social event is VERY important, we promise you"

And there's no guarantee Cadence will go full Poochie.

But if she does, then I'll just stop watching.

>>33966933
>reddit

>>33966936
yeah smaller fandoms like that are better. big enough to generate fanart and porn and discussion, not so big as to attract the real weirdos

>>33967051
I just hope the wedding means we'll see the main six in brand new pretty dresses.

Man I'm such a faggot.

>>33966992
The best CMC since it had nothing to do with CMC aside from following them around talking to the main cast.

Not that I don't like CMC episodes, but it took time for them to grow on me.

Hell I loved the "Sisterhooves Social", although it had nothing do with CMC really... since no Scoot.

>>33966647

I like the episodes that show the creators care about the characters. Rarity got Suited for Success (oh hey, a fashionista who's not shallow), and Pinkie got Baby Cakes (so the cartoonish pink one can srs the fuck up, wth)

>>33966964
>Sad to say it was part of the CMC

I honestly didn't get the amount of hate thrown around about these guys.

...come to think of it, when all that was being flung around I think that was my 'what the hell am I doing around these people' moment

>>33967072
Am I the only one who hates "Brony" not just because of the obsessive dickheads, but because it sounds retarded as a word?

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/PopCulture/EverythingElse/ComicsAnimeCartoons//My+Little+Pony+Derpy
+Is+Best+Pony+T-Shirt-192120.jsp

>hot topic stealing /co/ memes.

woo, a thread full of mostly-likeminded-people
also having white russian, hence pic related - yeah, yeah: KYM, casual, whatever

>>33964143
hah, skimmed through that one yesterday

>>33964454
wut

>>33965133
I started watching a bit less than a year ago - late enough to notice.. uhm. yeah

>>33965852
this

also:
>live of nothern part of sweden
>whenever I get drunk enough to mention the show, noone's heard of it
I kinda want to know one other casual fan IRL, except for that finnish guy on IRC

>>33967072
As a portmanteau it's quite clever. As an allegory, it's the worst word ever created and needs to be silenced and stricken from all history by MINREC.

>>33967119

I hate it for both reasons.

>>33967090
I wish /b/ never heard of this series. Or at least, they didn't latch onto it like they did.

I remember the early days, we actually had storyboard artists drawfagging for us and the threads weren't solid "feels/you will never" and porn.

>>33967205

>40 generals a day
>still trying to blame it all on /b/

Seriously?

>>33967119
originally people used it precisely for that reason, because it sounded silly and nobody took it as a serious name

it was kinda like /v/'s "broseidon, king of the brocean" and stuff like that

>>33967205
You'll be even more pissed off to know one of the tripfags in the /b/ pony threads is none other than Sethiso, the owner of EqD.

>>33967051

They don't even show Princess Luna past the one episode she has.

It's safe to assume Princess Candace is not having more screentime past this one episode.

>>33967303
He was a fuckhead even before he started that trainwreck of a site.

>>33967205
>storyboard artists drawfagging for us

oh man

remember when faust said hello to /co/ on her DA that one time?

yeah, sorry LF. we kind of fucked up with that one, huh - good luck with your next series and all, but you'll only be known as 'the my little pony creator' by the entire internet now

>>33967317
I'll tell you this much I'm glad we never saw that stupid kid that looked nothing like a pony and sounded awful ever agian.

>>33967236

>denying the fact that /b/ is responsible for some of the worst shit in the 4chan portion of the fandom

Seriously?

My god.
The fucking fanbase RUINED the show for me.
I can barely make through an episode without feeling ashamed for watching it in the first place.
Yes I know;
>not watching a show cause of the fanbase
It is a bad thing to do, but I'm stuck doing it
I can't stomach anything pony related because of the shitfests that happened since we found it.

...
Pinkie Pie is best pony, fuck all of you.
Party of One was the best episode.
And fuck the fanbase, the ones on /co/, dA, tumblr, reddit, ponychan, fimchan, and EVERY FUCKING WHERE.
You guys ruined this show.
Fuck you.

>>33967317
>Candace

Cadence.

>>33967236
>40 generals

That's entirely the fault of the butthurt little babies who wouldn't stop crying to the mods.

The reason there's pony threads 24/7 is to keep people from unintentionally starting more than one thread. Not to make you angry.

>>33967092

I know them feels, bro.

Have you considered the novelty factor? How many shows make you say "I hope they beat the bad guys" or "I hope lots of stuff blows up"?

Now how many shows make you say "I hope they get new dresses" ?

>>33965852
That fluffy pony bullshit is really starting to fucking get on my nerves.

>>33967387

dude, calm down

you are among friends

let's talk about why you're mad

>>33967345
He unironically roleplayed as Trixie. Every Goddamn Time. He still isn't welcome here, from what I remember.

>>33967387
Why the fuck do you people allow your enjoyment of something to be affected by the other people who enjoy it?

It's never made sense. It's like refusing to enjoy a game of football because occasionally there are hooligans fighting after a match.

Who. Gives. A fuck.

>>33967428
The >greentext stories about fluffy pony used to be funny, but now they are usually shit and unfunny

>>33967119
Lauren will be attending BroNYcon this summer.

Whoa whoa lets stop reminiscing about how awful the fanbase is lets talk about today's episode.

I really wish it didn't take place mostly in the "book".
Also i wanted to see what dash was exactly doing when she crashed.
I felt cheated watching Rarity Twilight and Pinky look in awe.

>>33967428
And the food pony bullshit, and their greentext "feels" stories.

They weren't even funny to begin with.

>>33967490
Her replies are always fucking awesome. LF is a bro4life.

Tabitha St Germaine is attending too. I am reasonably excited about this, but also nervous. I'm sure I don't need to explain why.

I haven't watch the new episode yet, is it any good?

>>33967535

it's been established she is a good flyer (enough to win that trophy that one time, remember)

it was just a reason to put her in hospital in a child-friendly way

>>33967548
>LF is a bro4life

Back in November 2010, maybe. Nowadays, though, I wouldn't blame her for not going anywhere near the online fandom.

>>33967572
Not stellar, but decent.
>>33967548
I'm going to need the source for that. I had been under the impression that Tabitha wouldn't go within a hundred yards of such a place unless forced by her agent/contract.

>>33967425
>how many shows make you say "I hope they get new dresses" ?

The ones where the writers seem to genuinely care about their characters - thus giving *the viewer* a reason to care about the characters?

Like the good seasons of the Simpsons, for example.

>show has been pretty hit or miss since the pet episode

The underlying continuity of the gala was neat in season 1, but there's been no real continuity throughout this season, besides a couple if nods. I'd love another adventure episode, dammit.

>>33967591
>I wouldn't blame her for not going anywhere near the online fandom.

And yet she's going to a con jam-packed full of them. And she still hasn't stopped talking to fans on her DA page, despite the fact that her popularity has had as many negative repercussions as positive ones.

I'm pretty sure she just knows they're just a bunch of harmless nerds.

>>33965852
I don't even know, anon.
I have a friend who went full on brony...
I showed him that pizza hut video...turned out to be a terrible mistake.

>>33967629
> I had been under the impression that Tabitha wouldn't go within a hundred yards of such a place unless forced by her agent/contract.


That's pretty smart of her, actually.

I honestly can't imagine a "Bronycon" being anything but the worst of the worst of the fanbase. Spaghetti and disappointment everywhere...

>>33967548
>Tabitha St Germaine
I know john de lancie is coming, but I didn't hear she was coming

Fun fact with bronycon: the person who's in charge of it, purpletinker, is an obsessive powerhungry cunt and the only reason the last con wasn't a huge disaster was because everyone else ignored her when they were organizing

they made about $10,000 from tickets and they told her to keep it safe and not spend it all

and what did she do?

went and spent it all on completely useless shit like hoodies and toys and shit to sell at the con that nobody really bought

so now all of those other organizers said "fuck that" and went and started their own con, everfree or something

so now all that's left is purpletinker and her worshippers

the next bronycon is shaping up to be a huge train wreck and I can't wait to watch

>>33967541
I agree. Some of MLPG's "memes" are kinda overdone now (>rape; soda, pizza, etc. pony; smile smile smile) Although I still find it amusing when a pony is called a pone

>>33967695
wasn't the MLPG raging over that?

>>33967663
Sadly that has to do with Hasbro, they want to show episodes that are not linked to each other for the sake of reruns.

Remember reading that somewhere, Think Lauren fought for the Gala and made it so it hints at it instead of, NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z... you get the idea, remember they need to sell toys and that's there main goal with every show they do.

But none the less wish we had some build up to something.

>>33967591
I don't have any screencaps, so you'll have to take my word on this one:

I was browsing the MLPG and one of the anons posted a link to a Ponychan thread where a young man had posted a >feel story about how MLP inspired him to be a better person somehow. I wont post the story because it's boring and quite pathetic, worthy of the best spaghetti >greentexts. Anyway, it was a "harrowing tale", so one of the posters linked the thread to Lauren's Deviantart page, and she posted in the thread congratulating him for growing a pair.

So, she does talk to the internet fans on the odd occasion.

Okay, for better or worse, this here thread ended up being archived.

If you have a chanarchive account, don't forget to upvote!

>>33967738
MLPG adores Tabitha the most out of all of the VA's, partly BECAUSE of her distancing from the fandom.

>>33967387
hot damn check out this swirling maelstrom of autistic rage

>>33967663
in season 1 there were only two episodes that had to do with the gala, ticket master and the dress one

where do you get this idea that there was this huge underlying continuity? the episodes jump around so much that you can pretty much watch them in any order

>>33967695
ok wow I just looked it up
>a fan convention held every three to five months
it perfectly mirrors the obsessiveness of mlpg GOTTA HAVE A CONVENTION GOIN AT ALL TIMES

>>33967548
Tabitha's hilarious, she's responded to emails while high.

>>33967673
>a bunch of harmless nerds

Point taken.

Still, when non-Internet people think 'nerd' they'd probably think Comic Book Guy; I've gazed into the abyss of the Internet for long enough to know the truly terrible people that make up fandom, though.

>>33967701
>the next bronycon is shaping up to be a huge train wreck and I can't wait to watch

This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. Because I'd hate for it to be all 'hey LF see how much we fucked up your cartoon!'

JdL is a bro, though. I can only guess that he doesn't know about MLP beyond the lines he read.

>>33967778
really?
You know I think I have a good deal of...well not quite respect, but adoration?...for her.

>>33967757
What the fuck for? There's nothing worthy of archival. If it's just to remind you that there are some "normal" pony fans, screencap the whole thread and you can read it before you go to bed each night.

>>33967771
It'll slow down as the show slows down, and probably outright stop when the show is finished. I wouldn't worry about it. It's just at the peak of popularity right now.

>>33967769
But at least it was something to look forward too, also the pay out was awesome.

18 episodes in no mention of anything happening in the end of the season has been said only "leaked".

We are just saying it would have been nice, you know?

>>33967778
>she's responded to emails while high.

wait, what?

>>33967827
>It'll slow down as the show slows down

haha, like the generals did during the post-season1 break, right?

>>33967781
JdL is used to Star Trek conventions, so he'd handle Bronycon like a veteran.

I do wonder how they convinced the VA of a oneshot to attend though, it's hardly like he's an integral part of the show.

>>33967827
That's what they said last season.

>>33967841
I'm talking about conventions, not the generals.

>>33967781
John de Lacie has dealt with Star Trek nerds for how many years?

A "Bronycon" will be a walk in the park for him.

>>33967836
>We are just saying it would have been nice, you know?

just a thought, but a directionless slice-of-life thing could also be nice

in a friends-forever kind of way, which would also tie in nicely with the theme of the series

>>33967778
>she's responded to emails while high.
link nao

>>33967841
Well, season two was still a thing on the horizon, then. They had something to "stay alive for." And we all saw how that turned out. Basically cannibalism as they searched for anything to discuss. After the show itself ends, the generals will die off, people will wander away, and with luck people will look back fondly on the twilight of the show.
This is optimism, of course.

>>33967778

Fucking awesome.

>>33967778

Know any more "Tabitha is awesome" stories?
I've heard none

>>33967900
How long did it take for Avatar threads to die down after the show ended its run?

A long time.

Which is why your optimism is futile.

>>33967872
>>33967845

Star Trek nerds are literally harmless nerds. It's beyond a cliche for a nerdy character to be a Trekkie, for example.

Now Internet people ... let me tell you something about Internet fandoms.

>>33967900
They do have a point though, the fandom has become self-sustaining enough to survive without the show at this point. MLPG is 30% show, 70% fanon, fanfiction, clopping, etc. It would still slow down when the show ends though, probably to the point of there only being one general a day, if that.

Not sure about the last episode. I think they're leaving Rainbow Dash episodes as the experimental ones? First the pet, now a book series, etc.

>>33967948
>let me tell you something about Internet fandoms.


This is 4chan. This is the one thing that binds us all. What I have seen, what we ALL have seen...

I'd still say we're mostly harmless, though. Mostly.

>>33967948
But Trekkie's are the forefathers of internet fandoms. They did rule 34 before rule 34 was even conceived. They created fanfics, fanart, fanfucks and fan everything long before the internet.

If anything, Trekkie's inadvertently taught internet fandoms everything they know.

Putting Your Hoof Down"
Iron Will helps Fluttershy become assertive

>Iron Will

Wanna bet its the name of a pony? since in the wiki i just copy and pasted from it has both words in caps...

>>33968003
if we're lucky, they'll just migrate fully to ponychan/fimchan.
Honestly and truly I like this show, but i get the same feeling from the fanbase I get from watching my father get into something I do a bit too much.

>>33967769

I...well, shit.

Just goes to show how long it's been since I've watched season one. Seriously thought there were more.

Still, that's 2 eps that run together iN continuity more than any in s2 do.

>>33968056

Probably. It would be cool if it was some kind of Seargent Hartman drill instructor pony or something.

>>33968056
It's a D&D feat.

>>33967882
Wish I saved the cap, but unless she's really into cosmology and not making sense...

>>33967827
I want this fandom to die down as much as everyone else in this thread, but I highly doubt it'll die down anytime soon, especially after the show ends. Because like everyone here knows most of the people that watch the show feel the need to talk about it 24/7, plus after the show ends most of the fans will be bawwwing and creaming their pants over how it ended. (I think I even head that the bronies are going to attempt to pill off some recreation of the show after it's finished airing, but I don't know the legitimacy of this claim so don't quote me on it).

It's going to take a long time for this fandom to die down, but the unfortunate truth is that most fandoms never truly die, just look at the furries, sonicfags, weeaboos, etc., all of these fandoms were hated fa and wide all over the internet but as time went on the progression of them died down. Of course, you can still find people of said fandoms on the internet but for the most part they keep it to themselves.

We can only hope for the best.

>>33968056
I'd like to think he's gonna be her uncle or something. Or a brother she hasn't seen in ages.

>filename

>>33968097

Hope they get gunny to voice it, if it is the case.
Just hearing him say Fluttershy would worth it.

>>33968066
That will not happen, ever.

MLPG (I am an MLPGer by the way) hates Ponychan with a passion because it's so heavily moderated. You cannot say anything that does not follow the hivemind (ponychan is as close to a hivemind as you'll get), if you do, you get banned.

Someone got banned for saying Derpy is a very ugly pony. It's an in joke with MLPG now.

In fact, ponychan has people spy on the MLPG threads just to make sure the MLPGers aren't saying anything about them, if they do, they start bitching about it.

>>33968056
>helps Fluttershy become assertive

How long until this becomes a cliche?

...along with twilight recommending a book, rarity making a new dress, rainbow dash saying that thing, etc

i mean, she even said something like that when the met discord in the maze, which seemed really self-aware

>>33968174
Oceans of semen would explode out of my phallus if that actually happened.

>>33968174
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGMZYFGRHFU

>>33968175
Breasts are genetalia

>>33968190
see: every other fluttershy episode ever

>>33967387
i know that feel

>Lauren going to Bronycon

Remember when that guy gave a fanart to the voice of Princess Celestia and she hugged him?
Why do I feel it's going to be more widespread now...

>>33968196
Yes, YES.
Damn it now I got my hopes up.

>>33968248
To be fair, she initiated the hug.

>>33968280
But the guy lingered. And rubbed her arm a little. That's fucking creepy.

>>33968297

contact! with a woman!

truly, a god among nerds

>>33968297
It's probably the only hug he's ever had.

Apart from the naked ones. That his uncle used to give him. From behind.

>>33967663
The entire SHOW has been hit or miss since S1E1. This is nothing new.

I'm not one of those fags who loves every episode... some people claim to.

>>33968330
But every resident of Ponyville is worthy of psychiatric incarceration.

>>33968330

Oh, yeah that guy showed up, i actually laughed at this.

Also can you please fill me in on.

>After that one retard got offended by "Derpy" this shit was golden.

>>33967746
OH MAN I FUCKING REMEMBER THAT

He like thought about Ranbow Dash and it helped him stand up to his stepfather or something.

I'd love a Bohemian Rhapsody-style musical number. What musical numbers would you like to hear?

>>33968369
there's a picture showing each of the main character's reasons and triggers for mental breakdown..
sadly I don't have it.

>>33968330
>>33968395
>guy

It's a female. Which is what makes it funnier, since what the bitch was offended about Derpy was the fact that she was female.

>>33968395
Yamino.

Look her up, she's a femanazi gender neutral pansexual freak who's complaints have actually gotten someone fired at Adventure Time due to some lesbian bullshit Yamino took offence to.

>>33968330

see, that was a clever joke (for a 0-8 child's cartoon): when people escape and run into the woods, people with dogs follow them. This is a thing that happens.

Turns out it's a crazy pony and there were no dogs! Funny!

>>33968395
</thread>

>>33968395
Yamino problems.
>>33968410
I want to see more show tunes and musical numbers, honestly. Was kinda disappointed they didn't do an homage to Reading Rainbow in this episode, though... Just imagine if they'd gotten Levar Burton in on it as a surprise.

>>33967746
>>33968399
Again, link nao

>>33968218
Except for GIYC, and Stare Master, and BitH. Which were HER ONLY EPISODES other than Dragonshy.

doyouevenwatchtheshow.jpg

>>33968142
I've been a ponyfag since January of last year and I can't fucking wait for this fandom to die. It's consumed way more of my life than I'd like to admit.

>>33968399
YEAH!

It was kinda sweet in a way (of Lauren Faust to big him up), he was inspired by Pinkie Pie's Giggle At The Ghostie song to stand up to his drunkard father who'd neglected him for his whole life but was trying to take amends.

I decided to post in the Ponychan thread that I thought the guy was being a little dick because clearly his dad was sorry and wanted to try and make amends, and he should stop acting like a brat and at least give his dad a chance because alcohol fucks people up, it's more addictive than heroin. I was banned from Ponychan for saying that.

>>33968427

This one?

This was before season 2, so it doesn't have Twilight's.

>>33968441
>femanazi gender neutral pansexual freak

let's just call her a busybody without insulting a valid cause or two, shall we

(not that i want to start a thing about this)

>>33968488

I don't think there's much left in her *to* wring out another episode, really. Besides falling back on 'durr fluttershy is afraid', and I'm sure the writers are better than that.

>>33968544
You get me wrong, I do not insult those causes at all. Yamino terms herself as such deliberately, so it's only fair that I continue to keep those "tags" attached to her when she's described.

>>33968544
The writers _are_ better than that. They've taken six relatively two-dimensional characters and expanded upon them in realistic, charming ways as the show has gone on. Applejack in particular has become infinitely more interesting than she was at the beginning of S1.

I can't fucking wait for that episode, and not just because I'm a massive Flutterfag.

>>33968355

I love the show on whole, but there have been some shit episodes.

>>33967490

Lauren Faust in a room filled with hundreds of raving fanatics?

Craig McCracken better be there ready with a shotgun.

And it will all be live-streamed!

>>33968432
>>33968462

Good god, that's fucking hilarious.
I wish I could thank who ever was responsible for crazy female pony.

>>33968627
No doubt, I still can't get through Show Stoppers without wanting to kill myself over how awful it is. Owl's Well was garbage too, widely regarded as the worst episode in the show's run. MMDW is probably the worst ep of S2 depending on which side of the fandom you ask.

>>33968161
is a episode about lara croft????

>>33968488
>Staremaster
Fluttershy can't control pony children, she must become assertive to do so. She does become assertive, so they listen to her.
>BitH
Because of her lack of assertion, she can't into communicate with a phoenix.
>GIYC
Fluttershy doesn't want to be a model, but she can't say so because she isn't assertive. She does it for Rarity purely because she's too scared to tell Rarity she fucking hates it.

>>33968520
no no...
the one I'm loking for has something about failure to live up to their cutie mark...

>>33968666
I loved SS because of the montage music, and the CMC were typically adorable.

>>33968681
>she's too scared to tell Rarity she fucking hates it
Scared has nothing to do with it. She didn't want to DISAPPOINT Rarity.

>Because of her lack of assertion, she can't into communicate with a phoenix.
...That is insane. That... what.

>>33968681
that's not necessarily a bad thing. perfect pony for the job, and all that

>>33968666
>Owl's Well
I like how this might be one of the show's few running jokes. 'Who?'

>>33968462

>>33968459

Am I the only person who gets high and finds speculating about cartoon bullshit amusing? Of course there's no actual serial killers running around in Ponyville, but it's funny to think about implications.

Everytime, weather it's Spongebob or Adventure Time people are speculating on, someone chimes in with this "why are you thinking about this?"

>>33968736
You're not alone.

After the show ends, "bronies" will just make more themselves.

We can only pray that Hasbro starts sending out C&Ds.

On the upside of the obsessive fandom, that fighting game is looking pretty cool, huh?

>>33968593

I just like how, even if the stories are largely independent, they do keep some continuity.

Like In Feeling Pinkie Keen, where Fluttershy remembers Pinkie's song from Dragonshy. Or in the new Cider Squeezy Ep, where Applejack accepts her friend's help the -first- time they offer unlike in Applebuck Season, and then tells the Princess "Yeah, I learned that lesson already."

>>33968796
Can't wait for that game. The kart one could be cool too.

>>33968722
Scared that she will disappoint Rarity. Cool way to say the same thing I did but with more words.

You know when people what to say, but they can't say it? That's partly because a lack of assertiveness. Nerves get the better of you. She wasn't able to get through to the Phoenix because she's always so nervous, she was nervous that she'd get into trouble.

>>33968796
It's never gonna come out on time, though. Hoppip's Pony Kart thing might make it. Even Dino-fag's making progress with his Animal Crossing thing.

>>33968796
There is a live action MLP fanfilm being made by bronies.

I shit you not.

>>33968796
It looks pretty bland to be honest. If anything I can admire their perseverance to make such a thing, though.

>>33968812
MMDW hearkened back to the Pinkie Sense thing, too. That's some cross-season shit right thurr.

Even though I'm glad the show doesn't follow a serialized continuous storyline, I like the little bursts of continuity here and there. They're fun, and they reward the folks who are paying attention.

>>33968462
> “derp” is ableist. The “derp face” especially so. Some people with disabilities such as Down’s Syndrome, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and even certain forms of social anxiety have trouble controlling their facial expressions.
Huh, I guess this applies to me. I'm literally autistic but high functioning, I get some tics, facial and otherwise.
And I think this shit is so fucking dumb, jesus christ, fuck oversensitive "ableism" complainers up the ass, even the word sounds stupid.

>>33968844
>michael_scott_dear_god_no_noooo.flv
I suppose there's.. evidence of this? I'm afraid to ask.

Normal pony fan. Dont read fanfics, will occasionally listen to remixes, dont drawfag. MLPG is absokutely insane, but plus /co/ isnt much better. Fuck Sharman Jones and his constantly pushing abelism bullshit.

>>33968844

>live action MLP fanfilm

>>33968796
>hat fighting game is looking pretty cool

maybe so. still kind of reinforces the point of people earlier in the thread about taking something for kids and claiming it as theirs, though.

Fighting game, for Friendship is Magic. C'mon now. Be serious.

>>33968888
>MMDW hearkened back to the Pinkie Sense

Nitpick, but I like how it wasn't really called anything in the S1 episode - it was just something weird Pinkie could do (which is in-character). Just coming out and saying 'oh it was her Pinkie Sense, *duh*' seems a bit tell-don't-show for my liking.

guys

can we have one of these stealth threads once a day or something

this is so much better than MLPG it's not even funny

>>33968944
It was called Pinkie Sense in FPK. By Pinkie herself if I'm not mistaken.

>>33968916
I have asperger's, what makes me laugh the most is it's the people who are NOT suffering from anything that think I should be wrapped in a warm blanket and told it's gonna be ok, there there little one, etc.

I've never once felt offended by anything "ableist", I'm sure 99% of people with mental or physical impairments are the same.

>>33968937
>>33968935

Ecce Bronies. Look it up.

>>33968953
Doubt it, enjoy while it last, feels good talking about the show after so long.
I don't even try anymore in the MLPG

>>33968953
Yes please. This is my first post in the thread but the discussion is rather civilized and interesting, rather than the fucking awful pile of asstardism that is MLPG.

>>33968944

They use the term Pinkie Sense several times in the season one episode to refer to her abilities.

>>33969001
>>ecce bronies
>google $TERM
>wtf is this-
>NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

>>33968953

let's just do this when the time is right

we'll just know when it is. we'll just know

>>33968977
>it's gonna be ok, there there little one

it's not so much smug feel-good-ism as it is wanting to be OK and comfortable around people

but some people are just arseholes, end of

Next time on MLP
"Hearts and Hooves Day"

The Cutie Mark Crusaders create a strong love potion in the hopes of making Miss Cheerilee and Big Macintosh fall in love, but when they discover the serious side effects of their concoction, they quickly regret their actions

Oh god damn it CMC, well at least it sounds like a funny ass episode.

Hope to see some jealousy in the main cast... you know who I mean. No not AJ, you SICK FUCK!