Um... herd apparently joined?

[jeffreycwells]

In the words of the Kinks, I realize that I'm not the world's most masculine man, but I still did not wholly expect that there would be a time in my life where I would be picking out my favorite My Little Pony character

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[feech]

Sweets is so excited.

Uhm-- it only just occurred to me how crazy-easy customizing a pony for Undead Ninja would be. There are just too many options for the flank marking, yikes. My first thought was skeletonized head with the flames, and then just the Mortal Kombat logo on the flank.

But I'm not gonna do it.

[feech]

By that I mean the pony's head is skeletonized, there's not a skull on the flank, erm...

Somebody -- I won't name names-- forced Sweets to wear a bronies T-shirt all one day and he felt about it much as you would.

[jeffreycwells]

I like the idea of the little dragon-in-a-circle Mortal Kombat mark on the flank. I suppose it would be a yellow pony with a skeleton head, or else a black pony with a yellow tail or something.

[feech]

I like black with a yellow tail, even though yellow with a black tail would be more proportionately accurate.

...For a My Little Pony attempt at Scorpion.

and maybe the mane would be short, to convey the sense of being covered...

Hmm

[anonymous]

Okay, I'm going to post this anonymously just in case people search my username. Hope you don't mind. :)

As a adult male, I was also rather surprised to find that I enjoyed the show. It's surprisingly well done, for a children's show. And I *don't* mean for a little-girl's show, because it's good even compared to most cartoons aimed at boys.

And while I'll probably not write any fanfic or anything like that, I wouldn't mind poking at the show a little with a few well-spoken people.

Not sure where you are in the show, so I don't want to give spoilers, but I find it interesting that at some point during the first season, each one of the main characters 'loses it' in one way or another. (One of them in a great homage to Ren and Stimpy, even!)

Could do without the Cutie Mark Crusaders, though.

Re: Hmm

[jeffreycwells]

I've only seen a couple episodes and haven't seen the Cutie Mark Crusaders yet. My guess is that such characters would be annoying, yes.

The characters are at their best when they spaz out. Except Pinkie, who's at her best when she's shiny-eyed oblivious.

Re: Hmm

[anonymous]

I early await your commentary on the episode where Pinkie Pie loses it, then.

...I mean more than she normally does.

There's also a really odd on-going theme were all the 'natural' processes in the world are actually powered by hard work or magic from ponies. The day/night cycle. The seasonal cycle. Even stuff like birds migrating or rainbows forming.

Here is a list of a few things you might expect to see if you watch all the rest of the episodes:
- A flying pony exceeding the speed of sound
- The effects of sleep-deprivation on cooking
- A mild-mannered character going all HULK-SMASH
- Pepe Le Pew -style chase animations
- A gang of evil characters named after a David Bowie album
- A whole host of D&D monsters at one time or another

Re: Hmm

[jeffreycwells]

I've already got many of these! I'm watching them on YouTube at a considerable pace, it turns out.

I am vaguely disappointed that the David Bowie characters are Diamond Dogs, because I would just effing love to see evil ponies named Moonage Daydream and Ziggy Stardust. :D

[tinbender]

Flying ponies... yeah right. Sheesh!

"But, never mind. I guess next on the docket after finishing Starbuck Avenger is the touching tale of Skywriter, a little grey pegasus pony who is sad that his vapour trail is not more colorful."

Assuming that there are such creatures, I would think it's probably because he doesn't have enough glitter in his diet. I would definitely not want to fly last in a formation of them!

[jeffreycwells]

I'm pretty sure dietary alterations have been attempted. The dietary alterations probably involve apples. Most everything does in that universe.

[valleyviolet]

I find it hilarious that the ponies are having such a huge resurgence suddenly. I was a giant fan as a kid, just got my box of original ponies back from my parents this year. But hey, there are worse things to geek out about, don't beat yourself up about it. :)

The Power of Pony

[hyniof]

I can only:

Hold myself up as a cautionary example of the Power of Pony.

Now granted, I was a fan of the original series when I was a college student hundreds of years ago--I've still got several VHS tapes upon which I recorded those shows, and I have been known over the past 25 years to drag them out and watch them at random intervals. But being largely a hermit, I didn't even find out about this new series till January, three months after it had begun. Once I did find out, though...

I watched the first bunch of episodes, like most folks, on YouTube, then found the Hub channel on the satellite provider we subscribe to, then went to iTunes--the first time I'd ever gone to iTunes!--and bought the first season so I could have the episode delivered to me on those weeks when I had to work Friday.

Ideas for stories began percolating through what I refer to as my brain almost immediately, too, and like you, I tried to resist. I've got regular writing to do, I told myself: the next Cluny the Sorceress Squirrel story for this year's

Re: The Power of Pony

[jeffreycwells]

Yeah, I worry about this sort of thing as well. I'm trying to make this as fast an experience as possible. I don't need to be saddled (a ha, ahahaha) with a novel-length work that's not even legally my own at this point in my life.

Re: The Power of Pony

[hyniof]

Of course:

Contrariwise, you yourself are the living example of fanfiction leading to a more legitimately legal sort of creative enterprise. But I suppose we must acknowledge that there are a few differences between the "D.I.Y." world of webcomics and the Hollywoodized world of the animated cartoon...

Right now, though, I'm looking at this thing I've written and seeing if there's any way I can take a little 40 grit sandpaper to the more obvious Pony parts of it. Maybe make them all squirrels?

Mike Again

Re: The Power of Pony

[jeffreycwells]

Our Little Rodents?