My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Bronies Thread

[Sol-Blackguy]

In the CMC's defense, they're much less annoying in fanfiction.
Speaking of fanfiction, haven't posted anything lately so to make up for it, here's a classic I never heard of until recently. For your safety, don't drink or eat while reading: (oh, and nsfw for adult humor)
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/39639/Estrus
http://static.fimfiction.net/images/...jpg?1342843352

Twilight doesn’t know the facts of life. You know, the birds and the bees. The reason you sometimes get that not so fresh feeling. We’re talkin’ about ruttin’. And who better to fill her in than her faithful friends? ...yeah, this is gonna get ugly.

And for you Big Macintosh fans, this is by far the best Big Mac story I've ever read. The author does an extremely good job getting inside his head and transforms a walking "Eyup" and "Nnope" spouting secondary character into a deep individual with untapped potential. Also, chapter 8 should be made into an episode, it handles a sensitive subject extremely well. I recommend reading it even if you don't want to read this entire masterpiece.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3513/Keeping-It-Simple

After Big Macintosh helps the Mane Six out of a jam, he finds his ordinary life of
peaceful routine thoroughly disrupted by the various misadventures those crazy
ponies always seem to get themselves into.

Last and most certainly not least. I just finished getting caught up on this last night. Given the date this story came out, I'm starting to think the author may have inspired the creation of Horsepower. (steroid Pegasus) This one is a bit OC intensive, but their characterization blends them in so well with canon characters that you could almost imagine them sneaking into canon. Oh, and there's a ponified Chef Ramsay, need I say more?
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/9135/A-Slice-of-Life
http://static.fimfiction.net/images/...ges/9135_r.jpg

When a mishap occurs with Celestia's bathroom scale, an ancient protocol that may just doom Equestria is set into motion. With the entire palace staff now conspiring against her, the sun goddess must not only contend mountains of paper work, dancing celery sticks, and steroid pumped stallions, but a sister who will take this chance to torture Celestia any way she can as payback for her banishment. Lock the cupboards and barricade the fridge! It's the Royal Diet!

[Silenka]

Twilight/RD (I like Twilight because she's studious and smart, and RD because she's RD)
Fluttershy (is the obvious next choice)
Rarity/AJ (they both have good and annoying points)
Pinkie (urgh)

As for other characters, I like Luna a lot and Big Mac a little. The rest, eh...

[Sol-Blackguy]

So much Pinkie Pie hate...
http://mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/...y_dog_eyes.gif

[Myrrh_Quetz]

How can people hate Pinkie? She's awesome!

[Cream Soda]

[Pharaun]

Best to least; Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack.

[Cream Soda]

[Sol-Blackguy]

You asked for it:



And for anyone who missed this the first time around:

Spoiler: show

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/arch/res/2511348+50.html

I have a sad but heartwarming story of friendship and magic, bronies…

Every so often, I volunteer in my city’s Children’s Hospital and provide some youthful fun to the young kids there. A while ago, I developed a good friendship with this ten year old girl named Sarah. She’s simply adorable, but she was fighting cancer. She’s a First Nations girl, and her parents gave her up, essentially not wanting to deal with her intensive care. When she hasn’t been in the hospital, she’s been in an orphanage. I came to be something of a big brother to her, and she was another little sister to me. We’d tell each other jokes, play games, and talk about what happened that day.

One day, I asked her if she could keep a very important secret. She eagerly said “Of course!” I told her I was a brony. She laughed so hard, people in the wing turned to look at us and ask what was so funny. True to her word, she replied with the usual “nothing”. She told me she had never seen the show and couldn’t understand how I, a guy twice her age, could like a girl’s show. So I did the only thing I could think of; bring my laptop to the hospital and watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with her.

We watched all the episodes together, and discussed our favorite ponies. I couldn’t help but be rather somber when she told who her favorite was. Sarah’s favorite pony is Pinkie Pie, and let me tell you why. Sarah told me that Pinkie Pie was her favorite because she helped her face her fear of dying. Pinkie taught her to laugh when she was afraid or sad, and to always keep your chin up when you’re feeling down. It was her birthday about a month ago, so I bought her a Pinkie Pie pony from Toys ‘R Us (I got so many weird looks in the store). She was feeling really sick that day (from chemo), but her face lit up when she opened the box to see a brand new Pinkie Pie. Her Pinkie Pie, to help keep her safe and happy. She told me it was the best gift she had ever gotten in her entire life.

The last time I saw her was six days ago, just a few days before my birthday. She had been getting worse with each month, but she was always happy to get a visit from me. This time was different. She was hooked up to more equipment that usual, and couldn’t even sit up. She gave me an early birthday card, which had a hand drawn Fluttershy inside. She also gave me a balloon she had received from an orderly. I asked her how she and Pinkie Pie were doing and she just smiled weakly at me and said that they were doing great, even though she knew she was getting worse. I told her I would come visit her on Monday for Halloween and give her some candy if she could stomach it. She smiled again, and said she looked forward to seeing all the costumes around the hospital.

I got a call today that I knew would come, but had always dreaded. Sarah had passed away. When I got off work, I just sorta stumbled around in a daze, got on the bus to the hospital, and practically sleepwalked into the hospital. I finally came to Sarah’s room, which was now empty. No more Sarah. The bed had been made, and most of the medical equipment moved. I wondered if I had entered the wrong room, but I knew it was the right one. As I walked out holding back tears, a nurse called out to me. “Excuse me sir, are you Anon?” I told her I was and she told me heavily that Sarah had passed away. I told her that I was aware, but had hoped to say goodbye at least. The nurse then brought me to her desk telling me that Sarah had left me something.

I saw Sarah’s Pinkie Pie lying there on the desk.

The nurse told me that shortly before Sarah died, she asked her if I had stopped by and referred to me as her brother. Sarah told her I was indeed her brother, but that I was going to see her on Halloween. Sarah passed away with Pinkie Pie in her hand, and the nurse said it felt right that I should have it as a memento.

I’ve rarely cried so hard in my life.

I’m looking at her Pinkie Pie right now, looking back at me. It’s comforting to know that this pink little pony helped get this girl through something I cannot even begin to understand or know how to deal with. All I ask, is that when you all are out trick or treating or partying on Halloween, please do so in honor of Sarah. She wasn’t a sister by blood, but she was my sister in spirit, and ponies have helped us in the darkest of times.

Love and tolerance.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...png?1318992465

[BaneTheBrawler]

Twilight > Pinkie Pie > rest equally. But they're all pretty cool.

[Corrderio]

Best Tumblr ever:
http://twilightandsmarty.tumblr.com/

[Corrderio]

Well, the Hub said the season will be "soon" over their Facebook (Feels like waiting for 2.0 info all over again), but there's a rumor circulation about Weird Al might make a cameo or something:
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/0...ible.html#more

[Niya]

damn it corr, you're too fast
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...go-d3ejaxd.jpg

for the favourite pony, hm...

Fluttershy, without a question
The rest, well... They're all on a pretty equal, neutral level for me. There's only certain personality parts of them that i dislike, like the sometimes over-used drama queen Rarity or RD's boasting... But not that i hate them because of this ^^

Bucking huge pic of humanized mane six

Spoiler: show

http://www.deviantart.com/download/2...fe-d46x5uf.png

Belongs to a fic, haven't read it. Just like the art style ^^

[Silenka]

That is an awesome pic. Interesting that the pegasi get wings but the unicorns don't get anything (well, hats, I guess?)

Weird Al in my MLP? I'm okay with that.

[Corrderio]

http://blog.bioware.com/author/davidhulegaard/

All my respect.

[Silenka]

A word like "aftermath" is needed to describe the effects of posting a MLPxMass Effect fanart? Jesus christ the internet needs help.
Seriously some people are so appalled that MLP has made it into their official fandom even in one small way that they feel the need to cleanse themselves of the entire franchise? That's just sad.

People need some new hobbies or something.

[Corrderio]

Long story short, Bioware posted a pic of Pinkie in the ME3 armor I suppose (Never played ME3 so don't know what it exactly is) on their Facebook page and it caused a huge flame war. Pretty much like what they said is true. People attacking the fanbase, hating Bioware, threatening to boycott, and other shit.

Same thing happened to Fire Fox's Facebook when they posted a ponified version of the Fire Fox icon.

I'll admit the MLP fanbase can be extremely annoying at times, but shit like that is just flat out sad.

[Sol-Blackguy]

A word like "aftermath" is needed to describe the effects of posting a MLPxMass Effect fanart? Jesus christ the internet needs help.
Seriously some people are so appalled that MLP has made it into their official fandom even in one small way that they feel the need to cleanse themselves of the entire franchise? That's just sad.

People need some new hobbies or something.

Every fandom has their nutjobs. Remember when the Fluttermac shippers raged over Hearts and Hooves day?

[Corrderio]

Not really, no. I never cared much for shipping.

[Sol-Blackguy]

Not really, no. I never cared much for shipping.

Protip: Shippers, no matter the fandom, are insane! Well, not all of them, but enough to make an argument about the majority.

I'm on the fence right now when it comes to shipping. I like the friendshipping concept where there's no romantic implications like in that Big Mac fanfic I linked earlier. (textbook example) Just recently out of boredom, I've been reading some romance stories. Unfortunately, they're mostly uninspired conflict free overindulgent romcoms where you can see the ending a mile away, fluttermac stories are usually guilty of this. But there's some potential in some of the crack shippings people come up with. There's one I'm in the middle of that puts a clever spin on Twilight x Cheerilee. It plays out like a shipping story, but makes fun of shipping in subtle ways.

[Corrderio]

I see. I've never been one for romance so can't really say I've read any of them.

BTW Sol, thanks for the drawing tutorials. Screwed around on an old sketch pad I had overnight. Can't say my drawing is any good (Considering I never really tried to sketch anything in over 5 years) but at least I got something I can screw around with in InkScape to try and make a decent vector with.