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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 6)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5   Quick change in the concept. Little Pony Flash has been changed from Pony Flash Sentry to Solstice Shimmer. His cutie mark is a little sun at the top of his flank (like the sun reaching its apex in the sky) with beams shooting down to his abdomen.     Journey 4: Bowling inside the Canterlot Transit Authority Terminal. Everyone decides to play bowling for a couple of rounds before moving onto three games of pool. Dash won the first game of bowling, and R
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Tiny rant: People using the word "emo" to reinforce stereotypes

Every time someone uses the word "emo," they appropriate it with someone self-harming, becoming sad, and possibly being angsty, among other things. That's not what "emo" is. Nobody has a damn clue what it truly means!   "Emo" is short for "emotional hardcore" — a style of rock music inspired by hardcore punk characterized by complex arrangement of instruments and expressive lyrics. "Emo" has nothing to do with depression, self-harm, angst, introversion, and the color black. The second you use
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Future FIM analysis ideas

Author's Note: This was initially uploaded in early 2015, but decided to take it down to revise it. It's done and finally back up. More will be added when I come up with them.   Did you ever get any ideas in your head and want to post them? That's what's going on from me lately. Over the past few days, I posted a couple of blogs analyzing specific aspects of FIM. Quite a few here have already seen them, but for those who haven't, here they are, and I'm going to describe why I wrote them. Fl
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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 5)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6     MMC   In the aired version of Magical Mystery Cure, Twilight gained her status by completing a spell that Star Swirl the Bearded wasn't able to do. (In the locked version, SS and his spellbook weren't even in the script; it was Pandora's Box, but that's beside the point.) The Marks were swapped because Twilight read the incomplete spell out loud, but she finished it in rhyme.   Now, let's think about rhyme for a minute. One of poetry's most known g
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Tiny rant: trigger warning exploitation

Trigger warnings are something society should mind to. Content warnings in film and TV, for example, are there because the content could trigger a reaction that can offend some.   My problem with how people in sites like Tumblr abuse trigger warnings. How? Painting triggers with an absolutist brush, exploiting the TW concept, and treating the system as be-all-end-all. Triggers are individual. What may trigger one person may not for others. Those guys aren’t spreading awareness. They’re exploit
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Closet bronydom is part of a major social justice, feminist, and LGBTQ+ issue. Treat it seriously and with respect.

Coming out of the closet as LGBTQ+ is more impactful than coming out of the stable as a brony. But that doesn't mean coming out of the closet as a brony shouldn't be taken any less seriously. I live in a very liberal society, have a very liberal family, and hugely hate gender norms. The liberal feminist in me is proud to live in this type of society. Not everyone is so lucky. Often, people in many socially conservative areas like the Bible Belt depend on living through social and gender nor
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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 4)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 5 Part 6   For easy sake, two stretches of dialogue are color-coordinated. You'll get the color matched to the character first, and then just the color dialogue.     Keeping contact   Family is one of Pinkie's values. Like Dash's view on friends with the ReMane Five, if any of the Mane Six believes they can't be friends with Pinkie anymore, God forbids what happens. When she witnessed the Mane Six suddenly acting suspicious, she honestly believed they don't want
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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 3)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6     The catalyst   Remember Fluttershy's personal insults to Rarity and Pinkie in Putting Your Hoof Down and Pinkie maliciously triggering Fluttershy's fears three times in Filli Vanilli?   I do.   What were the problems?   In PYHD, Fluttershy went above and beyond anything she did when under Discord's trance. Knowingly, she went after the very core of who they are and calling them worthless. Pinkie's and Rarara's actions are a lot like our own; it'
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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 2)

Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6     Before I go on, I'm sure someone out there is wondering why the hay I devoted some of my time creating an EQG rewrite. I mean, I have a long history being VERY negative and sometimes ANGRY towards it.   My hatred for this spinoff is exactly why I planned this concept in the first place. Three bad TV films, the first being worse than Rainbow Falls, got me so fed up, I thought about creating my version of it. Instead of just being disappointed in a poor
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Fanfic idea: an Equestria Girls rewrite (part 1)

A few years ago, I had drafted concepts for an EQG rewrite. I never posted it because it's incomplete, and I was too lazy to finish it. After The Coffee Pony and I chatted on Skype about how quirky EQG's timeline is (some of the effects are in his latest blog), I got the idea to re-energize it.   Some ideas are a spur of the moment and may get scrapped. Some I'll press forward.   If you want to see the extra parts, the links are located at the bottom of the blog.     Pedestrian timeline
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Got Skype! :D

Went ahead and got a Skype account.   Please PM me your name if you want to be added. ^__^
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Starlight's Redemption Is Better and More Satisfying Than Sunset's

The worst written scene in all of FIM is Vice Principal Luna interrogating Twilight in her office. Luna bought into "evidence" of photos that were clearly cut out and glued together. The whole scene has no tension, because it lasted barely over a minute. Flash's moment of intervention could've been removed in favor of the Mane Six or Luna not falling for that stupid trick. It's so broken, it turned the first film into a colossal failure, and nothing after would save it.   But my most hated par
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Two Little Things: A Small "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" Analysis

Sometimes, we as a people focus at just the big things and overlook the little. The bigger, more boisterous details we see in the show are the most upfront, but objectively good episodes like this, Slice of Life, Amending Fences, The Mane Attraction, and The Cutie Map are beyond the grand. Little pieces of detail are often overlooked. More often than not, they're the glue that holds the pieces together. Would the moral for Slice of Life make any sense if the animation and position of all the ch
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Livestream: Daddy Long Legs Musical

http://livestream.com/davenporttheatre/daddylonglegs   A Broadway musical is being streamed online for the very first time. This one is Daddy Long Legs, which I attended last month, and it's excellent. The Davenport Theatre, which plays the musical, is airing the stream.   Go see it!
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A bittersweet anniversary

Many of my friends here know about what I went through last year, but for those who don't, I have a thread in the Life Advice forum for the members to see. The day prior to Thanksgiving 2014, my family learned that my youngest aunt's lung cancer (a non-smoking form in which she battled since August that same year) had become terminal, so on Thanksgiving, Mom and I spent several hours seeing her, talking to her, and watching a few clips of Passover 2014. On December 3, 2014, my aunt died at the a
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"The Cutie Re-Mark" First Impressions

This was a hell of a lot better than I expected. Everything Twilight did to desperately try and fix everything makes so much sense. She tries to fight Starlight mentally and physically, but SG was so hellbent on revenge and the pain of her past, she'd do everything she can to stop it. Don't look at the fact that SG lost her only friend as the cause. Look at how she lost him. The second he got his mark, she never saw him again. In other words, if he never got that mark, everything will be comp
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Judith Miller's disgusting tweet about the Paris terrorist attacks.

The article and her tweet: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/judy-millers-despicable-paris-attack-tweet   In case she deletes it, here's her tweet:   …Okay, so let me get this straight. Because terrorists are trying to rip away freedom for oppression, college students (including places like Mizzou, the school she references) demanding freedom from oppression should stop demanding freedom from oppression.   And she tweeted this as the terrorist attacks were ongoing.   …   …   …  
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Dear Steven Universe SJWs on Tumblr: My blog. NOW!

There's activism and there's performing the very same evil you claim to be against. What happened with a Steven Universe fanartist named Zamii070 falls into the latter.   I may not know the full story, but from the evidence I gathered, Zamii070 was being constantly trolled, bullied, and terrorized by Social Justice Warriors on Tumblr for several reasons, from posting fanart of characters drawn by a person she didn't know was a sex offender, posting ignorant language about people who were trans
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I feel bad for Chris-Chan.

The Internet can be a really great or really dangerous place. The trolling that Chris-Chan has had to face for the past seven to eight years highlights the dangers of the Internet. "Autism," a clinical diagnosis, has been used as the new and so-called "cute" ableist slur, and apparently 4chan appropriated it as a result of Chris-chan's naivety and use of his condition as why he behaves the way he does.   But you know what? I don't care if Chris has been sexist or doesn't understand the concept
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MLP:FIM: Season 5 (First Half) Thoughts

Like almost all of the seasons, it's rather inconsistent. After three really good episodes in a row, the season got stuck in mediocrity with only Make New Friends and Slice of Life helping out the quality. But there's also been some hope, as Amending Fences is the best episode so far this season. My list from favorite to least: Amending Fences (all-time favorite) The Cutie Map Slice of Life Castle Sweet Castle Make New Friends, but Keep Discord Bloom & Gloom Party Pooped Do P
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Happy 114th birthday, Bernando LaPallo!

http://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/water-cooler/valley-man-celebrates-114th-birthday-shares-his-longevity-secrets     In the link and image above featured an Arizona man named Bernando LaPallo. Born on August 17th, 1901, he often shares several secrets to his longevity, from exercising every day to eating (and wearing) olive oil to staying stress-free.   Yesterday was his 114th birthday, and his interview is located in the link above.   Let's just say he's in pretty damn good shape. H
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Teen Titans Go!: The Return of Slade's Most Ironic Moment

So, let me get straight. In order to mock their critics, the writers use the Teen Titans characters and rating's trap to spew the "it's a kids' show" and "you're-wearing-nostalgia-goggles" strawmen in the form of making a clown — which is "supposedly" for kids — edgy. As if that's exactly what their older fans want. (Newsflash: They don't. They just want good work.)   But in the beginning of the first scene, as Raven watches her little FIM parody, we see a close up of a pony's plot as she twer
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"Cherry-flavoried" candy... Yuck!

One very big pet peeve in candies is the artificial favoring of fruit, especially cherries.   Cherries have a very bold, fruity flavor. Best when firm and really juicy. The ones I prefer tend to have the sharp tartness once you bite in it. This morning, I ate a bag of cherries as my breakfast.   But I didn't grow up on cherries. The only "cherry" flavor I ever got was through candy or soda.   Most of the time, when I eat candy and have a bite of the cherry flavor, I don't get this:    
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"Weeaboo" and "Hasdrone" are a lot in common.

"Weeaboo" is an insult people use to bash anime and manga fans, especially ones who behave rowdy. "Hasdrone" is an insult people use to bash bronies who still like the show post-season two or three. "Hasdrone" isn't so widely used anymore compared to the hiatus between seasons three and four, but "weeaboo" is still widely used online. Both of them are a byproduct of cyberbully culture and used by entitled, self-absorbed scumbags who feel it's a great idea to bully or troll others.   Well, news
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Happy 91st birthday, Johnny Gilbert!

Johnny Gilbert has been the voice of so many game shows throughout his career, but his most famous is Jeopardy! Since it was revived in 1984, he's been the announcer.   Today, he turns 91 years old.   Happy birthday, Johnny!
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