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Aw, dangit, now I have a headcanon that Rarity got pushed into football by her father. And now I want to write fanfic about it. Dangit.

O_e Being a very proud Christian myself, I am unfortunately baffled by this theory. Isn't there a Kung Fu Panda quote about this? It's something like, "Actually it was 937 years. But a thousand just sounds cooler." Frankly, I think a thousand years isn't a Biblical reference, it's just a "they were put away for a really really long time and now they're BACK!" There are Biblical references in the show, but you have to look pretty hard. Although there is evidence of religion in Equestria, which I suppose could vaguely parallel Christian beliefs, but other then that...eh? Also, it's a kids show. Why do people keep forgetting this?

Yep.^^ So yeah, I actually ship a *lot* of M/F couples. ^^ I think these are the only ones I actually ship...*scratches head* I know I'm forgetting a few, though...

Here's the thing with me, about anatomy; I've only learned to draw rather recently, and I'm trying to teach myself with limited success. Being, of course, less talented than a mule on meth, I botch my anatomy up rather spectacularly. With that being said, I think it's extremely important for an artist to at least know and learn the correct anatomy before developing one's own style. You can't stylize something, or create a style with the excuse of, "Oh, I hate drawing ears, so in my style, their ears look like this." I honestly believe that you need to learn correct anatomy before you go off stylizing anything. However, once you feel comfortable drawing correct anatomy, and know how ball-joints work and whatnot, I think it's extremely unfair to hold all artists to the same, "You have to draw all anatomy this way!" standard. If the artist knows the anatomy and chooses to ignore it, that's one thing. Keep in mind this is coming from an extremely amateur artist and a rather derpalicious one at that.

Okay, let's take these things one at a time, shall we? First off: the definition of 'pander'. pan·der ˈpandər/ verb 1. gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.). Gratify or indulge; see what an ugly word that is now? I like to use it in negative connontations. That's generally why it's called "fan pandering", because that term is generally negative. And here's why it's negative. Our fandom is wildly artistic and talented. Unlike the Batman fandom, where you can be an active and popular member with zero artistic skill or talent, the Brony community definitely lends its collective ear towards people with immense writing/remixing/songwriting/drawing talents. There is a massive outpouring of fanart and headcanons that range from incredibly gory to heart-wrenching and tragic. Because of this, there are a million different theories as to how Celestia and Luna came into existance. Or even how long they've been alive. Who Scootaloo's parents are. Et cetera. I have nothing wrong with fan-service. A bit of fan service can instantly endear your fandom to the creators; for instance, Derpy talking. Look at the massive outpouring of love and support Derpy received, because she was the product of Hasbro listening to the fans. We liked Derpy. As a matter of fact, we liked her so much they decided to give her speaking lines. How cool is that? What was largely wrong with Season 3 is it was trying to balance fan-service and headcanon debunking. Some shows, like Glee, go out of their way to debunk headcanons or popular ships, because they know that ship or headcanon is completely uncharacteristic of the characters. For instance, Fluttershy using "The Stare!" on Discord came right out of nowhere, served absolutely no purpose to the plot, and as soon as it was over, nobody mentioned it again.* It also destroyed the former idea of her not really knowing what it was or how to use it--all of a sudden, she knows enough about it to use it as a legitimate threat. This was used to debunk theories about Fluttershy's "Stare" being able to conquer almost anything. The main problem, or what I'm trying to get at, is that as a fandom we shouldn't have control over what the writers want to do. Who are we to demand things? We've loved the show for what it is. If the writers keep writing what they want to write, like they've mostly been doing, why should we complain? But when the fans start stepping in between the writers and their thought process, demanding things like, "We want a Scootaloo episode! We want to see more of Pinkie's family! We want Vinyl Scratch to have a song/speaking parts! We want a Derpy episode! Blah blah rawr!" then things get messed up. Because then the noisy majority is winning over the writer's wishes. That being said, the fandom does need to listen to criticism from fans. Not demands. I would also like to excuse and apologize for this rambling wall of text, as I'm currently so high on sugar I can smell colors. Good day, and I'm off to eat more Klondike Bars.