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  1. Gigapony
    I think Igneous Rock is an awesome name for Pinkie's dad. It reminds me of those really old-timey sounding Amish names, and as Pinkie's family is clearly meant to be Amish-looking, I'm certain this was exactly the intention. Her mum's name is also really fitting. No opinion here or there on her sisters' names. I like the fanon ones as well as these ones equally. Though keep in mind that these novels aren't exactly 100% canon, unless officially stated, so I don't think these names are any more canon than the fanon ones. I gotta wonder about where people got the notion that "Pie" was their definitive last/family name? I don't reckon that last names work in MLP the same way they do in real life.
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    I most certainly would. I know it's not good to dwell on the past too much, but I've always thought about how much better my life could've been had I known the consequences of my previous actions ahead of time. There's so many decisions I would've changed and I think it would've made me a better person than the one I am now. But alas, there's no changing the past.
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    Very nice! A little dark for my tastes, personally, but certainly dripping with creativity (among other things, heh). Also huge kudos for not going the cliché route and making her some kind of murderous OP Mary Sue for the purpose of cheap shock value. Also must commend the art, the proportions and anatomy (what remains of it, anyway, heh) are PERFECT to the show's style.
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    To the OP: While I commend you and respect you heavily for coming into this with an open mind and a genuine intent to understand before judging, I personally am not of the opinion that we're something people need to be educated on or understood. What I mean is, we're really not so different from any other fandom out there. The only reason people seem to make such a big deal out of us is because the show we like is a bit unexpected for our demographic (and that bothers some people), but that's it. I'm sure you have a favourite TV programme or movie, most people do. That's basically all there is to us. We're just a group of people who like the same show. The only difference between us and, say, the Walking Dead fandom or the Breaking Bad fandom, is that we like a show that wasn't originally meant for us. We've got the same quirks as those fandoms do, and the same good and bad things, we just like a "different" sort of show than our peers do.
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    I always find these kinds of articles very interesting, but just a little depressing as well. For one, because of the very huge distances, it's unlikely I'll ever get to see whether or not they have life (or if so, what kind of life) during my lifetime, all I get to see is speculation. But also because it's more likely that if we do find planets with life on them, it'll almost certainly be generic microorganisms. Which is interesting in its own way, but I have to admit I'd find it rather boring. Though I do have to lol at the inevitable comments in alien life threads where there's two distinct camps of people who either are dedicated misanthropists who think all humans are assholes who will inevitably exploit and destroy alien life, or think "alien life" immediately equates to "oppressive evil intergalactic empire who will enslave us".
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    Thank you all! I'm glad you all like it. For some reason I love this situation, just because I can so totally see AJ going overboard with the booze. And don't worry, @, I won't allow any badmouthing of Applejack whilst I'm around.
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    You've had enough for one night! Just a quickie drawing. Not one of my very best, but it was fun to draw. It's fillies' night out and Applejack has gone a wee bit past her limit. Poor Flutters back there might wanna consider calling it a night as well (she only had half a pint!). Twilight of course has only ordered waters all night.
  8. Gigapony
    Ouch, bro! Nah, just kidding, that's just the type of constructive crit I was looking for, cheers. As for the face: agreed, the neck angle: agreed, eyes: hmmmm, yeah I think so too, bagstraps: semi-agreed, it really depends on the scene but at least in the stock image I referenced, her straps do indeed go over her chest, the legs: mostly agreed, now that I better understand this style's anatomy/proportions and how LONG the legs are meant to be. SO. Time for another go, yeah? Probably wasn't ready to freehand it, so I'm taking a different approach. Normally when I draw (realistic) humans I draw a body first and then layer clothes over it. But EG doesn't use realistic proportions so I have to create a custom base so I know what the body should look like and get a better idea of it. And so I did, in a semi-cheating way. I looked up the same Twilight image, and literally placed a paper over it and traced out the body lines (or rather, my best guess at them). So I give you: Twilight Sparkle, the adorable Grey Alien... NOTE: She's not meant to be "naked" in this pic, it's just her body outlines. Apologies for the faintness of the lines, I used very light pencil strokes to keep it eraser-friendly.
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    I have a particular obsession with strawberry milk. I just really love the taste of it. I try to make sure I have some strawberry syrup in the pantry at all times. My love for it has become so well known among my friends that one of them bought me a bottle of the syrup for my birthday.
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    It'd be easier to list the non-funny moments! Speaking not just as an MLP fan, but a fan of comedy in general, it really was a hilarious movie, and not just because of all the in-jokes and fanwank moments. It was just good, classic, clean, yet non-cheesy humour which is exactly the kind of jokes that got me into MLP in the first place. I'm so glad the movie kept that flavour and ramped it up to 11. But if I'm gonna pick specifics, I will agree that my favourites were Pinkie's Transformer noise (I seriously did NOT see that one coming), hell any scene with Pinkie Pie in it, all of Twilight's awkward moments, Spike's one-liners, Fluttershy in general (she really shined in the film), and of course Trixie's scene (I was worried that she wouldn't appear at all, but the writers did not disappoint!).
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    As someone who comes from the Transformers fandom, I can say that show-accuracy never was a very big concern for Hasbro. Still, a part of me is convinced that these were originally for a completely new and separate toy line, but Hasbro, fearing the difficulty of competing with its own toy lines and preferring the ease of applying it to an already wildly popular line, opted to find a way to work them into MLP. Which doesn't bother me, as despite fan-raging it's a sound business decision and it ultimately brought us the Equestria Girls movie, which I honestly loved very much (though that credit belongs to the show staff). I do wish that they were more movie-accurate, but let's face it, these aren't meant for us, and despite inaccuracies they look enough like the characters that I HIGHLY doubt the target audience will notice or care. Plus, even if they were movie-accurate, I'd probably still not buy them because that'd be unbelievably difficult to explain...
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    People probably wouldn't have as big a problem with bronies if we weren't such a "big" thing. If there was only a handful of bronies then it'd just be seen as a weird fringe group (not unlike furries) and although we'd get a share of haters we'd be allowed to exist in relative peace. If it were any other show, we'd be fine. If it were a massive amount of older girls/women liking MLP and not men, we'd be fine. If it were just a few men liking it, we'd be fine. But it's the fact that it's SO DAMN MANY men, that's getting us all that hate. It's causing people who are accustomed to the traditional MAN to feel like their idea of manliness is crumbling, and they see us as the acid that's wearing it down. They're blaming us for the death of the manly man, and this is all way too far out of their comfort zone. It's too much change for them, and I don't want to say they're "afraid" of us, but they do feel challenged by us. They see the whole brony thing as (and please excuse my words) the "faggification" of their society and they're conditioned to fight back against this, not only to preserve their cultural norms, but also to reaffirm to everyone around them that they're most emphatically NOT a part of this, and thus prove to themselves how manly they are.
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    A sonic boom is just a sound that happens when one breaks the sound barrier, as a result of pressure waves (which are travelling at the speed of sound) compressing together as the object pushes into them and eventually bursting as a single shock wave as the object breaks through them once it passes Mach 1 (hence the term "breaking the sound barrier"). The waves often produce a vapour cone or shock cone as the water vapour around the pressure waves condenses and forms a cloud. The cone is what most people associate with the image of a sonic boom. As it is water vapour, if light strikes it just right, it could show a rainbow. But this isn't something that you could do as part of a performance, or on command like Dashie does. It's really up to the photographer being in the right place at the right time. And even then, the colours won't spread out like Dashie's rainbooms. TL;DR: Yes you technically can but nowhere near the way it's shown in the show, which is a very cartoony depiction of a sonic boom. And now behold, a sonic rainboom:
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    Thank you both~ Interestingly enough, I didn't do any erasing on the hand, but the lines there are indeed very sloppy/fuzzy looking because I could barely see the fingers in the reference so I just kinda half-arsed the hand. The legs on the other hand, so much erasing there...lol And I definitely agree on the feet/shoes. I was surprised at how hard those are to get right.
  15. Gigapony
    ...to draw human pones. With the coming of Equestria Girls (which I loved, by the way), so comes my inevitable desire to want to draw them. So, just like when I drew my first pony, I went with Twilight again, and looked up a reference. JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE HARD TO DRAW. Few things you should know about this image. The reference I used was pretty poor (small resolution, older image, missing a few details) and the picture suffered as a result. Also my inexperience with this design really (REALLY REALLY) shows. So while I do welcome constructive crits, please be gentle! Not 100% happy with it, but also not 100% unhappy. Most of what's wrong with it I'm already aware of (proportions being the biggest issue), but I'm going to try to improve on this once better reference images start trickling in.
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    There's some rare examples of made-for-pony technology in the show. One that comes to mind at the moment is the little metal collars that photographer ponies wear to hold their cameras in front of them. And their backpacks, while obviously designed after real-world saddlebags, are a design that a quadruped would make if it had to invent something like a backpack.
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    The hair came out crinkly because the "flat" surface I was using was a cardboard box~ And of course I also suck at crayoning. I work at a retail store, and part of what I do is being in the stock room and processing damaged/opened products. Sometimes it's very busy, and sometimes it isn't and I just pretend to be busy and instead play with the stuff I find in there (like these crayons). The products and the various stuffs I use to do my job are located in a sort of big closet with big wide doors, and the inside of the door on the east side (hence the name, haha) is COVERED in sticky notes that I've made various silly doodles on. Amazingly my bosses don't seem to mind (heck, one of them actually contributes to the gallery).
  18. Gigapony
    I went to go see Equestria Girls today with a group of local bronies and it was great (first time meeting bronies outside of the innernet). Afterwards I went to my usual shopping location to hunt for swag. I went to Target and, feeling emboldened by all the brony pride I had experienced today, I thought I'd go and finally work up the cojones to buy some toys... ...and I chickened out and instead went to the safe haven that is Hot Topic. There I picked up a Rarity necklace, the Funko vinyl figure of Fluttershy (to go with the Dashie my mate bought me), and of course some buttons because I don't have enough of those already.
  19. Gigapony
    I'd be an Earth Pony living in Ponyville and most likely working in one of the various shops around the area (might take up selling pens and sofas in Davenport's perhaps, sounds exciting enough).
  20. Gigapony
    I did it on a flat surface, but I don't normally colour with crayons and a sticky note is a small area, but I really just drew it for the lulz otherwise I'd have put more effort in. I'm glad you like the face though, for some reason I can't get enough of overreacting Rarity. And yes, I did do this on company time and so of course time was of the essence. It hangs proudly in my workspace now (along with a bajillion other sticky note doodles I did. I call it the East Side Gallery).
  21. Gigapony
    My room has a lot of wall area to cover, so it accepts posters readily. I have a Haruhi poster, a Hatsune Miku poster, a Pokémon (G5) poster, and a large Strike Witches wall scroll. And as there is also a large format printer where I work, I often do a few prints for myself, so I've printed two posters of some drawings I made, a Milky Holmes poster, and (naturally) a pony poster. The last two I still haven't decided where to hang though.
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    Once I start obsessing over summat, I tend to decorate EVERYTHING with it, especially any electronics. Surprisingly though, I haven't ponified any of my electrics yet. Part of it is the fact I really like my current PC's wallpaper, and I haven't found a wallpaper for my mobile that I like yet. I might do it eventually though. I can only resist for so long. I'm also thinking very heavily on getting a decal of Rainbow Dash's cutie mark printed up and slapping it onto my car. 100th post woo
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    I'm always self-deprecating, but sometimes when it's on my mind I get more vocal about it than I ought to be. But I'm just being honest with myself and calling it like it is. Though I probably shouldn't throw my dirty laundry all over the forum so I do apologise.
  24. Gigapony
    I break the stereotypes by... by... um... I don't actually. I pretty much embody them. I'm a 25-year-old loser who lives with his parents (not in a basement though! We don't have basements where I live), is a virgin, will always be one, hated by all women, is fairly creepy, is a weak little pansy with some decidedly feminine interests, works at a dead-end job, is an artfag, likes ponies too much for his own good, and has almost no friends and no semblance of a social life to speak of. Hey, to my credit, I'm not fat or gay, so that's at least two stereotypes I've broken!
  25. Gigapony
    Meh, I don't care for factionalism and blind loyalty and who did or didn't "win the console war". I just want to play games and enjoy myself. I don't care enough about the politics of what amounts to very fancy toys. Microsoft added some policies that didn't sit right with me personally (regardless of any benefits it may or may not have had), and so I wasn't going to buy one. Then they took them off. So as far as I'm concerned, everything's groovy with me again, and I may just buy an Xbox now. I'm also planning to buy a PS4. Both systems have exclusives that I'd like to own, and so I'd like to have the best of both worlds. Microsoft made the Xbox attractive to me again, and that's all that matters to me. But that being said, I'm also not made of money, so in the end, it's possible I may not even get either system.
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