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I do not have any modern ponies yet, though I did seriously examine some, and wouldn't buy them to keep them boxed. If I do end up with any, I might immediately remove their cutie marks and draw new ones on. I am so sorry for letting my mind go into the gutter when I read your post. They are a happy subculture which is doing the complete opposite of hurting anyone.

I'd like some help, even if it is just the right keywords to search, in finding some fanfictions that are purely from previous generation of My Little Pony. I am specifically looking for charming, sweet, and happy fictions. Has anyone encountered any like that, or know a good place to look? Please and thank you.

My headcannons are both about Discord. In one, he's an actual extension of the Q we saw in Star Trek, like a self-insert daydream. Letting ponies defeat him is part of the game. In the other, dragonequeses actually have twelve limbs not including the head and tail, four horns, and act much more balanced than Discord. Discord dispensed with the extra limbs either so he wouldn't cause ponies to go mad, or it takes concentration to keep track of them all.

I don't mind Flash Sentry. --http://mlpforums.com/user/24701-the-coffee-man/ Ship-bait was my only problem with EG. He hasn't been an issue since, so I hope he's an 11th hour type if he does get more screentime.

I used to have long sagas where my ponies were suffering drought and starvation and consulting the blind oracle. I'm not sure if it was the magic coins, news warnings about the effects of sparklers on dead grass, the horrible carpet in my room, or a whole mess of everything. (The blind oracle was a piggybank molded like the horse from Rainbow Brite and his eyes were stickers that fell off http://www.80stoysale.com/images/rbbanks.jpg )

Another country? I thought that they were residents of a keyhole subdivision like that "Bobby" cartoon. Or were you not American? I've walked through a suburb in England... so Australia, military base, second language, or plausible explanation.

Eyah... I like that they tried to explore stages of independence vs smothering mother, but I wish that they had figured out a better way to do that. Suddenly introducing Scootaloo's parents would have incurred less WTF factor.

For the show writers, that is true. There are probably dramas with unnoticed padding and cut details that weaken the story vs having a novel that might flex the boundaries by a little bit. For fan-fictioners, the only constraint is the attention span of the audience, since there is only time and praise instead of page expectation and time slots. I guess it is a little weird to hold the work-for-free crowd to higher standards, but they have lower constraints and hopefully lofty goals.

The only plastic MLP toy that was better than Lemondrop was Posey. http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/collectorpony,mylittlepony/Interesting http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Lauren_Faust/Gallery?file=Lauren_Faust_G1_Posey_toy.jpg

My opinion of Wild Thornberries was solidified in the first episode I watched... where they were dealing with thin-air brain-problems and I didn't question that the little girl was talking to a llama. I still haven't watched a lot of episodes, but that thing with the turtles opens up some mature possibilities. Not explicit, but being wise enough to understand things far beyond your understanding or comfort zone. Avatar cartoon is only not-anime because of where it was made, original language, producers, everything except that thing you can't point to. The rest of the examples are "I barely know because it only cost an extra few bucks to get a third crt hooked up to cable and I like noise." Though Ed, Ed, Ed sounded like a funnier version of "Life with Louie" which sounded like "Christmas Story: I want a gun" Basically, distilled "stories from when I was growing up."

Bravo. Some of me is from the viewpoint of someone about the same age as Faust, and I'm thinking that my happiness and unhappiness with the show is related to how similar and different I am to her. (I would have called Firefly mother-brave and just testing her gymnastic agility the same as the roller-skater, Rainbow Dash seems like not being a jet-stuntpilot is worth dying over.) I am imposing some 20-something college student desires, but in the context of friendship. Which is weird because I'm probably a sociopath considering my lack of maintaining social connections. And I vaguely know the plot from "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." The only standard I have for MLP:FIM is that it doesn't ruin the memories of my childhood. (Considering that I've finally seen a G3 episode that I like, and all the grimdark FIM videos that are worth the bandwith, maybe my standards have lowered.)

Rhymers annoy me when I stop using Bellisario's Maxim, and I feel the need to yell at the writers. I think I had a fanfiction that I dropped half-formed where Zecora only rhymed when referencing memorized wisdom. Uses for herbs, recipes, old legends, etc. Conversational standard was just stilted and imperfect words.

Alright, I'll dive out of the fanfiction thing, since it is dead. One of the criticisms I have with FIM over the 80's is that they did limit the cast and so they'd have to swing to extremes of their personality in the demands to the plot. The 80's characters weren't deep, but at least you had the compassionate smart-one, the emotionally-stunted smart-one, and the smart-one that was just there because they needed a stupidwing pony. A slightly smaller main cast or a less tight-knit group might allow for developed background ponies that fit the archetypes but don't seem off because they aren't developed much. I think the Rarity/Spike/owl episode was because that's all they had that they could shoehorn into the dynamic. Well, dragging this back to "Why use the quality of this show to justify why your fanfiction is so bad?" um... "Why use the quality of this show to justify why your fanfiction is so bad?" and "why bother writing bad fanfiction for a low-quality show?" I would volunteer to write good fanfiction about a bad show, but I'm so snobbish that I need to understand the source material inside and out, and that would mean volunteering for torture. And I'm mangling three irons already, though I could accept a short "bad idea into good fic" challenge (if I'm not obligated to finish it,) about two undeveloped OC's in MLP. When I say good, I mean effort. My writing sucks right now and I can't find a mentor.