Dark Qiviut

Votes from me:

 

1. Twilight Sparkle

 

 

 

2. Nightmare Moon

 

 

 

3. Applejack.

 

 

 

4. Derpy

 

 

 

No, I wouldn't support it. In fact, I'd slam it even worse. The Twilicorn was supposed to close the series, and given the bad execution of this rushed concept, it would've permanently soiled her reputation. Five minutes is more than enough time to impress your audience, and it didn't. But with season four on the table, it gives the writers another chance to make it work and result in Twilight being a better character.

Despite Spike at Your Service, Just for Sidekicks, and Games Ponies Play being complete travesties and Magical Mystery Cure being mildly bad, I haven't lost faith in the crew. This team knows that its audience, young and old, expect high quality production from them. Williams, AKR, McCarthy, Polsky, Powell, Morrow, and Larson know how to craft high-quality writing, and with the bigger budget, they'll have a ability to execute them better without having to rush in too many bold ideas simultaneously. The thirteen-episode format and how season three was considered the series finale until long after the final draft of Magical Mystery Cure was submitted forced the team to cram too much with some very mixed results. The bigger budget season four has gives the team room to focus on the series and character development more conservatively.

Finished my review!
 
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This is a fan-made short story about a young filly long ago. In Equestria, winter is one of most cherished and most celebrated seasons. Hearth's Warming Eve celebrates Equestria's history, and Winter Wrap-Up is a merry time to welcome spring. But it wasn't like this previously. Winter was dreaded and not anticipated. The winter never cooperated with the weather team, behaving violently on its own terms. Snowdrop is the fan-made tale detailing its origins of winter's celebration, tracing back to the young filly referenced in the story title.

This short animation is very well-done and accomplished plenty of it right.

• Snowdrop, the filly named in the title, is extremely well-written. Unlike characters in the canon, she is blind, foreshadowed by her opaque pupils, dialogue, and monologue. It's a unique physical flaw that helps her stand out. However, the story never says it so outwardly, a big strength. For one, it focuses less on her disability and more on what could she can do to make her worthy. She never uses it as an excuse. (In the animation, she's a blank flank like the Cutie Mark Crusaders.) Secondly, it gives room in the script for Snowdrop to be treated as an equal by some parts of society, notably her teacher (Mrs. Windith), mother (Primrose), and princesses.
• Because of her blindness, her other senses are highlighted, such as touching and hearing. It's a myth that a blind person's other senses are more enhanced due to blindness, but those who are blind tend to pay more attention to them compared to those who can see. The flashback with Primrose foreshadows this.
• The monologue shows her pain and anger. Throughout her time in the classroom, she is teased and mocked by her classmates, seemingly because her blindness has hindered in her growth. She's happy and safe with her mother, but in school, she feels lonely and ostracized. Because of this, she works solo and tries to hide her anger. The bullying she suffered in her classroom resulted in her losing some of her trust towards Primrose, a common side effect in bullying.
• The origin of the snowflake is extremely believable given the folklore canon we currently have. Equestria is a fantasy fairy tale and uses a lot of mythology and folklore, true or made-up, to correlate with the universe. In the canon, winter is very gentle and welcoming, but in the real world, winter is a mixture of happiness and sorrowing overcast skies. The origin here mixes the two, but in a way that objectively works. Snowflakes are gentle, fragile, and a pleasure to see and analyze. Snowdrop has a fragile conscience, blind, and doesn't know where to go in life. But she has the ability to judge the other three seasons without the need to hold prejudice towards winter. Spring, summer, and fall are celebrated, but winter is shunned; Snowdrop wants winter celebrated, too, and her snowflake is the key to making it memorable.
• The lighting. The color scheme and strokes are in character to the canon, but there's great usage of the lighting to give the anatomy of the characters some depth, examples including young Celestia's tail and the bodies of some of the characters. In the scene where the teacher's class faces the princesses, the shadows are behind them, forcing the viewer to focus on the front layer.
• The musical score fits perfectly with the animation. It's soft and gentle like the snowflakes themselves, and they enhanced the mood of each scene. Without the score, Snowdrop wouldn't be as strong as it currently is.
• The reason why she was chosen is believable and in character of the princesses. Her snowflake wasn't well-shaped, and it wasn't pretty. However, because of her disability, she knew and analyzed things others couldn't. She has another perspective on life because she's blind and wants to spread her gift and eventual lore to future generations. She sensed the snow's shape and used her feather to create something that the princesses could understand and enjoy.
• Luna's eventual friendship with Snowdrop is hinted here. During Snowdrop's last monologue, Luna looked back to recollect. During the intro of the pilot, Luna was described as feeling jealous, sad, and angry that her night was discriminated by the citizens of Equestria. Snowdrop is blind, so she can't visually judge the sun and moon, the day and night. In Snowdrop's point of view, both day and night are equal. This is refreshing for Luna. But the fact that she didn't get the chance to say good-bye after Snowdrop passed away was something that hit her hard. It's tough to say, "good-bye" by itself, but it's difficult without getting the chance to do so personally.
• At the beginning of each winter, one of Snowdrop's original snowflakes is used. It's a great, touching tribute and is a method of commemorating her legacy. Without her influence, winter wasn't celebrated. The fact that Celestia (and Luna following her return) kept her original snowflake until the very end shows how much she meant to them and especially Luna.
• The last line before the credits is very powerful, touching, and a respectful gesture to Snowdrop's legacy long after her death. Celestia and Luna used all of her snowflakes, but always kept the original to honor her. One thing can make a difference, and her snowflake (plus the room it's kept in) shows prestigious love, honor, and respect the princesses had for her. But even with her final snowflake dumped, Snowdrop's legacy will always be remembered by them.

That said, there are some things that could've been done to make the animation more fluent, something I don't really expect to be revised because exporting revisions can take hours to finish (and with high-resolution imagery, it's a nightmare).

• One of the scenes really lagged, something the animators know personally. I have no idea why that happened, but I'm going to assume that it lagged because of programming and exporting issues.
• There is some clipping of the anatomy. In one of the scenes, when Luna hunches a bit, Celestia's front part of the wing hovered for a moment before moving down to appear one piece.
• Some of the microphones sounded like they are a bit muffled. However, fan-animations don't have the budget that professional production normally has, and this one is a minor quip, so this is very forgivable.
• A more personal touch, but I would've loved to see the fanon friendship between Luna and Snowdrop developed and focused on, even if it's other animations, fanfiction, music, and fanart. There's a lot of potential to show their closeness, eventual folklore, and relationship between them, especially after Nightmare Moon was sealed on the moon.

Despite these small flaws, this doesn't deter Snowdrop from being a high-quality fan-animation short story. It isn't as cheery as it is more historical in the form of fanon, but fan-animations don't need to confine with that compared to the actual professional product. This team has worked on this project for up to a year, and it is a year well-spent. This is a great starting point, and the people at Silly Filly Studios really learned a lot about animation as a result of Snowdrop. It's well-written, well-composed, and has a very relatable and likeable lead character. Well done!

And it's now on YouTube!

 

 

 

 

Little girls don't particularly care about the villains backstories, so there is no need for them to give them one. I keep hoping they will add a little more depth here and there, but they just aren't ever going to go as deep as a show designed for older audiences.

 

 

Unfortunately though, there is only so much they can do with 22 minutes per episode. =(

Target audience and time limit are no excuse to shun potential, especially in the professional field. If there's solid potential to make a character deeper, then do so with the editor's guidance and Hasbro's reluctance to keep it on track. Little girls generally may not have as much investment in the more complex characterization outwardly, but her elders, who are also a target audience, do. The balance in attracting who is why the show is successful in its full: It doesn't use excuses as a crutch.

 

Also, there's a major misconception when it comes to character development in villains. A villain doesn't need to become neutral or good to receive character development. Character development for a villain can actually translate into something that's more evil, but sometimes with some solid logic behind it. Diamond Tiara let her already large ego get into her head in Ponyville Confidential, and she controlled every asset to manipulate the Cutie Mark Crusaders. That, in itself, is character development for her because she became more evil, but a more realistic evil. She was the boss and abused her power to get everything she wanted.

 

Character development for villains is something that would really garner interest, particularly for those who love villains, young and old. Chrysalis is one of the lone true convincing villain left with Nightmare Moon transformed back to Luna, Discord becoming a neutral antagonist, and Sombra blown to pieces. She has the potential within the cartoon to go into major depth and make her manipulative, power hungry, and more sinister yet still in character.

 

For an antagonist, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara are obvious choices. Silver Spoon showed some respect for Granny Smith by being the first to clap, and it was thrown away in One Bad Apple. The same for Diamond Tiara and her sadistic streak in Ponyville Confidential being tossed aside. Silver Spoon has played second fiddle throughout the series and needs some leverage to individualize her as some antagonist worth following. Diamond Tiara needs to continue riding that bitchy manipulation from Ponyville Confidential in future stories.

1. There's a mystery behind them. One of the biggest strengths of background ponies is how you can really consider what their personalities, strengths, and flaws are by their looks, color patterns, background behavior, and cutie marks. When there isn't anything surrounding these characters, you tend to look at these characters and come up with some theories.

   a. Lyra lackadaisically sitting on the park bench beside Bon Bon, and the theory that she may have some passion for anthropology.

    

   b. Vinyl Scratch for electronic music (something we see a lot in this era compared to the acoustics in the past).

    

   c. Octavia's concentration on her classical music maybe translating into a reserved, passionate Earth pony with high expectations.

    

   d. Colgate's doctor's/dentist's costume translating to her being a dentist and researching cavities.

    

   e. Dinky (a filly filler) being Derpy's daughter (surrogate or birth), as they each share almost identical color schemes.

    

   f. Doctor Whooves focusing on time and time-traveling, with a British accent similar to The Doctor to boot.

2. Color schemes and character design also matter. Some of the best and most interestingly designed characters are background ponies. Vinyl's design, for one, is extremely expressive with her spiky hair, big grin, big glasses, and analogous scheme in her mane. Lyra's design is one of the most unique with the minty green in her hair, mane, and tail. And Doctor Whooves with a Mohawk similar to the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).
3. How the fandom has expanded their fanon and made them funny, sad, et cetera convincingly. Many of the fanon we have now happened back when the brony fandom was much more miniscule. As a result, the fanon was able to stick around there and eventually expand. Newcomers notice, review them, and buy into these theories. That's why they sustain.
4. Each design reflects a personality, some more expressive than others. Lyra is very well-liked partially for this.
5. For some background ponies, the characters have enough personality in them to relate to the fandom. Derpy's the most obvious example here.
6. For Derpy in particular, she's the bronies' character. Back when the fandom was small, the bronies caught the animation error and developed crazy theories about why she has wall-eyes. Her popularity spread so quickly that she became the unofficial mascot of the fandom. Faust caught wind of it and inserted Derpy in the cartoon in time. Her klutziness, aloofness, persistence to perform at her best despite her poor depth perception, and fitting in with the rest of the cast made her extremely relatable as a character and resulted in her growth in popularity. (And her love for muffins is official, as based by her first-party, exclusively sold box at Comic Con in San Diego.) The fandom built the character from the ground up, and got her into the cartoon. She's the fandom's pride and joy and the key to connect the bronies with the creative staff.

VERY bad idea. I've been on many sites and forums that uses or once used this method, and it's a double-edged sword that risks being easily abused, thereby causing even more drama. The Sonic Stadium Message Board and Equestria Daily (each places I've registered to) each once had something similar to this (the pos-rep/neg-rep system for the SSMB and the thumbs-up/thumbs-down feature for EQD), and it merely stirred trouble. In the SSMB, several people complained about the system, and one left because she got (justifiably) bombarded by neg-rep. In EQD, the thumbs-down button got easily abused by trolls. Therefore, the system was eliminated to a "like/thumbs up" only. Recently, the NYC Transit Forums (another site I post in) changed their system from the standard "like" system we have here to the pos-rep/neg-rep one, and the reception has been mixed.

Known for writing fanfic.

There aren't any restrictions. Anyone regardless of age, ethnicity, or gender who likes the show is automatically a brony, whether he or she knows diddly squat about the fandom or likes the term.

A Junior's-style cheesecake that Mom and I co-made not long ago. (Don't remember how long it took to make, though.) It's a tangy cheesecake with some chocolate, vanilla bean extract, and a little lemon zest to make it a little sour. For our base, we used whole grain graham crackers smashed, crumbled, and patted with the back of a flat measuring cup. The final result is very dense, but so worth it! Easily the best cheesecake I've ever had and possibly the best dessert we've ever made, period!

Invented in China several millenia ago, pasta has been a common food, now located around the world. Countries like Italy (well-known for its distinct pasta variations), South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand have many pasta staples (i.e., fettuccine Alfredo, gnocchi, lasagne, ravioli/raviolo, Pad Thai, Lo Mein, and spaghetti). Italy has many ways to make pasta, but its most common are fresh (usually made with eggs and cooks much faster, anywhere from one to four minutes depending on the size, gluten, and thickness) and dry (water, salt, and flour with a longer shelf life).

Needless to say, I'm a HUGE pasta fan and have loved it since I was a kid. Spaghetti, fettuccine, baked ziti, angel hair, meat lasagne, pappardelle, rice noodles, cellophane noodles, couscous, pho, tortellini, macaroni, vermicelli, and udon. (Need to try gnocchi one day.) Most of the time, the pasta I make is dry and packaged; the only time I eat fresh pasta is at a restaurant. Tonight, I decided to make homemade fresh pasta for the first time. (Egg fettuccine made with half-all purpose and half-whole wheat flour with panko-breaded Chicken Parmesan on the side.) Yummy, and I'll definitely make it again someday.

Describe your pasta adventures. Love it, hate it. Tell us your pasta tales. Pasta recipes. Sauces you like on pasta. Favorite places to get pasta. Any types of pasta you love. And so on, as long as it relates to pasta!

1. @@Tall_But_Short_37 said this, but it bears repeating: the slow 3D turn of Fluttershy's head during "Putting Your Hoof Down." Flash animation is something that doesn't get a lot of respect, but DHX really shows us how much you can do with it with this scene. Scenes like this treats Flash as an animation tool instead of a mere cost-cutting measure.

 

2. The walk cycle during "Smile, Smile, Smile."

 

 

It's really the first piece of animation that I noticed which shows me how much season two's animation greatly improved from season one. This is something we wouldn't have seen in season one simply because of how cool, smooth, and advanced it looks to the eye. The song is the second-best in season two, but the visuals helped it even further.

Yes. The character designs, both concepts, are absolutely horrid. Each character has no individuality in them besides a minute change in the hair and a switch in the color palette. Their hands, face, clothing, body, and legs are completely identical with each other.

 

You can block out the designs into silhouettes; you won't be able to recognize who the characters are. If you can't really differentiate and individualize them as characters, then the character designs become nothing more than carbon copies with small details slapped onto them. That's lazy character design with the mere excuse to sell toys, and Hasbro doesn't give a damn about quality as long as the bottom line shoots up like the stock market. Quality can cost more, but they're a hell of a lot more refreshing to the buyers.

 

And anyone who handwaves it all and says, "Wait and see" is acting extremely naïve. High-quality character design is CRUCIAL to getting people sucked in. It's a hook that sends a message to your audience that you care about the overall product. The pony character designs are masterfully drawn, and you can easily tell who they are regardless of angles. If the character designs were horrible, I guarantee you, we may not see an audience as big as it is. Bad character design, on the other hand, is a major strike, because it implies lack of a damn about the overall product with the desire to only appeal to the lowest common denominator. "Good" has no demographic, and there's no excuse for crappy quality on the professional level. I don't tolerate crap, and the character designs for Equestria Girls are intellectually insulting!

Are [all of] the scripts/stories written before the season is released?

Yes. Each episode's final script gets submitted at least one year before airing. There are some, however, that are submitted for the final time more than a year in advance. Keep Calm and Flutter On was submitted in October 2011 and Magical Mystery Cure was submitted in November 2011. Magic Duel is the most mysterious case; it was supposed to be a season two episode, given by the final draft's submission date of January 27, 2011. But due to its delay, the episode aired nearly two years after the script was submitted.

 

Does the shows animation/voicing get done before the season starts?

For season three, this was almost completely the case on just about everything. The opener came very late in the calendar year, so almost all of the voice actors had completed their work at that point. Animation of each episode, from storyboarding to animation completion, takes several months to complete because it's in 1080p, which means a much bigger resolution, bigger file size, and a whole lot of layers to animate. Because of its late opener date, chances are the animation for almost every episode was complete around the opener (or maybe the turn of the year for episodes like the finale).

 

For the twenty-six-episode-long seasons, chances are the main puppets for animation are complete during the off season, with tinkering done near the end to fine-tune some of the latter ones like the final six to ten episodes. The voice actors might've completed almost all of their work before the season opener, too. There are exceptions for the animation, one of them being the gray background pony's eyes edited to become Derpy in response to her suddenly huge popularity.

1. Over-processed "food" from fast food joints like McDonald's and Burger King. Back when I was younger and much more obese, I used to eat these by the half-dozen. (Once, I ate nine Big Macs. No lie!) Today, having not eaten at any of these places for over six years, the salty smell of these products make me vomit.

Hostess and Drake's cakes like Yodels and Twinkies. Used to love these spongey, sweet cakes. But after trying one over a year ago after not having any for years, I immediately spat it out. Not only was it too sweet, but the waxy aftertaste made me lose my appetite.

Commercially produced and pasteurized milk instead of organic milk. This one is a lot newer for me. I used to pour this milk aplenty in my morning cereal. Recently, I tried organic milk (much more expensive, but expires after four to six weeks instead of two weeks like regualr milk), and it was like night and day. It tasted fresher and better. We got the conventional milk by accident a few weeks later, and I no longer could stand it. It didn't taste like really fresh milk. I've stuck with organic milk ever since.

Gum. Long ago, I used to chew on gum a lot, preferably Extra gum and the Wrigley's varieties. Nowadays, I don't get as much enjoyment out of them as before, because almost all gum is so bad for you (artificial sweetners like high-fructose corn syrup, aspertame, and acesulfame-K; food dye; and preservatives). The only time I chew gum now is to keep my ears popped on flights.

What Year Did You Become A Brony?

2011 during the summer, July or August.

 

How Did You Become A Brony ?

Back in the Sonic Stadium Message Board, there were ana bundance of avatars with cute and very well-done character design. Simple, colorful, well-proportioned, and appropriate from a quality standard for all ages, ranging from Rainbow Dash to Luna to Pinkie Pie to Twilight Sparkle to Hell's Angel Bunny. I read the reviews, and they were all very good, so I decided to try it out, beginning with the pilot. It got me hooked, and I started watching every episode from season one. I became a brony after one to two days, and I've followed it ever since.

 

Are You A Contributor Or just A Fan?

I'm both. I watch the show and love it because it's good. But I also dabble in other contributions like fanart and fanfic. Yet, what I do most is reviewing episodes and blogging on the brony fandom in general in the form of essay-writing and editorials.

 

What Age Group Are You?

I'm 25 years old, but will turn 26 soon.

 

Male Or Female? (Or other)

Male brony.

No I'm not.

You look lost, gray, and grumpy.

 

Smile instead!

 

 

 

The best fries are a tie.

1. The Box Frites at Citi Field. These fries are hand-cut and fried to serve. They taste very fresh, crispy, and can be mixed with a wide variety of old Southern-style dips. A box of these bad boys is a meal by itself. Only available during the baseball season.
2. The baked fries Mom and I make at home. Instead of deep frying them, we bake them. We hand-cut the potatoes to equal sizes, spray them and the pan with cooking spray, lay them down on the pan, and pop it in the oven to bake. Golden brown and fresh without the extra oil. Had them twice, and they're easily fantastic!

The worst are the three main fast food chains: McD's, BK, and Wendy's. Not only are they overly salty, but also full of dangerous chemicals that really slow down the oxidation/rotting process. Keep away!

This idea is only plausible within the context of fanwork. In the professional level, it comes across as a cheap copout, telling the audience, "I'm sorry. We screwed up." It's a retcon that doesn't work there, particularly with a writing and production crew that rides on telling stories that don't stoop to such lowbrow clichés. Twinhead B would be upset, and so would I as a very vocal critic of the Twilicorn; DHX and the writers take pride on writing and producing high-quality entertainment. This excuse falls to typical bullshit excuses that have plagued family-friendly entertainment for years. If her wings are sacrificed somehow and someway, it'll have to be much more creative than that and must fit within the context of the MLP:FIM universe and the characters themselves.

@@~Scootaloo, I don't have the qualities to be a paid plumber myself, but that doesn't mean I can't criticize him if he can't unclog the pipes. Despite first-hand amateur knowledge, I may not be paid to write in the professional field, either, but I can still criticize that, too, and that's the case with the Twilicorn. Larson and the team banked on a universally great reception of the Twilicorn if you can bank on Larson, McCarthy, and their half-baked P.R. The writing and execution of it were very shaky, and two ways you can tell are judging the writing itself and reviewing its reception throughout the fandom. It was mixed at best. When the reception isn't what the writers hoped for, then your writing has a problem.

This post came from another thread, but I feel answering it there derails discussion. Because this thread matches up my answer to the person I'm quoting best, I'll answer the post here instead.

 

Five minutes into "Wonderbolt Academy" has this: Applejack to Pinkie Pie "Why don't we go see what Twilight is up to? I hear Princess Celestia's got her working on some new spells."

Cold open to "Spike at your Service": Spike: "How are you supposed to read twelve books in one weekend?" Twilight: "Princess Celestia obviously thinks I can, or she would never have assigned them to me."

Those "hints" offer nothing about Twilight's transformation to an alicorn. Go back to the first act of The Crystal Empire, Part 1. Princess Celestia told Twilight that, once she completes and passes her test, she's capable of advancing "to the next level of her studies." That final three words are the giveaway. If she said, "to the next level" only, then her transformation/"promotion" to the Twilicorn might have gone somewhere, and it would've been a clearer hint towards alicornhood. But she didn't.

When she meant "to the next level of her studies," it means Twilight is now trusted and permitted to study and cast more advanced magic, something that can be done whether she was an alicorn or unicorn. Following The Crystal Empire, Part 2, she began studying magic that was both more advanced (like transfiguring an apple into an orange) and more pressured punctually. The magic Applejack hinted was apparently more advanced, if taking the sequence to heart. Twilight's book-reading assignment deals with cramming spells and still remembering them after everything is complete, alicorn or unicorn. Celestia believed she can maintain her composure, concentration, and patience despite feeling time pressure, hence the assignment.

 

"Magic Duel" - Princess Celestia asks Twilight to demonstrate a magic spell in front of the delegates from Saddle Arabia, bringing them to Ponyville rather than to Canterlot, which would make more sense from a diplomacy point of view. Why bring important VIPs from another country to a backwater town like Ponyville? It makes sense if you reason that she is bringing attention to Twilight to help prepare her for a position of authority.

That still offers nothing. Despite Twilight co-saving the empire from Sombra, she can still be impatient, perfectionistic, and nervous. Celestia's assignment is about performing advanced, circus-like magic under intense pressure and spotlight. This is something done all over Canterlot, Cloudesdale, and other areas in Equestria; Celestia tends to oversee these important events in general. Those who participate in these competitions — including Twilight — comprehend the spotlight. Celestia felt this'll help her function in a pressured environment better, and Twilight knew this. She can do this as an alicorn or unicorn.

 

 

I came up with these three off the top of my head, and I'll bet there are more to find if one looks for them. To say there were no hints is quite untrue.

Like I wrote earlier, they literally foreshadowed nothing regarding the Twilicorn transformation. You're confusing her becoming a princess and her becoming an alicorn. Twilight can become a princess whether she's an alicorn or not. Her being a princess was actually hinted. Her being an alicorn was not past TCEII.

If it truly was like you claim, then it's shitty foreshadowing because it's so ambiguous and offers very little logical sense to the current outcome. Foreshadowing is supposed to hint subsequent events, but their purposes should be much obvious and more straightforward than that. On the other hand, Star Swirl's book following TCEII had branches, too, but the Twilicorn hint was way more obvious than the "others."

 

In my opinion it is far too early to judge seeing as we've not even seen 5 minutes of her.

Five minutes is more than enough time to judge the Twilicorn. Magical Mystery Cure's intention was to create a first (and lasting, as it was actually a series finale) impression. If you make a character undergo a really big change like Twilight and can't accurately impress your audience, then the script has a really huge issue. First impressions are very crucial to getting your audience swayed, and her first impression failed in a quality writing standard.

8.5/10

There is way too many I can choose, but I can recommend a select few.

1. AcoustiMandoPony's sequel of "Loyalty," "Kindness." It's a soft rock song, but extremely well-done with a great melody.
2. Ponyphonic's "Lullaby for a Princess." A song with only the piano as its background. Sad, but beautifully composed.
3. Yourenigma's "Canterlot Wedding," an orchestral song.
4. "Awoken," by both H8_Seed and Wooden Toaster.
5. "Great to Be Different," by Forest Rain.
6. "My Cadence."
7. "Anthropology," by AwkwardMarina.
8. "Picture Perfect Pony," by MandoPony.