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Ironic considering how many people combine pony art / furry art / cartoon/anime-human-art with all those and more. It's just another thing, y'know? People're silly. Also foot, chubby ad milf are 3 of the best, without a doubt. Though with ponies it's more often 'hoof' than 'foot'... i need to stop posting here before i get myself in trouble

I think this sums it up excellently. It's a bit more complicated than that but that's probably the easiest, quickest way to put it for people to understand. (well, y'know, removing the wife part -- I don't think most of us are in such a situation anyway... but we have our other reasons.) In the cartoon? They're freaking adorable. There are subtle things like I've mentioned like the eyes / expressiveness, legs/flanks, voices, overall design. And certain things in certain episodes that would make certain creepy idiots like me go "hmmmm", like Bathrobe Rarity, Whiny Rarity, Burlesque Pinkie, First-Person-View Rarity from Secret of my Excess, Fleur-de-Lis and her posing, etc etc. But mostly no, they don't usually make most of us feel that way; and when I watch the cartoon, especially when I watch new episodes, I like to kinda 'turn into a kid again' and watch them with the glee and innocence of an age before I even cared about such things at all. In fact, in the beginning when I first got into FiM it kinda 'cleansed' me and I didn't care about any kind of sexualized cartoon stuff/furry art/ESPECIALLY pony art like that, for several months (even after some of those episodes I mentioned aired). It really took a long time of 'thinking about it' and being slowly influenced by the increasing amounts of increasingly well-made and subtly juicy art that kept slipping through the cracks. And about that... In fanart? They can range from... anything to anything else depending on the mood the artist is trying to convey / their skill level / the touches with which the piece was crafted and so on, but yeah... anyone who denies that they CAN be made sexy, be it in full-pony form, anthro form, humanized, or whatever, is just kinda in denial. Even if FOR YOU PERSONALLY they can never be made sexy no matter what, by any artist (and there's NOTHING wrong with that, of course!!!), for most of us -- for most of us individuals who find ourselves online and in communities centered around cartoons and who look at a lot of art of stuff like that in the first place -- it's certainly very likely that somehow, some way, through some amount of excellent art that varies from person to person, we can and will get slowly 'tilted toward' being okay with that stuff, even kinda liking it, and eventually probably *really* liking it. I only hope those of you who personally DON'T like the stuff (and never will, even) can realize that and understand that it doesn't make us bad people or make us 'ruin the community' or anything. The only people who're bad, again, are those that try to force it on others or leave things untagged / out in the open so kids and people who DON'T wanna see it might accidentally run into it. But most of us? We'd never EVER bother someone who's not into it about it. Don't hate, tolerate!

Love and tolerance was simply a cute mantra made up in the early days of the fandom to promote the good feelings the show gave and try to get people to get along with each other at least inside the pony community. Of course it didn't work very well and a lot of people outright defied it, but it's still a great mantra to go by. Still, though, it was never actually said or promoted in the show at all and you should just want to follow it of your own will, not any kind of obligation you may feel or thinking it has anything directly to do with ponies. So either say it AND practice it, or just ignore it; don't say it and then hypocritically fail to follow it, y'know?

As someone who's been into FiM since it was brand new, I get really happy and excited whenever I meet new fans, especially this late in the game =w= I hope we meet many more in the future, too!~ And of course you're welcome, Mr. Justice~ If they let me in here, they'll let anyone! ... Welcome And Ghost, it's really not that bad. I'm sensitive to stuff like that too but that vid's more just... silly with grimdark 'effects' than full on grimdark or scary.

I could see a "look into the future" episode or special after the series has ended in which one or more of them have kids (I'd say Applejack would be the most likely, followed by Rarity and Fluttershy perhaps) but otherwise I really don't see such a thing happening lol. and I also would foresee them not even showing the father if they went through with such a thing; more of a general idea of "they had a kid don't they make a nice mom! isn't the kid cute!" than the potential drama of who the baby daddy might be.

This is called "a piece of media being so well-handled, well-written, well-crafted in every sense and even more importantly, so full of charm and heartwarmingness that it just makes you plain HAPPY on a deep level". This is what the best of the best cartoons should always seek to make people feel. It's the reason I got so into ponies in the first place and the kind of thing I'd love more than anything else to strive putting into cartoons of my own someday. I wouldn't call it something so silly as the 'brony spirit' (no offense) and I don't think it's something that is or should be tied *ONLY* to mlp, though mlp for what it is, for how it's been handled and for what it's done definitely gives it off, I feel, more strongly than any single cartoon I can possibly think of (and that includes the greatest of greats). It is THE element that sets FiM apart, gave it such a massive and vibrant community like this of diehard fans, that will keep it in the animation history books for generations to come and that makes a guy like me who's seen hundreds of cartoons and had many favorites for years consider it ... possibly his very, VERY favorite, of all time.

I know it's a few pages back now, but... Dead. This slayed me. Seeing such an image puts me more in love than like 90% of even the highest-quality art and show screenshots and such for some reason. I just... oh my gosh. I just..... aslkfdjadklfjsdaofjoisfjiewoareiaor *LOOOOOOVE*

" Became a pony and be a resident of Equestria " seems like the only logical choice. Also the friends one if it can just be a select few ones that would be comfortable there / that I'd like hanging out with there, so, y'know. But yeah, the solo one sounds best. I mean some of these sound interesting, like having a pony around here or having them humanized etc. but heck dude I wanna live in fantasy land more than anything, and pony fantasy land is one of the best possible ideas ever. Would love it most if I got to be like a kid again and live my whole life over as a PONE BUT YEAH THIS IS WEIRD I FEEL WEIRD WHY AM I THINKING ABOUT THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAA (it's nice though <3)

I think you missed what I was saying; I meant in the Rarity fan thread specifically. I doubt I'd go lower than 80% of the people there finding at least Rarity attractive *at least somewhat* from what I've seen, lol. I actually venture to guess that's why it's by far the biggest fanclub on this forum; I honestly think that because Rarity was designed to be the 'prettiest', have the 'loveliest voice', and be the most 'charming' etc., fans are most likely to find her attractive/crush on her/so on and so forth out of any of the ponies. So there you have stuff like our Rarity thread with all the quite obsessed fans in there, but I actually find the whole thing quite fun and adorable imho. Of course not EVERYONE in there feels such things but it's just the way it seems to mostly be to me. And I'm totally with you on the 'unique clothing' people started adding to them being kind of the trigger here. It first started with me when they put Rarity int hat cute bathrobe with the lil' slippers in Suited for Success and of course Pinkie in the burlesque outfit in Over a Barrel, which blew my mind at the time. Then you had all the artist fads like ponies in socks and all this and that and it just kinda became a... thing.

It's just that 99% of the people there obviously find ponies attractive in some way (or at least THAT pony) and 99% of the posts reflect that, haha

Well, Fluttershy's the cutest.... but Rarity's the prettiest... Pinkie's the bubbliest... Twi's the most adorkable... Dash is the coolest... AJ's the most admirable.... and Derpy's the derpiest!

- Way way way bigger than probably any other fandom out there except for a select few like Star Wars, possibly Star Trek and Dr. Who - Higher potential for nicer, kinder, more loving individuals, which is great - Also higher potential for ultra-creepy mouth-breathing supernerds, even more than other supernerdy fandoms that I've seen, due to the obscenely friendly nature of the show and its community; basically though at least everyone's gonna be pretty strongly one way or the other, you ain't gonna meet anyone boring! - It's a lot more pink and pretty and frilly and prissy and EXTREMELY MAAAANLY - Honestly, way way higher rates of fan content creation from art to music to stories to videos/animation etc. than I've ever seen anywhere else.

Every other season has started in Oct-Nov, but they keep teasing this season as 2015. I'd say between Oct and Feb. or so. If it was gonna be later in 2015 I'm sure they'd say so. Honestly though I really don't mind if they took a full year or more between seasons though, or even just released an ep every once in awhile a la Venture Bros. or Spongebob; I feel the show's quality enough to deserve leeway there, plus doing that to keep up the quality (not that that's worked out for Spongebob but that's another story, lol) to its absolute maximum sounds good to me; furthermore, maybe I'm just a little into the idea of them stretching it out like that so it'll not only last longer but each ep would be more thought-out and it be less likely to jump the shark too hard... Though with s4 being on time and having the full 26 eps, it was very good, so there's probably nothing to worry about either way.

As a person who I know's active in the Rarity fanclub (and knowing what goes on in there) I will honestly say that this truly baffles me, lol.

I would say they practice none.

Just here to mention that even when I'm not super active in the thread for a few days, simply coming back and leafing through the pages, quickly scanning and seeing so many amazing pictures of her is truly a great experience in and of itself. Might suggest trying it sometime if you can peel yourself away for a day or two. I feel obligated to at least add something; Loving that hairstyle...