Coco before Pommel

Happy Taco Tuesday everypony I finished my Sonata cosplay recently! Still need to get some decent pics but have some random selfies, I tried to capture her spirit or something XD Also OMC at the Sonata CCG card, and with Sunset too!!! I reeeeeally want it, but it's like a super-ultra-rare or something so I'm probably out of luck

TBH I wouldn't class any of those as Rainbow Dash being treated "badly" - they're all things that happened in the service of the plot. Bad things happened to her in the alternate timelines, as they did to everypony, because of the war etc. But we got to see Winter Soldier Dash (all I can think with the metal wing XD) being a badass fighting Sombra's army, it's not like she was written OOC or cowardly or anything less than what you'd expect from her character in those circumstances. That's one thing I really liked about the finale, how the alternate versions of the M6 made sense for their characters, or at least you could see how they'd gotten to that point. Serving Nightmare Moon might not be fun, but I don't think Dash would mind the buzzcut - it looks pretty cool and would probably be better for flying, etc. As for filly Dash, Starlight (and Twilight) might have frozen her a few times, but it didn't seem to physically hurt her? And she at least had fun watching them fight XD I get that it's tough watching bad things happen to characters we love, especially in a show that's normally so light and cheerful, but I don't see that as Dash being treated badly by the writers - that would be more if she was written really OOC as mean or cowardly, or if we were meant to think she "deserved" any of the bad stuff that happened to her, or even if she just didn't get a role at all. I thought what we got to see of her AU versions were pretty awesome, even if she didn't play a big role in stopping Starlight, but then none of the M5 did either, so...yeah

Well...I know for sure it's not Spike (unless there's a community of super passionate Spike fans somewhere that I've never come across!) In general though, it's hard to say...when I first got into MLP it felt like there were way more passionate/obsessive Rainbow Dash fans than any other M6, but now it seems to have evened out a bit. For now I'm tempted to say Rarity fans because some seem to have a bit of a persecution complex because they assume Rarity's "hated" so they need to preemptively defend her (and she does get her share of unfair criticism, as do all the M6, but there are also some who are a bit OTT and act like she's the most hated character ever, when that's...really not the case). But passionate fans are awesome! As long as they're not bashing/pitting the M6 against each other, which I hate, it's nice that just about everypony has dedicated fans

Hi there~! I'm Coco before Pommel (obviously XD) but you can call me Coco awesome to meet you, I love your sig btw! And thank you so much, that sounds awesome!! Yay for more Sunny cosplayers for my jacket and boots, I already had a leather jacket so I just took some orange craft foam, cut out the shapes and sewed it on c: I probably wouldn't recommend sewing for the boots though, as it was really tough to sew through - I only did it because I wanted to be able to take it out after, but if you don't mind having the orange stripe, some kind of glue (or possibly paint?) would probably be better for the shoes. Hope that helps and good luck with your cosplay! and yes, exactly! glad to see someone else feels the same way It'd be one thing if she seemed really homesick etc, but she does seem much happier in EQG world with her human body/friends/life. And like you said, she can still visit Equestria through the portal when she wants!

Aww thank you so much guys, I'm glad you like it! and yeah, I bought the clothes but I did all the alterations myself

I will answer...for science! Age: 24 Gender: Female Best Pony: Fluttershy

Hi Sunnies! I thought you might like to see my cosplay of best human~ That's an interesting point...It may be unpopular but I do think that she should generally stay in the human world - unless there's some magic reason she can't - because I honestly think that's the first time she's been really happy and content with her life: pony Sunny was obviously unhappy/dissatisfied with her life in Equestria, or she wouldn't have done what she did. It's in EQG world that she found friendship, understanding and learned to be happy with who she is - that's why I think she wouldn't want to leave permanently, though she may feel homesick at times. Having read through ponies' opinions here though, I think she should make trips through the portal every now and then - most importantly to have closure with Celestia and whoever else she left back there (her family? I get the impression pony Sunny didn't have many friends...) and catch up with Twilight etc. I'd love to see that happen for an episode or two, but permanently...Well, I think after going through the portal again, Sunny would have to decide whether she wants to return for good, or stay in the human world but visit occasionally. I'm happy we're getting EQG4 for more Sunny, and I'd like to see a TV series too, but if they DID decide to end it, I'd want them to bring pony Sunny into FiM every now and then as a recurring character, while also doing her own thing in EQG world (kinda like Discord, I guess?). It would be too awful to lose her completely

Hm, I guess I'd be probably be really angry all the time, and really nasty and bitchy to everyone. Also really loud and confident, I wouldn't care about anyone's feelings and I'd go around telling everyone how my opinions are objectively fact, and be really narrow-minded and intolerant and not care what anyone thought of me. And obviously I would HATE MLP, and cute things in general. I'd only be into dark colours and really shocking, offensive humour type shows. And I'd be like Pinkie: "chocolate? I HATE chocolate!!!"

You guys all make good points about Sunset returning to Equestria! Hmmm...the whole imbalance-of-magic theory is interesting. So does that mean if Sunny went back, the magic would go with her, and so the HuMane 5 would stop ponying up? Or is the magic already there now she brought it, whether she's there or not. So many questions~ now that we're getting EQG4 though, maybe we'll finally get to see Human Sunny? Anywho, question time~! 1: Who in the pony world do you think Sunset Shimmer could be related to? Related like family...nopony in particular I can think of. Maybe Starlight Glimmer could be her evil distant cousin or something, cause similar names 2: Do you think Sunset is a coffee lover, or tea lover? Coffee. IDK, I just get that vibe from her... 3: What do you think Sunset's job is, in the human world? If she's like Human Twilight, I guess still a student, or maybe college student if she's older. 4: Do you think Sunset Shimmer is the kind of person/ pony who turns to pigging out when she's stressed? Based on her superskinny figure and since she's gone through a lot of stress, I'd say no 5: What flavor of ice cream might Sunny like best? I sorta headcanon (mainly cause of a fic I'm working on) that she's more a savoury than sweets person...But I could see her liking something like salted caramel. 6: Sunset in human world, or in Equestria? I...don't know now! I did want her to stay in the human world because that's where all her development has been, she has such strong friendships with the HuMane 5 and it seems a shame to lose them (I know she could keep in touch but it's not exactly the same)...On the other hand, it would be lovely to see her get closure with Celestia, and who knows, if Actual Human Sunny makes an appearance, she may have to! But for now, I'll still say human 7: What kind of music genre do you think Sunny listens to the most? For some reason, I get a rock-chick vibe from her...I think it's her original outfit, it's kinda like that Also because she plays guitar...But I think she'd be open to most kinds of music, a bit of everything. 8: What do you think of SunsetScratch (Sunset Shimmer/ Vinyl Scratch) friendshipping? Sounds awesome! 9: In the human world, do you think Sunset eats meat, or is a vegetarian, or vegan? I think she's a vegetarian, although she might have tried a burger or something once, but just found it too weird/wrong coming from Equestria where pigs etc are sentient. 10: unicorn or alicorn Sunny? Unicorn - the whole alicorn transformation's been done with Twilight, I'm not bothered about seeing it again. Though I'd be okay if she came back and was an alicorn already, it would be funny 11: do you think she has any goals to work toward, either long or short term, in the human world? That's a good point, cause it occurred to me we don't really know what her hobbies/passions and stuff are? After Rainbow Rocks, I headcanoned that she wanted to join the Rainbooms on vocals/guitar (taking Twilight's place), so maybe that? I guess she'd probably want to go to college and stuff, and maybe do some kind of charity work to help kids who are disadvantaged or whatever, stop them from turning to crime etc since she's been there herself

Yesss, I adore this ship! They're so cute together, especially now with Friendship Games there's double the Twilights to go round

I always sleep with a plushie if I can - it's nice having something to cuddle I rotate them, usually when I get a new one - right now I'm sleeping with Freddy Fazbear, before that it was Maud Pie (now there's a sentence I didn't think I'd say ) . But one of my faves to sleep with is a custom filly Fluttershy - she's tiny so I can take her whenever I'm travelling somewhere

Yaaay I can finally hang out here again without fear of spoilers! I just saw Friendship Games and how amazing was Sunset??

Hmmm...I have to say the worst I've ever read is one that was basically Rainbow Dash screeching repeatedly that she wasn't a lesbian, and all of the M6 pestering her to come out because they thought she was with Applejack or something. It had the WORST SPAG, almost unreadable, a random-ass RD/Spike pairing, terrible characterization for everypony involved and was just all around horrible. I've read other bad fics but that's the one that comes to mind :scoots:

So I finally saw this last night and I liked it! Not quite as good as Rainbow Rocks IMO but I enjoyed it a lot I thought it was a little slow to start, tbh, but once the games started it really picked up! Things I liked: ~ SciTwi! She was done really well - she had pony Twi's adorkable thing, but was different enough to make her an interesting character. Before I thought she was going to be straight up evil, like a dark mirrorverse thing, but I'm glad they didn't go that direction - she was definitely still Twilight, just pushed in a different direction by her circumstances. I think they did a good job of keeping the parallels with ponyTwi's development while making it different enough so they weren't just retelling the same story. ~ Sunset Shimmer!!! <3 she's easily my fave thing about EQG, her development is just awesome to watch. I loved how determined she was to figure out the whole magic thing, and it totally made sense she'd still be insecure about proving herself, even after RR because she still felt like she needed ponyTwi's help to be useful. But she's still much more confident in herself and her friendship with the HuMane 5 which is awesome, and that bit when she finally lost it and yelled at SciTwi for unleashing the plant thing during the games...It was such a mix of YESSSS GO SUNSET but omg nooo poor SciTwi, and then how she immediately felt bad after ;~; (Also loved the moment after when Fluttershy was like "she didn't mean it, she's so nice!" and everyone glares at her - it's not just Pinkie who can be tactless! XD) And of course... ~ the final battle! I mean you could see it coming a mile off, but it was still awesome - and I could completely understand Team SciTwi, because she knew no one at CP cared about her, they were just using her to win and didn't even help her when she got sucked in...I'd be wrecking the space/time continuum to go to another world, too! Tbh I sort of wanted original she-demon Sunset back, too, only doing good this time, but it was still amazing to see her coming full circle, helping SciTwi the way ponyTwi helped her because she knows what it's like and she understands friendship now!! Ahhh, I might have teared up a little ~ the Crystal Prep principal as a villain! I liked that she wasn't magic/from Equestria this time, she didn't want to take over the world, she just cared about ~her reputation and winning. While she was obviously still Bad and had some OTT moments, it was a nice change to have a more realistic villain, and how she manipulated SciTwi into doing what she wanted. (I also thought the reveal was going to be that she WAS some Equestrian monster thing and was planning to steal SciTwi's magic device so I'm glad they didn't do that either ) But mostly - amazing villain song X3 ~ The whole thing of the HuMane 5 ponying-up-when-displaying-their-element was predictable, but gave us some cute moments anyway - my fave was Applejack helping SciTwi during the archery, when she was so anxious and screwing up and Sour Sweet was yelling at her, it was painful to watch but also really sweet <3 Oh, and Dash saving Sunset! (It amused me how they didn't, y'know, STOP the games when a giant plant monster was trying to eat everyone, but that would make way too much sense ) ~ smaller thing I also liked that we had some pairings we don't get to see together too often: AppleShy on the archery, RariPie on the skating and Sunset/Dash on the motorbikes (seriously, what sort of school event has baking contests, archery and freaking motorcross?? ) - it was nice to see them working together! ~ of course, the music! I've been listening to the soundtrack on repeat today ^.^; Favourite songs are the CHS Rally, the Acadeca song and Release the Magic, which all did a good job of weaving the music and the narrative - especially the last two. I also thought SciTwi's What More is Out There sounded very Disney, like it could be from Tangled or Frozen or something (which is a compliment!). Minor nitpicks: ~ I thought the new characters were a bit weak/underdeveloped. Sour Sweet had some funny lines, but even then I couldn't help thinking she looked like a Sonata Dusk recolour And Sugarcoat looks like Trixie with pigtails...just, yeah, both design and characterization could have been better. ~ Actual Dog Spike can talk! Because...reasons? (I mean, I know HOW it happened, I'm just questioning WHY it had to happen when it didn't really add anything) I guess they just really wanted to have him talk? It just seemed a bit random, and imo it was cuter when he didn't talk, to separate him from Dragon Spike. ~ I'm convinced they're only putting Flash Sentry in to troll the bronies at this point (or probably more likely to sell toys, but ssh) - he somehow did even less than in RR, didn't further the plot or SciTwi's development in any way, what was the point of him? His screentime should have been given to the CP students, IMO - I'm not even an extreme hater or anything, but yeah. ~ At times some of the dialogue felt...less natural than before? Like there was more tell-don't-show - I know, for kids etc, but MLP in general is usually better at this. The new director might explain it, I guess? But yeah - overall, I enjoyed it a lot

I have waaay too many ships. I have an armada, you could say OTPs Casual ships ...and probably more I'm forgetting X3

I think for the most part, while MLP has its share of darker/disturbing moments (brainwashing in The Cutie Map, Pinkie's freakout in Party of One, Discord's corruption of the mane 6 in The Return of Harmony), they all seem like pretty typical cartoon stuff and there's not much I'd see as being particularly more "adult" than most cartoons. I mean, MLP is barely allowed to even hint at death, while, say, Steven Universe has an episode where the main character dies like 50 times, so yeah I think a lot of the references are clearly aimed at the older audience, however: some kids might get Doctor Whooves, but they probably wouldn't the Big Lebowski bowling ponies, for example! Also The Shining pony, the Metal Gear Solid reference (Discord eps in general are good for this), Twilight saying "Winter is coming"...there's probably a ton more I'm forgetting. Again not unusual for cartoons, but probably closer to not being "for kids" If Equestria Girls counts, you could maaaaybe say The Dazzlings are pushing it...they're probably the most overtly ~sexy~ characters MLP has ever done, what with being sirens and all?