Silver Stream.

I don't think you're in the minority at all. I've seen overwhelming positivity for the episode, with only a few detractors.

I need to look where you'r'e looking then 

It's normal for your interest in any show to have it's ups and downs until you eventually drop interest altogether or stay committed forever. So far my interest for the show hasn't dropped, but more so my interest in the fandom dropped a few months ago. Just getting back into the swing of things 

After watching many reaction videos to episode 8, I noticed how people nitpicked that we were getting a Christmas episode in may and how the episode wasn't creative because it was a Christmas Carol/The Grinch ripoff. (in the comments at least, the youtubers were really chill) In fact, it seems as though those who did enjoy the episode, only enjoyed it because of the the Luna and Starlight songs.

But personally, I think it was an amazing episode. I don't think it's fair to demand holiday episodes to air near or on that exact holiday all the time since we don't know the reason behind it. (at least I don't). So what a Christmas episode aired so far away from the actual date? And surprisingly enough, I find this Hearth's Warming episode the best out of all the others; Hearthbreakers a close second. I also favor this episode as the best musical episode too:

- Catchy song for an intro

- F*cking bravo to Starlight for that entertaining number

- Seeds of the fast is a very meaningful song many people need to listen to. Lyrics spoke the truth 

- Pinkie pie you done it again! I love upbeat songs with a swingin' tune!

- Luna (I'm sure many would agree) sung beautifully and the instrumental gave her song a very haunting, bone-chilling vibe that made me smile 

- Sweet/cheery reprise 

Unlike other musical episodes, it didn't feel too rushed or crammed. Each number flowed to the next while keeping the story going along.

And I think the episode was creative despite the heavy influence of two Christmas classics and the similar plotline. They found a way to mash the classics and Starlight's cutie mark issue all over again. Most people. including me, figured she was some twisted villain with evil motives when she was actually a twisted confused pony making drastic decisions she felt were needed to be done to make Equestria a better place. And this was basically the same for Snowfall.

Also...I honestly don't see why people think the lesson in this episode was to guilt-trip and brainwash your friends into into enjoying a holiday they don't care for? I thought that sort of thing was addressed in Season 5: Scaremaster (An episode I will forever applaud). Twilight simply shared a classic to Starlight so she'd understand that Hearth's Warming goes beyond upholding a tradition and clinging to a myth, and don't let your lack of belief on some story make you believe a certain holiday is a waste of everyone's time. In the end, Twilight did give her a choice right? 

I might be in the minority here, but this episode sounds like a hit to me if it's written well. I know many people including myself who can relate to this. Its tough giving tough love to your own sibling especially when they need to get their shit together. Lets not forget how much of a push over Fluttershy used to be....so I'd imagine her Brother always misunderstood what she tries to tell him and takes it as doing stuff his own way.


My greatest fear is failure. And I'm sure many other young college kids feel the same. Interesting plot....hope it turns out well

I really enjoyed this episode.

The lesson was good,but the most I got out it was how to be selfless. I've always admired how mature and helpful Rarity is towards her friends and how she'll do anything to cheer them up. I loved the interaction between her and pinkie pie, but Maud stole the show (duh).

You...Must have had a lot of time on your hands to come up with this, my friend lol.

I et that, but the dialog made it clear enough in itself-expecially if anyone has already watched Hearths Wrming eve

The Crystalling: "never before has Equestria seen an alicorn birth" (key word- has Equestria)

Hearths Warming Eve: " long ago, before the peaceful rule ofCelestia, and before ponies discovered the beautiful land of Equestria-"

It's just a harmless question. Maybe it was clear to you, but it wasn't clear to me. Yes I know of the journal.of the two sisters, and yes I saw the Hearth's Warming episode, but I was only wondering since Luna stated alicorns by birth were even beyond THEIR understanding. I get Equestria has never seen it, and I can even understand that Celestia and Luna never saw one, but to me it seemed as if alicorn birth was "unheard of" period.

Had they said something like "there hasn't been an alicorn birth since our birth" or "Never has this happened in Equestria. Luna and I were born before it's time, so we were thought to be the last of alicorn birth" or something along those lines. Hell, I don't know...

But I'm simply asking.

Nice loophole. But Luna did say it was beyond their understanding which was why I asked. Its all.....really confusing. But I'm sure Season 6 will shed more light on alicorns. I can imagine future episodes where Twilight tries to figure out how Flurryheart was born an alicorn. Who knows

Mind you, I'm still watching the episode. But it seems they weren't knowledgeable about alicorns by birth.

Also, I really like Sunburt's design and color palette. Starlight's new mane style and I love the obvious joke at the beginning "the castle looked so much smaller from the outside". Good one.....(just had to get that out my system.

Could you do something with this?

 

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Honestly you may freestyle however you like and it can be up to you whether it's better as a signature or icon or whatever. You're the true artist <3

 

The only thing I can really think for text is maybe Silver Shimmer or Sun Stream.....or something....xD

 

 

 

I'll really appreciate it c:

I didn't have time to read the whole bio, but I was instantly drawn to her because of her colors! She is so beautiful. PLEASE draw some more pics of her and share them! Amazing job!! Excellent for your FIRST OC!

Oh that art was done by someone else. I merely gave them a description on Silver Stream's out appearance and they brought my imagination to life

Haha, nah. They are slaves to the magic of friendship. 

I don't know where all of you have been looking, but Applejack still gets called a background pony, and people constantly complain about "no good AppleJack episodes".

 

Pinkie definitely wins. Almost all her actions get written of because of her 4th wall breaking capabilities.

DAMN IT!!!! 

I was just going to bring that up, but you beat me to it. 

I don't see Applejack as a background character, hut I can't deny how dry her execution can be sometimes if she isn't talking sense into the others or saving an idiot from danger. AJ centered episodes haven't been memorable let alone as good as Pinkie Pie's. While everyone's opinion is different (since there are bronies out there that will say all pinkie episodes are had, and AJ's are great), I think her episodes push her out of character. The only episodes that are decently good are episodes in which she SHARES the spotlight with Rarity, Rainbowdash, and Pinkie Pie. 

Pinkie Pie can dominate her own episodes. "Pinkie Pride" for example. I honestly don't think Weird Al dominated the episode as many anticipated. AJ is an awesome character and role model, but there's a lot of things about her that aren't that appealing. 

When I think Applejack, I think "grounded responsible pony with safe episodes...they can do better". 

But with Pinkie? You can't deny how popular she is within the random. People like her silly quest to make everyone happy. People enjoy a good laugh. People can even go as far as relating to her by being a person who smiles a lot but have deep issues on the inside. 

The ONLY complaints I've heard from her is how annoying she can be if they push her silliness too far.

Nope.  Actually now you have me nervous, thought it was an OC, but what ya said made me think it's now an unwitting carbon copy.  Now I am worried!

xD No worries hun. I'm constantly between this site and theirs so it's possible I saw you around this site before but mistaken it to be on the FIMFiction site. I'm working on a story there, so it's easy to get confused, lol

@@Silver Stream.

 

To put a point on it, further detail isn't near as important as refinement.  I made the mistake to almost make fan-fic level of detail, and it's hard to find that balance between brevity and depth, because many forget that to say detail.  However, part of a greatly writen backstory as I see it is elegance.  The depth should be apparent, without making it too wordy.  But that's usually executed by far more talented writers than I.

Fairly said. I will work on a better revision without dumping a load that will cause readers to look in the other direction. 

Also, your avatar looks familiar. Are you, by any chance, an author on the FIMFiction website?

@@Silver Stream.

 

Three things that are kind of getting to me.

 

1) I am a bit proponent of Flaws/Vices, and one thing about Silver Stream is she doesn't feel like any failings she has can lead to real challenging encounters.  Don't get me wrong, I love the concept in general, I just feel it can be put over with a clear-cut point of personal failing.  It might just be me, but she seems to fly a little too close to Mary Sue territory, and I see the effort to avoid it.  I think that can be helped if you expound upon the 'Unbearable Personality', because while you tell us what it is, you don't demonstrate how this is holding your character back and in fact just seems to be stated to be swept under the rug immediately.  Again, probably not the impression you wanted to give, just the one I got.

 

2) [ignore if you are not bringing this one into an RP]  One of the things as an RPer I often ask is: Is the background story more interesting than anything you will be doing?  If so, why aren't we playing THAT story out? 

 

3) A minor one, but in the background and personality, you were making it a wall of text.  This can make it quite a bit more tedious to read.  Break it up a bit with paragraphs, it makes things easier to read.  Breaking it down a bit into clear chunks will help a bit as a profile.

 

Hope this helps

 

 

 

P.S.:  Illustration is amazing!

1.) Apologies if I failed to expand on her flaws. I usually will do that via roleplay where I can roleplay it out. Her bio is mostly brief when it comes to description. But maybe it's better to not hold back, and just lay EVERYTHING out in detail so people can understand her on a deeper level, because that seems to be what you're looking for. Until I revise her bio, I'll expand on what was said so that you can realize her personal failings:

 - Her relationship with her parents. When expressing how she had to live up to everyone's expectations ESPECIALLY her parents, I was implying a strained relationship. Even saying she was forced to sing by her mother, Sour Note, who never had the talent to sing herself. Pretty much a mother forcing her daughter to discover a talent she never discovered herself. Because she was deprived of truly discovering who she is for so long, she grew up a blank flank. Of course, she doesn't HATE her parents. Late I even plan to create bios for them. Sour Note is a unicorn who thinks she knows what's best for her daughter and simply wish to shape her into what she wanted to be. Urbanity, is an earth pony who wasn't originally "Canterlot" material, but eventually became one of the most respected ponies in Canterlot; hosting grand parties and demonstrating aristocracy at it's finest. 

- Neglecting her emotional healing abilities. I mentioned this because I wanted to stress how she is still focusing on the wrong things. She studies hard to master her elemental water magic, but doesn't with the other. After all, it's hard to help others when you still need help yourself. 

The fact that "high society" and "singing" is listed under her dislikes means she still dealing with the past and can't completely move on. The sad thing is, she doesn't realize this yet.

- Her unbearable personality comes from her need to shape herself into what she wants to be. Despite her short adventures, they only brought her out her shell and gave her a way to at least accept that she has the power to be whoever she wants to be. Discovering her cutiemark is only the beginning. But now she is seemingly obsessed with mastering her "talent" without realizing she's neglecting one of them. 

2) That's a good question. I guess I don't want to play this story out because there are far more interesting things to do with her from this point forward. To explore what I've mentioned above and mostly use her past to help shape what happens next. Basically I needed to create a rather simple foundation and build from there. 

3) Break it down, got it! 

P.S  thank you 

Hmmm....maybe I should simply add most of what I said here in her bio. 

Thank the heavens. Starlight is in the opening AND her "long lost best friend" is as well. I was hoping something would happen given that um...interesting Season 6 finale where they address her "scarring issue" that led her to becoming insane. 

       I h8 to be a critic to a great O.C. but, as nice and comfortable as those destinations sounds as cannon placed that we know firsthoof, it is kind of (my opinion) insulting to me that you are just giving us these confirmed places.

      Go wild, Make new places up that aren't proven but still seem possible. a monastery of mountain goats? go for it. it should make think " whoa, now she has Realy gone places!" 

       But hey that is my opinion and your O.C. Is an Amazing creation no matter what you choose. You got my approval no matter what you choose to do, and I look forward to getting to know her better.

Thank you so much! I understand what you're saying, but I wanted to shape my OC by using the canon universe of Equestria. What you're suggesting seems more like world building, which is something completely different from creating an OC. But it's not too late to do as you suggested. Silver still has issues...who's to say she won't make new discoveries in the future to face those issues? Such as her issues with her parents and how she neglects her emotional  healing talents. To build world, I prefer to start off in familiar territories then move forward from there. Had I started her off discovering some unknown places and then leaving them, that would defeat the purpose of creating something new because it would've been in the past. 

Honestly your OC is very well constructed, and incredibly relatable to not only a general audience, but also the niche of people who use literary arts and nature to gather and nurse themselves. Your back story essentially outlines the coming-of-age struggle of finding out who oneself is and does so in a way that is not cookie cutter. Old things done in new ways, that's the key to innovation.

Oh wow, was not expecting that sort of reply. I'm honored for your rating. Thank you so much 

So I need some opinions on my OC Silver Stream. 

https://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/silver-stream-r9094

I might make a few changes afterwards, so constructive criticism is highly appreciated 

Well, I'm making the request, but I saw some people  inactive, and I can't speak with them about the request so...

Please the active people, who still want the request which I promised, comment to this post.

 

(yes I know Yellow Pearl, your request is work in progress. soon I'll post C: )

I am one of the people who originally requested a drawing. So I'm still interested if you're still willing to do mine <3 <3

Chapter 3 is now published c:

I'm highly amused that many are using minor misunderstood.....and in my opinion....childish reasons as to why Rarity would be a terrible princess. She's too fashiony? All she'll talk about is fashion? Her cutiemark only means she can find jewels so that's what she'll do as  a princess. 

My word, this is too rich. That's like a person saying Twilight is unworthy of her title because she's too nerdy....and all she'll talk about is books. 

I'm not shaming those who believe Rarity isn't fit to be a princess, I'm expressing dissapointment in the REASONS they use. Most of which are irrelevant to the topic at hand. A pony's interests should be the last thing you should use against them if you're explaining why you see them unfit as a pony of high power.

This is what many are sounding lile to me (used AJ for demonstration):

Applejack, a character who's been well grounded since Season 1....mature and level-headed. The family oriented Samaritan with great work ethic . Who possesses many great values......WOULD BE A TERRIBLE PRINCESS! She's too "country". She doesn't have class. And all she cares about are apples. Her cutiemark is literally apples. Besides, I can't relate to her therefore I can't understand her. And I think anypony I don't understand will be  a terrible prince/princess by default. 

Personally, I have no desires to see all of them become alicorn buddies. But im not againt the idea either. I understand that each possess qualities in what a "Princess" should be including Rarity. And not all princesses are perfect.....that's an obvious truth we've seen countless times from Twilight,Celestia, and Luna. And while it hasn't been executed even Cadence has flaws to being a princess. 

When you foolishly leave a world of real.power and magic and find yourself being an angry brat at a high school, winning to be the top of anything is pretty much the only thing left to do. Especially of you're already power hungry. Any power is better than none, and I don't think becoming president/ruler/whatever of that entire world was a possible first step xD.

I love you Sunset Shimmer, but I'm going with Trixie. 

I wish she was a secondary character like Discord because I can imagine the rivalry between her and Twilight being more entertaining than Starlight vs Twilight in the season 5 finale