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  1. On-Locoweed
    There probably will not be a G5 at all in the same sense that there is a G4.
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    Let's just go with what I'm currently listening to: Love of Life by Swans (on vinyl). It's good. It's intense. It's delicate. It's consistent. It's subtle. It's outrageous. it's courageous. It's personal. It's public. It's deep. It's enigmatic. It's haunting. It's unexpected. It's abrasive. It's tender. It's dynamic. It's droning. It's a shadow. It's a ray of light. It's specific. It's universal. It's timeless. I'd give it 121/36.
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    I feel like Eddie Vedder is easy to make fun of because his voice is so distinctive and so tied to a particular time, but "Even Flow" is my (pearl) jam! Also Bjork. Very influential, but I'm pretty sure most people just like her for the swan dress. She's one of my personal favorites though.
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    Is this neighsaying knee-jerk reaction to everything pony grimdark a little much? I think it is. Yeah, MisterDavie's videos are bizarre artistic interpretations of situations most of us would never dream of, but we should not just revel when something that we don't care for is being censored. Art is provocative sometimes, and artists have full license to provoke and twist material according to their vision, so long as they know where the line lies between source and imitation. I will bet that fan artists who do NSFW or graphically violent content are well aware that there is a distinction between the world they create with their art and what is actually the original, bounded world of MLP. One should not just jump ahead and say "good riddance, we're better off without the MisterDavies of the world", because you should know that art, fan art included, is supposed to be an artist's subjective interpretation of something. Sometimes, this interpretation comes to us as something we find distasteful, but as derivative works, such fan art should not be conflated with what one perceives as the actual world of MLP that one sees on TV. It's up to you too, Bronies, to figure out where to make these distinctions. Remixing or reimagining a popular cultural item is part of our culture and a tenet of contemporary art. So, if you see something you think is in bad taste concerning something you like, then of course you have every right to navigate away from that page/channel and enjoy only what you take out of MLP. But come on, what do you have to gain from supporting the sanitizing of creativity? What is life, the world, being human without having anything to challenge you, to push your buttons, to expand your perceptive abilities? What the hell is liking My Little Pony if weirdos like MisterDavie, or SergeantSprinkles, or Tiarawhy don't show up to remind you that everything about this pony stuff, the show included, is all in good fun at the end of the day? Such art is not a negation of any morality established by the show, but rather a provocation of your sensibilities. It truly is all about perception and how you can learn from experience. I'm particularly impressionable to graphic violence because I dwell on it too much, but I can still appreciate what controversial art means to a culture and how essential it is to have all styles and interpretations represented in moderation. However, it is still up to you, the viewer, to decide just how to fit provocative art (NSFW/grimdark pony) into the way you see your culture (the brony fandom), and if you can make a functioning synthesis between two opposing aesthetic designs (SFW vs. NSFW). I'm not saying you have to like any or all of it, but it's art and it still deserves respect and consideration.
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    Dubstep makes my hair fall out.
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    I had long held the assumption that it was a kind of tongue-in-cheek thing, like a recognized ironic in-joke whose participants had enough self-awareness to control the growth/scope of the movement. Whoops! I underestimated the structure and size of the fandom before looking into it, so when I just dived in, of course, it was way deeper than I had anticipated. I'm still trying to find the bottom.
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    "Generosity" is a little too on the nose for me. It seems like a required moral filler written in to remind people that Rarity's sacrifices for her friends, etc. come from being generous and not just because she's a histrionic perfectionista. Also, the song from the S5 finale had a gut-wrenchingly saccharine montage of Starlight G and the rest of those horses doing friendsy things, and I detest the way everypony looks into the camera at the end of the song. So, the scene with that one ("Friends are Always There For You") left kind of a bad taste in my mouth, but yay, whatever, friendship. (EQG doesn't exist to me, so throw all of those songs out the window come at me brohoof social)
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    (In regards to the part about "Amending Fences") I agree, it's very touching and embellishes the theme of tender reconciliation. Moreover, I really, really dig how that last shot of the episode is framed, with the viewer perspective inside the house observing the (whatever sport they're doing out there, lol) game going on outside. The scene, music included, is one of my favorites from the show because of how much meaning is constructed with relatively simple techniques. Masterful.
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    There's this nice hardcover book called The Art of Equestria. It's mostly a concept art book and visual dictionary of stuff in the show. I think it came out in 2015, but I'm pretty sure it was written by someone who is not directly connected to the development of the show because she's a bit mistaken on some details, which makes me think she writes this type of book for a lot of different shows. It does contain some of Lauren's early character designs though, and I find those neat to look at. Also, even though it isn't a "book", per se, it is book-like; a collectible poster book of individual characters and different events in Equestria (a poster for the Sisterhooves Social, Starswirl the Bearded Travelling Museum, Hinny of the Hills, Shining Armor and Cadance's wedding, with the date for the airing of "A Canterlot Wedding" as the date of their wedding).
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    Poprocks candy in a Shirley Temple (wash down a couple of Adderall XR for good measure).
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    Back when Jesse Wood was Drowning in Horsehsoes, that there was legitimate pony entertainment. Also, pretty much the whole Horseshoe Crew when they were all still doing pony stuff in 2014. I still keep up with TBBBAP when new episodes come out. Non-pony, I guess I really enjoy IHateEverything, CinemaSins, YourMovieSucks, and RedLetterMedia.
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    Favorite is definitely "Cutie Mark Crusaders Go Crusading", from "The Show Stoppers" episode. I like the montage a lot. Also, the music in the scene from "Lesson Zero" where Celestia tells the Mane 6 that they all have to start writing friendship lessons. I think the music there reflects the whole master-student teaching thing. A lesson learned is wisdom earned!
  13. On-Locoweed
    Adventures in record collecting, appreciating and studying music, art theory, experiencing the modern world and convergence culture, influential literature, and the way it's all connected, baby.
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    As one Brony pointed out once, the fandom in general is infinitely more concerned with itself than it is with the show, so I don't find it surprising that people come for the show, get bored with it, but stick around for the community aspect.
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    I don't see a place on the ballot for Aftermath, Sherclop Pones, PinkiePieSwear, Forest Rain, Foozogz, General Mumble, SimGretina, d.notive, Tarby, or Silva Hound. Some of those guys go as far back as Glaze and Tombstone do, you know? Anyway, I think out of the given candidates I would choose Glaze first. Good stuff. I also really appreciate Foozogz. Dude's music is like MLP on cocaine. My favorite fan-made song used to be "Paper Sky" by BlackGryph0n and Baasik, but now it's this:
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    A question about composition: how did you decide to put that particular type of ear with a show-style drawing? What was your reference? (I really enjoy talking art and learning about others' creative processes, so I was just curious about how you arrived there.)
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    The first video, in my opinion, is more expressly an animation than a PMV, because it is an animation accompanied by music, whereas the second video and the one found with the link are two types of PMVs which I like to call (by my own very amateur and possibly inaccurate monikers) "Source PMV" (because it uses edited show footage) and "Slide Show PMV" (because it has abstract visuals that kind of look like a big, colorful Prezi where things are morphin' around and shootin' this way 'n that). Some effective examples of this style include the animated intro sequences for both "The Brony Chronicles" documentary and the first Equestria Girls movie; both have the fluid, solid-figure and flashy shapes animation with a song behind it that resemble a lot of the Slide Show PMV type. The technical terms for the different animation and compilation styles are probably a little more nuanced than I know of, but the two PMVs you give above are pretty good examples of two of the different types. A PMV, in its simplest definition, is a combination of visual and musical elements that acts like a music video in that there is either a narrative purpose (like a full-fledged animation would have) or lyric slides mixed with stills or source clips that complement the meaning of the song. This doesn't mean that every animation that has music in it is a PMV, because a PMV, one would assume, has a greater focus on showing off the song as opposed to an animator's project. So, "Children of the Night", or "Smile HD", or "Once Upon a Time in Canterlot", for example, are not PMVs, because, while the video contains a song, the animation is the intended product. DuoCartoonist, MisterDavie, and kanashiipanda consider themselves animators and not PMV-ers, like, let's say, the The Acleps, The Collaboratory, or (this guy is both, I think) BronyDanceParty. Speaking of BronyDanceParty, his videos are of another type which I call "featured artist" PMVs. These PMVs feature the OCs of the actual musicians who created the song in the video, and the action typically follows some sort of narrative arc. Now, this type could definitely qualify for being an animation without the PMV label, since perhaps the creator feels that it can operate as an autonomous work, free of just being visual entertainment that accompanies a song. The label is up to the artist, truly. Something I have wondered for a while is how to classify videos of songs from popular music that become the inspiration for accompanying animations or PMVs. For example, Viva "IMMATOONLINK" Reverie's video for "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" could go either way, since it is an animation and it is a video where the characters' mouths are dubbed to the words and appears to follow a narrative arc. I think at this point (besides reading way too into the matter of "what's a PMV and what isn't), the question of a video being exclusively an animation or exclusively a PMV is up to the creator and what he or she feels is the purpose of the video. On this note, I would still continue to classify the "Centuries PMV" in the post up top as a 'Source PMV", since, although it is popular music and clearly not a pony song, it still uses show footage to create a video as opposed to an animation created especially for it.
  18. On-Locoweed
    I found this video to be very helpful describing why Applejack is the way she is and possibly why she has been overlooked in the past. It's a follow-up to one of Jesse Wood's other videos about Mane 6 characterization.
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    Since I prefer the episodes that go really big, like the season premiers and finales, or some of the episodes that don't resemble things I see in other cartoons, I have to say I get bored or frustrated with the ones that DO seem really cartoon-y. I'm thinking mostly of ones from Season 1 and 2 that just put a bad taste in my mouth the first time I saw them, like Owl's Well that Ends Well", "A Dog and Pony Show", "The Mysterious Mare Do-Well", "Baby Cakes", and "Dragon Quest". Then there are some from Season 3 that made it really difficult to continue watching, like "Sike at Your Service", "Just For Sidekicks", etc. So, despite MLP being a kids cartoon, I still prefer the episodes that really push the envelope with storytelling and world-building, and I'm less excited by your typical slice of life episodes (though some are good), and I abhor episodes that have to do with Spike because nothing seems to get accomplished in such episodes. I don't really like to wear my heart on my sleeve here, but I'm just going to admit something: "Magical Mystery Cure" makes me cry every time I watch it. I tear up during "A True, True Friend", but I completely break down during the "Celestia's Ballad" scene. The entire scene up to the reveal of Twilight's wings is the kind of cathartic payoff one gets from being deeply invested in one character over a long time, in this case, over the course of the show's previous 64 episodes. If I ever stop emoting when that episode comes on, I think it may mean I'm over the whole pony thing. Or maybe it means I'm not being a baby about it any more. S4 and S5 feature several new writers on the staff, and the show feels a little more mature compared to the occasional typicality of some episodes from S1-S3. My criticisms in some of the S4 and S5 episodes are mostly toward creative decisions within each episode, or the narrative concept in general, for I feel that the structures present do not rehash cartoon plots and devices (as much) as was the case in the first three seasons. Thus, the newer episodes have problems too, and so are tiresome or boring at times, but they are not annoying cliches as before. The introduction of the season-long arc theme in both of the most recent seasons gives me a little more investment in the individual episodes, so they don't bore me as much. Sorry about the length of this post, but, unlike some of the episodes of MLP, this is a topic I don't get tired of.
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    I enjoy it a lot. In fact, I wish some of these songs would get played on Ponyvile Live stations sometimes, because, while there are some kickass fan-made remixes that get circulated around, there is also no shortage of tasteless, repetitive dubstep remixes of every damn show song that find their way into the radio playlists. I like the songs on FiM Remixed because they exhibit some professional-grade production value and some real innovation insofar as restructuring some classic songs that usually get the same treatment by remixers across the board. Pony remixes aren't new, but I found the album to be a fresh and exciting take on some of my favorite songs from the show. The "Winter Wrap-Up" remix was the first I heard from the album and I thought it was fabulous the first time I heard it. And you know what? It still is. I think the first "Love is in Bloom" remix that appears on the album is my favorite remix of that song, and I appreciate the new spin on "The Smile Song", since it actually gave that number a different tone than other remixes of the same song have. The remixes on FiM Remixed are great, and they are worthy of coexisting in the large body of fan music alongside other awesome ones from Tombstone, Sim Gretina, Eurobeat Brony, Aftermath, et al. The album is really good, but after the remix of "This Day Aria", I think the album goes on a little too long. My biggest complaint is that it has two of the same songs remixed twice, and, while those are good in their own right, it's a slight redundancy to have multiple remixes on the same album when Ingram probably could have picked the better of each one and shelved the other. I would prefer if the second "Becoming Popular" and "Love is in Bloom" were replaced with a rockin remix of "Ballad of the Crystal Empire", and maybe an even more touching rendition of "A True, True Friend" than we've seen before. When remixing is approached from an angle of either deconstruction or overhaul, as is the case with some of the songs from FiM Remixed, the results are typically novel and inventive. Variety is the spice of life, and I'm glad that this album exists to prove such novelty can hold up with the classics. I like it. Oh, and I like head bangin' too, and these songs are some bangin' head bangin' tunes!
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    I grind my teeth at night. I have auditory hallucinations right before falling asleep. Sometimes if I fall asleep on my back i get sleep paralysis and I have to fight like crazy to get out of it and usually I'm thrashing around or screaming when I come to. I dream about people I know and places I've been. On average I get about 6 hours of restful sleep a night and it works for me. I'd like to get more though. I'd like to sleep for a thousand years.
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    This is true, the rainbow power concept was the basis of a season-long arc, but I think where the dues ex machina complaint enters is how quickly and suddenly it was used to pull off such a stunning victory against seemingly-insurmountable odds. At the 11th hour, when Tirek had consumed literally all of the magics, the tree of harmony lock box just BOOM spawns this new power that is apparently more powerful than the elements of harmony, the tree itself, and, because it was used to defeat Tirek so easily, was more potent than all of the magic of all ponies in Equestria including 4 effing alicorn princesses. "Twilight's Kingdom" is enjoyable. It had to be a big episode so, in a way, it had to have a big finish, even if it looked a little hokey and felt too sudden. Meghan had been hyping the episode up all season, and it had big shoes to fill as far as promising a good conclusion to a good season as well as trying to follow up "Magical Mystery Cure" as what a "Wham!" Season finale should be. It's also highly contested because there are those leaps of logic, but the problems with the episode do not make it bad. The employment of the rainbow power acts like a dues ex machina, (though I must say I'm really tired of people using that term all the time), because of the all-powerful, game-changing, overwhelming nature of its effect. It's a god power, it's god acting out of the machine- it's a dues ex machina.
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    You mean you don't think the magic of double joints and contortionists will be introduced? It would have helped out Blossomforth a while back lol.
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    Rarity got nuthin on G3 Dashie...or G4 Dash for that matter. She got speed, agility, guts, style, coolness, awesomeness, and radicalness! But anyway, a shirt I found once online that I like, but is still a little too ostentatious for me (like I'd probably be compelled to conceal it under another layer), is this thing: http://www.welovefine.com/welcome-stallion-10604.html It's brainwashed Party Favor!
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    The pants are cool, but I hate when they use the images that have their mouths open without any, like, tongues or teeth or anything. It just always makes me wonder how they think anybody wants that awkward open horse mouth on their clothes or... Or wherever else there's those character models with the slightly open mouth. Other than that detail, that swag is pretty bitchin'. Rainbow Dash always dresses in style.
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