Mingan Muon

Something like this? Or do you mean tooth decay, in which case I'm wondering why your oboe teacher is looking at your teeth.

My dad plays trombone, and always harps on the awsomeness of the trombone section. To be honest though, they are pretty cool. On reread, I phrased my (french) horn explanation in a way that can easily be interpreted as assuming that you are ignorant. Sorry for any misunderstanding. And yes, horn is typically a generic term, so I use "french horn" whenever there might be confusion. Etymology is so interesting.

Richard Strauss once said, "Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them". I'm just following his advice and not even mentioning them. In regards to the french horn vs. horn issue, I'll direct you to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument).Take a look and you'll see that "horn" refers to many instruments, from natural horns to french horns to german horns. The alto horn, which looks like the baritone horn, is also technically a horn. Basically a conical bore defines a horn. A modern double Bb/F horn is called a "french horn" informally but is technically a variant of the german horn. What are commonly called "french horns" are not french horns in reality. An English horn (cor anglais) is not a horn.

Yes, I play the horn (finally someone says horn instead of "french horn"...). I used to play the trumpet, but converted to the horn. Horn is truly the best instrument ever created. The basic design of the horn has not changed for a century or two, since the introduction of valves, while other brass instruments (trumpet, euphonium, etc.) are either new to the scene or have changed a lot in the last centuries. That attests to its perfection. A bad horn is bad to play. While it may seem obvious, it's more true for horn than other instruments. Pitch centering is hard on a dented horn and bad horns are typically chronically flat or sharp on several notes. Also, (sharp) articulation is hard to become good at on a bad horn, for reasons that I don't know the physics behind. If you had trouble on a bad horn, don't let that drive you away from the horn. I played the clarinet casually for awhile (a year, with about 1-2 hr. of practicing per week). I didn't really get into it, and stuck to brass for most of my musical enterprises. (I'm a bit crazy about music, if that isn't obvious)

I don't know what part of their life you wish you had, but for me, I would love the ease of conversation that they have. As a male, if I start a conversation with a girl, I'm typically either 1) shooed away in favor of her (nonsexual, ofc) girlfriends or 2) assumed to be romantically/sexually interested in her. Only if we share a common interest can I get a regular conversation going, for example about a hard piece in band. On the male-to-male side, I find most friendships are built around utility, and serve that purpose (let's go play frisbee). Girl-to-girl, on the other hand, seems more open and they seem to talk about life in general more often. Now, as a male, I'm logical and dislike small talk/chitchat that doesn't do anything useful, and I don't like talking about random stuff as girls typically do, but I'd still like the openness that girls have. It's kinda hard to express. As an offshoot of that topic, I would add that I envy the social openness that is given them. Girls are more likely to talk openly about sex and other relationship topics, and there are endless support groups for women this and that. Girls have vastly more freedom in clothes and hair (short hair is called "liberating" when worn by girls but when a man has long hair...hippie!) and more ability to play the weak card (I'm just a woman). Funny thing is, they tend to be hypocrites whenever they do that...anyway, I'll stop before I start a feminism debate. What I'm getting at is that I envy the openness in conversation that girls have. I haven't yet found the male analogue of that. Maybe it's just because I'm not that social in the first place. Edit: I'm generalizing too much, feel free to ignore this poorly thought out post

A hamster ball (you know, the plastic inflatable balls that you put a hamster in and watch him run around bumping into furniture) is also called a hamster bubble. Maybe Bubbles liked hamster bubbles, and so her name is Bubbles?

In the future, be sure to quote or mention me so I get a notification telling me that you are responding to me.

Forgive me if I make too many critiques. "to look on the other side" -> "to look towards" -- sounds better to me "window peers out" -- I don't think personification would be a good thing to do here. "except for some" -> "except for some ponies" or "some black mares" -- some could be referencing the pony in nopony, but it isn't clear I put three paragraphs in bold. Those paragraphs are extremely fragmented; I don't know if that is intentional, to create suspense, or just your style (if it is your style, I suggest fixing it to something more flowing). "--key word being "almost"--" -- that breaks the flow of the prose. If you want to emphasize the word, put it in italics. "The window" -- again, I don't know if that fragmented prose is intentional. Even if it is, it gets old after awhile. The three paragraphs in bold next are quite similar in sentence structure. I would vary the structure a bit. "Maybe right below the window" -> "They might be hiding below the window" "Equestrians" -> what? maybe do "ponies" or "horses". An Equestrian is someone who rides horses, not who is a horse. The ending makes no sense. I'm not even going to try to think of a way to fix the presentation of an idea that I don't understand. Basically, the main problem is the fragmented prose and bland sentence structure. There are only a few writing mistakes in the grammar department; most of the problem is how you are presenting the scene in your head.

I agree to some extent. If you take a look at fimfiction, you're going to find more bad fics than good ones, purely because there isn't a publisher to weed out bad ones. Even in the fics that are good in the writing sense, there are few that I would consider "good" overall. Many are poorly designed plot-wise. Others...I don't know, I just know a bad fic when I see it and stay away from them. However, there are fanfics that I would consider more than an usual fanfiction. Those few good fics don't piggyback on the show itself, but they take the universe established in the show and give it vibrancy and immersiveness. I'll take Growing Pains (can't link cause of gore tag, but can be found on fimfiction) for an example. The author takes Equestria as laid out in the show and expands the history in a lore-friendly way, leading up to a war between Equestria and another pony nation. It takes the universe of MLP:FiM and expands it; if a little bit more character development and explanation of setting and past history were added in, it could pass as a piece of true fiction, not fanfic. I guess what I'm trying to communicate here is that fanfic, as a whole, is quite like you said. There are alternate universe fanfic that aren't really MLP based and there are fanfic that are constrained too close to canon. But there are also fictions that surpass mere fanfic status that I would consider fictions in their own right; they took the universe of Equestria and took it beyond the cartoon medium and gave it a different, more expansive, life. Spellbound Fireflies by bats, A Bluebird's Song, and some story that I can't remember the name of are three of the best fiction I've ever read, and they are fanfiction technically.

The major thing is lack of rationality. This aligns with some other people's comments about stupidity, but I'm being a little more precise here. A push for rationality is better than a push for more "tolerance" or less "hatred" or whatnot; if you are rational, then debate and learning can happen. That, in turn, can fix the other issues.

This. I'm a male, and I've had (relatively) long hair for years but started growing it out a year or so ago. Mom's not that excited about past-shoulder length hair in the back, but I like it. I can't put it in a ponytail or anything due to having too short hair in the front right now; the back and front don't overlap by more than 1cm. I might cut the back a bit and let the front catch up a bit. I just love having long hair, and everyone asks why I'm growing my hair long and I'm like "I just like it long". It's beautiful, having long hair. But I agree, it's sometimes hard to maintain and keep out of my face.

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Applejack How did you find MLP Forums?: By means of a DNS search for mlpforums.com How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Why do so many people on (insert random slice of internet here) have cartoon ponies as avatars? Let me find out! So I'm Mingan Muon. Mingan means wolf in a Native American language, and a muon is an unstable subatomic particle, hence the "Unstable Wolf" of the topic. Ready for a wall of text? About 2 years ago I entered ponyland via the Babs Seed episode. I remember thinking that MLP was based on the CMC after the episode, because the Mane 6 only appeared for a short supporting role. The show was "eh" to me, and still is to some extent, but the creative works of the fandom made up for the "eh"-ness of my impressions of the show. Fimfiction (bats, bookplayer, A Bluebird's Song, and many many more) and the beauty of pony art was what kept me in ponyland. Well-written pony fiction captures the essence of Equestria in a way I don't think the show can ever do in its cartoon format, and pony art takes the simple and wonderful artwork of the show and turns it into something more immersive. While the actual show is vastly better than most TV shows out there, and I did appreciate the expertly done animations and environment design, I prefer to create Equestria in my mind via fiction rather than in my eyes via pixels on a screen. But I digress, as this is supposed to be an introduction and not a discussion of the show. I read millions of words of fanfic and watched the first five seasons of the show before walking away from the fandom. After the mid-5th-season break I lost interest in the show, and so just slowly drifted away from active consumption of pony. A few days ago, I stumbled upon my folder of pony episodes while salvaging a broken drive and was filled with nostalgia for the bygone days of immersion in Equestria via wonderful fiction. Granted, I had read fiction from To Kill a Mockingbird to Harry Potter since my losing of interest in pony, but Equestria is still one of the best universes to which I've had the pleasure to transport myself. I'm not a usual brony, and I would not identify myself as such. I would rather say I love the universe of Equestria, as laid out in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and as has been taken to new levels of awsomeness via fiction. So actually creating an account here, at a brony website, after 8+ months away from the fandom and 6+ away from the world of Equestria, is not in line with what I might expect given my history. But I don't come here for the bronyness; if I wanted that, there's EqD or many meetups or conventions. I don't come here for fiction; there's fimfiction for fimfiction. I instead came here because of the community. For the last few months, I've been searching for a community that isn't focused on one interest (a tennis forum, for instance) and isn't "impersonal" like reddit or stackexchange is. Granted, people can know you in reddit or stackexchange and friendships can be formed, but it's more anonymous. From lurking around this afternoon, looking at threads and people's profiles, mlpforums seems more than a brony forum. Sure, it's catering to those people, but it seems more inclusive of other interests (General Discussion). It also seems like a friendly place, judging from profiles. It seems like people make friendships in the depth that I would call a friendship. On the other hand, it seems like people have more randomness (I was going to call it lack of intellectual depth, but I won't say that) here than in other interest-focused forums. "What did you have for breakfast" type posts...whatever. So I come for the community. I'll most likely filter out the worthless parts of the community and keep the good parts, but I'll still be part of the community. It seems like a good atmosphere here at the forums, and the forums being about MLP makes the atmosphere 20% cooler. I haven't been up to date with happenings here. I haven't watched season six and I don't remember the details of pony lore. But I do remember the wonderful atmosphere, as that is what brought me here the first time and then the present time. It is a gamble to incorporate myself into the community now, as I don't know if I will stay in ponyland or if I will drift away again. Even if I stay in Equestria in some intensity or another, I may not stay here if this community doesn't fit me. But damn, I hope it will after writing a 3.432 thousand character exposition on my ponified life! TL;DR: read it, lazy pony. Did I set the record on most detailed introduction? Mingan Muon