Mingan Muon

This goes to show how some bronies are too much in love with their own myth - It's vaguely similar to some religious types.

While I disagree with your violent attitude, I echo the idea here. While I wouldn't say that love in a myth is wrong (people spend hours and hours in LOTR lore), I do agree that some bronies seem to purvey their fiction as morally and universally good. Good on a level above other ideas. MLP:FiM is just like any other fictional universe like LOTR or Elder Scrolls. The difference is that MLP has an overtly-friendship-based morality. That, I think, gives rise to the type of people you mention. I do not, however, agree with your last three sentences.

 my oboe teacher told me what sugar can do

Something like this?

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

LOL. Don't be hatin' trombones are pretty cool!

 

You aren't really telling me anything I do not know, I just don't care for how we're supposed to call the 'french horn' just a plain horn. It's just kind of a generic term, and I don't think an instrument as complicated as the 'french horn' should be called something so simple. =P

 

My dad calls them all horns. He called my trumpet a horn. He called my bassoon a horn, and he surely thinks my oboe is a horn, too. It's a very generic wind instrument term at this point.

 

The "English Horn" has such an interesting name history, though! I remember reading when I was studying for a paper that the origin of the name of the English horn might have to do with a corruption of the world "Angel" (the name England originates from Anglo + Land, I believe the location Anglo was also based off the word angel itself? Probably, but I only know for a fact the origin of the name England)... So originally it was referred to as the Angel's horn. You can't beat that! =P

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.

Oh, you want to talk wind instrument history? That's like one of my top interests!

 

I think you're forgetting one rather major brass instrument that has hardly changed since the Renaissance era - the trombone! In those times called a sackbut, the instrument has not seen many changes since (I said 'many', there still have been some). It's rather remarkable.

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.

Oooh... Do you play the horn? If so, welcome fellow wind instrumentalist! I have a horn... but I found it at a vintage shop for real cheap, and sadly, by local instrument repairpeople it was deemed unworthy of the expense of getting it fixed. I was sad, but I prefer playing woodwinds, anyway.

 

I'm not a 'Brony', either. I joined this community long before it was a mandatory title like some people around here like to try to make it. =/ I got into FiM and MLP around the same time as Bronies, but I got interested in it for entirely different reasons.

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)

 

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I find horror movies less horrifying than the destruction of Golden Oaks Library.

I confess... that I am jeallous of girls. There is something about their way of life that... I kinda wish I could have.

 

Now,I have never, ever liked being a male, it has been a burden through a big part of my life, and when I see what could have been if I was born of the opossite gender... I get bitten by the bug of jealousy, and it makes me wish that I could live like them, be like them, be one of them... I really hate being born as who I am now, to be honest.

 

It's a weird thing to explain, I'm aware of that, but it's something that roams my mind a lot more than it should do. Sometimes I still think about 'what if...', and I can't help but giggle a little at how different would things be, and how much happier would I possibly be if that was the case.

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

I do actually have one, in fact! Her name is Bubbles. Fun fact how I can't remember for my life why I gave her such a name, haha ;p

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?

I miss the library. A "princess castle" gets far too much into girly/cartoony territory than I would like. The library fit right into Ponyville; the castle stands out. Thankfully I have fanfic to keep the library alive.

Though seriously, isn't the castle a bad move for somepony who wants to spread friendship? It just deters people in my opinion. Think about Starlight getting lost...

K. Thanks for the feedback!

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Forgive me if I make too many critiques.

 

Rochester opens his eyes to see the wood floor of his bedroom.

 

This is boring.

 

He turns his body to look on the other side of the bed.

 

A window peers out into the night, with a crisp, clear view of the streets of Ponyville below the second floor of his house. Nopony is out yet except for some right outside his front door with lit torches and pitchfor-wait what?

 

He sits up and looks again.

 

Those ponies don't look happy. In fact, they look pretty angry to him. One pony is trying to kick down the front door. Another group is bringing back a huge log, possibly to use as a battering ram. All of them wear black robes. This is a mob. And they're wanting blood.

 

One of the ponies sees Rochester standing in the window. She yells to the rest. Some scramble below the window and try to build a equestrian ladder up to it. One's holding a hammer, possibly to use to break crap in the house and now the window.

 

Rochester is now yelling obscenities in his head. This is bad. Terribly bad. Thankfully there's a back window. He wonders if they're guarding it too.

 

He almost--key word being "almost"--flies off of the bed and to the door. In the middle of opening it, a smash is heard behind him. The window.

 

He slams the door shut. Something hits it right behind his head. Those ponies have good aim. Too good maybe? Nah. They've probably been training for this all their lives. They even have the attire for it.

 

He opens the second door, into the bathroom.

 

He peers out the back window. Nopony there. Maybe right below the window, but not anywhere else.

 

He opens the dresser and grabs a screwdriver. He slams the pointed end through the window, cutting himself in the process as the shards fly towards him. It doesn't matter though. He can take care of it later.

 

He spreads his wings and shoots out of the window. He looks back to make sure and yep, nopony was at the back. Stupid Equestrians.

 

As he flies into the night, he doesn't even stop to think of the contradiction he's posing here:

 

Rochester is an Earth Pony.

"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.

The fact that it IS a fanfiction?  Okay, that's perhaps unfair; I'm sure there are talented writers out there who engage in fanfiction here and there (and hopefully have original-er works to speak of).  But I tend to think of the genre (just lumpin' it all together) itself as being inherently BAD.  I feel this way because fanfiction is fundamentally and unavoidably reliant upon a preexisting work.  The people who stay within the confines of the original work aren't doing anything new, and the people who veer far outside that realm either introduce elements that are blatantly incongruous or might as well have written something unrelated to the source material.  That's why I tend to feel, for lack of a better word, "weird" after writing a fanfic of my own; I could have simply come up with my own world and characters.  I don't feel comfortable with the genre; it's potentially very limiting and / or invites intense scrutiny.  That's why, should I write any fanfics in the future, I'll be "taking up a pen" with the expectation of writing something bad.

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.

"Yeah what was I thinking by asking you? Maybe I should ask someone who is a lot better with magic to do this hard hard job.."

Classic persuasion tricks. Nice.

Why would I work on a rock farm? The scenery is horrible, the people are blah, my teeth would fall out from crunching rocks, and I miss out on the vibrancy of Equestria.

Working on an Apple orchard is much better. You get beautiful scenery, wonderful people, great teeth, and the vibrancy of Equestria is right next to you.

Plus AJ > Pinkie. No offense, Pinkie.

In my opinion, it would end up being more of a roleplay than anything. You could form a mock Equestria, cosplay everything, and do some real life roleplays, kind of like LARP. A real village wouldn't work, for practical reasons.

Two other posters mentioned the chaos that would be caused by two draconequuses (draconequi?). I'd talk with Discord along the same lines. Two Discords could drive Celestia mad, totally ruin any opposition, and create so much chaos. Discord still leans toward chaos when he has a chance, as seen by the S4 finale, so I am sure he can be convinced. While his friendship with the Mane 6 might be in danger because of this Two Discord Proposal, Discord could claim that I, the second Discord, did all the chaos work, and possibly maintain the friendship. Although, Twilight would be wondering where the second Discord came from in the first place...

After the chaos, Discord could secretly change me into a pony, no one would know that I was the Second Discord, and I could live out life happily.

Chaos is wonderful.

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.

I never really liked short hair. I mean, it's kind of handy for it to not be long in summer, I guess, but beyond that, I just love having long hair. I really find long hair incredibly beautiful and I admit that I like playing with my hair when it gets long p:

I used to have long hair which was starting to reach my shoulders and going even more down from there, but then my parents got super pissed at me and forced me to shorten it a little. I am still a little pissed at them, but again, for summer it helps a little~

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