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Fhew! Glad I went to the card shop today. Managed to get there merely a half-hour before some big event. Glad I attended though; really practiced my social skills today, heh...
It's a cinch sometimes, you know. That you'll be up against the more competitive players who play by the competitive rules who get all pissy at ya because you need almost a full hour to familiarize yourself with the cards, and even then you're just tossin' out your best guesses. We all can't have researched all this weeks ahead of time and have all the practice and whatnot. I-it's n-not like I have a massive hangup about disappointing others or anything...
Still appreciate having gotten out to play with others even if it didn't get all happy-jokey this time around to give that illusion that some might call me a friend. I had an adventure! I braced the things that scared me & left proud because of it! I got me some pretty pictures of pirates!
Oh... and before that too... I went exploring the world of Legends of Equestria again today! I wandered around the shining capitol of the Crystal Kingdom, learned of its near-despotic friendship regime, met a tremendously sweet older pony couple by the names of Blueberry & Scattershot, (Highly recommend talking to them every chance you get if you're playing the game too!) and even found the Library in the game! I love libraries in every portrayal!
You wanna know who I met in the Crystal Kingdom Library? First pony there was a librarian stallion so shy that he pretty much ran away from me after about three words. Next was a mare that launched without warning into some geological spiel that kept me utterly enraptured in its complete incomprehensibility and another mare who immediately greeted me by insisting that I sweep her off her hooves into an impromptu elopement just like her romance novels! ...Gad, I love bookworms...
Quite an eventful day by my low standards! I hope onto you all many a cherished adventure as well!
Oh... and before I go... Have a Corgilestia!
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I remember such a time as when I could pursue that which I enjoyed; actually do things. Spend a night reading a book because I so wished. I remembered not having five to six hours wasted from just lazing about in front of a screen for reasons I had no initial purpose in.
I habitually find myself asking: What am I if I no longer heed my own choices? What is my identity?
... pretentiously dramatic introspection is probably a good start with me. A Talent if you will.
I do hope I don't let any of you down on account of my lack of response. Entire days seem to fritter away into nothingness as I sequester myself in this domicile. What did I do to betray Time?
It's been some lovely weather lately. Such beautiful, moist, overcast days and yet, I dare not venture outside for just a mere walk around the neighboring town. I feel as if I am but a shadow of my former self. Shades of myself I still have yet to battle against.
You know you might have issues if swatting a fly involves some two or so minutes of quivering in rage, and when finally downing it, you keep swatting it until its just a smear. Gad. I hate flies so much.
You know on occasion, seeing others attempt to roleplay as "edgy" makes me want to break out my own villain. But perhaps that would be a mistake.
It's... so very hard to be intentional. To live.
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So, you are a self-professed sort of fanboy for Pinkie Pie, correct?
Well, before the day of your birth is through (for me anyway) I shall grant you the greatest gift any fanboy could hope for. An open opportunity to self-justify your feelings/opinion!
So, Why do you like Pinkie so much? Convince me! I fully expect at least a paragraph; perhaps some visual aids/ponimoticons involved.
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Because I spent the first 17 years of my life being easy to anger and quick to rage. A lot of people thought I was a nice, if weird, guy for the most part but I had a really short temper. The way Pinkie is, in her entirety, spoke to me. She's weird, goofy, friendly, and she never lets anyone stop her from being exactly that. Not everyone understands her or the things she does, but she's always quick to give a smile, to make friends and be happy.
Once I got over my anger, I was a lot happier. I guess I just feel like Pinkie pie and I had a lot in common. I was often thought of, again, as a weird but nice guy. A bit loud and overexcitable, often annoying, but willing to help out his friends no matter what. Pinkie helped me get over any fears I had of being myself, regardless of what anyone else thought. And to be honest, I think we have the same worst fear.. To be abandoned by all of your friends, to have those you care about leave you to the loneliness.. I don't mind being alone, but I hate to feel lonely. I get attached to people and make friends quickly, and i hate the thought of losing my friends.
So I guess the best answer I have is that Pinkie resonated with me and helped me through a lot of hard times.
Anything else I'll probably answer in the morning, since it's 4am now and I'm feeling pretty tired. Night Widdy
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Oh-hoh, Fandom knows Pinkie has had her moments too where she's blown her top! Literally, if you know Pinkie! That's what this show does to make their characters so much more relatable. They make them break down, to their worst moments. That's why I like Rainbow. As abrasive & loud as she can be, even she's had her moments where she's gotten as cowardly & fearful as even Fluttershy.
Some could just as easily write P.P. as just a cartoon character, but we've all known somebeing or been like that. Pinkie kind of gets across the idea that its okay to be emotional, be random, be the sort of pony that wears others thin sometimes. Wearing your emotions & mind & heart on your proverbial sleeves can be an admirable trait!
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So, like, big question. I've got, like, two weeks till the movie.
Rather wanted somebody else to go with, both to make me not feel like some huge creeper going to a kids' movie alone and to kind of mark how far i'd come. You know, show all about friendship making a movie all about friendship when friendship has always been the major thing eluding me in my friendship-less life. So, hah, n-not like I'm putting obscene amounts of pressure on myself or anything! *voice crack*
So what do I do? Just shout out at the line if anybody else there came to make a friend too? Kind of doubt there will be just groups lining up outside the movie theater in this country state I live in and I've always thought it was rude to go about the movie theater itself even if its just the precredit commercials. Even if there w-were, I doubt my self-confidence enough to actually walk up to a group like that.
A-and, th-this is kinda a big deal for me. It's gonna kinda sting pretty badly if I walk away from the milestone movie of the show that taught me about friendship without coming out of it with a friend. And with most things I make a Big Deal out of, its only making me more panicked, heh...
Can I even preorder the tickets ahead of time? I wanna make sure I get in there on the f-first day. But I can't find anything online about that either.
J-just, uhm... h-help? If that's alright?
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Yes, but if I just walk in, sit down, watch, then leave then I miss out on oppurtunity to initiate social interaction with potential peers in physical proximity! You can't very well talk while In the theater showing! Right?
...well... I mean, aside from the knee-jerk commentary I know is going to happen out of me!
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So, I'm sure you most all know by now of my Dragonmadness. But there exists one other interest of mine slightly below that.
Fluffsick.
Just sometimes I simply cannot carry on without the sight of something fluffy and even after I find myself lost in a fluffy haze! I cannot pinpoint just what it is or what bent I have on it, I just get so giddily fascinated by fluffiness! And without further ado, Here is my Fluffy pic of today!
WoooOOOoof! Could really use more fluffy stallions I daresay! Sure, a mare with some finely preened chest fluff is a sure sight to behold, but nothing beats all-over fluff!!
Gah! The urge to snuggle is so strong!
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So, I've finally taken a shot at watching the show Chowder.
It's weird & stupid, intentionally goes out of its way to make its gags last way beyond the tolerable limit and drenches itself in weird imagery for no reason or puns with no basis in context. It does this weird design thing where the patterns on cloth are stationary when the characters aren't and has no rhyme or reason to the strange characters it has other then naming them after food, despite them eating most of the things they are! It just has constantly disgusting humor from characters far too stupid to ever be able to live under their own power! Even in the rare cases it has some moral to say, its buried under snark & cycism and the aforementioned stupidly oafish characters far outweigh any positive lessons taught by dint of them never being capable of learning or holding an attention span for longer then a literal five minutes!
It's Perfect! *holds hands up to cheeks while making sparkly eyes and hooting noises*
It is exactly what would happen if you let me make a television show! I'd love to see the fanbase form any theories behind the show because it almost actively defies logic just to stick it to anybeing who might actually want to become attached to the characters! I could swear you'd hear somebeing like me in the writer's room:
"Ooh! OOh! Let's have a giant chicken fart an egg over our characters heads!!"
...Why? "Idunno! Makeithappen! Wheee!!"
It's the perfect recipe of madness, stupidity & silliness! You'll hear critics on Spongebob talk about them going too far with weird visuals or gross-out humor, but this show likes to stay firmly in its own weird little corner and show you how everything looks from their side! It's right in that category of learning to shut your mind off, because just so very many times you'll find your mind screaming out "BUT WHYYY?!!?" and no answers will be had. Well, only in the context of other things that only raise more questions. Like why anybeing would eat explosive or sentient fruits.
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Head foggy.
Must apply more Coffee!
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So, the other day on Hearthstone, I was playing around with a friend.
I managed to have a minion/creature on the board with stats of... let's see here... ah, yes. Thirty health aaand...
Two billion, fifty-four million, six hundred and two thousand, and eight hundred and eighty attack power.
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This game is an absolute mess.
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OML! Think I've found my favorite wild animal now! The Tentacle Snake!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erpeton_tentaculatum
It's adorable as a baby! I can just totally see it snooting its way through muggy lakewater like a bumbling mole!
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There's aaaa... there's a certain... brand of comedy I like. Not sure what you'd call it.
My kinda animal video, indeed.
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Gosh. Wonder why this reminded me of you.
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Huzzah & Hooplah!
I hath completed my concepts of Widdershins's alternative forms! Younger Form & "Organic" Form!
Now some might say that I'm veering dangerously close to over-designed weirdness one typically finds in franchise OCs, but as a draconequus, I dare say such trollish behavior is quite warrented. Besides, one he can't get back to & the other's only temporary.
I do so enjoy fleshing out an idea! Or... defleshing as this case may be!
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Once again I am disappointed that my imagination has surpassed the Internet's reputation for having everything!
I ask for a Loli Kraken, and I get none.
I ask for a winged ferret dragon, I get none.
I ask for a hornless, legless, dragon skeleton with a body formed out of bleached rings, and still...
Really now. I ask for so little, and boy do I get it! Rule 34 my over-exaggerating patootey!
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Oh aye, I know @Tropical Melody, It's like how you can't find any good dragon stories because most writers only seem to care to invoke dragony titles to show how awesome their drama or main character is. Ya gotta get all specific n' stuff and you just can't do that when you're coming up with ideas and need a basis!
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Augh, t-trying to find something on the MLp movie, like, if I can buy my tickets ahead of time or soemthing but now it's making me all fretty n' light-headed and spooky-doo! Eeep! *Whimper*
I'm doing that thing again where I'm thinking so much about it being, like, a major milestone in my life or something so I'm all l-like... woogh... think I need to go rest my head... and maybe some coffee...
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Today in my adventurers in the grand world Outside:
I ventured forth into the threatening lands known only as... The Mart of Wal!
So! Today in going to The Mart Of Wal, Indeed, I must say, I saw it all!
A chunk of hair, shelved slime from pear!
That weird machine that only beeps, a twelve-foot ghost without its sheets!
Furrie Face helmets three inches thick, (though the shark one was rather neat), A mummy covered with strips of flesh! (okay, maybe twizzler wrapping dripping down its feet...)
A voice above with no ears to hear it, a skinless witch from which I fret,
A fire-breathing hydra with wings a'flame, a grease waterfall to put the regular to shame!
Casseroles and pastries lain out for aeons, held out for tribute to the the ancient fly-gods!
...but what ended my time there was most rare of all.... an actual, genuine conversation with another being... that somehow wasn't dead inside.
I only wish I knew how to strike up a friendship in real life before I have to scuttle off to my car like a good customer should. Such a shame I very likely won't meet her again...
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Today in my adventurers in HorseWorld:
Was talking to Flan yet again. Bloody long questlines sending me all over the place...
But anyway, while I make a point as being as truthful in my text responses as I can, where I can't help but feel like I don't want to risk offending the npcs... Talking to Flan and a chatbox came up with the option of asking her if I could live in her hair. ...I gotta be honest, mans.
...and FOR SOME REASON, she got all weirded out! And I'm all like, "I'll never understand mares!"
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ALL LIFE IS MEANINGLESS!
FLEE! FLEE SCREAMING!!
IN TO THE BLACK FOREST CAKE!!!
Sigh. This diet is really getting to me.
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@Someguyhere, That's probably your best meme you've dredged up yet! As grainy as it is, you know somebody actually made that!
@SullenFleurg Uhf! And to what do you imply, Darling! That I'm given to such dramatic flights of fancy!??! That I have obnoxiously high praise for my own sense of aesthetics and vocabulary?!!? Tut! Who even wears dark violet over ivory-white! Surely, a trrrrravesty! Why, i'm coming down with the vapors! Fetch my fainting futon!
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Hey Solar, so how do we go about playing together on LE? I don't think I have me any sort of a microphone, wouldn't know how or what a Discord is and seems everypony is still getting the hang of the communications in the game too.
Also, let me know when you're on for some trading in your Y version!
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Oh ok
I'm mostly on the Singapone server 
...and you dont need a micropohone if you wanna communicate to people on Discord. It's got its own mic installed and it's REALLY easy to use 
If you want the link to mine, here it is:
Link: https://discord.gg/v5VWAeN
As for the chat-box in LOE, well
I was around for the Open Server Weekend, so I have a bit of experience in that and if you neeed ANY help in LOE, please let me know. I'd be more than glad to help you out 
Oh ok
keeing reminding me on that. I'd love to trade pokemon with you
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My kind of Hero!
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Huh. Kind of noticing a trend in the character backstories I make. Of how faults in the parents sort of compound out of control to form a deeply flawed character... I do often find myself worrying if you can go too far the opposite direction of a Mary Sue. A character with flaws so deeply entrenched and scarring that it makes them almost completely incapable and annoying.
...pretty sure that was one of the first threads I made.
Anyhow! Been meaning to get onto here to put out a bunch more content and Ideas, blogs, yet even more characters... wonder if I shouldn't only make character list entries with characters I fully intend to rp as...
Eh! Whatevs! Check out my Dragonpony Fanclub! Been meaning to form a Tentacle Fanclub too... and a blog series I really ought continue... In fact, come to think of it...
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You can go too far in the other direction. It's okay to have a character with many talents. You have to rationalize them though, and you can't just deus ex machina a new skill outmof the ether if something blocks your progress. FOr example, say you had a character who was completely inept at wizardry but excellent in swordplay. That's great. But don't do this:
"Josh stared at the locked door before him that could only be opened with magic. He was trapped if he couldn't find a way out. Fortunately he knew some fire spells from xyz college."
That is the lazy way out, and I guarantee that "fire spell" will never be used again. What i am saying is, if you give a character too many skills and no weaknesses, you get a Mary Sue. If you give your character a few skills and too many weaknesses, you get a Mary Sue by poor exposition.
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@Someblazerinaguy Well, the point of a Mary Sue/Gary Stu is that everything is forcibly centered around them, right? No doubt what you mention is every bit a hallmark of the archetype and of bad writing, but I suppose any good writer could still write a good story around a Central Focus character. Still, shaky ground there.
Take Widdershins for example, he's intended to be a grabbag of powers that he can pull out at random, but his focus is supposed to be on unreliability. Sure, he may suddenly remember he has an acid-spewing tongue or be capable of solving pretty much any problem with telekinetic pancake prowess, but there's a high chance he'll just explode when you actually do intend to depend on him.
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In my understanding, a Mary Sue is a character that is predominantly used in fanfictions that greatly surpasses the main cast of the fandom for no discernible reason other than self gratification. This is often a character with a tragic backstory that leads to pity from everyone and their mother, to the point that even a villain is not immune. It's over centralization on one person that is little more than an author's pet.
You can absolutely center a story on one character and not have a mary sue. To do this, however, it's important to make your character relatable to the reader. I don't mean he/she can have no powers or advantages. Make your character relatable in the sense that we can see humanity within. It doesn't mean he/she has to be human, but show us humor, let the character go off on a tangent for a few sentences for the sake of development- in other words, be yourself through your character while at the same time being the character you need for the story.
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Update!
So, I'm sure I've said that I'm growing out my own veritable, literal mane! I have to admit that I have undeniably reached Pinkie Pie levels now! It won't be long before I'm in Dan Avidan levels!
There is actual bounce to it now! I can feel the curls jostle everytime I turn my head and my forelock goes straight down to the tip of my nose now! And yet, way it grows its still nowhere near obscuring my vision! It's deep enough to lose... okay, maybe two whole pencils in. Sufficed to say, if maybe a huge mound of fluffy, curly hair is a thing that some find attractive then, Fuh Fuh, I'm pretty darn well attractive! Hoo hoo!
Ooh! Speaking of hair!
Think its undisputed now that Flan is the darling of the Legends of Equestria player group. Pretty sure she's the first, and so far only, one to get fanart already! Like, Lookit her!
WOOF! You could fit another two to three ponies under that mane!!! She's so totally that sorta ditzy airheaded waitress type that you know isn't even aware of the concept of dressing up or makeup but still comes across like a disney princess!
...Have I mentioned that I kinda have this thing for hair? Lol!
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So Hades gets a bad rap, ya know?
Been dusting off my interest in mythology and he isn't nearly as immoral or backstabby as the rest of the pantheon. For all we can tell, he gets along pretty well with the... (shoot, already forgot her name.) spring goddess he kidnapped. He's done far less harm to mortals then Zeus or Hera ever did.
Just heard recently that the greek name for Cerberus basically translates into something like "The Spotted One" or something. So the god of the Underworld basically named his pet guard-dog Spot.
Somehow, Spot seems so ironically befitting you.
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Everyday is a Mindfvck to me!
You know... Despite my playful wit & open tone from what any of you may see on here... I'm not really a playful sort. Probably, because... well, to put it one way, if you joke about me being terrible or about you not being friends with me anymore in real life, then I'm bound to immediately believe you just suddenly hate me. That you can just despise me suddenly for reasons I can't ask about. Hatred is something I'm more accustomed to.
Love & Happiness confuse me greatly.
I'm the sort to require a definition, order to everything. I have to pin things down to the ground so I know where it stands, what it is... how to best keep it away so I can't fail, fall and hurt again. I... I can't just accept things as they are. Can't just leave things be and accept the randomness of life.
I want to live, allow things to just BE. Have them happen without reason, have the randomness of life only bring me the passing amazement I see in others.
But I have to understand. I have to know what to avoid, cautions to take, how to weigh every consequence.
To not fail again.
I want to let things get out of hand, not think about the end goal, be crazy, goof around, make mistakes, act the fool.
But I don't know myself. I'm still growing. Probably always will, like all of us. Everything will always be flawed, there will always be mistakes and cautions to consider...
...But... but I hate that... too much thinking makes my head hurt... makes me sad...
There's... There's... Some sort of a schism in my mind, I guess you could call it, a kind of split, between my real self and the expectations I load on myself and my ideal self that I won't allow myself to be for some reason.
It's kind of hard to deal with.
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To quote a wise man, tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Admittedly I am familiar with those moments. For me my emotions will run wild if I don't keep them in check, so I bottle them. Take it from someone who knows- never do that. They eat away at you. Really, the name of the game is to stop being your own worst enemy. Do not be overly critical of yourself. Let life go where it is going to go. It's easier said than done of course. Some people do not know who they are until very late in life. otjers are more fortunate and figure it out sooner. Just take it a day at a time. That's all many of us can do.
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Well, emotions are important. You gotta have help dealing with them. Like, if your angry or scared at somebody, you gotta tell them so you can work through it, right? Its just to exhausting otherwise.
But, like, I mean... I keep thinking its awkward or just too-not-what's-done to just walk up to a group, ask what they're doing and be fully accepting that if it turns out to be something I don't know anything about I can just go "Oh, okay...well good luck with that then!" and do a heel-turn real quick.
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So, my first day on Leg-Ends of Sockquestria!... I mean, Legends of Equestria has gone over quite well!
Was quite heart-warming to attend my pony graduation, far more sentiment and pride from a teacher that I have not gotten in real life. Quite glad I've grown into the stallion I am this hour!
In fact... as I look back and contemplate my design choices... A pinkish stallion with green hair adorned with a single, matching flower, a sparkly bracelet, some rather well-done tartan socks and a heart butt stamp...
...by virtue of aesthetics alone.... I'm kind of an attractive fellow...
Oh, and that's my pet bunny I've nicknamed Devil. (Anypony know how to get rid of the pet bar?)
Oh... and one last thing...
WHERE'S WANDA?!!? WHAR IS SHE!!!
I need to hunt her down before she eats some magically tainted carrots! Her health might be mildly worsened from some hard-to-understand consequences! Could have sworn I had seen her in Canterless city...
Oh. And one other thing if you're playing the game. I need me another mouth-piece. I have so grown out of my foalhood bucket and now I wish for more things to stick in my mouth!
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@Someguyinablazer Well, let me see...
There was that one dream sequence episode where Lyra & Bonnie (both female, often shipped together) were shown fused together at the hips & enjoying it while the only stallion started crossdressing as Sailor Moon.
Actually, that's only the second time Mac has crossdressed. With obvious results. First time he was hit on by a old, blind preacher.
There's the guy who apparently lives on the street corner who is, quote, "Strangely obsessed with tubs of jelly."
There's the time Pinkie thought the best way to make friends with a donkey who had clearly had enough of her snit, was to set fire to his stuff.
Oh, lest we forget time the "Equality" horse started her own literal cult, sang a very communist-sounding song, brainwashed other ponies into smiling, wide-eyed, empty shells and ripped parts of their body off in an effort to make up for the pain & loss of losing somepony she once cared for. Later she ripped apart the Space-Time continuum and still got reformed while doing much of the same.
There's the time the little kid of the group suddenly and without warning started mutating into a godzilla like beast a good ten times his original size, went on a rampage until he was satiated with the mare he had a crush on which then resulted in them both plummeting to their deaths off a mountainside.
Hmm, there's numerous souleaters like ghost horses or the vampiric, 40-foot centaur or interdimensional hippocampi. I do seem to also remember a villain that was nothing but coalesced grief from a reformed villain & leader of the nation having to deal with resisting the urge to cause self-harm from her history of violently leading a revolt against her sister some thousand years prior.
Then there was that other villain that was trapped in stone for a thousand years while fully sentient but unmoving and when he finally did get out he was put back, screaming in agony, by the end of that day. When he did come out to get reformed, he was threatened into subservience by mind-control magic to appease the weakest member of the group or be ostracized.
...I could go on, but maybe i'm exaggerating here a bit.
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Having read all that, I find myself thinking of the weirder parts of the SCP group, Corporal Clinger from MASH, the inventor of petroleum jelly attempting to use it to cure death, marxists, and people who drive too slow in the fast lane.
Or literally any episode of Ren and Stimpy ever.
I'm waiting for someone to use this show as proof that communism works/doesn't work. If you tilt your head and squint and vodka you might see things from my point of view.
(Sorry)
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You know, I am quite surprised in some RP or other mlp fanwork there isn't a whole list of funny military leader names that is only funny to the reader on account of the collective phrasing not meaning anything much in the pony world. For Example...
Major General Idea
General Havoc
Private Parts
Corporal Punishment
Colonel Corn
Colonel Truth
Captains Morgan or Crunch
Major Pain
Sargent Slaughter
Captain Obvious
All played entirely straight & unironic, of course. Gosh, must be so easy to rib your coworkers in the Military, eh?
"Yo, Captain Obvious!" "...You know I'm your Superior Officer. I could ding you for insubordination for that."
"Yeah, but we're off-duty now, so maybe you should try not being such a total dork then."
'Cuz it's hilarious 
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It's practially dripping in FANCY 
