7 minutes ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

@Rarity the Supreme

 

You've scared poor Twilight. 

Scared Twilight Sparkleby JunkiesNewb

Yes, well, "poor Twilight" scared me first.

I call this one "Chair With Wings".

I don't know why, but it suddenly seems very thematically appropriate.

Tram.

When Twilight Sparkle has a REALLY bad day.

This one goes out to every pony out there who has welcomed and supported me for the last year.

Boops @Cherry-Pie, @Chrysalicious, @Dreambiscuit, @Drunk Not I Am, @Frostcrystal, @Ganondorf8, @Katze, @Lunar Echo, @Maudilicious, @Mlppotterwhoovian, @Penguinatorlicious, @PonyMage, @Shining Chord, @Silent, @Sonic5421, @StrawCherry and @woodchunks66.

Special mention (boops, in this case) goes out to:

@Mirage, @Califorum, @The_Gobo, @Sparklefan1234, @WiiGuy2014, @Qrow Branwen, @The Rock-A-Rooster, @Vocal Analyst, @Snowlicious and most recently @iNachos10.

Thank you. It's because of your support that in the last year, that I have gone from a lost, angry and immature child to somebody who feels like they have a place on the internet to call home.

To anypony and everypony who has ever bro-hoofed or reacted to my content in the past, I am sincerely grateful for your contribution. Too think that a few of you finding some semi-humorous quips on my part just lying around somewhere around the forums and taking the time to give them a little token showing that you enjoyed them means a lot to me.

I'm not great at long emotional ramblings, so I'm going to stop there. Thank you for the phenomenal first year on the forums. Here's hoping that the second will be even better.

= 

It's going to be a long day...

Grot.

Yes, I checked and it is a word.

Is

Is this what TRUE happiness looks like?

Too true...

19 hours ago, Dark Qiviut said:

You were looking for something in the episode that doesn't even exist. The Pony of Shadows is a powerful villain, but that doesn't mean he can't be weakened. The Pillar Six, Sunburst, and the Mane 8 had to figure out how to defeat him before he regenerated. Secondly, intimidation doesn't make a good villain. A good character makes a good villain. Tirek in his frail state was a better villain than the regenerated Tirek, because he was manipulative, intelligent, and knew how to make something too good to be true. As a healthier character, however, he degraded into more of a stock villain. Starlight is one of the best villains of the entire series, because everything about her exists in real life, and she never saw herself as evil.

Stygian is the best villain of the series, because we get to see his character. At first, he sounded more or less a stock villain, but when you learn more about his backstory, the more layered he becomes. Each scene in SP, including at Ponehenge in Part 1, leads to who he was and why he became the Pony of Shadows in the first place.

The pacing and direction in Stygian's reformation make perfect sense. The Pillar Six felt rightfully betrayed by Stygian for stealing their artifacts, since they lived during a very tumultuous era of Equestria. The RM7 are Equestria's current protectors and relied on the Elements on most of the occasions. The end result to a conflict? Blasting the villains. From the get-go, Stygian was not that type of villain from a narrative standpoint. Having the Map declare it a friendship problem tells us there's more in the story and brings SG in organically. Villains don't exist in a vacuum; there's always a motive, and Starlight knows this. The map convinced her something was up. Instead of looking for the quick fix and and allowing the RM7 use the EoH as a tool to intimidate and overthrow (i.e., banishing Luna, resetting Sunset's personality, turning Discord to stone), she looked for the real cause of the conflict so a better solution can be offered. Because she's a reformed villain, she offers a fresh perspective to the conflict. This approach makes the conflict personal, relatable, and grounded.

True, but for someone to go as far as he did, becoming so nefarious and hateful as a result of how the Pillars of Equestria treated him, for a pony who posses absolutely no significance to him to sway is emotions so quickly is unrealistic. It's something that seems very unlikely to me. Villains don't always exist as a vacuum, on that we agree. In fact, it's probably better if they don't. But if a character is going to go so far as to virtually obliterate a land as a result of his hatred, his reformation should be slow, teaching, more like how Starlight's was, not sudden and abrupt. Then it doesn't feel like his feelings meant anything whatsoever and Stygian was simply the victim of a misunderstanding, which while in a way he was, it wasn't as simple as that. Hate is a very destructive and powerful emotion, not one that can be swept away with the first bit of compassion that is displayed to the subject at hand.

I like how psychotic it looks.

That's really in fashion right now.

8/10.

To finally get out of the Hell that is school.

Any New Year's resolutions?

Apologies for being absent as of late.

I've been ill with an unpleasant dose of tonsillitis for the past few days and my sleep schedule is a complete mess as a result. 

I don't have blue flu, I have tonsillitis, but it's still a rather good picture to express my situation.

Insectoid.

Busy making ways to insult said avatars.

#Conspiracy theory.

Rodentine,

Teamwork.

We can do anything when we have teamwork.

Of course.

Who hasn't seen the one and only @Trotteurliciously Sauvage at some point or another?

Welcome @Karnak.

May your time on the forums be long and enjoyable.

Uncouth.

Intelligence, creativity, style, flair, sophistication, wisdom, individuality, strength, the ability to see the bigger picture, a spontaneous nature and a sharing of my beliefs and world views.

Fraught.

6/10.

I never really cared for Black Mask.

Oh Fred...