HeebieJeebies

I just adore Firefly (no kidding) but I also love Twilight, Applejack, Gusty, Fizzy, Wind Whistler, Morning Glory... probably even more. 

America would somehow finally find that long-desired portal to Equestria. For peaceful reasons, of course. 

Yes.

"Be nice to other people."

Yeah, its kinda obscure. I think that's why so few bronies seem to get it. 

No.

That's Spanish for no.

Probably not a very popular take amongst ponybros, but I prefer the slice-of-life format of G5 so far. I like that most episodes are about small, interpersonal conflicts meant to teach a moral. Its very akin to seasons 1 and 2 of G4 and a lotta episodes from G1's toons. It's cozy, its not up its own butt with DUH LORE, it's just a fun, silly horse program. Not always satisfactory for the "grown up" part of my mind that actually cares about worldbuilding and character depth, but man does it hit with the grey matter that makes me go HEE HEE HOO HOO when a rainbow horsie pulls a snafu.

When I want G4 I watch G4, but it really doesn't give me everything I want from the franchise. Especially with the lame concepts they brought in during the last seasons like the school of friendship and the student six lololol.

Back from the dead with a DUMP
Stuff from March of 2022 til now

G1 Twilight my beloved.

Wow! Horse.
With a speedpaint even: 

The original Pegasister

Prince Firefly of G2 reimagined as a Vampire Batpony

Chibi Nightmare Moon sculpt/model (not Nyx for gods sake its notihjjheefhhj)

And some prototypes of our main girls with 2023 facelifts. [WARNING: SCARY, SPOOKY, AAUUGH I DONT LIKE IT MOM]

Just finished it after being unable to participate in THE day of hype and uhhhhh

It's a mediocre kids' movie with fun concepts. Not especially good, not especially bad. Still a fun watch anyway. Just what the doctor ordered.

12 hours ago, doomie-22 said:

I'm expecting this to be a short-lived flop. Leaks have revealed they're doubling down on everything that went wrong with G4, and official announcements have made it clear they're all in on the woke stupidity. Combine that with the fact that the discontinuity will help break some rabid fanboys out of their cognitive dissonance and see it for the mess it is, and you have a recipe for a solid crash and burn. Of course, I can't see them admitting that since Netflix makes it easy to hide the real performance numbers and they may be able to get them to manipulate the official ratings as well, but they'll know it's a flop and presumably abandon G5 in short order. Mark my words, it won't do nearly as well, and people will be begging to have G4 back. Why? Because there is no way in hell G5 will be given 9 seasons. It’ll get the usual 3 and call it a day. Replicating the runaway early success and influence of G4 is nigh impossible. But while that's obviously impossible with the current staff, it is possible to build a future MLP franchise that recaptures G4's success. The key is artistic integrity, passion, and a dedicated team just like it was for G4 under Faust.

lol calm down

This is where we toss our art, yes?
Because I do that.
I make art.

Most of my pony art is a little old, so bare with me on that. I'm positive I'll draw more ponies once G5 is in full swing though.

Will provide links to further posts in this thread for easy viewing later.

NOW FOR PONY DRAWS OKAYYYY

Aaand that's about all the decent stuff I've got! I might post more old work later, but who knows. Just figured I'd toss my hat into the ring anyway. Cheers 

I'd love a Harvest Moon clone with tiny horses. Frankly any lowkey at-your-own-pace life sim that'd let you explore a limited but really well fleshed out world would be neat. I think it'd fit the themes of MLP well; make friends, play simple activities, create your own little stories. I'm not much for competitive games and I feel like people often try to cram multiplayer into games that don't need it (is Ambient.White still a thing?), so I have yet to see a good, polished, publicly available example of this. I just wanna be able to crack open a slow, chill little game world where I can goof off after a stressful day.

On 2019-10-08 at 5:47 AM, JunkerKun said:

Noone calls Silent Ponyville game? Really? I mean, it does exist but it's either an unfinished 3D prototype or an RPG maker adventure game

This too please!!!

I'd also love more pony fangames that don't take themselves seriously but are still fun to play. Stupid nonsense with decent mechanics is a hard combo to come by, and I guess I shouldn't expect any different from what are almost always joke games, but anytime I have seen a game that hits that sweet spot I go ape over it 

This fascinates me lol. Definitely gonna be checking it out!

19 hours ago, Ocean Wavedream said:

Hello @HeebieJeebies and welcome to mlpforums. Nice story you got there. Are you into writing stories?

Heyya, and thank you!

lol nah, I'm not a writer. I just got a wild hair at like 2 in the morning. What better way to introduce myself to a buncha strangers, right?

1 hour ago, Rikifive said:

lol lmao xd rolfcopter, noice story of how you found this site. 

Welcome to the herd!  I hope you'll have a good time here. 

xDDDD im just soooOOooo randum and wacky!!!!! O_o roflmao top kek slips into a coma
I'm sure I'll have a ball here. Thank you!

17 minutes ago, abrony-mouse said:

Hey there and welcome to MLP forum 

Judging by that intro you might like to give RP a try  

Lemme give you a test run. It is G5 MLP, you are a pegasus and you see a rogue cloud behaving oddly. When you apprehend the cloud it sprouts purple eyes, a blond mane and shouts Surprise! What do you do?

Hiya! Admittedly I'm not much of a role player these days, but maybe someday I'll get a wild hair and try it with ponies.
I'd probably shriek and wet my little horse pants. I mean, Jesus Christ, it's a ghost from a bygone era! 

2 hours ago, JMTV99 said:

that doesn't mean I had to bend over backwards and agree with every single decision they made. Let's not forget that this is the same company taking down brony fan projects over the years, ala Nintendo style.

Course not. Companies do things to screw over their fanbases all the time and, as much as they're within their legal right to do so, it's always a bad look. You ain't gonna see me defending Hasbro's hand wringing C&Ds anytime soon. I just don't think anyone over there made creative decisions for the sake of spiting one person who doesn't even work on their franchise anymore.

Is it cheating to say all 5 of those chicks who are in practically every episode? Their hick friend seems alright though. Too bad she's just a background character. 

Any given fandom darling/most beloved waifu is overrated. That's the one consensus I'm seeing here. That said, "overrated" and "crappy" aren't synonyms and I'm not sure where people got the idea that they were. Most of the time, overrated characters are hyped up for a reason.

I've been burnt out on a lotta the characters others have listed here before - e.g. there was no escaping the Luna worship back in the day - but there's so many new characters entering canon constantly that I could never be too annoyed with anyone's excessive popularity for long. The Best Pony of the week would always be replaced with someone fresh, especially towards the end of the show's run. A blessing and a curse for sure lol.

the student six suck smelly wind tho reee

Discussions regarding gender identity make me nervous. Feelings are always bound to get hurt because even when we're talking about cartoon horses, real people who really break gender conventions - trans people, nb people, even just gender non-conforming people - are inevitably going to see others fumble with sex/gender terminology and saying ignorant things (notice how I said "ignorant" and not "intentionally hateful". Important distinction!) Likewise, cis and gender conforming people almost never mean harm and are just going off of what they see in front of them (canon) and what they believe they know (biology that may or may not be true, as evidenced here lol). And in fandoms where everyone has strong opinions regarding their own Hot Takes, things get messy very quickly

Anyway, talking about cartoons again wahoo yippee

I like the idea that changelings don't have the same perception of gender as ponies because I like anything that defines changelings as being Ponies But Not Quite, especially regarding cultural attitudes. I think it'd make sense for a bunch of magic insects to have different social models, caste systems, and conventions then mammals would; like c'mon, these horseflies canonically do a lotta social stuff differently then ponies, but the line for those differences has to be drawn at sex, gender, and gender roles? lol okay

Still, it's all just headcanons and (hopefully) good fun. I don't necessarily think that someone not headcanoning changelings as an nb or otherwise gender non-conforming society is wrong. Just so long as they don't get too pushy about their personal opinion, and especially so long as they don't try to assert in in ways that intentionally harm real life gender non-conforming people. That's a good rule of thumb in general though, innit? Playing pretend nicely?

tl;dr thorax is an agender queen in my heart <3

Short answer: no.
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooo.

Spite isn't a very good or very likely motivator in the animation industry, at least not to such a scale that it's, what, nearly every employee on a production spitting in the eye of one former employee? Maybe some people who Faust worked with did take sadistic glee in seeing her "vision" (whatever the hell that even was - we really can't know all she had planned) being turned into something else. Maybe even some hire ups got a kick outta making Twilight an alicorn because the red haired chick who used to lead the production didn't plan on it. It's all a possibility, but it's a very remote one.

Petty intrapersonal drama, real or imagined, doesn't motivate how multi-million dollar toy franchise cartoon tie-ins are run. Dollar signs do. It's literally "nothing personal, just business."

I'll always have the comics to thank for introducing me to Price's body of work. His draftsmanship mixed with his sense of humor are second to none. Absolutely based and horsepilled. What a legend.

23 minutes ago, Pumpkin Spice Brony 42 said:

@HeebieJeebies I have over 1,400 dvds of cartoons. Mostly western, some anime. From 1920s black and whites to modern. It's hard to recommend something because the genres in my collection are so different. And if I own it then I like it, so in that sense I would recommend everything! But some stand outs are Batman The Animated Series and its spin offs, Adventure Time, GI Joe, and Rambo The Animated Series for sure  .

Oh god, you just reminded me I need to go back and watch the entirety of BTAS and AT! Idk why I never finished them, I liked them a lot when I fist gave them a watch. Danke!

Because 4Chan.

And maybe also there really is no gender imbalance at all and most Western societies just love to ogle when they see a man do or enjoy girly things. Women doing/enjoying girly things is, well, mundane. Not noticeable. Easy to overlook, even.  

I think it's really cute and endearing how many people would take mementoes of their loved ones.

Personally I'd bring my opposable thumbs. The ponies would have to accept me and my disquieting half-hoof half-hand appendages because their whole world is about friendliness and acceptance!

yeah it proves you've got good taste in toonz lol gottem 

2 hours ago, Pumpkin Spice Brony 42 said:

@HeebieJeebies what cartoons do you like?

Some classics like Ye Olde Simpsons and Spongebob with a few modern and foreign stuff mixed in. Old animes about dogs killing bears, Gravity Falls, Watership Down, Bojack Horseman, etc. I really wanna check out Centaurworld and Wolf's Rain sometime soon, too. I've heard good things about 'em. Any recommendations for other moving drawing shows would be tight.

I like my talking animal media I guess lol. I also like this show about talking horses, but I doubt anyone here has ever heard of it. 

6 minutes ago, Astral Soul said:

Hello and welcome @HeebieJeebies,
I hope you have a good time and make many friends :>
That's really quite a text you wrote there :>
Looking forward to see more of you here

2 minutes ago, TomDaBombMLP said:

Hello and welcome to the herd, @HeebieJeebies!  Great to meet you and I can tell right away that you’re very creative.  I started in the same place as you because I never thought I’d become a fan.  We’re a great fandom, we certainly don’t bite. 
I hope you have an amazing time here! 

 

Thanks for the warm welcome, guys!

Next time I'll try to keep the text walls to a minimum lol. It won't work but I promise I'll try! I 'spose I'm just excited to be here. 

When I'm not goofing off on Fimfic or cruising Derpibooru, I'm stuck somewhere intangible and frightening. It's a blinding white all over, except for all the Pinkie Pie dolls that steadily pour out of what I guess is the ceiling. They keep giving me concussions and distracting me from my pony memes :////

Three words: ow the edge

I think MLP grimdark is pretty funny. Maybe not haha funny (except when it is!) but conceptually silly. The juxtaposition between bouncy cutesy ponies and uber grotesque imagery has been done to death (no pun intended) to the point where it's probably never gonna be haha funny ever again, but it still works as a way of getting people's attention. It definitely did that back when the brony fandom was in its infancy, anyway.

I don't think it's an especially poorly written or well written fic. I don't think it brings anything new to the table wrt being a horror fic and I don't believe it woulda gained any traction in the modern day, and in all honesty I think a lotta people write it off as being Objectively Trashy just to get a sweet, sweet hit of much needed copium. That said, I'm a horror fan and a gorehound. I once thought it was The Best Thing Ever when ponies were crammed into anything else I liked, and I was insecure enough that those things had to be more traditionally macho and xXhArDcOrEXx in order to overshadow the fact that I was enjoying little girls' media. MLP grimdark, SAM included, gave me what I wanted in spades. Kids, amirite?

So I guess my take is the same as everyone else's except I look back on SAM with dreamy sighs of nostalgia lol. 'Sides, I could never be truly offended by something solely made to offend people for the same reason I can't laugh at a joke someone insists on explaining to me. Like, I get it man, augh ough rape and murder, no no those is bad things, ahhhh this is me screaming in pearl clutching terror. Puhleeeease.

51 minutes ago, Pumpkin Spice Brony 42 said:

Cartoons you say? I might have seen 1 or 2. 

I don't believe it