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New Line of MLP GEN 4 Plushies available at MINISO
Night Sky replied to Night Sky's topic in General Discussion
I was impressed by the other characters in this series. Looks like they're doing right by Queen Chrysalis too. I wish they'd churn these out to order for everypony's random favorite characters. That would send the price sky high, and might not be a viable business model for them. Then again, just how much would I pay for a Nurse Red Heart one of these. Too much. Maybe it's for the best. -
New Line of MLP GEN 4 Plushies available at MINISO
Night Sky replied to Night Sky's topic in General Discussion
My brother and I were out looking for the keychains today. Yesterday, I posted these same pictures on Canterlot Avenue, and somepony showed me images of the Keychains. They weren't able to get their hooves on any, but today I gave it a go. There are 3 MINISOs here in my town. All three were totally out of the keychains. Apparently we just missed the last three at one of the stores. The supply of the plushies has been steady, but apparently the keychains just fly off of the shelves quickly. Apparently MINISO had an entire IP with MLP but the plushies, and sometimes the keychains are all that's left. I will try again on a weekly basis till I stop seeing the plushies. Those come and go too. There's no telling what might be on the next truck the store receives. -
I daresay, MINISO is a store that at least some of you probably know quite well already. They just arrived in my home town only a few months ago. On my first visit, imagine my surprise when I discovered that they are selling a new line of GEN 4 Plushies. Generally speaking, plushies are not my thing, so on that occasion I took a pass, and almost instantly regretted it. When I got back, they were gone. I imagine these fly off of the shelves pretty quickly. Finally, today they had a few in stock. It was a toss up between Rarity and Twilight Sparkle. Rarity is a close second, and my fav non-Twi Mane 6 pony, but Twilight Sparkle will always be my first pony overall. These are very well made, and they are even properly licensed by Hasbro. It's nice to know that my Twilight Sparkle is not a counterfeit, such things have existed and probably continue to exist. I actually have one other [not pictured] MLP Plushie, a Rainbow Dash that I found at an antique mall. She certainly dates from the days of FIM. Anymore, us later ponies cannot just go shopping and avail ourselves of GEN 4 merch. We missed the bus, and what a bus it was. I've looked at pictures documenting the phenomenon, and part of me will always be trying to kick myself for having missed it. But, acquisitions like the one pictured above can help. Having an Alicorn Twilight Sparkle Plushie to cuddle with can help. If MINISO is in your area, maybe head over there and have a look. This cost $19.99 before tax. Again, she's well put together and was in perfect shape. I saw Rarity and Applejack. I didn't really pay enough attention, I know the rest of the Mane 6 are present in this line up. Everyone was present and accounted for the first time I saw these. But I think today they may have been out of Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, I could be wrong though. Either way, I am massively de-stressed at this time, because I now have Twilight Sparkle with me in this form.
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VVELCOME 2 THE 4-UMs, VVE'VE G0T FUN & M8NES!!!
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VVELCOME 2 THE 4-UMs, VVE'VE G0T FUN & M8NES!!!
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VVELCOME 2 THE 4-UMs, VVE'VE G0T FUN & M8NES!!!
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VVELCOME 2 THE 4-UMs, VVE'VE G0T FUN & M8NES!!!
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Come On Girls, We're Going To Castle Brennenberg
We're committed. I've downloaded and installed Frictional Games' Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and I'm setting off on a full play though of it. This time I've got the ponies right along with me. I will also be pressing the screen shot button constantly.
Overall, my artmaking is going to continue growing organically from where it has been, and from where it is at right now. The pieces you see more of now, expect to see more work very much like those going forward. Yes, I often emphasize MLP's strong mythical roots. Some of my pieces are humorous, a few are entirely inane. So it is, and so it shall continue to be. Most of the time my art risks offending nopony. So far, there have been a whole two [2] darker strains. There's always the other side of life. In point of fact, MLP has never ignored that, so why should I?
I was able to engage with the DOOMGUY / Pinkie Pie crossover ship quite easily, and I did exactly what I had wanted to do with it in short order. In the case of that project, I had already assembled a full library of resources. I had everything I needed, I just needed to get it done. I made the images that I wanted to make, and my fan fiction tells the story that I wanted to tell. I am actually very happy to leave the DOOMGUY Pinkie Pie crossover ship exactly where it is. I feel I have made precisely the contribution I wanted to make. It was never supposed to be taken seriously by anypony. I hope it amused or delighted even a couple ponies, but even if it didn't it, making it was still worth it to me. I made that body of work for myself first, and everypony else second. The DOOMGUY Pinkie Pie crossover ship has always been niche, vague and disorganized. Little more than a microgenre of memes. I like to think that I got everything under one roof and put my own personal spin on it.
The MLP / Amnesia: The Dark Descent crossover is much, much larger. There have been many fan fics, several mods for the game, and I'm hardly the only pony who's made fan art about it. This crossover is also more open ended. I already have made several pieces in relationship to it, which are now grouped within their own folder in my gallery over on DeviantArt. I have been feeling my way into this one. Taking my time, figuring out what my approach to it is going to be, and how to port my creative process to this specific crossover. Mainly, I wanted to get through DOOMGUY and Pinkie Pie first, cause I knew that that was going to be a finite, closed body of work. Maybe the crossover with Amnesia will go the same way, or maybe we'll eventually see Starlight Glimmer trying to slap some sense into Tasi Trianon at some point. I do not know just yet.
The point is, I am starting out on this project in earnest now. The rate at which I am uploading pieces not related to this crossover may slow down just a tiny bit temporarily, but probably not. I already have a fresh Gen 5 piece I am about to start work on. Expect to see some content related to the two FIM specials, and then a not insignificant number of pieces dealing with the Gen 4 film. And then, as I have said, I will be starting all over again with the first season of FIM, and I am gonna go till about the middle of the 7th season. That was the point at which my artistic process really came together. But expect to see an entire galaxy of new pieces, relating to the earlier seasons of FIM in the days ahead. There may be a slight delay from the time of this writing before the first Amnesia related pieces start to appear.
That depends on how quickly inspiration strikes me, and how strongly those strikes are. Sometimes, I get an idea, and I've just got to get it out of my head. With DOOMGUY and Pinkie Pie, I forbade myself to even start thinking in terms of specific pieces until I knew I had a big library of resources to get them made. We'll just have to see how this plays out.
TL-DR: I have a lot of exciting new pieces coming very soon, and there's going to be a great deal of variety. Stay Tuned!
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Will you help us? We've been watching you. You're not like the other humans. They seem to be after you too? They look like they've been terribly injured. We asked one of them if he needed help, but he tried to kill us. He's been chasing us ever since. We didn't mean to take the Orb, it just appeared in our world. We wanted to ask Baron Alexander about it, but I think he's got something bad planned for all of us. If we work together, I think I know how to stop the Shadow. But we need you!
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Thank you, Bestie! Becoming a pony and settling down here in Equestria has been a big step in the right direction, regardless of the fact that the community functions through the internet. I've been involved in many fandoms over many years, MLP isn't the only one that is close knit, but there is no fandom that is as supportive or warm as Ponydom. Beyond that, it's not always just words. Equestria is also about art, music, singing, polished writing projects, cosplay, roleplay and most of all Horse Play. Those of us who discover Equestria are always the better, and less lonely for it. I do wish the conventions could go back to the way they were, I know they still happen on a smaller scale. Part of me wants to believe that when Gen 6 arrives, contrary to what many ponies expect or say now, it will all take off all over again. There's always a chance that Gen 6 will be a great thing, whether or not it is great in the same way that Gen 4 was.
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Sometimes I wonder about this myself. It's a compulsion. Sometimes I feel like I'm making right on all of it by turning a post into a TOME. Sometimes it's painful and not a good fit for the topic, but I just can't stop myself. It has something to do with isolation and loneliness, certainly. On the other hand, internet shorthand it not the ultimate evolution of human interaction and discourse. In fact, it is a step in the opposite direction. There, I said it. Some people roll with it. Some of us resist it.
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They traveled through history and reached legend, and from there they proceeded into myth. On the left hand side of this image, you will see all of the clues with which Argyle had surrounded himself. I often wonder, could Argyle have possibly known just how ancient Grogar's Bell actually is? Did he really understand what function Mage Meadowbrook's mask had served? Exactly why did he make a Spike stuffed animal for Sunny? Perhaps if they had not killed Argyle off after a whole ten minutes of screen time, some of these questions could have been answered, or at least hinted at. On the right hand side of this image, you will see artifacts which demonstrate how the echo of Twilight Sparkle was a constant presence in the lives of Argyle and Sunny Starscout. Argyle had worn Twilight's cutie mark like a Christian wears a cross. He was no mere scholar or digger. Sunny's journal and knapsack are beautiful pieces of custom leatherwork. Argyle made them with his own two hooves for his daughter to use in her daily life. I wonder if the cutie mark pins on the knapsack's strap looked like medieval coats of arms to the ponies of Maretime Bay. And then there is the lantern, an object which transcends either of the two categories mentioned so far. Superficially, it was as charming and lovingly handmade as anything else that Argyle had fashioned. The real question for which we will never have a decisive answer is, how had Argyle come to be the steward of the earth pony unity crystal? Queen Haven never took off her crown, ever. And it took the possibility of possessing another unity crystal to make Alpha Bittle even consider parting with his own. Let us not forget, after losing to Sunny at Just Prance, he not only refused to part with the unicorn crystal, he tried to seize the pegasus crystal for himself. Their own predecessors must have imparted to Queen Haven and Alpha Bittle some vague, half-remembered and poorly understood sense that these objects were sacred. Argyle took a different approach, but nonetheless practiced a great deal of care and restraint in doing so. He transferred possession of the crystal to his daughter while she was just a filly, without telling her about it before she was ready. Maybe Argyle knew that he might not be around to see her reach adulthood. He didn't want the crystal to be snagged or lost to random chance. Hidden in the lantern, the crystal would be safe in a precious, but humble object from her father, that no rapacious adult ponies would pay attention to, and that Sunny would be unlikely to toss into a dumpster. Clearly, Argyle understood that the universe asks for faith that it will unfold as it should, in its own good time. Bringing about the return of Harmony had been Argyle's life's work, and even though the time was finally approaching, he never tried to hasten its arrival. Argyle must have been the final keeper of an ancient and quiet lineage, that went all the way back to Princess Twilight Sparkle, and her plans for Equestria's eventual renewal. Front and center, they need no introduction from me. They watched over Sunny's life until she was ready to fulfill her destiny, silent totems but effacious nonetheless. Their gaze also reaches right through the screen, and they address themselves to us as well. It is up to each of us to be keepers of whatever it was that they had to say to us individually. In the background Twilight Sparkle's cutie mark sails above a tower of stained glass that colors the pure light of the sun. It has become a transcendental icon, shining resplendently in rays of cleansing bright light, exactly where it belongs.
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Vangelis - Heaven.wav
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And the paths he must walk are precarious, to say the least:
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Congrats. You'll never forget it. I vividly remember my first concert, all the way back in 1999.
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These made me laugh, they may well not make you laugh depending. My apologies, you'll have to excuse me. I have some history in my background with the old YTP / YTPMV community, so I can't help but be thrilled by these. Ah, to be a 27 year old making videos like a 14 year old, how I miss those days.
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It snowed two days ago, and my brother and I got the driveway cleared without too much trouble. It is snowing again, and you'd have thought we'd done nothing.
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I'm thinking that that snow is gonna have to be shoveled once the precipitation finally stops. Goodie.
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When you're 86 years old, you might as well do whatever you want to do.
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Getting pumped to make my next couple pieces of Pony Art, these are going to be about Gen 5. I am looking to port my creative process to Gen 5. Not going to stop working with Gen 4, but I want to see if my approach can really be ported to Gen 5 successfully. I think it can, and that I can draw out the same things from Gen 5 that I draw out of Gen 4. It won't be entirely the same, but it will be...familiar, and very much worth doing.
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I wish I could say that only one friend has done me like that, but it's more than one, let's not get too into how many. I am the problem. I stand by what I feel is right. It isn't even that I say what I mean and I mean what I say, I can be plenty diplomatic. But there are things that I just cannot be persuaded to do or not do. And so a lot of people have just left me behind. Sometimes that happens gracefully, and sometimes not. Sometimes people just move on, some people feel the need to make gestures. It often didn't mean the same thing to them that it meant to me. Gets me into harms way all the time. It hasn't ruined me, but it has certainly baffled me.
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What pony does one hug?
Night Sky replied to Moonstarleader10101's topic in MLP:FiM Canon Discussion
Honestly, the only Pony I have ever experienced a strong urge to hug per se is Zipp Storm. She is by far the most snuggly of the Gen 5 ponies, and really the only pony I've wanted to cuddle. -
A story that ends well is a story that means something good. Something good is hard to come by, so we should carry it with us whenever we can. Still, I cannot help but lament that they got ahead of us. We are far away from Equestria. I have to go one believing that it will still be there when we arrive. -
I had that as a double CD album back in the day.
