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Postby Giovenith » Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:39 pm

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Took them long enough...not that I care of course. I hate all music in this franchise...stop looking at me.


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Ameriganastan wrote:

Took them long enough...not that I care of course. I hate all music in this franchise...stop looking at me.

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Postby Ameriganastan » Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:06 am

Blargoblarg wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:Took them long enough...not that I care of course. I hate all music in this franchise...stop looking at me.

"It's not like I like it or anything... Baka!"

It is the supreme irony that the spinoff has way better music. I watched every season of FiM, and liked maybe 3 songs. EQG? I can bop to that whole soundtrack.
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Postby Frenequesta » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:31 am

Ameriganastan wrote:
Blargoblarg wrote:"It's not like I like it or anything... Baka!"

It is the supreme irony that the spinoff has way better music. I watched every season of FiM, and liked maybe 3 songs. EQG? I can bop to that whole soundtrack.

I’ve only watched a small sliver of EQG and I must agree the music is often superior. I’m not sure how...
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Postby Tokuopolis » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:52 pm

Ameriganastan wrote:
Blargoblarg wrote:"It's not like I like it or anything... Baka!"

It is the supreme irony that the spinoff has way better music. I watched every season of FiM, and liked maybe 3 songs. EQG? I can bop to that whole soundtrack.

Which 3 would those be?
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Postby Ameriganastan » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:58 pm

Tokuopolis wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:It is the supreme irony that the spinoff has way better music. I watched every season of FiM, and liked maybe 3 songs. EQG? I can bop to that whole soundtrack.

Which 3 would those be?

That one Discord sang when he was sick, Better Way To Be Bad (Cause who doesn't love a good villain song?) and the last one.
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Postby Tokuopolis » Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:04 am

Ameriganastan wrote:
Tokuopolis wrote:Which 3 would those be?

That one Discord sang when he was sick, Better Way To Be Bad (Cause who doesn't love a good villain song?) and the last one.

No this day aria? Eh, you're entitled to your own opinion.



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Postby Ameriganastan » Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:26 am

Tokuopolis wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:That one Discord sang when he was sick, Better Way To Be Bad (Cause who doesn't love a good villain song?) and the last one.

No this day aria? Eh, you're entitled to your own opinion.

...Okay, 4. I liked 4 of them.
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:13 pm

My favorite villain song is Unleash the Magic.

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Postby Lord Dominator » Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:51 pm

Wilgrove wrote:My favorite villain song is Unleash the Magic.

That is indeed an excellent song

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Postby Espenia » Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:32 am

I was a little girl, when I used to watch this series.

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Postby Tokuopolis » Sun Jan 19, 2020 11:47 am

Espenia wrote:I was a little girl, when I used to watch this series.

If you're 28 now, how young were you when you started watching the show?
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Postby Auzkhia » Sun Jan 19, 2020 1:02 pm

Espenia wrote:I was a little girl, when I used to watch this series.

I was 15 when I started to watch it, and so it helped me embrace the feminine in me.
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Postby Espenia » Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:29 pm

Tokuopolis wrote:
Espenia wrote:I was a little girl, when I used to watch this series.

If you're 28 now, how young were you when you started watching the show?

This series has been out since the 80s! And it continued into the 90s and early 2000s lol

I also find it really cringe worth now, what with all the weird incels, neckbeards and all around Reddit niceguys trying to sexualize a show made for little girls.

It's creepy asf

Also I have nothing against casual adults, who enjoy the show; in a non creepy way but still at the end of the day, it's a show designed for children.

So... It should be expected things are nonsensical in a show meant for children haha That's just my two cents.

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Postby Ameriganastan » Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:35 pm

Espenia wrote:trying to sexualize a show made for little girls.

It's creepy asf

Boy, would you have hated these threads in the heyday of this show then. We used to have a booming TG based smut trade before the mods told us to knock it off.
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Postby Giovenith » Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:11 pm

Espenia wrote:
Tokuopolis wrote:If you're 28 now, how young were you when you started watching the show?

This series has been out since the 80s! And it continued into the 90s and early 2000s lol

I also find it really cringe worth now, what with all the weird incels, neckbeards and all around Reddit niceguys trying to sexualize a show made for little girls.

It's creepy asf

Also I have nothing against casual adults, who enjoy the show; in a non creepy way but still at the end of the day, it's a show designed for children.

So... It should be expected things are nonsensical in a show meant for children haha That's just my two cents.


The franchise has been out since the 80s, the various TV shows have their own eras. The current show, Friendship is Magic, has been out since 2010.

*shrug* I'm not into the sexual side of the fandom, but I don't think it's necessarily creepy (though it definitely has its horrific, absolutely creepy parts). The way I see it, the sexual side of just about any fandom (especially cartoons) is one of those things where you're not going to get it unless you're already acclimated to the style and culture of the show in general, if that makes sense. When people get used to and comfortable with something, it becomes easier for them to project a wider variety of the human experience onto that something, because at that point they're not just seeing it for its surface elements (color scheme, art style, tone, intended audience, etc.) but for what they see as the more fundamentally relatable, "human" aspects of it. It's easy to be baffled when you're a casual onlooker and all you really know about Twilight Sparkle is, "it's purple and pink unicorn princess that reads a lot," as opposed to a long-time watcher who, has not only acquired a taste for the visual style of the show, but has come to see Twilight as a more complex representation of a person and thus possessing more possibility for various perspectives and interpretations.

Like I said, I'm not into it, but I've been around enough different fandoms to kind of piece together what the thought process behind this stuff is. I do think the MLP fandom tends to get a disproportionately bad rep in some regards, since they're really not doing anything new or unusual, but then again a lot of them haven't exactly helped the situation either by responding to such criticism with diving head-first into the "proud pervert" routine.
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Postby Tokuopolis » Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:14 am

Espenia wrote:
Tokuopolis wrote:If you're 28 now, how young were you when you started watching the show?

This series has been out since the 80s! And it continued into the 90s and early 2000s lol.

Again, how old were you when you started getting into the franchise? 4? 6? 9? What qualifies as a little girl?
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Postby Espenia » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:08 am

Ameriganastan wrote:
Espenia wrote:trying to sexualize a show made for little girls.

It's creepy asf

Boy, would you have hated these threads in the heyday of this show then. We used to have a booming TG based smut trade before the mods told us to knock it off.

Well that's a good thing then xD

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Postby Espenia » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:13 am

Giovenith wrote:
Espenia wrote:This series has been out since the 80s! And it continued into the 90s and early 2000s lol

I also find it really cringe worth now, what with all the weird incels, neckbeards and all around Reddit niceguys trying to sexualize a show made for little girls.

It's creepy asf

Also I have nothing against casual adults, who enjoy the show; in a non creepy way but still at the end of the day, it's a show designed for children.

So... It should be expected things are nonsensical in a show meant for children haha That's just my two cents.


The franchise has been out since the 80s, the various TV shows have their own eras. The current show, Friendship is Magic, has been out since 2010.

*shrug* I'm not into the sexual side of the fandom, but I don't think it's necessarily creepy (though it definitely has its horrific, absolutely creepy parts). The way I see it, the sexual side of just about any fandom (especially cartoons) is one of those things where you're not going to get it unless you're already acclimated to the style and culture of the show in general, if that makes sense. When people get used to and comfortable with something, it becomes easier for them to project a wider variety of the human experience onto that something, because at that point they're not just seeing it for its surface elements (color scheme, art style, tone, intended audience, etc.) but for what they see as the more fundamentally relatable, "human" aspects of it. It's easy to be baffled when you're a casual onlooker and all you really know about Twilight Sparkle is, "it's purple and pink unicorn princess that reads a lot," as opposed to a long-time watcher who, has not only acquired a taste for the visual style of the show, but has come to see Twilight as a more complex representation of a person and thus possessing more possibility for various perspectives and interpretations.

Like I said, I'm not into it, but I've been around enough different fandoms to kind of piece together what the thought process behind this stuff is. I do think the MLP fandom tends to get a disproportionately bad rep in some regards, since they're really not doing anything new or unusual, but then again a lot of them haven't exactly helped the situation either by responding to such criticism with diving head-first into the "proud pervert" routine.

I wouldn't consider it a 'culture', it's a cartoon for kids haha And I don't see any deeper meaning behind it either. Also it is very creepy, how children's cartoons are sexualized. Because again it's a cartoon for kids. It deals with the normal values of life, shows how cartoon characters deal with that and little kids are able to interpret those lessons, in a simpler way.

It's easier for children to understand.

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Postby Espenia » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:15 am

Tokuopolis wrote:
Espenia wrote:This series has been out since the 80s! And it continued into the 90s and early 2000s lol.

Again, how old were you when you started getting into the franchise? 4? 6? 9? What qualifies as a little girl?

Well the 82-92 MLP line ended, when I was only one. Then it restarted when I was 6; that was 1997. And 4, 6, 9 are considered being a little girl lol

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Postby Espenia » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:22 am

I do enjoy the show and watch it, when I'm feeling nostalgic and others can enjoy too! I'm saying, I just find it silly how some people take it so seriously, how some can be so creepy about it too lol That's all...
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Postby Tokuopolis » Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:13 pm

Espenia wrote:
Tokuopolis wrote:Again, how old were you when you started getting into the franchise? 4? 6? 9? What qualifies as a little girl?

Well the 82-92 MLP line ended, when I was only one. Then it restarted when I was 6; that was 1997. And 4, 6, 9 are considered being a little girl lol

So you were 6. Thanks
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Postby Tokuopolis » Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:50 am

Does anyone else think Bonnie Zacherle and/or Lauren Faust might be feeling like this right now about how many MLP Characters there are?

Image Here are the ones who started it all! Multicolored magical horses with icons on their flanks. A toy idea so simple, even I understood it!

Who knew they'd multiply the way they did? I might as well have created a bunch'a rabbits!
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