Or that would be the case if Nightmare Moon wasn't cute instead.
To the news!
Artist Training Ground Week 3!
I accidentally filed this one into the wrong folder! My bad... Anyway Artist Training Ground Week 3 ended a few days ago. You can find all of the entries here! I'll give it it's own post next week promise!
Italian Brony Report!
I can't read it, but apparently Italy is reporting on our little fandom. You can find the article here!
Smosh Posts Ponies... Again!
This time around it's for a Rebecca Black parody thread thing. I didn't even know that meme still existed... Anyway you can find it here!
Livestream Charity for Wolves!
White Wolf Sanctuary is a rescue/rehabilitation center for wolves, and a livestream charity event is being held for it on July 30th at 9AM PST. So why is this pony? Well, a bunch of G1 games are going to be..."played", if you can call it that!
Hopefully some story of the blanks pops up!
You can find the channel here!
Another Pony Podcast from Tropecast!
The people over at Tropecast have held another MLP Focused podcast episode! You can find it here!
Guild Wars Guild
For those of you still playing guild wars (awesome game btw), a new group has formed up. Have some info!
Name: New Lunar Republic[LUNA]
Contact: Jfurgld Dnsl
Rarity Falls in Battle! An Army of Ponies Replace Her!
Over at Drawball2, an all out war is going on between the ponies and anti-ponies. Rarity was almost completely destroyed, but small pocket communities have sprouted up throughout the battlefield, representing everyone from Derpy hooves to TRIXIE!
You can find drawball here!
Memebase Succumbs to the Pony
After several attempts to wipe out pony altogeather, memebase has finally given in to the armada. You can find the new dedicated section here!
A Quote!
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C.S. Lewis
Writer Training Ground Week 1 Comes to a Close!
28 brand new training fanfictions can be found over at the writing training ground post on Deviant Art.
This weeks theme: Write about a pony having a dream, and how they react to it when they wake up.
If you are having trouble getting started, they also have a few new templates you can choose from on the actual page.
Equestria Daily News
Almost 20million! I totally didn't have time to make a banner yet, so hopefully I will have one set up for tomorrow...
I was going to announce a forum too, but its far from ready. We just moved too quickly. You guys are crazy.
Story Updates
Macintosh (Update Part 14, 15!!)
Past Sins (Update Part 4,5,6!+Comic)
The Empty Room (Updated Part 12!)
Order-naries (Update Sequel!)
On A Cross And Arrow (Update Part 4!)
Vamp it Up! (Update Complete!)
Brave New World (Update Part 5!)
Silent Ponyville (Update Side Story!)
Progress (Updated Short Story+Side Story!!)
Pony Monopoly (Cards and stuff)
The Vagabond (Update Story 2, Part 5!)
And that's it for the news! So many story updates...
93 comments:
first. lol
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of drawball before Rarity but now I do waste a bit of time on it. I did try to give Pink Panther Derpy eyes but that's been undone. Currently paying attention to Trixie.
ReplyDeleteWHY THEY LINK /b/
ReplyDeleteC.S Lewis quote was cool, WIW C S LEWIS YOUR SO SMOOTH LIKE KEITH STONE!
ReplyDelete+keith stone pops in+ "ALWAYS"
The Rarity and Vinyl drawballs were good but as we speak are being destroyed by haters. Derpy wasn't touched. Trixie is doing good so far and nobody even notices and cares about the Molestia on the right side.
ReplyDeleteThere are way! so many ponies. It's kinda weird how we can fandom zergrush different boards. Not that I'm against it. It's just interesting to think about. But in Rarity's memory, my friends at Drawball2 tally ho!
ReplyDeleteYou quoted CS Lewis. As a Wheaton College kid you are now my hero.
I love you. Truly I do.
Wheee, can't wait for 20 million!
Drawball currently has Vinyl Scratch, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE, Derpy, tiny Fluttershy and the second half of Rarity coming up!
ReplyDeleteStill needs more pony, though.
That's a really nice quote (: And I firgot all about Drawball til just the other day, when somepony mentioned it... surprised to see it's still going strong after all these years, hehe.
ReplyDeleteAbout time Memebase gets a dedicated pony section.
ReplyDeleteItalian blog pony site! Now that's very nice! :D
ReplyDeleteOMG a forum just what this place needs. You ain't trollin' are you Seth?
ReplyDeleteWell in that italian article they have explained everything about the fandom and the show.
ReplyDeleteanyway The blog" THE HORROR" is a real horror indeed.
for those of you who don't catch my drift: "IT SUCKS" should do the job.
Drawball2: *see's his drawing*
ReplyDeleteNoooo! They messed up my cruddy drawing of Rainbowdash's cutie mark, dammit.
I have been doing alot of coloring on drawball2 also alot of parasprite protection, and screen capping. I think I have a picture of nearly every pristine pony that was on there. Dj pon3 was a good bid, but we decided to sacrifice her to work on trixie. Join the fight on ponychan's /oat/!
ReplyDeleteForum eh? That would be nice. Chans always seem like such a silly way to organize discussions.
ReplyDeleteGuild wars is indeed a gem of a game, made by those which came from Blizzard which were sick of the money-hungry people around there, so they decided to make their own company known as ArenaNet
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for Guild Wars 2,it's suppose to be nothing like our MMOs but just like Blizzard they're taking 4+ years to make it
Their Aprils fool has been amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR2Esy83MQ0&feature=player_embedded yep...that's just for Aprils Fool...
They even made a page for it on the official site to look as real as possible, complete with wallpapers and all
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/commando
And they even gave it it's own Twitter page
http://twitter.com/#!/corporal_bane
The only problem which the team has is publicity, hence only 150K views on IGN
@Duskfly
ReplyDeletelol, I was considering to attempt to fix her cutie mark back up again.
Since when is Pony Monopoly a story?
ReplyDeletePlease tell me I'm not the only one who caught that.
on the drawball, ive been reconstructing derpy after its attacks, trixie looks aweosme, rarity is almost lost, DJ P0n-3 FTW!, and I can see people build Fluttershy on the top! ^-^
ReplyDeleteI love that quote of C.S.Lewis with his Fairy Tales being like our My Little Pony.
ReplyDeleteWith that quote alone I imagine him looking at us & loving our openess to My Little Pony just like how he's open about Fairy Tales.
Ah...Guild Wars...the game made by the talented people which emerged from Blizzard, yeh i remember them, too bad the actual gameplay requires all campaigns, a shitload of actual skill not just leveling, and sometimes can get pretty tedious...but i do have to say they actually give a damn as opposed to Blizzard
ReplyDeleteAlso here's some awesome videos created by fans for Guild Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0kQICdlAIs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z0pD5NNxew&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doPg0hx9PeU&feature=related
A forum? God yes.
ReplyDeleteHow do people create the vectors on the drawball for those ponies anyways o_O?
ReplyDeleteAnd suddenly I love C.S. Lewis even /more/ >.>
ReplyDeleteHmm, a forum. I was just wondering if there was a proper brony forum and not just Ponychan. Should be interesting when its ready. No more long arguments about humanized ponies in the Drawfriend posts after this.
ReplyDeletePony Monopoly is my favourite story.
ReplyDelete@EonMaster
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly but no need to work on it. Planning on drawing something else. Just as soon as my paint jar refills back to full.
Wasted it on a pointless task.
I defended Trixie will all my ink. But alas, she is being eaten by parasprites even now.
ReplyDeleteJust to note.
ReplyDelete15-18 is some "Oh the world hates you, you're not the only one" Bullshit
Counteract with Proverb 1:7 and everything shall be solved
Ok, I was in the drawball, and somepony wrote "Rarity is best pony" so I wrote "silly, that's not how you spell Fluttershy" and immediately after that somepony else crossed that out and put Trixie... She is up there I suppose...
ReplyDelete@Gypsy
ReplyDeleteI hate that Keith Stone commercial. He thinks he's so cool, but Rainbow Dash is way cooler. About 20% cooler in fact.
Bronies! Get your plots to the drawball now! Our great and powerful not to mention large Trixie is under attack by NEIGHSAYERS!
ReplyDeleteLaughed out loud in public at the Tropecast version of the MLP theme. Awesome podcast, another great thing about this fandom is that I've discovered a lot of great new podcasts.
ReplyDeleteI've even found myself reading comic websites. MLP is nerding me.
Man there are so many griefers at drawball i just cant keep cleaning up DJ-PON3. Ive been at it for 20 minutes now, they keep messing up what i fixed and ive run out of ink. :(
ReplyDeletePOST MORE OF Past Sins!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!! It is late morning and I have yet to fall asleep. EDIT FASTER!
ReplyDeleteCan SOMEONE please explain to me how such perfect outlines are drawn on drawball? Bots? or do people draw at 50% zoom?
ReplyDeleteI love that quote from C.S. Lewis! Thank you so much for posting that. :)
ReplyDeleteI started writing "The Great And Powerful Trixie" down south, but I didn't have enough ink to even finish the T :P
ReplyDeleteHow do I get more ink on drawball? Someone's crossing out Derpy and I can't do anything about it D'=
ReplyDeleteIf you have dynamic IP and ran out of ink on drawball, you can disconnect to internet, connect back changing your IP and refilling ink.
ReplyDeleteJust a heads up in case you want to draw something enormous or help fend off parasprites.
F**k yeah, time to start up Guild Wars.
ReplyDeleteDoes the pageview counter even work right? I mean it's just clocking through the numbers at a regular speed no matter what time of day I log on. That means it's only running through each figure's animation before moving on to the next, and we've probably already had way past 20,000,000 pageviews.
ReplyDeleteHmm, ponybots as a Drawball tactic. I wonder if it's possible.
ReplyDelete@FallI've seen it change speed. Hell, I saw it stop once for 5 seconds and times I've seen it go up 5 views at a time.
ReplyDeleteWant season one? Have a bittorrent client? Click my name. Lots of peers and seeds, so fast download speed. Join in! (Note: click on the "magnet" link because the "download this torrent" link is broken.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, I've seen the final sentence of that CS Lewis quote before, but never the whole thing. I'm definitely saving that to cut-and-paste when necessary. Silly haters!
The Italian one compares the show to Animaniacs. The ultimate compliment.
ReplyDeleteHah. Finally caught one of these. 20 mill pageviews...
ReplyDeleteJust keep doing what you're doing Seth. Its definitely working.
20,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy 20 mil everypony!
ReplyDeleteWeee! I actually saw it 20 million!
ReplyDeleteyay 20 mill!!
ReplyDelete20 mil eeyup!
ReplyDeleteI missed it by 900! LOL
ReplyDeleteI predicted 20 million for the first week of August. I was wrong. Way wrong. So, 30 million on September 1st? 50 million before season two? 100 million by Toy Fair 2012?
ReplyDeleteThere's a writing training ground going on? How have I not heard of this before?
ReplyDeleteAw i missed 20 million because i was on drawball
ReplyDeleteHello everyone(pony?) Kjh242 here, leader of the new GW guild. If you do want to join, I can usually be found on shortly after noon central (GMT -6). Also, the commando (April foals thing) was an actual playable class. They coded an entire class just to f**k with the fans.
ReplyDeleteArenaNet is all of Blizzard's awesome, only without all of Blizzard's suck.
I wasn't the biggest fan of C.S.Lewis' writings, but I've always found that quote to be very powerful and found that it applied to me very well. Especially now that I'm a part of this awesome community.
ReplyDeleteI fully approve of that C.S.Lewis quote. He is one of my inspirations.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that quote about a month ago. On the Wired.Com article on bronies, somebody used that exact quote as the first comment in response to it. Ever since, I've been citing it should anybody give me flak for watching children's programming on my own accord.
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly epic words to live by.
Yay! About time a brony group hit guild wars! ...i would totally join if i wasnt already in a great guild.
ReplyDeleteHappy 20,000,000!
ReplyDeleteHeck yeah C.S. Lewis! The man was a badass. Read his writings; they're great.
ReplyDeleteI missed 20 million because I was asleep, damn sleep being so good.
ReplyDeleteThat C.S. Lewis quote ought to be the Brony manifesto.
ReplyDeleteI was scrolling down slowly on the Friday page and then I saw Pinkie Pi-- AHHHHHHHH!!! *falls out of chair in fear*
ReplyDeleteRarity? NOOOOOOOOOOO.
ReplyDeleteI shined up Trixie's gem, but we're losing ground.
We need backup in Drawball 2. There is an assault going on at Trixie, and while the enemy forces are distracted, we are trying to renovate Derpy and Vinyl Scratch, but Trixie is taking damage.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there so many french guys painting flags everywhere?
ReplyDeleteThe trolls seem to always go for the eye.
ReplyDeleteC.sLewis FTW!
ReplyDeleteNow i know that its the french h=guys that have been putting santa (or noel, as they call him) hats everywhere.
ReplyDeleteThis is odder than i imagined
And now Trixie is gonna suffer the same fate as Rarity: Having her head replaced by a smiley wearing a santa hat.
ReplyDeleteIt's been the french all along, just like in real life.
No they're killing derpy's eyes again!
ReplyDeleteA forum? we already have 3 or something. ED isn't the only forum Thats out there.
ReplyDeleteI have been *trying* to remember where I read that quote!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Kudos on the CS Lewis quote. He was an amazing man c:
ReplyDelete@Anon: So both the French, and the Nazis have been assailing our beloved ponies? Well, at least the commies haven't struck yet...
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I put together the beginnings of a tvtropes page for Past Sins if anypony wants to add to it.
@Bugsydor They were, i had to erase a a hammer and sickle before running out of ink, and there was another one someone else erased
ReplyDeleteC.S Lewis FTW
ReplyDeleteI salute you Mr. Lewis!
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ReplyDeleteC.S. Lewis is awesome.
ReplyDeleteSo now that we have our own section of Memebase, people will stop complaining. [/wishfulthinking]
Being Italian myself I'm so happy that Italy is supporting this fandom.
ReplyDeleteJust a tip for the Italian article:
ReplyDeleteIf you go over to Google translate you can highlight the entire article and read it there. There's a few translation glitches (Twilight referred to as "he", grammar things, etc.), but it's still accessible.
If the French are putting red hats on ponies, those aren't santa hats. Those are Phrygian caps that were in style during the French revolution and which represent liberty and freedom. France just had its national holiday on July 14 so maybe the persistance of the caps is an echo of that rise in national pride. The French are probably laughing up their sleeves because we're so clueless about Phrygian caps, mistaking them for Santa hats. 8^)
ReplyDeleteFirst.
ReplyDeleteFiffth.
ReplyDeleteAnd then they could just be santa hats.
Theres a france pony on the drawball :D
ReplyDeleteWe need more ponies on the drawball!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't have enough ink to erase all the swastikas on Trixie!!!!
:'(
I LOVE that C.S. Lewis quote. I drop the short version wherever it's relevant.
ReplyDeleteDrawball has gone to hay in a handbasket!
ReplyDeleteThat tropecast would have been good if it weren't for the friggin' guest speaker. She was unbearable - "Derpy is offensive to disabled people! Zecora's implications about foreigners make me uncomfortable! The buffalo undermine the plight of Native Americans!" OH MY GOD, SHUT UP. Such interpretations are entirely unfounded in a kid's show, and are ridiculously obnoxious - especially when you consider that nopony us legitimately offended by those episodes.
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