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I saw the nonsense around this article a couple weeks ago and just sighed that some people want to get up in arms at what is essentially a basic non-confrontational message of "why don't we just get along" and unity.

I don't know if I'd even describe it as anti-racist commentary on the US specifically because the current situation regarding racism in the US is very different from what we see in the G5 movie. Outward segregation and xenophobia like what we see in the movie is very different from an integrated society where discrimination and inequities still exist due to historic and present racism built into government systems and structures.

Though when G4 was ending and the last episode has a single line implying AJ and Dash are in a romantic relationship now I seem to remember some people like this also being up in arms about "MLP goes woke!!!!" but I notice they've forgotten all about that. I can't get mad at it. It's just very silly and any people actually up in arms about this will forget about it in about two weeks.

I'm most concerned for the young children of the kinds of people who take these articles seriously the wheel of progress is turning without them and suddenly every little thing that has even the most non-confrontational message of unity is now Banned from their household for being "woke". If the parents of these children want to shelter them from things like that then what *are* they going to be allowed to watch or enjoy or play or read?

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Pony Brag Arena / Re: Pinkie Pie halloween greeter
« on: October 11, 2021, 09:45:06 PM »
Oh that's a very cute plushie! Interesting that they seemingly based it on a piece of fanart too which seems ethically sketchy but still a nice plush

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Pony Corral / Re: POTD 10/6/2021 MO October Cosmos
« on: October 06, 2021, 06:23:21 AM »
This set of ponies seems a bit sad. Basic pose, single colour hair, plain body, only difference between them being their symbols is disappointing. Pass

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Pony Corral / Re: POTD 10/5/2021 October Calendula
« on: October 05, 2021, 01:14:56 PM »
Oh she's so pretty! I feel like there aren't many yellow G3s and she's lovely

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Ahhh, that looks right. Thank you!

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I'm having a bit of trouble identifying what line this Rarity is from on mlpmerch and I was wondering if anyone has one of these as well and knows what line it came from and what year it released?
She has no special marks on her other side, just the diamond pattern on her eye, rainbow in her hair and a longer tail than usual.
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Pony Corral / Re: POTD 10/1/2021 October Dreams
« on: October 02, 2021, 03:09:52 PM »
Her colours look the same as Minty's but with a less interesting cutie mark. I suppose there's only so many colour combinations, but still, pass

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Customs / Re: Very first custom: G4 "Crystalverse" Dash
« on: September 28, 2021, 09:44:41 PM »
I was tempted to snip her hair and try to style it into place by trying to glue the ends together for the front-forelock hair thingy, but I decided against it because taking scissors to pony hair feels wrong

Thank you all for your nice comments  :good:

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Customs / Very first custom: G4 "Crystalverse" Dash
« on: September 28, 2021, 06:20:55 PM »
This is my very first custom I've made over a couple days/weeks on and off using a duplicate G4 reboot Dash :accomplished:

I based her on the Friendship is Magic Season 5 finale episodes The Cutie Re-Mark where Twilight briefly travels to a timeline where the Crystal Empire has risen and successfully conquered much of Equestria, and we briefly see Rainbow Dash who I think looked cool there

Here's two of my reference images and the custom:

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Customs / Re: Is it viable to dye G4 pony hair?
« on: September 28, 2021, 03:44:27 PM »
Given it's a unicorn Twilight it has to be earlier in the line thereby it should be nylon. Thank you!

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Customs / Is it viable to dye G4 pony hair?
« on: September 28, 2021, 03:39:30 PM »
Hello, silly question but I would like to try and customize a G4 unicorn Twilight (generic, small, no forelock I have too many twilights lol) although I'm on short income right now and I'd rather not have to ship something from overseas and wait a month for it to get here.

I would want to dye the hair black with rit dye and potentially cut it to restyle it and it would feel like a waste to spend $20~ on a hair hank I'd be cutting short in several places. Would that be possible or would it not come out nicely?

Additionally, would it be possible to buy white doll hair and dye it with rit dye and have it come out nicely? I can buy white doll hair from shops locally for cheap without having to worry about long shipping times/costs.

Thank you!

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Customs / Re: Cozy Glow and Alt rehair Cherry Berry
« on: September 26, 2021, 08:01:09 PM »
Oh!!! Cozy looks so cute!!!! Well done!

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Pony Corral / Re: G5 Media News, movie is now out on Netflix!
« on: September 25, 2021, 04:53:23 AM »
Just watched the movie!! I actually quite liked it a lot and I quite liked how all the characters talk... normally, almost? They talk more like people than characters at least in comparison to G4 and it feels quite nice. The pacing feels a bit rushed and the interesting parts kind of peter off around the middle I think, and I just don't really like the songs much either. They kind of seemed flat and the "climax" of the movie is very by the numbers. I did like it though I doubt I'll be watching it all the way through again unless I need reference for fanfic, etc.

I think my favourite character was Izzy followed by Zipp though I kind of found Pipp a bit annoying, which is unfortunate because I really did want to like her. I forget if we're getting a web series or TV show for G5 soon or if it's just going to be the movie for a while, but I'd like to see more of these characters soon. Especially Pipp though because I'd like to see her get more time to shine maybe when she isn't necessarily having to do influencer things

[Movie spoilers, FiM spoilers, talking about the magic situation in the movie, and questions about what I'd like to see answered by future G5 media regarding some of the fantasy elements of FiM and the legacies of the characters]
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It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine but "magical pegasi" make me annoyed in the sense of not being able to fly if they're not powered up by magic. I know that was a thing in G4 too but... it's not like their wings disappear. They're just kind of winged horsies they don't need to have an extra magic spark to fly. Also they kind of forgot that earth ponies have a sort of subtle invisible magic almost giving them a connection to the land, which the world of G5 being more industrialized than G4 Equestria makes me wonder if they could have retconned it somewhat in order to give earth ponies a sort of folk magic. If the G4 unicorns have magic down to  a science, the pegasi need magic to fly, the earth ponies should have a little bit of fun magic too.

I was going to write a whole thousand word ramble about the connections with G4 but I've just summed up my questions I hope are answered in bulletpoints instead. I really like the fantasy world elements of G4 a whole lot and I'd hope they carry over to G5. Though because they're keeping G5 set in Equestria:

-How old was the Zephyr Heights station Zipp shows Sunny and Izzy? The Wonderbolt poster and the posters advertising the various settlements didn't look extremely old which makes me wonder, has it been closer to 100 years or 1000 years since Twilight becomes the ruler of Equestria?

-How long was Twilight's reign? Is the sudden segregation of the pony species related to her somehow? She doesn't seem to be around anymore, so did she disappear or did she pass away somehow?

-Are Celestia and Luna remembered in any capacity outside of history buffs? Argyle seems to have a couple old murals of them around and Sunny has Celestia's cutie mark hanging in her room. Do they just remember that once upon a time there was a pony who lived for more than a thousand years and controlled the sun (also her sister) but they're just kind of gone now? I feel like that's a potentially terrifying concept for the ponies of G5

-What happened to Princess Cadence, Flurry Heart, and the Crystal Ponies? I suppose the Crystal Empire would be isolated given it's surrounded by a looooot of snow but that makes me wonder if the Crystal Ponies, Cadance and Flurry Heart are still kicking around up there separated from the rest of Equestria.

-Is the Tree of Harmony still around? If so, is it still increasingly and scarily sentient? Towards the end of G4 it kind of develops sentience and begins projecting itself as Twilight and forcing some random kids to do a life-or-death trial in order to figure out if "friendship is in their nature", but I wonder if that could have been the origin of the unicorn/earth pony/pegasi crystals that are apparently required to spontaneously create an alicorn and release magic back into the land. I kind of wish the crystals were symbolic rather than actual magical mcguffins though tbh.

-Where did the other magical creature species around Equestria go? The end of G4 has griffons, yaks, hippogriffs, dragons, and changelings becoming integrated into pony society and it suggests that's going to be a continuing trend, but they're gone by G5. Ultimately I understand the series is pony-based thereby all the main characters should be ponies, but from an inuniverse perspective and it makes sense for them to be the first to go if pony society was segregating itself for whatever reason. I guess it'd just be interesting to see where they went? I guess the changelings could still be around ;)


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Pony Brag Arena / Re: G3 Jumbo Plush Finds!
« on: September 22, 2021, 06:53:16 PM »
They're so big!!!! I love the Rainbow Dash  :happy:

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Off Topic / Re: Weird dreams thread
« on: September 17, 2021, 02:10:09 PM »
I keep having recurring dreams of the same fictional character that have lasted for about a year. I track them on my calendar and within the past 7 day period, three of my sleeps have had this one character over and over again. Earlier this year I had six nights in a row of the same character. I don't know if it's funny or just annoying because it's very weird and also kind of feels like I have a brain virus. They will never end lol

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