JabberwockyPie

This begs the inevitable question: If Fluttershy was a tree, what kind of tree would she be?

I'm thinking weeping willow. Her hair makes me think of one.

I could easily see it happening. Today's kids are growing up with more and more technology. There are multiple American Girl games, after all, but they're all terrible. I just don't think it'd be any good.

There was a computer game released with an exclusive baby pony around 2004 or about a year after the G3 ponies were launched. It was, by all accounts, terrible. I knew people who bought it at full price for $20. I got it for $8 at TJ Maxx about a year later - I never played the game, I only wanted the pony.

Even something like Firefly (which I ADORED for a while, and not exclusively because Nathan Fillion has pretty hair) there's a voice in the back of my head going "You know, for a supposedly half-Chinese universe, there sure aren't many Asian people. That's kinda not cool".

Lol- you've got a really good point though! xD

Nathan Fillion is good all around x'3

True facts: The only Asian actor in the whole series with a speaking role plays a whore. That's . . . kind of iffy, IMO. Maybe things would have been different if the series had progressed longer, but it's hard to say. (Fun fact: Kaylee was originally conceptualized as being Asian.)

Honest to god, I just got a mental image of Rarity meeting Nathan Fillion and asking what he uses to make his mane hair so pretty and silky. I just want to touch it. And that's just a little creepy, but really, he should do ads for conditioner or something.

Incidentally, Google Image Search turned up this. http://my-little-modified-pony.tumblr.c ... -trillions I don't feel that it captures the full Hair Prettiness.

I'd like to point out that in SCIENCE, "theory" doesn't mean a "theory" the way we use it in the day to day. To rip off Wikipedia citing another source (Hush, I have a migraine. I don't have the energy to write it down properly.)

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics). One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed.

Whereas we use "theory" to mean something a lot less concrete than that. I might say "I theorize that Twilight Sparkle is secretly Celestia's daughter" but that's not the same as a scientific theory.

Just to say where I'm coming from, I'm agnostic (in the sense that I like the idea of some kind of higher power, but I'm not overly bothered with deciding what it is and I accept that I can't PROVE anything). I thought the moral was more about not deciding something is impossible just because it's outside your experience and to stay open-minded. There are plenty of scientific things that people didn't understand because they didn't have the tools to measure and record and observe things because they hadn't been invented yet.

But then I mainly just like the episode for the hydra.

Fantastic! Now if only we can get DVDs.

Of course, I could find any one of hundreds of things to be upset about in this episode if I had a mind to nit-pick it enough, nothing is ever perfect when examined with a large enough microscope. I'm not afflicted with it because I can clearly see that strides were taken to best represent the parties and a positive lesson.

Occupational hazard, I guess. In an effort to be more socially aware I've developed "goggles", if you will, for picking apart media and examining it. This has the unfortunate side-effect of not being able to turn it off at all! It tends to leave me little niggling feelings when I watch/read/whatever things. There are movies and TV shows and books that I loved as a kid (or even just a few years ago) that make me *facehoof* now. Even something like Firefly (which I ADORED for a while, and not exclusively because Nathan Fillion has pretty hair) there's a voice in the back of my head going "You know, for a supposedly half-Chinese universe, there sure aren't many Asian people. That's kinda not cool".

Discussions about race relations get tricky, but something about this episode really got under my skin, so I'm trying to state my thoughts while staying calm and rational.

I may be reading a bit more into it, but this episode made me feel a little uncomfortable. I was expecting it to be a sort of Imperialism Is Wrong moral (much like Zecora was Racism/Prejudice Is Bad), but instead it kind of reduces the struggle of the Native Americans (and other native peoples who were displaced by European settlers, but they were pretty clearly supposed to be American Indians) to . . . everything can be solved with pie? Like the Apple-loosans were ENTITLED to live on the land that historically belonged to the buffalo just . . . because?

It just kind of struck me a little bit like the stuff they used to tell (still do? It's been ages) us in elementary school about pilgrims and indians[sic] all sitting around in harmony at the First Thanksgiving when . . . well, in real life the Native Americans got screwed over pretty badly.

It tickled me when Rarity said she liked their accessories xD I can see rarity all trussed up in feathers now

The show is very careful about stereotyping (be it positive or negative), and I believe I read somewhere that they consulted with Native American representatives before putting this episode to print to be sure there were no qualms with their portrayal. All that said, though, I love that they are not afraid to let Rarity reduce so many things to simple fashion choices (the buffalo's "accessories", Zecora's stripes, etc). It cracks me up every time.

Well I guess Rarity is like the real life fashion industry in another way - culturally appropriating the traditional accessories from different cultures. (That line made me uncomfortable in Zecora's episode, too. I mean wouldn't a pony painting on stripes be, um, kind of like the equivalent of blackface? Well at least she doesn't actually DO it.) And I say this as a Rarity fan generally.

All in all, I can still enjoy something (like ponies and FiM) even if I accept that it had flaws, but I didn't really like this episode and I liked it less when I rewatched it and I let my thoughts simmer a little bit. It seemed really problematic.

I still like the explanation that Dr. Whooves regenerated into a Pegasus pony.

I'd like to preface this with saying that religion in RP can be a very unwise idea, as others have said.

I don't think the Tolkien elf comparison is quite right, though. If anything they're more like the Maiar. No, wait, the Valar. (The Morgoth story sort of matches up to Luna in a way.) Aaaand, I'm going to stop my Silmarillion geekery right there.

There's a Terry Pratchett quote about how witches and wizards (Discworld is a high-magic fantasy setting) just know the gods exist but they know they exist the same way a table exists, but you don't go around saying "Oh great and mighty table, how we'd be lost without you!" and praying to it.

That's sort of how I see Celestia and Luna being to the average pony. Sure, they raise the sun and moon, but that's just something they DO. You can see them around Equestria doing . . . Princess stuff. It's pretty important, but it's also just the sort of what anypony does on a much much MUCH larger scale. Fluttershy takes care of small animals in and near Ponyville, Cloudsdale has a weather factory, and the Princesses create night and day for ALL OF EQUESTRIA. I do think they're supposed to be supernatural and not just normal ponies (almost deities) of some kind and probably immortal, but more as protectors or care-takers than something to be worshipped.

If anything I would see ponies as having a strong respect and reverence for nature - some probably more than others - but not formalized prayers or worship. I seem to recall a lot of "Great rainbow!" etc in the old cartoon about the Rainbow of Light, but this is a whole new canon and the ponies can make rainbows (or at least the ordinary kind - that was totally the Rainbow of Light in the first episode and that's a special magic rainbow).

And here I thought the post would be of Steampunk Ponies. Fluttershy could have, like, a Victorian naturalist's outfit.

I had forgotten that they referenced Moondancer in the first episode! Ihope they show her some time and that she looks like her G1 unicorn self rather than the G3 Earth pony. G1 Moondancer was soooo pretty.

That you kindly, Bluedeer! It looks like an exciting place.

Hello! Glad I'm not the only newbie floating around today!

Oh I will take pictures, things are just kind of disheveled right now because I set my shelves up where the really good lighting is and that's ALSO where I take Ebay pictures, so I had to move everypony and everydoll off because I've been doing some Ebay listing. That and I got a new, better backdrop from a prettier shade of blue felt. I'm working on sewing some clouds on so that the pegasus ponies can chill out in the clouds just like on the cartoon

I'm glad that they took the magnets off since they started the G4/FiM line. I guess it was supposed to be a safety thing, too, but it was annoying that you couldn't put the G3 ponies near your computer without risking breaking your monitor. (And more than a few people broke theirs when the G3 ponies first came out because they didn't realize that the magnets making pretty pretty colors were, in fact, BAD.)

I AM HERE! You are ALSO here! And I knew that, but I am just so excited! Buttercup JabberwockyPie and ML Mahka on a message board together again at last. It's like a movie sequel! An AWESOME movie sequel!

I'm JabberwockyPie. I'm a 23-year-old woman and I collect toys! Right now, aside from ponies, I'm really into Lalaloopsy, My Child dolls from the 80s, and just about any quirky weird stuff. I even have a big plushie martian from Lauren Faust's Milky Way & The Galaxy Girls - and that was before I knew she was responsible for Friendship is Magic!

My holy grail of my toy collecting is my COMPLETELY MINT Strawberry Shortcake Berry Happy Home dollhouse, which I've wanted since I saw the SSC specials when I was 3, before I even knew they had made it. (No, you may not play with it. Not even if you're older than me. I might let you look at it from a safe distance. You might mess it up or spill something on my precioussssss.) Being born in late 1987 - at the tail end of the 80s - and having a mother whose thrift store searching bordered on obsessive (Mommy Flibble is AMAZING) I had ALL ofcthe fantastic cracked-out 80s toys as a child because she was an amazing at fixing up used toys or finding the very last such-and-such on clearance somewhere years after they stopped making it. While not all of the 80s and early 90s toys I had were important enough to me to merit re-collecting them, I have fond memories of things ranging from Rainbow Brite to Puppy Suprise (which were REALLY weird if you think about it) to Care Bears to Moon Dreamers to my mother's Liddle Kiddles from the late 1960s. I had American Girl dolls when I was a bit older and collected those for a while, though at this point I only still have my favorites. I'm fond of some of Barbie's old friends and family like Francie, but very rarely Barbie herself.

I was known long LONG ago as Buttercup Flibble on Twinkler N Tigerhawk's Little Purple Board of Destruction, though I'm not sure if anypony here even remembers that little site except for GeekyBones. We've known each other for . . . oh, it has to be at least seven or eight years now, I think, though we lost touch for a bit. Fortunately we found out that we still liked each other! I stopped collecting because the board fell apart (which was very sad) and I realized I was just getting ponies to get ponies rather than because I really liked them. I'm more of a doll person at heart. But I'm a little older and a little wiser now. I've made some mistakes with some of my various collections (I may never stop beating up on myself for selling my original Strawberry Shortcake dolls, but I WILL find a Berrykin Plum Puddin' and Berrykin Orange Blossom again one day!), but I think I'm doing pretty well nowadays with being True To Myself and collecting things I like instead of what other people think I should and I've gotten over the "WHAT YOU ARE A TEENAGER/ YOUNG ADULT AND YOU PLAY WITH DOLLS!?" thing. (I don't even try to pass it off as being for a sister/niece anymore.) I like to think that the FiM ponies would approve.

In the last month or so she has dragged me back into ponies by making me watch Friendship is Magic and it's amazing (as you all surely know) and I ended up getting the toys of the six core cast members plus Sweetie Belle (and even the stupid over-priced set with the balloon just because it had Spike).

I like making stuff for my toys. Right now I'm working on a shared-universe-shelving-world for Lalaloopsy dolls, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake, and anyone else cute, quirky, and weird enough to hang out there. (No Barbies! They go on their own shelf.) I suppose I'll post pictures by and by.

Anyway, GeekyBones mentioned this site to me and it sounded fun. It's been almost as long since I last RP'd as since I last collected ponies (at least six years because Dungeons & Dragons doesn't count. D&D is "HEY LET'S KILL STUFF!) but I'm going to give it a good solid try and I hope I don't make too many mistakes.