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YAY MORE MARVEL NERDS FOR ME TO PLAY WITH!!! My favorite character's Kitty Pryde. Since like 1988. wheee I also only rejoined Twitter to mess with Rob Liefeld. (welcome to Canterlot)

You only GUESS? Muster a little enthusiasm there, cotton! I like to sew too. I am AWFUL at it, alas. Welcome to Canterlot, though!

Hmmm. Animated: Animaniacs (nobody will dispute me) Space Ghost Coast to Coast (yeah, I'm old, and attached, sue me) Aqua Teen Whatevs. Not: Parks and Rec (I would app a bacon eating Ron Swanson pony if I could, and i think i WILL for Crossovers.) Twin Peaks The Adverntures of Pete and Pete Louie

I feel that it is my civic duty to remind you all that this guy explodes into a totally unstable as-yet-unnamed element that operates like Joker -Gas. AND GLITTER. (welcome to Canterlot)

Keep it in with the tone of the show, missy. As long as it's kept somewhat simple and not actually genuinely fooling any adult ponies (foals are fooled easily though, and that's fine) you should be good

I can't have been yelling at you too recently. I haven't spoken to you since December 8th, my last open office...when I blocked you.

I am definitely going to disagree about illusion magic for Rarity because she's a primadonna and would use it all the time if she could, but for Pierrot...are we talking just lit up slightly glowing shapes and sparkles and stuff like that? Like that part of Fantasia where the music is suggesting shapes?

Or you could just stop freaking out and just buy the episodes on Itunes. It's only $3 a week. Surely you spend more than that on soda or coffee in any given week. The fan made content will come back. It'll be fine.

Templar, I treat you exactly as I do difficult co-workers at my actual job in an HR-approved manner. Have I ever called you a name? Have I ever threatened you? Have I ever disparaged your writing or characters? Have I ever bullied you beyond your opinion that asking you to stop talking about things in chat (when you are dominating a public space with conversation that should be taken to PM) is bullying? Nope. I have been stern with you, yes, but that is neither unprofessional nor "treating you as a moral inferior". It is because you like to push buttons and try to put yourself above the rules and the people on this forum who are trying to uphold them by confronting them in a manner like this. If I was behaving the way you have been in regards to the moderating team and the RP rules of this site, I would expect someone to be stern with me while I modified my behavior in a more community-minded manner. And that is pretty much all I am going to say further on this matter. EDIT: Note that I sent you a PM before I posted this.

Ideally, these questions should have been handled in the Questions and Suggestions section of the forum. Bringing them up in a blog post might be a good way to find people to validate your own concerns, but is not helpful way to try to tackle what you perceive to be a breakdown in communication. We are working on this currently and are nearly through the FAQ at least, including all the things you have brought up, but it takes time to make sure that it is edited to ensure maximum clarity and understanding. The site's RULES will be under the "Rules Guides and FAQs" button right underneath the chatroom button (the page you posted as hidden in the extras tab is what you are presented with WHEN YOU REGISTER, so there should be no confusion there), and additional RP and lore stuff will be another place for further reading. It might be possible to put the "Rules Guides and FAQ button" higher up on the page, in the animated banner or some other area that I know that he can edit. I know it says "extras" in that little header, so maybe that is the issue. The rules pages were also recently scoured and we are putting things in place to swap out or remove outdated content. Also keep in mind that the Lorebuilding team and Mane are rolling out new things sometime soon, and a potential new subforum which would require a rules overhaul anyway. As for your particular complaint about the helpstaff not being easy to identify: If you look at my posts, I always have "Senior RP Helper" as my title, along with the awards that Artax mentioned. I can bring it up to the other members of the team since we can adjust that somehow (the titles that is), but by and large it has not been an issue identifying the RP staff as they have the brightly coloured, and larger than the rest of the awards, identifying marks under their signatures that can not be hidden even if you hide your sig. You can also click on those awards and see who else has them. I am fairly sure that the RP Helper rank (which is very old and used to be in use when the ranks were first created) that you mention gets bumped off by the Donator status title, which is why we use the "awards" in the signature instead. Plus those awards are more ideally placed when scrolling through text in the applications section. I can also bring this up with Artax to see if it is possible to put the link to "the moderating team" on other places than the index page, but it is possible that it can't be done because of the limitations of the board software, but he would have to address that. But it's not like it's floating in the ether either. It's right there with ALL the "members" information when you log in. Like it is on most forums.

I think you and Allura making up was the Mayan Apocalypse. . Here's to a great 2013!

Please... describe these sunglasses you possess. Do you wear them at night? Do you wear them so you can keep track of the visions in your eyes? Welcome to Canterlot.

I really want to ask you about when you got so sappy, but I decided I'd give you a hug instead. Also, you forgot to mention your hair.

Animation-wise, I think they did spectacularly at the time. Given their practice for the movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfjHUztULY There is a whole lot of late 30s values dissonance going on with the movie that is hard for us to wrap our heads around. #1 is Snow White's sweetness. In a time of Kewpie Dolls (which for some reason were STILL in vogue at the time) , Shirley Temple and all kind of other ridiculously saccharine things, Snow White is actually LESS sweet and perfect than she could have been given the time, especially given the down spirits provided by the Great Depression. Sure it's annoying to us now because female empowerment happened and our modern society needs to be a little edgier. But she could be much much worse. Maybe not more shrill, but definitely worse. Even just a few years later, MGM's Dorothy was somewhat identifiable, and considered a strong heroine for the people of the time. And she's a little too much of a goody-goody for us these days too. It took me a long time to warm up to Snow White as a child. My grandmother loved it. It was her favorite movie EVER. But for me she was just too sweet and perky and annoying, not to mention the whole creepy true love at 14 with a full grown prince angle always squicked me out. (for the record, I felt completely the same way about Sleeping Beauty as well) But then I learned to love it for what it was. A very specific product of its time that was beautifully done and changed the face of animation forever.

Oh Congratulations my dear Techno! I am so happy for you! What did the parrots get you for Christmas?

I just want to know that they HAVE parents and weren't just grown in a magic orchard. Also: The green pony, Applesauce? Kind of adorable. I wonder who the others are. I wonder if they're all technically part of the apple family... And also, Appliance's great grandmomma, Sewing Machine.

He does remind me of my niece Sally. A lovely girl. She's a dietitian. But really, Dio, I DO call grown men Jennifer to annoy them. And princess.

You're a yellow-eyed gamey-smelling lowlife.

#magiworldproblems. You and Jen should co-blog.

Wow. You seem to be a little obsessed with death. That's not very kid-friendly. Nor is your choice of last meal. I think you should go with cut up hot dogs in mac and cheese! And watch Cabin Boy. Would you like to buy a monkey?

Ok, listen up folks. There's a lot of misleading information being passed around in this thread, even though it's a joke thread. And just for the sake of putting this up here because I find it interesting: The Maya (not Mayans) still exist. The Mayan Long Count Calendar is where the dates stop counting tomorrow-ish. That's all. That is the end of their involvement. It is only one of several calendars they used, quite a few centuries ago (and was even considered obsolete several centuries before Columbus even set foot in the Americas), and they were used in conjunction. It is kind of like one of those calendars that had clickwheels, but the year date only went so high. See below. The circles represent day, a longer hard to explain time period (that is shorter than a year), and finally, the long count, which identifies an even longer and hard to explain time period (that is comprised of several years). Why is it so weird to us? They liked math and astronomy. a LOT. There are MANY different ways to do math, and most of what we learn today is just a standardized form based on the way the Greeks figured out things. The Maya did it a little differently because if you don't know how to do a thing you make up your own rules based on what works for you. Apparently this worked for them, and was fairly accurate. I think it's mostly base 20 is the main difference instead of base 10 or base 12 or 60 (time) like most of us are used to. Yes, they did account for the 1/4 day that the earth's revolution is actually off of the 365 days. Why do the dates stop? Because it's a physical object and you can only put so much detail on it. If the Maya were still around in the same way culturally today as they were way back before even Columbus showed up, they probably would have just made a new one. Alas, they were assimilated into everyday Mexican and Central American life, and retain some but not all of their cultural identity. A lot of them are also laughing at how funny it is that people are freaking out about something their ancestors made. Some of them are pretty annoyed that people keep saying they're an extinct race, though. it should also be noted that this below is not the Mayan calendar. It is the Aztec. The Aztecs are the civilization that are ACTUALLY extinct. Not the Maya. They lived around what is now Mexico City. They were similar in many ways, but distinct, as they were much more brutal than the Maya. The world ENDING Prophecies were started by a bunch of New-agers in the 70s and 80s. Picked up steam because barely anyone on the internet bothers to fact check. I swear, Google Mayan Calendar and most of the photos will be of the Aztec. But prophecies are what you make of them. You can use 12/21/12 as an opportunity TO re-invent the world as a period of enlightenment like the books have said if you want. Just make it a better place. Or you can do what I am going to do and use it as an excuse to blast Rush's 2112 12 times.

You can, while you are waiting your turn to get reviewed, RP with this character in Free-For-All. We are trying to get to the applications as quickly as we can, but there are a limited number of us handling apps in general, and an even smaller number of us who do not have IRL things that are keeping them from the board at the moment.

Welcome to Canterlot, Nivial!