You don't want to see the Amish in Airship Pirates...

i don't want to see amish period.

The greatest thing about talking about the amish on the internet. Is that they will never know about it!

spoilers spoilers spoilers for MLPFIM3.11

*looks at Shadowdragon*
Did you know this already?

I... I...

if they pull this off, then that's something to behold . .

I've been told that as long as it's something they build themselves, it's okay for the amish.

Stahsteele:

*jaw-drop*

If they pull that level of a story, I will be FLOORED. That would indeed be amazing.

I'm starting to wonder if they're not aiming to wrap up after this season, with the rumors posted here about Twi becoming the new queen, and now RD has practically achieved her goal.

I've started Fallout Equestria. It's tremendously long (1600 pages. War & Peace is about 1200.) But it reads very fast. My wife found it open on my kindle and is teasing me about it (good-naturedly). At least she didn't find Project Horizons, which has way more innuendo. That could have been awkward.




Understood. And reading your comments, it sounds like you're planning on going back through the whole thing to clean stuff up.

Regarding the plotlines;
- I read through the race, and when we changed over to the Gala, I wasn't sure how the race was relevant to that story arc. The race scene seemed superfluous.
- Reading through the gala, because the conflict is 'plan a party!' I just wasn't engaged as a reader. At 60 pages, without any promise of a real challenge, I started skipping some to get to the 'good part'.

That's what I meant about trying to get to the conflict sooner. I understand your setup though (now that you've told me). The only issue there is you're asking your reader to bear with you for a long while before he gets to the meat of the story. You still do better than GRRM though

Regarding comments, I downloaded the story on my kindle so I can read it during non-work hours. So no comments The one that caught me was early in the story, when you're talking about Twi's 'orange friend', the adjective stuck out. The fact that AJ was orange wasn't relevant to what she was doing, and it was already established for me as a reader (because I've seen the show). I'd consider either identifying her as orange when we first meet her, or just assuming the reader knows (unless it's relevant).

When you're done, put up another poke, and I'll give it another quick readthrough, hopefully actually tracking comments. Just be aware, I do editing professionally, so I can be mean.

@nezumi
yeah, several big league corps in the media business should take a good long hard look at mlp and take a slice of that . .

furthermore:
Fallout: Equestria is 1600 Pages long
War and Piece is 1200 Pages long?
You do remember that Fallout:Equestria is in Din A4 and War and Piece is in the more commonly used Din A5 for Books right? ^^

The made for e-readers(especially kindle) .pdf version of Fallout:Equestria i have is 603K words long, witch is about 20k words longer then War and Peace(not Piece Stahl ), infact the longest novels list in wikipedia only has 8 novels that are longer then it
Comparing like this avoids all the hassle of differend page sizes(as that .pdf is 2018 pages long)
And yeah F:E is quite a fast read, actually too fast as it was agonizing(not literally) to wait for more while it was being written.

It's still way short of the Wheel of Time series.... 4,056,130 words.

War and Pieces is a more awesome title <.<
And the fact that there are only 8 single NOVELS longer than Fallout Equestria is still mind boggling @.@

Well ofcource it is, but comparing a single novel to a series in word count is quite pointless.
But it is quite crazy the longest novel on that list(In Search of Lost Time) 3/10 length of the entire WoT series(1,2 million words)

Eh. Based on what Shadowdragon said, it sounded as though this was published in a serial format rather than a single novel. That actually makes its publication not much different than how War & Peace was initially published in a newspaper in serial format.

The longest WoT novel is 393,823 words.

I'm almost done with War and Peace. I have Les Miserables sitting on my bookshelf but it's going to have to wait for Memory of Light (January 8th!!). Of the list, I also want to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Atlas Shrugged.

I really enjoyed W&P. It gave me a lot of insight into the culture, and wars in general, that you just don't get with most books. But I could have done without the epilogues. They ruined Natasha and Nicholas for me as characters, and the lecturing got dull pretty quick.

Tell me how Atlas Shrugged is. It's obviously a big-name book, but I'm not sure if it's one I care to invest any brain-cycles on. (Perhaps that's a book begging for a redo as pony fiction though )

It's fanfiction, it was released per chapter as it got written as is quite usual.

I just found out there's BattleBronies to go with ShadowBronies. I'm even more scared now.

Join the herd CanRay! *Hypnotoad/Pinkie-eyes*

http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/97-let-th.../page__st__8240
413 Pages of Pony on the MWO-Boards.

Also, several Pony-Units there at least ^^

Battletech Pony:
http://e621.net/post/show/150648
http://e621.net/post/show/152208
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G1E2EASLf8Y/T9PP...ght_sparkle.jpg
Don't mess with the Royal Canterlot Defence Force, Heavy Artillery Division O.o

Awh, no Timber Wolf?

75 tons of perfected killing loving and tolerating machine, that 'mech.

Speaking of long ass books, Shogun by James Clavell is a little over 1000 pages. But that bloody book teaches you basic japanese without trying!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3lAcp8JBU
Episode 3x09 - Spike at your Service has been leaked in Full HD.

Well, it's aired by now.


That was kind of a painful episode, painfully embarrassing to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6iCn1wJmY
totally worth it for that one alone ^^

As always, of course, Pinkie Pie brings the funny.

That would definedly be a bad idea, have you checked that artists deviant art page there's a lot more mech designs in there and their all pretty awesome.

My little Trek into Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...p;v=IkzZrIbIiNU

MLP is like Rule 34 except without the porn. Find some hobby, you will find fans that have blended MLP with that hobby. Then there's Rule 34 MLP which I hope I never see any more of than what was featured on Tosh.0.

The fact that some of the most talented artists in the fandom also do R34 art doesn't make avoiding it easier

*points at princess mollestia*
NSFW R34 saucy naughty badong fun ^^


This here is SFW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHs5j_5Vim8
*blink blink* o.o

What about SFS?

?

Safe For School

Safe For Sanity

if you don't care about people seeing you looking at MLP, then yes, safe for school too.

Of course, if you still attend a public school (using the American sense of the word,) then pretty much nothing MLP is safe for school if you were equipped at birth with a penis and testes. You are likely to be subjected to a savage assbeating should you be caught looking at Ponies in school if so.

On the other hand you'd have a lot of female friends. Also... Do people really work like that? I mean beating someone up seem like... Ineffective bullying. You have one shot then angry parents on your neck.
Then again if you got the cerebral fortitude of an hollowed out bucket, being subtle is probably not on the agenda.
*smirk* What? My shrink says Im mentally sound.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work this way.

The schools, the police, and so forth do not take bullying seriously. "Boys will be boys", they say. "It was just a little rough-housing", they say. "No harm was meant", they say.

Like being twelve or fifteen or whatever, renders someone incapable of being a jerk who's too willing to use hsi fists and feet to do injury to others.

And even where there are anti-bullying laws, programs, initiatives, or even just school rules? A lot of Fundamentalist groups have fought hard to put in a "religious exception" in place .... pretty much legalising things like gay-bashing among kids.

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/...stics-2010.html

Not really. "Boys will be boys." Parents are, in my experience, very reluctant to take any sort of legal action against children who have harmed theirs, especially when the school doesn't seem to think it's that big a deal, choosing instead to assign detention instead of, say, expulsion and criminal charges.



Or did you mean the bully's parents? Because here's the conversation I see going down.

"Boy, what's this shit about? Why's the principal of your god-damn school breathin' down my neck. Says you put the boots to someone else?"
"Yeah, but dad, he was looking at My Little Pony stuff."
"What? They're pissed off 'cause you put the boots to some f*****t dickless f*g lookin' at god-damned My Little Pony? Librul bleedin' hearts. Fuck 'em all."
"So I can go?"
"What? Yeah! Get the fuck outta here, Judge Judy's about to come on... Stupid librul f****ts. Betcha that principal's a *f****t, too."

Or something to that effect.

Legal action?
It's called having your dad show up at school and scaring the shit out of the bullies.
Schools shouldn't be parenting, parents should.

Then again here you can't press charges/sue someone for looking at them wrong.

has anyone played the mlp RPG?

Great, because nothing says "family loyalty" like visiting your dad in prison after he turns up at your school to scare the shit out of the kid who bullied you, only to get tackled and arrested for making terroristic threats on a school's grounds.

Which one? I wanted to get into a game of one of them, but never could.

Good luck even getting that to court here

"Oh, you know, men will be men . . he was not threatening the little boy who hurt his son and clearly needs to learn that there will always be somebody who is stronger than him . . he was just rough-housing it a bit with the young folk eh?"

I see that flying about as far as I can throw my truck.

.... and then going to jail.

Seriously. Parents don't show up at schools to scare someone else's kids, and not be the ones on the receiving end of criminal charges.

"One kid punches another, or shoves the other one in a locker? That's what kids do. Give the aggressor a couple days' detention and that's it. We don't want to do anythin drastic that would permanently affect his/her FUTURE, do we??"

--versus--

"An adult makes a kid feel threatened, at teh child's school ...? OMG, Columbine and Newtown and *screamign panic* ...!!"



Really, that's how it works. I was on the receiving end of bullying my entire youth. In third or fourth grade, I wassurrounded by a bully and her six or eight friends - with 30 or 40 onlookers cheerign them on. And had the lead bully threatening to break bottles or my head.v These were eight and nine year old kids. And the actual bullies were known fight-starters, bullies, and general (violent) trouble-makers. Known to the schools, AND to the police.

Do I need to bother telling you to guess what was done to them, for that day?

Unless he physically assaults the kids (which is highly unlikely as it's not only socially abhorrent but also illegal to physically discipline here), it's something to be resolved parent to parent. School may have a part in it if it's widespread.

Oh yeah I brought you a new bronie... Might aswell keep you loonsfans in together! to uh... uh... spread the love?

I really don't see that going down without criminal charges unless the dad in question is on the school board and plays poker with every police chief and district attorney in his state here.




Shadowbronies have our fun in the Shadows. Thanks.

Let's just leave it at that
America... Can at times be rather nonsensical with what they bring to court, in my opinion. But rather not have that become a whole debacle.