Friday, August 5, 2011

Story: The Elements of History (Update Part 4!)

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Author: Ryak
Description: Twilight discovers a strange and mysterious book with unknown capabilities. Can Twilight and her friends use it to uncover the true history of the Elements of Harmony and Equestria's past?
The Elements of History Chapter 1
The Elements of History Chapter 2
The Elements of History Chapter 3
The Elements of History Chapter 4 (New!)

Additional Tags: History, long, Equestria, Elements of Harmony, book

Pony Plush Compilation

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Dude.

Do you see these plushies? Holy crap. These things are literally the cutest things I have ever laid my eyes on. They look like they're made of clouds and hugs and tissues and happiness. Look at Pinkie's face. Just look at it. Have you ever seen a happier pony? Magnastorm even made Nightmare Moon look adorable as hell. Do you realize how hard that is?

I refuse to act rationally about these. I want one so bad. You have no idea. I would never part with it. So, uh, if anyone wants to send me one, you'll be my BFF. I'll write your name on my arm. I'll embarrass you with one of those unboxings, too. I swear I'll do it.

You can find more pictures of these particular pony plushes, as well as some submissions from two other plush creators (keyismykitty and brainbread) after the page break.

Discussion: Background Pony Episode!

You have once again been promoted to CEO of the Hub!  They are giving you free reign to create an episode based on a background pony from FiM. 

Which one would you use, and what would it be about? Drop a summary in the comments.  Maybe someone will turn it into a fic and spam the poor pre-readers some more!

Also ponies are chubby.

Its cute.

MLP Drinking Card Game

A MLP Drinking game is being tested/perfected over on Ponychan, based off of the old 4chan drinking game from a while back.  Right now they have a total of 161 cards, though it does tend to pile on the alcohol pretty quick.  It's being modified a bit to add some defensive cards, but for now, if you just assume a "drink" is a "sip" then it looks like it would be a lot of fun!

You can find the download for all the cards here!

And the rules below (also included in the download link)

Brony Stuff Confirmed for Season Two?

Someone named Shaun recently sent Jinratgeist (The guy releasing behind the scenes season one clips on youtube) a few questions about the second season.  It's not a huge reveal or anything, and I'm pretty sure most of us could assume Season 2 would have something for us specifically, but it does confirm it. 

Whether this is just Derpy Hooves, or a whole truckload of of fanon easter eggs remains to be seen.  I'm looking forward to all of the "HOLY CRAP DID YOU JUST SEE THAT!?" on /co/ when it does happen though!

Drawfriend Stuff #148

It has been a while since we have had a good old fashioned Dash shipping drawing as the main image, so lets do it!

Nostalgia edition? 

To the drawfriend!

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Story: Giggle at the Ghostly (Update Part 5+6+7!)

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Author: MadDogAcey
Description: After being denied a meeting with Celestia, Trixie decides to take matters into her own hooves and use a spell to send the next person to meet Celestia home. When it turns out to be Twilight, all the better for Trixie...
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 1
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 2
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 3
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 4
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 5 (New!)
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 6 (New!)
Giggle at the Ghostly Part 7 (New!)

Additional Tags: Long, Spell-Mishap, Death, Ghost, Insanity.

Story: The Somewhere Cycle; Volume 1: "Wander and Green Brier"


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Author: The Descendant
Description: Wander is a city colt who has fought his way up through the ranks.

Green Brier is born to gentry and fights to maintain his ideals.

No two ponies in Equestria are probably more different, but both keep inside themselves a powerful secret. Both of them have memories of a time of horrific war fought by baffling creatures on a distant world. Of those creatures two showed them what it means to be an officer, what sacrifices a good soldier must make, and how friendship can surpass even the borders of time and space.

In this story, the first of The Somewhere Cycle, Wander and Green Brier share with you, the reader, these memories. See if you can figure out who their beloved masters were and what famed horses they were in our reality before the story ends!

The Somewhere Cycle; Volume 1: "Wander and Green Brier"
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Story: The Catastrophic Case of the Cutie Mark Crusaders (Update 3+4!)

[Sad][Slightly Grimdark][Comedy]  Pinkamena Diane Pie time! This time from Squeak!

Author: Squeak
Description: Hello, my name is Pinkamina Dian Pie, and I suggest you pick up a much happier story. Perhaps one in which good things happen to little fillies who do everything right, and the sun always shines. If it sounds as though you would like such a story, then please close whatever form of media you are reading this on, and go to the "Normal" section of Equestria Daily, where such stories are stored. This is not a happy story, this is the story of three little fillies, and the terrible events that were to befall them.
The Catastrophic Case of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Chapter 1
The Catastrophic Case of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Chapter 2: The Somber Start
The Catastrophic Case of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Chapter 3: Sour Apples (New!)
The Catastrophic Case of the Cutie Mark Crusaders Chapter 4: Frantic Fashion (New!)
(Chapters have the wrong numbers in the google docs, but it's all in order!)

Additional Tags: Lemony Snicket Thingy

Brony Movie Night #13

Movies! Ponies! Stuff! Have some copypaste

Hey everypony, it's time for this week's Brony Movie Night!  Here is our schedule for this week:

This week at Friday, 7 PM Eastern and Saturday, 2 PM Eastern we will be streaming:

Inception (Content Warning: Plenty of Violence)
Suited For Success
INTERMISSION (Lottery on SATURDAY)
The Best Night Ever
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (Content Warning: Some Nudity and Some Violence)

This week's lotto will be on Saturday.

Also, we are currently taking applications for Brony State moderators, if you're interested, please send an email bronystate@gmail.com to receive an application

Links:

Ponemon Demo Video!

Best Professor Oak/Rival ever. 

The Ponemon mod is making leaps and bounds in terms of progress, with full on custom sprites and dialogue changes. 

The guy working on it has a blog set up which updates pretty often.  You can find it here!

And the video after the break. 

Story: All the Pretty Little Sparks


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Author:
Fireant
Description: How it is to fly with lightning chasing behind you? How risky it is to be in the group of the best stunt crew in entire Equestria? How you became one of them? Spitfire, current leader of the Alpha Team have a solid collection of memories about her training, her friends, her teachers and who else can tell us the hardship of being a Wonderbolt than one of the best of them?

All the Pretty Little Sparks

Additional Tags: Wonderbolts, Recalling, Memories, Fear, Sentimental

Random Media: My Little Boredom 3 / Galo Pony Powa / Poni Launcher


Time to drop some random media stuff in my folder! First off is an (Almost?) YTP, followed by some WTF and a Trailer for a pony launcher from Black Mane Industries.

Also some bonus Dragonforce, since it was randomly included in this email.

1.) My Little Boredom 3
2.) Galo Pony Powa
3.) Black Mane Industries Presents: The PONI Launcher
4.) Dragonforce

Story: Trixie's Bargain


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Author: Jay Bear
Description: Stinging from her humiliation in Ponyville, the Great and Powerful Trixie uses dark magic to make a demonic pact: a chance to go back in time and vanquish the Ursa Major, at the cost of her immortal soul. Does she succeed against the ferocious beast? Will fame and fortune be hers? Can her soul be redeemed, or is the magical mare forever damned? And, most importantly, does she get shipped with anyone? (Spoiler alert: nope.)

Trixie's Bargain

Additional Tags: short, deal with the devil

Comic: Derpy's Flight School / Rainbow, Grab My Tail

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Poor Scootaloo... It looks like Rainbow Dash ditched her again. I don't think Derpy Hooves is the best choice of substitute teacher though.

Also some Rarity being... Rarity below.

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German Fandubs for FiM Episode One

Twilight Sparkle: Nein..Nein..NEIN, NIEN, NIEN! I love it.  Why did they make me learn Spanish back in high school? German is so much cooler. 

A group called Crimson Studio is translating the FiM episodes into German.  You can find the parts, and the channel below!

Friendship is Magic Episode One
Part 1
Part 2

Maine Channel

Writer Training Ground Week 3

Week three of the Writer Training Ground has come to a close!  The topic:  Write about a pet stuck in a tree.

33 People submitted stories for the event!  You can find them here!

This weeks rules can be found on the Deviant Art page!  All are welcome to join at any time.

Nightly Roundup #58

That post earlier? It never happened.  Have some cute twilight sparkle in socks to make up for it.


Equestria Has Microwaves

Source: Richfiles
In the 40 dollar Canterlot Luna playset, a few very..strange things can be found in the background, including this microwave. 

Yes, Equestria does in fact have Microwaves.  It looks like progress wasn't too far off. 

Uhh, right.  Back to the nightly update! It's almost done. 

PMV: A Trot to Remember / Ponymon TV Theme /



Movies, TV, and Broadway musicals! Ponies invade everything!

1.) A Trot to Remember
2.) Ponymon TV Theme
3.) Cell Block Pony Tango

Custom Pony Compilation


More custom ponies! As always, I'm kind of blown away by the amount of detail that goes into these things. Just look at that header image. That's TF2 ponies right there. That's awesome.

The above was sent to us by Steve Holt, and you can find the whole gallery here.

We also have a custom Sweetie Belle from Busoni, which you can find on their DA here.

And lastly we have Lineheart's Princess Derp, which is also on their DA here.