Story: Crusaders of the Lost Mark

[Normal][Random] It's... not what it looks like. Let's not go to the movies today, it would be much better to just curl up and have some story time. Yay! (All right, let's be a bit clearer: picture and story not actually related!)

Author: Tenure and Midnight Shadow

Description: A mysterious blacksmith with a troubled past trundles into Ponyville as he wends his way to nowhere across Equestria. A chance encounter with three boisterous foals leads him and them to an adventure they'll never forget, which will change their lives forever.

Crusaders of the Lost Mark

Additional Tags: cutie marks, crusading, soldiers, monsters, teamwork

YTP: Horseplay

Another Youtube Poop Series! yay~

1.) Horseplay 1
2.) Horseplay 2
3.) Horseplay 3

Blind Bags On The Way To The USA!

A thread over on MLP Arena has revealed that the blind bag ponies are finally heading to the US!

For those that haven't been following them, they are essentially card packs with a random pony inside, and the only way to get the two inch Fluttershy.  The people over on /toy/ cracked the code a while back, which you can find here.

They are ~$2.00 everywhere else, so probably the same out here!

The exact quote of the email:

Thank you for contacting us. We appreciate your taking the time to share your feedback and concerns with us regarding the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic product line.

I understand and appreciate your frustrations ----. In an effort to help you locate specific My Little Pony products, can you advise which products you are looking for? If you can give me an idea, I would be most pleased to follow up with our brand team to see if release dates are available. Also, My Little Pony Blind Bags will be released very soon to the U.S. market.

I look forward to your response.

Thanks!"

No telling what the real date will be. 

Right, so...  When can we get that Luna toy? 

Thanks to Sheldon for the heads up!

Story: Sparks Flying (Update Part 3!)

[Grimdark-War] We haven't had a Griffon story in a while.  I wonder if Gilda will be making a return in season two? 

Author: PitViperOfDoom

Description: There is no harmony in hate. A spark of love once ignited them, and now a spark of hatred and jealousy will ignite a terrible war. Truth will be questioned, kindness threatened, laughter stifled, generosity strained, loyalty tried. Friendships tested.

Sparks Flying (3 Parts) (New!)


Additional Tags: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Friendship, War

Drawfriend Stuff #94

Raver Sparkle edition. 

Woops forgot to saucyize the saucy images!

Source 1

New Fanfiction Submission rule!

I've updated the fanfiction submission page with a quick rule.

Please have ONLY the title of the story in the subject line of the email you send. Nothing else!

Just trying to clean things up a bit! Everything else remains the same in the body of the email. 

You can find all rules here as always

Fanfiction Submission Rules

Story: Nopony Can Resist 'Em

[Shipping] It's short, sweet, and wonderfully cheesy, and it knows it.-Pre-reader #15

Author: N.K.

Description: It's said that the fastest way to a colt's heart is through his stomach. When Soarin's sweet tooth begins to arise while visiting Rainbow Dash, he's advised to pay a visit to Sweet Apple Acres. Will he recognise the mare who made the pie of his dreams when out of dress?

Nopony Can Resist 'Em

Additional Tags: Short, Sweet, Light-Hearted, Cuddly, Pies

End of May Conventions and Cosplays Compilation Post

Yesterday I asked everyone to send me images/videos/writeups from various conventions going on this week.  There were 3 big ones!

1.) Phoenix Comic Con
2.) Fanime
3.) Anime North 2011

Now before you continue after the break... I realize this isn't for everyone, but a huge amount of bronies do enjoy it, so just like shipping tags and saucy images, just ignore it if it isn't your cup of tea.  Keep the comments clean.

Anyway, ONWARD!

Bnet (CBS Interactive Business Network) Reports on Friendship is Magic!

Have some ironpony

Anyway, it looks like another large news organization has jumped on the pony trend bandwagon. This time CBS's news blog has an article up that primarily focuses on the business aspect of Friendship is Magic.

Their primary criticism is something I think all of us can agree on... better toys/merchandising. 

It's an interesting read!  I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but hopefully it prods Hasbro into releasing some better toys!

You can find the article here!

And thanks to Robotech_Master for the report!

Flankbook Domain Update

Flankbook has moved on to a new domain, and the admin asked me to let everypony know.  I guess people were confused!

He has also added personal image albums and a few other new features to spice things up a bit. 

The new site can be found at the very simple http://flankbook.com/

PMV Xponies / Call of Pony: Modern Warmare 3 / Perform This Way

Trailers and Weird Al time!

Also some ridiculously cute trixie up above that I will sneak in at every opportunity. 

1.) X-Ponies First Class: Pinkamina's School For Gifted Fillies
2.) Call of Pony: Modern Warmare 3
3.) Perform This Way

PMV: Rainbow Syndrome / Reading a Book / We'll Meet Again

Number one is so blindingly happy. It's a shame it sort of has a dark side hidden in there.

1.) Double rainbow syndrome
2.) Twilight's Reading a Book
3.) We'll Meet Again

Story: A Day with the Wonderbolts

[Normal] It's totally Rainbow Dash day or something. Still /r/ing a widescreen version of this btw, thanks!

Author: The Dark Griffon

Description: Rainbow Dash gets to live her dream -- a day with the famous Wonderbolts. What does the leader of the team, Skybuck, have in store for her, and what will she do to convince him to let her join the team?

A Day with the Wonderbolts (20% cooler formatting)

Additional Tags: Short, Rainbow Dash, Wonderbolts, Slice of Life

Hotcha Poniday For Strings / She's a Horse / Clone High

Random PMV Time!

1.) Hotcha Poniday For Strings
2.) She's a Horse (probably nsfw song lyrics)
3.) Clony High

Story: I Dream Reality is My Dream

[Normal] Dashy time!

Author: mykowskis

Description:In the wake of a troubling dream, Rainbow Dash attempts to console herself as she comes to terms with her own insecurities.

Google Docs
I Dream Reality Is My Dream


Deviant Art
I Dream Reality Is My Dream

Additional Tags: Insecurities, Dreams, Fears, Consolations, Loneliness

La Hooves / Anomaly System / Winter Wrap Up Dance Mix

Have a Trixie in a bunny costume to represent some of the weird stuff buried in this music post!

1.) La Hooves - Muffinproof
2.) The Anomaly System - Brony
3.) Winter Wrap Up - E.M.M Heavy Dance Mix

Newbie Artist Training Grounds Day 5

I think all of your fruit ponies scared Phoe away!  So I'm creating the post this time!

This time around, we have 266 entries! Feel free to add them to your Achievement List if you are participating in that as well. This post should load much more quickly thanks to some changes from Calamari.

As a reminder:  Please submit everything through the submission tool, explained here!

I'm not sure if Phoe had anything specifically planned for today.  I'm seeing a lot of earth ponies, so why don't we do a Pegasus one?

The Theme of the Day
 
Draw your favorite pony with WINGS(Any pony, you can magic some wings on!), breaking the sound barrier!  How you want to handle the particle effects, or wing design, is up to you!  If Dash creates rainbows, what does Twilight create? 

PMVs: Be Our Guest // Hiroshima // Twilight in Trouble

PMVs means random image, and random image means the most recent image in Cereal's pony folder that he likes. That isn't NSFW.

1.) Be Our Guest
2.) Hiroshima
3.) Twilight is in Trouble Again

Comic: Lonely Night

Because Luna comics are the best comics.

Need source =[

United Nations Approved International Day of Friendship

A worldwide event celebrating friendship starting THIS year?

Everything is lining up way too perfectly for a 2012 Ponypocalypse.

Anyway, I'm sure we can schedule some extravaganza or something on July 30thn when it all takes place. 

For more information, you can check out this link!

Pony Music Discussion - Pony DJ Youtube Channel

Just in case you guys were bored of Scratch, it looks like this crazy brony has released the entire mane cast as DJ ponies.

Which pony fits with each genre of music best though?  We used to have threads dedicated to this on /co/.  They were a pain for me trying to gather stuff to post here, but still fun when I wasn't stressing out about posting a whopping 8 things a day. 

Feel free to bombard the comments with youtube links and the ponies that go with it! My pet spam filter needs to learn not to filter youtube, and what better way to teach it than swarm it?!

The Youtube channel!

Chat Room Is Back!

Because reviving old projects when I finally get an email break is a great idea.

You can find it at the bottom of the page, it's hosted externally so you may need to modify your blockers/noscipts/whatever.

I wont be responding much for a few!

Story: The Luna Heresy (Updated Part 2!)

[Crossover][Grimdark][Sci-Fi] In the grimdark future of pony, there is only war but also sometimes hugs.

Author: SIROFLOT

Description: 30,000 Years in the future, Celestia rules the Empire of Equestria, a huge galactic empire of ponies. This is the time of the Great Crusade, Celestia's vision to conquer the entire galaxy. However, other dark forces wish to change the way of life in Equestria forever...

The Luna Heresy: Prologue
The Luna Heresy: Chapter 1
The Luna Heresy: Chapter 2 (New!)

Additional Tags: Warhammer 40k, Sci-Fi, Luna, Betrayal, Grimdark

Breaking News! Little Girls Like My Little Pony!

Evidently Seth and Cereal are both too chicken to share this with you. A round of applause for these brave gentlemen. Sheez.

It turns out that somewhere in the world there is the most adorable little girl ever, and she is such a huge Pony fan that she memorized the episodes. I've watched these videos three times now, and for every minute she's on screen my desire to reach through the internet and hug her grows. As the French say, C'était tellement mignon j'ai explosé. Deux fois. Come see for yourself after the break!

Story: A Twilight and Trixie Story

[Comedy][Shipping]

>Write Progress, negating pre-readers forever

>Use free pass to make fun of Trixie shipping

I see what you did thar!

Author: Andew Joshua Talon

Description: Another "Trixie decides to make amends with Twilight and
moves in to become her student" story... Or is it? ...Nope, not
really.

A Twilight and Trixie Story

Additional Tags: Trixie, Twilight, One-Sided, Humor, Lesbian. Humor, Mock-Shipping, One-Shot

Massive Thank You Letter to Hasbro from Ponychan

Over on Ponychan, a brony going by the name of Angelthebunny compiled 615+ brony thank you responses to Hasbro for both Equestria Girls and the Friendship is Magic in general. .  They asked me to forward it to the guy that sent me the video, so hopefully it reaches them!

If not, here it is! It's a massive Google document, so give it some time to load if you want to read it yourself.

Thank You Letter

Hasbro really has been good to us so far.  Our videos remain on Youtube untouched, Derpy is a canon character, and now their new FiM commercial has an awesome shout-out for both DJ-P0n3 and Bronies as a whole.  

If anyone from the team reads this site, I'd like to personally thank them for making the last eight months some of the most fun I have ever had on the internet!

Now go make us some better toys! :p

Send me Convention Images!

I'm getting a lot of random emails from various conventions going on right now.  So I'm going to compile it all.

So if you have attented a convention in the past week or so, toss me some cosplay pictures, or even write up your experience! (In google doc form :3)

I'll create a post tomorrow at around the same time with everything in it!

Drawfriend Stuff #93

Poketrainer Fluttershy Edition. I'm surprised there isn't any fanfiction about this yet, though we do have one with Rarity being shipped with Rapidash in review right now...

Source 1

Custom Hoity Toity

Because everypony loves custom pony. 

You know, I'm seeing  a serious lack of Trixie in these customs.  Is it too much of  CHALLENGE for you guys?  I see how it is.

Anyway you can find Hoity Toity here at Iannakitty's DA page

2D Pony Flash Game Progress

That Pony Flash Game I posted a while back has made leaps and bounds in terms of progress.  They have chosen a story, modified their physics engine, and set up all sorts of amazing musical scores.

I'll let the video speak for itself though.

If you are interested in helping out, submit your resume (Yes, it is that awesome) to Postmaster@Derpyhooves.com

The video is embedded after the break!

Pony Doodle Bags

AnonponyX Reports from straight from K-Mart!  Looks like Hasbro is releasing those felt coloring things with FiM characters!

Included in the pack is 1 image of each mane cast pony, along with the marker set.

Retail Price: $4.99

Not bad really.  I'm almost tempted to go buy a set, though I might need a few more colors than what they provide for maximum authenticity!  I can't have Twilight running around with Rarity's hair color!

Story: Beyond Forever

[Sad][Light Shipping] Does anypony remember reading Forever? Did it make you sad? Then please accept this hug and cookie, and sit down and read this. You'll like it, I promise.

Author: Bobcat

Description: The long awaited (?) sequel to Forever! On the night of the Grand Galloping Gala, Photo Finish must choose between her career and her family.

Beyond Forever

Additional Tags: Sometimes ze mask wears you

Comic: Pinkfinger

James Bond and ponies?!

Some day we will have the technology to convert every classic movie into a pony version.

I hope.


Source

Shine Bright Fluttershy

I won't pretend to be an expert on these toys at all, so I admit I had no clue this thing was new, but apparently it is!

The Shine bright line tends to have light-up horns/wings.   It is currently on the same chinese website as the Canterlot Castle and random recolor ponies

Those guys must have some pony hacks rolling or something on Hasbro's marketing department servers, they beat everyone to the punch!

Anyway thanks to everyone who told me about these!  

Now to just wait for those high quality molded cast ponies... you can do it Hasbro! I have faith!  Twilight Sparkle and Trixie are worth it!

A Pink Floyd Collaborative Effort

I know that's Dark Side of the Moon, shut up.

A pony over at Ponychan is undertaking the rather daunting task of creating a PMV for every song on Pink Floyd's The Wall. He is gathering other ponies who want to contribute to this project to potentially take up some of the slack if there's a particular song somepony wants to do. That sentence barely makes sense. I just woke up, sue me.

The Ponychan thread is here.

Speed Painting, Minecraft Pixel Art, and Youtube Poop

Giant continent size Twilight Sparkle looks good even pixelated! Confound these ponies... they drive me to feel...something. Hopefully is not that macro thing.

Also a Speed paint and another 8 minute completely random youtube poop (Lots of offensive language in this one, you have been warned!)

1.) Twilight Sparkle - Minecraft Pixel Art
2.) Diamond Dog Speedpaint (No Embed)
3.) My Little Pony - Friendship is Gic: What a Story Mark Crusaders

Eeyup Button

Yes

It's an eeyup button.

You should probably press it.

Though you will have to go here to do it.

Truly an amazing work of Flash if I do say so myself.

MLP Choral Medley // DJ Big Macintosh // Equestria Girls 1 Hour Loop

Quite a mix in this one. We have a Compilation of all songs, medley style, a full on rap song with pony lyrics, and a 1 hour loop of Equestria Girls.

Also Lyra needs to be a mane character in the second season.  So minty!

1.) Friendship is Magic! - A My Little Pony Choral Medley
2.) DJ Big Macintosh and Master Spike
3.) Equestria Girls - Hub Promo Edition [Over Extended 1 Hour Loop!]

Comic: Party's Nemesis

Comic time!

Too big for blogger again!

Have a link!

ELEKTRO Pony // No Country for Old Ponies // Stranger than Magic

2 Movie Trailers and a Completely off the wall random music video, I don't know what's going on here.

Have some ninja shy.  Shes kinda cute really. 

1.) ELEKTRO PONY (PMV)
2.) No Country For Old Ponies
3.) My Little Pony: Stranger Than Magic

Polls!

What would you guys like to see me poll?

I stopped doing them for a while, but I'd like to start regularly posting them again. 

They will now fall hang the bottom right of the blog under the archive.  I figure that's less annoying and doesn't get in the way of the NO FANFICTION button. Sure it might be less obvious, but everypony will scroll down far enough to vote once at some point.

Anyway, I'm busting out a favorite pony poll for the next day and a half (Since this is always fun to see how it evolves over time with different episodes/fan fictions influencing it), then rolling with suggestions. 

Also I get asked a lot why I don't use "everypony" every time. 

I honestly don't know!

Anyway off to bed!

Story: Deluge

[Grimdark][Shipping] Another Noir style fic.  Probably not for everpony, but the pre-readers that do enjoy noir loved it, so hopefully it's a hit with the rest of you!


Author: no space

Description: It's been years since many of the ponies from Ponyville moved to the big city to follow dreams and other friends. The years, however, have not been kind.

Deluge

Additional Tags: Noir, Murder, Detective, Gang, Interconnectedness

Newbie Artist Training Grounds: Day 4

calamari saved my life edition. Did you know I actually got to read things today? I even played some video games! Don't think for a second I would have given up if we hadn't found an alternate route, but after yesterday's low point I think I needed this helping hoof more than I realized. And you guys certainly provided a great stress test for the program today! I'm counting 286 Great and Powerful ponies. A lot more Trollestia than I would have expected, but hey. They don't call her the bestia for nothing.

Here's your nightly reminder to send the next day's images in through this new super awesome program, explained here. If for some reason you just can't get it to work, don't worry about it and just e-mail it instead. I can handle a couple of extra manual uploads on the end easy peasy.

The Theme of the Day

Draw a pony eating fruit. These are art lessons, and this is your obligatory foray into still lifes, except that there are also ponies. Or maybe I just need an excuse to explain why the phrase "Two dollar whole banana" is hilarious. That will make sense tomorrow, I promise.

Remix War Update!

Not a Clever Pony's Remix War is in full swing, and registrations are closing at the end of the day tomorrow, so if you are interested in joining in, feel, free to jump on board for it!

On June 11th we will get a massive selection of new remixes to listen to. So far they have some really interesting talent from all over the pony fandom, so expect some awesome stuff!

You can find the participants so far Here!

If you want to participate, sign up last minute by sending an email to iamnotacleverpony@gmail.com

More Warhammer Ponies

I know absolutely nothing about Warhammer, but these are cool drawings in any case!

Sanity-X has sent us some! Check them out here, here, and here.

Story: Luna's Excellent Adventure

[Crossover][Comedy] Luna Comedy! The best comedy really..


Author: Blueshift

Description: Princess Luna is fed up with not having any friends. So one day, she uses her magical pony powers to travel across the pony multiverse. Surely one there is some pony who will be her friend? What could possibly go wrong?
A MLP/MLP/MLP/MLP/MLP/Transformers crossover

Luna's Excellent Adventure

Additional Tags: Old Pony Generations, parties, bonkers

Drawfriend Stuff #92

Twilight Sparkle would make a good anime character edition!

And to answer concerns in the last drawfriend about the borderline images, I actually received a ton of emails begging me not to take them out, so I think just a link is a fair compromise.  They are still quality images, just a bit spicier than some people would like to see in plain sight.  Anything that would be banned on Deviant Art remains banned here though regardless. 

Source 1

Custom Spitfire

It's... amazing.

I found this one on Ponibooru, does she have a DA page?

this is definitely one of the most badass customs so far.

MLP Trading Gard Came Website!

The Pony Trading Card Game has expanded into it's own little website, with card listings, forums, and a few other neat features.


They are still looking for help with various aspects of the project, if you are interested hit up their forums, for everyone else the site can be found here!