Soapbox time, where the fandom expresses its opinions! As always, we are open for submissions on these. If you'd like to submit your own soapbox, hit up this post for infos.
As always, these are the opinions of fandom members, not us here at EQD.
Have some headlines:
- Should international availability of G3, MLP and EG move to Amazon Prime?
- What's happening with the Castle of Friendship after Twilight moved? (Before G5)
- Princess Twilight and her problems with Expectations
- Art imitates life. Time and weather manipulation
And go read them below!
Should international availability of G3, MLP and EG move to Amazon Prime?
By: FirePuppy (Tadashi Satoru)
Ever since Generation 4.5 ended on June 30, 2021 with teasers for G5, we've gradually been losing streaming availabilities of all our favorite ponies from Netflix. All that's left now on international Netflix from Generation 4 as of today are Seasons 1-4 of Friendship is Magic, and no other service whatsoever in most countries around the world have acquired the rights since. I mean, sure, the show is on YouTube, but I'm not sure if YouTube is the right place any longer, over the fact that it has received extremely severe backlash lately, and of course, we haven't seen anything new at all on any of those international channels ever since Tell Your Tale was cancelled.
Recently though, I've been seeing more language options added to my purchases on Amazon Prime Video. For instance, Friendship is Magic and Pony Life now have French dubs on there, while everything from Equestria Girls, Generation 3 and the 2017 Movie still have yet to catch up.
Now, here's the good thing about Amazon Prime: Unlike other services such as Netflix, Disney+, HBO MAX and Peacock, where you can't buy anything, all you do is pay for streaming the content every month; whereas on Amazon Prime, you do have the ability to buy movies and shows, and unlike many other services, there's a slightly higher probability of the movie or show you bought containing more languages than just English. And if this is the way older generations of My Little Pony can be released internationally, so be it. What do you guys think?
What's happening with the Castle of Friendship after Twilight moved? (Before G5)
By: FlareGun45
Sup brahs? It's been a while! Anyway, I got a G4 soapbox idea I wanna share witchu, and it's thinking about the Castle of Friendship after Twilight became leader of Equestria!
So in the season 9 premiere, all we know is that Twilight gave the castle to Starlight, along with the school, but we never seen what Starlight did with it, nor did she say. What could she do with a big empty castle? Well, I have a few ideas:
1. Expansion of the school. If the school is receiving so many students that there's no more room in the castle, Starlight mighta turned it into an expansion of the school with more dorms and more classes. The school was already a big place, and it didn't look crowded during the finale, though.
2. She turned it into a Bed 'n Breakfast! There's alot of room for it to be its own resort, like a Las Pegasus resort in a quiet little town as a bit of a tourist spot! However, Starlight is already watching over the school, so if it did turn into a Bed 'n Breakfast, she'd have to give it to somepony else to manage.
3. She turned it into a museum! What better place to share the stories of the heroics and journey of the Mane 7, than the very place that hung out in and discussed friendship problems? However, like I said before, it would be difficult for her to manage two different businesses.
4. This is my personal guess: Starlight gave it to Spike to be his personal Embassy! Since Spike became the Ambassador for Equestria, he would need his own Embassy to have meetings with the other nation leaders and representatives, like it became Equestria's United Nations! There's enough room, and the castle is sturdy enough to support dragons and yaks for example!
Looking at the finale, the Castle of Friendship still looked to be in good condition, so it's being used for SOMETHING! What do y'think it's being used for by the time of the finale?
No, we're not talking about G5.
Princess Twilight and her problems with Expectations
By: FlareGun45
So even when I was away, not doing any MLP stuff for a long time, I still keep thinking about stuff in this series. TO THIS DAY.... I still can't let go - I still feel some things are missing in this series. One of the things: it's Princess Twilight, and her expectations.
Ever since the beginning of the series, Twilight always had the urge to impress her teacher, Princess Celestia, and it never changed. Sure, she went from an introverted study nut, to somepony learning about friendship, and then becoming the Princess of Friendship, even making a school, and then becoming a leader - but all that time, she just did whatever Celestia asked her to do, and to be honest, I don't like that.
Twilight's destiny has always been handed to her, she was practically groomed into becoming who she became. Yes, she really wanted to be Celestia's student, and she got it! Learning friendship, very important. Becoming a Princess? No problems there! Becoming the leader of Equestria, however..... yeah.... not something she asked for. I don't even know if she ever WANTED to be, but didn't stop because she felt obliged to, without question, because Celestia told her to.
It's not exactly Celestia's fault, however, because looking at G5, she and Luna were also groomed into becoming the leaders of Equestria. They had so many expectations that it made me wonder if anypony ever asked them what they wanted. Celestia couldn't even accomplish her dreams on being on the stage, until Twilight gave her the opportunity in the episode "Horse Play". Made me wonder if that was her wake-up to call retire. Was that why they made Twilight the new leader, just so she and Luna can finally be free of their curse?
So expectations that fell to Celestia have also fallen into Twilight, and then it fell into Spike, but I already talked about the latter plenty of times. All this time, Twilight has been focusing on her expectations, always trying to accomplish things even though she already accomplished so much. Not that there's anything wrong with accomplishing more, but it makes me feel like Twilight deep down thinks she's not good enough. Celestia probably believes that about herself too. Spike definitely feels it about himself, and solving his insecurities hasn't even been acknowledged yet.
Hopefully one day we'll get a novel and/or comic series that addresses this stuff. Expectations are definitely an amazing potential friendship problem MLP can address!
Art imitates life. Time and weather manipulation
By: g2Globe Trotter
I’ve been an avid fan of MLP g4 since its beginnings. I got into it when all the pony videos and memes were flooding forums and blogs and sites like Youtube shortly after the great 4Chan exodus. Watching g4 got me into watching and loving the earlier gens as well (yes even g3- Kimono, Star Catcher, Toola Roola, I LOVE you! And the g1 Japanese exclusive Takara ponies are not talked about nearly enough!) Ahem….anyway….Though g4 has long run its course, I still find myself in love with its theme and its characters, and still today, I find myself analyzing certain aspects of it- although not quite as often as I once did- once pieces begin to fall into place and realizations begin dawning.
I want to discuss how art imitates life- or rather- legalized karmic consent. Or what some people might better know as “predictive programming”. There are many who have eyes to see and ears to hear the message that is being played right in people’s faces across television (tell a vision) screens in every form of media (art, music, sports, movies, cartoons, etc) via subconscious or symbolic means. Others who do not see tend to label it as “conspiracy”, that: “it’s not that deep”, when in reality- they are sleepwalkers who remain blissfully unawares and ignorant- refusing to awake to the light of truth when it is more comfortable to be swaddled in a dark dream in cradle of lies.
The realization really hit me after many people who I had seen panicking over 2026’s "disastrous, once in generation” ice storm, Fern had only begun questioning once it had passed with little to no impact that…..something felt off. Like the weather had been manufactured—-but why? To get people panic buying and stimulate the economy. No one was buying during December 2025. So the HAARP button was hit to get people motivated. Fear stimulated movement- as was the point of the script that was sold through every media station that was bought by the elites. All part of the plan.
What does this have to do with My Little Pony? Everything. Because the art we watched in this cute pastel pony show directly mirrors our reality. In the very first episode, they tell you the truth disguised as a storybook about how time was manipulated, specifically through Luna’s banishment. As a result of Luna becoming “resentful” and merely wanting recognition for her jurisdiction over night- that ponies slept through- she challenged Celestia and was banished to the moon by the elements of harmony. This mirrors the reality that we live in where Roman ruler Julius Cesar decided to change the Lunar cycle calendar so as to collect taxes earlier. The addition of unnatural months throws time off balance. (Sept means 7, but is the 9th month, Oct means 8, Nov means 9, etc). I find it quite interesting that Luna, who represents the moon represented a banished lunar calendar in favor or a solar one- as Celestia is. Not only that, but banishing the embodiment of the moon- the divine feminine energy seems oddly reminiscent of a certain story told in the book of Genesis. Hmmm…..
But onto the weather manipulation! Self explanatory, right? The ponies control the weather, weather factory, clouds, hurricanes blah blah blah. We know it already. We normalize it. But it’s a contractual obligation to allow you to see what is being done before they do it- or as they have already had weather manipulation in place ages ago in real life. Not by magical ponies, but by the dark spiritual entities that manipulate the elite, governments, media, and celebrities like puppets. Case in point- Operation Popeye. HAARP. Hurricane Katrina, Helene. Ice storm Fern. My Little Pony told us that weather and time manipulation was not fiction, but very real.
