I've heard, but not really seen, that there are some fans going completely bonkers over this whole thing. If you do manage to see one of these people freaking out, just remind them:


* It won't affect the real show

* Let's not prejudge. That's what brony haters do isn't it?

* If you decide not to watch it, fine; but in avoiding it you remove any right you had to discuss it ever.

* If you watch it and hate it, great. So what? The simple solution is to not watch any more because... once again... it's existence doesn't mean anything for the real show.

I think of it as an animated fanfiction... Like friendship is witchcraft. Maybe it will be good. Who knows? But it's certainly nothing to get up in arms about. Save your pitchforks for Season 4 if Derpy is missing.

There's a few art thieves I've been made aware of who are blatantly stealing pony art. Art theft is just despicable, but I thought DA would handle it. Well apparently a few artists are having to deal with some thieves who've been on DA for more than a month and nothing has happened yet. Shouldn't this be a pretty open and shut issue? Take a look:

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The commenters have already pointed out the theft and actual source of each. They've been reported several times PER POST. So what's the deal? Come on DA, I want an answer!

If you haven't heard already, Disney redesigned the main character from Brave to be more "princess like". Slimmer, more pretty, etc.

I don't mind "reboots" or changes to a brand if they're done intelligently and with respect to the brand, but I think this isn't one of those. Brave, in my opinion, was a huge disappointment: predictable, unbelievable, and lame. The only really good thing was Merida and now they want to water her down with this new design.

Anyway, if you care to look at the issue, here's the petition to tell Disney to stuff it: [link]

This short comic explains exactly how I feel about Rainbow Dash: [link]

It looks like Lauren is trying to raise money for an animal shelter and they've agreed to name the animals based on MLP characters. While I don't really care much what they name the animals, it's a good cause and Lauren has some neat artwork she threw in to her journal for this post so check it out either way

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If only I could afford that much for something like that

One of my regular commenters happens to be one of DA's best plushie makers. I offered to promote him a while ago and he declined...but he finally changed his mind so here we go:

Auction page: [link]

Commission information: [link]

If it matters, he didn't give me anything for this; I offered because I love great art

In my ever-continuing quest to simplify the act of explaining MLP to confused people and haters alike, I have condensed all of the information from my many articles on the topic into a single infographic. I want this to be the best possible so I would love, if you feel so inclined, if you'd check it out.

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I've been working on this for a week and a half straight so I've completely lost the ability to see anything wrong with it anymore. I think it's awesome, but I welcome ideas for improvement and such. Note that I completely ran out of creative juice and didn't make a nice title. I still need to do come up with something snazzy to put at the top

I'm accepting ideas or even designs if you want to contribute.

After I've heard any suggestions and figured out what to do for a title, I'm going to post it to my gallery and provide it as a poster for people to buy and put up on their wall at home, work, or where ever else someone gives them crap for watching. That way, instead of arguing, they can just point the hater to the poster.

Granted it's not like it was MADE there, but it was the first time I saw it:

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Sometimes, music combined with excellently timed effects and a good message can really make my hairs stand on end. The intro to Kingdom Hearts2 is one, this is another.
That said, I'd love to hear what YOUR favorite PMVs are. I'm trying to start a collection.

Before I changed ZEN to TRUTH because that sounded so much more applicable.

Well I'm also not happy with "GROUNDING" for Loyalty, but I couldn't think of another way to say it... until now. WILL!

What if I were to take the report on RD and Rook and use WILL instead of grounding? It seems to me it conveys the same ideas, but sounds much better.

For reference:

I am an artist, but I'm a privacy and security professional first. I absolutely will not spam people with meaningless crap, but some things are important enough. CISPA is a bill that pretends to be about security and safety, but instead violates privacy and enacts powers that defend corporations against people. For instance, if you are doing fan art that someone deems to be "infringing on intellectual property", they can monitor your communications and share your personal information without a warrant.

Read more about it here: [link]

And do something to stop it here: [link]

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Someone I know from Reddit did this angry-looking Anime-style RD. He's new to Deviantart and I wanted to encourage him and welcome him to the site. Please check it out if you feel so inclined

I can see why there's so much art for this show. That was a truly inspired movie; So creative in almost every aspect. The characters were all so unique and interesting and the designs were just awesome.

I just posted chapter 4 of my fanfic and the 13 or so "Cutie Circles" I've designed so far. More will come, probably your favorite pony eventually, but if anyone knows someone who can make these into patches, I'd love to hear it. Zazzle wants $100 per patch to convert them to the right colors or whatever and won't take fan art anyway so that's out. I'd love to partner with a DA member if that would work. Anything really, but wouldn't they make neat patches?

Anyway, off to do more things! I have to hurry before heart of the swarm comes out and I become useless for a while...

If you haven't seen this, do so for maximum smiles.

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His vote count is low so if you like it, please take the time to encourage him/her for this awesomeness!

First, is there a forum or method on Fimfiction to ask questions like this?

Second, my actual question: Each of the 3 chapters I've written so far have been about 1500 to 1800 words, but my newest chapter may be double that. Should I try to keep them in roughly the same length chunks or is a longer chapter now and then fine if there's enough material to fill it? I'm almost wondering if I was a little too abrupt in my writing of the first chapters in an effort to make things flow naturally and pull people into the story.

Anyway, I'm really new at this so I don't mind some advice

I got tired of people calling it that so I wrote this to link them to (so I don't have to keep saying the same thing over and over):

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Note, I had an article about this before, but I expanded and improved it.

So when I submitted my most recent deviation to the Movies and TV fanart section, the two "samples" were a great Disney Princess heart thing and MY COMIC!

Maybe that doesn't mean anything, but I still cheered a bit

Here's a screenshot if anyone cares: [link]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what drives that system of which kinds of art it pics as samples?

* Loved the songs except the first one which was way too "20's musical" for me. But Twilight's "Why" song was radio-grade! Excellent!

* Derpy is back and seems as if she'll stay.

* Twilight got wings and is KEEPING THEM!

Thanks the stars, but they're not going to weasel out like most TV shows. They're going to make changes that are permanent and roll with it. YES!

I don't care if it changes the dynamic, Twilight was more powerful and important than her friends from the beginning. In fact, I think it's better writing if they can show that she can still be their friend even if she is a "success" or has responsibility. Kind of like how Rarity should marry Fancy pants and move to Canterlot as a successful designer. I'm sure Rarity would still be their close friend (as it should be).

Well, I haven't seen the episode yet, but I already know that Derpy made an appearance.

I already had an extremely brutal comic series sketched out to express my extreme displeasure over her disappearance, but if she's back, I guess I don't need it.

Honestly I'm glad. It was a very mean comic