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[roabythecow]

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I AGREE! 😃 But I assure you, this server is full of pretty chill people, and your typical discord drama is at the bare minimum. Some folks are even so desperate for their drama fix that they make it up when I ask her for a review! ✨️

Thanks Finch, you're really helping our image... /silly

We also prioritize keeping the server small—90 members is our limit—so as not to be overwhelming. We're currently at 45 members (but surprisingly active 🤯), because we took a sit back from advertising since we were comfortable with the size and vibe of our server overall, but we're back at it, and guess what! Since we have a member limit, this is your

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Well, my dear dear Tumblr user, our writing community is diverse, from poets to original authors to fanfiction writers of all genres! And our range of skill levels is just as wide. We have people just stepping foot into the writing scene to folks who've been stuck in the paragraphs for centuries. We chat about our stories, share our work, brainstorm, proofread, and do prompts and sprints. However, I would like to make it clear that our server is more of a writing community, so it isn't as writing-focused as other writing servers out there. I'd say it's 60% fun shenanigans and 40% writing-related. Aside from the writing akin, there's plenty of fandom talk, artwork sharing, fun as hell VCs, movie nights, and speechless music bot VCs if you're feeling extra introverted. /pos

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[charmsponies]

oh yeah i guess mlp is posting full ass episodes of fiw to youtube but as advertisements? got this ad lol

#my little pony #mlp

[ponysongbracket]

Brony Song Tournament: Results of Round 3

(Warning: long post. Many stats)

The three biggest landslides were The Moon Rises, Lullaby for a Princess, and Discord (remix). Winning by 84.3%, 83.7%, and 81.1% respectively (not counting votes for Show Results)

These are the top 3 seeded songs in the bracket, in that exact order, so this is the expected result. This round's biggest landslide would have been number 2 in Round 2, which was already closer than round 1

Speaking of close matches, the three closest matches were:

Mad This Time vs Picture Perfect Pony (52.1% or 6 votes)

Magic vs How AJ Won the War (51.3% or 4 votes)

and G**** Bard vs Beyond Her Garden (50.6% or 2 votes)

These three were about as close as the top three in Round 2

8/16 matches were upsets, the first of which was G**** Bard

Below is how many songs by (or featuring) each artist were in the bracket in round 3, followed by how many of those made it into round 4.

Friendship is Witchcraft | 7 | 1 Wooden Toaster | 4 | 3 The Living Tombstone | 3 | 3 Odyssey Eurobeat | 3 | 2 Vylet Pony | 3 | 1 Ponyphonic | 2 | 2 All Levels at Once | 2 | 1 4everfreebrony | 2 | 0 PrinceWhateverer | 1 | 1 Mic the Microphone | 1 | 1 Awkward Marina | 1 | 1 EileMonty | 1 | 0 Mandopony | 1 | 0

Kind of crazy that FiW entered this round with the most songs, and left it barely hanging on to one.

And now how many songs focus on each character, in Round 3 and how many go into Round 4

Luna | 6 | 4 Pinkie Pie | 3 | 1 Twilight | 3 | 0 Discord | 2 | 2 Fluttershy | 2 | 2 Trixie | 2 | 2 Sweetie Bot | 2 | 1 Celestia | 2 | 1 Octavia | 1 | 0 Applejack | 1 | 0 Derpy/Muffins | 1 | 0

Brony Polka songs once again did well. 16 BP songs entered round 3. 4 went against other Brony Polka songs and lost, and two (Picture Perfect Pony and Great to be Different) lost to non BP songs in very close races. Brony Polka songs now make up nearly 2/3 of the bracket, 10 out of 16

I had added 27 songs to Shunks' list. 6 made it to round 3. Of these 6, 2 (Enemy Undefined and Brony Polka) made it to round 4.

Of the 3 songs made up of clips from the show in round 3, 2 made it to round 3

Round 4 starts tomorrow!

#oh god I just realized I titled this 'results of round 4' #and then said 'round 4 starts tomorrow' #considering that this post exists to tell you numbers #it's embarrassing that I got the most basic number wrong #polls on tumblr #poll tournament #poll #polls #bracket #mlp #my little pony #brony music #tournament #announcements #Brony Song Bracket #Brony Music Bracket Round 3 #Brony Music Bracket announcements

[stardustshimmer]

So, just wanted to say that the story if FiW is done, and I'll just say againk thank you for adding Somnia to the story! Now ZeeZee thinks Fylass is on his side since they dreamed about her in such vile manner.

Ooh, now I’ve gotta plan a night to stay up late and binge-read every chapter.

No problem! I wish I wasn’t so busy so I could have made some art along the way.

Also HMM INTERESTING-

#I will let that final sentence rotate in my head like a hot pocket in a microwave #in a contemplative way. #random asks #stardust's mystical mailbox

[fates-end-does-vns]

Nogi Wakaba is a Hero: 1/2

that's a familiar looking face. sister or ancestor? sister or ancestor? 

that's a pretty karinish face there 

Second hero diary? What was the first?

>Nogi Sonoko joined the Sanshu Middle School Hero Club.

Starting in the present, I see.

>The Nogi Household's rose bath was like a hot spring.

ahh, wait, that illustration is for this scene isn't it yeah, now I see the black eyes instead of purple

>"That's a cute reaction~ I'm sure the readers would love a character like you~ my creative urges are rising~"

sononononono, don't break the fourth wall

unless you're making fanficion of your friends like fiw twilight, in which case I implore you to reconsider.

>"Yeah, that combination does sound like it could work. So next, how about Nogi?"

do not give sonoka a position of authority outside of combat. it will not end well.

>But yeah, right now, I think that out of all four candidates, I'd recommend Karin as club president. It'll probably be hard for her, but she is the 'perfect hero' after all, so I'm sure she can manage somehow."

ah right karin's more mellowed out now.

>"Okay, I'll read your fortune! ...Okay, I've got the results. This looks like it'll be a good romance!"

show me how you fucked up the tarot itsuki. I won't get too mad.

>"Well~ I'm not sure what I like exactly, but someone who's diligent and takes good care of others would be lovely~. It'd be even more fun if they were way too serious and got reckless from time to time, huh~"

sonogo you're just describing togou

>I wanted some material for my novels, so I asked for some history books to sent in from my family house's archive, and they sent me a huuuumongous amount of them.

HISTORY BOOKS GOTTEM

>"Books that escaped censorship... Those exist?"

fffucking taisha

burnin books too

>It was the same title as the diary Sonoko had recorded when she was worshiped, the Hero Diary.

ahhh so hero diaries are what the taisha make heroes write after they've reached their expiration dates

>It says the diary began to be recorded in July 2015.

so the treepocalypse happened in Next Sunday AD.

>"Nogi... Wakaba... Is she my ancestor~? If she wrote this diary, then does that mean my ancestor was a hero?"

caaaallllled iiiiiiit

y'alright there yuuna

(Prologue: End)

apocalypse magical girls from the far off future of 2018

what the fuck yuuna's is yuuna a time traveller a reincarnatee a cryogenically frozen supersoldier from the distant past

or is this just a coincidence

>Nogi Wakaba, a fifth grader at the time 

>a fifth grader at the time 

>fifth grader at the time 

>fifth grader 

are you fucking kidding me 

that was a joke

so nogi wakaba is basically blond sumi right 

why do these ten year olds have boobs

>One of the star-like objects fell onto the roof of the kagura-den. It was definitely not a bird at all. Its entire body was an almost unnatural white, its size far more gigantic than a human, with an ominous mouth-like organ.

and here's the vertices

>On unsteady feet, Hinata stood up. A strange light imbued her eyes and hex-like words leaked from her mouth.

ahh hinata's got the old possession style sayakafication fairies

I see they're taking the opportunity to do what they can't show on television.

>When she snapped back to her senses, Wakaba was standing up with that very sword in hand. She could've sworn the blade was rusted, but before she  had realised it, the blade was tinged with a vibrant, almost living brilliance.

we sure this is still the magical girl genre? this is giving me Eternity Sword vibes more than anything

>Some changed into a form like the edge of a section of body tissue, stiffening and rising up. (...They're... evolving...?)

that's not how evolution works.

>Three years later-- Nogi Wakaba was now a second year in middle school.

not expecting a time skip of all things. I'll be honest, I was enjoying the hellhole thing.

>Uesato Hinata is a Miko, one who hears divine voices.

miko, huh? interesting.

chapter 1 end.

the fuck is a doi

>After the invasion, a special tree by the name of "Shinju" appeared in Shikoku, and a giant wall made of plant tissue surrounded the island. It is said that the Shinju was the incarnation of the local gods, and the wall was a barrier it put up to stop the Vertex.

"appeared", "it was said". hm, hm, hm~♪

>"Uranophobia."

pff, uranus. but apparently it's "fear of heaven"

>Although it said "hearing the voice of the gods," it was not through common speech, but rather in the form of symbols and suggestive hints that instructions were transmitted to her.

symbols and suggestive hints, huh... so basically it's a horoscope.

>Only the purest of girls

"purest of girls"? what the hell does that even mean in this case

> are able to come in contact with the gods who detest impurity.

oh, the gods are fucking Lunarians.

>An area of the southeastern part of Lake Suwa in Nagano was, like Shikoku, also protected by a barrier where people could live.

...Another barrier? A second tree, or???

noodle discourse

>It let her feel safe knowing there was a friend out there fighting as well.

she's gon die isn't she

oh fuck I'm going to need to memorize at least five sets of speech patterns aren't I

>"I'm not fondling them! I'm trying to tear them off!"

i see hinata has more in common with togou than her hair color

this'll be a joy to get straight 

we even have multiple soft-spoken girls with long black hair 

interesting to note that yuuna's not pictured yet.

>Normal weapons were useless against the Vertex, only those that the Heroes wielded could inflict damage upon them.

so do the weapons have fairies in them or what

>"Taisha" was written with the characters for "Great Shrine," wait a fucking second is this a different organization

yeah yuuna's a time traveller.

chapter 2 end

guess blossoming is already a thing

for some strange reason I feel like wakaba's the only character who matters here.

>And yet Yuuna was less concerned about herself, and more concerned with Chikage who hadn't participated in the battle at all.

yuuna being yuuna

>The next moment, the cylindrical Vertex began forming a clear red plate-shaped structure.

cancer?

>Out of the infinite records available to her, the one Yuuna now chose was "Ichimokuren".

wait, so yuuna's choosing her fairy?

and stuffing it in herself, which is bad.

>Wakaba had dodged the Vertex's charge with the least necessary movement, and at the same time, she bit off part of the enemy's body with her teeth.

don't bite the alien wakaba

>"Wakaba-chan! You can't go eating weird things like that, okay!?"

pff.

chapter 3 end

so is she referring to actual blossoming here or what

>A foul smell hit her the moment she stepped inside.

welp

chikage's in a bad place

chikage's in a really bad place

>They both cursed her existence.

yikes

>Those who had hurt her once were now trying to get on her good side.

garbage people, the lot of them

>(My worth... is in being a hero...)

oh no this won't end well

>It allowed her to exist in seven different places at once. She wouldn't die unless all seven were killed at the same time.

and this is even one of the fairies mentioned in that report.

chapter 4 end

??? I don't get it

oh hey gemini

>"I see! So then maybe we can use the udon as a diversion if it reacts to it!" there is absolutely no way this will work.

>untamarable what kind of pun is that

chapter 5 end

wait a second is that part talking about udon did they censor udon and intelligent? why the hell would the taisha censor information about instant noodles 

>The one who saved her was Yuuna. She suddenly appeared in the midst of the swarm and started holding them off instead of Wakaba. are you sure yuuna's not the protagonist here

so to temporarily stop the vertexes the taisha allegedly went aztec on what were allegedly six mikos those wouldn't happen to actually be these six characters somehow, would they? and I guess Yuuna would be a zombie...?

end of chapter 6

so apparently the divine tree is blaming humans too? fuck that tree.

guess hinata's hair is purple now.

>"...Her consciousness still hasn't returned." so are comas normal for yuuna

this group is a lot less stable than the other ones.

>Now that it had been denied... just how should she fight from now on?

wakaba freaking out about her girlfriend leaving is cute

ah, anzu's trying to cheer her up by point out how many people she’s been helping.

>(But now... I have to get over it.) :V guess the therapists all got eaten

and Chapter 7 ends with another timeskip.

>And perhaps they would keep on changing. *glances at gin's funeral*

>Aki Masuzu clamoured in misery as she changed clothes. oh boy another new character

>However, all communications with Suwa had ceased after last September.

and another tree circle is confirmed just to be killed off lemme guess, they'll disappear one by one until shikoku's all that's left?

>Finally, the Shinju appeared at the end of the path. hup

even in a light novel, the tree isn't described

>Several of the small stars combined into a brilliance unlike anything I've ever seen... leo again?

>There are two kinds of honetsukidori. Chick uses spring chickens while hen uses more mature chicken meat. Chick is more plump, tender, and easier to eat, while hen has a deeper flavour that oozes out the more you chew on its tougher meat. stop it, you're making me hungry

>All Yuuna was doing was cheerfully humming as she cleaned Wakaba's ears-- but not even Hinata was a match for a technique like that. even in other characters' stories, yuuna reigns supreme

>The fierce battle foretold in the oracle in the midst of the war of humanity's last stand would later be called the Battle of Marugame Castle. Oh, so we're getting into a fight that's actually important?

[End of chapter 8]

hmm. you know what, there's only so long you can string me along with splotches of whiteout before I get desensitized to it.

>Would they just blindly increase in size, or would they guide their evolution into an intentional form? The latter.

>By that time, the black shadows wrapping around her foot had already disappeared. what the heck

>Suddenly, Tamako collapsed to her knees. really shouldn'tve tempted fate back there.

>The fairy she had extracted from the Shinju was Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a general with superhuman martial arts thought it was a divine tree, not a throne of heroes.

end of chapter 9.

So are they going on a "trip" outside the wall? Wonder if it's as much of a primordial hellscape as it is in present times...

>Many buildings had been blown out from the inside as if a chemical explosion had occurred within, and traces of heat-deformation could be seen. That's the first unpleasant thing they saw? Guess the vertexes haven't done... whatever to destroy the atmosphere yet.

>For dinner, they were boiling water in a pot to cook some udon they had brought from Shikoku. It was a dry-noodle kind of Sanuki udon that kept well. of course they're eating udon.

>After dinner, everyone went into the river to wash off their sweat. oh boy another fanservice scene bet there's a cg for this too yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

>"If I become a hero and do my best fighting the Vertexes, I can save people. If we keep saving people, then we can slowly but surely take back the world and bring it back to normal. At least that's what I think!" Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero, after all.

>After the heroes had annihilated the Vertexes, they decided to resume moving for the day. even the story is getting bored.

>"Th... there was supposed to be an Osaka-famous rare book store here! How terrible! The last copies of incredibly precious books could be lost to the world now!" all that devestation, and that's what makes you freak out?

>Instead-- they found a heap of several skeletons. That's... odd. They haven't found any bodies so far, have they? I figured the Vertex don't leave anything behind.

>Wakaba noticed a notebook on the floor. She picked it up and looked inside. It was the diary of someone who took refuge in this underground mall.

oh are we going to read a diary in a diary?

chapter 10 end

#noyublog #nogi wakaba is a hero #nogi wakaba wa yuusha de aru

[raconteurofdrollery-blog]

These appear in the order in which I actually watched them, so it’s different from the roster I published earlier.

Corpse Bride Far from a bad movie, but there’s a certain “going through the motions” feeling to it that only got worse after I re-watched some of Tim Burton’s older stuff and saw just how many of these plot elements he’d used before.

Sleepy Hollow Actually a lot better than I remembered. The setting is unique, there are some interesting action scenes (including a carriage chase that I’m 100% sure was added at studio insistence), and all the usual Tim Burton flourishes, but with an interesting mystery plot to go with it. Ichabod Crane is an interesting hero; he’s undoubtedly brave and heroic and driven, with a Phileas Fogg-like detachment, but he’ll also squeal at spiders, and every action scene in the movie ends with him passing out.

Addams Family Values For me, this movie was missing a sheen of nostalgia that would have made it better, and it was a bit too much of a 90’s comedy for my taste, but it did entertain me, despite some clumsy storytelling, at least until the credits when that terrible rap version of the Addams family theme song started playing. The performances, especially Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester, Raul Julia as Gomez, Anjelica Huston as Morticia, and Christina Ricci as Wednesday, are fun and funny, and there are some great lines, even if I wasn’t into the slapstick physical comedy like I would have been in 1993 when this came out. It’s interesting how 90’s movies were more concerned with themes of social class, alienation, and being an outsider than recent movies; Edward Scissorhands takes them on as its main themes, but even this movie, which is definitely not a work of art on the same level, gets in its little commentaries.

Edward Scissorhands I saw this as a kid, but I’d never seen it as an adult, and now I know it’s an absolute masterpiece. With this and Beetlejuice and Batman Returns that I re-watched a few months ago, I was surprised at how much criticism of modern American society Tim Burton actually used to slip into his movies, and how all of it escaped me when I first watched the movies as a kid. But Edward Scissorhands has the more apt criticism; you can read the way the suburb, which is portrayed as the height of bland conformity, is first fascinated with Edward and later turns on him as a metaphor for middle America’s behavior towards the foreign: at first it’s a fun, exotic distraction, then starts to become passé, and finally latent mistrust of the different asserts itself and it becomes suspect and possibly dangerous.

Edward’s scissor hands are a weird but also perfect symbol for alienation from society. They make him stand out and give him unique talents, but they also make it hard for him to accomplish basic tasks, like opening doors and eating dinner, and they can hurt people by accident. There’s a lot of heart and humanity to the characters, so you sympathize with them even when they make mistakes. Edward Scissorhands is also a modern retelling of Frankenstein, and borrows that book’s Gothic quality, leading to a bizarre but poetic ending that sticks with you.

Beetlejuice I had seen this as a grown-up. (Well, as a teenager, anyway.) It’s pretty much how I remembered—probably the most quintessential Tim Burton movie, a quirky dark comedy with a unique aesthetic and lots of impressive special effects. It’s a fun movie with good performances (especially Michael Keaton—it’s hard to even see him under all that makeup and with the weird voice he does), but not as moving as Edward Scissorhands.

Coraline Like a lot of movies that came out between 2007 and 2015, I watched this on cable at some point, vaguely remembered liking it, and forgot most of the details. But the imagery is so strong that it stuck in my mind even though most of the plot went right out. After seeing Kubo and the Two Strings and watching this again, I'll make sure to catch the next Laika movie in the theaters. Their artistry is incredible, and the stories they make are the same kind of fun, quirky stuff that we used to get in the 90's and don't get that often anymore. I thought it was interesting that by the end of the movie, Coraline's parents haven't changed at all or learned anything. The whole plot arc was about Coraline herself learning to cope better, even though, even as an adult, I don't think her parents treated her that well at the beginning of the movie. It's understandable that they were stressed out and busy working and took it out on her by acting like she was an annoyance, but Coraline was hardly a bratty kid who just needed to learn a lesson; her parents weren't guiltless either. They start trying to make it up to her after their work is done, but since they haven't changed at all that means next time they have a book to write it's going to be the same thing.

I found that Edward Scissorhands affected me a lot more than Coraline while I was watching it, but Coraline was the movie that stuck with me the most of everything I watched during this marathon. I kept thinking about it later, wondering what happened to the characters afterward.

"Luna Eclipsed" / "Lunar Slander" "Luna Eclipsed" is sort of bittersweet for me. Season 2 of Friendship is Magic is a great season full of incredible episodes, and "Luna Eclipsed" is up near the top, but the climax never stops feeling abrupt, and not pursuing a longer arc for Princess Luna to resolve her issues was such a missed opportunity. Still, a great Halloween-themed episode. It always sticks out in my mind more than "Scare Master" in Season 5, even though that episode was about best pony Fluttershy (who also has a great, if short, scene in "Luna Eclipsed").

"Lunar Slander" is also a good Friendship is Witchcraft episode, though for me it's middle-tier. Some of the jokes weren't to my taste, but a lot of them were hilarious. That random pull of the Sonic X theme song makes me crack up every time, and when Princess Luna first appeared in "Luna Eclipsed" there were pony voices in my mind asking "Why is she wearing a bib?" Plus, "Princess of the Night", my third-favorite FiW song (after "It'll Be OK" and "Pinkie's Brew").

(P.S.: I didn’t get around to watching Kiki’s Delivery Service last weekend, but I will.)

[roabythecow]

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