Some are just naturally fabulous:


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ponyphonic - Shy Heart

Be yourself, they say, but be assertive

Hold your ground but do not be unkind

I have sought to be both lamb and lion

Heartache is the thing I tend to find

Can I only have what I can capture

Will I be unheard unless I shout

Clamor overwhelms me and I wonder

What is there to be so loud about?

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You probably know ASCII art - you may or may not also know ANSI movies, depending on how old you are and how extensively you used computers and frequented BBSes in the late 80s/early 90s.

Well, a couple of years ago, klystron2010 created an ASCII art version of Twilight Sparkle, and I commented on it, saying "Your next mission, should you choose ( Read more... )

A limerick, courtesy of yours truly:

There once was a bloke named Gorringe

Who hailed from a village near Blorenge.

He tried to find rhymes

At various times

And said "I can even rhyme 'orange'!"


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Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder (which I've mentioned here) has finally come to an end. No, it didn't receive legal threats from Hasbro; the team's just worn out, and wants to move on to greener pastures. I'm sad to see the game end, but I understand their decision and am glad to see that they're pulling a Watterson and ending things ( Read more... )

A highly amusing quote from some ponyfic I was reading recently, cleverpun's The Elements of Excess:

And then, it occurred to her.

Edible dynamite.

You can probably guess who "she" is there, right? :P Anyhow, truth is of course stranger than fiction, and the Annals of Improbable Research blog last year dug up an actual case, from 1904:


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Summer solstice is here again, so have some Celestia:


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From the fanfic-writers-say-the-darndest-things department:

"Dash blinked. The elephant in the room was threatening to go crashing through her water-vapor villa, significantly reducing the resale value."

- The Descendant, Every Little Bit

"What happened to the good old days, when a mare could only be in a committed relationship with two other ( Read more... )

Executive summary: had potential, didn't live up to it.

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Well, that was cute.

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