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Fuzzyfurvert


I write pony words that people seem to like. I also review fics and draw purty pictures, apperently. I'm an older fan of MLP, so expect a lot of 80's references.

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  • 109 weeks
    Welp, it's been a YEAR, down to the DAY, since my last blog post.

    This means nothing, I was just noticing the dates.

    But while I got you here, I'm gonna throw up some SFW art I've done recently.

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    2 comments · 1,393 views
  • 164 weeks
    It's 2am on Thursday, and I have an idea for NEW Pinkie Pie Loves Bacon Bits content. (plus ARTPOSTING#3)

    I woke up with a fully formed idea for a new chapter in my silly anthology of scenes where Sunset Shimmer is haunted by pony!Pinkie lodged DEEPLY in my mind and I think I'm going to write it. I'm in a writerly mood. Apparently.

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    1 comments · 404 views
  • 177 weeks
    Are you still in a Spooky mood?

    This flew under my radar yesterday, so I just woke up to find it and it is just as sweet as all that discounted candy! Give it a listen and pop over to Lostus's page and drop a like or a comment or something. This is top tier work!

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  • 180 weeks
    Wordposting (Really a 6K word long 'scene' and a half from the OF I'm working on)

    I posted a little section of this last blog, but I think I'm happy where this is at right now. Obviously this takes place in the midst of a larger narrative, so there might be some/a lot of context that's lost here, but the gist is a couple of priests and a warlock form up an adventuring party and before they even have their first outing, some shit goes down at the tavern.

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    4 comments · 355 views
  • 180 weeks
    10 years of this.

    Happy birthday to the version of Pony that made my life more than a little brighter.

    These hoofed ruminates (and their humanoid counterparts) will always have a special place in my heart.

    3 comments · 303 views
Jun
21st
2017

I'm done with contest reviews! Also minor spoilers for the new episode, The Perfect Pear. · 11:06am Jun 21st, 2017

The Twiluna contest from back in March, to be specific. I've sent my reviews and ranking to the group admin that'll be posting the news for the winner. So keep an eye out about that.

Spoilers ahead.


I typed that bit above the break about 30ish minutes ago, and I was originally intending to post a picture and make a joke about getting back to actual story writing. I swung by the derpi to grab said pic and saw a few screen grabs from today's early show from Australia's Boomerang channel. Now, I haven't been keeping up with title or synopsis reveals, so this took me by surprise when I realized the show was finally going to give us Applejack's parents, via a series of flashbacks. I mean, I knew that was supposed to happen, but I honestly thought it was the tiny thing we saw in the dream bubble from a couple episode's back with the princesses that was going to be all we got.

Eeenope. We got a lot more than that, and as I sit here typing this, I'm still wiping away tears. I don't even know exactly why this episode made me cry. I suspect it was the whole part of reconnecting with family members that were tore apart before you were even born that touched a nerve.

I have more aunts and uncles than I know. I can't even give you a number, that's how 'we-don't-speak-of-them' torn apart my family has been. And these days? I tend to only find out about them when news comes down the grapevine about one more of them passing away. In my generation, it's happening again. I haven't seen one of my sisters in years (her choice, not mine) and frankly, at any point I might get a notification that my brother has died in prison. If my health wasn't so suspect, I'd feel confident to wait things out.

But enough of that crud, let's talk ponies.

The basics are we learn that Gran Pear(?), who is voiced by William Shatner of all people, has moved back to Ponyville from Vanhoover and is selling his pear jam. This sparks a quest by all three of the Apple kids to go talk to a bunch of older ponies to find out about the Apple/Pear feud. They talk to old family historian/crazy cat lady, Mrs. Cake, some guy named Burnt Oak, and Mayor Mare, piecing together a very sweet love story between their parents amid the business based war between Apples and Pears.

The show does a really neat thing by never addressing what happened to their parents afterward, but the implication is strong that Bright Mac and Pear Butter are gone in a never-coming-back way. There is a lot of tearing up in this episode. Really, I think it was the moment when Big Mac turns around to ask Burnt Oak, a childhood friend of his father, if they can come back to hear more stories that got my waterworks going. The VA for Burnt Oak did an amazing job. The little touches of expressions where a kick in the feels.

I think one little detail that I really liked is when they do talk to Mrs. Cake (who had a different name before she got married, which just makes the whole how do ponies reconcile naming conventions MORE confusing) is that in her flashback, she is noticeably thicker than Pear Butter. Like she's always been chunky. I can totally see what her husband saw in her.

Other cute details where things like Mayor Mare's hair used to be pink, Granny Smith was a major qt well into her middle years, and this is an all Earth Pony episode. I'm sure there is more, but I was gross sobbing all through the third act.

The moral of the story here, kids, is feuds are dumb and tragic, plus life is too short to hold onto grudges.

Stay classy. I'm gonna go blow my nose and try to write something not sad.
-Fuzz

Comments ( 7 )

Dude I haven't teared up thus much since crusaders of the lost mark and damn im still wiping away tears. This is why I love this freaking show and this season has been top notch.

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I liked seeing Granny Smith's various hair styles throughout the ages, yet I really, really missed the pigtails. :B I have to assume she shortened them after getting married or becoming a mother.

Welp. Just seen the episode and... I choked up. That was a beautiful episode.:applecry:

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Heck yeah it was. Just goes to show that the folks at DHX can hit it out of the park. The writing, the animation, and the voice acting was all excellent in this episode. Plus it has so much to digest from a world and character building perspective too.

I usually only get this torn up by Pixar.

As far as the name thing ponies seem to like having appropriate names, or for some reason don't bother to change them, so the simplest solution is cheap easy name changes. Maybe at certain milestones, like maraige, cutie mark, not being an idiot teenager anymore, and possibly more. It's just something the government does.

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I wish it was that easy here. I'd be legally named Megatron by now!

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