Sporoloth Ancient · 2:37am Dec 8th, 2020
Intellectually, I know the voice cast of Friendship is Magic are getting other work in. Goodness knows about a quarter of all cartoon characters are voiced by Tara Strong. But it's weird to hear them outside of an animated context.
It's even weirder when Princess Celestia narrates a documentary on fungi.
I watched that entire documentary thinking the voice sounded awfully familiar until the end credits rolled and I went “ahh that’s it”.
"Fungi shape our world, and hold the key to our future."
"Uh... Your highness... are you feeling okay?"
I checked it out and I can’t stop laughing. All I can think of is Celestia, fungi is cool too
Listening to this documentary, I hate the inconsistent pronunciation on fungi. "Fun-gee/Funji" ARGH! Neither of them being correct.
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In her retirement, Celestia lends her voice to educational documentaries so that she may continue to help guide Equestria.
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"Yes, Twilight. I'm perfectly fine, I was just experimenting with certain types of Fungi. This one is a pretty color."
Considering the symbiotic relationship to carrier creatures resulting in an intricately connected and steadily expanding web across Equestria, the Tree Of Harmony's root system stretching out through much of the Everfree all the way to Ponyville and the advanced and powerful spore delivery system that resulted in Namepending Castle, I have classified The Magic Of Friendship as a very advanced type of magical fungus. Please see my attached 50-page dissertation on the topic.
There is nothing more that I can teach you, my faithful student.
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The Fungi: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
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See also: The Mycelial Network.
Bookmarking it for later
This is uncanny. I will admit that having Celestia narrate on a topic makes me much more interested in it.
Nicole Oliver — putting the “fun” back into fungi!
This is begging to be a fanfic
That's a lot of useful voice samples just waiting for a PMV.
"It turns out that alicorns are actually a form of ponymorphic fungi."
Oh! I wondered what this was about.
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I love how 5411764, 5411765, 5411777, and 5411851 have all provided equally viable yet wildly different contexts for that exchange. Kudos to all of you.
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Well, if Chaos is Animalia and Order is Plantae...
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It's like we can sit in on one of her lessons.
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The question is what that PMV would entail...
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I used the link in the deviantArt description to get to the documentary. Though now I wonder what fun might be found in looking through the cast's IMDB pages. I know Andrew Francis, Shining Armor's voice actor, has been in some Hallmark Channel romcoms.
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Brony continues to be a great wellspring of creativity.
Why does that sound sarcastic? It's absolutely not. Brony is incredible.
Huh.
Thanks for sharing. :D
I told you about the 'shrooms, I told you!
I think it was Glitch Techs, when I saw the trailer, I was mildly confused that I didn't hear Tara Strong anywhere.
OK, I need to write a ponyfic now wherein the Kingdom of Fungee is an actual country. Could I get away with its ruler being... Princess Peach?
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You might have to change the name back to the original Princess Toadstool and canonize the Super Crown Conjecture, but I see no other issues with importing her and the Toads wholesale.
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Would that be that Peach/Toadstool herself is a Toad feminized by the Crown?
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Yeah, that's the one. The alternative is a human in Equestria and we all know how FoME feels about that...
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I am wholly in favor of this.
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I have no issue with HiE as a concept in and of itself. The problem is that quality executions of that concept are few and far between.
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Of course, Peach ruling the Toads always had that unfortunate implication of colonialism, and the Super Crown lets us fix that issue.
I sat down to write, decided to catch up on my feed, and ended up watching this instead.
Thank you? Or possibly, confound you. Interesting material with a highly listenable voice.