Friendship is Card Games: Free Hugs · 12:24pm May 5th
From the same animator/speech synthesist who brought us The Tax Breaks (Twilight), we have an adaptation of 8686’s Free Hugs! Let’s look at the economic ramifications.
From the same animator/speech synthesist who brought us The Tax Breaks (Twilight), we have an adaptation of 8686’s Free Hugs! Let’s look at the economic ramifications.
If you’re surprised to see this, you clearly didn’t read all of Friday’s blog post, nor did you check the calendar at the time. For shame. No, I’m not quitting Magic or ponies any time soon, though the former did mean that I missed the TV broadcast of the latter, which means I can do a quasi-live reaction as I watch.
So a I bought a bunch of My Little Pony Collectible Card Game® cards off eBay for a pittance some time ago. I had intended to post a review of the game here at some point, but I haven't actually played the real version of the game yet. I own a lot of board and card games, and so a lot of different things compete for table time when I have friends over.
I have commencement tomorrow, and I go to Rutgers. Obama’s the commencement speaker, so I have no idea how early I’ll need to leave ahead of time. As such, this one’s going up a day early. Ahem:
Starlight Glimmer apparently has phasing, which makes sense given her dabbling in chronomancy. This week, she’s phased in, and we’re dipping into the stock plots for a bit of out-of-seasonal cheer.
This week, ponies young and old have lessons to learn, delivered by some very unusual teachers.
Between hearing things and Pinkie Pie, this week’s theme appears to be insanity. Let’s see how nuts it gets.
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Well, that was fun. The macro-plot progresses, best pony returns, and griffins continue to be a thing.
(That said, I have seen a very good point regarding Butch Deadlift Big McLargeHuge Stan Johnson Bulk Biceps: Why is somepony who qualified for the Wonderbolts Academy having so much trouble now? The answer, of course, is the demands of the plot and dramatic tension, but in that case, the story shouldn't explicitly reference the episode with which it conflicts.)
Greetings from Brooklyn! Visiting my sister for the weekend, so there may be some Group Precipitation delays. However, I made sure to get the card blog ready over the week, and she and her wife are much later risers than I am.
Going to need to make this relatively quick, and apparently out of chronological order. (And yes, this was quick. I only got my replacement laptop about four hours ago. Love and care go into these blogs.) In any case, it’s time for perhaps the most metareferential episode the show’s ever given us.
This week, there’s a mystery afoot. Ahoof? Something along those lines. Point is, it’s off to the big city.
Others have mentioned this, but there’s something important to note about “Dance Magic.” It was originally intended as a prequel to Legend of Everfree, which would make vastly more sense in terms of the timeline. Doylistically, they switched gears mid-production (hence the spring dance after summer camp,) but Watsonianly? I’m going with my standard policy for bizarre temporal phenomena in pony: I’m blaming Starlight Glimmer.
Season 8 premiers next week, which means we must again bid farewell to the comics for a time. So, let’s see if they can go out on a high note as…
We open with Jay Fosgitt.
Welp. Let’s hope that’s not an omen.
Ugh, completely forgot this week was going to have a double feature. Maybe I should’ve just gone with the Australian release…
In any case, precedent says the protocol here is two episodes, one blog. Tiime for some serious quality time with the Student Six.
A shovel solves a lot of problems, but it can’t do much against a generation gap the size of the Grand Canyon.
This week, Fluttershy takes her self-confidence too far in the other direction, and she doesn’t even need a minotaur to do it.
This week, we take a look at two of the United States’ more embarrassing debacles of the twentieth century: Prohibition and Eighties fashion.
Appropriately enough for a post between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we’re focusing on one of the most blatantly toyetic parts of this generation of pony, the Guardians of Harmony mini-mini-series. Which is to say a short series of short stories; there are six of them and each is only eight pages long. Between that and how they come together into a single storyline, I’ll be doing all of them in a single blog.
And we’re back to the mainline comics, with a blend of sweet and… well, I suppose “savory” works when discussing Fluttershy nearly eating Apple Bloom.