Friendship is Card Games: Applejack's "Day" Off · 10:43am May 29th, 2016
Okay, who ordered the oil tanker full of shipping fuel? Seriously, if this thing had capsized en route, the oceans would burn orange and white.
Okay, who ordered the oil tanker full of shipping fuel? Seriously, if this thing had capsized en route, the oceans would burn orange and white.
This week, we have something special, and not just because I only have a few months until I catch up with the comics. At the last Bronycon, the voice cast read a fan script, and officially, legally speaking, it couldn’t be recorded. But officially, legally speaking, this whole website shouldn’t exist…
It’s another clash of Hasbro’s titans, and I’m throwing a third into the mix. (Given the upcoming D&D crossover set, it’s only appropriate.) This time, we change up the setting; it’s ponies on Cybertron.
So. When I put this on the schedule, I thought it would just be a single special, like Winter Wishday. I wasn’t expecting Make Your Mark Season 2 to come with it. As such, it’s looking like a G5 summer. Let’s get this party started.
My adherence to the Old Ways continues (by which I mean treating a Netflix content dump like the episodes are coming out weekly.) Let’s see what new wonders and horrors, if any, await.
Oh, hey, it's Sunday.
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Oh. Hey. It's Sunday.
Sorry. I guess I associate card blogs with watching pony. That may take a bit of time to decouple. Still, better late than never, right?
Huh. You’d think the episodes about stealing cutie marks would’ve covered Starlight’s secrets. Let’s see what else we can pin on Old Equestria’s Handicapper General. Maybe it’s time travel!
We return to the comics, where a conveniently timed one-shot helps me schedule the five-issue Milkyway storyline. Let’s see just what how we're closing out 2023.
What? You didn’t think it was over, did you? I still have almost half of Season 3 to blather about and make into cards, starting with Dash’s once-a-season step towards getting into the Wonderbolts.
If ever there were a time to look at Kkat’s signature work, it would have been several weeks ago, when the Fallout decks came out, or possibly several years before that. Since this is the first hole in my schedule after those decks’ release, we’re looking at it now.
The next entry on the schedule was issues #21 and 22 of the G5 mainline, but those have failed to manifest, making me wonder if that line’s actually been ended in favor of the various mini-series currently in progress. And among them, I only have one released issue unaccounted for. As such, it’s time to turn to the next pony novel… which does not contain ponies.
And so we reach the end of the Canadamantic prophecy. Well, this Canadamantic prophecy, anyway. We’ll see what else the sibyls in their Treehouse have to say later this year.
For now, though, it’s not just our northern neighbors that concern me. Time to return to Yakyakistan.
Next on the docket is the back half of The Unicorn of Odd. Let’s see how much of the original story makes it out unscathed from under the G4 cast’s critical eyes.
The madmen finally did it. Multiple its, actually. A moment of silence, please, for the Second Great Headcanon Massacre of 2019.
Ten years of card games. And friendship. Quite the milestone. And just in time for the last wave of Make Your Mark content, which…
… Huh. Well.
Well, this was going to go up in autumn when I first put it on the schedule, but the intervening time in Maretime Bay shoved it into a much less thematically appropriate timeslot. So it goes; let’s close out the four royal seasons and see what’s worth remembering about this book.
And so, at last, we come to the finale the long way. Let us begin.
As “The Blockywockys” showed, seaponies never stopped being a thing. Whether they’re the same thing in this comic as Destiny the underwater friendship bracelet weaver remains to be seen. Let’s dive in and find out.
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.
This might be milking the series a bit much, but how else do you get moon cheese?