Today is our 9th Summer Sun Celebration we've shared together as a fandom, and the last we'll have while the show is still active. Why is this important?
I still remember how the pilot to My Little Pony forced me to re-evaluate my relationship with the Sun and the Moon. It was a wake up call - an invitation to see them, not as GIANT BALLS OF SCIENCE AND STUFF (as had previously been believed), but as the magical horse princesses that they are!
Today is the Summer Sun Celebration! In honor of the longest day of the year, I recorded "Joyous Day", a ponification of "Silent Night". It's the second video in This Equestria Daily Post celebrating Princess Celestia. Here's the video embedded below:
But Ah did it! Ah sat down, after working on mah Halloween cosplay, and finished proofreading, editing, and getting all the bits situated to finally submit the new story. Thankfully, Ah'm awesome and proven worthy of Auto-Approval, so more than likely it'll be ready to read within the hour, maybe less. Definitely will be up by the morning, for sure...barring any unexpected chaos.
Yesterday, I posted an essay about Summer Sun Setback, the princesses, and the fact that the end of the show is neigh. There are, however, a few more thoughts on the episode that I wanted to share that don't quite fit into that box.
The theme of Summer Sun Setback was growth - moving on, and the story reinforces that theme in a lot of little ways in 22 minutes.
On the one hand, we got an apology for last week. On the other, the writers felt last week called for an apology. Say what you will about crazy, competitive, and crazy-competitive Twilight, at least she knows when and how to put it away these days.
I’m continuing on with these early releases bit by bit. Think the hiatus is about to end, but as far I know that’ll be during my vacation far from home and I rather not miss anything. So getting ahead of the game it is then, just because it’s an option!
Think I’ve seen one screenshot of this, so with the rest I’m pretty much going in blind because it’s still too early for spoilers. Which been quite nice with these.
Well, what do you know, this episode delivers on not one, but many things I said just last episode we were in dire need of by this point. Of course, how well it executes said things can only be found out by looking at the episode itself. Best to do just that.
This episode is a bombshell. I didn't expect what happened and I had to watch it seven times so that my brain could process all of it. Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, Grogar, the LAST Summer Sun Celebration..... It's all an enormous mix of emotions; sadness, excitement, trepidation and fear. Fear for the Future.
---Season 9--Episode 17--- After years of reading people's hot takes, "Idiot Ball" seems to have become a more succint, and somehow nicer, way of saying that the writing for a character is badly and contrived. It should mean that their actions are so contrived, it takes the viewer out of the story. But that issue is so recurrent and expected that critics have just turned it into a story beat of Friendship is Magic.
Apparently getting sick means that after I recover, I become more powerful productive.
I knew it was worth picking up the Anime Protagonist perk at level 1.
Today’s stories:
Heat of the Summer’s Sun by Rocinate Ten Degrees by Bachiavellian X is a Changeling by Wanderer D In Memoriam by Bachiavellian The Magician and the Detective by Bad Horse
And here is Part 3 of today's Future Equestrian Stories Analyzis Firework, which is also the last part! Aside from the previews for the "Rainbow Roadtrip" Special and the official, english MLP: FiM manga, we've also gotten the synopses for Episodes 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of Season 9 on Tuesday! They contain quite a couple intriguing things and surprises, so I'll talk about them after the page break, as usual, to avoid spoilers!
Say what you will about crazy, competitive, and crazy-competitive Twilight, at least she knows when and how to put it away these days.
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