t3knicolor:

itsnotcontagiousiswear:

DEAR LORD WHAT HAVE I DONE

IT’S A TRAP.

anotherpinkiepie:

What’s everypony looking at? Can’t a pony eat candy in peace?

My favourite part is Mayor Mare giving Pinkie ‘the look’.

sturmpony:

ask-nightmaremoon replied to your post: No but seriously, with the brony ‘documentary’ thing.

((ooc: To be fair, the vast, vast majority of the fandom is really just ordinary people that like ponies. There’s no need to over-accentuate the negative. Also, the porn isn’t a bad thing at all, and Futashy really is a good blog.))

I’m not saying that everything I listed was necessarily bad.

I think we all know my position on pony porn, and Futashy is one of my favorite ask blogs and characters, but it’s more the point that these actually incredibly popular and well known things will be intentionally excluded because of how it would change the perception of ‘bronies’ that’s my point.

It’s not going to be a documentary they put out, it’s going to be glorified propaganda.

Admittedly, I do not watch many documentaries, but of those I’ve seen, I cannot think of one that didn’t push a particular political or marketing viewpoint (even if it’s a popular one, like ‘nazis were bad’), so it’ll be in good company there.

Also, while this may be hard to believe if all you see is the people that go on ponychan and ponibooru, there is still a very large section of the fandom entirely uninvolved in porn.

sturmpony:

While the loss of the Soviet Union lead to end of an era in regards to space and arms races the end of the threat of immediate nuclear annihilation and the extreme paranoia and social instability that it caused is perhaps worth it.

You’ve got to remember, the Soviet Union wasn’t some happy-go-lucky, we could maybe be allies state, it was a bad fucking place that was terrible for it’s people and the world. Anyone who is /honestly/ nostalgiac about it is blinded to that fact or, as with people like Vladimir Putin and his ilk, were at the head of the system and so have a vested stake in it’s resurrection, in some form or another.

Yes, the argument exists that the Russian people themselves aren’t better off now than they were in the 80s (though the same can /not/ be said for those the Soviet Union dominated many of which are doing much better economically these days) at least the world at large isn’t locked into a suicide-spiral into an extinction-event driven entirely by self-enforcing ideological systems.

tl;dr: You don’t actually miss the Soviet Union.

I honestly do miss many aspects of the Cold War, Mutually Assured Destruction being one of them. A country that finds itself the sole superpower in it’s field is in a tenuous position, historically speaking. A relatively equal balance of power between two or more powers is more likely to be stable.

I also miss the accelerated scientific advancement the Cold War fostered. From physics to information theory, almost every branch of human understanding benefitted from the easily available grants that were given out ‘in the name of national security’.

Of course, I may be a bit biased, since my family pretty much went from being poor immigrants to being rather well-off on the backs of defence contracts.

I have racked my brains for literally minutes, and I cannot think of a worse supervillain in all of fiction. The Riddler would barely make a suitable villain for a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, much less Batman. Heck, I’d expect him to be curb-stomped by Arm-Fall-Off Boy!

So, is it just out of some twisted sense of nostalgia, or is there some element of his character I’m missing?

Whatever happened with that? I stopped reading around the time there started being helicopters and army rangers in the story.

Anyway, I regret not getting to know more people towards the beginning. At first, I only followed and spoke to people that it made sense for NMM to follow and speak to. Big mistake. As a result, I never got to know a lot of fabulous people who aren’t around much (if at all) anymore, like Comrade and Delilah.

As far as exact stories go, I regret Twilight Moon (aka The Story that Never Happened), letting her keep the Titan, and not thinking through the council test enough.

Well, way back last year when I got started, another Nightmare Moon had used the URL for about a week, before deactivating, leaving the newborn tumblrverse with no Nightmare Moon to call its own. I had really gotten into the tumblr ask scene (sending anonymous asks to numerous blogs, including Gilda, Luna, and others), after the ‘letters to Ponyville’ project turned into a bit of a trainwreck (IMO).

So, I decided to make my own Nightmare Moon, to fill in for a few weeks, until someone else came along.