this is nice

I agree, let cupcakes just be sweet and tasty! *brohoof*

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Ohm-migawd, is that the brohoof symbol?

No wonder resistance is useless.

Indeed!

Hmmmm cupcakes

Send this to Equestria Daily.

Just did! We'll see if they run it.

:3 I've always liked muffins better but this is... nice.

This makes me want cupcakes again. And I don't think Pinkie Pie would ever be capable of such a thing.

I'm in the mood for cupcakes! :9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyWo6Y-i-U0

I need to see "This Is Spinal Tap" one of these days.

This turned out great! I like the changes you made (white works MUCH better on the piano for this particular layout).

We make a formidable pony fanart team! We must do more -- the Princess commands it!!

Thanks! And yeah, after you finished it and sent it to me, I remembered that John Lennon's piano was white, so I recolored it.

And yes we must!

Hey! Ask  maxgoof to help!!

I wonder if there's anypony who can do a good John Lennon impression. You should ask over on Ponychan's /collab/ board.

I can. Thing is, I can't play piano.

I can do a pretty decent John Lennon impersonation.

That Cupcakes story didn't bother me much because it was SO stupid and generic.

What bothered me was not the story itself but the other bronies' reactions to it. For a while, it seemed like most fans of the show would rather imagine Pinkie Pie as a dangerous psycho than a wacky cartoon character, and considering how strongly I identify with her, it upset and disturbed me, making me feel alone in this new fandom I'd discovered, and giving otherwise innocent scenes from the show unwanted creepy undertones. I hated it.

I can sympathize with that. Seems like about 1/3 of the bronies are creepy people.

I know, right? Or at least about 1/3 of the fanworks they make.

That part of the pony fandom needs to be reported to the pony SS and locked up behind a thich concrete wall with watch towers, barbed wire and machine guns!!! >_<

Freakin Cupcakes fanfic....

Oh, I wouldn't go that far.

They just need to meet Fluttershy, who will ask them why they like that story and then start crying.

Every copy of the story will be voluntarily deleted from the internet overnight!

Oh you havent seen a website dedicated to psychotic Pinkie Pie answering questions from deranged fans, killing Fluttershy with a plastic bag, making out with Scootaloo and being coevered in blood all the time.
Youre right we shouldnt go that far-we should let Heinrich Himmler personally rip that imposter Pinkie apart with a bayonet.

I've sadly seen one image from that, posted to KYM for no apparent reason.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

Yes we can.
And we can violently burn and rip apart the bad things with ear pearcing Schmeissers!!!
ITs sad.I like PInkie and all and am sure shes more random than she is.And I dont mind gore,but COME ON-there ponies,and WHO WOULD HURT FLUTTERSHY!!!

You go ahead. I'd rather focus on the peaceful side of things. I'll be over there laughing and having fun with regular Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy and all their friends.

I personally like both happy Pinky and evil Pinkie, just not how she's depicted in Cupcakes because I prefer other versions the fandom has made.
I wish people would stop trying to point at things in the show and claim it's 'evidence' of Pinkie being secretly psycho. I like depictions of psycho Pinkie because I have a taste for the grimdark, but geez people stop trying to prove the two characters are one and the same!

I know, right? It's like, okay, go ahead and have your weird little fanon, but it does NOT trump canon, and it's usually not funny to claim it does.

I know this is sounding like a echo chamber, but I've seen the same annoying trend with Celestia.
"OMIGOSH, she occasionally proves she has a sense of humor, TROLLESTIA."
There's canon, and there's not canon, some folks need to learn the difference.

I can't help but wonder if there will be unnecessary backlash during Season Two when fans who grow attached to their ideas of what the backround pony personalities are see them portrayed differently than expected.

Sorry if this discussion is cluttering up the page with Off-Topic stuff, we can switch to notes if you'd like to continue.

Even worse:
"OMG she occasionally proves she has a sense of humor, therefore TROLLESTIA, therefore it makes sense for me to draw her being a total dick, or even a cruel monster! HAHAHA look at this, she'll never let Twilight see her parents again, how FUNNY!"

Or, more specifically, after Owl's Well That Ends Well aired, with its scene of Rainbow Dash getting starry-eyed Scootaloo to dispose of an apple core for her, one of the top comments was "SCOOTABUSE CONFIRMED!" But [a] that's not abuse, that's taking advantage at worst, and [b] "Scootabuse" is not funny, and anyone who thinks it is is a creep.

Heh... in one of my "Simpsons visit Ponyville" cartoons, I decided that ponies have neither doughnuts nor alcoholic beverages. The first was disproven by "The Best Night Ever", but was I annoyed? Nope. Heck, I was even able to modify it: maybe they have doughnuts in Canterlot but not Ponyville. What if we see doughnuts being sold at Sugarcube Corner in Season 2? Then I'll just shrug my shoulders and say "oh, well".

As for the second thing, it's *sort of* disproven, because Berry Punch being the town drunk is *almost* canon. One of the storyboard artists, who goes by "sibsy" online, mentioned that she thinks of Berry Punch as the town drunk, and wanted to have her burp after drinking from the punch bowl in "Call of the Cutie". (Hasbro said no, though.)

Some bits of fanon can be fun: I'm amused by Lyra having hand envy. And no, I don't mind talking about this here at all!

Celestia has fan interpretation that swings between 'benevolent ruler' and 'evil tyrant' a lot. Despite how benevolent she's shown to be, some fans claim the whole sister banishment proves she isn't. We don't actually know everything about the Elements of Harmony, so fan guessing about their nature and why they had a different effect when used by the mane six keep the possibility open (at least in their minds).

Oh yeah, Scootabuse. I think it stemmed from something Lauren Faust said about Dash not being good sister material, which OF COURSE made fans leap to conclusions. You have exactly one scene to back that theory up, you can have your fanon just don't claim it's canon!

I like to think Berry Punch isn't necessarily 'the drunk', it just so happens that her favorite fruity drinks are alcoholic, making her that way as the end result On the Ponychan /rp/ board I've seen someone play Berry Punch being hung over, and it was delightfully funny that an OC friend was a loudmouth.

Can't wait for some Season 2 Luna!

I never picked up on the "town drunk" aspect of Berry Punch. But that suddenly explains so many of the drawings I've seen of her...

As for Princess Celestia, my thoughts are here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2660079/

Banishing Luna to the moon seems a bit extreme, but it makes sense from a story standpoint. Nightmare Moon was, after all, threatening the well-being of all the ponies in Equestria. And as far as I'm concerned, they were reconciled at the end of Episode 2 -- end of story. (My own, personal fanon has Celestia living in Canterlot, and Luna residing in the restored Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters.)

And, yes -- more Luna in S2! According to one of the animators who worked on the show, the Luna episode "is pretty cool."

I am eager with anticipation!
And I think what people find jarring about the moon banishment is that when the Mane Six use the elements with an entirely different effect, when it's not explained why Celestia couldn't have just done that instead. Don't get me wrong, no one could blame her for choosing banishment over doing nothing, it's just that there are only fan theories as to why she couldn't do what Twilight and her friends did, most of them being along the lines of:
-she didn't embody the elements as well as the Mane Six despite her magical power.
-she could do what they did, but it would have taken longer than banishment and she was afraid of what NMM could do during that time.
I'm sure there's more but those are the two I remember the most.

Yeah, that's what I should have said now that I think about it. She's a wine connoisseur.

It's almost as if they can't enjoy the show on its own merit, and have to not only make up "adult" parodies of it but push them on everyone else as if they're better than the real thing. Stuff like that really makes me wonder if those people who think the majority of "fans" only like the show "ironically" are on to something after all.

Yeah, sheesh. I always enjoy hearing from other people who honestly like the show on its own the same way I do.

Bravo, sir, on your committed campaign against the frowners and downers who seem to think that tragedy/atrocity somehow equates to coolness or gravitas.

In my view it's a very adolescent way of looking at the world. They stumble out of childhood and realize that not everything is sweet and happy. But then they stick there, thinking that they've attained final wisdom in nihilism.

Pro tip, kids. The grownups understand that there's darkness, but we move on and don't let it poison everything we experience. Joy can exist without constantly having a reminder of sadness or pain. You can smile without it being a smirk or a sneer.

Lighten the heck up!

I saw the thumbnail and instantly thought that it was like, "Pony Newman." Which would also be hilarious. :D