Friendship is Card Games: Better Together, Season 2, Part 6 · 12:34pm Nov 17th, 2019
And so, after a logistical hiccup, we come to the final bits of G4 animation I have left in the backlog. Let’s see if we can send it off on a high note.
Sock it to Me
You’d think Dash would be changing in the locker room. I suppose she could keep her lucky sock in her usual locker, but I suspect this was a case of not wanting to make new background assets for a single short. (Plus, it’d be hard to justify the presence of the other characters, especially Bulk.)
I do love the idea of Dash having some luck memento she refuses to go without, regardless of her species. Loyalty can include devotion to superstitions, especially those that have served Dash well in the past.
“Who needs socks?” Fan artists, based on what I’ve seen.
I have to love how even Sunset looks for Twilight after Rarity says Dash’s most brilliant friend found a solution.
Hmm. A girl running through the halls while leaving a trail of clothing and pursuers behind her…
Pinkie confirmed for TV-Y friendly streaker.
Bulk is an enormous cinnamon roll who is too good for this or any other world.
I think the thing that bothers me the most about Bulk’s lucky sock is that he should’ve outgrown it over the course of the last six years. Of course, if we go by the “the Time Twirler locked this world in an eternal loop” hypothesis, then it works quite well. That one just keeps making more and more sense…
Oh hey, Fluttershy’s still announcing! Nice callback to “Fluttershy’s Butterflies.”
Scribble Dee’s on the soccer team? Wouldn’t think it by looking at her. If nothing else, I’d expect her to have on Rec Specs.
Of course Scootaloo’s cheering Dash on.
Ah, both teams have a nerd on the roster.
Heh. A pegasus analogue pulling the Magic Feather routine.
… Okay, how exactly did Rarity bring an entire sewing machine into the hallway? Probably the Diamond Dudes again. Sure, her locker’s open, but that level of space manipulation seems more up Pinkie’s alley. She likely just stores the material there.
Interesting to note that the game reaches the same state whether Dash is absent, or present while wearing a biohazard. I suppose the two paths balance each other out.
“Now that’s what I call fashion forward.”
“Actually, I play left back.”
I do appreciate the soccer joke, but I find it hard to imagine Dash not playing forward. Still, I can always enjoy Rarity being largely sports-illiterate. Wrong kind of football.
I have to wonder why Trixie hangs on to the unlucky sock. Maybe it’s cursed. Also, given how that hat is clearly bigger on the inside, I may have to revise my thoughts on whether Rarity’s locker can contain that sewing machine.
“This is also my laundry bag.” That raises several questions. Among them, is that how pony Trixie stores her laundry?
Oh. The sock really is magical. Where has Trixie been picking up enchanted apparel? My jokes about her buying cartloads of probably legal fireworks from herself look more accurate than I realized.
Yeah, asking for Fluttershy when pulling a rabbit out of your sock is fair.
Tip Toppings
Fleur de Lis wasn’t even in the building before that first line. Pinkie summoned her just to drive home the gag.
Also, internal confirmation that EqG humans really are that colorful. It’s not like it was ever in that much doubt, but I’ve seen some suppositions otherwise.
Oh, my heart goes out to that poor girl in the orthodontic headgear. I didn’t have that particular piece, but I remember my days of retainers, braces, and palate expanders all too vividly.
Self-serve!? Oh, my envy knows no bounds. Give me self-serve anything and I’ll put together an unsightly melange of everything available. And it will be glorious.
I can’t tell if I’m more peeved or amused that no one held the door for Fluttershy. They may have forgotten she was with them. Or they just wanted to give her a chance to dismiss the birds before she committed more health code violations.
Ah. The latter, and she can’t dismiss them.
Of course Applejack’s going to go for the fruit. Even if it means acknowledging the existence of non-apple fruit.
Pinkie’s candy craving demonstrates the true power of using an external method to “make” the decision. Your reaction to the outcome will tell you what you really want.
That is some Looney Tunes level misdirection there.
The Bearer of Honesty, everyone. Sure, it’s for Pinkie’s own good (from Applejack’s perspective) but still. That said, if she’s going to use any fruit in this deception, cherries are certainly the appropriate choice. They might even have been grown in Dodge Junction.
She tried to warn you, Pinkie.
I quite appreciate that one bird going for the gummy worms.
This is the greatest day in these raccoons’ lives.
Ha! Good to know the cashier has the same concerns I do.
Poor Pinkie. She was compelled by the will of an eldritch being from beyond time and space as she knows it. Also known as the viewer.
Um, sorry.
Wow, worst ending by far. Squirrel spit does not an appetizing topping make.
So… if they charge for toppings, how much did Twilight pay for all the samples?
Yeah, best to theorycraft when you’re not on the clock.
Oh. Twilight just abused the heck out of the free sample system. That works too.
And Applejack looks on in horror at Twilight’s fruitless conclusion.
Costume Conundrum
Hmm… Did Fluttershy get into the squirrel game after streaming with Sunset, or was she actually a pro the whole time?
Interesting to see Rarity’s relieved by how everyone else is invited to the costume party. She really didn’t want them to be jealous.
Assuming this Fluttershy is anything like her pony coutnerpart, she doesn’t have a lot of experience with Nightmare Night costumes. Or Halloween, Samhain…
What do they call it in this world?
I still can’t get over the Apples’ mailbarn.
Keeping chickens in your bedroom seems highly inadvisable unless you want bird crap everywhere.
No matter the universe, Best Sapient makes paper bags work. Meanwhile, Bonbon pulled out the owl costume from her Friendship Games tryouts, Microchips is going as his musical alter ego, Bulk Biceps is a legionnaire, Rarity’s a princess—naturally—and Sunset’s a vampunk.
No wonder Sunset didn’t want to wear this costume. And no wonder Applejack thought she might like it! It’s always good to see G1 representation, but I never thought there’d be something like this. The fact that it’s Posey, the direct inspiration for Fluttershy, makes it all the better.
Looking carefully, that is Fluttershy in the front, even when the costume first shows up. You can tell by the pink eyebrows.
Apologizing on Applejack’s behalf. Wow, Rarity.
Sunset’s scream as Applejack pops out like the humanoid part of a nuckelavee is hilarious. This is so deep in the Uncanny Valley for her that they’ve started mining.
Okay, the smile on the costume’s more than a little freaky.
“Now hold still for the next… several days…” Oh, Rarity.
I’d say that Rarity should already have Fluttershy’s measurements, but they are still growing girls. And it never hurts to double-check.
The Darling Jar is amazing and needs to be used in fan fiction.
Huh. This one doesn’t even get to the party. Though I do have to note that Rarity seemed to put together her princess dress (no relation) just fine without Fluttershy in the other timelines. I suppose she just prefers working with live models.
Okay, the journal is one thing, but why does Sunset have horseshoes? Nostalgia?
And throw out that pizza, filly. That thing’s a health hazard at this point.
… I’m going to assume that the hot dog costume was from one of Sunset’s old jobs. I imagine she’s done a lot of different things, not all of it entirely legal.
“Can’t picture you as a bat.” Ah, irony.
Two more costumes: Watermelody as a cowboy and Trixie reusing her Battle of the Bands outfit… which makes me wonder whatever happened to Fuchsia Blush and Lavender Lace.
So… why did Sunset have an eldritch horror costume in the top of her closet, exactly?
Okay, wow, if I thought Posey’s mouth was disconcerting, Shythulhu’s many mobile eyes are downright disturbing.
I swapped this and the last one. Chronologically, this should be the end, but I don’t want it to be the capstone to the last animation blog until and unless I decide Pony Life is worth cardifying. Far from guaranteed, that.
Even Rarity has bad hair days. And even Pinkie hair days. We don’t talk about those.
Hey, any try’s the first try if no one can prove otherwise.
Yes, Twilight, science, but to what end?
Part of me can’t help but think that the rewind is the true ending of Equestria Girls. Imagine a party cannon blasting confetti into a human face, forever.
“Time to fly” says one pegasus analogue to another.
I don’t care how much of the word you use, Rarity, that’s two quarters in the Darling Jar.
This isn’t the first time Equestria Girls has made me feel like I’m on the wrong end of a generation gap, but I still don’t like it. Vignette Valencia is clearly a worse influence on Rarity than she is on Fluttershy.
Dash, you fool. Pinkie is jump scares.
Yeesh, even the soles of Dash’s shoes have her cutie mark on them.
I’m not obsessed. You’re obsessed.
Also, where’s Pinkie in the freeze frame shots?
It’s nice to see a Celestia get a win, no matter how minor.
So… Dash can just sprout wings at will now? I’m honestly okay with this.
Nice to see Trixie get included.
You dare invoke strawberries upon Applejack?
Okay, the more of these Pinkie does, the more it appears that they aren’t video editing, they’re actually happening. Which is horrifying. And yet still a logical evolution of her powers, inasmuch as Pinkie magic is ever logical.
Music video outtakes are always welcome.
Oh dear, AJ’s hair froze. And it’s not like Ctrl+Alt+Del will work; she’s an Apple.
And that’s how Twilight got her first detention ever.
For shame, Sunset. At least wait to see if it’s worth paying attention to before looking at your phone.
Huh. Looks like Sandalwood joined Flash Drive at some point. On synthesizer, which feels awfully ironic for a neo-hippy.
Before, we had JVJ-24601. I believe this model is J4-V3R7.
Credit to the band, they’re still playing through these shenanigans… even if that shows a staggering lack of self-preservation.
I’m normally opposed to diegetic use of extranarrative terms like “Equestria Girls,” but here, it works. Presumably someone finally explained the situation to Flash, including the source of the girls’ powers. The term would develop naturally from there.
You may ask why the giant toaster has lasers. The answer, of course, is long-range toasting.
Seriously, Flash, you’ve established yourself a support bard. Stop going into the front lines.
Ooh, confirmation that people can ride Rarity’s shields. I’ve seen the concept proposed in the past, but it’s nice to get canon support for it.
Curious. The super forms require the girls to have their gems on their person. Furthermore, losing one doesn’t cause the others to drop. It’s not clear if not wearing the necklace completely cuts off their powers; they certainly offered better range than that in Legend of Everfree.
Gratuitous rap is gratuitous, but at least it’s not Pinkie doing it.
Ah yes, water, the natural enemy of bread.
I have to love the little touches. Dash fires her friendship laser out of her foot just because she can, while Rarity literally blows a kiss.
Also, it’s interesting to see Sunset be the focus this time. Going by the end results, I’m pretty sure she annihilated the robot’s mind.
And Twilight returns Microchips’s controller, which is probably more trust than she should show. Yes, this could just be a case of rogue Equestrian magic… but the robot is still enormous. I’m pretty sure he built it that way.
Very nice to see some respect for Flash. He’s done his best to move beyond “obligatory love interest character,” and has even had some success in that regard.
Yeah, this has a stronger impact as a closer. Though I do have to wonder how Sunset got some time at the Starswirl Festival. Maybe there’s an open mike stage. Or PostCrush got her a slot in the later days.
Neat detail I hadn’t noticed until I looked at the comments of the linked video: Sunset’s fingering in that first minute is apparently correct for the notes she’s playing.
The rainbows running down Sunset make it seem like it’s raining bubble soap.
Derpy and Wallflower are friends, and that makes me deeply happy. To say nothing of showing Wallflower with friends during an “It gets better” song in general.
Oh hey, they did get that security guard his cat in the final timeline!
And apparently Sunset learned how to channel bardic magic into… drying people off. Okay then.
There are clouds on the horizon. They may pass. They may pour. We’ll weather them together.
It does hurt that there’s no widely released conclusion to Equestria Girls. It gives us the chance to write our own endings, but the lack of an official capstone is as conspicuous in its absence as a missing tooth. Still, the universe next door has been fun much more often than not. I’m glad we have it, not least because of my love of anything resembling a multiverse.
And on that note, here are some Magic cards:
“Let It Rain” W
Enchantment — Song
At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, put a verse counter on “Let It Rain”.
2W, Sacrifice “Let It Rain”: You may have your life total become X, where X is the number of verse counters on “Let It Rain”.
Perfect Model 1W
Creature — Human Citizen
Aura spells you cast that target Perfect Model cost 1 less to cast.
Equip abilities you activate that target Perfect Model cost 1 less to activate.
“I don’t know what I’d do without her.”
—Rarity
2/1
Placebo Effect 1W
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
It’s easy to believe in magic when you use it all the time.
Cheering Section 2W
Creature — Human Band
Finale — Whenever you sacrifice a Song, support 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one other target creature.)
Everyone appreciates an inspirational background track.
3/2
Pastrify 2W
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant nonland permanent
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Food artifact, has “2, T, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life,” and loses all other abilities, card types, and artifact types.
No matter the timeline, Pinkie Pie is a great ally and dangerous foe.
First Take 1U
Instant
If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Scry 2, then draw a card.
The previous effort was just a practice run or twelve.
Abandon the Settlement 1UU
Instant
Return all Humans to their owners’ hands.
Some towns flourish. Others wither on the vine. In a few exceptional cases, the settlers just call a do-over.
Arcane Stocking 2U
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever Arcane Stocking enters the battlefield or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Equip U
“Behold the mystic weave! Eighty percent cotton, twenty polyester.”
—Trixie Lulamoon
Aven Operative 2U
Creature — Bird Rogue
Flying
When Aven Operative enters the battlefield, investigate (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)
All owls ask “Who?” Some look for the answer.
2/1
Highlight Reel 2UU
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard that was put there this turn without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
Party Pouf 1B
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink.
Madness B (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Health Code Violation 2B
Sorcery
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. Humans get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.
“My rat friends once asked why humans don’t like them. I tried to tell them about the Black Plague. It just gave them ideas.”
—Fluttershy
Scornful Daywalker 2B
Creature — Vampire
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything white.)
Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield under an opponent’s control, that player loses 1 life.
2/2
Harsh Retribution 2BB
Sorcery
Destroy target tapped creature. Its controller discards a card.
Sunset never forgot how to make examples of those who wrong her.
Caretaker of Night 3B
Creature — Vampire
Flying
When Caretaker of Night enters the battlefield, if an opponent has 10 or less life, create two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying.
“Don’t worry, they don’t bite. Much.”
2/2
Sockball R
Instant
Sockball deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the number of artifacts you control.
All the bric-a-brac stored in Pinkie’s hair outmasses the girl herself.
Electromantic Guitarist 3R
Creature — Human Band
Finale — Whenever you sacrifice a Song, Electromantic Guitarist deals 1 damage to each creature you don’t control.
The festival staff liked that she did her own effects, but didn’t appreciate what she did to audiences.
3/3
Imposing Legionnaire 3R
Creature — Human Soldier
Battalion — Whenever Imposing Legionnaire and at least two other creature attack, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.
“Move aside! Legion business!”
3/3
Implacable Doom Toaster 5RR
Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
When Implacable Doom Toaster enters the battlefield, if you cast if from your hand, it deals 6 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.
Trample
Implacable Doom Toaster attacks each combat if able and can’t be blocked by Walls.
6/6
“Cheer You On” 1G
Enchantment — Song
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a verse counter on “Cheer You On”.
2G, Sacriifce “Cheer You On”: Up to X target creatures get +3/+3 until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on “Cheer You On”.
Beauty in the Breakdown 2G
Instant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
“Sometimes you can get more out of failure than success.”
—Sunset Shimmer
Fruit Advocate 2G
Creature — Human Druid
When Fruit Advocate enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It’s an artifact with “2, T, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.”)
T, Sacrifice a Food: Add GG.
“No one eats a proper diet these days.”
2/2
Gorging Raccoon 2G
Creature — Raccoon
Whenever an opponent activates an ability, if it isn’t a mana ability, put a +1/+1 counter on Gorging Raccoon.
The wild has no sense of restraint.
1/1
Wild Scramble 2G
Enchantment
Attacking non-Human creatures you control get +1/+0 and can’t be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
They went through the building like a flood, weaving around the onlookers and upsetting everything in their path.
Overwhelmed Petsitter 3G
Creature — Human Druid
At the beginning of each end step, if you created a token this turn, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
“How can you say no to a face like that? Or that one? Or that one…”
2/2
Ancient Colossus 3GG
Creature — Pony Giant
Champion two creatures (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile two other creatures you control. When this leaves the battlefield, those cards return to the battlefield.)
The greatest legends await somepony to remember them.
10/10
Reserve Rack 2
Artifact — Equipment
You may have Reserve Rack enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield or any Equipment card in a graveyard.
“What? These old things?”
—Rarity
Royal Regalia 2
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has hexproof.
Equip Noble or commander 1
Equip 3
Nothing’s truly fit for a king unless it helps prolong his reign.
Steward of the Unnatural 7
Creature — Eldrazi Druid
Flash
Emerge 5G (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature’s converted mana cost.)
When you cast this spell, creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (This creature won’t gain those abilities.)
4/3
Mephitic Kick 2(br)
Instant
If B was spent to cast this spell, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If R was spent to cast this spell, target creature you control fights target creature you don’t control. (Do both if BR was spent.)
Soulwing Aspirant 2(rw)
Creature — Human Warrior
Soulwing Aspirant has flying as long as it’s attacking.
As magic permeated the human world, more and more people discovered what had slept in their hearts for years.
3/1
Image courtesy of Phil Srobeign.
Inside baseball alert: Pastrify is the card that eventually became Bake into a Pie, only using the subtype that was the reason they changed it in the first place.
Scornful Daywalker appears to be scornful of his relatives from Torrezon.
First Take might have wanted to wait until we see how many formats Once Upon a Time gets banned from. Because, y'know, that's probably a nonzero number.
Placebo Effect goes in every Heroic deck that can run it. Because additional bonuses for something you're already doing and some of your aura support is probably just enchantment support that you happen to be using for auras.
Stupid Complicated Game Award: Steward of the Unnatural works the way its reminder text says it does because cast triggers resolve before the spell they're on and therefore dread Flutterthulhu still lies dreaming when the effect is applied. It doesn't apply to any other creatures that enter after she does either, but if your opponent somehow ends up controlling one of the affected creatures before your turn is over it will still be affecting them. Oh, and if that happens the hexproof prevents you from targeting it, because that creature is theirs now.
It is a pity Equestria Girls didn't get a proper finale, but I think it makes some sense. Both commercially - Hasbro presumably don't want to show the girls graduating for a variety of reasons - and thematically: for all that I love the movies and the grand battles against magical enemies, EqG has found its niche as the more slice-of-life end of the Equestriaverse, and so something like Holidays Unwrapped makes sense to me as an EqG kind of ending.
I love the flavour text of Aven Operative so much.
Wow, Highlight Reel is exciting. Is it broken? It's mostly just "copy the first instant or sorcery you cast on each of your turns", which is similar to a Chandra, the Firebrand's -2 every turn. But it also lets me discard a Plague Wind or self-mill a Time Stretch and cast those for free. Only on the turn I mill them though... I'd expect it to see play in Standard and Modern, but I guess I can't say it's broken.
Ha. I was expecting a reference to "Beauty in the Breakdown", I just hadn't realised how good a card name it makes!
Nice Saga to sum up the series. It's focused on the big dramatic moments rather than the little slices of life, but, well, that's naturally what Sagas will do :)
And now I'm getting misty-eyed because it's EqG that's the reason I'm on FimFiction at all. It's been a delightful run following these girls through their adventures, fun and friendship, and I'm going to miss them. I need to write more EqG fanfic.
A nice set of reactions and hypothetical cardboard rectangles to cap off the series. Still, Placebo Effect doesn't feel white to me as-is, it's basically a smaller Wild Defiance. But with one small change:
Placebo Effect 1W
Enchantment
Whenever a creature
you controlbecomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell you control, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.There, now it doesn't make your creatures too durable, instead letting you be friendly and buff an ally's creatures if you want to.
Them taking the different poses for the combined Harmony beam, clearly they’ve decided to embrace their magical girl nature and run with it. Does that make Rarity into Sailor V?
Bulk is indeed a cinnamon roll. It makes him and Best Human okay after all.
I think she’s channeling bardic magic not so much as a mystic hairdryer as restoring the situation to Harmony in general. Which is stupid powerful *and* also works in day to day situations.
You know, Maat as an Ancient Egyptian religious concept has a lot in common with Harmony. You could even argue they’re basically the same thing. I wonder if we can find a reason to get Sunset into a Hatshepsut costume...
I think the Darling Jar is hilarious. And could be made into an Un-set card.
Trixie makes a certain amount of sense. In both worlds she’s all about theatricality. But while in Equestria most of what she does is tricks, here most of what she does is actual magic...
Or, of course, she also picked up some drifting Equestrian magic. And, because of her sheer confidence, she didn’t go into a discordant wish spiral like the others did.
Sunset has the costume because she’s a fan of Eldritch Horror stories and goes to conventions. They remind her of home :p She’s not too popular in the fandom though, what with “abusing the genre” by having the power of friendship triumph in her own fiction.
Except, oddly, by Stephen King fans. Seriously, read a bunch of Stephen King and then tell me with a straight face it’s not Hard-R-Rated Equestria Girls. The fact that the word Ka-Tet exists tells you everything really. Not to mention random objects coming to horrifying life and magic leaking through thin places in dimensions... It is by far the best example but it’s hardly unique.
Technically the finale of EQG is Holidays Unwrapped.
Change the world. Sunset's final message. Goodbye.
Well, I mean...
Relevant.
Thank you for talking through these. Your thoughts on Cheer You On were intriguing enough to make me click and watch.
For various reasons I’ve failed to keep up with anything Equestria Girls since Forgotten Friendship. I wanted an ending, though, and I’m perfectly content to let Cheer You On stand as it (or close enough to it, plot-wise and chronology-wise).
I’m deeply satisfied with the M7 riding off into the sunset (pun intended) as lowkey superheroes, while Flash also gets to move on & be okay with everybody.
AND NOW NO ONE CAN PROVE THAT HE DIDN’T MOVE ON AND MEET LIMESTONE AND MAKE SWEET SWEET OTP WITH HER FOREVER
Meanwhile, in Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle unwrapped the present. "Trixie," she said, "it isn't my birthday. And why are you giving me only one sock?"
When even Pinkie Pie opts to not eat a dessert...
Doing science, obviously. Twilight doesn't understand your implication that there should be more purpose than that.
Booooo.
I don't have many comments on this batch. In general, I'm wary when a series gets too self-referential, but all of the jokes through "Costume Conundrum" were good. Especially Sunset's reaction to the horse costume -- those were great.
Fare thee well, Equestria Girls. Considering the bald-faced merchandising attempt that spawned your creation, you were better than you had any right to be.
5157017
A valid description of G4 in general... and probably G1 as well. Remember that time Applejack killed a guy?
5156801
Given that it's meant to be Sunset's Nightmareween costume, this paints a hilarious mental image. Who needs pirates and dinosaur riders when you can tear apart vampire culture from the inside?
And two days later...
And yes, I knew I was getting into some silly interactions with Flut'mrakul, but it is a good effect for her.
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Do note that Highlight Reel only works on your turn, which limits its capabilities a bit more. But yes, the dream is discarding or self-milling big spells for
likes and subscriptionsincredible value.And yeah, sometimes the source material just hands you good card names.
I'll miss EqG, especially since the comics likely won't touch the human universe after the Anon-a-Miss debacle. But I certainly plan on doing more with the setting, and I look forward to seeing what others do as well, you included.
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Sometimes the only difference between white and green is the size of the buff.
Also, note that your version does terrible things to your own Impeccable Timing effects.
5156861
Only if she moves to England and Opalescence becomes her personal advisor.
Musical failsafe spell? Certainly works, and it is indeed one heck of a Swiss Army knife.
Maat is certainly familiar from a pony perspective. One could argue that I reinvented the concept/goddess in the Oversaturated World.
The Darling Jar needs to see use in stories. I'm pretty sure it's how Sweetie Belle will pay for college.
Trixie's definitely picked up some degree of actual magic, going by the smoke bomb teleportations in "Forgotten Friendship." The question is how long until she gets her horse ears... or if she's tapped into something completely different.
And Sunset channeling Stephen King is especially hilarious if you read Songs of the Spheres. Let's just say the Dark Tower plays something of a role...
5156906
But I've already done that. This was the last EqG content I hadn't already covered.
5156931
I maintain that, thanks to her father, Rarity knows exactly one sport and applies that knowledge to all athletic activities.
And yes, Uotapo's theory on Fluttershy's gaming experience makes a wonderful amount of sense.
5156967
There is indeed nothing that contradicts Limeflash. And do check out any of the other shorts that interest you. I made sure to link everything in the associated blogs, and even Spring Breakdown is viewable on the official YouTube channel. It's not the best, but it does get technicolor humans in Equestria.
5157017
The question is, does each Trixie have an unlucky sock or did one give that sock to the other?
Of course, how foolish of me.
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Wow, Songs of the Spheres looks interesting and like a MAJOR project to read. Intriguing.
And of course The Dark Tower gets involved. Somepony needs to help Roland out of that time loop. And Equestrians are already used to facing threats on par with Flagg and the Crimson King on a bad day...
Trixie’s magic is making illusions real. Which is more than a bit subtle. But if she can make you think she vanished a coin, for example, than she can actually vanish it and reappear it later. That’s also how she made her hat into a bag of holding and temporarily enchanted a sock with the famous Magic Feather Effect.
I do like the idea of Rarity being a football buff who doesn’t know or care about any other sport.