#my little pony friendship is magic characters

[aviaryartist1800]

So true, why wasn't Neighsay the villain?? I get red herrings n all, but still, that does not excuse bad writing

And the fans always say "children can be evil!" and "it has been done in other media!"

Always remember, subversion does not equal good writing

Another thing I hated from those last two seasons were the villains, especially cozy glow

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I really should stop talking about mlp. It's embarrassing 😅 I'm kind of embarrassed. I apologize to all my followers. But...

But again, 100% right.

Funny thing is, I can see a world where Chancellor Neighsay's character is written better. The problem with his character is that the terrible writers wrote him as the most stereotypical, strawman-y racist villain that I've ever seen in any piece of children's media, ever. 

If they wrote him more realistically, and actually gave the audience an explanation for why he feels that way about the other creatures...

For example, they could've showed that the reason he hated the other creatures is because of their past history with ponies:

The hippogriffs/seaponies refused to help when the Storm King attacked 

The Yaks were very picky when they came to visit for the first time

The dragons were usually very hostile towards ponies, to the point where ponies were afraid to approach them

The Changelings attacked Equestria twice

The griffins had a better relationship with ponies, but the majority of them were still very rude

Of course, the explanation for all of their behavior is the result of their environment, leadership, and upbringing. But it would still be an understandable reason.

And if they had him realistically realize the error of his ways, combined with writing him in a realistic way and giving an explanation for his mentality, then BOOM! Character fixed, problem solved :)

Now, as for Cozy Glow...

Idk what the writers were thinking when they came up with her character, but in terms of writing/character motivations she is 10,000 times worse than Neighsay. At least with him I understand what the writers were going for, and he can be more easily fixed.

But Cozy Glow…

She is a child. The same age as the CMC. Who is... inexplicable an evil sociopath who hates the other creatures, wants to get rid of magic, and... rule the world...

Absolutely no explanation given for how this child turned evil, racist, a sociopath, a master manipulator, and a megalomaniac. No backstory, no explanation. At all.

At least with Neighsay, you can logical see how he got there. But I have no idea what they were going for with Cozy Glow. 

The only thing I can figure out is this: Cozy Glow exists to prove one point that Neighsay made. He was afraid that the other creature students would use their friendship lessons and the school to secretly take over Equestria. He believed that they were sociopaths who were incapable of being changed, so instead of being improved by the school they would only learn how to better manipulate ponies. That's what sociopaths do in real life. 

But instead of it being the other creatures who did it, it was a pony. The point of Cozy Glow's character is to prove that ponies are capable of being the megalomaniac sociopaths that Neighsay thought the other creatures were. So in a way, I can see where the base concept for her character came from. 

The thing that makes it terrible is that there is absolutely no backstory or explanation given for why this child is evil, or how she got there. The writers just expected the audience to accept this incredibly bizarre, horribly written character. 

Lol, shrug

Grogar would've been a really cool villain, if he wasn't actually SPOILERS Discord in disguise the whole time.

The real Grogar does exist in their world. He could be dead, he could be alive. We don't know. But the writers lied to people, telling them that Grogar would be the final villain, hyping him up... only for it to be taken away with a terrible plot twist. That they (apparently) planned from the beginning:

But when Discord was impersonating Grogar, he was still a better villain than Cozy Glow and Neighsay. The plot twist was the real problem, not Grogar himself. 

I actually feel kinda bad for Grogar's character. They did him dirty. They did my sheep dirty :(

Anyway, my final thoughts on the season 8/9 villains:

Chancellor Neighsay: Terribly written, but can be easily fixed.

Cozy Glow: They were high on BATH SALTS or something and were watching Cats Don't Dance (or the episode of Batman the animated series with Babydoll) when they came up with her character, and didn't give a shit about anything else.

Grogar: I feel bad for my poor sheep :( You deserve better, you could've been great 🐏

[reagansfunkyart]

My ugly daughters

[ponyprideful]

A couple of ocs! Literally! They are a couple ❤️

On the left we have Tricker Treat, and on the right we have Cookie Cutter! They are both young adults.

I’ll include a brief description of them and their relationship below the cut, but I bought CC’s design from thiscatdraws, so thank you to them!

Tricker Treat (she/her) is a very tall bat pony with a love for autumn and spooky-themed alt fashion. She’s laid-back and mischievous, with a dry sense of humor and a knack for cutting sarcasm. She’s a themed-attraction designer who specializes in haunted houses and Nightmare Night spectacles, but she makes sweet treats as a side gig in the Winter and Spring months when there’s less demand. That’s where she met her girlfriend:

Cookie Cutter (she/her) is a short and chubby Earth Pony who is the embodiment of sugar, spice, and everything nice. She’s warm, inviting, charitable, and just generally grandma-like to those around her. She works in her parents’ bakery day in and day out, and adores the winter holidays despite the severe ramp up in business. Of course, everybody needs help now and again, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when her parents hired an extra hoof.

Between sugary sweet conversations and lighthearted jokes and jabs, it wasn’t really a surprise when they started dating after a few months of working together. Tricker Treat and Cookie Cutter get along very well, despite their seemingly opposing personalities and lifestyles. They love going on casual little dates, nothing too fancy or formal. They know they’re both foals at heart, and they love that about each other. They love the silliness of life.

[oikastache]

twilight sparkle at work

[corvikari]

you aren’t the weird one! I fully agree with your points on how the heroes have no consequences or trials they need to overcome, and anything bad that happens is just immediately resolved.

Take the characters in the Wicked Musical for example, or rather take Elphaba. She literally has a song about how every time she does good or tries to it blows up in her face and is twisted into something that is bad. In the book this is allegedly magnified tenfold (I haven’t read the book which is why I say allegedly), she is a tragic character.

Now I feel like this is two sides, on one hand should the characters suffer as much as Elphaba or the ending be as emotionally tragic for the characters in TDP? no. We aren’t asking for much, just that the show written by adults understands that this isn’t just a kids show. Heck kids deserve better than this (cough cough My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cough cough)

Maturity in writing doesn’t always equate to more violence and swearing. It’s also about emotional and mental maturity, understanding pacing and characters.

Episode 9 & the season overall

MEEEEEH

Do I need to say more?

Like yes, fine, overall, it's not as bad as the previous two seasons. Overall, this was the best season since season 2.

But let's be honest, it's not some high benchmark to clear.

Structurally, this episode's problem is that it's the final episode yet it has the structure of an early-in-season episode. It solves a personal issue of Rayla and it deals out Aaravos's backstory, and it even recaps early seasons! If not for Aaravos's return in the end, this could've been the first episode of the last season. It still could've been, just move his return one episode earlier and the rest could stay the same. No reason Aaravos can't explain his backstory to Claudia after she lets him out. The whole "cast spell with love" was a bullshit excuse.

But the most prevalent issue of this whole series is its refusal to put its heroes through any meaningful trials or tribulations. Any time they have any meaningful choice to make, the story ultimately makes it so they don't have to pay the cost. Some examples:

Rayla decides to lose her hand instead of killing Ezran - Zym just breaks her hand-cutting bracelet.

Callum decides to use dark magic and regrets it - he just gets primal magic he can use with clear conscience. He arguably chooses wrong and then he's still given the good magic in reward.

That also entirely nullifies his initial choice of "use dark magic or have no magic." He just gets good magic.

Claudia kills a deer to heal Soren's legs and in the end... Nothing? She gets ugly I guess? Soren is perfectly fine, it doesn't matter that such a powerful dark magic was used on him, at most it's Claudia who bears the cost, and it's not clear what "looking ugly" really does, if anything at all.

The Dragon Mom ignores her injury and pretends she's fine - when she stops being fine she just stumbles across a healer by accident.

Or just this season:

Callum gets healed from using dark magic by a ritual. They say it's dangerous but eh, it seemed pretty easy, half an episode and done, and he's fine and has his primal magic. No cost.

Rayla thinks she'll have to choose who to save, but in the end her parents are at peace and happy to go. She doesn't really have to choose, she just goes with what the other people choose.

The Sun Queen strikes out at her brother's forces and in the end nothing happens to her lol. That whole Z plot line was ultimately a nothingburger. The big sun dragon wasn't even needed to release Aaravos. You could've entirely cut it out and just have Claudia sneak into the castle to get the egg!

And so on and so on. And it's just so tiring, because we're dangled nice stuff in front of us, like a possession arc, but then nothing happens.

Claudia just lets Aaravos out like she's intended for three full seasons. It's just dull. It's boring! It's, well, it's the definition of meh.

Guys tell me, seriously, am I the weird one? Is it weird for me that I expect the heroes to have to deal with complex issues and hard choices, and not the villains? Am I asking for too much?

Because it feels like the creators had some nice epic pictures in their heads, like Katolis burning or a big battle among the Sun Elves, but they just can't or won't commit to them. They don't write a meaningful story to accompany those pictures. All the heaviness is put on the antagonists, while the heroes, if they have any issues, typically resolve them within one episode - like the Sun Queen had a one episode long "arc," but she just had to listen to a story and she's perfect and flawless again! Callum's arc of struggling with dark magic and possession is the only such one, and it still came to an anticlimactic, easy end with the cleansing ritual.

Yes, the show can still do something with it. If I had more trust in this series and its writing, I'd say that sometime in the next season, Callum is going to use dark magic to save Rayla, breaking his promise, and then she'll be unable to kill him, breaking her promise, and they'll need to put themselves back together and come back from that.

But... I don't have any trust in this series at this point. They used false advertising in the trailer! There wasn't any scene with Callum having black eyes this season, yet they even used it as a thumbnail?

So with my zero faith in the writing of TDP, I'm presuming there will come a moment when it'll look like Callum might use dark magic again, but he'll then refuse and instead of suffering any consequences, he and others will be promptly rescued by someone, like maybe the Dragon Mom coming back during the final battle or something like that.

Because the heroes just got to choose right and they'll suffer no consequences for it. I guess the moral of the story is "just be good and things will work out on their own." In other words... "trust in God/Fate."

Amazing. That's exactly the message to teach kids, instead of "sometimes doing good is hard but it's still worthwhile" or "be smart and creative and you'll find a solution" or idk a hundred other messages this show could've had.

Like seriously, the setup where humans don't have inborn magic and elves do is such an amazing one. It could've been a story about humans outsmarting elves, about figuring out other ways to use magic, about not letting their lack of power put them down.

But nooo. Instead it's a story about those born powerful being always good and beautiful, and only a couple of them are bad apples - usually because they're deceived by one particularly bad apple. And if you're born without power (privilege, khy khy) you should just accept it and you'll be rewarded by fate/those with power.

This show is progressive?

[xeebs]

had to hop on the mlp humanization bandwagon before it’s too late 🙈🩷

[naylissah]

You know what?

(Draws your favourite ponies as POC)

This is for the weirdos in the fandom attacking artists for drawing headcanons🤭🤭

[skorpionegrass]

i forgot to post these guys on tumblr... tried my best to come up with characters that can represent the elements without being too similar to the show's mane six

[clarissasbakery]

walk with me, walk with me yall….

[maplewozapi]

Here’s all of my mlp native au designs! In one post for convenience! I’ll get around to posting my other native au with the animals. I actually drew twilight twice years apart

OMG I never explained this ever because I keep forget but apple jack is making a pun of wigmunke’s name! Wigmuke basically means a rainbow but literally it’s captured light/rain drop kinda deal explaining how a rainbow is raindrops reflecting light. So basically apple jack says you captured my heart. ❤️ like her name.

[cracklewink]

hear me out: moose in mlp

[discarded-replica]

Some mlp ships that I like :3

[dapper-lil-arts]

this is how their first meeting went right

[pinkpaletta]

I just had to get these horses out of my system

[bibellou]

I did something

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[wandering-pegasus]

introducing heebie jeebies! a pony trapped in a perpetual state of anxiousness whose talent happens to be researching the paranormal 😵‍💫

heebs comes from a design I bought on google+ for a couple deviantart points that i have completely revamped to be halloween themed! I would show his og design but since g+ got shut down I have no clue who the designer is ,, u_u but i have done some tweaks so he is completely my own and now is the perfect time to showcase him! 🖤🧡