The 7 commandments:

No seriously what in the Celestia is this shit I just stumbled across

she was my fave pony as a kid!

Here's hoping she can make a recovery. Her talent has touched so many lives.

For me, it's this particular breathing excercise/motion that Cadance taught Twilight in "Games Ponies Play" (S3 E12). To be honest it has actually helped me prevent from hyperventilating when I'm anxious more successfully than any other breathing excercise I've ever learned.

Anybody have anything similar? A small detail you picked up from the show that became ingrained into your everyday/common practice?

Yeah, I'm just curios. My fav are Princess Luna, Fluttershy, Tempest Shadow, Rainbow Dash and Queen Chrysalis. Not in this row...

Image source: https://derpibooru.org/images/3164631?q=princess+celestia%2C+princess+luna%2C+role+reversal

Hear me out. Yesterday I made a post expressing how despite holding both characters dear to myself, I always related more to Luna as the elder sister of the two. And honestly, feel free to debate or correct me, but I think that Luna's character in general fits the older sibling experience much more, whereas Celestia's status among the ponies is more of a universal younger sibling thing. I may be wrong, of course, but it is simply what I grew up with and reading in fairytales and folklore.

Older siblings are often more seemingly aloof at first glance, despite being highly emotional and sensitive, much like Luna. They are often overshadowed by their younger siblings, especially when the latter are first born. Older siblings tend to be experimental for first-time parents too, and fall victim to many outdated parenting methods, and in general be less preferred by their parents. Often underappreciated or not valued enough despite giving great wise psychological life advice, much like Luna does to younger ponies. They often are guardians of some sort, like Luna, and suffer silently in pain while punishing themselves for their past mistakes that their parents convinced them they had gone through. They are often alone too, while younger siblings tend to have everyone's support. Being jealous of that is a universal older sibling experience. They are also often portrayed as evil in folklore, mistakenly.

Younger siblings are often universally beloved and seen as "rays of sunshine" (pun intended) by their families. They are spoiled, pampered, and in general often prioritized and allowed to get away with some things, so many of them tend to be blissfully unaware of their older siblings' struggles, and are surprised to learn how hard being older can sometimes be. Of course, their life is not all sunshine and rainbows either, because like Celestia, a lot is expected from them, as they sometimes take the role of the golden child. They still keep that childlike energetic excitement around their older siblings, much like Celestia did in "Between Dark and Dawn".

This is just how I see it. My best friend agrees with my vision. But, I am curious to know whether you guys do too?

I get it, crying over a show made for younger audiences is worthy of an eye roll, and in my case, I'd agree with that. Despite that, I cried at this series several times, I get very emotional when watching certain episodes. For me, the most emotional moments in this show were Fluttershy's panic attack in 'Hurricane Fluttershy' and Rainbow Dash crying at the end of 'Tanks for the Memories'.

For the former, Fluttershy is shown to have trauma-induced panic attacks as a result of being bullied as a filly. As someone who was bullied throughout my school life, especially in elementary and middle, this was actually a very realistic depiction of the trauma associated with bullying, though your millage may vary. I've had several panic attacks where I kept hearing the same insults people hurled at me as a kid, so seeing that reflected in my biggest comfort character was heartbreaking.

As for Tanks for the Memories, this is also a personal example, since my pet cat died of disease last year. What Rainbow Dash was going through during this episode reminded me a lot of that, even if the situation wasn't exactly the same. Watching Dashie cry over having to let her pet turtle, Tank, go, that really hit close to home.

The strange thing, if I watched this series five years ago, my face would remain blank; recently though, I've been crying a lot more often when watching cartoons & anime, as I have also gone through some mental issues of my own. It mostly has to do with me relating to fictional characters much more than I used to, and since MLP: FiM has a ton of my comfort characters, it's a real tearjerker to see them put through angst, as benign as it's presented as. Should I feel weird about this, or is it a completely normal thing in this fandom?

They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy...

FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN!

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/thedoggygal/art/Bouncin'-Buds-475249322

What moment makes you weep from joy or sadness?

For me it’s when Fluttershy cheers for Rainbow Dash in Sonic Rainboom, and when everypony in the town yells “Pinkie!” In Magical Mystery Cure

She seems to be hopeful for the future and is kicking its butt which is great. Praying that she recovers from this please show her support in the comments or on her instagram. 🙏❤️

Edit: Apparently it’s not curable, the survival rate is at most 5 years. This is horrible no other way of putting it.

sorry for asking so many questions at once i know i could have just searched for all of this on google, but i really preferred getting direct answers and personal perspectives from welcoming fans of the show and the comics here on reddit. so i'd love to hear specifically from people who have read them! I would appreciate it so much! :D

after the questions in the title, i have these ones too : which comic series or story arc should i start with first?

is it better to read the comics chronologically alongside the show seasons or separately?

and does anyone know a link where i can read the comics online in high quality for free? (i can't afford to buy them right now)

and finally can you give me your spoiler-free review of the comics? and does anyone actually prefer the comics over the show storywise?

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I do hope this is the right place to ask this, but basically: I've been seeing these semi liminal mlp edits on Pintrest for quite a while now. I've saved so many and I would love to make some of my own, but I have no idea where people are getting the source images. Every time I try to reverse search it, google locks in on the ponies too much and cant find me the sources for the backgrounds. (Plus, its mostly a ton of reposts, so I dont know where the original creator is) If anyone here makes these, or knows somone who does, I'd really love to know where these images come from!

is Cadence gonna outlive Shining Armor?

source : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DegaWbdBWy2/?exln=MWp0cjl0Z3BpbXI2cw==

Reccalling the other reaction when spike brought him, even if ponies are for redemption, I think their reactions here is understandable, they only witnessed evil changelling and also can't a 100% trust thorax since from their perspective, it could still be a chrysalis plot per example or they think thorax isn't genuine (tho he did proved he was and then they accepted him).

So I love singing (not as like a profession but I just like it), and ive been recently listening to 3 mlp songs, strong as horses, stop the bats, and apples to the core ( I took a break from mlp after a couple episodes of season 4).

I ended up finding myself knowing every word of stop the bats, because I had the same 3 songs on repeat (those I ones are my favorite songs so far and ig this day aria as well).

This is very sad considering I shouldn’t know this, guess thats what happens when you put them on repeat for half an hour.

What are your thoughts on these songs btw?