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[kindheart525]

unpopular opinions on the fim show?

I’m not entirely sure how many of these opinions are unpopular in the fandom as a whole, but they seem kind of uncommon compared to what shows up in my feed so here goes

Pinkie’s family is not abusive or toxic. I know they are portrayed as extremely old-fashioned and strict in their lifestyle, based on what is probably a surface-level understanding of Amish communities. This makes it easy to compare them to similar communities irl who engage in practices like shunning. But the Pies’ behavior in the show and especially Pinkie’s attitude towards them seems to make clear that they have not shunned or abused her despite her “leaving the community.” In other words, I think there are key differences between the Pies and some of the real-life people they were meant to emulate, so it’s inaccurate to say that abusive Pie headcanons have any real basis in the show. I wrote more on this opinion here.

Zephyr Breeze is not nearly as likely to be a deadbeat dad as some might think. He was shown to be on the road to being more responsible by the end of his own debut episode, so I highly doubt he’d be the same pony he was at the beginning of the episode by the time he would become a father. Not that I don’t think he could be at least a little bit irresponsible as a dad; I just don’t think he’d leave his child or not love them. I wrote more on this opinion here.

Amending Fences was a missed opportunity for a very important friendship lesson, one that the show never dared to touch. Which is that sometimes people are incompatible and sometimes your old friends won’t forgive you. Instead, Moondancer was written in an extremely exaggerated way (her whole life was ruined by one rejection??) yet this wasn’t regarded as an overreaction at all. It was weirdly handled at best. I wrote more on this opinion here.

Rarity gets a bad rap from the fandom. I don’t know if it’s her mediocre taste in stallions or if there’s something about her ultra-feminine nature that some people don’t care for, but I think her maturity and intelligence are severely underrated. Of course she can be a drama queen, but so can Twilight and Pinkie and pretty much every other member of the main cast. Rarity had a breakdown over getting a fashion piece critiqued, but Twilight blew up at her friends over having a late paper; the two scenarios really aren’t that different.

Just because Rarity has multiple crushes on mediocre stallions (Blueblood, Trenderhoof) doesn’t mean that she would sleep around or have a tumultuous love life. Haven’t most people had celebrity crushes? Multiple celebrity crushes, in fact, and also multiple crushes and relationships involving people they actually know before finding “the one”? I’m sure a lot of people have also been disappointed to find out the celebrity they fancied is actually a terrible person, like Rarity has. It’s part of the human experience for many, and Rarity’s TWO moments of poor judgment are not a reflection of her whole character or even her full palate of romantic taste.

Along with being a drama queen, Rarity can have moments where she’s materialistic and selfish, like the time she convinced Spike to give her his fire ruby. That was not a good moment for her. But on a bigger picture, materialistic and selfish is not her usual state. She is literally the element of generosity!!! She made Gala dresses for all of her friends FOR FREE! She has also shown herself to be a leader among her friends, at times taking charge and coming up with plans in Twilight’s absence much like Applejack does sometimes. One example is Castle Sweet Castle; the whole premise of the episode was Rarity’s idea! To help Twilight feel more at home! It’s clear that her generous spirit informs her actions through most of the show, unlike Rainbow Dash who’s only truly loyal when the plot needs her to be.

Yes Rarity is flawed, but all her friends are too. Her flaws are not objectively worse than the others. In fact, Rarity was literally under mind control once and still regarded Spike as a genuine friend, while Rainbow Dash sold one of her best friends into indentured servitude completely sober (among a long list of other things). Twilight yelled at her friends that she didn’t need them, also with an unaltered mind. Rarity has had her own hurtful blowups ofc but hers aren’t any worse than the others. Give her more credit y’all.

Speaking of Rainbow Dash, I’ve seen a number of opinion posts about how she and Applejack should switch their elements (so RD is honesty and AJ is loyalty), but as I started rewatching the show myself I’ve come to disagree. Rainbow Dash may be honest, but her brand of honesty is extremely rude. There’s no integrity behind it, not like AJ’s honesty. Rainbow Dash in general is extremely rude. There are a lot of points where I’ve wondered if she even likes her friends. There was also that Secrets and Pies episode which establishes that Rainbow Dash has lied prolifically to Pinkie over something that meant a lot to the latter, so RD really isn’t that honest either. I do agree that AJ would deserve the element of loyalty if she didn’t already have honesty. But you know who else is loyal? Spike. The elements of harmony would honestly make more sense if RD were just removed from the group entirely and Spike replaced her as loyalty /hj

I promise I don’t actually want to remove Rainbow Dash from the show, I just really wish she was written better. That’s what fan fiction is for I guess 😂

I have mixed feelings about AppleDash as a ship. I really like the fandom portrayals of it which is why I reblog quite a bit of AppleDash art, but canon alone doesn’t seem to show the good side of their dynamic very much. All they do is argue. Applejack is normally mature and levelheaded, but around Rainbow Dash she’s much less so. Dash really brings out the worst in her sometimes. It’s much different from the loving bickering that people write for them in fan works, which I think is a better spin on the dynamic. If I went off their canon interactions alone, I could see them being exes or on-and-off lovers at most, not a stable, long-term married couple.

This would only be unpopular in very specific circles, but I think it’s pretty stereotypical to insist that Rainbow Dash and Applejack are lesbians primarily based on their tomboy interests and the former’s rainbow mane. It’s one thing to headcanon them as such just because you want to, and that’s perfectly fine! I write Applejack as a lesbian too. It’s another to insist that it’s canon based on xyz evidence from the show or think it’s wrong for anyone to ship them with stallions. Even if you consider AppleDash canon, one or both of them could be bi or pan for all we know. Canon tells us very little about their sexualities so there’s a lot of room for different headcanons. I wrote more on this opinion here.

(More specific to the next gen community) Just because Fluttershy is good with animals does not automatically mean she would be a good mother. There was a whole episode (Stare Master) about how she couldn’t handle babysitting even though she thought her animal caretaking skills made her qualified. Obviously she was shown to be much better with kids later in the show (becoming very popular among the School of Friendship students), but again that’s teaching, not parenting. This isn’t to say that I think Fluttershy would definitely be a bad mom, just that her being good with animals is not a solid reason for her being a good mom.

I definitely have more opinions about the show, characters, and fandom of mlp, but I don’t think many of them are so unpopular. Like for example:

I don’t think the Apples would be queerphobic just because they value tradition and are coded as Southern US Americans. The word “tradition” doesn’t automatically equate to conservative politics, and even if it did, these ponies have been shown to learn new things all the time. But all the trans Big Mac positivity I’ve been seeing tells me that a lot of people agree with that sentiment.

I don’t think most of the popular/generic ships of the fandom (like FlutterCord, FlashLight, and SoarinDash) are necessarily bad or devoid of positive chemistry, they’re just way too often written in extremely boring and generic ways. But I’ve also seen such ships written in unique and interesting ways so I think there a lot of people who also understand that sometimes all they need is a more creative approach.

Episodes like Over A Barrel, Bridle Gossip, and She’s All Yak (among others) were horribly handled and should not have been written. I don’t even consider them canon. I don’t know about the larger fandom, but most of the next gen community that I interact with feels the same way.

I think Starlight’s backstory was stupid and contrived, but it seems like the whole fandom thinks so too. We’re all rewriting it lmao

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[susartwork]

a little green ghost floats over, balances a Christmas present on Wiz's head. and floats off.

Dwoostablook belongs to @alittlegreenghost/@askkindness

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[ask-dcf]

Happy First Year Anniversary to Datatale! And Thank you.

Before I get into my speech. I would like to start with a thank you to everyone who has helped me in this ONE YEAR. Especially to the new friends i made.

@theyoshimister @askchammy @fmsdraws @xjunjox @chaos-le-mieux @susartwork @justanechoflower @chromanyxx @charaofthedead @toxictoxicities @doloshroom @kamikotorayama391 @ask-duotale-b2fc @askkindness @anovainspace @lilybug-02 @dhundertale @kris-theartist @larzzzyyy @somedancingpineapple @potatogoats1blog @ask-endfultale @anikymation @Rayium

And to anyone I may have forgotten or don’t have tumblr blogs. Thank you all SO MUCH for your help. I’ve never felt so welcomed in the fandom after coming back. I promise I will keep sharing amazing stories with you all, and I hope you can keep guiding me aswell qwq

You all are so so blessed. Legit cried when making this. Thank you…. So much… qwq A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!

Don’t have any art but here.

Much love to you all! I hug and snuggle you all qwq

End of chapter 2 coming soooon!

#mod talks #merry christmas btw #<3 #Youtube

[sparklystarlightkingdom]

I want to draw their character anyway and I hope you are happy that I draw your green ghost friend of yours inside my style.

@askkindness

[modus-kind-blog]

I've had this idea of a shared chess modus between two people for a while now and was wondering how you think it would work (or I guess any board game for that matter)

Ah I like that idea!

I think that a kind of modus like that would work a bit like Caliborn and Calliope’s shared JuJu modus!

Here’s how I think it’d work:

Two people (obviously) must be ‘playing’ in order to retrieve and captchalogue items.

Both 'players’, owners of the modus, can freely captchalogue anything, but they must play and capture pieces on a modus-provided chessboard to retrieve items. And the players must play traditionally and by the rules.

Also, either player can only retrieve items that the opposing player captchalogues.

So, if you were to share this modus with someone, it may be a while before you see something you’ve captchalogued again.

A little short, but I hope this contributes to your modus idea, dear!

NOTE: Some of these functions can possibly apply to other board game modi!

#askkind #postkind #shared chess modus #modus-kind #AAAAAAAA HELLO AGAIN DEARIES!! good while since ive been on but ask box is still closed unfortunately #ill make sure to answer asks as fast as i can!! just finished homework and came back home from todays rehearsals and ive got some free time

[probablyharley-blog]

Can I just say I feel your college anxiety like I move into my dorms on Saturday and oh my gosh

tru tho but like, early college is so much worse (it hink??? dont hate me) 

they expect so much more form u bc of ur danmn “intellectual prowess” and im just

“lol i just happen to know things at the right time what do you call that”

it rly sucks

but gl w moving into ur dorms tomorrow!!!!! i hope it goes smoothly :)

#askkind #thedarkeh

[kindheart525]

Biggest loser in all of fim?

King Sombra for sure, that dude got brutally murdered by the power of love and friendship TWICE. Also Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow for being turned into stone. It’s a horrible way to die and an even worse way to live, if they’re still conscious in there like Discord was.

If you meant this as more like, who’s my least favorite character, then probably Daring Do because I believe there was no good narrative reason for her to be a real pony and not just a book character. Most of the annoying antagonists at least have a more solid narrative purpose to achieve imo.

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[susartwork]

*he wach wizard sans sleep while he heals*

SORRY IF THIS TOOK SO LONG (I haven't even answered to all the asks ;A; I'll keep them for the continuation)

Dwoostablook by @alittlegreenghost/@askkindness Muse/Stella by @air25 Yandere Sci by @ask-yandere-sci Mylim by @nova2cosmos Underwizard - UW!Sans, UW!Papyrus and art by me

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[ask-dcf]

*A HUMAN HAND GRABS THEM BY THE NECK FROM BEHIND THEM COMICALLY AND PULLED INTO A PORTAL. HE WAS THROWN ACROSS THE WHITE VOID*

@askkindness

*seems a familiar angel flew off angrily*

#undertale #sword frisk #frisk #ask blog

[akihitokanbra]

You’ve won the surprise beautiful person award! Once you receive this award, pass it into 8 people’s asks who deserve it. If you break the chain, nothing will happen, but it’s nice to know that someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. (btw your theme is amazing wowow)

i can see if i get to send this to people!

and thanks, i love it uwu

#anonymous #askkind

[modus-kind-blog]

Hello there, a Mage of Blood here! For my modus, I feel like I could have the possibility of something along the lines of a file or sorting or grouping type of modus that relates to organization. A formatting modus would be swell to have too. The player, namely I, really like to do that type of stuff and I feel it relates to myself. Patterns are something I am excellent at and enjoy in addition. What have you got!?

Heyo!

Ok, Mage of Blood that’s into filing/organizing and also excels at patterns?

I was about to suggest Memory or Recipe, but you match better with a modus that happens to belong to another Mage of Blood I know!

You’ve got the Frequence Sequence Modus!

 The Frequence Sequence Modus isn’t a good modus for starters. 

 It looks a lot like the simpler moduses combined. (Array, Queue, Stack, Wallet.)But it isn’t all that simple. 

 Once you assign this to your sylladex, you must remember the frequency of your captchalogues and sylladex retrievals. 

 Say you start to captchalogue 2 items every 5 hours, and repeatedly do so for an extended period of time. Then you start retrieving 4 items every 6 hours and repeatedly do so. The modus will remember this (how frequently you captchalogue and retrieve items) and start a sequence — and after a longer period of time, it will have become a remembered pattern.

You can captchalogue and retrieve whatever you want in whatever order, but it must appeal to the remembered pattern; Your sylladex will not allow you to take any more than 4 items under the time limit, and same goes for putting in any more than 2 items under the time limit.

You captchalogue 2 items in 5 minutes rather than in 5 hours? Nope, can’t captchalogue any more. Try and be sneaky and get an extra item out when you need more than 4 things in those 6 hours? Nu-uh, can’t do that my dude.

 The items are sorted by either most recent to oldest, oldest to most recent, or custom setting that allows you to organize the items yourself -- you choose.

 Examples: Recent to oldest– a pair of glasses, a box of tissues, a wallet, and a satchel. Oldest to recent, same items– a satchel, a wallet, a box of tissues, and a pair of glasses.Custom Setting (this is alphabetically sorted, but you can always arrange it you own way)-- a box of tissues, a pair of glasses, a satchel, and a wallet.

 Be careful, though; the Frequence Sequence Modus often automatically captchalogues or ejects items if the frequency pattern is not met. 

 That means- say you’re off dreaming on your dream planet for a long time. Your modus will captchalogue 2 random items every 5 hours and eject a random 4 every 6 hours. 

 And items aren’t limited to the usual small things you would captchalogue.

 When you wake up, you could find yourself on the floor instead of the bed that is now inside your sylladex. You could also happen to wake up when you usually retrieve items and watch as 4 random items are ejected from your sylladex. 

But you should be able to pick this up pretty easily. With your interests and your skills, you should be able to master this modus in a short amount of time!

NOTE: If you ever want to change your remembered pattern, choose the ‘reset’ or ‘delete data’ option on the modus’ settings. Don’t do it until your sylladex is completely empty; the modus will erase those items along with its old data.

Hope you like this!

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[kindheart525]

Do you have any really silly mane six headcanons

Twilight Sparkle once smoked weed during her equivalent of college and to this day is terrified that Celestia will find out (Celestia already knows)

Twilight has very little knowledge of memes and her friends frequently have to explain new slang to her before she causes political scandals (“no Twilight ‘kys’ does not mean ‘keep yourself safe’”)

Much like a real horse, Twilight often falls asleep standing up during her late-night stress & study sessions. Spike has had to wake her up and tell her to go to bed numerous times

Twilight was that kid who reminded her teachers there was homework when they forgot. Her classmates didn’t really like her for that

Her love life is very…active lol, including when she’s in a stable and committed relationship (like active within that relationship not as a serial cheater). She loves learning new techniques if you catch my drift

Fluttershy is surprisingly confident when she’s attracted to someone, and when she’s in a committed relationship she has a lot of fun facts about animal mating patterns to share with them for…no particular reason

Unlike Twilight, Flutters is surprisingly well-versed in memes because she’s learned a lot from Discord (and also Treehugger). She doesn’t really understand the humor in all of them but she’s aware of them

(In a universe where FlutterCord is canon) She had to absolutely fight for her life in the Mane 6 meetups when she told her friends she was dating/crushing on him

Daring Do eventually loses popularity, partly because so many of her books involve actual artifact theft and social attitudes have changed, and partly because ponies just moved on to newer book series. Rainbow Dash still remains her biggest die-hard fan even when she looks pathetic doing so

Rainbow Dash acts like a big baby every time Tank hibernates for the rest of her life (he outlives her) but after the first few years it’s kind of silly

This isn’t an idea I came up with but I really like all the jokes about RD writing really bad fanfiction, and it’s a headcanon I subscribe to

(Mostly a joke because I do ship her with mares outside of my next gens) Rainbow Dash is straight but has a lot of mares asking her out because of her mane, and it’s hard to get stallions because they also think she’s gay. She also has a hard time relating to her friends who all like mares

RD doesn’t take good care of her hooves because she flies all the time and forgets to trim them due to not walking very much. Because of this, they look funky and overgrown and her friends kind of clown on her for it

When she’s older, Rainbow Dash wrecks some of her joints trying to do stunts that she did when she was younger (like carrying her “little” sister). She has the worst midlife crisis out of all her friends

When Rarity was a filly, she used to create the most elaborate and dramatic plotlines with her dolls that easily measured up to any soap opera, with betrayals, love triangles, custody battles, the whole works

She enjoys listening to soul-crushingly sad music (like Marina’s discography) during her ice cream-crying sessions, in the process roleplaying a life much more dysfunctional than she has because it helps her cope with her actual problems. Also listens to that music in a good mood if she needs to be inspired for a certain fashion piece

She overstocks her supplies to a sometimes comical extent, like she has 400 refills for her bedazzler machine. How does she have room for all that stuff? A lady never reveals her secrets, darling✨

Applejack loves singing country songs like “Thank God I’m A Country Colt” and “International Harvester” at the top of her lungs, they literally never fail to get her hyped up

(In a human context, ignoring Equestria Girls) it took her awhile to learn that Apple Bloom had TikTok and other social media accounts because she only uses Facebook on her clunky home computer

AJ is incapable of enjoying any kind of sitcom because she’s always poking holes in the plot. Her least favorite storylines are the “caught in a lie” and general miscommunication tropes

She also can’t watch well-written, dramatic tv shows either if any of the characters behave dishonestly (such as Breaking Bad)

Pinkie and Cheese once performed “Amish Paradise” for her parents and sisters (even in universes where they aren’t a couple). Reactions were VERY mixed

Also some of my “how they explain the birds and the bees to their kids” headcanons for my next gens are pretty funny

Fluttershy is really good at explaining the whole life cycle (including reproduction and death) because taking care of so many animals means she’s seen it all. Nothing squicks her out anymore. She explains things matter-of-factly but gently as she guides her little ones through various examples involving her animals.

Twilight would do a good job and be comfortable with it but she would also go overboard, giving a college-level lecture about the full reproductive process when her 10 year old daughter only wanted to know what going into heat meant. Twi’s partner calls Fluttershy in to help for the kid’s sake.

Rarity buys her daughter the pony equivalent of those Care & Keeping of You books (and her son gets the male equivalent of those books). She uses those books to bond with her kids over “becoming a mare/stallion.”

Applejack is very overprotective of Apple Bloom and probably procrastinated on giving her “the talk” only to find out that AB already learned from the other CMC (especially Scoot “left completely unsupervised 24/7” aloo /hj). A similar deal would probably happen with her own kids as well unless her partner is better about it. Even though, years before, Granny Smith was very straight with AJ like “ya wanna know how our new batch of chicks was made?”

Pinkie isn’t uncomfortable with the talk at all, except her explanation gets so convoluted and off topic that her kids go off to ask someone else.

Rainbow Dash says “go ask your father”

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