Roll Call: Pinkie Pie, Pinkie Pie, Everywhere Edition!

@kierwinyoung: Blame Celldrax. That's his job!

@n33d2skate: Where are they anyway? Celldrax and the others?

This union might be up again, but it feels it's still dying though.

So, what are we doing here?

Swaggin' it up

@meetroid8: We're Chillin'.

Sorry. Was feeling a bit lazy this week.

To write Applejack in country slang or to not write her in country slang. HMMMMMMMMMMM

@Celldrax: Oh that's alright, I was only Wondering.

@n33d2skate:

Don't write slang if you don't know the slang.

God dammit, half my little toe is friggin purple. I kicked it yesterday and now got tissue wrapped around it to stop if from rubbing against the other toe.

Guess I kicked it harder than I thought I did (still hurt though).

Haven't been on this site much mostly because I don't feel like opening up google chrom half the time just to come on this site.

@meetroid8: I know how to write slang. I just don't write slang for Applejack because everyone already knows how she talks

@n33d2skate:

I have no idea what accent Applejack is supposed to have. The show's writers and the voice actor don't seem to be sure either. I'm just saying if you want to be accurate, pick an actual, real accent you want to emulate, one you're intimately familiar with and know how to reproduce, and write in that. Otherwise, don't bother. Novelists like Mark Twain and John Steinbeck could write in slang because they knew what slang they were writing in. With Applejack, you could pick literally any Southern or even Western dialect and make it work, just so long as you're consistent.

Personally, I wouldn't bother unless you have a specific accent in mind. Of course, most people don't care. It's just one of those lessons of The Elements of Style I took to heart.

@meetroid8: I read a story where a guy pretty much made Big Mac Scottish.

@n33d2skate:

Yeah, I've seen some really rough portrayals of their accents. I'm very tempted to quit reading fics every time I find out they're trying to write her accent, just because so few people do it well.

@meetroid8: In the stories of mine that they've featured in, I just wrote their dialogue normally and at least I've made the featured box twice.

@n33d2skate:

You write fanfiction?

@meetroid8: I does. Dig deep and find it somewhere.

@n33d2skate:

I very seriously doubt I would ever be able to find you among that site's literally tens of thousand of users.

@meetroid8: I've commented on one of your stories before. A story that required a filter.

@meconate:

I can't believe you were ever able to stand the white background. That thing fries my eyes from the inside out.

That doesn't really narrow it down any. I've written a couple stories that require filters, and they've all got comments.

@meetroid8: I wrote a story involving Dash, Twilight, and feet.

@n33d2skate:

Feet?! How is that possible?

@meetroid8: A + N + T + H + R + O

@n33d2skate:

Ew

@meetroid8: Give me your tears. I've written stories that involve regular ol' ponies though.

God, the new GS formatting for images is just terrible. Is there anyway to get the text not to do that?

Care to share them?

@meetroid8: I dunno. They're 2 hawt 4 GS.

@Celldrax: Wut

@n33d2skate: 3D pony creator

I'm sure people have already been working on their black and red alicorn OC's.

@Celldrax:

Those 3d pony models are all so awkward looking. I don't understand the appeal at all.

@meetroid8: I'm just having fun messing with the facial expressions.

@Celldrax:

Heh, that's all I did too. The eyes are especially fun.

Um, did you just insult my OC?

Published my new story and it got 444 views in just two days.

@n33d2skate:

If you're gonna brag about it, you might as well link it, yeah?

@meetroid8:

Applies

Nothing could compare to the awesomeness of Cloud Vicious.

@Celldrax said:

Nothing could compare to the awesomeness of Cloud Vicious.

Mexican drug cartel leader?

@meetroid8 said:

@Celldrax said:

Nothing could compare to the awesomeness of Cloud Vicious.

Mexican drug cartel leader?

They will hear you

So, how big is the fandom nowadays? It seemed for while like it was all over place, but I don't see ponies around as much as I used to. Are we smaller, or just calmer?

@meetroid8: Calmer, but bigger I'd say. I think everyone's just gotten used to the fandom by now, so you don't see as much rage over it as you did 3-4 years ago.

Well then

Yeah, people on both sides have just mostly calmed down now.

There's still some choice individuals out there though who make it their lifelong goal to crusade against the fandom.

I like to imagine some of them still doing this 20 years from now. That would be amusing.

I think getting more involved and meeting people in the fandom are some of the best decisions I've ever made. In the past year, I've become a lot more open about myself.

@n33d2skate:

I would do that, but people in this fandom are such dorks. I just can't handle all the dorkage.

@meetroid8: I disagree. While there are some people who are "dorks", there are others who have become some of my best friends.

Somehow I got to researching about snuff films. And just... God...