My Little Boney, My Little Boney
Ahh ahh ahh ahh…
My Little Boney!
I used to wonder what my flesh could be
(My Little Boney)
Until Bonesaw shared its magic with me
Big adventure, tons of fun
Her beautiful art, pow’rful and strong
Sharing kidneys, it’s an easy feat
And Amy makes it all complete!
You have myyy (My Little Boney)
Do you know you’re all my very best wooooorks?
I just tried (and failed) to see if I could find a liveblog for MLP:FiM – it seems like that’s much more commonly material for video-based reactions – but I did find this in the list of results: a liveblog of Pact.
I figured this might interest some of you if you weren’t aware of it already. I didn’t click through the link, so I know nothing about this blog (re: activity, quality, etc) beyond the fact that quowreadspact is or was a liveblog of Pact. I just hope this helps some of you find something that might interest you. 🙂
There seems to be a theme among at least some of the Nine of great potential wasted on evil.
I mean, you’ve got
“Cupcakes is quite brutal even by Worm standards…” -Krixwell, 2 April 2018 Can you appreciate the cackling from Worm fans at this line (and your liveblog of Cupcakes in general), knowing this arc was coming up?
Pfft. Yeah, now that you mention it, the Undertravelers being in Bonesaw’s clutches was quite reminiscent of Cupcakes, even if it didn’t go anywhere near as far, and Brian’s… condition… was similar to something you might find in Cupcakes fanart or Fluttershy’s shed.
Armor Gadget should have a missing leg, maybe even proesthetics on his face and stuff. Depend on where on the “disgraced” path. Is it when he’s still under house arrest or after he escapes folling the Mannequin attack?
Yeah, that stuff just wasn’t an option in the pony creator I was using. I know there are newer versions of the creator that might have something like that, but I couldn’t get them to work.
I suppose my excuse is that it’s pre-Extermination, if Extermination even happened in the pony dimension. 😛
…wait, shit, I specified “disgraced former” leader. Hmm.
While I was taking a short break from reading Worm, LHC (who hasn’t watched MLP yet) and I discussed some thoughts about what “looking a gift horse in the mouth” could mean in Equestria if not pony slavery. MLP:FiM is, on occasion, a bit darker than it might seem at a glance.
“You’ve tailed him?”
“Of course. We doubt anything will come of it.”
Yeah, he probably wouldn’t have anyone to report to or return to unless he was lying.
“No. It wouldn’t. Can you make out the contents without touching the envelope? Can’t be too careful.”
“We can and have.” The technician handed Emily a paper.
Nice.
She read it over twice. “Burnscar is dead, it seems, and Bonesaw won’t be in the field for the interim. God knows how quickly she’ll recover, but it’s something.”
Yep, Taylor’s message it is.
Also Bonesaw will probably be sowing on someone else’s hands (holding the needle in her mouth) as soon as she can get her stumps on some.
“Good news,” Legend said.
Not going to question how it happened?
I suppose he’s not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
That’s a saying in-universe in MLP:FiM, by the way, which is all sorts of fucked up. It implies ownership and gifting of horses (which may or may not be just another term for ponies, it’s unclear) was a thing at some point, widespread enough for the idiom to develop. Pony slavery is already explicitly canon (along with racism, pony communism, a Y7-rated version of one of the bloodiest family feuds in American history, and straight up war with lost limbs), but that was in the context of a city under the rule of a villain, so it wouldn’t involve trade.
“The odds are still high, even with an adopted child. It’s likely more to do with exposure to parahumans at formative ages than genetics.”
Hmm. Perhaps. That would explain why it can go sideways.
Also are we seriously having a nature vs nurture debate right in the middle of the topic of gay adoption? This seems like a very transparent metaphor. Just replace “parahuman” with “gay person” and remove the “out of the loop” bit.
“I know. Arthur knows, but I don’t think he believes it.”
“Or he doesn’t want to believe,” Emily said.
In the “gay person” version of this conversation, the implication would be that Arthur has dealt with a lot of homophobia and doesn’t want his child to suffer the same.
In the “parahuman” version we’re getting, it seems more like a matter of relating, with Legend and their child bonding over powers and Arthur having a hard time relating to that.
Without the “out of the loop” bit, it could also be about a fear of their child getting into dangerous situations like daddy Legend. Or even, at risk of getting into the topic of Flurry Heart and other MLP babies with magic or wings again, the difficulties of raising an early triggerer with some sort of wild power. Legend and Arthur are lucky we haven’t heard of superpowered babies yet.
(Armor Gadget has a very pointy horn because his special talent manifests in his magic as super precise telekinesis, which allows him to construct tiny gadgets with ease.)
While I’m at it, here, have another one. Meet Armor Gadget, the disgraced former leader of the Ponyville Protectorate, codename Hoofsmaster. (The manestyle on the right is less accurate to how I headcanon his hair and more accurate to how vriska he is.)
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