We're ALL taken in by Rare, Apple Light. No need to fight it.

edited 5th Nov '11 7:17:49 PM by gingerninja666

That means that the religious subtext people found in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" had to do with Celestia instead of God.

I personally don't get the appeal, but I can totally see that Rarity is making a seductive face there. Seriously, this show's animation style really lends itself well to cases of bedroom eyes.

Looks like Rainity is going to be this season's Seductive Twilight...

Dammit, I just spent like 2 minutes watching that video. WTF?

edited 5th Nov '11 7:18:04 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Me too.

Yeah the ponies have very human like faces and hair styles...plus the personalites etc.

It can be...confusing.

But...moving swiftly on...

Remember we were discussing an EP scientist pony with who specialises in clockpunk?

I got an idea for it...their first invention was (assuming they're called Handiwork) the Handiwork Aposeable...Something beginning with 'n' Device, or Hand.

edited 5th Nov '11 7:25:48 PM by ApplelightLimited

That looks more kind than seductive to me.

You realize this means somepony has to find a high quality picture of Rainity and made a video of just that picture while music plays, right?

Would it include this, too?

oh.... wow

I'll be in my bunk

not really

Sure why not. Also, I'm now going to have that site open in a tab whenever I study. I love rain.

edited 5th Nov '11 7:27:00 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Um... Do you guys want a few minutes alone with my avatar?

can I?

Y-NO! No...no I'm fine.

I'm too busy...making a human version of it...I mean...working on my fic.

Edit: To repeat what I said earlier...clockpunk pony invents the HAND?

edited 5th Nov '11 7:30:57 PM by ApplelightLimited

LENGTHY JUSTIFICATION FOR WHY HUMANS CAN FIND THESE PONIES ATTRACTIVE AHOY! Not sure how good it is, but it seems decent to me.

The ponies faces are animated just like animated humans, just with a different hue, and combined with the fact the manes are deliberately styled like hair means that you can look into their faces and it reminds you of a human, especially since there's no other real animated difference between their faces and animated humans. If their snouts were more prounoucned, THEN I wouldn't be able to justify it at all; look at, say, Gen 1: THAT you can obviously tell is a horse. However, it's animated in a style that like I said deliberately takes after human faces. Their bodies don't even look all that horse like besides having 4 legs and no hands; different enough that no one will be psychologically tricked into thinking they resemble humans, but enough that mentally a lot of times our minds don't make the connection that they are animals.........Actually, they CAN look human like body-wise as well, if in the right conditions and drawn right.

So to sum it all up, the way they are drawn doesn't look human, but at the same time they look so different from real-life ponies that they fail to make us squick at the thought of thinking they are sexy, leaving them in a state where our minds are free to mold them without feeling overly creeped out unless we specifically make them seem more animal-like in our heads.

We probably won't find them attractive when they are, say, walking around, but if they are put into a pose or make a look like the famous Rainity pic a few pages back, then our minds are reminded of humans in these ponies which rebounds to us suddenly finding said pony attractive because we would find this sexy in a human, and there's not enough 'these are ponies, not people!' imagery in their forms to completely turn that sensation away. Weaken it certainly, but not enough to completely override it.

Laconic: They are ponies but they have enough human qualities to confuse even non-furry people when in the right situation.

Did that sum it up reasonably?

edited 5th Nov '11 7:36:36 PM by tvtropesnoob

No. I don't get fetish fuel at all and never will.

I thought it was at least a mildly decent analysis of how people can find them attractive without being furries. ._.

x6, NO, dangit! you like boobs!

Hmmm the handiwork apposable 'nuvering device, Patent by Lyra.

edited 5th Nov '11 7:37:16 PM by MousaThe14

Thank you tvtropesnoob...you've made me feel a fraction of a percentage better.

Oh, wait, I forgot about that little detail. X3

Still, it only goes so far; I can get a 'whoa, that's kinda hot' sensation from Rainity, but if I actually read any detailed clopfics it would make me feel put off.

ONE LAST THING!

When I said 'detailed', I meant it constantly is anatomically correct with the ponies; if said clopfic involves them moving like humans then one tends to have an easier time forgetting that they're ponies.

........I think I've made my point by now. X3

edited 5th Nov '11 7:42:43 PM by tvtropesnoob

They need to bring back this pony. A clear pony would be creepy awesome http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Hip_Holly

Would we be able to see her organs? Lol the complications of a see through body.

edited 5th Nov '11 7:44:54 PM by tvtropesnoob

x 5

It's a clockwork robotic arm attached to a saddle...or a special glove.

Which is better?

Ewww...an experiment gone wrong?

edited 5th Nov '11 7:44:02 PM by ApplelightLimited

@Mousa which episode did that quote come from?

No no, she'd be a ghost pony. That would be cool.

That's for that epic analysis for pony attraction!

edited 5th Nov '11 7:46:56 PM by Shota

Well, there are some translucent toys of the Mane Six (mostly just in the blind bags, though). Translucent Rarity is the clearest of them all.