That's where you put the tropes that appear in the songs, right? (Well, among other things.) I'll see what I can do.

Maybe not that close friend but there must be knowing each others, considering Ponyville importance for Celestia plans.

Sorry Death, I think that may have been a language barrier joke. Here, let's try this again: Close Personal Friend. There, how's that do for ya'?

Sorry if that came across as rude. I'm a bit drunk right now, just finishing stuff up before going to bed and the compulsion to pony is coming through

edited 18th Dec '11 12:52:26 AM by kegisak

Fluttershy: she works ze magicks!

I'm sorry that I don't see anything sex related .

(And you sinkholing that :P)

edited 18th Dec '11 1:18:30 AM by DeathCloud

My sister's favourite character is your kiddie cartoon is gay and you're gay for watching it.

Pony is a verb!

edited 18th Dec '11 1:40:12 AM by thefran

Pony must pony pony.

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So, yesterday was the big Finnish brony meetup. I attended with two friends. Here's a short sum-up for those interested:

The event was held in a youth centre in the suburbs, which had been rented for the occasion. About a hundred people attended, and the spaces were just about the right size for the event.

Most attendees seemed to be on the 18-25 age range, but there were several older people (not any kids that I saw, though). I'd say about 10% of the people present were women. I didn't exactly poll around, but it seems that at least half of the bronies had come to Helsinki from another town to visit for the meetup. My Swedish pal seemed to be the only foreigner present, though.

After some quick announcements from the administration in the beginning, everyone spread out to socialise and have a good time. Board games, video games, drawing, custom-painting figurines, pool... someone was even making a PMV on a laptop and had people looking at the process over his shoulder. Several people expressed the hope that a year from now, we can hold a Fighting Is Magic tournament in a meetup.

Half an hour before the new episode aired, everyone gathered to the widescreen television to watch as the administration started to feverishly set it up to show a stream. We missed the cold open due to internet troubles, but most of the episode was shown fine. The bronies were a really passionate audience: laughing at jokes, aww-ing at Fluttershy and groaning whenever the stream cut off for a second. When the end credits rolled, there was a round of applause.

I left soon after the episode was shown, but after that they held a Pony quiz with prices (the winners got a pony-themed coffee mug and the team that got the least points was given a G3.5 magazine), and later auctioned off custom-painted figurines.

We also took a group photo right before the episode streamed, but I'm not posting that here yet, since I don't have the permission of the people in the photo to post it here. When it appears on Equestria Daily, I can link it here with good conscience.

I really liked it, and will definitely attend to more meetups in the future. I highly recommend these to any Finnbronies who might see this post.

edited 18th Dec '11 2:25:34 AM by Kerrah

I'm fine with assuming that Mayor Mare is... close to Celestia

Her request to see the Princess was enough to make Celestia call off the tea party after all

edited 18th Dec '11 3:03:57 AM by gingerninja666

You fiends! :p

So Mousa is now my joint favourite humanisation artist along with the livingmachine02, because he draws the girls so cutely...and they match how I picture them as humans myself!

Mousa, your AJ and Pinkie pics are brilliant. I thank you!

Edit: Oh, Celestia/Mayor Mare eh? Cute.....

edited 18th Dec '11 3:43:31 AM by ApplelightLimited

No joy for Megasweet, Apple

Oh, yes, Megasweet too!

Megasweet, Mousa, and the livingmachine02!

ffs Ponibooru!

It's actually called a pilot (sweeper in Russia) and it removes anything from the rails to save a train from derailing. Derailing is messy.

I've probably just missed it, but I'm surprised that we haven't seen this joke being made yet (the mare even says it almost word for word in the ep)

Oh yeah, Ginger, what did you think of those pictures of AJ and Pinkie I posted?

And thank you Applelight:

Your AJ is probably a bit TOO big for me

Human!Showgirl Pinkie is... 0_0 (fist in mouth) n-no comment

You gonna post em on the Ask Blog?

edited 18th Dec '11 4:53:48 AM by gingerninja666

I'll post them as follower benchmarks or something. In the meanwhile I will scan them and probably put them on ponibooru or my deviantart.

Why no comment on Pinkie Pie?

because I might lose myself and say something too innapropriately raunchy for this forum -_-

...you did good, Mousa... you did good

edited 18th Dec '11 5:02:08 AM by gingerninja666

If this forum had an "inappropriately raunchy" threshold, I've never seen it, but thank you.

believe me... the things I'd do to her... I don't think the people on this forum wanna know

Ahem:

What IS the general consensus about this new episode anyway? I honestly don't know if people think it's good, bad, meh, what?

Response seems to trend posotive but slightly disappointing.

It was firmly meh for me, overall.

Then again, I'm not very fond of holiday episodes in the first place. Luna Eclipsed at least had, you know, Luna. This just felt totally generic.

I do love how, from the sounds of things, Luna was the ONLY saving grace of that episode