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The Dark Side Of Pony Land (not for kids)

posted 19 years ago by EskarinaSmith
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What are they on?

So when things get bad these candy coloured ponies all head for a Mushrump. Now what kind of a message does that send out to children. I'm sure that the ponies problems began well before the film was made, with a simple kidnapping and ended with the poor little creatures morphing into giant dragons to pull an apocolyptic carriage of eternal darkness. I think that Mr. Muchick has much to answer for. He has so warped the minds of our little friends that they have paranoic hallucinations of 'ugly purple stuff' (yes I know IT's SMOOOOOOOZE) coming to engulf their world, and only by getting high with the flutter ponies can we defeat it. The rainbow sure failed. Not to mention giant spiders (read Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit to find out more but even dear little Frodo was on the pipe weed when he began his 'adventure'). What message were we given as children. Dabble with it, this is how wierd it gets, but it all works out in the end.

I think we should be most wary of the Wabbit though. He says nothing at all but seems to be all knowing, wize and powerful, not to mention his ability to fly with his ears. He is no white rabbit, but I believe he is some sort of Deity. ( but then what did The White Rabbit ever accomplish?) Perhaps he is infact the instigator of all that happens in Pony Land. After all when he puts pen to paper it becomes one of the most, well pink houses ever known. He can do anything he is . . . enough about Habbit.

Does anyone else believe that childrens minds are being corrupted (or educated depending on which side of the Mushroom you stand) by the literature and visual imagery that they are (or were) encouraged to read or watch?

Not to mention all of their symbols . . .

edit . . . I have spent too much time in the mushrump myself and begun talking to myself. So many of the other message boards are full of people with theories about films but I have yet to find one person here. I like it here on my own I can say what I like without the fear of anyone reading it!! I do in actual fact love ponies. My secret sin is collecting them. I think if I had to pick I'd be Fizzy. Not that I resemble her. I'm not green and my eyes dont sparkle (unless you count eyeshadow) and I dont have a horn. THE horn maybe. But I am a bubble head at times.

I think I will set up my own secret society that you can only join if you can be as weird or stranger than me. I am patient so dont expect any recruits any time soon! Meetings will be held here once a decade and you must choose your pony id. We (or I ) will be discussing topics from religion and politics to the influence of drugs on film makers and what happens when a black hole fills up. It might also be interesting if I discussed with myself the merits of annonymously looking stupid and wasting hours of my pointless life reading messages on the imdb.

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[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

My first topic will be about the merits of wasting time talking to myself annonymously but publicly.

PRO'S

1. I can ammuse myself with the thoughts that others may infact read this but choose not to post to increase my sense of security and therefore silently encourage me to continue revealing the depth of my problem with the world and laugh at me behind my back . . . oh . . I think that might be a CON

There are I fear no positive reasons for my posting here so I will ignore myself and carry on regardless.
Perhaps it should in fact be a more pony related subject. Flume.

What is Flume..

We are made aware that it is a dangerous plant extract that even if you attempt to take (well gather) it will make you have sensations that are mind blowing, you may be dangled by your feet and swung repeatedly around in circles. Powerfull stuff.

Seccondly we know it has the power to ressurect the smooze. It is like waking the very fabric of the earth. It gives the consumer the desire to devour all life as we know it and sing bass harmony with a girl band trio with all the tallent of britney spears, christina aguillleeeerrrra however you spell it and celine *beep* dion. (ok she can sing but urgh i do hate her).

You may, or I have, realised that I have a tendency to put too many letters in most words but spelling was never one of my strong points.

Annimators do seem to resort to drug references frequently. I think that Flume should be a class A drug and if sold, preumably illegally, would fetch a pretty penny. So this beggs the question, having finally collected the flume why do the two young witches not just cut and run. Sell it to all the other darker more evil witches like Lucrecia, and use the money to move out and buy their own volcanoes and be rid of their mother once and for all.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

Not that there is much to say on this subject but I do find it odd that Peachy keeps a cat, Lemondrop keeps a dog and Sprinkles has a pet duck (but all the others get either dragons or nothing???).

I thought about using up my excess energy on a message board where people discuss more cerebral topics but then I realised I would be out of my depth.

A MOLOLOGUE ABOUT THE PONIES CHOICE OF HOME

For a birthday or Christmas prezzie in about 1986 I was bought Dream Castle the toy. I was so in love with it that I used to imagine I lived in it. I was so devastated when firstly it was wantonly destroyed by the witches then simply handed over to the Grundles. I felt betrayed and homeless. I could no longer enjoy my castle and it seemed as though I personally I had been evicted. No one invited me to Paradise Estate. I had to make plasticine (modelling clay) Grundles to represent the change of occupants. I know that Paradise had a pool but I was scared of swimming.

As much as I wanted to hate the new place I was so jelous of the ponies. They were so happy there, I felt excluded and like I no longer belonged. I got the next cartoon Revolt at Paradise Estate and all of the furniture began to talk (I will return to this at a later date but note to self - yet more evidence of the hallucinagenic powers of some of the substances in pony land). I had to admit to myself that I really wanted to be there. (another note to self - what does that say about you now??)

My mother bought me a Paradise estate about a year ago - s****** that's hard to admit even to an empty thread. I fell in love with it. All of my childhood fantasies were fulfilled I had the one toy I always dreamed of owning.

But I really think that for the number of ponies there are it should have had more bedrooms. Or at least the odd stable block.

Re my previous post why do we never find out about the father of the two young witches. Is he ashamed? Perhaps it's the guy who sold the ponies the magic paint. He is tall and skinny like Draggle.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

I do have problems but I have been assured that once I decide to seek help they will all go away

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

MONARCHY

From extensive research of the MLP comics of which I am an avid reader I have come to the opinion that Majesty is a very oddly written character. She does appear to have more power than all of the other ponies,but for some reason that was never written in Pony history she was in fact removed from power by a group of princess ponies who were all vying for her position. Was there perhaps civil unrest in ponyland and all records of the events were wiped. It is a reasonable assumption that she was deemed to be an inept ruler who was unable to prevent the kingdom being swamped by smooze.

Why is it that the princess ponies are completely oblivious to their subjects. They are arrogant and self obsessed.

Is it possible that Majesty is still in hiding and preparing her re-domination.

It is clear that she wanted her subjects to be distracted for hours at a time on pointless treasure hunts while she went on diplomatic missions with spike. Was she gaining support from the dragon colonies and preparing to attack from within the ranks. We know that each of the princess ponies has their own dragon, are they majesties spies.

I think that Wind Whistler would make the most appropriate leader really. She has the ability to articulate herself well and has frequently saved the life of a rather accident prone young lady.

On the topic of politics, were the creators of ponyland right to show a predominantly female commune style society where the male ponies spend their time on a year long cross country race, with little regard for the upbringing of their sprogs (babies)? Do we assume that they are advocating a draconian anti feminist reigeme or is it more of an amazonian society where the female ponies disregard the importance of the male role and send them away on a pointless mission so that there will be a more serene place to raise their young? Either way is this a politically correct message to be feeding young girls - I don't think so.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

PS if you cannot detect any tones of sarcasm please do not participate on this board

I don't expect me to understand anyway.

I wanted to pick an arguement with someone so I picked this one, it is always easier to argue with yourself because you are never wrong, you never loose and you always feel that something has been achieved by the end of it all

what exactly can have been achieved?

Inner peace and a deeper understanding of oneself.

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[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

Hmm . . . how can I keep the relevence of My Little Ponies and talk about astronamy. Well, Moondancer was a little pony. Actually she was a cute little baby pony who had to guard the rainbow locket but was kidnapped by a cat who took green liquid - which I am sure was absynthe - to become a giant. She was (the cat) a ruthless dictator who enslaved an entire colony of hairy midgets to brew her liquor. Anyone who hasn't seen the cartoons and who may be reading this posting - I am not making it up. They are dark dark stories.

So in this particular episode that I speak of, poor little moondancer is nearly flung into a pit that resembles a black hole.

It got me to wondering what is there in a black hole (it didn't but I was searching for a tennuous link and for the present this was the best I could do). As I remember it all that we truly know about them is that their gravitational force is so strong that even light cannot escape. There is no evidence to prove that all matter that goes into a black hole dissappears from existence but that we just cant see it. The matter may have collapsed but it is not gone. Does the increased mass of the 'hole' increase its gravitational force or with its increased size does the force become weaker? The reason I even bother to question this is because there are many black holes and some are closer than we might think. One theory that has intregued me is that perhaps black holes are some form of gateway to another place. This can be illustrated in the partner cartoons to MLP, Moondreamers. They suggest that it is perhaps an evil place by the name of Monsterous middle, in which an evil old crone lives with her daughter and thuggish alien sidekicks live and scheme to destroy the poor unsuspecting Moondreamers.

I put it to you, but more paticularly to myself, that this is partly true. Though it is not a nasty place, but rather, ponyland. My reasoning for this is that if they (black holes) do indeed suck in imense amounts of light it might be a rather lovely place to be. Think of the over exposed pastel like appearence of ponyland. Is it purely a scientific anomaly that the ponies are all multi coloured? If white light is refacted through a dense atmosphere it is split into the colours of the rainbow.

I therefore propose that it is possible we have a means by which to identify the location of ponyland, or at least the portal to it. If all the matter that is trapped by the black hole is not destroyed but reduced to its constituent parts then there is the possibility that these elements would then re-form in some way and who is to say that it would not be in the guise of small horses with identifying symbols that perhaps refer to their former state - for example lickety split might have actually been an icecream in her previous incarnation (no not a flower - carnation)

The gateway I mentioned has been disguised for nearly twenty years in the abandoned cave of Catrina (the absynthe drinking cat - I say abandoned because with the help of her badminton partner she joined AA and has not touched a drop of the stuff for two decades). So I will be avidly watching with a telescope to see if there are any black holes that can be identified by the way they obscure other stars from time to time and atempt to catch their attention. Purely to ask them what happened during the civil war that caused the possible abdication of Majesty. Until that time I will continue to speculate on the possible scenario's.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

it is my intention with this board to illustrate that it is easy to draw far deeper conclusions and assumptions than were ever itended from any story no matter how infantile the initial creation might have been. There is very little foundation for assuming that just because 'all the evidence seems to suggest that . . .' it does in no way prove that was actually what has been the point of the film/program/book or other.

Having said that, it is possible in a world where infinate improbability is a concept well known to a large majority of its inhabitants, that a prediction or idea so ridiculous that it is almost impossible, could well be right! So I have chosen to assume that in my case, all of my theories are right. Call it arrogant but if I can't admit to myself that I think I'm right about this then who the *beep* can I admit it to??

I do frequently desire to post a little insanity on a board that other people partake in but I am fearful of being branded what has charmingly been dubbed a 'troll'. So until my cowardice subsides or I have purged myself from the desire to post little gems of peculiarity, I shall make this place my random editorial.

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[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

I am about to re read 1984 having studied it for GCSE and forgotten most of it (and in case any of you who associte big brother with a game show/fly on the wall tv program are reading this then look up Orwell and read the book). Please accept my apologies in advance for any lack of evidence - I will update this post as and when I can be arsed with any relevant information but for the time being I shall plunge in the deep end and try to get a topic out of this one. . . here goes . . .

1984 - firstly and most importantly it marks the first year that My Little Ponies were released as toys. Could this represent some sort of link to the themes of the novel (not sure that word is appropriate, but it'll do for now).

The mane (gettit) themes of the book are about the brutal manipulation of a society, controlled through fear and a false sense of morality. It depicts a world where the prole's (for the sake of the arguement here we will assume that the Earth Ponies - those without wings or horns - are the proles) live in a place where posters of the authority are pinned up on every dwelling and on every street - reminding them who is in charge. I put it to you that this has some stark similarities to the MLP toys on which there are reminders - perhaps not of the one leader, but of the proles / ponies themselves. Why is this a problem? Well it is like a daily reminder to these dear little ponies that they should remember who they are. In ponyland however they have gone one step further and branded each little pony with a symbol to ensure that each pony cannot escape from their recognised place in society.
It is stated that Winstons gratest pleasure in life was his work, (look at posey and her dedication to her garden).

Majesty is able to look upon her subjects through her magic mirror and see at any time what each little pony is doing. - I put it to you, or most probably just to myself, that Majesty is indeed the representation of Big Brother.

Damn this is going to take longer than I thought, but for now we will contemplate the previous points and I wil do a little more homework.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

Totally off topic, but who cares. I just spoke to the love of my life - for the sake of this post we will call him Dionysus - he called me from France, where he is on holiday. I had only a few minutes to hear his voice but I felt as though he was right by my side. I cannot explain to any who have not known love or utter happines what it means to have it so close and yet so far. Not even random peculiarity can drive the sorrow from my heart.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] pannala537 17 years ago

you need some help u said ur mother bought u that pony paradise estate last year? Ok you really need some therapy and go on drugs like now.

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

Today I will be contemplating the symbolic nature of refracted light within the ponyverse. (I will return to the bleak topic of Orwell later on). The most powerful icon within the world of MLP is the Rainbow. The spectrum consists as I am sure you are aware of 7 colours. It has been speculated that the 7 colours can represent the 7 deadly sins. These could be interpreted as:

RED : LUST
ORANGE : GLUTTONY
YELLOW : AVARICE
GREEN : ENVY
BLUE : SLOTH
INDIGO : GLUTTONY
VIOLET : PRIDE

However in the pony rainbow there are only four colours Pink/Red, Yellow, Green, Violet. I therefore wish to infer that these represent rather than a sin, a code by which the ponies must live. Firstly, the red has been toned down to a pink shade which suggests that rather than lust or passion it represents love. But the others remain the same. - sleep beckons but I shall resume this discussion tomorrow.

HE WHO BREAKS A THING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS HAS LEFT THE PATH OF WISDOM

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

We can see examples of this within the films and texts relating to ponyland.

LOVE is the topmost colour of their rainbow. It is perhaps the most important of all the pony philosophies. They preach love and acceptance with everything they do. Also their greatest passion is emblasend on their flanks.
AVARICE is although seen as a sin in the Christian world has an important part of the pony culture. There are numerous stories told of Treasure Hunts, their abilities to turn confetti (paper) into jewels - (ref. Furgus the Shepheard Boy - in which the ponies help a peasant boy create a castle full of treasure) I also wish to draw attention to the fact that the pony toys are about posession they promote the consumer society, the pokemon 'gotta catch them all' mentality.
ENVY Many of the little ponies suffer envy not least of whom is Baby Lickety Split. Her spectacular entrance at the Baby Bonet School of Dance is a cry for attention. I believe she is jealous of the other more skilled ballet dancing babies so resorts to showing off. Another example is when Locket says that Wind Whistler speaks beautifully she states "I wish I could be more like you".
PRIDE The Princess Ponies - they are full of conceit and all think that they have better qualities than the others "By rights I should be Queen . . ." is the song from Quest of the Princess Ponies"

Perhaps this is more of a reminder to the ponies of their qualities, not all good. Does the use of this rainbow overshadow the little ponies - the rely on the rainbow of light all the time - does this represent their reliance on sin to find a way out of bad situations. Afterall they got the rainbow from a mushroom loving man.

I'm grasping at straws with this one but I'll be on better form next time. See note below about the Nightmare - I and a few friends have encountered.

THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN

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[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

nightmare1986 is the worst member of IMDB. He/she is like Tyrack (sp?) from the first pony adventure. I hope that he will take his rainbow of darkness and shove it up his . . .

THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN

[–] EskarinaSmith 19 years ago

So again it has nothing to do with ponies. But urgharrrrrrgh . I do his washing and clean his house and then I ask him out to dinner - my treat. S H I T head. He is tired so said I should get it take out and bring it back for him. Why does this make me so angry I want to throw things at glass windows? I wish I didn't get so crazy about things like this.

THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN