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Confessions of a Military Brony
Hey there everyone, just a tumblr to put together some of my favorite MLP fanart, comics, etc. After some careful deliberation, I have decided that one achieves nothing online through absolute anonymity. I'm in the Air Force, hence the title. This tumblr does not reflect the views of the US Gov't, military, yada yada.
I'd also like to reemphasize that I'm not an artist, I just find stuff.
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“Newbie Dash” - A Pilot’s Perspective
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Well it seems our favorite flyer finally got what she’s always wanted. The Wonderbolts selected Dash as their newest form partner. Plenty of good stuff to dive into in this episode, especially from the military side of the road.
First things first, it’s important to note that the overall theme of this episode is the much-reiterated “be yourself” narrative supplemented with reinforcing that humility will always get you further than attempting to toot your own horn.
Now then, let’s get to it. Dash gets invited to perform with the Wonderbolts, bumping her up from her slot in the reserves. Spitfire initially states that it’s only for the show in Ponyville, but as the episode and the season progresses, it becomes apparent that she will be performing throughout the rest of Equestria. Pretty neat, right?
Dank memes aside (I have no shame) this is a pretty big deal for our girl. She gets the thing she has been wanting and bragging about since pretty much S1E1. Off she goes to be a Wonderbolt!
The team is obviously going to be welcoming at first, but any organization like this is going to have a hierarchy established in years of tradition and structure, doubly so as the Wonderbolts serve as a pseudo-military outfit. Dash is the newbie, and she has plenty to learn. This show being what it is, things get off to a bit of a rocky start.
Seriously though, who doesn’t look both ways before crossing the street runway? You’d think that would be common knowledge, along with the fact that Dash should know from Wonderbolts Academy. This girl just does not learn. Anyways, she gets her uniform on, fangirls for a quick second, then tries to go set a “good first impression”.
First interjection: with a team like this, akin the the Thunderbirds, Blue Angels, Snow Birds, Red Arrows, etc., you’ve already made a good first impression. They wouldn’t let you in otherwise. The teams are tight-knit enough that sometimes they don’t let people in because they didn’t mingle well at a party, regardless of how good a flyer they are.
Dash then lands head-first in a garbage can because she didn’t follow rule number one. Ribbing ensues, followed by the team reciting rule number one “always check both ways before crossing the runway”. Dash is brash as usual, gets called on it, and Spitfire stops the conversation with a simple “alright, nopony got hurt, let’s get back to work”.
Well that was refreshing, kinda. Nobody likes getting called names, especially if it’s a name bullies used (to great effect in Rainbow’s case). The bit I noticed was how the team just picked up and got to work with a quick word and the phrase “nopony got hurt”. Huh, that’s a little out of place in this show but it’s very present in the aviation community. Safety is paramount, regardless if you’re flying a Cessna on the weekend or blasting halfway to orbit in a U-2.
Moving on, Dash is shown as being a little slow in the practice run, which is to be expected, she doesn’t quite know the routine yet. That she was doing that well in a precision performance display is impressive on its own. Then she gets back to the locker room and finds this:
Sweet! Team flight jacket! Or is it more? Turns out the team took the liberty of embroidering “Crash” onto the nametape. Dash obviously raises a fuss, they’re making fun of her after all. Spitfire responds by saying they all have a jacket, then calls Soarin “Clipper”. At this point I know exactly what’s going on with this, even if the average 8 year-old girl doesn’t (hey, I’m allowed to poke fun at myself for not being the target demographic).
They had a naming without her knowing about it. Rainbow “Crash” Dash got herself a callsign. Kind of a big deal, callsign right off the bat, not even one day of being the FNP (effin new pony). A note on callsigns, they never come from a nice/cool story unless that story is seriously cool. They are also, in some cases, self-fulfilling prophecies. I knew a guy whose callsign was “Skeeter” because he managed to have toothpaste on his flightsuit for a formal training event where he stands in front of the group and gets grilled on emergency procedures. Turns out the dude spills a shit-ton of sticky white stuff on himself on a fairly regular basis. I picked up “Rain Man” during UPT because I had a total brainfart doing a glide ratio problem and started rambling random numbers to myself (read: the whole room). Completely embarrassing, but it was a learning point for me.
Bottom line: call signs are almost always embarrassing. The trick is to embrace it, and soon it becomes more used than your actual name, specifically in fighter squadrons. Dash obviously doesn’t know this little tidbit of information, and gets pretty upset by it. She later comes to accept it in the episode after some hijinks with her trying to act like her friends and then, you guessed it, crashing again.
Honestly though, one month probation and clean-up duty is small fish for the fuckery she caused. Safety, people, safety.
Anywho, the episode resolved as they tend to do, with a lesson to always be yourself. Also, humility is a virtue, and even Rainbow seemed to understand that at the end of the day.
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Aaand We’re Back!
Holy shit it’s been a while, hasn’t it? And so much has happened. Lessee, where did I leave off....
Ah, Princess Twilight, but no castle, middle of Season 4. Yikes it has been a while. A few standout moments before I roll into the most recent stuff I’ve watched (thanks for updating Netflix). Dragonball Z style fight for the Season 4 finale was pretty neat. Twilight got her castle, which had to be worse for the Ponyville cost of living than a bunch of hipsters moving in. Introduced a new villain (for the time), Starlight Glimmer. No real mention of her motives at the time if I remember correctly, so it left her a little flat. Constantly spotted throughout the rest of the season though, so that was something. CMC got their Cutie Marks, sweet. A few Luna episodes here and there are always nice. And then that series finale for Season 5. Time travel and the hazards associated with interfering with a single point in time and the carelessness that can cause mass disaster. Pretty solid writing on that one.
Alright, Season 6. Princess Flurry Heart, our newest alicorn. The episode hinted at the importance of an alicorn being born, rather than chosen, but never went back into it, so it will be interesting to see where things develop from there.
New boutique for Rarity in Manehatten. As I’ll go into later, it looks like the Mane 6 are all starting to get what they have always wanted.
New character in DRAGON LORD EMBER (read in her father’s voice). An episode about empowering oneself and how ideals and friendship can make the world a better place. At least that’s what I got out of it.
I’ll get into “Newbie Dash” in a completely separate post, as it holds some topics near and dear to my heart. That and everything Starlight Glimmer Season 6. She gets her own too.
I loved Flutter Brutter. It showed completely new aspects of Fluttershy and a little of Dash as well. Ah, the perils of being the older sibling with a deadbeat younger brother. Poor Fluttershy. At least she got Zephyr on track, and it was really nice to see some solid character progression for her, in addition to the contrast with how she usually was leading up through the other seasons.
Saffron Masala might be my new favorite background pony. Her character design was adorable, I loved her motivations, and the music in the episode was an amazing breath of fresh air after so many episodes with the same style of music.
And another Daring Do episode. There are some people who wished the first one was a one-off, sucked into the book thing, but I guess not. The skeptic in Quibble Pants was an amazing foil to Dash’s fangirling.
Alright, that does it for the big post, stay tuned for more in-depth looks at “Newbie Dash” and all things Starlight Glimmer (from my perspective at least). I’ll probably do a write-up about pilot training and all that good stuff too at some point.
Again, feel free to ask any questions that come to mind. It’s good to be back!
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So here's the deal...
Hey everyone, I know I really haven't posted at all lately, but there's a reason for it. Turns out the title of my tumblr page means I'm in the military. Go figure. Recently I've been bogged down with a mess of new stuff, with the biggest task being pilot training (of the Air Force variety). That being said, I won't be posting very often in the coming months due to a high workload. I will, however, be keeping up with FiM, since 20 minutes or so isn't too much time off.
So here's the point of this post. I'm open to any questions you guys have regarding the military, pilot training, my thoughts on the show, pretty much anything. Fire away. I'll do my best to answer anything you throw my way (within reason). Just hit up the question button.
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Looks like a little positive press is heading out way
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I have been working on this for a while and have received some positive feedback. Go check it out!
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Wow do I wish this was my UPT class...
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Happy Winter Wrap-Up!
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The stations of Ponyville Live! are now available from the PonySquare and BronySquare web sites!
In case you aren’t familiar with these two lovely communities, here’s a brief description:
When it comes to interaction with your friends, both old and new, within the MLP community, PonySquare and BronySquare are the best places to be!
PonySquare is your best destination for all of your MLP related role playing fun with your friends; updated, optimized, and completely devoted to RP. With all interaction on the focused on roleplaying, the site is a great MLP related experience for anything that you want to do with all of your friends! And for all of your interaction outside of roleplay, we have BronySquare!
BronySquare is your prime destination for all of your social networking needs; for gathering with your old and soon-to-be new friends to talk about, discuss, share, and meet over everything MLP. Bronysquare is focused entirely on the social networking side. We have a new system for musicians to upload and share their work, and to allow fans to easily follow up on them; lots of contests for all to take part in and try to win prizes; a ton of new achievements (because who doesn’t like achievements?); and so much more that we’ve got set up now, or that we have coming out soon.
So come, stop by, and check out our sites! We’ll be waiting for you!
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Find me on Bronysquare.com!
Username: vicwiki
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"PTHBPHTHPHH" - Littleivy25
http://littleivy25.deviantart.com/art/PTHBPHTHPHH-349938781
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"Everything's Fine" - otakuap
http://otakuap.deviantart.com/art/Everything-s-Fine-357443076
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Found this guy while browsing reddit. Damn he's good.
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So when drawing an entirely different picture of Rarity, in need of a reference, I googled “Horse sitting”. The resulting images were all really awkward, they look like they barely know HOW to sit! So I decided to draw ponies sitting in weird horse poses instead. Probably coulda pushed these a bit more but eh~
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'Friendly Chopper Inbound' - Dori-to
http://dori-to.deviantart.com/art/Friendly-Chopper-Inbound-356789754
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Leaving Las Vegas by *PixelKitties
This past weekend Las Pegasus Unicon took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. By now I think most everyone is aware that there were serious problems with finances leading to a significant amount of problems. VIPs came away with no payment or reimbursement of expenses, charities found their funds gone, and attendees in reduced-rate room blocks were confronted with full priced bills and demands for immediate payment.
The situation has left many fans and guests who showed up in good faith struggling with their own personal finances. To this end the fandom community is attempting to raise the funds to help out those whose wallets have took a beating.
If you want to help, the best thing to do is check out The LPU Relief League Mods at the site are currently overseeing a wide range of auctions on everything from art to games to autographs to a complete set of Enterplay trading cards. Funds from the auction will then go to folks in need of immediate financial assistance due to unforeseen convention expenses.
Beyond that, your best source for info is this article over at Equestria Daily. There you’ll find info on the situation, links to auctions, and a request for assistance form for those affected by the convention fallout (Not to be confused by a Fallout convention, which would be post apocalypticly awesome!)
Finally you can keep up on recent conversation and developments by following the hashtag #LasPegassist on twitter.
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"Twilight Sparkle - Wing Maintenance" - mysticalpha
http://mysticalpha.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Sparkle-Wing-Maintenance-355266495
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