i am a sord lol

(6:16:09 PM) swordianmaster: Anyway, going back to our original point, you're right. S2 has lost a LOT of internal continuity.
(6:17:33 PM) swordianmaster: Especially when it comes to Rainbow Dash, who seems to bounce back and forth between popularity-obsessed pseudojock to slightly tomboyish coolkid.
(6:17:53 PM) swordianmaster: Sometimes multiple times in an episode.
(6:19:22 PM) swordianmaster: The CMC stuff has gone from being endearing to forced - I understand needing a younger perspective, but "maybe we'll get our cutie marks!" is basically a pony-based way of saying "We're doing this because the plot says we have to!"
(6:22:27 PM) swordianmaster: Pinkie has remained consistent insofar that she operates almost solely on Rule Of Funny, even when she's more serious, but what HASN'T remained consistent is that others - particularly Twilight - are starting to edge in on her territory, be it intentionally (the CMCs in the VDay ep) or unintentionally (Twilight's antics in Lesson Zero and It's About Time, which are painfully Genre Blind to a point Twilight never is otherwise)
(6:22:52 PM) swordianmaster: Hence my "the show is cartoonier now" claim.
(6:24:50 PM) swordianmaster: The Flim Flam ep was a high point, Read It and Weep has introduced my favorite one-shot secondary character even if it was basically a blatant expy, and Hurricane Fluttershy is probably one of the most /relatable/ narratives about its subject matter I've ever seen
(6:25:18 PM) swordianmaster: But past those three? Yeah, S2 is as a whole mostly weaker than S1, ESPECIALLY if you take the Discord eps as technically part of S1 like some claim they were meant to be.

So. Those who don't follow ponies, feel free to disregard this.

For those who aren't caught up to recent episodes, the latest episode had Derpy Hooves - actually referred to in-script as 'Derpy', at that - have spoken dialogue.

I have heard now more than one person arguing that the slightly dim, low-voiced mare is "mocking people with developmental disorders", such as Downs Syndrome.

Because nobody can be different without being a victim. And because learning disabilities are TOTALLY symptomized by being fucking wall-eyed. And Tabitha St. Germain confused her for a male, has admitted such, and patterned her after a sleepy - but perfectly healthy - boy, the son of a neighbor.

But, well. I'll just repost what I said on AIM at this point.

(3:37:15 PM) swordianmaster: ...
(3:37:23 PM) swordianmaster: Seriously, what?
(3:37:25 PM) swordianmaster: Fuck.
(3:37:36 PM) swordianmaster: The what, by the way, not towards the trivia
(3:37:44 PM) swordianmaster: but towards the fact that people are getting upset about that.
(3:37:51 PM) swordianmaster: Some women HAVE deeper, lower voices!
(3:37:58 PM) swordianmaster: Hell, my mom's one of them!

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(3:39:52 PM) swordianmaster: But yeah.
(3:40:11 PM) swordianmaster: It's a dumb argument and... heh. If I wanted to be a total troll, it'd be a self-defeating argument too.
(3:40:20 PM) swordianmaster: Because all you need to say to win that one?
(3:40:41 PM) swordianmaster: "Sometimes you don't need a developmental disability to be completely fucking retarded. QED."

(my little sunburn)
i used to wonder what heatstroke could be
(my melanoma)
until celly made it a hundred degrees

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SUMMER IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING OVER, KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF GUYS