MLP Royal Wedding Details

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/my-little-pony-royal-wedding-tori-spelling_n_1378351.html

So some TV show about little 'ol ponies is getting this much hype? What next, Season 3 will be hyped by wrapping an Amtrak engine--probably #454--to resemble Twilight Sparkle?

Off to the MSTS reskins! (Will upload pix on Equestria Press)

A Quick Caution:

Out there be explicitries...

If you're somepony like me--not too fanatical about R#34 stuff--perousing Tumblr isn't really going to be your cup of tea.

Yup. Hentai. Rule 34. Pixels turned to lines, and lines turned to displays of explicit media.

Believe me, I'll love and tolerate those who do consider the stuff "art", but my thoughts on that kind of stuff is that it's base and tasteless.

Well, off to dump my history again...

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Rainbow Dash - agile weatherpony, athlete, enthusiast of fine literature, and...RAILFAN?

Nope, just a McDonalds' pony, a fence, and a pain-in-the-haunches kind of autofocus which makes me so frustrated I could just scream! *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!*

Charging Head-over-Hooves into Junior-Highschool Territory...

Today's ep of ponies involved peer pressure and herd mentality. Next week's involves self-confidence, and shortly thereafter comes one confronting gossip.
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While these themes are ever-prevalent, they reach their caustic, cataclysmic xenith in junior-high, middle school, well...whatever you wish to call those melting pots of puberty, angst, and conflict that basically take all those sixth-year to eight-year students, isolate them, and try to keep complete and utter disaster from happening.
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I never thought pre-tween society would have a role model in the form of an adorkable, open-minded, mauve-colored unicorn that was historically part of a massive advertising gimmick to create a demand for otherwise undemanded girls' dolls. Now even men, that's right, MEN who have middle school as a flickering, faint, dying repressed memory in the back of their heads adore them without shame.
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So now that society's all listening, it's no suprise that they plan to start kicking many of the social issues which run unchecked in today's campuses, social circles, and general peer-to-peer relationships right in the haunches.
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After Derpygate, I doubted HUB, I questioned their success, and their pragmatics. Instead, they had to assure no controversy was swirling about them before their grander, broader plan came into fruition.
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Keep your eyes on the ponies, but your ear to the wire. The hatred and vitriol of cyberbullying and flaming, in the coming years, will begin to die down a little...

Some of the Best Fanfiction I've Read:

"Of Steam Gears and Wings": Basically the Cutie Mark Crusaders, now fully grown, up against an imposing dieselpunk dictatorship:
Part 1:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJa5p5vpGSBmekMhpF6-GUo1iLyxM-S99yxRnNxnd9A/edit
Part 2:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bm4zEc2ZSXiq-6Y1xgn0JEWDi0JMf2UOkgTilOjgz8Y/edit?pli=1

"Icarus": While it contains some light DashXTwilight shipping, it instead molds it to fit the tale of a power-craving pegasus ruler seeking to stage an overthrow of Equestria with the pegasi at the pinnacle of the social hierarchy:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12398/Icarus

"For Those We Left Behind": A slice-of-life piece in which Twilight attempts to learn more about her mother posthumously--a mother she barely even knew.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/15062/For-Those-We-Left-Behind

More as I stumble upon them...

-ATSF Asbel-

Fillmore and Western, Here's your chance!

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/episode-announcement-mmmystery-on.html

Sounds like mystery episode taking place on...a train?

Well, time to hand this one off to a tourist railroad--the Fillmore and Western, to be exact. Having perfected the "Mystery Dinner Train", having close ties to Hollywood, and a scenic rail line with a ready-to-run steam locomotive (F&W #14), they could easily bring ponies to the real-world rails.

Here's a shot of FWWR #14 in action, hauling a charter train:

All they really need is some modified station signage to ponify the line (Piru = Ponyville, Fillmore = Fillydelphia, the list could go on!), some ponified pullmans, and plenty of costumes...and they'd be in business!

Hey, if they're looking for a car attendant...sign me up!

The Equestrian Scrolls Predicts a Potential Love Triangle.

Oh my gosh.

I've heard rumblings of this storyarc from the greats ever since the days when Hasbro decided to re-brand the pink castings of Celestia as "Princess Cadence" and sell some kind of wedding playset with "Shining Armor".

Long story short, for a while Hasbro was producing figurenes of Celestia using a rose-pink plastic--now, of course to devoted bronies, this is heresy. I, on the other hand, would regard it like a variation of a Lionel 6464 boxcar or SP Caboose--nothing out of the ordinary, just a bit rare. However, enough people pressed Hasbro to make more authentic figurenes so...yeah. Just sell off the last of 'em, or have an idea for this brilliant marketing move--make more, re-brand, and add something with plenty of play value and new trinkets.

I guessed the screenwriters down at Studio B would be cooking up a brilliant introduction to the characters. And suprisingly, deep in my subconscious, I sensed an iminent love triangle storyarc.

Now, if these fellas at Equestria Daily predict that my OC is the dragonborn, I'll take them seriously...

FUS RO DAH!
(If I have the Thu'um within me, you should be thrown backwards now...)

MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER

ASBEL IS BEST PONY. 'NUFF SAID.

Made with ponycreator: http://www.generalzoi.deviantart.com/

What? Phase V Amtrak colors? Yes, I am a bit of an Amtrak aficianado as well...no worries, Amtrak has a number of ex-ATSF switch engines. (Primarily CF7s and SW1500s)

From the Desk of ATSF Asbel: GO AHEAD, COME AT ME (HAS)BRO! CANONIZE MY CHARACTER!

Two Fluttershy Episodes in a month?

"Putting Your Hoof Down" airs this weekend. Awesomeness!
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/putting-your-hoof-down-episode-clip.html

...and apparently, if you haven't slaked your FlutterThirst, here's another episode lined in for later this month.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/episode-hurricane-fluttershy.html

This is on par with two BNSF freights being fleeted down the Surfliner. It's unbelievably awesome when it happens...

Plus, we got another crazy Twilight Sparkle episode...yes, crazy Twilight is (at least in my opinion) cutest Twilight.

-Asbel over 'n out-