Cartoon of The Day: "Pony Up"

 

 

Taken at the Sunbeamer Carnival. Penny Shuftan  (Deaflegacy) meets a new pony friend.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

SL Video: "How Bad Can Luna Possibly Be?"

 

 

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 From EmpressLuna Starchild on October 2023, a music video on the Ghostbuster/Pony game, "Parody - Written by: EmpressLuna Starchild Coordinated by: Skoops Hax (Skoops Barrymore), Relothy Resident Producer, Editor and shot by: Lyre (wormarmageddon) Singer: Goddess Bambi (GlazedGaming) Backup singers: Toil N. Trouble Doodle (BlazedThylacine) & Relothy Resident Environment designer: Shadow Star (Icswcshadow) Main Cast (The 3 ponys): -Zidders Roofurry (zidaya.zenovka) -Lacey Bows (nessabrandy) -Skoops Hax (skoops.barrymore) All that taken part in the creation of this video: Skoops Hax (skoops.barrymore) , Lacey Bows (nessabrandy) , Zidders Roofurry (zidaya.zenovka) , Doctor Larry Battle (timelord67) , Misty (misuteri24) , Emperor Atlas Starchild (atlas.heartsong) , Empress Nightmare Moon (empressluna.starchild) , Coco Cotton Honeydew (hirocrossed) , Ironhyde , Pumpkin Mode (cutey.mode) , Lupe (lupushash) , Hazelnut.delight , Jay Ayashi , Daytona Tenderheart (daytona.blep) , (bam.salamander) , Relothy, ღ Opal ღ (poorolddragon), Tulip (Dawn Pienaar), Nova (Flammie Dagger)"

Scenes At The SLB: Pony Play

 

 

I had a spare five minutes the other day, so I decided to check out the SL Birthday. I noticed a large group of dots on the map in the exhibit area, so curious I TPed over. Once the red clouds, most of them, cleared away, what I saw was a herd of ponies running around. I noticed something else; they were rolling what looked like a large egg around. The third thing I noticed, there was someone inside. 

 

I'd seen this group of ponies before at the Fantasy Faire running around, and now here they were at the SLB, having found something to roll around.  They went past me, and headed down some road.

As for the lady in the egg, SarahKB7 Koskinen, she's been in the paper a few times, such as wanting to be the first to sail between two newly connected continents. 

One random scene at the Second Life Birthday.

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Not Gelatin

 

 

 Taken at the Luna's Empire sim. I saw this translucent green pony at a desert stall with cookies and other sweet snacks. Was she made out of gelatin or slime? One can imagine someone thinking for former trying to take a bite, and end up with a mouthful of slimy goo instead.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Reader Submitted: Pony Drivers of SL

 

Great article on the SL Grid Drive.  Enjoyed reading that.  Here is a recent bit from my drive adventures.  Unfortunately I don't have the photos to back this up. Just for your info.

Typically I do the Grid Drive a little later than the group start on Saturday after the Giant Snail races are done. I do it on my own but I see all sorts of other drivers out then. Some I might pass as I am usually pretty speedy. Others might pass me or I might keep seeing them at the stops along the way.

Most weeks, usually at a stop somewhere along the way I'll find the place will packed with what I call the "My Little Pony gang." Last week I arrived at a little outdoor bar where the Nav HUD said we were to sit. There were only about 3 or 4 seats. The ponies were all hippity-hopping and surrounding me on all sides. Must have been 10 or 15 or more, all madly gesturing funny noises and stuff as we approached the bar. Totally mobbed by ponies. They were taking turns on the seats. I decided just to ground sit amongst them which also triggered the HUD to move to the next part. A hilarious crazy few minutes there.

As I pulled out of the parking lot in my sports car. I noticed a bus pull up and sure enough all the ponies were riding that day on a big charter bus and were all hopping back on as I left.  Heh heh.

 

So funny, sure brightens your day when you run into something like that.

Alden Cortes

 

Cartoon of The Day: Not So Smartphone

 

 

 Taken at the Happy Vixen. Smartphones can be useful, but their AI sometimes has much to be desired.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: Three Cats And A Pony

 

 

 Taken at Sunweaver Space. At a house there with a pony visiting, three pet Kitticats crowded around him. What could they have been thinking?

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: "Mane Attraction"

 

Taken at Club L!vew!re. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: "Short-Changed"

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Taken at the Happy Vixen. That's a "Lom-Tech" avatar on the right, made by Lomgren Smalls, which is just six inches in height. But what else would get someone else in a short stature?

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Fallen Pony

 

Taken at Faeun. At a dance party, this alicorn pony was rolling around. So why would a pony be stumbling around this way? I could think of one reason, the only kind of liquor sold at Trotsdale.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Classic Newser Cartoon

 

Taken at the "donut" Club Cutlass and originally posted at Wednesday May 8, 2013. I forget why this guy wasn't wearing pants and from the waist down was just in heart boxers, but being next to a couple ponies, one of whom was Skylark Lefavre, "it had to be done." 

In the past few days, a couple people requested to see this again, so here it is once more. 

Bixyl Shuftan

Moonlit Night Shores

 

It's been a little while since the Newser looked at one of the pony communities. And when a friend recently told me about Moonlit Night Shores, I had a chance to. This isn't an established community, but a new one that's less than two months old. I had a chat with the owner, RosieDrop Honeydew (RosieStarfield Resident), and she had a number of things to say about how the place came about.

Read the story in People.

Cartoon of the Day

 

 Taken at Moonlit Night Shores

By Bixyl Shuftan

Commentary: A Few Words on "My Little Pony"

 

As a cartoon, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" was a highly successful one, going on for nine seasons, given numerous award nominations, and of course a huge fanbase that goes behind the show's intended audience of girls and young women. Some of the fans are here in Second Life, including pony communities living in sims made in the style of the cartoon. Nydia Tungsten recently decided to take a look at the cartoon, which made her think some about how the show's fans are sometimes ridiculed. She had a few things to say about it.

Read Nydia's commentary in Extra. 

"Vampiolence" At The Trotsdale Library

The Trotsdale Library is doing weekly readings of a MLP-inspired story, "Vampiolence." The first session was Thursday Sept 24, at 6 PM. This isn't some cute and innocent tale, but one with a darker streak. 

Tonight in the Trotsdale Library, Every Thursday .... 6 PM Tonight Morgan/Illya intends to start streaming "Vampiolence" with an expectation of two chapters per session and going out until the end for Halloween.

Illya's story stream url: http://us.ishout.net:8083/

Scribbler (find her on Youtube) is both the author and producer of this MLP Halloween month appropriate tale and part of the voice cast. Morgan Freepony (Illya Leonov) is the narrator.

[17:01] Morgan Freepony (illya.leonov): I began recording this one shortly before I went into hospital for my cancer surgery.

Story start is September 24 at 6 PM PDT/SLT. For those that fall behind check Scribbler's Youtube channel to catch up.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Trotsdale/22/156/25

Cartoon of the Day

By Bixyl Shuftan

Reader Submitted: Pony Party At The Happy Vixen

From DeniseUnicorn Toonie. She was at a pony party at the Happy Vixen when it was it's 2016 model (which lasted to 2019). It was one in which a lot of ponies showed up.

A lot of "horsing around" was done that night.

SLPonyCon

With the Coronavirus Crisis shutting down conventions in real life, those whom had plans to go don't have to just wait until next year. They can have one in Second Life. Cyfir (Cyfiremmerich) recently had the chance to talk to two people Pop Princess Sakairi (Sakairi Melodious) and Braniac -Piper- (rosetheunicorn) whom were organizing one here, the SLPonyCon 2020. They had a number of things to say about it from the challenges to what to expect.

Read Cyfir's story in People. 

Top Stories of The 2010s, Part Two

The 2010s are over. But as we say goodbye to the decade, there's some looking back at what happened. The Newser has covered much in the past ten years, and we're looking at some of the top stories that made the news and got more attention than most.

Read the second part of the series in Extra.

Derpyland Closes

Some sad news for pony fans. The Derpyland sim has closed down. It went offline sometime today, Saturday August 24 being the last full day it was online.

Talking to Amehana Arashi, she told me the sim owner has been having money troubles for some time, and last month the tier had been paid for him by a friend. "We had tried in private to help him find ways to keep it up," she explained, saying nostalgia was the big reason the sim remained up for as long as it has, "... but this just couldn't continue." She did say there was an offer made to rebuild part of the sim in Trotsdale.

Derpyland was up for about eight years, and boasted an amusement park with rides, shops, and a club with a karaoke bar. The latter had events up to a couple nights ago. Ironically, checking out the sim last night, the roller coaster was on fire as if an omen about the sim's future.

While there are some pony sims left, the end of Derpyland means no others are next to Trotsdale.

In real life media, this is the last year the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" cartoon has a new season, the show coming to an end after nine seasons.

Addition: Amehana has requested that any inquiries as to if Derpyland will be renting the parcels offered in Trotsdale go to Shippo849 Resident (Dashy), "It's in Shippo's hands to decide to accept the offer or not."

Bixyl Shuftan