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Amy Keating Rogers Interview
We as fans have been fortunate during the past year to have the opportunity to hear from a variety of the creative forces responsible for bringing us My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In many cases,...
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Magic Is as Magic Does
Magic. It’s at the core of so much of the fantasy literature and visual media that we’ve all enjoyed for centuries, and yet there’s never been any kind of consistency in how it’s handled from one...
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Don’t Skip the Intro
Show of hands: how many of you skip past the theme song and title sequence while watching Friendship is Magic? How many of you take the opportunity to pour yourself a drink or send off a couple of...
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The Ring of Truth
It’s not the animation alone that draws adult fans in droves to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It’s not the writing. It’s not the comedy, or the voice acting, or the music, or the art design, or...
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Commentary: Love Is Magic
Seeing a fresh new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic live with friends is a whole different experience from seeing it on a computer screen or a phone in stolen furtive moments. It’s even...
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Raising Cute to a Science
Quick: it’s word-association time. What adjectives immediately leap to mind when you think of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? If “cute” isn’t among the top three words you think of in the first...
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Let’s Hear It For the Creators
One of the first published items that drew grassroots attention to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was a now-infamous post on the animation blog Cartoon Brew by prolific author and commentator Amid...
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A New Kind of Cinderella Story
What makes a fantasy universe unique enough to become an archetype? Why do so many classic fairy-tales all seem to take place in the same broadly familiar setting, without establishing unique rules of...
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Love, Tolerance, and Other Myths
With documentary films about the pony fandom ramping up and more and more media outlets taking notice of the strange culture of adults who enjoy My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, it’s almost...
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Emotions Running High: BronyCon 2012 Review
Lauren Faust is a perfectly articulate woman. Anyone who has seen her give interviews about her career in animation knows her to be vivacious, opinionated, and unflappable—the only kind of person who...
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Stacking of Tolerances
Perhaps nothing has done more to solidify to me what a remarkable, thoughtful fandom this one is than the response to Love, Tolerance, and Other Myths from earlier this month. It was a fairly...
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Playing It Close to the Vest
Boy oh boy, we sure do love us some worldbuilding, don’t we? As fans, few things turn our cranks like seeing more tantalizing details of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic world fleshed out and...
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The Very Models of Modern Cartoon Individuals
Animating My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in Flash was meant originally as a cost-saving measure. By doing all the character design work digitally and developing a library of pre-rendered motion...
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The Difficult Third Album
It’s now less than a week until the premiere of Season Three of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Boy, how far we’ve come. It seems like only yesterday that we all were unhappy, cynical,...
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I’m a Brony, and… I’m Sorry
As fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, it’s easy to get caught up in the self-sustaining fun of it all—of being part of a cultural phenomenon that was more or less dropped, gift-wrapped, in...
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