Subtlety By DeusExEquus Watch

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In all honesty, I like the Lyra/Bonbon thing, to the point where I actually went and bought the vinyl figurines after the 100th episode. Them in the dream episode was pushing it into creepy territory, though. And the Friendship Game short was basically the show just abandoning all attempts at subtlety.



It's actually interesting to see how much screentime the two got after the 100th episode. Went from nothing to multiple references within a few episodes. Really shows the dynamic of the writers and animators working off one another; one of them does something, and then it gets multiplied and spread throughout the other creators.



Derpy is another good example of that phenomenon. Obviously she went away for a little bit after the first time she spoke. Then she had a few little appearances at the end of season three, and that was is for a long time. And then she came crashing through the door in Rainbow Falls, and suddenly she was making prominent appearances in all kinds of episodes. Thankfully, that calmed down. Not that I don't love Derpy, and not that she wasn't fricking amazing in Slice of Life, but I like background ponies staying background ponies. Nothing wrong with them coming into the foreground every once in a while, either. It's just that too much would just actually be the pandering people like to complain about so much. A little bit is fun, though.



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Also, I'm spoiling you people. That's a comic two weeks in a row now, even if one of them was posted somewhere else first. The new art style on my art blog has been a big boost to speeding up my work there, getting me to the point where I actually am getting them finished in roughly a weekend. So expect to see things from me a bit more frequently now.



Also, it seems like my "OC" (or at least the closest thing I have to one) only makes appearances when I need to be angry about things. That's two out of three now.

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Published : Sep 19, 2015