tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13335015319629672672024-02-19T16:33:04.586+00:00PonyleaksThe Friendship is Magic afterthoughtTelofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-52769187828651114342015-01-01T08:00:00.000+00:002015-01-01T08:00:17.871+00:002015: Seeds of Kindness Year Against Malaria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to 2015, the year of our charity album <i>Shine Together</i> and our Seeds of Kindness program for the <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/">Against Malaria Foundation</a>!<br />
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<b>No teleportation needed.</b> Since the launch of our fund-raiser in late December, we’ve received donations from smart and empathetic folks in Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the US, the UK, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil, Poland, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, and more—donations from all over the globe! Many thanks to all of you!<br />
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Distances are no hurdle anymore for us band together to do good in the world. Thus it’s all the more important today to make sure that we care about the struggles of people in far-off countries as much as we care about the people in our street.<br />
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In fact, there are great opportunities for us to help people in some of these countries, opportunities that, luckily, do not exist in Europe or in the US. Malaria is extremely easy to prevent. A mosquito net for just $3 greatly diminishes the risk for a person to contract malaria. Distributing just a few hundred of these nets will save the life of a person like us who would’ve otherwise succumbed to the disease!<br />
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<b>Taking proper aim.</b> The Disease Control Priorities Project found that there are differences of up to a factor of 1,000 between interventions in how much suffering they avert with the same donation. This means it’s usually much more important <i>where</i> you give rather than <i>what</i> you give!<br />
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The average donation to Seeds of Kindness so far is $40, which funds 13 potentially life-saving mosquito nets. Since we support the Against Malaria Foundation, one of the top cost-effective charities in the world, the suffering this donation can avert is equivalent to that of a donation of $4,000–$40,000 to a less effective charity.<br />
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We all have limited resources in time and money. Hence, such highly effective giving opportunities are the best way for us to invest these resources. Don’t save 1 life when you could save 1,000!<br />
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<b>Sniping them mosquitoes.</b> 2015 is going to be a big year for the fight against malaria. <a href="http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities">GiveWell</a>—an organization that constantly looks for the best charities in the world—again recommends the Against Malaria Foundation as one of the four best giving opportunities in the world, and AMF is about to conduct a distribution of 730,000 mosquito nets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with four more distributions hopefully launching later this year.<br />
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All donations to Seeds of Kindness go directly to AMF, who use them exclusively to buy nets. Donations are <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/CharityStatus.aspx">tax-deductible</a> in the US, Canada, and most of Western Europe. Each donation will be publicly allocated to a specific distribution, and extensive distribution and follow-up reports will be published online.<br />
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For further motivation why you should donate to AMF, here a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc">TED talk by Peter Singer</a> and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAkrpwyu1k">TEDx talk by Toby Ord</a>, explaining effective altruism.<br />
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<b>All with musical accompaniment.</b> The musicians who have opted to support his life-saving intervention have pooled their artistic talent in Shine Together, our Seeds of Kindness album for 2015. It features twenty-two tracks of folk, rock, alternative postrock, orchestral, and electronic jams recorded by our charity album veterans and new blood alike—over an hour of uplifting tunes in total.<br />
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To download the album, either donate directly to Seeds of Kindness or, if you can’t for whatever reason, pledge that you will. We trust that you know the necessity for alleviating the terrible suffering in the world, and we expect that Shine Together will make a significant positive impact—because every life saved is significant!<br />
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<b>Never out of the loop.</b> Are you subscribed to our <a href="http://j.mp/prsoknews">Seeds of Kindness newsletter</a> yet? If not, then you know what to do.Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-14322208071280149742014-12-17T19:15:00.002+00:002014-12-17T19:21:56.367+00:00Seeds of Kindness: Shine Together Album Premiere with Donation Matching<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/makkon06">Art by Makkon</a></div>
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A new fund-raising initiative is about to launch: Seeds of Kindness: <i>Shine Together</i>! Like our previous iterations of Seeds of Kindness, this fourth one is going to reach out through multiple conventions, pony fandom livestreams, giveaways, and other spectacular events all throughout 2015. This year, we are pleased to kick off this fund-raiser for the <a href="http://againstmalaria.com/">Against Malaria Foundation</a> with our fifth charity album: <i>Shine Together</i>.<br />
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<b><i>Shine Together</i></b> Release Party<br />
Saturday, <b>December 20, 2014</b>, at <b>6 p.m. EST</b> (11 p.m. UTC)<br />
on <b><a href="http://events.yoursiblings.org/">events.yoursiblings.org</a></b></div>
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The album drops on December 20, and we are having a livestream party hosted by Ponyville FM to celebrate! For the limited time of the stream, an anonymous donor has agreed to <b>match all donations</b> up to $1,000, so tune in and donate, and it’ll count double!<br />
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<b>The album.</b> <i>Shine Together</i> is the culmination of months of effort on the part of many dedicated fandom musicians. Featuring twenty-two tracks of folk, rock, orchestral, and electronic jams recorded by charity album veterans and new blood alike, <i>Shine Together</i> offers over an hour of uplifting tunes.<br />
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We’re offering up this and our previous four albums for any donation at all that you feel appropriate. Because we understand that not everyone is able to donate, the album download will be freely available—a thank you to the fandom for its years of support, and a goodwill gesture to facilitate donations toward the Against Malaria Foundation.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hd0VI8Gfoo">Here, a preview of the album.</a><br />
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<b>The charity.</b> Half the world’s population is at risk of malaria. In 2012, about 627,000 people died of the disease, the equivalent of four Boeing 747 crashing every day with no survivors. On average, one person dies of malaria every minute. (<a href="http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/">WHO 2013</a>) This has to stop.<br />
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<a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/insecticide-treated-nets">Long-lasting insecticide-treated nets</a> (LLINs) are the most cost-effective means of malaria prevention. They protect physically against mosquitoes and also kill any that try to find gaps or rents in the nets. They also protect against dengue fever, yellow fever, and forms of encephalitis.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/">Against Malaria Foundation</a> (AMF) supports local distributors by funding the <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/Distributions.aspx">hundreds of thousands of nets</a> that are needed in LLIN distributions. It stands out because of its <a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF#AMFasanorganization">strong commitment to transparency and self-evaluation</a>. AMF is one of the <a href="http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities">most provably effective charities</a> in the world.<br />
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All the money donated to Seeds of Kindness goes directly to AMF, who will use it exclusively to buy LLINs. Donations are <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/CharityStatus.aspx">tax-deductible</a> in the US, Canada, and most of Western Europe. Each donation will be publicly allocated to a specific distribution, and extensive tracking, predistribution, and postdistribution reports will be published online.<br />
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For further motivation why you should donate and why you should donate specifically to AMF, here a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc">TED talk by Peter Singer</a> and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAkrpwyu1k">TEDx talk by Toby Ord</a>, explaining effective altruism.<br />
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<b>The newsletter.</b> To always keep you posted of our latest charity campaigns, please <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/">visit our website and subscribe to our newsletter in the sidebar</a>. If you’re already subscribed but didn’t get our last announcement of this event, please check your spam folder, mark the newsletter “not spam,” and add us to your contacts to be sure that it won’t get filtered again. Thank you!Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-67565855895691166042014-07-29T19:33:00.001+00:002014-10-23T08:27:46.994+00:00 Seeds of Kindness 4 Charity Album: Shine Together<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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About two months are left to the release of <i>Shine Together</i>, our fifth charity album!<br />
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Thanks to the tremendous work of the music community, the ongoing <a href="http://sok.yoursiblings.org/">Seeds of Kindness 3</a> fund-raiser together with our three previous fund-raisers have raised about $150,000 from online donations alone, supporting various Your Siblings and Engineers Without Borders projects in Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania. We incorporated a few suggestions and rule changes to make this work even better for the musicians, and we would like to ask for your help to support the outstanding work of the <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/">Against Malaria Foundation</a>!<br />
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<b>Soft deadline:</b> November 22nd, 2014<br />
<b>Hard deadline:</b> December 10th, 2014<br />
<b>Release date:</b> December 20th, 2014<br />
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<b>The Charity.</b> There is no middle man. All the money donated will go directly to the <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/">Against Malaria Foundation</a> and will only be used to purchase insecticide-treated nets (LLINs). Donations will be <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/CharityStatus.aspx">tax-deductible</a> in the US, Canada, and most of Western Europe. Each donation will be publicly allocated to a specific program and extensive tracking, predistribution, and postdistribution reports will be published online.<br />
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Half the world’s population is at risk of malaria. In 2012, about 627,000 people died of the disease, the equivalent of four Boeing 747 crashing every day with no survivors. On average, one person dies of malaria every minute. (<a href="http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/">WHO 2013</a>)<br />
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LLINs are mosquito nets, usually bed nets, that not only physically protect against malaria-infected mosquitoes but are also treated with an insecticide that lasts for several years and in that time kills any mosquitoes that may otherwise be able to find possible gaps or tears in the net. At a price of just about $3, bed nets are a <a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/insecticide-treated-nets">thoroughly proven</a>, highly effective means of protection against malaria. Depending on the region they also protect from other diseases transmitted by the same vector species, such as <a href="http://www.mosquito-netting.com/">dengue fever, yellow fever, and forms of encephalitis</a>.<br />
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The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), founded in 2004, supports local distributors by funding the <a href="http://www.againstmalaria.com/Distributions.aspx">hundreds of thousands of nets</a> that are needed in LLIN distributions. AMF stands out because of its <a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF#AMFasanorganization">strong commitment to transparency and self-evaluation</a>. (From <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/against-malaria-foundation/details">Your Siblings’ summary of AMF</a>.)<br />
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Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAkrpwyu1k">TEDx talk by Dr. Toby Ord</a>, the founder of <a href="http://givingwhatwecan.org/">Giving What We Can</a>, explaining effective altruism and the logic behind our choice to support a highly effective charity such as the Against Malaria Foundation.<br />
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<b>What changed.</b> This album will operate on a pay-what-you-want basis and a free download for the album will be provided, so you may release your song as soon as the album is out. For the sake of musicians who submit their songs early, there is a set release date this time around. It does mean that we will get less breathing room to give feedback and help entries that are close to making the cut, so we recommend that you submit before the “soft deadline” to make that still possible.<br />
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<b>What you can submit.</b><br />
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<li>It does not have to be pony: Pony and nonpony songs are equally welcome.</li>
<li>Remixing and sampling: No copyrighted material can be used, and we cannot accept entries that remix, sample, or cover the show either (sorry, we really can’t). Submitting a remix requires the composers’ permission. Collabs are encouraged!</li>
<li>Theme: There is no specific theme or genre restriction besides common sense. Don’t make anything angry, creepy, or overly depressing (but sad is fine) and your song should have no problem fitting in.</li>
<li>Length: There is no set length restriction, and most importantly, short songs are just as welcome as longer pieces are. Don’t stretch your song solely to fit a given length – this was perhaps the most common issue with entries for the previous albums.</li>
<li>Number of entries: You can submit as many songs as you want (within reason). Two songs from the same artist can get in without any problem, but over that number (not counting collabs), we might only take the best two of them.</li>
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<b>How to submit.</b> Please send an email to smile.bfg@gmail.com, with the subject “[ST]” followed by your user name, and include the following:<br />
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<li>An MP3 file without the artist’s name in its title or meta data, hosted on a service that offers streaming (preferably Mediafire or Box.com). Please make sure to take the sharing link rather than copy-pasting from your URL bar. You may check your link by accessing it while logged out, e.g., using private browsing.</li>
<li>A lossless file (preferably FLAC or AIFF) uploaded on a third-party hosting service, not sent as an attachment. We tend to see a lot of Dropbox links dying when we need them, so please be careful.</li>
<li>Your preferred artist name and a link for credit (YouTube channel, Soundcloud, etc.).</li>
<li>Lyrics, if applicable.</li>
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You can upload your song on YouTube when the album is released, but please do not make your song public until then. However, feel free to upload previews or ask for feedback!<br />
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If you have any questions, you can email us at <a href="mailto:smile.bfg@gmail.com">smile.bfg@gmail.com</a> or ask in the <a href="http://mylittleremix.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9947">My Little Remix thread</a>.
Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-17908511342690626062014-04-29T14:00:00.000+00:002014-04-29T14:00:06.637+00:00 Final Notice: The Kallisti IV Charity Livestream<img src="http://yoursiblings.org/assets/kallisti-iv.1150.png" height="95" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550" /><br />
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After months of preparations, we’ll launch the fourth of our Kallisti art and charity livestreams on <b>May 3 at noon EDT (4 p.m. UTC)</b> on <b><a href="http://events.yoursiblings.org/">events.yoursiblings.org</a></b>!<br />
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The 24-hour livestream—organized by <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/">Bronies for Good</a> and <a href="http://galacon.eu/">GalaCon</a> with the help of <a href="http://ponyvillelive.com/">Ponyville Live</a>—will allow you to watch famous fandom artists draw your art requests while you listen to live interviews with the talent working on Friendship is Magic. With a little luck, you’ll even be able to pose your own questions to them.<br />
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<b>The interview guests.</b> Several of the preeminent minds behind the show have agreed to support our cause!<br />
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<li><b>Anneli Heed</b> (May 3, 1 p.m. EDT): the Swedish Spike, Sweetie Belle, Cheerilee, Spitfire, Photo Finish, singing voice of Rainbow Dash, and many more</li>
<li><b>Cindy Morrow</b> (May 4, 11 a.m. EDT): the writer of “Winter Wrap Up,” “Sisterhooves Social,” “Read It and Weep,” “Hurricane Fluttershy,” and many more</li>
<li><b>Dave Polsky</b> (May 3, 7 p.m. EDT): the writer of “Keep Calm and Flutter On,” “Daring Don't,” “Rarity Takes Manehattan,” “Equestria Games,” and any more</li>
<li><b>Jennifer Weiß</b> (May 4, 6 a.m. EDT): the German voice of Pinkie Pie</li>
<li><b>John de Lancie</b> (time TBA): the voice of Q, uh, of Discord</li>
<li><b>Lee Tockar</b> (time TBA): the voice of Snips, Steven Magnet, and many more</li>
<li><b>M.A. Larson</b> (May 3, 11 p.m. EDT): the writer of “The Cutie Mark Chronicles,” “Luna Eclipsed,” “The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000,” “It's About Time,” “Magical Mystery Cure,” and many more</li>
<li><b>Nicole Oliver</b> (May 3, 3 p.m. EDT): the voice of Princess Celestia, Cheerilee, and many more</li>
<li><b>Tara Strong</b> (May 3, 2 p.m. EDT): the speaking voice of Princess Twilight Sparkle</li>
<li><b>William Anderson</b> (time TBA): composer of the score of almost ninety episodes of the show</li>
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Please understand that guests, especially those who have not yet been able to indicate a time, may be called away by real-life duties on short notice. We will update our copy of this release and announce any changes to the schedule on <a href="https://twitter.com/BroniesForGood">Twitter</a>. (By the way, we also have a <a href="http://www.fimfiction.net/group/202943/bronies-for-good">FIMFiction group</a> you can join.)<br />
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<b>The artists and community guests.</b> So far, <a href="http://adlynh.deviantart.com/">Adlynh</a>, <a href="http://anticularpony.deviantart.com/">Anticular Pony</a>, <a href="http://blindcoyote.deviantart.com/">BlindCoyote</a>, <a href="http://captain64.deviantart.com/">Captain64</a>, <a href="http://chuckybb.deviantart.com/">ChuckyBB</a>, <a href="http://colonel210.deviantart.com/">Colonel210</a>, <a href="http://deathpwny.deviantart.com/">DeathPwny</a>, <a href="http://derptime.tumblr.com/">DerpTime</a>, <a href="http://feyrah.deviantart.com/gallery/">Feyrah</a>, <a href="http://futzi01.deviantart.com/">futzi</a>, <a href="http://tygerbug.deviantart.com/">Garrett Gilchrist</a>, <a href="http://ikasama.deviantart.com/">Ikasama</a>, <a href="http://jamescorck.deviantart.com/">James Corck</a>, <a href="http://johnjoseco.deviantart.com/">John Joseco</a>, <a href="http://leekfish.deviantart.com/">LeekFish</a>, <a href="http://rain-gear.deviantart.com/">Rain-Gear</a>, <a href="http://puppydoctor.deviantart.com/">Sketchy</a>, <a href="http://st-timid.tumblr.com/">St-Timid</a>, <a href="http://suikuzu.deviantart.com/">Suikuzu</a>, <a href="http://tsitra360.deviantart.com/">Tsitra360</a>, <a href="http://xtailsdudex.deviantart.com/">XTailsDudex</a>, and <a href="http://yooyfull.deviantart.com/">Yooyfull</a>, have signed up for the stream. However, we’re still looking for more artist guests. If you can draw, you have experience streaming your work, and you are interested in doing so for Kallisti IV, please <a href="mailto:broniesforgood+kiv@gmail.com">contact us</a> and link us your art portfolio. We’ll also need your Skype handle.<br />
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<b>The cause.</b> The donations are again split fifty-fifty between GalaCon—who support us with their charity auction and other charity programming—and Your Siblings’ support project for the nonprofit Child Need Africa, which runs the medical clinic in Uganda that we all have helped to fund in 2012. In order to keep up the level of life-saving medical service that they’ve been providing to the impoverished region, they need a strong and sustainable source of income for the clinic, one that will be independent of donations in the long term.<br />
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The first step to achieving this is for Child Need Africa to buy and renovate a house near the capital, so that the complete revenue from the rents can help pay for essential supplies for the clinic, especially the medication. All details of the project can be found on Your Siblings’ <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/permanent-income-for-the-clinic/details">Permanent Income for the Clinic</a> project page.<br />
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Now bookmark <a href="http://events.yoursiblings.org/">events.yoursiblings.org</a> and set an alarm for May 3, so you can’t miss it!Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-42979383680217097982013-03-24T18:10:00.000+00:002013-03-24T18:10:37.021+00:00Seeds of Kindness 3: A Beautiful Heart<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://flawlesstea.deviantart.com/art/Rarity-Vector-355683424" target="_blank">Rarity Vector by FlawlessTea</a></td></tr>
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They say that beauty is in the eye of the culturally-conditioned beholder, or that it comes from within as the individual undertakes acts of kindness and reciprocity. Well, abstract definitions aside, having a beautiful heart is certainly something worth sharing with others. And what is one way of sharing said beauty? Of course, through the art of music!<br />
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We are therefore pleased to announce the third installment of our Seeds of Kindness charity album campaign: A Beautiful Heart!<br />
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If you are a musician and you’d like to find out how to be a part of the album, then please check out the <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-3/album/">guidelines for submission</a> on our Seeds of Kindness 3 pages. You can also hit up this <a data-mce-href="http://mylittleremix.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7434" href="http://mylittleremix.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7434">My Little Remix thread</a> for more discussion on the album guidelines.<br />
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In the past, Seeds of Kindness has raised over $90,000 for charity projects in Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania from people like you! Continuing on with this wonderful legacy, we are proud to announce that the proceeds from Seeds of Kindness 3 will go to our wonderful partner in charity, <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/">Your Siblings</a>! If you have yet to learn of who this amazingly altruistic group is, then please do yourself a favor and go check out their beautifully-written <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/faq">FAQ</a>.<br />
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<b>Seeds of Kindness 3 Prize Contest – Call for Donations</b><br />
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The gift of music is not the only way of sharing beauty. The abilities to craft ornate equine-inspired objects or to sew heartfelt narratives and musings are equally beautiful, especially when gifted to others!<br />
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Whether pony crafts, customs, official toys, or commissions, anything that may serve as a prize is accepted and appreciated, and will help in our customary prize contest. It’s the generosity of our fellow fans that makes our work possible!<br />
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If anyone is interested in making any sort of donation or has any comments or questions, please feel free to email us at <a href="mailto:broniesforgood@gmail.com">broniesforgood@gmail.com</a>.<br />
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<b>Convention Appearances</b><br />
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On a bit of an unrelated yet equally important note, we like to formally announce our attendance to this lovely set of conventions this spring and summer. If you’ll have time while you’re getting your fill of pony, then please be sure to drop by our table and say hi, chat, or to make a donation to one of our ongoing fundraising campaigns.<br />
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<li><a href="http://equestriala.com/">Equestria LA</a>, May 10–12</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pon3con.com/">Pon3 Con</a>, May 10–12</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fiestaequestria.com/">Fiesta Equestria</a>, June 28–30</li>
<li><a href="http://www.everfreenw.com/">Everfree NW</a>, July 5–7</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sweetapplecon.com/">Sweet Apple Acres Con</a>, July 12–14</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bronycon.org/">BronyCon</a>, August 2–4</li>
<li><a href="http://www.galacon.eu/">GalaCon</a>, August 3–4</li>
<li><a href="http://expo.sacbrony.com/">SacBrony</a>, September 14</li>
<li><a href="http://trotcon.com/">Trotcon</a>, June 14–16</li>
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Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-22833709350239249812012-09-25T22:32:00.001+00:002012-12-31T00:55:42.331+00:00Seeds of Kindness 2: Faithful and Strong<center>
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<a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/seeds-of-kindness-2-launch-livestream/" target="_blank">As announced earlier on Derpy Hooves News</a>, the second Seeds of Kindness fundraiser has now launched, and within a few days has already raised more than $10,000 for the <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/another-hope/details" target="_blank">Safe Project</a>, an orphanage in Uganda.
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Of outside media, already the <a href="http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Fans-of-My-Little-Pony-Raising-Money-for-Ugandan-Village-170930931.html" target="_blank">Alabamian TV station WTVY</a> and the <a href="http://lezgetreal.com/2012/09/my-little-pony-fans-lend-helping-hoof-to-aids-orphans-in-africa/" target="_blank">Lez Get Real blog</a> reported on it.
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It is our great pleasure to announce the launch of <em>Seeds of Kindness 2: Faithful and Strong</em>! Dozens of musicians from the pony fan community over at My Little Remix have completed a 2.5 hour long charity album, Faithful and Strong, to be offered for every donation. Moreover, the most generous donors <a data-mce-href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-2/instructions/" href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-2/instructions/">following these instructions</a> by December 25th will receive <strong>unique Christmas gifts</strong> donated by artists from the community!<br />
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All proceeds will go towards funding the <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/another-hope/details">Safe Project</a> in Uganda, an HIV-stricken country where more than 2.3 million children are orphaned due to AIDS. By expanding the orphanage and building a chicken farm to guarantee its long-term sustainability, this project will provide to this <em>lost generation</em> care and education and guarantee them a brighter future.<br />
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More information:<br />
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<li><a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-2/instructions/">How to donate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-2/prizes/">The gifts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness-2/album/">The album tracklist</a></li>
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Now, let’s go do some good in the world!<br />
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Love and Solidarity,<br />
The Bronies for Good Team<br />
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You can learn more about our non-profit partner Your Siblings, in their <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/faq">FAQ</a>—it’s a good read. Sustainability, transparency, local roots, need, and urgency are their primary criteria, ensuring that they only support the projects with the strongest long-term impact. Moreover, their policy is to cover all travel and personal costs as well as money transfer fees independently from donations, so that 100% of what you give will be spent exclusively on the projects.</blockquote>
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Introduction</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;">In this article, I want to give a little background on the subject of microaggressions and provide references to more formal studies, for the topic has recently been the center of several heated debates on DeviantArt and image boards.</span><br />
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One caveat: I will not euphemize any pertaining terms. For further information on the use-mention distinction, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> and <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3431" target="_blank">Language Log</a>. A trigger warning may still apply.
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Definition</h1>
<a href="http://eus.sagepub.com/content/10/1/61" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Pierce et al. (1977)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> observed that “the chief vehicle for proracist behaviors are microaggressions. These are subtle, stunning, often automatic, and nonverbal exchanges which are ‘put-downs’ of blacks by offenders,” which is probably the first use of the term. Since, the definition, specifically of “racial microaggressions,” has been widened to “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.” (</span><a href="http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Sue et al., 2007</a><span style="background-color: white;">) They observe furthermore that “perpetrators of microaggressions are often unaware that they engage in such communications when they interact with racial/ethnic minorities.”</span><br />
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This definition can be further expanded to include a wider range of minorities. <a href="http://www.cesa1.k12.wi.us/cms_files/resources/microagressions_article.pdf" target="_blank">Kevin L. Nadal</a>, author and associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, adapted the definition to “Microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults toward members of oppressed groups.” (Emphasis added)
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I doubt that mules are oppressed in Equestria, but apart from that, there are two instances in which two of the mane six inadvertently insulted a mule (in Applebuck Season and Hurricane Fluttershy). Of course they promptly apologized (“No offense.”) when they noticed their faux pas. What this example, by analogy, also shows is that, as <a href="http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=psycd_fac" target="_blank">Burn et al., (2005)</a> put it, “heterosexuals, deprived of seeing whom their comments ultimately harm, are not inclined to carefully monitor their colloquial speech (<a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/Thurlow(2001)-JofA.pdf" target="_blank">Thurlow, 2001</a>).” (The mule was <a href="http://www.ponychan.net/chan/arch/res/6286.html#6442" target="_blank">voiced by James Wootton</a>, by the way.)<br />
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<a name='more'></a><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361653.2011.584204" target="_blank">Nadel et al. (2011)</a> conducted a qualitative study to test and refine a originally seven-point, now eight-point taxonomy of microaggressions. They term these categories “themes,” as they are largely perpendicular to a previously established taxonomy of three “types,” microassault, microinsult, and microinvalidation (see <a href="http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf" target="_blank">Sue et al., 2007</a>). It should be noted, however, that “this study focused solely on sexual orientation microaggressions or microaggressions experienced in everyday lives by LGB people. Although there may be similarities between sexual orientation and transgender microaggressions (i.e., microaggressions experienced by transgender or gender-nonconforming people), there are complex differences between these two groups, warranting separate studies. In addition, because it is important not to conflate sexual orientation and gender identity, the researchers believed it was important to examine the experiences of these two groups separately.”
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The following are the eight classifications taken directly from the study, which illustrate and exemplify very well what forms microaggressions can take.
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<b>“Use of heterosexist terminology.”</b> This very central theme refers to both intentional and unintentional denigration of LGB individuals, e.g., through heterosexist jokes or comments. In particular, “participants described certain words such as ‘faggot’ and ‘dyke’ as denigrating to them, sending the message that it is inferior or undesirable to be LGB.” A quote from a participant:
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I recently opened up to my friend about [being gay] and he’s a guy … and just the other day I was at his house and were talking about other people and he would describe them as like, “faggot,” and it would get to me.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">The researchers observed that in some environments it still seemed socially acceptable to use such language, be it directly (“When you’re angry at someone, you can call them a ‘faggot’ and that’s still okay.”) or what </span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/lilia-cortina-lab/silverschanz%20et%20al.%202008%20.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Silverschanz et al. (2008)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> call ambient heterosexual harassment: “Participants also described that peers used the word “gay” in negative contexts (i.e., as synonymous to ‘bad’ or ‘weird’). According to the participants, hearing such remarks was hurtful, distressful, and made them feel uncomfortable or unsafe.”</span><br />
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<strong>“Endorsement of heteronormative culture/behaviors.”</strong> Another form of microaggression occurs when LGB persons have to hide or disguise their sexual orientation, be it within the social context of their families, at the workplace, or publicly. One participant described her experiences with the first:
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[My mother] knows that I’m a lesbian, but she is in denial. She doesn’t want to see it, so I have to act a certain way. You know, act heterosexual, not mention anything about me having a girlfriend or anything like that to make her feel uncomfortable or make her say anything offensive toward me. So, I have to act completely different at home.</blockquote>
<strong style="background-color: white;">“Assumption of universal LGBT experience.”</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> This theme describes the degradation experienced by LGB persons when others expect them to comply with societal stereotypes they don’t identify with. Two participants reported:</span><br />
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They’re making it seem like everybody is sexual and smutty-buddy and, you know, every gay man is an interior decorator or sells hair for a living, you know. Even at my job … if you work in stocks, then it’s a straight guy, but if you’re on the beauty floor and/or you’re a cashier, you’re gay.</blockquote>
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Since I dress a little bit more feminine than most other lesbians they might take [my identity as a lesbian] as a joke or make offensive statements.</blockquote>
<strong style="background-color: white;">“Exoticization.”</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> This theme is closely related to the previous one, but describes the aspect of objectification and dehumanization LGB individuals are exposed to, for example, when they are treated like a stereotype. Again the researchers point out that “although the intention of the perpetrator is to be complimentary, the victim experiences a microinsult.”</span><br />
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This woman came up to me one night and she said … I think I made some joke or something and she said, ‘Do you know who you remind me of?’ and I knew what was coming, I just knew what was coming. She’s like, “You’re just like that Jack on Will and Grace. You’re so funny.” And I looked at her, and I said, “Ma’am, no offense, but that’s actually not a compliment.” And she was like, “What do you mean? What do you mean? No, no, I was saying you’re funny, and you’re cute, and you dress nice.”</blockquote>
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A lot of guys would think, you know, because I’m into both guys and girls that I’ll be like down with the threesome kinda thing, and it’s like ugh, get over yourself.</blockquote>
<strong style="background-color: white;">“Discomfort/disapproval of LGBT experience.”</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> This name is fairly self-explanatory. One of the participants in the study gives an example:</span><br />
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I was in college, and I came out to a friend who was very conservative Christian, and she didn’t say “I’m going to stop being your friend,” but she did say she was sorry to hear that because “I believe you are condemned.”</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">Others gave examples of disapproving glances, overt ridicule, and also legislation such as the overturned </span><em style="background-color: white;">Don’t Ask Don’t Tell</em><span style="background-color: white;"> policy.</span><br />
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<strong>“Denial of the reality of heterosexism.”</strong> Sometimes people fail to realize the extent to which individuals with minority sexual orientations are subjected to heterosexism. Through overt disregard for their situation they can feel invalidated, or children and adolescents may even be plunged into self-doubt about the validity of their perceptions. This theme also encompasses situations in which people who have perpetrated microaggressions fail to admit their error.
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<strong>“Assumption of sexual pathology/abnormality.”</strong> This theme occurs when societal stereotypes lead uninformed individuals to assume that LGB people were suffering from psychological disorders related to their sexual behavior (being “oversexualized, sexual deviants, or both”) or were suffering from HIV/AIDS.
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Well, in my case, I’ve actually had some friends stop being my friends, because they were like, “Oh, since you’re bisexual and you might try come on to me” so they stopped being my friend.</blockquote>
<strong style="background-color: white;">“Threatening behaviors.”</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> The participants reported another kind of experiences that did not neatly fit into any of the categories established by the previous themes. They often found themselves in threatened with physical assaults. Such assaults, of course, could not be classified as microaggressions, but the hostile environment created by the threat can. These situations can be temporary as in the example below, but may also be permanent and recurring, for example, in the case of children and adolescents constantly threatened by the presence of bullies at their school or in their class.</span><br />
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I was walking with three friends of mine—all male, all gay. … It was pretty late, probably about two in the morning, and two guys were standing near a park, and we just passed by them, and one of them said, “What did you say?” We didn’t respond … and then they continued and said, “Did you just call me gay? Did you just call me a faggot?” They followed us for about two blocks and tried to start a fight.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">What is also interesting to observe is how many of these themes of heterosexist microaggressions can easily be extended to accommodate forms of animadversion upon bronihood (or pony fan identity). The analogue to “endorsement of heteronormative culture/behaviors” could be the propensity of certain </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/04/25/my-little-pony" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">authors</a><span style="background-color: white;"> or </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcJorJp_Aw" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">pundits</a><span style="background-color: white;"> to endorse the idea that adults mustn’t like a show intended for children (even though Lauren Faust of course created it </span><a href="http://furrymedia.livejournal.com/321145.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">with the parents in mind</a><span style="background-color: white;">) or that men mustn’t like a show intended for a female audience. The counterpart to the “assumption of universal LGBT experience” could include perpetuating the cliché of the immature, disheveled brony, the homosexual brony, and the exclusively male brony. “Discomfort/disapproval of LGBT experience” could find its counterpart in disapproval of pony T-shirts, cosplay, or the public unpacking of merchandise. “Denial of the reality of heterosexism,” of course, could translate into </span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/4chan-based_bronies_continue_t.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">some authors’</a><span style="background-color: white;"> idea that we are all just facetious about our love for the show.</span><br />
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Homonymy and Polysemy</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;">When different words (or rather lexemes) share the same spelling and pronunciation, it’s called homonymy; when the same word (or rather lexeme) has different meanings, we talk about polysemy, “the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves,” </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">as Erin McKean put it</a><span style="background-color: white;">. (The notion of identity between lexemes is beyond the purview of this article.)</span><br />
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Most common words have several meanings, and some (like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29winchester.html" target="_blank">“set” and “run”</a>) even several hundred. This is relevant to the topic of microaggressions as especially the term “gay” has acquired very different uses in recent decades. Researchers of the University of Canberra
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and the Australian National University have studied the usage of the term among different age groups and found that, in addition to the meaning of “gay” as synonymous with “homosexual,” older people still recognized the sense of “ ‘happy,’ ‘carefree’ and ‘frivolous,’ ” while younger Australians increasingly understood it to mean “ ‘stupid’, ‘lame’ or ‘boring.’ ”
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Usually, of course, the intended denotation is clear not only from the pragmatic context of the conversation, but also from its immediate grammatical context, as “young people (18–30 year olds) understand the meaning of ‘gay’ differently depending upon whether the subject is animate (e.g. ‘he’, ‘she’) or inanimate (e.g. ‘that film’); whether it is used with the [linking] verb ‘to look’ or the copula ‘to be’; and whether the word ‘gay’ is used in conjunction with the intensifier ‘so’ (e.g. ‘They’re gay’ compared to ‘They’re so gay’).” (<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07268600701522764" target="_blank">Lalor et al., 2007</a>) The microaggression, instead, lies in the implication that the homosexual person lives amidst a society that would allow a term for their sexual orientation to acquire a pejorative meaning.
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The term “fag” is a different case, as it has different meanings that are <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fag" target="_blank">typically regarded as separate lexemes</a> as they don’t share the same etymological roots, the one meaning “drudgery,” the one in “fag-end,” which is also used to denote a cigarette, and the disparaging and offensive term for a homosexual, derived from “faggot.” Distinguishing “meanings” (of homonyms) and “senses” (of polysemes), <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X01928104" target="_blank">Rodd et al. (2002)</a> observe in their experiments that “while multiple word senses do produce faster responses, ambiguity between multiple meanings delays recognition. These results suggest that, while competition between the multiple meanings of ambiguous words delays their recognition, the rich semantic representations associated with words with many senses facilitate their recognition.”
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Interestingly, the third sense of “fag” is not only widely used as insult, but has also acquired neutral and positive meanings in some limited sociolects, especially within compounds. All these senses and meanings, however, are usually well-distinguished by the context of their usage, and thus exist in parallel with minimal influence on one another.
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Even though different senses of words can exist in parallel without one dominating or supplanting the other, and the intended meaning is usually clear from the context, sufficiently advanced speakers of a language are easily aware of the various shades of any given term. Any pun can attest to that: “Atheists don't solve exponential equations because they don't believe in higher powers.”
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Effects of Microaggressions</h1>
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Compared to the overt hate violence that gays may experience, the use of derogatory terms for gays by heterosexuals to refer to each other may seem innocuous and minor. However, this behavior perpetuates anti-gay prejudice and violence by suggesting that it is socially acceptable to exhibit bias against gays. In other words, it contributes to heterosexism, which <a href="http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/5/3/316.abstract" target="_blank">Herek (1990)</a> defines as the denigration and stigmatization of any nonheterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community. (<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n02_01" target="_blank">Burn, 2000</a>)</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">Numerous studies linked to minority stress theory have also confirmed that “socially marginalized groups, including sexual minorities, can experience mental and physical health problems resulting from negative social environments created by stigma, prejudice, and discrimination (e.g., </span><a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/cou/46/3/395/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Fischer and Shaw 1999</a><span style="background-color: white;">; </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447127/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Gee 2002</a><span style="background-color: white;">; </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447724/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Harrell et al. 2003</a><span style="background-color: white;">; </span><a href="http://midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/52.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Kessler et al. 1999</a><span style="background-color: white;">; </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Meyer 2003</a><span style="background-color: white;">; </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447717/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Williams et al. 2003</a><span style="background-color: white;">),” (</span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/lilia-cortina-lab/silverschanz%20et%20al.%202008%20.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Silverschanz et al., 2008</a><span style="background-color: white;">) and a study of the behavior of 14- to 15-year-old high school students confirmed the “increasingly well-documented daily assault on the psychological health of young homosexual people.” (</span><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/Thurlow(2001)-JofA.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Thurlow, 2001</a><span style="background-color: white;">) In their qualitative study cited above, </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361653.2011.584204" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Nadal et al. (2011)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> list a few of these mental and physical effects.</span><br />
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<li>Among the emotions that participants reported to have experienced due to microaggressions were “anger, frustration, … sadness, … belittlement and hopelessness.”</li>
<li>In several cases, these experiences also led to “detrimental relationships with their family members, friends, coworkers, and others.”</li>
<li>Participants also discussed the detrimental role of microaggressions in “their ability to be comfortable with their LGB identities.” Especially adolescents’ self-worth can suffer, as Nadal et al. point out, affecting their personal and professional prospects: “For example, many studies discussed how LGB youth who experience school violence, heterosexist threats, or damage to their property may avoid going to school altogether (<a href="http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/101/5/895.full" target="_blank">Garofalo, Wolf, Kessel, Palfrey, & DuRant, 1998</a>; <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19361650802379748" target="_blank">Grossman et al., 2009</a>).”</li>
<li>Also discussed were “chronic mental health effects,” including “post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” They also cite reference literature that documents that “LGB youth also experience higher rates of emotional distress, higher amounts of suicide attempts, risky sexual behavior, and substance abuse (<a href="http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/101/5/895.full" target="_blank">Garofalo et al., 1998</a>; <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1508407/pdf/amjph00013-0059.pdf" target="_blank">Remafedi, Frendh, Story, Resnick, & Blum, 1998</a>; <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/278/10/823.full.pdf" target="_blank">Resnick et al., 1997</a>).”</li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In much the same vein, </span><a href="http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=psycd_fac" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Burn et al. (2005)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> write:</span><br />
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Even if heterosexist language is not used to intentionally harm LGB persons, it may be experienced as anti gay harassment and contribute to psychosocial stress. Experiences of negative treatment in society and resultant lack of self-acceptance culminate to produce abnormally high chronic stress for LGB persons (<a href="http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/healthandsociety/events/ms/year4/pdf/sh_Meyer%20IH.pdf" target="_blank">Meyer, 1995</a>). Research finds a number of negative effects from the stress related to stigmatization based on sexual orientation (<a href="http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx" target="_blank">APA Division 44, 2000</a>). This stress is linked to depression, higher suicide rates among LGB persons during young adulthood (<a href="http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~tkennedy/Courses/38H3/Daugelli.pdf" target="_blank">D’Augelli, 1992</a>; <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/I_thought_people_like_that_killed_themse.html?id=Hf8DAQAAIAAJ" target="_blank">Rofes, 1983</a>; <a href="http://jar.sagepub.com/content/9/4/498.short" target="_blank">Rotheram-Borus, Hunter, & Rosario, 1994</a>; <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/62/2/261/" target="_blank">Savin-Williams, 1994</a>), high-risk sexual behaviors (<a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1993-45985-001" target="_blank">Folkman, Chesney, Pollack, & Phillips, 1992</a>; <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197185710020" target="_blank">Rotherman-Borus, Reid, Rosario, & Kasen, 1995</a>), eating disorders (<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v12n03_09" target="_blank">Brown, 1986</a>), school problems (Bendet, 1986), substance abuse, running away, and prostitution (<a href="http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx" target="_blank">APA Division 44, 2000</a>). The experience of anti-gay harassment has been found to be more common among gay and bisexualmale adolescents who had attempted suicide than among those who had not (<a href="http://jar.sagepub.com/content/9/4/498.short" target="_blank">Rotheram-Borus et al., 1994</a>).</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">Another interesting dimension is added by </span><a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/lilia-cortina-lab/silverschanz%20et%20al.%202008%20.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Silverschanz et al. (2008)</a><span style="background-color: white;">, who, in contrast to the other studies examined in this article, extended the purview of their study to include heterosexuals and the ways in which they are influenced by personal and ambient heterosexist harassment. Their analysis proved that “heterosexual identification does not shield individuals from heterosexist harassment and its association with negative outcomes.” They further hypothesize:</span><br />
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Because heterosexual students experiencing HH overwhelmingly reported ambient rather than personal HH (84% and 16%, respectively), it is possible that our results can be explained by bystander stress. In other words, heterosexual students tended to suffer from overhearing others make negative remarks about sexual-minority people.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">“Sticks and stones may be more likely to break their bones,” </span><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/Thurlow(2001)-JofA.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Thurlow (2001)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> concludes, ”but the relentless, careless use of homophobic pejoratives will most certainly continue to compromise the psychological health of young homosexual and bisexual people by insidiously constructing their sexuality as something wrong, dangerous or shameworthy.”</span><br />
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Causes of Microaggressions</h1>
<span style="background-color: white;">Perhaps counter-intuitively, only some of the perpetrators of microaggressions are actually ideologically heterosexist. </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n02_01" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Burn (2000)</a><span style="background-color: white;"> observes:</span><br />
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The use of terms such as “fag” or “queer” in heterosexual friendship groups is in many cases normative. That is, it is part of the group’s culture. If the individual wishes to be identified as an ingroup member, s/he must participate in the group’s culture. The terms, which may be quite creative (e.g., “butt-pirate” and “fudgepacker”), are reinforced through laughter and frequency of use. In this way, this expression of anti-gay prejudice serves what <a href="http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/5/3/316.short" target="_blank">Herek (1990)</a> would call a social-expressive function by helping individuals win approval from important others and affirm their status as “insiders.” Similarly, <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1991.9713823" target="_blank">Sigelman et al. (1991)</a> suggest that anti-gay behaviors may arise as individuals try to distance themselves from stigmatized persons out of a concern that they will be stigmatized by association (what Goffman called “courtesy Stigma”). By using anti-gay language, individuals distance themselves from this stigmatized social group. <a href="http://www.stthomas.edu/diversity/files/Masculinity_as_Homop.pdf" target="_blank">Kimmel (1994)</a> suggests that the fear men have of being perceived as homosexual propels them to enact all kinds of masculine behaviors and attitudes, such as homophobic remarks, to make sure that no one gets the “wrong idea” about their manliness.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;">Ergo, what these groups lack is a Fancy Pants, an insider of a social group who is confident in their standing inside the group and courageous enough to question and to stand up to its memetic aberrations. </span><br />
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Another remedy against stereotypes is personal information. <a href="http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=psycd_fac" target="_blank">Burn et al., (2005)</a>, cite research indicating that “people will set aside their stereotypes and judge people on an individual basis when personal information is available to them (<a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/57/2/201/" target="_blank">Hilton & Fein, 1989</a>; <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/66/4/658/" target="_blank">Lord et al., 1994</a>) and when they are highly motivated to form an accurate impression of someone (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sNadYmHFsUAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA235&dq=Hilton,+J.+L.,+%26+Darley,+J.+M.+(1991).+The+effects+of+interaction+goals+on+person+percep%C2%AD+tion.++&ots=qEtsBhob5L&sig=BtUFq3NhchT91chXn4avh7VA1UY" target="_blank">Hilton & Darley, 1991</a>; <a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=z9vHEy0osBAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA67&dq=Snyder,+M.+(1992).+Motivational+foundations+of+behavioral+confirmation+&ots=Pfrrm0iWez&sig=bj9UfYWpct87zBH4rXKgy2UH9VE" target="_blank">Snyder, 1992</a>).” Hence they conclude that “coming out is, perhaps, the most potent method of reducing anti gay sentiments (<a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=BoBjkgAACAAJ" target="_blank">Davis, 1992</a>; <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/Psychological_Perspectives_on_Lesbian_an.html?id=XgL89Ve48t4C" target="_blank">Garnets & Kimmel, 1993</a>; <a href="http://books.google.de/books/about/Homosexuality.html?id=NCQbAAAAYAAJ" target="_blank">Gonsiorek & Weinrich, 1991</a>; <a href="http://books.google.de/books?id=GailsZNFdS8C" target="_blank">Klein, 1993</a>).”
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In other instances where people “with otherwise accepting attitudes toward homosexuality call their heterosexual friends derogatory names,” it is possible that they “merely have not thought of its contribution to antihomosexual bias,” so that “simpler awareness efforts should succeed in changing behavior.” For instance, “many people professed that they had simply never thought of this type of behavior as gaybashing and were quite ashamed of themselves upon reflection.” (<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v40n02_01" target="_blank">Burn, 2000</a>)
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Within a fandom made up of people who are open-minded enough to profess their love for well-animated equines, such awareness efforts should fall on fertile ground. Hence, the simplest and most effective remedy and prevention measure for microaggressions may well be to politely point them out when one notices them in the discourse of others and to train greater consciousness of the “social-expressive functions” of one’s own language. If you are a member of a tight-knit online or real-life group of friends, then you carry responsibility for the culture you cultivate—responsibility that stems from the influence you wield.
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[Like all my content on Ponyleaks, this report is licensed CC-BY. <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/assets/microaggressions.html" target="_blank">A copypasta version can be found here.</a>]Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-72949024642701952142012-04-29T14:57:00.000+00:002012-12-31T00:59:19.373+00:00Seeds of Kindness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://broniesforgood.org/" target="_blank">Bronies for Good</a>, <a href="http://mylittleremix.com/" target="_blank">My Little Remix</a>, countless musicians, and many others have worked relentlessly for months to bring you Seeds of Kindness, a fundraiser and an e<i>pony</i>mous music album. Today we celebrate the launch of the project with an <a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?page_id=2706" target="_blank">EverFree Radio livestream</a> at 16:00Z (noon ET). (More info <a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?p=3986" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Everyone who <a href="http://www.betterplace.org/en/groups/seeds-of-kindness" target="_blank">donates to the fundraiser</a> can download the album as a thank you. (There’s also <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/2012/04/another-seeds-of-kindness-update/" target="_blank">a preview</a>.) Moreover, artists of all trades have contributed prizes for those who donate the most. More detailed instructions on what you need to consider especially when making bigger donations can be found on the <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness/seeds-of-kindness-instructions/" target="_blank">instructions page</a>. There is also the <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness/seeds-of-kindness-album/" target="_blank">track listing</a> of the Seeds of Kindness album and the <a href="http://broniesforgood.org/seeds-of-kindness/seeds-of-kindness-prizes/" target="_blank">list of prizes</a>.<br />
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The reason why you are reading this on Ponyleaks is that all donations benefit two of our, Your Siblings’s, projects, the <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/a-clinic-in-uganda/details" target="_blank">clinic in Uganda</a> and the <a href="http://yoursiblings.org/projects/green-life/details" target="_blank">Green Village in Burundi</a>. We forward the donations in full, and after this initial financial impetus, the projects will be completely self-sustainable and independent of outside aid.<br />
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What an epic, glorious finale!<br />
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However, I’ll use this caesura to make two off-topic observations: First, when something important and time-critical happens, I usually notify my <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> friends or post it there myself. Then, I post it here. That is not a problem in itself, but it is an indicator of unnecessary redundancy. Second, important stuff often happens when it’s around 2 or 3 a.m. in my neck of the Everfree, and I’m fast asleep.<br />
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Consequently, I’ll try to get back to the roots, as it were, and shift all my real-time reportage to <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>, so that Ponyleaks is again reserved to the longer articles of more permanent value that I used to write in the beginning.<br />
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I’ve embedded the <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> feed to the right, but if you aren’t yet following Derpy Hooves News, a.k.a. the oldest, most venerable, and generally best news outlet in the fandom, then better fix that now than in five minutes. Here is our <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/DerpyHoovesNews" target="_blank">Twitter account</a>, our <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/feed/atom/" target="_blank">Atom feed</a>, and an <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/p/feeds.html" target="_blank">explanation how to use feeds</a>. Do eet!Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-47258048029055871192012-04-14T15:16:00.002+00:002012-04-14T17:09:07.773+00:00Sabrina “Sibsy” Alberghetti on EverFree Radio<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?p=3531" target="_blank">EverFree Radio strikes again</a>—this time surprisingly surprising, as they didn’t post a teaser a few days prior to the interview release. Sibsy has been storyboarding for My Little Pony from early on, with her first episode being Dragonshy according to <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/storyboard-artists-of-all-episodes.html" target="_blank">Raven’s list of storyboard artists per episode</a>, for which Sibsy herself provided a great chunk of the data. Sibsy, as well as Raven and Dennis Hu, were interviewed before during <a href="http://bronyshow.com/?p=505" target="_blank">Bronyville’s Happy New Season Celebration Mareathon 2011</a> (<a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/bronyville-podcast-mareathon-highlights/" target="_blank">recordings here</a>). You can follow her on <a href="http://sibsy.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">DeviantArt</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TheRealSibsy" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.<br />
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<li>She explained how her name “Sibsy” developed while she was in her teens and stuck afterwards. (0:34)</li>
<li>Then she went on to describe her path into the storyboarding business, and in particular how, being from a town near Toronto, she applied for animation courses at <a href="http://www.sheridancollege.ca/" target="_blank">Sheridan College</a> and afterwards moved “out west to Vancouver.” (1:27)</li>
<li>The storyboard artists are the second stage in the development of an episode. They “get a script from the writers” and “have to conceptualize everything visually that is written down on the paper in the best way that we possibly can to tell the story effectively.” (2:27)</li>
<li>When she started working in animation professionally, “it almost felt like everything I learned at school I had to through out of the window,” “it was pretty harsh, but it was very educating at the same time. I learned a lot at the first studio I worked at, and I wouldn’t give up that for the world.” (3:18)</li>
<li>This first studio was probably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.k.a._Cartoon" target="_blank">A.K.A. Cartoon</a>, who appear to have a domain, but only for email, without a web server behind it. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040618194110/http://animationbymistake.fateback.com/storyboards/storyboardmenu.html" target="_blank">It also looks like</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TheBiggestJim" target="_blank">Jim Miller</a> (there is also <a href="http://derpyhoovescentral.blogspot.de/2011/12/animation-insider-interviews-big-jim.html" target="_blank">an interview</a> with him), Scott Underwood, and Joel Dickie worked there for a while.</li>
<li>She had to delegate Lesson Zero to Raven to work on some Darkwing Duck for a few weeks. (6:32)</li>
<li>In EverFree Radio’s <a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?p=3314" target="_blank">episode review</a> of MMMystery on the Friendship Express, Final Draft seemed very confident that the switching of the hats between Twilight and Pinkie Pie was not scripted. I wondered about that at the time, but maybe they had already recorded the interview at that point, because here Sibsy explained: “A lot of those little gags are put in by us storyboard artists.” (9:13) [Nope, they hadn’t; they just have the superior hunches.]</li>
<li>There is a certain trademark Sibsy motion where a pony lifts one of their hooves up. (10:45) It’s a cute and slightly coy gesture that other storyboarder may also have picked up. [Thanks, EverFree Radio, for the clarification.]</li>
<li>She’s the one who turned Berry Punch into an alcoholic during the cute-ceañera in Call of the Cutie. (10:54)</li>
<li>She frequently uses our pony names, but many of her colleagues are not as fluent with them. (12:40)</li>
<li>She likes The Mysterious Mare Do Well for its action scenes, which are challenging for her. The same goes for The Last Roundup, but her favorite episodes are the finale episodes (which haven’t aired yet): “Visually, musically, just all around, … we’ve set the bar so high with that episode” (or these episodes). “I’m so excited for it to air! I wish it was next week!” (14:12) Another indicator that the recording took place at least a week ago.</li>
<li>She enjoys our feedback, preferably that of constructive nature. (16:22) Also, our “creative outpouring” (Final Draft) is overwhelming—in a positive way of course. (17:18)</li>
<li>“There is so much more story left to tell. We finally have these characters figured out; there’s so many places to go with them, so many ways to develop them even further, and I really look forward to that.” (19:04)</li>
<li>All those visual references to Star Wars, martial arts movies, or James Bond are also the work of the storyboard artists. (20:54)</li>
<li>Flat hierarchies rock. “Jayson and Wootie, we’re friends first. It’s kind of stage having them as a boss, because … they’re my friends.” (22:20)</li>
<li>She doesn’t think that it “always the case” that references are woven into the show for the fans, but if we love them, “that’ amazing!” (23:41)</li>
<li>Storyboards usually remain black and white, but sometimes colors need to be specified or are used to let elements “[stand] out on the page.” (25:00)</li>
<li>Here she inserted a shoutout to <a href="http://otakusquirrel.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">OtakuSquirrel</a>, who made a <a href="http://otakusquirrel.deviantart.com/art/Wild-Fire-and-friends-262552984" target="_blank">custom of her OC</a> for her as a gift, and is generally a great artist or craftsperson. (27:29)</li>
<li>She hopes that in the future she’ll be able to post drawings online, e.g., of Raven’s OC, but she’s not allowed to at the moment. (31:24)</li>
<li>More confirmation that Twilight Sparkle is best pony! (32:36)</li>
<li>She’ll be “moving on to Pound Puppies for a little while, and then hopefully back to more ponies after that.” And there may also be more comic work from her, related to The Disney Afternoon. (34:20)</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_CD" target="_blank">Sonic CD</a>, with the American soundtrack, is her favorite Sonic video game. (35:20)</li>
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<b>Update 2012-04-14 17:08Z:</b> Updated with a bit of inside scoop from EverFree Radio. Thanks!</div>Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-41461360240685564412012-03-31T17:55:00.003+00:002012-04-06T17:37:43.097+00:00Preview of MMMystery on the Friendship Express<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Update 2012-03-31 18:05Z:</b> Updated with a slightly-better-quality version. Also on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/mmmystery-on-the-ponyville-express-preview/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> of course!<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-31 23:11Z:</b> And an extended version thanks to Spazz of <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/mmmystery-on-the-ponyville-express-preview/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-02 21:25Z:</b> The Hub has published a completely new preview! Watch it below or <a href="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?&playerWidth=650&playerHeight=630&dynamicStreaming=true&isUI=true&isVid=true&playerID=1463030084001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAocraEwE~,3x9DnTXoVWYTjOYco_elvChHdiuw8n1b" target="_blank">here</a>. (Also on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/preview-mmmystery-on-the-friendship-express/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>.)<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-06 17:35Z:</b> What is this madness! A third clip! Woohoo! (Also on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/new-preview-of-mmmystery-on-the-friendship-express/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> of course.)
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Lo, pony lovers! <a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?p=2801" target="_blank">EverFree Radio recently published a new interview</a> with our BGM god, <a href="http://andersonscores.com/" target="_blank">William Anderson</a>, and I’ve finally found the time to summarize it. Head over there and listen to it. I only summarize the bits that are interesting <i>to me</i>, after all. (By the way, the interview is co-hosted by Final Draft and MandoPony!) Also, I’ll try to use breaks more sparingly. Have fun.<br />
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<li>It all started when about five composers were invited to score an animation sample, and he won the pitch. (0:34)</li>
<li>After 1:50 but more so 3:36, he reminisced about the indirect way by which he ended up as as composer for animation. Some of that is also covered in a journal entry entitled “Giving up” he since deleted. (There’s still a copy in the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6q1XwGbcZE8J:willheim.deviantart.com/journal/Giving-up-286344881+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk" target="_blank">Google cache</a>.)</li>
<li>He’s using a particular guitar riff that has become emblematic of Rainbow Dash less now, but not because anyone told him to. Hasbro has just approved his scoring for the last fifteen to seventeen episodes without any notes, while the directors are often “more exacting.” (5:56)</li>
<li>He agrees with <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/01/news-from-bronycon.html" target="_blank">Daniel Ingram</a> that “weekly episodic animation scoring is the hardest gig in the business.” (7:55)</li>
<li>That most of the time his work needs to be invisible to work its magic is actually something he enjoys. (8:44)</li>
<li>At around 10:00, he describes his approach to character themes.</li>
<li>Sometimes he first makes musical sketches of the scenes and then fills in the details, sometimes he gets struck by inspiration and composes the whole cue right away. The approach varies greatly from scene to scene. (12:40)</li>
<li>He enjoys MondoPony’s music! Who doesn’t! /)^ε^(\ (16:09)</li>
<li>Now 17:24. You really need to listen to this. It’s almost ten minutes of verbalized data sheets, which means it’s amazing! The parts where he describes his computer equipment made me nerdgasm all over the place. I can only imagine what it must be like for someone who also knows about audio equipment! You can get a small impression of what I’m talking about in <a href="http://willheim.deviantart.com/art/studio-286524333" target="_blank">this post</a> and <a href="http://willheim.deviantart.com/art/My-Sanctuary-285305897" target="_blank">this photo</a> of his.</li>
<li>He, and everyone else in post production, only starts his work “in earnest” once they have the <i>locked print</i>, where every frame of the animation and all the voices are exactly where they’ll be in the broadcast version. (26:05)</li>
<li>He only recently, during this season, noticed that we are “a really vibrant community,” when he made an DeviantArt account to thank an artist who had ponified him, and was overwhelmed by the response of the thousands of people who subsequently frequented his page. (29:57)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.everfreenw.com/" target="_blank">Everfree NW</a> (August 17–19, 2012) is “right in the middle of season three,” so he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to come, but he’d love to. (31:47)</li>
<li>The famous CMC theme is actually a piece of his score that likes least. He went on to speculate about why the music one is most proud of and has put the most effort into is often scrapped or ignored, while little tunes one churns out in a few minutes are loved and get famous. (34:47)</li>
<li>MandoPony especially loves a certain tune at the end of Lesson Zero. (37:26) I think he was referring to the one starting at around 19:36 in the episode.</li>
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<b>Update 2012-03-31 19:02Z:</b> Had to replace a link <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/01/youtube-takedowns-by-hasbro.html" target="_blank">because of this</a>. Thanks for letting me know, Johnny.</div>Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-32908044168758282642012-03-25T16:02:00.000+00:002012-03-25T16:02:27.247+00:00Amy Keating Rogers interviewed by The Round Stable<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My wish has been granted! Finally, <a href="http://www.mlponies.com/2012/03/24/amy-keating-rogers-interview/" target="_blank">an interview with a writer</a>, and what is more, with Amy Keating Rogers even! I’ve already been collecting questions for my own interview, such was my desperation. Many thanks to The Round Stable for compiling such a long and carefully thought-out list, and probably going though the trails of getting it approved.<br />
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In the interview you’ll discover that Amy is not only screenwriter and playwright but also actor; how she entered the world of pone through and thanks to her work with Lauren Faust on Powerpuff Girls; what a typical writing schedule for an episode is (Thank you! I’ve been burning to know this!); how the writers and the story editor collaborate; that kids are bucking smart; to what lengths she goes to get the lyrics for songs just right, and whence she draws her inspiration for them; that she was “not too surprised” about the older fanbase; and chimicherrychanga. Twilight is getting better at teleportation. That means that she’ll soon be able to teleport to our world, right? Right?<br />
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Also, don’t forget that Amy Keating Rogers has also made a movie. <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/amy-keating-rogers-inside-scoop/" target="_blank">More information as well as the trailer</a> can be found on Derpy Hooves News.<br />
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<br />Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-78502191300093102012-03-24T18:10:00.000+00:002012-03-26T16:30:51.502+00:00Preview of Ponyville Confidential<div style="text-align: center;">
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Spazz of <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/ponyville-confidential-preview/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> has recorded a preview clip of <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/03/upcoming-episode-ponyville-confidential.html" target="_blank">Ponyville Confidential</a> that played during today’s episode. <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/ponyville-confidential-preview/" target="_blank">Check it out here</a> or above. (Thanks a lot Spazz!)<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-24 18:18Z:</b> Swapped in a YouTube version.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-24 18:33Z:</b> Replaced it with a longer version, thanks to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonAuthor" target="_blank">CrimsonAuthor</a>.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-26 17:15Z:</b> And a second one, this time again from the <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/play/details.cfm?R=8C641B18-5056-900B-109F-50D776462357:en_US" target="_blank">Friendship Express</a> game! Check it out below! (Many thanks to <a href="http://www.mlponies.com/2012/03/26/the-hubs-ponyville-confidential-preview-clip/" target="_blank">The Round Stable</a>.)<br />
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<br />Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-30689979862133613512012-03-24T07:56:00.000+00:002012-04-21T10:31:56.831+00:00Upcoming Episodes “A Canterlot Wedding” (S02E25 and S02E26)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Air dates:<br />
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<li>S02E25: April 21, 2012, 17:00 UTC (1 p.m. EST)</li>
<li>S02E26: April 21, 2012, 17:30 UTC (1:30 p.m. EST)</li>
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Synopses:<br />
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<li>“Not everything is rainbows and gumdrops in this two-part special that finds unicorn Twilight Sparkle digging up a wedding shocker as her brother Shining Armor prepares to get hitched.” (<a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/03/rumored-synopsis-of-season-two-finale.html" target="_blank">TV Guide</a>)</li>
<li>“In the two-part episode ‘A Canterlot Wedding,’ the kingdom is in a frenzy preparing for the wedding of Princess Celestia’s niece, Princess Cadance, to Twilight Sparkle’s brother, Shining Armor. However, Twilight Sparkle discovers a dark secret about the bride that could ruin her brother’s ‘happily ever after.’ ” (<a href="http://press.discovery.com/media/ugc/highlights/April_2012_Highlights.pdf" target="_blank">Hub April 2012 Highlights</a>)</li>
<li>A Canterlot Wedding – Part 1 (S02E25):</li>
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<li>“Twilight's brother, Shining Armor, is marrying Princess Celestia’s niece, Cadence.” (<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/ponyleaks/EP013304160051" target="_blank">Zap2it</a>)</li>
<li>“When Twilight Sparkle makes the discovery that her brother, Shining Armor, is getting marring to the niece of Princess Celestia, Cadence, she feels incredibly confused by the conflicting feelings that she is overcome with.” (FYI Television via <a href="http://uverseonline.att.net/guide" target="_blank">U-verse</a>)</li>
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<li>A Canterlot Wedding – Part 2 (S02E26):</li>
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<li>“Twilight discovers a dark secret about Cadence right before the wedding.” (<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/ponyleaks/EP013304160052" target="_blank">Zap2it</a>)</li>
<li>“After Twilight experiences conflicting emotions regarding the marriage of her brother, Shining Armor, and Cadence, their wedding day draws nearer, but Twilight discovers a dark secret about the bride-to-be that changes everything.” (FYI Television via <a href="http://uverseonline.att.net/guide" target="_blank">U-verse</a>)</li>
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This is a little irregular, but somepony named Jesse <a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/season-finale-title-canterlot-wedding.html" target="_blank">has sent</a> Equestria Daily what appears to be <a href="https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/default.aspx?cid=1431&find=My%20Little%20Pony%20A%20Wedding%20in%20Canterlot" target="_blank">confirmation</a> that the title of the last two episodes is going to be “A Canterlot Wedding.” Combined with the TV Guide synopsis above, which again applies to both episodes, we have all that we need for a new episode announcement—just a little jumbled up unfortunately. I’ll announce updates on <a href="https://twitter.com/Ponyleaks" target="_blank">Twitter</a> as usual.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-24 07:50Z:</b> Added the Zap2it synopses. Since the episodes apparently air on the same day, they put them both up at roughly the same time. First the second one appeared, then disappeared again, and then both went up permanently. (I actually decided to bump this post up, so for the record, the original post date was 2012-03-12 04:15Z.)<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-30 20:10Z:</b> Added a longer synopsis from the Hub April 2012 Highlights.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-06 12:29Z:</b> Added extended U-verse synopses.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-14 01:46Z:</b> For a while I thought the occasional “Cadance” typo was just that, but at some point I started to wonder whether it might not be her actual name, maybe intended as a pun on “dance” or due to some trademark issues. Of course there already is <a href="http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Cadence_or_Cadance%3F" target="_blank">a considerable bit of discussion on the topic</a>.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-21 10:31Z:</b> As always, your <a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/season-finale-a-canterlot-wedding-part-1-2-episode-guide/" target="_blank">Episode Guide</a> will be available on Derpy Hooves News. If the link doesn’t work at least an hour before the episode, kick me (by which I mean that I invite you to leave a comment).Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-22400950336654140382012-03-23T21:12:00.005+00:002012-04-20T12:28:41.780+00:00Preview of the Royal Wedding<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/royal-wedding-preview.html" target="_blank">Someone has found</a> a preview of what is referred to as “Royal Wedding” therein on some sort of unnamed on-demand service. Hasbro representatives have used that name before to refer to the season finale and the associated franchise (or whatever that is called), but the two episodes themselves <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/03/upcoming-episodes-canterlot-wedding.html" target="_blank">are supposed to be entitled</a> “A Canterlot Wedding.” We may soon know more.<br />
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The quality of the preview is horrible, as you can see. Sorry about that, but many thanks anyway to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/UmbrellaCorp14703" target="_blank">UmbrellaCorp14703</a> or whoever recorded it. I’ll swap it out for a better version once one exists. In the meantime, have fun with the fresh spoilers.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-23 21:27Z:</b> Done swapped it out. Many thanks to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/motherBRAINSTORM" target="_blank">motherBRAINSTORM</a> and DerpySquad who pointed it out to me. Unfortunately, the <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> server provider is currently in derp mode.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-23 21:32Z:</b> Multiple Applejacks? Multiple Rainbow Dashes? Have <a href="http://press.discovery.com/media/ugc/photos/001_l03_ext_big_apple_orchard_picnic_area.jpg" target="_blank">multiple Twilights</a>! (Probably unrelated.)<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-23 22:26Z:</b> And now there’s even an official version from the Hub.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-27 18:21Z:</b> And another clip, via <a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/another-royal-wedding-clip-new.html" target="_blank">EqD</a>.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-02 21:56Z:</b> Check out my write-up about the <a href="http://www.hubworld.com/royalwedding" target="_blank">Royal Wedding page of The Hub</a> on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/royal-wedding-promotion-page/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>. Below a sample of the insightful wallpapers they’ve endowed us with.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-20 12:25Z:</b> I’m not getting spoiled, but this post might crash browsers if I embedded any more clips. Enjoy the <a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/io9-exclusive-clip-my-little-pony-wedding-from-io9/" target="_blank">io9</a> and the <a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/tvweb-exclusive-clip-do-you-s2e26/" target="_blank">TVweb</a> clips on Derpy Hooves News.Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-43324182881213777402012-03-22T06:23:00.000+00:002012-03-22T06:23:15.219+00:00Return of John de Lancie Confirmed<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After the first rumor almost two weeks ago, which I mentioned <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/p/miscellanea.html#factoid-35" target="_blank">on the Miscellanea page</a>, there’s now finally hard evidence that John de Lancie is to return to My Little Pony—and who better for him to voice than Discord?<br />
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The crucial quote, shortly after 29:35 in the video below: “I’ve done actually another My Little Pony, which is coming out.” The video should start at that point. Season three so going to be legen–and I hope we won’t have to wait too long for it–dary. (Via <a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/john-de-lancie-returning-to-friendship.html" target="_blank">Equestria Daily</a> and <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/the-return-of-john-de-lancie-to-mlp/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>.)<br />
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Spazz of <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/hurricane-fluttershy-preview/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> has recorded a preview clip of <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/upcoming-episode-s02e22.html" target="_blank">Hurricane Fluttershy</a> that played a few times after today’s episode. <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/hurricane-fluttershy-preview/" target="_blank">Check it out here!</a> (Thanks a lot Spazz!)<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-17 18:55Z:</b> Or above, if your browser’s cool enough for HTML5. It works for me in Chromium, but it might not work in Firefox, so better check <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/hurricane-fluttershy-preview/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>. [I’ve since swapped in the official Hub version of the first clip.]<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-19 19:06Z:</b> And this time via <a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/hurricane-fluttershy-clip-number-two.html" target="_blank">Equestria Daily</a>, a second clip below. (Also on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/preview-hurricane-fluttershy-2nd-video/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> of course.)<br />
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Above the clip from <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/upcoming-episode-dragon-quest-s02e21.html" target="_blank">Dragon Quest</a> from last night. I hope you already saw it on <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/preview-clip-s2e21-dragon-quest/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a>, as I’m usually already asleep hours after midnight. Derpy Hooves News never sleeps! (“Must not sleep; must post ponies,” as <a href="http://aesoprock.com/" target="_blank">Aesop Rock</a>’s tattoo says.) To the right, you can find a link to a very basic <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/p/feeds.html" target="_blank">how-to on using feeds</a>, to easily follow as many news outlets as you like.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mylittlepony/posts/316510338408556" target="_blank">post on the My Little Pony Facebook wall</a> that got the ball rolling went up on exactly 1 a.m. UTC. It links to a puzzle game on the pages of The Hub. Interestingly, some of the images in the game are from <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/upcoming-episode-its-about-time-s02e20.html" target="_blank">It’s About Time</a>, some from other previous episodes, and some may even be from <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/03/upcoming-episode-mmmystery-on.html" target="_blank">MMMystery on the Friendship Express</a> and <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/upcoming-episode-s02e22.html" target="_blank">Hurricane Fluttershy</a>, as <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/preview-clips-mmmystery-on-the-friendship-express/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News speculates</a>! The Last-Modified headers show that the images have been where they are since March 6, which is even before the release of the <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/03/clip-from-it-about-time.html" target="_blank">It’s About Time teaser</a>. The game itself cannot have been accessible before March 14, though. I’ve reproduced all images below, after the break.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-17 04:23Z:</b> Another clip? Cool. Now back to bed. (Thanks to Keith and @AquaBreaker.)<br />
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<br />Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-76436195143623358912012-03-10T08:49:00.000+00:002012-04-07T10:31:10.028+00:00Upcoming Episode “MMMystery on the Friendship Express” (S02E24)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Air date: April 7, 2012, 17:00 UTC (1 p.m. EST)<br />
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Synopses:<br />
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<li>“A cake Pinkie Pie is guarding for a contest is ruined on the way to Canterlot and an investigation begins.” (<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/ponyleaks/EP013304160050" target="_blank">Zap2it</a>)</li>
<li>“After a cake she is guarding for a contest is destroyed on the way to Canterlot, Pinkie Pie starts an investigation into who the culprit is, which turns into one of the silliest criminal investigations in the history of Equestria.” (FYI Television via <a href="http://uverseonline.att.net/guide" target="_blank">U-verse</a>)</li>
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<b>Update 2012-03-23 10:05Z:</b> Added the extended synopsis.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-04-07 10:30Z:</b> The one and only <a href="http://www.derpyhoovesnews.com/s2e24-mmmystery-on-the-ponyville-express-episode-guide/" target="_blank">Episode Guide</a>. (If still 404, then you’re too early.)</div>Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-27822520103388249022012-03-08T20:32:00.001+00:002012-03-11T11:17:49.207+00:00Clip from It’s About Time<div style="text-align: center;">
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Unfortunately I can’t watch it right now. I’m posting this from my phone.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-08 21:23Z:</b> Now I watched it! <tt>ghc -e 'cycle "Yes! "'</tt> Also thanks to Keith!<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-09 17:53Z:</b> Now they also posted an image on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=402595863091190" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. Big news obviously. ^^<br />
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<br />Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-25109549158069318962012-03-07T15:07:00.001+00:002012-03-07T15:07:39.125+00:00Lee Tockar on EverFree Radio<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Our friends from <a href="http://everfreeradio.com/?p=2347" target="_blank">EverFree Radio just interviewed Lee Tockar</a>, the voice of Snips and Steven Magnet. The interview starts at 44:26; have fun listening to it. Usually I listen to those interviews at almost twice the speed, but this one I could hardly even speed up to one and a half. Get ready for a bucking verbal roller coaster!<br />
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As usual, you can find my summary below, after the break.<br />
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<li>He enjoys spontaneously making up or adapting his lines. (46:11)</li>
<li>Snips’s voice is based on a voice he did more than twenty-five years ago for a show involving a talking Commodore 64 and a typewriter. (47:30)</li>
<li>Sometimes characters get a little introduction in the script, with their proper name, but are later referred to by a generalized handle. Steven Magnet may have had another name that was only mentioned there, but in the script proper it just said “sea serpent.” (Or “Sea Serpent”? I don’t know.) (48:32)</li>
<li>He said that he would go to <a href="http://www.everfreenw.com/" target="_blank">EverfreeNW</a>. He has not been officially announced at this point but he seemed very certain. (52:17)</li>
<li>He likes wine gums. (56:01) I don’t think he mentioned the band, so can anyone make homemade wine gums in pony shapes for EverfreeNW?</li>
<li>From 57:26 onward, you can learn about his personal history, how he got into stand-up comedy, voice coaching, and of course voice acting.</li>
<li>Aspiring voice actors may be interested in 1:04:20, where he described how he classifies his hundreds upon hundreds of voices for the thousands of episodes he has contributed to, in order to quickly remember and also recombine them.</li>
<li>Then he talks about FanBuilt, a project of his where he records some of the best voice actors alive (including many of our My Little Pony idols), so that aspiring animators can come up with fitting scenes for them. Learn more about it on <a href="http://www.fanbuiltproject.com/" target="_blank">their website</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/FanBuiltProject" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/FanBuilt" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/137556793006808/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://fan-built-project.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">DeviantArt</a>, and <a href="http://fanbuilt.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>. (1:10:26)</li>
<li>Donald Duck’s is one of the almost no voices he has trouble imitating. (1:19:33)</li>
<li>“So many of my very good friends, … they like [and] I like to make people happy, and I think that a lot of voice actors and a lot of people that are like that are all too aware of the sadness in life, … so they’re very gentle spirits that try to make the world a better place for other people, in spite of the fact that the world is not a nice place for other people.” (1:26:40)</li>
<li>Oh, and he also does illustration, as you may have noticed if you followed a few of my links above. (1:29:42)</li>
<li>He first heard about us when Andrea Libman and others were talking about the brony conventions they are invited to. That must’ve been some time before the November 2011 <a href="http://www.fushicon.org/" target="_blank">Fushicon</a> with Andrea Libman. Daniel Ingram later introduced him to more of our own fan-built material. (1:34:51)</li>
<li>He is on DeviantArt and Fur Affinity. (1:35:45) I’ll have a look or search later.</li>
<li>And he wants to be in more My Little Pony episodes. (1:38:50) Hasbro, make it happen, give him more characters to voice!</li>
<li>He said that he may also be going to BronyCon. (1:40:00)</li>
<li>He’s involved with something called “Slugterra” or “Slugterrainea” by <a href="http://www.nerdcorps.com/" target="_blank">Nerd Corps</a> and is writing a movie by the name of “The Grym Possession of Chesterfield Couch” where, figuratively speaking, “Harry Potter meets The Odd Couple.” (1:42:43)</li>
<li>Still, he has a lot of time on his hands, so feel free to invite him to your podcasts or livestreaming events. (1:45:24)</li>
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It’s afternoon and I’m actually wide awake this time. If there should still be any omissions or blunders in my summary, please leave a comment, so I can fix them. Thanks!</div>Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-33589146435969545962012-03-07T10:14:00.001+00:002012-03-07T20:07:41.411+00:00Rumored Synopsis of Season Two Finale<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Someone named Alex sent a picture of a page from TV Guide to <a href="http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/03/rumor-season-finale-synopsis-twilight.html" target="_blank">Equestria Daily</a>, where it was published today at 00:27Z. The photo shows a synopsis of the season two finale:<br />
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Not everything is rainbows and gumdrops in this two-part special that finds unicorn Twilight Sparkle digging up a wedding shocker as her brother Shining Armor prepares to get hitched. —MWB</blockquote>
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Who’s “MWB”? Anyway, the air date given is April 21, which means that we’ll probably have to endure one more gap until the finale if the episode on April 21 is number twenty-five (or the whole two-parter on one day), or no gap at all if it is the last episode.<br />
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<a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/possible-season-finale-synopsis/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> found out that the current TV Guide does not contain the paragraph, so its authenticity can’t be confirmed at this point. It may be an advance copy of the next issue.<br />
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I thought a blue shield with Twilight’s star on it as cutie mark for her brother makes a great nod to Past Sins fans, hence the image above. See also <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2011/12/more-information-on-princess-cadence.html" target="_blank">More Information on Princess Cadence and Shining Armor</a>.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-07 20:01Z:</b> <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/tv-guide-season-finale-synopsis-confirmation-its-real/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News</a> has been sent photos of the new TV Guide containing the synopsis. Looks very real.<br />
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<br />Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-64826252781338122352012-03-03T08:40:00.002+00:002012-03-31T16:03:15.265+00:00Upcoming Episode “Ponyville Confidential” (S02E23)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Air date: March 31, 2012, 17:00 UTC (1 p.m. EST)<br />
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Synopses:<br />
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<li>“The Cutie Mark Crusaders start a gossip column under the name Gabby Gums, but find it might not be worth the pain the stories cause other ponies.” (<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/ponyleaks/EP013304160049" target="_blank">Zap2it</a>)</li>
<li>“In order to become the gossip columnist for their school paper, the Cutie Mark Crusaders adopt the name ‘Gabby Gums,’ but when they land the job, their happiness is cut short by the pain they cause to other ponies with their hurtful stories.” (FYI Television via <a href="http://uverseonline.att.net/guide" target="_blank">U-verse</a>)</li>
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<b>Update 2012-03-16 09:55Z:</b> Added longer synopsis.<br />
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<b>Update 2012-03-31 16:05Z:</b> <a href="http://derpyhoovesnews.com/s2e23-ponyville-confidential-episode-guide/" target="_blank">Derpy Hooves News Episode Guide</a>.</div>Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333501531962967267.post-18546464849445876192012-03-01T22:12:00.002+00:002012-03-01T22:25:11.118+00:00Clip from Putting Your Hoof Down<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well, this looks like a preview of <a href="http://ponyleaks.yoursiblings.org/2012/02/upcoming-episode-putting-your-hoof-down.html" target="_blank">Putting Your Hoof Down</a>. Wonderful! Enjoy!Telofyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146177008209350071noreply@blogger.com3