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In this book, two child soldiers discover the existence of alien androids who have been hiding among humans for thousands of years using hologram technology, and nearly die working to keep the androids' sophisticated technology our of the hands of the invading body snatcher aliens.

Destruction of discord, December 2025

I don't think I ever posted this on Tumblr

Jesus wept. You saying the King of kings, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, is acting like a woman (derogatory)? He in His humanity is our ideal as a species, He as Christ is YOUR (men’s) ideal as a husband, and you say this behavior He exhibited is beneath the male ideal?

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The post this stems from is even worse.

Walsh should tell that to the American soldiers who broke down and wept upon hearing the news of the Japanese surrender in 1945 as they were preparing to board the planes for the invasion. They cried because they realized that they were going to be allowed to live the rest of their lives instead of bring torn to shreds by gunfire as they planned.

How dare somebody get emotional after a robbery when they have a moment to take in what happened. He's thinking about how his entire life could have just been taken. His future wife, future kids who he'd never know because they would never exist, all of his future experiences for the next half century were in the hands of a senseless, violent maniac.

Yeah, yeah, we can pull out the whole Jesus wept thing. He cried for Lazarus, and He cried for Jerusalem. But He is hardly the only man who has cried. Jeremiah earned himself the moniker "the weeping prophet." David was moved to tears when brought face to face with his sin. Elijah cried about his situation. The Bible does not shame men for their tears. There is no verse that says women must remain the sex to cry while men must remain stoic, with the exceptions of birth and death. There is no verse.

The Bible does not promote the idea that you must have it all together. In fact, it speaks to being honest, sharing burdens with people of the church. While there is something to be said for men and women groups in a church, the Bible very clearly does not say burdens must not be shared with a spouse. By refusing to cry in front of your wife, you are not upholding a picture of Godly masculinity, but rather are using masculinity as an excuse to be proud.

You don't want to look weak or vulnerable in front of the one you are one with? Like seriously, your wife, your husband, is one with you. The Bible clearly states that. And that is the person you will not be vulnerable in front of? Whatever for? It boils down to pride. Matt Walsh is promoting and endorsing prideful behavior, when as Christians, we are not supposed to.

"We can't look weak to the women"- your Savior was beaten, stripped, and hung on a cross for a criminal's death for all to see, and you know which disciples sat and watched? Who did not lose respect? Who did not lose love? The women. The women were right there, watching Jesus at His weakest and most vulnerable moment. And Matt would have men remain stoic around their wives. So they don't look weak.

Have some humility.

There are times when tears must be held back. There are times when it goes from emotional overflow to just being whiny. That is true regardless of gender. That does not mean men should not cry in front of their wives. Yes, some men are naturally more stoic, and there's nothing wrong with that. But for heaven's sake, that is not some arbitrary standard for all men.

Loving Families Daddy and Baby Sister.

Artist: Daniel Ingram

Movie: My Little Pony - Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks

Like Pegasus rainbow dash starts to fall apart the second you think about it too hard and realise she’s just firefly wearing rainbow dashes skin. And that G4 isn’t interested with rainbow dash at all. It really wishes she was firefly.

G4 clearly has a pattern going on where they only want two of each pony type (prior to Twilight's ascension) in the Mane 6 (versus G3's Core 7 having Sweetie Belle and Starsong as the token unicorn and pegasus respectively). Fluttershy was an earth pony, Posey, in the original G1-reincarnation plans and is probably the most drastically changed when they were renamed, given that Posey is a gardening pony. They started redeveloping her based on the butterfly theming of G3 Fluttershy while keeping Posey's colors.

Even before establishing in lore that she's a "fish out of water" among pegasi for sticking close to the ground, giving her wings to make her seem more butterfly-like or giving her flight so they can put her in higher places (such as trees with bird nests) in the animation meant someone's wings had to be forked over... and it sure wasn't going to be sporty-speedster Firefly/RD's.

Fun fact: her G3 counterpart, in an era where cutie marks weren't 100% connected to talents and personality, was a photographer, which explains why her name looks like a copyright-dodging spoonerism of "Shutterfly".

Another plausible reason for ditching pegasus Pinkie (after she stopped being Surprise) is that, because of G3 Pinkie's prominence, they didn't want to mess with her design too much. G3 Pinkie Pie was practically the face of the generation.

I grew up with G3/G3.5 and, while I had a whole bin of ponies and Core 7 stickers all over my bedroom door, back then, at about kindergarten age, I could not tell you the names of any of them except for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, the latter because I had a plush with her name on the tag. Pinkie Pie was on my birthday cake. The first pony I remember actually being able to read the name of on the pack was an Easter Bunny Pinkie Pie. The big G3 DS game (that I never owned but longed for) was Pinkie Pie's Party. If you asked anyone who knew the bare minimum about MLP at the time, they could at least tell you one of them was Pinkie Pie.

Toy companies like putting the pink one in the forefront. It's the same reason why less-invested people are likely to be able to at least name Draculaura if asked about Monster High.

With how big Pinkie was in G3, while I personally don't think adding wings would impact recognition, Hasbro is likely very protective of their pink moneymaking brand figure. This explains why, design-wise, her cutie mark is a straight redraw (down to the number and color of balloons) and her mane and coat colors are the reverse of G3.

Before the argument about G4 Pinkie growing up on a rock farm being devalued if she were a pegasus crops up, consider that this bit of lore was likely written when it was firmly established she would be an earth pony. Key parts of the Mane 6's backstories in G4 as we know it hinge on their pony type and, considering Surprise and Posey switched types when they became Pinkie and Fluttershy (the latter even changing talents), their lore either changed or wasn't fully drafted until everything was cemented.

Moving on to the point of Rainbow Dash being changed, I think, in rebranding Firefly, they landed on repurposing G3's Rainbow Dash because of the "Dash" in her name (suggesting speed, good for the sporty character) and to give her a popularity kickstart by tying her to one of the more popular G3 ponies (after Pinkie Pie obviously).

However, there was a space for her original G3 personality in the cast, taking Rarity's role. While there seems to be an emphasis on wanting a unicorn in this role given Rarity was originally going to be either Sparkler or Glory (both were inspirations), they were able to change Rainbow Dash to a pegasus without issue, so making her a unicorn would be just as easy. Why wouldn't kids want a rainbow-hair unicorn? G4 Rarity even inherits her accent from G3 Rainbow Dash.

As for why this role would need to be a unicorn and couldn't use earth pony RD, Rarity's role places additional emphasis on design and creation while RD focuses more on styling. While RD does have the potential to expand, using a unicorn with levitation spells would save the animators from having to figure out hoof or muzzle physics for certain parts of the process (hand sewing, using scissors, etc.).

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