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>>30217676
>...was allowed to roam freely through camp, entering the Marines' tents, where she would sleep on cold nights
She kept many a man company during those lonely nights

>>30217691
Now I want to see a picture of her cuddling up with private anon.

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>>30217676
>Thought Sergeant was just a cheeky nickname
>Read the article
>They actually promoted a horse to fucking Sargent

>>30217778
Apparently you have never heard of Wojtek the Corporal bear serving with the 22nd Artillery Supply Company in Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

>>30217702
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6JaTCq0c0w

>>30217676
Yeah she's cool and all, but she's not Sgt. Stubby.

>>30217676
>awarded the dickin medal
That's some mare

>>30217676

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBTgp948DY

>>30217829
>a claim having no official documentary evidence, but

Reckless was officially ranked.

>watches youtube videos about a horse that's been dead for 60 years.
why am I crying?!

Any MLP G4 style art of her?

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>>30217916
This is all of her art so far, and this is fresh from the draw thread.

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It sure is nice of the horsies to help us kill each other.

>>30217778
At my school, we have a dog that holds the rank of general and outranks every student.

>>30217960
If I went to your Academy and stole your Mascot, would I be tried for kidnapping a senior officer of your army?

>>30217950
Very much so. Imagine how much slower we would have killed each other for all those years without them.

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>>30217950
They've always been there for us
You didn't hear it from me but word around the stable is they like the feel of our nuts on their back

Fact: Most warhorses were mares, because mares are more stronger than stallions.

>>30217676
>"The spirit of her loneliness and her loyalty, in spite of the danger, was something else to behold. Hurting. Determined. And alone. That's the image I have imprinted in my head and heart forever."

ow my feels

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>>30217676
>known for her willingness to eat nearly anything, including scrambled eggs, beer, Coca-Cola and, once, about $30 worth of poker chips.
I guess she ate like a horse

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>>30218534

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>>30217676
>Honors: Dickin' Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Purple Hearts, Presidential Unit Citation, and many others.
>Ate eggs and bacon, and drank Coca-Cola and beer.
>Ate a discarded helmet liner at the end of her first mission with zero fucks given.
>Promoted to staff sergeant and honored with a 19-gun salute and a 1,700-man parade of Marines from her wartime unit.
>A statue was made in her honor at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

This horse is so God damn American it brings a tear to my eye, this horse is a fucking badass.

>>30219268
makes me proud to be a Horsefucker, er American!

Says she had four foals, but I can't find if her bloodline still lives.

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>>30217950
Serious, who started the "dog is mans best friend" meme when horses have played such a massive role in our history.
Hell, some SF even today have been known to ride local horses in the Middle East, and of course riot police still use them to great effect.

www.sgtreckless.com

>Korean name: Flame-of-the-morning (Ah Chim Hai)

So her mane is Reckless Sunrise?

Or Sunrise Reckless?

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>>30217676
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVRbEGlB4sc

>>30218534
The wikipedia page on her has some hilarious bits:
> I was surprised at her beauty and intelligence, and believe it or not, her esprit de corps. Like any other Marine, she was enjoying a bottle of beer with her comrades. She was constantly the center of attraction and was fully aware of her importance. If she failed to receive the attention she felt her due, she would deliberately walk into a group of Marines and, in effect, enter the conversation. It was obvious the Marines loved her.

>Reckless's entry into the United States was not without its challenges. The Customs Bureau was not much of a problem but the United States Department of Agriculture insisted a medical check and lab tests be completed before she disembarked from the ship once it reached San Francisco, which would make her late for the Marine banquet where she was to be the guest of honor. The Marines contacted Agriculture Department officials in Washington, D.C. who agreed to allow her off the ship after her blood was drawn for lab tests, with the understanding that if she had glanders or dourine, she would be destroyed or sent back to Japan. Many of the Marines who actually knew her were incensed at what they considered an affront to her honor when they learned that dourine was an equine sexually transmitted disease.[35] The night before she arrived, she once again ate her blanket, but a new one with ribbons and insignia was made just in time for her disembarkation

Blanket-eating war horse, fantastic

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>>30219606
>A horse who washed down blankets and helmet liners with beer and coke outranked human marines
Could this horse get anymore based?

>>30219349
>help us to work the lands
>scare indians
>horse shit good for land
>horses are for alpha
>horse pussy
>eats grass and drinks water, it only needs a big land
true, horses a true man's friend

>traitor race of wolfes, will kill any weaker than him (babies, old man, cute tiny foxes)
>bark all day, fucking annoying
>stupid breeds everywhere
>beta as fuck, good for beta people
>cannot survive on it's own, the little turd it's useless
dogs are the niggers of nature.

>>30219637
Don't forget they fought wars with us for nearly all of recorded history

>>30219637
we'd all have our own horses if it wasn't for the invention of the automobile

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>>30219349
>>30219637
>>30219647
Despite a couple of nigger-tier breeds no one can deny that the good dog breed's generally more than make up for the rest of their race in terms of worth, less so in modern times but that's a symptom of decaying culture more than anything.
A horse on the other hand, simply has no relatable term for the relationship we have.
A horse is man's Horse.
A man is horse's Man.

Dog may be mans best friend, but Horse helped us write history.

God bless this fucking horse

This is the best shit I've ever read about a horse.

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>>30217676
I can't even fap to this horse. Reading her story, all I can feel is respect.

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art of Sergeant Reckless when?

>>30220391
NO!
you SHOW your RESPECT for her BY fapping to her heroic horsepussy
It's the least you can do to make a tribute to a horse that helped keep you free!

>>30220420
Technically she kept the South Koreans free, not Americans

>>30220430
whatever, that horsepussy protected SOMEONE'S freedom, so you fucking fap to pay your respects!

>>30217676
Realistically, to the extent that we can speak of "realistic" things in Technicolor Tiny Horse Land?

She's probably a lot bigger than most of them, with the possible exception of the Princesses.

They would treat her as a curiosity, I think, just because she would (I assume) be a non-sentient animal that vaguely resembled them in some ways.

Assuming she got turned into a cute talking pony? Holy shit.

>the new pony's been drinking again, and telling stories
>"And no shit, there we were, on top of Hill 409, and about a million fuckin' Chinese down in the valley below us, blowing bugles as they got ready to attack."
>"And they came up the hill screamin' like fuckin' banshees, and it was real fuckin' scary 'til they hit the minefield and the wire."
>"They just kind of stalled there, and our radio guy--kid from Detroit named Kanisky, real nice guy, got on the blower and called for air support."
>"Bout a dozen Corsairs and Able Dogs that were waiting on station peeled off and laid into th' gooks with rockets an' napalm an' twenny mike-mike."
>"And that broke 'em, and they fell back, still screamin' like demons and blowin' them fuckin' bugles."
>"Must have left a million fuckin' crispy critters stuck in the wire, I tell you what."
>ponies all stare at her horrified
>but the other new creature, the human
>he keeps buying her drinks
>and he's laughing
>ponies have asked him why he does this
>he just rolls up his sleeve and shows them a marking that's sort of like a cutie mark
>an eagle, globe, and anchor
>same as the new pony's cutie mark
>and smiles, showing all his teeth in a way ponies find unsettling

>>30220488
>Sergeant Reckless was described as a small horse, a Mongolian horse too
>MLP Reckless would be a almond eyed womanlet who would eat crayons covered with glue if you put it in an MRE bag

>>30220528
so, she's a cousin of Derpy's?

>>30220528
Mongolian != mongoloid.

Also,

>womanlet

You meant "marelet," right?

>>30220541
Sure, marelet

>>30220420
>>30220453
Get out of here you Jew, making us disrespect our horses with your ass backwards ideals about reproduction, you dirty, primitive, hormone-filled gipsy.
The day of the mare will come for all you dirty arabians who called your beautiful mare made a whorse.

>>30219606
>Marines were offended to learn that dourine was an equine sexually transmitted disease

Shit, she could have gotten it from one of them. These ARE Marines we're talking about, amirite?

I kid, I kid. The Wikipedia article on dourine makes it look like some nasty, untreatable shit, too. Ew.

>>30220594
To be perfectly honest I wouldn't be surprised if a few of the marines at least thought about it, I mean, fuckin' marines mang.

>>30219720
Nothing can possibly make up for chiwawas.

I've never seen a tiny yappy horse that wont shut up.

>>30220541
When will they learn

>>30220528
>tiny almond eyed marelet

I can no longer find it but for a PiE thread some time back I wrote a story of the human having a kiang pony girlfriend (kiangs are apparently Chinese wild horses) and taking her to a Chinese restaurant, where she started yelling "Aiyah!" like Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 and started arguing with the cooks about the food not being "authentic," in Mandarin.

>>30220488
Holy fucking shit I have never needed green of anything more in my life.

>Horse that's a war hero
>loves to drink beer, eat horse blankets, poker chips, and hang out with the boys
>puts 100% into her work, holds strong when literally under fire, taking shrapnel to the eye and flank, still faithfully performs her duty

I'm completely serious when I say human women can't even compete with this. A horse is more useful and desirable than the average woman.

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>>30221031
>human women can't even compete
It just confirms what we already know. Horses are wonderful.

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If lil sebastian appeared in equestria, how would ponies react to him?

>>30221093
>Taught lead
That pony doesn't want to be there.

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>>30218005
and that's not counting those vagina muscles eh?

>>30220488
neat

>>30217676
Wait which one of you cheeky cunts posted this on /k/

>>30220420
Amen brother

She could be an interesting character

>Scrappy mare, ready and willing to fight whenever, but also has a kind heart to her friends
>a bit simple, but by no means stupid
>hungry horsey, loves eating and drinking cider
>strong mare, able to carry heavy loads

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>>30217676
They should have gotten together.

>>30221879
So basically she's Applejack done right.

>>30222101
AJ wishes she was a fart that passed by one of Reckless's asshole hairs.

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>>30221879
>Scrappy mare, ready and willing to fight whenever, but also has a kind heart to her friends
>a bit simple,

Are you saying what I think you're saying?

>>30222179
>A race horse bought from a korean child for 250$ to be a packmewl becomes hero.

RD could potentially have a similar life in the slave ponies threads.

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>>30222115
>>30222101
>"Great Great Great Great Great... "
>[Several minutes later]
>"...Great Great Auntie Reckless? Shoot, that mare's a legend anon, mighty nice of ya to think i hold a shine to her though, she bucked with the best of them and was one of the first ponies in equestria to make cider you know."
>"Course, nowaday's ours is practically pig swill in comparison, they say she had to use cast iron mugs cause it'd burn right through all wooden ones 'afore you could drink it all."

>>30217778
that's nothing.

>>30217784 covered Wojtek, here's some more.

Meet Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Kings Guard, Sir Nils Olav III. Yes, he's a Knight. (also a Penguin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav

Lance Corporal William Windsor the goat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Windsor_(goat)

Chief Dog Sinbad (equivalent to Chief Petty Officer). He liked Whiskey, and got himself temporarily demoted a few times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_(dog)

There's also quite a few Bulldogs in the USMC who have held military rank. One made it to Sergeant Major.

>>30219720
Fuck man, that's some heavy shit right there
Should I add it to some landscape and add tons of filters and upload to Instagram and Tumblr?

>>30220488
As a Marine that was deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom I thank you for bringing a smile to my face. I wish that anon was me.
>inb4 PTSD shit

>>30222222

>>30217676
I've only read half this thread but I already love Sgt Reckless. I can only hope I can consume half as much beer and Coca-Cola as she did while fighting for our freedoms.

>>30222381
You're welcome. I try to entertain.

>>30222381
Dank u 4 yer cervix

Fuckin murrikans

Semper Fi little filly, Semper Fi

>>30222381
;_;7

>>30219349
dogs have been apart of our history since before the ice age
they've earned their right as man's best friend

>>30222757
They're race traitors to the glorious wolves of old

>Reckless will never make you her bitch

>>30222804
Press B to bend over for Reckless

>>30222804
>Reckless will never come to you after a night of drinking and tell you she's cold
>she will never try to put her belly against your back and say "I get confused, before I came here I used to be able to be the big spoon for humans"
>"Now, though--did I shrink in the wash, or something?"
>you won't hug her
>her mane won't smell like cigarettes and beer
>you won't hold her anyway

>>30222827
The Iraqi's and Taliban didn't kill me but this does

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>>30222941
God damn, the memes are real

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>"There's them fucking gooks!"
"Reckless that's the lady from the spa"
>"Ha!"
>"She's a damn commie spy"
>"Wojtek!"
>"*grunt*?"
>"Load er up!"

And that's how a 57mm shell ended up in the bathhouse

>>30223106
I love it, thank you drawfag

>>30223112
As much as I wish I drew this all thanks goes to plunger

Someday I'd like to pet a horse

They seem kinda like big dogs or something

I heard a movie about Sgt.Reckless was in production few years ago, anyone got any information?

We need more threads like this about Seabiscuit and many other honorable four legged heroes.

>>30223190
Nigga, how much of a cityfag are you that you've never managed to pet a horse?

Their manes feel like really thick human hair, and their fur is very stiff and short so it's not really all the soft. Also riding one is one hell of a leg workout.

>>30223190
IRL horses tend to be skittish and unpredictable with humans they haven't seen before, and even people whose scent the horse recognizes will occasionally manage to startle or annoy them enough that the horse will stomp them to death or bite their faces off. It's an occupational hazard of being around animals that are much larger and stronger than any human. This is why large animal vets are big fans of "chemical restraint," which basically means the horse is sedated to the point of barely being able to stand, and may have head and feet immobilized anyway.

Sgt. Reckless appears to have been an uncommonly calm and docile horse. Not every horse is nearly so friendly or predictable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-Z8_6_m4Q

>>30223222
>Nigga, how much of a cityfag are you that you've never managed to pet a horse?
It's not so much that I'm a cityfag as it is that I just don't own any horses, nor do I know anyone who owns them

Sometimes when I drive in the rural areas I see horses and I always like to look at them as I go by, but that's about it. I'm not going to be a massive creepo and ask some stranger if I can pet their horses.

>>30223238
Why not just rent a horse for a ride around the woods? It's fun.

>>30223245
I'm a bit poorfag these days, but maybe. I could look into it.

I'd certainly like to. Horseys are pretty.

>>30223238
Yeah. I live in a suburban area and there's a petting zoo with Shetland ponies not terribly far from me--but what does it look like when an adult male, without a car full of kids, shows up at the petting zoo?

>>30223257
>an adult male, without a car full of kids, shows up at the petting zoo
Yeah, this applies fairly well to me, as well.

>childless, adult male with no visible female companion inquiring about petting your horses
>childless, adult male with no visible female companion wants to know if he can go for a horse ride
Sometimes I feel like a massive creep by just existing. I'm here, so it's probably not so far off, actually.

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>>30220488
>there will never be a true greentext of this

somebody please make the pain stop

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>>30223253
It certainly gives you a newfound respect for folk who rode these things everyday, you snot will be black for the rest of the day and your legs feel like absolute shit, but it's fun.

>>30223296
They probably act like massive, pissy bitches like everyone says, but just looking at pictures of them... they look so sweet and I wanna pet their muzzles and feed it some apples or something.

>>30223308
Horse steak is also pretty good, super lean meat, basically beef but without a single hint of fat. Pretty common in Switzerland for some reason.

>>30223322
Now I'm sad.

>>30223322
horses are companion animals not food

fuck animals in general, but companion animals
should be loved

>>30223328
>>30223332
Hey, gotta try a bit of everything, right? Ride, pet, and eat.

Really though, I saw it at the butchers and figured "you know, this is probably the only time I'll ever get to try this" so I said fuck it and got some.

>>30223338
I'd rather try it's milk

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thanks for giving me ideas for that cyoa I might get around to writing in the next decade.

>>30223234
That's completely untrue. A horse might bite but they run away from anyone they don't trust, and most of the time they just walk. Any horse that's ever been around people is going to be ok, but you still respect them just like a strange dog.

>>30223308
Yeah. They're beautiful animals generally. Most every culture seems to consider them very aesthetically pleasing. Especially in Western Europe there's still, 2500 years later, a cultural distaste a lot of people have for the idea of eating horse meat, which may or may not have its original roots in the Celtic cult of the goddess Epona, Goddess of Horses, who would punish those who mistreated horses with sickness and bad luck.

Not even talking just about adorable little Mongolian ponies like Sgt. Reckless. Thoroughbreds are graceful creatures, for all their size and power. We never see them without a jockey on their backs running around a dusty track, but they're amazing to watch, just running around a field. Arabian horses, especially the mares, have big expressive eyes and long pretty eyelashes, and slender feminine muzzles.

And they have enduring cultural associations, as symbols. Horses mean freedom, swiftness, grace, speed, and (oddly) toughness. That last one is a little odd because vets can tell you that horses, for all their size and strength, are tremendously fragile creatures. They have to be put down when they break a leg because they have poor circulation in their extremities and damaged leg bone for them almost never heals, and unlike dogs they're too heavy to hobble around with three legs. Surgery of any kind is tremendously risky on horses. Just putting a horse under general anesthesia has about a 1% chance of killing them--they go into cardiac arrest, or they stumble and fall in the stall and break a bone, or they collapse at an awkward angle that compresses a blood vessel long enough for tissue to start dying, or they just stop breathing--before the vet even gets out the scalpels and saws. That's how Sgt. Reckless died, by the way--see the Wikipedia article. She was running around a paddock for exercise and got tangled in some barbed wire. They put her under anesthesia to treat her wounds and her heart just stopped.

>>30223234
Horses are actually fairly good natured animals, they won't go outright attacking you if it sees you just standing a few meters away.
Basically, don't be a fucking retard who thinks a half ton to a ton of almost pure muscle animal is going to like a complete stranger run right up to it and quickly slapping his big greasy hand right onto its face.

>>30223377
As much as I admire them (and my naive idealization of what I think they're like), I don't think I could ever own one. They're so expensive to maintain, and I don't know the first thing about horse care. Plus, they're so easily breakable, like you said. That's pretty heartbreaking.

Pictures of them and drive-by admiring is probably the closest I'll get.

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>>30217676
>Two purple hearts
>A fucking horse is more decorated and respected than you will ever be

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>>30223404
Really puts my life into perspective.

>>30223377
Oddly enough though horses, like humans, are some of the only mammals who use sweat to regulate their body temperature, giving them nearly endless endurance when it comes to running while many other animals would just overheat and die if they kept going.

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>>30223411
Sounds like you need a change.

>>30223234
Either you have literally never been around horses, or they're skittish because you are. They're not fucking stupid, they know we're smarter and if they see we're worried about something, then they will be too.

>>30217676

/k/ is monitoring this thread.

>>30223579
>/mlp/ is monitoring the /k/ thread
>/k/ is monitoring the /mlp/ thread
It's pretty funny how much cross boarding goes on between us, you're reckon we'd be the most distant boards but then you see a battle station thread on both /k/ and on /mlp/ and half of them are the same posters.

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>>30217916
Tried my hand on designing her
>Gave her hairstyle which was popular among S.Koreans in 1950s
>Cutie mark is helmet with wings, resembling Hermes's helmet

>>30223106
kek

>>30223609
Totes adorbs. Would give the Dickin Medal. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

>>30217834
I've got a dickin for her

>>30223609
Top cute warhorse

>>30223344
Triple doubles commands it

>>30223322
anyone against eating horses obviously doesn;t know how bad most horse vocations really are. horses who are raised for meat would honestly have a better than average life than most horses, from idiots keeping them in stalls when they are a herd animal.

>>30223754
Nice
That Korean says "is delicious"
Should be "맛있네"

>>30223774
Yeah, i was just dicking around with Translate.

>>30223754
I love this horse

Needs more art

>>30223106
Reckless hauled a US made 75 mm caliber recoilless rifle for her squad, its basically an infantry carried anti tank gun.

>Makes little what do post about war pony, come back a day later to fine 130 replies.

well alrighty then

>>30224199
Don't let it go to your head, faggot.

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>>30217996
Horse archery before stirrups must have sucked.

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>>30223768
>horses who are raised for meat would honestly have a better than average life than most horses
You say that, but I guarantee that once horse meat got big enough to attract the attention of modern agribusiness they'd find a way to fuck it up.
Modernity never fails to disappoint.

>>30225130
Thankful horse meat is only really common in very few countries, and honestly I can't see it getting popular anywhere else due to the stigma around eating horse meat.

>>30223754
I don't feel worthy enough to call her my waifu

>>30225130
the problem with your vapid opinion is the idea that horses will suffer from being in close quarters, horses in most circumstances are locked up alone in a stall for hours at night when they don't sleep and they don't like it and it's not good for them. they need to be with the rest of the heard. Second. There is no fucking way in the world it is worse than the derby, who don't just feed the horses shitty food, but ride them when they are too young, resulting in crippled horses, that usually don't live useful lives beyond adulthood.

A filly being raised to 2-3 years old and living together with its family the whole time to be farmed for its meat is more human, but of course most of humanity abhors horse meat, so they go to places like the derby where they treate them even worse then sell them off to be dogfood.

>>30225442
>most of humanity abhors horse meat
Why though, it's basically a much tastier and healthy alternative to beef?

>>30223609
I just want to say I love your 4cc art, and art in general, drawanon.

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>>30225452
Germans know that!

>>30225484
Don't eat the pononi

>>30225452
It's cultural. For thousands of years horses were too badly needed, for transportation, for agriculture. They were indispensable beasts of burden, there was no substitute for them. Humans lived and worked with them too closely and came to view horses with the sort of affection we think of as being reserved for pets, dogs and cats. And as internal combustion engines replaced horses for farm and transport labor a smaller and smaller number of people have owned horses as basically extremely expensive high-maintenance pets.

As mentioned above, among the Celts there was a cult of the goddess Epona (yes, the video game people named Link's pony for her) which became very popular with the Romans. Epona would punish you with sickness or bad luck if you mistreated horses. It would be a stretch to say horses were worshipped but it wasn't as far short of that as you might think.

Even people who've never seen horses except on TV still think of them as enormous cuddly pets--which they really aren't, but this is about perception. Eating horse meat is looked at in much the same way as eating dog or cat meat would be. Since you asked "why." Fried cat might taste better than fried chicken for all I know, but I am not going to eat the neighbors' pet cat. I'm not going to give money to people who set up a factory to raise "battery kittens" for food, either.

>>30225452
Oh. And outside the West? In the Moslem world, horses are considered, if not holy, then something close to it. Mohammed was very enthusiastic about horses and said that Allah created something very special and beautiful in them, something with a spark of the divine. The Koran says that horses were made from the swift south wind and Allah's own breath.

Oh, and if you think American women are goofy for horses, talk to an Arab some time. All this is, again, cultural. There is not, so far as science has determined, an "I love horses" gene that people have in some parts of the world and not in others. But culture is powerful.

>>30221062
>Pot-8-Os

son of a bitch....

>>30223609
Love it, but maybe the cutie mark should be the symbol of the marines?

Who?

>>30223754
>NOT SMALL!

i am in love

>>30219349
Also it's more likely that the first extrasolar colonies on habitable planets will initially use horses to get around because with modern vehicles you need a manufacturing infrastructure whereas with horses you just need to bring a viable breeding pair.

>>30223754
I don't know if I'm disrespecting a literal war hero's memory by fapping to her, or honouring it

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I can't into colouring today but here's some more of that brave little warhorse

>>30223296
>you snot will be black for the rest of the day

...Why, exactly?

>>30226329

Nice

>>30226343
Not him, but horse riding often involves kicking up a lot of dust, which you wind up breathing in. The mucus turning black is just the mucus doing its job in catching those pollutants.

>>30226343
Horses kick up lots of dust and you're essentially in a cloud of dirt as long as you're around them

In fact you can actually see the dust kicked up in the picture if you look between the two horses

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do you think sgt reckless would ever receive enough love?

>>30226329
more

>>30226566
From the sounds of it, she was well loved by all the marines who served with her

She even got a 19-gun salute

>>30226566

>She was constantly the center of attraction and was fully aware of her importance. If she failed to receive the attention she felt her due, she would deliberately walk into a group of Marines and, in effect, enter the conversation. It was obvious the Marines loved her.

It sounds like it.

How would Reckless act in Equestria?
I might try to make green

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>>30217676
One of the last creative threads on this board.

Now this deserves a general , not a garbage green one full of vomit.
But just a general talking about Sergeant Reckless.

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I want to this but with Sgt. Reckless and a North Korean Pone

>>30225452
Define most of humanity
Mongolians eat it and they love horses.
Most of Asia and Europe eats it

>>30226694
meant for >>30225442

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>>30226666
>Country ponies
>Those digits
Tell Satan to fuck off everybody.

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>>30226204
Good point, then let's just use Sergeant mark for cutie mark
>>30225462
T-thanks anon, feels good to be recognised

Also, hungry Reckless

>>30226628
Do it, We believe in you

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Can I at least request we get her mane right?

Shaved in the back, bangs up front.

Also, look at this sexy cutie.

>>30226884

Spunky

>2 weeks into field promotion and chill and your staff sergeant gives you this look

So would she have a korean or mongolian accent?

>>30226566
Glorious hero mare, what's not to love.

>>30217778
Most military working dogs outrank me. It's not a big deal, they're just one rank above their handler at all times.

>>30223332
>fuck animals in general
Why?

>>30226928

Dude just fuckin hates animals

bumping in hope of content

>ywn be a starving nork peasant
>Reckless will never capture and peg you

>>30226884
>shaved mane like any marine
>except for the very front
That's fucking cute as shit nigga.

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>>30226628
Very mellow and quiet but thoughtful when she does speak. Can transport more then three times the weight of a little pony and deliver it on time to boot. Has a bad habit of eating anything around her general vicinity, butting into conversations without warning, and prone to seasickness. Loyalty to a fault and always gets the job done. Also I like to imagine she has a weakness to cider.

>>30225442
>A filly being raised to 2-3 years old and living together with its family the whole time
That's some nice free-range organic horsemeat you've got there, but what about the cheap stuff that goes into the Burger King dollar menu horseburgers?
If you think large-scale horsemeat farming would treat horses with more than the bare minimum humanity required by law (if that), you're out of your mind.

>>30217676
What is her battlecry, /mlp/?

>>30226928
its humanities place to compete with other life, i dont believe in cruelty for the sake of it, and i believe animals that are integral to human culture (hunting animals, national animals) should be protected, but if theres a good place to build a mine thats inhabited by an endangered species of snail i dont give a fuck

>>30228430
neigh

>>30226774
Such a hungry horsey

>>30226774
I feel like this would be the last panel of a Sunday morning comic in which Reckless eats GySgt Joseph Lathem's $30 poker chips

>>30228603
Turns out she was just wanting him to stop his gambling problem for the sake of the squad

>>30228669
as she moves on to a nearby helmet liner

>Reckless goes out for a night of Gambling
>wins a motherload
>takes it all home and eats it
she's not very popular in casinos

>>30228680
>Reckless hears the lower rank guys wanting (potato) chips
>Then hears about a poker game with poker chips
>Must thinks these two chips are the one and the same
>Eats them and chases it with coke and beer

With all the inedible shit she keeps eating, her bowel movements must be absolute hell...

>>30228761
Horses are at least theoretically more resistant to this kind of thing and can even survive, for a time, on feed that's mostly sawdust. They are hind gut fermenters, meaning they have multiple stomach-like organs, sort of like a cow, and in the rearmost one before the large intestine begins, a population of symbiotic bacteria break down cellulose and turn a portion of it into digestible starches. In theory.

In fact, yeah, horses eat just about anything they can get in their mouths, including the occasional bit of sharp scrap metal, jagged broken plastic, or whatever, requiring either emergency abdominal surgery or euthanasia. Even without eating dangerous sharp foreign matter, horses are also prone to a condition called "colic," which is rather different from the digestive upset that human infants get that is called by the same name. They can eat too much too fast and get a potentially lethal blockage of solid matter somewhere in the 100+ feet of tubing between mouth and asshole, which may require a veterinary surgeon to fix. For horses, an upset stomach is SRS BZNS.

>>30228829
>requiring either emergency abdominal surgery or euthanasia.
>euthanasia

God fucking damn it, why must these beautiful creatures be so good at fucking DYING

>>30228873
They're as fragile as they are beautiful.

Sgt. Reckless lived over twenty, maybe as much as twenty-five years. That's long enough for most breeds of horse to die of old age, by which I mean, get cancer, or have a fatal heart attack while running in the paddock, or a stroke, or get crippling arthritis requiring (again) euthanasia.

For having been born into a war, she was a damn lucky little pony. She had a good life, was able to be bred and was mother to at least one foal that was also accepted into service by the Marines, lived longer than a lot of her kind despite the dangers she faced, and at the end died painlessly. Some humans don't have it so good.

>>30228430
"I've come to see the lamentations of your stallions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBY8_-BPIwk

>>30228486
The snails would have more right to be there than a god damn mine because they evolved into their place. Humanity is one fucking species and we don't need more cheap shit that breaks in order to survive.

>>30229430
This is true.
Biodiversity is worth more than anything that could possibly come out of a mine.

>>30229499
"Biodiversity" wasn't even a concept seventy-five years ago, and it certainly wouldn't have been allowed to get in the way of the war effort if it had.

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>>30229530
>it certainly wouldn't have been allowed to get in the way of the war effort if it had.
It should have.
The world would be a better place for both animals and men if Hitler had been left in peace.

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Screencap this thread
A new OC has been born, and my God, is it glorious

Sergeant Lewellyn Chilson would aprove this

>>30228336
I do think they would, because building walls is more expensive than not building walls, and keeping a horse away from its herd for long periods of time will make it more agressive and harder to handle, not less. they wouldn't be whiped and forced to wear bits, they wouldn't be shoed, they wouldn't have anyone on their backs, their job would be to sit in a slightly cramped open space and eat. that's it.

all that s not even addressing the fact that mcdonalds meat tier horse meat is already on the market, and is a direct result of the derby

>>30229530
>"biodiversity"
>I can't break down basic words

Theodore Roosevelt would have some not-so-kind words for you.

>>30229813
But would he have let it get in the way of putting boot to Spaniard ass?

>>30229739
it's like when we made an mlp version of Epona

>>30220488
She'd probably be a bit of a fudd.
>Th' fuck? No wonder they need 30 rounds now if they are using goddamn .22s.

>>30229825
He was a complex man.
Mayb he would have booted Spaniard ass using his dryad contacts

>>30226884

I really like her mane.

>>30229739
and it ain't even meme related either. That's rare these days.

>>30229739
Does this really count as an oc? I thought its just ponified horse...

>>30227503
If I may add: Has an odd friendship with Fluttershy. Is also friends with a polar bear named Wojtek, who only she and Fluttershy can understand(obviously). Both Reckless and Wojtek outright despise Starlight for her past actions.

bamp

bump for cute greentexts.

>>30226884
semper filly

>>30226628
I think >>30223754 this bro has a good idea, cute accent and i've known a like 4'8 Korean lady who i saw drag logs out of her back yard like a fucking lumberjack and get insulted when you offer to help

We're missing a very important point
porn when

>>30232461
Keep the thread bumped and you'll get your answer

>"and just how are you going to pay for all of this?"

>proceeds to cough up poker chip

>>30232210
That's cultural, I think. It's one of those differences between North American culture in particular and East Asian culture.

In the US and Canada, my wild guess is that it might be because we have this long cultural tradition of living in small frontier towns that were at least occasionally subject to things like floods, Indian raids, and so on. People learned to cooperate, because it increased the odds of survival, for everyone. So even a hundred and fifty years later we still have a culture where it's normal to want to help our neighbors in little ways--holding a door, offering to help with yard work--that look odd to people from other cultures. See also, "high trust society."

In East Asia in particularly, there are words for people who run into their neighbor's fields uninvited and try to help with the harvest, or whatever. Bad ones. It has long had very bad cultural associations with people who tried to put someone else in a position of being obligated to them and using that against them. See also, "low trust society." Even in Japan, where people trust one another an awful lot more than they do in, say, Korea or China, if you run up and try to carry someone's groceries, you probably aren't going to get thanked. You're going to get a nasty look.

>>30233283
That's just too perfect.

>>30230895

>>30226884
Wow that is like a regrown back away from being rainbow dash

>>30234213

> "Tell story? You buy drink first"
> "Not drink from tiny apple. You get soju! Or won't talk."
> "Was born in Korea. Raised on racetrack. The other horses, good racers. They very fast.
> "I not fast. Not racer. I pack horse, see? Am strong!"
> "But Pederson? Smart man. He see I strong. Take me with platoon. Says we going to fight."
> "He says Korea invade Korea. Don't understand. But want country to be safe! He says we going to help. I want to help."

> "We go to front. Not easy. Loud, dangerous. Am afraid. But I help."
> "Carry shells, to shoot baesinja Chinese out of country. Carry wounded, bring back home."

> "After some time, am not afraid anymore."
> "They say I Reckless."

> "Heh."

> "I like Reckless."

>>30235216
I hate my brain some times, read this as a burly Russian woman with a Korean accent.

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>>30226343
>...Why, exactly?
Because you didn't put your bandana up, slick.

I have found my new favorite thing. I hope there is green soon.

>>30236303

>>30228430
>What is her battlecry, /mlp/?

>li'l Korean horsie

obvsly, "Manzai!"

>>30237304

>>30228430
glhf

>>30238353

>>30217676
A mare and her little friend. This thread is special.

>>30239888
trips compel me.

>the pony is at it again
>somehow she's picked up the antitank gun in her hooves
>and is yelling "Say hello to my leetle friend!"
>that movie won't even be made for thirty years
>what the fuck?
>also, when did she learn to talk?

>>30226774
I think the helmet or the Marines logo would be better than the Sergeant symbol. That would imply that she didn't get her cutie mark until she was a Sergeant. Her talent is related to her skills, not her rank. I like the Hermes helmet.

>>30239970
Plus she was only a corporal in the war

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>>30226884
I'm curious how that might work... Maybe something close to Windy Whistles' mane? Reckless' bangs wouldn't be so straight, and the back would be less messy.

Military bump

mump

>>30219268
>Freedom has been deployed
>Literally all non-American stuff
Is this image /k/bait?

>>30217676
Shining Armor's colthood crush.

page 10 Bamp!

>>30242001

I actually like the idea of Sergeant Reckless being a GI Joe-style action hero in Equestria who's in comic books and everything, and most ponies assume she's just a made up character while she's actually a real war hero quietly enjoying her retirement somewhere.

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>>30243693

>>30243693
Sgt. Reckless × Daring Do teamup episode when

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>>30244041
I am so, so sorry.

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>>30244041
https://youtu.be/wOIaDX9FAvc

Shining Armor owns a salty, obscenity screaming horse doll in uniform with a pull string, calling it now.

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This is honestly the last nice thing I want to do for /mlp/. You've had me convinced.

>>30244961
That's absolutely adorable, thanks.

However,

>last

wha?

>>30245021
I don't come by /mlp/ as often as I used to. Too many bad memories. I hate seeing the condition of this board.

>>30244961
>>30245035

You're welcome to hang out here, and thank you seriously for the cute drawing.

>>30245035
You're not wrong.

>>30245035

Care to elaborate?

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>>30245639
Just the standard doompauling. Let's talk about horses instead, shall we?

Does reliable Reckless have any war stories?

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Keep thread alive

>>30246174
>Reckless was the only female in the camp
After a few drinks, I feel like this would happen fairly often. But the troops would always have too much respect to follow up on it and would try to get her to rest.

>>30219349
Dogs are like women: without a good handler they're more nuissance than living being.

Horses look into your heart.

>>30222444
Double trips confirm we must drink beer and cola and fight for freedom.

>>30228829
Ponies are known to eat chicks.

>>30245035
All oldfags feel like that.

>>30245639
Not him, but /mlp/ (like just about every board that's been around long enough) has really degraded over the years, newfags flood in, shitpost increases, generals rise and die, and everything changes.

On the bright side, at least it's nowhere near as bad as the absolute fucking degradation /x/ went through

>>30247606
>Ponies are known to eat chicks.
Which is ironic, because chicks love ponies so much.

teehee.jpg

>>30246174
>>30244961
>>30226774
>>30226566
>>30226329
>>30223106
>>30217931
Bless all you drawfags. These are all top cute. Reckless deserves it.

>>30244041
Oh shit I own this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8E_377CMQ

>>30246174
That chest floof looks irresistible

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Posting a sketch to keep this alive.
Might finish it later.

>>30249455
You're style looks familiar.

>>30247654
>everything changes.

Except war. War never changes.

>>30249756
Very unlikely as I'm just starting out here.
Out of curiosity, whose style does it remind you of?

>>30250585

Not him but your style looks Asian to me, are you Asian?

Godspeed, you magnificent horse.

This soldier's not allowed to fade away

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>>30250029
No, the war has changed.

>>30252275

say that to my face fucker not online see what happens

>>30252296
>say that to my face fucker
>my face fucker

What's a face fucker, and where can I get one? It sounds like fun.

>>30252244
This horsie's been logged inside my noggin', she ain't going anywhere as long as this one's intact.

>>30241655
>9/11 in the left corner.
I'd probably say so.

>>30243063

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One more

>>30250808
>are you Asian
What?

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>>30254698
Apparently, he thinks you draw like you've got slanty eyes and a sideways asshole.
I don't get it, either.

>>30254698
Love it.

>>30228430
What's gook for cheeki breeki?

>>30254065

>>30256598

>>30257219

>>30257633
dubs

If you're going to bump so frequently, you need to at least delete your bumps.

>>30257840
make me

I imagine her as R. Lee Emery.

"ONLY TWO THINGS COME FROM PONYVILLE! STEERS AND QUEERS! AND YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE NO STEER TO ME, FILLY!"

>>30256193
kekeke is probably the closet (pronounced kee kee kee)

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idk why but I hope this will be useful.

>>30259754
saved for future use

>>30259754

I'm sure it will be, thank you.

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>>30259665
>kekeke is probably the closet

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>>30259868
It's korean for "ha ha ha".

>>30259754
"Not this shit again, private" She muttered as she slumps him over her barrel

>>30253056
it's the reimagined facehugger from the gritty new Alien reboot

>>30259754
Nice

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>>30244627
I'm sure Shining Armor always played with her little sister with her or his dolls.

>>30262450
>Freedom is a blank flank
Really makes you think.

>>30262571
It's because you can be whatever you want in a democratic, capitalistic society.

>>30224953
Not if you've been riding from the day you were born.

>The Parthian shot is a light horse military tactic made famous in the West by the Parthians, an ancient Iranian people. While in, real or feigned, retreat their horse archers would turn their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy. The maneuver required superb equestrian skills, since the rider's hands were occupied by his composite bow. As the stirrup had not been invented at the time of the Parthians, the rider relied solely on pressure from his legs to guide his horse.

We still need a propper green...

>>30262790

No. No we do not.

>>30262700
Thighs of steel.

>>30262928
Why not?

>>30262973
Not him, but we don't need yet another writefag circlejerking general on /mlp/

>>30247848
Post pics

>>30263151
We could use moar pics though.

>>30263151
So what the fuck else do you propose we do with this thread that has now gone on for too long? Just keep bumping it with short, useless posts?

>>30263875
>short, useless posts
You mean like everything you've been posting?

>>30263899
Yes, including your post, here.

Pointlessly extending this thread's life with nothing.

>>30263151
/mlp/ is dying fast. We need any content we can get that's even tangentially pony-related.

>>30264225
So, historical horse thread?

Even the Grecian gods were horsefuckers:
>Three thousand steeds had he that pastured in the marsh-land; mares were they. rejoicing in their tender foals. Of these as they grazed the North Wind became enamoured, and he likened himself to a dark-maned stallion and covered them; [225] and they conceived, and bare twelve fillies. These, when they bounded over the earth, the giver of grain, would course over the topmost ears of ripened corn and break them not, and whenso they bounded over the broad back of the sea, would course over the topmost breakers of the hoary brine. [230]

>>30264225

>/mlp/ is dying, let's chase people away even faster by drenching it in bad fan fiction

>>30264328
The Norse gods too, or at least Loki.

Loki was one kinky sumbitch. He turned himself into a mare and allowed stallions to fuck him, then gave birth to the magical eight-legged horse Sleipnir, who became Odin's steed.

>>30264344
you know where the door is, faggot
use it

>>30264344
>because generals that used to run multiple 500-post threads to bump limit every day now stay up for three weeks at a time and half the posts in them are ">pg 10? up u go"
>and that's better than creating actual content

>>30264365

when your restaurant is doing badly because you have few dishes, you're not going to lure in more customers by introducing a shit-on-a-bun sandwich

>>30264383
Even that's better than tables covered in empty paper plates.

>>30264328
There was a time in my life when I wouldn't find this arousing.

I miss those times.

>>30264352
Well now I'm going to have to move the Prose Edda up my reading list.

>>30264423
Also, is Pinkie Pie actually Loki?

>mischievous and unpredictable
>loves pranks
>more clever than she lets on
>breaks Fourth Wall
>breaks physics
>breaks causality
>breaks Twilight when she tries to figure out how she does all this
>"okey dokey Loki" catchphrase

I'm convinced, guys.

>>30217676
read the article

damn...

I am impressed

>>30220391
this

The marines standing up for her when she was accused by the ministry of agriculture...

;_;7

you will never be forgotten Sgt. Reckless!

>>30264394

I don't get this retarded "every time a thread dies it's a tragedy" mindset. Just accept the fact that all threads eventually die due to a lack of interest/content.

You people just don't know how to enjoy something in moderation. Everything needs to fucking last forever, and you will happily spam threads with bumps or garbage content (aka green) to keep it up. That's what's killing /mlp/. Dozens of threads constantly bumped to the top with no or shitty content because there's a couple dozen fags who just can't let go. It's like telling the same joke over and over and over and then wondering why people leave the room.

Let this thread die. Save the pics and enjoy the memory of it. Give people an opportunity to come up with something new instead of artificially prolonging the old.

>>30223609
Q T
T

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>tfw you will never be a man as good as she was

>>30264489
Boards with no activity die. People look at them and say "gee, this thing from a month ago is still on Page One. Fuck that, no one's here."

What's killing /mlp/ is lack of traffic and part of that is due to lack of content. There was plenty of green five years ago, when this place had twenty times the post traffic it does now. It didn't keep people out, it brought them in.

What's killing this board is the nosedive in quality in the TV show the past few seasons, culminating with hustling the prior protagonist offstage to turn it into the Poochie & Pals Pony Show. If everyone who loved the show in 2012 were still watching it, they'd still be coming here and this place would get a lot more traffic than it does.

Look at Equestria After Dark. Dead and gone. Look at MLPchan. Dead and gone. Look at Ponychan. In a coma, on life support, plug will get pulled Real Soon Now. Look at FIMfiction--traffic has fallen off so much since 2012-2013 that Knighty says there's not enough ad revenue to keep the lights on and he's going to turn it into a "general fanfiction page," and open the place up to the pimply thirteen-year-old autists to post their crayon-quality Sonic fanfic.

This place is dying fast. Lack of content and lack of activity are symptoms of that, but they're also partially causes. No one wants to come to an empty forum where no one will respond or even see anything they post.

>>30264572
I blame discord and Canada

>>30264572
This, it's been a long time coming, but it was always coming.

>>30264572
Why not fuse many low traffic sites to fewer high traffic?

>>30264754
>Why not fuse many low traffic sites to fewer high traffic?

Why not fuse your mom to my dick?

Jesus tits, every hiatus this happens. Things slow down, autists screech about how "the board is dying" when it's just hit a dry spell. It's like fuckin' clockwork.

>>30264918
because there is nothing to fuse

>>30265101
T o be honest, my man, they screech about it when the board is active too.

>>30265101
You're right. But this isn't a hiatus. We're mid-season.

>>30265406
There's no new episodes for a while, right?

>>30226566
>eats fucking everything, no one cares because fucking hell, it's Reckless, what are you gonna do? Bully the war-poner?
>helps kick the shit out of the chinks, gets hella respect for it
>everyone lets her have their booze and soda
>everyone lets her sleep in their tents, no body wants to kick her out, because again, who bulli war-poner?
>Department of Agriculture basically calls her a whore
>her entire unit loses their shit, REEE'S in unison, and bullies DA into letting her off the boat
>60 years of post-mortem respect from equestrian enthusiasts and Marines
>60 years later, half of the most degenerate, autistic faction on the internet even refuses to masturbate to her out of sheer respect, the other half are either ignored or not masturbating at all and are just memeing it up
Yeah, I think she's gotten the love she deserves.

>>30264572
>Knighty says there's not enough ad revenue to keep the lights on and he's going to turn it into a "general fanfiction page," and open the place up to the pimply thirteen-year-old autists to post their crayon-quality Sonic fanfic.
Please god no

Damn this threads half done. I want to have a go drawing this cutie.

We should start a Historical Horse thread, for the longest time Ive wanted to draw Bucephalus and Marengo in MLP style.

>>30265915
Next thread for sure mate.

post cute anyway.

>>30265915
>Bucephalus was named aftera branding mark depicting an ox's headon his haunch.

God damn, cutie marks existed 2300 years ago.

>>30264572
>>30265896
Yeah, he's wrong about the cause. knighty has been planning on turning Fimfic into a general fanfiction site for years now, why do you think he's been axing all the pony colors and decor and making it look generic and corporate as fuck?

>>30265961
I was wondering about that, wow is it bland, neutral as fuck.

>>30265961
>>30265980
There were some scripters making skins for the site to make it look like the old site with all the banners and custom backgrounds, but they've gone quiet.

>>30264572
You're right about the traffic being gone, but not for those reasons. It's been 7 years now. No matter how popular something is, interest wanes and dies out eventually. The show could have the exact same formula and characters now as it did in S1, but guess what? It'd still be the same. Sure some of the new stuff put off some people, but not nearly enough to kill it.

It's a board dedicated to a single show. This was bound to happen, in fact I'm shocked it took as long as it did to happen

This applies to FIMfiction as well. It was bound to happen, and opening it up to all fan-fiction was inevitable

>>30266117
>opening it up to all fan-fiction
The fuck is the point of that? Fanfiction.net exists.

>>30266162
He's greedy.